Delaware Stadium is the place to be for the best in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision action.
9:26 a.m., Aug. 25, 2008-- For the third time in the last four seasons, the University of Delaware has established a new school record for total season tickets sales for football.
As of last week, a total of 11,225 season ticket packages have been sold for the 2008 season. That total breaks the record of 11,160 set during the 2006 season. The 2006 mark broke the previous record of 11,133 set in 2005.
Delaware, will open its six-game home schedule Sept. 13 when the Blue Hens host longtime rival West Chester at 6 p.m. at Delaware Stadium. The top 10 Blue Hens will open the 2008 season Saturday, Aug. 30, at the University of Maryland.
In addition to season ticket packages that are still on sale, great single game seats at Delaware Stadium are still available. East and West grandstand tickets are $22 each with North End Zone adult tickets available for $17 and North End Zone youth tickets on sale for $9 each. Patrons must purchase one youth ticket for every two adult tickets in the North End Zone.
Individual game tickets can be purchased in person during the summer at the Bob Carpenter Center Ticket Office weekdays from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Tickets can be purchased by phone by calling 1-800-695-HENS (Kent and Sussex counties), 302-UD1-HENS (New Castle County), and 302-UD1-4509 (TDD) or online at [www.udel.edu/sportsinfo].
Season ticket packages are priced at $120 for East and West grandstands and discounts are available for recent alumni (1999-2008) for sections F & I only ($106 each/limit two) and for UD faculty and staff ($106 each).
The popular Family Four Pack is once again available for families with children ages 17 and under in the North End Zone and are priced at $180 for a family of two adults and two children. In addition, group ticket discounts are available for purchases of 20 or more.
Season tickets can be purchased in person at the UD Athletics Season Tickets and Group Sales Office located in the Delaware Field House weekdays from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Tickets can also be purchased by phone by calling (302) 831-2257.
The Blue Hens, who went 11-4 last season and advanced to the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision national championship game last December for Head Coach K.C. Keeler, return 44 letter winners and 14 starters, including five All-Americans, this season.
Delaware ranked fourth in the nation in average home attendance during the 2007 season with an average of 21,510. Delaware is the only school in the nation at the NCAA Division I FCS level to average 20,000 or more fans during the regular season each of the last nine seasons.
For more information on UD athletics, see [www.udel.edu/sportsinfo].
>>could be
blackberry
's attempt to come back with two new smartphones. we'll talk to that company's ceo but first, stephanie has more on the newest challenger to the
iphone
.
>>good morning. smartphone technology has moved so fast the last decade, seems there is a must have every couple of months.
blackberry
has struggled to keep up and now their business depends on this phone. one journalist calls it their
hail mary pass
.
research in motion
has a new pho phone, one they probably should have had from the beginning.
blackberry
.
>>it is
blackberry
, and they had a bad reptution the last few years.
>> reporter: it dropped from 20% in 21 to only 4.6% in
2012
. the technological eternity has passed since its launch. notice
matt lauer
innocent wonder in
2000
.
>>you love this thing called the
blackberry
?
>>i love it. this has replaced my laptop. it's essentially an e-mail pager.
>>it didn't take long for sales to take off, the
blackberry
became the crackberry and then came the
iphone
and samsung's whole line of smartphones.
president obama
with a
blackberry
is more an exception. his daughters and their iphones are now the rule. for many holdouts, the attraction of the old
blackberry
was the keypad. they have been reluctant to give it up for touchscreens. in nbc news, this are plenty of holdouts. this is the nerve center of "nightly news." a
blackberry
there. one puns with an
iphone
in the corner. the anchor and managing editor, he uses both.
>>i would like to, like the reese's
peanut butter
commercial, combine these two devices.
>> reporter: turns out using both isn't uncommon.
>>i use both of them interchangeably. sometimes a matter of which one i can find in my purse.
>> reporter: nbc luck russert found a lot of dual users on
capitol hill
.
>> reporter: how long have you had your
blackberry
?
>>probably 10 years an
iphone
about five.
>> reporter: why do you hold on to both of them?
>>the
iphone
personal and
blackberry
for work because the
iphone
can't handle a high volume of e-mail when it's time sensitive.
>> reporter: blackberry
says it has the solution, the same reliable
work force
but now cool enough to hang with the competition.
>>blackberry
has two new versions of the phone, one with touchscreen and one with a keypad. the touchscreen will learn how you type to make it more accurate. for those that need the buttons or as
brian williams
, the peanut buttercup of phones is a
blackberry
with keyboard, too.
>>thanks. the guy who has a lot riding on this is torsten hineins, the ceo of
blackberry
. good to have you here.
>>the critics that have look at this device really like it, think you have real innovations. the bad news is they say things like
hail mary pass
, this is a long shot. is this a do or die moment for the company?
>>it is a very important milestone for the company. what we did was not just develop new devices, but have a new
computing platform
. we're looking more into the future than just the next devices. this is
personal computing
power.
>>we have the devices here. i want you to show the future in a second. but i have to take you back. there was a time if you had a
blackberry
and cup of coffee at starbuc starbucks, you were cool. what went wrong? have you stopped to analyze what went wrong?
>>it wasn't what went wrong, we had success and what happened was we were too static in our recipe we used to build blackberries. we have changed that with
blackberry
10.
>>let's look at this device. one of the big innovations is what you call "the hub." can you explain that?
>>that's easy and fantastic. the hub is just a collection of all your inflow, all your communications channels, all your
social network
, notifications. the good thing about it, if i want to respond to a
facebook
twitter or link message, i can do it outside the hub without opening any applications.
>>like a
split screen
?
>>not a
split screen
, just a great unified in-box, if i want to respond to
facebook
message, i hit it and respond and don't have to open the
facebook
application. you take immediate action without leaving the hub.
>>another cool feature, typing an e-mail. it thinks ahead, if you type in ll okay, it immediately gives you a choice in the bottom of the screen, looking and you can thumb it right up and like others do, it gives you other words you might want to use to complete a sentence. in other words, it's doing the writing for you in some ways.
>>we call this writing without typing. i read the review yesterday that said this is mind-boggling or even kind of freaky. yeah. the device learns you, learns your personality, learns how you spell, build grammar. i'm a german and knows i'm german english and good for me, too. a fantastic feature. after one week it knows you.
>>let's talk about the camera, very important, as somebody who blinks in a lot of photos explain how this new camera could potentially eradicate that.
>>ever tried to take a picture of three kids
eyes open
and napping? we have a great technology we
call time
shift that allows you to set the scene correctly over three seconds and then you can edit the faces and really create the picture you want.
>>get the best face on all three kids at the very same time using the original photo?
>>absolutely.
>>alishia keys, your creative directors admitted she actually broke up with the
blackberry
for a while because it didn't have enough bling. do these things, mr. heins, have enough bling to get people back from their iphones and droids.
>>absolutely. we have alecia back. and we changed the
user interface
, easy to use, just flowing. you don't have to go in and out of applications anymore, does what you want it to do.
>>very quickly, the keyboard, for many
blackberry
devotees, this is the redeeming quality, why we hold on to our
blackberry
keyboard. will you keep that option for the future?
>>absolutely. absolutely. we have so many diehard keyboard lovers for
blackberry
, we won't let that go.
>>talk about a throwback. this is the one i use to call in
air support
.
air travel
on hill 4. all right, mr. heins, good luck to you and the newly named
blackberry
company. nice to have you here.
Apple announced Tuesday it is adding a higher-capacity 128GB fourth-generation iPad to its tablet lineup as an attractive option for schools and businesses.
Jan. 30, 2013 ? Scientists have found an early step in how the brain's inhibitory cells get excited. A natural balance of excitement and inhibition keeps the brain from firing electrical impulses randomly and excessively, resulting in problems such as schizophrenia and seizures. However excitement is required to put on the brakes.
"When the inhibitory neuron is excited, its job is to suppress whatever activity it touches," said Dr. Lin Mei, Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University and corresponding author of the study in Nature Neuroscience.
Mei and his colleagues found that the protein erbin, crucial to brain development, is critical to the excitement.
It was known that a protein on the cell surface called TARP gamma-2, also known as stargazing, interacts with a brain cell receptor called AMPA, ensuring the receptor finds the cells surface. It is here that the receptor can be activated by the neurotransmitter glutamate. AMPA receptor activation is essential to activation of the NMDA receptor, which enables cells to communicate, ultimately enabling learning and memory, Mei said. How TARP gamma-2 was controlled, was an unknown.
Inside the nucleus of inhibitory cells in areas of the brain that control learning and memory, the researchers found erbin interacts with TARP gamma-2, enabling it to survive. "If you do not have this mechanism, your stargazing becomes very unstable and your AMPA receptor cannot be on the surface so this neuron is inactive," Mei said. They also found that erbin is only in these inhibitory neurons, called interneurons. They're already working on what they believe to be the counterpart for excitatory cells, which account for about 80 percent of brain cells.
"Interneurons basically control firing," releasing GABA, a major inhibitory neurotransmitter, Mei said. They tone down or synchronize the activity of pyramidal cells, pyramid-shaped neurons that get both excitatory and inhibitory input then make the call on what action to take.
When scientists ablated the erbin gene in mice or kept erbin from interacting with TARP gamma-2, a protein that helps anchor the AMPA receptor on the cell surface, TARP gamma-2 couldn't do its job. The result was less receptors on the cell surface and mice that were hyperactive with impaired learning and memory.
Cell activity hinges on receptor activity and receptors must be anchored on the cell surface to work. Ensuring AMPA receptors are strategically placed is a lifelong task since the busy receptors wear out and each brain cell has tons of them, Mei said.
He and his colleagues reported in the journal, Neuron, in 2007, two genes -- neuregulin-1 and its receptor ErbB4 -- that help maintain a healthy balance of excitement and inhibition by releasing GABA at the sight of inhibitory synapses, the communication paths between neurons. Years before, they showed the genes were also at excitatory synapses, where they also could quash activation. Both genes are involved in human development and implicated in schizophrenia and cancer.
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Kelly Sassi, assistant professor in the School of Education and English department, and Amy Carpenter Ford, an assistant professor from Central Michigan University, co-wrote the article, "Authority in Cross-Racial Teaching and Learning: (Re)considering the Transferability of Warm Demander Approaches."?
The article compares a white teacher's approach to authority with that of an African American "warm demander," a style of teaching that includes assertive discipline, caring relationships and congruent interactional styles.?
Ethnographic methods and discourse analysis illuminated how an African American teacher grounded her authority with African American students in shared culture, history and frame of reference. A comparative analysis makes visible what white teachers need to do differently to establish cross-racial authority with African American students, such as prioritize interpersonal relationships, communicate in culturally congruent ways, link care with justice, develop a critical race consciousness, ally with students and critique curriculum.?
The article offers a reconceptualization of the warm demander relevant for white teachers. It was published in Urban Education in December.?
Sassi also published a book review of "Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life," which was published in the winter 2012 issue of Tribal College Journal.?
The author of the book, Diane Wilson, explores the meaning of the Dakota "hunka," or beloved child ceremony, as a counterpoint to historical trauma. One of the stories in the book is that of Clifford Canku, NDSU professor of practice. The book was published in 2011 by Borealis Books.?
Superstorm Sandy pushed the Atlantic Ocean right over New York's barrier islands like a daylong tsunami. Communities along Long Island were devastated but are rebuilding. But scientists say there are more Sandy's in the future. A team of oceanographers is now trying to understand what Sandy did to the natural barriers. Their findings could determine whether billions of dollars to rebuild is well-spent or wasted.
NEW YORK (AP) ? The Fuse television network has turned to news veteran Rick Kaplan, who has run CNN and MSNBC and produced programs like "Nightline," to develop a music news program aimed largely at people some 40 years younger than him.
"Fuse News" is set to debut Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. Eastern time with pre-Grammy Awards coverage. The half-hour show, originating from Fuse's studios across from Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, will be repeated at midnight.
"A lot of people are covering music in different ways," said Mike Bair, president of MSG Media, Fuse's corporate ownership. "But not a lot of people are covering it deeper and in a respectful way. We thought there was a real opportunity for us."
Fuse, available in some 70 million homes, is overshadowed by MTV, but unlike its competitor has kept its focus on music and is looking for a signature show.
Kaplan, 65, walked through a busy newsroom with TVs tuned to a Fuse countdown of sexy rap videos one recent afternoon. The 47-time Emmy winner had most recently produced Katie Couric's "CBS Evening News" and Christiane Amanpour's stint on ABC's Sunday morning and has formed his own consulting company.
Bair reached out to Kaplan through a mutual friend to gauge interest, and the idea intrigued Kaplan.
"While he's not in the target audience for Fuse (the network's median age is around 27), I think he also saw the opportunity," Bair said.
A whiteboard in Fuse's office already lists story plans for the first month. The collapse of the traditional music industry has made for many changes ripe for examining.
One future story will talk about bands scalping tickets to their own concerts, another about the sound quality issues behind the resurgence of vinyl. If "Fuse News" was on the air last week, it wouldn't treat the story about Beyonce lip-synching at the inauguration as a joke, but rather look into how widespread the practice is, Kaplan said.
"I want it to be a place where if you're involved in the industry in any way ? and that means anybody with a headset ? this will be the place where you will want to go," Kaplan said.
Kaplan's tastes run to the Eagles, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Now he's learning about electronic dance music, and even liking some of it. Liz Walaszczyk, a 28-year-old producer and contributing correspondent on "Fuse News," is gently introducing her boss to bands like the Xx.
And he's introducing her to the news.
Walaszczyk, who booked bands for Carson Daly's NBC show before joining Fuse, said that she finds blogs like Pitchfork and Stereogum helpful but that there's a void in serious music journalism. Kaplan is teaching her the importance of detail in every question asked and picture selected for her stories.
"I hear his voice and I think, 'This man has spoken to so many legends,'" she said.
Co-anchors for the show are Alexa Chung and Matte Babel. Former Gawker writer Elaine Moran and Jack Osbourne are contributing correspondents.
Yes, the news producer who once worked with Walter Cronkite is telling Ozzy's kid what to do.
Kaplan brushed aside a question about whether some people in the television news business might consider his current gig a comedown.
"Oh, God no," he said. "By no means. People who say that don't get it. It's a great privilege to be asked to do this program. It's the only serious program in this (music) industry. It's a serious attempt to report on music in a credible way."
He said he's having a blast.
"In many ways, what Fuse is attempting to do with this show is more cutting edge than what any of the networks are doing," he said. "We're not starting a magazine show. We're not tinkering with the evening news."
The show will also have studio guests and music performances. Kaplan has hired Audrey Gruber, a former CBS News and CNN producer, to eventually take over for him when the show is up and running.
President Barack Obama accepts a signed basketball from Miami Heat forward LeBron James as he welcomes the the NBA basketball champion Miami Heat, to the East Room of the White House, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama accepts a signed basketball from Miami Heat forward LeBron James as he welcomes the the NBA basketball champion Miami Heat, to the East Room of the White House, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama stands with LeBron James, fifth from left, Dwayne Wade, third left, and coach Erik Spoelstra, right, as he honors the NBA champions Miami Heat basketball team in the East Room at the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama honored the Miami Heat for winning the 2012 NBA Championship title after falling short just a year before.
"Everybody doing their part, is what finally put the Heat over the top," Obama said, as he welcomed the team to the White House Monday to celebrate their victory.
The Heat defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games in the NBA Finals last June.
The president also recognized the franchise's work off the court. He thanked them for supporting military service members at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Obama said one of the things he's proudest of is that many of the team members? including LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade? "take their roles as fathers seriously."
"For all the young men out there who are looking up to them all the time, for them to see somebody who cares about their kids and is there for them day in and day out, that's a good message to send," Obama said.
Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said the team hopefully will serve as an inspiration to the nation of what can be done "when you come together and sacrifice your egos for a greater goal" and "hard-hat work ethic."
James, who presented Obama with an autographed basketball, said the team including members that hail from Illinois, Texas, Michigan, Ohio and South Dakota were honored to be in the executive mansion.
"We're in the White House right now, which is like, like 'mama I made it,'" James said, as the audience laughed and cheered.
The crowd of well-wishers included actress Gabrielle Union, U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Congresswomen Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Frederica Wilson. The Heat last visited the White House after winning the 2006 title.
Jan. 27, 2013 ? Scientists at ASU are celebrating their recent success on the path to understanding what makes the fiber that spiders spin -- weight for weight -- at least five times as strong as piano wire. They have found a way to obtain a wide variety of elastic properties of the silk of several intact spiders' webs using a sophisticated but non-invasive laser light scattering technique.
"Spider silk has a unique combination of mechanical strength and elasticity that make it one of the toughest materials we know," said Professor Jeffery Yarger of ASU's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and lead researcher of the study. "This work represents the most complete understanding we have of the underlying mechanical properties of spider silks."
Spider silk is an exceptional biological polymer, related to collagen (the stuff of skin and bones) but much more complex in its structure. The ASU team of chemists is studying its molecular structure in an effort to produce materials ranging from bulletproof vests to artificial tendons.
The extensive array of elastic and mechanical properties of spider silks in situ, obtained by the ASU team, is the first of its kind and will greatly facilitate future modeling efforts aimed at understanding the interplay of the mechanical properties and the molecular structure of silk used to produce spider webs.
The team published their results in a recent issue of Nature materials and their paper is titled "Non-invasive determination of the complete elastic moduli of spider silks."
"This information should help provide a blueprint for structural engineering of an abundant array of bio-inspired materials, such as precise materials engineering of synthetic fibers to create stronger, stretchier, and more elastic materials," explained Yarger.
Other members of Yarger's team, in ASU's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, included Kristie Koski, at the time a postdoctoral researcher and currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, and ASU undergraduate students Paul Akhenblit and Keri McKiernan.
The Brillouin light scattering technique used an extremely low power laser, less than 3.5 milliwatts, which is significantly less than the average laser pointer. Recording what happened to this laser beam as it passed through the intact spider webs enabled the researchers to spatially map the elastic stiffnesses of each web without deforming or disrupting it. This non-invasive, non-contact measurement produced findings showing variations among discrete fibers, junctions and glue spots.
Four different types of spider's webs were studied. They included Nephila clavipes (pictured), A. aurantia ("gilded silver face"-common to the contiguous United States), L. Hesperus the western black widow and P. viridans the green lynx spider, the only spider included that does not build a web for catching prey but has major silk elastic properties similar to those of the other species studied.
The group also investigated one of the most studied aspects of orb-weaving dragline spider silk, namely supercontraction, a property unique to silk. Spider silk takes up water when exposed to high humidity. Absorbed water leads to shrinkage in an unrestrained fiber up to 50 percent shrinkage with 100 percent humidity in N. clavipes silk.
Their results are consistent with the hypothesis that supercontraction helps the spider tailor the properties of the silk during spinning. This type of behavior, specifically adjusting mechanical properties by simply adjusting water content, is inspirational from a bio-inspired mechanical structure perspective.
"This study is unique in that we can extract all the elastic properties of spider silk that cannot and have not been measured with conventional testing," concluded Yarger.
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Miley Cyrus is white-hot on the cover of Cosmopolitian. For the magazine's March issue, the 20-year-old singer rocks a white blazer with nothing underneath (except some serious cleavage). The message is unmistakeable: Miley is all grown up. But do her words match her sophisticated photo? Here are five things that we learned from Miley's Cosmo interview.
Today I saw jOBS at Sundance, the story of a young Steve Jobs, the now legendary co-founder and CEO of Apple Computer. And although I know it may be exaggerated, it was the experience I wanted. More »
ADVANCE FOR RELEASE UNTIL 12:01 a.m. EST,WEDNESDAY, JAN, 23, 2013. THIS PHOTO MAY NOT BE POSTED ONLINE, BROADCAST OR PUBLISHED BEFORE 12:01 a.m. WEDNESDAY, JAN, 23, 2013- FILE - In this Wednesday, June, 15, 2011, file photo, job seekers wait in a line at a job fair in Southfield, Mich. In the United States, half of the 7.5 million jobs lost during the Great Recession were paid middle-class wages, ranging from $37,000 to $68,000. But only 2 percent of the 3.4 million jobs gained since the recession are mid-pay. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Labor ? Because of advances, positions lost during Great Recession not likely coming back.
Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear. Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.
And the situation is even worse than it appears.
?
From Utah, a dissenting voice
Jobs in the state probably are being lost to technology, ?but that always happens,? and it isn?t a bad thing, said Mark Knold, chief economist at the Utah Department of Workforce Services and an adherent of the process of ?creative destruction,? a concept coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter.
Schumpeter, who died in 1950, believed free markets are constantly renewed and energized by the process of tearing down old economic structures and creating new ones. That natural mutation of the economy is both inevitable and good, Knold said.
?There was a blue ribbon panel commissioned by [former President] Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to address fears that machines and technology were going to replace workers, and we have added millions workers since then,? Knold said.
?What was hard for them to see is that those innovations did replace workers in certain areas, but they also spurred innovation and productivity to the point where it created so many jobs in other areas. [Technology] wasn?t a job destroyer. It was a job creator.?
The number of jobs in the U.S. has almost tripled since the mid-1960s, to more than 143 million. Knold said that increasing the newer jobs have become more sophisticated, ?higher quality? and have commanded better pay. That shift is requiring more of workers in the U.S. and Utah labor forces, which stand at 155.5 million and 1.4 million, respectively.
?In our father?s day, [young people] could come out of high school and get a good-paying, sweat-of-the-brow job at Kennecott or Geneva Steel,? Knold said. No longer, he added, because ?good jobs now need education, [and] I would say that the shift toward more education in the job market is accelerating, not decelerating.?
Knold said Utah took part in a worldwide technological revolution in the years leading up to the start of the Great Recession in 2007. Rather than throw people out of work, the economy before the downturn generated thousands of jobs and drove the unemployment rate under 2.5 percent for awhile.
?And then we had a bad recession. But this recession was not the result of technology or any bad spinoff of technology advancements. This recession is the result of bad government policies and mismanagement of the financial sector,? he said.
Knold doesn?t see much evidence that Utah employers are replacing better-paying jobs with lower-paying ones. On one hand, there are fewer retail, construction and manufacturing jobs today than before the recession started. On the other, sectors such as professional and business services, health care, education and government ? all of which ostensibly pay workers well ? are more numerous.
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Most of the jobs will never return, and millions more are likely to vanish, say experts who study the labor market. What?s more, these jobs aren?t just being lost to China and other developing countries, and they aren?t just factory work. Increasingly, jobs are disappearing in the service sector, home to two-thirds of all workers.
They?re being obliterated by technology.
Year after year, the software that runs computers and an array of other machines and devices becomes more sophisticated and powerful and capable of doing more efficiently tasks that humans have always done. For decades, science fiction warned of a future when we would be architects of our own obsolescence, replaced by our machines; an Associated Press analysis finds that the future has arrived.
Not many get a pass ? "The jobs that are going away aren?t coming back," said Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-author of Race Against the Machine. ??I have never seen a period where computers demonstrated as many skills and abilities as they have over the past seven years."
The global economy is being reshaped by machines that generate and analyze vast amounts of data; by devices such as smartphones and tablet computers that let people work just about anywhere, even when they?re on the move; by smarter, nimbler robots; and by services that let businesses rent computing power when they need it, instead of installing expensive equipment and hiring IT staffs to run it. Whole employment categories, from secretaries to travel agents, are starting to disappear.
"There?s no sector of the economy that?s going to get a pass," said Martin Ford, who runs a software company and wrote The Lights in the Tunnel, a book predicting widespread job losses. "It?s everywhere."
The numbers startle even labor economists. In the United States, half the 7.5 million jobs lost during the Great Recession were in industries that pay middle-class wages, ranging from $38,000 to $68,000. But only 2 percent of the 3.5 million jobs gained since the recession ended in June 2009 are in midpay industries. Nearly 70 percent are in low-pay industries, 29 percent in industries that pay well.
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In the 17 European countries that use the euro as their currency, the numbers are even worse. Almost 4.3 million low-pay jobs have been gained since mid-2009, but the loss of midpay jobs has never stopped. A total of 7.6 million disappeared from January 2008 through last June.
Experts warn that this "hollowing out" of the middle-class workforce is far from over. They predict the loss of millions more jobs as technology becomes even more sophisticated and reaches deeper into our lives. Maarten Goos, an economist at the University of Leuven in Belgium, says Europe could double its middle-class job losses.
Some occupations are beneficiaries of the march of technology, such as software engineers and app designers for smartphones and tablet computers. Overall, though, technology is eliminating far more jobs than it is creating.
Technology?s march ? To understand the impact technology is having on middle-class jobs in developed countries, the AP analyzed employment data from 20 countries; tracked changes in hiring by industry, pay and task; compared job losses and gains during recessions and expansions over the past four decades; and interviewed economists, technology experts, robot manufacturers, software developers, entrepreneurs and people in the labor force who ranged from CEOs to the unemployed.
The AP?s key findings:
? For more than three decades, technology has reduced the number of jobs in manufacturing. Robots and other machines controlled by computer programs work faster and make fewer mistakes than humans. Now, that same efficiency is being unleashed in the service economy, which employs more than two-thirds of the workforce in developed countries. Technology is eliminating jobs in office buildings, retail establishments and other businesses consumers deal with every day.
? Technology is being adopted by every kind of organization that employs people. It?s replacing workers in large corporations and small businesses, established companies and startups. It?s being used by schools, colleges and universities; hospitals and other medical facilities; nonprofit organizations and the military.
? The most vulnerable workers are doing repetitive tasks that programmers can write software for ? an accountant checking a list of numbers, an office manager filing forms, a paralegal reviewing documents for key words to help in a case. As software becomes even more sophisticated, victims are expected to include those who juggle tasks, such as supervisors and managers ? workers who thought they were protected by a college degree.
? Thanks to technology, companies in the Standard & Poor?s 500 stock index reported one-third more profit the past year than they earned the year before the Great Recession. They?ve also expanded their businesses, but total employment, at 21.1 million, has declined by a half-million.
? Startups account for much of the job growth in developed economies, but software is allowing entrepreneurs to launch businesses with a third fewer employees than in the 1990s. There is less need for administrative support and back-office jobs that handle accounting, payroll and benefits.
A jobless recovery ? Some analysts reject the idea that technology has been a big job killer. They note that the collapse of the housing market in the U.S., Ireland, Spain and other countries and the ensuing global recession wiped out millions of middle-class construction and factory jobs. In their view, governments could bring many of the jobs back if they would put aside worries about their heavy debts and spend more. Others note that jobs continue to be lost to China, India and other countries in the developing world.
But to the extent technology has played a role, it raises the specter of high unemployment even after economic growth accelerates. Some economists say millions of middle-class workers must be retrained to do other jobs if they hope to get work again. Others are more hopeful. They note that technological change over the centuries eventually has created more jobs than it destroyed, although the wait can be long and painful.
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Led by growth in its Consumer and Office, and Display and Graphics businesses, 3M on Thursday reported fourth-quarter earnings of $1.41 per share, an increase of 4.4 percent over the fourth quarter of 2011.
Operating income for the company, which has its largest North American manufacturing plant in Hutchinson, was $1.4 billion and operating income margins for the quarter were 19.5 percent.
Net income for the fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 31, was $1 billion and free cash flow was $1.2 billion.
The ?fourth quarter was a good finish to a successful year for 3M,? said Inge G. Thulin, 3M chairman, president and chief executive officer. ?Our people executed well in the face of challenging macroeconomic conditions and we have built good momentum to innovate and move forward in 2013.?
Sales rose 4.2 percent year-on-year to $7.4 billion, an all-time fourth-quarter record. Organic local-currency sales grew 4.3 percent, acquisitions added 0.9 percent to sales and currency impacts reduced sales by 1.0 percent year-on-year.
Organic local-currency sales growth was 8.7 percent in Consumer and Office, 8.3 percent in Display and Graphics, 5.9 percent in Health Care, 3.9 percent in Industrial and Transportation and 1.8 percent in Electro and Communications; Safety, Security and Protection Services declined 1.7 percent year-on-year. On a geographic basis, organic local-currency sales grew 9.7 percent in Latin America/Canada, 5.8 percent in Asia Pacific, 5.2 percent in the U.S. and declined 1.0 percent in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).
For the full year 2012, 3M posted record sales of $29.9 billion, up 1.0 percent year-on-year. Organic local-currency sales grew 2.6 percent and acquisitions added 0.8 percent to sales. Foreign currency translation reduced sales by 2.4 percent year-on-year.
Four of the company?s six business segments posted full-year organic local-currency growth, led by Health Care at 4.7 percent and Industrial and Transportation at 4.5 percent. Latin America/Canada was the fastest-growing geographic region in 2012 at 10.9 percent followed by the U.S. at 4.2 percent.
Full-year 2012 earnings were $6.32 per share, an increase of 6.0 percent. Operating margins were 21.7 percent and return on invested capital was 20 percent.
BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer service that many associate primarily with piracy, has unveiled Sync, a file backup and syncing service that has some similarities to Dropbox and other cloud storage apps. But it has an eye towards power users and privacy.
Cloud storage services take files you want backed up and store them securely on a server somewhere, from which they can be accessed with your other devices or copied automatically. There are a number of free ones, like Dropbox, SugarSync, and SkyDrive.
BitTorrent Sync is a little different. Instead of sending your file to a distant server, it simply makes it available via the BitTorrent network to any devices or computers you've authorized.
Got a big home movie file, too big for your 2-gigabyte cloud storage? Put it in Sync and it's sent via BitTorrent to any devices you've set up to stay synchronized, like the computer at your parents' house, or your smartphone.
Other services offer similar capabilities, but Sync will be totally free and totally independent of companies and other servers ? no middle men means better privacy and no bandwidth or cost worries.
BitTorrent may be associated with piracy, but it's still just a protocol for sending things over the Internet, so you shouldn't have to worry about whether all that BitTorrent traffic will raise an eyebrow at your ISP.
Sync isn't available for use yet, but is being tested for release. You can try to become a tester for early access by signing up here, but it should get a real release in the next couple months.
Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBCNews Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Abortion opponents plan to march in Washington in a demonstration that coincides with the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that created a constitutional, nationwide right to abortion.
Thousands are expected for the noon Friday rally at the National Mall and in front of the Supreme Court.
Organizers say the event will feature former Republican presidential candidateRick Santorum. Reps. Chris Smith of New Jersey and Diane Black of Tennessee are also scheduled speakers.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion. Earlier this week, opponents marked the anniversary with workshops, prayers and calls for more limits on abortion rights.
Long Island Education Board?: Updated Q & A: NY Real Estate Continuing Education & License Requirements
Updated Q & A: NY Real Estate Continuing Education & License Requirements
Does?Lieb School?report my completed credits to the?Department of State (DOS)? Am I responsible for sending my course certificates to the DOS???Credits?received from Lieb School count towards the 22.5 required from the?DOS?for license renewal. Certificates provided at each class serve as proof of credit hours (think of them as a receipt). After each class, Lieb School submits to the Department of State, Bureau of Educational Standards, all licensee information for successful completion of each course. ?Upon?license?renewal, the DOS will require the original signed certificates if you are selected for an audit. Make sure that you keep your certificates in a safe place.?In the event of an audit, the?DOS?will cross reference the certificates with the student completion records received by each school.? ?You are responsible for completing all 22.5 credits by your?license?renewal?deadline date.?How do I renew my New York State Real Estate License??License renewals must be completed online through the Department of State?eACCESSny?website.? ?Please note that the renewal process requires licensees to validate education completion by answering ?Yes? to the Continuing Education question that confirms all CE requirements have been satisfied. ?If you mistakenly answer ?No?, the DOS will not renew your license until they see all original course completion certificates.? You also have to hold onto the original course completion certificates in the event of a license audit by the DOS. ?If I did not complete my continuing education requirements before my license expiration date can I get an extension? ?Please refer to ?177.6 in the?Real Estate?License?Law. The Department of State will only grant extensions in bona fide hardship cases. ?Prior to your?license?expiration: you must?submit?to the Department of State, a written request for the extension, completed?renewal?form, fee, and original documentation demonstrating your hardship;?i.e., medical documentation. ??more questions answered...Who regulates my New York State Real Estate License???Your license is regulated by the Department of State, New York?(DOS)?and NOT by any real estate school or trade organization. What are the Continuing Education requirements for real estate agents in NY??Every 2 years, licensed real estate brokers and salespersons in the State of New York are required to take 22.5 continuing education credits. The ONLY mandatory class requirement is at least 3 hours of instruction pertaining to?fair housing?and/or?discrimination?in the sale or rental of real property or an interest of real property, within the 2 - year period immediately preceding a renewal.Are there any exemptions for Continuing Education requirements for real estate agents in New York??Licensed real estate brokers who are engaged full time in the real estate business and who have been licensed for at least 15 consecutive years immediately preceding license renewal. This exemption must have been met prior to July 1, 2008.? An attorney admitted to the New York State bar is also exempt from the Continuing Education Requirement.Am I required to take a course in Fair Housing if my real estate license is grandfathered??A NYS real estate agent does not need to take a course in Fair Housing if they are generally exempt by way of the "grandfather" factor.? Please refer the agent to Real Property Law section 441(3)(a) where it expresses the requirement for real estate agents to take 3 hours in a fair housing and/or discrimination course within a license renewal cycle. The link for the license law where this is discussed is as follows:?http://www.dos.ny.gov/licensing/lawbooks/RE-Law.pdf.?While reviewing the license law, please refer your attention to the last sentence of this requirement wherein it states: "The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any licensed real estate broker who is engaged full time in the real estate business and who has been licensed under this article prior to July 1, 2008 for at least 15 consecutive years immediately proceeding such renewal". This is the "grandfather" factor.?In general, the only exception to the "grandfather" factor exemption is for NAR's mandatory quadrennial ethics requirement for members of the?National Association of REALTORS?. This has nothing to do with licensing or the Department of State, New York.?If I already completed a?continuing education class, can I take the same topic again for credit with a different school in NY within the same license renewal cycle??Real estate continuing education courses are assigned independent approval codes by the Bureau of Educational Standards, Department of State, State of New York.? Licensed real estate agents may take multiple courses in the same topic within each "two year cycle of renewal" as long as each course has an independent approval code. Approval codes are assigned for each approved course,?not school and not course topic.??It is advised that you always check your records of previously completed approval codes prior to registration for new courses within your cycle of renewal.?If I already received credit for taking a?continuing education course, can I get credit for taking the same exact course in a different license renewal cycle? ?Yes. While New York State Real Estate License Law, 19 NYCRR 177.18(c), states: "No continuing education course will be considered for continuing education credit more than once within the two year cycle of renewal", there is no specific regulation precluding taking the same continuing education course anew in a subsequent and different license renewal cycle.Do I have to take an Ethics course to renew my license???Ethics training is not a required course for a Real Estate Broker or Salesperson to maintain their license in full force and effect with the Department of State, New York. Ethics courses may be required by your local Board (trade organization), but are not required to maintain your license with the Department of State of New York.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. with Secretary of Defense-nominee and former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., speaks to journalists following their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. with Secretary of Defense-nominee and former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., speaks to journalists following their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, and Secretary of Defense-nominee and former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., left, listen to reporters' question following their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., with Secretary of Defense-nominee and former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., speaks to journalists following their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Democratic support for Chuck Hagel's nomination for defense secretary grew on Thursday as the former Republican senator allayed concerns about his past statements on Israel and Iran.
Sens. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Chris Coons of Delaware and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire said they met with Hagel this week and were reassured by his commitment to Israel's security.
Hagel would replace Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who is stepping down. Despite early misgivings, about a dozen Democrats have announced they would vote for his nomination, and none has declared opposition to President Barack Obama's choice.
Six Republicans have said they would vote against Hagel, with some stating their opposition before Obama announced his pick on Jan. 7.
"Senator Hagel clarified his position on Iran sanctions and Israel, and I am confident he is firmly committed to ensuring a strong U.S.-Israel relationship," Lautenberg said, adding that he and his colleagues will be watching closely "to ensure that issues of concern do not emerge as he takes on this critical position."
Separately, 13 former secretaries of defense and state as well as national security advisers sent a letter to members of the Senate strongly endorsing Hagel. Among them was former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who has worked for Republican and Democratic administrations, and George Schultz and Brent Scowcroft, veterans of GOP administrations.
"For those of us honored to have served as members of a president's national security team, Sen. Hagel clearly understands the essence and the burdens of leadership required of this high office," the former officials wrote.
Hagel, who served two terms as Nebraska senator, has faced opposition from GOP-leaning outside groups over his past statements about the power of the "Jewish lobby" of pro-Israel groups and his doubts about the effectiveness of unilateral sanctions on Iran.
Not one GOP lawmaker has endorsed the nominee. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., writing in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, all but announced his opposition.
"When we are faced with unpredictable national security crises, we can't afford to have a secretary of defense who has unpredictable judgment," Barrasso wrote.
Other lawmakers have said they are waiting for Hagel's confirmation hearing next Thursday in the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Democrats hold a 55-45 edge in the Senate and would have the votes to confirm Hagel.
"Chuck is a combat veteran and foot soldier who has a unique understanding of the challenges faced by our men and women in uniform, and a practical leader who understands the need for common sense in military spending and national security strategy," Manchin said in a statement.
Coons said he believes Hagel "will be a strong and effective secretary of defense, and I will be proud to vote for his confirmation."
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who met with Hagel on Thursday, said he had satisfied her concerns and she felt his responses were sincere. A member of the Armed Services Committee, she said she would reserve judgment until after the hearing but described Hagel as well-qualified for the job.
Their statements came shortly after Sen. John Kerry, the president's choice for secretary of state, found himself defending Hagel at his confirmation hearing.
"I know Chuck Hagel. I think he is a strong patriotic former senator, and he will be a strong secretary of defense," Kerry said of Hagel, who, like Kerry, served in Vietnam.
Republican Sen. Bob Corker questioned Kerry about Hagel's support for an 80 percent reduction of U.S. nuclear weapons. Possible reductions and modernization of the nuclear arsenal are major issues for the Tennessee lawmaker, who has the Y-12 nuclear facility in his state.
Corker has expressed concerns about Hagel, questioning whether the Republican's "overall temperament" makes his suitable for the job.
Accounting Assistant Professor The Institution: Sacramento City College is an urban college in a
park-like setting located in the heart of the Sacramento metropolitan area. The College is a learning center for approximately 23,000 day
and evening students. Founded in 1916, Sacramento City College is a place of tradition and history, with a vitality and diversity that is
contemporary. The College consists of a main campus and outreach centers in Davis, Downtown, and West Sacramento. Classes are offered seven
days a week, both day and evening. The faculty and staff of Sacramento City College value a humanistic approach to learning, teaching, and
working together in a diverse community. The college is a part of the Los Rios Community College District and uses an interest based
approach to dispute resolution.
Position Summary: A typical semester will generally consist of four courses and up to three preparations. Course
assignments may include, but are not limited to, College Accounting (record-keeping), Introduction to Financial Accounting, Introduction to
Managerial Accounting, Computerized Accounting, Intermediate Accounting (two semesters), Cost Accounting, Auditing, Governmental Auditing,
Governmental Accounting, Payroll Accounting, Ethics, Small Business Taxation, or Introduction to Federal and State Income Taxation.
Methodology will include the use of computers, online, and/or hybrid instruction.
The faculty member responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, assisting in the development and growth of a strong and diverse
accounting program, being actively involved in program evaluation, student learning outcomes and curriculum development utilizing current
accounting/business/computer practices and new technologies; establishing job contacts, and providing assistance to the students in their
employment goals.
Teaching assignment may include day, evening, weekend, and/or off campus classes.
Responsibilities: The faculty member shall be responsible for the following: teaching assigned classes under the
supervision of the area dean; helping students fulfill their maximum potential in mastering course content; maintaining thorough and
up-to-date knowledge in his/her regular teaching field; maintaining standards of professional conduct and ethics appropriate to the
professional position; assisting with curriculum and articulation studies; serving on college committees and participating in faculty
governance and student co-curricular activities; assisting students with career planning and placement including community outreach;
assuming other responsibilities as assigned by the area dean; fulfilling other duties and responsibilities of a full-time faculty as
outlined in the college faculty handbook.
Minimum Qualifications: 1. Have a master's degree from an accredited institution completed by August 22, 2013, in
accountancy or business administration with accounting concentration OR, have a bachelor's degree in business with accounting emphasis,
business administration with accounting emphasis or economics with accounting emphasis AND a master's degree in business, business
administration, business education, economics, taxation, or finance; OR, the equivalent*; OR, hold a California Community College
Instructor's Credential in the discipline area.
(NOTE: A bachelor's degree in accountancy or business administration with accounting concentration, with a CPA license is an alternative
qualification for this discipline)
2. Have sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of community
college students, including those with physical or learning disabilities as it relates to differences in learning styles.
Note:
Applicants applying under the "equivalent" provision must attach details and explain how their academic preparation is equivalent of the
degree listed above.
Application Instructions: To receive full consideration applicants applying to any Los Rios Community College District faculty positions are required to submit:
1. Los Rios Community College District Faculty Application 2. Unofficial transcripts of college/university work ** (graduate advising
documents and grade reports will not be accepted as unofficial transcripts). NOTE: Los Rios employees are also required to submit unofficial
copies of transcripts. 3. Resume 4. Two letters of recommendation 5. Letter of Interest 6. Copy of current CPA license, if
qualifying for Minimum Qualifications as stated in the section above.
**Note: Individuals who have completed college or university course work at an institution in a country other than the United States must
obtain a complete evaluation of foreign transcripts, degrees and other relevant documents. A foreign transcript evaluation is required any
time foreign course work is used to meet minimum qualifications and/or salary placement even if the foreign transcript has been accepted by
a college or university in the United States.
Do not submit additional materials that are not requested.
Special Requirements: Employees must hold/obtain and maintain the necessary licenses, certificates, etc., as needed for
external agency(ies) accreditation.
Conditions: All Positions: Offers of employment are contingent upon the successful clearance from a criminal background
check, freedom from tuberculosis, and proof of identity and eligibility to work in the United States prior to the first day of work. The
District may select additional qualified candidates should unexpected vacancies or needs occur during this recruitment/selection process.
When education is a requirement for the position, official academic transcripts from the accredited college/university must be submitted
within 60 days of hire.
Administrative/Executive/Faculty Positions: Contingent on funding and eligibility, successful candidates selected for an interview may be
eligible to apply for partial reimbursement of travel expenses.
Administrative/Executive Positions: Administrative positions may be subject to the District's Conflict of Interest Code, and a statement of
economic interest is required within thirty (30) days following appointment to the position. Management/Executive positions are exempt from
overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Additional Salary Information: Entering annual salary within a given range varies, depending upon units and degrees
completed at accredited colleges/universities and on verified experience. Additional earnings may be available for summer, overloads, and
stipends.
Location: SCC (Sacramento City College)
Department: SCC Business
To be considered for this position please visit our web site and apply on line at the following link: jobs.losrios.edu
LRCCD embraces diversity as one of the core values of the organization.
The Los Rios Community College District is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate regardless of race, color, sex,
religion, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, political affiliation or belief, or marital
status.
