Book Report 2.Know The Workplace

Even if you are a more seasoned worker with years of experience returning to college, you still have to orient to a new college experience and or the possibility of a new work environment as your professional career changes. The average worker has typically worked eight hours a day five days a week, and 50 of the 52 weeks in a year. Due to the fact that most people hate work or if their career is not rewarding, it is probably not a coincidence that most heart attacks occur at 9:00 a.m. on Monday mornings! There is a environment in which we fulfill our career aspirations. As for Occupational trends One trend that is obvious to everyone is that the workplace is constantly evolving. Alvin Toffler pointed out decades ago that change was changing. We moved from an agriculture- based economy to a manufacturing economy to service economy. But now it seems to be moving into a knowledge economy. Computers have changed businesses, the government, education, communications, and automobile operations. The new term for experts in the computer system called 'gold collar works" It is estimated that well over 80% of the world's technological advances have occured in the last hundred yeas. Technology feeds on itself. The Internet is changing the way we don everything from shopping to research to communicating. Global Interdependence - The market place is no longer just our community , or state or even or country. We communicate with someone on the other side of the glob through computers and e-mail. There are two sourcing of communications. Out sourcng and in sourcing Out sourcing involves sales of goods and communication for cheaper cost into the United States.

Article 19 Parents OK'd by DCF had cloudy past

The state-approved foster parents for a toddler who went missing had twice been accused of child abuse, a state report says. Before 2 year-old courtney Clark went missing from foster care for four months and before she was found in a wisconsinhome with an 11-year-old torture victim and a woman's body buried in the backyard. Documents released Tuesday by the head of the stat's chld welfare agency suggest the Martels had dubious qulifications to be foster parents. DCF found some indicators that a child i n the Martell home in Sorrento had been sexually abused. reports from the florida department of Law Enforcement say Cynthis Martell had been arrested three times between 1985-2003 on charges including larceny, shoplifting and grand theft. It is unconscionable that human failures throughout the system allowed Courtney Clark to be missing for four months without being reported. Fortunately, courtney is alive and well. RECORDS QUESTION FOSTER PARENTS FITNESS, AS WELL AS DCF. A series of rforms will be taking place. Among them are the appointment of child location specialist, a new director of criminal justice services. This is an effort to help prevent failures in the future.

Article 18. College tuition increase proposed by board

The state university governing board voted to raise tuition , freeze enrollment and join a lawsuit against the Legislature. Sparking show down with the Florida Legislature and Gov. Charlie Crist, the board that oversees universities voted Tuesday to freeze freshman enrollment, raise student tuition up to f percent and join a lawsuit that aims to wrest control over tuition and fees from state lawmakers. Bob Graham seeks to forever strip the power of setting tuition rates from state lawmakers and turn them over to the 17-member appointed panel, board members insisted they didn't want to spark a confrontation. They would simply take action to keep Florida's universities from slipping further into decline. Tuesday vote is the late test in a eight year tug of was of the fate of Florida's public universities. This spring lawmakers approved a 5% tuition hike t hat Crist vetoed. The governor agreed however to sign a law that let three top tier school-FSU, University of Florida,and University of South Florida increase the rates over the next four years and delay the tuition hike until fall 2008.

Article 10 A MURDER MYSTERY? BONES MAY TELL

The discovery of skeletal remains of eight men in Fort Myers has sparked inquires and theories.The bones were discovered one morning in a thick, wooded patch of cypress, melaleuca and pines. Covered by a carpet of dirt, leaves and branches, the skeletal remains of eigtht men were found, and cold case hidden by time. The grisly and stark findings near an industrial neighborhood east of downtown in this small Southwest Florida town has the community all abuzz as police and forensic dentist, anthropologist help to identify bodies. The authorities know for sure that the eight men died sometime between 1980 and 2000 but were white, and may have been Hispanic. In ages from 18 to 49. Det. Jennifer Soto was the first to arrive and who now heads the investigation. The land was often used as a dumping ground for hunters. An ecologist doing survey work for a developer found a skull. The investigators Goals are to determine who these people are and something about their lives, and how they came to end up it this place. The odontologist can help determine the ages, and perhaps identify the victims by using dental evidence.
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Article 17 Scandal may cost Northwestern Bulls a season

It could be a season without Bulls football as Miami Dade Superintendent Rudy crew considers suspending Northwestern High's program. From the streets of Liberty City to the halls of Miami Dade School board building the word is out: Superintendent may suspend northwestern state champion football program for the 2007 season. The school district has gone as far as consulting the Florida High School Athletics Association in the wake of a scathing grand jury report on the cover up of a sex scandal involving a star football player and a 14-year-old girl at Northwestern. If Crew opts to suspend the season, it will be the first such action by Florida superintendent,.

Article 16 $685M paid for sunrise health insurer

Broward-based Vista Healthplans is being sold to Conventry Health Care for $685M,the two companies announced Tuesday. The big winner Physician entrepreneur Steven M. Scott, who purchased five money losing Florida insurers, most of them in 2001 and 2001 and converted them into Vista. In an interview at his Sunrise office Scott estimated he spent $150m on purchasing and improving the plans making his profit more than $500 million. Vista serves about 295,000 members and generates revenue of about $1.2billion a year. The all cash deal is expected to close in 90 to 180 days, depending on approval of state insurance regulators.

Article 12-Susan Wojcicki- Her garage-created Google search engine

She went from landlord to AdSense mastermind-Mount ion View, Calif. Susan Wojcicki is reminiscing about her old home in Menlo Park Calif. It's a very humble house less than 2,000 square feet, she recalls fondly. A cozy, four bed room home and incredibly historic. She rented her garage to no ordinary slackers, but the Google Guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who incubated Google right there. Her home helped start the worlds most popular search engine. It also landed Wojcicki a key early job a Google less that a year after purchasing the home. Today she's one of it's top-ranked executive, overseeing the crucial online advertising business as vice president of product management. There are no words that can describe Susan's contribution to the company. says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. She's historic, in terms of our company's founding. She's also one of those people who thinks very broadly and quickly, and she's so pleasant. Her early duties included refining the original Google logo designed by Brin and the overall spare look of the Google home page.