Working Woman Of The Week (1/25/12)
Posted on | January 25, 2012 | No Comments
Congrats to Cecilia!
Working Woman – Cecilia Martin
WOMEN FEEL PAIN MORE INTENSELY THAN MEN
Posted on | January 24, 2012 | No Comments
MEN! Here’s yet another reason to hold her, pamper her, and just plain LOVE her.
A study of 11,000 men and women shows that women feel pain more intensely than men. The study included patients at the Stanford Hospital and Clinics with various conditions from cancer to infectious diseases. Using patient-reported pain scores, researchers were able to determine that women were more likely to indicate higher pain levels than men. The author of the study, Dr. Atul Butte, said, “That was the most surprising finding. We completely wouldn’t have expected such a difference across almost all disorders, where women were reporting a whole pain point higher on the 0-to-10 scale than men.”
20 BEST PAYING CITIES FOR WOMEN
Posted on | January 24, 2012 | No Comments
Alright Ladies! Found this bit of info for ya. Now use it to your advantage. – Justin ( jflores@clarkebroadcasting.com )
1:San Jose,CA(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $67,052 Percentage of men’s earnings: 72.7%)
2:San Francisco,CA(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $65,526 Percentage of men’s earnings: 76.4%)
3:Washington,DC(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $64,779 Percentage of men’s earnings: 75.4%)
4:Bridgeport,CT(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $63,553 Percentage of men’s earnings: 53.8%)
5:Boston,MA(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $58,689 Percentage of men’s earnings: 69.9%)
6:New York,NY(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $57,627 Percentage of men’s earnings: 72.8%)
7:Hartford,CT(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $55,777 Percentage of men’s earnings: 74.8%)
8:Oxnard/Thousand Oaks/Ventura,CA(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $54,800 Percentage of men’s earnings: 75.3%)
9:Baltimore,MD(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $54,370 Percentage of men’s earnings: 75.3%)
10:Seattle,WA(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $53,039 Percentage of men’s earnings: 72.3%)
11:Minneapolis,MN(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $52,243 Percentage of men’s earnings: 72.8%)
12:Denver,CO(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $51,433 Percentage of men’s earnings: 73.9%)
13:New Haven,CT(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $51,375 Percentage of men’s earnings: 69.7%)
14:Philadelphia,PA(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $51,355 Percentage of men’s earnings: 70%)
15:Worchester,MA(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $51,255 Percentage of men’s earnings: 74.6%)
16:Sacramento,CA(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $50,794 Percentage of men’s earnings: 76.1%)
17:San Diego,CA(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $50,670 Percentage of men’s earnings: 77%)
18:Los Angeles,CA(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $50,593 Percentage of men’s earnings: 77.8%)
19:Chicago,IL(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $50,432 Percentage of men’s earnings: 71.5%)
20:Poughkeepsie,NY(Women’s mean earnings in 2010: $50,410 Percentage of men’s earnings: 73.2%)
Working Woman Of The Week (1/18/12)
Posted on | January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment
Congrats to Kristin!
Working Woman – KristinDerichsweiler
What Could a Homemaker Get in the Open Market for What They Do in a Year?
Posted on | January 18, 2012 | No Comments
The website Investopedia has put together a calculation of what a typical homemaker could demand in the open marketplace for the things they do in a year, getting a value for each service as an individual professional career. Here’s what they came up with:
- Private Chef — The American Personal Chef Association reports that its personal chefs make $200 to $500 a day. Grocery delivery charges are added too because homemakers have to shop and bring the food home. Delivery services charge a fee of $5 to $10. Total cost: $1,005 per five day week = $52,260 per year.
- House Cleaner — Professional maids or house cleaning service providers will charge by the hour, number of rooms or square footage of the home. They use an estimate of $118 per week for a total of $6,136 per year.
- Child Care — The International Nanny Association’s 2011 survey found that nannies make $600 to $950 per week on average. Total of $600 a week = $31,200 per year.
- Driver –Using a private car service formula based on a flat membership fee and then an additional per minute charge, they come up with $4,168 total per year.
- Laundry Service –Using a standard by-the-pound charge, they came up with an estimate of 90 cents per pound multiplied by 4 pounds of clothes per day for five days a week for a total of $936 per year.
- Lawn Maintenance — These services cost about $30 a week on average, for a total of $1,560 total per year.
The Final Tally – When all of these are added up, it comes out to $96,261 per year.
FLASHBACK: 35 YEARS AGO – THE EAGLES’ ‘HOTEL CALIFORNIA’ ALBUM HITS NUMBER ONE
Posted on | January 15, 2012 | No Comments
It was 35 years ago Sunday (January 15th, 1977), that the Eagles‘ album Hotel California hit Number One. The album, which was released on December 8th, 1976, was the group’s third chart-topper in a row, following 1975′s One Of These Nights and 1976′s compilation Eagles/Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975.
Hotel California included two Number One hits featuring the group’s main songwriters and distinctive lead vocalists, with guitarist Glenn Frey taking the lead on “New Kid In Town,” and drummer Don Henley singing the album’s famous title track. The album’s third single, “Life In The Fast Lane,” just missed the Top Ten, peaking at Number 11 in the spring of 1977.
Hotel California featured the addition of former James Gang guitarist Joe Walsh, who joined shortly after co-founder Bernie Leadon‘s departure. It turned out to be the only Eagles album featuring the lineup of Henley, Frey, Walsh, guitarist Don Felder, and co-founder and bassist Randy Meisner.
- The album’s themes reflected the state of America through the decaying Los Angeles rock scene, which by the mid-’70s had changed from an earnest singer-songwriter community into a far more decadent lifestyle fueled by celebrity, money, and drugs.
- In their original review of the album, Rolling Stone commented on Hotel California‘s music and its reflection of its creators by saying, “Hotel Californiashowcases both the best and worst tendencies of Los Angeles-situation rock. . . Its lyrics present a convincing and unflattering portrait of the milieu itself.”
- Years later Henley reflected on the album, telling Billboard, “Every band has their peak. That was ours.”
- Hotel California went on to top the charts for eight nonconsecutive weeks, and to date has sold over 16 million copies. Over the years, the Eagles have included most of the Hotel California album in their concert setlists, including such classic album tracks as “Wasted Time,” “Victim Of Love,” “and “Pretty Maids All In A Row.”
CHECK IT OUT: The Eagles performing “Hotel California” live on June 11th, 1976 in Houston:
STEVE PERRY CREDITS SLEEPLESS NIGHT FOR JOURNEY CLASSIC
Posted on | January 13, 2012 | No Comments
Former Journey frontman Steve Perry shed some light on the story band’s classic 1981 showstopper “Don’t Stop Believin”.” Perry, who helped put together the band’s latest compilation, Greatest Hits Vol. 2, recalled to NYmag.com that the song, which was featured on 1981′s Escape collection, was written on sleepless night while the Journey was doing a five night run in Detroit during their 1980 tour behind their Departure album. Perry recalled, “I was digging the idea of how the lights were facing down, so that you couldn’t see anything. All of a sudden I’d see people walking out of the dark, and into the light. And the term ‘streetlight people’ came to me. So Detroit was very much in my consciousness when we started writing.”
He also spoke about the fact that — as most Detroiters know — there is no “South Detroit” in the Motor City: “I ran the phonetics of east, west, and north, but nothing sounded as good or emotionally true to me as South Detroit. The syntax just sounded right. I fell in love with the line. It’s only been in the last few years that I’ve learned that there is no South Detroit. But it doesn’t matter.”
DID YOU KNOW???
- Journey’s Escape featured five hit singles — including “Open Arms” which topped out at Number Two, “Who’s Cryin’ Now” which hit Number Four, “Don’t Stop Believin’” which hit Number Nine, “Still They Ride” peaked at Number 19, and “Stone In Love” which hit Number 13 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart.
- In 2009 the studio recording of “Don’t Stop Believin’” broke records by becoming the only song to have been downloaded two million times and becoming the most downloaded song in iTunes history.
Here’s a video of Journey, from 1981 live in Houston, performing the song.
Is Happiness a Choice?
Posted on | January 12, 2012 | No Comments
A New York Times column Monday pulled out some brief passages from a new book called 30 Lessons for Living, which is based on practical advice for life from more than 1,000 elderly Americans who were interviewed as part of the ongoing Cornell Legacy Project. Their advice is based on what they did right and wrong in their long lives, and covers a range of topics. One of them is happiness, with almost every single one of the seniors expressing the view that happiness is a choice, not the result of how life treats you. The passage from the Times column read: “A 75-year-old man said, ‘You are not responsible for all the things that happen to you, but you are completely in control of your attitude and your reactions to them.’ An 84-year-old said, ‘Adopt a policy of being joyful.’ The 90-year-old daughter of divorced parents who had lived a hardscrabble life said, ‘I learned to be grateful for what I have, and no longer bemoan what I don’t have or can’t do.” Even if their lives were nine decades long, the elders saw life as too short to waste on pessimism, boredom and disillusionment.”
QUESTIONS:
- Do you agree with this view that happiness is essentially a choice, not a result of what happens to you?
- Are you surprised that nearly every one of the seniors interviewed in this project had come to that conclusion?
- If you already do view happiness this way, what strategies do you use to maintain a happy attitude in the face of adversity in your life?
- Do you think we as a society don’t value the wisdom and contributions of seniors enough?
Admission to Yosemite FREE this weekend (1/14 to 1/16)
Posted on | January 12, 2012 | No Comments
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, entrance to Yosemite is FREE. Ice skating at the lake at the top of Tioga Pass looks fun. Be safe, carry tire chains, and have fun this weekend.
Do You Have Co-Workers Whose Behavior Grosses You Out?
Posted on | January 12, 2012 | No Comments
Sometimes employees can get a little too comfortable at work, doing things that may be fine in their living rooms, but can gross out their co-workers in the office. Yahoo! Shine polled employees in a variety of industries to find out which of their co-workers’ behaviors make them cringe. Some of the responses:
- “Every single day one of the other teachers pops a bag of microwave popcorn in our communal kitchen, eats it, and then rips open the bag and thoroughly licks out the inside.” -Adrian, Middle School Teacher
- “I often work until at least 8 o’clock and at around 6 pm, there are almost always gobs of toothpaste with little pebbles of food streaking the bathroom sink from some aggressive tooth-brusher who thinks its okay to cleanse their mouth and not wipe out the basin. Not to mention the white flecks on the faucet and handles that you have to touch to turn on the water! Eew!” -Jamie, Web designer
- “Clipping your fingernails during a meeting! My boss runs a pretty successful hedge fund, so he thinks he can get away with it. But it makes me shudder!” -Margie, Executive Assistant
- “One of my co-workers, who happens to be a clean-looking, pretty young woman, apparently feels so rushed she frequently takes both her computer and food into a bathroom stall. You can hear her in there chomping on an apple, typing, etc.” -Alice, Grant Writer
- “Getting ready to go out on a date after work by putting on some mascara and lipstick is one thing, but my co-worker shaves her legs in the ladies’ room sink!” -Elizabeth, Medical Assistant
- “I really miss the days when people went out to lunch. It’s nauseating to watch people eat at their desks — especially finger food like fried chicken, falafel, hamburgers, and French fries drowning in ketchup.” -Dan, Editor
- “Please don’t be lovey-dovey and recap your previous night’s escapades with your boyfriend or girlfriend over the phone. You might think no one gets it from your side of the conversation, but the rest of us want to gag.” -Jon, Systems Analyst
QUESTIONS:
- What do you think of these examples of behavior that grosses out co-workers?
- Is there a person in your office who has a habit of doing something that grosses you out? If so, what is it? Have you ever said anything to him or her about it or gone a higher-up?
- Considering your own behavior, can you think of something you do at work that could be potentially making your co-workers cringe?
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