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BigLever Software(TM), a leading provider of software product line development tools and services, and Telelogic(R), a leading global provider of software solutions for Enterprise Lifecycle Management, announced the creation of a partnership aimed at meeting customer demand for the integration of model-driven development(TM) (MDD(TM)) and software product line (SPL) technologies. With the unified capabilities of Telelogic's Rhapsody(R) MDD solution and BigLever's Gears(TM) SPL solution, both companies' customers can realize major improvements in time-to-market, combined with the productivity gains of MDD and the dramatic increases in portfolio scalability delivered by SPL approaches.
The Telelogic Rhapsody/BigLever Gears Bridge solution is the industry's first convergence of these synergistic technologies. While MDD technology provides a powerful enabler for the rapid development of individual products within a product line, as well as greater conceptual clarity for the maintenance and evolution of those products over time, companies face complex challenges in managing product diversity across a product line. Software product line methods and tools are specifically designed to provide these essential capabilities. The integration of MDD and SPL technologies provides a simple, elegant new approach that enables companies to effectively incorporate the management of product diversity into their MDD processes.
"Companies face complex challenges in creating and maintaining the embedded software needed to support a rapidly expanding product line portfolio," said Gisela Wilson, director of IDC's Product, Project and Portfolio Management Solutions service. "The industry's growing array of product development tools and technologies provide specific capabilities for addressing various aspects of the portfolio development lifecycle; however, the combination of MDD and SPL methods delivers a more integrated approach. The integration of these highly complementary technologies allows development organizations to more effectively deal with software product line diversity across the entire portfolio development lifecycle."
"The embedded/real-time software industry clearly recognizes the value of MDD and the resulting productivity and quality gains," said Greg Sikes, executive vice president, Modeling Solutions at Telelogic. "The integration of Telelogic Rhapsody, and its support of MDD, with BigLever's Gears, and its support of SPL, provides the embedded/real-time software development community with another major advancement in the ability to develop, maintain, and leverage reusable software assets."
"As emerging SPL technologies have evolved, MDD has remained an under-served part of the SPL portfolio development lifecycle," said Charles Krueger, chief executive officer of BigLever Software. "Telelogic and BigLever joined forces to address this problem at the request of a mutual customer and soon discovered much broader market demand for integrating these innovative technologies. This wide-spread market interest combined with Telelogic's MDD experience and perspective and BigLever's SPL expertise and new generation methods created just the right confluence of ideas and demand to drive the convergence of MDD and SPL. This partnership will allow Telelogic and BigLever to deliver a leading-edge solution uniquely designed to embrace MDD as an integral part of SPL practice."
With this integration, development organizations can achieve significant productivity gains and heightened efficiency from utilizing: 1) Rhapsody MDD models, rather than working with traditional source code, and 2) Gears' SPL consolidation and automated production capabilities, rather than creating cloned copies of MDD models for each product or building "one-size-fits-all" software for all products. This new level of efficiency enables companies to deliver more new products faster, while reducing the development effort and optimizing product quality.
About BigLever Software Gears
BigLever Software's industry-leading software product line solution, Gears, addresses the unique challenges of engineering software for a portfolio of similar products. Gears provides an innovative, yet pragmatic, approach that shifts the development focus from a multitude of products to a single software production line capable of automatically producing all of the products in a portfolio. Gears can be used in any or all stages of the portfolio development lifecycle, from requirements to development, testing and deployment.
About Telelogic Rhapsody
Rhapsody is an industry leading UML 2.0 and OMG SysML-based Model-Driven Development environment for embedded systems and software engineering. With advanced capabilities to extend UML 2.0, Rhapsody supports both functional and object-oriented design techniques in one environment. Rhapsody has won numerous awards including the Best in Show award at the Embedded Systems Conferences in San Francisco and Boston from VDC; the SD Times 100 for the third year in a row by taking top honors in the modeling category; and the Model-Driven Development Focus of the Embedded Development Arena award. Rhapsody has been recently endorsed by Embedded Market Forecasters as the tool of choice for C developers.
About BigLever
BigLever Software, a leading provider of software product line development tools and services, dramatically simplifies the creation, evolution and maintenance of embedded or standalone software for a product line portfolio. BigLever's patent-pending solution, Gears, enables software development organizations to reduce development costs and bring new product line features and products to market faster, enabling businesses to more reliably target and hit strategic market windows. BigLever is based in Austin, Texas.
About Telelogic
Telelogic is a leading global provider of software solutions for Enterprise Lifecycle Management (ELM). Award-winning Telelogic software helps customers design, develop, and deliver the world's most advanced and innovative products, systems, and software more efficiently by aligning and optimizing development lifecycles and business processes with business objectives and customer needs. Telelogic helps customers improve quality and predictability while reducing time-to-market and overall costs. Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden, with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic conducts business in more than 40 countries. More than one third of the Fortune Global 500 companies use Telelogic software including market-leading aero/defense, automotive, financial services, software/electronic and telecommunications companies and governments worldwide.
BigLever Software, Gears, and their respective logos are trademarks of BigLever Software, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions.


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Past and Present
"At Accademia del Savini, there are two sessions a day, if not three: breakfast, 'vermouth' time, and after theatre closing time," was the view of Sabatino Lopez, theatre critic and novelist.
"Savini's is Milan just as the Galleria and La Scala are Milan," wrote Carlo Castellaneta.
"I've never eaten so well," was the comment signed by the great Charlie Chaplin. And in the beginning it was Virgilio. Virgilio Savini was born in Cuvio (Varese) in 1852 to a modest family, which he soon left when he moved to Milan.
In 1881, during the Belle Époque, he acquired the innovative Stocker Beerhouse in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, a concert café complete with orchestra and dancers that was already a popular spot for Milan's journalists, scholars and other important figures. Virgilio Savini gave the beerhouse a more personal touch and transformed it into something more elegant, a blend of café and restaurant. Thus Savini's was born in 1884.
Because of its location close to the Manzoni theatre, it was a popular meeting place for both artists and scholars –the salon of art and culture that Emilio Praga and Milan's other Scapigliati called their Mount Parnassus.
Right from the turn of the century, Savini's was a popular meeting place for celebrities from the world of art and culture, from Giuseppe Verdi to Giacomo Puccini, from Pietro Mascagni to Arturo Toscanini, and from Eleonora Duse to Sacha Guitry. Not to mention Arrigo Boito, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Giovanni Verga, Mosè Bianchi, Luigi Capuana, Emilio Praga, and even Tommaso Marinetti, the father of Futurism, who organized a banquet of Futurist cuisine and then said to Remo Mannoni, "It was our Ernani night, even though for the occasion we had to do without my yellow risotto, cutting-edge cuisine of such unspeakable astuteness that even Montaigne envied us."
Since its rebirth in the 1950s, an endless list of other greats wandered Savini's corridors and crowded its dining halls, names such as Maria Callas, Luchino Visconti, Charlie Chaplin, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and Grace Kelly, Erich Maria Remarque, Lana Turner, Jean Gabin, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Carla Fracci, Henry Ford, Totò, and Peppino de Filippo. Eugenio Montale once said, "A passion for perfection always comes too late. At times, a hundred years is not enough for certain undertakings, but it always manifests itself as a passion for poetry. Here I have found such a passion for fine dining."
In 2008, Savini's was taken over by the Gatto family, who redesigned its various spaces, creating a gourmet restaurant on the second floor, a bistro café and patisserie on the ground floor, and a food boutique on the underground level, where visitors will find a selection of over 500 specialist products of Italian cuisine, all bearing the Savini brand.
But the redesign left intact the ambience and charm of the history that made Savini's a multifaceted locale suited to the constantly changing needs of its clientele, all in respect of its past because, while fashions come and go, style is eternal.

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The Italian manager has earned plenty of praise since his arrival at Stamford Bridge and has been credited with masterminding Chelsea's dramatic transformation this term.
The Blues are currently flying high at the top of the Premier League table and have established themselves as the heavy favourites to win the title this season after building a nine-point lead over second-placed Tottenham.
Chelsea's remarkable upturn in form this season has been in stark contrast to their struggles last term, when they ended up 10th in the table and without a trophy.
And Zouma has lifted the lid on what it's been like at Stamford Bridge this term, telling The Sun: "I am watching and learning about the defence all the time and listening to everything the manager says.
"The Italian style is very good for defenders. He shows us many videos and insists we focus on the details.
"He tells us 'you cannot stand there, you need to be there because you're dead if the ball goes over you in that position, so you must anticipate'. He's a really nice guy who just loves football.
"He thinks, eats, sleeps football. It's all he talks about.
"He's so passionate about the game and he wants his players to be the same way."That's why we're doing so well at the moment."
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Zouma has been missing for much of the campaign as he continued his recovery from a serious knee injury.
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text: Sexy playmate Amy Leigh Andrews is to hot babes what a Ferrari is to cars. You can't afford either, they both make other guys jealous and you really don't know how to handle them to their full potential. This video proves my point. If you ever had the chance to talk to Amy Leigh Andrews do you really think you would be able to sweet talk her back to your place for hot steamy sex? No! You would studder like Porky Pig having an orgasm and then run outside and vomit all over your fat, pathetic tits. Face it gents. The closest you're ever gonna get to having sex with this babe is this video and the closet you'll ever get to driving a Ferrari is your Italian grandfather giving you a piggy back ride.


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Friday, June 16, 2006
S2 & The Mile Marker Mystery Tour
Is the photo above evidence that would suggest the potential existence of a California State sponsored "underground railroad", facilitating the movement of illegal immigrants northward, on this road east of San Diego, California?
Read the whole story below and help me to find out.
On Friday, June 9th, 2006, I had occasion to attend a business seminar and new product introduction at the W Hotel in downtown San Diego. After spending a lovely evening in Old Town San Diego, it was decided the next morning to take the long way home back to Los Angeles.
We looked at a map after reading about the history of how Southern California built its communicative and travel infrastructure on the routes of the Great Southern Overland Stage Route of 1849 and the old Butterfield Overland Mail stages. So we set out east on Highway 8 before heading north, tracking along a line on the map that started at Ocotillo (a settlement about 2.5 miles due north of our border with Mexico), through the little town of Agua Caliente on San Diego County "S2".
S2, as shown on the map, is a road that goes mostly through Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in the south, and ends near Warner Springs at California State Highway 79 in the north.
Late morning, upon entering the Park, about 3 miles or so north from Ocotillo, we saw the Border Patrol and a few National Guard troops setting up an immigration check point along the road. We thought to ourselves, "Well, so this is evidence of the new program of joint deployment we had heard about recently in the news", and then turned our attention to the beautiful landscapes that the far southern parts of the California deserts have to offer.
Driving along another couple of miles or so, we crested a rise in the road and my wife exclaimed, "Did you see that?"
"See what?" I asked.
"Did you see that blue can ... or thing along side of the road? It said "Agua" on side of it!" Cookie exclaimed.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"It was more of a large drum, and it had stenciled along the side in white lettering "AGUA", you know, Spanish for water." she said.
We drove on and noticed in the next minute and a half another blue drum, but this one had "AGUA" along the top with "WATER" stenciled in white just underneath along the side.
I asked, "What is going on?"
Another 90 seconds or so passed and another blue drum sat along the side of the road.
Questions arose and the mystery began to build. Where did these blue drums come from? Why are they here? Who put them here? Why are most of them identified only in Spanish?
"Hey, Cookie, let's stop and look at the next one we see, okay?" I asked. She responded, "I think that they are placed near the mile markers along the side of the road."
And sure enough, at mile marker 52, there was another large blue drum (photo above).
I stopped the car, got out and walked across the street over to the west side of S2, and in from the mile marker a few feet I arrived at the side of the blue drum, camera in hand.
The drum was topped off with a half-disk shaped wood top that appeared to have been designed to keep the sun from reaching the contents inside. As I peeked into the drum, the shade in the bottom of the drum covered 6 containers holding a gallon of water each.
I reached down into the drum and pulled out one of the gallon containers to inspect it. The container was factory sealed and labeled as being produced by the Borrego Springs Water Company, complete with UPC barcode, ready for retail sale.
More questions rushed forward in our minds. Who is paying for this? Who is keeping the "water stations" stocked and maintained? Isn't this State of California land? This is a road that runs through a State Park after all! How does one get permission to do something like this ... that is, if it isn't the State of California that is doing the duty? Is the National Guard responsible for these support services too?
We drove on and discovered that not only are these blue drum "AGUA" water stations at each mile marker, one appeared in a dry streambed that was an obvious migrant trail track also used for hiking and offroading.
We drove on from the South to the North and it appeared that the blue "AGUA" drums were placed at every mile marker from mile marker 55 to mile marker 40 near the Agua Caliente airport. Beyond mile marker 40 on northward, no more drums were sighted. We drove throughout the park that entire day without sighting anymore blue drums for park visitors or anyone else … other than in the most southerly 15 mile section along this road, as described. Curious that.
This situation is a real mystery. When almost 70% of the voting citizens want to put up a fence, and implement processes that deter border hopping immigration, why is the State of California subsidizing, underwriting, working against, turning a blind eye to, anything that will facilitate illegal immigrants to migrate across the border, hide and survive just to assimilate into our capitalistic landscape?
So now it is time for MAXINE (maxine-log.blogspot.com) to turn to the internet community and, hopefully, tap into the power of, as Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit and MSNBC would put it, "An Army of Davids"!
Are there any answers out there to the questions raised by this mile marker mystery tour?
Further, I have photos and digital video clips to support this whole story if any one would need them to help spread the story and/or make the point. I look forward to your responses. "On point".
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- Bob Souvorin said...
It would seem that the water drums are not facilitating immigration legal or illegal, but rather a basic humanitarian gesture in the event anyone finds themselves in a crises in the desert. It is highly unlikely that anyone makes the decision to illegally cross the border because of the drums, but surely you wouldn't imply that if they cross, they should die in the hot sands?
- ecj said...
In a normal circumstance, I would agree with your assessment.
I have taken the road less traveled throughout the southwest, and I have NEVER seen such an overt display of direct assistance to travelers, park goers, or non-English speaking migrants in any of my travels.
In light of what has happened over the last couple of months in regards to border security and immigration, this situation begs to be looked into and have questions answered.
- Gaussia said...
I would be surprised if this was officially sanctioned by the state, but if it is I would love to get the details on it. From what I can tell, these water stations we've been reading about around the southwest are all on some or other state's land, so I don't think that itself means too much.
- ecj said...
Please read further to see if your "live-and-let-live" stance remains.
Update #1:
Update #2:
If you are a committed "Open Borders"/"Azlan" type of person, there is nothing I can do to have you see the issue.
But, if you do not care for Public money and effort committed to the efforts of people who are bent on not respecting our immigration laws or if you care about our security from terrorists activities ... and, through this un-approved activity on behalf of Public Officials, possibly breaking the trust and interests of the people they supposedly serve, then the discoveries in the Updates may help you to understand some of the issues that surround the "S2 Mile Marker Mystery Tour".
Approximately 70% of voting American citizens would like a border fence be put in place and our current immigration, documentation, and hiring laws be enforced with vigor. The activities of two Governments and some private citizens are working against the wishes of these 70% of voting American citizens.
It has been two years since this was written, and you probably have your answer by now. If not, I will try and provide one.
The water barrels are not placed by any public agency. Rather, it is a private group headed by the brother of a local congressman that is responsible. I don't recall the exact name, but it's something like "Desert Guardian Angels", or "Border Angels", or something similar. They place and maintain the barrels in areas where there is frequent migrant traffic and no water. In areas where they can't be seen from the road they are marked with a giant flag. While no public agencies are complicit, they are loath to remove the barrels because of the negative publicity that would cause.
An interesting (to me) aspect of this program is the migrants know where these barrels are, and so does the Border Patrol. I have seen the BP camp out near a barrel, and simply wait for someone to walk right up to them. The migrants know this, too. That suggests that they will avoid the barrels, leaving their effectiveness to doubt. But there have been many reports of desparately thirsty migrants using the barrel water. In a desparate situation like that the water may save a life, even if the recipient is quickly apprehended.
Submitted anonymously, but otherwise known as "TD"
- Shineqi said...
The organization is Water Station, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit humanitarian organization founded in 2000 by Dr. John Hunter. I am the current president of the group, which has no paid staff. We volunteers place the stations every March, service them every other weekend and remove them in October.
Both the El Centro and San Diego sectors of the Border Patrol are aware and supportive of our work, which is also licensed by the Bureau of Land Management and the superintendent of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. If you have questions, post them here and I will answer as soon as possible.


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Join Greg Call for an in-depth discussion in this video What's the current employment situation for veterans?, part of LinkedIn for Veterans (2016).
- The good news about the employment situation for veterans is it's really improved significantly over the past few years. When I got out in 2012, I think veteran unemployment in my generation of veterans was hovering at around 10%. The latest unemployment rates came out for February of this year, and we're at 4.8%, and non-veterans are at 4.9%. We actually have lower unemployment rates now than non-veterans, and the beautiful thing is, this is really the community that's risen up and said, hey, this is unacceptable.
We're not gonna have the men and women that are out there sacrificing and serving our country come back and not be able to get a job. So there are what they call pipelines now for service members and veterans that will help facilitate you making this transition, and I encourage you to reach out to a lot of these pipelines that are out there that your transition specialist will talk to you about in your transition course. But that's the great news. So hey, we have lower unemployment rates now than the non-veteran population, so what's next for our community? We've gone through this survival period, and now what's the next phase for the veteran community of our generation of veterans? And for me it's really thriving and transforming organizations and corporations that we're now working in.
We have this unique opportunity now as a community to do great things outside of the military. So I encourage you all to kinda think about that, and we have this opportunity now to reach our full potential. There's not that many obstacles in our way anymore, and so I encourage you to really push to try to reach your full potential in the private sector and change some of these organizations and corporations that you work with.
Find out how to join LinkedIn and get special offers just for veterans at https://veterans.linkedin.com/.
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text: July brings me to 7 months of blogging. I love having an online platform to write whatever I want, whenever I want. It's freedom! But I never thought I would be recognized for my blogging efforts. So it was a surprise and a great pleasure when I found out that I was nominated for the Liebster Award! [Read more…]


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PracTutor re-designs its student page to boost the focus on practice, testing and learning goals
(Louisville, KY) – November 13, 2015 – PracTutor today announced a new set of features for its students. These features follow the teacher-dashboard upgrade released in September and the addition of the 'Curriculum' and 'Assignment' features to the parent accounts, last month.
Today's release adds three games to the student account. It shall complement PracTutor's 'Build a City' and improve their student engagement score. Moreover, the student dashboard has undergone major changes. The new version focuses heavily on personalization, simplicity and ease of navigation.
"With PracTutor V5.0, we introduce a completely redesigned student-page – with much more focused practice, tests and learning goals," said Hardik Parikh, co-founder and CEO of PracTutor. "We have introduced three new games, and will be adding many more for students to take a brain-break." He adds, "These games can only be played once and have to be earned by learning and practicing!"
New features in this PracTutor release include
- PracTutor Games – Students can spend PracCash, their virtual fun currency, by playing games. This is in addition to the 'Build a City', already immensely popular among students. Games help students find a reason to apply themselves in classrooms. PracTutor V5.0 includes three games, Taxi race, paper bird and Math Pac-Man.
- Re-designed Student-page – The new version focuses extensively on practice, testing and learning goals. Separate teacher and assignment sections; and individual tabs for the to-do activities and completed assignments create a remarkably simple look.
- Help-pages – With PracTutor V5.0, PracTutor also announced the launch of its help pages. It provides users a place to learn to use PracTutor. The help-pages have individual sections for parents, administrators, teachers and students, and include 'how-to' files. Fresh FAQs have also been added.
In September, PracTutor upgraded its teacher dashboard to support lesson planning, test scheduling and learning assessments. It, also, extended the curriculum and assignment features to the parents.
These changes have been highly successful in reducing the time spent on lesson planning and testing. PracTutor plans to release even newer innovation into the K-12 learning sphere in the coming months.
Available today to customers in US, pricing for PracTutor membership is US$25.00 per month based on annual membership and US$29.95 per month for month-to-month membership. Customers who register now are eligible for a free 1-month trial. School pricing is also available.
About PracTutor
PracTutor started with the shared vision of the co-founders to provide the best education to our kids.
Today PracTutor provides innovative personalized learning solutions to support students in Math and ELA. Its interactive learning environment incorporates various pedagogic principles to support its objective.
PracTutor helps teachers and parents monitor, report, and advance student achievement; and assists schools with meeting their accountability goals.
For more information, please visit them online at www.PracTutor.com


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Department: SAFETY
Effective Date: 2/10/97
Supersedes: 8/12/96
Staff Contact: B. Nelson Glode
Approved by: Jesse Tanner
To establish policy for the requirement of a valid Washington State Driver's License by employees whose jobs routinely involve driving city vehicles.
All departments/divisions.
Policy & Procedure #330-11, Types of Employees, Pay, Benefits & Retirement
Any employee whose work requires that he/she drive city vehicles must hold a valid Washington State Driver's License.
4.1 Annual driver's license checks will be made of employees whose jobs routinely involve driving city vehicles. The review will be visual and formal by the department/division head or their designated representative. Any employee who does not hold a valid driver's license will not be allowed to operate a city vehicle until such time as he/she obtains a valid license.
4.2 An employee performing work which requires the operation of a city vehicle whose license is expired, suspended or revoked, and/or who is unable to obtain an occupational permit from the State Department of Licensing, is subject to disciplinary action including demotion or termination. An employee who fails to immediately report such revocation or suspension to his/her supervisor and continues to operate a city vehicle may be subject to termination.
4.3 All new employees, regular and non-regular/hourly, as defined in Policy #330-11, and volunteers who are assigned work entailing the operating of a city vehicle shall be required to submit a Department of Motor Vehicles driving records check as a condition of employment. No duties involving the operation of a city vehicle will be permitted until the DMV report has been received by the employer. Information indicating a suspended or revoked license status may be cause to deny or terminate employment.
Not applicable.
6.1 During the month of January of each year, all employees whose job description involves driving a City vehicle, will have their drivers license visually inspected by the department head or their designated representative.
6.2 The results of the inspection are recorded on the License inspection form and forwarded to the City Safety Officer no later than the 15th of February.
6.3 The Safety Officer will report any individual whose status does not allow them to operate a motor vehicle to the department head and to the Fleet Manager. The report will prohibit the employee from operating a City vehicle.
6.4 The Fleet Manager or the first line supervisor will ensure that no vehicles are dispatched to employees who do not have a valid drivers license or appropriate endorsements to their license. Until an employee can show documented proof that their license status allows operation of a motor vehicle, the employee will be forbidden to operate any City vehicle.
6.5 Supervisors are required to visually check the licenses and DMV reports of all regular, non-regular/hourly and volunteer employees upon hiring. The results of those checks will be attached to the City of Renton Safety Orientation Checklist. The checklist will be promptly forwarded to the Human Resources & Risk Management Office.


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Endangered sea lion shot dead
The Department of Conservation is appealing for help from the public after a critically endangered sea lion was shot dead on Stewart Island.
The young female sea lion was shot with a .22 rifle and was found dead at Port Adventure last month by a member of the public.
A DOC investigation into the shooting has so far failed to identify the culprit, and the department is appealing for anyone with information to come forward.
The plea comes days after DOC sought help after the "callous" shooting of two seals near Kaikoura last weekend.
A female seal and an 11-month-old pup were found with gunshot wounds to their heads at the Ohau Point seal colony on Saturday.
DOC's Stewart Island biodiversity programme manager, Brent Beaven, said the sea lion would have suffered for some time before it died.
DOC was ''very concerned'' about the shooting, he said.
The New Zealand sea lion is critically endangered and is one of the rarest sea lion species in the world, with about 10,000 left and numbers declining.
While they used to breed throughout New Zealand, the main locations they are known to breed now are Stewart Island, the Catlins and Otago.
''New Zealand sea lions are known to sometimes be boisterous and appear aggressive, especially when defending their young, but if a few simple rules are followed they pose no risk to humans,'' Beaven said.
''As the weekend seal shootings in Kaikoura have highlighted, we need the public to help us safeguard vulnerable marine mammal species.''
He said DOC teams had spoken to the party that reported the incident and boat operators in the area at the time, but had no leads over the shooting.
There was no indication the Kaikoura and Stewart Island incidents were linked, ''apart from the fact they both involve senseless killings''.
''We take all deliberate attacks on marine mammals seriously and wherever possible prosecute anyone found responsible,'' he said.
Offenders are liable to up to six months' jail or a fine of up to $250,000 for harming the animals under the Marine Mammals Protection Act.
Anyone with any information on the Stewart Island shooting is asked to contact the police or phone DOC on 0800 362 468.
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Under the bill, officers would be required to certify or deny a weapon within 60 days. Kavanagh says some agencies take too long or don't process the application at all. His original bill called for a 15-day deadline for applications at the local level, but an amendment extended that.
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If news reports are true (and perhaps they are not), then the ex-General Manager of NBC's Today show provides a good example of how not to treat employees.
Jamie Horowitz was hired away from ESPN to save the Today show, which has fallen behind its rival Good Morning America in the ratings.
He was fired only 78 days later, and he hadn't even had a chance to take over the show. His "listening tour" with employees, which began in September and was continuing when he was fired, is supposedly what did him in.
Reportedly, Mr. Horowitz didn't get along with his boss, NBC News President Deborah Turness, a normal enough thing among top-level folks.
Please check out my new article, "Top 10 Hiring and Recruiting Blunders," on ere.net. Even though you don't need it, you may have a "friend" who does. :-)
But employees also reported that, as part of Mr. Horowitz's "listening tour," he asked them in private meetings which of their co-workers should be "voted off the island" and who was the "weakest link." He also allegedly told people that their co-workers were talking about them behind their backs. Employees said that his questions and comments created "instability and insecurity" in the workplace.
Ya think?
Again, I realize that the news reports may be inaccurate, or that Mr. Horowitz's comments may have been taken out of context, or that Mr. Horowitz may have been a victim of Matt Lauer. But there is, unfortunately, a school of business thought that holds that employee "insecurity" somehow leads to unheard-of levels of creativity and achievement. Like the "forced rankings" which were so in vogue a few years ago, in which the employee with the lowest performance rating in the group gets fired, even if the peers all got As and the "weak link" got an A minus.
Aren't there enough natural feelings of competitiveness and envy in workplaces already? Do employers really need to go out of their way to make it worse?
Manufactured workplace rivalry can cause morale to plummet and teamwork to become nonexistent. Which in turn results in high turnover, including the loss a lot of people you probably didn't think were "weak links."
From a legal standpoint, a hyper-competitive workplace environment dramatically increases the odds that the employer will become a defendant in a lawsuit, the subject of an EEOC charge or other administrative complaint, or the target of a union organizing campaign. It can also result in increased rates of workers' comp and disability-related claims because employees are too stressed out to be able to face Lord of the Flies each day.
And some business commentators say that it doesn't even help the employer end up with the creme de la creme.
Of course, low-performing employees should be dealt with accordingly. But a "weakest link" approach is not the answer. Like Jamie Horowitz did (whatever the real reason may be), you may find out that the "weakest link" is you.
*Correction to last week's holiday party blog post. I want to thank reader Jill Domingue, who provided me yesterday with better information about the beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses with respect to parties. My post last week on holiday parties said that Jehovah's Witnesses believed that parties were sinful. Jill, who is a corporate event planner and a Jehovah's Witness, sent me this information and gave me permission to quote her:
Hello Robin,
I am a corporate event planner and a Jehovah's Witness.
I appreciate your article because of relaying sensitivity to other religions during corporate events. . . .
However, I would like to clarify one thing. Jehovah's Witnesses do have parties but if the party is centered on a religious celebration they will not take part in it. Or if they feel the party will not be professionally managed, i.e., uncontrolled alcohol at event, etc.
Thank you again for speaking up for other faiths this is a breath of fresh air.
Jill, thank you for the clarification! I've made a correction to the blog post itself, as well.
*Volkswagen-Chattanooga and the United Auto Workers, from David Phippen. If you are following this most-interesting story, you won't want to miss David's latest. Will European-style labor relations work in the U.S.A.? Is that even a legal option here?
*Last and definitely not least, please do check out the November Employment Law Blog Carnival, Black Friday Edition, hosted by Ari Rosenstein of CPEhr. It's free to read, making it the best bargain you are likely to find this season!
(Speaking of Black Friday, next week's "Friday" post will be up on Wednesday because of the Thanksgiving holiday.)
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John J. Sullivan is the director of ServantLeader Ministries whose mission is to educate, encourage and equip leaders in all walks of life who desire to serve rather than be served.
He has had a wide variety of career experiences. He has served as a Marine Corps fighter pilot, a squadron and air station commander, senior staff officer, consultant, quality examiner, athletics director, professor, and conference commissioner. He is widely acclaimed as an authority on servant leadership as an author, a teacher and a practitioner.
A highly decorated Vietnam veteran, prior to entering academia he served for 28 years in the U.S. Marine Corps as a helicopter gunship pilot, fighter pilot, squadron commander, senior staff officer, base commander, and professor, retiring as a colonel. As a senior staff officer in the Pentagon, he was Program Coordinator for what was then the Department of the Navy's largest development and acquisition program, the F/A-18 Hornet aircraft. While he was the Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, SC, the base was selected in worldwide competition as the best installation in the Marine Corps and received the prestigious Commander-in-Chief's Award for Installation Excellence.
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