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Cycling network nearing reality
Belleville’s fragmented cycling network is being stitched together with a mixture of designated lanes, shared roadway corridors and multi-use paths.
By 2018 cyclists navigating the city will be able to access about 15 kilometres of new lanes one way, starting with the addition of about 1.5 kilometres this year, including the recently opened Yeomans Street designated lanes.
Guided by a transportation master plan, city hall has accelerated efforts to connect the scattered network which is being built in phases up until 2018.
“We have a contractor on board for the north-south corridor bike lanes on North Park Street,” Deanna O’Leary, city senior project manager, said of the route which links into the riverside trail. “That’s all supposed to get done by the end of August.”
Once riders heading from North Park hit College Street, they will have to depend on way-finding signage cautioning cyclists and motorists alike about the shared road set-up on College, Geddes, Strachan and St Charles streets.
“Then it connects to the Riverfront Trail,” she said. “Geddes and Strachan are quieter local streets so bikes will share roadways with vehicles. The signs will tell cyclists how to position themselves on the roadway and gives a heads up to motorists to expect cyclists in that area.”
Another north-south route is being implemented west of North Front Street. It will take riders from Bell Boulevard on a paved path, south to plug into the on-road lanes at Yeomans Street, which will connect riders into a planned $2.8 million Bridge Street West corridor heading to Loyalist College.
“Some way-finding signage has been installed on Elmer Street directing riders to the Frank Street underpass,” she said. “The Sarah Court path has been paved as well.”
Several roadways will be stitched into the route on that side of town, O’Leary said about upgrades such as lighting and pavings which will be required to improve safety.
The existing fragmented network can make for a tricky ride for cyclists new to the city, said Rob Jakes of Belleville on Bikes, a local not-for-profit cycling body.
“I took a group of about 25 all the way up to the Quinte Mall on bike paths,” Jakes said while sitting on his bike near the intersection of Elmer and Frank streets. “Most of them didn’t even know all of this exist because it’s all newly-added paths.”
Jakes said it will be a two-year growth period that will result in an improved network to be continued by the next council.
“Obviously we would like to have a complete connected network, but it cannot happen all at once,” he said. “We’re progressing at a fairly good pace. If all that’s planned between now and 2018 happens it will be like night and day when compared to what we have now.”
That perspective is shared by other Belleville On Bikes members like Justin Jones.
“There is always going to be challenges on some of the roadways because some of them are quite narrow,” Jones said. “North Park is a important piece to move people. It’s going to take some time to move people safely through the city.”


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Imperva to acquire jSonar, bringing greater data security to enterprises
Imperva has entered into an agreement to acquire jSonar, a modern database security company. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including receipt of required regulatory clearance, and is expected to close mid-October 2020.
Australian construction companies more dependent on data than ever, study finds
The Australian construction industry is increasingly turning to digital technologies, and as a result data is becoming more important than ever, to the point companies would change software providers in order to gain better control of it.
TIBCO adds support for Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services
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A police officer has died of his injuries after being shot by an anti-government extremist in Germany in what officials condemned as a “brutal crime”.
The unnamed man was part of an armed response unit sent to confiscate legally-owned hunting weapons from an “unreliable” resident in Georgensgmünd, who had refused mandatory checks.
When the team entered the 49-year-old man’s home early on Wednesday morning, he opened fire from behind a door, shooting two police officers and leaving two others with serious injuries from flying glass.
A 32-year-old officer was taken to hospital in a critical condition after bullets struck his helmet, elbow and edge of his protective vest.
He died from his injuries in the early hours of Thursday morning, a spokesperson for Central Franconia Police said.
Joachim Herrmann, the Bavarian interior minister, said he was “deeply saddened” by the officer’s death.
“This brutal crime has left us all stunned,” he added. “This is a difficult time for the Bavarian police and a terrible loss.
“We will all do our utmost to ensure the perpetrator receives his just punishment.
“Our great sympathies and full solidarity go out to his parents, relatives and colleagues.”
All police forces in the state of Bavaria are putting marks of mourning on their vehicles until the officer’s funeral.
The man, who was part of a Spezialeinsatzkommandos (SEK) unit, was the 65th Bavarian police officer to be killed since 1945.
His alleged murderer identifies as a “Reichsbürger”, part of a far-right movement that claims the current German state is illegitimate and is alleged to have neo-Nazi links.
He was injured and taken into custody during the raid, which uncovered an arsenal of at least 30 weapons.
Reichsbürgers adhere to their own self-declared government, known as the KRR, which issue their own version of official documents such as driving licences, while followers frequently spurn federal taxes or fines.
They are mainly known for aggravating German authorities by pursuing obscure legal claims rather than violence, but a member was wounded during a gun battle as he was evicted from his home in August.
A recent report by Berlin's state intelligence service describes the Reichsbürgers as “an extremely diverse range of small groups and individuals who believe in an ideological mixture of conspiracy theories, anti-Semitic and anti-democratic views, and who have been behaving increasingly aggressively for some time".
The Georgensgmünd shooter, who is unemployed and previously operated a martial arts school, had reportedly written “scurrilous letters” on the movement after joining in the summer. He remains in police custody.
Mr Herrmann vowed to increase surveillance of the Reichsbürgerbewegung (Reich Citziens’ Movement), which has already been under “intensive observation” by state intelligence services because of some members’ “far-right aims”.
The minister said there would be careful assessment of their ability to own firearms, announcing a goal to “deprive all Reichsbürgers who legally own a weapon of their licenses”.
“To be part of the Reichsbürger movement is to be a right-wing extremist,” Mr Herrmann added.
“Anyone who rejects the German rule of law can offer no guarantee that they will handle weapons in accordance with regulations.”
The federal interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere, also called for new measures to be taken to protect police officers after condemning the “horrific” death.
“Police officers are giving everything for the safety of our country,” he added. “The increasing number of attacks by extremists is unbearable and unacceptable.”
Germany remains on a state of high alert following a series of terror attacks by Isis supporters, including a suicide bombing in Ansbach and axe attack on a train.
But there is also growing concern over far-right movements, which have been gathering increasing support during tensions over the refugee crisis and sexual assaults in Cologne.
Centres for asylum seekers have been the target of arson attacks and racist graffiti, while police uncovered a neo-Nazi plot to attack refugee accommodation with explosives last year.
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The Australian Government has announced that the operation of temporary COVID-19 relief measures for businesses in the hope of aiding distressed companies and preventing further economic breakdown will be extended until 31 December 2020.
Significantly, the measures will extend the temporary relief for directors from personal liability for insolvent trading. See our previous article regarding that relief.
In addition, the threshold at which creditors can issue statutory demands on companies will remain at the increased $20,000 threshold, rather than revert back to the previous $2,000 minimum. The Government’s media release also suggests that the six month time period companies currently have to respond to statutory demands will also be extended.
These initiatives are aimed at reducing the threat of actions that might unnecessarily push businesses into insolvency and external administration during a time of unprecedented financial strain.
The emergency measures were originally introduced in March 2020 through Schedule 12 to the Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus Act 2020 (Cth). The decision to lengthen and adjust the operation of these measures is a response to Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19 cases and the ongoing effects of Australia’s economic recession.
These measures evidently prioritise the needs of distressed companies, with creditors’ interests continuing to take a back seat.
With respect to the temporary moratorium on insolvent trading liability, nothing in those measures affects directors’ obligations to act honestly (meaning that exposure to criminal liability for dishonest instances of insolvent trading remains) or their other existing statutory and general law duties.
Creditors might consider it in their best interests to issue statutory demands now instead of waiting for these temporary measures to expire on 31 December. Although this might mean waiting six months for a company’s response, it may be unwise to wait until 2021 in the hope of an automatic “snapback” to the pre-COVID-19 statutory period. Given the uncertainty stemming from the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is possible these measures might be extended again in early 2021.
In the event that the temporary measures expire without extension on 31 December 2020, any statutory demands already issued could be withdrawn and reissued after 31 December in order to obtain a quicker debt collection result.
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Air Canada said Thursday it will call on more than 2,600 employees as it prepares to increase demand for air travel. The airline says the recalled employees will include various positions, including that of a flight attendant, and will be brought back in phases over June and July.
Air Canada spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick explained that the airline decided to call in workers as it monitors the progress of the vaccination campaign, COVID-19 cases decrease and governments relax restrictions.
Air Canada has laid off tens of thousands of workers since the pandemic swept Canada, including 16,500 in March 2020.
Another month to get credits
Air Canada customers whose flights have been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic will have an additional month to claim their refund. The country’s largest airline announced Thursday afternoon that it will extend to July 12 the deadline initially set for June 12.
As of April 13, 2021, nearly 40% of eligible customers have requested refunds and 92% of requests have been processed, Air Canada said in a press release. According to Air Canada, 1.8 million reservations are eligible for a refund. In other words, 1 million tickets are still not subject to a refund request.
“The number of customers requesting refunds is lower than expected, and most of them have kept their flight credit, Air Canada travel voucher, or Aeroplan points, which is great for us because it is a sign that our customers are counting. Travel Soon,” Lucy Guillemett, General Vice President and Chief Affairs Officer wrote. commercial.
Compensating people whose flight has been canceled before April 13, 2021 for travel beginning no later than April 1he is February 2020 is a $5.9 billion deal reached between Air Canada and Ottawa about two months ago.
Those who wish to review the color of their paper money should apply online or through a travel agency if necessary. However, several customers testified to The Canadian Press that Air Canada reimbursed them during the phone calls.
The company refuses to specify the value of tickets refunded yet. Last February, the company said it held $2.3 billion in ticket sales in its most recent quarter.
Customers who miss the deadline will be able to request that the remaining value of their ticket be converted into a travel voucher or Aeroplan Points, Air Canada’s loyalty program.
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text: Norman Ravvin’s new novel, The Girl Who Stole Everything, considers the after-effects of wartime on the contemporary Polish village of Radzanow, northwest of Warsaw. Its other setting is Vancouver’s down-and-out east side, which was in the 1950s and 60’s a Jewish business district. In both places young people stumble over connections to place they did not know they had. Music is one of their avenues of discovery, and Ravvin will present his novel using music drawn from the book. The Girl Who Stole Everything was chosen by The Globe and Mail as being among the best works published by Canadian independent publishers in 2019.

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Friday June 23
Greetings, Patron. Thanks for stopping by this summer day. Good weather ahead; good beverage in hand.
Not much change from our last report - as plenty of sunshine and a trend towards cooler temperatures are still on the charts. For the next 7 days, we can expect onshore breezes to hold summer temps down in the 70s to low 80s, depending on your locations (cooler zones around the Puget Sound). No broad precipitation is expected, other than under a wandering thunderstorm this afternoon along the Cascades and even over the NW corner of OR (Portland included) today the 23rd. The breezes should let up a bit Sat & Sunday, but increase again as next week progresses, making it difficult for crop protection treatments.
July begins next weekend. Wx outlook remains steady, with the onshore breeze continuing to hold temps down. Current outlook also keeps the 4th of July dry, but on the cool side, given the pesky winds. At least the wind will help quickly ‘clear the air’ if you are near firework action. Morning marine clouds are possible each day after the 4th, continuing on into the July 8,9 weekend. BREEZY! Temps will be rather cool for summer, so don’t expect to be comfortable swimming anywhere west side in the PNW during early July.
In fact, we expect the first 10 days of July 2023 to run BELOW average in the temperature dept. That goes for much of California, as well. There are indications that it may begin to heat up after July 9; too early to peg that transition just yet.
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And 7! The new Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, announced this Wednesday an increase in the number of cases of monkeypox: they are now 7 in France, or 2 more recorded in the last 24 hours, report our colleagues from BFM TV. Reassuring Nevertheless, the new boss of French Health was reassuring. Indeed, according to her, France has the necessary stocks to vaccinate contact cases as recommended by the health authorities. While all countries order doses like Germany, Spain or Belgium. “We are not expecting an outbreak of the disease, we are taking the necessary precautions, so vigilance in this case, and because it is a virus that we no longer saw in Europe”, he said. she declared this Wednesday morning on RTL. The strategy is clear: “Spot, detect, isolate”. “We are ready,” she proclaims.
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KFC is so bad, but so very good! As you can imagine southern fried chicken and chips is pretty high on the syn scale! There are lots of recipes around that use either smash or cous cous, but that is technically a "tweak" (using food not in the way that it was intended....potentially adding more calories in addition to your main meal). This is a completely syn free way of getting that great KFC taste, as long as you use the wholemeal breadcrumbs as you HEB allowance, add 6 syns if not! I don't like chicken on the bone but this recipe can easily be adapted for chicken wings or legs. This recipe served 2 of us.
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This goes perfectly with my syn free gravy!
You will need:
2 large chicken breasts (or cuts of chicken of your choice)
4 slices of 400g wholemeal bread
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1 teaspoon ground sage
1 teaspoon basil
1 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon garlic salt
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Slice the chicken breasts into mini fillets or to the size of your liking
Blitz the bread until fine breadcrumbs in a blender. Put into a bowl and add all of the seasonings and mix until everything is blended together to create your coating.
Crack the eggs and mix together. The chicken needs to be dipped in the egg and then to the breadcrumb mixture and repeated to get an even coating.
Bake the chicken in the oven for 20-25 mins on a medium heat, until cooked through. Cut one of the thickest bits to make sure it is cooked in the middle.
Serve with SW chips, syn free coleslaw and some corn on the cob- perfect fakeaway! Baked beans are a great accompaniment, and super speed!
Syn calculations are all carried out as a paying Slimming World member. I am not a consultant! It is always recommended to check syn values yourself.
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text: This study attempted to assess household level loss and damage resulting from three cyclones –Sidr, Aila and Mahasen – in Khulna, Patuakhali and Satkhira districts for a sample of households, the coping strategies they adopted, the determinants of these coping strategies, and the role of microfinance in coping and adapting in the aftermath of natural disasters. The impacts of microfinance on coping were studied by comparing the coping strategies of households that participated in the PRIME program with a control group. The affected households employed a wide range of coping strategies. The bi-variate analysis shows that the PRIME program participants on average relied more on current income and savings for coping than non-PRIME members, however PRIME participation does not appear to have an impact on the sale of assets and others as a coping strategy. Across all three cyclones, the percentage of PRIME households resorting to borrowing from informal lenders for coping is a lot lower than for non-PRIME households.

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AXA S.A. (“AXA”) announced today it has successfully completed the initial public offering (“IPO”) on the New York Stock Exchange of its US subsidiary, AXA Equitable Holdings, Inc. (“AEH”). A brief look at the company.
Additionally, the company announced an issuance of $750 million of bonds mandatorily exchangeable into shares of AXA Equitable Holdings … Comparison with all other BBB- preferred stocks that pay a fixed i At a price range of $24 to $27 per … AXA Equitable Holdings has filed for a $100 million IPO, likely a placeholder figure for a much higher amount. The New York, NY … AXA Equitable Holdings, the U.S. arm of French insurance giant AXA Group, went public on Thursday, May 10. Comparison with all other "BBB-" preferred stocks that pay a fixed interest rate. A brief look at the company. Axa SA, fell almost $1 billion short of its targeted share sale in what was still the biggest U.S. initial public offering of the year.

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A Formula for Failure
Oil-producing nations such as
Meanwhile, oil producers in
Recently, Barry Russell, the president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, released a statement in which he said, “President Obama delivered a devastating blow to the American oil and natural gas industry by proposing an astonishing $30 billion tax increase (as part of his FY 2010 budget) on American energy producers, most of whom are small businesses.”
“Ninety percent of the oil and natural gas wells developed in the
In a world where more oil and natural gas are required by developing nations such as
(1) A repeal of expensing of intangible drilling costs; a repeal of percentage depletion that allows for the depreciation of existing small, barely economic wells;
(2) A repeal of the marginal well tax credit, a safety net for wells that produce small amounts of oil and gas that, collectively, supply almost 20% of the nation’s oil and 12% of its gas;
(3) A repeal of the enhanced oil recovery credit that allows industry to get more energy from wells that are depleted instead of drilling new wells;
(4) Increases in the geological and geophysical amortization costs involving the high cost of doing seismic and other high-tech surveys;
(5) An excise tax on
(6) And a repeal of the manufacturing tax deduction, a provision given to every other American manufacturer and which allows independent oil and natural gas producers to put more money into new energy projects.
It is a plan to destroy the American oil and natural gas industry, and with it the nation’s economy.
Right now, however, the Obama administration has installed an “energy team” that is completely opposed to the development of any energy resources in
Steven Chu, the Secretary of Energy, is on record saying, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in
Ken Salazar, the Secretary of the Interior, the agency that administers energy leasing on federal lands and most offshore areas, has a long record of opposition to such leasing of oil, natural gas, and coal exploration and extraction. He has already nullified recently awarded leases for natural gas drilling in federal land in
Obama’s science advisor, John Holdren, outdoes Al Gore with predictions of global warming calamities. Back in the 1970s he was worrying whether mankind would survive the “threat of making the planet too cold.”
Meanwhile, Wall Street is watching investment drop like a stone as Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, testifies that
This attack on energy companies and access to energy resources in
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Battlegrounds Mobile India has introduced new special missions and rewards for users to celebrate the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. There will be three missions that users will have to pass to win the rewards. As good news, the rewards will be permanent and will stay even after the celebrations are over.
Battlegrounds Mobile India announced this via a post on Instagram. The Ganesh Chaturthi New Beginnings Missions are now live and will go on until 21 September.
The first mission requires players to swim 10 meters in Classic mode every day. This will be live until 14 September. Once they have passed the first mission, they can move on to the second one.
The second mission will require users to play in Classic mode 60 times. This will be live until 21 September. The last mission will need users to play in any mode with friends five times. The third mission will be live, starting 15 September, and will last until 21 September.
Once players can win all the missions, they will be entitled to a specially designed elephant print t-shirt and more in-game rewards such as Classic crate coupons and in-game currency. As a reminder, these rewards can be used at any point in time while playing the game.
To recall, Battlegrounds Mobile India introduced a similar celebration with Independence Day Mahotsav last month. This included special rewards such as Classic Crate Coupon scrap, AWM sniper rifle skin, in-game currency, green parachute trail, and a supply crate coupon. It was live until 20 August.

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Chelsea have reportedly returned with an improved offer for Rennes’ Edouard Mendy, after their opening bid of £15million was rejected. The goalkeeper has been identified by the Stamford Bridge hierarchy as a potential replacement for Kepa Arrizabalaga.
The Spaniard is set to leave the club this summer if they can secure a buyer.
Kepa cost a world-record fee of £71million two years ago when they secured his services from Athletic Bilbao.
Now he is being shown the door and there is interest from his homeland as he looks to quit west London.
Any deal is likely to be a loan with option or obligation to buy further down the line.
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Chelsea are willing to cut their losses and take a hit on the fee they paid Athletic Club given Kepa’s inconsistency.
According to Goal France, Chelsea have made a second swoop for Mendy as they look to bring in another option between the sticks.
The club had an offer of £15m turned away but they have now raised that by £3m to test Rennes’ resolve.
Mendy kept 13 clean sheets as Rennes finished third in Ligue 1 last season, qualifying for the Champions League.
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He conceded just 31 goals in 33 appearances and his performances are said to have impressed Chelsea’s head of goalkeeping Christophe Lollichon.
Lollichon reportedly recommended that the club try to sign him and they are now locked in talks with Rennes.
He has been at the club just one year after arriving for £3.6m from Reims last summer.
Chelsea have a long list of goalkeepers they have looked at this summer.
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Jan Oblak is the hierarchy’s dream signing but he is simply not affordable given that he is likely to cost £100m.
Andre Onana has also been discussed by the board and the club have a good relationship with Ajax following the signing of Hakim Ziyech.
Nick Pope has also impressed Frank Lampard but there has been no contact with Burnley.
Willy Caballero finished the season as the club’s No 1 goalkeeper and he saved a penalty in the friendly against Brighton on Saturday.
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In my article “The Second-Rate City?” I noted Chicago’s very strong economic and demographic performance in the 1990s and contrasted it with the very poor performance in the 2000s. Then I outlined several problems with Chicago I thought helped drive the struggles. A few people asked a very fair question, saying, “All the negative factors you cite about Chicago (e.g., clout, business climate) were equally as true in the 1990s as in the 2000s, so what really made the difference?” I want to try to respond to that today.
First, let’s ask ourselves, why did Chicago decline into its Rust Belt malaise? Was it some unique to Chicago factor? No, clearly not, as a broad swath of the industrial United States experienced a similar collapse. Likewise, lots of big cities (I mentioned New York before) seemed to be on the fast track to oblivion in the 1970s. In a sense, the city was a victim of outside macro-economic forces and secular trends.
Next, why did Chicago come back? Saskia Sassen helps us understand why. Globalization, which enabled the global distribution of many functions of production, also simultaneously created the demand for new types of functions to help control and manage these far flung networks, especially new types of financial and producer services. These require very specialized, high skill workers operating in dense knowledge networks, which led to agglomeration effects and the emergence of so-called “global cities.”
So, in a sense, the rise of global cities is simply an emergent property of the new global economy. The global transformation that renewed Chicago, New York, London, etc. had little to do with good leadership or great mayors, and everything to do with a historical context that was ripe for repositioning in a new world economy that demanded it. In other words: outside forces again. This includes other secular changes like the start of a new wave of people who prefer urban to suburban living. These forces laid the cities low and they brought them back.
So as I’ve said before, when it comes to Chicago’s transformation, the city was the artifact, not the architect.
The 1990s were a great decade nationally. Combine that with these forces I mentioned, and Chicago really had the wind at its back. It’s easy to do well in that environment. However, when the national economy took at turn for the worse in the 2000s and we experienced a “lost decade,” things were very different. It’s when the tide goes out that, as Warren Buffett likes to put it, you get to see who’s been swimming naked.
In a sense, the 2000s tough times exposed the weaknesses of Chicago in the same way that the financial meltdown blew up so many Ponzi schemes.
Also, I believe there were some particular characteristics about the way the markets changed in the 1990s and 2000s that particularly benefited Chicago in the 1990s and hurt it in the 2000s. I can’t claim to have done a rigorous study on it (though I think there is some good research to be done), but working in the industries affected and living it myself – and having some personal knowledge of various firm employee counts during the period – I feel somewhat qualified to state this as a hypothesis.
I’ve outlined this before, particularly in a very extensive post called “A Better Tomorrow” but I’ll restate it in part here.
There were two main forces that converged on Chicago in the 1990s: the tech revolution and the nationalization of industry. Note that I consider the 1990s really the prelude to globalization, which was the dominant force of the 2000s.
Consider the technology world of 1990. It was an era dominated by staid mainframe shops. By the end of the decade, the world was completely transformed. Just think of some of what we went through: the client/server revolution, the emergence of the web and the dot com boom, the ERP revolution, the Y2K retrofit problem, and the emergence of mobile telephony and laptops as ubiquitous. These were all huge, gut wrenching changes that required not just incredibly large numbers of people skilled in new technologies themselves, but also with tremendous business, functional, and people skills so they could be deployed effectively.
At the same time, the 1990s was the Great Rollup era. Back in the 1980s most cities had their three big local banks, their local electric and gas companies, their local retailers, even their local manufacturers. Only AT&T seemed to be a true national player of the type we know today. Fast forward through the 1990s and industry after industry was subject to national rollups. First was the emergence of “super-regional” banks, which led to today’s huge giants. (It was also when Glass-Steagall fell, arguably to our chagrin). Utilities merged, department stores merged, and major big boxes and category killers like Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreens, Best Buy, and Home Depot developed national footprints. Integrating these businesses, and building scalable processes and technology to manage these huge enterprises, was another gigantic effort.
Both of these worked enormously to Chicago’s benefit. Chicago had always been the dominant location in the interior for professional services, with core sub-industries including: management consulting (e.g., McKinsey), technology consulting (e.g., Accenture), IT/business process outsourcing (e.g., TCS), accounting (e.g., KPMG), and law (e.g., Mayer Brown).
Both the technology and nationalization trends generated huge amounts of demand for new people to manage them, which drove a huge increased demand generally for consultants and other service providers. What’s more, unlike the old back office “data processing” mainframes, the new technology was directly embedded into the fabric of the business. This meant that people working with it needed industry knowledge like never before. Clearly, to help executives merge and manage large national firms, consultants and such needed a lot of industry expertise as well, and needed to be able to serve their clients on a national, not just local basis.
This led to a sea change in the organization of professional services firms. Historically they had been organized by local office practice. But in the 1990s they reorganized along industry lines, with national practices. Instead of a Chicago consultant serving Chicago clients primarily, you’d have, for example, a retail consultant serving retailers where ever they might be nationally.
If you need to fly consultants all over the country to work with clients, where do you want to do it from? The two best options are Chicago and Dallas. So Chicago, with its huge labor market, its urban environment hitting at the emerging youth trend, its status as a major air hub, its central location, and its head start through its already robust professional services sector, became the best location in America for professional services overstaffing. That is, hiring people into a city with the idea that they’ll fly around the country servicing clients coast to coast. I believe this explains why Chicago boomed like nobody’s business during the 1990s. I suspect most major professional services companies doubled or tripled employment in Chicago in this period.
The 2000s were very different. First, the dotcom bust deflated demand for tech generally and Chicago as a hub got blasted. Second, the 2000s really didn’t see the same sorts of technology revolutions that we saw in the 1990s. I believe that things like Web 2.0 were mostly evolutionary. (Smart devices and such may be leading us through another fundamental revolution, but that wasn’t mostly a 2000s phenomenon). Third, the rise of the global age led to the emergence of offshore software development and business process delivery. Thus, much of the new demand, and existing demand, could be satisfied offshore, and didn’t require an army of expensive onshore consultants anymore. This new competition caused traditional firms to have to revamp themselves to become much more efficient internal business operators. (Law seems to be the last holdout, and is in the early stages today of a major shakeup in how legal business gets done).
This hurt Chicago badly. You didn’t need to overstaff in Chicago because you could do it in India. When there was recovery from the dotcom bust, much of it was offshore. I suspect that even 12 years later, there isn’t a single technology consultancy that employs as many people in Chicago as it did in 2000, new companies excepted. Consider that major firms like Arthur Andersen and Whitman-Hart don’t even exist anymore. Many smaller sized internet era firms also experienced the same fate, and Chicago’s “Silicon Prairie” ambitions more or less got wiped out, which cost a huge number of telecom jobs. Also, industries like finance have been subject to increasing centralization in global hubs. Chicago went from being #2 nationally as a financial hub to something further down the chart in a global hierarchy. Chicago retains great strengths in derivatives and risk management generally, but second tier financial hubs like Chicago and Boston have been feeling the pinch.
This, in a nutshell, is what I think explains the difference in performance. The general “wind at the back” of Chicago and big cities in a boomtime economy papered over a multitude of civic sins in the 1990s that the lean years of the 2000 exposed. And the tech/nationalization era of the 1990s particularly benefited Chicago, helping to explain why it rated so highly in that decade.
I’ve got one more piece in my “current conditions” segment of State of Chicago. Then I’ll turn to articulating my rationale for some of the structural weakness factors I outline in the article, then move on to a series of proposed fix-its.
This article is part of the “The State of Chicago.”
the urban politician says
Interesting and enlightening.
One wonders,though, that if cities cannot really change their fortunes since they are subject to much larger trends, then why bother trying to find solutions?
Aside from firing a missile and destroying New York, I can’t see how Chicago can get out of the position it is in right now.
Having said that, I for one think that Chicago actually can make things better. It has already started, although it may be some time before we see the fruits of the effort. One outstanding weakness is getting the State’s fiscal house in order. Another idea is that the city needs to go through its policies with a fine toothed comb and get rid of ones that are an impediment to small business/investor expansion.
Rahm is just starting down a long road that needs to be traveled. A lot more is needed.
Carl Wohlt says
Interesting read and one that I don’t disagree with. Chicago really wasn’t the architect of its resurgence in the 90s nor was it an architect of its stagnation in the 00s. So the big questions are: what can it do to fight external forces and what can it do to differentiate itself from the NYCs and Londons of the world? The region is the home of global consumer brands such as Kraft, Motorola, and Wrigley (prior to acquisition from Mars), but is this enough? The area is the regional hub of accounting, consulting, finance, and law, but is that enough? The local exchanges are kings of derivatives/ futures/ commodities, but will that necessarily hold if Chinese interests continue to buy up agricultural production? From the 60s to 90s, we witnessed the consolidation of business and professional services that diminished the importance of urban areas like Cincinnati and St. Louis. Fortune 500 presence and the Big 4 employment base in both cities are nice measuring sticks of this. Today, there are far fewer influential companies in both cities, and the Big 4 employee count has either stagnated or declined as more things have been shifted to Chicago or out of the midwest entirely. Is that Chicago’s destiny (on a larger scale)?
“If you need to fly consultants all over the country to work with clients, where do you want to do it from? The two best options are Chicago and Dallas. So Chicago, with its huge labor market, its urban environment hitting at the emerging youth trend, its status as a major air hub, its central location, and its head start through its already robust professional services sector, became the best location in America for professional services overstaffing. That is, hiring people into a city with the idea that they’ll fly around the country servicing clients coast to coast. I believe this explains why Chicago boomed like nobody’s business during the 1990s”
And of course that is what is happening again with the building boom that is happening downtown. The problem with cities like NYC and LA is that they are based on monocultures…finance and entertainment, respectively. Chicago is hyper-diverse and just like in the past it will be location, location, location. NYC is played out and basically living on “borrowed” time…literally. LA, is well LA ,and good luck trying to prove that it is actually a livable city.
Jeff Leitner says
Terrific piece, Aaron. “…when it comes to Chicago’s transformation, the city was the artifact, not the architect.” Smart.
Racaille, there is no “building boom” downtown, or anywhere in Chicago. There’s a massive housing bust. You can track new housing permits here- http://censtats.census.gov/bldg/bldgprmt.shtml
As you can see, there’s practically nothing permitted in the last three years. To be fair, there isn’t much of a housing boom anywhere in the U.S. lately, though NYC & LA have much higher rates of construction (Chicago can’t really match up with any of the individual NYC boroughs alone, in terms of 2012 housing starts, to say nothing of citywide).
But I’m not sure why housing construction is a proxy for economic diversity or long-term health. Is Phoenix the model city?
“Racaille, there is no “building boom” downtown, or anywhere in Chicago.”
You clearly have no idea of what you are talking about.
“this year and next, eight new towers will add nearly 3,150 apartment units to the market.”
Perhaps I should be doing some research for Mr. Renn.
Matthew Hall says
What important companies did Cincinnati or St. Louis have in 1980 that they don’t today? What is “big 4 employment base”? How has Cincinnati had slightly more population and economic growth as a percentage of the total size of it’s metro than Chicago? There are many untested and questionable assumptions in Nat’s comments.
there is no “building boom” downtown, or anywhere in Chicago.”
Belmont, why bother making stupid comments when you obviously have no clue wtf you’re talking about? Did you think no one would notice how clueless you are? All those cranes in the air downtown and you’re going to try and tell me there’s no building boom downtown or anywhere in Chicago? It’s not the huge boom we saw several years ago but it’s a pretty impressive mini we’re experiencing. It’s a boom big enough to rival many small/mid cities’ skylines. Also, that Domu list doesn’t even mention all the projects that are going on at the moment or all the ones waiting to break ground.
Aaron, I didn’t see it until recently having a kid…but aren’t Chicago’s abyssimal schools part of the problem here? It is an issue that touches much of what ails the City. It contributes to the spike in crime. But moreover, it creates a brain/tax base drain from young(ish) families forced to decide to gut it out in the City or move to the burbs. In the 90’s those families were easily replaced by a stream of young professionals coming to town. These days, that has stopped, exposing a problem that has festered for decades. While far from ideal, New York has grappled with and made far more progress with their system, while Chicago has doubled down on stupid.
“Big 4” refers to the 4 largest accounting firms. As someone employed by these firms over the past 3 decades, I can tell you the trend has been for more commoditized tax and audit functions to remain close to clients in cities like Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, etc, while the high margin, highly specialized niches have migrated to progressively larger cities, where these activities (and subject matter expertise) are conducted on a regional basis. There are some exceptions, eg, Indianapolis may be stronger in legal or healthcare to serve its clients, Cincy maybe more consumer products/brands rich in expertise (P&G), but that is the overall trend.
Fortune 500s lost in STL: TWA (not HQd, but huge presence), McDonnell Douglas, AB, May (acquired by Cincy’s Federated). Others include AG Edwards (now part of Wells), all locally owned and operated banks (Mercantile, Boatmen’s, etc.)
Cincy has fared better but the bottom line is that just about all older mid sized cities have gone through and are continuing to go through this trend. It comes down to critical mass of knowledge-based workers, labor markets, economies of scale, etc. As competition increases among urban areas, jobs/HQs tend to go to the most knowledge-rich area for a particular industry. The businesses that tend to stick tend to be locationally-tied (legal community in a state capital, tourism, oil&gas near an energy producing region, rail companies where they play a more vital role, and so on). Or a local flagship company is acquired by its big city competitor, or a NY or SF-based PE shop with cash, and so on.
Chicago, and the Midwest as a whole, need to figure out what they do best in a post-industrial world and develop in those areas. What I suspect we’ll see, over time, is that simply being the biggest in a given region in the country won’t be good enough. Not when the world is getting smaller and HQs can administer increasingly well from more remote locations like NYC, London, China, etc.
the urban politician says
The problem isn’t Chicago’s ‘abysmal schools’.
The problem is Chicago’s ‘abysmal culture’.
Its worthless public-employee unions continue to act as if this is 1950 and that Chicago is America’s second largest city.
This is making it very difficult, despite earnest efforts by leaders such as Rahm, to effect any sort of meaningful change. Just look at the negotiations taking place between the City and the CPS right now.
In addition, you have an African American leadership that is completely disinterested in the city’s fiscal well-being and far more interested in funneling money to black businesses, whether or not it is based on merit or not. Unfortunately, until the black population drops much further, Chicago must play ball with these leaders (one of who is having a mental breakdown right now). Just look at all the ridiculous posturing that took place around Metra’s Englewood Flyover project.
If Chicago can kick these two ‘legacy leeches’, as I like to call it, I really think it will be far better off.
I would also like to add that most of the commentators here really don’t have a clue what is happening in Chicago other than what is being posted here or in an occasional article, although I suspect one or two, including Aaron, have a better picture. I guarantee you that there is a lot of pent up demand to live in the city, but it basically is not being satisfied because 1) most of the major new construction is occurring downtown, and only a select few developers have the ability to complete such endeavors, 2) many multi-unit buildings in desirable neighborhoods are being deconverted or demolished into luxury single family homes, which are selling for high prices, 3) the cost of renovating a foreclosed multi-unit property is very high and requires commercial financing, appetite for risk, and experience (which not a lot of people are willing to take on).
So in the end, there are whole neighborhoods (far beyond just Lincoln Park and Lakeview) where young people simply can’t find apartments. At some point, when the banks clear out their inventory of foreclosures and begin seriously lending again, I believe we will start to see that demand get serviced.
“I would also like to add that most of the commentators here really don’t have a clue what is happening in Chicago other than what is being posted here or in an occasional article, although I suspect one or two, including Aaron, have a better picture.”
“Arthur Lloyd, executive vice president of Ivanhoe, said the rate of job growth in Chicago made the city an attractive investment opportunity. Mr. Shannahan, of Hines, estimated that about 10,000 new jobs were announced in 2011, and said, “That’s a great record for the downtown.”
Matthew Hall says
If business services and management can be done from anywhere, why not somewhere cheaper? Educated workers can be lured to cheaper places just like companies. Macy’s, Kroger,P&G, and some of the constellation of engineering companies in Cincinnati have bought operations from more expensive places. P & G bought Gillette from Boston, Kroger and Macy’s bought dozens of local retailers around the country, General Cable in Cincinnati just bought German and Brazilian companies who work in areas of fiber optic and other communication cables. Besides DHL’s operation in Cincinnati, another air freight company is negotiating a state subsidy to move from Connecticut to Cincinnati’s airport right now. These examples run counter to Nat’s suggestion that economic activity will concentrate in fewer and fewer centers of maximum profitability.
Aaron M. Renn says
@JM, Chicago has school problems, but name a big urban district that doesn’t. I don’t think schools differentiate Chicago too much here.
Aaron M. Renn says
Matthew, things can’t always been done as effectively from cheaper locales. That’s why NYC, DC, and Silicon Valley continue to thrive. Cincinnati will still have accountants and consultants and such serving that local market, but increasingly the big consultancies consolidated back into hub cities like Chicago. That’s actually brought an uptick back to Chicago’s market of late.
“Chicago has school problems, but name a big urban district that doesn’t. I don’t think schools differentiate Chicago too much here.”
Urban Politican, if there is such a great need for apartments, then why is the citywide vacancy rate over 10% per the Census ACS, which is far worse than the national level, and those of other major cities?
I would argue that Chicago has a tremendous glut of apartments, especially at the luxury level. You can rent a one bedroom in a brand new West Loop or South Loop highrise for far less than a tiny studio in a walkup in some outer, anonymous neighborhood in one of the coastal cities.
The RE market seems very weak in Chicago relative to that of other major U.S. cities. Property is cheap, and interest isn’t very strong.
Aaron M. Renn says
As the housing bubble collapsed, it fueled demand to rent, not buy. Belmont, from what I saw before I left, the apartment market was doing pretty well in Chicago. This is true in cities across America. Pick up the paper even in places like Columbus and Cleveland and hear about apartment shortages. There’s a lot of construction going on out there in downtowns across America. I bet if you adjusted for relative population size, there’s not much special about Chicago’s recent apartment construction, though I do believe the market is doing well. This is just another national trend.
Interesting article about Chicago’s job market.
BelmontRes, not sure where you get your stats, maybe you make them up. Apartment vacancy in Chicago is less than 5%. From a market report from Marcus & Millichap:
Vacancy: Strong demand and a second consecutive year of limited construction will support a
50-basis point drop in vacancy this year to 4.1 percent, the lowest year-end level in 11 years. Driven
by the release of pent-up demand, vacancy plummeted 100 basis points during 2011.
Rents: Rents will continue to gain momentum in the second half of 2012. For the entire year,
asking rents will rise 2.6 percent to $1,093 per month and eff ective rents will surge 3.6 percent to
$1,027 per month. Last year, asking rents rose 1.7 percent while eff ective rents gained 2.0 percent.
the urban politician says
Your article shows that Chicago’s job market rebounded more strongly than any other city besides Houston in the last year.
In addition, just today the fifth largest accounting firm in the US just announced they are relocating their headquarters to Chicago.
Chicago’s unemployment rate is really dropping like gangbusters, and as we have discussed before, has already caught up with New York.
Aaron, while I admit that it is far too early to celebrate, it’s time we acknowledge that the 2000-2010 period that you continue to discuss is already becoming old news.
the urban politician says
For anyone who doesn’t want to read Peter’s article and (perhaps) are all too giddy with the idea of Chicago’s decline, let me post an interesting quote from it:
“Since last year, the number of people without jobs dropped more in Chicago any other U.S. big city, according to the study. Right now there are 28,000 more people with jobs in Chicago compared to a year ago, and the number of workers looking for a job dropped by almost 20,000.
Houston was the only U.S. city that created more jobs than Chicago.”
Aaron, time to move back from Rhode Island. The ship isn’t sinking anymore 😉
“In addition, just today the fifth largest accounting firm in the US just announced they are relocating their headquarters to Chicago.”
Yep, the sky is falling.
Matthew Hall says
Why this focus on accounting? It is one of dozens of different types of economic activities.

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The first part of the paper requires the introduction of three members of a multicultural work team who are looking for a new workplace. N.N. is a representative of the Muslim diaspora – a migrant from a developing country in Central Asia who moved for better economic conditions. N.N. feels a certain pressure from society, which is not ready to get rid of politically incorrect racial and religious prejudices. M.M. is a young African American with a high sense of racial justice and political activism. The third new member of the multicultural team is Caribbean immigrant L.L. The reason for L.L. to move was low social conditions, a high crime rate in their hometown, and the risk of political persecution. Each of the members of this team seeks to overcome social injustices, which must be taken into account in the process of their assimilation into the work collective.
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In order to correctly measure the level of assimilation, that is, cultural acceptance and interaction in the work collective, it is proposed to create a short questionnaire of several points. The first but important research in this direction would be a test for mutual communication, designed to establish how well employees understand each other and are able to overcome the language barrier. In this aspect, observing employees seems to be a reasonable measure since creating artificial interaction situations can cause discomfort.
An important issue is also the problem of cultural understanding. Therefore, in the first place, it is necessary to ask a multicultural collective whether their main national cultural attitudes are not violated or questioned. The next question would be logical to clarify to what extent the culture of the migrant itself prevents them from working if it does so. Accordingly, the question of tolerance towards other cultures, including the American one, should also be raised quite acutely. The question of how great the desire to defend the independence of their culture and the migrant has to be considered in detail.
Based on the results of the testing and observation of the interactions of the three employees, critical conclusions can be drawn. If a migrant declares a negative perception of other cultures, an unwillingness to tolerate them, then this implies an unwillingness to fit into a team and do a good job. The problem of ethics, in this case, is quite big, and therefore the struggle and rivalry of cultures for domination should be excluded from the work collective. Based on the answer to the presented questionnaire, one can conclude how hostile the worker is to other cultures and how aggressively the struggle of another nationality for cultural independence can manifest itself.
Political activism M.M. demonstrated himself in the testing process as having a humane basis and, at the same time, not violating the atmosphere of the work collective. The employee’s struggle for social justice, on the contrary, demonstrates itself as a positive characteristic required by a member of a multicultural collective. We can say that in this case, the desire for justice is tantamount to the requirement of inclusiveness, which is the main characteristic of modern sabotage of society, at work and outside.
In the case of L.L., the desire for better living conditions and the search for a non-turbulent social environment results in indifference to the issue of cultural inclusion. At the same time, the passivity of a migrant in relation to multiculturalism does not necessarily have to imply intolerance and hostility. Compliance with work ethics for L.L. is above all. Accordingly, the worker is ready to fit into a multicultural team. As for N.N., this migrant from Central Asia showed himself as not ready to fully assimilate. The worker explained his concern about multiculturalism by fear of losing his spiritual connection with his homeland, as well as by worrying about implicit racial hostility towards his nation.
Speaking about the usefulness of demographic data, it should be noted that each nation represented by the three employees has its own immigration background. Migrants from Central Asia are statistically pro-American only if they receive financial or social support (Madanbekova, 2018). M.M. is a member of a racial group that in the twentieth century did not have the opportunity to obtain sufficiently skilled jobs. People who immigrated from countries such as Cuba, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic make up an impressive ten percent of the part American population yet still are considered to be minorities (Fanfan and Stacciarini, 2020). Based on this demographic information, it can be concluded that each of the national minority groups needs psychological and social support to ensure productivity.
Improving interaction in the work team
Several strategies can be proposed to improve interaction in the work team. First of all, one should attend to the introduction of additional educational classes dedicated to the culture of tolerance and inclusiveness. A series of workshops conducted by professionals in the field of multicultural ethics could have a qualitative impact on the perception of migrants. Expanding this thesis, it must be said that a colossal national program to improve the education of migrants can be a more ambitious strategy. Raising the level of education in a multinational sphere will necessarily underestimate the sense of social injustice associated with poor job quality and wages (Bell, 2017).
The third strategy, in case of ineffectiveness of the previous ones, should be presented in the form of collective therapy. Group therapy can also be additionally implemented through more collective assignments. Realizing the need for collaborative action and the effectiveness of mutual cooperation, each of the team will see such work as much more acceptable. Thus, enhancing the cultural and general education of the multinational collective, as well as the call for continued cooperation, could help overcome differences and create harmony in the collective.
Bell, M.P. (2017). Diversity in organizations (3rd ed.). Cengage Learning.
Fanfan, D., and Stacciarini, J.-M. (2020). Social-ecological correlates of acculturative stress among Latina/o and Black Caribbean immigrants in the United States: A scoping review. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 79, pp. 211-226. Web.
Madanbekova, G. (2018). ‘America or Russia? Work or study?’: Shifts in social and political attitudes of Central Asians going abroad —a quasi-experimental design in Kyrgyzstan [Master’s Thesis, OSCE Academy]. OSCE Academy in Bishkek.

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The Dog Daze of Summer event will take place in the Shoctor Lobby. SCARS will be present, along with some of their Ambassador Teams (SCARS alumni dogs) to give a presentation about what SCARS does in the community and to do an agility course demonstration! There will be a cash bar for Yappy Hour, Zwick's Pretzels and Drift Food Truck will be on site, as well as a silent auction. This is a delightfully fun event where you and your family are invited to bring your favourite canine companion and join in the festivities!
The Details at a Glance:
Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Location: Shoctor Lobby at the Citadel Theatre
Supporting: SCARS (Second Chance Animal Rescue Society)
This year, our event will raise awareness and funds for SCARS (Second Chance Animal Rescue Society), an organization whose mission is to promote the humane care and protection of all animals and to prevent cruelty and suffering. SCARS also helps communities by taking in pets that are unwanted or slated for euthanasia. They collect pets from remote area dog pounds and veterinary clinics that act as the pound. SCARS also take in stray and abandoned pets, many of which are sick or injured. Every animal is given a veterinary and behavioural assessment and any medical care or rehabilitation it requires.

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If logging wasn’t enough, the final chapter in the destruction of the Allegheny ecosystem was to be played out by the sterilizing element of fire. The first episode in a long chain of events that led to the complete destruction of the original forest occurred in 1863 when fire escaped from the campfire of Confederate scouts on the Roaring Plains in Randolph County. For many years thereafter, destructive fires swept through the region from the head of the Greenbrier River along the sides and top of Allegheny Mountain through Pendleton, Randolph, Grant and Tucker counties. The slash from the virgin forest (branches, and tree crowns with wood too small to be of marketable use) was extensive. These conditions created a tinder box waiting for a spark.
Consequently, fire followed fire until the remaining green timber and all reproduction were destroyed. This was especially true in the spruce areas, where even the deep humus was burned to bed rock. Many stands of virgin hardwood were not cut, but destroyed by fire spreading from areas of spruce slash into areas of hardwood.
The destruction was extraordinary. More than one-tenth of the whole surface of the state was burned over, including one-fifth of the forest area. Three per cent of the estimated standing timber in West Virginia was destroyed, including the small as well as the large. The amount burned was two-thirds as much as the cut of all the mills in the state in 1907.
As to the origin of the fires, 71% was from locomotives, 20% from saw mills and campers, 3% set to improve the range for livestock, 2% incendiary, and 4% from other causes. The great forest of the Alleghenies was finally destroyed.
The Remaining Virgin Forest
Surprisingly, through hook or crook, not every last acre of virgin timber was logged in West Virginia. There are two areas where the original forest stands tall and proud, and both can be easily visited by automobile. Granted these areas are small, but each has an interesting story to tell.
The first is the Monongahela National Fores Gaudineer Knob Scenic Area located roughly roughly four miles north of Durbin, West Virginia on Route 250. How this area was “accidentally” spared is best described in Maurice Brook’s beautifully written book, The Appalachians, available for secure on-line purchase through PATC’s online store:
“Some years before the Civil War a speculating land company bought a tract of 69,000 acres on the slope of Shavers Mountain. Their tract fronted for about seven miles along the eastern side of the mountain. To survey and mark their holdings, the company hired a crew of men who must have found rough going in this wilderness. The crew did a good job, but its chief forgot one thing – the fact that a compass needle points to magnetic, not true north. In this area, the angle of declination is about four degrees, a significant source of error on a seven-mile front.”
“An experienced Virginia surveyor, in checking the data, discovered the error, but said nothing about it. Presently however when the sale was being concluded and the deeds recorded, he brought the error to light, and under a sort of “doctrine of vacancy”, claimed the wedge of land left by a corrected survey. His title was established, and he and his heirs found themselves owner of a seven-mile strip of forest, aggregating almost 900 acres. While timber above and below the wedge was cut, this narrow holding was undisturbed.”
The 130-acre Gaudineer Knob Scenic Area tract was eventually purchased at the insistence of former Monongahela National Forest Supervisor Arthur Wood, who believed that future generations should know what an Appalachian spruce stand was like. I have had the pleasure of visiting this area more than once, and you should too. There is feeling in this small stand of huge trees hidden in the midst of the West Virginia mountains that you can not experience anywhere else in the State.
Cathedral State Park
The second area that missed the bite of the lumberman’s saw can be found at Cathedral State Park. The Park encompasses an ancient hemlock forest of majestic proportions – trees up to 90 feet in height and 21 feet in circumference form cloisters in the park. Throughout the woods, the hemlock is the climax species. The park has the distinction of containing the largest hemlock tree in the state.
The woods were preserved because of the love each owner had for this unique area. The land was eventually purchased in 1922 by Mr. Branson Haas, a workman for the Brookside Hotel (which is no longer standing on the site). He sold the woods to the State of West Virginia in 1942 with the stipulation that it remain untouched by ax or saw. On October 6, 1966, Cathedral State Park was entered into the National Registry for Natural History Landmarks, and in 1983 was recognized by the Society of American Forestry in its National Natural Areas Program.
Cathedral State Park is small – just 133 acres – but large enough to get a sense of what the majestic Allegheny forests must have been like before the discovery of man. You can find the park in Preston County on U.S. Route 50, just west of the western Maryland state line. As luck would have it, you can also download a trail map from this page. (PC users can download a selp-expanding “Zip-compressed” version of the TRAIL MAP 559K. If you’re a MacIntosh user, you’ll need to download the Stuffit Expander first, then download this non-executable ZIP FILE (543K). The zip file contains a TIF image of the map at a resolution suitable for printing.)
Out of the 10,000,000 acres of virgin forest that existed in the State of West Virginia before 1750, only these 263 acres remain.
For those more interested in the railroading aspect of the logging effort, the state of West Virginia operates the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park located in Cass, West Virginia. The railroad offers both eight-mile (1-1/2 hour) and 22-mile (4-1/2 hour) trips scheduled daily June through August. Special fall foliage schedules are offered September through October.
The history of the railroad is interesting. It was originally constructed in 1902 by the West Virginia Spruce Lumber Company to remove timber from the Shaver’s Fork region of Monongahela National Forest. In 1910, it was sold to the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, who in turn sold it to Mower Lumber Company in 1942. Faced with dwindling timber supplies, the operation folded in 1960.
It was left to an impassioned plea by Mrs. Russel Baum of Sunbury, Pennsylvania to convince the West Virginia Legislature to purchase the remaining tracks and three remaining engines as a tourist attraction. In 1961, the Legislature appropriated $150,000 to make the purchase. Since that time, the line has been extended from 7 to 22 miles.
If you’re interested in getting a true feeling of traveling the West Virginia mountains in an authentic logging train pulled by a genuine Shay engine, call the Cass Scenic Railroad State Park at 304-456-4300 for more information. In 1995, tickets ranged from $10 to $15 for adults, and $6 to $9 for children. Be sure to ask the park about the Saturday night barbecue Dinner Train rides, and the “Halloween Train”.
Logging Mill Tours
And logging continues today. Available to individuals and groups, this new industry tour offered by the Beckwith Lumber Company provides an educational opportunity for visitors. The timber industry still plays a large role in the economy of many mountainous counties in West Virginia, and these tours educate participants on all aspects of the timber industry. Beckwith Lumber Company is located on Rt. 219 in Slaty Fork. Tours are on weekends only, and advance notice is required. Call 304-572-1220 for more information.
Books and other Historical Publications of Interest
Nearly all the source material used to develop this write-up was drawn from an extraordinary book entitled Tumult on the Mountain written by Roy B. Clarkson. I have presented only a “taste” of what this book has to offer in the way of information and pictures. If you’re interested in getting the entire picture of the logging in the West Virginia mountains – camp life, locomotives, the people, the companies, logging techniques, and even a map of the rail lines, then there is no better book to own. Clarkson has done his research, and presents this information in a lively, informative, and entertaining manner. I would rate this book as a “must own” for any backpacker or hiker who regularly visits the recovering forests of the Monongahela National Forest.
A second book that will also be of great interest to outdoorsmen is The Last Forest, written by G.D. McNeill. The Last Forest takes you back in time to the 1880’s to the unspoiled Cranberry Wilderness Area before the logging clear-cut the magnificent hemlock from this region. The book closes fifty years later, with the last virgin forest cut over and despoiled. The book also includes tales of local events, providing more of a “resident’s” view of the logging effort and life in the mountains at the turn of the century. Formerly out of print for over half a century, this book is now back in publication and available for sale.
A third book takes you north to the Blackwater Falls region. Beginning with a look at the past and the exploits of Porte Crayon and others, Blackwater Country written by J. Lawrence Smith deals with many of the scenic and natural wonders of the Blackwater Falls- Canaan Valley area.
These three books, as well as MANY others dealing with life in West Virginia can be purchased from the McClain Printing Company, 212 Main Street, Parsons, West Virginia 26287. Call 304-478-2881 to request a catalog of their extensive line of historic, cultural, and general interest books written by authors of the Mountain State.
The information contained in this write-up is copyrighted by the following: Andy Hiltz, McClain Publishing Company, Pocahontas County Tourism Commission, and Seneca Books.


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The American Journal of Undergraduate Research has confirmed its acceptance to publish a Mount research article on gender disparities in the workplace. The article, Women in Higher Educational Leadership: Representation, Career Progression and Compensation, reports findings on the gender gap in the higher education field. Four Mount psychology students researched and wrote the report in an effort to shed light on the pervasive issue of the inequities that women endure in the nation’s workforce.
“Our article shows that women in higher education have fewer leadership positions, have slower progression in their careers, and experience significant differences in compensation levels compared to men in the same roles,” said Michelle Samuel, MSMU Assistant Professor of Psychology. “These findings speak to the larger issue of the systemic barriers that women continue to face in the workplace.”
The research students focused on gender disparities in the higher education field because of their ability to access data from the University of California Annual Payroll Compensation database. By obtaining this public data, the research students could analyze and report how women are represented, compensated and advance in higher education careers as compared to men. The research project’s aim is to leverage this data to provide documented evidence that gender inequality in the workplace does indeed exist.
“This article is noteworthy because it serves as a baseline data point,” said Samuel. “We hope to come back to this data in five years to compare figures and see if any real progress has been made.”
The American Journal of Undergraduate Research is a peer-reviewed journal registered by the Library of Congress. While the journal receives hundreds of submissions for publication each year, it has an acceptance rate of less than 20 percent. The journal is expected to publish the Mount’s research article this spring.

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It was reported last night, and discussed earlier today, that Kansas City Royal player Edinson Volquez’s father, Daniel, passed away. This writer, of course, gives his condolences. However, that’s not what this story is about.
Edinson’s wife called the Royals’ clubhouse to let them know the news, but told them not to let him know until he was done playing. But, there has been speculation that he might have been informed before his family had the chance to tell him themselves.
This raises an important question for journalists. If you find out news of a player’s parent’s death, do you report it or do you sit on it until you are positive the player knows?
For me, the answer is quite simple. I would sit on it until I was positive – beyond the shadow of a doubt – that the player knew the situation.
Over the years, I’ve lost many people – both family and friends. It’s always heartbreaking. But, I am fortunate to have been told by the people involved. I don’t know what I would do if I found out that kind of information from someone else – least of all the media.
Sure, I’ve worked for the media, and I have published many stories. But, while covering those stories, I always make sure the people I interview are comfortable with me and the questions I ask. That’s important to me because it builds trust, which leads to a good rapport. The better rapport I have with people, the more that word might get out that I’m a good person to talk to. However, even if people don’t spread the word about me, that’s fine. As long as I’ve kept their trust, that’s what matters most to me.
That leads me to the crux of this story. I’ve heard that certain people in the media – none of whom will be named in this piece – have decided it was better to report the story regardless of whether or not Edinson found out first.
To say that disappoints me is an understatement.
Saying it’s a journalistic duty to report this issue is preposterous to me. Anyone who says that is saying that their duty and their loyalty to their job matters more than being empathetic to a man who just lost his father.
That just boggles my mind. To put your job on a higher pedestal than a human life – or a loss of one – just tells me where your priorities lie.
Anyone who would do such a thing should, in my opinion, just write for a tabloid because it seems your main goal is to sell your product and not care for the people about whom you write.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s important to make sure your product – whether it is a newspaper, magazine or website – is promoted. However, I cringe at the thought of putting it above and beyond a human life.
While it’s important to “get the story,” it’s also important to make sure you are empathetic to the people involved in the story you write. Therefore, it is just as important to focus on the timing of the story and not just the context.
After all, journalists learn about the most important questions to ask in their first class in college. Those questions being “who?”, “what?”, “where?”, “when?” and “why?”
Obviously, we know the answers to those questions within the story presented last night. However, it’s also important to focus on “the 5 W’s” when publishing the story – especially in the age of social media.
Soon after the story broke about Edinson’s father, the whole country knew about it. If the story broke too early, he would have surely found out about it from someone who didn’t realize he shouldn’t know yet. That would’ve been disastrous for him (since he was the starting pitcher for game one of the World Series) as well as the team because it could have affected his ability to play, and his teammates could have been indirectly – or even directly – affected.
I always do my best to take into account every aspect of a story. Obviously, there’s the story on its surface. But, to me, it has always been more than that. A story is about the people involved, but it’s also the people’s families, friends and other people whom the story may touch.
To me, knowing that part is my journalistic responsibility.


City Lab Culture What If We Had a 15-Minute City for Friendship?
"Art is Business," reposted By Sarah Holder on July 15, 2023, at 9:30 AM EDT.
Living close to friends matters. Amid a loneliness epidemic, a popular urban planning concept offers a vision for proximity.
Friends gather at the Place des Vosges park in Paris. Photographer: Michel Setboun/Corbis via Getty Images
When it comes to friendship, closeness matters. Emotional closeness, sure, but also — whether we like it or not — physical proximity. Researchers talk about an ideal "friendship radius" that even the internet hasn't made obsolete. It can vary by person and location, but at a basic level, the closer you are, the better. "We are more likely to spend time with friends that we can easily access," says Elizabeth Laugeson, a clinical professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Cities worldwide are contending with what the US Surgeon General recently deemed a "loneliness epidemic," one of the public health proposals to solve it is to build social infrastructure that facilitates more human connections.
That’s where the 15-minute city comes in.
The urban planning concept of a 15-minute city is one that's designed so that residents' basic needs can be met within a small radius accessible by foot, bike, or public transit. Those basics include work, school, child care, groceries, and maybe even health care. Life in a 15-minute city would be greener and easier, advocates say. More time would be spent in public and less confined at home or in cars.
Proponents of urban redesign don't always explicitly emphasize social connection. But Carlos Moreno, an urbanist and associate professor at IAE of Paris - Panthéon Sorbonne University who came up with the 15-minute city concept, says "care" has always been central to building a thriving neighborhood. Care can be found in hospitals or social services centers – but also within the support system created by close networks of friends. Friendship, after all, has life-sustaining properties and has been shown to improve physical and mental health.
"I think so often we view it as If we have time, then we'll give attention to our social life. Or, oh, it's a luxury to go out and see friends," said Andrea Bonior, a clinical psychologist and the host of Baggage Check, a mental health podcast. "When in reality, we know that having strong friendships predicts our longevity, it helps our immune system, it makes us more resilient and protected against certain mental and physical health disorders."
Of course, friends don't need to live in the same city to show care now that technology can bridge the distance. But research suggests that geography matters. One study on interpersonal contact in Canada in 1978 showed that the frequency of face-to-face encounters declines once the distance between friends or relatives reaches five miles. Even phone contact started to dry up at 100 miles.
Another study, using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Index to understand whether emotions are contagious, showed that a happy friend living within a mile of you is enough to increase your chances of happiness by 25%. If your neighbor is comfortable, that ups your chances by 34%. An article on the findings in the Harvard Gazette sums it up nicely: "Happiness appears to love the company more so than misery."
There are unique benefits to living close by to a friend. Being neighbors can build comfort through the regularity of your hangs. It can also make them more spontaneous. "It's a lot different from bumping into somebody frequently because they happen to live on your street, and you can sort of see them on a random day without planning," said Bonior. "Any time you have to plan, there are more possibilities that the planning itself will thwart getting together."
Living nearby would also "make it easier to support one another materially and emotionally," as Adrienne Matei wrote in The Atlantic recently, in an essay arguing that people should move closer to their friends just as they would for partners or family. Child care would be more accessible for those with kids, she writes, and a treat for those without; pooling groceries or hitching a ride to the hospital would save everyone time and money. A proximate shoulder to cry on is warmer than the simulacrum on FaceTime.
There needs to be a scientific answer to how close is close enough. Just as the 15-minute city can be more like a 10- or 30-minute city, Laugeson says each person's so-called friendship radius can vary based on where you live and how you get around. "For some people in urban settings, their radius becomes smaller because it takes longer to travel distances in congested areas," she says. "In rural settings, people may be more willing to travel longer distances to be with friends because there are fewer alternatives."


Manufacturer: Boeing Phantom Works
In response to the latest Chinese Unmanned Fighter, DARPA decided to restart the X-45 project. The result is the X-45E. It looked very similar to X-45A except it is longer, bigger and faster (supersonic cruise at 36000ft) . Hope you enjoy! Thanks to mikoyanster for his modded parts and starting this challenge.
- Power/Weight Ratio 1.623
- Wing Loading 28.0lbs/ft2 (136.8kg/m2)
- Wing Area 988.3ft2 (91.8m2)
- Drag Points 3910
- Number of Parts 176
- Control Surfaces 12