Opposition’s spokesman on finance Mark Golding can be easily numbered among the parliamentarians who take their jobs of representing inside Gordon House very seriously.
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Opposition’s spokesman on finance Mark Golding can be easily numbered among the parliamentarians who take their jobs of representing inside Gordon House very seriously.
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BoJ modernisation should raise the finance bar in the House
CARSON (CBSLA) — A 1-year-old baby girl is alive Thursday thanks to some LA County Sheriff’s Deputies. CBS2’s Jo Kwon attended a news conference where the grateful parents expressed gratitude to the deputies for saving their daughter. Faith was home eating tortellini for the first time on Saturday night when she began to choke. “I just remember her dad waking me up. I was asleep and he told me that she was choking.” says Kiah Moten. She says she tried to remove the food from her baby’s throat. “It wasn’t coming out so I told him to call 911,” she says. LA County Sheriff’s Deputies Melvin Castro and Omar Sanchez arrived on scene. “The only thing in my mind at first was, ‘It’s not good.’” Castro says. He said Faith wasn’t breathing and she had no pulse. “I remember seeing him run down the driveway and my daughter’s body was like a rag doll,” Moten says. Paramedics had not arrived and every second counts in these situations. Castro made a split-second decision to use their patrol car to get Faith medical help. They took off from Grace Avenue. One of the deputies performed CPR while the other radioed in to clear the streets so they could run Code 3 to the hospital a mile-and-a-half away. (credit: LA County Sheriff’s Dept./Carson) Other deputies helped clear the roads so Faith could get to the ER as soon as possible. “It felt forever, but I want to say it was no more than five minutes,” said Sanchez. It’s a drive he will never forget. “It was my first time ever driving a patrol vehicle,” he says. Mom says the deputies saved her baby’s life. “I just know that if it wasn’t for them, the outcome could have been very different for us,” she says. The deputies said they were just doing their jobs and it was a bit of fate. “Luckily we were at the right place at the right time,” Sanchez says. “And she’s alive, that’s the thing that matters,” Castro says. To see the full press conference by the LA County Sheriff’s Department, click here.
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(CBS Local) – For many recent college graduates, finding a job is the next big step in life. A report on the best jobs in the country says those grads may want to find a career as a software developer or a dentist. According to U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of the 100 best jobs in America, software developers topped the list with a median salary of $100,080 and over 250,000 projected jobs available this year. Dentists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and orthodontists all finished in the top five of 2018’s list. “Health care jobs are prominent on our list year after year and are predicted to continue growing rapidly within the job market by 2026,” careers reporter Rebecca Koenig said in January . “Health care goes beyond doctors and nursing professions – there is high demand for people to fill positions available in health care technology, at hospitals and elsewhere within the industry.” Tech jobs continue their strong showing on this year’s list with information security analysts (32nd), IT managers (42nd), and computer systems analysts (46th) all making the top 100. The country’s best paying job was found to be for anesthesiologists, who have an annual median salary of $208,000. Statisticians and actuaries were found to be the best jobs for people looking for a career in business.
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Software Developers And Dentists Top List Of Best Jobs In U.S.
By Laurie Jo Miller Farr Many people are familiar with the right-brain/left-brain theory that hypothesizes that each side of the brain has a function; one side of our brain is dominant over the other in determining personality, thoughts, and behavior. Perhaps you’ve heard it said that a person who is a left-brained thinker takes a more logical, analytical, and methodical view toward life and learning. A right-brained thinker is said to be more intuitive, thoughtful, and imaginative. Does Right-Brain Orientation Exist? This left-brain and right-brain topic is an interesting theory and a popular—but unproven—one. According to Psychology Today , the dominant side theory is currently being challenged as “state-of-the-art neuroscientific research is slowly beginning to debunk many age-old neuromyths.” Connectomics and Neuroimaging Neuroimaging research suggests that we do actually use both sides of the brain to perform most activities. In the growing field of study called connectomics, neuroscientist researchers are learning that the entire brain works together, using both hemispheres “via finely coordinated communication to optimize cognitive functions and creative capacity,” as reported in Psychology Today . Picking Up STEAM What does this research mean for students? For sure, the one-room schoolhouse 20th-century mantra of the three R’s (reading, writing, arithmetic) has shifted enormously. Within the past decade, an emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) skills for the 21st century has gained enormous traction among educators and students alike. Even more recently, a movement to turn STEM into STEAM has caught on, championed by academics who point out that art and design are critical to a rounded approach that embraces problem-solving, collaboration, and creativity. Incorporating the Arts Perhaps right-brain dominance isn’t the reason why some of us prefer drawing pretty pictures to drawing conclusions from data. These preferences are as natural as a preference for chocolate or vanilla. Yet, a well-rounded curriculum across all aspects of STEAM that provides both depth and breadth is what many K-12 schools are striving for today. Importantly, the arts in STEAM is an approach, not a separate subject. The STEAM educational approach favors hands-on learning, suggesting that science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics are intertwined, that they’re hard-wired in the brain and enormously useful in life. Jobs of the Future STEAM skills are vital and emerging careers require both logical and creative thinkers. Think about a web designer who must strategize the site architecture, conceive page layouts, and code the whole thing. How can a theater group design stage sets without artists that can take a technical approach? The production of television broadcasts, games and music videos incorporates a mix of skills from several components of STEAM. Even self-employed photographers, bloggers and vloggers must have storytelling skills in addition to an ability to interpret analytics for retargeting and maximizing their audience reach. What other jobs can you think of that depend upon all five elements of STEM, including the arts?
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) –A big victory for city nurses comes as New York City has agreed to pay more than $20 million to nurses and midwives who said their work was not recognized as “physically taxing” as other city workers like plumbers, who are mostly male. They transport patients, pull equipment and face potential exposure to disease and other hazards daily. For years, the city refused to consider the job of being a nurse as tough and risky as being a bricklayer or window washer. “I think they do a lot more physical work than people expect they do,” a woman said. “All their jobs are the same, it’s important,” a man said. As a result nurses, who are mostly female, were not allowed to retire with full pensions as early as age 50–should they need to, like their male counterparts in other professions. “Equal pay for equal work has been totally ignored for years,” said registered nurse Anne Bove. Bove just retired from Bellvue after nearly 40 years. She says the physical requirements needed to care for patients in public hospitals exposes nurses to rates of injury, illness and physical strain that are among the highest of all job titles. “You got a nurse who weighs about 120 pounds, turning and positioning somebody who weighs 200 pounds and considering staffing levels (sic) that puts that back at strain,” said Bove. In July, 2008, Bove along with three of her colleagues filed a formal charge with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the City of New York discriminated against them on the basis of sex because registered nurse and midwife titles were not on the “physically taxing” list. Today, the city agreed to pay more than $20 million to nearly 2,000 working and retired nurses who would have been able to retire sooner and collect their full pensions if their jobs were actually listed as “physically taxing.” This settlement covered workers up until 2012. Since then, the city eliminated the “physically taxing” category completely. Now nobody is eligible for early retirement due to work load, except on case by case basis.
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NYC Agrees To Pay Nurses $20 Million In Gender Discrimination Settlement
MONTEBELLO (CBSLA) – An audit has determined that the Montebello Unified School District may have engaged in fraud and misappropriation of district funds. The California Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team released a report Monday in which it determined that Montebello needs to undergo a criminal investigation. In response, Superintendent Anthony J. Martinez announced Tuesday that the district would conduct further investigation and that several people would be placed on administrative leave. “The audit findings will provide this board with a road map to help strengthen our administrative and operations controls, protocols, policies and procedures,” said board President Joanna Flores in a statement. The findings were based on an extensive review by the FCMA, which was brought in under the supervision of Los Angeles county education officials in September of 2017 to conduct an audit and determine if wrongdoing had occurred. The district has long been accused of corruption and financial mismanagement. In March of 2017, the district’s financial problems prompted officials to issue layoff notices to 333 teachers and 91 other employees. These were rescinded because the district lacked a valid seniority list, which would have determined which workers lost their jobs. The district ultimately improved its budget situation by not filling vacancies and tightening spending controls. The latest review focused on the part of the district that provides education courses for adults. The audit found problems in payments to both teachers and nonteaching employees, including: One teacher averaged more than $233,000 annually during a 4-year period under review. Two others averaged more than $200,000. The Montebello drama also is playing out through lawsuits from four former employees, including two former superintendents. All four say they are whistle-blowers. One trial is in progress this week, with the superintendent and board members attending as both observers and witnesses. Late last year, the state auditor, a different entity, looked at Montebello and also found problems. That earlier review concluded that “poor fiscal oversight” had put the southeast L.A. County school system of 28,000 students “in danger of financial insolvency.’ The district serves the cities of Montebello, Bell Gardens, Commerce, Downey, Monterey Park, Pico Rivera and Rosemead. (©2018 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Wire services contributed to this report.)
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The jury begins a third day of deliberations Tuesday in the corruption retrial of former New York Senate Majority leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam . The jury ended the day Monday without reaching a verdict in federal court in Manhattan. The once-powerful Republican is accused of using the clout of his office to pressure businessmen into giving jobs to his son. Prosecutors say the jobs came with big salaries and required relatively little work, and amounted to bribes. The defense says Skelos was just trying to help his struggling son find employment. Defense lawyers say the senator never took official action for any of the businessmen. The father and son were convicted of bribery, extortion and conspiracy in 2015 but the convictions were overturned after a Supreme Court decision narrowed the definition of political corruption. (© Copyright 2018 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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Patent filing says the system would monitor “if employees are performing their jobs efficiently,” but critics say it raises many privacy concerns
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Walmart patents system to record audio of customers, employees
WASHINGTON (AP) — The proportion of American workers that quit their jobs in May reached the highest level in 17 years, a sign that more people are confident they can find a new job, likely at higher pay. Businesses also advertised fewer jobs in May than the previous month, but the tally of open positions outnumbered the ranks of the unemployed for only the second time in the past two decades, the Labor Department said Tuesday. The figures reflect a strong job market driven by optimistic employers seeking to expand their workforces. Last week’s jobs report showed that businesses hired workers at a healthy pace and the unemployment rate remained very low, at 4 percent. The percentage of workers quitting their jobs reached 2.4 percent in May, the highest level since April 2001. More quits are a sign of a strong job market because workers typically leave jobs for a new one that pays more. Workers who switch jobs see larger raises than those who stay in the same position, government data shows. There were 6.64 million available jobs in May, down 3 percent from April’s figure of 6.84 million, which was the most in the nearly two decades that records have been kept. At the same time, there were just 6 million unemployed people in May. Nick Bunker, an economist at the job-listing website Indeed, calculates that there are now just 0.91 unemployed workers for each available job, also the lowest on record. The need to compete for such a small pool of workers should force companies to raise pay in order to fill their open jobs, yet pay gains remain modest. In June, average hourly earnings rose just 2.7 percent compared with a year earlier. That remains below the roughly 4 percent annual gains that are typical of a healthy economy. Faced with more open jobs than there are unemployed workers, businesses are becoming a bit less selective in their hiring, said Josh Howarth, president of the mid-Atlantic district for staffing firm Robert Half International. “Companies are slowly but surely realizing that they have no choice but to be more flexible,” he said. If an applicant fits with a company’s culture and is highly motivated to learn, businesses are now more willing to train new hires to help them gain needed skills. For example, one Robert Half client, a manufacturing firm in New York state, wanted to hire an accountant that could use software by the German company SAP. Maureen Carrig, a Robert Half spokeswoman, said the company warned its client that it would be difficult to find that skill, especially where the company was located. The job sat open for three months until the firm relented and agreed to hire someone without SAP skills. The job was then quickly filled, Carrig said. Still, Howarth said companies are moving more slowly than they did in the last strong job market, in the late 1990s. That likely reflects a lingering caution leftover from the Great Recession, he said. “Hiring processes have become longer and more thorough” in the past two decades, with more background checks and other steps. “That’s why you see so many positions not getting filled.” (© Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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Three head coaches lost their jobs during the season, and more moves are expected this offseason. We’re keeping track of every change on the sidelines around the NBA.
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Each year, scores of volunteer doctors, nurses, educators and other professionals from around the world take time off from their jobs for weeks and months to live and work among the people in the deep rural community of Hagley Gap in St Thomas where the international charity Blue Mountain Project (BMP) has set up its base.
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