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When it comes to imagining, making, or mending unique clothing, Nadene Mairesse brings a world of experience to her craft.
The California native learned how to sew at an English boarding school, studied art at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, French Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and worked on a degree in architecture at Auburn University. Later, she joined a group of architects and designers creating affordable housing for Hurricane Katrina victims in Mississippi. There, Mairesse met Eric Gebhardt, a musician from Florence who persuaded her to move to Alabama, where she now combines her sewing, designing and architectural skills as owner and creative director of her Idyllwilde Studio.
"I lived in Los Angeles until I was about 7, when my family moved to England," Mairesse said. "For about eight years I attended an English boarding school. We had classes during the week, and on Saturdays, they taught us how to sew and mend our clothes."
Every summer, her family returned to California, where Mairesse studied at the prestigious Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (now known as the Idyllwild Arts Academy) in the San Jacinto Mountains.
"It was a complete artists' community with a great faculty — I took dance from Bella Lewitzky (co-founder of the Los Angeles Dance Theatre). That's why I named my company Idyllwilde, because the school was a real influence on me," she said. "It's the source of everything I do."
Mairesse returned to the States to finish high school and then attend UCLA, where she earned a degree in French. After a stint co-hosting a television show that covered the L.A. music scene for a French network, she started designing clothing full time.
"I had a design business for about 15 years," she said. "Then in the 1990s, the whole industry changed when my suppliers and sewing factories started moving to Mexico. I couldn't just walk down the street and meet with them anymore."
But the fabric artist wanted to continue creating, and try a different kind of design. So she moved again, this time to Auburn to get a degree in architecture.
"I got offered a job with a group building affordable housing in Mississippi, and I met Eric," she said. "He persuaded me to come to Alabama in 2013, and I got back into textiles. Since then, Florence has undergone a huge Renaissance in the number of designers, craftspeople and makers who live here."
Mairesse joined that renaissance in 2014 when she moved to a small space in downtown Florence. There she created her Idyllwilde clothing and housewares collection, and started hosting pop-up shops and attending maker's markets (such as the Southern Makers), selling her dresses, aprons and other handmade fabrics. In addition, she offered workshops, teaching others how to hand-dye indigo fabrics or repair and reinvent old denim clothing.
"I sell items on my website, but I like working at the markets and pop-up shops more because I love meeting the people I sell to," she said. "That's why I moved into a larger place last month, to have more room to create clothing and teach workshops."
While she specializes in handmade cotton, silk and linen dresses and smocks, Mairesse has been pleasantly surprised at the popularity of another product — her aprons. "I've gotten orders for aprons from farmers, barbers, chefs and leatherworkers," she said. "That's the great thing about today's craft movement, just about every profession now has an artisanal section made up of people who love creating unique things."
The Product: Handmade silk and linen dresses and smocks; cotton sundries such as aprons and kitchen towels, and canvas tote and market bags.
Take Home: A sturdy chest-to-knees cotton apron with two large pockets and adjustable straps long enough to accommodate most sizes ($78).
Idyllwilde Studio, 1213 Chisholm Road, Florence AL 35630
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An empirical test of multiple foci of commitment in a work team environment
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Organizational commitment has been recognized as a multiple foci phenomenon with two of the more important foci being the work team and the organization as a whole. That organizational and team commitment can vary differentially has been established. However, research has not attempted to determine the antecedents that may cause them to do so. At the same time, a number of constructs that have been explored as antecedents of organizational commitment have also been recognized as having particular salience in a self-directed work team environment. The purpose of this research is to test a model in which it has been hypothesized that certain antecedents will have differential effects on organizational commitment and team commitment. The model was developed employing constructs that are antecedents of commitment in the workplace and are of particular importance in a self-directed work team environment. All but one of the hypotheses were supported indicating that factors that are important in a self-directed work team environment have differential effects on organizational and team commitment. The results are discussed in terms of both theory and praxis. Implications for practicing managers and future research are presented along with the limitations of the study.
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How PropTech Is Changing the Future of Commercial Real Estate
By: Dave MacDonald, Managing Director, JLL
Property technology, otherwise known as PropTech, refers to the innovation and origination poised to disrupt the way commercial real estate processes are done. While PropTech is not a new-to-the-industry concept, a new wave has presented even more sophisticated capabilities. Today's PropTech is incorporating:
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Big data and analytics
- Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)
- Computer aided design (CAD)
A Modernized Transaction Process
With PropTech comes the opportunity for a potentially faster, more insightful transaction process. Tools like VR and AR, drone technology and CAD now give potential buyers, investors and tenants the ability to truly visualize a space without ever stepping foot inside of it.
Blackbird—a VR and market intelligence tool—is just one of many resources being used to alter the way real estate transactions are done. Users can view actual CAD renderings of properties, narrow their search based on demographics, tax incentives, transit options and more, and view data on amenities.
With access to intelligent machines and big data, real estate brokers can streamline much of the traditional transaction process, and even match investors to a property type.
Big Data, Bigger Insights
It's no secret that PropTech is leveraging the benefits of big data—but to what extent? Big data is closely associated with AI, which can automate building processes and give property managers insight into what's working for their building, and what's not.
AI and big data can provide insight into a property's operating efficiency, financial performance and more.
Waypoint Building Group, for example, is doing exactly this with data activation, which allows for real-time reporting. Property managers can easily compare building performance year over year against the competition, and identify future opportunities to enhance their portfolio.
Staying Ahead of the Curve
Nearly $2.6 billion was invested in real estate technology companies in 2016 alone. With demand for PropTech on the rise, how are real estate companies responding?
JLL, for one, recently announced the launch of JLL Spark—a business platform focused on developing PropTech solutions for the commercial real estate industry.
PropTech solutions like JLL Spark are meant to identify and relieve pain points encountered by both real estate professionals and potential buyers. By developing and implementing smarter, data-driven solutions, investors can make more informed decisions when adding to their portfolio.
About the Author
Dave is an Executive Vice President and Co-Market Lead in the Detroit office. He started with The Staubach Company in 2002 prior to joining JLL through the Staubach merger. Dave specializes in acquisitions and dispositions of office and industrial properties by utilizing a diverse educational and professional background. He utilizes an assertive, results-driven approach to optimize the planning and implementation of real estate solutions for his clients. Connect with Dave on LinkedIn.


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Why join Solvay ?
At Solvay, we invent, market, and engineer solutions by empowering people to explore what chemistry can do for a sustainable world.
Whether you see yourself in research, marketing or manufacturing, Solvay offers you a multinational environment and many career opportunities.
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At Solvay, our vision for the future drives everything we do. We are inspired by the ambition to reshape our industry by building a sustainable and pioneering business with chemistry at its heart.
Our goal in HR is to place each of our employees at the heart of this strategy. Through their skills and talents, they are the ones who ensure the sustainable growth of the Group.
By implementing a people-focused culture, we support our people to reach their potential: we want to empower our teams, committing them to tangible objectives and foster a "customer-oriented" state of mind which is creative and collaborative.
As far as career management is concerned, we encourage people to play an active role in their individual development and career evolution and we, as HR, support them to seize new opportunities.
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Our strategy is to focus our activities on those markets to which we bring value, by developing for our customers innovative and competitive solutions.
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Dear Love,
If there was anything I learned in your presence,
It is that you are inebriating.
Everything that lives in the essence of you has either been
Damned by you
Or Enraptured by the appeal of your glow
There are parts of you that are unforgiving
Like how you push someone's hair behind their ear while they cry
Knowing fully well you're the reason for the tears
Or how you blame yourself to gain the satisfaction
Of knowing the other person will never believe it was your fault
I have always been in the shadow of fault with you,
Everytime we have had an encounter
It was beautiful and disastrous
Like watching a train crash into a wall in slow motion
Soaking in the horror without being able to look away
I have felt like the horror that you cannot look away from.
Temping in your attitude, you find pleasure in pain,
You are seen as the epitome of beauty
When you are Death's cousin-
Causing as much pain as the relief you give,
And walking away after you've grown used to it.
I have seen you too many times on the street,
You're in between laced fingers
And whispers to small ears.
You are in the cracks of story book pages
But you have never been so fleeting.
You could say that you're the most famous body of thought,
That the world has ever possessed.
How can you possess that title,
And not be ashamed of all you've done?


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A new survey has revealed that the number of women convicted of drink-driving has almost doubled in recent years.
Women accounts for 9% of drink-drive convictions in 1998, but this figure had risen to 17% by 2012.
The survey, carried out by car insurance provider Direct Line, also showed that 17% of female motorists thought they had driven while over the legal drink-drive limit in the past year.
As many as 60% of women polled said they did not know the legal limit and in almost all cases, respondents felt they were personally able to drink more alcohol than the 'average woman' before they were over the limit.
Among the women who admitted to drink-driving, 59% said they did so because they felt physically 'okay' to drive.
31% thought it would be fine if they just drove carefully, while 17% felt they had no alternative other than to drink and drive.
Road safety minister Robert Goodwill said: 'Drink-driving wrecks lives and the personal consequences of a drink-drive conviction can be devastating. In 2013, 803 women failed a breathalyser test after an accident and that is 803 too many.
'That is why we are cracking down on the minority who drink and drive by introducing a new offence of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and closing loopholes in the law to make it easier for police to prosecute drink-drivers, as well as tackling the menace of those who drive under the influence of illegal drugs.
'Later this year we will launch the next phase of the THINK! campaign on drink-driving. So our advice is simple; if you are driving have none for the road, as one drink is enough to put you over the limit.'
Steve Maddock, managing director of claims at Direct Line Group, said: 'The issue of women and drink-driving is rarely addressed, but when we look at the figures, we can see that this is a real issue.
'Part of the problem is the lack of awareness and confusion as to what constitutes drink-driving and also the misguided belief thatin some circumstances, driving while over the limit can be justified.
"While we'd encourage all drivers who drink alcohol to ensure they know and understand the legal limits, we'd urge them to avoid drinking alcohol altogether if they intend to get behind the wheel."


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She is such a sweet beautiful little baby! She looks exactly like her big sister Kaat. She makes me very curious to see my own next little one, but I'll have to wait 'till december…
It's been a while since I've blogged, but we were on a holiday: we were 2 weeks in Wallonië (the French speaking part of Belgium). We've been visiting farms, castles and other ruins and we made lots of walks.
And during this holiday there were 2 birthday girls: Aster and myself!
Aster got 2 years old, and I'm 34 now. Look at all the beautiful presents I got:
This handsome fellow is the Sepia Pirate from Mimi Kirchner. Mimi is my favourite doll maker! I asked my husband to order me a handmade doll from Mimi Kirchner. Just beautiful!! I am so happy!
And these presents were waiting for me when we got home: 2 coffee cups from Gudrun (I have 4 of a serie of 6 now, 2 more years to celebrate my birthday, then I stop!), funny biscuit molds, a dvd (with my favourite actor: john Malcovich), a new bracelet I'll never unwear (there are the M, B, I and A on it, one letter is missing but that's because we don't have a name yet for the next baby). And look at me pointing at that book: "Pretty bags to sew", yihaa!
And there is one other thing to celebrate: one year of blogging!! And yes, there is a little give-away! But you should look closely at this picture first: what is wrong with this doll?
I made this doll for my little niece because she is bridesmaid for her uncle. The doll had a little pillow with the rings on it. But I made a little mistake in her dress: who can find it? Leave a comment with your answer and I'll draw a name in two weeks. I'll make a bag out of my new book for the winner!!


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As early as the sixteenth century, countries were turning pirates to their cause by retitling them in exchange for not attacking the nation's ships. By granting letters of marque, pirates were made privateers. In exchange for not attacking ships flying the colors of that nation, these pirates would not be attacked by the warships of that nation, but would have to give a portion of the spoils for attacking other ships. I think many pirate vessels found this to be an acceptable compromise; they didn't have to give up their ways, but got some measure of safety out of it. From the nations point of view, they didn't have to expend resources protecting their own ships from these pirates, but also got a kickback from it. They adapted to the situation at hand rather then trying to fight tooth and nail, a fight that would have cost them elsewhere if it was successful at all.
Yesterday, I ran across an article on TorrentFreak talking about the death of the music industry. As many of you who follow such news have heard, the creators of The Pirate Bay, a torrent sharing site, are being held on trial (with the prosecution failing from what I've read). What I find more interesting, barely anyone who doesn't follow this kind of news knows of this upcoming trial, showing how little the sharing of music and videos actually matters to the public at large. The general public doesn't care about file sharing… they'll be upset when musicians become responsible and don't make up tabloid headlines with drug problems and who's dating who. But I digress.
Personally, I think the music industry missed out on a golden ticket. Most of what I say from here on out is speculation, but I would guess that most people who illegally download music, movies, and games do it for convenience. I'm sure that the big companies could make an easy coin if they accepted new technologies instead of fighting them. Why did iTunes do so well? If people could get movies and music for free, why is it that they still buy music online? iTunes does some specific things correctly:
- Cheap music
- The ability to download what you want instead of paying for material you might not want
- Simple, straight forward service and interface
Now, iTunes has its problems too, such as DRM. But services like NetFlix, allowing people to rent movies for periods of times they choose, plus having online options, gave people incentives to sign up with them. Websites such as Hulu allow people to watch popular TV shows when they want, as they want, with little delay and few problems.
What I see is this: if the large companies, instead of suing grandmas and single parents, offered their music and movies through their own services are reasonable prices with reasonable features, they'd continue rolling in the dough (that I really don't think they deserve). But they're fighting technology. This has worked for years, when we had a relatively isolated society, where communication even city to city was either a phone call or mail that took a few days. The companies had the power, in that they controlled information, and they controlled the material. We live in a new age today, where the next city is equivalent to the next country. They no longer control the information, and rather then adapt to their situation, they fought it.
We've living in an age of information, and more importantly, we've living in an age of openness. The internet allows everyone access to information they may have never been able to access before. The internet allows people to communicate with people they never knew existed before. The internet allows people to publish their own information in ways they couldn't do before. And the internet pushed these fat cats over. More and more, people refuse to simply be told what to do… options are opening up, thinking is on the rise. But this doesn't mean people are rampant criminals. People will do whats right more often then not. Unlike the old days though, you won't be able to make privateers of these pirates. What you can do is convince more pirates to give up their ways, and it won't be by threatening the noose.
So here's my thoughts or solution. First, music, movie, and game producers need to stop treating customers like renters and thieves. Limited activations and DRMs (like the infamous Spore release) make people on the edge want to give in to their less legal impulses. Yes, you're going to lose money on resales, but when you're putting out shitty material, why would I want to keep it? And when your customer support sucks and I'm out of activations, I've paid for a very shiny coaster. When you stop treating us like we did something wrong by giving you money, you'll find more people are likely to give you money.
Join the 21st century and start providing reasonable web services. You can outdo iTunes if you try. People don't want full albums, usually they only want a few songs. Let people listen to an album a time or two, then let them pick out the music they want to keep, and don't start charging ridiculus prices for these services. Start offering services to watch TV shows and movies online. Use commercials to pay for the TV shows and charge rates to watch the movies. They're your material, you should get the money for them. Make the services useable, and let people access older content. Too many TV corporations offer their shows on their site, but with nearly unuseable interfaces, only a handful of episodes, and the shows going online days after the show� aired. If you don't want to bother setting up your own, work out a system with other sites.
Lastly, stop going after people. You're no longer the big dogs, and thieving is easier with the internet around. You can't control the internet, and the day you start trying, you'll find a bigger fight then you'll want to handle. Yes, you're making less money then you were before, but I've heard nothing of losing so much money that suddenly you're in trouble, except for your bloated numbers. I'm not saying you're not entitled to your earnings, I just think its about time you learn you don't need a golden toilet. You might think you're protecting your rights to your property (although I'm positive that's not the reasoning), but all you're doing is making more enemies and pushing moderates away. Take advantage of your power, and capitulate to the people a bit. You'll end up being their heroes.


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Simply Suri Alpacas
Breeders of Beautiful Suri Alpacas
Most Successful Small Breeder 2011 & 2012
For Sale
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): Starting Out
1. What is a Suri alpaca?
2. Where do they come from?
3. How long do they live?
4. How much land do you need to be able to keep them?
5. What do they eat?
6. Are they easy to look after?
7. How often do they need to be sheared?
8. How much do Alpaca's cost?
9. Are they dangerous?
10. How often do they have babies?
11. Can you recommend a good book on Alpacas?
1. What is a Suri alpaca?
There are two breeds of Alpaca; the Suri and the Huacaya (pronounced wa-KI-ah). The main difference between the two breeds is how their fibre grows. The Huacaya fibre grows straight out from their body, while the Suri has a more silky fibre that grows straight down in long 'locks'.
2. Where do they come from?
It is believed the Alpaca is a descendent of the vicuna, having been domesticated and revered for its luxurious fibre during the Inca Empire. The largest populations of Alpacas are in Peru, Bolivia and Chile. The largest herds outside of South America are in North America, Australia and New Zealand and then in the United Kingdom, in that order. There are some herds in Europe.
3. How long do they live?
Alpacas live for up to 20 years.
4. How much land do you need to be able to keep them?
It is generally accepted that you can keep 5 to 10 Alpacas per acre. In reality, you will need to have more than one paddock as you will need to rest one whilst the second is grazed. Where you have a small amount of land, it is good practice to keep the paddock clean, either by collecting up the Alpaca poo and storing it in a large pile, (which you can then use on your garden), or by selling it to a local Garden Centre. We found that within a month of starting our business, the local Garden Centre was keen to stock and sell 'Alpaca Poo'. One thing to note here is that if you start breeding rather than just keeping Alpacas, then at some point you will have to be able to separate the males from the females. As with all animals, once the males become mature, their natural instinct is to want to reproduce, so you then have to decide whether your male is potentially good enough to be a Stud, or whether they are not up to your required standards, in which case they will need to be made in to wethers. Alpacas are herd animals, which means that they are much happier when they are part of a small herd. If you are just starting out, we recommend that you start with at least 3 animals, and the more the merrier.
5. What do they eat?
Alpacas eat grass and like hay, with some supplements.They will eat longer grass but they do prefer shorter grass. The supplements that people use depend upon the breeder, but one of the most common ones is Camilibra.
6. Are they easy to look after?
They are very easy to look after and incredibly sweet natured. They are realtively hardy coming from some quite rugged landscape and cold weather in South America, and so UK weather is not severe for them. However, we would recommend that you fence your land in with a 4 foot fence. They do not challenge fences. We would also recommend that you either construct a basic shelter or buy a ready made 'portable' field shelter.
7. How often do they need to be sheared?
Suris coats grow to long luxurious lengths and animals are generally sheared once every 2 years. If you are intending to show your Suris, you will want to show them with their fleece on. Suri fleece can be sold or spun yourself if you are that way inclined. There are a few mills in the UK that can handle Alpaca wool.
8. How much do Alpaca's cost?
An average male Alpaca gelding will cost anywhere from £500 to £1,000. Females, because they can reproduce and provide one baby per year, generally cost more than males with an average female costing from £3,000. Top Stud males or top show winning females will attract much higher prices due to their potential for breeding and providing excellent offspring.
9. Are they dangerous?
No, they are not dangerous. Alpaca's will spit, but this is usually at one another and usually because one animal has annoyed another one by getting too close or by 'stealing' their food. They will spit at humans but usually only if you are trying to separate a mother from a baby, and then only if they do not know you or are stressed. Female Alpacas will also spit at Male Alpacas that try to mate with them if the female is already pregnant. This process is called 'spitting off' and is generally a good indication that a female is pregnant.
10. How often do they produce offspring?
Alpacas will produce one baby (cria) per year from the age of about 18 months. Pregnancy lasts approximately eleven-and-a-half months. The baby cria will usually stay with the mother up to around 6 months old, when they need to be weaned away from their mothers by separating them out in to different paddocks, ideally out of direct site of one another, although not necessarily if you do not have this luxury.
11. Can you recommend a good book on Alpacas?
There are several good books on Alpacas. A couple of very good books that we can recommend are:
Llamas and Alpacas: A Guide to Management, Gina Bromage
The Complete Alpaca Book, Eric Hoffman with contributing authors
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by Jeremy Jasper
The light glistened on the pane of broken glass when I woke up that morning. I hurried out of bed to jerk the blinds closed in hopes they would hold up against the gusting wind. The chill of January air bit at my skin as I looked for something to put on. I stooped down and dug through a pile of dirty clothes for some forgotten pair of underwear. I walked out of the bedroom door and into the living room of our apartment. It wasn't really our apartment, actually. It was abandoned when we stumbled across it. But it was ours now. We had been out on the streets for two days and the cold November weather was starting to wear us down. I had to find us a place to go; we were tired of living in gas station bathrooms and I was tired of hiding from the cops while we tried to shoot up in alleyways. I carried our infant son, Thomas, in my arms as I climbed up the front steps of the abandoned Harbinger Estate Building almost two months ago. I scouted the building out for a couple days to see if anyone came in or out. It had closed down earlier in the week, but it looked like it should have been closed years ago. The building was in bad shape, even for Detroit. We walked in the front door and looked around. The elevator doors were wide open, but the lift was gone and the shaft went all the way down to the basement. I put Thomas on my shoulder and we began to walk up the stairs in search of a new home. Graffiti covered the walls of the stairwell, spelling out "You'll never leave Detroit alive" in bright red paint. When we reached the fifth floor I handed Thomas to my girlfriend Amanda and got to work on getting us a place to stay. The fifth floor would be high enough for us. We wouldn't be bothered by the occasional police officer that might want to check on the building or by the junkies trying to steal what was left of the copper wiring. I emptied Amanda's purse to look for something I could use to slip the lock. I found an old cooking spoon and jammed the back end into the space between the lock and the door. I worked my magic on the door while Amanda covered Thomas' mouth to keep him from making any noise. After a few minutes of jiggling I got the door open. I put the spoon back in her purse and slowly cracked the door open. A blast of cold, rancid air hit me in the face. Thomas began to cry immediately and Amanda covered his mouth again to stifle the noise. The place was already occupied; when I stepped inside, a family of rats scattered away from a cat carcass. The windows were cracked and broken, letting the air slip through like a sieve. After a few hours of cleaning, some garbage picked mattresses, and some plastic bags for the windows, we had a home. I found my jeans in the living room and slowly pulled them on. I went back into the bedroom to wake up Amanda; it was time for us to go out and make some money. She lay in the bed naked with dirty old sheets covering her leathery body. Her shoulder stuck out under the sheet and I gently shook her. She was always a heavy sleeper, especially after the long night we had. She opened her eyes and stared blankly at the wall. Her blue eyes had large dark circles around them. Her face wasn't as attractive as it used to be; the cold Detroit winters had weathered her skin and cracked her lips. I shook her shoulder once more and rubbed my hand down her back and over her bony rib cage. When we met, Amanda's hair was as black as roofer's tar and her lips were as red as blood on snow. But after a few years with me, she didn't look like that anymore. Her hair had streaks of gray in it now, and her lips had become a salmon pink color. She told me she was pregnant on the day I turned twenty. I tried to do what I was supposed to do so I went and found her a ring. I searched the pawn shops all around Detroit and finally found one I could afford. I bought her the ring for fifteen dollars and went back and proposed to her. I knew she wasn't going to say yes, but I asked her anyway. But she said she didn't want the ring and we could use some of that money. Then she just turned around and cried. I kept the ring, in case she changed her mind someday. She went into labor in a bathroom stall in George's Lounge. The bar was closed and I had to jimmy the door open so we could get in there. She couldn't handle the pain and I had to shoot her up with a small hit of heroin to keep happy. Thomas was born on November 13th around four in the morning. "Get up babe," I whispered in her ear. "We gotta find some money, I'm dyin' here. I need somethin'." Amanda didn't answer; she just sat up and let the sheets fall off of her body on to the floor. She walked over to Thomas' makeshift crib, three cardboard boxes taped together. Thomas was still sleeping and she lifted him slowly up to her chest. The baby moved up and down with every breath Amanda took. "Come on hon', get some clothes on we gotta get out and make some money." She turned to me and laid Thomas into my arms. "Fine, just give me a minute," she said. She dressed quickly and we bundled up the baby to get ready to venture out into the cold. The streets of Detroit are not very welcoming to people like us. The few people left with jobs would rather run to the other side of the street than walk past us and the cops spend most of their time looking for ways stick us in a cell. My tattered jeans did little to prevent me from the morning city winds. I knew where we could go to get some money, so I grabbed Amanda's hand and led her toward the Maxwell alley. Amanda was not a prostitute at all; we just did what needed to be done. She never complained about what we had to do to get our fix or at least she didn't complain anymore. The first few times we had to put her out on the street to make money were the only times she ever showed any feelings about the situation. We waited in the same spot in the alley and she would turn to me and start crying. "Isn't there any other way for us to get money, Chris? I don't think I can do this, what if I get beat up, or get some kind of disease?" I tried to comfort her and tell her that nothing bad was gonna happen but she didn't believe me. Then after three or four more times she stopped complaining and just did it, I think she just accepted that this is what had to be done if we were gonna be happy. "O.K. give me the baby honey, I'll be right over here nothing will happen to you," I tried to reassure her. I knew she was nervous, but she didn't let me see it anymore. "How much do we need," she asked. "I mean, how much should I tell them to give me?" "About forty, babe, that should keep us set for the weekend at least." I bounced Thomas up and down as Amanda nodded her head and turned to walk away. She walked to the corner of the alley and leaned her slender body against a red brick building. I never could figure out what kind of people would need to pay for sex this early in the morning. Maybe they were lonely, or bored, or maybe they just didn't have time to find a girl at night. When I met Amanda she was getting ready to start college. She was enrolled in a community college just ten minutes from her house. We started dating and I got a job at the GM plant down the block from the college. I worked the ten-hour third shift. When my shift ended I could catch her walking up the street away from the building and I would walk her home. After the plant laid me and three hundred other workers off, I walked her to class and waited in the abandoned west wing for her to get off. Some days we'd slam heroin in the west wing before she went to class and I'd run around on the old textbooks and papers until she got out. Then we'd walk around the empty streets and wait to come down. Within minutes of her standing on the corner a middle aged white man stopped his car and rolled down his window to talk to Amanda. His Buick was in shambles; his passenger side headlight was missing, and a blue smear was scraped across the car's beige paint. They talked for a few minutes and I tried to listen but couldn't hear what he was saying. He pushed open the passenger door and Amanda got in. They sat there talking for a few more minutes before he drove off. Me and Thomas waited in the alley for her to return, just like every other time. The alley between Al's liquor and CJ's Smokes was a hotspot for prostitution. A few homeless were counting cans at the other end of the alley. A garbage can was burning in the middle of the alley and I carried Thomas over there to warm up. A homeless woman came down the alley and stood next to me and Thomas. She wasn't very much older than I was. She smelled of garbage and feces. Her arms were bruised and scarred. The crease of her elbow was covered in track marks and her eyes were glazed over. She didn't have an overcoat on and her winter hat had mud all over it. She said nothing to me; she just smiled and warmed herself in front of the fire. Amanda was back thirty minutes later; the man wouldn't drop her off back here so she had to walk by herself in the cold. By the time she got back she was shivering and she had wrapped herself in a garbage bag. I grabbed her and tried to warm her up as fast as I could. "Did you get the money," I asked. She nodded her head and handed me forty dollars. "Great babe, let's go to Kevin's and get the shit, then we can grab some food for the boy and head home." Our dealer Kevin lived three blocks from the alley and we were there in minutes. I pressed the buzzer to his apartment and waited for his answer. "Who's there," he asked. "It's me, Kev, Chris." The buzzer sounded, and I pulled open the door. Amanda and Thomas waited for me downstairs. Kevin's apartment was much nicer than the one we lived in; he did pay for his of course. He had an oversized television in the corner of the living room and three couches surrounding it. He was standing in his kitchen cooking scrambled eggs and bacon when we walked in. The smell of the caramelized sugars in the bacon made me hungry for a few seconds, but then it went away and the pain in my stomach came back. "Hey Chris, come on in." He seemed in a good mood. "What can I get you, the same shit as always I'm guessing?" He jumped backwards and yelled in pain as oil from his pan splattered on his forearm. Kevin's good mood was gone and he flung the pan across the room, denting the drywall. "Jesus Christ that shit fuckin' burns." He started to run his hand under the sink. After a few minutes of swearing he finally settled down, "Ok, how much d'you need this time?" "Just give me some dope and I'll get outta here," I replied. He gestured me to follow him and he lead me into the bathroom. He took the lid off of the back of the toilet and plunged his hand into the water. He pulled out a plastic bag full of already packaged balloons. "How much you need," he asked. I took out the forty dollars and handed it to him. He stuck his hand into the bag and pulled out four black balloons. "Here you go, have fun." I thanked him and grabbed the dope. I ran down the stairs and grabbed Amanda and Thomas. We left the apartment and went to find some food for Thomas. We passed a fast food restaurant and I went in to scrounge around for something. I reached my hand into one of the garbage cans outside and pulled out an empty food bag. I opened it and grabbed the receipt from the bottom of the bag. I wasn't hungry for food and I knew Amanda wasn't either, but I needed something for the boy. I walked in the restaurant and waited by the counter for the worker to call somebody's number and when she did I flashed my receipt and grabbed the food and bolted out the door. We raced away from the restaurant and back to our apartment. I opened the bag of food and started to feed the baby some French Fries. His little fingers could barely wrap around the fries. Amanda went into the bathroom and came out with a ten foot extension cord, an old plastic cup filled with water, and a lighter. I placed Thomas back in the box and set the bag of food next to him. Amanda was in the bathroom and I could hear her throwing up. Amanda sat down on the bed and began to wrap the cord around her bicep. I took the spoon out of her purse and opened up the first balloon. The brownish white powder overflowed off of the spoon and I licked the tip of my index finger and dabbed at the spilled powder on the ground. I sucked the powder off of my finger and started to heat up the spoon. Amanda poured a few drops of the water into the spoon and I tried as hard as I could to keep my hand from shaking. I lit the lighter and melted the dope. I grabbed a needle off of the floor and sucked up all of the liquid. Amanda bit down hard on the male end of the extension cord and stepped down on the female end as I smacked her arm to get the vein to bulge out. I sunk the needle into her vein and watched the splash of blood rush up the syringe. I pressed the plunger all the way down and saw Amanda eyes begin to roll into the back of her head. She let out an enormous sigh and slowly leaned backwards into the bed. I untied the extension cord from her arm and repeated the process with myself. I injected myself and lay down in the bed and waited for it to take effect. I immediately became calm and I felt as if I was wrapped in an electric blanket. I woke up to Thomas wailing. My arm was turning blue from the extension cord and I untied it. I rolled towards the window and slapped my arm on Amanda's side of the bed to try and wake her up. "Come on babe, get up, the baby's crying." I turned my body to the other side of the bed and looked to where she had fallen asleep. Her side of the bed was cold and empty. I sat up and looked around the room. Thomas was still crying from his box. Amanda was gone. I slowly stood up and watched the bed regain its former shape. I checked the bathroom and saw that the sink was full of water. The water bucket was tipped over on the ground and a little streak of water was running towards the bathtub. I let the water sit there and lifted the door off of the medicine cabinet. I set the door on the toilet and looked for the syringes; they were all gone except for one. I went back into the bedroom and picked up Thomas and the French fries out of his crib. I opened his mouth and put a French fry in, the fry was cold but he sucked on it for awhile. I paced around the room wondering where Amanda could have gone. I walked over to the bed and looked for the rest of the heroin. I set Thomas down on the bed and searched the room. I found one balloon and a lighter on the ground next to her side of the bed. She left me one needle, one hit of heroin, and our son. I put the balloon in my pocket and ripped the sheet off the bed. I wrapped Thomas in it and walked into the bathroom. I grabbed the last syringe and dipped my hand into the sink to get some water for Thomas. Thomas started to cry when I slid the water into his mouth and I set him down on the lid of the toilet. I put my hand under the water again and tried to cup some of it in my palm. I bit open the needle packaging and spit out the wrapper. I bit the cap off and sucked up a little bit of water from my hand into the needle. Thomas started wailing, it got louder and louder. I pulled the drain in the sink and put the cap back on the needle. I put the needle in my pocket and picked up Thomas. He stopped crying. Some water had splashed onto his sheet and his head was wet. We walked out of the bathroom and toward the door. I opened the front door of the apartment and walked out without even closing the door. A spray painted clown stared at me from the wall of the stairwell. We reached the bottom floor and I checked outside to see if anybody would see me leaving and stepped out into the Detroit slums. The sun had gone down and gray smog hovered between the ground and the streetlights. They buzzed and flickered over us as we walked down the street. Thomas had begun crying again and I let him suck on my finger. Lights were flashing on and off deep into alleyways and small cracks between buildings, but the streets of Detroit were empty. I had lost all track of time while we walked. The BP gas station two blocks down was open twenty four hours so me and Thomas headed toward it. On the way to the gas station we walked past a Greek restaurant named Dionysus. I walked in through the back door with Thomas and got one of the cook's attention. "Excuse me sir, could you happen to spare any food for my son and me?" I turned Thomas towards the cook and made the saddest face I could. "Sure," he said. "I can get a little something for you guys." He walked over to the refrigerator and grabbed a piece of cake and a fork and handed them to me. "Do you think I could have a spoon instead," I asked him. He turned around and pulled a spoon out of the drawer and I handed him back the fork. "Thank you very much," I said and we headed back outside. Snow had begun to fall and Thomas was freezing cold. I put the spoon in my pocket and dipped my finger into the cake and let Thomas eat it off of my finger. I threw the cake in the garbage and walked into the gas station. I asked the manager if I could have the key to the bathroom but he told me I couldn't have it so I went outside. The bathroom was around the corner of the building and had a deadbolt locking the door in place. I set Thomas down next to the door and slammed into the door with my shoulder. After three tries the door popped open and we went inside. I closed the door behind us and sat down on the toilet. I placed Thomas in the sink and pulled out the syringe and spoon from my right pocket and the balloon and lighter from my left and set them down on the sink. I stood up and took my belt off of my pants. I opened the balloon and poured the heroin onto the spoon, and then I pressed the plunger down a little on the needle and watched a few drops of water come off of the point. I lit the lighter and heated up the dope. I wrapped my arm as tight as I could with my belt and bit down hard with my teeth. I leaned my head back against the bathroom wall and fell asleep for a little while. I awoke and had no idea what I was going to do without Amanda. I don't know why she left and had no idea how I was going to be able to take care of Thomas. I picked up the syringe, the lighter, and the spoon and looked down at Thomas. He was sleeping in the sink and he looked as peaceful as he had ever been. I opened the door and walked out, I looked back at him once more and turned and closed the door. I walked about a mile away and found a pay phone. I picked up the receiver and dialed the police. "Detroit Police Department," the dispatcher said. "What can I do for you?" "I found a baby boy in the bathroom of the BP gas station on Cavanaugh and Trumbull," I told her. "He looks pretty cold; you should get someone over there quick." Then I hung up the phone. I waited across the street for the police to come and pick him up. When they got there, the door had blown open in the wind and they rushed in and picked him up out of the sink. When they carried him out of the bathroom they wrapped him in a nice warm looking blue blanket and put him in the back seat of the cop car. I watched the police lights flashing all the way down the street until the car and my son disappeared. I walked around the city until the sun came up and I looked for the first pawn shop that was open. I sold the man who worked there Amanda's ring. He offered me twelve dollars and I took it. I walked the mile and a half to Kevin's apartment and pressed my finger hard on the buzzer.


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After an intense Part I with ASU legend Juan Roque, Part II is here to get you ready for The Game of the Year. The Duel in the Desert. The Battle of Arizona. Arizona State versus Arizona. Not only is this game massively important on its own merit, but the Sun Devils' run at the Pac-12 South title hinges upon a victory in this game. Brad and Joe go in-depth to analyze the current state of the two teams, examine all of the critical match-ups and outline the keys to victory for each team. Sun Devil Nation, listen in and the let's get ready to "Keep The Cup".
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Hi,I'm maintaining the Emacs-on-Aqua GNUstep / OS X port, currently based on emacs 20.7 (http://emacs-on-aqua.sf.net/). I want to update this to a more recent version but would ideally like to do so against a stabilized / released version of GNU emacs -- just so I know that bugs are my own fault when doing the port. On the other hand, I'm not sure if the 21.3/21.4 release is best for this since there was a lot of change since then. That brings my first question:
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3) How much significant unicode-2-specific work remains before that branch becomes eligible for a release of its own? (I see from the list archives there are plans to merge unicode into CVS head, but that doesn't necessarily mean there won't be further heavy development before 23.1.) And how stable / bug-free is unicode-2 right now compared with the will-become-22.1 code? What I'm getting at is, is it reasonable to port Emacs-on-Aqua to this branch now, or should I stick with the to-be-22.1 code, or perhaps just wait before starting anything?
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Pity poor, poor Sabine.
She shares confidential videos online…and is hurt and shocked when she's called out on it.
She harasses, and encourages her followers to harass, innocent people…and cannot understand why this is a problem.
She is arrested and placed on bail, breaches it regularly…and cannot understand why the police (and her unfortunate solicitors) see this as a problem.
Here's her latest self-pitying whinge, for the record (all emphasis Sabine's…of course):
This is just to let you know how my victimisation continues, as I had a distressing email from my solicitor yesterday, after he spoke with the main Police constable:
I was given another 3 months of bail conditions, because there are supposedly so many telephones by terrorists that all have priority over analysing mine.
Meanwhile I am GAGGED for supposedly having published something that I've never done!
I can only attend my meeting online, as I must be seen to be 'low profile' due to my mobility issues.
Otherwise the Police will want me to attend a Station 3 times a week.
The 'innocent abusers' supposedly continue to feel harassed as they claim I continue to publish about the case, even though that is CLEARLY not true.
But the father whom the children accuse keeps being nasty on his blog that I do not visit. I just know, because I get the occasional 'pingback', i.e. link to my blog posts.
He even published my bail conditions and sick note, which he got either from Police or my Google drive…
Long live human rights in the UK and the internet!
A few points to ponder:
Sabine has been gagged because of a crime she very demonstrably planned, and then committed.
Her solicitor wants her to attend her upcoming meetings (at the British Computer Society and with the 10 visiting EU delegates) online, because if the cops could see how easily she really does get around, they'd want her to come visit them more often. Does this suggest to you, as it does to us, that Sabine is perhaps less crippled than she would have the world believe?
The children's father has absolutely nothing to do with this blog. Period.
And we did publish Sabine's bail conditions and sick note, because she put up a link to them on her blog. That, dear Sabine, is called 'publishing' your own bail conditions. We simply followed your lead. You made the material public, so we assumed it was in the public domain. If you don't like that, perhaps you should consider keeping that sort of material to yourself.
Incidentally, 'someone' protested our publishing that material, and WordPress has since removed it. Fair enough. But we didn't get the documents from the cops, the 'cult', Lord Ashtar, or a passing UFO: we got it direct from (ahem) the horse's mouth.


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Heinous Amish Rush
A downloadable game for Windows
Heinous Amish Rush is a strategy game with a rather simple concept; get your soldiers to the other side of the map and defend your own side using a variety of different units to overpower and outsmart your opponent. You can play in either: 'Story mode'- survive for 4 waves to win; or you can play in 'Versus mode'-play against your friend on the same computer.
Heinous Amish Rush is currently a university project I am working on but due to limited time it is currently a work in progress and has many features/content to be added. Current features include:
- 2 Different game types
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Price: FREE!!
Release Date: 23/06/2014
Version: AlphaV1.4
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You can contact me at my student email for any requests/suggestions:email@example.com
Hey, my name is Austin Bowen and I am studying at Media Design School in New Zealand. I am currently working on my Bachelor of Creative Technologies in my first year (Game Art) and Heinous Amish Rush is one of my first projects. It is still very much a work in progress but I hope to take in the feedback I get from this game and use it to make my future projects and games even better.
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Downtown at <165'
Bus stop / bus station at 990'
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Professor Attilio Giacosa at the Department of Gastroenterology at Policlinico di Monza in Italy claims that several studies show that the consumption of fruits and vegetables protects against many types of cancer, such as lung cancer, oral cancer, oesophagus cancer, stomach cancer, and colorectal cancer.
Some of the most beneficial foods that have anti-cancer effect are cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, garlic, oranges and others, scientists say. It is better to eat vegetables and fruits grown locally and in the right season.
William Li, the head of the Angiogenesis Foundation, also lists foods with heir cancer-fighting properties. These are soy, parsley, red grapes, blueberries, dark chocolate, garlic and tea. When these foods are eaten together, their anti-cancer effect is even greater.
It is also important how the food is prepared to boost the protecting qualities of the fruits and vegetables. Foods that are prepared by microwaving and steaming them help to preserve the beneficial substances. Using the sharp knife to lower the waste of essential nutrients is also important.
Specialists say that you can include a glass of red wine everyday, because wine contains polyphenols that have numerous health benefits. Red wine is one of the great sources of these healthy substances and is known to be healthier than white wine. But you need to keep the wine consumption in moderation in order to take the best of it.
Professor Janssens, President of the European Cancer Prevention Organization in Belgium also points out that diet is essential in preventing cancer. He mentioned that breast cancer often starts off at puberty and changing certain lifestyle habits such as one's diet will affect health and decrease breast cancer risk.
Cancer specialists say that cancer mortality can be also reduced if cancer is detected at early stages. Women should do regular breast cancer self-exams to seek immediate help in case of any abnormality. Nowadays, there are also a number of techniques to identify cancer as early as possible, such as mammogram, ultrasound and tissue acquisition.


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Another Wednesday, another update.
I guess not much has really changed. I'm still getting closer every day to being done with my second draft of Days of The Kill. I'm getting close to being done with the second chapter. I hope to be working on the third chapter by next Wednesday.
I actually got done with chapter one later on in the day after I posted last week. Maybe it will be the same with this week. Who knows? I'm getting closer to getting to the shorter chapters. Maybe then it'll seem to go a little more quickly.
It seems to be moving slow for me right now, but in reality, it's actually moving pretty fast. We're five days into November, and I've already done 22 pages worth of editing this month! Talk about progress. I'm looking forward to seeing how far I can get before December.
Along with editing Days of the Kill, I have also decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. My second novel will be called The Healing. I'm trying to do 50/50 with both, but right now The Healing is kind of a priority since I'm trying to get it done in a month. Don't worry, in December, it will be back to really buckling down on editing Days of the Kill!
I'm excited to see how well I can do as a published author, and I'm really excited to see the finished project of Days of the Kill. This is farther than I ever imagined I would get. It's also a lot more work than I thought it would be! (Keep in mind, I was just seven years old when I decided I was going to write a book…)
I can't thank you all enough for your support. For those of you liking my posts, thank you. I wouldn't have kept going for this long if I thought nobody was supporting me. It's good to know there is support coming from unknown places.
Your support is the reason I keep you updated. Thank you, everyone.


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Call for Bids Forecast Areas (2019–2021)
Crown lands can be nominated for consideration in a future Call for Bids by any person or company, or posted by the Board. Nominations of crown lands in any area can be made at any time during the year. The Board has established an annual cycle for an April Call for Bids. The closing date to nominate lands for consideration in the April Call for Bids is December 1st of the prior year.
In addition to reviewing nominated lands received by the Board, the Board has outlined Call for Bids Forecast Areas on a rolling three year basis. These areas will be evaluated by the Board internally and subject to fundamental decisions, one or more parcel(s) located in these areas will normally be included in the Call for Bids for the year specified, along with selected nominated parcels. These areas are all subject to normal Board processes, including the requirement for the completion of a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) (if a valid SEA does not currently exist for that area) before any Exploration Licences are issued as a result of a Call for Bids.
The Call for Bids Forecast Areas are reviewed on an annual basis. The current three-year plan (2019-2021) for the Board's Call for Bids Forecast Areas is shown on the following map.
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As discussed in our December Blog, Microsoft Server 2003 will go "End of Life" (EOL) on the 14th July, when extended support for the operating system comes to an end. Migrating to a new platform may be a daunting proposition, however by failing to act, organisations are exposing themselves to vulnerabilities and are likely to be non-compliant to many business standards.
But what does "End of Life" or "End of Support" really mean to you? It's likely that either the fear of moving or the dependency on legacy software is the reason that you are still running Server 2003. The problems with staying on Server 2003 are mainly security issues caused because Microsoft will stop producing fixes for holes that are identified in the software. Despite the Operating System having been around for 12 years, issues are still found which hackers look to exploit. Because of this the software will no longer be considered compliant by a number of organisations such as the Payment Card Industry. In addition to the software issues, there is also a strong likelihood that the hardware running Server 2003 is nearing the end of its usable life and the risk of physical failures will be increasing weekly. There are many benefits to be gained by moving to the latest server Operating System from Microsoft, Server 2012, as the system has been optimized to work on modern hardware and therefore performance is almost certainly going to be significantly improved. Some of the many benefits include:
– Integrated support for virtualisation, which allows you to run multiple workloads on one physical server
– Better security – Memory management is improved to give much better performance of applications
– Group Policy is significantly expanded and improved and with it the ability to manage systems and users via GPOs is increased
– You can specify default mapped drives for the entire organization or groups
– There is advanced power settings allowing you to manage the power used by the server
IDC produced a White Paper in July 2014 which concluded that while many customers may feel like they are being forced to update Windows Server 2003, the reality is that Microsoft's support policies for software products are relatively generous, and they has released two successive products over the past six years. The Windows Server 2003 product is now in its 12th year of use and has long been a reliable part of many organizations' infrastructure, which is the very reason why it is still in use. IDC believe that customers should see it as an opportunity to not only move forward to a newer version of Windows but also modernise and prepare for the next generation of computing where hybrid and public clouds are important components.
As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Zenzero have a wealth of experience of moving customers from Server 2003 and 2008 to Server 2012. The importance of taking time to understand the dependency of older applications to the business and their compatibility to run in the new environment is never underestimated. To support this process Zenzero follow the recommended steps of;
– Discover – Determine which applications and workloads are running on Windows Server 2003 today
– Assess – Categorize applications and workloads by type, importance, and degree of complexity
– Target – Choose a migration destination for each application and workload, either in the datacenter or in the cloud
– Migrate – Build your migration plan
Time is ticking, so make sure that you speak to Zenzero for a no obligation assessment of your current situation and recommendation about the safest most efficient way to move your server operating system to the latest software. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-server-2003/default.aspx#CaseStudy1


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Published 22nd October 2004 by Constructing Excellence
What is Respect for People?
Recruiting and retaining talented people is the most urgent business challenge facing the construction industry. Constructing Excellence partners seek to achieve radical improvements in performance within the construction industry. Change and improvement will only happen through people and in particular the efforts of the workforce. Providing respect and the right conditions to support their endeavours are essential.
Ultimately, Respect for People is about showing respect to our workforce, while simultaneously winning respect from them and from the general public. The results will benefit everyone.
In this section you will find information from the Respect for People program and information on the broader themes of workforce engagement, benchmarking, equality and diversity, health and safety and working environment.
Respect for People "A Framework for Action" – Final Report
In May 1999 the then Construction Minister, challenged the industry radically to improve its performance on people issues. In response Rethinking Construction's Movement for Innovation established a Working Group to examine the issues associated with people in the industry and in November 2000 published – A Commitment to People "Our Biggest Asset". This report identified seven priorities for action:
- Workplace Diversity;
- Site Facilities and the site working environment;
- Health;
- Safety;
- Career development and lifelong learning;
- The off-site working environment;
- Behavioural issues.
"Rethinking Construction" identified 'Respect for People' as one of five drivers for change. The Respect for People programme set out to demonstrate to industry and its clients that 'people' issues are fundamental to business success.
The final report – 'Respect for People – A Framework for Action' – fulfils the commitment to people. It reports on the trial programme, examines the business benefits and makes recommendations for action. The revised toolkits, a series of case studies illustrating how the toolkits and People Performance Indicators have provided a benefit, and a cross-mapping document – 'Reaching the Standard' – show how the toolkits also support the achievement of several key industry standards, which include:
- The Clients Charter
- Investors in People
- Considerate Constructors Scheme
- Business Excellence Model
- Benchmark Index
The revised toolkits are available online by subscription, including instructions for use, most include a questionnaire and/or checklist depending on and scoring systems as a measuring tool for benchmarking performance. They address the six 'action themes':
|Equality and Diversity in the Workplace
|Equality and Diversity in the Workplace Toolkit
|Working Environment
|Working in Occupied Premises Toolkit & Working Environment Toolkit
|Health and Safety Toolkit
|Health and Safety Toolkit
|Career Development and Lifelong Learning
|Training Plan Toolkit
|Worker Satisfaction
|Worker Satisfaction Toolkit
The report puts forward a strong business case for action, which hinges on the '3 Rs' – firms who fail to improve their attitude and performance towards respecting their own people and others will fail to recruit and retain the best talent and business partners. To improve performance, it is important to involve, engage and empower everyone in the process. Without this, profitability will not improve and business will not be won.
The Business Case
An over-arching recommendation is that construction firms of all kinds and sizes should commit to achieving the standard of Investors in People.
Each year, Constructing Excellence publishes the Respect for People Key Performance Indicators which help organisations to measure and compare their performance against the rest of the UK construction industry and thus identify and prioritise areas for action. Once the priority areas have been recognised, the Respect for People Toolkits provide a more detailed evaluation and provide a focus for improvement action.
Respect for People Case Studies
Reaching the Standard
Respect for People – A Framework for Action
A Commitment to People "Our Biggest Asset"
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