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Hundreds of firefighters work to contain Nevada blaze

NewsonToday — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:18:39 +0000

RENO, Nevada (Reuters) – A wind-driven fire that raged through parched brush near Reno, Nevada, engulfing at least 20 homes and forcing residents and livestock to flee by the thousands, was 50 percent contained on Friday morning, officials said. A team of 400 firefighters continued to work on Friday to put out hot spots from the blaze that prompted the closure of a major highway, Mark Regan, a spokesman for the Sierra Fire Protection District, told Reuters. The cause of the fire remained under investigation and assessment teams were convening to survey the damage, he said. …

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Linda Lavin on career and CD: ‘Work brings work’

NewsonToday — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:15:34 +0000

Linda Lavin was in two well-received productions last season that are on Broadway this fall: “Follies” at the Kennedy Center and “Other Desert Cities” at Lincoln Center.

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LA painter’s bank on fire work heats up art world

NewsonToday — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:14:49 +0000

Alex Schaefer is the hot Los Angeles artist of the moment, thanks to a couple of oil-on-canvas works showing banks burning down. Entertainment News Headlines – Yahoo! News Related posts:British sculptor’s work to make rare US appearance South African debuts AIDS film on World AIDS Day Linda Lavin on career and CD: ‘Work brings work’ Related posts:

British sculptor’s work to make rare US appearance

NewsonToday — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:14:55 +0000

Tony Cragg, a British-born sculptor who rose to prominence in the 1980s making sculptures solely from materials he found, is opening his first major U.S. exhibition in almost 20 years.

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Study: 6.5 percent of adults active enough at work (AP)

NewsonToday — Fri, 27 May 2011 07:16:37 +0000

AP – If you think you do enough physical activity at work to keep you healthy, you’re probably wrong. Yahoo! News: Health News Related posts:1 in 10 Chinese adults are diabetics, study finds (AP) Study adds evidence that bone drugs work, are safe (AP) Study: Docs overtesting for cervical cancer virus (AP) Related posts:

Actor goes to work for Calif. House candidate (AP)

NewsonToday — Tue, 10 May 2011 01:26:43 +0000

AP – Sean Astin helped save Middle-earth in “The Lord of the Rings” series. But can the actor who played good-hearted “Sam” in the big-screen trilogy save a first-time congressional candidate in California?
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Cisco Support Training – Options

Jason Kendall — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:14:43 +0000

If it’s Cisco training you’re after, but you’ve not yet worked with routers or switches, you should first attempt a CCNA course. This teaches you the necessary skills to set up and maintain routers. The world wide web is built up of many routers, and large companies with several different sites also need routers to allow their networks to keep in touch.

The kind of jobs requiring this kind of skill mean it’s likely you’ll end up working for big organisations who have many locations but need their computer networks to talk to each other. Or, you may move on to joining an internet service provider. Jobs requiring these skills are plentiful and well remunerated.

Getting your Cisco CCNA is where you need to be aiming – you’re not ready for your CCNP for now. Once you’ve got a few years experience behind you, you can decide if it’s relevant for you to have this next level up. If it is, you’ll be in a better position to pass then – because you’ll have so much more experience.

Getting your first commercial position can be a little easier with a Job Placement Assistance facility. But don’t place too much emphasis on it – it isn’t unusual for eager sales people to make too much of it. The fact of the matter is, the massive skills shortage in Britain is what will make you attractive to employers.

Ideally you should have help with your CV and interview techniques though; and we’d recommend everyone to work on polishing up their CV the day they start training – don’t put it off until you’ve graduated or passed any exams.

It’s possible that you won’t have even passed your first exam when you will be offered your first junior support role; however this won’t be the case unless your CV is with employers.

Normally you’ll get better results from a specialised and independent local recruitment service than you will through a course provider’s employment division, as they’ll know the area better.

A big aggravation of many course providers is how hard people are prepared to work to become certified, but how un-prepared they are to work on getting the position they have trained for. Don’t give up when the best is yet to come.

Now, why is it better to gain qualifications from the commercial sector rather than more traditional academic qualifications gained through schools and Further Education colleges?

The IT sector is of the opinion that for an understanding of the relevant skills, the right accreditation supplied for example by Adobe, Microsoft, CISCO and CompTIA most often has much more specialised relevance – for much less time and money.

Of course, an appropriate portion of relevant additional detail must be learned, but focused specialisation in the required areas gives a commercially trained student a distinct advantage.

Put yourself in the employer’s position – and you wanted someone who could provide a specific set of skills. What should you do: Wade your way through a mass of different academic qualifications from hopeful applicants, having to ask what each has covered and which commercial skills they have, or choose a specific set of accreditations that specifically match what you’re looking for, and make your short-list from that. Your interviews are then about personal suitability – rather than establishing whether they can do a specific task.

An effective training program will also offer fully authorised exam simulation and preparation packages.

Ensure that the practice exams aren’t just asking you the right questions on the right subjects, but ask them in the same way that the proper exam will ask them. It can really throw some people if the questions are phrased in unfamiliar formats.

As you can imagine, it is really important to know that you are completely prepared for the real exam prior to doing it. Going over simulated tests logs the information in your brain and saves you time and money on failed exams.

An important area that is sometimes not even considered by potential students considering a training program is that of ‘training segmentation’. This is essentially how the program is broken down into parts for delivery to you, which can make a dramatic difference to where you end up.

Usually, you will join a program staged over 2 or 3 years and get posted one section at a time – from one exam to the next. This sounds logical on one level, until you consider this:

What if for some reason you don’t get to the end of every single section? What if you don’t find their order of learning is ideal for you? Because of nothing that’s your fault, you may go a little slower and consequently not get all your materials.

For future safety and flexibility, it’s normal for most trainees to make sure that every element of their training is sent immediately, and not in a piecemeal fashion. You can then decide how fast or slow and in what order you want to finish things.

Study adds evidence that bone drugs work, are safe (AP)

NewsonToday — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:34:20 +0000

AP – A new study gives reassuring news about the safety of Fosamax and Reclast, bone-building drugs taken by millions of American women. It found that long-term use does not significantly raise the risk of a rare type of fracture near the hip.

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Rosie O’Donnell at work on daytime talk show (Reuters)

NewsonToday — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:45:26 +0000

Reuters – Rosie O’Donnell is plotting a return to daytime television. View full post on Yahoo! News: Entertainment News Related posts:O’Donnell looking to come back to daytime TV (AP) Daytime show from man behind ‘The Biggest Loser’ Sarah Palin near deal for reality show (Reuters) Related posts:

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NewsonToday — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:56:24 +0000

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