Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here Jonah Zembower (left) speaks as his colleague listens during their presentation on how to reduce the “urban heat island” effect in Greensburg The presentation took place during a “Shark Tank”-style event at Seton Hill University on Thursday in which students pitched original business and community project ideas to a panel of judges Seton Hill student Nora Ozimek knew in high school she wanted to pursue a career in science admits that reading through research papers and journal articles is not her favorite task The aspiring research and development scientist was one of a dozen Seton Hill students to participate in the Griffin Impact Challenge on Thursday evening — a “Shark Tank”-style event where participants pitched business ideas solutions and initiatives to launch at the university in Greensburg or another community of importance to them We often see science in the form of these big research posters that are dense And you really don’t even stop to take the time to read them even though people put a lot of hard work into them.” That’s why Ozimek wants Seton Hill’s researchers to partner with art graphic design and journalism students to create comic strips explaining science in a more digestible fashion “I think giving this information to younger generations and showing them what research can be is really impactful,” she said Students presented their ideas to their peers members of the community and a panel of four judges who assessed each pitch The top three scoring contestants were given prize money — donated by faculty and the Greensburg community — to kick their idea into action Graduate assistant AJ Bove was inspired to organize the Griffin Impact Challenge by a similar pitch contest he participated in during his education at Westminster College in 2019 “I really wanted to give the students an opportunity to see the fact that if you have an idea that benefits enough people and you can articulate it clearly and you can get enough people excited about it then people will want to be a part of that,” he said Bove hopes the contest inspires students to make their pitch a reality “I would love for someone from the community to come up to them and say I see what you’re trying to do here,’ ” Bove said The psychology student earned in September an LLC for her business One Minute Vending — a 24/7 vending machine that connects students of color with hygiene and beauty products Pack adapted the idea Thursday night to Seton Hill expanding it to also include items such as Command strips that students might forget to bring when returning to campus after a visit home would prevent students from having to find transportation to a store order online or wait until their next visit home to stock up on supplies “Placing these vending machines on campus is more than a convenience,” Pack said supports and recognizes the diverse needs of the students.” Pack estimates it would take her three years to break even She vowed to donate 5% of her profit to support diversity inclusion and entrepreneurial efforts on campus Vice President for Student Affairs Rosalie Carpenter Data science seniors Jonah Zembower and Benjamin Nicholson put their research minds to the test examining how Greensburg could reduce the impact of the “urban heat island” effect The phenomenon suggests cities experience hotter temperatures than surrounding rural areas impacting livability and spiking energy costs The pair used July 2024 data from four satellites to create a heat map of Greensburg which revealed the area surrounding the Westmoreland County Courthouse was at least two degrees hotter than the suburban outskirts of the city The duo suggested implementing solar panels creating more green space and planting red maple trees to dissipate the heat noting the area next to the city’s First Commonwealth Bank on South Main Street was cooler than most of the downtown district “This is actually one of the few areas within the downtown area which have that lower 80-degree Fahrenheit temperature,” he said “likely due to the green space that we can see out front.” Planting trees could double as an educational opportunity for local elementary and middle school students “They could plant these trees in these residential areas and learn how to help the environment,” he said Greensburg Planning and Development Director Alec Italiano said additional vegetation could also assist with stormwater management you’re really speaking to any planner out there in the entire world,” he said There’s really no other way of saying it.” My heart aches for you and all your family...I have no words, I'm just so sorry for your pain and loss Brittany..I'm so sorry to hear about your son I never knew him but I wanted you to know that I am thinking of you and your son There are no words to express how very sorry I am for your loss kobi you will be truly missed love you Kiddo © 2025 Hamilton's Funeral and After Life Services Thanks for visiting Joan Ozimek's alarm clock goes off promptly at 6 each morning and the 80-year-old woman rises out of bed slowly makes her way to an adjacent bedroom where she then wakes her soon-to-be 105-year-old father "She wakes me up and I make breakfast," Larry Ozimek said seated in his favorite cushioned chair at his west Erie home "He makes toast with butter and jelly," said his son "Sometimes it's Pop-Tarts," Larry Ozimek added Joan Ozimek has suffered lifelong vision and developmental problems after a childhood bout of encephalitis The two of them follow a comfortable routine helped in part by Larry Ozimek's two other surviving children "I come over each morning and do the dishes make sure they're doing OK," said Cummings Larry and Joan Ozimek have lived on their own since his wife "She still had a lot of years left," said Larry Ozimek A Navy veteran who served stateside as a diesel mechanic during World War II Larry Ozimek worked for more than 40 years as a tool-and-die maker at Lord Corp televisions and phonographs in a basement workshop — even after he lost two fingers on his right hand in a lawnmower accident in the mid-1970s Bill in the early 1950s to go to school and learn about TV and radio repair," Richard Ozimek said Now Ozimek is more likely to be watching TV instead of fixing one He particularly likes sports and military shows He and Joan Ozimek also have a few other daily routines when they head into the kitchen and he pours a couple small glasses of orange juice Larry Ozimek heats the filled glasses in the microwave oven for 30 seconds "Neither of them like cold beverages," Richard Ozimek said Larry Ozimek frequently stops at Urbaniak Brothers Quality Meats to buy lunch meat the two will eat grilled cheese sandwiches Dinners are usually supplied by Meals on Wheels "Dad eats and sleeps well," Richard Ozimek said with a laugh The COVID-19 pandemic curtailed many of their social activities Larry and Joan Ozimek still attend some family functions Larry Ozimek is expected to have his first great-great-grandchild later this year "He ended up starving himself to death," Larry Ozimek said Not only does Larry Ozimek continue to enjoy his life While there are plans to care for Joan Ozimek if her father is no longer capable Asked why he wants to continue living in the house he and his wife bought in 1974 Larry Ozimek smiled and offered a brief answer Contact David Bruce at dbruce@timesnews.com. Follow him on Twitter @ETNBruce An independent news publication of United Way of Lancaster County Newsletter Sign-up Audience members listen to economist Adam Ozimek (inset) during his presentation for the Lancaster City Alliance on Thursday The trend toward remote work is not abating and Lancaster is well positioned to benefit a nationally known economist told community leaders Thursday “We’re at the right spot,” Adam Ozimek assured his audience at the Lancaster City Alliance’s Building on Strength implementation committee meeting is chief economist at the Economic Innovation Group restaurant and a boutique bowling alley at the former Stahr Armory on North Queen Street remote work is the fastest and largest-scale change in U.S work patterns since the mobilization of World War II about 5% of people worked remotely; that number has increased to about 30% today The extent of remote work will be driven by market pressures and competition If your competitors allow remote work and figure out how to do so productively and effectively you will be at a disadvantage unless you do the same This has huge implications for economic geography The nation’s largest and highest-priced urban areas are now at a disadvantage whereas affordable areas with an attractive quality of life stand to benefit especially if they’re not too far from major cities “Does that sound like any place?” Ozimek quipped Ozimek’s research into residential real estate prices indicates that remote work is indeed reshaping housing and commuting patterns house prices have risen only slightly or declined in large cities like New York and San Francisco Prices have risen a bit in some nearby suburbs The really sharp increases have been in exurban areas a phenomenon termed the “donut effect.” Lancaster checks all the boxes: Its cost of living is reasonable compared with Philadelphia and it has amenities that appeal to remote workers such as a thriving night life and access to outdoor recreation Amtrak’s Keystone rail connection to Philadelphia is a “huge deal” for hybrid workers making it easy to travel to the office once or twice a week.How can Lancaster capitalize on its geographical advantage The alliance brings community leaders together every six months to review Building on Strength its economic revitalization plan for the city Ozimek’s audience Thursday included Mayor Danene Sorace and an array of business and nonprofit executives Lancaster’s director of community planning and economic development said he was impressed by Ozimek’s presentation and that his work resonates with much of the city’s own research Several audience members asked Ozimek what his vision would mean for lower-income households and whether embracing remote work would accelerate gentrification Local governments can’t do much to boost wages boosting wages and opening job opportunities which is driven by national policy and economic forces What local governments do have influence over is housing costs Zoning that prohibits anything but single-family houses is “a major driver of unaffordability” and shouldn’t be acceptable One United Lancaster is made possible in part by We are dedicated developers and providers of We believe housing is a human right and are committed to ensuring everyone has a safe oneunitedlancaster@uwlanc.org717.824.8124 image: Philipp Ozimek looks at the effects of using social media from a psychological perspective Six questionnaires answered by over 1,200 people Phillip Ozimek from the Faculty of Psychology at Ruhr University Bochum recruited 1,230 people for their online survey respondents had to use at least one social media channel at least once a week the participants stated that they spent just over two hours a day on social media The research team used six different questionnaires to determine the extent to which the participants had a materialistic attitude and tended to compare themselves with others whether they used social media more actively or passively whether they were addicted to social media how stressed and how satisfied they were with their lives.  “The data showed that a stronger materialistic approach goes hand in hand with a tendency to compare oneself with others,” points out Phillip Ozimek This comparison is very easy to make on social media by looking at the content posted by other users Materialism and passive use were also linked to addictive use of social media that users are constantly thinking about the respective channels and fear that they are missing out on something if they are not online,” explains Phillip Ozimek This in turn leads to symptoms of poorer mental health The final link in the chain is reduced life satisfaction “Social media is one of six stepping stones to unhappiness,” concludes Phillip Ozimek Social media attracts and breeds materialists the study provides further evidence that the use of social media is associated with risks especially for people with a highly materialistic mindset,” says the psychologist because social media can trigger and increase materialistic values for example through (influencer) marketing as they are a perfect way to satisfy many materialistic needs “It’s definitely a good idea to be aware of the amount of time you spend on social media and to reduce it,” recommends Phillip Ozimek He advises against giving up Social Media completely you’re likely to overcompensate.” The research team also suggests recording materialism and social media use in patients undergoing treatment for mental health disorders “While these factors are often irrelevant they can be a starting point for additional interventions that patients can try out at home.” 10.1016/j.teler.2024.100117 Materialism 2.0 – more social media addiction and stress symptoms are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system Copyright © 2025 by the American Association for the Advancement of 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For more information, please see our University Websites Privacy Notice Practicing medicine at UConn Health is a dream come true for Dr She set her sights on UConn while attending a clinical career day here in high school After graduating from UConn medical school and doing her residency here she now enjoys caring for patients in the community where she grew up “COVID-19 and Our Community,” the Courier is profiling healthcare professionals at the frontlines of the current crisis Head of Labor and Delivery at Cedars-Sinai Beverly Hills Courier: Can you give us an overview of how your department has adapted to the pandemic over the past few months D.O.: We’ve definitely gone through some phases First four to six weeks of this were probably the most emotionally and clinically challenging of my career and probably of my life In the healthcare field there was no way to emotionally prepare for what we all went through We were able to mitigate the anxiety by keeping everybody informed and lines of communication open We’re slowly reaching the new normal Anxiety levels are still ramped up a bit from the old normal as are expectations amongst patients and staff What else can you tell us about the new normal especially as it pertains to your labor and delivery patients New normal mostly encompasses the hospital when you walk in It seems so empty because no one is in the waiting rooms and elevators the entire time we’ve allowed for one visitor in labor and delivery we had to have them leave after they were transferred to post-partum we moved back to a system of one visitor able to stay for the entire time a woman was here giving birth The only caveat is that they can’t leave and come back It’s the most liberal visitation policy in the entire hospital We understand this time is the most special in our patients’ lives we need to clarify that if a patient comes in for evaluation in our OB Triage area or if they are admitted to the ER Should pregnant women take special precautions now We know the things we have to do to avoid the virus What we’re seeing is that pregnant women are being extremely diligent about following those basic rules They’re telling us that they aren’t going out of the house Their husband is the one running the errands They’re adhering very closely to all the recommendations from health officials Add to this the fact that our state and local leaders shut things down pretty early That has resulted in a slower increase in the numbers and a spread that has progressed in a manageable fashion How have your specific protocols for expectant mothers changed we were testing every single mom on admission because data from places such as New York indicated that about 20 percent of the women coming in for labor and delivery without symptoms were positive for the virus we had to use full PPE around the patients because we had to treat everyone as positive If a baby was delivered before the results came in we found that zero of the asymptomatic patients were positive Our population is much more different than in New York It didn’t warrant the stress and strain on patients to test everyone We’re only testing labor and delivery patients if they are exhibiting symptoms now we screen the patient and partner when they come in all of the other patients admitted to the hospital are now being tested If we start seeing an increase in asymptomatic patients testing positive we might change how we do things with the expectant mothers Can the virus be transmitted to the fetus during pregnancy despite seeming like it’s been around here forever We have a fair amount of data that suggests pregnant patients are no more susceptible to contract it as the general public Those that do contract it while pregnant don’t do any worse than those who are not pregnant 80 percent of all those infected have mild symptoms but don’t need admission to hospital Of the twenty percent of those who are admitted Those statistics apply to pregnant women as they do with the general population Other respiratory illnesses hit pregnant women much harder We think lots of the severe effects of COVID are suppressed when you’re pregnant We’re still learning about all of this Can the virus be transmitted by breastfeeding The good news is that we’ve never been able to detect the virus in breastmilk you can’t transfer it solely by breastfeeding CDC guidelines recommend that mothers who are positive for the virus don’t breastfeed they recommend a period of separation for infected moms or those whose tests are still pending The guidelines apply until the mom is deemed noninfected it’s a difficult conversation to have with a mom The CDC itself recognizes that it’s probably not feasible to have that separation it lists many precautious we can take to minimize transmission of the virus if mom does decide to breastfeed Those things include washing the hands and the breast and wearing a mask As long as mom feels comfortable that she’s been 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Upgrade your browser today or install Google Chrome Frame to better experience this site passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by the love of her family after a courageous battle with cancer on Friday Cherished and devoted mother to Rafal and his wife Anna Lovingly remembered by her brother Wieslaw and his wife Lucyna and their children Besides spending time with her family and friends crossword puzzles and caring for her puppy patient and calm personality and was known for her ability to empathize when anyone was in need She touched many lives with her generosity and optimism for life She was a devoted member of the Polish Community and Church in St She was deeply loved and brought immense joy to those around her Her legacy and memory will live on in the hearts of those who knew and loved her The family will receive friends at the George Darte Funeral Chapel, 585 Carlton Street, 905-937-4444 on Tuesday 2021 at 11am at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church Burial to follow at Victoria Lawn Cemetery everyone is required to wear a mask while attending the funeral home visitation There is no limit or reservation required for visitation Attendance at the Church is limited to 75 people. Please phone the funeral home at 905-937-4444 to reserve your attendance for Mass Reservations are on a first come first serve basis Our mission is to serve each family to the absolute best of our ability along with their friends and to give to the good of our community in which we live and serve.  Email Us Forming long-term relationships with patients is important David Ozimek chose to study and practice medicine at UConn Health Connecticut because forming long-term relationships with patients and being involved in his local community is important to him Phone: 216-696-6525 Toll Free: 1-800-869-6525 Address: 1404 East 9th Street, Cleveland, OH 44114   Share this Page The Women’s Giving Circle, a new initiative of the Catholic Community Foundation launched this month with a Mass and a lunch gathering for the founding members The purpose of the Giving Circle is to raise awareness and funds to support organizations serving the community through engaged and collective philanthropy Bishop Edward Malesic celebrated Mass in the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist on March 8 for members of the Women’s Giving Circle He noted the event took place on International Women’s Day he said even Pope Francis acknowledged the day offering some remarks about the important contributions of women (See photo gallery above from the Mass and lunch program.) and it offers women another opportunity to support the community and to engage in fellowship he said it reminded him of the many contributions of women throughout history Mary and her fiat – saying “yes” to God and becoming the mother of Jesus – was the first Mary Magdalen also was noted for her deep faith and devotion to Jesus the bishop mentioned the seven women saints who are named in the Eucharistic prayer at Mass – Felicity Cecilia and Anastasia – as well as some other well-known women saints Catherine of Siena and Hildegard of Bingen Mother Teresa of Calcutta – “I can do things you cannot you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things” – was the tagline used for the event and was emphasized by the bishop in his homily the subject of the recently released movie “Cabrini.” She was the first canonized American and a staunch advocate for Italian immigrants “She did great things,” he added The first commandment tells us to love God “How well are we calculating our spiritual life Prayer is the spiritual side (loving God) but we need action to love our neighbor The goal of our spiritual journey is heaven and Jesus bridges that gap between heaven and earth,” he added “We give thanks to God for the gifts we’ve been given but we also must take the gifts we’ve received to become a blessing for others,” he said noting that Mother Cabrini offers motivation for what women can do Through the new Women’s Giving Circle women can use philanthropy as a way to share their faith “And we can do more together than alone,” he added the group moved to the Rappe Room in the Cathedral Square Plaza diocesan headquarters building for a lunch program CCF board members and steering committee members for the new initiative inform and involve women of faith in the charitable educational and spiritual work of the Church in Northeast Ohio The group will raise awareness and funds to support organizations that serve the communities through engaged and collective philanthropy The goals are to recruit other women to share insights and ideas to make decisions about grant awards and to help spread the word about the work being done by the Church in Greater Cleveland Sandi Koenig and Maria Patrick for their contributions as members of the steering committee Ozimek said an anonymous woman donor contributed $25,000 to help launch the Giving Circle “We had hoped maybe 30-50 women would join us and as of today (March 8) There are two membership levels: 40 and older Ozimek said members can donate more and companies can sponsor employees for membership the group sought grant proposals from nonprofits in the community Giving Circle members will gather at the Center for Pastoral Leadership to hear presentations from the organizations members will have an opportunity to vote on which groups should receive grants during the first distribution “Women like to hear the impact of their philanthropy,” Ozimek said “This is a wonderful way to put our faith in action and some skin on our stewardship.” Bishop Malesic thanked the group for its generosity “This is an exciting new way of looking things,” he said noting they also will learn more about what the grant-seeking nonprofits “There are so many ways to help our communities We need to look at what is out there and ask how we can be a blessing for others Thank you for being a part of this initiative and for letting us use your particular brand of genius.” Ozimek said the group also will gather in June at Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine to hear a presentation from Jim Towey Another meeting will take place in the fall Click here for more information on the Women’s Giving Circle, email mozimek@catholiccommunity.org or call 216-696-6525 please contact local law enforcement and: Kathleen McComb Response Services – 216-334-2999 Link IconCopy linkFacebook LogoShare on FacebookXShare on XEmailShare via EmailLink copied to clipboardHousing will help Philly rebound from the pandemic economist saysLancaster-based economist Adam Ozimek says hybrid work is less common than previously thought and full remote lets you live wherever you'd like Lancaster-based economist Adam Ozimek gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic for his research on remote work, becoming a go-to source for news outlets across the country Ozimek is also a Temple University graduate and an alumnus of local economic research firm Econsult Solutions and the West Chester-based Moody’s Analytics The Inquirer caught up with Ozimek to talk about the latest changes in remote work based on his 2023 research and how they might affect Philadelphia This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity but long-run remote work is a technology that’s going to continue to evolve and shape the labor market and economy Those impacts have not stopped accumulating In-person recalls [to the office] have basically hit their max If your employer wanted you back at the office It’s unlikely that businesses who have gone remote for this long are going to reverse that decision and the long-run pressure is toward greater remote work Fully remote and hybrid remote are not really as close substitutes as is sometimes thought If you want to live in a really rural part of Pennsylvania that’s four hours away from Philadelphia hybrid work is not a substitute for full remote work Hybrid work keeps you tethered to the geography of your employer some people still want to be back in the office or some jobs are necessarily going to require some office time That’s something pushing in favor of hybrid work from the employee side There’s a push from the employer side as well which is that if you open a job up and decide you’re going to hire a hybrid role someone needed to live within 45 minutes of the office to make the commute doable But if they only have to be in twice a week maybe now they’ll drive in from an hour and a half away But if you go fully remote with the position now your labor market becomes the entire region maybe the entire country or the entire world Your ability to hire is so much more greatly expanded if you go fully remote than if you go hybrid The other factor is that becoming a fully remote company allows you to much more drastically shrink down your office space There is a more important sense in which remote work will make places more similar rural places that have traditionally lost population have seen relatively stronger population growth Whereas large urban areas have seen weaker population growth because remote work is allowing people to leave cities for lower-cost places As those remote workers move to low-cost places they have a variety of positive economic spillovers that help make them more like the more successful parts of the country They make demand for other types of workers stronger [In recent decades] skilled people were leaving some parts of the country and moving into large urban areas Now places with lower cost of living can draw remote workers who essentially bring their jobs with them That is going to be a powerful force for economic convergence that helps make the country more equal geographically One of the big pressures that remote work has created is that it pushes people out into the suburbs where there are relatively fewer employers and pushes them out of the downtown areas where there are more employers but higher cost of living What’s interesting about Philadelphia is that in comparison to a lot of other places A lot of employers have already decamped to the suburbs so there’s already a greater equalization between the economies of the downtown and the suburbs in Philadelphia then there are in other places That has made the post-pandemic adjustment easier in the city in some ways they’ve gone to different parts of the city That’s distinct from other cities that are seeing this push out of the city itself but what’s useful for cities to understand is that a decline in demand for living in the downtowns does not need to lead to less living in the downtowns and more people will come because prices fall So cities can really help to offset the problems of declining downtown demand for remote work by simply building more You can see the impact on demand in downtown living if you look at price changes much weaker than some other parts of Philadelphia But that doesn’t mean that downtowns need to empty out Make it easier for developers to build: better zoning The percent of office space you need relative to the amount of residential space has gone down But if you increase the size of your labor market by building more residential that’s going to create demand for offices in the long run too There’s so many ways that cities get in the way of more building with zoning and other regulations ShareSaveIndustryPolicyShould Everyone Go To College?ByAdam Ozimek Now if David had placed his conclusions with the right number of caveats and suitably limiting adjectives I don't think I'd have much to disagree with But you can see how far overboard he has gone in his closing paragraph:  "But there is nothing magical about 13 years of education As the economy becomes more technologically complex the amount of education that people need will rise 15 years or 17 years of education will make more sense as a universal goal as Heckman reports the "magnitude of the heterogeneity in returns on which agents select is substantial: returns can vary from -15.6% (for high Us persons who would lose from attending college) to 28.8% per year of college (for low Us persons)." Here the notation "Us" measures propensity to attend There is another problem with applying estimates of marginal returns to education to a scenario of moving to universal college attendance: it's partial equilibrium This means that it assumes all else equal and unchanging But if everyone attended college you would have an increase in the labor supply of college graduates and a decrease in the supply of high school graduates which means the relative wages that determine the returns to a college education would shift While college jobs and non-college jobs aren't immutable categories and entirely separate labor markets there are certainly jobs you can do without a college degree and the wages for these would be driven up if we tried to universalize college education This would decrease the returns to college You can find a bunch of examples of jobs for high school graduates where you might see higher wages in a BLS report titled "High wages after high school - without a bachelor's degree" These include gas plant operators (median annual wage $57,200) police and sheriff's patrol officers ($53,540) telecommunications line installers and repairers ($50,850) A recent report from John Schmitt and Heather Boushey titled "Why the Benefits of a College Education May Not Be So Clear Especially to Men" also has some useful evidence in it nearly 20% of college graduates from age 24-35 earned less than the average male high school graduate They found eleven schools where the degrees had a 20 year net return of -$30,000 or worse compared to just graduating high school Their list of the worst degrees is even more shocking A humanities and english degree from Florida International University has a 20-year net return of -$192,000 and there are students choosing these degrees I want to add one more point that I almost let go but can't resist Leonhardt has this observation in his piece that you've probably seen many times before: "When experts and journalists spend so much time talking about the limitations of education they almost certainly are discouraging some teenagers from going to college and some adults from going back to earn degrees (Those same experts and journalists are sending their own children to college and often obsessing over which one.)" David is almost always one of the most insightful economics writers out there but this talking point about whether experts and journalists are sending their children to college is incredibly stupid and really needs to go away and never come back again a wide variety of cognitive and non-cognitive skills have hereditary components that make it less likely that the child of an expert or pundit who probably graduated from an Ivy League school is going to be a student on the margin of attending college or one who would not benefit economically from attending if you go to a financial advisor you will receive different advice depending on your household income many high-income households could afford to send their children to college purely as a luxury if they want When your household income is $200,000 then spending the money so your kid can spend a few semesters in college and drop out to do something else is hardly the end of the world For the rich kids with the low probability of college success these years sort of floundering around and not seriously looking for a career are also not going to be as big of a deal if you have parents who can support you For a low-income household and a student without that parental safety net this wasted money can easily be a luxury they can't afford the rich kids are also more likely to have social networks full of wealthy and connected people that also serve as a kind of safety net it is perfectly responsible for experts and journalists to offer advice that they would not necessarily follow; what would be irresponsible would be to assume if it makes sense for an Ivy League educated New York Times columnist then it must make sense for everyone but if he really doesn't know people who wouldn't benefit from college he really should reconsider tossing out zingers about upper class detachment I want to emphasize that it really is true that college educated workers have higher wages on average and I don't want to downplay the fact that on average people gain from going to college Even many on the margin would benefit from going to college and increasing college attendance is probably good public policy right now But decent jobs that don't require college degrees exist and so do college degrees that are really bad investments We probably want more kids to go to college but given the current jobs and colleges out there today all of them going would almost certainly be a bad deal for many and sending everyone to college now is a utopian fantasy that does not represent a true path to a better life for many Pretending otherwise means understating the necessity of figuring out ways to help those for whom college is not the best choice A crowd of college students at the 2007 Pittsburgh University Commencement Link IconCopy linkFacebook LogoShare on FacebookXShare on XEmailShare via EmailLink copied to clipboardThis Moody’s economist is betting his money on Lancaster buying some ‘skin in the game’Adam Ozimek is an economist paid for the business and labor data he tortures until it confesses the West Chester research and forecasting shop paid for the business and labor data that he tortures until it confesses Celebrity money-watchers like Nicholas Nassim Taleb the trader turned author of risk-explaining best sellers like Black Swan — who recently spent an hour warning trustees of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System not to buy stuff they don’t understand — have made careers of bashing economists (and journalists) as detached prognosticators with no “skin in the game" or real-life understanding of what business does as an engine of society But why stop with big business? Ozimek is one economist who has decided not just to watch money flow, but to make it happen. He and four partners last week opened Decades, a 45-foot-long bar, six-lane bowling alley (with a second bar), 110-seat restaurant (“our chef’s from Baltimore — crab cakes, wings”), and 25-station classic pinball, Skee Ball, and basketball machine arcade in a 15,000-square-foot former National Guard armory and theater at 438 N. Queen St. in Lancaster City. Their improvements cost more than the leased property’s appraisal value, which is just over a half-million dollars, according to city records. “Economists do start businesses. Our business is a start-up. And Adam is an enterprising, entrepreneurial fellow," said one of his bosses, Mark Zandi, Economy.com’s most familiar face from cable TV and congressional hearings. “Empirically, Adam is very creative,” Zandi added. Zandi says he’s loyally heading to Decades, where he plans to bowl a little: “I can score, like, 120.” “We’ve been talking about doing this since we started Lancaster Craft Beerfest five year ago,” Ozimek told me on a visit to the job site a few weeks before opening. Some features of business ownership stumped him — why should Pennsylvania liquor licenses cost so much, eating “10 to 15 percent” of opening expenses? But “we kept pushing, and talking to people here in Lancaster, 'til the pieces fell in place.” “We” is Ozimek and his buddies since their public-school days in Hempfield Area (corrected) schools, Chris Trendler and Jonathan Yeager. The three pitched their dream to Ephrata father-daughter builders Mike and Bri Callahan of Benchmark Construction late in 2017, and persuaded them to join as builder-partners. “He’s definitely got the economist way about him. He’s a level, flat guy, compared to those other two" ― lifelong food-and-beverage boss Trendler, artist and creative-marketing specialist Yeager — Mike Callahan said last week, the day after city officials attended a grand opening. “It fascinates me, their skill sets.” “Adam’s been a big influence on my own career as a graphic designer and artist and illustrator,” Yeager told me. “I don’t think of him just as an economist, but as a creator and influencer. He’s always pushing me to get more business, get my name out there. Adam’s always thinking, and thinking numbers: ‘How we can pull this off?’" Callahan gives his partners’ grade-school friendships better-than-even chances to survive the strains of business ownership, given their track record making the beer festival profitable. The builder said he’s fascinated by Ozimek’s analysis of the Lancaster-area economy. “He has all these numbers about why this thing is going to work,” Callahan said. It isn’t exactly a Florida-resort- or Western-software-center-scale boomtown, but the metro Lancaster area beats Philadelphia, its suburban counties, and every other metro area in Pennsylvania on a measure Ozimek and Moody’s colleague Brendan Meighan developed last fall: the Broad-Based Start-up Rate (BBSR), which considers not only the number of start-ups but the diversity across industries. Lancaster is among Pennsylvania’s leading centers for both new manufacturing and new information-technology businesses, for example — signs of a growing educated, economically active population that’s a reasonable market for new restaurant-bars, indoor-sports joints, and entertainment venues. Ozimek’s data citing Lancaster as a node of opportunity sounds consistent with the urban-professional investment and consumption that Callahan says has kept area builders like him busy in recent years, alongside a steady stream of senior-citizen community-building work. The numbers guy and his friends are betting their own labor and capital that this mini-boom will keep rolling. The forced experiment with remote work over the past two years has shown some organizations the upside of approaches to work they would never have otherwise considered It also showed workers that they aren’t as locked into the traditional in-office 9-5 at one company as they might have thought Copyright ©2025 Harvard Business School Publishing Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School Michał Ozimek joined Valuation department of Corees Polska - Commercial Real Estate taking the position of Senior Valuation & Investment Analyst Working in the Warsaw branch of the agency he will be responsible for supporting processes related to the development of real estate valuations as well as advising on transactions on the commercial real estate market Michał graduated full-time first degree studies in the field of Finance and Accounting continuing the second degree of E-business and postgraduate studies in Real Estate Valuation at the Warsaw School of Economics He has been involved in real estate valuation for over 2 years Working in an international consulting company he gained experience in preparing valuations in the sector of offices he worked in the strategic consulting sector and business Iowa - (Iowa's News Now) — Des Moines Police are investigating a crash between a motorcycle and a car that killed one person Friday Police have identified the motorcycle driver who was killed as Kobi Ozimek The crash happened around 5:39 Friday night at the intersection of 2nd and Douglas Avenues Ozimek had serious injuries and later died at the hospital Investigators say minutes before the crash a Polk County Sheriff's Office deputy tried to pull over a motorcycle near the intersection of 2nd and Aurora Avenues "The motorcyclist accelerated away from the deputy Witnesses reported that the motorcyclist failed to yield to a red light at the intersection on 2nd Avenue and Douglas Avenue and collided with a vehicle within the intersection," Des Moines Police say ShareSaveIndustryPolicyWhy I Don't Support Open BordersByAdam Ozimek Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. for Adam OzimekFeb 26 11:21am ESTShareSaveThis article is more than 8 years old.I am a big fan of immigration and I think we can easily absorb significantly more immigrants than we do right now and I thought it would be useful to give a few fairly high level reasons why fundamental meta question to me is: why is the U.S richer than the countries that most immigrants are coming from It’s a combination of different levels of physical capital and our knowledge of how institutions and social capital emerge and evolve is not great A decent amount of immigration only changes these things slowly but open borders could change them very quickly Would these changes be positive or negative as already very rich compared to the rest of the world the risks are to the downside if we could do better at directing immigration to parts of the U.S I think in some places the risks of massively increasing immigration flows are outweighed by the benefits one would not describe it as doing so well that the risks are mostly to the downside the largest period of immigration influx as a share of population since 1790 was in the was from 1850 to 1860 when net international migration was 9.8 per 1,000 U.S and would translate to about 3 million immigrants a year it seems like a pretty aggressive expansion and I'm not sure why we'd want to start with something a lot higher than that I think the risks outweigh the rewards for pushing significantly above that The case against massive changes in the U.S is also stronger today than it was in the past It was easier to support massive radical changes in previous centuries when we were constantly in the midst of huge fundamental changes like the end of slavery when we questioned the status quo in the past we can say that the status quo was a result of recent massive changes In the past we also hadn’t gone very far in terms of well-being compared to previous centuries on the other side of two industrial revolutions and 100 years of productivity growth We’re in an era of far fewer massive changes is a big country that is near the top of the list development-wise If we’re going to step outside of modern experience I’d rather see it done somewhere else first say we should wall off the welfare state from immigrants and natives rather than wall off the country I think the welfare state is an important source of upward mobility and a driver of life-time well-being for natives and immigrants I take his proposal as actually kind of telling about the sort of radicalism that might be required to potentially sustain open borders Rather than spend a lot of energy arguing on behalf of things like public schools I’d rather simply point to this proposal and say “See This kind of bad solution is what could potentially be required to sustain open borders!” So that’s my big vague case against open borders We don’t really know enough about what generates the wealth of nations to make massive changes like this It is very plausible that the people in a country play a big role in determining the wealth of that country and the downside risks of massive changes in the U.S (Note: The chart at the top comes from Natalia Bronshtein, via Noah Smith ) Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application 2004 while he was visiting at the home of his daughter in Waterloo Edward Ozimek has been a resident of Fort Dodge for seventy years Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. at Bruce’s Funeral Home and Cremation Center Burial will be held in Callender Cemetery Visitation will be from 4-6 p.m. the son of Sophia (Kuran) and John Ozimek in Pittsburgh In 1928 he graduated from the Valley Junction High School in West Des Moines Ed was a man who loved to work and was devoted to Mitchell Dental Laboratory where he retired at the age of 75 Edward was the oldest member of the Golden Kiwanis in Fort Dodge His family has fond memories of Ed being Mr He always seemed to know how to build it or repair it Ed loved knowledge and believed that education was the most important priority for his family He loved to cook and eat barbecued ribs He enjoyed gardening and grew beautiful flowers Ed and his daughters created many memories during their walks in Kennedy Park and along the beach in Westport Ed loved to laugh and to bring laughter to others His greatest love in life was his family and he enjoyed his grandchildren and great grandchildren Edward’s memories will be cherished by his daughters Janet (Howard) Van Note of Waterloo Lane (Erin) McCumsey and their children Cassidy and Camdyn of Brainerd Edward is preceded in death by his loving wife Memorial gifts may be directed to the Fort Dodge Public Library Persons wishing to send greetings or condolences to his daughters and family may do so online This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors like bad news—an omen of greater financial pain to come And yet according to the most recent official numbers, inflation has cooled significantly since last summer even as the unemployment rate has remained low Inflation so far seems to be conquerable without throwing millions of Americans out of work A recession is looking less and less likely The idea that a recession was needed to cure inflation was based on a very specific premise: The labor market was too tight Throughout the first two years of the pandemic employers struggled to hire as many workers as they wanted and this drove wages up at an unsustainable speed Although we normally celebrate wage growth it can spark dangerous inflation if it happens too much they pass that cost on to customers through higher prices they may not be able to make as much stuff as customers are demanding With too much money chasing after not enough goods Oren Cass: The labor-shortage myth Summers and others saw a recession as the only cure for this situation because they believed the economy was essentially out of workers but economists typically think of unemployment as having a lower bound below which a lack of workers leads to accelerating wage growth and inflation 3.5 percent unemployment is a very low rate and so many economists concluded that we must be near that lower bound The only way to cool the labor market in that case would be to get firms to want fewer workers The main way the government does this is by raising interest rates As it becomes more expensive to borrow money Given the level of imbalance in the labor market by 2022 this in all likelihood meant hiking interest rates until we tipped into a recession This argument only makes sense, however, if we treat the official unemployment rate as an accurate measure of the number of available workers. Summers and other economists predicting a recession believed that there were no more potential workers who would be coaxed into the labor market by better opportunities. In a paper released last year Summers concluded that “the majority of the employment shortfall will likely persist moving forward.” But the unemployment rate doesn’t really capture everyone who doesn’t have a job; it excludes people who aren’t looking for work at all This dividing line makes sense for retired people and others who genuinely don’t want work—it wouldn’t make sense to call these people unemployed But retirees and students are not the only adults who are out of the labor force There are also people who might want a job if the opportunities were good enough Potential workers like these are precisely who could help alleviate labor-market pressures More people entering the labor force would mean more workers to fill job openings The most recent economic data make clear that the unemployment rate was significantly undercounting the pool of available workers. Even as the official number remains pinned to historical lows, 4 million workers have found jobs over the past year The labor market was in better shape than many experts thought Inflation and wage growth have both been slowing down This did not require a multiyear span of high unemployment James Surowiecki: A recession is not inevitable disproving the labor-market pessimists year after year Wages rose at a pace that delivered real improvements in standards of living The fact that many leading economists seem drawn to excessively pessimistic views about the labor market is a problem If the Summers perspective had carried the day the Federal Reserve might have felt compelled to plunge the country into a recession the continued improvements in labor supply bode well for the chances of a soft landing The share of prime working-age adults who are employed remains below its peak in the late 1990s meaning the workforce still has room to grow This is not to credit labor supply entirely for the slowdown in inflation or to suggest that we could have gotten here without rate hikes to curb demand Inflation is still higher than it should be and in an era of nonstop economic surprise any forecast must be made with a heavy dose of humility the less work demand needs to do—and the less risk that the Fed will need to push the economy into recession in order to whip inflation Support for this project was provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation We have the address for the funeral home & the family on file If you're not happy with your card we'll send a replacement or refund your money Riley created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories © 2025 Bogner Family Funeral Home and Cremation Services Made with love by funeralOne A motorcyclist died in a crash Friday in Des Moines after eluding a Polk County sheriff's deputy who had tried to pull him over of Des Moines, ran a red light and collided with a car at the intersection of Second and Douglas avenues More: Des Moines officials developing Vision Zero plan to cut traffic deaths Grace Altenhofen is a staff writer for the Des Moines Register. She can be reached at galtenhofen@registermedia.com or on Twitter @gracealtenhofen. An online pilot survey was conducted to give the opportunity to report official national oncofertility registries available in 2022. Survey questions covered the availability of official national registries for oncofertility as well as the official national registries for cancer and assisted reproductive technologies. Participation in the survey was voluntary, anonymous and for free. Although oncofertility services are expanding globally, very few countries have well-established official national oncofertility registries. By reviewing such a global landscape, we highlight the urgent need for having a well-established official national oncofertility registry in each country to monitor oncofertility services in a way that best serves patients. Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2023.1148314 This article is part of the Research TopicFertility Preservation in the Pediatric and Adolescent Populations, volume IIView all 10 articles Purpose: Oncofertility is an emerging discipline which aims to preserve fertility of young cancer patients As fertility preservation services have become increasingly available to cancer patients in many countries around the globe it is crucial to establish a foundation of collaborative reporting to continuously monitor and assess oncofertility practices This survey study investigates the current global landscape of official national oncofertility registries a vital tool which allows for surveillance of the field Methods: An online pilot survey was conducted to give the opportunity to report official national oncofertility registries available in 2022 Survey questions covered the availability of official national registries for oncofertility as well as the official national registries for cancer and assisted reproductive technologies Results: According to our online pilot survey responses were collected from 20 countries including Argentina Only 3 out of the 20 surveyed countries have well-established official national oncofertility registries; and include Australia The Australian official national oncofertility registry is part of Australasian Oncofertility Registry that also includes New Zealand The German official national oncofertility registry is part of FertiPROTEKT Network Registry for German speaking countries that also includes Austria & Switzerland The Japanese official national oncofertility registry includes Japan only and called Japan Oncofertility Registry (JOFR) A supplementary internet search confirmed the aforementioned results the final list of countries around the globe that have official national oncofertility registries includes Australia Some other countries such as the USA and Denmark are on their way to establish official national registries for oncofertility care Conclusion: Although oncofertility services are expanding globally very few countries have well-established official national oncofertility registries we highlight the urgent need for having a well-established official national oncofertility registry in each country to monitor oncofertility services in a way that best serves patients The increasing availability of new oncofertility services such as ovarian and testicular tissue cryopreservation egg and embryo cryobanking has generated a need to monitor these services across institutions and clinics The quantity of data collected in this registry increases the impact of its studies and further highlights the importance of ART registries While some ART registries may include specialized oncofertility services there is a general lack of recording this data in many countries around the globe. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the global existence of national oncofertility registries in relation to national cancer and ART registries In order to identify cancer, ART and oncofertility official national registries, we conducted an online pilot survey in 2022, asking participants to report the registries available in their countries by answering the survey questions as shown in Figure 1 The survey study was designed and conducted by the Oncofertility Consortium team at Michigan State University (MSU) The Institutional Review Board (IRB) at MSU determined that this survey study did not constitute research that involves human subjects; therefore additional IRB review and approval was not required The survey was available online on MSU Qualtrics from January 2022 to September 2022. Furthermore, a link to the online survey https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_brTwsVJ3vVsLqdw was shared at the 14th Annual Conference of the Oncofertility Consortium and in the Oncofertility Consortium e-newsletters that may appeal to oncofertility care providers such as those sent by related professional societies and academic departments Participation in this online survey was voluntary Responses were confidential and no identifying information such as personal names email addresses or IP addresses was collected All data was stored in a password protected electronic format for scholarly purposes only we conducted a thorough internet search to authenticate each response and check whether each national registry officially exists In the cases where survey participants from the same county reported different information about registries all responses were reviewed to determine the accuracy of the data Responses found to be inaccurate were discarded descriptive statistics were used to analyze the final dataset Table 1 Results of the online pilot survey Table 2 Countries around the globe that have official national oncofertility registries Providers may be concerned about finding time to input data it is recommended to keep required information to a minimum and enlist the support of other professionals such as patient navigators when completing such tasks A known challenge in oncofertility is its multidisciplinary nature, as success requires close coordination between reproductive medicine specialists, reproductive biologists, and oncologists in various disciplines. One report suggests that approximately 20% of patients seeking oncofertility services sought advice independently, without the recommendation of their oncologist, highlighting the need for the encouragement of collaborative care (19) representation from multiple specialties may be important in forming a foundation of cooperation that is necessary for long-term sustainability While this paper highlights the deficit of official national oncofertility registries around the globe While we evaluated the availability of registries some registries are still under development and hence excluded from our analysis Several registries are structured differently from each other and we are yet to understand how such variability affects the success of these registries Utilization and adherence to registration are necessary to consider when attempting to understand the success of registries Challenges in obtaining this data included language barriers obstructed ability to access information when viewed from outside of the host country responses from 20 countries were collected and showed that only 3 countries (Australia Germany & Japan) have well-established official national oncofertility registries Although oncofertility services are expanding globally We call for the creation of such registries with consideration to the practical challenges in doing so especially the logistical and financial challenges All authors contributed equally in conceptualization All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher PubMed Abstract | CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar Google Scholar The emergence of a new interdiscipline: oncofertility Oncofertility Fertility Preservation Cancer Survivors (2007) 138:3–11 CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar Connecting the dots: linking the national program of cancer registries and the needs of survivors and clinicians Cancer registries can provide evidence-based data to improve quality of care and prevent cancer deaths Ecancermedicalscience (2014) 8(413):1–8 CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar CA Cancer J Clin (2015) 65(2):87–108 Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000–14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual records for 37 513 025 patients diagnosed with one of 18 cancers from 322 population-based registries in 71 countries Public health surveillance of cancer survival in the united states and worldwide: the contribution of the CONCORD programme 10. 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