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AB-400 Employment: paid sick days.(2011-2012)
Introduced by Assembly Member Ma
An act to amend Section 226 of, and to add Article 1.5 (commencing with Section 245) to Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of, the Labor Code, relating to employment.
AB 400, as introduced, Ma. Employment: paid sick days.
Existing law authorizes employers to provide their employees paid sick leave.
This bill would provide that an employee who works in California for 7 or more days in a calendar year is entitled to paid sick days, as defined, which shall be accrued at a rate of no less than one hour for every 30 hours worked. An employee would be entitled to use accrued sick days beginning on the 90th calendar day of employment. The bill would require employers to provide paid sick days, upon the request of the employee, for diagnosis, care, or treatment of health conditions of the employee or an employee's family member, or for leave related to domestic violence or sexual assault. An employer would be prohibited from discriminating or retaliating against an employee who requests paid sick days. The bill would require employers to satisfy specified posting and notice and recordkeeping requirements. The bill would also make conforming changes.
This bill would require the Labor Commissioner to administer and enforce these requirements, including the promulgation of regulations, investigation, mitigation, and relief of violations of these requirements. This bill would authorize the Labor Commissioner to impose specified administrative fines for violations and would authorize an aggrieved person, the commissioner, the Attorney General, or an entity a member of which is aggrieved to bring an action to recover specified civil penalties against an offender, as well as attorney's fees, costs, and interest.
The bill would specify that it does not apply to employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement that provides for paid sick days, nor does it lessen any other obligations of the employer to employees. This bill would further specify that it does not apply to employees in the construction industry covered by a collective bargaining agreement if the agreement expressly waives the requirements of this article in clear and unambiguous terms. However, the bill would specify that it applies to certain public authorities, established to deliver in-home supportive services, except where a collective bargaining agreement provides for an incremental wage increase sufficient to satisfy the bill's requirements for accrual of sick days.
The Legislature finds and declares the following:
(a) Nearly every worker in the State of California will at some time during the year need some time off from work to take care of his or her own health or the health of family members.
(b) Many workers in California do not have any paid sick days, or have an inadequate number of paid sick days, to care for their own health or the health of family members.
(c) Low-income workers are significantly less likely to have paid sick time than other workers.
(d) Providing workers time off to attend to their own health care and the health care of family members will ensure a healthier and more productive workforce in California.
(e) Paid sick days will have an enormously positive impact on the public health of Californians by allowing sick workers paid time off to care for themselves when ill, thus lessening their recovery time and reducing the likelihood of spreading illness to other members of the workforce.
(f) Paid sick days will allow parents to provide personal care for their sick children. Parental care ensures children's speedy recovery, prevents more serious illnesses, and improves children's overall mental and physical health.
(g) Providing paid sick days is affordable for employers and good for business.
(h) Employers who provide paid sick days enjoy greater employee retention and reduce the likelihood of employees coming to work sick. Studies have shown that costs of decreased productivity caused by sick workers exceed the costs of employee absenteeism.
(i) Many adults have significant elder care responsibilities requiring them to take time off from work or to work reduced hours.
(j) Employees frequently lose their jobs or are disciplined for taking sick days to care for sick family members or to recover from their own illnesses.
(k) Workers whose jobs involve significant contact with the public, such as service workers and restaurant workers, are very unlikely to have paid sick days. Often, these workers have no choice but to come to work when they are ill, thereby spreading illness to coworkers and customers.
(l) Domestic violence and sexual assault affect many persons without regard to age, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.
(m) Domestic violence is a crime that has a devastating effect on families, communities, and the workplace. It impacts productivity, effectiveness, absenteeism, and employee turnover in the workplace. The National Crime Survey estimates that 175,000 days of work each year are missed due to domestic violence.
(n) Survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault may be vulnerable at work when trying to end an abusive relationship because the workplace may be the only place where the perpetrator knows to contact the victim. Studies show that up to one-half of domestic violence victims experience job loss. Forty percent reported on-the-job harassment. Nearly 50 percent of sexual assault survivors lose their jobs or are forced to quit in the aftermath of the assaults.
(o) Affording survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault paid sick days is vital to their independence and recovery.
In enacting this act, it is the intent of the Legislature to do the following:
(a) Ensure that workers in California can address their own health needs and the health needs of their families by requiring employers to provide a minimum level of paid sick days including time for family care.
(b) Decrease public and private health care costs in California by enabling workers to seek early and routine medical care for themselves and their family members and to address domestic violence or sexual assault.
(c) Protect employees in California from losing their jobs while they use sick days to care for themselves or their families.
(d) Provide economic security to employees in California who take time off from work for reasons related to domestic violence or sexual assault.
(e) Safeguard the welfare, health, safety, and prosperity of the people of and visitors to California.
Section 226 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
(a) Every An employer shall, semimonthly or at the time of each payment of wages, furnish each of his or her employees to each employee, either as a detachable part of the check, draft, or voucher paying the employee's wages, or separately when if wages are paid by personal check or cash, an accurate itemized statement in writing showing (1) gross wages earned, (2) total hours worked by the employee, except for any employee whose unless the employee's compensation is solely based on a salary and who the employee is exempt from payment of overtime under subdivision (a) of Section 515 or any an applicable order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, (3) the number of piece-rate units earned and any the applicable piece rate if the employee is paid on a piece-rate basis, (4) all deductions, provided that all deductions made on written orders of the employee may be aggregated and shown as one item, (5) net wages earned, (6) the inclusive dates of the period for which the employee is paid, (7) the name of the employee and his or her social security number, except that by January 1, 2008, only the last four digits of his or her social security number or an employee identification number other than a social security number may be shown on the itemized statement, (8) the name and address of the legal entity that is the employer, and (9) paid sick leave accrued and used pursuant to Article 1.5 (commencing with Section 245), and (10) all applicable hourly rates in effect during the pay period and the corresponding number of hours worked at each hourly rate by the employee. The deductions made from payments of wages shall be recorded in ink or other indelible form, properly dated, showing the month, day, and year, and a copy of the statement or a record of the deductions shall be kept on file by the employer for at least three years at the place of employment or at a central location within the State of California.
(b) An employer that is required by this code or any a regulation adopted pursuant to this code to keep the information required by subdivision (a) shall afford current and former employees the right to inspect or copy the records pertaining to that current or former employee, upon reasonable request to the employer. The employer may take reasonable steps to assure the identity of a current or former employee. If the employer provides copies of the records, the actual cost of reproduction may be charged to the current or former employee.
(c) An employer who receives a written or oral request to inspect or copy records pursuant to subdivision (b) pertaining to a current or former employee shall comply with the request as soon as practicable, but no later than 21 calendar days from the date of the request. A violation of this subdivision is an infraction. Impossibility of performance, not caused by or a result of a violation of law, shall be an affirmative defense for an employer in any action alleging a violation of this subdivision. An employer may designate the person to whom a request is made under this subdivision will be made.
(d) This section does not apply to any an employer of any a person employed by the owner or occupant of a residential dwelling whose duties are incidental to the ownership, maintenance, or use of the dwelling, including the care and supervision of children, or whose duties are personal and not in the course of the trade, business, profession, or occupation of the owner or occupant.
(e) An employee suffering injury as a result of a knowing and intentional failure by an employer to comply with subdivision (a) is entitled to recover the greater of all actual damages or fifty dollars ($50) for the initial pay period in which a violation occurs and one hundred dollars ($100) per employee for each violation in a subsequent pay period, not exceeding an aggregate penalty of four thousand dollars ($4,000), and is entitled to an award of costs and reasonable attorney's fees.
(f) A failure by an employer to permit a current or former employee to inspect or copy records within the time set forth in subdivision (c) entitles the current or former employee or the Labor Commissioner to recover a seven-hundred-fifty-dollar ($750) penalty from the employer.
(g) An employee may also bring an action for injunctive relief to ensure compliance with this section, and is entitled to an award of costs and reasonable attorney's fees.
(h) This section does not apply to the state, to any a city, county, city and county, district, or to any other governmental entity, except that if the state or a city, county, city and county, district, or other governmental entity furnishes its employees with a check, draft, or voucher paying the employee's wages, the state or a city, county, city and county, district, or other governmental entity shall, by January 1, 2008, use no more than the last four digits of the employee's social security number or shall use an employee identification number other than the social security number on the itemized statement provided with the check, draft, or voucher.
Article 1.5 (commencing with Section 245) is added to Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of the Labor Code, to read:
Article 1.5. Paid Sick Days
This article shall be known and may be cited as the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2011.
245.5.
For the purposes of this article the following terms have the following meanings:
(a) "Employee" does not include the following:
(1) An employee covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement if the agreement expressly provides for the wages, hours of work, and working conditions of employees, and expressly provides for paid sick days or a paid leave or paid time off policy that permits the use of sick days for those employees, final and binding arbitration of disputes concerning the application of its paid sick days provisions, premium wage rates for all overtime hours worked, and regular hourly rate of pay of not less than 30 percent more than the state minimum wage rate.
(2) An employee in the construction industry covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement if the agreement expressly provides for the wages, hours of work, and working conditions of employees, premium wage rates for all overtime hours worked, and regular hourly pay of not less than 30 percent more than the state minimum wage rate, and the agreement expressly waives the requirements of this article in clear and unambiguous terms. For purposes of this subparagraph, "employee in the construction industry" means an employee performing onsite work associated with construction, including work involving alteration, demolition, building, excavation, renovation, remodeling, maintenance, improvement, repair work, and any other work as described by Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code, and other similar or related occupations or trades.
(b) "Family member" means any of the following:
(1) A child, which for purposes of this article means a biological, adopted, or foster child, stepchild, legal ward, or a child to whom the employee stands in loco parentis. This definition of a child is applicable regardless of age or dependency status.
(2) A biological, adoptive, or foster parent, stepparent, or legal guardian of an employee or the employee's spouse or registered domestic partner, or a person who stood in loco parentis when the employee was a minor child.
(3) A spouse.
(4) A registered domestic partner.
(5) A grandparent.
(6) A grandchild.
(7) A sibling.
(c) "Health care provider" has the same meaning as defined in paragraph (6) of subdivision (c) of Section 12945.2 of the Government Code.
(d) "Paid sick days" means time that is compensated at the same wage as the employee normally earns during regular work hours and is provided by an employer to an employee for the purposes described in Section 246.5.
(e) "Small business" means an employer who employs 10 or fewer employees during 20 or more calendar workweeks in the current or preceding calendar year.
(a) An employee who works in California for seven or more days in a calendar year is entitled to paid sick days as specified in this section.
(b) (1) An employee shall accrue paid sick days at the rate of not less than one hour per every 30 hours worked, beginning at the commencement of employment or the operative date of this article, whichever is first.
(2) An employee who is exempt from overtime requirements as an administrative, executive, or professional employee under a Wage Order of the Industrial Welfare Commission is deemed to work 40 hours per workweek for the purposes of this section, unless the employee's normal workweek is less than 40 hours, in which case the employee will accrue paid sick days based upon that normal workweek.
(c) An employee shall be entitled to use accrued paid sick days beginning on the 90th calendar day of employment, after which day the employee may use paid sick days as they are accrued.
(d) Accrued paid sick days shall carry over to the following calendar year. However, an employer may limit an employee's use of paid sick days as follows:
(1) A small business employer may limit an employee's use to 40 hours or five days in each calendar year.
(2) All other employers may limit an employee's use to 72 hours or nine days in each calendar year.
(e) An employer is not required to provide additional paid sick days pursuant to this section if the employer has a paid leave policy or paid time off policy and the employer makes available an amount of leave that satisfies the accrual requirements of this section and that may be used for the same purposes and under the same conditions as specified in this section.
(f) (1) Except as specified in paragraph (2), an employer is not required to provide compensation to an employee for accrued, unused paid sick days upon termination, resignation, retirement, or other separation from employment.
(2) If an employee separates from an employer and is rehired by the employer within one year, previously accrued and unused paid sick days shall be reinstated. The employee shall be entitled to use those paid sick days and to accrue additional paid sick days upon rehiring.
(g) An employer may lend paid sick days to an employee in advance of accrual, at the employer's discretion and with proper documentation.
(a) Upon the oral or written request of an employee, an employer shall provide paid sick days for the following purposes:
(1) Diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing health condition of, or preventive care for, an employee or an employee's family member.
(2) For an employee who is a victim of domestic violence or sexual assault, the purposes described in subdivision (c) of Section 230 and subdivision (a) of Section 230.1.
(b) An employer shall not require as a condition of using paid sick days that the employee search for or find a replacement worker to cover the days during which the employee uses paid sick days.
(c) (1) An employer shall not deny an employee the right to use sick days, discharge, threaten to discharge, demote, suspend, or in any manner discriminate against an employee for using sick days, attempting to exercise the right to use sick days, filing a complaint with the department or in a court alleging a violation of this article, cooperating in an investigation or prosecution of an alleged violation of this article, or opposing any policy or practice or act that is prohibited by this article.
(2) There shall be a rebuttable presumption of unlawful retaliation if an employer denies an employee the right to use sick days, discharges, threatens to discharge, demotes, suspends, or in any manner discriminates against an employee within 90 days of any of the following:
(A) The filing of a complaint by the employee with the Labor Commissioner or in a court alleging a violation of this article.
(B) The cooperation of an employee with an investigation or prosecution of an alleged violation of this article.
(C) Opposition by the employee to a policy, practice, or act that is prohibited by this article.
(a) An employer shall give each employee written notice of the requirements of this article in English, Spanish, Chinese, and any other language spoken by at least 5 percent of the employees. The written notice shall state the following:
(1) That an employee is entitled to accrue, request, and use paid sick days.
(2) The amount of paid sick days provided for by this article.
(3) The terms of use of paid sick days.
(4) That retaliation or discrimination against an employee who requests paid sick days or uses paid sick days, or both, is prohibited and that an employee has the right under this article to file a complaint or bring a civil action against an employer who retaliates or discriminates against the employee.
(b) In each workplace of the employer, the employer shall display a poster in a conspicuous place containing all the information specified in subdivision (a). The Labor Commissioner shall create a poster containing this information and make it available to employers.
(c) An employer who willfully violates the notice and posting requirements of this section is subject to a civil penalty of not more than one hundred dollars ($100) per each offense.
An employer shall keep for at least five years records documenting the hours worked and paid sick days accrued and used by an employee. An employer shall allow the Labor Commissioner access to these records with appropriate notice and at a mutually agreeable time to monitor compliance with this article. An employer shall make these records available to an employee pursuant to Section 226. If an employer does not maintain adequate records pursuant to this section, it shall be presumed that the employee is entitled to the maximum number of hours accruable under this article, unless the employer can show otherwise by clear and convincing evidence.
The Labor Commissioner is authorized and directed to coordinate implementation and enforcement of this article and to promulgate guidelines and regulations for those purposes.
(a) The Labor Commissioner is authorized and directed to enforce this article, including investigating an alleged violation, and ordering appropriate temporary relief to mitigate the violation or to maintain the status quo pending the completion of a full investigation or hearing.
(b) If the Labor Commissioner, after a hearing that contains adequate safeguards to ensure that the parties are afforded due process, determines that a violation of this article has occurred, he or she may order any appropriate relief, including reinstatement, backpay, the payment of sick days unlawfully withheld, and the payment of an additional sum in the form of an administrative penalty to an employee or other person whose rights under this article were violated. If paid sick days were unlawfully withheld, the dollar amount of paid sick days withheld from the employee multiplied by three, or two hundred fifty dollars ($250), whichever amount is greater, shall be included in the administrative penalty. In addition, if a violation of this article results in other harm to the employee or person, such as discharge from employment, or otherwise results in a violation of the rights of the employee or person, the administrative penalty shall include a sum of fifty dollars ($50) for each day or portion thereof that the violation occurred or continued.
(c) Where prompt compliance by an employer is not forthcoming, the Labor Commissioner may take any appropriate enforcement action to secure compliance, including the filing of a civil action. In compensation to the state for the costs of investigating and remedying the violation, the commissioner may order the violating employer to pay to the state a sum of not more than fifty dollars ($50) for each day or portion of a day a violation occurs or continues for each employee or other person whose rights under this article were violated. These funds shall be allocated to the Labor Commissioner to offset the costs of implementing and enforcing this article.
(d) An employee or other person may report to the Labor Commissioner a suspected violation of this article. The commissioner shall encourage reporting pursuant to this subdivision by keeping confidential, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the name and other identifying information of the employee or person reporting the violation. However, the commissioner may disclose that person's name and identifying information as necessary to enforce this article or for other appropriate purposes, upon the authorization of that person.
(e) The Labor Commissioner, the Attorney General, a person aggrieved by a violation of this article, or an entity a member of which is aggrieved by a violation of this article may bring a civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction against the employer or other person violating this article and, upon prevailing, shall be entitled to such legal or equitable relief as may be appropriate to remedy the violation, including reinstatement, backpay, the payment of sick days unlawfully withheld, the payment of an additional sum as liquidated damages in the amount of fifty dollars ($50) to each employee or person whose rights under this article were violated for each day or portion thereof that the violation occurred or continued, plus, if the employer has unlawfully withheld paid sick days to an employee, the dollar amount of paid sick days withheld from the employee multiplied by three; or two hundred fifty dollars ($250), whichever amount is greater; and reinstatement in employment or injunctive relief; and further shall be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs, provided, however, that any person or entity enforcing this article on behalf of the public as provided for under applicable state law shall, upon prevailing, be entitled only to equitable, injunctive, or restitutionary relief, and reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
(f) In an administrative or civil action brought under this article, the Labor Commissioner or court, as the case may be, shall award interest on all amounts due and unpaid at the rate of interest specified in subdivision (b) of Section 3289 of the Civil Code.
(g) The remedies, penalties, and procedures provided under this article are cumulative.
(a) This article does not limit or affect any laws guaranteeing the privacy of health information, or information related to domestic violence or sexual assault, regarding an employee or employee's family member. That information shall be treated as confidential and shall not be disclosed to any person except to the affected employee, or as required by law.
(b) This article shall not be construed to discourage or prohibit an employer from the adoption or retention of a paid sick days policy more generous than the one required herein.
(c) This article does not lessen the obligation of an employer to comply with a contract, collective bargaining agreement, employment benefit plan, or other agreement providing more generous sick days to an employee than required herein.
(d) This article establishes minimum requirements pertaining to paid sick days and does not preempt, limit, or otherwise affect the applicability of any other law, regulation, requirement, policy, or standard that provides for greater accrual or use by employees of sick days, whether paid or unpaid, or that extends other protections to an employee.
(a) A public authority created under Section 12301.6 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall be required to meet the requirements of this article for individuals who perform domestic services comprising in-home supportive services under Article 7 (commencing with Section 12300) of Chapter 3 of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(b) A public authority may satisfy the requirements of this article by entering into a collective bargaining agreement that provides an incremental hourly wage adjustment in an amount sufficient to satisfy the accrual requirements of Section 246.


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Björn Engels (Kaprijke, 15 september 1994) is een Belgische voetballer die doorgaans als centrale verdediger speelt. Hij verruilde Stade de Reims in juli 2019 voor Aston Villa en trok in juni 2021 naar Royal Antwerp FC.

Carrière

Jeugd
Engels begon bij de jeugd van het Kaprijke-Bentille en later Lembeke, tot hij werd opgenomen in de jeugdopleiding van KSC Lokeren. In zijn jonge jaren was hij eerst spits en daarna middenvelder. Op latere leeftijd werd hij tot verdediger omgevormd. Op twaalfjarige leeftijd vertrok hij naar Club Brugge. Engels werd door eigen supporters verkozen tot beste jeugdspeler van de Belgische Pro League.

Club Brugge
Engels maakte in 2011 de overstap naar de A-kern. In een bekerwedstrijd tegen AA Gent zat hij een keer op de bank. Nadien raakte hij ernstig geblesseerd aan de heup. De verdediger maakte op 20 september 2012 zijn officiële debuut voor Club Brugge. In een Europese heenwedstrijd tegen Girondins de Bordeaux mocht hij aan de rust Thibaut Van Acker vervangen. Het stond toen 2-0 voor de Franse club. Nog geen minuut later maakte Engels een eigen doelpunt.

Engels was ook een Belgisch jeugdinternational.

Op 4 augustus 2013 speelde hij voor de eerste keer als titularis een wedstrijd voor Club Brugge in de Eerste klasse, bij het net gepromoveerde KV Oostende. Hij scoorde na drie minuten met het hoofd en speelde de hele wedstrijd. Later in het seizoen maakte hij doelpunten op de velden van KV Kortrijk en Zulte Waregem.

Op 5 oktober 2014 liep Engels een zware blessure op in een wedstrijd tegen Standard Luik, die Club met 3-0 won. Hij liep een knieblessure op waarvoor hij veertien maanden moest revalideren. Hij maakte zijn terugkeer op 10 december 2015 in de Europa League uit bij FC Midtjylland, waarbij hij na 82 minuten inviel. Deze wedstrijd eindigde in 1-1.

Clubstatistieken

Erelijst

Zie ook
 Lijst van spelers van Aston Villa FC

Belgisch voetballer

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I have been having a politeness dilemma - does anyone have some perspective on this?
I share a grad student office with probably upwards of fifteen students - there are only six desks, but not many students seem to use the office. Most of the time there is maybe one other person there.
A fellow grad student of mine is Muslim and she keeps her prayer mat in the office. She seems to use the office space for her daily prayers when she is on campus.
I have no problem at all with this, and it doesn't make me uncomfortable in general. However, I don't know if I should be giving her privacy while she prays! Twice now I've been chatting with a classmate when she started praying, and a few other times I've just been quietly marking. When I was talking to someone, we kept talking while she prayed (silently or really quietly). I'm not sure about my friend, but I didn't want to make things awkward by trailing off in mid-sentence and making her feel like she was imposing on us or that we were waiting for her to finish or something. But afterward I felt like it was disrespectful!
I don't know her at all, so I would be way too shy to ask. Do you guys have any idea? Is it more polite/respectful to give her some privacy, or continue what we were doing, or just be quiet? I don't think this is only Muslim-relevant, but I haven't run across people of any faith praying in public before. Do you pray in public? How do you prefer people to respect your space?
I can't imagine it's easy to do something like that at school, so I'd like to respect her space without making her feel weird. I also know that this is probably personal and preferences might range between people, but GT is such a great place to come for advice, so here I am!


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This set of components will give good results for a 100 foot Audio loop, which is enough to accommodate about 30 people in a typical meeting room.
I found an aluminum "briefcase style" at Lowe's.
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The PA amplifier specified above has two input jacks for 1/4" microphone plugs and the amp does not supply phantom power. Therefore, microphones must be the dynamic type with a 1/4" plug or electret microphones, such as lapel mics, can be used if they contain their own battery. Small electret mics usually have a 1/8 " plug, so an adapter must be used for the 1/4 " jacks. The amp also has an "aux" input with an RCA type jack. Patch cables used on VCR and TV equipment fit this kind of jack, and a TV, VCR, or DVD player can be used as an input source.


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        jButton2.setIcon(new javax.swing.ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("/imagenesq/flecharec.png"))); // NOI18N
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        getContentPane().add(jButton2);
        jButton2.setBounds(350, 30, 111, 42);

        jLabel7.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Ubuntu", 1, 15)); // NOI18N
        jLabel7.setForeground(new java.awt.Color(254, 254, 254));
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        getContentPane().add(jLabel7);
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        getContentPane().add(jScrollPane1);
        jScrollPane1.setBounds(20, 250, 450, 130);

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        jLabel8.setForeground(new java.awt.Color(254, 254, 254));
        jLabel8.setText("compuesto");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel8);
        jLabel8.setBounds(380, 100, 79, 18);

        jLabel9.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Ubuntu", 1, 15)); // NOI18N
        jLabel9.setForeground(new java.awt.Color(254, 254, 254));
        jLabel9.setText("Oxigeno(O)");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel9);
        jLabel9.setBounds(170, 140, 90, 18);

        jLabel12.setText("Oxigeno(O)");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel12);
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        jLabel13.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 18)); // NOI18N
        jLabel13.setText(")");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel13);
        jLabel13.setBounds(0, 0, 0, 0);

        jLabel1.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Ubuntu", 1, 15)); // NOI18N
        jLabel1.setForeground(new java.awt.Color(254, 254, 254));
        jLabel1.setText("+");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel1);
        jLabel1.setBounds(260, 140, 20, 18);

        jLabel2.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Ubuntu", 1, 15)); // NOI18N
        jLabel2.setForeground(new java.awt.Color(254, 254, 254));
        jLabel2.setText("Agua(H2O)");
        getContentPane().add(jLabel2);
        jLabel2.setBounds(290, 140, 80, 18);

        getContentPane().add(states);
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The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
By Greg McKeown
Read by Greg McKeown
Category: Business | Personal Growth
Category: Business | Personal Growth | Audiobooks
Dec 29, 2020 | ISBN 9780804137409
Apr 15, 2014 | ISBN 9780804137386
Apr 15, 2014 | 373 Minutes
Apr 15, 2014 | ISBN 9780804165303 | 373 Minutes
About Essentialism
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! Essentialism isn't about getting more done in less time. It's about getting only the right things done.
Featuring the new Essentialism 21-Day Challenge • "A timely, essential read for anyone who feels overcommitted, overloaded, or overworked."—Adam Grant
Have you ever:
• found yourself stretched too thin?
• simultaneously felt overworked and underutilized?
• felt busy but not productive?
• felt like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people's agendas?
If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist.
Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter.
By forcing us to apply more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy—instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.
Essentialism is not one more thing—it's a whole new way of doing everything. It's about doing less, but better, in every area of our lives. Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.
"A timely, essential read for anyone who feels overcommitted, overloaded, or overworked."—Adam Grant
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Greg McKeown is a speaker, a bestselling author, and the host of the popular podcast What's Essential. He has been covered by The New York Times, Fast Company, Fortune, Politico, and Inc., has been interviewed on NPR, NBC, Fox, and… More about Greg McKeown
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"Essentialism will give you richer, sweeter results and put you in real control, giving greater precision to the pursuit of what truly matters."—Forbes
"In this likeable and astute treatise on the art of doing less in order to do better…McKeown makes the content fresh and the solutions easy to implement. Following his lucid and smart directions will help readers find 'the way of the essentialist.'"—Success
"Do you feel it, too? That relentless pressure to sample all the good things in life? To do all the 'right' things? The reality is, you don't make progress that way. Instead, you're in danger of spreading your efforts so thin that you make no impact at all. Greg McKeown believes the answer lies in paring life down to its essentials. He can't tell you what's essential to every life, but he can help you find the meaning in yours."—Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive
"Entrepreneurs succeed when they say 'yes' to the right project, at the right time, in the right way. To accomplish this, they have to be good at saying 'no' to all their other ideas. Essentialism offers concise and eloquent advice on how to determine what you care about most, and how to apply your energies in ways that ultimately bring you the greatest rewards."—Reid Hoffman, co-founder/chairman of LinkedIn and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Start-up of You
"As a self-proclaimed 'maximalist' who always wants to do it all, this book challenged me and improved my life. If you want to work better, not just less, you should read it too."—Chris Guillebeau, New York Times bestselling author of The $100 Startup
"Great design takes us beyond the complex, the unnecessary and confusing, to the simple, clear and meaningful. This is as true for the design of a life as it is for the design of a product. With Essentialism, Greg McKeown gives us the invaluable guidebook for just such a project."—Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO
"In Essentialism, Greg McKeown makes a compelling case for achieving more by doing less. He reminds us that clarity of focus and the ability to say 'no' are both critical and undervalued in business today."—Jeff Weiner, CEO, LinkedIn
"Essentialism is a powerful antidote to the current craziness that plagues our organizations and our lives. Read Greg McKeown's words slowly, stop and think about how to apply them to your life—you will do less, do it better, and begin to feel the insanity start to slip away."—Robert I. Sutton, Professor at Stanford University and author of Good Boss, Bad Boss and Scaling Up Excellence
"Essentialism is a rare gem that will change lives. Greg offers deep insights, rich context and actionable steps to living life at its fullest. I've started on the path to an Essentialist way of life, and the impact on my productivity and well-being is profound."—Bill Rielly, Senior Vice President, Intel Security
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movie review Dec. 25, 2020
The Empty Spectacle of Wonder Woman 1984
By Angelica Jade Bastién@angelicabastien
The disappointing sequel highlights not only the dire state of the live-action superhero genre, but the dire state of Hollywood filmmaking as a whole. Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros.
This review originally ran earlier this month. We are republishing it on the occasion of Wonder Woman 1984's Christmas Day premiere on HBO Max.
Wonder Woman, also known as Diana Prince, is one of the most dynamic of DC's mainstay comic characters, but you'd never know it watching Wonder Woman 1984.
This sequel had almost everything going for it. Its empathetic predecessor is likely the most beloved and critically successful of the slate of beleaguered DC Comics films. Its time-skipping story offered a way to expand the superhero genre's usual plot beats — which was desperately needed — and arrived buoyed by an excellent cast. Perhaps its lopsided universe was not perfect; there were lackluster villains and a noticeable absence of racial diversity and sensuality, and the sequel had to contend with a significant jump from WWI-era Europe into early 1980s Washington, D.C. But these issues were surmountable. Sadly, all that glittered in the franchise's first outing is gone in Wonder Woman 1984. The disappointing sequel highlights not only the dire state of the live-action superhero genre in film, but the dire state of Hollywood filmmaking as a whole.
In Patty Jenkins's candy-colored rendition of the '80s, 1984's Diana (Gal Gadot) finds herself lonely and isolated — both by choice and circumstance. As she begins to develop a friendship with a co-worker named Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig), Diana's life as both a museum curator and undercover superhero is disrupted by the arrival of what is best described as a magic rock. At first, it unknowingly grants Diana her great desire: to see Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) returned to life (sort of). The easily frazzled and comically clumsy Barbara gets some fringe benefits, too — she wishes upon the rock to be like Diana, suddenly achieving a power and confidence beyond her wildest dreams. But things take a turn when wannabe oil tycoon Maxwell Lord (an over-the-top and preening Pedro Pascal) strolls into the story with a rank ego and daddy issues. Barbara — whose story as Cheetah is well told in Greg Rucka, Nicola Scott and Liam Sharp's run on the character that kicked off in 2016 — transforms from nascent friend to villain all too quickly. Meanwhile, the magic rock ends up setting the stage for major global unrest (and a genuinely weird accounting of Middle East politics).
What has attracted me to this character over the years — the femininity of her mythos and how it emphasizes the maternal, how her strength is conveyed in both fight scenes and more emotional exchanges — feels poorly developed in this utter mess of a plot. Superhero films too often rely on mystical items to fuel their narratives, but a magic rock that grants wishes like a gleaming monkey's paw? It's hackneyed, as is the stilted dialogue that unravels the story to begin with, starting with Diana's voiceover outlining a thinly drawn exploration of her Amazon race. It is so stilted that when Diana finally vaults into action against a darkened sky, using her glowing lasso to ride lightning bolts, I felt not an ounce of awe.
Sure, Gadot and Pine once again have a charming chemistry, but his character's return from the dead — in which he, basically, takes over some poor guy's body — sparks more questions about the gaps in logic. And then there's their utter sexlessness, an especially damning reminder of the way this genre fails to take into account one of the most beautiful aspects of being human. Instead, in 1984, Diana's non-erotic yearning for Steve has become the entirety of her identity. Why? She doesn't miss her Amazon sisters, whom she can never see again, more? It's been about 70 years and she still hasn't moved on from Steve? There's something deeply sad and predictable about a female superhero so tied to a single man she's willing to lose her powers for him. Romance has the potential to be heartwarming and expansive in superhero stories, but here it just feels claustrophobic. (I won't even expand on a turn at the end ripped from a Hallmark movie, Christmas visuals and all, that was so galling I'm still not sure it happened.)
Jenkins, who brought a fresh eye to the fight choreography and stylings in the original Wonder Woman, seems now almost disenchanted with the world she's helped bring to life. It's cheerfully lit, as the '80s period demands, but it's neither visually intriguing nor beautiful. Wonder Woman 1984 overwhelms the senses, confusing largess with wonder. The action is hobbled by poor blocking; a strange spatial dynamic makes it so that you're never exactly sure where characters are in the space of the scene. Especially egregious is an underwater sequence involving Barbara and Diana, in which Cheetah — who should feel fearsome — is undercut by uneven practical effects and chintzy CGI. In close-ups throughout the movie, Cheetah's face and body feel poorly thought out, conjuring not even a sliver of the feral prowess of the character. In medium and long shots, particularly during a closing fight between the women, there's a profound weightlessness to the blows owing to how Cheetah's body is framed. There are a few cool touches to Jenkins's filmmaking aesthetic — an intriguing spin on the invisible jet, Diana's increased reliance on her lasso, her new ability to fly — but, overall, the promise of action sequence thrills feels unfulfilled.
In the end, the actors can't save the story. Wiig really, really tries, too. She vamps it up with Pascal, each of them going for arch performances the script can't match. The plot grows more tangled and confusing by the minute, as the film's central relationships are overshadowed by unnecessary globetrotting, flashy role reversals, and poor world building (which mines the time setting for visual and sonic cues but little else. The story does nothing to explain exactly what Diana has been doing in the years since WWI or why she decided to ignore intervening global horrors she might have otherwise dismantled.) In the comics, Diana forms a curious bond with Barbara, whose work as an archaeologist and obsession with the Amazons adds an intriguing layer to their friendship. Little of that transfers to the film; the sequel continues the franchise's earnest streak, but without a stronger narrative it feels unearned and, worse yet, calculated. Gal Gadot admittedly remains a warm presence in the franchise, and Chris Pine does his best with the story. It makes sense that Steve and Diana would become positioned against Barbara and Maxwell, with his murkily defined goals of domination. But why not lean into the best aspect of the preceding story: the Amazons? Why bring Robin Wright back if you're not going to give her another juicy action scene? Blessedly, the movie is free of empty "girl power" slogans and mortifying needle drops, but is that enough? I want intrigue! I want grace! With the full might of the modern Hollywood apparatus and an ungodly amount of money, is this really the best we can get? The movie insults by offering scraps and making us pretend it's a meal.
Wonder Woman 1984 is a turning point in the history of Hollywood's business, what with Warner Bros. banking big on the hope that the film's Christmas Day release will be the push its (admittedly good) streaming service, HBO Max, needs (in the U.S., at least). But the film is indicative of the larger pitfalls of an aging superhero genre. Watching Wonder Woman 1984, I couldn't help but think of the utter hollowness of representation and how corporations have adopted the language and posture of political movements in order to sell back to us a vacant rendition of the change we actually want. In many ways, studios have trained audiences to view the bombast of their blockbusters as possessing inherent worth — especially when they place reflections of us on the big screen. This isn't good filmmaking. And as more and more exciting directors get caught up in the gears of this mammoth genre, I can't help but reflect on how their talents would be better utilized elsewhere. If only Hollywood gave them real control over stories, rather than treating their work as mere conduits for content the studio can replicate and sell.
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Summary: Researchers have found that resveratrol does affect the immune systems of dogs in different ways when introduced to dogs' blood.
Resveratrol, a compound found commonly in grape skins and red wine, has been shown to have several potentially beneficial effects on health, including cardiovascular health, stroke prevention and cancer treatments. However, scientists do not yet fully understand how the chemical works and whether or not it can be used for treatment of diseases in humans and animals.
Well, dogs, huh? That's a new one on me: rats, mice, bunnies, now dogs, and probably happy to be volunteering dogs, at that.
I also did find the Vimeo video at this link: https://vimeo.com/137149919, if you'd like to watch it.
Compound Found in Red Wine Causes Conflicting Changes in Dogs' Immune Systems from MU News Bureau on Vimeo.
Story Source: The above post is reprinted from materials provided by University of Missouri-Columbia. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.


On January 12, 2019 at approximately 8:30 in the evening officers responded to a two vehicle accident on Riedel Road at Johns Hopkins Road in Crofton.
Through their investigation officers believed Collier was under the influence of alcohol. When officers initiated the arrest for the suspected DWI, Collier resisted arrest and assaulted officers on the scene.
Collier was charged with Assault on LEO, Second Degree Assault, DWI, and Resisting Arrest.
Collier will be suspended without pay pending the outcome of this investigation.
An internal review will be completed and the department will cooperate with the State's Attorney's Office.
The black Ford Taurus was Mr. Collier's personal vehicle, he was not in his patrol vehicle. The occupants of the other vehicle were not injured.


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Thanks for your time. We provide detailed advice and market information to commercial tenants at this site. It's all about you, tenants, since you are our sole focus. We are an independent firm, built on my 27 years of experience negotiating leasing transactions for tenants in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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On advice of counsel (my wife), I am giving all of our readers a healthy break from the bad news to discuss instead our summer trip to the "winter" in Australia. Our 19 year old son, regularly enrolled at Cal Berkeley, started his year-abroad program in Sydney earlier this year. Since he'll be away through November—and we'd never been down under—we thought we'd better make the trek or forget what he looks like by the time December rolls around. We planned one week in and around the Sydney area; and one week in Surfers Paradise along the Gold Coast, close to Brisbane. It was a spectacular trip.
My wife, daughter (starting Senior at Branson) and I took the 14-hour flight from San Francisco to Sydney in stride. It wasn't as bad as anyone predicted. Our son picked us up at the airport in a car he'd purchased; this made his surfing ventures to Maroubra and surrounding stellar spots all the easier. Need I mention that we survived travelling in his car for a week? Sydney is incredibly gorgeous. I'm a San Francisco native, as is my wife, so we don't take the beauty of SF Bay lightly. We have nothing on Sydney; it's that breath taking.
We stayed right near Sydney Harbor, within two blocks of The Rocks, the historic landmark neighborhood where Sydney was born. All these years later, we heard that most Aussies were pleased to have the early prisoners land in Sydney rather than where they were originally intended: Atlanta, Georgia! The Rocks was chock full of restaurants, bars, music performances, friendly folks but no—repeat no—Fosters, mate! We didn't see a can during our entire trip.
Sydney Opera House (just across the harbor from The Rocks), hardly just that, offered an intriguing tour and unparalleled vistas. The Opera House has several large stages and often runs multiple performances simultaneously. It is an architectural wonder, originally budgeted to cost ~$7 million but eventually completed for about $120 million. From the harbor area we ferried to Manly Beach (named after you know what); to the zoo; and to Darling Harbor, also replete with an Aquarium, scores of restaurants and entertainment for tourists.
We could not find trash in the streets of Sydney. Nor could we find the homeless. But we did notice a favorable disposition on the faces of most people we saw…perhaps because our dollar was in the tank! The "suburban" beaches and beach towns of Sydney were stunning. Our son resides in the Coogee area and, poor guy, lives a block from Coogee Beach. We took a 90 minute walk—the "beach walk"—from Coogee to Bondi Beach, through a few other small beach towns. Surfers everywhere. Beautiful real estate. Imagine walking along a waterfront trail from Sausalito to Mill Valley to Tiburon to Belvedere, all along the water. There you have it.
We also ventured on a guided tour from Sydney to the Blue Mountains, their version of the Grand Canyon. Don't miss this trip! The 2-hour drive each way was filled with a comedic lecture by our driver—the owner of the service, also a volunteer firefighter. Catch the Blue Mountains while you can; residential development is on its way up the mountain and it probably won't be as pristine for long. There are plenty of great places to stop along the way, including petting zoos where you can get your fill (the Aussies have, for sure) of kangaroos, koalas, wombats, dingos and wallabies.
Heading north (think the distance of San Francisco to LA), the Gold Coast is not only home to a lot of Aussies, but also a large Kiwi population. The area from Byron's Bay, north, was gorgeous as well. The surf was small, but we paid homage to a couple of the pro-surfer tour stops (Kirra and Coolongatta) just the same. Brisbane, also on the waterfront, is beautiful and easy to navigate with its ferries and pedestrian bridges around its many islands. The city is much smaller and less dynamic than Sydney, but the nearby beach-life and mountains to the west offer plenty of action. By the way, when they say "outback", trust your instincts. It's way out there, mate.
One other tip for Surfer's Paradise. Catch Dracula's Cabaret show. I'll leave it at that.
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So say some of the Wall Street pundits and who can ignore the dramatic improvement in the stock market? Everyone is looking for a shred of good news. Considering the still almighty and powerful lobby that is Wall Street, it is understandable that Washington has bowed to tweak accounting rules and continues to pump billions into publicly traded companies.
Let's not debate whether the stock market accurately reflects the economy on the ground. The fundamentals remain incredibly weak. More to the point, tenants, the turmoil has brought the landlord community to their knees. The "silver lining", tenants, is that rental rates and terms are better for you now than when I started representing tenants 27 years ago!
Stay focused on that silver lining, in spite of the fact that our respective stock portfolios remain in the red. If Wall Street's best want to call the Great Recession over, so be it. But consider the Bear Truth, below, as you plot strategy and financing of your firm's future.
The office markets dramatically eroded this past quarter, with heavily negative absorption in every Bay Area county, totaling nearly 2.7 million square feet in the red. Negative absorption in San Francisco was nearly 800,000 square feet; the City now has 19.6 million square feet on the market (up 6% from Q1). What more could you want, tenants? Keep in mind that the market isn't dead; over 1.2 million square feet of leases were signed in Q2 in San Francisco…yet the net effect was negative growth.
While it's folly to predict net growth when the markets are performing in such a negative fashion, one could argue that San Francisco now offers a 20-year supply of available space. Does that give you the picture, tenants?
Whose problem is the vacancy? Landords with direct space or tenants with sublease space to offer? Unlike the office market crash of the Dot-Bomb, when the ratio of direct to sublease space was 2:1…the current market crash puts landlords clearly at the forefront with a ratio of 10:1. Everyone with space on the market is feeling the pain, but the brunt of the damage is hitting the building owner.
Asking rates are falling precipitously in San Francisco and San Mateo counties, which hold nearly 160 million square feet of the Bay Area's total 362 million square foot inventory.
Locally, Hines, Glenborough (of Morgan Stanley), Lincoln Property Company, Broadway Partners, and Swig Equities have handed back the keys to their properties over to their lenders…and walked away from their office buildings. Tenants, this bodes well for you—as the market will efficiently correct itself and replace the basis of ownership into the hands of landlords properly rooted in realistic underwriting and current market leasing rates. Nearly half of San Francisco's highrise buildings changed hands during the past 3-5 years, some more than twice. Foreclosures and deed-in-lieu-of-foreclosures will proliferate in the City and around the world, wherever non-sensible acquisition deals were struck. These are very, very sizable setbacks for some of the largest players in the history of commercial real estate. Expect failures at the corporate level, as the markets correct themselves.
Deutsche Bank research doesn't just direct its concern to the landlord community. Of the $3.4 trillion commercial real estate market, they suggest that banks and life insurance companies make up 50% and 10% of the market, respectively.
National unemployment, which soared from 6% last August to ~10% this June (closer to 15% in our book), represents a 67% increase in unemployment. The trending down of rates to levels of monthly losses of 250,000 jobs is not a harbinger of good news! A "healthy economy", recall from our presidential elections, requires job growth of around 250,000 jobs per month.
We're not alone. The European Union has forecast 11.5% unemployment for 2010.
We've had 10 years of no new private sector jobs.
Interest rates are at record lows, but the credit vacuum persists if you actually need financing. This creates the perfect storm for the nation's 45 million homeowners—the fuel we need to drive this consumer-centric economy. The Mortgage Bankers Association said that the foreclosure rate on fixed rate mortgages doubled in the last year. About 12% of all mortgages are either in foreclosure or delinquent.
Toxic assets remain a herculean problem. Bank of America says that it needs another $34 billion to withstand the economic downturn; this after receiving $45 billion in TARP funds. Morgan Stanley lost $1.3 billion during Q2, its third straight loss. European banks like RBC and UBS, also recipients of bailout funding, continue to choke on bad assets.
What tenant-sectors will save the economy in the San Francisco Bay Area? One of our stalwart tenant groups in the City, law firms, are in obvious turmoil. Consolidation will likely continue for another year, if not longer, as the entire fee-paradigm has changed and firms scramble for rainmakers. Pfizer's withdrawal from a Mission Bay project is only one indicator of the biotech recession. Perhaps a bright light will appear from the VC and private equity community. There's nothing like the motivation of investors who've missed the last 25% run-up in the stock market to get them chasing after new opportunities.
Skip to the chase: Rental rates are cheaper today than 27 years ago, when I began representing tenants in leasing negotiations…NOT adjusted for inflation. But here's a more recent measure to give you proper perspective: Most sage landlords and landlord-brokers who lived through the Dot-Bomb period (2001) will uniformly agree that the landscape in and around San Francisco was the darkest of all time. Fortunately for you, tenants, that is not true any longer.
During the past few years, amplified greatly by the ongoing recession, more space has come on the market than EVER before. How much more? Don't be confused by all the metrics about "vacancy" and "absorption rates" (especially since landlord-centric brokerage firms sugar-coat these numbers). The most important factor, tenants, is the number of alternatives available to you in the marketplace. After all, we create negotiating leverage in renewals and relocations based in large part on the number of options—competition between landlords—for you to choose from.
BOTTOM LINE: A quick look at our table of data shows that tenants needing between 5,000-10,000 square feet have 73% MORE options now than during the Dot-Bomb period. Tenants seeking 10,000-20,000 square feet have 31% MORE options; and those seeking 20,000-40,000 square feet have 49% MORE options than during the Dot-Bomb period.
Landlords, their listing brokers and developers dance to the tune of lower vacancy rates, so tenants should watch carefully to detect how and to what extent your field of options changes. Which size blocks of space are getting leased? Discussing vacancy and absorption rates can be confusing to some. What language makes sense to tenants? Tenants ask, "Tell me about my specific options. How many choices do I have?" Are your options growing, as a result of the recent economic turmoil? Review the chart, below, and let's discuss.
Below we've surveyed the entire 110 million square foot inventory of San Francisco, and illustrated the companies with the most control of space on the market, the Top 25. You know from our other stats that 15.68 million square feet is now on the market in San Francisco. Of the top 7 companies, ALL are office leasing brokerage firms, controlling 58% of the City's vacancy! These brokerage firms are beholden to more than 300 local landlords. Since their allegiance is committed to so many landlords, how can they possibly represent YOUR interests—the tenant's interests—objectively and aggressively? The top brokerage companies on the list control more of the City's vacancy than Tishman Speyer (#9); Shorenstein (#12); RREEF (#11); Hines (#10); and more than Boston Properties (#13). Surprised, are you not? In the case of Studley, our friendly tenant-representation competitor, they represent over 110,000 square feet of space available in 11 different buildings. How can they objectively represent YOU, the tenant, if you choose to pursue any of their sublease space?!


Vivente in Hammond Park has achieved the vision of integrating the natural environment and rehabilitated vegetation, into a new urban form which encourages interaction and inclusion amongst residents, and the wider local community. Vivente has been in planning since 2010, with the first residents moving in during 2016.
Located approximately 28 kilometres south of Perth in Hammond Park, Vivente is a 35-hectare residential development that is anticipated to yield 475 lots. Central to the design objectives is a 'green link', a linear belt of connected public open space that traverses the estate from east to west providing high-quality connectivity to the wider Cockburn locality.
Vivente is well located with the Aubin Grove Train Station and Harvest Lakes town centre within two kilometres to the north of the estate, both easily accessible via the pedestrian and regional bike path network.
Vivente is strongly influenced by retained and rehabilitated vegetation, the public open space network, and connectivity to nearby community, commercial, retail, schools and transport infrastructure.
A linear 'green link' will ultimately provide a connection to Frankland Reserve Recreation and Community facility to the west which is currently under design by the City of Cockburn (March 2019). Access to this facility will be via boardwalks with a fitness park incorporating "activity stairs" and linked by a future running loop to encourage active pedestrian movement.
Enjoyment of Vivente is defined by diversity within the community and supported by product choice, the current and future public open space network and local amenity.
The activity stairs utilise the estate's topography to optimise fitness opportunities at any time of the day. Multi-functional equipment can be used for both fitness and play, plus various respite areas have been provided at key vantage points.
The Vivente master plan encourages social interaction and engagement through the legibility and permeability of the pedestrian network and public open space network.
The street network is legible with each street having a dedicated footpath, ensuring easy access to existing and future destinations within Vivente and the wider Cockburn locality such as primary and high schools. Whadjuk Drive provides designated bicycle lanes to assist with cyclist safety and link into the broader Perth Bicycle Metropolitan region network.
Focusing on the fine detail of the public open space to create sense of place.
Implementation of an innovative use of stairs (activity stairs) within retained vegetation with multi-functional equipment providing fitness opportunities for users.
Vivente provides opportunities for residents and the wider community to engage in healthy behaviours within the estate via the movement network, careful consideration of destinations and the quality of the amenity.
The project masterplan has carefully considered the location of public open space and movement networks to facilitate a diverse range of recreational opportunities for residents and the wider community.
Access: The estate encourages an active lifestyle for all ages and abilities via the public open space network which has been designed to include a universally accessible path linking a variety of park amenity.
Seating nodes are well located and provide amenity to support community gatherings and encourage social interaction.
Connectivity: The street network at Vivente supports an active lifestyle through an accessible, connected network, ensuring all streets contain a footpath, are shaded and include native planting elements along major pedestrian routes – ensuring active transport networks are pleasant and respond to the natural environment. A future running loop (1.3 kilometres) will enhance the opportunities and experiences for residents and the wider community.
Cycling: Vivente has a number of access points to a Principle Shared Path - a dedicated pedestrian and bicycle network - with direct links to Perth City to the north and Mandurah to the south. This provides residents the opportunity to safely commute to key employment, entertainment and recreation nodes within the metropolitan region. New links to the Principle Shared Path will be explored to improve access and convenience for residents.
Location: The project masterplan has carefully considered the location of public open space and movement networks to facilitate a diverse range of recreational opportunities for residents and the wider community.
Planting: A programme of planting native street trees and vegetation within road reserves and verges ensures that the estate is green and enhances the local ecology with limited water use. The long-term role of the plantings is important in the activation of public spaces and also has mental and emotional health benefits to the residents of the estate.
Proximity: Vivente is located less than two (2) kilometres from the Aubin Grove train station and is accessible via the local path network. Residents that use public transport can achieve their daily physical activity needs by walking or riding from the estate. With primary and high schools located nearby, school children can walk safely to school which promotes an active lifestyle.
Vivente provides economic opportunities for residents and the wider community by fostering new opportunities for local business and through a local centre site.
Local business: Personal trainers can take advantage of the activity stairs to hold classes on a regular basis.
Local centre site: Vivente includes one commercial land use site to be developed as a childcare centre. This facility is expected to employ twelve people, with bicycle parking and well-connected path networks to encourage staff and families to walk and ride to the centre.
Vivente is the only EnviroDevelopment certified estate in Hammond Park and offers environmental benefits for residents and the wider community through rehabilitation programmes, retention of vegetation and waterwise plantings. Sustainability initiatives are actively promoted including energy reduction and waterwise practices.
Biodiversity: The public open space network has been designed to assist the east to west movement of flora and fauna. A focus on native plantings in the public and private realm rather than artificial grass will support local biodiversity.
Native vegetation: The public open space network includes retained vegetation and a rehabilitation programme has been implemented to build a strong sense of place and support the overall identity of the estate.
Off-site rehabilitation: Off-site rehabilitation work on 1.78 hectares of degraded vegetation at the Bibra Lake Reserve has been implemented for the benefit of the wider Cockburn community.
Street trees: Street trees have been installed to support foraging and feeding habitat of endangered Carnaby's Cockatoo populations and to provide shade for pedestrians and reduce the impact of the urban heat island effect.
Waterwise: Vivente Design Guidelines require all dwellings to include waterwise plumbing fixtures, and front garden landscaping packages include native species and encourage waterwise gardens.
Water Sensitive Urban Design: The adoption of Water Sensitive Urban Design principles has guided the water management of Vivente with a focus on water conservation and quality through initiatives such as bio-retention basins.
Community creation underpins the principles of Vivente placing a high value on social interaction and engagement. Design strategies have been implemented to assist with community safety, social interaction and to foster community.
Front fences are restricted to a maximum of 900mm in height to facilitate passive surveillance.
Community events: The management of valued community events demonstrates the focus on creating space that facilitates community interaction and promote healthy behaviours.
Product diversity: Ensuring Vivente has diversity of product and lot sizes aids in creating an inclusive community. Supporting diversity creates opportunities for interaction and engagement with a wider cross-section of the community, which is important for a sustainable community.
Public open space: Connectivity and the quality of the public open space will encourage residents and the wider community to enjoy Vivente to build a vibrant local community. Passive and active uses have also considered enabling the use of spaces at varying times of the day.