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BLH Lüftungstechnik in Germany acquired
SIG plc, the leading European specialist solutions provider to the construction industry,announces that it has acquired BLH - Bauelemente für Lüftungstechnik Hennen GmbH.
This acquisition supports our strategy to move up the value chain and provide a 'one stop shop' offering to our installer customers that includes consultation, design, fabrication and assembly, testing and after-sales services.
This acquisition provides SIG Air Handling with initial market entry into Germany, complementing our acquisition of Profant in Austria at the beginning of the year. Furthermore, BLH will help deliver strong synergies across our Air Handling businesses in Benelux and France, along with high potential for SIG Germany.
The existing management team of BLH will remain with the business to deliver the continued growth and development of the company.
Oliver Hennen, Managing Director of BLH:
"When my father founded the company in 1999 I was still in school and worked in production during holidays and Saturdays. While we were growing in the past 17 years a lot of things changed. But the keys to our success still remain the same: lean structures and small overhead, focus on product quality and putting a lot of heart and soul into the company. I'm really looking forward to the new opportunities and synergies that will open up with our integration into SIG Air Handling."
Press release: SIG Air Handling is growing!
SIG Air Handling opened its 10th Belgian distribution point in Ostend this year. A noteworthy achievement that now gives the company no fewer than 100 distribution sites throughout Europe. SIG Air Handling offers expertise on improving air quality in interiors, both at home and at work. A healthy air quality in an indoor environment is vitally important for people´s comfort, safety and health.
SIG Air Handling therefore offers customised solutions for keeping the quality of the indoor climate healthy. For example, it works out complete solutions for HVAC projects of professional installers and design offices by supplying a complete line of gratings, fans, air conditioning, fire dampers and air groups. Thanks to its expertise in the various market segments, SIG Air Handling offers applications for different types of interiors, ranging from offices and warehouses to stores, hospitals and schools. In addition, SIG Air Handling wishes to even better support its customers by expanding the product and system offer, including climate ceilings, parking garage and tunnel ventilation and new service activities. A unique, fast distribution.
SIG Air Handling has already opened many distribution points so as to optimally support its professional installers. Ostend can now boast of being home to the 10th distribution point in Belgium. On the European level SIG Air Handling has also developed a strong network, with a total of over 100 distribution centres.
These distribution points confirm SIG Air Handling´s steadfast determination to improve indoor air quality. Thanks to the presence of SIG Air Handling on the local market, installers get quick access to both the right products and up-to-date product knowledge. Flexibility and technical support are also major advantages. At SIG Air Handling´s one-stop shop, customers will also find easy and always accessible e-commerce solutions.
Via its distribution points, SIG Air Handling makes more than 4,000 products immediately available to installers, for example when they urgently require fittings. The product line includes over 15,000 articles in all, and orders can be guaranteed for delivery to the construction site within 24 hours.
Growing European expansion and increase in scale SIG plc wants to significantly expand its Air Handling activities in Europe. With the name change last year from Air Trade Centre Belgium to SIG Air Handling Belgium and its recent acquisitions, SIG plc has strengthened its position on the international market. After the acquisition in September 2015 of the HC group (with sites in the Netherlands and Great Britain), Profant in Austria (http://www.profant.at) and Interland Techniek in the Netherlands (http://www.interlandtechniek.nl) were also recently taken over.
SIG plc, the leading European specialist solutions provider to the construction industry, announces that it has acquired Profant Lufttechnik HandelsgmbH.
The acquisition of Profant Lufttechnik supports SIG's strategy to grow its Air Handling operations across Europe. This acquisition will enhance SIG's customer proposition by extending its product and system offering, including in attractive areas of car park and tunnel ventilation, stair case ventilation systems, plus new service capabilities.
The existing management team of Profant Lufttechnik will remain with the business to deliver the continued growth and development of the company.
Lex Hemels, Managing Director of SIG Air Handling:
'We are extremely pleased that Profant Lufttechnik will be joining SIG, and we look forward to partnering with the management team to grow the business together. The acquisition of Profant Lufttechnik will start our Air Handling offering in Austria, and provides opportunities for growth in other SIG geographies.'
About Profant Lufttechnik
Profant Lufttechnik is a distributor and manufacturer of premium air handling systems and the market leader in Austria for car park ventilation and smoke exhaust systems.
Profant is both high margin and high value add, with a one-stop-shop offering to the installer that includes consultation, design, assembly, testing and aftersales services.
René Profant, Managing Director of Profant Lufftechnik: 'After 35 successful years as a "lone wolf" in the Austrian market we are glad to be part of the big "family" SIG Air Handling. We are looking forward to an exciting future with new surroundings... Larger team, more innovation and new products will provide us with better opportunities in the market – let`s do it!'
About SIG plc
SIG is the leading European provider of specialist solutions to the construction industry.
The Group has a product and service offering of significant scale with strong positions in its four core product areas of Exteriors, Interiors, Insulation and Air Handling. SIG operates from over 660 trading sites across the UK and Ireland, Mainland Europe and the Middle East. SIG is a FTSE 250 company listed on the London Stock Exchange, with annual revenues of £2.6 billion and over 9,000 employees.
For more information visit: http://www.sigplc.com/
SIG AIR HANDLING @VSK exhibition Utrecht
With our strong companies Inatherm, HC Groep, Interland Techniek & Air Trade Centre we are present at the VSK Exhibition at Utrecht from 2-5 February 2016. You can visit us in hall 11, booth A032.
SIG acquires HC Groep
SIG plc, the leading European specialist solutions provider to the construction industry, announces that it has acquired HC Groep BV. HC Groep is a specialist Air Handling systems provider based in the Netherlands and the UK, with a turnover of €45m.
The acquisition of HC Groep supports SIG's strategy to grow its Air Handling operations across Europe. This acquisition will enhance SIG's customer proposition by extending its product and system offering, including in attractive areas of climate ceilings and car park and tunnel ventilation, plus new service capabilities.
This acquisition is complementary to SIG's existing Air Handling operations in the Netherlands and the UK, including Air Trade Centre and previously acquired businesses Inatherm and SK Sales.
The existing management team of HC Groep will remain with the business to deliver the continued growth and development of the company.
Lex Hemels, Managing Director of SIG Air Handling said, "We are extremely pleased that HC Groep will be joining SIG, and we look forward to partnering with the management team to grow the business together. The acquisition of HC Groep will enhance our existing Air Handling offering in the Netherlands and the UK, and provides opportunities for growth in other SIG geographies".
Peter Verschoor, CEO of HC Groep commented, "This is a unique opportunity to strengthen along with SIG through synergies between the different business units, and to further develop future indoor climate solutions".
About HC Groep
HC Groep is comprised of five individual businesses in the Netherlands and the UK, each with its own specialism, including climate control, climate ceilings, air treatment equipment, ventilation systems for car parks and tunnels and air distribution and control technology.
REHVA Newsletter
A.T.C. Air Trade Centre Turkey Expands its Network … Through Opening a New Branch in Ankara
ISH exhibition more succesful then ever!
ISH has been more successful than ever! During the five days of the fair, around 190,000 visitors found their way to Frankfurt, to the world's largest industrial exhibition for the combination of energy and water.
The world's leading manufacturers all had booths here and a lot of new contacts were made.
MD Conference Air Trade Centre International
Farewell László Csizmadia
Succesful ISH 2011 exhibition for Air Trade Centre
Air Trade Centre España participated in the Climatización exhibition
Air Trade Centre donates to medical-social care centre in Sofia
Air Trade Centre International initiated a noble cause again. This time, our company has donated medical equipment to 'St. Paraskeva' Medical-Social Care Centre in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is a children's home for kids without parental care, giving shelter and medical care to 39 boys and girls at the age of 0-3.
The equipment includes therapeutic chair, a baby-walker and special medical splints for kids suffering from cerebral palsy. With the help of these life-essential facilities the children will have better chances to live and grow.
Air Trade Centre supplies to a luxury real estate project in Shanghai
House of Tomorrow Today (HoTT)
This article describes what Air Trade Centre stands for: Smart Building through durable energy and environmentally efficient design choices. This is illustrated by the HoTT project in the Netherlands, inspired by Roman archtitecture and way of living.
Click here to view the artcicle (Dutch language)
Annual Directors meeting May 2010
Air Trade Centre Turkey has attended to ISK – SODEX 2010 Istanbul Exhibition
Air Trade Centre Spain delivers 100,000 m³/h centrifugal and axial fans
Lukasz Malicki new Managing Director ATC Poland
Tjerk Metz new Managing Director Air Trade Centre Nederland
Air Trade Centre donates to "Rainbow 4 Kids"
As last year, Air Trade Centre has given a donation to Rainbow 4 Kids, to provide funds to teachers and pupils of three schools in Ukunda, a small village 30 km to the south of Mombassa, Kenya. This financial support will give the children of Ukunda the facilities to have a better education which will in turn increase the chance to a better future! For more information, visit the website: www.rainbow4kids.be
Annual Directors Meeting Zaventem May 2009
Univé is ensured of high quality air diffusion
Chilled Beams, Air Handling Units and JetFans by Fläkt-Woods
Air Trade Centre too "Helps to end polio worldwide"
Air Trade Centre welcomes Lukasz Malicki
Lukasz Malicki will join Air Trade Centre Poland per 1st September as Commercial Director reporting to Mr. Adam Zumbrzycki (Managing Director Air Trade Centre Poland). Mr. Malicki will take responsibility for developing the sales throughout Poland for our group and management of the sales team of Air Trade Centre Poland. He has a wealth of experience in building networks and has been very successful in doing this specifically in our branch. Mr. Malicki joins us coming from Dospel Professional where he held several sales positions in the last years, most recently the position of Sales Export Director.
Air Trade Centre: supplier and knowledge base for school ventilation
Air Trade Centre offers you the experience, knowledge and products for ventilation in schools. We have several concepts to cover all ventilation related questions!
At this moment we are working on several schools, amongst them are University of Zeeland (Vlissing) and a primary school in Breda.
Please contact us if you think we can help you with your projects!
Businessplan "Full Blossom"
Successful exhibition of Air Trade Centre during the 9th Climexpo Exhibition in Tunis in April 2009.
Air Trade Centre donates Vlietland Hospital
Air Trade Centre Spain participates in the Climatización exhibition
Air Trade Centre Spain participates in Climatización 2009, the international air conditioning, heating, ventilation and refrigeration exhibition, one of the industry's most important events in Europe.
The exhibition will be held from 24 to 27 February in the Ferial Juan Carlos I hall in Madrid.
Air Trade Centre Spain will highlight following products among its wide range of air treatment products:
VMC range
Domestic ventilation range: Small capacity fans with exclusive design
Air diffusion range: Thermostatic diffusers for a better comfort and energy efficiency
Heat recovery range: Industrial and domestic HRU units
Technical PriceLists
Air Trade Centre Belgium participates in Batibouw 2009 exhibition
Air Trade Centre donates amount to Hungarian children's home
Air Trade Centre publication about Fire Safety in Rehva journal
Air Trade Centre has published an article in the September issue of the Rehva journal about Fire Safety.
Fire safety is a 'hot item' in any European country and beyond.
In our market we see a lot of installations that comply to every existing rule. However, in too many cases the built installations are not safe, and even in the middle long run more expensive.
New controller Air Trade Centre in SIG special markets
We are very pleased to introduce Mr. Jürgen Offermans, our new controller in SIG special markets. He is based at SIG Benelux in Oisterwijk (NL). Jürgen started in November and we wish him every success in his new role.
You can contact Jürgen on:
Mobile nr. +31 6 54 79 17 97
New warehouse for Air Trade Centre Nederland
New webshop Air Trade Centre is huge success
Air Trade Centre Nederland member of LUKA
Air Trade Centre has become associated member of LUKA. In striving for quality and continuous improvement, Air Trade Centre and LUKA have found each other.
New Technical PriceList
The decision has been made recently for all Air Trade Centre companies to introduce a new concept in the European HVAC market; the introduction of a detailed and very complete Technical Pricelist.
Annual directors meeting Tholen 2008
This year's annual meeting for directors and staff of the ATC Group was held in September at the Group Headoffice in Tholen, The Netherlands. Two days of intensive meetings, looking at and talking about the future, assessing new products and developments and consolidating mutual friendship.
Daikin to tie-up with Gree for RAC Production
For us, the article hereunder was new. It was published in an issue of JARN magazine, a prominent Japanese HVAC magazine, dated March 25th 2008 entitled 'Daikin to tie-up with Gree for RAC production'
As Air Trade Centre has chosen Gree as their supplier for the air conditioning range, this article prooves again that we made the right choice in our selection for Gree as A/C supplier!
London Stock Exchange listed SIG Plc acquires Air Trade Centre International
Worldwide largest supplier of energy - Suez Energy Services has selected Air Trade Centre as Key Supplier
Beginning of the new building's construction is a fact.
Air Trade Centre donates amount to Romanian house for disabled children
Air Trade Centre International has decided not to spend money on Christmas cards anymore but try and help some organizations instead which are in need and where our help could really make a
This year our Christmas cards' value went to the the Romanian house for children with dissabilities "Sfantul Nicolae" from Draganesti Vlasca. The children over there needed badly our
help especially for the winter heating and thus our help meant new radiators, new gym and exercise facility - in a few words a small help for a better life.
New Sales Manager in Saudi Arabia
01-2008 We are very pleased to introduce Mr. Mahmoud Al Ali, our new Sales Manager in Saudi Arabia. Mahmoud, 32 years old, is a mechanical engineer and has several years of experience in sales of pumps (chilled, domestic and fire pumps) He started January 1st, 2008 and we wish him all the best in his new role.
You can contact Mahmoud on:
mobile no. +966 50 25 00 413.
Air Trade Centre International takes a majority interest in The Fan Company
09-2007 Air Trade Centre International, supplier of equipment and components for air handling (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning, HVAC products) has taken a controlling interest in The Fan Company Ltd, based in Swansea (South Wales).
The new company name is Air Trade Centre UK Ltd.
Air Trade Centre International has a leading ambition!
09-2007 Air Trade Centre International has a leading ambition in a lot of European countries! Air Trade Centre International is specialized in the delivery of equipment and components for air treatment.
The headquarters (Holding) are located in Tholen (The Netherlands).
Air Trade Centre Bulgaria Ltd new office and warehouse
08-2007 Air Trade Centre Bulgaria Ltd, supplier of equipment and components for air treatment (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning, HVAC products) will take its new office and warehouse in Sofia officially into use on September 21st, 2007.
The official opening will be done by the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, HE Mr. Willem van Ee, he will unveil among other things a beautiful sculpture!
Air Trade Centre Bulgaria Ltd exists since the year 2000 and was located at Tzarigradsko Chaussee Blvr. 7 km in Sofia.
Businessplan "The Growth"
04-2007 We proudly announce that during the annual Directors meeting, this year in Sofia Bulgaria, on Friday April 20th, 2007 the Businessplan 2007-2011 with the title The Growth was finalized.
This plan is meant to offer transparency to Shareholders, the Advisory Board, the Management and the Country Managers of the Air Trade Centre Group as well as external parties, such as banks and accountants, with regard to the short term company goals.
Prior to this plan the businessplan 2005-2008 was issued. It had the title Trimming and Blooming. We believe that the most important "trimming" has been done and we will focus on The Growth from now onwards.
Succesful meeting Directors Air Trade Centre Group
04-2007 This year the annual Directors meeting of the Air Trade Centre Group took place in Sofia. For two days all first line Managers of the group were invited by Air Trade Centre Bulgaria.
Meetings of 10 hours, impressive 5 cours dinners and finally a swimming contest completed the program during the meeting on April 19th and 20th, 2007
Air Trade Centre in Barcelona as per end April 2007
04-2007 Also Spain can take advantage of Air Trade Centre's "Customer Value"
As per April 26th 2007 Air Trade Centre will be established in Barcelona (Spain) at the following address:
Air Trade Centre España S.L.
Poligono Industrial del Pla.
C/ Laureà Miró 401 Nave-3
Fujitsu air conditioning in new dancing in Antwerp
10-2007 Since many years, Antwerp is the most prominent city in Flanders when you talk about partying. After the legendary club 'Zillion' was closed, there was a huge gap for a large public. With the foundation of a new temple this gap was filled.
Luxuary flats with energetic ventilation
06-2007 De Zaat is a part of an ambitious plan to valorise the terrains of the formal Boelwerf. The total projects contains office space, shops, homes and appartment buildings.
This year annual meeting of directors took place in Istanbul
May - 2006 This year the annual meeting of directors of the Air Trade Centre Group took place in Istanbul from May 11th – 13th, hosted by Air Trade Centre Turkey. A modest but charming hotel, lovely food and innovative presentations with the most important conclusion, Air Trade Centre is on its way with new products, new people, new ATC countries in prospect and healthy results.....!
In 2007 all directors will meet each other in the Spring. Air Trade Centre Bulgaria will be our host! Our new office and warehouse building is also a good reason for the whole team to make it to Sofia!
ATC Humidifiers in New Radisson SAS EU Hotel in Brussels
02-2006 Beginning of February, opening of a new luxuary hotel of Radisson SAS network in Brussels. This hotel located at only 3 km of the city centre, offers 149 rooms and suites, 6 fully-equipped conference rooms, a fitness club and a sauna.
Air Trade Centre Saudi Arabia
02-2006 The doors of Air Trade Centre Saudi Arabia (ATC - SA) will soon open this month in the Central Region, conveniently located at the city of Riyadh. Now, under one roof, ATC will answer all your needs for HVAC products, provide you services on professional level, and will be your reliable partner for your profitable business.
New head office for Air Trade Centre International NV
01-2006 Air Trade Centre International NV, the holding company will move offices on 1st July 2005 to a modest new office building, the WaterfrontHouse at Tholen in the province of Zeeland.
On the map you can see that with some good will, optimism and chauvinism Tholen and Air Trade Centre International have a central position in Europe.
New innovated insulation
01-2006 End to skin irritation when handling flexible insulated ducts!
New innovated insulation ?
One-stop-shopping for Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning products
09-2005 We take a lot of work out of the hands of the installer by means of forward integration.
Business plan and new market communication approach
06-2005 On 2nd June our new website went live. Prior to this event, in February 2005, the Air Trade Centre Businessplan was communicated to all employees and shortly after that to a number of our external business relations.
As part of this new approach we made a site in which the Crane has a prominent position. The binder shown adjacent to this text is one of the many examples of the new spirit of Air Trade Centre.


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This is the final installment from reporter Scott Johnson, who has reported on the effects of violence and trauma on the community for more than two years through a fellowship provided by the California Endowment.
Minister Mustafa Muhyee lives in East Oakland. He runs a small church out of a modest white house at the end of a dead-end street where he tries, with varying degrees of success, to improve his little corner of the world. It's a mission that takes him out into the streets every day, and very often it's this world he sees reflected back at him that tells him what needs to be done.
"The first thing that changes anything is environment, if it's unhealthy, if it looks sick, if there are liquor stores on every corner, then that's the environment we're living in," said Muhyee, who is pastor of BASIC (Brothers and Sisters in Christ) Ministry. "We are becoming that environment. East Oakland is not a physically beautiful place, there are no trees, there are too many liquor stores, there are boarded-up houses, and this is what people see every day. And this is what we are becoming."
This was one of the more cogent explanations I'd heard for how the different factors that comprise a community — physical place, the inhabitants, violence or the lack thereof, trauma and/or mental health — flow together and form a kind of patchwork. The health of a neighborhood affects the brains and bodies of everybody who lives there. And the converse is also true — a neighborhood's health flows directly from how its inhabitants feel inside, and how they behave toward each other. It makes sense, then, that any solution should take this back and forth, this constant interaction between people and the world in which they live, into account.
For the last 2¿1/2 years or so I have been reporting from all over Oakland, trying to delve into the mechanics of how these various factors work, and what happens in a given community when something goes wrong. It will come as no surprise to anyone that in many parts of Oakland, something has gone drastically wrong. Homicides remain a plague on the city. Oakland is, literally, the robbery capital of the country, as my colleague Matthew Artz reported on these pages recently. There are entire communities in pockets of East and West Oakland beset by high levels of toxic stress, post-traumatic stress disorder and gang-related violence. Like many American cities, Oakland also suffers from a growing disparity between rich and poor, with some communities accruing resources and the resulting health that comes with it at a much faster pace than others.
And yet we know that Oakland has a huge number of city- and county-sponsored programs aimed at curbing violence, increasing access to opportunity and promoting health. So what's wrong? What is not working? And what needs to change?
The biggest issue, I have come to believe, is lack of leadership. Oakland has no shortage of programs designed to address violence. The problem is that very few of these programs "talk" to each other, or work together effectively. This is the kind of leadership that can only come from the top.
Other cities with violence problems have faced their issues much more effectively. In Minneapolis, for instance, city leaders made a very deliberate decision to address violence in a concerted way after homicide rates spiked in 2006. The plan that resulted, led by the mayor and a very committed council member, led to a 62 percent drop in violent crime over the next four years, in large part because city leaders made it a priority. It took several years "of creating a blueprint to prevent violence over the last four years," says Rob Waters of the Prevention Institute. "You have to get everybody at the table, all the city departments — transit, the cops, the DA, mental health, public health. It requires action at all levels."
This has not happened in Oakland, yet. And it goes partway toward explaining how, in a city with so many well-meaning, committed people who want to find a way to curb the violence, the problem continues. But even if the programs were all coordinated, programs alone do not a community make. "People need something to do, man; if you look at Oakland, one reason there's so much negativity is because there's no positivity, no skating rinks or movie theaters, nothing positive that would breed community," Muhyee said. "When you get out of school, you don't want to just keep going to programs, kids want to hang out and be kids in a safe environment. So instead of putting so much money into programs, we need recreation, bowling alleys, things for them to have fun."
That kind of safety, a feeling of "organic health," you might say, is also something that needs to flow in both directions. The city could do more to foster the growth of small business in places like the old Antique Row in Oakland, business projects that would show the community that the city is committed to them. At the same time, it would allow the city to invest in itself in a way that would reap long-term health benefits for its citizens.
Anyone who has lived or worked in Oakland knows the law enforcement model alone isn't sufficient. Even with more police officers on staff, Oakland needs to develop a more holistic approach toward reducing crime, one focused on elevating violence as a public health issue and making sure everyone is on board with the idea.
Oakland has taken one positive step with the introduction of the Operation Ceasefire program that aims to curb gun violence by getting shooters off the streets using a carrot-and-stick approach. But this is just one tool in what should be a much larger, much more organized strategy. Ceasefire "doesn't take the place of the citywide concerted, multi-stakeholder approach," said the Prevention Institute's Waters. "That's a piece of a broader campaign, but it can't be the only piece."
Hopefully, going forward, Oakland's leaders and the community itself will reach out to each other to bring all the right pieces together.

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Unveiling Nigeria's Top Music Star's WorthTuface, D'banj and P-Square are vying for the title of "the greatest" when it comes to performance fees, endorsements and annual earnings.
Nigeria: Top Music Stars - What They Worth!
Vanguard, 26 January 2013
As far as today's Nigerian music is concerned, its story is incomplete without these musicians. They are the movers and shakers of the industry, and their finger prints have shaped… Read more »
D'banj performing.
Nigeria: Top Earners in Nigerian Showbiz
Leadership, 19 January 2013
In time past, music and acting were seen more as passion rather than a profession. However today, it has gone beyond passion and has become not just a vocation but also a money… Read more »
Nigeria: Why I Acquired Two New Mansions - 2face
Vanguard, 10 November 2012
African Queen crooner, Innocent Idibia popularly known as 2face has been explaining why he decided to acquire two multi-million Naira houses last week in addition to his growing… Read more »
Pop star D'Banj has signed a ground-breaking pan-African record deal with international music powerhouse, Sony Entertainment. Read more »
The sensational music duo, P-Square thrilled the fans in Kigali with great dance performances coupled with extraordinary singing skills. Read more »


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An employer considering you for a job will want to find out more about you by contacting your references. Here are some characteristics when selecting a good reference:
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How do you approach a potential reference? First of all, begin early. Professors and former supervisors are busy people, so careful planning and persistent follow-up will be necessary.
For those of you applying to graduate school, you'll want to make sure professors get to know you so they can write quality letters of recommendation. Professors know who you are through your participation in class or by showing a special interest in their area of study. Visit professors after class or during office hours to discuss current issues in their field or class related topics.
For job search references, supervisors from current or past work experiences will be very important. They can communicate your work habits, skills, accomplishments and professionalism. Allow your references to work for you in your job or graduate school search by completing the following steps:
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Are there reference forms to use? Not so much anymore. Many students ask faculty/staff and employers to complete a reference and is placed in their portfolio. Typically the employer or graduate school will provide the form OR there is no form but the reference is asked to address key criteria.
Some faculty/staff prefer to write a letter on departmental stationery. Employers may feel the same way. Either way is fine. Remember to keep a copy of any reference given to you just in case you need it later. Many employers now ask for a "Reference Page" which is all of your references's names, contact information and what their relationship is to you. You will typically send the reference page with your resume and cover letter.
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In preparation for the job search, place references on a separate sheet according to the format below using the same paper and font style used for your resume:
References For (Your Name—Bold—larger font)
Your address, phone and e-mail
(format the top of your reference page like the top of your resume)
Their Name
Business Address
Phone Number (preferably work)
E-mail address
Their relationship to you
Employers typically contact references by phone, whereas graduate and professional schools usually request written letters. References are usually requested after a second interview, but keep a current list on hand at all times. If you develop a good professional relationship with your references, they will gladly assist you in your search.
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What Information Can Your Former Employer Disclose?
Loose-lips don't just sink ships..
They often devastate a job hunters ability to gain employment. After leaving a job, a former employer is free to pass along negative information about you to prospective employers, and most state laws protect them from legal recourse provided the information is job related; based upon credible evidence; and made without malice.
It is illegal for a former employer to purposefully give false information for the sake of harming one's reputation or preventing one from obtaining employment. In addition, personal information that is not job related should neither be asked about or provided by either a prospective or former employer. In general, it is inappropriate for a prospective employer to ask questions or a former employer to provide information about an individual's race, color, religion, sex, national or ethnic origin, age, disability status, marital status, sexual orientation, or parenting responsibilities.
Former employers who fear potential defamation and slander law suites have become crafty when answering employment reference questions. Rather than speak negatively about a former employee, some will opt to "No Comment" when asked critical employment questions regarding performance, termination, and eligibility for rehire. The inference of this is just as harmful to the employee as a bad reference, and if a prospective employer has to choose between two qualified applicants - one with positive references and the other with mediocre or bad references - who do you suppose they will choose?
Another common practice among leery employers is to refuse to give any information about an employee other than dates of employment and title. This is gross disservice to an employee who has dedicated years of faithful service to a company, yet gets no better of a reference then an employee who was fired for embezzlement.
Unfortunately, this policy is within the legal rights of an employer- provided the policy is an across the board policy that applies to all employees - not just a selected few. There have been cases successfully argued that an employer discriminated against an employee for not applying the same policy to all its employees.
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Come Party With Me: Wedding — Drinks
One of the biggest expenses at a wedding reception is the drinks. Hosting a full open bar is a costly option, and if you don't have an unlimited budget, I would not recommend doing it. Instead offer guests one signature cocktail and an assortment of beer and wine. Another option is to host a day reception, because people don't drink as much when the sun's out. Be sure to ask the wait staff not to pre-open wine bottles. If they do, you may be left with a bunch of open, full bottles.
Along with the signature cocktail at Elena and Sean's wedding, guests will have a choice of Champagne, red or white wine, or a selection of local beers. The cocktail is a refreshing, delish blend of rum, cointreau, and sparkling pomegranate. It has a glorious hue that matches the wedding's color scheme.
For more wonderful wedding ideas, check out IDoSugar. To take a look at the recipe,
Rum Pomegranate Cocktail
From Brides magazine
- 1½ oz. Bacardi White Rum
- ¼ oz. Cointreau (orange liqueur)
- Splash of lime juice
- 2½ oz. Izze sparkling pomegranate juice
- Colored sugar (for rim)
- Dip rim of glass in water, then in colored sugar.
- Combine rum, liqueur and juices with ice in the glass, and stir.
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Lakes Region reports no major problems handling final Nor'easter of 2012By Larissa Mulkern
Union Leader Correspondent
December 27. 2012 3:08PM
MOULTONBOROUGH - The day started early for Public Works Director Scott Kinmond and area snowplow crews as the first major Nor'easter of the season blew across the lakes region.
Reached on his cell phone in a plow truck mid-day, Kinmond said the plow crews were out by 4 a.m. on Thursday, scraping, plowing and treating roads with salt and sand mixture. The 'fleet' includes 10 town-owned plow trucks and 22 private contractors assigned to keep the access and fire roads clear. The town includes 170 miles of private roads, and 77 miles of town roads, he said.
Accumulation was estimated at about six inches, but Kinmond said high wind gusts of up to 25 miles an hour made for tough visibility.
'The wind makes it difficult in a prolonged snow event like this,' he said. 'The wind is blowing snow across the roads,' he said. School would have been cancelled on Thursday, but many officials agreed it helped that this was vacation week with many adults also choosing to stay home and take the day off.
'The hype of the storm itself, and the preparation by the people who took the day off or were off for the holiday helps out. Traffic has been minimal,' he said.
Kinmond himself expected to stay on duty for the duration of the storm. He said he gets his stamina from a tad of caffeine, but not too much, and healthy living. 'Caffeine helps out, but you don't want to go overboard,' he said.
No major accidents or outages were reported as of mid-day.
In Wolfeboro, Assistant Public Works Director Scott Pike said all 10 of the fleet's plows were out clearing roads. The sidewalk plow was also deployed to keep walkways clear for pedestrians. He said this storm did not require pre-treatment of the roads, as it was a dry snow. This morning two plows broke down but were soon back on the road. He estimated about seven inches of snow accumulation in Wolfeboro.
Traffic was just slightly below average, he said, adding he was surprised people were out and about this morning. 'There are still a lot of people out there.'
Wolfeboro Police Department Lt. Dean Rondeau said there were two weather related car accidents: a car collided with a plow truck on Route 28 and a car slid off the road near Weston Auto Body Shop on South Main Street. No injuries were reported.
'Otherwise, it's been a very quiet day today,' said Rondeau. 'The roads have been a challenge to maintain, but the state and town crews are out there doing a great job.'


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Hua Hin and adjacent Cha Am are rightly regarded as among Thailand's premier coastal resort communities.
Alongside shimmering Gulf of Thailand waters, the area offers white-sand beaches and lush tropical hills that make for an enchanting holiday destination.
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(65 Sqm. | Double or Twin Beds)The Palayana's Deluxe Garden View Rooms are spacious living area which opens into a spacious garden balcony. The room furnishing consists of one large double bed (twin Beds available), one study desk, a cushioned seat and a large daybed on the balcony. A fully equipped spacious dressing area with separate shower and toilet facilities forms part of the main entrance into the room.
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(65 Sqm. | Double or Twin Beds)The Palayana's Deluxe Seaview Terrace Rooms are 65 square meters in size and are situated on higher floors allowing for full sea view and overlook the lush green landscape of our boutique resort. The room furnishing consists of one large double bed (twin beds available), one study desk, one cushioned seat and a large day-bed on the balcony. A fully equipped dressing area with separate shower and toilet facilities forms part of the main entrance into the room.
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(110 Sqm. | Hollywood King Bed)The Palayana's Panoramic Seaview Suite Rooms are 110 square meters of living area comes with a large living/dining area and an extra spacious balcony overlooking the sea and the resort's lush green landscape. The room furnishing consists of one large double bed (Hollywood King), one study desk, a cushioned seat and a large day-bed on the balcony. A fully equipped dressing area, with separate shower and bath-tub and toilet facilities, forms part of the main entrance into the room.
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(222 Sqm.)The Palayana's 2 Bedrooms Pool Villas with two bedrooms of living area, within a private enclosure with a lush tropical garden, a 6 * 4 meters private swimming pool and a spacious living Sala on the upper level for sunbathing and relaxation. Each room comes with separate bath and shower and toilet facilities. There is one fully-equipped living Sala with automatic coffee machine, tea making facilities and private bars for the ultimate luxury and comfortable stay.
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Greinke (10-4) allowed a run and four hits over seven innings, struck out 10 and did not walk a batter as the Dodgers won for the 11th time in 15 games. The 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner is 13-2 with a 1.98 ERA in 19 starts following a Dodgers loss since signing a $147 million, six-year contract in December 2012.
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If you are thinking of sending Amazon gift cards this Christmas, I recommend you think again. ** received a bumper payout totaling $700 for their birthdays a couple of weeks ago–generous gifts from the Blarney connection in the UK. Today, ** (a very cautious shopper) finally made her choices and so we were ready to "proceed to checkout". I thought I was still okaying the shipping address when I discovered I had inadvertently clicked to complete the order and so had $600 of teen shopping charged to my credit card. I tried to cancel the order. No luck. I tried to email Amazon with the numbers of the gift cards. No luck.
I phoned Amazon and spoke to **, painstakingly bellowing the 14 digits of each gift card down the phone (T as in Tommy, you as in Ukulele, Idiot as in Amazon) to identify the Blarney bounty. ** reversed $200 of my charges, and applied two gift cards, but told me the rest of the gift cards had already been spent. I put down the phone and went back on Amazon to check our recent orders. No sign of a $400 shopping spree. I called back Amazon and spoke to **, spelling out all the card codes again. She agreed I had a balance of $400 and put me on hold while she went away to get some help. Well, she said that was her plan, but actually she cut me off.
By now the Amazon experience had lasted more than an hour. I called back and spoke to **. He agreed that I had a balance of $400, but unfortunately he could not apply it to my order and refund my credit card. "The goods are being shipped from third parties" he said. "nothing we can do about it". I spoke to his supervisor, **. Nothing she could do about it either. And she was all out of ideas on how she might make it up to me. I suggested a $150 gift card. She agreed to $50 and, after a total of nearly two hours on the phone I was too tired to press the point.
"Never mind" said **. "You can do your Christmas shopping on Amazon". Well, yes but unfortunately the remaining items on her list (Victoria's Secret bras, a card reader for her new phone, a Mac Pink Friday lipstick) are not stocked by Amazon. "You'll have to do without" I told her. "the credit card money is gone". The galling thing about all of this is that Amazon, who have provided hopeless customer service, stand to make a total of $1100 from the Blarney family this Christmas. We can't get $400 back from them, and so sooner or later we are going to have to spend it (oh, and **'s generous $50) on things we don't much want. Don't be sucked into making the same mistake.
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON -- I chose Amazon gift cards received as an incentive from my employer. For whatever reason my order charged to my Visa and not my gift cards. I thought, this will be a simple call and we can get it fixed. NOPE.. you have to return the items and start over. That does not seem to make any sense to me. If there is a credit balance on the account why can't the problem just be fixed? Now I will not have the Kindle in time for my vacation. I am really disappointed with this service. I plan to tell everyone I know.
I received a holiday gift certificate for Amazon from my boss in December 2011. I live in Europe and usually order from their European branch in the U.K. but the gift certificate was valid only on the U.S. website. I placed my order using the gift certificate and waited and waited. I never received the package. I sent Amazon an email (to which a customer service representative almost immediately replied) and was told that the shipment was lost. (I personally suspect the Czech Customs Office which holds any package from a non-EU country with a value of more than $30.)
Anyway, I ordered the same two books again. I received an email confirming the order, and I saw that I was being charged for the full amount and that the gift certificate was not being applied to the price. I wrote another email demanding that they cancel the order immediately. Not only did they cancel the order before it was charged to my credit card, they reactivated my gift certificate, refunded the amount for the original order (the amount not covered by the gift certificate), and gave me a "goodwill refund" for my trouble. The refund wasn't much but it did serve its purpose. I will continue to shop at Amazon.
Received a $50 gift card for Amazon. Ordered an item with expedited shipping. Item was never sent and on the last day of expected delivery I filed a follow up. About an hour later I received a ups tracking number for an item and that it was shipped ups ground that day. Problem is not to my registered address or even in my own state.
Contacted customer service again and they admit it was shipped to the wrong address and was told if the item is returned as undeliverable then my gift card will be credited back the amount. If it is not returned or just driver released and left on someone's doorstep then I am out of luck and they have no control of outside vendors. Lesson learned.. never will deal with Amazon ever again.
I have been trying to get credit for returning two unwanted books that were sent to me as gifts. This process started in October. It is now December 22, 2006. I don't have a computer and it is difficult for me to get to a library to use a public computer. They don't leave a number for you to call. I had never returned anything to Amazon before and didn't know how to do it, let alone what was involved in a gift return.
By the time I was able to let them know about the unwanted book in the only approved way they have for learning about their customers, the 30-day period had gone by and I could not even get a message to them about the return, because the site won't let you fill in the form if your order number is over 30 days out. I actually forget how I sent them an e-mail -- two, if truth be told, before they bothered to respond. It was difficult. Anyway, they eventually agreed to send me a return label. I bought a padded envelope and returned the book, along with a copy of the invoice. That was over three weeks ago.
To date, they insist either that they never got it or that they have it but haven't gotten around to processing the return, and I shouldn't bother them until four weeks have elapsed. By the way, I asked them what rate they charged on the postage due items (book rate, first class, priority?) and they never bothered to answer. Last week, I received another unwanted gift book. This time I was ready for them. I made sure to get a ride to the library. I filled out the return information on line and printed out the return address label. (Ah, it says 'media mail.' So I found out eventually, but no thanks to them.)
I bought another padded envelope, enclosed both the return bar code and the gift invoice, carefully affixed the return address label, and took it to the post office last week. I don't know why I bothered. I didn't expect ever to hear from Amazon again, but today I got an envelope in the mail. They have sold my address to a credit card company. It is something called 'marbles' (hah, just when I was losing mine -- are they mocking me?). I hardly know what to say. So far as I can see, I am $2.00 down on the deal for envelopes. They have the money. They have the books back. They made money from selling my name to a credit card company.
I have written Amazon yet another futile e-mail announcing that, so far as I am concerned, they are 'fair game' (in the Rovean sense) and I will complain about them anywhere, everywhere, at every time. I'm also going to be following this up with the Better Business Bureau (it'll give them a headache, although nothing like the one they've given me). And I think the postal inspectors should investigate them.
After all, they are a big user of the US Mail, and it's a federal offense to use the mails to commit fraud. This has been a real eye-opener for me. I used to use Amazon and was always OK with them. I would never go near them now. There are better alternatives, like Powells.com or anyone you reach via the umbrella BookFinder.com web site.
For what it is worth here a short story, and I do not know how to go further. My son sent me a gift certificate for 300 Dollars. He just got married, then went to Iraq for 13 months. I know they could use the money better as newlyweds. I sent the gift certificate back to him. When he came back from Iraq, he checked his account. Since he deposited the money back in his AMAZON ACCOUNT, yes it was there. Not too long ago, he checked again, GUESS WHAT, the money is gone. The time "expired".
I will go to any length to make sure people will know this, as it is down right "THEFT" in my eyes, but what do I know, I am just one of MANY. But one thing I did learn, ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Thanks for listening.
Amazon badly screwed up an order of $380 for 16 gift certificates and 3 months later I still don't have a refund. The recipients never got their certificates even though Amazon sent me a response that the order had been placed and shipped. After a month of fighting this battle, I finally got notification (via email because you can't talk to anyone there) that the order would be canceled, so I purchased different certificates at Barnes and Noble. The next day, the recipients then got their Amazon certificates. I've been fighting this battle for 3 months now and no refund.
LESSON: NEVER buy from a company without the guts to list their customer support phone number.
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Business schools teach MBA students that you can't compete on the basis of management processes because they're easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, according to the strategists. But data from a decade-long research project involving 12,000 firms challenges that thinking.
The study examined how well companies performed 18 core management practices. It found vast differences in how they execute basic tasks like setting targets, running operations, and grooming talent, and that those differences matter: Firms with strong managerial processes do significantly better on high-level metrics such as profitability, growth, and productivity. What's more, the differences in process quality persist over time, suggesting that competent management is not easy to imitate.
In this article the authors review the findings of the research and explore what prevents executives from investing in management capabilities, arguing that such investments are a powerful way to become more competitive.
In MBA programs, students are taught that companies can't expect to compete on the basis of internal managerial competencies because they're just too easy to copy. Operational effectiveness—doing the same thing as other companies but doing it exceptionally well—is not a path to sustainable advantage in the competitive universe. To stay ahead, the thinking goes, a company must stake out a distinctive strategic position—doing something different than its rivals. This is what the C-suite should focus on, leaving middle and lower-level managers to handle the nuts and bolts of managing the organization and executing plans.
T he world is becoming urban. Currently home to over 50 percent of the world's population, cities are expected to absorb another 2.5 billion people by 2050. People are pulled to urban areas because of better infrastructure, services, and economic opportunities. They are pushed to cities because of natural disasters, conflicts, famine, unemployment, and other forces.
Undeniably, mass migration poses risks to already fragile urban ecosystems. Increased population density can lead to health, security, and social cohesion challenges, often straining city resources for public services. These risks can be heightened by a city's existing stresses — chronic issues that weaken the urban fabric, such as aging infrastructure, unemployment, food and water scarcity, inequality, and violence. Failure to address these risks can exacerbatemajor disasters when they occur. It also represents a missed opportunity for a city to leverage the socio-economic and cultural capital of migrants, whose contributions can become fundamental resources for building urban resilience.
Resilient cities are able to plan for adversity, absorb its impact, and recover quickly. Most importantly, they adapt to new conditions and thrive, rather than merely survive. In building resilience, cities can reduce their reliance on crisis as a driver of change and, instead, proactively take the future into theirown hands. In doing so, they can become better places to live for all their citizens, in both good times and bad.
Our environment is changing. Mass migration to cities is the new reality.
The mass migration we are witnessing today is not a temporary state of emergency, but the beginning of a new reality. Most likely, the factors pushing migrants to cities will only become more common and impactful. Current estimates suggest that climate change could displace another 200 million people by 2050, a year when the population of the world's 48 poorestcountries is due to double to 1.7 billion, causing even greater incentives for people to move to wealthier cities. The conflicts in Syria, Iraq, and other countries affected by violence and political instability, continue to cause millions of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) to flee their homes in search of safety.
Rather than resist this new reality, cities must embrace it. As many migrants cannot, or do not intend to, return to their place of origin, municipal authorities must start seeing their role as long-term, or even permanent, hosts. If this is acknowledged and plans are made to anticipate and respond to the potential pressures of mass migration on urban systems, the arrival and presence of newcomers will be less likely to be perceived as a threat. Mass migration can instead be seen as an opportunity to improve a city's infrastructure, services, and governance systems, as well as the response capacity of its local communities.
The future remains uncertain.
While we must accept global migration to cities as a defining trend of our time, we must also acknowledge its deep uncertainty. The direction, timing, and magnitude of population flows make it difficult for local authorities to make accurate predictions, develop long-term plans, and allocate resources. The Syrian refugee crisis, for example, regularly presents new and unforeseen developments. In the spring of 2016, several countries in the European Union abruptly closed the major routes used by fleeing refugees, suddenly strandingover 50,000 of them in Greece. Greek cities, such as Athens and Thessaloniki , normally used as transit points on routes to more prosperous European cities, found themselves as final destinations for thousands of refugees and asylum seekers. Already suffering from strained resources, inadequate infrastructure, and weak coordination systems, these cities had to quickly adapt their temporary settlement approaches to focus on longer-term integration. The recent EU relocation scheme and EU-Turkey agreement, which aims to move most asylum seekers out of Greece, may change the situation once again.
We may not know what shocks we will face — international policy decisions trapping refugees in countries with limited resources, massive displacement by natural disasters, or economic crises driving young skilled migrants to wealthier cities. By creating reliable and flexible systems that address multiple challenges and support residents in good times and bad, cities can thrive nomatter what may happen.
Mass migration can exacerbate existing stresses.
When it occurs without a plan in place, mass migration has the potential to aggravate a city's existing stresses. Higher population density can pose unanticipated pressures on already strained infrastructure, resources, and the delivery of city services.
Settlement patterns affect this further as migrants often have to move to already marginalized neighborhoods. Much of the new population growth occurs in informal and unplanned areas of the city, amid existing vulnerable populations. This often creates perceived and real competition for jobs and basic services, intensifying social tensions between long-term urban residents, economic migrants, and displaced populations, who already face unique vulnerabilities due to legal barriers to entry, limited economic resources, and broad discrimination.
When residents believe newcomers are the cause of increased competition over job opportunities or deteriorating living conditions, sudden large-scale influxes of new arrivals can exacerbate existing tensions and xenophobia. Populist politics and violent extremism undermine social cohesion.
Migration presents opportunities for strengthening cities and making them resilient.
Migrant populations pose challenges, but they also present host cities with a variety of opportunities for building resilience, including financial investment, infrastructural innovation, a rejuvenated labor force, and new means of fostering social cohesion.
Hosting large numbers of displaced persons can attract significant international investment. Cities can leverage these resources to build better infrastructure and improve social services for all residents. In Amman , for example, the municipal government is leveraging loans received from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for addressing increased waste generation due to the influx of refugees to modernize the solid waste sector and improve services for all residents.
Migrants also bring new energy into ailing economies and are a natural antidote to rapidly aging workforces and shortages of skilled labor. When migrants and refugees have the right to work, and gain access to capital and educational opportunities, they boost productivity in host cities through purchasing power, innovation, and entrepreneurship. New populations can also help foster greater social cohesion, which not only yields multiple dividends in physical and mental health, civic participation, and information sharing, but also strengthens the ability of local communities to respond and adapt in times of emergency.
Cities are being asked to do more with less, but decisions affecting them are made at the national level.
While issues concerning borders, citizenship, and quotas are often decided nationally or internationally, it is at the local level that the practical aspects of migration are felt. Cities serve as first points of arrival, transit hubs, and ultimate destinations of millions of migrants. They play a central role in the short, medium, and long term — from food, shelter and healthcare at arrival; to housing and subsistence during transit; to employment and social integration in ensuing years. As a result, municipal governments find themselves taking the lead in welcoming migrants and offering pragmatic solutions for managing their needs. Yet they often lack adequate resources, policies, and mandates from the national government to do this important work. In Paris , for example, the city does not have formal authority to plan for its refugee population. However, the absence of a national framework has led the municipal government to take action by not only creating the first welcome centers for refugees within Paris' city boundaries, but also developing the "Mobilizing the Paris Community for Refugee Welcome" plan, a strategic document that leverages current city competencies for managing other vulnerable groups, such as unaccompanied minors or the homeless, and applies them to the refugee population. Similarly, in Los Angeles , the city created a local office for immigrant affairs that addresses the gaps in national policy. This allows the city to formulate strategies and programs for the migrants and refugees that arrive daily and often intend to remain.
As cities are being asked to "do more with less", they need to improve their collaboration with national governments, private sector organizations, and international aid agencies. But, more importantly, cities must be creative and flexible with the resources and mandates they do possess. Cities can exert their existing influence as employers, providers of goods and services, and policy-makers. Municipal leaders can proactively integrate inclusion into local policy and provide opportunities for business and infrastructure development.
By organizing around success and action, instead of failure and inaction, resilient cities can succeed where many national governments struggle with, and at times exacerbate, major challenges.
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Not much has changed since then. Today people in the worlds of business, investing, and politics continue to use vague words to describe possible outcomes. Why? Phil Tetlock , a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, who has studied forecasting in depth, suggests that " vague verbiage gives you political safety ."
When you use a word to describe the likelihood of a probabilistic outcome, you have a lot of wiggle room to make yourself look good after the fact. If a predicted event happens, one might declare: "I told you it would probably happen." If it doesn't happen, the fallback might be: "I only said it would probably happen." Such ambiguous words not only allow the speaker to avoid being pinned down but also allow the receiver to interpret the message in a way that is consistent withtheir preconceived notions. Obviously, the result is poor communication.
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We created a fresh survey with a couple of goals in mind. One was to increase the size of the sample, including individuals outside of the intelligenceand scientific communities. Another was to seewhether we could detect any differences by age or gender or between those who learned English as a primary or secondary language.
Here are the three main lessons fromour analysis.Lesson 1: Use probabilities instead of words to avoid misinterpretation.
Our survey asked members of the general public to attach probabilities to 23 common words or phrases appearing in random order. The exhibit below summarizes the results from 1,700 respondents.
The wide variation of likelihood people attach to certain words immediately jumps out. While some are construed quite narrowly, others are broadly interpreted. Most — but not all — people think "always" means "100% of the time," for example, but the probability range that most attribute to an event with a "real possibility" of happening spans about 20% to 80%. In general, we found that the word "possible" and its variations have wide ranges and invite confusion.
We also found that men and women see some probabilistic words differently. As the table below shows, women tend to place higher probabilities on ambiguous words and phrases such as "maybe," "possibly," and "might happen." Here again, we see that "possible" and its variations particularly invite misinterpretation. This result is consistent with analysis by the data science team at
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1. These include the Nurse Family Partnership and the Infant Health and Development Program.
2. Examples of these high-quality preschool programs include the Perry Preschool Program, Abecedarian Project, Early Training Project, Chicago Parent-Child Program, the Elmira Prenatal/Early Infancy Project, The Milwaukee Project, NC Smart Start, and More at Four, among many others.
3. Participation also provided large benefits to the mothers.
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Individual studies show a variety of effects on social and emotional skills: The most recent Oklahoma study finds gains in social emotional skills, on reducing timidity and increasing attentiveness. At the same time, there seems to be the potential for poor-quality programs to result in increased behavior problems (Magnuson, Ruhm, and Waldfogel 2007). Indeed, Heckman and colleagues suggest that these early gains in so-called noncognitive skills drive many of the lasting gains we see in other domains (Heckman, Stixrud, and Urzua 2006).
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6. For the 2001–2002 cohort, however, effects on math and reading test scores had vanished by 3rd grade (a phenomenon sometimes referred to as "fadeout"). For the 2006–2007 cohort, however, there were persistent effects on math scores of 0.18 standard deviations (there were no persistent effects in reading).
7. The program's quality has significantly improved "using essentially the same programs (2/3 private) and teachers—though many teachers went back to school for degrees and specialized training in return for higher pay, all received coaching" (NIEER 2013).
8. Number of felonies by type and gender are reported in Table A2 (Nores et al. 2005).
9. An expansion of these benefits also considers the non-negligible costs saved to the potential crime victims. See Heckman et al. (2010) and Reynolds et al. (2011).
10. Bartik (2014) also points to a few shorter-term impacts that are rarely noted, such as increased property values in areas in which public pre-kindergarten programs are established.
11. EPI analysis of 2015 CPS microdata.
12. Blau and Hagy (1998) examine differences in child care prices and their relationship with child care demand and labor supply of parents, among other outcomes. They estimate an elasticity of employment with respect to the price of child care of -0.20. In other words, decreasing child care costs by 1 percent increases mothers' labor force participation by 0.2 percent.
In a recent White House paper on the economics of early childhood investments, researchers cite elasticity estimates ranging from -0.05 to 0.40. They also find that single mothers' work decisions appear particularly responsive to changes in child care costs. In our estimates, we use the -0.20 elasticity, following the relatively conservative estimate discussed in Blau (2001), and used for similar purposes by Bartik (2006) in his analysis of the Chicago Child-Parent Center, and by Lynch and Vaghul (2015) in their analysis of the benefits of a hypothetical universal pre-kindergarten program.
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