Pennsylvania
The Keystone state -- key to America's independence. Check out the history and culture of Pennsylvania, where many German-speaking immigrants settled, with Christopher Hoh. #50states #PA
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Hello, my name is Christopher Hoh. I work in the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, and I was born and brought up in the the Keystone State.
Pennsylvania was one of the original 13 colonies. It was called the Keystone State in the 18th century because of its central location and role in U.S. history. The first capital of the United States was in Philadelphia.
Before it was colonized, the area was home to Native American tribes, including the Lenape and the Susquehannok.
The name Pennsylvania means, Penn's Woods. In 1681, England's King Charles II gave the land to William Penn as payment for a debt of 16,000 pounds. This was one of the largest land grants to an individual in history.
William Penn was a member of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, who were persecuted in England. So Penn established the colony for any people persecuted for their faith.
Many religious exiles from Europe settled in Pennsylvania, including the Amish, an Anabaptist sect. Today, the Amish live much as they did in the 17th century, without modern conveniences such as electricity and cars.
In the 18th and 19th centuries Germans migrated to Pennsylvania in large numbers. English‐speakers mispronounced the German word, Deutsch, as Dutch, and these immigrants became known as the Pennsylvania Dutch.
In many Pennsylvania communities, German was spoken as the language of everyday life into the early 1900's. You can still hear German dialects in the farmers' markets of Lancaster and Reading, my home town.
The language is similar to Germany's Palatinate dialect. For example, the man's dog -- der Hund des Mannes -- is this in PA Dutch -- em Mann sei Hund.
Today, 12.7 million people live in Pennsylvania, the sixth most populous state in the U.S. It covers over 46,000 square miles (more than 119,000 km2 ).
Pennsylvania has several large cities. Philadelphia was known in the 1700's as the Athens of America because of its rich cultural life.
Part of that is attributed to Pennsylvania's most famous citizen, Benjamin Franklin -- author, inventor, philosopher, businessman, diplomat and revolutionary leader.
Philadelphia is also home to the Liberty Bell, the icon of American freedom. It remains on view, cracked, on Independence Mall, where the Continental Congress met and in 1776 declared independence from Britain.
Here are some other firsts from Pennsylvania:
The first medical school, hospital, library and insurance company were established in there.
The first commercially drilled oil well near Titusville produced the first U.S. oil boom in 1859.
The first U.S. Envoy to Austria in 1838 was Henry A.P. Muhlenberg, from Lancaster.
And the Philadelphia Zoo is the oldest zoo in America.
My hometown, Reading, is located in southeastern Pennsylvania. Formerly a textile and manufacturing center, Reading became known as The Factory Outlet Capital of the World.
The surrounding area has been called the Snack Food Capital of the World, leading all other states in the production of pretzels, chips and candy.
The state has some other interesting food facts.
The Yuengling Brewery, in Pottsville, is the oldest operating brewery in America, established in 1829.
A little further west is Hershey, the birthplace of Hershey chocolate bars. The town smells of chocolate and the street lights are shaped like Hershey kisses.
And don't forget Philly cheese steaks.
Pennsylvania gave birth to one US President -- James Buchanan in the 1800s.
Vice President Joe Biden was born in Scranton.
Many actors also come from Pennsylvania including Kevin Bacon, Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Sharon Stone, to name a few.
Pennsylvania has always had a creative music scene. Each religious sect that settled in Pennsylvania brought with it a unique style of music. The Moravians, in Bethlehem, introduced organs and trombones into their worship. The Mennonites and Lutherans sang heartily, from German hymnbooks. And the Ephrata Cloister was known for beautiful harmony.
Popular singers today include Taylor Swift, from Wyomissing, and Christina Aguilera and George Benson, from Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia is also the birthplace of the famous TV program, American Bandstand, which introduced singers and bands to teenagers for more than 20 years.
I travel the world but I still have a strong connection to my home state: I'm a career diplomat -- like Benjamin Franklin, our country's first envoy. I'm also a composer who benefited from my home state's musical milieu.
I'm proud to come from Pennsylvania, the land of the Liberty Bell, which helped inspire the cause of freedom for all humanity.
Montour Trail, Clairton to Library Pa.
A new 0.81 mile section has been completed at Triphammer Rd. bypassing the steepest part of Triphammer and Piney Fork Rd.. Watch for new signage.
This section of the Montour Trail has a little of everything for bikers, a mix of paved trail and shared roadways with normally lite traffic, crossing major highways and climbing hills not found on rail trails. There is a lot of scenery between Claitron and Library via Peters Creek Rd. Piney Fork Rd. and Triphammer Rd. Future plans are the completion of the Library Viaduct and other bridges that will give bikers a more direct link to Piney Fork Ext.. montourtrail.org.
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Welcome to the town split by the Canada/U.S. border
Beebe Plain is a town divided. The Canada/U.S. border runs down the middle of Canusa Street, putting one side of the village in Quebec, and the other in Vermont. Locals describe how the necessity of routinely crossing the border has changed over the years.
Farewell to the D&H
On September 17, 2015, the second-to-last day before the take over by Norfolk Southern, the D&H lives again for one brief moment in North East Pennsylvania. D&H GP38-2 7303 is the power for a large Liquid Natural Gas Heat Exchanger from Air Products in Wilkes-Barre, PA, seen here slowly riding the rails from the L&S interchange in Hudson, PA to a few miles railroad north to Dupont, PA, where it will be handed over the Reading & Northern (as seen in the next video).
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History of the D&H in Northeast PA:
The Delaware Hudson has a long, continuous history of operations throughout the Northeastern US. With rails being laid throughout the mid-1860's, the D&H was the (and still is) the continuously operating Railroad in the United States. Up until September 19, 2015, the D&H was still a thriving subsidiary to the Canadian Pacific Railway here in Northeast PA. Over the years, the D&H property shifted boundaries many times due to the economy and several purchases and abandonment of right-of-ways. The original D&H Penn Division between Carbondale, PA and Nineveh Jct, NY is long gone, after traffic was shifted to the DLW mainline in purchased in 1982. The section seen in this video is still a remnant of the original D&H Penn Division from Scranton to Wilkes-Barre PA, where they joined the Pennsylvania Railroad. By 1984, the struggling operations were absorbed into Guilford Rail System with the idea of connecting Maine to southern NY and PA. This railroad never had enough money and proper management to get it off the ground, ending up being one of the biggest failures of a company which went bankrupt 4 years later in 1988. The D&H briefly came back into service with help from the NY government and NYS&W railroad, finally being purchased by Canadian Pacific in 1991. CP successfully reorganized the D&H assets from the Canadian Border south to Albany and Binghamton, NY, and continued the D&H markets south on the former DLW and PRR mainlines to reach Sunbury / Harrisburg, PA, where haulage rights trains ran as far as Philadelphia. Up until 2009 when the economy crashed, several daily CP trains operated under a D&H-like pattern to several cities in the NEUS. By 2014, a struggling effort to maintain customers along with a mis-managed railroad under the harsh regime of E Hunter Harrison finally lead to a deal in which Norfolk Southern would purchase the 282 miles from Sunbury, PA to Binghamton to Schenectady, NY (the latter section being original D&H rails), thus concluding over 150 years of presence for the D&H in Northeast PA and Southern NY. The D&H from Albany, NY, over to Schenectday, NY, and north to the Canadian Border will still be owned and operated by the Canadian Pacific, who runs many oil, ethanol, and freight trains on that line.
With all that being said, I hope you enjoyed this historic move which appropriately brought and end to another era in railroading history.
The music in the outro is a song from the YouTube Audio Library.
Rivers of Life
Southwestern Pennsylvania is a region of rivers. Our waterways have improved life and increased prosperity through their roles as industrial highways and recreational spots. The story of the rivers is our story, too. Conserving and improving these vital assets is critical to the region's future.
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La Plata, MO, in Northern Missouri, is located on BNSF Railway's Marceline Subdivision at milepost 312.7, part of their Southern Transcon, the former Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF) mainline between Chicago and Los Angeles.
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Part 2: Hiking the Gerard Hiking Trail (Oil Creek State Park, PA) 5/13/2017
This is part 2 of my hike on the Gerard Hiking Trail. This picks up where part 1 ended:
Pt 1: Hiking the Gerard Hiking Trail (Oil Creek State Park, PA) 5/13/2017 w. Canyon Man 100 talk HD
May 19, 2017 9:39 AM
Part 3: Hiking the Gerard Hiking Trail (Oil Creek State Park, PA) 5/13/2017 HD
May 19, 2017 9:57 AM | PUBLISHED: May 21, 2017 12:00 AM
Gerard Hiking Trail to Drake Well Park 15X Hiker Lapse (11.8 Miles North) Oil Creek State Park, PA HD
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Hiking South 11.8 miles on Gerard Hiking Trail 4X Time Lapse from Drake's Well 36:25
This video was published on 5/20/2017
Strange Buildings
Interesting and unusual building designs from different parts of the world.'
THE HUNDERTWASSER BUILDING - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian architect and painter, designed this building, which contains 105 apartments and a restaurant.
HABITAT67 - This apartment building was built for Expo 67, the 1967 world exhibition held in Canada. Although Habitat 67 was supposed to provide affordable housing after the Expo ended—much like the stated plans for Vancouver's Olympic Village— its apartments go for luxury apartment prices because of the unique architecture.
CONTAINER CITY - The Urban Space Management company designs various Container Cities like this one for use as homes, offices and stores.
THE CROOKED HOUSE - The Crooked House is located in a shopping center. Built in 2003, the house is used for commercial purposes.
BASKET BUILDING - This building is the home office of the Longaberger Company, which sells baskets.
KANSAS CITYS LIBRARY - This funky building is the parking garage for Kansas City's Central Library. It features 22 book titles, which the Kansas City Public Library Board of Trustees selected from library members' suggestions
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM - Renowned architect Frank Gehry designed the Guggenheim Museum in an industrial city in Northern Spain. Glass walls link the building's striking curves, which are made of stone, glass and titanium.
FERDINAND CHEVELS PALACE - Ferdinand Cheval, a rural postman, built this palace between 1879 and 1912. He had no background in architecture or masonry, and a uniquely shaped stone was the inspiration for the project. Today, the castle is a popular tourist destination.
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY CHAPEL - It's an all-faith place of worship, with four separate chapels—one for Protestants, Catholics, Jews and Buddhists.
CUBE HOUSES - The 38 cubes, built on top of a pedestrian bridge in 1984, are residential homes that overlook a commercial area with restaurants and shops.
THE DOME HOME - San Francisco area architect, Jonathan Zimmerman, conceptually created the unique home. Taking into account the pristine white beaches, the dunes, the emerald waters, and the peaceful nature of the environment, Mr. Zimmerman designed a home that would blend with and compliment its surroundings. Designed to be environmentally friendly.
HANG NGA GUEST HOUSE AKA CRAZY HOUSE - This is a complex of unconventional, misshapen concrete structures serving as both a tourist attraction and a place to stay. It is also decorated with animal figures with glowing eyes, wire spiderwebs and other, equally unexpected things. The designer and namesake, Hang Nga, holds a PhD in architecture from Moscow State University.
KETTLE HOUSE, GALVESTON TEXAS - According to the Weird Texas by Wesley Treat, Heather Shade and Rob Roggs, the Kettle House in Galveston was supposedly erected by a gentleman who used to build storage tanks for oil companies. Neighbors no little of the man, but the house house has been there over 50 years and has survived Hurricane Ike. No one lives there even though a man is sometimes seen there making improvements only to disappear for months again.
NAKAGIN CAPSULE TOWER - a mixed-use residential and office tower designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa and located in Shimbashi, Tokyo, Japan.
UCSD GEISAL LIBRARY - The distinctive original building was designed in the late 1960s by William Pereira to sit at the head of a canyon. The tower is a prime example of brutalist architecture. It rises 8 stories to a height of 110 ft (33.5 m).
THE UFO HOUSE 三芝飛碟屋 - The futuristic-looking house has been abandoned for more than 20 years. Most likely the damage to the buildings has been caused by the strong winds of the summer typhoon season.
SHOE HOUSE - The Shoe House was built in 1948 (and completed in 1949) by Colonel Mahlon M. Haines, the flamboyant Shoe Wizard, for advertising purposes. Haines owned forty shoe stores in Maryland and Pennsylvania, was a millionaire and an honorary Indian chief, and knew the value of self-promotion.
WONDERWORKS - A four-story tall, classically-designed building that appears to have landed, upside down, atop a 1930s era brick warehouse. WonderWorks is a fun filled interactive center featuring a myriad of hands-on experiences and activities.
THE TORE GALATEA FUGURAS - Dali spent the last years of his life in the tower. It is now a public museum.
LUCY THE MARGATE ELEPHANT - a six-story elephant-shaped architectural folly constructed of wood and tin sheeting in 1882 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey, in an effort to sell real estate and attract tourism.
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Pittsburgh is the seat of Allegheny County and with a population of 307,484 is the second-largest city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. With a metropolitan CSA population of 2,661,369 it is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia and the 22nd-largest in the U.S. Pittsburgh is known as both the Steel City for its more than 300 related businesses and the City of Bridges for its world record 446 bridges. The city also features 29 skyscrapers, two inclined railways, a pre-revolutionary fortification, and the source of the Ohio at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny. This vital link of the Atlantic coast and the Mid-west cuts through the mineral-rich Alleghenies and made the Pittsburgh area coveted by the French and British empires, Virginia, Whiskey Rebels, Civil War raiders and media networks. Legendary for its steel, Pittsburgh also led innovations and industries in aluminum, glass, shipbuilding, petroleum, foods, appliances, sports, transport, computing, retail, autos and electronics. This creative wealth placed Pittsburgh third (after New York City and Chicago) in corporate headquarter jobs for much of the 20th century, second only to New York in bank assets with more stockholders per capital than any other U.S. city. America's 1980s shift from heavy industry to a service economy laid-off millions from the area's sprawling steel mills and electronics/appliances factories. The diaspora of blue collar workers was joined by thousands of white collar employees when multi-billion dollar corporate raids relocated the longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters of Gulf Oil, Sunbeam, Rockwell and Westinghouse. This status as a world industrial and banking center, its melting pot of industrial immigrant workers, and top 10 rank among the largest cities in the U.S. until 1950 and metros until 1980 has left the region with a plethora of internationally-regarded museums, medical centers, parks, research infrastructure, libraries and a vibrantly diverse cultural district. These legacies have helped Pittsburgh win first place as America's most livable city by Places Rated Almanac, Forbes, and The Economist while inspiring National Geographic and Today to name the city a top world destination. More tangibly, the area has added 3,304 hotel rooms since 2004 and boasts higher occupancy than 11 comparable cities such as Philadelphia and Baltimore. Google, Intel and Apple are among 1,600 tech firms generating $10.8 billion in annual Pittsburgh payrolls. Since the 1980s the city has also served as national headquarters for both federal cyber defense and robotics. The area boasts 31 non-profit universities and colleges including seven venerable universities in the city, with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon as national leaders in R&D expenditures spurring multiple startups annually. The nation's fifth-largest bank, 9 Fortune 500s and six of the top 300 US law firms make their global headquarters in the Pittsburgh area, while RAND, BNYMellon, Nova Chemicals, Bayer, FedEx and GSK have large regional bases that helped Pittsburgh become the sixth best metro for U.S. job growth despite the global recession. Area retail and housing have also grown despite the subprime crisis with the multi-million dollar SouthSide Works, Bakery Square, and Washington's Landing repurposing former industrial sites. Pittsburgh is a leader in LEED technology, with 60 total and 10 of the world's first green buildings, including downtown's convention center, even as Shell and Chevron have invested billions in the area's energy renaissance with Marcellus shale. A renaissance of Pittsburgh's 115 year old film industry that boasts the world's first movie theater has grown from the long running 3R Film Festival to an influx of major productions including Disney and Paramount offices with the largest sound stage outside Los Angeles and New York. According to the United States Census Bureau, Pittsburgh has a total area of 58.3 square miles (151 km2), of which 55.6 square miles (144 km2) is land and 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2) (or 4.75%) is water.
EPA, Penn. Sea Grant: Protects Lake Erie by collecting drugs
Erie, PA residents dropped off about 600 pounds of medicine and personal care products on April 26, 2008 at the Cruise Boat Terminal Building during the Pennsylvania Sea Grant pharmaceutical collection.
Located behind the Dr. Raymond Blasco Memorial Library the collection brought in over 73,000 pills and a lots of controlled substances like narcotic pain medication, said Sara Grisè, PA Sea Grant coastal outreach specialist.
Results::
87 participants
120 gallons of materials
5 of the 120 gallons were controlled substances
About 600 pounds of medicine/personal care products
Controlled: 3,839 pills
Non-Controlled: 69,232 pills
Personal Care products: 384
The Keep Unwanted Medicine out of Lake Erie Medicine Collection Day was part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
The challenge involved over 100 collections across eight states. Lake Erie's reputation especially in the 1960s and 1970s was an extremely polluted and even dead lake. By all accounts, residents and officials have done a great job restoring Lake Erie - where fishing, boating and swimming are popular.
The EPA Lake Erie Lakewide Management Plan helped the recovery of Lake Erie. Officials have been fighting the Zebra Muscle problem in Lake Erie.
One pharmaceutical collection goal was to prevent medicine s from being discharged into Lake Erie and make sure drugs don't end up in other lakes and streams.
Many wastewater treatment plants around the world are not designed to remove the cocktail of chemicals after the drugs are flushed or dumped down the drain - and the drugs can leach out of landfills into the groundwater.
Unsung heros at pharmaceuticals collections are police and pharmacists without whom the collections wouldn't be possible. Erie Police, pharmacists accepted pharmaceuticals.
Based on experience, organizers discovered the turnout was bigger when residents don't have to preregister. Of 87 residents participating in the collection, 61 did not preregister.
And similar to the other collections, most Erie participants were older adults as 89 percent were over the age of 46. Assisting the event was ECS & R - Environmental Coordination Services and Recycling in Cochranton, PA.
Organizers of the Erie collection included PA Sea Grant, the City of Erie, Lake Erie-Allegheny Earth Force, LECOM School of Pharmacy, and Erie Times-News in Education.
Organizers partnered with WJET-TV Erie Green Campaign.
WSEE TV provided their news story for use in this video.
The PA Sea Grant received a grant from the United States EPA (EPA). The goal of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was the collecting and recycling of one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) plus the collection and proper disposal of one million pills. The EPA says those goals were exceeded by 400 to 500 percent.
The Earth Healing Initiative assisted some challenge organizers by offering interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encourage members of local churches and temples to participate in the Earth Day related events in their area. This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the US EPA in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office, EPA Great Lakes National Program Office in Chicago and the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment.
Greg Peterson, Earth Healing TV
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St. Joseph's Festival Coraopolis Pa
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I Should DO WHAT To Pay For CDL School Training?
A 40 year veteran truck driver passes on a little tip for obtaining a CDL.
There are numerous schools to choose from in both the U.S. and Canada. There are private schools and company sponsored CDL truck driving training schools.
The private schools can be very expensive, with no guarantee of a job at the end of the training.
We spotted an ad for a truck driving training school which admitted their training was expensive, but a potential student could easily find a way to finance their training.
The article went on to point out there were multiple ways to finance CDL training, one which really made our blood boil.
They suggested that the potential student could take out a second mortgage on their house!
Borrow money against their house, without hope of a job at the end of the training, FOR A JOB, which most pay less than minimum wage for OTR trucking.
Company sponsored training with a job at the end of the training makes the most sense for most candidates looking to get into a truck driving career.
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Wyomissing: An American Dream
Just west of Reading lies the Berks County borough of Wyomissing. With tree-lined streets, well-appointed homes and ample amenities, the community serves a living legacy to its founding fathers: Ferdinand Thun and Henry Janssen.
The two German immigrants came to Berks County as young men in the 1890’s, forged a partnership and created a textile company that would become a legend in Wyomissing Industries. The company became one of the biggest hosiery mills and machine shops in the world and employed thousands of people around the clock under the leadership of patriarchs who cared about the products they made, the people who made them and community they shared.
Together with their families and community partners, Thun and Janssen built homes and hospitals, parks and playgrounds, libraries, museums and even universities. They made things to last whether it was a factory, a house, a business or a community, and in doing so, they left a legacy in Wyomissing: An American Dream.
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Steven Kotkin on Waiting for Hitler, vol. 2 of his 3-volume biography of Stalin, with executive director, Kai Bird. February 7, 2018, the Skylight Room, the Graduate Center, CUNY
Driving Downtown - Pittsburgh 4K - USA
Driving Downtown - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA - Episode 25.
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Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the county seat of Allegheny County. The Combined Statistical Area (CSA) population of 2,659,937 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia and the 20th-largest in the U.S. Located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, which form the Ohio River, Pittsburgh is known as both the Steel City for its more than 300 steel-related businesses, and as the City of Bridges for its 446 bridges.[3] The city features 30 skyscrapers, two inclines, a pre-revolutionary fortification and the Point State Park at the confluence of the rivers. The city developed as a vital link of the Atlantic coast and Midwest. The mineral-rich Allegheny Mountains made the area coveted by the French and British empires, Virginia, Whiskey Rebels, and Civil War raiders.[4]
Aside from steel, Pittsburgh has led in manufacturing of aluminum, glass, shipbuilding, petroleum, foods, sports, transportation, computing, autos, and electronics.[5] For much of the 20th century, Pittsburgh was behind only New York and Chicago in corporate headquarters employment, and second to New York in bank assets; it had the most U.S. stockholders per capita.[6] America's 1980s deindustrialization laid off area blue-collar workers and thousands of downtown white-collar workers when the longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters of Gulf Oil, Sunbeam, Rockwell and Westinghouse moved out.[7] This heritage left the area with renowned museums, medical centers,[8] parks, research centers, libraries, a diverse cultural district and the most bars per capita in the U.S.[9] In 2015, Pittsburgh was listed among the eleven most livable cities in the world;[10] The Economist's Global Liveability Ranking placed Pittsburgh as the first or second most livable city in the United States in 2005, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2014.[11]
Google, Apple, Bosch, Facebook, Uber, Nokia, Autodesk, and IBM are among 1,600 technology firms generating $20.7 billion in annual Pittsburgh payrolls. The area has served also as the long-time federal agency headquarters for cyber defense, software engineering, robotics, energy research and the nuclear navy.[12] The area is home to 68 colleges and universities, including research and development leaders Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.[13] The nation's fifth-largest bank, eight Fortune 500 companies, and six of the top 300 US law firms make their global headquarters in the Pittsburgh area, while RAND, BNY Mellon, Nova, FedEx, Bayer and NIOSH have regional bases that helped Pittsburgh become the sixth-best area for U.S. job growth.[14]
The region is a hub for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, sustainable energy, and energy extraction.
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Philadelphia 4K - Driving Downtown USA
Highlights: 1)City Hall 2)Famous Rocky Movie Steps 3)Liberty Bell & Declaration of Independence at Independence Hall. Day and Time: Tuesday 12 PM.
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the sixth-most populous city in the U.S. The city is known for its arts, culture, cuisine, and colonial history, attracting 42 million domestic tourists in 2016 who spent US$6.8 billion. Philadelphia is the home of many U.S. firsts, including the first library (1731), hospital (1751), medical school (1765), national capital (1774), stock exchange (1790), zoo (1874), and business school (1881). Philadelphia is the birthplace of the United States Marine Corps. Since 1854, the city has been coterminous with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the eighth-largest U.S. metropolitan statistical area, with over 6 million residents as of 2017.
The Philadelphia area's many universities and colleges make it a top study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational and economic hub. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Philadelphia area had a gross domestic product of US$431 billion in 2016, the eighth-largest metropolitan economy in the United States. Philadelphia is the center of economic activity in Pennsylvania and is home to five Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is expanding, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016, including several nationally prominent skyscrapers. Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the same watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. Philadelphia has also emerged as a biotechnology hub.
William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city in 1682 to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia played an instrumental role in the American Revolution as a meeting place for the Founding Fathers of the United States, who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 at the Second Continental Congress, and the Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. Philadelphia was one of the nation's capitals during the revolution, and served as temporary U.S. capital while Washington, D.C., was under construction. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became a major industrial center and a railroad hub. The city grew from an influx of European immigrants, most of whom came from Ireland, Italy and Germany—the three largest reported ancestry groups in the city as of 2015. In the early 20th century, Philadelphia became a prime destination for African Americans during the Great Migration after the Civil War, as well as Puerto Ricans. The city's population doubled from one million to two million people between 1890 and 1950.
Philadelphia contains 67 National Historic Landmarks and the World Heritage Site of Independence Hall. The city became a member of the Organization of World Heritage Cities in 2015, as the first World Heritage City in the United States. Although Philadelphia is rapidly undergoing gentrification, the city actively maintains mitigation strategies to minimize displacement of homeowners in gentrifying neighborhoods.
Economy
Philadelphia is the center of economic activity in Pennsylvania with the headquarters of five Fortune 1000 companies located within city limits. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Philadelphia area had a total gross domestic product of $431 billion in 2016, the eighth-largest metropolitan economy in the United States. Philadelphia was rated by the GaWC as a 'Beta' city in its 2016 ranking of world cities. Philadelphia International Airport is undergoing a $900 million infrastructural expansion to increase passenger capacity and augment passenger experience; while the Port of Philadelphia, having experienced the highest percentage growth by tonnage loaded in 2017 among major U.S. seaports, was in the process of doubling its capacity in order to accommodate super-sized post-Panamax shipping vessels in 2018.
Philadelphia's economic sectors include financial services, health care, biotechnology, information technology, manufacturing, oil refining, food processing, and tourism.
Sports
Philadelphia Phillies - MLB Baseball
Philadelphia Eagles - NFL Football
Philadelphia 76ers - NBA Basketball
Philadelphia Flyers - NHL Hockey
Philadelphia Soul - AFR Arena Football
Philadelphia Union - MLS Soccer
Are You Ready to Go to Jail For Your Truck Driving Job?
This is a topic RARELY addressed in the trucking industry. Trucking companies do not want their drivers to know these risks.
When a CDL driver is involved in an accident, there is the possibility that they could be sued or criminally charged, especially in this age of 'distracted driving'.
Many professional truck drivers aren't aware of the fact they could be personally liable, should they be found at fault in a particular accident. Many professional drivers believe, no matter what, the trucking company they work for, will defend them against any and all charges while driving a truck.
This simply is not true. Are you willing to bet your life on the fact, that for some reason, they could leave you on your own to defend yourself? It can and does happen.
This is one of the many reasons, truck driving jobs should pay well. A truck driving job is a risky job and it ought to pay accordingly. Risky jobs for the most part, pay reasonably well.
This however, does not seem to be the case in the trucking industry.
Something all professional drivers ought to be aware of.
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IF YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL TRUCK DRIVER, WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND AT LEAST ONE DASHCAM IN YOUR TRUCK.
TWO DASHCAMS? EVEN BETTER. YOU GET THE IDEA!
PROTECT YOURSELF IN AS MANY WAYS AS YOU'RE ABLE.
A DASHCAM IS A NECESSARY TOOL FOR ALL TRUCK DRIVERS.
WE'VE PERSONALLY TESTED THESE DASH CAMS FROM FALCON ELECTRONICS, AND USE THEM ON OUR TRUCK.
WE LIKE THE FACT THAT THE CLIPS ARE EASILY DOWNLOADED TO FILES THAT ARE IN THE CORRECT FORMAT FOR TRANSFERRING.
WELL WORTH THE INVESTMENT.
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