The only standard I know of is the 40 hour week. How that standard is spread across the week is a matter for the employer to decide.
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The only standard I know of is the 40 hour week. How that standard is spread across the week is a matter for the employer to decide.
The cheesemonger called by unexpectedly and we had a coffee and a good chat which covered - among other matters - current affairs.
Very good. Have you seen the career lately? I hope she is doing well.
Here a bit of photo editing before MOTD later.
Bemused by the mechanism and other stuff relating to elections.
We have just had a state election here in Aus. (Queensland).
* You have to turn up at a polling booth and get your name signed off. After that you can do what you like, fill out a ballot paper properly, not fill it out, draw scatological cartoons, whatever.
We have just had a state election here in Aus. (Queensland).
- We have (almost nearly) compulsory* voting in Australia.
- All ballots are paper, and we generally manage to get enough counted to determine the result by 11pm. The polls close at 6pm and counting starts almost immediately.
- Some countries have Red for conservative and Blue for progressive. We have the opposite. That confuses me sometimes.
- Our conservative party is called the Liberal Party.
- In all the major western democracies that I have seen figures for, the typical rate of convicted fraudulent voting is about 1 fraudulent vote per million votes cast. That includes the UK, Australia and the US. That may, or may not include the gentleman living in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, who got his cat on the electoral role.
- Prisoners must remain on the electoral role, but only those serving a sentence of less than 3 years can vote. Immediately on leaving prison they can vote.
* You have to turn up at a polling booth and get your name signed off. After that you can do what you like, fill out a ballot paper properly, not fill it out, draw scatological cartoons, whatever.
I'd say the left-oriented party in the US is best described as liberal, with progressives as a subset.
(I'm deliberately keeping this post brief and won't publicly write anything further in order to avoid MR's restrictions on PRSI content)
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It's basically a $50 or $100 fine (I can't remember which).
One election, my son, who was living at home, and whose name is similar to mine, was ticked off for voting twice, and I was not ticked off at all. We had both voted, and only once each.
We each got a nasty letter from the gummint, one for voting twice and the other for voting nonce. I put the letters together, explaining what had happened, sent them back and heard no more about it.
Basically, the officers at the polling booth have lists of all enrolled voters at that electorate. Each name has a tiny box that they fill in with a lead pencil when you turn up. The sheets are then scanned through a special machine that only looks at the little box, registering a Yes if it is filled out and a No if it isn't.
People who have more than one Yes (i.e. ticked off at more than one polling booth) or no Yes get a 'Please Explain' letter.
This is technology that has been around since the late '60s. I filled out multiple-choice exams at school this way.
Has beautiful sunshine here most of the day.
I have reset the clocks for the thermostat in each room. Maybe they’ll keep more accurate time until I change them again.
Dark already, not that long after five in the afternoon, (17.00).......
In my mind, I am re-visiting the Balkans - where there is sunshine, warmth, terrific light, stunning scenery, historic and ancient small cities, wonderful culture, interesting people, great wine and food......
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Sounds like you are missing the place already! Maybe the next time you travel it should be for a holiday?
Clocks go back next week for us. Not looking forward to the sun setting at close to 4:00 in the afternoon (and therefore starting to get dark at around 3:30). I don't even want to know how short the days get near the solstice up here... luckily I'll be back down south by then.
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Yes, I am.
Actually, I love the Balkans.
Oddly enough, the last few elections I have observed there (which includes seven elections in Bosnia alone, at this stage), have been as close to a holiday as you can get in my line of work; we did manage to visit the historic stuff, tour vineyards (and sample their products), and - in the course of our work - manage to meet some very interesting people, and stay in some really lovely, small, city centre hotels where the staff looked after us well.
A miserable time of the year - not my favourite at all.
Not only that, I have leapt - with a balletic, almost savage delight - at the opportunity to work abroad - seized such opportunities - over much (if not most) of the winter, or, even some of the winter, whenever such opportunities presented themselves.
The days are still short in winter in southern regions (the Caucasus, etc), - in truth, in tropical regions, the length of the day varies little throughout the year - but the actual quality of available daylight in winter is far, far, better than it is in our light-deprived, northern climes and latitudes.
Last year, the snow started in early October. But we haven't had any yet. I also don't know much since I've only "lived" here in Wisconsin for one year.
October has been a bit strange for us here. Grey stratus clouds and sometimes fog in the morning, dissipating so we get some nice sun and warm (for the season) temperatures aroud 16-18 degrees. Also, was near the Rhone river cycling when I heard bagpipes. I could not believe it but yes, so I crossed a small pedestrian/cyclist bridge near the "Sujet dam" and listened along with a small crowd. These were firefighters who formed a small group of three pipers practicing. Kind of cool unless you hate bagpipes.
from my days of living in Minneapolis, I'm remembering that November 7 was the average day with an inch of snow measured at the airport.
No, no and no!
4WD will certainly help in the snow. Especially on hills.
AWD will help on flat areas, but is worthless going down hills. I was never able to have a GMC Yukon Denali because they were AWD which meant no transfer case, so no Low Range. To get off my hill in the winter I would put it in 4WD Low and Low gear and let the vehicle drive itself to the bottom.
But no method of power: 2WD, 4WD, AWD, FWD or RWD is going to help you stop.
I appear to be falling out of love with Mac and Apple in general. It just doesn't feel as special or as exciting as it once did.
Understandable. The company has taken a ‘good enough’ attitude to their quality and customer experience.