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Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle gets SIIA recognition
The creator of the Internet Archive is being awarded for his work and foresight by the Software and Information Industry Association, the association announced Tuesday.
Archive founder Brewster Kahle will be given the first SIIA Peter E. Jackson Innovation Award during the SIIA’s annual Codie Awards dinner, held during the organization’s Information Industry Summit this week in New York.
“Brewster gets you thinking out of the box, and helps you start imagining a world that is different from the one you are living in,” said Kathy Greenler Sexton, vice president of the SIIA Content Division.
New Ft. Lauderdale runway to create new aviation jobs
Ground has been broken on the new runway project at the Fort Lauderdale airport, which is expected to significantly increase the aviation traffic in the region as well as airline jobs and technical crew jobs.
The $790 million runway was launched on Monday, with executives from the Federal Aviation Administration and Broward County attending the ceremony. The Broward County Mayor, John Rodstrom, said that the commencement of works was incredible to see, particularly as the project has been some 18 years in the making.
“This has been a topic that has been debated more in our chambers over the last decade than any other topic,” he said.
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Radiology Technician Schools
As a radiology technician, you will be accountable for preparing patients prior to taking x-ray images of the internally affected area inside their bodies, while preventing an excessive amount of radiation from making contact with them and you. You will also develop and process the x-rays before sending them to a radiologist who interprets any abnormalities they may or may not be seen on the x-rays. If a radiology technician neglects to properly refine the x-ray pictures, then a misdiagnosis could occur, and a patient would not be properly treated.
You Can’t Handle the Truth
Do you remember this line from the movie “A Few Good Men?” Jack Nicholsonwas telling Tom Cruisethat average folk couldn’t deal with the harsher facts of life. As a result, higher ups would tell them what they wanted to hear. They would offer excuses, verbal hedges that sidestepped reality and offered the illusion of comfort.
Today we remain stuck in the mire of a severe economic malaise, a situation that is causing enormous employment anxiety, deep concern for the future and perhaps more than a few sleepless nights. As or
Kazakhstan Protest Continues After Strike Dispersal Kills 14
Hundreds of demonstrators faced off with police in riot gears in the streets of Aktau in western Kazakhstan on Monday, the fourth day of violent protest movements in the region that already killed 14 people and wounded scores in two other cities.
The protest demanding the restoration of telephone and Internet service in Zhanaozen was peaceful and there was no arrest, according to the New York Times.
Zhanaozen is under a state of emergency after Friday’s deadly clashes between striking oil workers and police. The strikers, who have been camping in the streets for several months, were angered by attempts to remove them and attacked police with stones and petrol bombs.
Clocking in again, and again
The jobless figures from the Department of Labor this morning offered some hope. The overall unemployment rate dipped to 8.5 percent, the lowest level since 2009.
What wasn’t hopeful was growth in the number of people holding multiple jobs.
It’s one of the stark realities of today’s job market. Good-paying jobs are being lost, and many aren’t being replaced. As a re
2011 data highlights 17% year-on-year increase in job opportunities
The most recent Reed Job Index data highlights growth in demand for new staff in 2011 compared with 2010. According to Reed, this trend was largely driven by demand for technical staff, such as engineers and IT and telecommunications specialists, with an annual increase in job vacancies of more than 40% across these roles.
At the same time, demand for staff in construction, accountancy, sales, leisure and tourism all rose at rates higher than the average 17% increase.
Unsurprisingly, decline was reflected in the figures for public sector activity, with demand in that sector 15% lower than during the same period in 2010, and at one-third of its 2009 level.
Meanwhile, demand for staff in financial services fell slightly in December 2011 to a little below its level of 12 months earlier, although it is still above its level two years ago when the index began.
Seasonal drops in vacancies across many sectors brought about month-on-month falls in December compared with November, although the downwards trend was bucked by activity in the hospitality and purchasing sectors.
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