McMonigal Architects has renovated our own little corner of cyberspace. The address remains the same: mcmonigal.com, but our online digs have been completely revamped. Check out the new and improved website today.
When you do, you'll enjoy some show and tell. See a portfolio of our home, business, and community projects, complete with extensive photography and an overview of the work. Then learn more about McMonigal's method for design success and the talented people who make things happen.
We'll continue updating our site with new projects, so visit often. For more up-to-date news, check back here or follow our social media posts.
At McMonigal we often collaborate with other professionals to achieve the best results, and we did the same with our new site. Spangler Design Team created the website. LiveWire Copy provided the copy writing Thanks to all for the great team work!


It's a great feeling to wrap up a piece and submit it for final review.
You feel the weight lift off your shoulders, and there's a moment of peace and relaxation before moving to your next story.
The editor's job is to make minor edits and fine-tune the piece. Too much editing and the content loses its authenticity.
Here are some tips to help improve your writing and create less work for your editor.
1. Start off with a strong lede.
The lede is the most important part of your story. A strong lede gets readers interested, and more likely to read the entire piece and share it on social media. A poor lede will make readers lose interest and give up.
There are multiple sides and viewpoints for each story.
Quoting multiple people helps get those unique voices out there and adds to the quality of the story.
Avoid using jargon or overly-complex words when simple language is easier to digest.
If you're going out of your way to use a thesaurus while writing, STOP. A $5 word is just as effective as a $20 word.
Control+F on a PC or Command+F on a Mac is a great, simple tool to check for title-casing consistency.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps your content rank higher in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs).
A simple way to optimize SEO is to organize your content into easily consumed sections (e.g. bulleted or numbered lists).
6. Use the read aloud function.
Ideally, every story you write is proofread by at least one pair of unique eyes. Even when that's the case, you should still try to make your story as flawless as possible before passing it off for review. I love using the read aloud function in Microsoft Word or the speech function in Google. I often catch myself using a word that's spelled very closely to the word I intended to use, and the speech function catches it.
Hearing your story also helps simulate the reader's experience. Does your story have good flow? Are certain paragraphs too meaty and need to be trimmed down? Hearing your story will help answer these questions.


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Tim O'Reilly: 'Generosity is the thing that is at the beginning of prosperity'
The tech pioneer, CEO of publishing company O'Reilly Media, says his industry will fail unless the web giants start putting consumers ahead of shareholders
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CEO Tim O'Reilly: a great admirer of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. Photograph: Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for LinkedIn
Tim O'Reilly believes we need to have a reset. This means more coming from him than it does from most people. The 63-year-old CEO, born in Ireland and raised in San Francisco, is one of the most influential pioneers and thinkers of the internet age. His publishing company, O'Reilly Media, began producing computer manuals in the late 1970s and he has been early to spot many influential tech trends ever since: open-source software, web 2.0, wifi, the maker movement and big data among them.
His new book, WTF: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us, looks at work and how jobs will change in a world shaped by technology. It is sometimes hard not to be pessimistic about what's coming over the hill, but he is convinced that our destiny remains in human hands.
How would you describe your new book?
It's very complex. It's an economic call to action wrapped in a business book wrapped in a memoir. Ha!
You studied classics at Harvard and have been involved in the tech revolution since the very beginning…
It could have been 10 books. But the start point was a talk at TED University on income inequality by Nick Hanauer in 2012. He made this point that is too often not appreciated, which is that the whole cycle of capitalism depends on people being able to buy things. And with the short-sighted approach to capitalism, in which the rich get richer and it doesn't trickle down, we're getting to an endgame of that.
That idea played into a set of observations I had been making my whole career. Namely, the rise and fall of technology platforms has lessons for the rise and fall of society. When those platforms create value for the participants, they flourish. When they start taking too much of the value for themselves, they fail.
What's an example of that?
At the very beginning of my career, it was the battle between IBM and the tech industry. Then Microsoft and the tech industry. Microsoft was the liberator originally: the PC was part of the first revolution, a democratising force. Then Microsoft recreated the old monopoly of IBM, where they sucked all the air out of the room. And sure enough all of the customers went somewhere else.
And that continues to happen?
In the book, I write about how Google optimises for relevance and how that works. Facebook is trying to optimise for something slightly different: something that will be clicked on or that people will find engaging and spend more time with. And we've seen it with fake news and now ad targeting, how Facebook's well-intentioned, incredibly idealistic algorithms have become increasingly divisive.
How does that connect to the wider economy?
I'm ultimately trying to get to this notion that technology is going to eliminate jobs and my response is: only if that's what we tell it to do. And it is what we're telling it to do. Because the goal, just like Google has relevance and Facebook has engagement, the massive goal that we tell every company to pursue is shareholder value. Value for shareholders, even if it means shedding employees, gutting communities, doing things that are bad in the long run, because we've created all these incentives and there are people who are gaming the system.
In the same way, fake news shows that Facebook didn't get it quite right and had to fix the algorithm; we have to fix the algorithm that we're using to manage our markets and our economy.
Robots 'could take 4m UK private sector jobs within 10 years'
You mention the idealistic streak that some of these big tech companies have. Does that make you optimistic that change can happen?
Yes, but they need to step up and understand what it means to practise that ideal. For Google to say: "Don't be evil" and then do some of the things that they do; well, guys, you've got to think a little harder about that. It's funny because the company that I've ended up respecting the most in that regard is Amazon. There's a lot of stuff that's not great about Amazon, but they keep upping the ante in ways that are interesting and productive. And I'm a great admirer of Elon Musk. I'd say that he and Jeff Bezos are my two favourite entrepreneurs at the moment.
You've not always praised Amazon. What's changed?
Well, it's the fact that they are consistently bold in their reinvestment in the future. Again, if you look at Google, they go: "We've got all these big bets…" But a lot of them feel like rich people's toys: "We're going to work on having people live for ever" or whatever. It's like, OK, great. But Amazon: think about how many companies exist and are supported by Amazon's cloud computing platform. They invented this whole new category. And they are always pushing for lower prices, not for higher margins. I just feel that Jeff is committed to the future in a way that a lot of people aren't.
Generosity is the thing that is at the beginning of prosperity, not at the end
One of the central themes of the book is AI and what impact it will have on the job market. Again, you suggest that Amazon is leading the way here…
Recently, Amazon introduced 50,000 robots but also added 200,000 people because they used them to pack more products into the warehouses. They used them to speed up delivery times. This is the narrative of the augmented worker, which again is a pattern from history. A steam shovel could do more than any human worker and, yes, it did mean that we put a lot of human workers out of business. But then we started doing more and that put people back to work.
Just in my neighbourhood, the US Post Office, which everyone thought was on its deathbed, is now showing up at 10pm. Crazy stuff! But that's because Amazon upped the ante. Or Uber: it's a revolution in urban transportation that, because of the augmentation of mapping and directions, has put millions of untrained people to work. That's the equivalent of the steam shovel.
Looking back at your career, what are you proudest of?
I'm really proud of the role I played in reshaping the narrative about open-source software. It was seen as this business-hostile thing: free software. But I saw it as a huge flowering of opportunity that's open to the world. I guess if you look at my entire career, I'm trying to talk about the value of generosity. And why generosity is not something you paste on at the end – generosity is something that is generative. Generosity is the thing that is at the beginning of prosperity, not at the end.
But is that human nature?
It's all human nature, it's interesting. I've just lately been reading a book I highly recommend: How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life by Russ Roberts. And it's funny because I expected it to be a libertarian account of why free markets are so great. But it's about Adam Smith's other great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and about the desire of people to be good and the desire of people to be seen as good by their peers. And how that's the root thing in human behaviour. In a lot of ways, I've spent my career trying to talk about what is good – maybe that's my classics training – in the realm of technology.
So what's the role of the entrepreneur within this system?
Before steel girders, we couldn't build skyscrapers. Before steel cables, we couldn't build suspension bridges. We keep advancing, these new technologies make new things possible, and as a result we become richer. So, technology entrepreneurs, that's your job! To find the things that were previously impossible.
• WTF: What's the Future and Why It's Up To Us by Tim O'Reilly is published by Random House (£14.99). To order a copy for £12.74 go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only. Phone orders min p&p of £1.99

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Insurance industry title holder Legal & General will set out to defend its trophy in the Standard Chartered Great City Race on Thursday 12 July after entering a strong team to compete in the 5K corporate running challenge. The company will face tough opposition though with 38 other insurance businesses set to line up alongside it on the start line.
Legal & General has been a consistent performer in the race having previously won the team and individual titles. Lloyd's and Marsh have both increased the number of runners in their teams from last year and will be amongst the other insurance companies expected to challenge Legal & General for the industry title.
The Standard Chartered Great City Race is firmly established as the City's premier corporate running challenge, selling out in record time again this year with 6,800 runners representing over 350 companies set to pace round London's Square Mile. Other industry sectors taking part in the race include legal, banking, accountancy and the media.
While the industry titles will be hotly contested, all runners are also being encouraged to help raise vital funds for the race's official beneficiary, Seeing is Believing, a global initiative that tackles avoidable blindness. There are 285 million blind people in the world, yet amazingly 80% of all cases could have been prevented.
Every entry will support Seeing is Believing with £5 from each runner's entry being donated to the initiative which aims to raise $100 million by 2020. Standard Chartered Bank has also pledged to match all donations pound-for-pound, therefore doubling the impact.
Richard Holmes, Standard Chartered Bank CEO Europe said: "The Standard Chartered Great City Race is a wonderful event which brings together companies from all over London's Square Mile.


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Mr Biver awarded at the Caesar Awards Gala in Bucharest on November 25th.
Hosted at the Athnee Palace Hilton to welcome over 250 VIP guests, consisted of important businessmen, politicians and sport legends Ilie Nastase and Nadia Comaneci.
Caesar's subscribers have voted the most relevant products and services from six categories which target the international luxury industry to express their preferences. After naming the trends for 2011, the Awards Gala focused on its Caesar Best Honoris distinctions privileged by the presence of Jean-Claude Biver, CEO of Hublot.
Caesar Best Honoris was handed by Dan Vardie, founder and editor of Caesar Magazine to Mr Biver for his impressive achievements in the international watch industry during the last 4 decades, when more than three leading luxury brands became worldwide references because of his talent: "I first want to thank my team for everything because that team have made Hublot what it is today. The day I die will be the moment when I can truly judge my success. And what I have achieved. I would have to leave a trace of eternity. If you die and leave a trace of eternity you are not dead. And I have a whole life to do this. And what is the trace of eternity? That is love!".


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The Real Utopias Project
2002: Redesigning Redistribution
Organized by Bruce Ackerman, Anne Alstott, and Phillipe Van Parijs
Thirty years ago, in the aftermath of the major expansion of welfare state programs of the 1960s, there was a lively political debate in the United States over whether or not a negative income tax should be adopted as a centerpiece of policies designed to alleviate poverty and reduce inequality. In the end the Family Assistance Program, as the proposal was known, was narrowly defeated in the U.S. Congress, and so the existing welfare mechanism of Aid to Families with Dependent Children remained intact.
In that debate of 30 years ago the issue was what sort of institution of redistribution would best serve broader social and economic goals, not whether the state should get out of the business of redistribution altogether. The intervening three decades witnessed a massive shift in the ideological coordinates of public policy discussion. By the early 1990s, defenders of traditional redistributive policies of the affirmative state were on the defensive and virtually no one in the public debate argued that income redistribution was a worthy political goal. Instead of a political ethos in which the basic well-being of all citizens was seen as part of a collective responsibility, the vision was one in which each person took full "personal responsibility" for their own well-being. The nearly universal call was to "end welfare as we know it", replacing it with a vestigial welfare state that at most would provide a minimal safety net only for those people clearly incapable of taking care of themselves. Times were indeed bleak for progressives committed to an egalitarian conception of social justice.
Given this ideological climate, it might seem like an unpropitious time to propose radical strategies for reducing inequality through new programs of income and wealth redistribution. Redistribution is now broadly regarded as antithetical to economic efficiency and thus ultimately self-defeating; there is no vocal political coalition demanding new efforts at egalitarian redistribution; and talk of raising taxes and dramatically expanding the activities of the state is seen by most analysts as off the political agenda. The Real Utopias Project, which is sponsoring this conference, is based on the belief that it is important to engage in rigorous analysis of alternative visions of institutional change even when there seems to be little support for such ideas.
In this spirit, the Redesigning Redistribution conference in the Real Utopias Project will examine two provocative proposals for radical redesigns of redistributive institutions: Universal Basic Income, as elaborated by Philippe van Parijs, and Stakeholder Grants, as elaborated by Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott. While both of these proposals contain a range of complex details, they are both based on very simple ideas:
Basic Income. All citizens are given a monthly stipend sufficiently high to provide them with a standard of living above the poverty line. This monthly income is universal rather than means-tested — it is given automatically to all citizens regardless of their individual economic circumstances. And it is unconditional — receiving the basic income does not depend upon performing any labor services or satisfying other conditions. In this way basic income is like publicly-financed universal health insurance: in a universal health care system, medical care is provided both to citizens who exercise and eat healthy diets and to those who do not. It is not a condition of getting medical care that one be "responsible" with respect to one's health. Unconditional, universal basic income takes the same stance about basic needs: as a matter of basic rights, no one should live in poverty in an affluent society.
Stakeholder Grants. All citizens, upon reaching the age of early adulthood — say 21 — receive a substantial one-time lump-sum grant sufficiently large so that all young adults would be significant wealth holders. Ackerman and Alstott propose that this grant be in the vicinity of $80,000 and would be financed by an annual wealth tax of roughly 2% . In the absence of such grants, children of wealthy parents are able to get lump-sum stakes for education, housing, business start-ups, investments, and so on, whereas children of non-wealthy parents are not. This situation fundamentally violates values of equal opportunity. A system of stakeholder grants, they argue "expresses a fundamental social responsibility: every American has an obligation to contribute to a fair starting point for all."
In some ways, basic income and stakeholder grants are not completely different kinds of proposals. After all, if one invests a stakeholder grant in a relatively low-risk investment and waits a number of years, then it will generate a permanent stream of income equivalent to a basic income. Similarly, if continues to work for earnings in the labor market while receiving a basic income and one saves the basic income, after a number of years it will become the equivalent of a stakeholder grant. Nevertheless, they reflect quite distinct visions of what kind of system of redistribution would be morally and pragmatically optimal in developed market economies. Stakeholder grants emphasizes individual responsibility and what is sometimes called "starting gate equality of opportunity". Individuals get a stake, and if they blow it on conspicuous consumption rather than long-term plans, then this is their responsibility. Basic income envisions a system of redistribution that permanently guarantees everyone freedom from poverty and a certain kind of lifetime equality of minimal opportunity: the opportunity to withdraw from the labor force to engage in non-remunerated activity.
There are, of course, many objections that can be raised against both of these proposals. Some of these objections are moral: basic income rewards people for being parasites; redistributions of wealth illegitimately takes assets away from people who have worked hard to build them up. Others are pragmatic: so many people would withdraw their labor from the labor market if there was a decent basic income that the economy would collapse; the rates of taxation required for basic income will undermine incentives; redistributions of wealth to create stakes will eliminate incentives to build up assets. The central goal of the Redesigning Redistribution conference is to clarify the arguments behind these two proposals, evaluate the cogency of the objections, and explore a range of other models of redistribution in light of these objections.
The Redesigning Redistribution Conference will open on Thursday evening, May 2, with an open public forum in which the two proposals will be presented and discussed by a panel of experts. This will be followed on Friday and Saturday with intensive discussions of 15 or so commentaries on the proposals that are being prepared by invited participants.
Core Papers
Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, "Why Stakeholding"
Phillipe Van Parijs, "Basic Income"
Barbara Bergmann, "A Swedish-Style Welfare State or Basic Income?"
Stephen Cohen, "Inequality and the Case for Redistribution"
Irv Garfinkel et al.,"The Effects of a Basic Income Guarantee on Poverty and Income Distribution
Julian Le Grand, "Implementing Stakeholder Grants: the British Case"
Michael Lewis, "Perhaps There Can be Too Much Freedom"
Carole Pateman, "Democratizing Citizenship: Some Advantages To Basic Income"
Guy Standing, "CI, COAG and COG: A comment on a Debate"
Pascale Vielle and Jean-Michel Bonvin, "Activation Policies: A Capabilities Perspective"
Amy Wax, "Something for Nothing: Liberal Justice and Welfare Work Requirements"
Stuart White, "The Citizen's Stake and the Alienation Objection"
Karl Widerquist, "The Stakeholder Account System: A proposal for a hybrid of Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants for Britain and the United States"
Edward Wolff, "Stakeholding and Inheritances"
Erik Olin Wright, "Basic Income, Stakeholder Grants, and Class Analysis"


TYTO is the eclectic, the unexpected; where the discovery of art, culture, nature and knowledge unfolds. It is a place of inspiration that honours, in name, the endangered Tyto Capensis Owl. TYTO is so much more than a wetland… Year round it plays host to a fusion of events, activities, workshops and tours. A perfect place to while away an hour or a day. A serene one hour drive north of Townsville, in the heart of Hinchinbrook … TYTO is the ideal way to take time out.
New to the site? Simply scroll down and click on your area of interest or use the menu bar in the top right to find what you are looking for. We are still building the site so check back regularly to keep updated.
Pastime, profession or passion, immerse yourself in the Arts at TYTO. From Regional Art Gallery exhibitions to use of our Double Daw Creative Studio and regular workshops, introducing you to something new or instructing you how to hone your art.
TYTO is a great place to start when exploring art and its various disciplines in the Hinchinbrook region. Discover your artistic calling today.
Blessed with a tropical climate that readily rejuvenates the unique flora and fauna of the region, our bountiful nature shines at TYTO. From the regenerated 110 hectare wetlands that are home to a remarkable 27.4% of Australian bird species in one location, to the beautifully tended parklands for you to take respite and simply relax. Get back to nature today.
With access to incredible break out spaces and activities that cover our four core pillars of Art, Culture, Nature and Knowledge there is no equivalent within the region.
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The ideas, customs, and social behaviour of the collective tapestry, including over 23 nationalities that have shaped Hinchinbrook and are kept alive at TYTO. From tours that tell the tales of toil on the great cane farms established by migrants, to a mini museum honouring our forefathers who contributed to today's freedoms.
From genealogical facilities that keep the connection alive for future generations, to a myriad of events that celebrate every facet of our lifestyle. Capture a snapshot of culture at TYTO today.
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Our own reproduction of the emergency brake clip that is used on Late MB, Late GPW, CJ2A, CJ3A, CJ3B, CJ5 and CJ6 models.
Our own reproduction of the emergency brake clip that is used on Late MB, Late GPW, CJ2A, CJ3A, CJ3B, CJ5 and CJ6 models. This is also used on 1960-63 Pick Up Truck, Station Wagon and Sedan Delivery models with the pull up handle. This clip goes on the adjustable clevis on the cable and the emergency brake link then attaches to it. Made in the USA.


Shopify Capital helps entrepreneurs get the funds they need to grow their businesses. With no application process or forms to fill out, securing capital has never been this simple.
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As you make sales, you'll remit to Shopify a fixed percentage of your daily sales until Shopify receives the total amount of receivables purchased.
Instead of spending hours at the bank, filling out paperwork with no guarantees, we'll come to you with merchant cash advance funding options, tailored to your business. You decide which amount will help you reach your goals, and we'll deposit the funds. It's that easy.
Unlike loans, merchant cash advances don't require monthly payments and there's nothing to set up with your bank. The merchant cash advance will be remitted to Shopify automatically as you make daily sales. The more sales you make, the sooner you'll deliver the total amount of receivables purchased to Shopify. And, if your store makes no sales on a given day, you'll remit nothing.
With Shopify Capital, you get the money you need to grow your business with just a few clicks. There is no lengthy application process and no paper forms to fill out. If you're eligible, you'll receive an email and a notification in Shopify.
Eligibility is currently limited to a small group of merchants within the United States, but we plan to expand this program to more merchants over the coming months.
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Is a merchant cash advance the same thing as a loan?
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A merchant cash advance is the purchase by Shopify of your future receivables at a discounted price. A merchant cash advance gives you a lump sum in exchange for a percentage of your future daily sales until you have paid the total amount of receivables purchased.
A Shopify Capital loan gives you a lump sum that you repay through a percentage of your future daily sales. Every 60 days, you're expected to pay back ⅙ of the loan. If you can't reach this through your regular repayments, the difference (milestone payment) will be debited from your bank account.
For every day that you make sales, a certain percentage of the gross dollar amount of your sales (the remittance rate) is used to calculate your remittance. So, on days when you sell a lot, your remittance will be bigger, and on days when you make less, your remittance will be less. You'll continue to make remittances until you deliver the total amount of receivables purchased.
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How long is my offer valid?
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From Harlem to LA: A Brief History of Chicken and Waffles and Where to Find the Perfect Plate in Los Angeles
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Chicken and waffles is a popular dish that has a long history in Los Angeles, and it is a beloved meal that can be found at restaurants and food trucks throughout the city. But where did this delicious combination of fried chicken and waffles come from, and why has it become so popular in LA?
The origins of chicken and waffles can be traced back to the 1930s, when it was served at the Wells Supper Club in Harlem, New York. This dish was originally created as a way to cater to late-night jazz musicians, who would often perform at the club until the early hours of the morning. The combination of savory fried chicken and sweet waffles was a hit, and it eventually spread to other parts of the country, including Los Angeles.
In LA, chicken and waffles became particularly popular in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was served at a number of soul food restaurants and diners. Today, chicken and waffles can be found at a wide variety of restaurants, like the famous Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles, and food trucks throughout the city, and it is a beloved and iconic dish that is enjoyed by people of all ages.
So what makes the perfect chicken and waffles? The key is to find the right balance between the savory fried chicken and the sweet waffles. The chicken should be crispy and juicy, and the waffles should be light and fluffy. Some people prefer their waffles plain, while others like to top them with syrup, butter, or fruit.
Overall, chicken and waffles is a delicious and satisfying meal that has a long history in Los Angeles. Whether you're a fan of the classic combination or you're looking to try something new, there are plenty of great places to enjoy chicken and waffles in LA.


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Pseudochthonius clarus es una especie de arácnido  del orden Pseudoscorpionida de la familia Chthoniidae.

Distribución geográfica
Se encuentra en Jamaica.

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Clarus
Arácnidos de Jamaica

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The American Welding Society would like to welcome you to the new American Welding Online website and the AWO Blog. Over the last several months AWS has been working diligently to develop the AWO website, along with new educational programs, content, and services. In this first post I will take a few moments to point out some of the new website's features and thank those individuals who made this possible.
Those of you who have visited American Welding Online before will notice a significant upgrade in the look and functionality of the. These improvements have been in the works for several months and have become necessary as the use of American Welding Online has grown, both to accommodate increasing traffic to the website and to allow AWS to continuously release new content, including complimentary programs, training, blogs, and podcasts.
The new AWO Facebook page will keep you better connected with industry professionals, AWS members, and users of AWO. AWS staff will post information about new and existing AWS online programs, the release of new content, general AWS information, and AWO promotions. Please take a moment to follow us on Facebook by selecting the "Like" button on the AWO homepage.
The AWO Blog is an opportunity for AWS staff to share their knowledge and experience in technical education, best practices, and new developments, and connect with the welding instructors, students, and professionals who make the industry sustainable.
Upon the launch of our new site, American Welding Online will be hosting a regular Podcast focused on welding research and development. This Podcast line is comprised of presentations delivered at the FABTECH AWS Professional Program. These presentations strive to make the latest scientific research in welding, cutting, and allied fields accessible to everyone, everywhere, at any time. In the near future, AWS will begin production on separate Podcast lines focused on welding education and development.
Every year, the AWS Education Committee and the AWS Education Services Department host the Education Annual Program at the FABTECH Exposition. AWS captured last year's program, held in Chicago, IL from November 15th through November 17th, and posted it on AWO. Please visit the "2011 Education annual Program" page in the Conferences section of the website to view the presentations.
American Welding Online and much of the new content would not have been possible were it not for the hard work and dedication of many individuals. I'd like to take a moment and thank a few of those individuals personally. First and foremost, American Welding Online would not have been possible without the leadership and vision of AWS Executive Director Ray Shook, AWS President Bill Rice, and the AWS Board of Directors.
Many volunteers have dedicated countless hours working with the Education Services Department to develop some of the new products and content that will be hosted through AWO. While it would be impossible to list them all here I would like to single out a few individuals and groups: Ed Norman and the AWS Education Committee have been a constant source of support and guidance. The SENSE Online program would not be possible were it not for their enthusiasm and devotion. I can confidently say that American Welding Online as a concept would have never been possible without Bob Wiswesser, Stan Raymond, George Hilfka, Jeff Hufsey, and the rest of the AWS Certification Committee.
There were many people outside of AWS which contributed significantly to making the new website and content possible. I would like to thank Jessica Santa-Cruz from Softshell Design (softshelldesign.com) who designed and built the new website, Mike Heins and Josh Lavin from Perusion Consulting (perusion.com) who developed most of our back end architecture and database functions, and Leo J. Williams who does all of our audio narrations.
Finally, I want to thank the whole Education Services Department for their dedication and relentless effort to make this all possible: Juan Gil (lead developer), Carlos Plaza (writer and editor), Javier Sosa (Video/audio), Vanessa Vazquez (a little bit of everything), Martica Venture (Director of Education Operations), Nichole Bradley (SENSE), Alina Blanco (seminar operations), and Zoila Oliva (conferences). I would also like to thank the rest of the AWS staff who have all contributed in one way or another to make this all possible, especially the IT professionals who are probably sick of seeing me show up at their door: Jim Lankford, Natalia Swain, Armando Campana, and Jairo Mayorga.
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Jacques-Bernard-Marie Montané (5 January 1751, Toulouse–after 1805) was president of the Revolutionary Tribunal from March to August in 1793, during the French Revolution.

He was president at the trial of Charlotte Corday.

He was seen as insufficiently radical, and was replaced by Martial Herman.

He survived the Thermidorian Reaction.

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Landeux, Philippe Le tribunal révolutionnaire de Paris (1793-1795) (2017)

Presidents of the French Revolutionary Tribunal
Politicians from Toulouse
1751 births
19th-century deaths
Year of death unknown


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OK, it's still pretty early to talk about the 2020 Presidential candidate selection process and the general election. However, it's no longer "too early". Most of the Democratic candidates have declared their intent, and all that remains is for Joe Biden to make it official. On the Republican side — of course, Trump owns the show, the Muller report obviously isn't going to stop him. It will be interesting to see if anyone dares to challenge him, maybe John Kasich will take up the quixotic mantle, dream the impossible dream? It would at least make the GOP primary process somewhat interesting. And then there's already Bill Weld, so at least someone is going to go down fighting the Trump Goliath. And the 3rd party field is off to a good start with Howard Schultz (early polls indicate that Schultz might bleed more votes from the Democratic challenger than from Trump).
On the Democratic side, there is a plethora of potential candidates at this point; I believe that the latest count is up to 16, and Joe will make 17, However, it all really sums up to a digital choice: Bernie (or younger reasonable facsimile) or Joe (or younger reasonable facsimile).
The argument for Joe and the pragmatists — Here are some thoughts from a recent Wall St Journal article from Ted Van Dyk, a Democratic party activist since the 1980s. According to Van Dyk, many say that the Democrats need to offer "just the opposite" of Trump . . . not only in terms of policy, but in terms of governing style.
The first is continuing public disenchantment with political, media, financial and cultural establishments. It is this disenchantment that brought Mr. Trump to the White House in the first place and, additionally, almost brought Sen. Bernie Sanders, not even a Democrat, the Democratic presidential nomination.
In Mr. Trump's case, voters knew he was boorish, narcissistic, a business and financial freewheeler, a womanizer, and largely ignorant of governance and public policy. His election was wholly about disillusion with the alternatives.
To paraphrase – with Trump, many average voters will see a good economy, low unemployment, ISIS defeated, withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan, getting tough with China, trying to get a handle on North Korea by directly engaging its mysterious leadership (something never done before), trying to get control of the southern border . . . from that perspective, Trump actually has a pretty good track record.
Given these objective conditions, cascading attacks on Mr. Trump and his family for his aberrant Presidential conduct are ultimately counterproductive. So are the many portrayals by the Democrats of a America as a nation mired in economic distress and plagued by white nationalism.
If Democratic candidates persist in 2020 in labeling Republicans as antiblack, anti-Latino, antiwoman, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant and anti-middle-class, they can credibly be counterattacked for diverting attention from their own lack of a credible alternative agenda addressing the core national-security and economic issues. That agenda must be serious and not based on a Green New Deal that, however well-intentioned, is currently impossible technologically and economically, is crushingly unaffordable, and contains provisions wholly unrelated to a transition from fossil fuels.
When voters consider changing presidents, they usually focus on the weaknesses of the incumbent and vote for a replacement they perceive as his opposite. That has been the case in every president-changing election from 1932 until the present day.
Voters thus will be looking for a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who is reflective, experienced, a unifier rather than divider, and demonstrably capable of serious governance. In other words, not just another pugnacious self-seeker.
This is obviously a reference to Joe Biden. In sum, this is the case for Joe Biden (or a Joe variant such as Amy Klobuchar, or maybe even Beto O'Rourke, once he is forced to decide where he really stands on the issues).
THE BERNIE THEORY – The argument for Bernie Sanders starts out by agreeing that the GOP selected Trump, and the voters in the right states elected Trump, out of disappointment and disdain for the existing political system. Enough of the public lost faith in the effectiveness of "the establishment", and thus wanted to experiment (and Trump is truly an "experimental president"). In that light, then if the Democrats spotlight their own socialist experiment in 2020, versus the political correctness issues — i.e., if they hammer on all of their guarantees (college, health care, jobs, high minimum wage, fleece the rich to pay for it) and tone down the racism / sexism / all-else-ism accusations, and also put open border policy on the backburner (attacking ICE and tear down the wall), then they might qualify as "the next experiment". If the Trump experiment appears to be faltering and disappointing, perhaps enough of the public in the right places will be willing to change the experiment. E.g. if the economy goes into an an economic recession in 2020. And then throw in the demographic changes that have already put Arizona and Georgia in play for the Dems.
This is probably why Bernie got taken a lot more seriously in 2016 than anyone would have expected up front, and why he's polling quite well right now. Bernie is like Trump — clearly a big change, an experiment in being "not like what we've had before".
But, the problem is that the socialistic Democrats are vulnerable to flank attacks from GOP regarding the tangential issues that are strongly insisted upon by the Democratic "base", i.e. 1.) open border policy 2.) maximum political correctness, with the threat of harsh tactics against anyone who don't agree with it (e.g. Kamala Harris recently trying to disqualify a federal judge appointment because the candidate was a member of the Catholic Knights of Columbus.
And a third and fourth Democratic vulnerability: 3.) A Green New Deal that could include a lot of uncomfortable lifestyle changes for middle and upper class Americans 4.) Medicare for all is arguably going to lead to high taxes, reduced choices, wasteful spending, limitations on healthcare quality, and ultimately rationing.
Also – socialism is still a tough sell in the US, even though "77 percent of Democrats believe that the country would be 'better off' if it were more socialist", according to a recent Public Opinion Strategies poll. This poll also found that "significant majorities of key 2020 swing voter groups like white suburban women (40 percent agree/57 percent disagree), voters in key '20 presidential states (42 percent agree/54 percent disagree) and suburban voters (41 percent agree/56 percent disagree) all disagree with this statement".
The third option would be for the Democrats to go full socialist and at the same time loudly assert their socially progressive agenda. In that case, I would say that the 2020 election is going to be a replay of McGovern 1972 (Kamala Harris seems especially prone to push a social and economic agenda — although she has the countervailing advantage of possibly causing big jumps in the turnout rates of minorities, as in 2008). I would assume that the Dems are smart enough not to do that, but then again, the Democratic base seems increasing ideological and idealistic, not particularly concerned with the pragmatic. They want not just to defeat Trump but to change America. And I don't think that America is quite ready yet for all of the changes that the base envisions.
In the GOP camp, all seems quite calm. Barring a surprise on the part of nature (Trump's health), and with special counsel Robert Muller's investigation into Trump's alleged Russian ties in the rear view mirror, the GOP has their 2020 ticket locked in. But as to the vote count on the night of November , 2020, there are a lot of uncertainties that the GOP faces. They have not been expanding their appeal to woman and Hispanics, which they need; if anything Trump has been shrinking this base. Trump keeps doubling down on his white male oriented rural and rust belt base, which barely put him over the top in the mid-west swing states. It would not take much to get Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan back into the Democratic column, and Georgia and Arizona might also flip; whereas only new state that GOP threatens is Minnesota.
As such, 2020 could well be the Democrat's "race to lose", especially if the economy falters in 2020 (as 50% of business economists now expect). But don't put anything past the Dems; they might still find a way to blow it!
Jim, It seems to me that it's a bit early to discuss 2020 politics—or perhaps I just find it such a mess that I hate to even think about it.
Already it seems that "fusses" are being kicked up with the latest on Biden. A major fuss about a man who kissed the back of a woman's head versus a president who admitted he assaulted women outright and bragged about it; all I can say is "give me a break". The whole thing seems to me that it's going to be even worse than the last election where DJT ran for prez. And I tend to want to run screaming from the room just thinking about it.
I would hope that in the end some good female candidate such as Kamala Harris be chosen by the Democrats; let someone like her go up against DJT. He may find that it's not all that simple winning a second term. Harris who to me seems a a good version of a female Obama would just be perfect for the Democrats as their candidate.


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A unique twist to a traditional ricotta salata. Deliciously creamy & dense at the same time. Salty with a luxurious, yet subtle flavor of the goat milk. Slices well, and grates easily.
The words 'Ricotta' means re-cooked and 'Salata' means salted. Ricotta Salata is an Italian cheese made from the whey part of sheep milk (this particular version is made from gaot whey), which is pressed, salted and aged for at least 90 days. It is milky white in color with firm texture and salty taste. The cheese is often used in salads and ideal for slicing, crumbling and grating.
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1. Preheat the oven to 425ºF. Cover a baking sheet with foil. In a bowl, toss the squash with the garlic, salt, pepper, rosemary or sage, and 1 tablespoon of the olive oil until all of the squash is coated with oil. Transfer to the baking sheet, place in the oven and roast for 30 minutes, or until tender and caramelized. Remove from the heat. Remove the garlic cloves and discard. Transfer the squash to a wide pasta bowl and add the cheese. Keep warm.
2. Bring a large pot of generously salted water to a boil and add the pasta. Cook al dente, following the timing instructions on the package but checking the pasta a minute or two before. Ladle about 1/2 cup cooking water from the pasta into the bowl with the squash and cheese and stir together.
3. When the pasta is ready, drain and toss with the squash mixture, the remaining tablespoon of olive oil, and the parsley. Serve hot.
ROAST ONIONS: Heat oven to 350° F. Cut onions in half, then slice in half moons about 1/4-inch thick. Place onions, thyme, and rosemary on rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons olive oil and mix with your hands until herbs and onion slices are coated. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt and a grind or two of black pepper. Mix with your hands again. Place pan in oven and roast for about 60 to 75 minutes or until onion slices have turned golden and soft and are caramelized. Start checking after about 60 minutes and remove onions before they begin to char. Burnt onions are not delicious!
PREPARE KALE: Wash kale in cold water. Several rinses may be needed to remove dirt and grit. Dry kale with a few layers of kitchen towels. Working carefully, remove thick stems from kale and roll kale leaves into long cigarette-style rolls. Cut kale into very thin strips. Add kale to salad bowl or serving plate. Pour 3/4 of the salad dressing over kale and toss with tongs or your hands until all leaves are coated.
COOK BACON: When onions are just starting to turn golden at the tips, slice bacon lengthwise and then cut into 1-inch pieces. Sauté bacon in small skillet over medium low heat until cooked and crunchy. Pour bacon onto kale. If there is any rendered bacon fat in the skillet, add a spoonful of this to the kale, if you like. Remove onions from the oven and add half of them and any juices to kale. (Save rest of onions for another use -- as a salad ingredient, sandwich topping, or to fill omelets or burritos.) Mix thoroughly with your hands or tongs -- the hot onions and bacon will slightly wilt the kale.


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Enteroviruses account for most cases of 9.1.2 Headache attributed to viral meningitis or encephalitis; Herpes simplex, adenovirus, mumps and others may also be responsible. CSF polymerase chain reaction (PCR) gives the specific diagnosis in the majority of cases. Positive CSF PCR for Herpes simplex virus (HSV) types 1 or 2 and serology for HSV-1&2 DNA presume the diagnosis of Herpes simplex encephalitis. In some cases, CSF PCR is positive for Human Herpes virus (HHV) types 6 or 7. It has been documented that PCR sensitivity is reduced by more than half when the test is performed one week after the onset of the symptoms, causing false negatives. When PCR performed after one week is negative, the diagnosis can be made on the basis of an altered CSF/blood antibody ratio.
As with 9.1.1 Headache attributed to bacterial meningitis or meningoencephalitis, it may be difficult to distinguish involvement purely of the meninges from involvement purely of the encephalon. The distinction is nonetheless important to make and maintain, because the two conditions differ prognostically, the expectation being worse with encephalitic involvement. For this reason, separate criteria are given for 9.1.2.1 Headache attributed to viral meningitis and 9.1.2.2 Headache attributed to viral encephalitis.


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Largest gains and losses in metropolitan area employment
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New York Area Employment — July 2022
Total nonfarm employment for the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA, metropolitan area increased by 497,500 over the year in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See chart 1 and table 1.) Regional Commissioner William J. Sibley noted that the local rate of job growth, 5.3 percent, compared to 4.0 percent rate nationwide. (All data in this release are not seasonally adjusted; accordingly, over-the-year analysis is used throughout.)
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Chart 1. Over-the-year net change for total nonfarm employment in the New York metropolitan area, July 2019–July 2022
Net change (in thousands)
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA, is made up of four metropolitan divisions—separately identifiable employment centers within the greater metropolitan area. Employment grew over the year in 3 of the 4 divisions. New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ, with 72 percent of the area's total nonfarm employment, gained 392,600 jobs over the year. Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY, and Newark, NJ-PA, each with 13 percent of the metropolitan area's employment, added 33,100 jobs and 67,200 jobs, respectively. Dutchess County-Putnam County, NY, with a July 2022 employment level of 142,300, accounted for 1 percent of the area's jobs.
Industry employment
In New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA, leisure and hospitality had the largest gain (+141,000) among local private-industry supersectors. (See chart 2.) The 17.8-percent increase in the metropolitan area's leisure and hospitality supersector compared to the 8.7-percent gain on the national level.
Chart 2. Over-the-year net change for private-industry supersector employment in the New York metropolitan area, July 2022
Leisure and hospitality*
Education and health services*
Professional and business services*
Trade, transportation, and utilities*
Other services*
Financial activities
Mining, logging, and construction
Note: An asterisk indicates statistical significance at the 90-percent confidence level.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Education and health services gained 100,300 jobs over the year in the metropolitan area. The New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ, division added 63,900 jobs in the health care and social assistance sector, accounting for most of the supersector's gain. The metropolitan area's 5.1-percent increase for education and health services compared to a 3.3-percent increase for the nation.
Employment in professional and business services was up 98,700 over the year in the metropolitan area. The professional, scientific, and technical services sector added 39,200 jobs in the New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ, division and 8,400 in the Newark, NJ-PA, division. The metropolitan area had a 6.4-percent gain for professional and business services supersector compared to a 5.2-percent increase for the nation.
Trade, transportation, and utilities gained 65,500 jobs over the year in the metropolitan area. Employment increases were reported in the New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ, division (+48,900) and the Newark, NJ-PA, division (+9,100). Within this supersector, 44 percent of the metropolitan area's employment gain was concentrated in retail trade (+28,900).
Other services added 36,300 jobs. The metropolitan area's 9.7-percent increase for other services compared to a 3.9-percent increase for the nation.
Twelve largest metropolitan areas
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA, was 1 of the nation's 12 largest metropolitan statistical areas in July 2022 and reported the largest job increase (+497,500). All 12 areas gained jobs over the year. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV, had the smallest increase (+75,000) among the largest areas, followed by Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ (+94,200). (See table 2 and chart 3.)
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, had a 7.2-percent rate of job gain. The rates of job gain in the remaining 11 areas ranged from 6.1 percent in Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX, to 2.3 percent in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV.
Chart 3. Over-the-year net change in total nonfarm employment for the 12 largest metropolitan areas, July 2022 (in thousands)
Dallas*
Los Angeles*
Chicago*
Houston*
Atlanta*
Miami*
Boston*
Philadelphia*
San Francisco*
Phoenix*
Washington*
The Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment release for August 2022 is scheduled to be released on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. (ET).
2022 Preliminary Benchmark Revision to Establishment Survey Data released on August 24, 2022
Each year, Current Employment Statistics (CES) estimates are benchmarked to comprehensive counts of employment from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). These counts are derived from state unemployment insurance (UI) tax records that nearly all employers are required to file. As part of the benchmark process for benchmark year 2022, census-derived employment counts replace CES payroll employment estimates for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and about 450 metropolitan areas and divisions for the period from April 2021 to September 2022.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released first-quarter 2022 data from the QCEW on August 24, 2022. Preliminary benchmark revisions for March 2022 for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and selected metropolitan areas at the total nonfarm level are available on the CES State and Area homepage at www.bls.gov/sae. The final benchmark revision for all state and metropolitan area series will be issued with the publication of the January 2023 State Employment and Unemployment news release in March 2023.
This release presents nonfarm payroll employment estimates from the CES program. The CES survey is a Federal-State cooperative endeavor between State employment security agencies and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Definitions. Employment data refer to persons on establishment payrolls who receive pay for any part of the pay period which includes the 12th of the month. Persons are counted at their place of work rather than at their place of residence; those appearing on more than one payroll are counted on each payroll. Industries are classified on the basis of their principal activity in accordance with the 2017 version of the North American Industry Classification System.
Method of estimation. CES State and Area employment data are produced using several estimation procedures. Where possible these data are produced using a "weighted link relative" estimation technique in which a ratio of current-month weighted employment to that of the previous-month weighted employment is computed from a sample of establishments reporting for both months. The estimates of employment for the current month are then obtained by multiplying these ratios by the previous month's employment estimates. The weighted link relative technique is utilized for data series where the sample size meets certain statistical criteria. For some employment series, the estimates are produced with a model that uses direct sample estimates (described above) combined with other regressors to decrease volatility in estimation.
Annual revisions. Employment estimates are adjusted annually to a complete count of jobs, called benchmarks, derived principally from tax reports which are submitted by employers who are covered under state unemployment insurance (UI) laws. The benchmark information is used to adjust the monthly estimates between the new benchmark and the preceding one and also to establish the level of employment for the new benchmark month. Thus, the benchmarking process establishes the level of employment, and the sample is used to measure the month-to-month changes in the level for the subsequent months. Information on recent benchmark revisions is available online at www.bls.gov/web/laus/bmrk_article.htm.
Reliability of the estimates. The estimates presented in this release are based on sample surveys, administrative data, and modeling and, thus, are subject to sampling and other types of errors. Sampling error is a measure of sampling variability—that is, variation that occurs by chance because a sample rather than the entire population is surveyed. Survey data also are subject to nonsampling errors, such as those which can be introduced into the data collection and processing operations. Estimates not directly derived from sample surveys are subject to additional errors resulting from the specific estimation processes used. The sums of individual items may not always equal totals shown in the same tables due to rounding.
Employment estimates. Changes in metropolitan area nonfarm payroll employment are cited in the analysis of this release only if they have been determined to be statistically significant at the 90-percent confidence level. Measures of sampling error for the total nonfarm employment series are available for metropolitan areas and metropolitan divisions at www.bls.gov/web/laus/790stderr.htm.
Area definitions. The substate area data published in this news release reflect the delineations issued by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget on April 10, 2018. The 12 metropolitan areas discussed in this release are the metropolitan areas with the largest population according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area includes Bronx, Dutchess, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, Westchester Counties in New York; Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, and Union Counties in New Jersey; and Pike County in Pennsylvania.
The Dutchess County-Putnam County, NY Metropolitan Division includes Dutchess and Putnam Counties in New York.
The Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY Metropolitan Division includes Nassau and Suffolk Counties in New York.
The New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division includes New York City (Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, and Richmond Counties), and Orange, Rockland, and Westchester Counties in New York; and Bergen, Hudson, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Passaic Counties in New Jersey.
The Newark, NJ-PA Metropolitan Division includes Essex, Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, and Union Counties in New Jersey; and Pike County in Pennsylvania.
Employment data from the CES program are available on the BLS website at www.bls.gov/sae/.
Information in this release will be made available to individuals with sensory impairments upon request. Voice phone: (202) 691-5200; Telecommunications Relay Service: 7-1-1.
Table 1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry supersector, New York-Newark-Jersey City, not seasonally adjusted
(Numbers in thousands)
July 2021 to
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area
Total nonfarm
9,335.6 9,727.4 9,867.2 9,833.1 497.5 5.3
396.2 391.9 395.9 397.8 1.6 0.4
Trade, transportation, and utilities
1,587.6 1,648.9 1,669.3 1,653.1 65.5 4.1
309.5 321.2 329.8 330.7 21.2 6.8
Education and health services
Leisure and hospitality
791.0 862.4 915.7 932.0 141.0 17.8
Dutchess County-Putnam County, NY Metropolitan Division
8.6 8.3 8.4 8.5 -0.1 -1.2
23.8 23.8 24.0 23.8 0.0 0.0
Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY Metropolitan Division
81.0 80.8 80.5 80.6 -0.4 -0.5
New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division
258.9 251.7 255.7 256.6 -2.3 -0.9
320.3 395.4 399.6 404.4 84.1 26.3
Newark, NJ-PA Metropolitan Division
91.1 100.0 108.6 109.5 18.4 20.2
(1) Preliminary
Table 2. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry supersector, United States and 12 largest metropolitan areas, not seasonally adjusted (numbers in thousands)
2022(p)
Jul 2021 to
Jul 2022(p)
146,452 151,728 152,634 152,249 5,797 4.0
Mining and logging
577 616 632 642 65 11.3
7,605 7,707 7,855 7,928 323 4.2
12,417 12,742 12,871 12,887 470 3.8
21,316 22,156 22,310 22,426 1,110 5.2
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
1.8 1.9 2.0 2.0 0.2 11.1
Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH (NECTA)
94.7 95.3 98.2 101.2 6.5 6.9
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
426.8 452.6 442.7 426.6 -0.2 0.0
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
(1) U.S. data are preliminary for two months after they are first published.
(p) Preliminary
Last Modified Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
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Students Excel at Burke with New Tech Network
Jul 18, 2018 | New Tech Network, Opportunities/Grants, Tags: Burke High School | 0 |
The Charleston Chronicle In Spring 2018, students at Burke High School (BHS) came together with two BHS teachers, Amelia Little (Navarrete) and Chopper (Edgar) Johnson, to create a unique project about untold stories of disenfranchised, marginalized societies called Finding a Voice. This past weekend, Burke was honored at the national New Tech Conference in St. Louis, Missouri for their outstanding work.Through support from the ECMC Foundation, Burke High School was awarded a grant to participate in the New Tech Network (NTN) program for the 2017-18 school year. With over 20 years of impact in improving teaching and learning through project-based learning, the New Tech Network, a non- profit organization, supports schools and districts throughout the country in ensuring college and career success for all students.Community members, school administrators, and staff were excited about the doors this partnership could open for students at Burke. As it turns out, the administrators, staff, and students were ready to walk through those doors together and did so in a way that earned them NTN's 2018 Best in Network award. The Best in Network honor is given to an NTN project that exemplifies the goal of successfully combining active exploration, application, authenticity, and academic rigor.Finding a Voice was a Burke project across the dual content areas of world literature and government. The project involved research and collaboration, and asked students to design graphic novels about disenfranchised and marginalized groups around the world. To assist with the graphic novels, Little and Johnson reached out to the local public library system, which enthusiastically joined the team.Students reached the project's final creative product through conducting independent research on living conditions for various marginalized societies across the globe and interviews with student refugees from other countries, including a student of similar age from the Democratic Republic of Congo.To demonstrate and share their research and findings, students wrote first-person narratives and storyboarded the plot of their graphic novel.BHS sophomores, Trinity Frost and James Snipes, along with Little and Johnson presented Finding a Voice at the conference on Saturday, July 14, 2018. Snipes and Frost led the presentation in front of hundreds of teachers, administrators, and educational leaders from across the country, expertly and enthusiastically discussing their project, findings, and fielding questions from the audience. At the conclusion of their presentation, the group representing Burke High School received a standing ovation from the audience.
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I received a comment that asked me to expand a little bit more on this concept of "work ethic" in law school. Although my use of the phrase in my previous post was slightly sarcastic, work ethic is actually extremely important. In saying that, however, I would like to add the disclaimer that work ethic really varies from person to person. I don't think anyone makes it to law school with bad work ethic, but work ethic is really more about what works best for you.
Law school is tough. There's no way to sugar coat it, but it's completely doable once you know what you're capable of and what you need to do to get through. To be completely honest that's something you just can't figure out until you're thrown into it.
For me personally, I spend a few hours everyday just reading. I don't take notes, unless a subject is particularly tough for me. I then take notes in class and later combine my notes with past years notes. I know that I retain information best when I write by hand, so I combine all the notes by hand and then type it all up closer to my exam. Most exams are open book but you don't want to be relying on your notes too much because they don't give you time to do much more than think and write.
Assignments and research for papers take up more time and the month before exams I spend pretty much all day in the library. As well, in upper years you get the chance to pick your own classes. While you will inevitably have at least a couple exam classes and a couple paper classes, once you know what you're good at, you can schedule mostly paper classes if you excel at writing papers, or you can take mostly exam classes if you never want to write a paper again in your life.
As for extracurricular activities, there is definitely time for it but it then comes down to your time management skills. Aside from writing for this blog at my leisure I am also Co-President of the South Asian Law Student Association, I edit articles for the UBC Legal Eye, and fingers crossed I will hopefully be also working on a research project (I have an interview for the position next week!). In first year I volunteered for the Law Student Legal Advice Program and maintained my volunteer commitment with BC's Children's Hospital. I also still find time to see my friends on the weekends (take at least one night off!) and work out a couple times a week, even if it's just a 20 minute run or a couple rounds of Dance Central (an AMAZING game).
Life doesn't have to end once you start law school, but you do need to know where to cut back and how to balance the two worlds. Make sure that you pick extra curricular activities that you enjoy, that way even if your life feels go, go, go you're still enjoying what you're doing. If you don't, it can all get really old, really fast.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2011 by nikkihair.
This term, we first year students are being introduced to another fun, new aspect of law school: mooting.
I've been describing a moot to my friends as a "fake court case," though that's not quite accurate. A moot is a fake court appeal case, the hypothetical review of a case that has already been decided.
The moot is worth 25% of the grade in our criminal law class. The actual grade is for the factum – the written arguments that each side would submit to the court – and then there is a mandatory but non-graded oral presentation to real legal practitioners. The UBC moot has a complicated set of rules [PDF], and we've been given some guidelines on how to approach it.
My class' case is based on the real-life case of R v Steele . In both cases, would-be robbers are surprised to find people at home during a break and enter. The accused threaten "we have a gun," which subdues the home's occupants until the robbers can flee. They're caught a few minutes later. While they had a gun in their getaway car, they did not actually bring it into the house with them.
The question focuses on whether or not the accused were "using" the gun during the break and enter. If the courts find that they did, they are guilty of a second crime. Neither the statute nor the common law (that we're allowed to use) answer the question, so it's up to us to argue it out. In real life, the Supreme Court of Canada found that the accused did "use" the weapon even though it was not on their person during the break and enter, but in the moot assignment, that Court found the opposite.
A change from previous years, the moot factums are due early this term. My team (we're the Crown) has their written assignment due this Tuesday, Jan 18. I'm thankfully done most of my submission, but I know a lot of my other law peers will be hitting the books pretty seriously this weekend.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2011 by Andrew Dilts.
I am currently enrolled in five classes: Family Law, Administrative Law, Corporations, Immigration Law and a Negotiation and Mediation class. Time will tell how I fair in these classes, but so far so good. Immigration has pretty heavy reading but at least half of it was interesting enough to get me through. Reading a case about a Punjabi immigrant that was on the Komagata Maru was pretty cool.
Aside from school, as a second year student that has not clinched a big firm position, I am still searching for summer positions and am continuously revamping resumes and cover letters. In doing so, all this job hunting has made me stop and think. By second year, one would hope that I would have a better idea about what I want to do and where all this education is taking me. But, to be honest, I feel like with each class I get more confused. Everywhere I turn, I learn about a new area of law that I know nothing about and want to learn more about, thinking, aha! this is it! the perfect fit/niche that I have been looking for! But then lo and behold a week into it I discover that this is no more/less stimulating to me than the last class I took.
Therefore, my strategy this year was the following. In one semester I took all the classes that I thought I was interested in. International Law and Development, Sustainable Development Law, Advanced Legal Research etc. Basically environmental, international, academic law stuff. It was a great semester and I learned a lot, but now that I got it all out of my system, I am more open and ready to learn about more "practical" areas of law such as Family and Corps. I am hoping that this switch in learning will help me compare and decide if environmental law, the area I had planned to go into, is still for me.
As great as the core courses in first year are for laying some groundwork, second year really allows you to branch off into your own interests and properly explore your options. It's definitely important to take advantage of the wide range of classes that UBC has to offer.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2011 by nikkihair.
Law classes are back in session today. After a relaxing (but busy) Christmas break, I know I'm not the only one interested to see what the semester ahead will hold.
Some of it will be familiar ground. Five of our six first-year classes are eight month courses, meaning we're continuing with the same classes and professors for most of our course load. The one switch comes as Regulatory State finished in December, and will be replaced with Transnational Law.
I expect a few other changes this term, changes of a more subtle kind. After a gruelling round of December "practice" exams, I'm guessing that some students will change their study habits and priorities in class. I've already been told of fellow students who will stop bringing their "distracting" laptops to class.
We've been warned repeatedly by the faculty that we'll likely receive lower grades than we expect, which makes sense given the grading policy. It will likely both dampen some moods and spur others to work harder. January 17 is our grade release day, so we don't find out anything until then – and then we get all the (probably worse than expected) news, all at once.
Still, this is balanced by the repeated reminders that a) nobody fails out of law school, unless they really try to, and b) everybody's grades – not just at UBC, but at schools across Canada – are kept to a B/B- average, which levels the playing field considerably.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2011 by Andrew Dilts.


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US intervention creates problems for Middle East: Larijani
MNA – The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani said Mon. that about 4,000 Iranians have lost their lives in the fight against illicit drugs, while since 2001, when Americans attacked Afghanistan, drug production has increased by 50 times.
The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani made the remarks in a meeting with the visiting Deputy Speaker of Iraqi Parliament Bashir Haddad in Tehran on Monday.
"The US intervention creates problems for the Middle East region," Larijani said during the meeting.
The top Iranian legislator also said "about 4,000 Iranians have become martyred during the fight against illegal drugs, while since 2001, when Americans attacked Afghanistan, drug production has increased by 50 times in the neighboring country."
Larijani further said that Iran will remain alongside Iraq as it did during the fight against terrorism.
Deputy Speaker Bashir Haddad, for his part, said that long shared borders between Iran and Iraq lay the ground for expansion of ties between the two countries in various fields, stressing the need for an increase in the number of border crossings to expand bilateral economic and trade relations.
Ali Larijani, Bashir Haddad, illicit drug trafficking, US interventionist policy	June 18, 2019
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Yes in Philly in the Seventies
January 4th, 2014 | 11:00AM | By Bruce Warren
Art by Roger Dean http://www.rogerdean.com/
Today is the 12 hour Prog Rock Marathon on WXPN hosted by Dan Reed and his returning guest, local prog rock expert Biff Kennedy. From Noon to 5 they will be upstairs at World Cafe Live, welcoming special guests and spinning classic prog-rock; King Crimson, Can, Genesis, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and of course, some Yes.
Philly has always loved its Yes, prog-rockers who are still at it – during this summer's Yestival tour, John DiLIberto called them "dinosaurs that have been reborn." Introduced to many radio listeners in Philly by Ed Sciaky on WMMR back in the early Seventies, Yes performed in Philly regularly, playing the Spectrum 12 times from 1971 to 1979. While they often played two nights in a row here, they once played twice on the same day, including a matinee show, on February 16th, 1974 during the Tales From Topographic Oceans tour.
In June, 1979 the band performed three nights in a row, "in the round," on a rotating stage, and the show on June 21st was recorded and released on DVD. The band at the time included Jon Anderson, Steve Howe (guitar), Rick Wakeman (keyboards), Chris Squire (bass), and Alan White (drums). Below, watch a couple of songs from that performance – "Starship Trooper," and "Siberian Khatru" – followed by a recording of a complete show during the Relayer tour from the Spectrum on July 22nd, 1977.
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Hillary Clinton Super PAC Outpaces Donald Trump Groups in July
Filings show efforts by Republican's allies to raise money continue to fall short of his Democratic rival
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared at a meeting with law-enforcement officials Thursday in New York. Priorities USA Action, a super PAC in support of Mrs. Clinton, raised $9.9 million in July.Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
By Rebecca Ballhaus
Aug. 20, 2016 6:17 pm ET
The super PAC backing Democrat Hillary Clinton vastly outraised the outside groups supporting Republican Donald Trump in July, new Federal Election Commission filings show.
The pro-Clinton group, Priorities USA Action, raised $9.9 million last month, less than the $12 million it raised in June, and ended July with more than $38 million in the bank. Meanwhile, a pro-Trump group called Great America PAC raised $2.4 million last month and ended July with less than $990,000 on hand. A spokesman for the group said it has raised nearly $3 million so far in August.
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