#standardized regulations

[nnctales]

Impact of Construction and Demolition Waste and its Use in Buildings

Introduction Construction and demolition (C&D) waste is a significant environmental concern worldwide. The massive amounts of waste generated from construction and demolition activities pose a threat to the environment and human health. However, innovative approaches have emerged to tackle this issue, focusing on recycling and reusing C&D waste in building projects. This article explores the…

[clowndensation]

getting to the point at work btw where i'm actually being like. combative.

like we're trying to decide on a company vehicle, and they chose my vehicle for it. while ignoring the fact that i've already told them my vehicle isn't ideal for this job (and it like Really Isn't. it sucks for this job. i put up with it because as a personal vehicle, it rules). and then they went out and bought two of them before they even finished creating the new standardized equipment we're supposed to use. and now we're testing it all out and it's not working. shockingly.

so i told them point blank "i chose this car because i'm willing to be frustrated with it at work just so that i can use it for fun on weekends. solely as a work vehicle, it's a bad choice, and all of your workers will be unhappy with it. we can't get the new standardized cart to work in it, and we're coming up with a bunch of convoluted solutions instead of facing the real solution: we need a bigger car for this to work well."

and the stupid ass motherfucker i was talking with was like "welll actually we asked people, and they said this car was workable (i know this. you asked ME. because it's my car model. workable doesn't equal ideal, and i TOLD YOU THIS. i SAID that my car is adequate but NOT actually great for the job) and also they said that if the choice was between a less than ideal (but cheaper than a van) car, but the amount we save goes into their pocket via benefits and pay, vs a more ideal van that costs more, meaning we can't give you guys the benefits we otherwise could, everyone agreed that the cheaper, more frustrating car would be better"

and i went. "interesting. when did you ask this, because i don't remember hearing about it, and nobody i've spoken with agrees with what you just said."

and he had to backtrack and be like "well i didn't mean to imply we asked EVERYONE it was just generally what i've heard from some people"

and i full stop was like "well it sounds like you've made up your mind. if you've assigned a dollar value to the comfort and happiness of your technicians, and the math works out that the money you're saving with these cars is worth more than that dollar value, then there's not much more to say." and left.

but also for the record. techs are not seeing a fucking dime of the money they're allegedly saving with these cars lmao. "you'll see it reflected in your benefits" what a nebulous thing to say. show me the math you're doing that proves that. set me up with some solid number expectations that i'll see reflected on my paycheck. fuckhead.

[girderednerve]

The three-day [Conference on Women and the Workplace, convened in 1976] featured traditional presentations and livelier discussion periods. The medical director of Dow Chemical, Harold Gordon, fretted that his company could be held liable for discrimination if it excluded fertile women from certain high-risk jobs, and for harm to their offspring if it didn't. Dow was trying to do the right thing, Gordon said, but there were many questions: "What is the population at risk? How is it identified? What specific agents need to be considered? How are they identified? What restrictions are needed? When do they apply? To whom do they apply?" The [Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers]'s Tony Mazzocchi was unsympathetic. "There isn't a single worker, including those at Dow, who knows what the hell he works with in the first place," he said. "No industry has allowed us to look at the monitoring data.... We aren't being told what is carcinogenic or what is teratogenic. We are learning after the fact." It was the union's position, he said, that neither women nor men should have to be removed from a job to protect the unborn; "our position is to make the workplace safe for everyone." ...

For workers like Yvette Flores [whose child was born with severe intellectual disabilities after her exposure to dangerous solvents and lead-based solution in her job manufacturing lasers for Spectra-Physics], the most germane speaker was Andrea Hricko with the Labor Occupational Health Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Hricko had been investigating, with growing alarm, the electronics industry, which then employed some 271,000 workers in the United States. More than three-quarters of these workers were women, she said, and many were "nonwhite. A higher percentage do not speak English. And few of them are organized." Hricko said she'd heard from some California workers that "dark-skinned women, including Filipinos, Chicanos and Blacks, are often assigned to certain departments in electronics plants where chemicals are used that cause skin rashes. This is done because the skin rashes are not as obvious on the dark skin and, therefore, the workers don't complain as much as the company doesn't have to deal with the complaints." Some plants didn't allow languages other than English to be spoken, "even in departments where the majority of women are non-English-speaking," Hricko said. Intimidation was common. Women in one Silicon Valley plant who'd prepared a warning leaflet on trichloroethylene "had to leave copies of it in the women's rest room so that the male management people would not snatch the copies away."

Jim Morris, Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers (2024), Chapter 20

[xiii-e]

[ OOC: hiii it's Moss again, hello folks o7 just wanted to give a general heads up that unfortunately the brain funk has Not meaningfully lifted yet and I'm having kind of a hard time managing plotlines atm, so while I'm still going to be active and trying to throw bits and pieces out, I'm not likely to be doing any big plots or character development for a while. I'm more likely to get some of my standalone writing worked on since there's no time pressure there though!! So if you see the Turtleshell fic series or a fun secret Khione project rocking up in the following weeks amidsts otherwise radio silence, that'll be why :3 ]

[odinsblog]

“When an elected body creates guidance and gives you authority to do something, it depends on expert policymakers or administrators to sort out the facts. If your job is to make sure that the water people drink is clean, they don't go in and list every test in the water that has to be done, but they give you broad guidance to figure that out, Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association explains. "For example, defining how much lead is in the water for you to drink that's permissible, but the understanding changes over time. They may alter those recommendations and actually bring the level of lead exposure that's permissible down.”

Dr. Benjamin went on to predict that a company could challenge the EPA's determination of how much lead can be in the water because it's cheaper to make a product that leaks the toxic substance into the drinking supply. “That's an example of where it isn't necessarily written in detail in the law,” he warns. “You're going to have confusion because every time someone doesn't like a regulatory decision, they will now go to court and try to challenge it. The decision is now going to a judge, who may not have any scientific knowledge in this area.”

“This will have a chilling effect on regulatory agencies,” says Dr. Raymond Robertson, Director of the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy and Professor. “Agencies have already started anticipating this, and they've been much more cautious in the way that they've been regulating. I don’t see anyone mentioning the court backlogs that we already see. It's going to potentially add pressure to the courts, and that means that decisions are not going to be made. So it's another significant factor that's going to be slowing down regulatory influence.”

Beyond what it might mean for the automotive industry, the decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo will have wide-reaching ramifications, the likes of which are difficult to anticipate so soon after the ruling. Since the original Chevron case involved environmental protection, it's safe to surmise that future challenges post-Loper Bright may be used to overturn federal mandates to improve air quality, including President Biden's electrification efforts.

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[mlentertainment]

literally tortured by the fact tappert has the hasil hair hidden under that fucking beanie. eugene should have enforced a lice check so we could have gotten a live action rendition of that ⤵️

[gordonstanheight]

reblog to scare a letterboxd admin

[heroesriseandfall]

I know it is likely the result of yet more story writers just not knowing anything about modern archaeology. but every time Jack Drake or even Bruce Wayne keep an artifact in their own possession that legally and ethically they should not get to keep (especially without paying mind to how well it’s stored), and nobody in the comic says anything about it, I go a little more nuts.

Jack Drake canonically being an “amateur archaeologist,” emphasis on amateur because he really just dug up an ancient artifact in Asia then took it home as a gift to his fiancé. And then he kept another artifact in a dirty storage closet. You can tell he is a rich businessman with a hobby interest in archaeology rather than anything else.

[theshadowrealmitself]

I can’t articulate it, but it gets to me that, outside of Spock and I think Tuvok, being logical and regulating emotions isn’t something that Vulcans are shown to just endure, the same way they endure lower temperatures for other species, or higher oxygen for other species, or anything else that has to be incredibly uncomfortable at best to painful at worst that they just endure

The vibe I get from it is that a majority of Vulcans enjoy it, they like being logical, maybe they didn’t get a choice in being logical as kids, but unlike the select few like Sybok, they don’t seem to be resentful that they were raised like that at all

This isn’t just something they’re all forced to do now to prevent their emotions from causing their species’ end, dedicating themselves to logic brought them inner peace

[maideninorange]

Something I occasionally think about is why the spacesuits throughout the Pikmin series are Designed like that (in-universe I mean). Like, what features do a whistle and a glowing antenna like that have as something apparently part of the standard design? So here's my silly headcanon: mainly, they are intended to be safety features.

The antenna? It's meant to be a bright beacon that alerts potential rescuers right to someone in distress, especially when it's somewhere dark like a cave or the dark vacuum of space. It's this latter, probably very common, scenario that would inspire such a design feature. Especially considering how common place space travel is.

And as for the whistle? If the antenna is a distress beacon for the eyes, than the whistle is that for the ears. It's a built-in way to, assuming you are still conscious, let people know where you are. After all, what good will screaming do when you are drifting through space? No one can hear you scream in space...but they can hear a loud, sharp whistle! Also, assuming you are with a group of people, a great way to let them know where you are if you were to get separated during a worst case scenario. Especially since those helmets probably muffle your voice if you're far enough away. It's an easy way to play the hot-cold game of finding a sound's source going in places where such is usually perilous.

It just so happens that these safety features come quite in handy when you get stranded on a planet full of carrot creatures with tall, similarly built stems and respond well to the aforementioned whistle.

[hoodiedeer]

i feel like if youre selling access to videos like tutorials or something the captions on your video should probably at least ATTEMPT to meet the standard quality, accuracy, formatting and availability requirements for tv/film captioning.

[sharkface]

Food service worker diagnosis

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Sabbath Regulations

1 Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel, and said to them, “These are the things which the Lord has commanded you to do. 2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death; 3 you shall kindle no fire in all your habitations on the sabbath day.”

Preparations for Making the Tabernacle

4 Moses said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded. 5 Take from among you an offering to the Lord; whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze; 6 blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen; goats’ hair, 7 tanned rams’ skins, and goatskins; acacia wood, 8 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, 9 and onyx stones and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

10 “And let every able man among you come and make all that the Lord has commanded: the tabernacle, 11 its tent and its covering, its hooks and its frames, its bars, its pillars, and its bases; 12 the ark with its poles, the mercy seat, and the veil of the screen; 13 the table with its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence; 14 the lampstand also for the light, with its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light; 15 and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle; 16 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of bronze, its poles, and all its utensils, the laver and its base; 17 the hangings of the court, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the court; 18 the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the court, and their cords; 19 the finely wrought garments for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for their service as priests.”

Offerings for the Tabernacle

20 Then all the congregation of the people of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. 21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him, and every one whose spirit moved him, and brought the Lord’s offering to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments. 22 So they came, both men and women; all who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the Lord. 23 And every man with whom was found blue or purple or scarlet stuff or fine linen or goats’ hair or tanned rams’ skins or goatskins, brought them. 24 Every one who could make an offering of silver or bronze brought it as the Lord’s offering; and every man with whom was found acacia wood of any use in the work, brought it. 25 And all women who had ability spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen; 26 all the women whose hearts were moved with ability spun the goats’ hair. 27 And the leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastpiece, 28 and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense. 29 All the men and women, the people of Israel, whose heart moved them to bring anything for the work which the Lord had commanded by Moses to be done, brought it as their freewill offering to the Lord.

Bezalel and Oholiab

30 And Moses said to the people of Israel, “See, the Lord has called by name Bez′alel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; 31 and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship, 32 to devise artistic designs, to work in gold and silver and bronze, 33 in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, for work in every skilled craft. 34 And he has inspired him to teach, both him and Oho′liab the son of Ahis′amach of the tribe of Dan. 35 He has filled them with ability to do every sort of work done by a craftsman or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet stuff and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer. — Exodus 35 | Revised Standard Version (RSV) Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, and 1971 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. All rights reserved. Cross References: Exodus 12:16; Exodus 16:23; Exodus 25:1-2; Exodus 25:4-5; Exodus 25:7; Exodus 25:10; Exodus 26:1; Exodus 27:1; Exodus 27:9; Exodus 27:20; Exodus 28:3; Exodus 30:1; Exodus 30:23; Exodus 31:1-2; Exodus 31:3; Exodus 31:6; Exodus 31:10; Exodus 36:1-2; Exodus 39:1; Numbers 31:50; 1 Kings 7:14; 2 Kings 23:7; 1 Chronicles 29:9; Isaiah 54:2; Matthew 5:15; Matthew 12:4

Commentary on Exodus 35 by Matthew Henry

Key Passages in Exodus 35

1. The Sabbath 4. The free gifts for the tabernacle 20. The readiness of the people to offer 30. Bezaleel and Aholiab are called to the work

[aviatrix-ash]

Digging thru older photos rn and found this one me and my moms got the Ultra Pup home, but not before stopping at micky deez for chickey nuggies. :]

We had to modd her trailer to fit the plane and used every bit of rope and ratchet straps we could find to secure it and the surviving wing.

I'm trying to get better at welding so I can get this little guy flying again. Needs a lot of replacement tubing under the fabric skin due to some heavy rust. :']

[youssefguedira]

hate that the most easily accessible american food in this country is like. pop tarts and twinkies. and not the shit i DO crave regularly like. i don't know. kix. swiss miss. jello goddammit. in n out burger

[qqueenofhades]

What are the odds that the sub company survives this? I mean they not only got several people (very rich people whose families will cause trouble regardless of the signed waiver) killed and lost their expensive (yet still cheap) sub, but one of the guys on it was the ceo!

The stock market alone is gonna be brutal