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The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) abandoned a radical plan for a commercial company to manage the UK's defense procurement. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond admitted that only one bid had been received to run the Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) organization as a "GoCo," government-owned, contractor operated. Instead, Hammond said the MoD will proceed with an alternative plan for reform "through a significant injection of private sector skills"—the so-called 'DE&S+' option.
The single bid to run the DE&S came from American engineering company Bechtel, in partnership with British companies PA Consulting and accountants PriceWaterhouseCooper. Another bid was expected from CH2M Hill, also an American company, with British companies Atkins and Serco as minority shareholders, but it did not materialize. Serco is already a significant provider of outsourced services to the MoD and other government departments, but its reputation has been damaged by a scandal over false claim.
The semi-privatization of DE&S was the brainchild of Bernard Gray, a former businessman and journalist who was appointed Chief of Defence Materiel three years ago, after advising the previous government on the reform of defense acquisition. Gray's plan was widely criticized by the defense establishment and outsiders. A report by the Royal United Services Institute, a Whitehall-based think tank, noted, "The extensive privatization of public bodies and outsourcing to the private sector of services funded by government has taken place with little explicit discussion of what responsibilities the government cannot pass across."
Hammond said that Gray will become chief executive of a reorganized DE&S that has a new status and is free of the cumbersome civil service staff recruitment rules. It would benefit from support contracts that would be let to commercial companies, possibly including Bechtel, Hammond said. Bechtel would not be compensated for the cost of working up its bid (which was reported to be 1,200 pages long). The MoD's own costs in seeking a GoCo were £7.8 million ($12.5 million), Hammond revealed.
The DE&S has borne the brunt of criticism for the UK's poor defense procurement record. But the director of the team responsible for developing the DE&S+ option told staff there recently, through the DE&S magazine desider, that they had been "doing an effective job." Many of the core reasons for cost overruns and delays "come from externally driven interference, lack of change controls, or political considerations," he added.
Hammond himself claimed that the effectiveness of the DE&S "is no longer undermined by an overheated [procurement] program." He explained that the front line commands had now been given responsibility for managing their own budgets and prioritizing their requirements. As a result, the number of changes to requirements had become "less of a negative factor in DE&S performance," Hammond added. Surprisingly, though, he did not rule out "retesting the market's appetite for continuing the DE&S evolution into a GoCo…[after]…more robust" financial control and management information systems" had been introduced.
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Lawyers in the Bradley Manning case have produced logs of online chats that claim to show Mr Assange coaching the young private on how to break passwords to gain access to military computer networks anonymously.
New spying claim against Assange
This is something of a game changer regarding the legality of Assange's actions. Publishing information—regardless of how it was obtained, is generally protected by the first amendment. Soliciting that information is more dubious—but probably still okay.
But you don't have a Constitutional right to help somebody hack into military computer networks.
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Robot-Heart over AZSpot disagree on how we should discuss the rape charges against noted leaker Julian Assange.
Rape apologism usually stems from a gut feeling that not all rapes are equally abhorrent. Society reacts differently to cases where consent was impossible due to age or intoxication than it does to aggravated rape by physical force. It gets even harder when we get into the murky areas involving mistakes about consent. "He behaved badly," we might say. "But he's not a rapist." At least, he doesn't fit our picture of a "rapist"—even if he (or she) fits the legal definition.
Just as there are different degrees of murder, there are different degrees of sexual assault. But sexual assault, like murder, is always criminal, always abhorrent, and never okay.
Julian Assange has been charged with rape. Sweden's rape laws are more nuanced than ours—which I think is good policy. It allows the recognition of the gravity of offenses without inviting apologetic comparisons to more graphic offenses. Assange has been charged with the least severe type of rape somebody can commit and still be a rapist. If convicted, that still means he's a rapist. (The type of rapist who alleges all sorts of international conspiracy to cover his tracks.)
The facts of the case are a bit murky—but the crucial issue is what constitutes consent and whether consent, once given, is a blank check. It appears that Assange had consensual sex with with two women. (Seriatim.) Both women, apparently, consented to have protected sex with him. Assange, apparently, subsequently had non-consensual, unprotected sex with both of them. (Again seriatim.) Supposedly in one case a condom broke during the sex—which is clearly not criminal unless the sex continues post-rupture in a manner that one party doesn't consent to. In the other case, the women was allegedly asleep when the sex occurred. (Or, as seems more probable, when the sex was initiated.) The primary legal issue appears to be whether consent to sex with a condom is the legal equivalent of consent to sex without a condom.
It isn't. At least, it shouldn't be. Consent isn't a blank check. Consent to one sort of sex isn't consent to any sort of sex.
Assange hasn't been convicted of anything—but there are a few things nobody is disputing.
1) Assange had protected sex with both of these women. 2) Assange subsequently had unprotected sex with both of these women. 3) The women are pressing forward with rape charges. 4) Multiple courts in multiple countries have found the charges severe enough to pursue. 5) There has been no evidence whatsoever that anybody is exerting political pressure on the courts to persecute Assange. 6) Assange's attorney says he didn't do it. (When I did criminal defense, by extreme coincidence, none of my clients did it either. The astonishing part is that people accept Assange's attorney's version of events uncritically.) 7) Assange has attempted to deflect attention from the serious charges he faces by claiming they are politically motivated. 8) It seems to be working.
None of this has anything to do with whether WikiLeaks is a force for good, a force for evil, or something else. Assange, eccentric accused-rapist that he is, is not WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks is not Assange.
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Due to our huge land base consisting of hunting operations scattered over
many different properties, our Texas hunting lodging varies from one property to the
next. Some camps consist of spacious lodge type facilities while others could be
described as basic ranch type houses. Some hunting lodges are more well appointed than others,
but we make an effort to ensure that they are clean, regardless of their make
up. Some of our camps are not well suited for nonhunters while others are, so be
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This hunting lodge was built in 2004
and features four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and large living/dining area with
satellite connection to big screen TV along with new leather furniture. Phone
service is available. It is built on a picturesque setting surrounded by big
live oaks, and a rocked outdoor fire pit area is an excellent spot to cool your
heals. We hunt the S Ranch, and Scrub Oak Ranches from this hunting lodge, and it
is located 15 miles northwest of San Angelo.
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A beautiful four bedroom, three bath facility, this hacienda
compliments this top rated whitetail destination very well. Appointed with new
furnishings, including satellite hookup for TV, phone service, and an outdoor
patio area with fire pit, this is a comfortable destination located
approximately 30 miles southwest of Falfurrias.
Located near the quaint town of Marathon (10 miles southwest), this Texas
hunting lodge
is used for mule deer, pronghorn, and aoudad sheep hunts. Featuring a
multi-building complex, a total of five bedrooms and four bathrooms accommodate
our hunters' needs. Well appointed throughout, a charming living/dining area
surrounded on two sides by plate glass windows provides a spectacular view where
the ambience is supported with a fireplace to relax by. Breathtaking landscape
surrounds this camp, where the Glass Mountains and Del Norte's merge. Phone
service available.
Located just north of Kent, TX. this 100,000 acre property has a little bit
of everything to make it an ideal location for chasing trophy desert mule deer
in west Texas. This hunting lodge provides more than adequate amenities and makes for a
very comfortable stay during the hunt. In the evening the outside accommodations
provide a great place to sit around the fire and share stories.
Located seven miles north of Raymondville, this camp is where our free
ranging nilgai antelope hunts take place. This hunting camp is built similar to the
layout you might see in various African destinations, comprised of several
individual chalets, each of which has its own bath with two beds, a central
dining/lounging building, screened in porch and bar area, all of which are built
into the native landscape. You will likely see white-tailed deer, wild turkey,
javelina, nilgai, and various other wildlife species from camp. A large elevated
game viewing platform is an excellent spot to enjoy your sundowner, prior to
retiring to the fire pit just prior to dinner. Satellite with television is
onsite, but no phone hookups. Cell phone coverage is relatively good.
Steeped out of old world, South Texas cultural feel, La Joya hunting camp is a charming destination to relax and unwind. With the romance that only this part of the border region of Texas can provide, the headquarter compound consists of 2 fully furnished cabins, each with 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, kitchen, and living/dining area. Across the courtyard is a large bunkhouse with multiple bedrooms and bathrooms, and beside this building is the dining facility with kitchen and living/dining area. In the center of the compound is a wildlife water hole where you can regularly view deer, turkey, javelinas, and a plethora of songbirds. We conduct whitetail hunts here, along with a few exotic hunts. La Joya
hunting camp is located 15 miles northwest of McAllen, which is where commercial flights should be arranged.
La Chata hunting camp, similar to Punta del Monte, mimics an African style hunting camp sprinkled with South Texas flavor. This camp is carved out of the landscape and it comprised of 4 private chalets, large bunk house, and separate dining facility. Each chalet is air conditioned with double occupancy arrangement and private bath facility. The fire ring will serve as an evening focal point to enjoy a sundowner while the resident chef grills your ribeye to your liking. La Chata
hunting camp is 5 miles north of Raymondville and commercial flights should be scheduled in and out of Harlingen, only 30 minutes away. In addition to Punta del Monte, nilgai and other exotic hunts take place from this camp.
This destination is located a stone's throw from the highly
popular tourist destination of Fredericksburg (20 miles northwest). This lodge
is a trailer house that was totally framed in with two additions built onto it.
Three bedrooms, three baths, and large living/dining area provide all the
creative comforts. Satellite TV and phone service is available. Built in a very
picturesque setting with fishing only 50 yards behind the lodge.
This 2,500 acre, high-fenced property is located 7 miles north of Cisco. On
the edge of the rolling plains and cross timbers and prairies regions of Texas
this is a very scenic ranch with quality deer. Hunters can expect an opportunity
at a 130-145 B&C buck with several deer taken each year that are larger. Lodging
provided by WSI is off the ranch and is generally either in Cisco or Albany, TX.
Hunts are priced at $2500, with a $1000 harvest fee. A $100 per inch will be
assessed for any buck scoring over 140 B&C inches.
This 80,000 acre property is located between La Pryor and Crystal City. This
is classic "golden triangle" south Texas habitat that is home to monster
whitetails, turkey, javelina, and feral hogs. Hunters can expect an opportunity
at a variety of long bearded Rio Grande gobblers. Excellent lodging is provided
on the ranch. This Texas hunting lodge consists of 9 bedrooms with private
baths, large living/dining area, game room, and swimming pool. This is a 3 day, 3 night turkey hunt priced at $1495 that includes
one gobbler, one javelina, and one feral hog.
The Springer Ranch is a 21,000 acre, low-fenced property that is located north of
Aspermont. It is a stunningly well-maintained cattle ranch that is home to some
great panhandle whitetails. In addition hunters can expect to see a plethora of
rio grande turkey, feral hogs, and coyotes. Commercial hunting of this property
did not begin until the Fall of 2010. Hunters should expect the average mature
buck to score between 130-145 B&C with a good opportunity for larger deer. Lodging
can be provided on the ranch via use of RV's or off the ranch, where hunters
will stay in Aspermont, TX. Total numbers in camp are limited between 4 and 6. Hunts
are priced at $4195.
Rocky Creek Ranch has a nice compound with two houses, barns, cleaning shed, trailer/motor home hookups, and a walk-in cooler all for use by the guests. These facilities are on a quiet, but paved farm to market road at the entrance to the ranch. The ranch is within 17 minutes of San Angelo, Texas. There are currently several commercial airline flights that service San Angelo from Dallas/Fort Worth airport each day.
This 190,000 acre property is located in far west Texas south of the town of Alpine. This
sprawling, wide open country is home to a variety of desert species including mule deer, javelina, and
aoudad sheep. Accommodations are provided on the ranch and although the hunting
lodge is not fancy, it is comfortable. Hunters can expect a good opportunity
at an aoudad sheep with 28"-30" horns. This hunt is priced at $3995 for 2x1 and $4,495 for 1x1.
Located in the rugged Nueces River drainage between Junction and Rocksprings,
this 10,000 square foot Texas hunting lodge is simply incredible. With approximately 7
bedrooms, 9 baths, formal dining room, huge living area with plate glass windows
overlooking the pool deck, this well appointed facility is spectacular.
Television with satellite and phone is provided and no amenities are lacking.
This Texas hunting lodge is available to us on a limited basis and is where we conduct some of
our exotic big game hunts.
This beautiful Texas hunting lodge was built in 2007 and is one of the destinations we conduct some of our exotic hunts. Located approximately 30 miles south of San Angelo, the Harkey Ranch Lodge has 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, large living room, dining room, kitchen, bar area, and is appointed with high end amenities throughout. A clay bird thrower and BBQ area outside the lodge provide for outdoor recreation and pleasure. The
hunting lodge has been recently landscaped to provide for a beautiful setting and plans are in place for a hot tub and pool area. Great venue for corporate group or family.
If there is such a thing as a 5-star Texas hunting lodge, this is it. Spacious
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The Bay City Times reports that 32-year-old Brandon Carrier has been charged with making a terrorist threat.
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The Bay County Sheriff's Office said deputies were dispatched to 220 Shady Lane around 3:40 a.m. Wednesday after Carrier allegedly began making threats to hurt himself and police. The area is just south of West Midland Road, between 9 Mile and Garfield roads.
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Jerome Quinn, 99, died Friday, Feb. 29 in Green Bay. A member of the city council, county board and board of education, he was perhaps best known as a 20-year representative in the State Assembly, where he was an advocate for locating the new UW campus in Green Bay. His son told the Green Bay Press-Gazette, "(They) got it here and that created a lot of jobs, and meant a lot to a lot of these students through the years." Go to the Press-Gazette article.
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Back in March 2010, it was reported that Twitter was planning to replace their MySQL database system with Cassandra. However, Twitter have now announced that they will not be using Cassandra to store tweets, and will instead maintain their existing MySQL-based storage system.
While this may be MySQL ammunition in the NoSQL/MySQL debate, Twitter have clarified that, although they will not use Cassandra to store tweets, they will use Cassandra in production for geolocation and analytics.
"We're investing in Cassandra every day. It'll be with us for a long time and our usage of it will only grow," reads the blog post.
But why isn't Twitter backing Cassandra for storing tweets? Todd Hoff has blogged that the answer could be as simple as 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it!' Writing new code from scratch isn't always the best business decision. This conservative train of thought could have been been encouraged by the performance problems Twitter has been experiencing recently, including an over-capacity sub-network, which resulted in a slew of fail whales. This is alluded to in Twitter's blog post, which states "we believe that this isn't the time to make large scale migration to a new technology." When it comes to migrating to NoSQL storage, Twitter has other things on its mind.
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EY ITEM Club Summer forecast
Business implications
With the EY ITEM Club saying the UK labour market is giving 'the best of both worlds' through rising employment and low wage inflation, there is no question that outlook for the UK economy looks increasingly positive. Just twelve months ago, today's mix of relatively robust growth, low inflationary pressures, and tangible progress towards economic rebalancing would have seemed like a pipe-dream.
Well, it has come about – and businesses need to respond proactively and at pace, or risk missing out. The first step is already happening, with business investment rebounding by 10% year-on-year in the first quarter, as executives and the financial markets start to recognise the UK economy's burgeoning potential.
But that's just the start. To capture their share of the upturn, we believe businesses should now take five steps:
- Evaluate the sectors, segments and geographies you operate in: different areas of the economy will develop in different ways – witness the growth of discount retailers- calibrate your plans accordingly.
- Spend time working out what higher business investment will mean: do you need to respond to match your competitors, or will your customers or suppliers be investing?
- Examine the potential to move back up the value chain: a strong UK recovery could create long-term opportunities to substitute domestic production for imports.
- Reconsider M&A: while volumes are still lower, deal values are returning to pre-crisis levels, and corporates are increasingly willing to consider strategically important deals.
- Remember that the government austerity drive continues – so ideas to transform the efficiency of public service delivery will remain important.
- Momentum could build quickly with all the indicators moving into positive territory. Businesses need to ensure they are the ones seizing opportunities rather than playing catch-up.
Mark Gregory, EY Chief Economist


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Posted on Friday, 31 August 2012
Red Lips
(Romwe top and shorts, S&H heels, Bayo glasses, LV bag, Lovisa earrings, ClubCouture cuff) Hype this look on Lookbook here.
The power of red lips! I can't believe I am just joining the red lipstick bandwagon now! After much encouragement from my make-up artist friends, I decided to wear red lipstick for consecutive days to be able to get used to it. It really does create a totally different look, especially on someone like me whose comfort zone switches from nude to pink lips only.
Here I am wearing MAC Ruby Woo (with clear gloss) to complement my minimalist black and white outfit. I feel like red lipstick makes this rather simple outfit seem fierce and sophisticated without having to pile on accessories to achieve that effect.
Also, am I the only one who thinks that Ruby Woo is *the* universally perfect red? Thanks to Reggie for always being my red lipstick inspiration. I wouldn't have discovered this lipstick if it weren't for her.
Anyhow, try to imagine me wearing this outfit but with my usual pink blush and pink lipstick. So different, right? Here are some tips if you want to try red lips too:
1) Keep your eye make-up to a minimum. Avoid looking like a clown by keeping your lids and lower lashline free from anything heavy and dark. Red lips work best with just eyeliner, mascara, and a neutral barely-there eyeshadow.
2) Choose a shade that works best for your skin tone. Warmer reds are generally more flattering on medium/olive-toned Asians.
I know I haven't updated my blog for a few days now since I'm quite busy with other work (mostly post-processing and photography-related work), but don't fret as I'll be trying to post more often after this! I'll be out of the country again starting this weekend, so I'll definitely be queueing all the Lookbook outfits that I haven't posted here yet. Watch out for my last Paris post too! I'm so excited to share it with all of you.
Posted on Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Sail Away
(Club Couture sailor romper, Asian Vogue heels) Hype this look on Lookbook here.
Channel your inner pin-up girl by donning a sailor romper.
Nautical fashion isn't even a "trend" anymore, I think. It's always gonna be around because it's just too adorable to ever outgrow.
Match it with vintage-inspired sunnies for a more playful vibe.


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Making the case for additional workplace lactation rooms
March 8, 2013
Help me make an argument to my direct boss, and then facilities/HR, about why we should have a per-building lactation room on our three-building work campus (vs. one lactation room in one building).
This is a mid-size, publicly traded company in California. There are around 500 people at one campus, across three buildings. There is a dedicated lactation space in one of the three, which is at most a 5 minute walk from any other site in the other two buildings, although it's across parking lots and up stairs. There's a new mom in my building, and facilities is pushing back on accommodating her with a lactation space in our building. I'm a people-manager within our group, although not this person's direct manager. I am a woman, mom and pumped at work, so I feel that I want to advocate for the new mom. Rather than fight with facilities myself I'm trying to take this up with my direct boss (a VP whom she indirectly reports to). He's generally supportive but has been playing devil's advocate about why the space in the other building isn't sufficient.
I don't think it's a legal issue where the company isn't meeting their obligations. There also aren't many women pumping at work, so far as I can tell, so the one room/500 people thing might not be a strong argument. We have not yet heard of scheduling conflicts. My boss basically doesn't buy that the extra minutes of walking add up to more value in saved time than the cost of building a new space. I've tried to make the argument that more than saving this person the 20 extra person-minutes a day of walking you're showing her you value and support her, and perhaps that retains her in the long term. Plus you're showing your future-mom employees that you support their parenting choices. But I feel I'm not being articulate - what else can I add? The closest thing I've come up to an argument that he's bought is to ask, if the bathrooms all burned down, would he expect everyone to happily walk to the next building three times a day, every day, indefinitely.
I'm kind of upset about this and probably not writing clearly, but will be back later tonight if any questions come up. We are going to talk more on Monday. I'd be interested in any thoughts, or if this really isn't that big a deal. It's also a bit unclear how big a deal it is to the actual employee, and I'm planning to clarify with her how she feels before making this into a larger issue.
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Something to consider is that you're
not required to make a "permanent" space
: converting an existing office (with curtains over any windows, etc.) may be an easier sell.
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on March 8, 2013 [
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When you say "building a new space", exactly what would the company need to do? Meaning, is it just that there are no rooms right now that would be suitable, so another room would need to be subdivided, or is that the other lactation room has sink etc, so you would expect this one to have the same?
I pumped at work for both my kids, for a year each time. The first setup was a shared "guest office", which was hateful (had to tape paper over the windows, had to negotiate with guest workers when they visited), so I pushed back and got a small room elsewhere in the same building designated as a lactation room. No rebuilding was required, it's kind of like a large walk in closet (or a very small office!) with a lockable door, and a small refrigerator. Our facilities person was going to put an easy chair and table in there, but I requested a desk because personally I prefer to work at the computer while I pump (helps me relax and not obsess over how much I'm producing). So I guess I'm saying, make sure he or you doesn't have an overly expensive vision of what this needs to be.
The bathroom analogy makes me cringe (so many women expected to pump in toilets - ugh), but if it wins him over, then ask him to imagine there are no mens rooms in his building, only a womens restroom. He has to walk over to the other building every time he needs to use the mens room. His boss refuses to build a mens room in his building because the one in the other building is perfectly adequate. Would he feel valued as an employee?
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This may be a stupid question, but can your mom work out of the building with the lactaction room in it for the next year or so?
posted by
on March 8, 2013
I would try to identify unused or underused space and suggest that be converted, if only temporarily.
When I worked at a big company, they added on to an existing building when they were growing. The recession hit and our department shrank. We ended up with some desk areas which were never used. They converted some areas to collaboration spaces just to try get some value out of space they had to pay for anyway.
So I think if you can find unused or underused space in your building, it would be easier to argue "we are paying the carrying costs anyway, we might as well get some value out of it." People tend to view any kind of accommodation as "extra expense." If you can show that it isn't, really, that might help.
posted by
Michele in California
on March 8, 2013
Is there an alternative use for the rooms if no one is pumping?
posted by
on March 8, 2013
I work in a building with 2000+ people. There are 2 lactation rooms. I am not sure what the rate of pumping mothers is, but if ours is typical I'd doubt the need for another room.
I had at least 5 minutes per pump session of having to walk (down to get a key, up to the room, to return the key, back to desk). At first I was outraged at the key retrieving business, but in the end I just got into the habit and it was fine.
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My boss basically doesn't buy that the extra minutes of walking add up to more value in saved time than the cost of building a new space.
That is probably because building a new space is real hard cash that hits bottom line and hurts everyone. Whereas having to walk an extra 5 minutes effects just the one mom.
The bathroom analogy fails because everyone uses the bathroom and it burning down is a bit far fetched. If it did happen it would effect 500 people, not 1.
Building a special permanent room won't be acceptable, but the idea of a temporary space should be easily acceptable. Won't cost a dime and makes everyone happy. That is assuming there is someplace that could be made nice enough to make the mother comfortable. Most offices have such spaces. Rarely is every office/storage use 24/7.
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The bathrooms haven't burned down, so your hypothetical is moot. Five minutes' walk isn't a big deal - did you find it so, as a pumping mother at work? Was it particularly arduous for you? Five minutes is a very short period of time.
I'm trying to understand what is making you so upset about your employer providing a dedicated lactation room so I can answer your question better, and I'm struggling - what is it that upsets you so much about the current setup?
As a manager, sometimes you have to maintain the status quo, even though your employees buck up against it. If the solution provided is appropriate and functional, which yours sounds, then it's your job to temper her expectations if they're beyond appropriate and functional. Just tell her she has to walk for five minutes, it's not that big a deal. You can't always be your employees' friend.
posted by
on March 8, 2013
What about actually crunching some numbers?
Annual salary divided by number of minutes in a work-year = her salary per minute
Multiple that number by the minutes lost walking* per trip x number of times she pumps per day** x however many work days she might pump*** = the total cost to the company of walking to the lactation room for this employee
I bet that number would be far higher than the cost of providing a space closer to this employee's work area.
*I can't tell from your question if it's 20 minutes total, or 20 minutes one way. Don't include the time spent actually pumping, just the walk time.
**Maybe twice a day at first, once a day later?
***I pumped every work day for about 3 months, IIRC.
posted by
on March 8, 2013
Is she able to take that extra ten minutes per pumping session on the clock, or does she have to use break time for that?
For the first few months of my son's life, I was pumping at work 4 times per day. That would have been an extra 40 minutes per day, x 5 days per week = 3 hours 20 minutes per week.
If I had to make up an extra 40 minutes per day, I would have just pumped in a bathroom stall rather than leave work 40 minutes later. Being a new mom is hard enough without that. I think a lot of moms would have just given up and used formula in that situation.
On the other hand, if it was on the clock, and I could arrive at 8 and leave at 5 no matter how much time I spent walking to and from the lactation room, I would have been OK with it, so I think this needs to be specified. (On the other hand, if travel time is on the clock, the argument could be made that if the company looks at it costing x dollars to make a space in her building vs. losing 3 hours 20 minutes of work time per week it might make financial sense to them to provide accommodations in her building).
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Two tacks:
1. It is about accommodation and showing support and all the other things you mention. It is in the interest of a company to show that it cares for the needs of all its employees, even when some employees' needs are more specific than others, because this assures prospective talent that they will be enabled to do their best work.
I'm not sure if I'm overreading the original statement, but to me, it sounds like the VP balked so s/he could engage in this intellectual, theoretical exercise of explaining why the lactation room is unnecessary, before considering simple solutions (e.g. #2) that could make a fellow human being more comfortable. This is telling and makes me uneasy.
1.5. How uncouth would it be to bring up handicapped bathrooms? Surely those are in all buildings, not just when someone wheelchair-confined gets hired into the building, or when someone breaks their leg, right?
2. Is there some "Focus room" with a lock? And only lactating mothers can get the key to lock it?
posted by
on March 8, 2013
If there is a facility available and there are not scheduling conflicts, then it'll be a hard sell. I did some facilities projects when I was consulting on reorgs. Here is what I learned. Office space is expensive, political and no one is ever happy with what they get.
I agree with your need for lactation rooms and we put them on every other floor (on alternate floors we put a "quiet room" for everyone to use). However, lactation rooms are a bit of a rub with some staff. Here is this room - which people claim is empty every time they walk by it - but they don't have enough offices, conference rooms, private phone rooms for people who work in cubes.
A different question to ask the VP is, "What are the current space issues in this building?" If he's already dealing with multiple department expansions, lack of conference rooms and hotel space, then you have a much harder sell. If this is really just converting a lightly used hotel office, then you've got a better shot.
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A five minute walk doesn't sound like much -- and it might be worth making the walk with a stopwatch from the employee's office as well as from the farthest possible workspaces from the existing room. Then multiply that number by two (there and back). Generally new moms pump more than once a day, so double it again. That's lost productivity time.
Adding the fact that it can take up to a half hour for a successful pump, time during which only some work can be done (and in some cases none, depending on the job and the pump), not having an easily accessible room means that you are losing your worker's productivity far more than you need to.
Agree with finding a temporary space. In some companies I've worked, they designate a windowless conference or meeting room that can be booked through the same system as meetings, so no one has to know why she needs the room.
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This must be what mayor Ed Lee refers to as the total resurgence of Mid Market
Marinello's School of Beauty students must have been wondering why this wasn't in the brochure
This must be what mayor Ed Lee refers to as the total resurgence of Mid Market
Marinello's School of Beauty students must have been wondering why this wasn't in the brochure
Mid Market, San Francisco. Now with 10% more revitalization, free!
Tenderloin Housing Clinic – Safe Clean Affordable Housing
The San Francisco City Attorney recently sued SRO owners for housing violations and the entire first amended complaint is included below
within that complaint is this excerpt
"clients of CCSF departments" means the San Francisco Human Services agency, or the welfare department which refers it's 'clients' to these hotels'
and this excerpt
This excerpt should be corrected and read as follows
"Certain politically connected San Franciscans have an interest in dumping a specific subset of society known as 'undesirables' into specific designated areas bound by the Tenderloin, Mid Market and the Mission collectively known as 'the containment zone'
Let's at least be honest about why your filing this lawsuit, as noble as the suit appears to be
here's a more detailed description of this containment zone
and with that, here's the entire suit
Mid Market is definitely improving. Nice shirt and classic crack pipe
This is a protest in front of the Seneca Hotel in October 2013. the Seneca Hotel is located at 34 6th Street on the corner of Stevenson and 6th Street across from Dotties True Blue cafe and Zendesk in San Francisco's Mid Market neighborhood. These are some of the people who are not insane who suffer because Randy Shaw and Tenderloin Housing Clinic insists on housing the insane in the same buildings. You can hear them say this in the video including the fact that there's no support, no regulation, no licensing for the certified by a doctor insane people who are housed in this building
They also talk about the dead bodies being found in the rooms because Randy Shaws staff wasn't doing their jobs, which is part of the no regulation aspect. Also mentioned is the drug dealing taking place on this sidewalk and around the corner, all of which stems from some residents inside the building. The person in the wheelchair, who does alot of the talking and who posted this video is no longer in this building and nobody knows where he went
Two of the complaints are the water being shut off for two days and the community kitchen being closed for 6 months. Both of these problems are because Randy Shaw houses insane people in these buildings who shove anything and everything down the toilets and who burned down the kitchen. On purpose. The kitchen was eventually rebuilt at a cost exceeding 10,000 dollars paid for by the City of San Francisco
Now the rest of the people who are not insane have to suffer and this also extends to the other neighbors up and down Mid Market. Most normal landlords would solve the problem by evicting the insane people who cause problems and keeping the good tenants. But Randy Shaw is not a normal landlord and neither is City of San Francisco who funds his contracts
Mid Market, San Francisco, Seneca Hotel at the corner of Stevenson and 6th, next door to Dotties True Blue cafe and Zendesk
It's time for you to meet some of your neighbors. Believe it or not, this building did not used to be like this. This building housed all working people in the 1990's and it wasn't until the Patels bought and Randy Shaw and Tenderloin Housing Clinic master leased it, that it turned into an unlicensed, unregulated mental institution filled with narcotics
This is the reason why there are no more working people in this city funded, non profit run SRO's, because working people do not want to live in a mental institution. The working people who used to live in this building were literally forced out via intimidation and slowly being replaced with mental patients on drugs. It's not because the rooms aren't nice, or the building isn't nice, it's because the City of San Francisco deliberately funded a concentration of a specific subset of society in these SRO's, thereby creating a containment zone. This was at the expense of working people, who used to live in these buildings
No sane working person would willingly live with this, no matter how nice you refurbish it
With that, meet one of your neighbors who likes to yell out the window at the street below. These are the current residents housed by Randy Shaw under Tenderloin Housing Clinic 'master lease' contracts funded by the City of San Francisco. In this first video, the screen shot is literally the rooftop garden at Dotties True Blue Cafe. They still have never used it to this day, and here's why
Hours and hours of conspiracy theories. Unlicensed, unregulated mental institution
If you want to change this and return these SRO's to the way it was, you have to cut the funding to Randy Shaw and force the landlords to behave like normal landlords anywhere else
It's a happy fight at the happy Mission Hotel in Randy Shaws happy Tenderloin Housing Clinic
And you're happily paying for it edit: this video has been made private. Tenderloin Housing Clinic has successfully covered up another scandal of it's publicly funded non profit
This is the same Mission hotel that was the subject of another scandal involving management
The natural weather phenomenon known as the Mid market tornado is not as well known as it's midwest counterparts, and like the Death Valley Racetrack stones, nobody's ever seen one in action. But there are clues
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Paul Hindemith: Suite for Mechanical Organ (Triadic Ballet), fourth movement
From the album Paul Hindemith Organ Concertos / Suite for Mechanical Organ
The frenzy for all things mechanical in 1920s Europe possessed not only architecture, design, painting, and film, but also music and dance. Perhaps the most remarkable phenomenon of the whole movement was the Triadic Ballet, an abstract theater piece by Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer.
Although he was trained as a visual artist, rather than as a choreographer or actor, Schlemmer was the primary figure associated with stage productions at the Bauhaus. He welcomed the merger of the arts and hailed the "confusion of artistic concepts" as the sign of a dawning new order. Schlemmer understood his innovations in theater as a continuation of the experimental tendencies explored in the abstract film and stage production of the early 1920s.
First performed in 1922, the Triadic Ballet received its most famous presentation at the festival for new music in the small Black Forest town of Donaueschingen in 1926. The work comprised three major sections, each further subdivided into a series of short dances. Each section is characterized by a dominant color and mood: the first series is lemon yellow and "jovial-burlesque," the second is pink and "ceremonial-solemn," the third is black and "mystic-fantastic."
A schematic overview of the individual dances in Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet
In Schlemmer's costumes for the Triadic Ballet, the impetus toward abstraction that dominated the visual arts in the early 20th century is extended to the human body. He sought to reduce the body to its constitutive shapes in order to establish the basic dynamics of motion derived from the formal properties of the organism. Through their abstract shapes and their constriction of natural bodily motion, the costumes were intended to enforce a discipline and at the same time enable a new freedom of movement.
Sketches from Schlemmer's essay "Man and Art Figure"
To accompany the 1926 performance, composer Paul Hindemith created original music for the Welte-Philharmonie mechanical organ by punching holes by hand in the paper rolls that controlled the instrument's automatic playback mechanism. Although the rolls were destroyed in World War II, the music survives in this period recording of a reworking of the Triadic Ballet suite's first movement.
Hindemith's score is in the characteristic madcap style that marks much of the "mechanical music" of the period. While he would later champion the use of automatic instruments as a means of providing musical accompaniment to silent film (in 1928 he wrote a mechanical organ piece for the then-popular "Felix the Cat" cartoon), Hindemith would before long give up on composing for mechanical instruments, which were soon overshadowed by radio, phonograph, and the emergence of the first electrophones.
Response to the Triadic Ballet varied from acclaim to dismay and everything in between. One critic questioned why, in a world of automobiles, airplanes, and neon signs, the dancers should not themselves be automatons. He drolly noted that the only thing missing was a mechanical audience that automatically whistled and applauded.
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