S.f. Unemployment Low, But Still Above Dot-com Days

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They’re more effective your default alarm clock app. They can even be annoying. But desperate mornings call for desperate measures. If standard alarm clocks just don’t cut it for you, it’s time to bring in the heavy artillery. In that spirit, these alarms take annoying to a whole new level in an effort to blast you out of bed.

Data centers require a lot of air-conditioning. The summer heat makes it even harder to keep those temperatures under control. The summer of 2024 started less than a month ago, but it’s already off to a scorching start. Phoenix has already topped 112 degrees and the year’s first Heat Dome arrived weeks ago.

The most admired leaders are those who have a personal reputation for acting ethically and with integrity, writes guest columnist Stan Silverman.

I was working at my day job in 2008 when I received a call that changed my life. My then-young design company was hired to design PayPal’s first iPhone experience. We had a month to complete the task. While it was sometimes stressful, that month bore fruit: the people I worked with at that time became the foundation of much of my professional network. Many of those people have built their own companies, launched startups, and landed important roles at big companies in the following decades.

The Wawa will mark the Delaware County convenience store giant's eighth Philadelphia location to close in recent years.