With that in mind, we’re introducing a new weekly feature, in which we’ll highlight a few of the more interesting field service jobs culled from our very own SmartVan Job Board. Atlantic Detroit Diesel-Allison (ADDA) is a New York-area distributor of diesel and alternative-fuel engines, transmissions, and propulsion devices for mostly medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Check out our new Job Board! Repairing drones in Afghanistan? Check. Running tests on fighter jets? We have that too. Repair drones in Afghanistan. military. For How Much : $60,000 in base pay. MORE >>

We are prone to buying into toxic fantasies — the unfathomable wealth offered up by the New Economy; the unlimited rewards of real estate. They wearied of trying to persuade the legal owners — banks in Seattle and New York — to clean up the mess. In San Mateo, Calif., near San Francisco, an aid organization called Samaritan House recognized that people were turning up at homeless shelters simply because they could no longer pay rent. I read this article and I share it. The Great Rupture By PETER S. They watch one another’s belongings. Who are we? MORE >>

From New York Times | Flawed Building Likely a Big Element Engineers and architects who have worked in or visited Haiti say that substandard design, inadequate materials and shoddy construction practices likely contributed to the collapse of many buildings in the earthquake that struck Tuesday. Cameron Sinclair, executive director of Architecture for Humanity , a nonprofit design group based in San Francisco, said he was “horrified” when he visited Port-au-Prince and Gonaïves last October to assess the quality of construction there. earthquake. MORE >>

and no shock its the same as it has been for decades - Wash DC, San Francisco, New York. During the Industrial Revolution, Europe and the New World developed a rate of economic development that far outpaced the rest of the world. Ashraf and Galor acknowledge these factors but argue that what really propelled Europe and the New World's economic ascendance was their relative openness to other cultures, which they measure in terms of greater or lesser geographical isolation. The report from the Atlantic.wire is below. Income inequality demographics MORE >>

San Francisco is a classic example. left San Francisco for that reason and its why I am planning on leaving Seattle - I can see the affects it has on my way of living but more importantly on the city overall and despite the efforts to enhance density here there is just no real work either and that cannot enable me to remain here for the long term. Take, for instance, the San Francisco Bay Area, a beautiful place, blessed with outstanding climate, scenery and culture. The average Phoenix home is worth about 30 percent of the price of a house in San Jose. MORE >>