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The unemployed, the underemployed and the abandoned add up to almost one in five Americans. And an awfully lot of them live in battleground states such as Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania --all of which President Obama won in 2008, all of which President Obama needs to win in 2012.
Need a new laptop but don't feel like dropping a ton of cash?
This 12-inch Apple MacBook laptop is available on Amazon for $949.99. Normally, this 2017 model is listed at $1299.99, saving you a whopping $350 during the sale.
Under the hood, this MacBook lives up to the expectations of the Apple name. (Mashable's Raymond Wong raved about the 2017 model here.) There's the Intel Core M3-7Y32 with 8 GB of RAM, providing strong speeds for most of your needs. With a 256 GB SSD, you also get a reliable amount of storage.
Since it's a 2017 model it includes an IPS Retina Display for the screen. It's bright, ultra-thin, and offers detailed imaging for overall better display quality for anything you want to do. And since these displays are becoming more common in Apple products, it'll fall right in line with all your new Apple devices.
Any chance to save on an Apple product is fine by us, especially with MacBooks. This would make a great back-to-school laptop for student and just about anyone else in the market. Just make sure to jump on this deal at Amazon before it goes away.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway revealed Friday that a woman has been charged for grabbing and shaking her while Conway was eating out with her teenage daughter in Bethesda, Maryland.
Conway called 911, but the woman left before law enforcement could arrive at the Uncle Julio’s restaurant. The woman, Mary Elizabeth Inabinett, was charged with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct in November, reported CNN.
“Ms. Inabinett saw Kellyanne Conway, a public figure, in a public place, and exercised her First Amendment right to express her personal opinions. She did not assault Ms. Conway. The facts at trial will show this to be true, and show Ms. Conway’s account to be false,” Inabinett’s lawyer William Alden McDaniel Jr. said ...
Conway claimed her daughter had video recorded some of what transpired.
Conway is not the first Trump administration figure to face backlash while at a restaurant with her family. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, in June by the owner because of her work for President Donald Trump.
Conway’s interview with Bash was different from some of her past CNN appearances. She and CNN host Chris Cuomo got into it while discussing Trump and Michael Cohen in August.
“There’s a little difference between you and me and the shop you’re working for: integrity,” Cuomo told Conway.
“The White House? How dare you! Don’t you dare,” Conway said.
“You should admit he’s lying, and you don’t and that’s why people don’t trust you,” he responded.
IT skills: Recovery or the calm before the storm?
IT headcount is growing again but organsiations still face significant skill shortages, so are there alternative staffing arrangements to the old permanent staff and contractors model?
In the wake of the recent economic strife, any possible sign of recovery in the IT sector is most welcome. Gartner’s recent 2010 IT Market Compensation Study showed that IT headcount had increased by 6.3% over the last year: Some might say a slow growth in IT employment, if it can be sustained, is better than no growth...
However, when you dig a bit deeper into the trends highlighted by Gartner, and couple this with the news that the majority of new jobs have been for temporary contractors, you’ll soon uncover flaws in many organisations’ current approach towards filling their skills gaps.
Gartner revealed that those employees with the most in-demand skills were those who were most likely to move jobs. As a result, those most likely to go are those that can least afford to be lost. Evidently, IT departments are still at the mercy of the ever-changing cycle of demand for IT skills.
The increased reliance on contractors is one attempt to answer this: they can provide the skills IT departments desperately need when skilled permanent employees are in high demand, and thin on the ground.
Yet hiring contractors is a short-term, expensive solution, especially as the necessary skills are often concentrated in the contractor rather than being more widely shared around the IT department.
At the same time, IT departments can’t be expected to maintain enough permanent staff to cover every single possible skill needed. Instead, organisations should take the opportunity to re-visit their resourcing policies rather than fall back into the old pattern of having to chase “boom and bust” cycles of skill needs ...
In the current market, many IT departments will still be working with close to the bare minimum of internal, permanent staff they need to operate. Yet if they want to grow the business again it is clear more resources are required. So how can IT departments answer this conundrum?
Organisations should start looking at alternative resourcing options which make more financial, and operational, sense. For example, organisations could look to only spend 50% - 80% of their staffing budgets on permanent staff with a managed services solution providing the rest of the people and skills they need on an ...
Taking this approach ensures access to the IT skills needed to meet business requirements without exhausting funds on surplus permanent staff or expensive contractors. In addition, they can reduce the overhead of managing and administering contractors, while still having continuity of personnel from the managed service...
IT departments cannot eliminate constantly changing skills requirements, neither can they magically create a consistent job market. What they can do is remove, as much as possible, the impact that these forces have on their own work and funds, allowing them to concentrate on meeting business needs.
CTOs are realising the potential of RPA.
Robotic process automation (RPA) leader UiPath has come on board as diamond sponsor for ITWeb's Business Process Management and Automation 2019, to be held on 9 April at The Forum, in Bryanston.
Adriana Rangel, head of Marketing MEA at UiPath, says UiPath recently opened an office in South Africa, and UiPath wants to leverage all strategic opportunities to interact with the local business community, as well as further educate the leaders about the benefits of automation. "In our opinion, this is the most impor...
"While we already know that we have the best in its class enterprise-grade automation platform on the global market, we want to create the context for South African companies to also learn more about this new technology," she continues.
"Our people will also be there to talk at length about how RPA can help them achieve their business objectives quickly and seamlessly," she adds.
Speaking of how the event will benefit delegates, Rangel says from UiPath's perspective, they will be able to gain a better understanding of how RPA could help them accelerate their digital transformation journey and its outcomes.
"Equally important, we will present deployment use cases, showcasing how to achieve automation at scale fast, and finally, how RPA will help them improve customer experience and employee satisfaction."
At this event, taking place on 9 April at The Forum, Bryanston, delegates will gain insight into various practical case studies ranging from robotic process automation, to harnessing BPM and automation to enhance customer experience. To qualify for the 25% early bird discount registration, click here.
Angela Mace, CRM and events director of ITWeb, says the RPA, although relatively speaking in its infancy, is gaining much attention in the corporate world. "Over the past few years, CTOs are starting to take notice, and are realising the massive potential RPA has to eliminate the most mundane, time-consuming and repeti...
"UiPath is a leader in the RPA space, and is ideally situated to help South African businesses navigate the automation sector, and learn how RPA can help them take their organisations to a new level," she says.
She says ITWeb recognises the value of BPM and automation in the South African space, and developed the event to bring South African businesses all the information they need to realise the potential of these technologies.
"The agenda promises to examine all angles, from what needs to be automated to assessing the future of BPM," she ends.
IRCTC website now looks a lot cleaner, simpler and less confusing than earlier. Here is everything you need to know about the new, redesigned IRCTC website.
How to get the new, redesigned IRCTC website?
The IRCTC website now looks a lot cleaner, simpler and less confusing than earlier.
Once you log onto the new IRCTC website, you get a whole new design and login page.
Unlike before, it has a simple login form with a couple of new options. While searching for the trains, you can tick the box that says “Divyaang” (handicapped) if applicable. You also get an option to check PNR status below the login form.
You can also check which trains are available to your destination, the timings and seat availability, without logging in.
How to know chances of waitlist confirmation?
Step 1: In the event that confirmed tickets are not available for your search, you can tap the option ‘CNF Probability’ to know probability of waitlist confirmation.
Step 2: In my case, general waiting list was 3. Upon tapping the option ‘CNF Probability,’ it showed probability of confirmation as 95 per cent.
You can refer the screenshot below.
I searched for trains between Kalyan Junction to Pune Junction on a specific date. At the left side of your screen, you get a lot of filters to play around with like never before. You can also filter arrival/departure time and select a train type and journey class in a simpler way.
Additionally, there are new filters under ‘My Transactions.’ As a result, you can filter booked tickets based on your journey date, booking date, upcoming journey and completed journey. You get an option to change a boarding point. You also get to cancel, print or request your booked tickets on SMS.
To sum it up, the new IRCTC website is certainly a lot cleaner and user friendly that before. Some shortcomings still exist and they need to be ironed out, but at least it is headed in the right direction.
A lunch-and-learn demo session of an online Bermuda payroll system proved so popular last month that it is being repeated.
Bermuda businesses are being given a second chance to see a free demonstration of the system that automates the new changes to the payroll tax structure introduced by the Bermuda Government.
The first demo session at the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce was well-attended. The Chamber has arranged the second lunch-and-learn session for June 13.
Bermudian company The Certus Group and CloudSuitePro are behind the new offering that is said to have automated the new payroll rules to work with salaried and hourly employees, whether they are paid weekly, biweekly, monthly or semi-monthly, and with commissions.
The Bermuda-specific payroll application is hosted by CloudSuitePro.com on the Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains Platform.
The application has additional interactive features, including employee calendars to manage such things as sick leave, absences, overtime and vacation time.
The system is said to easily integrate with any accounting system. It runs an exception report highlighting any changes from previous payroll runs, allowing companies to hone discrepancies.
Companies can have the payroll solution without the need to purchase any hardware or software.
Representatives of The Certus Group, which is headquartered in Mill Creek Road, Pembroke, will present the system and give a demonstration at the Chamber event, which is from 12.30pm to 2pm and takes place at the Chamber’s offices on Point Pleasant Road.
Lunch is $35 for members and $40 for non-members.
ATLANTA – About one in 13 U.S. swine flu deaths have been children and most of the kids have been of school age, the federal government said Thursday in its first study of the new flu's youngest victims.
— Normally, half or more of the children who die from flu are age 4 and younger. But more than 80 percent of the kids who died with swine flu were 5 or older.
— Almost two-thirds of the children who died with swine flu had epilepsy, cerebral palsy or other neurodevelopmental conditions. In a previous flu season, only a third of pediatric deaths had those conditions.
— Bacterial co-infections were a big danger, and were blamed in most of the deaths of otherwise healthy children. Co-infections usually occur when a patient, weakened by a virus, then gets hit by a bacterial bug.
The CDC released the report through one of its publications, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Swine flu has caused more than 1 million illnesses in the United States, the CDC estimates. More than 550 deaths and 8,800 hospitalizations have been reported to date.
It's hard to say whether children have accounted for a higher proportion of deaths from swine flu than they normally do from seasonal flu, though CDC officials say that seems to be true. The CDC doesn't monitor seasonal flu deaths as closely as it does swine flu, and it has no comprehensive count of annual se...
The new report focuses on lab-confirmed swine flu deaths reported through Aug. 8. The CDC hasn't been able to do as complete an analysis of cases that have come in since then, said Dr. Cynthia Moore, a CDC medical officer who was one of the study's co-authors.
Through Aug. 8, there were 477 total swine flu deaths, including 36 in children.
Only about 20 percent of those children were age 4 or younger. That's unusual: Often 50 percent or more of seasonal flu deaths are in infants and toddlers, who have less mature immune systems and smaller air passages and are generally in more danger from respiratory infections.
"There's a lot of school-aged children" in the death count, said Dr. Beth Bell, a CDC epidemiologist who is a leader in the agency's swine flu response efforts.
It's not clear why such a large percentage of the swine flu pediatric deaths are in kids aged 5 and older. It simply may be because older children were more likely to encounter the virus — at schools, summer camps — than very young children who spend more time at home, Bell said.
The initial numbers in the report are small and the CDC will need to look at more reports to see if the trends hold up, CDC officials said.
Two-thirds of the children who died had high-risk medical conditions. Nearly all of them had an illness related to the nervous system, including mental retardation, cerebral palsy and epilepsy and other seizure disorders.
Years ago experts recognized that children with neurodevelopmental conditions are at higher risk of serious complications from the flu. But the proportion of swine flu victims with that kind of underlying condition was swine flu percentages are high compared to a previous flu season, CDC officials said.
It's not clear how significant that finding is, because many of the children had other medical problems that had weakened their bodies, CDC officials said.
Of the children who were healthy before they got swine flu, many were probably killed by a one-two punch of swine flu working with a bacterial co-infection, CDC officials said.
Bacterial co-infections have been an increasingly noticed danger since the government started tracking pediatric flu deaths in 2004. So their occurrence with swine flu was not a surprise, but emphasized the needs for parents and doctors to be alert to the danger and give the child antibiotics when appropriate, CDC offi...
Debenhams has remained tight-lipped on whether any of its five stores in Northern Ireland will close following the announcement the troubled retailer had called in auditors to consider "closures and insolvency".
The retailer employs 27,000 staff across the UK and Ireland.
Debenhams has stores in Belfast, Craigavon, Ballymena, Newry and Londonderry.
Asked if there were plans to close any stores in Northern Ireland, a spokesperson said: "We have no announcements to make on any store closures in our estate."
Debenhams shares plunged 17% after KPMG was called in to help draft emergency plans to save the troubled retailer.
The news sent shares down more than 17% in morning trading.
Debenhams last month said it would swing the axe on up to 90 staff at its fashion and home departments as part of a major cost-cutting drive.
In January it announced plans to ramp up efficiency savings, with another £10 million earmarked for this financial year and £20 million extra annually.
Chief executive Sergio Bucher, who is leading the shake-up, then went on to slash 320 store management roles in February.
In June, Debenhams issued its third profit warning this year as trading came in “below plan”.
To compound matters, Debenhams is also the subject of takeover talk, with speculation building that Mike Ashley is set to merge it with his newly acquired House of Fraser.
U.S. officials say it's still not time to destroy the last known stockpiles of the virus behind one of history's deadliest diseases.
Nearly 9 million U.S. adults resort to prescription sleeping pills — and most are white, female, educated or 50 or older, according to a government study.
This summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended baby boomers receive a one-time blood test for hepatitis C.
Maybe you can’t afford that six-figure sports car, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a hot ride.
The Hyundai Veloster, with its bold curves, asymmetrical doors and 18-inch alloy wheels, is sure to turn a few heads. Heck, even its name is cool.
So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Veloster took the top spot in Kelley Blue Book’s annual list of the 10 coolest new cars under $18,000. The admittedly subjective list, compiled by editors of the Irvine-based automobile information company’s website, emphasizes two factors over all others: cars that are fun ...
After the Veloster, the Ford Focus and Kia Soul, two cars with technologically advanced features, took the next spots on the list. Muzio noted that some cars, such as the Soul, offer standard Bluetooth connectivity and iPod compatibility.
Whereas reliability was once a major consideration for buyers of less-expensive cars, that has become less of a concern as vehicles have become more dependable, Muzio added.
That has led carmakers to consider other options to differentiate themselves, including technology and styling. The Veloster, for instance, features an unusual door configuration, with one on the driver’s side and two on the passenger side.

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