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At the risk of sounding controversial, perhaps it's a gender thing? I don't know much about it but as a heterosexual female perhaps I'm naturally 'geared' towards picking up visual clues from Male faces? It would be interesting to poll it to see whether there is a gender and sexual orientation link to how accurately we read visual clues from both genders? Perhaps sexual orientation has nothing to do with it and there are familial or social connotations? Perhaps a man growing up with sisters might be better at reading female faces? I grew up with a sister and am better at males so maybe it's the opposite? Perhaps social group has a lot to do with it - I don't make friends with women easily. My social group is predominantly men so maybe that exposure makes it easier for me? I don't know but I think it would be interesting to examine patterns across the people taking the test.

Depending on what local coverage is like I may be moving there after my EE plan expires...

27. I seemed to score better on reading mens eyes than womens.

Sounds like the blanket 'Allow Google' fix has been applied which supersedes the domain specific regex. What is your reference no and I'll check with the engineer?

The more environments and roles you can expose them to the better because there are all sorts of pathways in IT and not being 'technical' doesn't have to be a barrier to progression. Service Management and Service Delivery, Change Management, etc.

See mine says the same thing but lists the ingredients liquids first. Perhaps it varies by machine. Honestly I just use mine for the messy mixing and first kneading process. Once it's proved once I usually take it out and give it a bit more bashing to improve the gluten strand formation then let it second prove.

Work experience is about experiencing what it's like to do that job. Sticking them in a stock room all day isn't representative of day to day work. Obviously they can't do the high level stuff or anything involving customer systems without supervision but if you can find them a list of 'busy work' tasks to do in between scheduled tasks it's better than giving them menial jobs all the time. So in a technical support team for example, you can't put work experience kids on actual cases, but they CAN listen to calls and they can perform an administrative role in answering the phone to customers and transferring calls to engineers. They can be given training on what to say, how to transfer calls - they're really important skills they don't learn in school. How to speak to customers in a professional way is a dying art based on the attitude of sales assistants in high street shops these days lol. You can give them a PC with virtualbox on it and set a list of tasks, although the WEK might need training - depends on their level of skill. I did my work experience at the city library and they'd planned a full schedule of various activities that gave me a full picture of what working in that environment was like. I was taught how to shelve returned books using the Dewey Decimal system, I was taught how to issue books and collect overdue fines. I spent half a day in the repair workshop learning how they repaired and rebound damaged books. I spent a day in 'the stacks' and reference collection. I went out on the book bus. I believe I spent a half a day with the buyers. It was a very full couple of weeks. Every day had repetitive tasks like shelving and issuing but these were important to the job and were interspersed with 'specialised activities'. When I went back to school people that had been placed in high street shops had largely spent the time in the stock room 'out the way' and were generally pretty disappointed with their experience. People that had gone to offices said they spent most of their time bored out of their skull doing filing and making tea. I felt bad for them. During my work experience I really felt as though I actually worked there. This should be the experience you should strive to give the WEK because as an industry sector we WANT school kids to think about working in the IT industry. We WANT them to identify an area they might want to tailor their college or uni applications towards. Having them tidy the server room for a week isn't going to do that. Have you got a list of tasks you've been putting off because you could put together a schedule that intersperses the 'daily stuff' with the 'out of the ordinary' stuff. So, for example: Monday: Install OS of choice, get machine up to date and access to the internet. Listen to support calls. Assist in repair of hardware X or involve WEK in common 'manual' tasks like making cables (both straight and crossover). The WEK should go with you to staff meetings. Tuesday: Support calls in the morning. Phone training. Answering phones to customers and transferring them to engineers. Afternoon off the phones assisting someone with Server room maintenance. Wednesday: Stock inventory and asset registration update. Thursday: Sit with second line engineers (if applicable), then spend the afternoon repairing/cleaning hardware (if this is what you do). Friday: Spend a couple of hours with Support engineers - they might be ready to answer some questions themselves. If not, listen in. Customer site visit perhaps? If you have an accommodating customer and a good relationship with your contact? It's always fun for WEKs to get to keep little things - like that 3" long patch cable they made after starting with 1m of cable and getting it wrong a lot. Or a bootable Linux USB stick they built. Work Experience isn't about having fun all the time but it does have to be representative of the work you do.

I love cosplay so much. Peoples reactions are why usually shy and retiring people get dolled up in their spray painted, foam moulded, duct taped, LED-lit, hand sewn costumes and go out into crowds of people they'd usually run a mile from. The work I put into my own cosplay outfits and the reactions I get from other cosplayers are why I keep doing it. The only slightly sour note in this story is the 'donations' bucket. This takes him from 'dedicated fan' to 'street performer' and it's a shame.

Sounds like you need Reverse proxy (I'm assuming the 365.whatever.org.uk will be used externally?). Services > Proxies > Reverse Proxy. You might need to speak to your sales representative about your licence if you don't have this feature available. Browse to that page in the interface then click 'Help' and the manual will come up in a new tab with instructions on setting up the rules.

Corsets are excellent for posture. I buy Steel boned ones and my back is never better than when I've been wearing one for a day.

OMG IS HE THAT OLD ALREADY???!!!!???? *Feeling old*

We're really good about getting wrist supports and ergonomic mice and stuff. Within reason. As long as you can justify what you want (and not because it is teh pretteh shineh) you get it. It's important to make sure your monitors are the right height. We've got a fair few different monitor height options available to us. I have mine on these robotic-looking scary arms, some of the support engineers have found these cool bolt-on stands and others use standard monitor risers. Personally I don't pay a huge amount of attention to 'you should sit like this and loop your right leg over your head' type advice. As long as I'm comfortable and not in pain that's the important thing. I had a small cubital tunnel issue that was causing me a problem, I asked for a couple of extra gel supports and a trackball mouse to give my arm and elbow support and it cleared up straight away. The back rest on my chair wasn't QUITE sticky-outy enough so I asked for a couple of Posturite support cushions and Robert is your muvvas bruvva. I also needed a footrest to adjust the angle of my legs. I paid more attention to fixing what was hurting than to 'I should be sitting like this'.

Ex-er-cise? Work-out? What are these terrifying concepts? I see many of you mention 'pain'. Clearly they are damaging to the health. I shall steer well clear.

You can't say no to this face either.

No, that doesn't sound like a crazy cat lady at all. That sounds like pretty standard cat ownership. Cat owners get to witness all the complexities of feline behaviour. People who think animals don't have feelings are wrong. They might not understand and analyse them the way we do but that doesn't mean they don't have them. I don't speak the same language as my cat but he makes it pretty obvious when he wants 'me time' and when he wants company.

I don't agree I'm afraid. Why everything you know about wolf packs is wrong Whether cats show 'Love' and 'Affection' towards humans can be debated, however we've all seen the videos of mother cats snuggling their babies and we've read stories of unrelated cats (and sometimes even males) adopting orphaned kittens. So 'Love' and 'affection' might be contentious but there is a solid argument towards 'compassion'. When Truffie died our other cat was really distressed. She'd run about the house wailing and looking in all the places Truffie used to sleep. It was heartbreaking. Truffie used to get distressed when Tigga was nowhere to be found too. So clearly they have some companionship-type relationship that means something to the animal. My young male cat, Enzo, will greet me when I get home from work and meow at me incessantly until I sit down on the sofa whereupon he'll jump up and roll about on my lap until I've petted him to his satisfaction. I'm under no illusions that this is unlikely to be 'love' in the way we understand it but clearly my companionship and attention means enough to him that he goes out of his way to solicit it. He doesn't have to. He has plenty of food freely available and he has free access to the outdoors via a cat flap. He doesn't have to 'pay for' or 'solicit' his food by showing me 'affection'. This isn't a LEARNED behaviour or cause-and-effect scenario - I don't provide his food as a result of his 'loves'. His biscuits are always available and when they're running low he'll mew at me. He is an autonomous individual who makes active choices and one of his choices is to get up on my lap and solicit 'affection'. He has plenty of beds and 'activity towers' and soft blankets in various places in the house yet he CHOOSES to sleep on the bed with me or in our bedroom on his 'upstairs' activity tower (he has two - one downstairs and one up). This is a choice he makes for himself. Perhaps the cat was behaving territorially but it is a well established fact that cats, as solitary predators, prefer 'posturing' and 'vocal' fights over physical altercations. For this cat to charge at the dog, turn sideways and knock the dog away is unusual behaviour for a cat. Most cats would puff up and hiss, spit and yowl. They wouldn't launch themselves at the dog. As a longtime cat owner my theory is that this cat has a bond with her human family (the cat is female btw). To the cat, the humans she lives with are her 'companions' and when a dog threatened her companions and entered her territory she defended both the territory and the companion with no regard to her own welfare. This was a choice she made. WHY she made that choice is impossible to determine. All we can do is speculate on why she reacted in a non-typical way. Personally I like to think that she did it out of compassion.

I had a minidisc player. One of my first 'splurges' on 'new' technology when I started earning more than just 'saturday job' money. Still have it. It still works.

Yes. The cat belongs to the family. I watched a news interview where the cat was sitting with the family. It's quite a large cat.

I saw this in my Facebook feed this morning and thought it was brilliant. The story I read said that the dog was 'under observation' but the unprovoked attack on a child like that should result in immediate destruction of the animal. I was well impressed with the way the cat launched itself bodily at the dog. You'd be surprised how strong cats can be. My cat once attacked a Spaniel (although she was suffering cat dementia at the time so her attack on the dog was totally out of character) and came off the better for it. I'd like to think Enzo would protect me and mine but he's a chicken. It'd be more likely to be our bolshy doe Rabbit or our buck - the pair of them have both chased Enzo out of the garden lol. It's lucky really that the kid got off so relatively 'lightly' - when the dog pulled him from his bike it looked like he was flinging a rag doll around.

Ahh... the halcyon days of yore.

LOL How many teachers don't know how to use acetates on overhead projectors?

Anyone puts their hand into my handbag without my permission would be lucky to walk away with the hand. Even LeBoyfriend doesn't venture into the deep dark crevasse that is my handbag. He claims something keeps biting him....

Yes, except I'm a woman playing female characters. I've never seen a person referred to by the gender of their character and I've been playing for over 10 years. When I correct peoples assumptions that I'm a man I get 'yeah, sure dude'

When you all vote me in as dictator I'm going to make it mandatory that every organisation of more than 20 staff has an onsite or nearby corporately funded childcare facility to encourage stay at home parents of both genders (LeBoyfriends brother is a stay at home dad) to return to the workplace. If all workplaces have to have them, there is no excuse for gender bias in hiring.

As a woman I am annoyed by feminism. *gasp* I'm sure I shall be tarred and feathered by the broadsheet brigade shortly. The roots of feminism and the feminist movement from the suffragettes through to equality in the workplace are not what I'm referring to (although it also annoys me that it was even needed in the first place). What gets me riled up though is the way people hide behind labels like 'Feminist' to justify their vilification of a group or thing. I don't understand why 'Equalist' even needs to be a thing. How did our society get so screwed up that we went from interdependent cave people to complete and utter subjugation of the female gender to the point where women have to FIGHT for their right to do the same things as males? As a female gamer I find myself generically irritated by the 'he' reference when gaming. People automatically assume that because I'm playing WoW I must be male. I make a point of never assuming gender when I game. Instead of saying 'He needs to XYZ' I'll say '$AVATAR/$ROLE needs to do XYZ' so 'He needs to CC the mobs' becomes 'The mage needs to polymorph that mob' or 'Pewpewmachine needs to tank the boss facing away from the raid'. I don't see why others can't adjust their thinking to do this.