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.

Article 15 New hazard: Driving while wired

Lawmakers in a dozen (12 ) states are trying to ban drivers from using video games, computers and fax machines in cars in a new wave of driver-distraction legislation. Since January,states including Texas, New York and Arizona have considered bills that would limit the use of care electronics that go far beyond cells- phones. According to the National conference of State Legislatures. Most bills would require violators to pay fines ranging from $50.00 to $600.00. So far, only one of this year's proposals has been enacted in Tennessee. States also are trying to track how much of a threat electronic gadgets such as ipods and front-seat movie screens pose to safety. Statistics are scarce because it's difficult for police to determine whether an accident was caused by distraction in the car, but legislators say electronics clearly are grabbing drivers attention.

Article 14 Just One Williams Advances

Venus rolls on; Serena sputters
WIMBLEDON, England A hobbled Serena and a suddenly brilliant Venus took divergent paths Wednesday in their mission for a sixth Williams family Wimbledon crown. Venus crushed 2004 champion and No.2 seed Maria Sharapova. Number 7 Serena could not overcome Henin's variety and lost to the French Open champion for the second consecutive major. Hampered by her left calf and a sprained left thumb, Australian Open champ Serena committed 19 unforced errors,many off the backhand side where her grip was compromised and she often resorted to one handed slices. "Considering my circumstances, my leg and most of all, having no backhand and no shot, I think I did pretty well," Serena said

Article 13 Kids in troubled homes still better off than in foster care

Children whose families are investigated for abuse or neglect are likely to do better in life if they stay with their families that if they go into foster care, according to a pioneering study. The findings intensify a vigorous debate in child welfare: whether children are better served with their families or away from them.
Kids who stayed with their families were less likely to become juvenile delinquents or teen mothers and more likely to hold jobs as young adults, says the study by Joseph Doyle, an economics professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management who studies social policy. The size of the effects me, because all the children come from tough families," Doyle says. Foster care are more likely than other kids to drop out of school, commit crimes, abuse drugs and become teen parents. His research has shown that this holds true even when foster kids are compared with other disadvantaged youth. Doyle admits that some kids, for their own safety needs to be removed from their families, but in marginal cases of abuse more should be done to keep them together. Foster care remains a needed safety net for some kids but he agrees that it merits further study.

Article 11 Selena Williams Overcomes calf injury

WIMBLEDON, England-
Writing and howling in pain because of a left calf spasm, Serena Williams got up of the grass Monday and helped by a timely rain delay -beat Daniela Hantuchova to stay on track for the third Wimbledon crown. "I've never dealt with such pain," said Williams who collapsed with Hantuchova serving at 5-5, 30-15 in the second set. Selena faces a quarterfinal test Wednesday against top-seeded Justine Henin, a match up that has the feel of a final. During the match Williams managed to hold the serve to force a second set tiebreak after a medical timeout. But unable to put weight on her injured leg, she hobbled around the court, barely moving the balls as her sister Venus and parents looked anxiously on. "I was definitely saved by the rain,"Williams said "I couldn't move. just everything stopped. This time Mother Nature intervened.

Book Repor t 1 Overcoming Depression & Worry

But How Can I? That is a very disturbing question. Why because you are have already defeated yourself by the question.
What causes Depression? Science does not have an answer to this question, Scientists have developed a variety of methods to treat the symptoms of depression but the cause eludes them. They have discovered (1) it is universal problem, (2) all age groups are susceptible, (3) some people are more prone to depression than others, (4) the degree of depression varies, (5) no group or individuals totally immune, and (6) depression always starts with an external event. All of these observations coincide with the Biblical insight on depression but the last is by far the most significant. Depression always starts with an event. Consider how many times you hear, "I am so depressed over this, or over that, or over something else." Such statement indicate the external event of their depression. However, it is possible to be depressed and be totally unaware of the event triggering it, but you can be confident there is one.
How Does Depression Develop? Depression can develop slowly or instantly. It usually starts with a feeling of the blahs and a few days of "I don't want to do anything today." Occasionally an event will be so traumatic that you go instantly into the depths or full-blown depression Characteristic by uncontrolled weeping, nausea, and feeling of hopelessness.
How Can One Overcome Depression?
In most cases one can do about the same thing for depression that he can for the common cold. Treat The Symptoms . Which is not to be taken lightly. God's solution to depression is based on response. The way in which we respond to a event can either lift you countenance up or let your countenance fall to depression. Everyone that lives travels many side roads of disappointment. Some are large, some small; but all are capable of detouring you onto the Road of Depression if not handled God's Way. Disappointments arise from many different sources:job situations, longed for goals, financial desires, and the most common people in itself. A disappointment is really nothing more than an unfulfilled expectation and all such side roads should be required to have a sign posted that reads, "Watch Out For Falling Expectations." consider the things we become depressed over which nothing more than expectations that did not come true. The house you wanted, the promotion you worked so hard for, and someone else gets the position. When our dreams shatter we often turn aside into the lane of disappointment. Paul used this token a great deal during his life and it protected him from the road of depression. One example is 2 Timothy 1:15-18. He faced desertion. Then he expresses his gratitude to Onesiphous who had helped him so much. Paul could have chosen this road in either situation and made it sound quite justifiable. Telling , boasting about what he did for the people of Asia. If he had chosen to respond that way he would be headed full speed into depression. . The Exit of Depression is a quick trip on the Road of Depression. And if it doesn't lead to depression it usually leads to sin.