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http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com Atlanta-based Delta Airlines, Inc. speculated on Tuesday that more job cuts would be on the way as it announced that it will reduce consolidated system capacity by 6-8% in 2009. The news comes as a global financial crisis hits airlines hard by reducing demand for seats. Chief Executive Richard Anderson said in a memo to employees, “Once again, Delta must take the necessary steps to adjust our business accordingly and make certain seat capacity meets customer demand.” The memo also said Delta is analyzing the impact on staffing as it pertains to the planned further capacity reductions. Delta President, Ed Bastian said Delta hasn’t been able to fully realize the benefit of the drop in fuel prices recently because of bad bets on fuel hedges the airline took part in while fuel prices were at record levels over the summer.

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Added: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:31:42 -0800
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Added: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:52:37 -0800
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com Chicago mayor Richard Daley’s budget plan will eliminate 29 airport “greeter” positions at O'Hare and Midway International Airports. The red-jacketed city employees translate and answer questions for travelers. After layoffs, managers will receive raises Despite sacking the 29 "airport customer services representatives," Daley's proposed 2009 budget calls for keeping—and giving raises to—several managers who rank above the greeters in the Aviation Department. Daley plans to cut the Aviation Department's "external communications" staff from 41 employees to 10, primarily by laying off the greeters. But the division would retain its $115,000-a-year marketing director, a $114,000-a-year deputy commissioner and the $95,000-a-year customer services manager. Fiscal plan will cut 1,000 city jobs "That seems like misplaced priorities," city Alderman Brendan Reilly said. "Reductions at management level should follow reductions of front-line staff." The greeters, who are skilled in multiple languages, earn between $38,000 and $58,000-a-year. The layoffs are part of almost 1,000 job cuts in a fiscal plan that aims to close a $469 million budget shortfall.

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Added: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:31:42 -0800
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http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com Orbitz Sends 10% of Workers on Permanent Vacation Travel website Orbitz posted a third-quarter loss due to an impairment charge, and said its outlook for the fourth quarter has deteriorated because of the weaker economy. The company plans to cut its US work force by 10 percent -- roughly 100 jobs -- by the end of 2008, generating $20 million in annualized savings. Travel website to cull 100 jobs Orbitz reported a net loss for the third quarter of $287 million or $3.44 per share, compared with a net loss of $32 million in the third quarter of 2007. Orbitz said the net loss in this year's third quarter was due to a non-cash charge for impairment of goodwill and intangible assets of $297 million or $3.56 per share. Without the charge, it would have made a net profit, it said. “A slowdown in all our businesses” "Our businesses performed solidly in the third quarter despite the cutbacks in US airline capacity,” Orbitz CEO Steven Barnhart said. “However, beginning in October, we have experienced a slowdown in all of our businesses around the world.” Orbitz expects severance and related charges of $2 million to $3 million in the fourth quarter. Orbitz shares have fallen from $10 last December to a close of $3.18 on Monday

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Added: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:54:45 -0800
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http://www.scientistcrossing.com Find Discovers Fungus That Could Fuel A Car News Video, Discovers Fungus That Could Fuel A Car News Video, Discovers Fungus That Could Fuel A Car News Video News Headline, with in California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Florida, Brooklyn, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Houston

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Added: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:33:45 -0800
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A researcher at Montana State University has found a micro-organism in a plant in South America that could replace fuel in vehicles one day. The unusual fungus contains the essence of diesel, which one could use to run a bus, for example, without processing it at all. Professor Gary Strobel discusses his findings on "myco-diesel," which are being published Wednesday in The Journal of Microbiology in London. Dr. Strobel made the discovery by chance, while collecting fungus from the stem of a tree in an old forest in southern Chile. When he finally got around to sending it off for sophisticated analysis — years later — he discovered that this version of Gliocladium was unlike others he'd encountered before. "I've scoured the earth for not only organisms like Gliocladium, but many other endophytes [a plant that lives in the tissue of another plant]. I've been to almost every rainforest on the planet," he tells Alex Chadwick. But, "in over 50 years, I've never seen anything like that." Why would a fungus create diesel? Essentially to protect from plant invaders, he says.

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Added: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:51:36 -0800
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com Swedish researchers recently looked at 20 years of records to assess the positives and negatives of Daylight Savings. Studies showed that turning your clock back an hour may actually prove to be beneficial for your heart. Researchers compared the number of heart attacks recorded after clocks were either set back or moved forward an hour and discovered that the number dipped dramatically when people received an extra hour of sleep. Moving clocks forward in the Spring, however, appeared to have the opposite affect with more reported heart attacks, particularly over the first three days of the week following the time change. Dr. Lori Mosca, director of preventive cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, was not involved in the research, but claims that increased sleep can have a very positive affect on cardiovascular health.

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Added: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:51:36 -0800
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com Several minor earthquakes gave the Dallas-Fort Worth area and some Oklahoma residents a surprising Halloween scare. No injuries or damage have been reported. A 2.5-magnitude earthquake at 11:25 pm Thursday hit near Grand Prairie, and a 3.0 was recorded at 12:01 am today in Irving, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Irving police received 911 calls from about 25 people saying they felt the quakes. Nearly 180 miles north of Dallas, in McCloud, Oklahoma, a 3.1 quake was reported a mere five minutes after the Dallas quake, at 11:30 am. No injuries or damage were reported there, either. USGS geophysicist Jessica Sigala said they consider the earthquakes in the two states to be separate events because they occurred so far apart in distance and time. Preceding Thursday’s quakes, the most recent earthquake in Texas occurred in April, shaking parts of South Texas with a 3.7 magnitude.

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Added: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:55:46 -0800
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com Economists warn that Rhode Island will not fully recover from its unemployment slump until 2013. Two economists told a meeting of state budget officials that Rhode Island will not start gaining jobs until 2010 or 2011 and it could take five years for employment to approach the state's February 2007 peak. Mike Lynch of Global Insight, the world's largest economics organization, said Rhode Island could lose 22,000 to 23,000 jobs between when employment peaked and when the state hits bottom. He saw no signs of a recovery on the immediate horizon. Rhode Island had an unemployment rate of 8.8 percent in September, the highest in the nation. Budget officials will use these economic forecasts to estimate how much revenue the state government will get this year and how much it can spend.

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Added: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:34:42 -0800
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EmploymentCrossing People who have the AIDS virus should start drug treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, according to a new study. Researchers found that delaying treatment until a patient's immune system is badly damaged nearly doubles the risk of dying in the next few years, compared to patients whose treatment started earlier. Doctors have thought it’s better to spare patients the side effects of AIDS drugs as long as possible. "The data are rather compelling that the risk of death appears to be higher if you wait than if you treat," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which helped finance the study. If the results prompt doctors to change practice — as Fauci predicts — several hundred thousand Americans who are not taking AIDS drugs now would be advised to start. The study was reported Sunday at an infectious diseases conference in Washington. Powerful drug combinations available since the mid-1990s have transformed HIV infection into a manageable chronic condition, rather than a death sentence. About 56,300 Americans are newly infected with HIV each year.

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Added: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:55:27 -0800
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NASA’s New Future Moon Truck http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com NASA's new prototype for a future moon truck is performing perfectly in desert tests, according to NASA. The terrestrial version of the Small Pressurized Rover, which can go forward, reverse and side-to-side to tackle tough terrain, is completing a three-day drive across the Arizona desert today after a successful week of testing, NASA officials told Space.com. "It's just an incredibly capable machine," said NASA’s Doug Craig. "It's going great and everyone's really pleased with it." Astronauts and geologists split into two-person teams to test the unpressurized and pressurized rover versions on the barren Black Point lava fields of Arizona. The vehicle will allow astronauts to take extended lunar road trips without the inconvenience of bulky spacesuits. The rover is part of NASA's bid to return astronauts to the moon by 2020. While some engineers are developing program's Orion spacecraft, Ares I and V rockets, and Altair landers, others are testing how best to move astronauts on the moon once they get there. Humans first drove vehicles on the moon in 1971, when Apollo XV astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin drove the electric Lunar Roving Vehicle. Two other moon cars followed on NASA's last two Apollo flights, but those rovers were built for limited trips. "Those lunar rovers were disposable, so they were only going to be used for two or three days," Craig said. "These that we're looking now, we're looking at up to five years length on the moon."

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Added: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:55:10 -0800
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EmploymentCrossing Europe's leading physicists swapped their lab coats for their best suits this week for the official inauguration of a multi-billion dollar machine designed to shed light on the "Big Bang” and to answer that eternal question, why is there gravity? There was just one problem -- the Large Hadron Collider itself is out of action for several months, after a faulty electrical connection caused a massive helium leak. Nevertheless, the ceremony went ahead as planned, with French Prime Minister Francois Fillon in attendance and a special "molecular buffet" concocted by famed Catalan chefs Ferran Adria and Ettore Bocchia. The chefs are renowned for cuisine which involves breaking down elements to produce surprising combinations, using sometimes unexpected textures, temperatures and cooking techniques. The ceremony at the Organization CERN also featured exhibitions, an audiovisual concert and the music of Philip Glass. The LHC took nearly 20 years to build at a cost of five-and-a-half billion dollars. For more information, click here.

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Added: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:35:52 -0800
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EmploymentCrossing Kindred Healthcare, the largest operator of long-term acute-care hospitals in the US, saw its stock fall the most in six years in New York trading. This after reducing its earnings projection for the year and reporting third-quarter preliminary profit that was lower than previously forecast. Gulf Coast hurricanes in Texas and Louisiana cost the company $6 million in the third quarter. “Our New Orleans facility was closed,'' CFO Richard Lechleiter told Bloomberg. ``We also suspended operations in San Antonio, Texas, and Houston. So there wasn't any revenue or patients in the building. “In addition to that there were direct costs associated with the transfer of those patients to other facilities,'' he said. “During the shutdown period, we kept all our staff on payroll.'' Kindred plummeted 33 percent to $14.64 on the New York Stock Exchange composite trading, its steepest drop since October 2002. The company had retreated 12 percent this year as the Standard & Poor's Midcap Health Care Index tumbled 27 percent.

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Added: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:33:54 -0800
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com Dow Chemical’s AgroSciences group is hiring 350 new employees, half at their headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company is looking to bolster its research and development arm, as well as production and commercialization of its new products. Key areas of recruiting are focused on science and technology positions. Global demand for food, feed, fiber and fuel reinforces the need for agricultural productivity, CEO Jerome Peribere told IndyStar.com. “ Dow AgroSciences, the best-performing unit in the Dow Chemical empire, also announced that it set a new first-half record for both sales and earnings. Dow AgroSciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company, specializing in agricultural chemicals such as pesticides, seeds and biotechnology solutions. For more information click here

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Added: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:35:27 -0800
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More than 1,000 dinosaur footprints along with tail-drag marks have been discovered along the Arizona-Utah border. The incredibly rare concentration of beastly tracks ranging from 1 to twenty inches, likely belonged to at least four different species of dinosaurs, ranging from youngsters to adults. "The different size tracks may tell us that we are seeing mothers walking around with babies," said researcher Winston Seiler, a geologist at the University of Utah. The tracks were laid about 190 million years ago in what is now the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. "There must have been more than one kind of dinosaur there," said researcher Marjorie Chan, professor and chair of geology and geophysics at the University of Utah. "It was a place that attracted a crowd, kind of like a dance floor." While the site is covered in sand dunes now, the researchers say the tracks are within what was a network of wet, low watering holes between the dunes. The tracks provide more evidence of wet intervals during the Early Jurassic Period, when the U.S. Southwest was covered with a field of sand dunes larger than the Sahara Desert.

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Added: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:54:35 -0800
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In the Chinese province of Liaoning scientists and locals have been surprised to find that a breed of lobsters has turned up a curious blue color! The reason for such color change has been a cause for debate, but many believe that these lobsters have a variation of Albinism, which in humans is expressed as a genetic condition which halts the production of color producing pigments in hair, skin and eyes. Albinism in animals usually results in a white color, so the apparent reason for the bluish tinge of these creatures remains a mystery. Blue is a rare color in the animal kingdom and scientists are concerned that such coloring will make these lobsters more evident to potential predators, thereby endangering them and decreasing there already low numbers.

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EmploymentCrossing Philadelphia-based Radiation Therapy Oncology Group and Houston’s US Oncology have announced a collaboration to increase patient access to national cancer clinical trials, with a radiation focus in the community setting. The collaboration means patients receiving cancer care at practices affiliated with US Oncology have access to RTOG trials for disease sites including brain, head & neck, lung, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, cervix, and breast cancers. RTOG trials focus on testing the integration of radiation therapy with new systemic therapies and surgery. "Our collaboration with US Oncology and its network of member practices is attractive due to the organization's strong commitment to clinical trial participation, leadership and accrual," said Walter Curran, MD, Group Chairman of RTOG and professor and chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology of Emory University School of Medicine. The collaboration provides RTOG access to US Oncology's significant patient population, making radiation therapy trials more accessible to cancer patients in the community setting nationwide. The RTOG is a clinical research enterprise of the American College of Radiology. It has 40 years of experience in conducting clinical trials and is comprised of over 300 major research institutions in the United States, Canada, and internationally. US Oncology works closely with physicians, manufacturers and payers to identify and deliver services that enhance patient access to advanced cancer care.

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Added: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:54:20 -0800
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will send the first U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff to China, India, Europe, and Latin America before the end of this year, Secretary Mike Leavitt has announced. "Increasing our presence overseas will provide greater protections to American consumers at home and benefit our host countries as well," Secretary Leavitt said. The first overseas office will be in China. The US government recently secured formal approval from the People's Republic of China. The first staff will be in place in Beijing this year, with additional staff to be posted in 2009. Staff will be posted in Shanghai and Guangzhou next year. The department anticipates a total of eight U.S. nationals in China. Secretary Leavitt is scheduled to travel to China in November to meet with Chinese health officials, and review mutual efforts to ensure the safety of food and medical products consumed by the two nations, particularly imported goods. HHS/FDA plans on establishing its second overseas office in India, with staff posting to New Delhi in 2008 and at least one additional office to follow in 2009. Plans at present are for 10 U.S. nationals to be posted in India. The U.S. government is in the process of pursuing India's formal approval. In both nations, personnel will work closely with local authorities, as well as industries that ship food and medical products to the United States, to improve safety efforts. Their activities will include providing technical advice, conducting additional inspections, and working with government agencies and private sector entities interested in developing certification programs. HHS/FDA will also be opening overseas offices in Europe and Latin America before the end of 2008, with a fifth office in the Middle East to follow soon in early to mid-2009

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Added: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:35:11 -0800
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There are 46,000 job vacancies in Kansas, according to the state Department of Labor. And five of the top ten occupations the Sunflower State needs the most are in healthcare. According to the 2008 Kansas Job Vacancy Survey, the estimated job vacancy rate was 3.5 percent for the year. Both skilled and unskilled workers were in demand. Education and health services, and trade, transportation and utilities industries had the highest statewide vacancies, accounting for 43 percent of all vacancies. The average wage offered for vacancies statewide is $11.23 to $13.13 per hour. Jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree generally paid more than twice those requiring a high school diploma or GED. Survey results came from 3,002 firms in the Kansas Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages Program, according to the labor department. . The downside of accepting one of these new positions? You would have to live in Kansas.

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Added: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:54:08 -0800
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Catholic healthcare company Bon Secours St. Francis Health System's new Millennium hospital in Greenville, South Carolina, will be as an environmentally responsible medical center that emphasizes so-called “holistic” healing and will bring 500 new jobs to the Palmetto State. "I see it as a hospital of the future," St. Francis CEO Valinda Rutledge told The Greenville News. The $151 million St. Francis Millennium will feature an entrance lake, a variety of healing gardens and an interior rain wall, all designed to soothe the spirit as well as the body. The 20-acre facility will house 52 beds, 10 operating rooms, an emergency department with 15 treatment spaces and 16 observation beds, and diagnostic, radiology, laboratory and pharmacy services. Construction is expected to begin in January 2010 and will finish in late 2011 or early 2012. The project must be approved by the state Department of Health and Environmental Control, and hospital officials filed an application for a certificate of need this week. The approval process typically takes six to eight months. The green facility will offer parking for electric vehicles with outlets for recharging. Millennium expects to see 2,300 patients the first year and 2,800 by 2013.

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Added: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:53:51 -0800
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Added: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:53:34 -0800
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com Purplepill.com, AstraZeneca's brand website for their heartburn treatment Nexium, generated the most traffic in the second quarter of 2008 compared to other pharmaceutical marketing sites, according to comScore. The site had more than one million unique visitors, up 55 percent from last year. Takeda’s diabetes drug Actos ranked second, with 855,000 visitors; and Sanofi-Aventis’ insomnia medication Ambien took third place with 756,000. AstraZeneca has aggressively marketed Nexium this year, running approximately twice as much online display advertising in Q2 as either of its major competitors, Prevacid and Aciphex. AstraZeneca is a large Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company headquartered in London.

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Added: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:53:28 -0800
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EmploymentCrossing.com Rhode Island has chosen Deepwater Wind to build a $1 billion dollar offshore wind farm. The Ocean State offered the contract as part of an initiative to get 15% of its electricity from wind power. Republican governor Donald Carcieri touted the project's potential to bring "green collar" jobs to the state, and position it as a leader in an emerging clean energy technology. Part of the deal includes a provision that the Deepwater Wind build a $1.5 billion manufacturing plant in Rhode Island that promises 800 jobs at an average annual salary of $60 million. While wind power produces only 1% of U.S. electricity today, some estimate it could produce as much as 20% by 2030. Rhode Island is among the states to have set a renewable energy mandate that 20% of electricity come from renewable sources by 2020. Barack Obama's energy plan includes a mandate that utilities generate 25% of electricity from renewable sources by 2025.

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Added: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:53:08 -0800
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com In the latest stage of a long-standing Bush administration scandal, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey appointed a special prosecutor on Monday, to investigate whether criminal charges should be brought against former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and other officials in connection with the firings of nine United States attorneys in 2006. The New York Times says the move came as the Justice Department released a report by its inspector general severely criticizing the process that led to the firings. The inspector general is working to determine who in the Bush administration ordered the firings, whether the dismissals were intended to thwart investigations, and whether anyone had broken the law in carrying out the firings or in testifying about them. Critics have said the firings were politically motivated. The 392-page report released on Monday was blistering in its assessment. “The report makes plain that, at a minimum, the process by which nine U.S. attorneys were removed in 2006 was haphazard, arbitrary and unprofessional, and the way in which the Justice Department handled those removals and the resulting public controversy was profoundly lacking,” Mr. Mukasey said in a statement. The report called for further investigation to determine whether prosecutable offenses were committed either in the firings or in subsequent testimony about them. The report found that primary blame for the “serious failures” in the firing process lay with Attorney General Gonzalez and his deputy, Paul McNulty, “who abdicated their responsibility to adequately oversee the process and ensure that the reasons for removal of each U.S. Attorney were supportable and not improper.” The White House has refused to provide documents related to the firings. For more information click here

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Added: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:32:56 -0800
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Added: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:34:16 -0800
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com Four occupational therapy graduate students from New York’s Ithaca College are partnering with the Ithaca Free Clinic to provide rehabilitation therapy in vocational tasks and basic life skills to uninsured persons, according to The Ithacan Online. The services the students will provide for the clinic’s patients are based on a semester-long pilot program that began with a research period last year. Julie Dorsey, assistant professor of occupational therapy in the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance, said the Ithaca Free Clinic contacted the college hoping the department would help with its holistic care. To help set up the program, Dorsey organized surveys and sent them to the community to assess the need for the specialized care her students could offer. Rebecca Palmese, one of the four graduate students working at the clinic, said they will write a report this winter showing the progression of each client.

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Added: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:34:16 -0800
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com China’s Shenzhou 7 spacecraft carried three Chinese astronauts into orbit Thursday, for a three-day mission that may include a spacewalk. The spacecraft launched from China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center under clear skies at 9:10 p.m. Beijing time, or 9:10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. The three 42-year-old fighter-pilot astronauts -- Zhai Zhigang, Jing Haipeng and Liu Boming -- were orbiting about 213 miles above Earth late Thursday, Xinhua reported. One astronaut -- or "taikonaut," in Chinese -- is expected to walk in space for 30 minutes on Saturday. He plans to take samples from space and launch a small satellite monitoring station. The two others will stay in the depressurized cabin for support. The crew is carrying traditional Chinese medicine in case of illness, and their diet includes shredded pork sautéed with garlic and grilled beef with spicy sauce. China sent its first man into space in 2003, the third nation to do so, after the United States and Russia. China's space program, run by its military, launched a lunar probe a year ago. It was the first step in a program that includes establishing a space station and eventually putting a taikonaut on the moon.

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Added: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:53:26 -0800
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, pushed back its shuttle mission to the Hubble space telescope, saying it lost a week of preparation when Hurricane Ike forced an evacuation of Mission Control in Houston. The shuttle Atlantis will lift off on Oct. 14 at 10:19 p.m. local time from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The original date was Oct. 10. “While vehicle processing at Kennedy continues on schedule, the lost week of training and mission preparation due to the storm led to the decision to slip the dates,” NASA said. Hurricane Ike, the most devastating storm to hit Texas in half a century, forced the evacuation of the Houston space center on Sept 11. Operations resumed two days ago. The 1,600-acre base was mostly unaffected. A few structures suffered window and roof damage, and several light poles and trees were downed. During the storm, Johnson workers set up a makeshift Mission Control near Austin, where they managed operations on the International Space Station. Hurricane Ike, a Category 2 storm at landfall with winds of 110 mph per hour, caused at least $11.5 billion worth of destruction across Texas. The Atlantis crew will make repairs to the Hubble Space Telescope during its 11-day mission. The repairs will keep the Hubble operational until its replacement, the James Webb space telescope, is launched in 2013.

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Added: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:53:26 -0800
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com U.S. health insurance premia rose five percent on average this year, and more companies shifted an additional share of the cost to workers, according to Reuters. The average premium for a family's employer-provided health insurance rose to $12,680. Employees paid $3,354 of that cost on average, according to a survey by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust. Premia have more than doubled since 1999, while workers' wages grew only 34 percent. Sixty-three percent of employers offered health benefits in 2008, similar to the 2007 rate. More insured workers paid higher deductibles this year as companies put more of the burden on employees. Eighteen percent had a deductible of at least $1,000, up from 12 percent the previous year. The growth in high-deductible plans came mainly from small businesses with fewer than 200 employees, the survey said.

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Added: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:36:39 -0800
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www.EmploymentCrossing.com Georgia’ s unemployment rate rose last month to 6.3 percent, the highest rate in 15 years for the Peach State. Unemployment is 1.9 percent higher that the same time last year, a significant increase. Georgia entered a recession in March, according to economist Jeff Humphreys of the University of Georgia. State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond urged those seeking jobs to “keep their chins up,” and use the department's career centers. Easy for him to say, he has a job. Georgia lost 37,000 payroll jobs over the last year. Three-hundred and eleven thousand Georgians are looking for work. Metro Atlanta accounts for a little more than half the jobs lost. Atlanta has lost 20,100 jobs since August 2007.

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Added: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:55:47 -0800
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http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com It may be time to lie down on the floor and put a bag over your head. If news services in India are right, the world stands on the precipice of a global financial disaster. Three major economic crises – finance, energy and food – could lead to “an economic cataclysm of unprecedented magnitude, whose social effects are just beginning to be felt and will explode with unpredictable savagery,” according to the Indo Asian News Service. The anonymous author compared the coming events of 2009 to the global depression of 1929. Banks are failing, so far to the tune of $356 billion US dollars in losses. The International Monetary Fund, the Washington, DC-based organization that oversees the global financial system, estimates the world economy will need an infusion of $869 billion in order to recover. The crisis of course began in the US, with the subprime mortgage scandal. Economies across the globe are being pulled down along with the Americans. Economies in Europe, especially Spain, are cooling significantly, and global land and property prices are dropping. There are also indications of social crises caused by the financial ones. Spain is considering expelling one million foreign workers. And spiraling food prices have provoked uprisings in a number of developing nations.

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Added: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:55:47 -0800
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http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com Combating global warming will boost California’s economy, create jobs, and put money in citizen’s pockets, according to a new report by the state’s Air Resources Board. The study’s outcome is based on proposed measures that would roll back the Golden State’s carbon emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the state must impose a limit on the amount of pollutants companies emit, and expand renewable energy. These changes would result in 100,000 new jobs, boost the state economy by $27 billion and increase personal income by $14 billion, the study said. Households would save $400 a year because of improvements in energy inefficiency, and per capita income would increase by $200. "Our historic effort here in California to deal with the crisis of global warming will also have the benefit of saving families and citizens money," according to Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the Air Resources Board. Agriculture, forestry, construction, and manufacturing would see growth and an increase in jobs, according to the analysis. The state s considering adopting carbon offsets, but may not need to if the current proposals are implemented.

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Added: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:55:47 -0800
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http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com This videos is about the FDA hiring 1300 doctors and scientists. The Food and Drug Administration is hiring more than 1300 scientists and doctors in the hopes of better protecting the public health, according to the Associated Press. The staffing drive, launched just five months ago, will result in an estimated 10 percent increase in the FDA's work force. Recent years have seen a mass exodus of scientific talent from the agency, in the wake of budget cuts and scandals. Many FDA scientists took industry jobs or retired; but many of these experts are now returning. FDA critics say the staffing increase is only a first step, albeit a much needed one. "This is really just bringing them back to where they were in earlier years," said William Hubbard, a former FDA associate commissioner now leading a lobbying effort for sustained increases in the agency's budget. "It restores losses that they have incurred, but they still have a long way to go to where they can make improvements." The FDA is responsible for the safety regulation of most types of foods, dietary supplements, drugs, vaccines, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics.

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GlaxoSmithKline a British drug making company laid off 22 chemists in an attempt to save billions on annual costs last week. GSK’s spokeswoman Melinda Stubbee confirmed the layoffs yesterday. Most of the positions that were eliminated were part of group designed to come up with a new cancer fighting drug. They announced their plan to save 1.4 billion in their 4th quarter last year. Several layoffs have taken place at the Research Triangle Park Labs since the announcement of the 3-year restructuring plan. GSK has laid off over a 1000 workers in both Puerto Rico and the US. www.EmploymentCrossing.com

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