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The premise of PLACE3S is that communities, by the planning and design choices they make, effect the efficiency of energy production, distribution and use. By being aware of the energy consequences of their choices, communities can improve their economies, environments, and quality of life. These wide spread benefits are due to the integral nature of energy in communities, where efficiency gains in one sector lead to related improvements in other sectors.
The objective of PLACE3S is to identify and describe potential efficiency gains for community planning participants. It then helps them to balance community needs and select the best combination of efficiency strategies for their local circumstances. The PLACE3S method does this by comparing energy use under existing conditions (how efficient the community is today) with future conditions under a range of planning alternatives (how much more or less efficient the community could become).
The three main components to the PLACE3S approach are:
Step 1: Start-up Establish the geographic scope of the PLACE3S project and its relationship to other planning projects affecting the study area. Begin stakeholder participation, including formulating criteria for evaluating planning alternatives. Collect data to document existing conditions. Use PLACE3S to measure the energy use, cost and air pollutant and CO2 emissions of existing conditions.
Step 2: Establish Business-As-Usual Forecast Forecast what your community will be like at the end of your planning horizon. Assume current policies and market trends remain in force, largely unchanged throughout the planning period. Measure the energy use, cost and air pollutant and CO2 emissions of the forecast business-as-usual conditions. The PLACE3S data describing existing conditions (Step 1) and forecast business-as-usual conditions form the baseline against which all planning alternatives are compared.
Step 3: Analyze Alternatives Develop and evaluate alternatives that improve upon business-as-usual conditions. These alternatives will address major planning issues such as new transportation programs and redirecting growth. Figure S-2 provides a menu of opportunities that the PLACE3S method uses to enhance energy efficiency. Construct an Advanced Alternative that incorporates as many items from Figure S-2 as possible. The energy measurement of the Advanced Alternative should be the practical upper limit to efficiency in a community. Compare energy use, costs and air pollutant and CO2 emissions of the alternatives and the baseline against each other. Consider trade-offs that can be made to capture as many energy efficiency, cost and environmental benefits as possible. A diagram of this process appears as Figure S-3.
Step 4: Create Preferred Plan Create the Preferred Plan. Select the strongest alternative or construct a hybrid from the alternatives assessed in Step 3. Use the public process to construct the Preferred Plan to achieve the best balance of energy efficiency and other community values. Document the expected level of energy efficiency, cost savings, and air quality and CO2 emission improvements for use in Step 5.
Step 5: Adopt, Implement, Monitor, and Revise Adopt the Preferred Plan. Use the energy, cost, and air pollutant and CO2 emission data to track implementation and measure how well the plan is achieving its goals. Evaluate short-range development proposals and plans against the longer-term goals of the plan to ensure that incremental efficiency improvements are occurring and that the actions are not detracting from long-term goals.
PLACE3S calculations rely on a community's own data to answer two key questions.
Household Energy Consumption and Expenditures. Survey of consumption and expenditure patterns for all residential energy use, except household transportation.
Household Vehicles Energy Consumption. This is a companion residential survey devoted to household transportation, including vehicle types, miles traveled, and fuel efficiency.
Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption and Expenditures. Survey of commercial building energy consumption by building type, energy end-use, and fuel type nationally.
National Personal Transportation Survey. Comprehensive survey of all forms of personal travel, including non-motorized and transit modes.
Transportation Energy Data Book. Detailed national breakdown of energy consumption, costs, and air pollutant emissions for all motorized travel modes.
These are national databases with breakdowns by multi-state regions. The USDOE periodically updates and distributes them, except the National Personal Transportation Survey, which the USDOT issues.
Many data needed for PLACE3S will already be available from other planning processes. Local data bases usually document the number, size, and location of dwelling units, for example. The PLACE3S method applies a set of coefficients to those existing data and estimates the energy needs of dwelling units and the attendant air pollution and CO2 emissions. PLACE3S estimates energy used by businesses, transportation and infrastructure, which local data bases also normally document, in a similar manner. The method is flexible enough that users can adapt it to the data they have available.
In projects in which computer help is appropriate, hardware and software requirements are not extensive. If a community or region operates a GIS, it possesses a system it can adapt to make PLACE3S calculations. In locations without a GIS, a personal computer and spreadsheet software can tabulate data, which are then transferred to drawings. A CAD system can also automate this approach.
Software has been developed specifically for PLACES assessements. This software, called INDEX (tm);, is available from Criterion Inc in Portland, Oregon for site or program-specific applications only. Its use requires ArcView (trademark symbol) from ESRI Inc., and a 486 PC (or Mac) with 16 MB of RAM. Operation may require up to 100 MB of hard drive space depending on the study size. INDEX is not plug and play software. Aside from desired customizations, its database must be populated before operation. Contact Eliot Allen, Principal, Criterion Inc for details about INDEX. email@example.com or 503-224-8606
Physical change in cities occurs gradually. Investments in auto-oriented infrastructure will exert enormous influence on cities for decades to come, reducing the benefits of improved land-use planning to potentially small increases in efficiency. However, slow realization of benefits is not a reason for inaction. As Figure S-5 shows, the gradual nature of change is a reason to begin, not delay, taking actions toward a sustainable future.
Per Capita/Year
1. BUSINESS-AS-USUAL: Developer proposes to build on a 100-acre parcel at four units to the acre. The PLACE3S profile reveals the following:
Office:2. ADVANCED ALTERNATIVE: Double housing to meet projected need and double density to conserve resources, lower prices and preserve the environment. The PLACE3S profile reveals the following:
3. PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE: Locality responds by proposing fewer multi-family homes and less open space but still more than Business-As-usual. The PLACE3S profile reveals the following:
1. Characterization of regional subareas. Assign each regional subarea (often a traffic analysis zone) current and projected values for land-use (types, acreages), housing (types, acreages), employment (types, floor space quantities), transportation demands (all trips/modes), and urban services (presence and capacity of water, wastewater, electricity, and natural gas).
2. Regional energy tabulation. Using energy end-use coefficients, PLACE3S tabulates each subarea's energy use, costs, and pollutant and CO2 emissions for building, transportation, and infrastructure end-uses. Figure S-8 demonstrates the coefficient development process for a single family home. These numbers are then multiplied by the number of single family homes in a subarea.
3. Subarea location rating. PLACE3S rates each subarea according to how close it is to key regional features such as transit service, major employment centers, urban amenities, and infrastructure. This measurement of proximity reflects the energy needed for travel, and for infrastructure extension and operation. It also rates each subarea according to infrastructure capacity and multi-modal travel capabilities. PLACE3S uses the combined rating to categorize subareas into groups that are advantageously located and urbanized versus those that are relatively distant from activity centers and lacking substantial infrastructure. It ranks three location groups of subareas: excellent, favorable, and fair.
4. Subarea planned efficiency rating. PLACE3S rates each subarea a final time in terms of land-use designation and travel demand consistency with the previous location rating. This final step estimates the relative level of energy efficiency a subarea could achieve as currently designated in community plans; hence, the rating planned efficiency. For example, a subarea near transit designated for high-density use would have a high planned efficiency rating. Alternatively, the same subarea with a low-density land-use designation would have a lower rating because the land-use designation does not take full advantage of the subarea's favorable transit proximity.
A PLACE3S regional analysis produces three main products:
1. a GIS energy database that can convert land-use and transportation plans into integrated, spatial expressions of total energy demand created by those plans;
2. a GIS "efficiency blueprint" of subareas that may warrant land-use and/or transportation changes in order to perform more efficiently; and
3. a permanent GIS tool for forecasting energy needs, monitoring regional efficiency, and evaluating the sustainability of future growth.
PLACE3S designed neighborhoods are compact and have a mix of housing, shops, offices, schools, parks and other recreation easily accessible by walking, bicycling, and using transit, as well as by using a car. These neighborhoods are energy efficient and cost residents less. They have good access to local and regional transportation networks and are connected to community water, sewer and energy infrastructure. Some use local sources of energy.
Energy relationships are numerous and complex within neighborhood settings. Housing, employment, recreation, travel, infrastructure, and use of local renewable energy resources all affect energy use or supply. Figure S-9 shows a good example of the relationship between neighborhood development and energy use. Taken from a Florida State Energy Center survey, it illustrates the lower housing and transportation energy demands of higher-density residential areas.
At the neighborhood level, PLACE3S uses the design approach described in Figure S-10 as a framework for selecting and applying efficiency measures from the PLACE3S menu in Figure S-3.
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Mischa Nowicki
March 16, 2014
DALLAS (SMU) - The SMU Mustnags maintained their unblemished record at home this spring with a 6-0 win over the Portland Pilots at the Four Seasons at Las Colinas on Sunday.
SMU (9-7) is now 6-0 at home this spring and have avoided losing the doubles point in any match in Dallas. Both teams battled heavy wind gusts and cold temperatures all match, and SMU head coach Carl Neufeld is glad with how his group responded.
"It was the toughest conditions we've seen," Neufeld said. "It was a great test and I'm proud of how we responded. If these guys want to go pro, it's part of the show. They really responded well."
Arkidjas Slobodkins and Mischa Nowicki quickly won at No. 1 doubles over Alex Ferrero and Ratan Gill, 8-2, to improve to 2-0 as a duo. Nate Lammons and Alex Sanders earned their 16th win of the season with an 8-4 decision over Reid DeLaubenfels and Kent Andreasen, leaving the No. 3 doubles match unfinished.
SMU won four singles matches in straight sets. Both of SMU's seniors earned victories, with Nowicki won 7-5, 7-5, over DeLaubenfels at No. 2, and Sanders topping Gill at No. 3, 6-1, 6-1. Slobodkins picked up his eighth win of the year at No. 5, 6-4, 6-2, over Justin Guay. Julio Olaya defeated Andreasen at No. 6, 6-2, 6-1. Lammons won at No. 4 singles in three sets over Ferrero, 6-2, 4-6, 10-8. Sanders is now 9-6, Lammons is 9-4 and Olaya is 5-2, including a 4-0 record at No. 6 singles.
Neufeld was thrilled again with how well his seniors led and played on Sunday.
"I'm really proud of our seniors," Neufeld said. "They're playing their best tennis and they played well again today."
SMU will face No. 24 Columbia at the Bent Tree Country Club in Dallas on Tuesday at 3 p.m.
Tennis Match Results
Portland vs SMU
Mar 16, 2014 at Dallas, Texas
SMU 6, Portland 0
Singles competition
1. HU KWO, Michel (POR) vs. Arturs Kazijevs (SMU) no result
2. Mischa Nowicki (SMU) def. DeLAUBENFELS, Reid (POR) 7-5, 7-5
3. Alex Sanders (SMU) def. GILL, Ratan (POR) 6-1, 6-1
4. Nate Lammons (SMU) def. FERRERO, Alex (POR) 6-2, 4-6, 10-8
5. Arkidjas Slobodkins (SMU) def. GUAY, Justin (POR) 6-4, 6-2
6. Julio Olaya (SMU) def. ANDREASEN, Kent (POR) 6-2, 6-1
Doubles competition
1. Arkidjas Slobodkins/Mischa Nowicki (SMU) def. FERRERO, Alex/GILL, Ratan (POR) 8-2
2. Alex Sanders/Nate Lammons (SMU) def. DeLAUBENFELS, Reid/ANDREASEN, Kent (POR) 8-4
3. Tony Russell/Julio Olaya (SMU) vs. HU KWO, Michel/GUAY, Justin (POR) unfinished
Match Notes:
Portland 5-4

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On May 4, Brooks Brothers and Sharper Image hosted the New York premiere of director John Slattery's latest film "God's Pocket" at IFC Center. Slattery was wearing Brooks Brothers, of course. From the film: Peter Gerety, Bridget Barkan, Molly Price, Domenick Lombardozzi, Carmine Famiglietti and Joyce Van Patten all walked the red carpet.
They were joined by additional celebrity guests Cara Buono and Peter Thum, Talia Balsam, Jennifer Westfeldt, Justin Long, Debra Messing and Will Chase, Andrew Rannells, Julia Stiles, Margo Martindale, Sam Trammell, Megan Boone and Ryan Eggold, Mario Batali, Nanette Lepore, designer Rachel Antonoff, Annie Parisse, Michael Stuhlbarg, Paul Sparks and Anatof Yusef, David Chase, Thomas Matthews, Scott Cohen, Wesley Taylor, Ashley Austin Morris, Heather Matarazzo, Mike Doyle, and Todd and Megan DiCiurcio.
"God's Pocket" concerns a tight-knit blue-collar community of the same name, and the colorful characters who reside there. Philip Seymour Hoffman (in one of his final performances) plays Mickey Scarpato, a man who lives a simple, but content existence there. One day, at his construction job, his stepson Leon dies under suspicious circumstances. The official story is that it was an accident, and that something fell on him. Mickey's wife, Joan (Christina Hendricks), suspects foul play, which prompts him to investigate.
The tone is of the film is combines breezy comedy with heavy drama and sudden, shocking violence. It's slightly reminiscent of a Coen Brothers film, tonally. Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a fine, restrained performance here, full of subtle notes of sadness and resignation, which is bittersweet to watch. He undeniably had more great performances left in him. This is also the directorial debut of actor John Slattery ("Mad Men"). He wrote the script with Alex Metcalf. It is based on Pete Dexter's novel of the same name.
Read our exclusive interview with John below:
Q: What attracted you to the source material?
John Slattery: The world was so vividly captured. Each character was specific to him, or herself, distinctly expressive, funny. A little bit of violence. The sense of humor though was what [I liked]. The tone of the humor was what I was attracted to. It was the tone, which then became the most difficult thing to maintain.
Q: Did you have these actors in mind as you were writing the script?
John Slattery: I had certain people in mind but really I'd learned earlier … I'd been on the other side of a lot of small movies. Things fall apart. Things change direction. I didn't want to get embedded in any one image. I was gonna shoot in Philadelphia. I couldn't afford it. We shot in New York. Peter [Gerety] played a part that initially was someone else, and something happened, that person didn't do it that it worked out like this because Philip and Peter had known each other forever and Richard Jenkins knew Peter so it's one of those accidents that you have to be open to, which is difficult on a short schedule.
Q: How did your experience as an actor impact your directing?
John Slattery: I just know from the other side, what you want is something evocative. You want a note that's going to spark your imagination. You don't want necessarily to be told exactly where to turn, smile, look, you know, and how to read each line because then you'll just be playing someone else's interpretation. You want something that's gonna help you figure it out yourself.
Following the New York screening, guests headed over to Bar Nana for Dark Horse wine, Qui Tequila cocktails and canapés. This week there was also an LA premiere for the film also hosted by Brooks Brothers and Sharper Image. That event was held at LACMA. Slattery was joined by co-writer Alex Metcalf, Christina Hendricks, and Eddie Marsan.
Additional celebrity guests included Jon Hamm, Elizabeth Moss, Kiernan Shipka, Vincent Kartheiser, Jay Ferguson, Robert Morse and creator Matthew Weiner, The National's Matt Berninger, Chris Messina, Alexis Bledel, Sam Trammell and Missy Yager, Emily Mortimer and John Gallagher Jr.
We also spotted Jon Tenney, Dana Delany and Geoffrey Arend, David Krumholtz, Spencer Grammer, Michael Patrick King, Brian Geraghty, Leven Rambin, Michaela Watkins and Natalie Morales, Kate Flannery, Clark Gregg, Jennifer Grey, Clark Duke, Jess Weixler, Mitch Glazer and Kelly Lynch, Zoe Lister-Jones and Majandra Delfino, Daryl Wein. Following the LA screening, guests made their way over to The Church Key where they sipped on Purity Vodka cocktails and snacked on canapés.
"God's Pocket" opens in limited release on May 9.
Anthony Calamunci contributed reporting.


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Stealing! How could you? Haven't you learned anything from that guy who gives sermons at church? Captain what's-his-name?
Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else -- and it hasn't -- it's that girls should stick to girl's sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.
You know, the one with all the well-meaning rules that don't work in real life -- uh, Christianity.
You're everywhere. You're omnivorous.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
No offence Apu, but when they were handing out religions, you musta been out taking a whizz.
Now son, you don't want to drink beer. That's for daddies, and kids with fake IDs.
Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen.
"Phfft! Facts. You can use them to prove anything.
Operator, give me the number for nine-one-one!
It's like David and Goliath, only this time David won!
Hey, just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!
Marge, I'm going to miss you so much. And it's not just the sex. It's also the food preparation.
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
You don't win friends with salad.
You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.
Trying is the first step towards failure.
You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life if you had an electrified fooling machine.
Marge, don't discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.
If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.
To alcohol! The cause of -- and solution to -- all of life's problems!
I saw this in a movie about a bus that had to speed around a city, keeping its speed over 50, and if its speed changed, it would explode! I think it was called, "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down."
I want to share something with you -- the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, "Cover for me." Number two, "Oh, good idea, boss." Number three, "It was like that when I got here."
Marge, you're as pretty as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.
Step aside everyone! Sensitive love letters are my speciality. "Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you."
Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get!
They have the Internet on computers now?
Okay, brain. You don't like me, and I don't like you, but let's get through this thing and then I can continue killing you with beer.
Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like -- love!
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
Do I know what rhetorical means?
Is there nothing doughnuts can't do?
Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughin', did you?
Television -- teacher, mother, secret lover!
Maybe, just once, someone will call me "sir" without adding, "you're making a scene."
We paid for all this stuff ourselves -- so thanks for nothing!
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it
ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
Don't let Krusty's death get you down, boy. People die all the time. Just like that. Why, you could wake up dead tomorrow. Well, good night.
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Game developer Piranha Bites and publisher Deep Silver announced "Risen 3: Titan Lords" via a press release obtained by Examiner today. The game is set for an August 2014 release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC, via Steam.
The sequel to "Risen 2: Dark Waters," Piranha Bites said gamers can expect more of the same open-world RPG action that made the last two games in the series cult favorites. Much like the other games in the series, Deep Silver and Piranha said the game will be set in a "charming, vivid" world.
While little has been divulged of the story thus far, from the look of the screenshots, it'll feature a nice combination of witty swordplay and epic and surprisingly gritty storytelling.
"Like a carpenter with a hand-crafted piece of furniture, we put together the story, the characters and the landscape – making it all fit together so that the player has the possibility to discover an entire universe," Bjoern Pankratz, Project Lead at Piranha Bytes said in the press release today. "Exploration is the key to our game."
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High stress, low pay and a shrinking job market all contribute to flight attendant's inclusion among the worst jobs of 2013. The BLS projects virtually no change in job prospects, as airlines continue to consolidate and reduce staff.
Anyone work for AA?
It depends on which stage your at, if you have a family then flight attendant jobs wouldn't be enough for you. For people who dont have a family and they dont require much for their payment then its good for them .People always say dont be a child care worker and i am enjoying my job, i know the parents never listen to their kids, cause you know their kids and their still learning so the parents ALWAYS LISTENS TO THE TEACHER MORE. Just don't touch them, only pat their back and put them to sleep if they need to and tie their shoe or feed them if you have to. I don't think any of these jobs are bad, depending on which stage level your at. I want to be a flight attendant i think it be fun flying back and fourth on the airplane, but my mom told me its a borning job you don't get to do much except hearing complaints on the airplan by customers but it depend on what you say .
I am getting trained for Flight attendent from an institute this year. This Article shook me badly.. Damn, I am worried now! duhhh!!
It is called "read with a grain of salt, this person has no idea what makes you happy".I mean, if the author followed his own criteria of a "good job", then he probably wouldn't have stuck it out with this company to write this crappy article (notice that 'internet reporter' was neither in the top 10 or worst 10. That fact should speak volumes to you).
It's probably not so bad if you work for a legacy carrier and have some seniority. Regional flight attendants far outnumber legacy flight attendants in the US. I can't imagine working 6 leg days just to overnight in places like Peoria, be beat up scheduling, all for a princely sum of 16k-20k per year. Dear lord, I always wonder how they get people to do that job.
I have no idea what this article is talking about. I make almost $52.00 an hour, have great benefits, 401k, profit sharing, Health insurance, free and discounted travel, hotel discounts, car rental discount, work when I want to work. per diem, holiday pay, double time, triple time. It's just like any other customer service service job except that you can't bea the perks!
Who do u work for?
What airline do you work for? I have been at the same airline for 25+ years and don't get triple time and I just wish I could fly only when I wanted to.
what airline do you work for and how many years, if you dont mind me asking?
Wow, sounds like paradise!! Wich airline?? I work in europe for a lowcost airline and believe me its hell and one of the worst job ever.....happy landings!
If your argument is low pay, high stress then you are not working for the same airline that I am working at. I often pinch myslef that I make close to 6 figures by passing out coke and peanuts. Yes I am over simplyfing my job but most days thats what I do. Occasonaly, I must use my other skills be it medical or saftey related, but for the most part its pretty smothe. I feel very blessed to be paid to do what I do for over 20 years and plan on doing this for many, many more years. In my opinion my job should be on the top 10 list of best jobs to have. Yes...I LUV my job and my airline :)
can you help me? :) I want to join your airline, I really that job. since I elementary I dreamt of becoming a flight attendant, :(
You work for Southwest Airlines, don't you?
I've been working for my carrier for 13 years. Finally topped out and make around 100k. I have at least 10 days off a month. And I get to choose what trips I'd like to fly and whether I'd like to fly with friends. I can work/fly my way to the beach and stay for a good 20 hours before I have to do it all over again and stay at another city. I've been blessed with this job and could not be happier. I do understand how working for some other carriers is rough. By the way, I take two 2 week trips a year for dirt cheap and sometimes get bumped up to first class, and also stay in great hotels with industry deals all over the world. I love my job and am sure thankful to all of our passengers. You can probably guess who I work for just by my hokiness.
Who is it that you work for ?Is it Emirates Airlines ?
ive been flying with SWA for 15+ years, I made $85k last year.. working 15-18 days a month.. easiest job for huge pay
Yep me too 19 years 98000 yea baby luv my airline!!!!
I've been working for my carrier for 13 years. Finally topped out and make around 100k. I have at least 10 days off a month. And I get to choose what trips I'd like to fly and whether I'd like to fly with friends. I can work/fly my way to the beach and stay for a good 20 hours before I have to do it all over again and stay at another city. I've been blessed with this job and could not be happier. I do understand how working for some other carriers is rough. By the way, I take two 2 week trips a year for dirt cheap and sometimes get bumped up to first class, and also stay in great hotels with industry deals all over the world. I love my job and am sure thankful to all of our passengers. You can probably guess who I work for just by my hokiness.
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Six more years and I'm topped out! Can't wait! I LUV our airline too and am so blessed we have what we have. The flexibility of our job and the ability to travel has been a saving grace for me and my family.
I bet I work for that same LUV airlines and that's why we should appreciate everything we have. We've got it made! I've been with this awesome company for 8 years on Monday and even with all the changes to the industry and the company itself I know I am blessed beyond measure! I've only been inflight for a year and exceeded $45,000 as a "newbie" Working 12 days a month.
I miss being a FA(JetBlue), and I have to agree that once you get a "real" job, you understand that being supervised for only a briefing a day, working 15 days a month, and taking advantage of the perks makes it a great job. There is no growth, I never could make more than 50K, even working a lot of hours, but now I work a 9-5, 20 days a month, 170+ hours a month.I miss flying, but having a family while doing it requires a great many sacrifice.10 Worst jobs? No way. If you're afraid of getting fired being an FA, work for yourself, because the other options are way worse. Union or not.
I am about to apply at Jet blue.Am 58 years old.I no that is insane at my age.Would I ever get hired?
I assure you anyone who thinks being a flight attendant is the worst job has not had a real job. I worked for 18 years as a registered nurse and 14 years as a flight attendant. Being a flight attendant is like being on vacation 3 to 6 days a week depending on how often you work.
I love the passengers and working on the plane. I hate the low pay (22K after 7 years) and long hours (14 hour day are not unusual). I hate that I have to pay a union the same amount in union dues as the flight attendants making 62K. I hate that the union is controlled by those same flight attendants and they refuse to help us feed our families by reducing our dues. I don't travel, I can't afford the hotels. Although I love my job, I understand why it is consider one of the 10 ten worse jobs.
They had a union. The union negotiated everything away and brought the concessions to the rank and file for a vote. The rank and file voted NO! to the concessions. LOL so the union pushed a second vote through with the THREAT if you don't pass this, you won't have a job. So, it passed and every union member lost money, benefits, whatever the union was able to pillage from the rank and file. BUT GUESS WHO WON??? LOL YES, the union. For pushing the concessions through they (unions representing 32,000 pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, and other work groups at US Airways 2003) were given part ownership in the reorganized company and seats on the new board of directors.ALPA 19.3% share of the CompanyAFA, IAM, CWA, & TWU 10% between themALPA 1 seatAFA 1 seatIAM 1 seatCWA & TWU share 1 seatDoes it get any better??? The union is now the Company! This transgender is way beyond the Jenner renegotiation LOL!!!
I'm really baffled by this on the whole. First the airline industry has been on a hiring frenzy for the last 4 years, consolidation has created MORE flight attendant positions, not less.Stressed out? Hardly...yes once in a while there is s a difficult situation, but no more or less than my days in corporate America. What I do get as a flight attendant is a job where I have minimal supervision, freedom to change my schedule at a moments notice, and not less than 14 days off a month.It's not the industry it once was, but what is....the truth is the far majority of my flying partners say the same thing: They love thier job, and couldn't imagine going out into the 9 to 5 world.
Love my job, flight attendants are a special, cool group of people. Once you have been a flight attendant, it's in your blood. Very hard to have a 9-5 job, imagine almost any place in the world you want to see, bring your husband, kids or friends. It has it's cons also. I've been flying since Eastern Airlines, I'm 47 and been a flight attendant since I'm 19. There has been good things and bad. But the good wins in my book. Just try it and let us know what you think.
I get paid to make love and surf around the world...been doing it 26years..and job is as much fun as ever...when you work for jetBlue!!!! yea 10th worst job??? UFKM??!! Have it better than Trump!!!!
I have worked for 20 years going to and from Germany to America and America to South Africa. I could not ask for a better job for I can always go and visit my family in Germany and in the States.
Jetblue is known as the slave ships of the air. Work long hours, with no backing from Management and continue to be constantly under a microscope that if you sneeze they fire you! 10+ years there and I still watch my back. Isnt the company i originally started with. Treated poorly by customers and to get any money i work 130 hours.
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I made 65k, but I'm topped out at and in my 28th year. It took a long time to get here
Consider myself part time flying two to three days a week and made 62k last year
Should definitely add classical musician to the list.
the first couple of years as a flight attendant can be discouraging financially especially if you relocate but it gets better , I work for a regional - make close to 50 k a year. I feel Freedom being able to travel . I don't have to pretend I'm somewhere else going to the same workplace everyday . I do go someplace else and often get a chance to experience what it would be like to live there Living it is better than reading about it when that's how you learn. Love my job. What we lack in sleep we make up in fun and adventure. I know I'm a bit of a tool but I don't care, I want more skills in life and this job gives me the time to develop them and contacts for other avenues in life. Not a job for sloths
I have been working for major airlines for 34 years. Many mergers and changes have made it not what it use to be. I am making the same money I made in 2004, working more then I ever have. All the great benefits have gone with bankrupcy.Now I feel that the company is always trying to cheat me. Finding a way not to pay me while the pilots have regained most of their pay and benefits. Showing up for work an hour and a half before and boarding planes 3 or 4 times a day before you start getting paid is starting to get old. I am so glad my career is behind me. I have had many good times and have made many wonderful friends through the years. The job isn't what it use to be, but always fly safe!
IAM ready for a union too!!!
that's why it's important to have a U-N-I-O-N.
Love my job as a flight attendant! It's my first year in the industry and my salary is around 52 K. Plus free travelling, 5* hotels. Can't complain! Of course there are also some negative aspects like unusual working time and being lot of time away from my family/friends. Before that I was working in investment fund's office as a specialist and don't miss it. Equity trading has become a hobby now and flying is my lifestyle and job!
I'm calling bull**** on this one. That much yearly is a lie.
I think you're putting us on, aren't you? Starting salary at USAirways was (until very recently) $15K a year! I've worked for 5 airlines and NEVER made $52K in 38 years. BUT on the other hand, as NPR said recently: "Right now, it's easier to get into Harvard than to be hired as a Flight Attendant." That's because Delta had 400 positions available and had 50K applicants. USAirways (yes, even at that salary) had 1100 positions and had over 20K applicants. But $62K in your first year? Sorry my dear, but I think that is a huge pile of BS.
Who do you work for? Flight Attendants working 20 years don't get paid that much unless you are flying over 100 hours a month and that is like working two jobs, Flight Attendants only get paid when they pull away from the gate and are in flight..... You top out your pay usually at 12 years.
I have to say you are the only Flight Attendant in the USA making $52k a year first year salary...so I hope you feel very special!!!
Yeah, it is possible. I work for Jetblue and we have 1st yr. flight attendants making that type of salary. They are flying 150+ hrs, plus getting premium pay, per diem, lead pay and other bonuses.BS? Of course not! ;-)
Yeah, I would love to know who you fly with too! Maybe it was meant as 25k. That's the only thing I can think of. And that's pretty good for your first year!
No job is perfect. Luckily I have have a job that allows me to travel which I love, and for free no less. I feel bad for other flight attendants who have lost their jobs due to furloughs. Im so thankfully that I work for a company that does not furlough its staff. Entering my 10th year at my company, the pay is not bad and I have great seniority that allows me to go wherever I want. All in all, its not as bad as people chalk it up to be. So thankful especially in these hard economic times.
Best job in the world!! Would never make it at a 9-5 position :-) True, our job isn't what it used to be but it still beats anything else!!
Cant beat the perks. The free traveling alone has made up for the low salary.


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A native of Dunkirk, Northern France, Claude Wegscheider has spent most of his career overseas. After a teaching assistantship in an American university in the 70s, he spent eight years with the French Cultural Mission in Casablanca, Morocco, where he developed his interest for photography within local Photo-Clubs. He later became the Executive Director of Alliance Française in Atlanta, USA and New Delhi, India. In 1990, he established his residence in the United States. His long-time passion for wide open spaces and a predilection for deserts have led him to travel to every continent - except Antarctica (so far, anyway) - and the Arctic. An eclectic photographer, he switches between landscape, architectural, animal and macro photography.
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It would be nice to have an option to synchronize Diigo bookmarks and notes with Google Bookmarks and Notebook, and Delicious too.
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PERCE - NEIGE commented
You can use IFTTT. I have it, and I have it done in the Diigo option too (as said, it works only in the first save)
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It does not "synchronize" Delicious, it "syndicates" to it, but alas only on the first save. If you have forgotten a tag and re-save the bookmarks window for existing bookmarks, the new tags are not updated on the Delicious bookmark copy. That is a shortcoming that destroys some perspectives and potential flexibility. Tying in with Delicious is therefore also not in practice a backup of your Diigo bookmarks.
Yoni Blumberg commented
As far as I'm concerned Diigo isn't "synchronizable" to delicious because if you change something in Delicious it doesn't change in Diigo. It is a one way "sync" not a mirror. I'd like to see Diigo sync with other services in a 2-way fashion, bidirectionally.
Digital Doctor commented
It's ought to be readily syncronizable to delicious; but it actually does not work at all for me.
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it's already syncronizable to delicious, I'm just voting for Google Bookmarks


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Being diagnosed with a life-threatening disease is stressful enough, and having to wear an unattractive medical alert bracelet every day is not a calming reminder. This is where Mt. Vista High School student Shyanne, founder of Couture Alert, stepped in.
In 2008, Shyanne was diagnosed with several blood disorders that required her to wear a medical alert bracelet. Rather than let her situation get her down, Shyanne decided to create a medical alert bracelet that would empower her. "When I was first diagnosed with these blood disorders, I did wonder 'why me,' but that line of thinking wasn't doing me any good and in fact, was making it more difficult on myself and those around me," Shyanne said. Her doctors also treated children with cancer, and she was inspired by the kids, many younger than her, who were so strong while fighting for their lives. "I didn't know back then how I'd do it but I knew that I wanted to make a difference and somehow spread awareness. That knowledge was enough to get me through the really difficult times and ultimately led me to create Couture Alert."
Shyanne's designs, apart from serving a vital purpose, are fashionable and unique. Not a surprise given that she has always had an interest in fashion. "It's a big part of why I wanted to start Couture Alert. I didn't want the metal chain link bracelet I was required to wear to define me; instead I wanted to make my own statement. I am proud when I look down and see my bracelet now and I love that it causes people to stop and ask questions." She's sure that Couture Alert will not be her last fashion venture: "I love what I am doing and look forward to finding new ways to make my mark in both fashion and business."
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Shyanne has touched so many people's lives with her products, including a little boy with Cerebral Palsy: "He stopped by with his family at an event I was working at to pick it up and the look on his face was something I will never forget. He couldn't believe that it was for him and his face lit up when he saw his name on the bracelet. It made me appreciate all that I have been given and grateful that I could help him in this small way and that I could give his family peace of mind at the same time. "
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Nov. 6, 2012
Recap | Box Score | Photo Gallery 1 | Photo Gallery 2
Arizona Head Coach Sean Miller
On performance from defense:
"This early in the season, we're after perfection. I thought there were moments when our defense was excellent. Then there were times when it wasn't as good. Chico St. handled the ball well and they had a number of very good players. It was a great test for our team. There are mistakes from this game that we can learn from. This was a good team win. Chico St. and Humboldt St. are going to have great seasons. We need to take advantage of our size and depth. With our team this year, there may be different players on different nights that have big games. For us, we have to stay a total team from start to finish. Our size, our depth, and our versatility should be our greatest strengths."
On Mark Lyons and Solomon Hill performance:
"Mark scored 1,500 points before he showed up here. Scoring is something that comes easy for him but this is a transition. He is still learning about our program. I am confident that as the season goes on and each passing game he is going to continue to develop and become more comfortable. The one thing he was disappointed in was that he had two or three turnovers in the first half. He did control the ball much better in the second half. I thought he and Solomon [Hill] together did a really good job. It was good to see him play. Solomon is still learning to play with two front court players. For his first three years here, he usually just had one. I like that he is letting the game come back to him."
On shooting against Chico St.:
"One of the things we talked about at halftime was about taking too many shots. To win against some of the best teams in our conference, we need to have balance, throw the ball inside and throw to multiple players. We are asking those guys to play defense, and to play screens so that each of the guys are able to score inside."
On the challenge presented by Chico St.:
"We knew Chico State, having watched them play Pacific, were good with having many of their players return. They did a very good job. Our win was a function of the good things we did. We have the fire power. We have the depth to contribute to the season."
On preparation for Sunday's game vs. Charleston Southern:
"It's been a long offseason with a lot of hard work. I shouldn't call it offseason because it's been a road of preparation. We have a head start because of our trip to the Bahamas."
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Senior Guard Solomon Hill
On this year's exhibition games vs. last year's
"It's a very different feeling. Last year the exhibition games were competitive all the way to the very end. It feels good to get the guys going and beat a team by that type of margin in both games. It builds confidence going into the first game on Sunday and we look forward to it."
On his performance
"I just let it come to me. I was more relaxed, I think I cut down on turnovers. I pushed the ball more. I'm slowly getting closer to where Coach [Miller] wants me. We're playing faster, I was able to rebound the ball early on and get our guards involved."
On scoring mostly off free throws
"It was kind of like a Derrick Williams feel out there, shooting free throws and having like five field goals at the end of the night. There are games like that where this will happen. The ball pressure was there, they tried to hit on screens. It may not be like that next game. I have to get more offensive rebounds. We had a chance to rebound better. Kevin [Parrom] was able to do that in the second half. He got a lot of offensive rebounds, and got to the free throw line because of it. So next game I'm going to try to get to the free throw line not because of their fouling but because of my offensive rebounding."
On Mark Lyons
"He gives us confidence at the point guard. We don't have to worry about him, he's a grown man. He's going to show up every night. It starts in practice for him and he comes out and executes in the game. That's one position we don't have to worry about. It makes the job easier. The way you've seen him play in the last few games: he's out in transition, he's talking to guys. It feels like he's been around for a few years. I have confidence in him, and so does the rest of the team."
On take-away points from exhibition games
"The first game we gave up the three point shot, this game the rebounding is something we have to look at. Different teams will give you different matchups and different opportunities to do different things. Today our guard were heavy with the ball, our screen game was good, and our bigs were out of it. Like coach says, you don't want to throw the ball all game in football, you want to give the running back some touches too. We need to work on getting our post players more touches in the key. Every time Kaleb touched it he was making a play or getting a foul."
On depth
"It makes the team better. It reminds me of my sophomore year. It makes competition in practice great. It feels good knowing that when our starting five comes out, we're just as good. There is no dropoff. If we're all in, we can reap the rewards from it. It's not about individual performance anymore. We have guys that can score, and highly recruited freshmen. It's about the team."
Senior Guard Kevin Parrom
On veterans guiding younger players
"We've been guiding them since the summer time. These guys are very mature, so we've been guiding them as best as we can. They do a good job, and it shows up on the court."
On anxiousness to start season
"I'm trying to be a part of greatness, like Coach says. I'm focused on this year trying to win a national championship. I'm just trying to be a leader along with Solomon and Mark, and just trying to hang up a banner in McKale."
On practice
"I've been practicing a lot better. Mentally I've been up and down. I have to be consistent, both in practice and in the games. Solomon has been really consistent in practice. We guard each other in practice and try to make each other better. I'm just trying to be a better practice player, and I feel like that will make me better in the games."


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The story of a bear walking upright is making headlines in the UK. The headline in the Daily Mail blared, "Trying to fit in? Bear walks upright on its back legs through New Jersey neighborhood."
A lot of folks are wondering if the video is an Internet hoax, that it is not a real bear but a person in a bear suit. But many people in the area have said that they also saw the same bear in the area that morning.
"Although bears are known to walk on their back legs, Mr Bohman suspects that the bear he saw was forced to move that way because of an injury," The Daily Mail reported.
The consensus among experts who looked at the video is that the it is real and that the black bear may be walking upright because it is injured.
The man who posted the video in YouTube, Ian Bohman, video included the caption: "This bear was seen at 5:50am on 8/4/14 in Jefferson Township, NJ."
The bear checked out the trash around the home, as bears often do when the encroach on human territory, then tiptoed to the house and eventually hung out by the shed near the house.
Wildlife authorities told NJ.com that the bear is real and injured and should be left alone.
"The black bear has an injury to both front legs, including its paws and possibly an elbow," Tracy Leaver, the executive director of the Woodlands Wildlife Refuge told the paper.
Black bear biologist with the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, Kelcey Burguess, said the bear most likely "got hit by a car."
Burguess added that the bear will likely make a full recovery.
"He's exhibiting signs of healing and becoming more mobile. He's going to be just fine,"Burguess said.
New Jersey wildlife officials say they will let the bear heal on its own and will not try to capture it or interfere with his natural healing process.
"As for the residents in the area, they are the best source of information, Burguess said. "We ask the residents to let us know how things are going, they live in the area. They can tell us more than anything."
Anyone with pictures or videos of the bear is asked to post them on the Woodlands Wildlife Refuge Facebook page. Residents can also call 908-730-8300, or send an email to email@example.com.
tracy Leaver, the executive director of the Woodlands Wildlife Refuge.said that if people are going to observe him, they need to do it at a distance and to not approach the bear
"The attention is causing more stress for him," Leaver said. "Any observation has to come from a safe distance."
The worst thing someone can do in this situation is feed the bear or leave food out for him, Leaver said. She said that could cause it to become a "problem bear" if he gets used to having food provided to him, she said.
Leaver said residents started feeding a cub with similar injuries and its family. The mother bear had to be shot to death because she eventually rummaged through someone's house.
Despite what wildlife experts have said, many still think the video of the bear walking upright is an Internet hoax. What do you think? Leave you comments below.
Daily Mail readers were divided on the authenticity of the video.
Suze wrote, "Now I'm not sure about this one. The 'bear' does seem to drop down on all fours occasionally throughout the filming quite naturally . I wonder if it could be a tame bear, someone's pet let loose? Circus bear?"
Clara-Clara was skeptical, "It's obviously a human in costume. The body language is not that of a bear - even if it could walk on back legs."
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Last friday Vennren added a comment to the post: Smelting My Gold, which I thought was so good that it deserved some front page time.
Vennren said...
My bad, typo in link, so here is the fix for the cobalt route(s) I go through; Cobalt Route.
Click the link for a higher quality image!
It just so happens that so many people farm saronite ore that cobalt sometimes sells better and is easier to come by. Like the author, I found Howling Fjord to be the best place in the game for farming cobalt ore.
On my server cobalt ore is either in large supply or completely gone, and this is due to the fact that there are never enough people farming it to supply one or two others powerleveling a profession like blacksmithing, jewelcrafting or engineering. When the supply dissappears I usually post 4-6 stacks for outrageous prices and laugh when they sell for as much as 60 gold a stack.
Even if you don't snipe like the example I just gave, you can still farm cobalt very quickly and get decent money for your time.
If you go the route of prospecting the ore than remember to also cut the gems for maximum profit. Red, yellow, and orange gem variations sell the best.
Last friday Vennren added a comment to the post: Smelting My Gold, which I thought was so good that it deserved some front page time.
7 comments: on "Cobalt Route in Howling Fjord"
Wiggin said... May 27, 2009 at 11:24 AM
This is great, I love routes, as playing the most efficient way possible is, to me, the best way possible.
And I'm leveling up mining at the moment to support my Jewelcrafting profession as well, which is also being leveled.
Quick note Markco, about JCing, according to a bunch of my PVP buddies, there were some changes to engineering making a lot of the items not work in PVP anymore. Because of that, they claim, all those engineers are now rolling JC. I haven't taken their word for truth, but copper ore shot up last weekend from 5g a stack to as high as 20g a stack, but leveled off around 12g and has since returned to about 6-7g. However now I'm seeing rising prices in tin ore as well.
outdps said... May 27, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Another interesting point- if the price of enchanting mats justifies it, you can often craft reinforced cobalt blacksmithing pieces for DE. On my server, any time cobalt is under 20g a stack and eternal water is under 8g each, this is profitable.
Markco said... May 27, 2009 at 11:49 AM
Wiggin you raise a great point. Expect thorium to shoot through the roof as well.
Wiggin said... May 27, 2009 at 12:43 PM
I hope to Markco! Simultaneously as my server's prices of Copper, Tin and Bronze shot up 50-100%, the market was flooded with thorium ore. I picked up 30-40 stacks for 15-17g a piece!
I will be following that market very closely to see when to hit it. Thorium has traditionally been a stable market, it looks like the market just got over saturated with a couple sellers dumping their supply. But I am confident this market will return.
Now if I could just say the same for Chilled Meat.
Darth Solo said... May 27, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Unfortunately on my server there's plenty of cobalt ore to be had on the AH. What I do is watch for it to drop significantly below 1G a piece and when it's around 80S a piece, I buy it. Then I re-sell when it's over 1G.
Vennren said... May 28, 2009 at 4:57 AM
About the thorium, if they JC, they will need the expensive gems (azerothian diamond, star ruby, blue diamond and huge emerald), these are all prospected from thorium but most people don't have the required JC level to do it yet when they level their profession.
If the thorium price goes up, so does those gem prices, but barely anyone seems to prospect these to make a profit.
I'm usually able to buy thorium between 60-100g a stack and sell my azerothian diamonds and huge emeralds between 30-45g each (about 4-6 gems total if I'm lucky).
And this is what I consider quite easy money, exploiting prices which are going up for your own use =)
Wiggin said... May 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Sheesh Vennren...your server's economy is crazy! My server sells stacks of thorium ore for 20-40g and their prospected gems for 4-8g, depending on the gem and the time of day.
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