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Each month, an ALIA member is profiled and we learn a little about their professional life and a bit about their not-so-serious side. Using just a few questions, we try to keep the profiles fun while highlighting the variety of members in our Association. So, without further ado, welcome to our Member of the Month for January 2018… ten questions with ALIA Member Karys McEwen.
I am originally from the sunny shores of Western Australia. I studied a Bachelor of Arts and worked in Perth and then London for several years in galleries and arts administration, before moving to Melbourne in 2013 and starting my Master of Information Management (Librarianship). A few months into that course I got a position at a girls’ school as a library assistant, and I worked there for three years, eventually becoming the librarian when I completed my qualification. In 2017 I started working as the library manager at Glen Eira College. I am also on the CBCA Victoria Branch committee, have presented at the last two SLAV annual conferences, and am a mentor in the current ALIA Mentor Scheme.
As for the non-work side of myself... I am a fanatic reader (of course), make my own zines and am involved in the zine community in Melbourne, play softball, drink plenty of coffee, and unashamedly enjoy bad end-of-the-world movies and trashy reality TV. I also live with my high school sweetheart and our two cats, and love visiting the local markets and beautiful parks in my neighbourhood as often as possible.
2) What is your current role and some of the responsibilities?
I have been the librarian at Glen Eira College in south-east Melbourne for over a year now. It is a really diverse co-ed public school that is currently undergoing a whole-school renovation, so it is a challenging and exciting time! The opportunity to manage a library is a huge one for me, and I have enjoyed taking on the responsibility. I work with an amazing library staff, and also have the full support of the school and leadership team. In a difficult time for school libraries, I feel very fortunate.
My role is extremely varying and each day is quite different to the last. I wear a lot of hats! The library technician and I often joke that we need to add Events Co-ordinator, Printer Technician, Handyman, and Social Worker to our job descriptions. As much as possible, however, my focus is on library programs such as book club, wider reading and the Premiers’ Reading Challenge, information literacy sessions with classes, library promotion, creating displays and reading lists, developing the collection (print and digital) and working with students on readers’ advisory. I also collaborate as much as possible with the teaching staff, and enjoy being involved in other aspects of the school community such as the annual production and school camps.
3) What led you to a career in LIS?
After working in the fine art world for a few years, I found myself feeling as if I didn’t quite fit in and although I liked my work, something just wasn’t clicking. When I moved back to Australia from London I thought it was the perfect chance to try something new, and when I realised how much I’ve always loved libraries, I enrolled in the Masters on a bit of a whim. I never thought I would end up in school libraries, but that just happened to be the first job I interviewed for, and now I can’t imagine doing anything else!
4) What are some of the challenges faced by libraries today?
There is a lot of uncertainty around the future of school libraries at the moment. With budget cuts, closures, and talk that school librarians are 'an endangered species', the doom and gloom can sometimes feel relentless. We need to turn this around and many of us are trying our best. The biggest challenge is making our libraries invaluable to the school community, and I know many of my colleagues around Australia are working to make this happen. School libraries must move with the times, be flexible and accommodating, and always keep our focus on the people we serve.
Ebooks when I’m travelling, and print the rest of the time. I am a fast reader and I usually don’t have the luggage space to carry piles of books when I’m not at home. My kindle serves me well in that case! Apart from that, I am happiest with a library book that has a bit more life to it than a screen. Though I’m not one of those people that will judge those who are ebook devotees — as long as you’re reading, that’s the most important thing!
6) What words of advice would you have for newbie library and information professionals?
Take the enthusiasm you have when you’re starting out and embrace it. Get involved in anything and everything; push yourself to make new connections, attend events, join committees and be involved in the LIS community however you can. I was quite isolated during my first two years of working in libraries, which is an easy trap to fall into as school librarians often work alone or in very small groups. In the last few years I have turned that around and I feel like I am a better librarian for it.
I have been working as a mentor in the 2017-2018 ALIA Mentor Scheme and have really appreciated the experience of collaborating with my mentee. Professional contacts makes such a difference in our industry, and ideas-sharing can be incredibly enlivening. I would encourage any newbies to get involved in this program as a mentee during the next intake!
7) What is most misunderstood about library and information professionals?
In school libraries, I think most of what we do is misunderstood! I often get asked what I do all day, or have people assume I have a cushy job where nothing really happens and I spend all my time shushing kids. This has been a big source of frustration for me throughout my career. The school libraries I have worked in have been bustling places that are never quiet (and I rarely shush!) and I don’t think there has ever been a time when I’ve had nothing to do.
8) Why did you join ALIA and how long have you been a member?
I joined ALIA when I graduated from my Masters in early 2014. To be honest, I joined because I genuinely thought it was what you did when you became a librarian in Australia! Just a given in the industry. And I think in a way it should be; ALIA has provided me with many opportunities that I am truly grateful for, and I am proud to be a member.
9) What is the most hilarious question you have ever been asked?
10) What's your dream job?
I think I might be in it! A lot of people have negative views towards teenagers, but I find them endlessly fascinating and for the most part, a pleasure to work with. They make my job rewarding and so much fun. Also, since starting my school library career I have always wanted to manage my own library, and I am delighted to be doing just that. In the future my mind might change, and I have always had a niggle that perhaps I might like to work in youth services in a public or state library, but for now I am one very happy school librarian.


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"Communicating complex product and company information: pitfalls and best practices"
Organizations have an immense amount of data, and ideally they want to use that information to make more informed decisions. Also, products and services are becoming more complex and difficult to explain to the consumer. In this session, we'll discuss the challenges of effectively communicating complex information so it can be easily digested by the target audience. The valuable insights are often complex and get lost in the noise. Audiences don't want to see all of the data and analysis or product features, they just want to understand what is being communicated quickly and easily. Presenting information effectively applies to presentations, reports, emails, press releases, websites, employee training and marketing communications. This is a skill everyone needs to practice and improve.
Michael Guillory manages Worldwide Brand Communications for Texas Instruments. His responsibilities consist of multiple communications disciplines for North America, Asia, Europe and Japan including brand materials and online campaigns, events, tradeshows and management of TI's video studios in Dallas and California. He has also directed Marketing Communications for TI's DLP imaging technology division which included marketing programs for 3-D and automotive technology, laser illumination, Pico projection and Digital Cinema. Additionally, he has experience in the software industry encompassing business and finance applications and speech recognition systems.
Prior to TI, Michael directed brand marketing teams at Philips Electronics and Sage Software. He was recently featured in the DCEO magazine as one of the Dallas area's Top Marketers and was honored with a Marketing of the Year award by the American Marketing Association for 2016. He in an instructor for the SMU CAPE program and has taught marketing classes at Cornell, The University of Texas, and others. He is on the governing body for the Dallas Executive CMO summit and a member and speaker for the national CMO Club and the American Marketing Association. He holds a degree in Marketing from Oklahoma State University.
Randy Krum is an infographics and data visualization designer, and the founder and president of InfoNewt, a data visualization and infographics design company. In 2007, he started the Cool Infographics blog as a hobby (www.coolinfographics.com), which has since grown into one of the world's most popular websites focused on infographics. The success of his blog led to publishing one of the industry's best books: Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design written for anyone who wants to learn about creating and using infographics and data visualizations more effectively. Before Randy entered the world of infographics and data visualization he was the leader of product development, product marketing and marketing communications groups within a variety of consumer products companies with a focus on innovation, consumer research, product launches, brand development, awareness marketing, category management and intellectual property.


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industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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Declutter your Sidebars // Any where you look for blog tips will tell you to declutter your side bars on a regular basis. Sometimes your sidebars become a depository of random blogs or causes you support, links to content on your blog, awards you've been given, etc. Consider consolidating your sidebars to only reflect the most current things you're doing with your blog. Make a Causes or Blog Love page that houses all the buttons of the things you support. If you link manually to your popular posts, consider revising your list or using a widget (I know Blogger has one) that automatically links to a set number of popular posts. At the bottom of Five Sixteenths, I link to the 3 most popular posts on the blog at a given time through a Blogger Widget. Just take out what you don't need. While your at it, consider making all your sidebar images the same width for a streamlined look.
Think about a Redesign // Spring is all about a fresh new look. Is it time to rethink your blog design? Perhaps you need a fresh design to go with the new direction of your blog. A new design can mean a whole new experience for your readers & keep new ones around for the long haul. Consider what you may be able to design yourself or find a designer to work with for a new look. There are plenty of premade designs out there & resources to help you learn too. Check out etsy for a great design or pop on by the Five Sixteenths Shop to see if you like anything.
Clean up your tags // I am notorious for using too many tags! Consider narrowing down your tags to be more specific for your own categorizing. For example all my posts related to style (Trend Tuesdays & Outfit posts) are labeled with Style that way I can easily locate them when I want to link to them. It will help you be more organized & help readers find your content better.
Some of these tips above I'll go into in the Blogging 101 eBook I'm still working away at. It's been so fun thinking back on when I started blogging & thinking about what I would have wanted to know. You all have been wonderful helpers too!
I get super excited sharing my blogging journey here. I love creating things that help other bloggers!
What have you done to make your blog better? Do you have any Blog Cleaning tips to share?
I love tag clear outs!
These are great tips and all things I have recently done - yay!!
Thanks for the tips...they are so helpful!


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We ventured out to explore Grand Caverns, the oldest show cave in the United States.
It was discovered back in 1804 by a teenager named Bernard Weyer. One of his animal traps went missing and, reluctant to let it go, he followed it down a hole. There underneath the ground he found the pre-Cambrian limestone melting like hot candle wax across the thousands of years.
It’s the sort of landscape through which a larval geek may easily imagine carrying a brass lantern and elvish sword of great antiquity in search of lost treasures.
Even after tourists had visited the caverns for nearly 200 years. a new set of caves was uncovered by a search and rescue dog named Rosie in 2004. They stretch out more than 3 miles further than anyone had ever expected.
This fact makes me smile every time I think about it. It’s good to know that there are still things left to be found out there in the world.
Undiscovered caves, full of treasures, sasquatch and lake monsters.

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Of central concern to financial regulators worldwide is how to deal with cryptocurrencies. Are they assets, or currencies, or something entirely new which has to be dealt with on its own terms? This week the British government announced that its Treasury Select Committee was conducting an enquiry on all things crypto to try to come up with some answers. As for the Austrians, they’re looking to gold as a model.
Hartwig Loeger, the Austrian finance minister, has announced that they are approaching cryptocurrencies as assets and are looking to precious metals and derivatives as inspiration for how to regulate virtual currencies. These asset classes are currently subject to a lot more oversight than Bitcoin.
Taking a page from the rules governing gold, jewellery and cash, Loeger suggests that for large trades (more than €10,000), the trader would have to report the transaction, including its counterparty, to the financial regulator, the FMA. The FMA would have oversight over cryptocurrency exchanges.
Loeger also hopes to tame the sometimes wild ICO market by making it subject to the same rules that apply for share or bond offerings, for instance, penalising front running or insider trading. Austrian ICOs would be obliged to publish a “digital prospectus” that would need FMA approval before any offering could take place.
Loeger will be meeting with Mario Centeno, his Portuguese equivalent to discuss how a European approach to cryptocurrencies might be developed.
The FMA is becoming increasingly experienced in dealing with some of the unscrupulous actors in the cryptocurrency space. They have recently been investigating a suspected Ponzi scheme known as “Optioment” after Austrian police had received hundreds of complaints from disgruntled investors. It appears that the fraud cost Austrians up to 12,000 Bitcoin, or around $120 million.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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Automated technology that dispenses Form-in-Place conductive elastomer gaskets on metal or plastic housings. The system applies programmed gasket beads with pinpoint accuracy in four axes.
Thermal interface material is used to transfer heat between two objects. This material will remove air gaps and provide a more efficient transfer of heat.
Plastic metallization is the process where a metallic layer is deposited on a non-metallic or metallic substrate. This is also known as Physical Vapor Deposition.

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Picture this: you have a user that wants to specify the details of a product. Today we’re going to be looking at a user who inputs the make, model, and manufacturing year of their car, and we want Java to display the inputs as a message.
When an object is created, Java first executes the code in the constructor. The constructor will then invoke that object. In this example, we’ll look at both default and customized constructors in a Java class. So let’s create a class! To follow along in Android Studio, go into Project view. Then go to app > java. Right-click on the topmost com.example.zebra.demo. Select New > Java Class.
As you can see, we have created our new class. It will also appear in Project view inside the same folder that contains the MainActivity class.
Before we create constructors, we have to instantiate a couple of fields. In the public class Car, let’s declare some fields. Note that, unlike in this example, these fields are usually private, meaning that they can only be accessed in this class. In your public class, create two public strings named make and model. Also create a public integer variable for the year in which the car was manufactured. Name it yearManufactured. Note that each of these lines must end in a semi-colon.
For string variables, we usually put "", signifying empty strings. For integer variables, we usually use 0. In this example, we used 2000 because it’s a much more appropriate default value for the year in which a car was manufactured.
We also want to display a message on the screen. To set the message, on the next line, create the string message, and set it equal to the properties that we created in the Car class.
Note that because we added \n to the last two lines, our message will be displayed on three separate lines.
There are no values for the make or model of the car since we didn’t specify their values when we created the Car class. So let’s specify their values, shall we? To do so, we must create a customized constructor back in the Car.java tab.
The only difference between the default constructor and the customized constructor is that we can pass some parameters in the parentheses of the customized constructor. Let’s add these parameters into the parentheses: String make, String model, int yearManufactured.
This code means that your field that stores, for example, the make is equal to the make that the user inputs in the initialization of the object that we just specified in the parentheses.
Let’s see how this customized constructor works. Instead of having the Car instantiate the constructor without any parameters, we’ll specify for the make, model, and manufacturing year of a car. In the parentheses after Car myCar = new Car, type: "Honda", "Civic", 2013.


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Below we have a very easy SASS mixin for generating a list of icons based on a list of network that match your icon filenames using @each. Using modernizr to utilize the .svg class with a .png fallback.
Im sure theres room for optimisation of the above so please do share your tips / remakes and let me know what you think.
Just a slice of things that can be done using SASS for your stylesheets.


text: Should you need help finding troubled teen ranches, therapeutic schools, rehabs for teens or teen boarding schools, please let us know. As the parent of a troubled teen, you’re faced with even greater challenges. This is especially true if your teen is abusing drugs or alcohol. A troubled teen faces behavioral, emotional, or learning problems beyond the normal teenage issues. While any negative behavior repeated over and over can be a sign of underlying trouble, it’s important for parents to understand which behaviors are normal during adolescent development, and which can point to more serious problems.

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text: The Ampeg SVT-VR Tube Bass Amp Head is a versatile and powerful bass amplifier that delivers up to 300 watts of unsurpassed quality. The preamp stage, power selection and even rocker switches emulate the exact signal path, tone and vibe of an early 1970s "Blue-Line" SVT head. If you're looking for that in-your-face Ampeg bass tone, look no further than the SVT-VR, authentic from its input jack all the way to its six 6550 output tubes. There are two channels, each with both Normal and Bright inputs as well as Volume and Tone controls. The SVT-VR also offers Ultra-Hi and Bass Cut-Off/Ultra-Low switches on each channel, while Channel 1 benefits from a 3-position Rocker switch for mid-tone control.


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The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has confirmed that owner of Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah, aka NAM1, was released on bail by a court in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) but re-arrested by the police in the Emirati country.
She confirmed that NAM1 was re-arrested by the Dubai Police based on what she called ‘red notice alert’ from Interpol on the request of the Ghana Police.
DCOP Tiwaa Addo-Danquah told scores of journalists that NAM1’s request for bail was granted on March 4 by the Dubai Police.
It’s emerging that the Dubai prosecutors realized that a prima facie case might not necessarily be established against NAM1 in a $51 million gold deal, and as a result the court started to ‘relax’ the restrictions placed on him.
However, Interpol’s intervention ensured that he was still kept in custody as person of interest in other parts of the world, including Ghana.
The said Ade, according to DAILY GUIDE’s sources, was placed on the ‘Stop List’ at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) after the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) detected that he was using both Ghanaian and Nigerian passports at the same time.
Interestingly, in Ade’s ECOWAS Travel Card, he uses the name Ogumtomole Yinka with the birth date 01-12-1980.
Advocates of NAM1 have been making ‘serious’ statements about the said Ade, particularly on social media.

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It is used to determine the moment of inertia.

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The goal of the Building Products Department is to become our members' first option for all building products (Commodities, Specialties, Millwork and Kitchen & Bath), creating a competitive advantage by leveraging the collective power of our membership.
Our approach is account specific, while looking to maximize rebates and volume incentives. Whether it be mill and manufacturer direct or distribution, we manage market trends and information to give our membership the information needed to make the right decision for their respective markets.


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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play an increasingly prominent role in addressing complex environmental issues such as climate change, persistent bio-accumulative pollutants, and the conservation of biodiversity. At the same time, the landscape in which they operate is changing rapidly. Markets, and direct engagement with industry, rather than traditional government regulation, are often the tools of choice for NGOs seeking to change corporate behavior today. Yet these new strategies are poorly understood-by business, academics, and NGOs themselves. How will NGOs choose which battles to fight, differentiate themselves from one another in order to attract membership and funding, and decide when to form alliances and when to work separately?
In Good Cop/Bad Cop, Thomas P. Lyon brings together perspectives on environmental NGOs from leading social scientists, as well as leaders from within the NGO and corporate worlds, to assess the state of knowledge on the tactics and the effectiveness of environmental groups. Contributions from Greenpeace, Rainforest Action Network, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the World Wildlife Fund describe each organizations structure and key objectives, and present case studies that illustrate how each organization makes a difference, especially with regard to its strategies toward corporate engagement. To provide additional perspective, high-level executives from BP and Ford share their views on what causes these relationships between companies and NGOs to either succeed or fail. For students of the social sciences and NGO practitioners, this book takes an important step in addressing an urgent need for objective study of NGO operations and their effectiveness.


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The Ultimate Flying Package! This Kit Includes: 1 DJI Phantom 3 Professional Quadcopter Drone, 1 Handheld Transmitter (Radio Controller), 1 Mobile Device Holder, 1 Smart Battery Charger, 2 Intelligent Flight Batteries, 8 Propellers, 1 SanDisk 64GB Extreme Plus MicroSD Memory Card, 1 Lexar 16GB 633X MicroSD Memory Card, 1 SD Card Reader, 1 Phantom/Manfrotto Backpack, 1 Rain Cover, 1 Tripod Attachment, 1 Full Size Tripod, Fixed Belt, 1 Brush Blower, 1 Cleaning Kit, 1 CS Microfiber Cleaning Cloth, Limited 1 Year Warranty. The Phantom 3 Professional continues the proud tradition of DJI's Phantom series and brings several important innovations to the Phantom's rich feature set. The Phantom 3 Professional carries a fully stabilized 3-axis 4k UHD video camera for smooth, crisp videos and still photos. To allow you to see what the drone sees, DJI has engineered a new generation of their Lightbridge technology that allows 720p HD digital streaming of live video directly from the drone. You can control the camera and see video in real time as you fly and you can even share the video using the DJI Pilot app's advanced features. To aid indoor flying, the Phantom 3 Professional includes an integrated array of optical and ultrasonic sensors call Vision Positioning that allows you to fly precisely indoors without a GPS signal. The Phantom 3 Professional includes all the tried-and-true features you'd expect from a DJI drone, including GPS navigation with auto takeoffs and auto landings, intelligent high power flight battery, a built-in safety database of no fly zones, and a powerful mobile app for your iOS or Android device.
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April 3, 2019 – Boston, MA – Pearl Certification, with MassEnergize and LAER Realty Partners, announce a major new initiative to help Massachusetts homeowners make their homes more energy efficient, save on their utility bills, improve the environment – and capture the value of the home’s high-performing features when they sell.
This new partnership will make the process easy and free for Wayland and Concord, Massachusetts homeowners. Agents from LAER, New England’s leading residential real estate brokerage, will help Wayland and Concord residents certify homes with energy efficient and renewable features through Pearl Certification, a national firm with a certification system that helps homeowners make their homes more efficient and showcase these improvements when the home is sold.
“In our efforts to encourage homeowners to take action on climate change by investing in home energy upgrades, we see a need for a program to help homeowners recoup their investment at the time of sale or refinance,” said Ellen Tohn, President of MassEnergize, a non profit based in MetroWest Boston. “Pearl fills this gap between energy upgrades and recouped costs and will also help residents in our communities find well qualified Pearl Network contractors and realtors,” added Brad Hubbard-Nelson, Treasurer of MassEnergize.
For more information on the study, or to participate, visit https://pearlcertification.com/boston/.
E4TheFuture works as a nonprofit to advance clean, efficient energy solutions in the United States. In collaboration with industry stakeholders and others, E4TheFuture is building a vibrant energy efficiency and clean energy sector. “E4” represents: promoting clean, efficient Energy; growing a low-carbon Economy; ensuring low-income residents can access clean, efficient, affordable energy (Equity); restoring a healthy Environment for people, prosperity and the planet. For more information, visit https://e4thefuture.org/.


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He can't speak Chinese at all, so he doesn't dare to take a bus alone in Taiwan.
I'm gonna go to the airport to pick him up because I don't want him to take a taxi.
Ｉ have a foot massage class on Fridays. I usually go out to lunch with my classmates but I think I should go home earlier to clean up tomorrow.
He will come back tomorrow, but he has to go to Japan this Saturday, and that very early in the morning. This time isn't for business but for attending a wedding ceremony of his friend. I　originally planned to stay in Taiwan this weekend. But, I changed my mind. I'll go with him. I don't need to attend his friend's wedding ceremony, so I'm gonna stroll around Tokyo!
Okay, I'll introduce a romantic song for a change.
filled with romantic memories... Well, that's right, I'm just kidding. There was NOTHING romantic. I know.
Anyway, this song was very popular when I was a high school student.
Here is the chorus of this song. I love it.
Have you ever felt your heart twinged? Not by a disease!
Are you going to come back in this weekend?
So Please take care how you dress.
That's very helpful advice, thank you. I was just thinking about how the weather in Japan is. I'll take a hoodie.


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Seungri to hold Meet & Greet in Malaysia this February! · K-POPPED!
Malaysian VIPs, get ready! Seungri will be holding a Meet & Greet in Malaysia for Dr. Gloderm. It was announced earlier this month that Seungri will be coming on Jan 26, but the new date has been revised to Feb 1, 2018.
Watsons Malaysia is holding a promotion now for fans to meet BIGBANG’s maknae in an exclusive private gathering.
The promotion is exclusive only for Watsons VIP members and to redeem the passes they must purchase RM350 worth of Dr. Gloderm products at selected Watsons stores or Watsons Online Store.
Promotion period: 10 to 26 January 2018 or until passes are fully redeemed.
This Promotion is exclusive only for Watsons VIP members to participate.
Customer, who has purchased, fills up the form by 26 January 2018.
One member only allowed to participate one (1) time per one (1) VIP card number, multiple submissions is not accepted.
150 lucky winners will be chosen based on first come first serve on submission with accurate details.
Qualified 150 winners will be contacted via phone or SMS before 28 January 2018 and actual time & location for the event will be informed.
Winner announcement will be posted up by batches on Watsons Malaysia Facebook promotion posting latest by 29 January 2018.
For members who are not being selected to the private gathering, they will have the chance to redeem the Meet & Greet session at Highstreet Concourse, 1 Utama by bring along the purchased receipt & Watsons VIP Card to the redemption counter, based on first come first serve, limited to the first 100 pax only.
For selected winners via this promotion, they are not eligible to redeem VIP pass during the Meet & Greet session at Highstreet Concourse, 1 Utama.
To those who didn’t manage to be the 150 for the TGV Special Gathering, you will get to be at the VIP area at the Highstreet concourse @ 1Utama for the Meet & Greet session where it’s also a close up area.
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Service-oriented Member Relationship Specialist with eight year background in Banking/Sales and Service. Core competencies include hard working, quick learner, compliant and 10-key as well as excellent communication and time management skills. Handles tasks with accuracy and efficiency.
Actively listen for clues to uncover hidden needs for members and suggest solutions.
Profile member transactions while matching them against member's accounts.
Accurately and efficiently processing member transactions.
Organize all birthday celebrations, potlucks, in-branch events.
Place and process all branch supply orders.
Monitor and replace brochures based on revision dates.
Utilize Excel and Microsoft Word to complete tasks.
Input and process loan applications.
Utilize multiple resources to track sales results.
Assist with auditing and other operational tasks.
Assist peers with locating outages and correcting processing errors.
Handling and processing monetary transactions.
Completing opening and closing duties.
Providing tellers with check acceptance and withdrawal approvals.
Proficiently utilizing Outlook to schedule appointments.
Adhering to regulations and internal procedures to ensure compliance.
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In 2015 an expansive new system of high-speed railways opened across Spain. Today it's among Europe's best.
While Spain is certainly no exception to this convenient network of travel, in 2015 over 1000 kilometers of new high-speed railway lines opened, bringing the country to the forefront or railroad travel in Europe. Spain's RENF AVE high-speed trains have been a fantastic boon to travelers and a big threat to airlines flying between Madrid and Barcelona.
It was clear that high-speed train travel was the new way to travel, and why not? It's hard to say no to Paris - London in just over 2 hours!
If you're planning on touring Europe then the Eurorail passes available, such as the Global Pass, are definitely a smart purchase.
When you compare a Ryanair flight to a train trip through France, it's quickly apparent which is more comfortable!
Lie back and relax, it won't be a long ride!

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This stimulating and wide-ranging book has far-reaching implications for the study of literature.
Clive Bloom examines the work of many key twentieth century theorists - including Freud, Lacan, Fourcalt, Demida and Barthes - tracing their preoccupation (often unrecognised) with the occult.
Through an exploration of daemonic compulsion in creativity, imagination and reading, this book attempts to reconcile traditional critical concerns about the nature of meaning with post-structuralist methods of analysis in order to explore textuality, sexuality and the psyche.
Topics range from Jane Austin to detective fiction and from Antonin Artaud to The Gospel according to St John in a thorough exploration of the subject. The emphasis throughout is one of theory to creative practice.

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I mentioned the 2010 Arts and Humanities alumni event in my last post and thought I'd share some of the highlights with you. Although our speakers were all working in very different areas, a lot of common themes emerged from their talks. Some of these were positive, in that people were finding opportunities to do the things they're passionate about but some were less positive. Fixed term contracts, often thought to be the bane of academia, featured in more than a few talks. Many public or voluntary sector appointments are also on fixed term funding.
Many of the speakers mentioned how the skills they developed during their PhD, such as managing huge amounts of information, have stood them in good stead later in their career. The fact that they could recognise their own transferable skills helped them to be more confident in taking on new projects or job roles, which were often completely unrelated to their PhD.
Taking advantage of training courses, mentoring and other opportunities not directly related to your PhD was also recommended. For example, Amy Cartwright, who works for Vitae, spoke about her involvement in Glasgow's online journal eSharp and how that helped her identify some of the things she wanted from a future career as well as build up a support network within the university - something that's particularly important for the 'lone' researcher.
Using voluntary work to plug any gaps in your CV was also mentioned by several speakers, with their own experiences of this ranging from helping at a Young Archaeologists Club to working for charities and sitting on a Board for various organisations in the Arts. The Student Representative Council can help you find a voluntary opportunity that suits your interests and the UKRC offers training for women who are interested in public appointments, sitting on a decision making board or advisory group. Contrary to what a lot of people think, it doesn't have to be something you do when you're retired and can be really useful for your career development, as well as giving you the chance to make a difference to your local community or work in an area you are passionate about.

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If your life is unbalanced, then it’s like driving a car on square wheels… it will get you to the finish line, but you sure as heck won’t enjoy the ride as well if it were round and balanced!
I often see people get on a new workout routine, a new diet, or most often just plain devoid themselves of proper sleep daily. I RARELY see people choose to do all three disciplines simultaneously in the proper dosages. While the New Year’s resolutions are still fresh in people’s minds and hopefully haven’t yet been discarded, I wanted to talk about the merits of what I call “The Triangle”.
See what happens is that we typically only pick one of the three disciplines and in fact may sacrifice the other two in order to make time for this new found goal. So we exercise and lose a little weight and then after a short duration begin to plateau and wonder why we keep at the same intensity but aren’t losing weight at the same pace. In fact, we may shorten our nightly sleep in order to get up early enough to hit the gym before heading off to work. After a period of time that lack of sleep catches up with us and makes us moody, prevents us from losing weight as quickly or gaining muscle because we aren’t giving ourselves enough time to properly heal and recover through sleep. Top it off with a poor diet and it’s no wonder that we get sick and then just plain give up on the goal altogether. I could go through many other scenario’s, but the effect has been made as you can hopefully see; paying attention to only one or two of the three can lead you to a bumpy road.
regarding sleep. Each person varies, but the standard is about 8 hours. I only need about 6 hours daily unless I’m in race season and training for anything beyond a ½ Ironman event. Then, my body will tell me that there are many days I need to sleep 9 hours, not 6! Perhaps that’s also because I’m burning on average about 6,000 calories minimum a day and consuming food like it’s going out of style. There are many applications out there now that can monitor your sleep habits and help you determine where you should be. Personally, I’ve used an application called VidaOne MySportTraining for many many years now. I love this application because it can track my sleeping habits (quality & time), my activity level for the day, mood (Great, Fine, Sick, Injured, Tired, etc.) along with a ton of other features. This way I can run a report and see if I am feeling fatigued whether I am overtraining and under sleeping, drinking enough water, eating enough calories or too many, etc.
Yes, I am aware of the million reasons we all sacrifice on our sleep, but that’s for your psychologist to solve, not me. J The fact is you need it just like you need air, it’s up to you.
For most people, an average workout can be achieved so long as you aren’t devouring on food throughout the day. Again, I’ll turn to VidaOne since it also tracks my diet. There are many other options out there (Calorie King, Training Peaks, etc.), but if you want to keep track of how much food you eat and how much fluid you consume, then you need something reliable and easy to access. Be realistic, you aren’t going to keep using a product that lets you input your meals on your desktop only. Why, because who’s really going to remember everything they ate throughout the day and the time they ate and how many cookies (was it 4 or 5)… I mean carrots! J So find a solution that let’s you easily enter the information on the fly, at your desk, at a guest computer, on a piece of paper, wherever you like; so long as you keep it consistently and accurately. I can enter all this information on my cell phone or desktop and sync the information to each other without conflicts.
Nutrition is my Achilles heel of the three disciplines. I like my baby back ribs, pizza, cake, etc. If I only ate Sushi, carrots, and the other healthy items on the menu, then I’d bet my overall performance would increase by 5-10%. It isn’t worth it to me. I’d recommend you speak with a dietitian on how to best accomplish a nutritious diet, but my general rule of thumb that keeps me healthy is to choose the dessert or the wine, not both. I try to eat small meals 5 times a day, not 3 big meals. If you eat small at the start of the day and a big dinner you’ll look like scenario 1 below. Rather try to eat a good breakfast and smaller meals towards the end and you’ll look like scenario 2.
This guy is way fat!!
Follow the rules on water consumption based on my height and weight, not just 8 glasses a day. For my height 5’7″ and weight 152 pounds, that means I drink a minimum of 80 ounces of water a day. It’s easy to measure with a reusable water bottle and an application. Also, if you drink all that “pure” clean water, or softened water, it probably removed all those necessary minerals, so take a supplement that puts all those minerals back into your system. A multi-vitamin won’t cut it. Personally, I like the solutions from First Endurance MultiV which is a vitamin and multi-nutrient.
If you want to burn more calories stay in zone 1 & 2 and briefly hit zone 3 for short durations in your workout. Want to build your endurance and overall health better? Hit Zones 3 & 4 and peak into Zone 5 through some sprints to really get yourself cooking. There are arguments on this that go back and forth, therefore, my general rule of thumb: Just get out there and exercise! Mix it up, you’ll waste your money at the gym if you do the same routine all the time. Why? Because you’re going to get bored and stop going, but that contract will keep you paying!!!! If you live in season climates, then use that to change up your sports or exercise routine. I went out for a snow shoe run on Sunday and man was that not only a blast, but a great change in routine. If you hit the weights, change the routine or you will plateau. See my prior blog entry on winter and vacation exercise options for more suggestions.
and then telling everyone about it to keep you on your goal. You’ve spent the money on the entry fee, the gear, the training plan, and everyone you know is rooting you on! It’s a heck of a lot harder to back out now. To maximize your potential of completing that goal, join with a friend. There’s nothing better than a workout buddy to keep you honest. It’s much tougher to say “I’m not working out today” when you have to answer to your workout partner.
Yes, once again I turn to my software application to track my workouts. This is probably the most motivating source of joy I have when it comes to working out. I can look at my workout calendar results and it gets me all excited to see that I’ve worked hard this month (or for months) and to see the results. I also can look at the calendar and see by color code if I have been pushing myself too hard and that’s why I am fatigued. I can run reports galore to analyze the data and see where I need to make a tweak. For most people this is overkill, but the point is that you can pick the items you want and it likely will have the answer. You don’t have to go overboard, just keep it simple.
Finally, it’s a choice to make this a priority in your life. I take the approach of “I get to do this!!!” vs. “I have to do this.” What a difference in attitude and what a difference in outcome. Remember, life is an endurance sport, it’s not a sprint. The joy is in the journey, so remember to enjoy what you’re doing. If you can implement “The Triangle”, I can guarantee you will have more energy, clarity of mind, and be more fulfilled on a regular basis.
If your life is unbalanced, then it’s like driving a car on a square wheel… it will get you to the finish line, but you sure as heck won’t enjoy the ride as well if it were round and balanced!
Join with a friend to keep you going.
I Get to do this vs. I have to do this.
Balance it all so that you make it a lifestyle!
Awesome post. I need to check out that software. I really need to look at the whole picture.
Great article I like the balance!
Great post Chad! This really helps with my motivation on these blah snowy days. I think I am going to do some abs now 🙂 I was going to call it a rest day since the gym was closed today and was just going to use it as an excuse to do nothing!
this is a great write up. I love it. I need to think more in the form of the triangle. I think I’m going to try out that software too. I need to do a better job of tracking my input… as I don’t think it’s enough already and I’m not even into the real meat of training.. not even close. 😉 Thanks for this!
Nice post, I really liked the pictures too! That software looks pretty neat.
I couldn’t stop looking at all the cool pictures – I am so ADHD!
I like the triangle charts! Great way to show how meal portions should look like. I’ve been using VidaOne for about five years now, first on the Palm OS and now on my iPod. It’s a great piece of software. Every year when I have my general physical I’ll print up my sleep hours chart, saturated fat intake chart, and blood pressure charts and show them to my doctor. He’s always impressed that I’ve been able to keep track of everything.
I am hoping though that one day VidaOne decides to use a cloud server for their data because sometimes when I travel and store my data on my PDA, I worry that I’ll lose the device, or it’ll crash, etc and all of my trainings and meals for that period will just vanish. Mind you, it hasn’t happened yet, but it’s always in the back of my mind.


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Make a trip this Labor Day weekend to LACMA and squeeze every last drop out of summer before it’s gone! Friday evening Jazz at LACMA presents Janis Mann, known as a singer for her style and improvisational skills, at 6 pm. Tour the galleries for our latest displays, including the work of 29 abstract artists in Variations: Conversations in and around Abstract Painting and the final weeks of summer blockbuster Van Gogh to Kandinsky and the first retrospective of Southern California artist John Altoon. For more inspired and vibrant colors see Sam Doyle: The Mind’s Eye, which closes this Monday.
This season’s final Latin Sounds concert happens this Saturday at 5 pm, featuring Afro-Cuban pioneer Ricardo Lemvo for what is sure to be a performance full of energy and excitement. This outdoor event is free and open to the public, so invite friends and family! Take advantage of several free, docent-led tours throughout the weekend like the 50-minute walkthrough of our Latin American art galleries at 2 pm. At 1 pm, the Timekeeper Invention Club workshop takes place, but is accessible by a standby line only.
At the second-to-last weekend of the Torrance Art+Film Lab, join the fun at the Torrance YouTube Slam, a compilation of Torrance-area residents and LACMA staff picks from the video website, at 8 pm on Friday. The Instant Film Workshop on Saturday at noon shows you how to play the role of actor, cinematographer, and director to make your own movie. The lab ends its run on September 6.
Families are invited to Andell Family Sunday on Sunday at 12:30 pm to explore art and tech. Elsewhere, go on a tour of African Cosmos: Stellar Arts, LACMA’s latest African art entry, at 2:30 pm and take in the rich sounds of violinist Maia Jasper, cellist Marek Szpakiewicz, and pianist Nadia Shpachenko at Sundays Live at 6 pm in the Bing Theater. But the weekend doesn’t end there! Monday, check out Treasures from Korea for an expansive view at one of Korea’s most influential periods and Zuan: Japanese Design Books for more than 50 books and prints from Kyoto. Best yet, L.A. County residents get free general admission after 3 pm. Summer’s not over quite yet!
Kimono for a Modern Age, currently on view in the Pavilion for Japanese Art, showcases how kimono designs evolved to integrate traditional and modern patterns with new chemical dyes and textile techniques during the first half of the 20th century. As a summer intern in LACMA’s Conservation Center, I had the privilege of walking through the show with Catherine McLean, the head of Conservation in the Textiles Department.
Walking through the exhibit, I was captivated by the pristine and natural display of each costume. The kimonos hang delicately with their arms straight out and the material extended flat on the surface of each wall. The fabric of the kimonos appear entirely smooth and wrinkle free, allowing viewers the opportunity to appreciate the beauty of each patterned design.
As I began talking to McLean, however, I soon learned the appearance of effortless perfection had not been the case behind the scenes. McLean explained that while the garments now seem smooth and crisp, it had not been easy to make them look that way.
The textiles conservation team had struggled to find a way to properly store the kimonos, especially given the fact that LACMA has substantial holdings of the traditional garments. At first, McLean explained that the Costume and Textiles Department tried to store the kimonos using a Western technique. In conservation practices in the West, conservators usually attempt to eliminate sharp creases so that the materials do not wear down along folds. In an attempt to adhere to this method, McLean and her team lined the folds of each kimono with long cotton pads and tried to fold the material as few times as possible.
This method took up a significant amount of time and space. What’s more, when the conservators took the kimonos out of storage, they found that they had become rumpled and wrinkled.
Thus, after years of storing the kimonos in the Western style, McLean, the team in the Conservation Center, and Sharon Takeda, senior curator and department head of Costume and Textiles, decided that they would draw instead from centuries of Japanese ritual and culture and begin folding the kimonos in the traditional style. In contrast to conventional conservation methods, the Japanese actually welcome creases as a sign of proper folding. There is a very precise way of folding and storing kimonos in Japan. There are even specifications about which arm should be folded over the other. (Left over right means that the kimono’s owner is alive, and right over left means she is dead.) In order to get all the details right, McLean asked Rika Hiro of the Conservation Center to teach an informal class to McLean and her team on how to fold LACMA’s kimono collection in the traditional style.
The traditional method of folding kept the kimonos from wrinkling in unwanted places and allowed them to be stored in a compact, transportable manner. In fact, after using the traditional method to fold the material, all 35 kimonos in the current exhibit fit into just three flat boxes.
Looking back, McLean isn’t surprised that the department ended up using traditional methods to store the kimonos. The Japanese have been wearing and storing kimonos for centuries, but modern conservation techniques were only truly formalized in the past several decades. Sometimes, it turns out, it makes more sense to learn from the cultures that we are trying to preserve.
End your summer on a high note with free tours, live music, art workshops, and fun talks and courses at LACMA! On Friday, Jazz at LACMA brings us the spiritual jazz sounds of the Phil Ranelin Jazz Ensemble at 6 pm on the outdoor stage in front of Chris Burden’s Urban Light. In the galleries, museum members have early access to Variations: Conversations in and around Abstract Painting, featuring abstract paintings by 29 artists. Member Previews continue into Saturday, with access to Variations and our newest display of African art inspired by celestial wonders, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts. Both exhibitions open to the public on Sunday.
In Torrance the Art+Film Lab presents the LACMA9 Animation Program at 8 pm on Friday, a series of animated films with classics and new stories. At the Mini-Docs Workshop on Saturday at noon, learn about expressing your unique perspective through character, mood, and detail. The Torrance Art+Film Lab will be in Torrance through September 6.
Back at LACMA, Saturday stays busy with docent-led tours and free talks and music. Tours on this day include a walk-through of Treasures from Korea and The Painted City: Art of Teotihuacan and looks at Urban Landscapes and European Art. At 1 pm, join the conversation with artist and experimental philosopher, Jonathan Keats and Reciprocal Biomimicry in the Brown Auditorium. Remember not to miss the second-to-last performance of this season’s Latin Sounds with the Afro-Peruvian Jazz Project at 5 pm. And Family Dynamic, our newest family workshop series, launches this weekend to a sold-out crowd but spots for the next session in September are still available.
On Sunday, create tech-inspired art with the family at LACMA’s weekly Andell Family Sundays workshops beginning at 12:30 pm. At 2 pm a curator-led tour of African Cosmos sheds new light on the creation of art and its connections to celestial phenomena and cultural astronomies in ancient and modern times. At 3 pm, stop by Art Catalogues and listen in as the artist George Herms talks about his recently published book, George Herms: The River Book. Be sure to see Night in Day, displaying a wide range of photographic nocturnes, before its closing on Sunday. Lastly, end the weekend with this week’s Sundays Live performance of Los Angeles Symphonic Winds, directed by Stephen Piazza, at 6 pm.


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“Surviving Divorce” was created to bring hope and healing to those who have experienced the pain and loneliness of a broken marriage. It is for the newly separated and divorced and those still struggling with issues many years later. It will help them answer their questions, restore hope, and begin authentic healing.
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Meet Odette, our new felt swan stuffie! Designed by Krista, this is the first swan to join our cute collection of little stuffies. Considering the different types of stitching involved and the intricate details of this swan, we’d say it’s a great project for those of you with an intermediate or higher skill level.
If stitching is new to you or you are a beginner, a better felt project to work on would be our felt owl stuffie or our penguin stuffie.
Remember the story of the ugly duckling that turned into a beautiful, elegant swan? Well, today we’re going to show you how to transform some simple materials into this amazing felt swan stuffie! We have linked to all of the tools and materials we used for this felt craft below, but of course you can use what you have on hand—or what you like best! The one thing we do recommend, though, is using a high-quality felt.
The details and craftsmanship are what make this felt swan stuffie so special. If you have any questions for us while crafting, just let us know. And be sure to share your pictures with us so we can see your beautiful work.
Cut out felt pieces according to the pattern, using your scissors or Cricut Maker. We recommend using detail scissors for some of the smaller pieces.
Place the flower and center felt pieces on one of the wings. Sew six french knots through the center of the flower to secure it to the wing. Sew three long straight stitches on each petal from just under the center. See embroidery guide for details on stitches/color/number of strands.
Sew a backstitch for the stems of the leaves, coming out from under the flower and down the middle of the leaves.
Want more craft ideas like this one? We have tons of felt and fiber crafts for you to explore on the site. Or branch out to a new medium! We have paper flowers, jewelry, and many more DIY project ideas that are simple to make.
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YESH!, this Is Epic, I finally finished Up Model B Sprite sheet!
Now on to Arthas, and when finished, We will have MODEL P!
I'd like to use this in a little comic. Is this okay?
Guy can I use in a project?
Would it be okay if I possibly used this for a comic I'm planning on?
I know what bass.exe is, but this is just BASS with zx style armor. But i do see the cape extension now.
Would you mind if I use these in my comic?
Whoa, in the words of a wise man *coughpetergriffingcough* Friggin' Sweet!
Just curious, are these PD.
PD? What does that mean?
Cool, thats pretty much what I meant.
Now this... ROCK SO HARD!!! It's great, amazing, stupendous(sp?), mind blowing, and its good too.
Now we just need a Model BG (Bass Gospel(Treble) and the world would be set for life, and maybe some of his EXE attacks while your at it, but hey that's just me.
Awesome, it look just like my original Megaman Model B design.
espero aprender todo sobre chars para hacerlo lo mejor pocible porcierto...podrias hacer unos sprites de yo transformandome en el?
Looks alright. Though from an animation point of view there might be some problems. I haven't checked that.


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Imagine a Karmic invitation to be reborn as a piece of employment legislation. It is very likely that the Working Time Directive (WTD) would be at the very bottom of many people’s lists. It has attracted condemnation across the political spectrum, albeit for different reasons. In this way, the WTD may provide Euro-sceptics of all political persuasions with a fine argument in favour of ‘Brexit’.
For the political right, the WTD is emblematic of everything that is wrong with a meddling Europe. It represents a sclerotic regulatory approach, the effect of which is to impose inefficient rigidities across European labour markets. For the political left, the WTD represents the perils of new regulatory approaches based on ‘reflexive governance’, which permit employers and workers excessive flexibility in the implementation of labour rights such as being allowed to ‘opt out’ of the core fundamental right not to work more than 48 hours per week.
Against those views, the European regulation of working time should be regarded as a monumental and valuable political achievement. The aim of the WTD is to set down “minimum safety and health requirements for the organisation of working time”. To this end, the Directive specifies inter alia minimum daily and weekly rest periods, a maximum weekly working time of 48 hours, the right to paid annual leave of four weeks, various specific provisions on night work and shift work, as well as an elaborate series of derogations and specific procedural mechanisms for modifying and setting the content of basic labour standards.
In answer to our friends on the sceptical right, the flexible virtues of the WTD should give you pause for thought. Most significantly, the regulatory imprint of the WTD in English law is now ineradicable, especially in cases concerning the interpretation of implied terms in contracts of employment, such as Barber v RJB Mining UK Ltd. ‘Brexit’ will not reverse the genetic mutation that has already occurred in English law’s encounter with the WTD. As collective bargaining is progressively eroded, workers will continue to look for ways to protect their working-time rights. This may well occur through contractual litigation, building upon cases like Barber to develop the protective content of implied contractual terms. Such litigation will be expensive and time-consuming for workers and employers. It will also be fraught with the uncertainty that comes with using open-textured norms as vehicles for employment claims. By contrast, the rights in the WTD are relatively precise and there are well-established procedural mechanisms that enable employers, trade unions and workers to adjust those norms to suit their own needs and preferences. Contractual litigation is likely to be significantly less ‘reflexive’.
In answer to our friends on the sceptical left, be careful what you wish for. Since the enactment of the WTD, there has been a humanisation of working time practices across Europe, reflected in the overall reduction of working time for many workers. It is important to resist comedy caricatures of the ‘right to holidays with pay’. The idea of a paid holiday as a fundamental right may be a source of fun to well-paid philosophers on vacation in their Tuscan villas, but it has prevented workers from literally working themselves to death. This achievement cannot be gainsaid.
The WTD has also given rise to an extensive body of interpretive case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which is an important counterweight to the more formalistic approach of English courts. The CJEU has been a rich source of principles, deploying the framework of fundamental social rights to protect vulnerable members of the labour market engaged in casual or atypical work, as in BECTU. While there is undoubtedly too much scope for flexibility in many of the WTD’s core rights, at least some of those rights (such as the right to paid annual leave) have been vindicated by the CJEU against erosion by hostile employer practices.
If given the opportunity for a Karmic rebirth as a piece of employment legislation, for me, the WTD wins hands down. It provides a compelling example of the best that Social Europe has to offer. It is certainly not perfect. But it is a country mile better — or perhaps just a country kilometre better — than the bleak possibilities presented by ‘Brexit’.
Alan Bogg is a Professor of Labour Law at the University of Oxford. He was the winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2015 and is currently engaged in a major project on freedom of association. His work focuses on labour law from comparative, international and philosophical perspectives and has been cited in the UK Supreme Court, the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Alan Bogg, “Working time and Brexit: Bad Karma?”, (OxHRH Blog, 19 May 2016), <http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/working-time-and-brexit-bad-karma/>, [Date of access].


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Landert, J., C. Schader, H. Moschitz and M. Stolze (2017). 'A Holistic Sustainability Assessment Method for Urban Food System Governance'. Sustainability 9: 4, p. 490.
Leiber, F., A. Muller, V. Maurer, C. Schader and A. Bieber (2017). 'Organic dairy farming and sustainability', Achieving sustainable production of Milk. Volume 2: Safety, quality and sustainability: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited.
Muller, A. and C. Schader (2017). 'Efficiency, sufficiency, and consistency for sustainable healthy food'. The Lancet Planetary Health 1: 1, pp. e13-e14.
Muller, A., C. Schader, N. E.-H. Scialabba, J. Brüggemann, A. Isensee, K.-H. Erb, P. Smith, P. Klocke, F. Leiber and M. Stolze (2017). 'Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with organic agriculture'. Nature communications 8: 1, p. 1290.
Schader, C., C. Grovermann, R. Frick, J. Grenz and M. Stolze (2017a). 'Towards a new public goods payment model for remunerating farmers under the CAP Post-2020. Potential of sustainability assessment tools for improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and acceptance of the CAP', Frick, Switzerland, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), available online at: https://www.ifoam-eu.org/sites/default/files/towards_a_new_public_goods_payment_model_for_remunerating_farmers_under_the_cap_post-2020_report_by_fibl.pdf, accessed 16.11.2018.
Schader, C., A. Müller and C. Brombach (2017b). 'Nachhaltige und gesunde Ernährung: Mehr Synergien als Zielkonflikte'. Schweizer Zeitschrift für Ernährungsmedizin 2017: 2, pp. 12-16.
Ssebunya, B. R., E. Schmid, P. van Asten, C. Schader, C. Altenbuchner and M. Stolze (2017). 'Stakeholder engagement in prioritizing sustainability assessment themes for smallholder coffee production in Uganda'. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 32: 5, pp. 428-445.
De Olde, E. M., H. Moller, F. Marchand, R. W. McDowell, C. J. MacLeod, M. Sautier, S. Halloy, A. Barber, J. Benge, C. Bockstaller, E. A. M. Bokkers, I. J. M. de Boer, K. A. Legun, I. Le Quellec, C. Merfield, F. W. Oudshoorn, J. Reid, C. Schader, E. Szymanski, C. A. G. Sørensen, J. Whitehead and J. Manhire (2016). 'When experts disagree: the need to rethink indicator selection for assessing sustainability of agriculture'. Environment, Development and Sustainability: 11 May 2016, pp. 1-16.
Schader, C., L. Baumgart, J. Landert, A. Muller, B. Ssebunya, J. Blockeel, R. Weisshaidinger, R. Petrasek, D. Mészáros and S. Padel (2016). 'Using the Sustainability Monitoring and Assessment Routine (SMART) for the Systematic Analysis of Trade-Offs and Synergies between Sustainability Dimensions and Themes at Farm Level'. Sustainability 8: 3, p. 274.
Schader, C. and A. Muller (2016). 'Understanding regional and country-specific differences in environmental impacts of production systems using a globally consistent modelling approach'. LCAFood2016 - Putting LCA into Practice. 19-21 October, 2016 Dublin, Ireland.
Ssebunya, B., L. Baumgart, J. Landert and C. Schader (2016a). 'Using SMART to compare social, economic, environmental and governance impacts of certification at smallholder farm level'. Le Corum, Montpellier-France, p. 232.
Ssebunya, B. R., E. Schmid, P. van Asten, C. Schader, C. Altenbuchner and M. Stolze (2016b). 'Stakeholder engagement in prioritizing sustainability assessment themes for smallholder coffee production in Uganda'. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, pp. 1-18.
Meier, M. S., F. Stoessel, N. Jungbluth, R. Juraske, C. Schader and M. Stolze (2015). 'Environmental impacts of organic and conventional agricultural products–Are the differences captured by life cycle assessment?'. Journal of environmental management 149, pp. 193-208.
Schader, C., Müller, A., El-Hage Scialabba, N., Hecht, J., Isensee, A., Erb, K.-H., Smith, P., Makkar, H. P. S., Klocke, P., Leiber, F., Schwegler, P., Stolze, M., and Niggli, Urs (2015). 'Impacts of feeding less food-competing feedstuffs to livestock on global food system sustainability'. Journal of Royal Society Interface 12: 20150891.
Schader, C., T. Drapela, T. Markut, M. Meier, T. Lindenthal, S. Hörtenhuber and L. Pfiffner (2014). 'Farm- and product-level biodiversity assessment of conventional and organic dairy production in Austria'. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management 10: 1, pp. 20-39.
Schader, C., J. Grenz, M. Meier and M. Stolze (2014). 'Scope and precision of sustainability assessment approaches to food systems'. Ecology and society 19: 3, p. 42.
Schader, C., K. Jud, M. S. Meier, T. Kuhn, B. Oehen and A. Gattinger (2014). 'Quantification of the effectiveness of greenhouse gas mitigation measures in Swiss organic milk production using a life cycle assessment approach'. Journal of Cleaner Production 73, pp. 227-235.
Schader, C., N. Lampkin, A. Muller and M. Stolze (2014). 'The role of multi-target policy instruments in agri-environmental policy mixes'. Journal of environmental management 145, pp. 180-190.
Schader, C., A. Mueller and N. Scialabba (2014). 'Scenarios for organic livestock production at global level'. Climate resilient livestock feeding systems for Global Food Security. Bangalore, India, 20-22. April 2014.
Schader, C., A. Muller, N. El-Hage Scialabba, J. Hecht and M. Stolze (2014). 'Comparing global and product-based LCA perspectives on environmental impacts of low-concentrate ruminant production', LCAFood, 8-11 October 2014, San Francisco, USA, pp. 1203-1209.
Jawtusch, J., C. Schader, M. Stolze, L. Baumgart and U. Niggli (2013). 'Sustainability Monitoring and Assessment Routine: Results from pilot applications of the FAO SAFA Guidelines', International Symposium on Mediterranean Organic Agriculture and Quality Signs related to the Origin, Agadir, Morocco. 2-4 December 2013.
Kreft, C., C. Schader, M. Stolze and M. Dumondel (2013). 'Lebensmittelverluste in konventionellen und biologischen Gemüsewertschöpfungsketten in der Schweiz am Beispiel von Karotten'. 23. ÖGA-Jahrestagung & 41. SGA-Jahrestagung. ETH Zürich, 12-14. September 2013.
Schader, C., N. Lampkin, M. Christie, T. Nemecek, G. Gaillard and M. Stolze (2013). 'Evaluation of cost-effectiveness of organic farming support as an agri-environmental measure at Swiss agricultural sector level'. Land Use Policy 31, pp. 196-208.
Hermansen, J. E., M. T. Knudsen and C. Schader (2012). 'Globalization of organic food chains and the environmental impacts'. in Halberg, N. and Muller, A. (eds.), Organic Agriculture for Rural Development: Earthscan Publishers, pp. 51-73.
Meier, M., C. Schader, A. Berner and A. Gattinger (2012). 'Modeling N2O emissions from organic fertilisers for LCA inventories'. in Corson, M.S. and van der Werf, H.M.G. (eds.), 8th International Conference on LCA in the Agri-Food Sector (LCAfood2012) 1-4 October 2012, St. Malo, France, INRA, Rennes, France, pp. 177-182.
Schader, C., J. Jawtusch, D. Emmerth, R. Bickel, J. Grenz and M. Stolze (2012). 'Sustainability assessment of operators in the food chain based on the FAO SAFA-Guidelines'. Zukunft der Ökolebensmittelverarbeitung: Nachhaltigkeit - Qualität - Integrität. 2. IFOAM EU-Verarbeiterkonferenz zum Thema Ökolebensmittelverarbeitung und Umweltleistungen. 26-27 November 2012, Oberursel/Frankfurt, Germany.
Schader, C., K. Jud, M. Meier, T. Kuhn, B. Oehen and A. Gattinger (2012). 'Quantification of the reduction potential of GHG mitigation measures on Swiss organic farms using an LCA approach'. in Corson, M. and van der Wert, H.M.G. (eds.), Life Cyle Assessment in the Agri-Food Sector (LCAFOOD), October 1-4 2012, Saint Malo, France, INRA, pp. 333-337.
Schader, C., A. Muller and N. Scialabba (2012). 'Sustainability and organic livestock modelling (SOL-m). Impacts of a global upscaling of low-input and organic livestock production. Preliminary Results', Rome, Italy; Frick, Switzerland, Food and Agriculture Organziation of the United Nations (FAO), Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), available online at: www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/nr/sustainability_pathways/docs/SOL_Concept_Note.pdf, accessed 25.3.2013.
Schader, C. and N. Scialabba (2012). 'Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts of a Global Conversion of Livestock Systems to Organic Management (SOL-m)'. 15th AAA Animal Science Congress. Thailand, 25-30 November 2012.
Schader, C., M. Stolze and A. Gattinger (2012). 'Environmental performance of organic farming'. in Boye, J.I. and Arcand, Y. (eds.), Green technologies in food production and processing, New York: Springer, pp. 183-210.
Hanke, T., C. Schader, S. Ivemeyer and C. Notz (2011). 'Klimaschutz durch kraftfutterreduzierte Fütterung'. Ökologie und Landbau 158: 2, pp. 26-27.
Schader, C., N. Lampkin, M. Christie and M. Stolze (2011). 'How cost-effective are direct payments to organic farms for achieving environmental policy targets?'. Change and Uncertainty. Challenges for Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. Zürich, 30. August to 2. September 2011, ETH Zürich.
Schader, C. and M. Stolze (2011). 'Bewertung der Nachhaltigkeit der biologischen Landwirtschaft in der Schweiz durch Experten'. in Leithold, G., Becker, K., Brock, C., Fischinger, S., Spiegel, A.-K., Spory, K., Wilbois, K.-P. and Williges, U. (eds.), 11. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau, 15.-18. March, Gießen pp. 332-335.
Schader, C., T. Nemecek, G. Gaillard and M. Stolze (2010). 'Environmental performance of organic agriculture in Switzerland on the basis of life cycle assessment data'. lcafood2010. Bari 22.-24. September 2010.
Uthes, S., A. Piorr, P. Zander, A. Kedziora, F. Ungaro, T. Dalgaard, M. Stolze, H. Moschitz, C. Schader and K. Happe (2010). 'Regional impacts of abolishing direct payments: An integrated analysis in four European regions'. Agricultural Systems 104 2, pp. 110-121.
Schader, C. (2009). Cost-effectiveness of organic farming for achieving environmental policy targets in Switzerland. Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth, UK; Frick, Switzerland: Aberystwyth University; Research Institute of Organic Farming (FiBL).
Schader, C., H. Moschitz, C. Kjeldsen, J. Wasilewski and M. Stolze (2009). 'Societal Demand for Commodity and Non-Commodity Outputs - a Region Perspective', Rural Landscapes and Agricultural Policies in Europe: Springer pp. 53-72.
Schader, C., T. Nemecek, G. Gaillard, J. Sanders and M. Stolze (2008). 'Using LCA data for agri-environmental policy analysis at sector level'. 6th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment in the Agri-Food Sector 2008 - Towards a Sustainable Management of the Food Chain. Zurich, Switzerland, 12-14 November 2008, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon (ART).
Schader, C. and M. Stolze (2007). 'Governance Structures for Multifunctionality of Agriculture in the EU - Bottom-up View of Local Stakeholders in Europe'. in Kuhlmann, F., Schmitz, P.M. (ed.), Good Governance in der Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft, Giessen, 4-6 October 2006, Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaues e.V. (GEWISOLA), Vol 42, pp. 493-494.
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Schader, C., J. G. Zaller and U. Köpke (2005). 'Cotton-Basil Intercropping – Effects on Pest Infestation, Yield and Economical Parameters in a Biodynamically Managed Field in Fayoum, Egypt'. Biological Agriculture & Horticulture 23, pp. pp. 59-72.

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