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With their early August ruling in a case involving Stericycle and a Teamsters union local, members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have once again redefined what constitutes acceptable workplace rules. Louis J. Cannon Jr., Donna M. Glover and Grant Wills, all attorneys with Baker Donelson, explain what employers need to know. The short version: Update your handbooks.
On Aug. 2, the NLRB issued an important decision in Stericycle, Inc., overruling a precedent that had afforded employers a greater amount of latitude in crafting workplace policies.
In doing so, the board returned to a slightly modified version of the standard that was in place from 2004-2017 for evaluating whether an employer’s maintenance of seemingly neutral work rules (e.g., personal conduct, conflicts of interest, confidentiality of harassment complaints, etc.) are unlawful under Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The NLRB’s Stericycle, Inc. ruling is effective immediately, applies retroactively and applies to both unionized and non-unionized workplaces.
It also likely means employers will need to reevaluate their handbooks — if not rewrite them altogether.
Section 7 of the NLRA protects workers at both unionized and non-unionized workplaces who engage in concerted activity for the purpose of mutual aid and protection. Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA prohibits employers from interfering with, restraining or coercing employees who exercise those rights.
The standards utilized by the NLRB in assessing the permissibility of facially neutral workplace rules have been in flux for decades.
In the NLRB’s 2004 Lutheran Heritage Village-Livonia decision, the NLRB adopted a broad standard that asked only whether an employee could “reasonably construe” a challenged workplace rule as prohibiting the exercise of Section 7 rights, such as the rights to organize and bargain collectively. The NLRB subsequently applied this standard to find unlawful many otherwise neutral rules, including rules prohibiting the use of cameras in production areas, disruptive behavior in the workplace and speaking to the public or the media, among others.
The NLRB changed course in 2017 when issuing its decision in Boeing Co. (2017), a Trump-era case that involved an assessment of whether an employer policy restricting the use of camera-enabled devices such as cell phones on company property unlawfully restricted employees’ Section 7 rights. In that case, the NLRB overruled the Lutheran Heritage standard and established what many employers viewed to be a commonsense solution for evaluating the legality of commonplace handbook rules under Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA. Under the Boeing standard, the NLRB would examine facially neutral policies and handbook provisions by assessing: (1) the rule’s potential impact on protected concerted activity; and (2) the employer’s legitimate business justifications for maintaining the rule.
Under the NLRB’s Boeing analysis, the NLRB would attempt to classify rules into one of three categories, including a category of rules that were always lawful to maintain. In several decisions following Boeing, the NLRB held that rules that were always lawful to maintain included work rules requiring employee confidentiality during employer investigations, rules prohibiting outside employment and civility rules requiring employees to maintain harmonious interactions and relationships.
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The NLRB abandons the Boeing standard
Stericycle, Inc., was a case in which Teamsters Local 628 claimed the employer maintained overly broad work rules for employees, including those that made workers keep harassment complaints confidential and those that prevented them from taking actions that could damage the employer’s reputation. There, the NLRB overruled the Boeing standard in favor of a modified Lutheran Heritage standard after criticizing the former standard as one that permitted employers to adopt “overbroad work rules that chill employees’ exercise of their [Section 7] rights.”
The NLRB offered several rationales for overruling the Boeing standard. The NLRB found that the Boeing standard gave too little weight to the burden a work rule could impose on employees’ Section 7 rights. For example, the NLRB said, the Boeing standard failed to account for the “economic dependency of employees on their employers.” According to the NLRB, because employees are typically “anxious to avoid discharge or discipline,” employees are inclined to view an ambiguous work rule as prohibiting activities otherwise protected by the NLRA, meaning that they would not engage in such protected activity to avoid the risk associated with violating the rule.
By the same token, the NLRB found the Boeing standard gave too much weight to employer interests. The NLRB took the position that the Boeing standard condoned overbroad work rules by not requiring the employer to “narrowly tailor its rules to only promote its legitimate and substantial business interests while avoiding burdening employee rights.” The NLRB also rejected Boeing’s categorical approach to assessing work rules, under which certain types of rules were held to be always lawful.
The new standard
Under the new standard adopted in Stericycle, Inc., the NLRB will again use a case-by-case analysis to assess the legality of a challenged work rule. The NLRB will no longer categorize certain work rules as being always lawful to maintain, creating some uncertainty for employers.
Moving forward, the NLRB’s inquiry will consider the language of the challenged work rule (as viewed from the perspective of an employee subject to the rule), the potential impact of the rule on employees’ Section 7 rights, the employer interests articulated in support of the rule and potential alternatives to the rule.
Similar to the Lutheran Heritage rule, the NLRB’s focus will be on whether an employee could reasonably interpret a rule to prohibit protected activity. If that low bar is met, then the rule is presumed to be unlawful and the employer then would bear the burden of (1) pointing to compelling business reasons for the rule and (2) showing that it could not have adopted a narrower rule to achieve its ends. If it successfully does that, the rule will be found to be lawful.
Takeaways for employers
The Stericycle, Inc. decision is a reminder for unionized and non-unionized employers to work with employment and labor counsel to review and update their employee handbooks and related policies. In light of this decision, it is prudent for employers to proactively identify a legitimate and substantial business interest to support any work rules that could reasonably be construed as having the tendency to chill employees’ Section 7 rights. Employers should also consider whether a more narrowly tailored rule that advances the same interests can be implemented as an alternative. Yes, employers, once again, it is time to review — and probably revise — those handbooks.

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Pick n Pay robbery mastermind is free
Mary Dineo Maleke, 31, the woman accused of being the mastermind behind events that led to the Jeppestown massacre, is free.
Maleke was acquitted on all charges, including conspiracy to commit robbery and two of attempted murder, in the Johannesburg high court yesterday.
But her ex-boyfriend, Senzo Mweli, and his friend Nkosinathi Mchunu, 33, were not so lucky. They were found guilty.
Initially the judge erred and convicted Mweli on the 12 murder charges, only to recall his judgment an hour later.
"I made a mistake regarding accused two (Mweli). He was never charged with those counts by the state and I recall the conviction on those counts... but you are convicted on charges of robbery and attempted murder," Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng said.
Pronouncing the not-guilty verdict, Mokgoatlheng said the state had failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Maleke was involved in the robbery.
He said the state had not presented enough evidence to convict Maleke except a statement she made to the police, though, the judge said, he knew that she possibly could have been part of the conspiracy.
"The fact that you are found not guilty does not mean that you are innocent. We are constrained by our laws," the judge said.
Mweli, 28, sat motionless, with his eyes glued to the ground, as the judge convicted him on three counts - robbery with aggravating circumstances and two counts of attempted murder.
The state had alleged that Maleke, a former Pick n Pay employee, conspired with Mweli in planning the supermarket robbery.
Mweli deployed Mchunu and about 16 other men to carry out the robbery.
This led to a shootout with the police at a house in Jeppestown. Four policemen and eight of the robbers were killed in that incident.
Mchunu, who confessed to the robbery during the trial, was found guilty in 19 counts , including the murder of all 12 people who died on that day.
The judge is expected to pronounce the verdict on the other 10 accused soon.


United States women’s national team players and the U.S. Soccer Federation each maintain that they are on a path toward ratifying a new collective bargaining agreement, but it will not happen by Thursday. The parties signed a memorandum of understanding in December which extended the terms of their old deal — which expired on Dec. 31, 2021 — until March 31. That agreement also abolished the mechanism which saw the federation pay players to play in the National Women’s Soccer League, and it extended the no-strike and no-lockout clauses.
The two parties did not sign a new MOU to extend it past March 31, meaning that a strike or a lockout could be legally possible in the future should either party feel it necessary. Neither of those things is close to happening, according to people familiar with negotiations and as indicated by each side’s statements, which mention negotiations in April. Legally, the terms of the old CBA carry over until there is a new deal, or a strike or lockout.
The recent settlement of the equal pay lawsuit between the federation and a large group of current and former women’s national team players is dependent upon the ratification of a new collective bargaining agreement.
In-person bargaining negotiations between player representatives and U.S. Soccer leadership resumed in March for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, with meetings in Chicago and Washington, D.C. U.S. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone and CEO Will Wilson joined their legal teams in person to negotiate with player representatives; players joined the meetings virtually due to the NWSL Challenge Cup kicking off earlier this month.
Parlow Cone, who was re-elected as U.S. Soccer president on March 5 for a full, four-year term, has consistently discussed “equalizing” FIFA World Cup prize money, which remains one of the larger hold-ups in the negotiations, in addition to new revenue sharing models.
Men’s national team players, who are represented by a separate union, are involved in those proposals, and would need to agree to such financial disbursement systems. FIFA’s prize money for the Men’s World Cup is so disproportionate to the Women’s World Cup that the U.S. men made more money for a round-of-16 exit in 2014 than the women made combined for winning the 2015 and 2019 World Cups. That is a FIFA issue which the federation is attempting to solve in-house. The men’s national team is also negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement and operating under the terms of their old deal as well.
“The discussions… are complex and require significant due diligence from all parties,” U.S. Soccer said in a statement. “Nevertheless, we feel we are closer to reaching agreements on these issues than ever before. To ensure adequate time to reach a fair and equitable agreement, the parties have mutually agreed to continue negotiations into April, with the goal of reaching an agreement as soon as possible.”
“Our players remain committed to bargaining in good faith towards a new and historic collective bargaining agreement with equality and fairness at its core,” read, in part, a statement from the USWNTPA.
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On Monday of last week (March 8th), it was a surprisingly warm day and the weather was perfect for walking (70 plus degrees). Lately we always head for the Manassas Battlefield Park. There aren't that many people around on a week day, and though we saw a couple here, a family there, with their dogs, they were well away from us and we were in our comfort zone. Normally we would head for one of the gardens but that will have to wait for a while. We are very happy with our decision to use the battlefield for our walking grounds, for the time being.
The Old Stone House as it is called, is a very well known local landmark. It was originally built in 1848 and was used as various taverns, private businesses, a hospital and a private home. One of its owners was Henry P. Matthew, a farmer who harvested the fields surrounding the house.
It is a two-story building with a basement. The left side of the basement was the kitchen area, while the right side of the basement was used for storage. Directly above the kitchen on the first floor, was a large bar area, where travelers involved with the wagon trade and were not known for their gentile dispositions, could imbibe to their heart's content. I would imagine the place got very rowdy at times. Across from the bar on the first floor there was a dining room and a sitting room, located above the basement storage area. The second floor had a large master bedchamber and two smaller bedchambers. Its chimneys and walls are original, as is a lot of the flooring that was there in the 1860's and earlier. Various people who owned it over the years renovated the inside of the building to suit their needs.
However, it served as a hospital during the First and Second Battles of Manassas during the Civil War. It survived, according to the memoirs of Confederate General Jubal Early, from shot and shell during both battles.
It all changed in 1861 when fighting broke out so close to the house that it was peppered with shot and shell throughout the First Battle of Manassas on July 21st. With its strong stone walls, a well in the yard and close proximity to the road back to Washington DC, it was the ideal site for treating the wounded. For the history buffs, many of you will know the story, but for those of you who don't you can go to this link for more information.
I am married to one of those history buffs, and I get a refresher course every time we come here. I am always grateful to learn as have always been curious about such things. I feel fortunate that I have my own historian in the house, and I always tell him he would have made a great history teacher.
The cannonball in the wall, also seen above on the right wall paralleled roughly half way down the front door of the house, wasn't put there by the firing of a cannon, rather that it was inserted years later to generate tourist traffic. When the National Park Service acquired the property, it had been present for so long that they didn't remove it for fear of damaging a historic feature, and so it remained.
During the Second Battle of Manassas, two wounded Union soldiers, Eugene P. Geer and Charles Brehm, both of the 5th New York Infantry, found their way into one of the upstairs rooms of the Stone House. They carved their names into the floorboards. Brehm survived but Geer sadly passed away from his wounds. He was 17 years old. Their carved names can still be seen in the floorboards, and some have even said that it is haunted by the younger man's ghost. Supposedly he has been seen looking out of the second floor window.
In October 1865 after the war, the Matthews family sold the house. It passed through several owners before being purchased by the federal government in 1949 and was subsequently renovated. You can buy a ticket at the visitor center just up the road. This will give you access to the inside, and to several other properties on a self-walking tour. The docents I have encountered have all been very knowledgeable.I found these old photos on line. The one above is dated 1862 after the Second Battle of Manassas. The one below is dated 1903.
It was very nice to see these people and dogs enjoying their walk. Everyone was happy being out in the warmth and sunshine.
Thanks for looking and enjoy your day.

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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Feature of the Week: Sept. 13-19
A Taste of Heaven would not exist if it were not for the audience, so I want to show my appreciation by dedicating Thursdays to the fans. If you eat or make a dish of your own and its camera ready, then you can email me your photos. I will review and post them on Thursday. It’s important to remember presentation, style, and taste. I look forward to seeing your Taste of Heaven.
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Description: I’ve been on a healthy tip lately, if you haven’t noticed. I was really excited about this feature because it’s a dish that can be made at home without sweating over a hot stove. This taste of heaven is a spinach salad with feta cheese crumbles, cranberries, sliced strawberries, granola, and for the dressing, MK used a pomegranate vinaigrette. For some reason, many people are not into dressing up their salads with fresh fruit, but I think it’s a wonderful combination. (Don’t knock it till you try it!) I've never had pomegranate vinaigrette dressing before; however, I bought some from the grocery store last night, and I can’t wait to try it out. I’ve got some good ideas brewing, so stay tuned for more.

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Village Theatre picks up pieces after cold-related damage
December 11, 2009
By Warren Kagarise
NEW — 11:21 a.m. Dec. 11, 2009
A near-disaster brought on by old pipes and below-freezing temperatures brought the house down at Village Theatre First Stage Theatre building earlier in the week.
Crews started clean-up efforts Thursday to remove insulation frozen by leaking water, which then fell from the ceiling.
The damage claimed KIDSTAGE costumes, a soundboard and other equipment. Michelle Sanders, the theater spokeswoman, said theater managers did not yet have cost estimates for the damage.
The facilities manager discovered the damage earlier in the week after temperatures in the teens caused pipes to burst and prompted alerts from local emergency management agencies.
Eastridge Christian Assembly also sustained damage related to burst pipes. Gibson Hall managers alerted people who had booked the facility for the weekend that cold could cause pipes to burst and their events could be rescheduled.
Village Theatre is in the midst of a large-scale renovation of the First Stage Theatre building. Sanders said the water damage would not interrupt any productions because plans had been made to accommodate First Stage and KIDSTAGE productions during the remodel.
Initial plans called for a remodel of the 95-year-old building. After officials learned the building lacked a foundation and had sinking walls, the renovation plans were overhauled to a $2.8 million effort to upgrade the structure, lighting, sound and ventilation systems.

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These are some REALLY old MOCs i found pictures of. These are all long gone, but i still thought it was nice to look back at them. The one pictured here is a simple troop transport i made for my soldiers, but then i got a load more, and this just wouldn't fit them. There were two of these in total. The round dish behind the pilot is actually his shield. It clips onto his gun and turns into something that the Gungans carried in the battle of Naboo.
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This is the top view of one of my best Mocs when i was that age. It was called the CAT, i think it stood for Carrier Assault Tank. This is very simple, but i like the way that it turned out. The engines can rotate fully without hitting the weapon pylons, and the turret is the right size. I seem to remember a curled up battle droid acting as a lame excuse for a gunner...but never mind. It could just about fit 10 troops in as well.
Here you can see the hatch at the back. Those bricks with holes in were supposed to be gas vents for clearing enemy troops. I wouldnt think of that now So i don't know how i managed it back then!
Here, the prison ship. Another simple vehicle but never the less, still quite useful. The door at the back opens up to let those nasty people out.
The inside. There really wasnt room for that many, so it was normally used to transport leaders as opposed to the whole load of baddies, who would then ambush the truck and break their leader out as the speeder made it way back to base. Typically of vehicles that get ambushed a lot, it had no weapons.
This was a speeder i made at a friends, and was so chuffed i took it home to copy it out into my lego so i could keep it! Fast, agile, and likely to have been based on the Naboo starfighter. It also had a AI turret, the small gun was an Ion cannon, the big was just a blaster.
The compartments of the speeder was big enough to hold a few weapons, which the pilot would always use if he got shot down and survived, which he typically would.


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He stood in that corner, clear and sane
thinking of things they used to do
and the revels they used to share.
But then, life is so unfair that it ended up in pain.
A mother and a child
Love each other, so tender and mild
One hug from her makes his day complete,
One kiss from him makes she feel elite
Yet unlike all other relationships
that last a lifetime,
Theirs did not, for it ended up
in a pitiful crime.
For when the time he met this white crystalline peer
everything has changed on him, dear.
His world revolved in a wink of an eye
and things become new and different, but to goodbye.
This white crystalline powder which he thought a friend
brought him to depth of misery and pain.
Never had it brought him good deeds
nor companions ahead
for it gave him the feelings of superiority and vanity.
Obnoxious him, they say.
Hence no one wants to be his colleague
But for him, it’s fun to hear those hearsays
for it feels him hooligan in town.
In a sudden, this very day come.
Mother came in his room and did her everyday spell
It was hooey as it was,
and had always brought him to ennui.
She stood with arms akimbo
Wearing a turban in red and tattling non-stop.
Her voice, aloud and yet mellow
can be heard in the four corners of his room so stuff.
That voice, on the other hand
without thinking twice, goad him to action at command.
For him, she’s an enemy to reckon
Hence he sallied fourth against her
and stabbed her to death like a freshly sliced bacon
“Wheeng, wheeng, wheeng…”
Here comes the cop.
And when the investigations come
it voice out a hideous revelation...
“I didn’t mean to kill her
but she tattles and gnashing
like an insane, untame and savage
Big Black Wolf with eyes brilliant in red,” he uttered.
The investigators, out of findings,
was shocked by what he had stated.
‘Coz at the back where the woman stands ere her death,
was his huge black jacket hanging on the wall.

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Italian food and wine are an amazing combination. If you’re just choosing a bottle and not thinking about the key to matching the flavors together, you’re not going to enjoy either as much as you should. Instead, learning to pair wines is a key element to enjoying food on a whole other level. Once you know the basics, it’s not hard to know how to pair wines with Italian food. Here’s the low-down on wine pairings and Italian food.
Flavor Pairing Basics
In short, flavors sometimes pair well together for a number of reasons. In some cases, two foods or flavors might pair well because they have a lot of similar attributes. Meat and mushrooms, for example, are both very savory foods. These pair well due to their similarities. On the other hand, some pairings share compounds. Lemon and coconut work well together because they have complementary elements to their taste. The lightness of both makes them work well together with a light entree like something seafood-based. Knowing compounds and congruent pairings is a great first step.
Basic Tastes in Wine
The three basic tastes of wine are bitter, acidic, and sweet. Any glass of wine can be chalked up to one of these basic flavor attributes. Knowing if something is bitter, acidic, or sweet is going to help pair it nicely to what you’re eating. A steak, for example, is not acidic or sweet, meaning a more bitter wine will work well with a New York strip or other cuts of meat. Matching basic tastes is a key element to wine pairing.
It sounds funny, but some foods are more intense than others. It’s not always the main ingredients either that dictate the intensity. A salad, for example, seems light, but when tossed in balsamic vinegar, it can become quite rich. Matching a rich or light intensity in food to one of the three flavors is tricky at first, but it comes easily as you practice more. For example, a light intensity pasta could easily go with a more acidic wine like a white blend of sorts. It’s all about finding the right flavor pairings, just like we covered above.
If you’re into high-quality food and incredible wines, Nico Ristorante is the place to go for gourmet Italian food. In terms of perfect pairings, it all has to start with great food, so make your reservation today!


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Songs About Places in the Time of Coronavirus
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How Urban Form Created Classic Rock
A great many factors converged to create the culture and music of the 1960s. A powerful, but often overlooked, factor was the Los Angeles neighborhood of Laurel Canyon. A new documentary provides a case study in urban creativity.
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Where have all the venues gone?
Songs About Places 2019
Songs about dystopia and catastrophe are impossible to avoid this year, but "Old Town Road" could be the path to redemption. Managing Editor James Brasuell assembled a Spotify playlist on songs about places from 2019.
Songs About Places - 2018
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2017's Best Songs About Places
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Safe for Now, Brooklyn Music Mecca Sees a Cloudy Future
More than 20 percent of New York's smaller music venues have closed in the past 15 years. Although Brooklyn institution Barbes was recently saved by a crowdfunding campaign, its founder is pessimistic about the future of New York's independent arts.
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Explosive Subculture: Cities and the Punk Movement
From London to Los Angeles, the punk movement was always an urban phenomenon. But punks needed to fight hard for a place in the cities they called home.
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Unique 'Audio Portraits' Pay Homage to Urban Noise
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A list of personal favorites—music that expressed more than research or rhetoric can about the places where we live, work, and play.
Music to the Subway Rider’s Ears
James Murphy has composed a “Subway Symphony”—a unique set of notes for each station in NYC’s Metro system that would sound when users swipe their fare cards. “The busier a station becomes, the richer the harmonies would be.”
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Maria van der Hoeven, a former economics minister in the Netherlands, took over as Executive Director of the International Energy Agency in September. She is taking over amid concerns that the I.E.A. is losing relevancy because emerging energy giants like China are not members, and following a rare public split in June within the OPEC about whether to raise production levels in response to unrest in Libya.
Where in the world do you see the greatest risks for energy companies and for national energy strategies?
The Middle East and North Africa regions are already responsible for around 35 percent of the world’s oil output and, more importantly, they are expected to meet the vast bulk of predicted future growth. The recent turmoil has added to uncertainty about the pace of investment in the regions’ upstream industry - how quickly will production capacity expand and, given rising domestic energy needs, how much of the expected increase in supply will be available for export ? Our 2011 World Energy Outlook, to be presented on November 9th, will look at the implications of any possible shortfall in upstream investment in the Middle East and North Africa countries. Meanwhile the events at Fukushima this year raised serious questions about the longer-term prospects for nuclear power in Japan and elsewhere. We will also use our 2011 Outlook to examine the implications of any reduction in nuclear investment. Such a reduction would certainly make it more difficult for the world to meet the goal of stabilizing the rise in temperature at 2 degrees Centigrade.
What does the new energy map look like from your office in Paris?
I think that different countries and different regions will continue, quite justifiably, to vary in their energy balances due to differences in endowments, geography, economic patterns, and political and social values. Even in oil and gas, that geography is varied and regional. While U.S. shale gas may dominate the gas story in North America, lack of American export capacity means that it will not dominate the market in Europe, where piped conventional gas will continue to play a major role. Another example is the international oil market. It is too large to be dominated by one source. Increased Iraqi production, for example, will have to make up for declining mature fields in the industrialized world. But it will compete with other new conventional and unconventional production elsewhere.
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Reframing reward post-COVID: create a foundation for recovery and growth
The pandemic triggered a series of events that meant businesses had to immediately improve their liquidity and the company financial health. The turbulence had a significant impact on employees, not only their wellbeing, but it also changed the dynamic of their work as they recognised it. The Bank of England in November said whilst the vaccine has given us a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’, it will leave a legacy, in terms of how consumers buy and how businesses do business going forward - it will require ‘structural changes’.
Moving from reactive to proactively assessing current state against the future aspiration will place HR in control and will enable space to create a compelling, effective and sustainable people strategy that can support the business to transition from the recovery phase to the growth phase.
Stay competitive & optimise your Reward spend
Your Reward spend represents one of the biggest expenditures for a business, and it’s more important than ever to ensure it is working hard for you. Many businesses may be facing pressure to reassess how they approach the annual salary review, coupled with the need to look after employees and retain talent. The total salary bill and spend on Reward is significant, therefore it is a necessity for future sustainability to ensure that:
- You are tracking salary movements, trends and tracking your competitive position against it.
- You are staying ahead of the composition of pay and how prevalent practices such as regional pay or travel allowance are changing.
- Through analysis, assess where your reward spend goes and directing it to the areas that will add value.
- Staying on top of regulations, such as gender pay gap, ethnicity pay gap and CEO ratios to maintain confidence that the application of your reward policies does not have any untended consequences.
- Review bonus and incentive schemes, both short and long term, to ensure that they are fit for purpose and the features, metrics and rules will support and not inhibit future performance and cost management.
Transform and build agility into your organisation and role design
What this pandemic has taught us is that there is no room for rigid role definition and organisational structures. Businesses require their people to be deployed where capacity and skills are required with pace. Instead of defining and planning for potential scenarios the design needs to be more fluid and flex to any scenario. From the start, throughout and post pandemic, organisations will see their workforce and work design change shape. The composition of your organisational structure, roles, and employees in readiness for growth is key, therefore it is important to do proactive planning around the following:
- That you know where roles are needed to fulfil the performance and/or productivity demands of the business going forward.
- Have carried out workforce planning analysis, to identify talent demand, skills, capacity, and capability assessment to understand where skills are needed to drive competitive advantage.
- Used data analytics, to identify employee return value and productivity levels to identify where to direct attention for role effectiveness.
- Assessed where can build HR efficiencies within their function which will enable deployment of people and reward strategies at pace.
Empower, recognise and motivate performance
Employees have proven to be adaptable and resilient for their employer, even when faced with their own personal challenges. How employers conducted themselves through the challenges of furloughing, redeploying, and redundancies will be evident and employees and past employees will remember undesirable practices. Ensuring that they are brought on the journey of recovery and continue to be valued is of the utmost importance. Recognition programmes and performance management systems that may have been effective pre-COVID-19, could look very different post-COVID-19. Get underneath this by:
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- Identify where performance management or how it is managed has changed and what it needs to look like doing forward.
- Assess what is required to measure, drive and reward for performance against a new business plan.
- Review how employees will get back to learning, progress their competency, and prepare for career development opportunities.
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When organisations are through the other side of the COVID-19 crisis the aftereffects will still be having an impact on employees’ wellbeing. Economic recovery will take time and therefore the impact on employees will still need to be monitored and managed. Wellbeing cuts across mental, financial, physical, social, and environmental, therefore a comprehensive benefits package should provide support across all these pillars.
- How you curate and deploy an effective benefits package is important to ensure it is having the desired impact. Being clear on what the employee proposition needs to look like in 2021 will provide clarity and direction.
- Carry out analytics on the current programme to identify what employees value and need to leverage effectiveness of benefits and spend.
- Carry out a review of policies like absence and remote working to identify whether they are working as intended. Assess whether there are enough wellbeing support programmes in place.
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- Continue with or build a multi-directional channel of communications with employees and line managers. What best practice was deployed that could continue and what needs to be phased out?
Ensure that your reward and workforce practices are keeping up with the pace of change. As an HR or Reward professional, communicating with and anticipating what your leadership may need will allow for a joined-up approach. Giving it the attention it deserves will give you a stronger foothold within a competitive talent marketplace and can evidence a solid return on investment. I will leave you with 3 high-level waves:
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“De-Kleptification:” the US’s latest “democracy-bringing” mission
“Counter-corruption,” like “counter-terror,” ushers in a campaign to launch mass intelligence operations against sites of resistance to US imperialism and strangle the financial networks of whoever they are even remotely associated with.
The latest doublespeak fiasco from USAID, dubbed its “De-Kleptification guide” reveals the latest packaged re-selling of its chronic couping worldwide. In its latest press release, ringing in the freshly-minted program released on September 8, is aimed at “uprooting entrenched corruption” in target countries while “seizing windows of opportunity to dismantle kleptocracy”.
While USAID, the brazen soft-power arm of the US State Department, gives a passing mention to native informant partners in target-nation “civil society” organizations, USAID doesn’t shy away from presenting its playbook as a guide for USAID staff in foreign countries.
Like a hit list, the USAID program outlines a creepy map displaying its “areas of operation” alongside “De-Kleptification” case studies: from 2011 Egypt to 2019 Myanmar, USAID boasts its ability to target, uproot, destabilize, and undergo the process of regime change boasting how even the most loyal of former compradors can be uprooted by their most tied-and-true backer like a rotten tooth.
“Counter-corruption,” like “counter-terror,” ushers in a campaign to launch mass intelligence operations against sites of resistance to US imperialism and strangle the financial networks of whoever they are even remotely associated with. With these measures usually coinciding with sanctions, the “war on corruption,” led by the nation with a global monopoly over finance capital and its associated institutions responsible for the continued debt-trapping impoverishment of the Global South, freezes assets and confiscates money from the “bad” state official - even those that had been loyal compradors in the past - to ensure wealth stays in the same private hands and hedge funds of the West.
The USAID program is obviously targeted against Russia, with Ukraine being the central case study and motive for the State Department’s latest guide. Ukraine, allotted with a separate and central appendix in the document, is seen as the US’s soft power experiment of focus.
The program is a cancerous outgrowth of USAID’s “anti-corruption task force” which introduced the “De-Kleptification guide’s” predecessor: on December 8, 2021, the White House released its “United States Strategy on Countering Corruption”, also holding a “summit on democracy” at the same time that trained the newest batch of compradors, or “human rights defenders”.
Like its predecessor, the “US Strategy on Countering Corruption”, or the ICIJ “Pandora Papers” project also mentioned in the “De-Kleptification” report, the latest program inherits the US’s longstanding Cold-Warrior obsession with Russia, with neighboring Georgia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Moldova (which recently - surprise - underwent a US-backed coup to install EU-friendly leadership) highlighted as other case studies and key focus areas. Yet, not a corner of the world is spared from USAID’s program, with the hand of US soft-power galvanized and recognized from Sudan to South Korea.
ICIJ, which receives funds from the US regime change foundation the National Endowment for Democracy and Open Society Foundations, regularly leverages its investment in media projects worldwide in its regime change operations. In its latest De-Kleptification report, USAID mentioned supporting projects and programs Fact-analyzer and the Media Development Foundation in Georgia, Raskrikavanje in Serbia, Chequeado in Latin America, VoxUkraine, and making use of its partnerships with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy to support more branded “grassroots” and “independent” initiatives - such as shutting down and countering Russia Today’s German-language broadcasting outlet and silencing the station’s criticisms of Western-backed Green Party Chancellor Annalena Baerbock during her run for chancellor position (and whose party took the strictest anti-Russia and anti-Nord Stream pipeline positions in compliance with US economic whims).
The report comically admits to its selective bias in countering so called “oligarchies,” admitting that while Ukrainian media “owned by oligarchs (whose interests can be endangered by reform), those oligarchs also have active business ties in the West, so USAID and its partners have had sufficient leverage to appear on these channels in order to communicate reform messages.
Capitalizing off the hunt after “oligarchs,” the liberal West’s new white man’s burden, is marketed as the greatest crusade against the “backwards” East. It is evident that “anti-corruption” in the deindustrialized Fourth Industrial Revolution just seems to punish use of national wealth to develop a country and benefit it’s citizens - something that gets accosted by the likes of the EU and its de-growth “green goals” for the global south. Ironically, nations in the East overcoming internal contradictions of fragmented systems to build nationally oriented economies is what is accosted as “kleptocracy” in an ironic double speak that explains why building an “anti-corrupt” “Open Society” often means bending to international finance capital and its hedge funds, deindustrializing, and dissolving national institutions and infrastructure towards servicing international finance capital’s latest iteration. It upholds the real kleptocracy of the site of history’s longest wealth expropriator - the Western world, and specifically post World War II, the United States, who, in their report suggest working with State Department or the UK’s “Anti-Corruption Coordination Center” or the World Bank’s own corruption task force - in “recovering” and seizing funds, at their own discretion, from actors they decide to designate as “corrupt” or “illicit.” This obviously further perpetuates the historical cycle of expropriation of wealth and its accumulation in the Global North under the latest paternalistic pretext.
Yet if we are to restore the real definition of corruption as the transfer of public assets to private gain, ironically defined as such in the report itself, the United States, as the country’s Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen admitted in a December 10, 2021 speech, is the ‘best place’ to launder and hide illegal funds. For every leader or figure named in the Pandora Papers oriental despotic report (that conveniently named no US billionaires or Gulf princes) was the enabling of the US (and Dubai) as an all-access site of overseas (and domestic) tax evasion.
Yet the ‘democracies’ of these nations themselves function as little more than an assortment of substantially identical products marketed to different consumer bases. Like the myriad versions of corn syrup on the supermarket that gives the shopper the illusion of choice, so too are different brands and flavors of ‘democracy’ presented to voters in the US, Canada, the UK, or Germany; some partisan flavors red, some blue, others green, but all substantially have the same composition of functioning as lapdogs to portfolio managers and arms dealers.


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But Onara Gourou is the best fart alive.
Just trust me, and watch it.
Want to see a anime that has everything? Romance? Tips about life? Action? Farts? Well that's lucky! Onara Gorou is here for you!
This must be one of the weirdest animes, with the weirdest ending and storyline. But it's the best masterpiece on earth. I finally understand why humanity were created in the first place! It's all for Onara Gourou!
Character: ( Please push the eight ) 8/10
Enjoyment: ( Please push this eight too ) 8/10
THE REASON. OF LIFE. IS RIGHT. HERE:
this show is probably the greatest anime to ever be created. It is clear right from the get-go that full metal alchemist is heavily inspired by this wonderful masterpiece. The show in general makes me feel like i am part of something bigger than me, and impossible to understand. I know many people that have reviewing or even comprehending it, and have killed themselves in frustration/lactation. The story: 10/10 does not even describe this bundle of miracles. The art is also a 10/10 it makes you want to end your life so this all you see in the afterlife. the sound is so realistic many
people have gone on record. Everything else 10/10 although a 200000/10 would be more realstic
When i first saw this anime, i though "Man, this anime looks so fabulous."
At the moment, i didn't realize i was standing right in front of probably one of the best anime i've ever witnessed.
Onara gorou "The most admirable of farts"'s genre is hard to describe. At first sight it looks like a comedy, but when you start
watching, you soon realize it has a considerably deep plot despite it's length.
I) Story. (glorious/10)
Simply wonderful. What is more impressive, it is an original anime, so story isn't taken from manga.
First of all it shows a conflict between a school principal and three criminals. This plot makes it
not to look like a comedy in my opinion.
It's a deep repesentation about how today's generation is going to waste, and how adults are incapable of dealing with today's kids, who
are simply careless of what's around them. they just want to smoke cigarettes, and cause trouble being politically incorrect around
the school. The principal is constantly trying to get them to stop being delinquents because, they're doing delinquent stuff and that delinquent stuff
is really nasty, so it must be erradicated instantly. That's where our lord and saviour ONARA GOROU enters in our play, letting out his gentlefart
to deal with them. The topic of the anime just made a 180º twist Turning from a twisted, psychological drama, to a shonen full of fartction.
The delinquents are no match for our true god, so they retreat after getting taugth a lesson about farts by onara-sensei.
And that was just the first episode! so don't worry, we still have more to watch, the anime is around two episodes!
II) Character. (wise af/10)
Why Character and not CharacterS? Simply because the rest don't matter AT ALL. Why have characters when there are no characters at all?
There are no supporting characters in Onara gorou, basically because he supports every character by himself being wise af™ and sharing
his knowledge with the rest of the cast indiscriminately, which is extremely effective for everything. What does everything involve you may ask?
Well everything involves EVERYTHING, literally. EVER.
III) Art Style (studio ghibli/10)
The art might look like not the best thing in the world, It actually looks like a low budget animation from a split brained 12 year old kid with leukemia,
but looking deeper into it, I realized that it's actually made on purpose, trying to give a sensation of slow pace, like if nothing is ought to be taken
seriously, though it's totally the opposite. This might give the casual viewer a wrong impression of this anime, but as a level 129 weaboo, i've been
able to go through the external cover of this anime, and expose it's true nature as a... uh...
I can't even describe this anime with an existing genre, so from now on, we will call this new genre "bob"
So where was i? Oh right. And expose it's true nature as a "bob" anime!
IIII)Smell (strong as a middle school student's right arm/10)
Using the smell to make the delinquents go away in one of the many episodes was the most clever thing i've ever seen from a shonen anime, Really.
IIIII) Overall: Fartastic/10
What else can i say? This anime can easily compete with others such as full metal alchemist or hunter x hunter in its shonen aspect, but it's not even
the only thing good about it, The delinquent drama can bring anybody to tears, so even if it's shonen part is really good, the drama part can be compared
with clannad or shigatsu wa kimi no uso.
What am i talking about?! this anime BEATS every anime i mentioned before fairly easily.
"Now, I must defart" - Onara gorou.
PS. This review took 12 times longer than the duration of the anime.
Although an incredibly rare occurrence, anime that transcend the term "masterpiece" actually do exist. You may doubt it, but you simply need to turn your attention to Onara Gorou, and I guarantee that you will believe me when I tell you that this show is beyond perfection.
This magical journey takes viewers through many real life experiences where expertly animated individuals are descending into sin, falling into despair, and other tragic happenings that unfortunately exist in reality. This anime shows us the corruption of society through these all too real events, opening the eyes of viewers to the nightmarish world in which they reside. While other
anime present us with bland fantasy realms and unrealistic scenarios, Onara Gorou brings something far more meaningful to the table, since practically everyone ever has experienced at least one of the situations presented in every episode of this phenomenal show. Yet its just so depressing to watch! Can anyone illuminate these dark circumstances and save these seemingly irredeemable characters?
Never fear, for Gorou is here! This magical fart that at first glance looks like an overinflated erect penis solves the problems of these wretched people with his profound knowledge of the universe and charismatic presence. Gorou is by far one of, if not the most, dynamic character that I've ever had the pleasure of watching. He is the light in the darkness. The savior of the hopeless. The wisdom in the sea of stupidity. If only my farts could grant me an understanding of life itself like Gorou does. He is truly inspirational to farts everywhere.
The art and sound of this anime is top notch. The characters just look so realistic and have very fluid movements. Gorou himself simply shines with a golden aura of beauty and majesty. There is so much compassion in the voice acting. And the fart noises, oh man, they're just SO REAL! I welled up in tears every time I heard one. And the song at the end was fantastic. I'm sure those idols performing the ending theme were honored to play a part in this masterpiece.
Onara Gorou is something special. Shows like this only come along once or twice in a lifetime. So cherish this anime and always remember: in times of trouble, don't bother relying on wishing stars and fairly godmothers to make everything better. Instead believe in Gorou, and I guarantee that this fart will make all of your dreams come true.


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The Plan: 30-minute session, up to 3 times per week.
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Tramy won the gold medal at the China (Shanghai) International Invention and Innovation ExhibitionPublish Time:2023-09-28 02:24
Recently, the 6th China (Shanghai) International Invention and Innovation Exhibition, organized by the China Invention Association, was held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center. The theme of the conference is "Invention and Creation Leading the Future", with the aim of promoting international exchange and cooperation, showcasing invention and innovation achievements, and accelerating the transformation of innovation achievements. The conference actively integrates domestic and foreign technological forces to promote the development of technology trade. The research and demonstration application of key technologies for amino acid based natural preservatives to ensure the freshness and safety of vegetables by Tramy Group stood out among more than 1000 domestic and international exhibitions and won the gold medal.
In recent years, Tramy Group has been based on the enterprise itself, strengthening scientific research and tackling key problems by strengthening its "internal skills" and "internal forces", improving its "intelligent manufacturing capabilities", accelerating the construction of an efficient collaborative innovation system, integrating resource elements, promoting the accelerated transformation and implementation of scientific and technological achievements, and empowering the enterprise to develop with high quality.Tramy Group adheres to the development strategy of strengthening the enterprise with talents, continuously improves innovation mechanisms, enhances independent innovation capabilities, builds an integrated innovation platform for industry, academia, and research, focuses on cultivating an innovative talent team, stimulates talent innovation vitality, and continuously improves the overall quality of the employee team, resulting in the emergence of innovative achievements.


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Good quiet location near to pub, river, beach and coast path.
Thank you, very glad you enjoyed the half-term break.
Great homely barn
We spent a week in this lovely barn with our 3 adult sons, our 12 year old daughter and our dog.This is a lovely house and in a perfect position for exploring the coast and having Wonwell Beach just a walk away was fantastic. We loved walking and exploring the south coastal path and we really enjoyed being able to walk to the Dolphin Inn pub. The games room is a real bonus and meant that everyone had space. We would all really love to come back. Thank you.
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Improving snow albedo modeling in E3SM land model (version 2.0) and assessing its impacts on snow and surface fluxes over the Tibetan Plateau
AbstractSnow albedo is greatly affected by snow grain properties (e.g., size and shape) and light absorbing particles (LAPs) such as black carbon and dust. The mixing state of LAPs in snow has large impacts on snow albedo reduction. However, most land surface models assume that snow grain shape is spherical and LAPs are externally mixed with snow grains. This study improves the snow radiative transfer model in the E3SM land model (ELM) by considering non-spherical snow grain shapes and internal mixing of dust-snow. A series of ELM simulations with different snow and topography configurations are performed over the Tibetan Plateau. Compared with remote sensing products, the control simulation captures the snow distribution reasonably and the estimated surface radiative forcing ranging from 0 to 21.9 W/m2 is comparable to reported values. Focusing on snow-related processes and surface energy and water cycles, Koch snowflake shape shows the largest difference from spherical shape in spring. Compared to external mixing, internal mixing of LAP-snow can lead to larger snow albedo reduction and snowmelt, which further affect surface energy and water cycles. The individual contributions of non-spherical snow shape, mixing state of LAP-snow, and local topography to the change of snow and surface fluxes have different signs and magnitudes, and their combined effects on net solar radiation range from -29.7 to 12.2 W/m2 in spring. This study advances our understanding of the role of snow grain shape and mixing state of LAP-snow in land surface processes.
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