Whooo! You must have some happy doctors!That feeling when you see the cardiologist for your annual checkup and he says "very well done!" because you've lost 42 pounds since your last visit
OT - NO POLITICS The Dog Days of Summer continue
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My wife, a vet, says no such thing....however due to the type of fur, a siberian husky is less likely than most breeds to create a problem...but not for sure
My sister has allergies and has a Sealyham Terrier. Supposedly she has hair instead of fur.
My sister has a mini goldendoodle and she's not too bad on the allergies. Sassy as all hell but she doesn't make you sneeze or itch.
My allergist put it this way to me a few months ago: Dogs roll around on the floor and outside so you're never going to have an allergy free situation but you can take allergy meds to help ease any symptoms.
I get allergy shots to control mine and they have really helped especially when I'm around the furry monsters.
Good luck in your search!
An artist friend of my sister's did this drawing (pastels) of my sister's dog. I thought it was quite good.
my mother in law has a similar dog and im ok with it. the hair is soft like human hair and i dont get sick around it.
cats are another story. i wheeze so bad around any cat.
Love the pup talk today. Sent me down the rabbit hole of old pictures and videos and now my eyes are sweating. We don't deserve dogs and they're too good to us. Love 'em all!
Whenever my mom gets a second dog I hope she's ready for the jealousy and territorial shenanigans from her 4 year old affectionately nicknamed the furry terrorist.
I love dogs but because of my work schedule have only had cats (except as a child...
had both).
I love my 2 cats but wonder about maybe getting a dog too.
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Damn my future sister in law is REALLY a piece of work. 5 kids 5 dads. Talked shit about my girl and their mom last year. Sent the nieces over to spy on us. Wasnt around for the last holidays and owes my girl alot of money
So she gets evicted like a week or so ago and manipulates my girl to let her and her kids stay with her.
I wouldnt mind but shes 40 something years old and this is like the 3rd time its happened since I been with my girl. But she has no job and doesn’t contribute. In fact her 17 year old is working and she 40 something sitting around
Proud of my girl tho for basically telling her sister she has to leave, we have stuff to do and we cant take care of her and her kids when we got our own.
Shit my 2 oldest working.
Idk just find it wild that people dont wanna work and expect to be taken care off.
So she gets evicted like a week or so ago and manipulates my girl to let her and her kids stay with her.
I wouldnt mind but shes 40 something years old and this is like the 3rd time its happened since I been with my girl. But she has no job and doesn’t contribute. In fact her 17 year old is working and she 40 something sitting around
Proud of my girl tho for basically telling her sister she has to leave, we have stuff to do and we cant take care of her and her kids when we got our own.
Shit my 2 oldest working.
Idk just find it wild that people dont wanna work and expect to be taken care off.
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When it comes to puppers mine saw a second vet. Tumor is smaller than they thought. Gonna give him meds.
He has chronic bronchitis as well
He could live another year happily
He has chronic bronchitis as well
He could live another year happily
One of the most iconic moments of my childhood was President Reagan calling for Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
Farewell to a thoroughly decent human being. Without delving into politics, I think what can safely be said is he tried his best for his country and the wider world in extremely difficult circumstances. RIP.
Here's a good random off topic post.
We have a lot of woods behind our house so I've been driving golf balls. Then there was a big black bear we saw while we were in the backyard... So usually I would go out and wander in the backwoods with a bag and pick up the golf balls I'd find. But now after seeing the bear I'm hesitant to go. At least by myself.
We have a lot of woods behind our house so I've been driving golf balls. Then there was a big black bear we saw while we were in the backyard... So usually I would go out and wander in the backwoods with a bag and pick up the golf balls I'd find. But now after seeing the bear I'm hesitant to go. At least by myself.
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Ne pas plonger!
You’ll want some sort of Terrier. I have horrible allergies so we had to choose carefully.
We settled on a rare, ancient breed terrier. My wife researched it extensively. Check out the Irish Terrier. Full-size, about 35lbs. Healthy, active, good with kids. Plus there’s 2 breeders in the Boston area and the price was reasonable. He’s been great the past 2 years since we got him.
If you are in the woods during the day (10a-3p), your chances of an encounter are lower than other times. Bring bear spray just in case, you should be good.
Baby dancing at a pow wow.
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The powwow was held to honour those who have died during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Ochapowace community.
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My boss was good enough to give me the day off so I can spend it with my sister, who rented a cottage by the beach for a week. 
Now that's a great bossMy boss was good enough to give me the day off so I can spend it with my sister, who rented a cottage by the beach for a week.
I'll be at the beach on Saturday. One last chance to enhance my tan so it sticks around until at least the end of September lol. SPF 50 applied every hour FTW.
This is BAD
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1. “MBTA’s staffing levels are not commensurate with the demand for human resources required to carry out current rail transit operations and maintenance in addition to expanding capital program activities.”
2. “MBTA has not demonstrated the organizational capacity to recruit and hire personnel to meet authorized staffing levels.”
3. “Additional resources are needed to support MBTA’s safety engineering and safety certification process for capital projects.”
4. “MBTA requires additional oversight of contractor work sites.”
Category 2: Prioritization of safety management information
5. “MBTA has not ensured that the necessary structures are in place to support effective implementation and operation of its safety management systems.”
6. “MBTA executive leadership does not receive prioritized and actionable information related to safety risks or shortcomings in safety risk mitigations.”
7. “MBTA Executive Management does not consistently ensure its decisions related to safety risks are based on safety data analysis or documented facts.”
8. “MBTA’s safety investigations and safety assurance activities do not consistently collect and analyze information on precursor factors.”
9. “MBTA’s safety risk assessment guidance as part of its Safety Risk Management is ambiguous and has led to confusion among stakeholders regarding their responsibilities and authorities, which has created delays in carrying out safety risk assessments activities.”
10. “MBTA safety information management tools (hazard log, safety risk mitigation log, etc.) do not fully support prioritization of resources to address safety risk and safety performance monitoring.”
Category 3: Effectiveness of safety communication
11. “MBTA has not established explicit and formal provisions to ensure safety information from safety committee results in a consistent outcome of documented, prioritized, and actionable safety information.”
12. “MBTA has not documented explicit and formal provisions to ensure the participation of frontline employees in local safety committees as part of their job responsibilities in relation to the agency’s safety management systems.”
13. “MBTA management has not effectively communicated clear direction to frontline employees on what to report and what not to report through the Safety Hotline.”
Category 4: Operating conditions and policies, procedures, and training
14. “Documented operating and maintenance rules and procedures are not implemented as required.”
15. “MBTA does not monitor operations, including the conditions of the operating environment, to identify the reasons for deviations between formal, established standards, rules and procedures, and actual operations and maintenance practices.”
16. “MBTA’s QA/QC program is not sufficiently independent from the activities it oversees.”
17. “Technical training for operations and maintenance departments is under-resourced and decentralized, without sufficient resources and direction, and relies significantly on on-the-job training (OJT) which is informal and lacks oversight. Emergency response training is poorly integrated into overall training program.”
18. “MBTA lacks formal resource manuals in key maintenance areas and does not currently provide employees with checklists or other tools to support training and implementation of maintenance rules and procedures.”
19. “Due to workforce turnover, MBTA’s new motorpersons and officials no longer have access to mentoring from experienced motorpersons and officials (inspectors, chief inspectors, and supervisors).”
20. “Radio quality is deficient in several key locations and does not support adequate communications between OCC and field employees to ensure the safety of MBTA operations and maintenance.”
Category 5, findings for the Department of Public Utilities: Safety oversight for MBTA’s rail transit system
21. “The DPU does not use its available resources as effectively as it could to support field observations, audits, and inspections of MBTA’s rail transit system to identify safety deficiencies and require their immediate resolution.”
22. “DPU must examine and ensure its organizational and legal independence from the MBTA.”
23. “DPU has not validated MBTA’s fatigue management approach for rail transit officials and maintenance and engineering personnel.”
24. “DPU has not demonstrated an ability to address safety issues and concerns identified during FTA’s safety management inspection.”
Category 1: Managing the impact of operations, maintenance, and capital project requirements on the existing workforce
1. “MBTA’s staffing levels are not commensurate with the demand for human resources required to carry out current rail transit operations and maintenance in addition to expanding capital program activities.”
2. “MBTA has not demonstrated the organizational capacity to recruit and hire personnel to meet authorized staffing levels.”
3. “Additional resources are needed to support MBTA’s safety engineering and safety certification process for capital projects.”
4. “MBTA requires additional oversight of contractor work sites.”
Category 2: Prioritization of safety management information
5. “MBTA has not ensured that the necessary structures are in place to support effective implementation and operation of its safety management systems.”
6. “MBTA executive leadership does not receive prioritized and actionable information related to safety risks or shortcomings in safety risk mitigations.”
7. “MBTA Executive Management does not consistently ensure its decisions related to safety risks are based on safety data analysis or documented facts.”
8. “MBTA’s safety investigations and safety assurance activities do not consistently collect and analyze information on precursor factors.”
9. “MBTA’s safety risk assessment guidance as part of its Safety Risk Management is ambiguous and has led to confusion among stakeholders regarding their responsibilities and authorities, which has created delays in carrying out safety risk assessments activities.”
10. “MBTA safety information management tools (hazard log, safety risk mitigation log, etc.) do not fully support prioritization of resources to address safety risk and safety performance monitoring.”
Category 3: Effectiveness of safety communication
11. “MBTA has not established explicit and formal provisions to ensure safety information from safety committee results in a consistent outcome of documented, prioritized, and actionable safety information.”
12. “MBTA has not documented explicit and formal provisions to ensure the participation of frontline employees in local safety committees as part of their job responsibilities in relation to the agency’s safety management systems.”
13. “MBTA management has not effectively communicated clear direction to frontline employees on what to report and what not to report through the Safety Hotline.”
Category 4: Operating conditions and policies, procedures, and training
14. “Documented operating and maintenance rules and procedures are not implemented as required.”
15. “MBTA does not monitor operations, including the conditions of the operating environment, to identify the reasons for deviations between formal, established standards, rules and procedures, and actual operations and maintenance practices.”
16. “MBTA’s QA/QC program is not sufficiently independent from the activities it oversees.”
17. “Technical training for operations and maintenance departments is under-resourced and decentralized, without sufficient resources and direction, and relies significantly on on-the-job training (OJT) which is informal and lacks oversight. Emergency response training is poorly integrated into overall training program.”
18. “MBTA lacks formal resource manuals in key maintenance areas and does not currently provide employees with checklists or other tools to support training and implementation of maintenance rules and procedures.”
19. “Due to workforce turnover, MBTA’s new motorpersons and officials no longer have access to mentoring from experienced motorpersons and officials (inspectors, chief inspectors, and supervisors).”
20. “Radio quality is deficient in several key locations and does not support adequate communications between OCC and field employees to ensure the safety of MBTA operations and maintenance.”
Category 5, findings for the Department of Public Utilities: Safety oversight for MBTA’s rail transit system
21. “The DPU does not use its available resources as effectively as it could to support field observations, audits, and inspections of MBTA’s rail transit system to identify safety deficiencies and require their immediate resolution.”
22. “DPU must examine and ensure its organizational and legal independence from the MBTA.”
23. “DPU has not validated MBTA’s fatigue management approach for rail transit officials and maintenance and engineering personnel.”
24. “DPU has not demonstrated an ability to address safety issues and concerns identified during FTA’s safety management inspection.”
Hard to believe it has been that long. I remember when I went to bed that night the first reports were that she'd been in an accident but was not thought to be seriously injured. Then I woke up the next morning.
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