In Salem, Hamilton Hall s lecture series celebrates 75 years
Blake Maddux
As is probably more widely known than ever before, Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804. The following year, architect Samuel McIntire completed work on the stately Federal-style structure on Chestnut Street that bears the first secretary of the treasury’s name.
Hamilton Hall is amid its 75th year of hosting the Lecture Series on World Affairs. This year’s eight-person roster again includes a mix of returning and first-time speakers from some of the East Coast’s most illustrious centers of intellectual activity.
Philadelphia Under Snow Emergency As Nor’easter Expected To Dump Most Snowfall In City In 5 Years Arrives
CBS Philadelphia 2/1/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS Philly
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) A Nor’easter is expected to dump the most snowfall Philadelphia has seen in five years. That has the Streets Department out fighting the storm, while others are taking it all in stride.
Meanwhile, the city is under a snow emergency through Tuesday as a powerful, long-duration winter storm impacts the area. The snow emergency went into effect at 6 p.m. on Sunday.
“Crews will continue snow operations until all conditions are safe for travel,” Managing Director Tumar Alexander said. “However, this storm is expected to bring heavy snow and high winds. Residents should be mindful of fallen tree limbs and possible power and signal outages. Our goal is to make roads passable and return the city back to normal operations as quickly as possible.”
Productivity is a quality typically ascribed to individuals, but that is a tiny minority of the measures an organisation can take to improve – a new paper argues that firms must focus on their systems.
By Joanna Goodman14 December 2020
Embracing uncertainty can build resilience into your business strategy. Firms should focus on connectivity, communication and cloud to ensure robust systems are in place
Joanna Goodman
In The Biggest Bluff, author and psychologist Maria Konnikova explores the nature of risk and uncertainty by learning to become a professional poker player. Why poker? ‘At its heart, poker is a game of incomplete information,’ she wrote in an article for The Observer, explaining that learning poker taught her to rise above the noise and embrace uncertainty and lack of control over her future as a source of power rather than fear. Put simply, it taught her resilience.