I hope the voters of Oregon read the Right to Rest Bill proposed by Rep. Compos.
Hidden in this bill is language that would allow communities to transfer funds earmarked for law enforcement, to be used for programs that address the root cause of homelessness.
It also gives the homeless the legal right to housing of their choice.
Why is it that the public is told this bill is about the right of the homeless to use public spaces? They already have that right.
It’s ludicrous to suggest the homeless have the right to homestead and defile areas dedicated for all of Oregon’s citizens.
You have embarrassed me and my fellow citizens in Oregon District 23 by colluding with the violent demonstrators who breached our state capital building and threatened the health and safety of our elected representatives.
You must resign your position immediately.
We deserve to be represented by an individual who solves problems through respectful civil discourse, not through violent extremism.
Please save us all from the agony of a recall election and do the right thing now.
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As a business leader, you know all too well the differentiating factors that used to set apart your organization are far less powerful now than they used to be. Technology has fundamentally altered nearly every aspect of business operations – from the dynamics of your market to the speed that is required to remain relevant. Digital disruption has turned talent management on its head, simultaneous with the emergence of one of the most competitive labor markets in history.
This reality led to our recent study, Workplace 2025: The Post-Digital Frontier to uncover how organizations are progressing when it comes to digital transformation and, more importantly, what lessons can be learned to unleash digital prowess. A study of more than 800 C-suite and department heads, as well as nearly 3,000 workers across the U.S., discovered that most companies (52%) are in the “developing” stages of digital transformation. A much smaller number, only 10 percent of organizations, are considered “superior” in their digital transformation journey today. The study found that superior companies are twice as likely to embrace and utilize digital technologies and innovations. Companies in this elite group are also more like to embrace new learning technologies and reskill or upskill their current talent to meet the demands of the future workplace.
No matter where your company is on its digital journey, consider incorporating the following talent management best practices into your organization’s strategy.
Did you know your perceived utilization of digital tools can help attract and retain talent? Employees today want to work for organizations that not only “talk the talk” but also “walk the walk.” This means providing the right tools and training. Otherwise, your company is at risk of losing employees. In fact, 40 percent of employees report they have left a job because they didn’t have access to the latest digital tools, and 58 percent say they need to seek new employment in order to secure digital skills.
If you don’t provide the right tools, employees could seek out their own solutions. This is a recipe for frustration, decreased engagement and higher levels of turnover.
Randstad’s study also revealed that budget constraints are often a limiting factor when it comes to digital transformation. The key is to not let this bring your digital transformation journey to a standstill. Instead, use your budget to inform your strategy, including how fast, how much and when the company can invest. You may have to plan to carry out your transformation in phases over several years.
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The digital frontier has rewritten job descriptions of C-level executives, requiring a new set of leadership skills.
But lack of digital leadership plagues most companies — only 37 percent of respondents said they completely/strongly agree that their organization has a digital leader in place. Without the right leadership, digital initiatives will likely fall short. Indeed, any approach to digitalization that is more tactical than strategic and lacks cohesive focus will fail to deliver the full benefits of transformation.
Given the complex challenges that accompany digital transformation, it’s critical for companies to have the right talent on board to implement and manage new initiatives. The good news? Nearly all (90%) workers want to acquire new digital skills in order to further their careers. The bad news? Many of today’s employees aren’t being offered those opportunities by their current employer, despite their overwhelming belief (87%) that it is employers’ responsibility to create a culture of digital savviness.
For companies at the early or beginning stages of digital transformation, arguably the most important thing is to build a digitally literate workforce capable of driving ongoing innovation. Getting your talent ready now will keep you ahead of the digital transformation process. If you lack the internal expertise to take on digital transformation, consider partnering with a workforce specialist like Randstad to provide the talent and solutions you need to expedite your journey.

We know this isn’t easy. In partnering with leading organizations around the globe, Randstad has worked with clients to help support their journeys toward digital transformation. Mastering the digital frontier requires companies to find or create new sources of value through digital partnerships. And it mandates a new breed of vendor or partner – one that is more agile and digitally savvy, with its own network of partners to help facilitate transformation journeys. In fact, 92 percent of leaders surveyed believe it is important to have digitally savvy staffing and workforce partners.
As a trusted human partner in the post-digital world, Randstad has the digital knowledge, expertise and resources to accelerate your digital transformation. Whether you need one forward-thinking executive to lead your transformation, a team of tech-savvy talent to implement new strategies, or a workforce partner who can leverage emerging talent acquisition and management technologies to fuel your success, we’ve got you covered.Your daily portion of Fibre-Filler provides 15g of dietary fibre, which is more than many Britons normally consume in a day.
It must be tight-fitting but at the same time easy to remove, for as the caterpillars grow they will consume enormous amounts of nettles.
HEAT PUMPS turn out more usable energy than they consume - but their impact on Britain's homes has fallen short of what many pundits predicted.
"It is far cheaper to address the needs of poor people than to ignore them, since poor people consume far less" - less, that is, than those who now use the lion's share of energy.
Dioxins get into mothers' milk through contaminated food and as babies consume large quantities relative to their body weight, their intake is temporarily very high.
Furthermore, the goods they consume, from food to furniture, are either currently produced by informal sector artisans, or have the potential to be produced in this way.
Many people could easily consume a full can, diluted, during a thirsty summer day, and it would have little if any effect in reducing an appetite for solid food.
They consume nearly one-fifth of the village's firewood.
It is difficult for low-income LDCs to generate a high level of savings due to the subsistence nature of agriculture and the high propensity (desire) to consume - a vicious poverty circle exists.
One of the arguments that the motor industry presented against catalytic converters was the fact that cars fitted with them do consume marginally more fuel, which raises expenditure and is ecologically unsound.
But if cancer wasn't to consume me, mentally as well as physically, then something else must also share my mind.
Served in tubs, they're easy to consume.
Somehow the country has managed to consume more energy per capita than anywhere else other than rich (and notoriously thriftless) Canada and the United States and at the same time plunge into a state close to bankruptcy.Technical building facilities are often operating in unnoticed suboptimal operating conditions for years causing substantial operating costs and wastage of resources. The optimization potentials remain largely unnoticed, except if a total failure of systems (e.g. room is not heated anymore) occurs. For energy services, e.g. in the form of performance contracting, the quantification of efficiency enhancement as well as the identification of optimization possibilities are indispensable. The operation of facilities can be optimized through monitoring relevant measurement data (flow temperatures, heat quantity, operating current, etc.) resulting in a decrease of the primary energy demand.
OptiMAS investigates through a model based energy flow analysis and under consideration of the newest developments in the sensors market how existing facilities, independently from the used HVAC-systems and their automatization components, are monitored, the data is analysed and how parameters can be derived for an optimization. The analysis of the energy flow distribution in hydraulic networks of facilities and complexes is an indicator for multiple facility technological faults. The “open-loop”-approach has the advantage that no requirements towards the HVAC facility have to be applied and changes of the hydraulic system and subsequent legal aspects (e.g. warranty claims, liabilities for modifications) do not occur.
The cost-effective and detailed spatial and temporal resolved energy flow measurement in hydraulic networks constitutes a substantial innovation of OptiMAS. This is reached by the use of a minimal quantity of non-invasive sensors, a model based approach for deriving the complete energy flow and semi-automated analysis procedures for localizing optimization potentials.
In sensor technology fundamental research with regard to characterization of low-cost, clip-on sensors in temperature and ultrasonic flow measurement is done. The model based energy flow determination distinguishes itself by using only a minimal number of measurement points, nevertheless it enables a detailed and comprehensive quantification. Additionally, the thermal active masses of buildings can be detected and analyzed, which are taken into account in future application of facilities as storage of volatile PV or wind energy. With the OptiMAS approach the optimization potential from single facilities to whole areas and