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On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 the #DareToBe Tweetchat hosted by Andrea Sanchez (@asanchez16) took place
The #DareToBe topic was WISH (WISHES, WISHING, WISHED)
The following are Andrea's ten questions and my answers.
Q1: What is a wish? #DareToBe
A1. A wish is a desired want or need that is not yet fulfilled #DareToBe
Q2: Wishing is often linked to children. Why are some adults uncomfortable making them? #DareToBe
A2. This adult is NOT uncomfortable making them. I wish for a lot but I know that if I work hard I can get what I want #DareToBe
Q3: You can make your wishes come true by _______________. #DareToBe
A3. You can make your wishes come true by setting goals and working to make them come to fruition. #DareToBe
Q4: A genie has granted you three wishes. What are they? #DareToBe
A4. 1. Health for my family 2. Success in Education 3. Ability to travel on a whim #DareToBe
Q5: Have you ever had a wish come true? What was it? #DareToBe
A5. Go back to Berlin and walk where "no man's land" was. I did. #DareToBe
Q6: We've heard the phrase "dream big." Is there such thing as too big? Explain. #DareToBe
A6. One can never dream too big. One person's big is another's not so big. That's where others can come in and help make dreams come true #DareToBe
Q7: If you want something you've never had, you've got to do something you've never done. Agree/Disagree? #DareToBe
A7. True, True. I want a Ferrari, then I have to have the money to afford me the purchase. #DareToBe
Q8: Is there an unhealthy side to wishing? Elaborate. #DareToBe
A8. Too much of a good thing can be bad. In my case, all that travel would be draining and stressful #DareToBe
Q9: Wishes only work when ________________. #DareToBe
A9. Wishes only work when you work to make those wishes come true. #DareToBe
Q10: Give an example of how wishes come true all the time, even when you haven't wished them. #DareToBe
A10. When one individual is genuinely kind to another #DareToBe
Q11: Tomorrow I will dare to wish for________________. #DareToBe
A11. Tomorrow I will dare to wish for more patience, peace, and prosperity. #DareToBe
I invite you to join us on Twitter every Tuesday evening at 8PM Eastern / 7PM Central. Look for the #DARETOBE hashtag.

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Hope you're ready for the nostalgic High School Dance turn up, because G-Buck went in. He remixed the 1996 classic by Keith Sweat titled "Twisted " and turned it into a Jersey anthem. One can only hope that 6th and 7th graders will be getting down to this as well as the rest of us are, during festival season. The production in this one is so on point, featuring flawless vocal edits mixed with some lightweight bed squeak, and those funky Jersey vibes. Cheers.
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In 1993, under Andrew Cuomo (currently governor of New York), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that it would "encourage" Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to have half their loan portfolios in affordable-housing (subprime) loans. Freddie and Fannie did not take the announcement very seriously at the time. The "big event" that drove the monetary bubble being created by the Fed into the housing market was a decision made by the Clinton administration in September of 1999. Bill Clinton put teeth into and his political power behind the goal of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae having at least 50 percent of their loan portfolios in affordable housing (subprime) loans.
This was a stunning announcement. I remember it well. There was an article published in the September 30, 1999, New York Times (of all places) that raised fundamental questions about the wisdom of this strategy. Several economists pointed out that the legitimate affordable-housing market was not big enough to equal 50 percent of the giant loan portfolios of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. In order to meet this political goal of the Clinton administration, Freddie and Fannie would have to consistently lower their lending standards. In fact, one economist noted that this high level of risk taking could jeopardize the financial viability of Freddie and Fannie, and that these institutions were so big that if they failed, it could have a dramatic impact of the U.S. economy, and it could happen in ten years. Nine years later, it happened."
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Duo Dickinson: Understand New Haven's past or lose it
On the corner of Elm and Orange streets, next to the parking lot, is a limestone Deco building with a classically ornamented, slightly recessed entry.
Who knew that entry was once the exact location of a 90-foot high brownstone tower of an 1855 church — the third Episcopal parish in New Haven after Trinity on the Green and St. Paul's (now the church of St. Paul and St. James)?
What is there now (an empty bank building) will be torn down, but within that building, the preserved 1855 core of faithful construction, will soon become memory, as even the ghost architecture seen above the existing flat roof will be removed from its embalmed purgatory into non-existence.
The tower that was removed 70 years ago was part of a Gothic Revival style design by architects Willis and Dudley of New York City. The church, according to an 1855 article in the Connecticut Journal and Courier, cited by the Rev. Emeritus William Beardsley "will seat comfortably a congregation of 900 persons" and "the chancel, [which] is 125 feet [long], and the extreme width of 65 feet."
But wait. That chancel still exists. Sort of. Look closely beyond that recessed entry, and see a white clad, acute angle roof, hovering beyond. When the new St. Thomas's Episcopal Church followed New Haven development up Whitney Avenue, toward Hamden, a new church was built in 1938. The church built out the site of the 1930 Parish House, both designed by Allen Collins and Willis of Boston.
So, in 1939 the site of St. Thomas's Church became the site for the future 1948 Art Moderne building that was designed by architect R.W. Foote for the First Federal Savings and Loan Co. It made sense to recycle the Chancel into the Teller's Room, side aisles filled with teller stations and desks, the once sacred space turned fully secular.
That secular turn ultimately gave the site to Webster Bank, and now that banking is changing as much as the world of churches and religion, Spinnaker Real Estate Partners LLC and Olympia Cos. are proposing the full, final, removal of both the 1855 and 1948 constructions to create a Hilton Garden Inn. The New Haven Preservation Trust is presenting the case to the developers that before the demolition preservationists be brought in to document, and possibly save some of, the pieces and parts of the 164-year-old bones of St. Thomas's Episcopal Church.
Buildings are built as often as they are removed; demolition is a part of creation. But as the existing hybrid proves, evolution can make more sense than destruction. Clearly the plans for beds and automobiles are too standardized to accept the anomalies of affordable creative, adaptive integration of either the 1948 or 1855 realities.
There are always reasons not to do anything: especially in construction. But there is also one overriding reality: history. Whether the building is destroyed or maintained, St. Thomas's Episcopal Church is no longer part of what resulted from the inevitable transitions as our culture marches down the centuries.
But to pretend that the 1855 reality never existed is folly. The spectre of our past floats over whatever we do to create our future. If we can recognize the power of those courageous Episcopalians to create a new place for their spiritual lives simply by recording what they did, we recognize their effort.
If we turn a blind eye to what First Federal Bank preserved, for whatever motivation, we lose a chance to understand a world that has left our lives almost a century ago. Let's hope Spinnaker and Olympia see the virtues of recognizing our common humanity frozen in history.
Duo Dickinson, FAIA, a graduate of Cornell, is an architect of over 800 things and has written 8 books. He is a board member of the New Haven Preservation Trust.


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Tons of video effects. Disc authoring with lots of menu templates. Decent audio correction and content. Fast rendering performance. Cons Multi-track preview is sluggish on AMD graphics hardware. Some interface procedures less intuitive than in other apps. No 4K UHD support.
Bottom Line Corel takes the look of Avid Studio and underpins it with faster code in this full-featured, fast-performing nonlinear video editing program. The venerable video editing software has become steadily more powerful and speedier with each iteration.
Corel also develops VideoStudio video editing software , with Pinnacle positioned as the higher-end of the two product lines. It's aimed at near-professional-level enthusiasts, with excellent editing features and effects such as stop-motion video, multicam editing, and motion tracking.
Pinnacle also supports degree VR content, and its rendering speed is a top performer in our testing. This year's update focuses on color grading, screen and webcam capture, three- and four-point editing, and enhanced motion tracking and footage support.
For the veteran Pinnacle users out there, here's the short version of what's new in this year's update: New color-grading tools, including color correction, color wheels, LUTs, and a waveform scope. Three- and four-point editing, which lets you mark multiple in and out points on both the source and the timeline. Multicam with screen record as one of the angles. Improved motion tracking. More options including "tiny planet" and "rabbit hole" effects.
Motion split-screen effects. Seamless transitions using up, down, or side motion and similar-color areas like the sky to move from one shot to another seamlessly and elegantly and with custom parameters. I'll go into more detail about these new features throughout this review, but first I'll cover the basics.
In case you missed last year's improvements, they included a simplified yet more-customizable interface, a keyframe-centric editing panel, motion 3D title creation, wide angle lens distortion correction, video templates, painting effects, and morph transitions.
If you need to edit degree or 4K content, you'll need to spring for Ultimate, which also adds high-end effects from NewBlue and unlimited video tracks. It's also the only level that includes some of the new features like split-screen motion effects, seamless transitions, and all the new color-grading tools. Unfortunately, there's no free trial version of any of the Pinnacle Studio levels.
First you download a small installer stub app, which then downloads the massive full program. It's a 1. Of course, if you're editing 4K video, you need a big disk anyway.
Importing and Interface When you first run the program, you're invited to the program's new User Experience Improvement Program, which sends anonymous usage data back to the company; turning that off is straightforward, if you're not interested. Next, a dialog tells you that the Import feature lets you record and open media files.
Import takes up the full program window, which makes it easy to pick the types of importing you need, whether it's from DVD, computer folders, stop motion, snapshot, or multicam. The software can import 4K content, and you can star-rate and keyword-tag content at import, which helps you find it later. The search bar also helps you find content you haven't marked in this way, searching instead for words in the filename. A new option on the Import mode is MultiCam Capture. This opens an external app that lets you record your screen along with any webcams you have connected or built in to your PC.
You can use function keys to start and stop recording, and the tool produces separate, synced clips that you can add to your project bin.
It lets you adjust lighting and sound sources, and in my testing it worked flawlessly. Pinnacle's interface sports flat, 2D icons, and a pleasant black and gray color scheme. The program uses the concept of Project Bins, in which you stash all the content for a given movie project—clips, photos, and sound files, but not effects and transitions.
This is a common approach for pro-level apps such as Final Cut Pro X , and it's a feature that Corel's other line, VideoStudio, does not offer. The whole program window is topped by four mode-switching buttons: Home, Import, Edit, and Export. The first is simply a welcome screen offering tutorials, info on new program features, and additional assets and programs for sale. Edit mode uses the standard three-pane editor interface, with source content occupying the top-left quadrant of the screen, the preview window at the top right, and the timeline across the bottom half.
The Ultimate level allows an unlimited number of tracks, as mentioned earlier. The Plus level limits you to 24 tracks, and Standard to six. You can change the relative size of the panels, add a source-video preview, and switch the movie preview to full screen. You can pull interface panels off and change their positions, as you can in some other editors, such as Magix Movie Edit Pro. The preview window includes detailed controls, such as jog and shuttle, frame advance, and rewind.
You expand and contract the timeline either the main one or the one in the preview window with a clever mouse-drag action, but I wish there were a mouse wheel option for resizing the timeline. You can search and sort any content, which is more than I can say for some video editing programs, such as Studio's sister application, VideoStudio. Hiding and showing items by content type—video, audio, photo, and project—is simplicity itself.
There's an enormous and customizable assortment of keyboard shortcuts. For those who want the ultimate control, Pinnacle lets video editors time every kind of effect and adjustment with keyframes. Keyframing lets you evenly increase or decrease an effect over time. Once you've got a video project set up the way you want, you can save it as a template from the File menu. You specify which clips should become placeholders, which you can fill in subsequent projects with different clips.
The interface makes no specific concession to touch input, which I find useful for scrubbing, changing value sliders, and tapping control buttons. That said, scrubbing the timeline by finger did work acceptably. The software now fully supports high-resolution monitors; in testing previous versions, some elements appeared tiny on my 4K touch screen monitor, but that's no longer the case.
Rather than integrated help, you get an online PDF that's still better than Adobe's unimpressive web help, which shows info for other products and from non-staff users. In general, however, Pinnacle's interface is more accessible than those of some competing video editors. Basic Video Editing and Transitions Pinnacle uses a magnetic timeline, so any clip you drag and drop into it snaps to any existing clips, and you can turn that behavior off, if you prefer.
Dropping a clip inside another splits the original one, and a razor icon offers clip splitting, as well. The Trim Mode button or just double-clicking a join point opens a second preview window so you can see the first and second clips' states at the trim point. This is supposed to help with effecting slip and slide trims, but I find it less intuitive than the trimming windows of CyberLink PowerDirector and VideoStudio, among other apps.
New for version 22 are three- and four-point editing. You switch into this editing mode from the same button on the right side that switches among Smart Editing, Insert, Replace, and Overwrite modes. With the three-point option, you specify in and out points on the time line, and an in or out point in the source clip. This way, when you insert the clip onto the timeline it will be fit to your specification. Two new insertion buttons appear on the source window: Keep Speed and Fit to Duration.
The second of these stretches the source clip to fit the target area in the timeline. The four-point option lets you specify in and out points on both the source and the timeline. When you use that, if your source selection is longer than the spot on the timeline you've marked, you see a dialog asking whether you want to align the source clip with the beginning or end of the timeline points, and whether to trim the source or overwrite the timeline.
If you choose the Fit to Duration button, your source clip is sped up or slowed down to fit the marked area in the timeline exactly. I see how these could be useful options and less haphazard than simply dragging source onto the timeline. In particular, the time stretching to fit a marked area saves you time.
Dog-eared corners of adjacent clips let you adjust transition lengths between them. You can also enable dynamic-length transitions, or just stick with transitions of set lengths. Cross-fades are accessible right on the timeline via the transition dog ears, but the place from which you get your fancier transitions is somewhat hidden, compared with how other video editors present it. They're also not as simple to add to timeline clips, with no automatic duration option.
Sometimes I dragged a transition between clips in my testing and the app didn't add anything. There is, however, a very full selection of transitions, grouped as 2D-3D, Artistic, Alpha Magic, and more.
New for version 22 is the Seamless Transition tool, which implements an effect that's all the rage among amateur videographers. As Davonte Douglas explains in this tutorial, you don't even need software to make seamless transitions, but software can in fact make them even smoother and more impressive.
The seamless transitions in Pinnacle Studio work like any other transitions: You just drag them from the source panel down between clips. You get choices for downward, left-to-right, and upward motion between clips, along with variations for rotation during the transition. You can fine tune the motion by placing similar areas in selection boxes. The Morph transition, though not new for version 22, is still worth calling out. It lets you draw guides in the first and second videos to affect the transition.
It's not quite as impressive as Final Cut Pro X's Flow transition, which blends jump cuts—for example, you might seamlessly cut a few words or even a sentence out of a single clip of interview.
The Pinnacle Morph transition is pretty much a crossfade that lets you add blurry motion between clips. Also not new it was introduced in version 21 but still worth mentioning is the Wide-Angle Lens Correction feature. Simply double click on a source clip, and then choose that option from the top menu. There are six GoPro presets, but you can also manually adjust the geometry, making sure lines that should be straight are indeed rectilinear—an issue with GoPro's wide-angle lenses.
Motion Tracking You can get to Pinnacle Studio's Motion Tracking tool either by right-clicking on a track or by double-clicking on the clip in the timeline to open the Effects window.
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Under 14 Rugby
Our 1st & 2nd year boys travelled to Carrick on Shannon on Tuesday to take part in only their second ever schools rugby match. A fine performance by the lads was not enough against a team with a team with a lot of players from the local Carrick Rugby Club. It was a great experience and we look forward to the next two matches in this their first ever competition at this level.


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New opening hours for students
To help reduce the spread of infection we encourage all students to study from home.
However some studies require group working, so we're making sure it's possible to meet on campus at specified times. Please note this decision may change and you should stay up to date by regularly checking www.oru.se.
Please note: Everyone is urged to stay home at the slightest sign of illness.
The following now applies:
- University premises are open from Monday to Friday, 07:00 to 18:00.
- Between 18:00 and 07:00 all buildings are closed and students are required to leave.
- You can access Campus Örebro buildings on Saturdays and Sundays (07.00-18.00) by using your University Card.
- Computer rooms can be accessed all days of the week, 07:00 to 18:00.
- All university libraries are open 11:00 to 13:00, Monday to Friday. Please note they are not to be used as study locations for groups or individuals. The Medical Library's extended opening facility ('Meröppet') is closed until further notice.
- Congrego in the centre of Örebro is open 08:00 to 18:00, Monday to Thursday, and 08:00-17:00 on Fridays.
School of Music students have 24-hour access to rehearsal rooms by using their University Cards. This is because it's difficult to practise on certain instruments off-campus.
Students with placements (VFU) at the University Hospital and using changing rooms on Campus USÖ have access to Campus USÖ from 06:00 to 22:00. University Cards are needed for admission from 06:00 to 07:00, and 18:00 to 22:00.
Contact the study administrator at Campus USÖ if your placement means you need access outside of these times.
The entrances to the School of Hospitality, Culinary Arts and Meal Science on Campus Grythyttan are locked. You can use your University Card to gain access from 07:00 to 22:00.
The opening hours for 'G-huset' (G house) on Campus Örebro follow those of the Campus Gym - for more information about opening hours visit their website www.campusgymmet.se.
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Resources to help you during this crisis
If you have additional information that you would like to see added to this page, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The City of Pasadena is offering Emergency Rental Assistance. Apply online July 15 – 29 at www.cityofpasadena.net/Housing
First AME Church "Feed My Sheep" Food Bank – Fridays 9 – 11 am, 1700 N Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103. Please remember to wear masks and practice social distancing.
From Foothill Unity Center – During this health crisis, we give fresh produce & fruits, dairy products and other staples to anyone who needs it. We even have diapers for infants and food for pets. See below for the drive-thru distribution locations and times. Have persons call if they need food delivered.
City of Pasadena Food Banks & Meal Programs
Pandemic Food Assistance (P-EBT)
TESTING – Drive-thru COVID-19 Testing
Drive-thru COVID-19 testing at the Rose Bowl Stadium, Chap Care and Glendale Memorial Hospital, Mon. – Fri., 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Testing is now open to all LA County residents, with priority given to those with symptoms, essential workers, people over 65 or have chronic underlying health conditions or people in institutional congregate living settings. Pre-registration is REQUIRED. To sign up and find locations, visit https://covid19.lacounty.gov/testing
Anyone uninsured and eligible to enroll in health coverage through Covered California can sign up for health plans through June 30. In addition, the state has taken new steps to help make sign up easy so you can get immediate coverage. Medi-Cal enrollment is year round.
All medically-necessary screening and testing for COVID-19 are free of charge. All health plans available through Covered California and Medi-Cal offer telehealth options to minimize in-person medical visits at this time.
Those interested in enrolling in Covered California or Medi-Cal health plans can:
- Visit www.CoveredCA.com.
- Get free and confidential assistance over the phone, in a variety of languages, from a certified enroller.
- Have a certified enroller call them and help them for free.
- Call Covered California at (800) 300-1506.
Also, our very own Richard Horton is offering to enroll anyone interested and in need of health insurance, through phone and email. His phone number is 949-226-4828.
The California EDD will begin paying an additional $600, with the extra money coming from the federal CARES Act.
Unemployment Information – CA Employment Development Department (EDD)
File an Unemployment Claim (CA EDD)
Frequently Asked Questions: CA EDD has an FAQ page that answers questions about
- disability and paid family leave
- unemployment benefits for self-employed, independent contractors, gig workers
- possible benefits for those affected because of child care needs
- employer information
CARES Assistance for American Workers & Families
The federal government has announced that distribution of economic impact payments will be done automatically, with no action required for most people. However, some taxpayers who typically do not file returns will need to submit a simple tax return to receive the economic impact payment.
IRS Economic impact payments: What you need to know
As of March 17, 2020, the city of Pasadena enacted a moratorium on eviction for non-payment of rent by tenants impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This prohibits landlords from evicting residential tenants for non-payment of rent due to financial impacts of COVID-19. Please see details on the City's website.
Pasadena has issued a "Safer at Home" order, closing "non-essential" businesses and services, and limits the number of people who can gather to less than 10. Grocery stores, banks, convenience stores, pharmacies and health care providers will still be open. Closed are bars, gyms, city offices, schools, public libraries, and city recreation centers. Restaurants are limited to takeout, delivery or drive-thru service. Outdoor activities are allowed as long as you practice social distancing and remain at least six feet apart. Details available in this helpful article from Pasadena Now.
City of Pasadena "Safer At Home: What You Need to Know"
City of Pasadena Face Covering Order
Pasadena Small Business Development Center (SBDC) webinar covering overview of the CARES Act and SBA Relief Funds for small businesses. video and presentation
Disaster Assistance Loans now available to LA County small businesses economically impacted by COVID-19
Covid19 Poster CA Public Health
COVID Prevention Guidelines from CDC
There are currently a lot of scams out there – attempts to sell you a bogus treatment or a false test, or attempts to obtain your credit or personal information. Do not give anyone your personal information, and avoid any suspicious COVID-19 email or text links.
Anyone with information regarding a COVID-19 scam should call Pasadena Police at 626-744-4241. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.
Detailed warning on the City's website
Additional detailed information was shared by the White House Director of Strategic Partnerships & African American Outreach. This details page contains links to many federal government resources.


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Student Academy Awards 2015 (OSCARS) Competition Announcement
The 42nd annual Student Academy Awards competition is now open. As we have for the past 35 years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is pleased to invite the Film and Television Academies of the International Liaison Center of Schools of Cinema (CILECT) to participate.
Each CILECT member school is invited to enter one student production for consideration in the Foreign Film Award category. Up to three medals (gold, silver, bronze) will be awarded to the top films as judged by active members of the Academy. In addition to receiving a cash grant, the winning filmmakers will be flown to Los Angeles to participate in the various industry-related activities we have planned for the Student Academy Awards week. This will culminate with the annual Student Academy Awards Ceremony on Friday September 18th.
The deadline for entries is June 1, 2015. All submissions must be done online through the FilmFreeway.com submission platform. The competition rules and instructions as well as a link to the online submission portal are available from our website at www.oscars.org/saa. If you have any questions, please contact Shawn Guthrie at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The average national rent reached $1,474 at the end of December, according to RentCafe's Year-End Rent Report released Wednesday.
The increase comes on the heels of the slowest annual rise in the past 17 months, 3 percent. According to apartment rent data from Yardi Matrix, rental rates also displayed a slower yearly growth at the end of 2019 than in the previous year, when they went up by 3.2 percent. In net dollars, renters are now paying $43 more per month for an apartment than they did in December 2018.
By comparison, in the previous year, they saw a $45 rent hike compared to 2017.
The national average rent also saw two consecutive monthly dips, declining by a slight 0.1 percent in both November and December. Only 3 percent of cities saw apartment rents increase since November.
In New Jersey, almost every city analyzed saw rents go up over the year, and a handful had rents jump more than 5 percent.
Here are the most important changes in the Garden State's rental market at the end of 2019.
Irvington saw a whopping 20 percent rent increase over the year – the highest in the state. At the end of the year, apartments here reached an average rent of $1,134. At the other end of the spectrum, West New York rents dropped 4 percent, reaching $2,406.
Not once dethroned in 2019, Hoboken closed the year with the highest rents in New Jersey – $3,515. It is followed from a distance by Edgewater, where the average rent clocked in at $3,173 in December.
Over the year, the rent in Jersey City saw a mild increase – 0.8 percent, or $22 –, hitting $2,930. Newark rents are among the more affordable in the state at an average $1,222, although they saw a 3.8 percent annual growth.
The average rent in Paterson reached $1,259 after a 3 percent increase over the year, while Elizabeth apartments ended the year at the price of $1,295, jumping 5 percent compared to December 2018.


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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- Auteur(s): Robert A. Caro
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 66 h et 9 min
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Everywhere acknowledged as a modern American classic, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest books of the 20th century, The Power Broker is a galvanizing biography revealing not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York in the 20th century.
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- The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- Auteur(s): Robert A. Caro
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
The most incredible book I have ever read
Évalué le: 2018-09-19
I randomly heard this book brought up on a podcast and I thought I would check it out. When I saw how long it was I was shocked - it would be the longest book I had ever listened to but I figured I'd give it a shot, even if I was unlikely to finish it.
I was less than an hour into the book when I knew definitively that this is one of the best books I have ever listened to. I not only went on to devour the book, but I also have started listening to the other Robert Caro books which are on Lyndon Johnson. They are equally amazing. I could not recommend this or any other Robert Caro book more. #Audible1


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It was a Philly takeover this past weekend here at Drai's Nightclub as we officially hosted Kevin Hart's birthday with a special performance from our very own Trey Songz, as well as Meek Mill's highly-anticipated residency debut at the world-famous Drai's LIVE stage! With a weekend as stacked as this one, it was another sold out Friday and Saturday evening as the rooftop Las Vegas nightclub was once again the hottest destination to be. Plenty of special guests came out to party, with a number of NBA players in town for Summer League including LaMarcus Aldridge, Chris Paul, Patrick Beverly, J.R. Smith, James Harden, John Wall and more. NFL players Shaquem and Shaquill Griffin, Will Gay and Bryan McFadden were spotted, as well as German soccer stars Jerome Boateng and Julian Draxler. Artist sightings include Nelly, Fabolous, Pusha T and Machine Gun Kelly!
The vibes were amazing from start to finish Friday night, as fans and partygoers from all over came out to celebrate the birthday of Kevin Hart! Kevin came in early with close friends and family to hang out at the stageside VIP, popping drinks, laughing, dancing and having a blast. He got up on stage to greet fans and to share some laughs with everyone: "It's my birthday, I'm having a good time! Looks like a movie in here at Drai's, I'm feelin' myself! I want y'all to turn up for my birthday. I'm 39 and I didn't even start yet, I'm just getting started!" Drai's resident Nelly was also seen hanging behind the stage, and couldn't help but surprise the birthday boy on stage — this is where Kevin requested "E.I." to be played as people cheered on, with Nelly getting on the mic for a few verses! Trey's official drummer Amadeus was on the drums as well, killing it as always.
It was then time for Trey Songz to perform, starting with "Say Aah" dedicated to Kevin Hart and all the birthday people in the building, laughing and joking with one another on stage as screams filled the entire venue! Trey was just on point as always, impeccably singing hits "Na Na," "Touchin, Lovin," "Two Reasons" and more with all the beautiful ladies singing along! Trigga also brought out classics "Dive In," "Neighbors Know My Name" and "One Love," with Kevin coming back on stage to "assist" him with the singing to everyone's amusement. They both closed the epic Friday night with "Bottoms Up," with shots being handed out to the dance floor. "Make some noise right here for my man, Chocolate Droppa, Kevin Hart!" A special birthday presentation was on hand as well on stage, with an incredible custom cake for Kevin Hart to cap off the night! Nelly then joined them back on stage, wishing Kevin Hart a very happy birthday and keeping the festivities going all night long!
Anticipation was in the air Saturday evening, with people eagerly making their way in to see Meek Mill's grand return to the Drai's LIVE stage — it didn't take long for this night to sell out! Meek started his debut off with "Millidelphia" from his just-released EP Legends of the Summer, proudly repping his hometown of Philadelphia. Y'all ready to have a good time, make some noise! What's going on at Drai's tonight, let's go!" as he transitioned into arguably one of the most hype anthems of all time, "Dreams and Nightmares" — it was pure insanity from there as everyone just turned up to another level, you just had to be here to really know! Meek's stage presence was a force to be reckoned with, amping the crowd up as he performed countless hits like "I'm a Boss," "On the Regular," "Glow Up" and more. He shouted out plenty of special guests and NBA stars in the building: "Pusha T, we got Fab in the building one time! Shout out to CP3, sixth man of the year Lou Williams, James Harden in the building, what up MVP!" He didn't leave the ladies out, performing "Whatever You Need" to screams left and right! "Drai's put your twos up, if you having a good time make some noise! I'm trying to have some fun tonight, what's up!" Meek Mill concluded his show with Wins & Losses hits "1942 Flows" and "Save Me," with his many fans rapping to every single word — truly impressive! Don't miss his next appearance here at Drai's Nightclub on Saturday, July 21! Click here to purchase tickets.


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But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.
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"This is part of Santos' strategy of acquiring international assets with growth potential through reservoir optimisation and exploration. The area's proximity to infrastructure creates a favourable environment for creating economic value since production can be established quickly," Santos managing director, Mr John Ellice-Flint said.
Santos USA will acquire an estimated proved and probable reserves of 15.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 700,000 barrels of liquids, including 200,000 bbls of natural gas liquids and 500,000 bbls of condensate.
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Although historical fiction is my passion, I find that whenever I am stressed out I resort to the calming embrace of vintage crime. This may seem odd to a few of you but I find few things as soporific as a good Christie novel or film. In fact, rather embarrassingly, for the weeks that preceded the vile moving house experience, I watched NOTHING but the ITV Marple adaptations on repeat while locked away in our bedroom.
Now, purists may well loathe and detest the ITV series but I happen to love it with a passion even if they can be cringe inducingly awful at times and play fast and loose with the original plot by changing the identity or motivation of the murderer, adding peculiar subplots or even shoehorning Miss Marple into stories that she has no business being in. I still love them though for their vibrancy and kitschy glamour. In fact I am watching At Bertram's Hotel right now and loving it.
My other big passion is, of course, the novels of Georgette Heyer so it was inevitable that sooner or later I would have a break from her Regency novels and give her mystery novels a whirl and if you are a fan of both Christie and Heyer as well then I'd recommend you do so as well, unless of course you already have.
Heyer's murder mysteries have a dark sparkle that is missing from Christie's works but if you are a fan of her Regency novels then the language employed by her characters can be more than a bit disconcerting as they tend to speak in the exact same way, using the same idiom and slang. Except these aren't the dashing habitués of Regency London speaking, but their 1930's descendants who motor down to the country at weekends, work in respectable and well qualified professions in the city or law and like nothing better than a dinner with chums at their clubs.
You'll find echoes of her Regency characters here too – in A Blunt Instrument (1938), there is an estranged but secretly madly in love married couple who would later inspire Nell and Cardross in April Lady (1957).
'Tell me this, Helen; would you have married me if I had not been a rich man?' – A Blunt Instrument.
'Had I not been possessed of a large fortune, you wouldn't have married me, would you, Nell?' – April Lady.
Anyway, so far in this spree of well bred crime and debonair iniquity, I have read: A Blunt Instrument (very good and extremely amusing in places); Death in the Stocks (also very good although you can spot the killer a mile off); Footsteps in the Dark (less good but has some good moments) and am now half way through Why Shoot a Butler? (I'm not sure that I am enjoying this one to be honest but I'll persevere). I still have quite a few to go but am having a break after Why Shoot a Butler? to read I Remember You by Harriet Evans and Daisy Goodwin's My Last Duchess. I'll be reviewing them all when I'm done.
In summary, if you enjoy Christie and Heyer then you'll probably enjoy these books – especially if you absolutely delight in Heyer's dry humour, excellent use of language and sparkly characterisation. Ever wondered what the delightful Freddy from Cotillion would be like if he was a washed up 1930s alcoholic? You'll find out in Death in the Stocks...
Of course all of this makes excellent preparation for tomorrow when I will be spending the day pretending to be a 1930's housewife for Proctor and Gamble! There's even going to be video evidence of me doing my chores! Gosh golly.
Also, if you're intrigued by snippets of my novel about Marie Antoinette, you may like to know that it is currently £1.72 on Amazon UK and $2.74 on Amazon US.


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Tom and Matt rode the Alpe d'Huez to get a feel for what the climb is really like. It's famous for its role in the Tour de France, with every hairpin being named after a winner on the climb.
On our way up we visited Dutch Corner and experienced the full range of Alpine weather conditions.
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Allow Global Templates
As I understand it, templates are only held at a specific user registration level.
For our (enterprise) app this makes life difficult, as I now need to register a large number of templates to a large number of registrations, and worse keep this in sync as templates are changed.
It would work better in our scenario to have 'global' templates ready in the hub (referenced by name), then send a message to whatever tags, specifying the template desired.
Under this scenario we would handle any personalisation via the back end app - using either tags or other means (I'm either interested in a meaningful 'artifact' - e.g. corporate account within the enterprise or not)
This seems to reduce flexibility (in our use case at least): as I want the platform agnostic send and templating features (awesome stuff we don't have to write/maintain ourselves!), but without duplicating the templates across every user or having to keep the notification hub informed of every possible combination of device:template.
I currently get the impression I have to either re-do that stuff, or use it but try to 'work around' the bits of the feature I don't want.
We are working on a design for global templates.
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Today, the Azure Notification Hub delivers notifications on a wide range of platforms. However, it will be great if Azure provided the feature for users to configure templates for notification topics. The user should be able to configure the same template for push notifications for multiple channels or have separate templates for each channel


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Background Gonorrhoea can rapidly develop resistance to antimicrobials and treatment options are becoming depleted. Treatment guidelines require robust estimates of the prevalence of resistance but sentinel surveillance systems may not be representative nationally.
Objective To investigate the effectiveness of the sentinel Gonococcal Resistance to Antimicrobials Surveillance System (GRASP) at estimating resistance prevalence in England and Wales.
Methods Annual cross-sectional data on reported gonorrhoea diagnoses between 2000 and 2008 were compared between GRASP (26 clinics) and national mandatory (KC60) reporting (229 clinics). Resistance prevalence estimates in GRASP were weighted according to the national distribution of relevant patient characteristics: age group, gender, sexual orientation and geographical region. Trends in actual and weighted estimates were plotted.
Results Gonorrhoea cases reported through GRASP were more likely to be from London and to be men who have sex with men (MSM) and were less likely to be women and heterosexual men than those reported through KC60. Weighting for national distributions of demographic characteristics reduced estimates of resistance prevalence, particularly ciprofloxacin in 2006 (27% to 21%). Emerging resistance to cefixime in 2008 was reduced from 1.5% to 1.0%. Weighting did not adjust resistance prevalence above or below the 5% threshold for any antimicrobial.
Conclusions Although over-representing MSM and under-representing women and heterosexual men, GRASP has provided reliable estimates of resistance prevalence in England and Wales. However, weighting for the national distribution of patient characteristics should be considered in future. As resistance usually emerges in MSM, enhanced surveillance of high-risk populations could enable development of more tailored (and therefore optimal) treatment strategies.
- Gonorrhoea
- surveillance
- antimicrobial resistance
- epidemiology (general)
- chlamydia trachomatis
- syphilis
- vaginal infections
- STD surveillance
- laboratory diagnosis
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GRASP steering group
Professor Catherine Ison, Dr Catherine Lowndes, Ms Leah de Souza-Thomas, Dr Stephanie Chisholm, Mr John Anderson, Mrs Elisabeth Maclure-Webster, Dr Alan Johnson, Professor George Kinghorn, Dr David Livermore, Dr Rohinton Mulla, Mr Tom Nichols, Dr Angela Robinson, Professor Jonathan Ross, Dr Jim Wade, Dr Christopher Bignell, Dr Kirstine Eastick and Dr John Paul.
GRASP collaborative Group
EAST MIDLANDS: Dr M Minassian, Dr L Riddell, Dr V Weston, Dr C Bignell; EAST of ENGLAND: Dr M Farrington, Dr C Carne, Dr R Mulla, Dr T Balachandran. LONDON: Dr B Azadian, Dr K McLean, Dr A McOwan, Dr F Boag, John Hunter Clinic, Dr D Krahe, Dr M Nathan, Ms M Graver, Dr M Tenant-Flowers, Dr R Holliman, Dr P Hay, Dr A Jepson, Dr L Green, Dr B MacRae, Dr A Robinson, Dr S Bragman, Dr J Russell, Dr J Wade, Dr P Riley, Dr E Jungmann NORTH EAST: Prof. J Magee, Dr K N Sankar NORTH WEST: Dr T Neal, Dr P Carey, Dr A Qamruddin, Dr A Sukthankar, Dr J Anson SOUTH EAST: Dr J Paul, Dr G Dean, Dr A Stacey, Dr G Wildman, Dr M Cubbon, Dr A Tang SOUTH WEST: Dr R Spencer, Dr P Horner, Dr M Logan, Dr Z Sulaiman, Dr M Williams, Dr A Lees WALES: Dr R Howe, Dr H Birley. Dr E Kubriak, Dr R Das. WEST MIDLANDS Dr M Gill, Dr J Ross, H Jones, Dr J Gray, Dr D Dobie, Dr A Tariq YORKSHIRE & HUMBERSIDE: Dr M Denton, Dr J Clarke, Dr P Zadik, Dr G Kinghorn.
Funding GRASP has been funded totally (2000–2004) and partially (2005–2010) by the Department of Health (England). The views expressed in the publication are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Department of Health.
Competing interests None.
Ethics approval GRASP and KC60 are national public health surveillance systems run by the Health Protection Agency (HPA). The HPA has permission to handle these data under section 251 of the NHS Act 2006 (previously section 60 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001), renewed annually by the Ethics and Confidentiality Committee of the National information Governance Board. When GRASP was first established, ethics permission was obtained from local regional research committees and from the North West multicentre research ethics committee. Patients were informed of the study at the participating site through written notices.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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Virtual, drive-in and small gathering graduation ceremonies are permitted while traditional ceremonies are banned in Ohio. Full list of regulations here.
Area schools are looking beyond traditional means to honor their graduating seniors.
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- Beavercreek City School District: Graduation has been rescheduled for June 25 at the Nutter Center, but will only happen if guidelines allow large gatherings. The district is looking for alternative options to accommodate seniors and their families.
- Bellbrook High School: Graduates will be assigned a time slot to report to Bellbrook High School with no more than 5 members of their family where they will walk across the stage in their cap and gown May 16. Parents will present them with their diploma cover and a rose. Official diplomas and/or paperwork can be picked up before exiting the building through the side doors. Footage from the event will be used to create a virtual graduation ceremony including music and speeches.
- Bethel High School: Seniors will sign up for a 10-minute time slot to walk across the stage of Bethel Hall and receive their diploma. Each part will be video taped and put into a senior slideshow and added to the district's YouTube channel on Saturday, May 23, at 3 p.m. At 6 p.m., the school invites seniors to come to the school and line up in their cars for a parade.
- Carlisle Local School District: A virtual graduation ceremony will take place Saturday, May 23, at noon. During the week of May 11, the school will be filming each gradate walking across the stage, being announced, and collecting their diploma. All administrative and student speeches will also be filmed. Each video will be put together to create the virtual ceremony.
- Carroll High School: Each student is permitted to bring up to six family members with them when they receive their diplomas and special awards at the high school. Videographers and photographers will be documenting each moment and recording all speeches so a video can be put together. The process will take place over the course of two to four days.
- Centerville City School District: A Senior Drive Out parade will begin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 30. Students must remain in their own vehicle. Family members may ride along. Virtual commencement will be 7 p.m., Monday, June 1. The event will be available through a link on the district's website, www.centerville.k12.oh.us. The Centerville-Washington Twp. community is invited to turn on their outdoor lights at 7 p.m. to "shine a light" on the seniors' accomplishments.
- Dayton Public Schools: Diploma parades, by vehicle, will be held for graduating seniors June 1 through 6 at Welcome Stadium. Students will drive or be driven through a gathering of teachers holding signs and cheering. At the end of the line, the senior will receive their diploma and have a photo taken. Only one graduate per vehicle. The parades will go rain or shine. Pre-recorded commencement ceremonies, complete with speeches from classmates, the superintendent and the school board will be provided to students along with copies of their graduation photo.
- Eaton Community Schools: Graduation has not yet been cancelled for Eaton seniors. Graduation is planned for May 30. If it is held as planned, social distancing guidelines and a limited guest list will be put in place. If this is not possible, an in-person ceremony for June or July will be planned with social distancing measures. Virtual graduation is the school's last option.
- Fairborn City Schools: There are no definite plans yet following DeWine's press conference Tuesday.
- Franklin High School will hold a virtual graduation June 5 at 7 p.m. In addition to the virtual ceremony, a gallery of graduates will be May 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Franklin Community Park "drive-thru style." If allowable, they plan to hold an in-person celebration at Atrium Stadium at the Franklin Community Park July 30 at 7 p.m.
- Graham High School: A graduation video to be shared through YouTube on the school's website, Facebook and Twitter accounts will be released May 28. The district is holding Aug. 1 for the formal graduation exercise in the football stadium at 3 p.m. if guidelines allow for mass gatherings.
- Greenville City Schools: Greenville High School is planning a virtual ceremony.
- Kettering City School District: Kettering seniors will be part of a virtual commencement and an in-person ceremony to be held July 25 at Roush Stadium. Social distancing guidelines may play a role in what the July ceremony will look like.
- Lebanon High School: There will be online ceremony on Saturday, May 16, at 6 p.m., shown on Channel 6 (Lebanon) as well as Facebook. A link will be provided. The school still has July 31 reserved at the Nutter Center should social distancing guidelines be relaxed and in-person gatherings are permitted.
- Miamisburg High School: An in-person, drive-up ceremony will be held at Holland Field on Saturday, May 23, at 10:30 a.m. Each family will drive up and the graduate will enter the stadium to hear their name, receive their diploma and stand for pictures. A more traditional virtual ceremony, with music and addresses, will be offered online May 29.
- Northmont City Schools: Northmont High School's ceremony will be May 16 and 17. Each graduate and up to four family members will enter the school at an appointed time. The graduate will walk onto the stage for their diploma and pictures. At that time, the graduate and family will take a "Last Walk" down Northmont's Thunderbolt Way and proceed out the doors and to their vehicle. A video of all the seniors will be compiled at a later date.
- Oakwood High School: There will be a virtual commencement Tuesday, May 26, at 7 p.m. The ceremony will be streamed live on YouTube and via the district's website.
- Piqua City Schools: Piqua is considering three options for graduating seniors: receiving a diploma in the mail, scheduling an appointment to walk the stage, receive a diploma and take pictures, or a possible in-person, socially distanced graduation in July.
- Sidney High School: A live graduation with social distancing, restrictions on number of tickets, and a live video stream of the ceremony is scheduled for June 20. If the live graduation is unable to proceed on that date, the school is preparing to hold a virtual graduation on June 20.
- Springboro Schools: More information to come.
- Springfield City School District: Springfield seniors will schedule time to walk across the stage in the gym. Temperatures will be taken before coming into the building and social distancing guidelines are to be followed.
- Stebbins High School (Mad River Local Schools): Plans are for an in-person ceremony on Thursday, May 21. Families will wait in their cars in the parking lot. Each student will be limited to two guests. Administrators will call the families into the auditorium one at a time so graduates can walk across the stage to get their diplomas. Graduates then will get to take a final walk through the school's halls. The ceremony will be presented via live stream on Facebook. Jamee Ranta, a Stebbins High School alum who is now a music video producer in Los Angeles, will put together a video of the ceremony. Ranta also is donating 300 masks featuring the school's logo for students to wear on graduation day.
- St. Henry Schools: A virtual graduation will be followed by the passing out of diplomas in a drive-thru manner.
- Troy City School District: Troy High School has received permission from public health to hold a graduation ceremony at Hobart Arena on May 23. Each family will be given a time frame for when their individual ceremony will take place. Four family members will be allowed to accompany the student. The students will each have the opportunity to walk across the stage, hear their name and receive their diploma. The ceremony will be live-streamed on YouTube and made into a video.
- Waynesfield-Goshen Local Schools: A drive-thru graduation will be May 17 at 2 p.m. The school will organize seniors into a single line by order of diploma in the front parking lot. Once each vehicle pulls up, the senior will step out and a board member will hand the senior their diploma. The school will broadcast the ceremony on Facebook Live. Additionally, a radio link will be established so everyone in line can listen if they don't have Facebook. A formal ceremony or recognition will be planned for a later date.
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Eric Fox has managed UD4H's Geographic Information System (GIS) data development as a principal member of the data analysis team for over 8 years since starting in 2010. His primary responsibilities include scenario planning tool development, spatial data analysis, database construction, network analysis, cartography, spatial statistics and project management support. Before coming to UD4H, he worked as a Mobile Mapping Operator at Tele Atlas in British Columbia, Alberta and the Northwest Territories supporting a large scale multi-view road imagery and mapping data acquisition. Eric holds a master's degree in Planning from the University of British Columbia with a concentration in Transportation and Land-Use Planning. He previously earned a bachelor's degree in Geography with a focus in Spatial Information Science and also has a certificate in Spatial Information Systems: GIS & Remote Sensing as well as Urban Studies from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Eric is originally from Vancouver, British Columbia where he currently resides.


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CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwired - Jun 17, 2014) - Ohio National is pleased to announce that Nancy A. Dalessio is joining the organization as executive vice president and chief administrative officer, effective July 14.
Dalessio has more than 30 years of senior leadership positions in the financial services industry, including senior vice president and executive officer of information systems and technology. She also has executive level experience in investment technology and operations, human resources and corporate facilities. Most recently, she was senior vice president and chief information officer of Ameritas, headquartered in Lincoln, Neb.
"We are thrilled to welcome Nancy Dalessio to Ohio National," said Gary T. "Doc" Huffman, chairman, president and chief executive officer. "Nancy has an exceptional level of knowledge about financial services and the need to provide the highest level of service and security to our policyholders."
Dalessio has been serving as a strategy consultant to Huffman and Ohio National leadership since January.
During the next six months, Dalessio will be working closely to transition operations currently reporting to Howard C. Becker, CLU, ChFC, prior to his planned December retirement. Becker, a 36-year associate of Ohio National, has been executive vice president since 2011 and chief administrative officer since 2008.
"It is imperative that our company provide an exceptional level of service and the strongest possible delivery platforms for our agents and clients," Dalessio noted. "Ohio National is extremely well positioned, and I am looking forward to helping our company meet the exciting opportunities ahead."
Dalessio will be responsible for the insurance operations area, the solutions group and the information technology department. Reporting to Dalessio will be Richard J. Bodner, ACS, CIOP, senior vice president, insurance operations, and Traci Nelson, vice president and program manager.
A graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Dalessio has more than 20 years experience at MassMutual Financial Group, eight years as a technology consultant, and five years at Ameritas.
Tracing its corporate origins to 1909, Ohio National markets a variety of insurance and financial products through more than 50,000 representatives in 47 states (all except Alaska, Hawaii and New York), the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and through affiliated operations in South America. Additional subsidiaries operate in New York and Connecticut. As of Dec. 31, 2013, its affiliated companies have $38.8 billion total assets under management. Products are issued by The Ohio National Life Insurance Company and Ohio National Life Assurance Corporation and National Security Life & Annuity Company in New York. Named Cincinnati's "#1 Top Workplace" (large category) by the Enquirer Media (June 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014). Ohio National has more than 1,000 associates. Visit www.ohionational.com for more information.
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Whether you're a business owner, investor or member of the workforce, the economy is more than likely always in the back of your mind.
Although the United States' economic situation now may be statistically strong and stable, the decade-old recession still looms. As such, we're constantly thinking about not only where we've been as workers, but where we're going.
And just as the economy has made a significant tick upward since then, the state of the American workforce has changed significantly as well.
From the makeup of the average American worker to significant economic trends, we've highlighted three big-picture pointers for both business owners and investors to understand. The following represent key factors in what's spurring the workforce and likewise what deserves the public's attention.
The Impact of Immigration
As highlighted by Remitly, 17% of the overall U.S. workforce was made up of immigrants in 2017. This number is the highest in decades in terms of immigrant representation, with the top three countries of origin for such workers being Mexico, India and the Philippines.
Although there exists a stereotype of immigrants working low-skill jobs, the fact remains that such workers cover a diverse variety of roles and industries including IT, healthcare and sales in addition to manual labor.
Settling down throughout the country, this rise in immigrant workers speaks to the sheer diversity of the American worker in terms of backgrounds and relevant experience. While legislative battles over the state of immigration in the United States remain a hot-button issue, the contributions of these workers are well-documented.
The Challenges of Women in the Workforce
With the prominence of female CEOS such as Mary Barra and Ginni Rometty, conventional wisdom would tell us that society is making significant progress in terms of women in the workforce.
However, working women still face many challenges as participation has in fact fallen and stagnated since the new millennium. Why? Consider issues such as…
- Lack of guaranteed paid maternity leave
- Wage gap and wage disputes based on education level
- Societal expectations for women to drop out of the workforce in the case of motherhood, a family member needing care and so on
While some of these challenges are up for debate and remain rather controversial in terms of the wage gap, the numbers don't lie in terms of the downward trend of female participation. Whether or not this trend will continue remains to be seen.
The Remote Work Revolution
Finally, consider that approximately 4 million people work from home at least half-time in the United States. Foregoing the traditional nine-to-five grind and commute, consumers and companies alike are cozying to the idea of workers getting down to business beyond the office walls.
This represents a huge consideration for current brick and mortar space as well as prospective business owners looking to set up shop. The lack of investing in a location is a game-changer for businesses, as is the emerging technology which makes doing work remotely easier than ever. That said, making the transition is undoubtedly a challenge for those already in business.
One thing is crystal clear: there's no denying the diversity of the American workforce between booming immigrant labor, a changing social climate for women and the rise of remote work. We'll have to play a good old-fashioned game of "wait and see" to understand where these trends are going and how they'll continue to impact the economy at large.


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…to Dulles one day. Or so says this big poster in one of the airport hallways. Yes, the creaky old people-movers will one day be only a memory. Replaced by Jetsons-like pods that whisk us along, circa, oh 1985 in any other modern airport.
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Focus on Three Areas to Stay Ahead of Competition
Q:I believe we lack focus on hitting goals at my business. We're great at reacting to problems in the moment, and I think sometimes we wait for crisis to strike so we can react to it. If I were to set a few areas of focus for the next year, what are the most critical areas?
A:The restaurant business is full of skilled firefighters. Restaurant workers are wonderful at problem solving on the fly and marvelous at handling multiple responsibilities to run a great shift. Since most managers and owners in entry level positions are themselves experienced firefighters, it's no wonder planning and organizing work is a major opportunity for improvement in the industry. Consider these three areas of focus for the upcoming year:
Retain your top people.
As unemployment stretches toward historic lows, turnover rates are near record highs. According to TDn2K, the average turnover cost for one hourly employee is approximately $2,100. Turning over a staff of 50 people in a year could cost a business $105,000.
A recent study by Gallup showed only 31 percent of restaurant workers are engaged, with 49 percent not engaged and 21 percent actively disengaged. According to Gallup, companies with higher levels of employee engagement have lower levels of turnover and better profitability.
High-level, engaged performers require high-level management and care. They want specific performance feedback, the right tools to do the work right, growth opportunities, to be heard and, perhaps most importantly, they want great people around them.
When top performers are challenged, their performance improves. When they're not challenged, they leave. Having solid co-workers and working on a winning team spurs a superior work environment and improves retention and , ultimately, greater sales and profit.
Increase productivity in every position.
Another benefit of higher employee engagement is better performance. Gallup reports 17 percent higher productivity, 41 percent lower absenteeism and 20 percent higher sales with higher engagement.
One common complaint about restaurant workers today is lower productivity. Most restaurants run productivity at plus or minus 65 percent. Set a goal for the next year to move that to 85 percent or higher. This will take careful planning and excellent management.
Mathematically, it makes sense to gave fewer, highly productive employees who are paid more. For example, if Employee #1 is paid $16 ore hour and produces at 65 percent productivity, the effective rate is $24.61/hour. Meanwhile, Employee #2 is paid $18 per hour but produces at 85 percent productivity, an effective rate of $21.18/hour. It's more economical to have a higher paid workforce with higher productivity provided the size of the business can accommodate the rates.
Imagine if 30 minutes of side work or closing work was completed 20 percent faster. That's a six minute savings times the number of employees time 360 days per year. With 20 people, that's two hours per day or about $10,000-$12,000 per year saved for a single task. Apply the same math to the length of shift, and the money really starts to add up.
Be militant about the public safety.
Protecting the public and your employees is priority number one for a business owner. We've seen several E. coli and norovirus outbreaks over the last couple of years, and they can be devastating to a business.
Depending on the type of outbreak, the sales declines will be severe, ranging from 20 to 35 percent decrease during the first quarter, 10 to 20 percent second quarter, 10 to 15 percent third quarter and 5 to 12 percent fourth quarter. It takes an additional six months after that to get back to sales prior to the incident.
Be sure that everything that touches the gets is sanitary including tabletops, chairs and condiments on the table. Bathrooms must be spotless. Educate employees to stay home if they are ill and send them home if they come to work sick. In addition, step up training regarding allergies and educate staff thoroughly on the dangers of misunderstanding allergic reactions which can result in death.
By creating highly engaged, well compensated workforce in a safe and sanitary workspace, retention will increase while sales, profits, consumer confidence will skyrocket.
For more information on improving profitability and driving sales, contact AMP Services at email@example.com. Rick Braa is the founder of AMP Services, a Seattle restaurant accounting and consulting firm specializing in helping companies grow profitability.


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- Emotions – emotional thinking leads to assumptions and unwanted feelings. If we judge something as good or bad we may be mistaken. This may lead to negative feelings. Yet, these judgements are within our control. Stoics view emotions with detachment and realise that if judgements change, then emotions change.
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