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I had a fabulous 4 day weekend, which made going back to work yesterday even harder than normal. Thursday evening I drove to Johnson City, had dinner with the family, and quickly got caught up on the latest news around town. Friday morning I got up at 5:30 (I can't remember the last time I got up that early!) to fly out of the TRI airport to Richmond, VA to visit my best friend and college roomie. I found tickets for way cheaper than the cost of gas and plus I love to fly! I hadn't seen Alicia since September 2005, when I was in her wedding.
We have stayed in touch through e-mail and phone calls, but nothing beats a visit. From the minute she picked me up from the airport, we talked nonstop the whole weekend. It was like we just saw each other last week. I am truely blessed to have her as a friend. In the three years that we lived together, we never once had a fight. We get each other in a way that it hard to put into words. I had a wonderful time, and we vowed that we would try and be better about visiting. I was very sad to say goodbye Sunday afternoon. However, I will get to see her next week because we are both going to Philly for the National Physician Assistant Conference. We didn't realize we were both going when we planned our weekend visit, so we are getting two visits back to back!
I had left my car at my parents house while I was gone, and I returned on Sunday night to find that some stupid punks had taken a baseball bat and smashed my passenger side mirror. Why do people have to do things like that?!?!?! I was so mad. They broke the glass, the plastic cover, and the wire that supplies the motor was cut (my mirrors fold in completely to the side of the car, so that all has to be replaced.) Plus they put a nice scratch all down the side of the car. They also busted the mirror on another one of our cars.
I have pictures I will add to this post later, but for now I have to get ready for work.
Only one more day this week and then I am off for 12 days!!!!!!!!!
Only one more day this week and then I am off for 12 days!!!!!!!!!
A post with out a picture of Kaley just wouldn't be complete. She's just so darn cute, I had to put one in of her. I took this one right before I left on Monday morning to Drive back to Chattanooga. And for all of you who keep up with my personal life and are curious about Jason, here's a picture I took of us the other day while we were hanging out.


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The tool IntHealth helps identify the executed process in ER, through data mining and process mining techniques, and include a series of rules to predict the discharge hospitalization of patients based on historical information stored in event logs. It enables ER experts to improve their knowledge of the process and help them make better and faster decisions. Including data mining rules for predicting hospitalization and process mining techniques in IntHealth, can reduce waiting times by discharging patients for hospitalization faster and releasing ER boxes.
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You may recall a few weeks ago I set myself a goal that I would read three of the books on my tbr shelves that had been there for the longest amount of time before the end of the year. So here is my progress on that:
I completed the Poison Study series by Maria V. Snyder (a trilogy that I am counting as one book).
So that is two out of three. There is immense satisfaction that comes with reading books that have been lying there neglected and unread on my shelves for a long time. As if, now, I am a better book owner.
I have more goals for reading in the future, you can expect lots of them to be made into videos because I am excited to be getting started on them, especially coming up to the new year.
bum diddly ada progress!


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Well I hope that you are all enjoying your bank holiday weekend and making the most of the nice weather. Today I am givig a sneak peek on a card I made using the Scruffy Little Cat new range from Crafters Companion which is to be launch on Friday on Create and Craft as Pick of the Week. This is an amazing new range and I know that everyone is going to love it.
For this card I used :
Scruffy Little Cat CDRom, Centura Pearl card,
Doilies design set 4 & 5, coordinating papers 10,
Embellishments 10, borders 9,


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If two Florida state lawmakers get their way, the federal government would extend the freeze on increases of size and weights of commercial motor vehicles throughout the U.S.
Florida state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, and Rep. Bill Proctor, R-St. Augustine, are pursuing legislation that encourages the U.S. Congress to make sure larger trucks are not allowed on the nation's interstates.
Congress will be considering the reauthorization of the multibillion-dollar transportation funding bill this year, and attempts to challenge the current federal truck size and weight limits are expected.
Fasano wrote in Senate Memorial 1568 that "federal and state studies have found that increasing the size and weight of commercial motor vehicles may accelerate the deterioration of bridges."
He also points out that the Federal Highway Administration has classified 1,994 bridges in Florida as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
SM1568 is in the Senate Transportation and Rules committees. The House version – HM1073 – is in three committees.
The legislative efforts are nonbinding. If approved by the Florida Legislature, copies of the memorial would be sent to President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and to each member of the Florida delegation to the U.S. Congress.
To view other legislative activities of interest for Florida in 2009, click here.
– By Keith Goble, state legislative editor
Editor's Note: Please share your thoughts with us about the legislation included in this story. Comments may be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Lords and Ladies In Love #4
Historical Fiction
Entangled Scandalous
June 11, 2018
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Mr. Giles Templeton, third son of the Earl of Wexford, is a rake of the highest order and a confirmed bachelor. Yet, marriage-minded-mamas continue to drag their daughters to his attention. He's everything a young lady of the ton could want—handsome, wealthy, charming, and kind. For Miss Suzanna Blake, though, Giles is missing the one thing her parents require in a potential son-in-law—a title.
Giles has a golden touch—investments, horses, connections but when he falls…hard for Suzanna, she turns him away, despite the passion sparking between them. At wit's end, Giles wagers her that not only will she marry him but he'll make her fall in love with him. If Suzanna wins, she gains a sizable fortune for her favorite charity but she faces a loveless marriage to a titled man. Though her heart yearns for a true love-match with Giles, she has never gone against her parent's wishes. All bets are off when happiness lies in losing a wager.
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My Thoughts On The Read
What a fabulous read! Suzanna and Giles's characters are entertaining in every chapter. Comical moments with lots of sentiments, Wagering For Miss Blake is another outstanding read from author Callie Hutton.
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Did we catch a smile? I think so! Lillian has been caught carrying Lucas down the hall when she thinks we haven't responded to his cries in a timely fashion.
Lillian's kitchen is the source of daily playtime. She cooks very well but the clean-up part is in the works. We get the whole restuarant experience because she asks that you sit down, hands you a menu, and writes your order on a notepad. The imagination of a 4 year old is astonding!
Saturday morning, 10a.m.: Lucas is still sound asleep. He woke at 7 then went back to sleep for another nap. If only Lillian would have done that...
Saturday afternoon: Birthday party for friend Briana Crick in Cashion, OK.
We celebrated Brent's brithday Sat. night with dinner at Kang's. Heather and Jesse came to babysit and everyone survived! No pictures of these events; everyone was too busy. Heather and Jesse did a good job because Lucas slept until 4a.m. without waking. He was worn out!
Wow I am a terrible blogger, but read this!
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Sorry I didn't get a song in last week – I was on vacation back home and unfortunately did not have access to any recording equipment. Hopefully in the future my setup can be a bit more portable.
In any event, I ended up adding some distorted guitars to this one. And then I added more. And here I am now, right?
Rob's out of town this week, so this is just me on this one.


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I L-O-V-E this!!!
We are living in unprecedented times. At least for those of us trying to navigate this nauseatingly complicated travesty thatisthe modern dating culture.
The noncommittal guys, the "rules for communication," the necessity for seeminglike you don't care, the casual approach, the 'swipe right'mindsetof romantic relationships.
But for me, there's a whole 'notherlayer to navigating this -LetsBeHonest-toxic dating culture: and that's my faith.
It's confusing. It's frustrating. Add to that the fact that I live in NYC,and it can seem just down right hopeless.
So here are my 10 Truths for Navigating the Modern Dating/Hookup Culture as a Christian:
*And let me just preface this: I am not suggesting thatall guys fall into this camp. This is just a satirical look at some "norms"I have come across in NYC.
#1. Cut the Casual Crap
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Light on the Hill: Industrial Relations Reform in Australia
Working and Work Practices in the Brewing and Electricity Supply Industries
Wayne Gilbert
Although my address is primarily directed at the most recent experiences of the Queensland electricity dispute, let me first say something about restrictive work practices in the brewing industry, with which I was associated until 1983.
What are some of the restrictive work practices in brewing that come to mind several years on? Certainly the most difficult I remember is what is called 'one-in-all-in' which was an agreement, like most work practices, which emerged some time ago and was condoned (or at least not actively misted) by management and whose abolition was strenuously resisted by the workforce.
'One-in-all-in' means that if overtime is required for any section of the workforce, then the whole body of workers must be offered overtime. A case that immediately comes to mind occurred at the Kent Brewery in Sydney when we were seeking to resurface the floor and it was necessary to disconnect the bottle-packing lines to move them a few feet, so that a new floor surface could be put down, and then to move the lines back again. The work involved bringing into the brewery over a weekend several electricians and probably half-a-dozen fitters. But because of 'one-in-all-in', 250 people were brought in with absolutely nothing to do and paid at overtime rates for all-day Saturday and all-day Sunday.
Then there was the matter of contracting. Generally speaking, there was a ban on contractors coming onto the brewery site unless they possessed skills or equipment which it was not possible for brewery day labour to possess. Furthermore, by agreement, contractors would not be allowed on the site unless one week's advance notice had been given to the shop stewards. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, this meant that it was virtually impossible, except for very specialist functions, to have contractors on the site; the day labour force consequently built up to include paviours, painters, builders, welders, tilers and virtually all manner of trades that could conceivably have occasion to be used, regardless of whether they needed to be employed consistently or continuously.
Another bête noire of mine was fork-lift drivers. In a brewery fork-lift drivers have had enormous power because of their ability to halt production and distribution immediately. This power was used to telling effect at Tooths when I was there, until I managed to get rid of such drivers. But for the purpose of this discussion, I'll restrict my observations to one or two points.
The fork-lift drivers at the Resch's Waverley Brewery in South Dowling Street had years ago demanded, and been given, the right of an exclusive fork-lift assigned to each driver. This was said to be on grounds of safety and of machinery care, as individual forks were alleged to have their idiosyncrasies and a fork-lift driver to be most productive if he was acquainted with the quirks of his machine. It was also said by management as part justification for this crazy practice that if only one fork-lift driver drove a machine, then he was more likely to look after it. The upshot of this was that there was always a pool of machines on standby as a result of absenteeism; that there were far more machines available than required for the job and these all needed servicing, which built up the labour force as servicing was done in-house; that over the years the particular variety of fork-lift employed became the most super deluxe model of the most expensive and exotic brand available in this country; and, as a crowning glory, that because the men were said to have such a pride in their one-man per machine fork-lifts, they needed to wash them as a safety measure each week and that the best time to do the job was on a Saturday morning, so that each Saturday morning every fork-lift driver came in at time-and-a-half for a four-hour minimum engagement period to wash their fork-lifts. In fact, of course, the washing took about 8-10 minutes and then the men adjourned to the bar.
Which brings me to one of the most insidious features of the breweries although, once again, I should qualify my remarks by saying that it is 3-4 years since I have been associated with the brewing industry and conditions today may well be different. But certainly the drinking on the job was extraordinary at Tooths in 1978, when I first came to Sydney to take responsibility for their brewing operations.
First of all there was a wet canteen at each brewery which was staffed by shift barmen; the bar was open 24 hours a day whenever the brewery was working, which tended to be five days a week during most of the year and seven days a week over the summer peak. Although the rules provided for two beers at change of shift, this was almost impossible to administer, particularly when the barmen were typically the shop stewards, and it became interpreted as two 10 ounce pots whenever the employees felt like it; and with a workforce on site of about 1,000 at each of South Dowling Street and Broadway, it was virtually impossible for management to police a system limiting persons to two beers (especially during the night or shift operations). But that wasn't the end of the matter. On the kegging plant, which accounted for about half the operations, custom and practice determined, in the days when wooden kegs were used, that a certain proportion of such kegs---one in 1,500, or something of that order were leakers, and so from 1978 to 1981 the requisite proportion of stainless steel kegs were removed from the production line, opened and put aside for on the job consumption by those who worked the kegging line or those who were within reasonable proximity. Clearly the only method of rationing was the individual's ability, capacity and willingness to consume.
But this is not all. Because breweries extend over a fairly large site (two or three hectares in each case), over the years it came to be regarded as inefficient for the men to have to knock off from their place of work and walk to the nearest bar or leaker; it would therefore be in everyone's better interest if there were a number of so-called honey pots around where people who felt that they were unreasonably distant from the bar or leaker could have a session and these of course proliferated. I set about to change this situation because the bars, by whatever name, were the power base of the shop stewards and understandably, the accident record and the productivity record were appalling. While I was aware that in effect unlimited on-the-job drinking was regarded as a hard-won right, I nevertheless advised the workforce and their unions that it was proposed to replace the practice of drinking at the brewery with a free issue of one carton of cans per week for off-premises consumption. After implementation of the scheme, all drinking on the site, other than for medicinal purposes (and that under the control of the occupational health and safety nurses) would be banned and instances of drinking or drunkenness on the job would result in disciplinary action. To their credit the workers at the Kent Brewery accepted the proposition. The bar was closed down and dismantled, and the free issue of beer initiated. From that time there was a marked improvement in all facets of working life at the Kent Brewery.
However, at the Reschs Brewery in South Dowling Street the men decided that their hard-won rights were fundamental. Some weeks went by and after a strike, for reasons unconnected with this matter, the men returned to find that I had disconnected the bar equipment. They immediately walked out and ultimately I was summonsed to appear before the NSW Industrial Commission. I was castigated before that Commission for not having conducted meaningful discussions with the employees and for removing rights and privileges which 'pre-dated the very existence of this Commission'. So the bar was reconnected and work returned. Some weeks later there was another unconnected dispute and at this time I actually removed the bar equipment. (In the meantime, I should add, any attempt at discussion with the union officials or the shop stewards proved absolutely fruitless.) Dragged back before the Commission again, I was accused of being almost in contempt of the Commission and ordered to reinstate the equipment; and, as I recollect, the Company was ordered to pay the men for the time on strike as a result of the removal of the drinking privileges. I said to the Bench at that time that there were reporters outside and I would be surprised if community standards would condone the Bench instructing an employer to provide alcohol on the job in a potentially hazardous work environment Some months later there was a major dispute at the South Dowling Street Brewery lasting 8 weeks; it was not, if memory serves me right, directly connected with the wet canteen issues. When the workers eventually returned, they found that the whole bar area had been bulldozed. And that, together with the fact that they had been 8 weeks on the grass, was the end of that issue.
Turning now to the more serious question of overmanning. I have already alluded to fork-lift drivers; but even more preposterous was that when I came to the brewery in 1978, there was still one or more patmen---a patman is the person who used to clean up after the horses when beer was delivered by horse and dray. There had been no horses at Kent or Resches for 20 years and yet there were still several patmen engaged.
And although they were my friends in those days, electricians had a special role too. It was decreed that only electricians could start electric motors and only electricians could turn on lights at the beginning of the day. The electricians were required each morning to start up the plant--- which meant that the plant either had to have additional electricians on hand or the plant had to be started up in sequence (and, of course, if a duty electrician was called out or failed to turn up, then the plant didn't start).
Even at the very end, in 1983, I can recall the Transport Workers' Union resolutely refusing to allow the introduction of semi-trailer vehicles for beer delivery, either from the brewery to its bulk storage-point in the western suburbs of Sydney or from that storage-point to its customers---because it would result in fewer drivers being employed. On similar grounds, no covered pantechnicons were permitted notwithstanding a major re-equipping program and the fact that this is the standard method of transport for beer throughout the world. It was held by the TWU to be taking a hard-won right away from its members---i.e. the right to spend the best part of 40 minutes after loading to tarp up and tie down.
I can't speak about the management attempts to get rid of these practices in earlier days, but certainly in my time we pursued all conventional means of negotiation involving the State Industrial Commission as well as direct action as illustrated by the anecdote about the bars. While a firm stand on my part eventually led to the removal of most undesirable practices, the tragic truth is that directly as a result of disputes related to their removal, the company lost about 5 per cent of market share. Being forced to modernise to the highest degree and to shed 1,500 jobs, it was financially weakened to such a degree that it had to sell to an interstate competitor. That competitor has never looked back because it bought a brewery at the right price without any adverse work practices.
I turn now to my more recent experience which the South East Queensland Electricity Board. The brewery days were more fun in many respects because the practices were so bizarre and so indefensible that even now it seems preposterous that it took 5 years of concerted effort, non-stop debate and very frequent strikes to get rid of them.
The SEQEB experience is different, the practices being less obvious but far more significant. First, custom and practice had dictated that there were effectively no jobs at all done by independent contract. The only exceptions were occasional civil building works for sub stations and structures of that sort. All other jobs, without exception, were done by day labour and the industry was 100 per cent unionised. Unions had a complete monopoly on the provision of work to the electricity industry.
To protect that monopoly there was a whole variety of demarcation limits---demarcation limits within a trade, demarcation limits between trades, demarcation limits on geographic areas and demarcation limits on functions.
First, take demarcations within a single trade. As a tradesman, say a fitter, attained more skills in his trade, it was held by the union that it would be infra dig for him to apply his initial skills in his employment. In other words, if a man had obtained experience in a particular class of work, then he would refuse to do any other class of work even though it was normally done by people of his trade calling. This resulted in the absurd situation, when a street light failed, of a tradesman replacing the light fitting but if there was a fault in the switch, refusing to repair that fault; instead another tradesman would be called whose speciality was switch repair.
And then there was the demarcation between trades where a fitter/mechanic would refuse to do the work of a linesman, or a truck driver who, being a member of TWU, would not be accepted as an offsider to a tradesman who was an electrician. As most of the truck drivers in our employ were members of TWU, this meant that they were de facto chauffeurs for the tradesmen; and a crew that could have comprised 2 tradesmen and 2 assistants (anyone who had a driving licence and could drive) had to become 2 tradesmen, 2 assistants and a driver.
A combination of the above two demarcations meant that typical truck gang sizes were 5; now they are 2.
The next level of demarcation was between boundaries: if people in suburban depot A were working on a line and it crossed into suburban district B, they would declare that not to be part of their job and a separate crew from district B would be called out. This was particularly pernicious in night-time repair work when, in border regions, crews would be called out on overtime and minimum engagement periods to attend to a fault, only to find that it was on the border and in the next region. They would then return to their base and arrange for another crew from the adjoining depot to be called out with another minimum engagement.
A variant of this scheme was when a crew on weekend or overtime work received a further call to another job which they would ignore (the Nelson touch), return to depot, clock off, and then proceed to accept the call and of course receive a further 4-hour minimum engagement. This widespread gem of an arrangement delayed customer service and added to cost.
F'inally with demarcations of function, there is the classic case in SEQEB of having an emergency repair unit based in Brisbane covering the whole of the metropolitan area whose job it was, when a truck hit a pole or lights were out for any reason, to get supply back as quickly as possible. They held that their function was to do just that and not to effect repairs of any sort even though, in most cases, it is practical to get the lights on by effecting the permanent repair. These people made it a rule that they would get the lights on by doing temporary repairs, thus ensuring that the next day a crew would be called out from another depot to effect the permanent repairs.
Speaking about demarcation barriers, one of the most remarkable examples I came across related to the fitting and erection of a replacement pole. Without boring you with the exact details, it took 20 men and 8 vehicles to complete the job, sometimes spanning 2 days. I must point out at this juncture that we had, and still have, the most up-to-date equipment in Australia, if not the world, to carry out this type of job. The reason that it took 20 men and 8 vehicles was because of the ETU's and their shop stewards' insistence that strict demarcation lines be drawn and adhered to. Since the SEQEB dispute, we have encouraged, within the very strict bounds of safety, multi-skilling, and I am pleased to report that the same job is now completed with 2 vehicles and 4 men at a maximum.
Next in the scheme of restrictive practices is what I would call output limits and there were two instances of these that I became aware of within SEQEB. The first is that we have a large number of domestic kilowatt hour meters; and whilst these have a very long life, they need to be repaired and serviced and the people we employed to repair them decided that a limited output per day was appropriate to protect the old and the slower from exploitation. We said, well if you can't do better than that, we won't repair the meters because it is hardly worth doing so under new technology, new meters costing only $50 each. The output increased by no less than 300 per cent overnight! I well recall another instance where a graduating apprentice who was put on the job of installing hot-water switching devices had been told by his colleagues that he wasn't to do more than 3 a day. This naive young man came to see me and said that he really found the time too boring and that 7 or 8 a day was what he would like to do but he would be sent to Coventry if he did this number; he forthwith resigned. This work is now done by private contract and 10 to 12 a day per contractor is normal.
The closed-shop system enables organised labour to grossly abuse its position. The refusal by the majority to work with an individual who elects not to be in a union or who elects to do more work than the others think reasonable is not uncommon. The best case I can recall was in the lead up to our dispute when notwithstanding an overtime ban, one of our supervisors went out and effected repairs when a storm resulted in 1,000 people in a suburban area of Brisbane being without power on a Saturday. On the Monday (and this precipitated the total strike) the people at that depot said that the only basis they would come to work was if this man were disciplined, was reduced to rank from supervisor to standard employee and signed an undertaking never to do such a terrible thing again. To our credit and to the credit of the Government, we stood firm. The man has now had a promotion and he is just the sort of person we want to have---rather than being disciplined, people like him should be given every encouragement.
I would like to relate another anecdote about trucks, and as you will see it has its humorous side. As you will be aware, there are many workers in this country who are required to work outside, without any permanent readily available convenience. Indeed, many sections of our workforce, such as meter readers, are required to walk around and from time to time they have to answer the call of nature---and of course being reasonable people they have little difficulty in attending to that bodily function. But not so the ETU men in the trucks---particularly line trucks. It was a widespread custom to duck work and to delay jobs if one of the group of 6 employees said that he needed to go quickly to the toilet, something which could easily be effected like the hundreds of thousands of outside workers today. But no---the uncomfortable worker had to be driven in the truck to the nearest sub station which had a toilet. Now because the truck was gone, the whole crew had to stop and accompany this poor chap to the nearest sub station where it could wait for the man and probably telephone the union from the sub station to discuss union matters. That in itself was bad enough, but when you multiply that by 6 on the truck and the fact that it is possible for a worker to need to visit the toilet more than once a day, the situation for us was ludicrous, costly, and not obviously in the best interests of our customers. The men and the ETU thought that this was a magnificent tool to use with complete impunity to thwart any attempt to work harder.
Nowadays, of course, there is a far more sensible approach taken, one which the average person right across the country would deem reasonable. As you may imagine, the last thing I could be accused of being is a supporter of the Industrial Relations Club. In this context there is another example which I will relate that was caused by the Club and an organisation not properly structured or accountable. It has to do with an allowance called 'working in the rain'. Now, as a result of long and continuing disputes years ago, the Industrial Commission and Court forced on us a payment for working in the rain which resulted in up to 6 times the rate of pay for men so employed. This practice, of course, was extremely expensive (well over $0.5 million a year) and it was also subject to widespread abuse. Employees fiddled the system to such an extent that they would claim the allowance for working through dew-laden grass or for getting their clothes wet through perspiration. Prior to the 1985 dispute, attempts were made to rationalise the allowance to a more acceptable level. However, every time an approach was made to do this, there would be strike action or other forms of industrial activity by the unions (particularly the ETU) as this was a very well cherished rort supported by the industrial system.
Nowadays things of course are a lot different. We have decentralised industrial relations and local managers are accountable (with the assistance of employee relations officers) for the practices that creep into their depots or branches. No longer can they say that they are directed centrally; no longer can they fall behind the veil of non-accountability.
Since the dispute, we have rationalised the payment of rain allowance and it is interesting to note how that took place. The employees themselves knew it was a rort and local managers merely said to them---'for goodness sake let's be sensible; let's get back to what is normal and proper'---and they did just that. We even offered to take the matter for interpretation before the Tribunal. They did not want that because the Tribunal has jurisdiction over us now and acts in a far different way from the traditional Industrial Relations Club Tribunal. I believe that every employee knows when and where rorts exist and I am proud of our people because they have accepted the commonsense, fair and equitable approach to the payment of allowances such as this. The 'working in the rain' matter is perhaps the last of the inherited bad practices borrowed from the past and I am glad to be rid of it. In our case, I think the fundamental cause for all of these restrictive practices was the abuse of monopoly power by the principal union, the ETU. I believe that the union, if it ever thought about these matters, felt that it was doing the right thing by its members in creating job security and job opportunities because it certainly resulted in a huge level of overmanning. Although the principal issue in the lead-up to our major dispute was the absolute refusal by the unions to allow the use of private contractors and to introduce contracting, the second item on the unions' agenda was that if they did come to some agreement about contracting, then they considered SEQEB was grossly undermanned and wanted a commitment in advance to upgrading the manning to what they thought was appropriate; this was to be initiated by a job-by-job examination throughout SEQEB.
I could go on for quite some time describing the irrational actions of the ETU. Sometimes I have got to pinch myself to remember what used to happen in the bad old days because it struck me as so ludicrous that a union would seek to control the SEQEB operations through industrial activity. During the deregistration case (and perhaps more importantly during the section 41(1Xd) application by the industry against the making of a Federal Award) many of my staff climbed into the witness box and told the Full Bench of the Commission of the sorts of practices and rorts that used to go on in SEQEB . The most insidious of all, to my mind, was ETU's closed-shop attitude. I have mentioned its abhorrence of independent contractors; but it bears remembering in reference to that that every type of contact was banned---even tree-trimming where the union insisted that the chain saw had to be wielded by a fully qualified linesman or electrical fitter. Demarcation barriers were set and strictly adhered to and the only reason for this was to increase the membership of ETU---sometimes even at the expense of their brother unions.
Regardless of what we did, there were instant bans imposed on the sorts of things we thought reasonable and proper. For example, we spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars investigating the proper use of chemicals for protecting our poles against all types of rot and termite infestation. We set up working parties with the unions to explain fully the nature of the chemicals to be used and we developed safety programs and techniques in the use of these chemicals---but to no avail. Bans were immediately imposed regardless of logic. The fact was that a major asset was daily exposed to risk because the poles were not being treated. Ludicrously, every day that poles were not so treated, the possibility of infestation with rot or termites became greater and there was a real possibility that employees' lives---and the public's---would be placed at risk if a pole fell over whilst workmen were aloft.
I have never believed that safety has any relevance to industrial relations or vice versa. This view was not supported by the ETU. We tried on many occasions to get the union to support us in enforcing the wearing of proper safety clothing. They persistently refused to take any part in that program. When employees were chastised for not wearing safety clothing in potential risk situations, a ban or a strike would ensue. It was apparent to me that the State Industrial Commission was powerless in settling these types of disputes because whatever recommendation came forward or whatever was stated by SEQEB (and experienced witnesses), the unions would merrily continue to stick to their own philosophy of doing exactly what they wanted. It is a recognisable fact that electricity is a dangerous commodity and one that has to be handled with expert care and attention. With the unions assuming control of safety and working practices, our safety record was not an enviable one. Now we have the best safety record of any electricity authority in Australia. The new breed of unionism in our Board (notably QPWA) fully supports our safety programs and is helpful and constructive in its attitude towards safety.
My last comment on industrial brigandry by the ETU can be briefly summarised as follows. Whenever a problem surfaced or a claim was made, ETU, through its shop steward network, would immediately impose a ban or call a strike prior to the matter being discussed with SEQEB. Continuous hearings before the State Industrial Commission took place in matters that should have properly been resolved by discussion. While I've been told that there was never an occasion where SEQEB was found to be totally correct and the dispute eventually settled on our terms, I don't believe this to be fair and I don't thank the State Industrial Commission for what they did.
At the time our major dispute climaxed, we employed 4,313 permanents; we now employ 3,000---down 1,313 or 30 per cent. In fact, today, the total reduction in full-time equivalent is over 1,400 people because the overmanning in the outdoor workforce, which was of the order of 850 people, was also matched to a lesser degree by an overmanning in the indoor workforce, and of course as the number of employees reduces so does the required number of support staff.
The removal of this overmanning has saved SEQEB $16m a year; also the elimination of the work practices to which I have referred has saved us another $9m a year; as well, use of competitive private contract has saved another $3.6m. Thus management changes that were resisted by the unionised workforce have resulted in annual savings of just on $30m and have resulted in our having the lowest rate of price increase (3.5 per cent per annum) of any electricity authority in Australia. Our price increases are now half that of other authorities; and largely because of both the lower price rise and the continuation of the savings, our Government has given an undertaking that price rises for the next three years will not exceed half the Brisbane CPI. We also have a commercial and industrial growth rate double that of other authorities.
As a consequence of our dispute, we now have a workforce that is approximately 50 per cent unionised through traditional unions, some further 20 per cent belong to a company or enterprise union, and the remaining 30 per cent are non-union members.
Our industrial performance, however measured, is superior
to any other electricity authority in this country
in terms or efficiency, notwithstanding the fact that
from 1977 when we were formed to 1984 there were 35
threats of actual rationing or load-shedding of power
---an average of 5 a year. Since our major dispute in
February 1985, there has not been one minute lost to
an industrial dispute anywhere in the industry. As
a result of removing the work practices---and it was
indeed painful surgery---the morale of our employees
has skyrocketed and career paths have opened up. Our
employees generally have a real commitment to serving
the customer whereas previously they were interested
in getting all they could for themselves. Our image
with the public has improved enormously. Our growth
rate has improved and we have found an ability to reduce
real prices when other authorities throughout the country
are struggling to avoid real price increases.


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We've all been there. With billions of emails sent every day and ubiquitous access to our in-boxes from many different devices at any time of day or night, there are bound to be a few instances of poor email behavior.
One of the biggest culprits is the Reply-All button. Reply-All lives in plain sight in our email clients, just sitting there every single day, waiting for its chance in the spotlight. However, the instances that appropriately call for Reply-All are few and far between.
Remember, hitting Reply sends a message just to the original sender who sent you the email. Hitting Reply-All sends your email to everybody who was included in the To: and cc: fields of the email to which you are replying. There are times when it is appropriate for just using Reply and times when it is appropriate to use Reply-All. Here are some general guidelines to help distinguish these situations and avoid any embarrassing faux pas.
When to use Reply
You should use the Reply option for the vast majority of your emails. Of course, if you are the only person receiving the original message it will not matter which reply button you use, since both option send to only the original sender.
Is the conversation private? Use Reply. Do you have a question that is meant for just one person in the group? Use Reply. Is there something in your message that you do not want others to see? Use Reply. Is there confidential or sensitive information in your message? Use Reply. Are you talking about somebody else that received the first message, but you do not want him or her to see what you write? Use Reply. (This one should seem obvious, but unfortunately it is not for many people.) Was the original message sent to dozens or hundreds of people and you are a decent human being who does not want to flood inboxes with a message that is not relevant to the majority of people on the thread? Use Reply.
When to use Reply-All
Pretty much never.
This advice might be a bit of an exaggeration, but in truth, situations where Reply-All is the appropriate choice are few and far between. When you use Reply-All, consider if you really need to be using it. If the message you are sending is important enough that you would retype it and send it individually to each person on the email thread if you had to, then Reply-All is probably an appropriate choice. Imagine that everybody on the email list is standing together in one room. Would you shout to get every person's attention and then say the content of your email so everyone can hear? This is essentially what you are doing when you Reply-All, so if your answer is no, then Reply-All is probably not warranted.
Damage control
Even the most savvy email users make the mistake of hitting Reply-All from time to time. That's okay; it happens to the best of us. There are a few things to consider to minimize the impact of this.
- Use technology to help you be your best email self. Gmail has an amazing feature called Undo Send. When you enable it, all emails that you send are held for a few seconds (you can set the amount of time) before they are sent. This gives you the option of clicking "Undo Send" if you realize there is an error in your message or that you have accidentally sent a funny gif to the entire company when you had intended to send it only to your work best friend. Other options include hiding the Reply-All button in Outlook entirely or using a third-party service that acts as an intermediary, allowing you to delete your emails after they have been sent.
- Understand how listservs work. A listserv is a way to send an email to a large group of people without typing in everybody's address. It will appear that only one person is receiving the email, but in reality the email is distributed to everybody. Replying to a listserv (using either the Reply OR Reply-All button) can be the same as replying to everybody on the list. If you see an address that is something like email@example.com or email@example.com, be very careful how you reply. Some listservs allow any recipient to reply to the whole group, while some only give this permission to certain people.
- BCC and self-control are your friends. BCC is a very effective way to manage Reply-All abuse before it happens. If you need to send a group email, such as an announcement that everyone needs to read, but you do not want people replying to the whole group, then enter everybody's address into the BCC field. This way, recipients will only be able to see themselves (and the sender) on the message and not the other recipients. And of course, when in doubt, ask yourself, "Do I need to be Replying-All to this?"
Thoughtful email behavior can make for a more pleasant and productive workplace. Reply-All misbehavior affects us all. Be part of the solution.
Is your Inbox out of control? See 4 Strategies To Get Control Of Your Email.


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Little Lady
Posted by The Wizzle | Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 9:44 PM
(I styled her hair. That is all. I swear everything else is entirely her doing.)
Eve emerges dramatically from her boudoir, prepared to attend the Pinewood Derby in high style.
Me: Eve, you look very chic.
Eve: What's "chic"?
M: It's sort of like elegant.
E: What's "elegant"?
M: It means extra pretty, but in a very grown-up way.
E: Ooooooohhhhhhhhh. I feel very elegant!


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Feedback from episode #1:
I have gotten some feedback from my first episode, where people have noted that I made an assertion about Trump supporters that I did not cite sources for. The assertion that I made was that there is a disconnect from what liberals see as corruption and what the right wingers call corruption. The liberals often see the billionaires buying politicians as corruption and the right wingers see unions supporting politicians as corruption.
The feedback I am getting is that I provided no support for that argument. First I want to say that I did not see a need to. I made the assumption that if you follow politics this would be obvious. Well, I guess that assumption was incorrect. I got this from multiple places, but the first and most important is the anecdotal evidence ( which I know is not good evidence ) However, the point is that I myself come from a very conservative background. I would sit and listen to my family constantly talk about how all the liberal are in the pocket of the unions and how they were so corrupt and needed to be replaced. I believed this way for years.
In fact, for nearly 2 decades I was a right wing conspiracy nut. I have recently ( in the past several years) been training myself in skepticism, and looking at the world much differently than I did in the past. In the past I believed most all of the right wing type conspiracies about the left, and even some of the more crazy ones. I was a 911 truther, I was climate change denier, I was a old earth denier. I believed that intelligent design had some truth to it. I believed in ghosts, demons, and even believed that humans could tap into their power to cast spells.
The things I believed were kinda crazy. Yet, through the help of a good friend and being completely embarrassed by a couple of the biggest morons where I worked, I took a deep dive into youtube atheists like Hitchens, Dawkins, and Harris. I was able to critically evaluate my beliefs, and much more than the god belief fell away.
The march for science was on Saturday, and it brought out not only those that advocate for science but also all of the deniers came out on social media and comment threads. A common complaint was this so called agenda driven fear mongering of the advocates of stopping climate change.
Even with all of the data we have supporting climate change, the deniers take their anomaly hunting into overdrive. They also seem to be more reactionary to misleading headlines.
This article from the Washington Times is worth discussing here.
Washingtimes Headline:
"Climate change whistleblower alleges NOAA manipulated data to hide global warming 'pause"
Briefly what this article talks about is this alleged manipulation of climate data. The data are said to show a pause in the global temperature rise in the 2000's . Now let's put aside whether or not this is true, and focus what that data would change in the overall view of climate change. The independently verified data that is already known shows that the average rate of temperature(climate not weather) is on the rise. A single data point showing no rise or fall does not change that overall rate. There would have to be a pause or decline over a significantly large period of time to alter that average.
There were many articles citing theses claims on other websites, and they all center around this same guys claim offering no new analysis.
A deeper analysis of this can be found on Snopes:
They go much more in depth into the claims of the alleged data manipulation.
You can also read more about this on businessinsider.com
Another argument I've seen floating around is this analysis of the Antarctica Ice mass. When you look at the ice mass measurements, you will see that from August 2015 to March 2016 there was a spike in the variation of ice mass. And if you look at just that single data point it appears that the Antarctica ice mass is getting bigger instead of shrinking. What is missed here is that when you look at the overall rate, it is still on a downward trend. It seems that people ignore, or are ignorant of, trend lines in data. A simplistic analysis could be done just by taking a ruler and fitting it as close to the center of the data points on the graph. You will quickly see that it is a downward slope. So the spikes from one year to the next is irrelevant. The overall mass is dropping. The graph @ https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/land-ice/ shows that the rate of change in ice mass is 118 Gigatonnes per year. And the rate of decline seems to be slowly accelerating.
And consequently the sea level has been steadily rising at of 3.4 mm per year. Now this is average rate of change rather that just the rate from year to year. The data points rise and fall from one year to the next, but there is an overall trend of rising sea level.
Now if the argument is that climate change is happening, but it is not human caused there is another set of data that backs that up. The level of Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising at increasing rate. This means that not only is the amount going up with human activity, but also that the rate by which that amount is rising is also getting larger.
The reason this is important to note is that it is getting warmer, and that is that the average temperature range is getting warmer. The Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere is like adding a blanket onto the planet, and the average temp shows this. Now you can look from year to year or even decade to decade and you will see rise and fall in the data of the temperature. However, the average over longer time periods is going up.
Now talking to an audience of skeptics this is all obvious, and generally understood. Yet, I am making my distinction again that just because you are an atheist, does not mean you are also a skeptic. I understand that atheist just simply means that you answer the question is there a god with anything other than yes. So if there are any climate denying atheists listening, I urge you to look at the actual data, and the people who actually study climate for a living( who also have the relevant scientific background to understand the data) Don't just listen to Bill Nye, who by the way is literally a rocket scientist, but look at the data yourself. All of the graphs and data are on the nasa website.
The truth is climate change is happening and we can do something about it. Some of the proposed solutions are not ideal, and some seem to be counter productive. But people are going to deny this, as people tend to do, and they do have a right to speak even if they are misinformed.
More resources for climate change:
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Washington Post Headline: "Federal judge stops Auburn from canceling white nationalist Richard Spencer speech. Violence erupts."
To get started on this I had no clue who Richard Spencer was before reading this article. The name was familiar I just couldn't place where I had heard it. I definitely did not connect it with his view of white nationalism.
I wanted to talk about this idea that the judges used to the first amendment to reverse the decision by the university to cancel. Auburn is a land-grant college under the Morrill act, which makes it a public school. This means that if the school is going to have an open forum then any ideas should be able to be discussed. What it does not mean is that anyone is required to attend the forum. It is the trope of if you don't like it don't listen. There is no captive audience, and although his ideas are terrible no one is being forced to attend. The protesters are exercising their own first amendment right to violently protest against another persons first amendment right.
Now this is tricky in that if this was a private institution I would agree with the cancellation. Because although there is a right to free speech the first amendment does not apply to private entities. That is for the reason that although you have a right to free speech, no private entity has a duty to provide a platform. That would mean that I as an atheist podcaster would have to allow a preacher to come on to my show to give a sermon. As a private entity I am not obligated under the first amendment to provide a forum.
The key point here is to realize, the same thing that allowed the judge to overturn the cancellation of Richard Spencer's speech is what protects the K-12 schools from ten commandments statues. When the school puts up a christian display they are declaring an open forum, and must allow the satanists to erect a statue in the same forum.
The only way around this type of ruling would seem ( and I am not a lawyer so take my advice as a non-expert ) would be to not have an open forum for anyone. Being an institution of higher learning, they have a societal obligation to challenge people's beliefs and sense of what is right , in the ethical, and societal sense.


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Bridging the gap
Once the fief of rich western kids, taking a year off or 'gapping' is now increasingly the trend among youngsters who are ready to follow their heart. Ruchira Hoon meets Indian gappers who aren't just skipping school and work to dance and travel, but are doing so with parental consent and by living on their wits...india Updated: Apr 04, 2009 23:29 IST
Hindustan Times
Advertising professional Anurag Mallick hadn't contacted home for seven months. Even his mother didn't know where he was. Worried sick, she filed a report with the police. Last heard, she said, he had quit his job, packed his bags and headed out to the Himalayas to find himself — and now was lost. But when 22-year-old Anurag came back home a few days after the report was filed — looking very zen — he told her to chill out. After all he had been on his gap year, travelling and just enjoying the days of his youth.
That was a decade ago. A time when the concept of taking a couple of months or a year off from studies or work was unheard of. A time when the middle-class couldn't afford a journey of self-discovery. A time when parents were afraid to just let go of their children.
A lot has changed. Taking time out, or gapping as it's called, has become a trend across India. With youth institutes like AIESEC and World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF), supporting gappers young and old, the trend is here to stay. Mayank Batheja, director of north and east operations of AIESEC, believes that there are twice as many people taking a year off now as compared to two years ago. "Earlier only one in every 10 would take the year off to gap. Now nearly four out of 10 are not only 'allowed' by their parents but are also very keen to take time out to figure things out for themselves," he says. And what's more, it's not just the rich who become gappers, but all those with the desire to do something different or just travel around the world.
Dream catchers
The thirst to learn a new language is often key to where a gapper chooses to go. Take 25-year-old Veer Singh. Between school and college, he took a year off to study Spanish in London and Madrid. Enamoured with Spanish culture, Veer returned in 2007, after completing his undergraduate degree in India, to become an organic farmer in Majorca, the largest island in Spain. "For a year I farmed and was able to sustain myself through my earnings. At other times, I travelled to various places in Spain," says Veer, who currently works with Max India. "It was the single most fulfilling experience — to work with the locals and experience their culture first hand."
Whether it's backpacking across South Africa, or working in disaster zones, Indian youth today seems to love the idea of doing exactly what they want to, just to walk that path of self-discovery. The only thing that matters is being able to afford it — both time and money wise.
While younger gappers ask their parents to help them financially while they travel and rough it out, there are others who work for a couple of years and design their own gap project. Aparna Shekhar Roy is one of the latter group. Last October, she gave up her job as a brand manager in an FMCG company and travelled extensively across South America. "I saved up and then headed to all the places I had always dreamt of — Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile."
She adds that it's taught her a lot — how to stretch the moolah, value simple pleasures in life — and even instilled a sense of national pride. Back from her trip, Aparna finds herself appreciating several things that she took for granted in her daily life.
Several gappers also prefer dropping a year before they launch into a career in order to pursue a hobby that they wouldn't otherwise. Shivani Salhotra, a qualified lawyer, was always interested in Kathak, so under the aegis of Shovana Narayan, she has been training professionally for the last year and a half. "This was the best time and to be honest I have only been dancing for myself. This is my passion," says the 25-year-old who will be joining a law firm later this summer.
Another popular gap trend is volunteer work. History graduate Shruti Mahendroo has taken the year off to work with different NGOs working in the Bihar (Kosi) flood-affected areas. "I deferred my admission to the University of Southern California to help out along the Kosi river," says this 22-year-old. "It has been meaningful and has changed the way I think and look at people."
Papa do preach
For most gappers parental support, both mental as well as financial, is very important. And with technological advances, most parents too are taking it easy and letting their children do all the soul-searching they like. From the days when an STD or ISD call was difficult to make, they too have tech-smartened up. "Learning how to email was probably the toughest thing ever," says Prakash Mittal, whose 22-year-old son Harsh has been backpacking all over Europe with his friends for the last four months. "But it has set me free from all kinds of worry. Now I use Skype — and we chat every other day at least."
Global credit cards, global calling cards — it's all made the world a more accessible place. And for young Indians, the world is their oyster.
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Signal lamps and lights
Without users and operators of machines and technical installations being aware, colors of a signal light indicate a certain status. Signal lights for safety are needed to warn users in dangerous situations. In practice, the following colors are often used:
- Red: stop / danger
- Yellow / orange: standby
- Green: safe / switched on
Signal lamps for different applications
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Prewired SIGNAL LIGHTS | P-SERIES
Signal lights are available in various shapes and sizes: from Ø30 mm recessed spotlights up to Ø160 mm with a high or low lens design. The P-series mediumsize industrial lighting from Auer Signal has a diameter of Ø75 mm. The P-series signal lights are configured and pre-wired with LED or Xenon light source.
Different versions of signal lamps
In addition to standard 110/120 VAC and 230/240 VAC models, there are also versions with a wide voltage range of 10-100 VDC and 20-70 VAC. The P-series signal lights are equipped with an IP66/IP67 degree of protection and are supplied with one meter of cable as standard. All plastic parts are made of high-quality polycarbonate plastics (IK 08).
The T-series (ø75 mm) and U-series (ø60 mm) signal lamps have been developed as surface mounting and panel mounting. Industrial lighting with visual, audible and visual-audible functionalities are possibilities of the T-series. The T & U-series are the ideal solution for extreme and demanding applications. The signal lamps are resistant to temperatures from -30 °C to +60 °C, with a protection degree of IP66 and impact resistance up to IK 10, which makes the signal lamps have an extremely robust design.
- Standard surface-mounted and panel mounting version in Ø 75 mm and Ø 60 mm
- Low power consumption and a long service life
- Highly efficient and high-quality LEDs
- Available with externally switchable LED
- UL certification
Modular beacons are signal lights equipped with an internal rotation mirror. The Ø 90 mm rotating beacon has a high operational reliability due to the synthetic bearings. The modular flashing light is easy to assemble.
Rotating mirror / stable light beacon
The signal lamps are equipped with a rotating mirror beacon or a stable constant light beacon. The rotating beacon has a speed control of 90/180 RPM with a constant speed independent of temperature and environmental influences. Rotating signal lights are available in ATEX version with IP66 degree of protection.
The highest levels of safety require the highest quality levels of signal lamps. The ATEX signal lamps for applications in potentially explosive atmospheres have a robust and seawater-resistant housing with a protection degree of IP66/IP67. The ATEX signal lights are made of metal or plastic.
Application in potentially explosive atmospheres
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Proforma Green Marketing will be attending the 21st Annual meeting of the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in Atlanta Georgia. This is the first time Proforma has been invited to an SREB event, and we are honored at the opportunity to attend.
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And I finally got some time to sit and reflect on to what actually happened to my life in last 12 months.
And then I got deeper into what happened in my life in last 22 years.
I'm totally a overthinker.
Quick context about my childhood:
I was born in 1992 in town called Jeseník. Small city in Czech Republic, pretty close to polish borders and surrounded by mountains.
I'm the youngest of three brothers and I'm a ginger. This is me as a kid.
My parents got divorced when I was 7. My father is an alcoholic and I got bullied as I was a chubby ginger kid. I got pretty shy and introvertical at this point.
I was growing up with my single mom, she's a nurse by profession &heart. We were super poor financially, but super rich life-wise. We had each other and our dog, who passed away earlier this year. Still mourning about her...I love you mom.
I was really into military and everything outdoors since I was like 10 so I was always surrounded by older dudes. I hate to admit it, but I was less afraid then that I'm now.
I was probably not your typical 14years old boy. I had a fuckin huge machine gun.
I got camera when I was 15. I remember, this was the first picture I shot and kinda liked it. (thanks for preserving this, Facebook!)
At that point, I liked photography and I like being outside. I wanted to shoot landscapes, mountains and animals. Somehow work with Arc'teryx.
But I had no idea that it can be done as a profession.
So I decided that being a military paramedic would be a nice crossover. I do care about people and I always did.
When I was 16 I changed school, moved to slightly bigger city and met this awesome fella. I'm honoured to call him BFF ever since and without him, my life would be dramaticaly different right now.
I guess it would be much easier :)
(portrait of 2010 Ondra lit with our first softbox which we hacked from cardboard. Oh boy, I still feel the excitement right now.
At 18, I was super depressed with my life. I was empty. Like emotionally empty. Brick in the wall. I decided to stood up against everything and everyone and change that shit. And leave that shit behind.
Since then I'm hustling my ass and trying to somehow figure out how to roll in this world.
Fast forward to August 2013.
August 2013 was a big deal. For the first time ever I left my country for other reason than family vacation. We hitchhiked to Istanbul. Fuckin' amazing adventure which changed everything.
Prior to that moment I had my website in Czech language and I was not just writing in Czech language but more importantly, I was thiking in Czech language.
I switched. And I'm on English last 14 months. (sounds like some drug addiction:) Not just on Facebook, but more importantly in my brain. It enabled me to create some amazing relationship I would otherwise never created. It's still not my first language so I always need to think not just about "what I want to say" but "how do I say that" but still, english is what connect this world together.
I wish someone told me this earlier.
Going underwater was a good idea. I Still need to finish my super artsy experimental underwater video.
This thing was all over the globe. Oh man, that was exciting.
it won me my first award. I still remember how I'm sweating in the middle of desert wearing Tuxedo , because I thought it's a hillarious idea for acceptance speech
Going to Dubai for GPP was definitely the experience I'm glad for.
I'm proud on sending that email. It got me on a stage with my favourite artists. Asking for things I want.
I wish someone told me this earlier.
Spending a month in a van with bunch of rock'n'roll friends was a great fun. Browsing through almost 30 thousand photos I shot during our month long roadtrip around Europe is less fun.
..I rember how I had to force myself to write these two articles for InMybag.net not that it's not one of the best site in photography industry right now, I'm just having all kinds of problems with my work attitude obviously. Funny thing was that they both went viral and one even won me a prize. Bringing value to people is the key.
I wish someone told me this earlier.
I wish someone told me this earlier.
I wish someone told me to buy iPhone, tent and Fuji cameras earlier.
I wish someone told me that it's not (just about) photos anymore
That it doesn't have to be about chasing perfection and clients.
That my life doesn't need to be just working for some advertising client shooting paper tissues that doesn't matter anyway.
I still struggle financially. I'm still broke as a church mouse. But I feel more rich now. I feel happier and more alive. I stopped chasing clients and money and started chasing moments instead.
I feel like when you're in your twenties and you don't have kids, experiences matters more than dollars.
That being said, if you'd buy some of my shits here or here, it would be nice and it would keep me goin'
This was the view from my yesterday's flight to Barcelona, still blown away by it while I'm sitting and writing this right now. In three weeks I'm flying to Morocco, cause I found ticket for 40$. Couldn't resist. In 2015 we are planning to go to Thailand with my girlfriend where we want to start a new project together.
I'm grateful for everything that happened in my 21' and can't wait what will 22 bring.
All the best to all of you reading this! :)


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Since our kitchen has been torn apart, we've been living off of frozen and pre-prepared meals out of the grocery deli. (I tried to make dinner once and it was such a mess to clean up. You see, the bathroom sink doesn't have a disposal system like the kitchen sink does and that makes for a disgusting mess.) Tonight, we drove to Boulder City to check on John and Maggie's kitty since they were out town, so we decided to have dinner in town for a change.
dear old uncle Frank.
While I went for the prime rib (oh my gosh it is a big hunk of meat and was SO good!).
Our new countertops will be installed this coming Monday and so we will be able to hook up all the appliances and have a sink to wash, rinse, drain, and do all the things we had taken for granted.
Tomorrow we are going to go shooting in the desert before we to tear up the concrete slab over the cabinets. I will finally get to shoot my Ruger whatcha-ma-call-it revolver for the first time since Johnny purchased it for me. That should be fun.
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Dinner in Boulder City
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"The whole trend began in (wait for it) California. Regulations began in 2000, with the idea of preventing spillage. The notion spread and was picked up by the EPA, which is always looking for new and innovative ways to spread as much human misery as possible."
And check the part about "exploding" gas cans!


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Made in New York Weekend
The Museum of the City of New York is celebrating Presidents' Day Weekend with two days of "Made in New York"-themed fun. Tots can take curator-led tours of the museum's exhibits like "Activist New York" and "Designing Tomorrow," and watch the 28th Annual New York Sword Dance Festival (Feb 16 at 1pm). If tykes need an energy boost, they can nibble on local artisan treats like gourmet popcorn from Ovenly and wash it down will all-natural P&H Soda. All ages.
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Italy bans the use of animals in circuses
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Animal rights activists are winning victories as more countries prohibit animals in circus acts. This month the Italian Parliament adopted legislation to phase out animals in traveling shows and circuses, according to Animal Defenders International (ADI). It's a big move, as there are an estimated 100 circuses with 2,000 animals in Italy . Italy became the 41st country to pass measures prohibiting animals in circuses. ADI said on their Facebook page that Italy's Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini promoted the legislation to phase out animals in circuses. Related: America's largest animal circus closes after 146 years ADI president Jan Creamer said in a statement, "Traveling from place to place, week after week, using temporary collapsible cages and pens, circuses simply cannot provide for the needs of the animals. Through ADI's undercover investigations we have shown the violence and abuse that is used to force these animals to obey and perform tricks. We applaud Italy and urge countries like the UK and the US to follow this example and end this cruelty." It's not yet clear how Italy's phase-out will play out; ADI said within a year, Italy will outline how the law will be implemented through a ministerial decree. It's not yet known how long circuses will have to phase animals out of their shows. ZME Science highlighted some of the issues with animals performing in circuses, pointing to an investigation from researchers at Wageningen University. They found 71 percent of observed animals were experiencing medical issues, and 33 percent of lions and tigers didn't have access to an outdoor enclosure. They said circus lions spent 98 percent of their time inside on average. Elephants spent 17 hours a day shackled on average, and tigers – though scared of fire – were often forced to jump through flaming hoops. Ireland also stood up for animal rights recently , with a ban on the use of wild animals in circuses that will take effect on January 1, 2018. Via Animal Defenders International ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) Images via Wikimedia Commons and ~Pawsitive~Candie_N on Flickr
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Red Mountain Retreat captures the essence of the rugged Icelandic landscape
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The Red Mountain Retreat captures the mystique and mystery of the Icelandic landscape. Johanners Torpe Studios designed the proposal for a spa and wellness retreat that offers an escape from the stresses of everyday life and provides stunning views of a nearby glacier. The resort is located on the Western peninsula of Snæfellsness, where the river meets the sea. It faces a majestic glacier covered stratovolcano and references old Icelandic tales that celebrate the union between man and nature. The design explores the interplay between nature and architecture and aims to facilitate a journey of self-discovery. This is done by exposing the guest to nature in various ways, whilst maintaining a sense of protection and basic principles of shelter. Related: The world's first 100% solar-powered five-star resort has opened The spa sits at the heart of the resort and captures several natural elements to create wind tunnels, fire baths and ice pools. The outdoor lagoon looks like a natural extension of the river and features shallow passages, areas with currents, and still water pools . Concrete reinterprets the rocky landscape of the surroundings, creating contrasting rough and smooth textures, as well as patterns inspired by those found in the layers of the turf houses. Green roofs references traditional building techniques and intensify the connection between the architecture and nature. + Johannes Torpe Studios [galley]
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Ringling Bros Circus will stop exploiting elephants for entertainment by 2018
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In an announcement that marks a huge win for animal welfare activists, Ringing Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show's infamous elephants from performances by 2018. According to the statement given to Associated Press, the circus decided to change their practices almost solely based on the enormous public concern about mistreatment of animals, which activists have spent years insisting is a top priority. Read the rest of Ringling Bros Circus will stop exploiting elephants for entertainment by 2018 Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: animal cruelty , animal welfare , animals in entertainment , circus animals , circus elephants , elephants in captivity , mistreatment of circus animals , ringling bros , ringling bros and barnum and bailey circus
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Review written by Flossie Waite
A House of Stray Cats production, part of Little Angel Theatre FIRSTS
Reviewed at Little Angel Theatre
Performances in October
For ages 3 -11
The Roald Dahl centenary celebrations seem to have seeped into the subconscious of The House of Stray Cats: The Dream Factory is about a little girl called Sophie and dreams caught in jars, drawing parallels with The BFG. The only giant here, however, is a huge spider that lumbers into the little girl's night-time imaginings. The 'Dream Factory' element would be lost if it weren't for the show's title; instead, the structure seems to be a sequence of Sophie's dreams, a convenient device that allows for random characters and events to sprout out of her mind and onto the stage, though the plot does not work hard enough to deserve this liberty. Sophie's final dream suggests a narrative arc that is never clearly established in the beginning – we know that Sophie can't sleep, but why?
The dreams themselves are quite lengthy, and though the production highlights the experiential elements of the performance as a highlight ("immersive, sensory"), Sophie's exploration would benefit from a sense of purpose or additional plot. The story's emotional landscape is fairly flat – even when Sophie meets a massive creepy crawly, the point seems more to show us what the magnificent spider puppet can do, and the two are almost immediately on friendly terms.
In fact, whilst all the puppets are truly gorgeous, they are constantly fighting for attention – Sophie's climbing and clambering across the set doesn't take the story anywhere but it does show off impressive feats of puppeteering from a tight team of performers. The three puppeteers – Katriona Brown, Maia Kirkman-Richards, Nicole Black – are extremely vigilant, making sure that every limb is animated correctly at every moment. But to this end, the performers seem very aware of their own movements, and in turn so is the audience: measured rather than smooth, calculated rather than flowing, the magic trick of visible puppeteering – the human performers somehow being both present and melting into the background – is never achieved and the characters struggle to breathe. The Dream Factory is a showcase for their technical expertise, but neither the plot nor the puppets truly come to life.
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It is no coincidence that Conceptionaire recruits Polish students, graduates and alumni.
Jurgen has a connection with Poland.
He was once one of those students who went for an internship at a Polish university. After a few years he went back for business in collaboration with other entrepreneurs. He has built a network in Poland during those years. Jurgen knows the culture, speaks the Polish language at a reasonable level.
Jurgen came back from Poland, 'by accident' in the region of Eindhoven known as 'the second Silicon Valley'.
Jurgen saw the possibility of a 3 WIN's:
- Win for the companies in the Netherlands who need knowledge workers.
- Win for the students who are looking for a leap in their career.
- Win for Conceptionaire
Jurgen can do what he loves to do and what he's good at: connecting people. We are on a regular basis in Poland to connect with students and alumni, all highly qualified technical personnel.


text: Select the radishes, trim them neatly and lay for 1 hour in ice water; 10 minutes before serving wipe the radishes dry and cut them into fine slices; also cut the onions into fine slices like wafers; put a layer of radishes into a salad dish, sprinkle over a little salt and white pepper and put over a layer of onions with very little salt and white pepper; continue in this way in alternate layers until all is used; then pour over the whole a mayonaise dressing and garnish with green parsley leaves. The onions may be omitted if their flavor is not liked, but the salad is much finer with them. Instead of mayonaise the salad may be dressed with oil, pepper, salt and vinegar; the latter should be diluted with 1/3 water and a small spoonful sugar added to it before pouring over the salad.


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One of the most common concerns people have is a loss of their jawline definition. Instead of being sharp and defined, over time the jawline can become softer or even invisible. We now have a number of treatment options to help improve jawline definition.
What causes loss of jawline definition?
The jawline is seen be the protrusion of the jaw bone, or mandible. Over time there are many changes that affect the appearance of the jawline. These occur from both above and below the jawline.
Above the jawline, the fat pads in the mid-face get smaller. At the same time the bony structure of the face changes; the cheekbones move downward and inward. These fat pads and bony structures normally hold up the face and, as a result, the face moves downward. Over time we also naturally lose collagen, the protein in the skin that keeps it firm, tight, and youthful in appearance. As collagen is lost the skin becomes loose and saggy and with gravity the skin of the mid-face and lower face goes down. All of these changes make the jawline less defined.
Below the jawline other changes occur. One is the increase of submental fat. This is the fat under the chin commonly called the double chin. A double chin can be due to age, weight gain, or genetics and is very common. When this gets larger the protrusion of the jaw bone is not as evident and we lose the definition of the jawline. Simultaneously the muscle in the neck just under the skin called the platysma becomes stronger with more use over time. This muscle pulls down on the lower face and when contracted it can also distort the jawline.
How can jawline definition be treated?
To improve your jawline definition all of these factors can be addressed. First it is important to apply sunscreen daily to minimize the effects of sun damage. The sun destroys the collagen in the skin, causing looseness and sagging of the skin.
Voluma is a filler used in the mid-face to restore lost volume. By placing fillers such as Voluma high on the cheek bone, the entire lower face becomes lifted, improving the visibility of the jawline. It also restores the youthful apple of the cheek that is naturally lost over time. By pulling up on the face Voluma also addresses other concerns such as laugh lines (nasolabial folds) and marionette lines.
Fractional CO2 Laser Resurfacing
Fractional CO2 laser resurfacing stimulates your body to naturally produce new, fresh, and healthy collagen. Doing this will tighten the skin, providing a youthful appearance while pulling up on the jawline. Fractional CO2 laser resurfacing has other benefits including treating fine lines, wrinkles, discolorations, and acne scars. Fractional CO2 laser resurfacing can also be used to treat surgical scars and stretch marks. Results are seen slowly with this treatment so patience is important.
Kybella is the first and thus-far only FDA-approved non-surgical injectable treatment for the double chin. The active ingredient in Kybella is a naturally occurring substance produced in the body. When injected into the double chin Kybella will dissolve the fat and it is eliminated naturally by your body over time. A series of Kybella treatments is required over several months. Unlike other treatments such as Botox and fillers, with Kybella maintenance treatments are not required. When the fat in the double chin is removed, the jawline appears more visible and defined.
Botox is a purified protein used to address muscles associated with facial expression. In the neck, Botox can be placed in the platysma muscle, a thin muscle just beneath the skin that pulls the lower face downward. When it becomes very strong sometimes vertical neck can be seen. Botox can be placed in this area to relax the muscle, softening the bands and preventing the muscle from pulling down on the lower face. When this happens the lower face and mid-face are lifted thus improving the jawline definition.
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After her debut in 1959, Barbie wanted a place to reside and hold her numerous hats and outfits. Some damp problems, like rising damp (the structural dampness inside the partitions that indicates a breach in construction of a constructing, resulting in rain intrusion from outside or condensation from inside) will want professional advice, but real rising damp is rare. The living areas have been upstairs and the areas under the house was used for storage and a storage. I rent an outdated damp house & ive began utilizing a dehumidifier over the last month & its making a big difference, sucking up over a pint a day. Maybe you don't like having a roommate, and absolutely you by no means imagined you'd be stuck with a ghost roommate that is not even helping pay the rent. Any one of the gadgets on this checklist is grounds for dismissal, and all are frequent behaviors that house cleaners exhibit often. The home was inbuilt 1860 by Dr. Thomas Pickens for his bride, Miss Sue Maxwell.
The Eighth House is dominated by Scorpio, so sex and loss of life are the big themes here. And whereas there are numerous barns i might say i'd stay in, i by no means thought about a qonset house. After that, they play a job in moving the sale alongside, by contacting the client and solicitors and some other property brokers within the shopping for chain. We function the same home promoting website, we really feel there can be room for both personal on-line gross sales and estate agents in the future. The house has double glasing although some of the home windows are sticking and have issue opening and closing. Make a dog home that's divided in two, with one aspect having the door and the other side being the place the place the dog would lay. I moved out of fogeys home after I obtained married, however then later moved again when we all moved to a different state.
Now place the entrance piece throughout the sides, making certain that the scored section of the entrance piece is dealing with down in direction of the within of the bat house. Owl´s are cosidered to be lucky in Spain so I´m lucky to have had a pair nesting somewhere very near to my home for the final 2 years. I do not suppose the weather is the only reason for the distinction in house costs nevertheless. Right after my dad bought out of the service, my parents had been married in 1943 & started married life dwelling in a quonset hut dwelling, in central Illinois, that they ordered and my dad and all the relations put the equipment home collectively on high of a full block wall basement.
Arthur Charles Clement, businessman and son of distinguished businessman of a dried goods operation, constructed this house whereas living on the east facet of Joliet for his household. The house was listed for the discount price of $159,000 and thanks to social media efforts, the sale got nationwide consideration. That form of inflation tells me that either the buy-to-letters have moved in to the market in enormous numbers, or else individuals are waking as much as the fact that it is higher to buy than to hire in such low cost areas.
Folks are realizing that they will spend a few thousand dollars, or less on promoting and promote their own houses and maintain that 5 to 7% fee for in other phrases, maintain several additional thousand dollars of their hard earned fairness for themselves. The offensive Agent blocked them all the way, to the point where they could not even get into the House.


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Vedder Thinking | Articles David P. Dorner Addresses Taxation of Software Licenses
January 2012
David P. Dorner, Associate and member of the firm's Tax and Estate Planning practice group, co-authored the article "Taxation of Software Licenses in Illinois: Is the 'Click' as Mighty as the Pen?" published in the Illinois State Bar Association's Tax Trends.
The article addresses the current controversy involving electronic signatures and the Illinois Department of Revenue's failure to recognize these types of signatures in software license agreements. The Department's insistence on a signed agreement, says the article, most likely runs afoul of the Illinois Electronic Commerce Security Act (ECSA) mandate to recognize electronic signatures.
To read the entire article, please click the link below.
Reprinted with permission from Tax Trends, the Illinois State Bar Association's State and Local Taxation newsletter, Vol. 55 #7, January 2012. Copyright by the Illinois State Bar Association. www.isba.org.


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Research Fellow
Dr Dina AZHGALIYEVA
Dina joined ESI in July 2017. Prior to joining the ESI, Dina was a Research Fellow at the University of Reading (UK), where she was involved in empirical analysis of the impact of local content policy on extractive industries. Her work also involved communication with policy makers, extractive industry and oil and gas service companies. In 2012-2015 Dina was an Economics Teaching Fellow at the University College London. She also worked as a chief specialist at the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan. She holds a PhD in Economics, Master in Economics and Graduate Diploma in Economics, all from the University of Essex (UK). For her PhD thesis "Fiscal Policy in Resource-Rich Countries" she was awarded two scholarships, from the University of Essex and Soros Foundation. Dina holds an internationally recognised teaching qualification, Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA, UK) since 2015 and qualification in Research Career Management of Staff Educational and Development Association (SEDA, UK) since 2017.
Energy policy analysis
Energy economics
Fiscal Policy
Applied econometrics (Time Series)
Refereed journal articles
Azhgaliyeva, D., Belitski, M., Jumasseitova, A. and Kalyuzhnova, Y. (2017) The impact of government-sponsored education abroad on entrepreneurship: case study Bolashak scholarship. Human Capital and Professional Education, 1 (21). pp. 37-47. ISSN 2226-9177
Azhgaliyeva, D. (2016) The effect of oil revenue funds on social welfare. Public Finance Review. ISSN 1552-7530 doi: 10.1177/1091142116681838
Azhgaliyeva, D. and Kalyuzhnova, Y. (2016) The evaluation of local content implementation in Kazakhstan. Vestnik
Azhgaliyeva, D. (2014) The effect of fiscal policy on oil revenue fund: the case of Kazakhstan. Journal of Eurasian Studies, 5 (2). pp. 157-183. ISSN 1879-3665 doi: 10.1016/j.euras.2014.05.001
Policy Papers
with Kazakh-British Centre for Competitiveness, (2016) "Enhancing Competitiveness and Prosperity: Does Local Content Policy Improve Competitiveness in Kazakhstan?", "KazService" Magazine of the Association of oil service companies of Kazakhstan (Professional magazine about oil service business of Kazakhstan) 1(19):104-108 http://eng.kazservicemag.kz


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