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Canucks blow third-period lead, beat Coyotes in OTby Kevin Woodley
VANCOUVER - Vancouver Canucks coach John Tortorella will take the win, even if he didn't exactly enjoy how his team got it.
Chris Higgins scored on a 2-on-1 break with 1:19 left in overtime and the Canucks recovered from blowing a two-goal lead in the third period to beat the Phoenix Coyotes 3-2 on Friday night.
"I am happy we won but I can't stand the way we won," Tortorella said.
Blown leads at Rogers Arena have been a consistent theme lately for the Canucks, who went ahead 2-0 after Jason Garrison scored a power-play goal early in the second period and Henrik Sedin converted a 3-on-2 rush after killing a penalty with 52.1 seconds left before intermission.
But instead of building on the lead, the Canucks sat back -- and paid the price. Phoenix outshot them 18-8 in the third period, tying the game when Antoine Vermette and David Moss scored just over two minutes apart.
The single point from forcing overtime kept Phoenix tied with the Canucks in eighth place in the Western Conference. But the Coyotes, who were without captain Shane Doan, have played two fewer games than Vancouver.
"We found a way to win the game, but I thought we [gave] away a point to a team we are chasing," Tortorella said. "We have to get out of this situation of not finishing games because we are going nowhere until we do."
The Canucks also blew four leads in the third period while only winning one game during a recent six-game home stand. Instead of continuing that trend, the Canucks recovered this time to build on a just completed 3-1-0 road trip.
"It was déjà vu all over again from the previous homestand," said Luongo, who finished with 37 saves. "You can't have that happen, but this is a good win as far as being able to respond after they tied the game and get a clutch win."
Higgins got the game-winner by racing down the left wing with Brad Richardson and firing a shot under the glove of goalie Mike Smith, who had turned Richardson away after a 2-on-0 pass late in regulation.
"I'm not passing up that shot in overtime," Higgins said of his first goal in eight games. "[Smith] is a big guy, moves well, but he definitely plays deep so you have to be shooting over the pads. Sometimes it doesn't look like there is space but when he goes down there is."
Smith finished with 29 saves for the Coyotes, who have two wins in eight games (2-4-2) after losing the middle pair of a four-game road trip that wraps up against the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday.
"There were some parts of our game I thought were all right," coach Dave Tippett said. "We're trying to defend better, and we're giving up less shots and less chances against. But going into the trip, this game is about winning and getting points. We got only got three of six and for where we are, we need a better percentage than that."
Phoenix was hoping to have top-four defenseman Zbynek Michalek back from a lower-body injury, but he missed a ninth straight game. Two other Coyotes regulars were late scratches: Doan had the flu and defenseman Derek Morris had to attend to a family matter.
Phoenix defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson took consolation in earning a point after being behind, but lamented the deficit.
"We came back, so that's a positive thing," he said. "But we have to be ready from the beginning. We have to find ways to win games."
Garrison opened the scoring with a power-play one-timer from the point past Smith's blocker 1:26 into the second period. It was the seventh straight game the Canucks' 25th-ranked power play has scored, and their top-rated penalty kill helped build on the lead.
After holding the Coyotes' seventh-ranked power play to one shot for the second time, Vancouver doubled its lead when defenseman Ryan Stanton skated out of the penalty box and into a 3-on-2 rush with Daniel and Henrik Sedin in the final minute of the period. Stanton lost the puck inside the blue line, then got it back in time to drop a pass to Daniel. He slid it across to Henrik, who one-timed a slap shot from the right circle off the glove of Smith and into the net.
The momentum of the shot left Henrik lying on the ice as the puck went in, appropriate since the play started with a barrel-roll shot block by the Canucks' captain on the penalty kill at the other end.
But Vancouver couldn't carry any momentum into the third.
Like so many of the recent collapses at home, the Canucks gave up a goal after failing to convert a great chance. On the same shift that Jannik Hansen missed an empty net, Vermette put the Coyotes on the board with a prefect shot from the blue line through a screen. Moss tied it 2:21 later by banging in a rebound from the top of the crease.
"I didn't see it," Luongo said of the first goal, "Our D man was trying to block it at the hash mark and it was a laser off the (cross) bar and in."
The tying goal, which started with Mike Ribeiro from behind the net to Rob Klinkhammer at the side, was one Luongo wanted back.
"I've got to try and make a save there, even though it was a rebound I got caught a little off balance," he said. "But the boys responded."


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15-1121.01 - Informatics Nurse Specialists
Apply knowledge of nursing and informatics to assist in the design, development, and ongoing modification of computerized health care systems. May educate staff and assist in problem solving to promote the implementation of the health care system.
Sample of reported job titles: Business Consultant, Clinical Informatics; Clinical Applications Specialist; Clinical Coordinator; Clinical Informatics Director; Clinical Informatics Specialist; Clinical Informatics Strategist; Clinical Information Systems Director; Consultant; Director Clinical Information Services; Nursing Information Systems Coordinator
Tasks | Technology Skills | Tools Used | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Detailed Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Design, develop, select, test, implement, and evaluate new or modified informatics solutions, data structures, and decision-support mechanisms to support patients, health care professionals, and their information management and human-computer and human-technology interactions within health care contexts.
- Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to improve nursing services.
- Apply knowledge of computer science, information science, nursing, and informatics theory to nursing practice, education, administration, or research, in collaboration with other health informatics specialists.
- Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers using object-oriented models or other techniques.
- Develop strategies, policies or procedures for introducing, evaluating or modifying information technology applied to nursing practice, administration, education, or research.
- Develop or implement policies or practices to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, or security of patient information.
- Identify, collect, record or analyze data that are relevant to the nursing care of patients.
- Read current literature, talk with colleagues, and participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in informatics.
- Provide consultation to nurses regarding hardware or software configuration.
- Disseminate information about nursing informatics science and practice to the profession, other health care professions, nursing students, and the public.
- Develop, implement or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes or structures to assist nurses with data management.
- Use informatics science to design or implement health information technology applications to resolve clinical or health care administrative problems.
- Develop or deliver training programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed.
- Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to nursing practice, education, administration and research.
- Inform local, state, national and international health policies related to information management and communication, confidentiality and security, patient safety, infrastructure development and economics.
- Design, conduct, or provide support to nursing informatics research.
Technology Skills
- Analytical or scientific software — IBM SPSS Statistics ; SAS software
- Business intelligence and data analysis software — Qlik software; Tableau
- Calendar and scheduling software — McKesson ANSOS One-Staff
- Computer based training software — Learning management system LMS
- Customer relationship management CRM software — Salesforce software
- Data base reporting software — SAP BusinessObjects Crystal Reports
- Data base user interface and query software — Microsoft Access ; Structured query language SQL
- Development environment software — Software development tools
- Electronic mail software — Microsoft Outlook
- Graphics or photo imaging software — Microsoft Visio
- Internet browser software — Web browser software
- Map creation software — ESRI ArcGIS software
- Medical software — Epic Systems ; MEDITECH software ; Seimens Healthineers; VISICU eICU Program (see all 29 examples)
- Object or component oriented development software — Computer aided software engineering CASE tools; Practical extraction and reporting language Perl ; Python ; R (see all 5 examples)
- Office suite software — Microsoft Office
- Operating system software — UNIX
- Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint
- Project management software — Microsoft Project ; Microsoft SharePoint
- Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
- Web platform development software — JavaScript
- Word processing software — Microsoft Word
Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.
Tools Used
- Desktop computers
- Liquid crystal display projector — Liquid crystal display LCD projectors
- Medical picture archiving computer systems PACS — Medical image database systems
- Notebook computers — Laptop computers
- Overhead projectors
- Personal computers
- Special purpose telephones — Multi-line telephone systems
- Tablet computers
- Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- Education and Training — Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- Medicine and Dentistry — Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
- Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- Communications and Media — Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
- Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
- Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
- Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Systems Analysis — Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Learning Strategies — Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
- Systems Evaluation — Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
- Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Mathematics — Using mathematics to solve problems.
- Operations Analysis — Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
- Quality Control Analysis — Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
- Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Technology Design — Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
- Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
- Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Flexibility of Closure — The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Perceptual Speed — The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
Work Activities
- Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
- Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
- Training and Teaching Others — Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.
- Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
- Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
- Developing and Building Teams — Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
- Provide Consultation and Advice to Others — Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics.
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
- Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
- Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
- Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
- Coaching and Developing Others — Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates — Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
- Selling or Influencing Others — Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions.
- Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.
- Monitoring and Controlling Resources — Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.
- Performing Administrative Activities — Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
- Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
- Assisting and Caring for Others — Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
Detailed Work Activities
- Design healthcare-related software applications.
- Evaluate utility of software or hardware technologies.
- Test computer system operations to ensure proper functioning.
- Analyze health-related data.
- Apply information technology to solve business or other applied problems.
- Communicate project information to others.
- Develop computer or information security policies or procedures.
- Develop guidelines for system implementation.
- Document operational activities.
- Implement security measures for computer or information systems.
- Update knowledge about emerging industry or technology trends.
- Provide recommendations to others about computer hardware.
- Train others in computer interface or software use.
- Conduct research to gain information about products or processes.
- Design research studies to obtain scientific information.
- Install computer software.
- Provide technical support for software maintenance or use.
- Troubleshoot issues with computer applications or systems.
Find occupations related to multiple detailed work activities
Work Context
- Electronic Mail — 100% responded "Every day."
- Telephone — 95% responded "Every day."
- Work With Work Group or Team — 85% responded "Extremely important."
- Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 85% responded "Every day."
- Face-to-Face Discussions — 65% responded "Every day."
- Contact With Others — 60% responded "Constant contact with others."
- Structured versus Unstructured Work — 60% responded "Some freedom."
- Spend Time Sitting — 55% responded "More than half the time."
- Freedom to Make Decisions — 70% responded "Some freedom."
- Coordinate or Lead Others — 45% responded "Extremely important."
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 55% responded "Very important."
- Duration of Typical Work Week — 55% responded "More than 40 hours."
- Time Pressure — 65% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 45% responded "Important results."
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results — 45% responded "High responsibility."
- Frequency of Decision Making — 30% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 40% responded "Very important."
- Frequency of Conflict Situations — 50% responded "Once a month or more but not every week."
- Letters and Memos — 25% responded "Every day."
- Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions — 35% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls — 55% responded "Continually or almost continually."
- Level of Competition — 60% responded "Moderately competitive."
- Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — 40% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Physical Proximity — 60% responded "Slightly close (e.g., shared office)."
- Public Speaking — 40% responded "Once a week or more but not every day."
- Deal With External Customers — 25% responded "Very important."
- Consequence of Error — 35% responded "Very serious."
- Exposed to Disease or Infections — 35% responded "Once a month or more but not every week."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed
|Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
|Related Experience
|A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
|Job Zone Examples
|Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include accountants, sales managers, database administrators, graphic designers, chemists, art directors, and cost estimators.
|SVP Range
|(7.0 to < 8.0)
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required
|Bachelor's degree
|Master's degree
|Associate's degree
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- Social — Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.
- Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
Work Styles
- Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
- Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
- Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
- Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
- Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
- Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
- Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
- Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
- Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
- Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
- Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
- Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
- Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
- Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
- Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
- Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.
Work Values
- Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
- Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
- Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
Related Occupations
Wages & Employment Trends
Median wages data collected from Computer Systems Analysts.
Employment data collected from Computer Systems Analysts.
Industry data collected from Computer Systems Analysts.
|Median wages (2018)
|$42.66 hourly, $88,740 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2016)
|601,000 employees
|Projected growth (2016-2026)
|Average (5% to 9%)
|Projected job openings (2016-2026)
|State trends
|Top industries (2016)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2018 wage data and 2016-2026 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2016-2026). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
Disclaimer: Sources are listed to provide additional information on related jobs, specialties, and/or industries. Links to non-DOL Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement.
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
- American College of Healthcare Executives
- American Health Information Management Association
- American Medical Informatics Association
- American Nurses Association
- American Nursing Informatics Association
- American Organization of Nurse Executives
- Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: Computer systems analysts
- Sigma Theta Tau International


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You can apply for a Tier 1 (Investor) visa if:
you want to invest £2,000,000 or more in the UKyou're from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerlandyou meet the other eligibility requirements
You must have access to at least £2,000,000 in investment funds to apply.
How long it will take
The earliest you can apply is 3 months before you travel.
ExampleYou can apply from 16 March if you plan to travel on 15 June.
You should get a decision on your visa within 3 weeks.
Check the guide processing times to find out how long getting a visa might take in your country.
You must pay £1,561 to apply for a Tier 1 (Investor) visa online or by post. The fee is the same if you're extending or switching visas.
You'll also have to pay the healthcare surchargeas part of your application. Check how much you'll have to pay before you apply.
Fees for applying and extending in person
You can use the super premium service to apply or extend in person.
You must pay a one-off fee of £10,500, plus £2,030 for each person applying.
You can use this service for up to 4 'main applicants' and a maximum of 10 people per visit. 'Main applicants' are the people with access to the investment funds.
How long you can stay
You can come to the UK with a Tier 1 (Investor) visa for a maximum of 3 years and 4 months.
You can apply to extend this visa for another 2 years.
What you can and can't do
You can:
invest £2,000,000 or more in UK government bonds, share capital or loan capital in active and trading UK registered companieswork or studyapply to settle after 2 years if you invest £10 millionapply to settle after 3 years if you invest £5 million
You can't:
invest in companies mainly engaged in property investment, property management or property developmentwork as a professional sportsperson or sports coachget public funds
You also can't work as a doctor or dentist in training unless one of the following applies:
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For Girlfriends
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NEW ORLEANS — Rather than spend their week off dwelling on a dramatic Tom Brady pass that ruined their perfect record, the New Orleans Saints are taking a realistic approach to gauging their strong start to the 2013 season.
They were pleased to be 5-1, leading the NFC South and tied with Seattle atop the conference as their bye week arrived.
Locker room leaders, including quarterback Drew Brees and receiver Lance Moore, also were quick to point out the Saints could easily be 3-3, if not for last-minute successes early this season.
It took a fourth-down stand near their end zone to beat Atlanta in the season opener. The next week, New Orleans needed a last-minute drive — and a last-second field goal — to topple Tampa Bay in a game Brees said the Saints "maybe had no business winning."
"So sometimes they go your way and sometimes they don't," Brees said. "You just hope you're in a position where more of them go your way than not, because arguably half the games in this league are decided by the last possession, and at times the last play. You could say that certainly that's been the case for our team. Three out of the six games have come down to literally the last play."
The Saints have played their past three games without Moore, who expects to return when New Orleans plays against Buffalo in the Superdome on Oct. 27.
As much as it bothered the elder statesman of New Orleans' receiving corps to watch from the sideline in New England, unable to help his offense run out the clock and keep Brady off the field, he wondered whether the loss might serve as an important motivator for a team that could have gotten too comfortable with itself had it gone into its short vacation at 6-0.
"It's kind of a reality check, because a couple of those games could have gone the other direction, and I would say we're extremely fortunate to be 5-1 and sitting in a pretty good position," Moore said. "So I feel like we're a good team, but I feel like we can definitely be a great team. We've got a lot of work to do to get there, a lot of things to sharpen up on and get some guys back, myself included.
"We'll get healthier in this bye week, continue to put our foot on the gas with the way that we work, improving every day, and I think you'll see a pretty good finished product."
In any event, the Saints have come a long way in a year's time. In 2012, with head coach Sean Payton suspended the whole season in connection with the NFL's bounty investigation into the Saints defense's cash-for-hits bounty system, New Orleans opened with four losses and never recovered, finishing 7-9 and out of the playoffs for the first time since 2008.
Payton returned last January, and players said it wasn't long before his contagious competitive fire and knack for Chief Executive Officer-style quality control began to take hold again.
One of his first tasks was hiring defensive coordinator Rob Ryan to take over a unit which ranked last in the NFL in 2012, yielding an NFL-record 7,042 yards. Ryan's group has been more opportunistic, coming out of Week 6 tied for sixth in takeaways with 12. New Orleans also did not give up as many as 20 points in a game until the loss to the Patriots.
Meanwhile, Payton has been calling plays again for an offense which was tied for fifth in yards per game (397.7) after six weeks.
Looking back at Payton's more recent coaching record, perhaps New Orleans' one-year turnabout in fortune shouldn't be a surprise. Since 2009 — Payton's fourth year as a head coach and the season New Orleans won its only Super Bowl — the Saints coach is 46-14, including 4-2 in the playoffs. That's a winning percentage of .766.
"I'm encouraged that there are a handful of things that we're going to be able to improve on and work on, and we haven't played our best football and we're sitting at 5-1," Payton said. "You can easily look at a few games that could have gone a different direction, but they didn't. I like the work ethic, the competitive nature of this team. I like it a lot.
" I think that getting back after this bye, there are a few things we're going to be able to clean up and work to improve on as we get ready for this long stretch of the season."


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Marion County Commission approved a final plat Oct. 31 to allow Gary Dunnegan to split his property at 71 Lakeshore Drive at Marion County Park and Lake into two lots.
Dunnegan already has a home on part of the property. He requested the lot split with the intention of building another house on the second lot. Construction has already begun following the approval, Planning and Zoning Director Tonya Richards said Thursday.
The commission denied a request from Ed Riffel, 15 Lakeshore Drive, to put a temporary carport within the road right of way along Pioneer Court, behind his home.
Tower permit approved
The commission was notified that a conditional use permit for a communications tower at the new jail was approved by the City of Marion. The tower must not be taller than 45 feet.
In other business:
- County sales tax receipts for October were $56,571 not including the tax to finance the jail — a 4.4-percent increase from the same time in 2011. Tax receipts for the first 10 months of 2012 are $484,011, an increase of 1.0 percent.
- Sales tax receipts for the jail were $50,169 for October, an increase of 4.3 percent from the same time in 2011.
- County Attorney Susan Robson, County Clerk Carol Maggard, and County Appraiser Cindy Magill met with the commission in closed session for 15 minutes to discuss matters protected by attorney-client privilege. No action was taken on return to open session.
- Health Department Administrator Diedre Serene met with the commission in closed session for 20 minutes to discuss personnel. No action was taken on return to open session.


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Since 1983, Garden Medicinals has been serving gardeners, herb growers and herbalists with a fine selection of seeds, roots, supplies and books. Our mission is to promote the ethical propagation, cultivation, and informed use of medicinal and culinary herbs. We specialize in untreated, open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seed and roots, because we believe that seeds belong in the public domain.
We strive to increase awareness about the importance of conserving and protecting our native medicinal herb resources. By offering rare and hard to find seed, together we reduce the collection pressure on wild populations of herbal plants. We aim to promote the use of ecologically grown seed through providing a high quality product, as well as informational resources. Our desire is to make medicinal and culinary herb seeds and roots more accessible to everyone.
OUR SEEDS: We offer over 220 varieties of herb, flower and vegetable seeds and roots, along with the cultural information needed to successfully grow, harvest, and enjoy your crops. The vegetable and flower seeds we offer are select ethnic and heirloom varieties, including some from our breeding program. All of our seed is untreated, some organic, and much is ecologically grown using natural methods. We do extensive germination testing, and nearly all seed packets are labeled with the latest test results.
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In Spring 2010, four undocumented students trekked 1,500 miles from Miami to Washington to press passage of the Dream Act, a bill that would offer a path to permanent residency for immigrants who came to the country as minors and achieved certain educational accomplishments. Moved by their courage, Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist who was part of the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize winning team for their coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting, revealed that he, too, was an undocumented immigrant in an essay published by the New York Times Magazine last June.
A year later, Vargas finds that immigration in America has seen little progress, as he writes in this week's TIME cover story. On the cover, photographed by Gian Paul Lozza, Vargas stands before 35 other undocumented immigrants living across the country. "They're living in America—but only in the shadows," Lozza says. "They're very much in the dark."
It was important for TIME's photo editors to show just how many cultures are represented by America's undocumented immigrants. "They come from so many different countries, religions and backgrounds," Lozza says. "We wanted to bring that diversity to the light. This is not just a problem for Latinos, as we hear about often, but for every culture from around the world."
It was a poignant topic for Swiss-born Lozza. "For me it was fun to see how motivated the kids were, and how much they wanted to learn," he says. "They have dreams of being teachers, doctors, lawyers—it was fascinating that they all want to do something for other people."
Read more on Jose Antonio Vargas in this week's issue of TIME.
Gian Paul Lozza is a photographer based in Zurich. See more of his work here.


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Top Tech of 2006
Dec 1, 2006 11:00 AM,
By Jack Kontney
A review of award-winning products for the installation industry.
Remote Technologies T4
New product introductions continue at a breakneck pace in virtually all categories impacting the installation industry. The seemingly endless announcements happen on tradeshow floors, on websites, in magazines, and at sales meetings. Amid this flurry of activity, how can one separate the litter from the glitter, the sizzle from the steak?
For contractors and integrators, it's an ongoing balancing act between offering clients the latest and greatest technology and recommending the tried-and-true solutions. While the latter is safe and effective, sticking with "old reliable" equipment can sometimes have a negative effect on your reputation as a solution provider.
But jumping on the high-tech bandwagon has its own downside. Products without a track record in the field are looked upon with understandable suspicion. Will the product deliver on its promises? What is the learning curve for both the installer and the user? Is this a final product or a public beta? Can the manufacturer be relied upon for support after the sale, especially if something goes wrong in the field?
In other words, to sum it up in a language we can all understand: Will there be callbacks?
This article examines some of the more prominent new products targeting the installation community that were introduced during 2006. Since space precludes covering every technology that made waves during the year, we are using the time-honored method of looking at the industry's major tradeshows and examining the products that won awards either at those shows, or from Sound & Video Contractor. Specifically, the Pick Hit awards at InfoComm (svconline.com/mag/avinstall_infocomm_pick_hits), the Innovations in Technology Awards at NSCA (svconline.com/mag/avinstall_nsca_award_winners), and/or the Manufacturers' Excellence Awards (svconline.com/tradeshows/products/avinstall_cedia_awards) from the recent CEDIA show.
Crestron Adagio
One crucial product to come out in 2006 was the Shure UHF-R wireless system. This system truly takes live performance wireless to a new level, with 2,400 selectable frequencies spread across 60MHz of bandwidth. Shure estimates 108 systems can be operated simultaneously, and the UHF-R's networking capabilities actually make that a manageable task via either USB or Ethernet control. Features like Shure's proprietary Audio Reference Companding help greatly improve sonic performance, taking full advantage of the new dual-pattern KSM9 mic capsule offered on the handheld version.
At the other end of the audio chain hang the loudspeakers. In demonstrations at InfoComm, the new M'elodie system from Meyer Sound reinforced its firm's ongoing mastery of self-powered loudspeaker design. Designed as a powerful yet compact line array, the M'elodie has an exceptional power-to-size ratio, with 131dB SPL peak output available. Perfect for use as the main house system in nightclubs and small theaters, it has also been designed as a complement to the firm's Mica system in downfill, frontfill, and under-balcony applications. The M'elodie features 100-degree horizontal dispersion, modest weight, and a low profile, and uses Meyer Sound's QuickFly hardware system for both hanging and ground-stacked configurations.
On the home front, loudspeakers take a different form factor. A recent entry into the "invisible" category is the Model A3 from Stealth Acoustics. This three-way, full-range panel speaker incorporates a paintable active diaphragm face that attaches to standard structural framing without special hardware. The facing area comes pre-primed, with panel edges tapered like gypsum wallboard, allowing the panel to accept wallboard tape and joint compound. Finishing options include light wallpaper or fabric, latex paint, and certain texture coats. In short, the A3 offers high-fidelity audio performance with full architectural integration, making it ideal for construction-based home theater installations.
Speaking of home audio, Crestron's Adagio entertainment system is drawing a lot of attention as a multi-room audio distribution system that can be easily expanded to cover a full range of home automation functionalities. The Adagio supports up to six sets of stereo speakers, each of which can access up to 10 stereo sources. A "group" feature allows adjacent rooms to be linked, while a full-house party mode allows all rooms to function as one. The Adagio simplifies access to the user's entire audio collection by accommodating a wide variety of audio sources, including Crestron's AAS audio server and iPod interface, plus standard and satellite radio tuners. For system control, a choice of basic 12-button keypads or Crestron's full-function APAD wall-mount LCD controllers is offered, while 2-series Ethernet control allows use of Crestron touchpanels.
Midas XL8
In live performance audio, 2006 will be remembered as the year that Midas released its first digital mixing console. The XL8 uniformly wowed the curious crowds, making it clear that Midas had taken its time and done it right. With capabilities too vast to list here, suffice it to say that the new Midas digital system is based around dual-redundant master control processors working in a reliable Linux environment. Classic Midas values like audio quality and roadworthiness are emphasized, but they are also balanced with an intuitive operating environment that will comfort longtime analog users. Seamless emulation is the best way to describe how this 96-channel console embraces digital functionality as an open-architecture, cross-platform, integrated audio control and distribution system.
Of course, you can't have sound without power. A Swedish firm, Lab.gruppen, is making a huge splash in the U.S. installation market with the contractor-friendly C series range. Each of the eight models is fully configurable for maximum peak voltage and gain so that lo-Z and 70V devices can be powered from the same unit, offering flexibility that can easily accommodate changes in client requirements. The flagship, model C 68:4, offers a total of 6800W at 4Ω in only 2RU of space. A combination of individually configurable per-channel voltage peak limiters, network control of linked units, and front-panel lockout ability complete this robust, flexible concept in amplifier design.
All the buzz in the audio world is about networking. In particular, the Aviom Pro64 product series is getting a lot of attention for its uncompromising high fidelity. Using Aviom's innovative A-Net audio networking protocol, the Pro64 system creates an uncompressed, 24-bit bidirectional audio network system with extremely low latency. It supports continuously variable sample rates from 44.1MHz to 192MHz, as well as connection topologies. By working outside the Ethernet network, the Pro64 eliminates latency issues inherent in packet switching and delivers archival-quality audio.
Another stalwart of the industry, Biamp, announced the expansion of its AudiaFlex line with the Nexia TC digital signal processor. Packaging exceptional teleconferencing performance into a new cost-effective 1RU package, Nexia TC offers eight wideband AEC mic/line inputs, two standard mic/line inputs, four mic/line outputs, and both RS-232 and Ethernet ports. The onboard telephone interface capabilities include line echo cancellation, TouchTone decoding, caller ID reception, detection of call progress, and line intrusion. The Nexia TC comes with Nexia software for full PC control, including the view and control of all effects and diagnostics.
Perhaps the most visually arresting award winner among the audio products this year is from a new company, Revolabs. Its new Solo secure conferencing system boasts a unique form factor and incredible ease of operation, making it perfect for boardroom applications. The Solo Executive is a full-duplex wireless system that incorporates automated setup and 128-bit encryption for eight microphone transmitters housed in a charging base station. The microphones are uniquely lightweight, clip-on tubes that activate and find themselves an open channel when removed from the dock. The rackmount receiver decrypts and sends the audio to the boardroom audio system. Revolabs also offers the Solo Desktop, a single-channel version suitable for hands-free VoIP in executive offices.
Today's video is all about resolution, control, and of course, screen size. But the biggest new video market is in digital signage, using the power of visual communication to reach audiences with the right message in the right location.
Lab.gruppen C series
The new ND4200 from ViewSonic uses IP networking to transfer virtually any content imaginable to a 42in. high-definition plasma display. The system's network module incorporates a Mozilla browser via a Linux operating system to seamlessly repurpose Web content, audio, and video as digital signage content. The processor includes a Flash player and built-in MPEG-1/2/4 decoder for digital audio and video, and offers a programmable full-screen mode that easily removes annoying content elements like toolbars, borders, and address lines. Designed for large-scale custom display networks, the ND4200 system is fully compatible with Cisco networks and provides simplified installation and low cost of ownership by eliminating the need for local PCs.
Avocent has taken video streaming to a new level with the introduction of the Emerge EWMS1000, which broadcasts high-quality, full-motion video to multiple display devices while eliminating the need for a PC at every destination, reducing both costs and installation time. Emerge handles all common computer and video inputs and outputs and has built-in AES encryption for secure wireless connectivity. The system outputs 30fps (MPEG-2 D1) and transmits 1,000ft. line of sight and up to 250ft. through walls using the 802.11a radio standard.
For simultaneous display of multiple visuals on a single screen, Extron offers the MGP 464 and 464 DI four-screen, high-resolution processors. The 464 combines video, HDTV, and high-resolution RGB inputs (19 in all) to allow display of up to four windows, each individually controllable for size, location, priority, border color, and zoom. This 2RU processor uses Extron's Simple Instruction Set (SIS) remote control. With 48 selectable output rates and simultaneous output of RGB, HDTV, component video, and DVI, the Extron 464 processors are powerful, easy to use, and compatible with virtually any display device.
In terms of system control, the Sony Ipela PCS-HG90 codec is notable for its ability to preserve HD video quality through transfer over IP networks. Applications that suggest themselves as candidates for this functionality include videoconferenced shareholder meetings and, of course, live HD video production. This unit, which supports the H.264 video protocol, manages to transfer 1280×720p video imagery through a maximum required bandwidth of only 8Mbps, signaling Sony's commitment to the installation market through the Ipela product line.
For professional production without professional staff, Broadcast Pix created the Slate 100, a PC-based integrated production environment. Designed for use with a touchpanel monitor, the Slate 100's intuitive multi-view design allows full production capability by a single operator, or allows multiple operators to work together by using SoftPanel, a browser-based, touch-powered screenview that emulates the layout and functionality of a classic program/preview switcher. Just add a touchscreen monitor and you're ready to roll.
On the "big picture" front, Optoma has opened new architectural horizons with its Bigvizion 100, a high-definition, in-wall, rear-projection television. Using a proprietary light engine based on DLP micro-mirror technology, this customizable rear-projection TV requires only 30in. of depth, making it ideal for fixed installations. Available with 80in., 90in., and 100in. diagonal screens, the Bigvizion 100 offers advanced connectivity and can display all signal sources as 1080p HD native. This well-engineered design also offers a customizable bezel to match room décor, and offers easy service access through the screen assembly, making it a great match for high-profile installations and high-technology integrators alike.
The first curved viewing screen designed for home use, the CineCurve from Stewart Filmscreen uses the 2.35:1 aspect ratio associated with CinemaScope film production, making it ideal for use with today's anamorphic lens video projectors. To accommodate other aspect ratios, the CineCurve features a masking system, with electronically controlled side panels creating the proper screen area. Home viewers will appreciate the constant image height, elimination of pin-cushion effects, and higher perceived brightness inherent in the slightly concave shape, which has the additional advantage of limiting the washout effect of light bouncing off the side walls of the viewing room.
Addressing the CinemaScope home viewing market from the projector standpoint is Runco's RS-1100 CineWide with AutoScope projection system. The patent-pending CineWide projector's anamorphic lens is motorized and remote controlled through the AutoScope option. When switching from standard 16:9 to 2.35:1 aspect ratio, the RS-1100 eliminates the annoying black bars at the top and bottom of the viewing screen by maintaining full image height and making the image wider. This is accomplished through a combination of software, electronics, and precision optics for a seamless home theater experience.
Outside the home, bigger is not always better. 3M has met the challenge of short-throw video projection for small offices with the Digital Media System 700. Using Vikuiti Super Close Projection technology, these compact projectors can produce a 60in.-diagonal image from only 30in. away, so the projector can be kept in front of the presenter and used in even the smallest of spaces. Give it 89in. of projection space and the Digital Media System 700 will produce a clear, sharp 180in.-diagonal image. The system also incorporates Dolby sound and can be operated by remote from your PC or have programming loaded onto it from a memory stick, allowing users to bring full multimedia functionality to any meeting space.
Extron MGP 464
Among the first DLP projectors to offer 1920×1080 performance, the Barco FLM HD18 is the quietest 18,000-lumen, native HD projector on the market. Enhancing the performance of this compact unit is a patent-pending, liquid-cooled, fully sealed optics system. The rental and staging markets are also addressed through low lamp maintenance and the ability to use Barco RLM and SLM lenses, resulting in exceptionally low cost of ownership. The FLM HD18 brings high brightness and native HD picture quality together in a near-silent front-projection design without compromise.
With all forms of media being networked together across a wide array of protocols these days, there are, quite simply, too many unique products that deserve the attention of the contracting market, but which do not fall neatly into the specific audio or video categories. We still call these "contractor" products because many of these units are tools to make design and installation of premium home and commercial systems a more manageable task.
Among the chief beneficiaries of media convergence and IP control are safety and security systems. The TOA N-8000 creates exceptional intercom functionality for up to 1,280 stations while using a modest amount of IP bandwidth. Using TOA's NX-100 audio networking, the N-8000 offers station-to-station calling, up to 160 paging zones, time-based call forwarding, and scan monitoring. The backbone of the system is the N8000EX exchange, which supports 16 stations and includes a 10/100BaseT port for connection to standard network hardware. The N-8000 station lineup includes both two-wire and Ethernet options, and a wide variety of master station and substation designs for whatever environmental conditions might be encountered.
One thing that's a constant source of problems for designers and integrators is the complexity of using IP control over several layers of functionality. SystemBuilder 2.0 from Crestron addresses that issue head-on. Designed as an end-to-end system design tool for use with the firm's MediaManager control system, the SystemBuilder software suite automatically generates equipment lists, configures all the inputs and outputs, and even writes the control code for outboard gear, such as PCs, DVD players, and projectors. To complete the package, wiring diagrams, bills of materials, and purchase orders can be generated directly from the software, taking the high anxiety out of high technology.
AMX had a busy year in 2006, as evidenced by award-winning products in both the software and hardware areas. VisualArchitect is a software suite that combines sales tools, system design, a visual programming environment, and installation guides. Using drag-and-drop functionality to create a system running on an AMX Master Controller, VisualArchitect makes it easy to demonstrate how a new system will come together, then continues the thought through the programming and installation phases.
The AMX Mio Modero keypads offer dynamic menu control in a sleek, user-friendly design that allows speedy search of hundred of lines of text, such as CD/DVD titles. Measuring 4.5″×3.6″ with 128×240-pixel, 3.75in. displays, both the Mio DMS and DMS-P offer eight-button control of virtually infinite function lists. The DMS-P Pinnacle adds a slider control for rapid access to multiple screens. Both units offer 32MB of RAM and 16MB of Flash memory and are easily programmed using KeypadBuilder 1.1.
Remote Technologies (RTI) enriches the home video experience with the T4 universal remote, a sleek, ergonomic touchscreen design. The T4 includes direct IR control for standalone operation, RF output for control processor operation, and WiFi for IP control and Internet access. At 6.4in., the T4 offers sufficient screen size to display VGA video and Web pages while still remaining a truly handheld device. Using RTI's TheaterTouch Designer software, full customization is easily obtained. Onboard stereo speakers, 32MB of Flash memory, and a stylish docking station are included.
The larger the installation, the more is at stake. ETA will help put your mind at ease with its three-phase Conditioned Power Center. These custom units go far beyond the 20-amp power conditioners common to our industry, providing clean, conditioned, isolated power for even the biggest installation. The Conditioned Power Center series offers models with load-handling capabilities from 10kVA to 300kVA. All can reduce a 6,000V surge to less than 10V (hot to neutral) and less than .5V (neutral to ground). Each unit comes fully equipped with a low-impedance isolation transformer, surge diverter, and noise filter, and is manufactured to installation specifications.
Optoma BigVizion
The Sencore Audio Integrator (SP395) and Audio Consultant (SP495) are rugged handheld analyzers designed specifically for our industry. The Audio Integrator is an acoustic analyzer with a high-resolution color LCD, dual-FFT processing, bidirectional stereo audio USB interface, and both digital and analog audio outputs. It includes an impulse recorder to use as input to acoustic analysis programs, a stereo recorder, and a standard SD memory card for transferring WAV files. The Audio Consultant includes a sound level meter, noise dosimeter, energy graph, and impedance meter. Both are rugged handheld devices designed for onsite fieldwork.
That's an overview of some of the key award-winning products for 2006. But there's one more thing that both contractors and manufacturers might want to see. Each year, NSCA recognizes a manufacturer's website with an Innovations in Technology Award, and there is no doubt that Extron's site is worthy of this recognition. The site, www.extron.com, combines high-level functionality with streamlined design and intuitive navigation. The home page features a user-friendly array of functions, including one-click access to every model, and direct access to sites dedicated to AV consultants, the education market, and product training. Using text instead of GIFs and Flash on the site ensures fast load times and search-engine friendliness. This is a fine example of a well-conceived, well-executed business site that puts users first. There are many in our industry who could benefit from this simple lesson.
Jack Kontneyis a longtime industry professional and founder of Kontney Communications, a Chicago area marketing and content creation firm. Visitwww.kontneycomm.comto contact him.


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Wholesale and Retail Trade Industry
Eating and Drinking Establishments -This industry is comprised of 479,000 places of employment. This represents about 7.8 million jobs. Restaurants make up the majority of establishments. The most common are franchised. The fast food industry numbers 1 out of 3 places today, while in 1970 only represented 20% of eating establishments. Many eating establishments however are independently owned and there is an estimate of 267,000 self-employed people in this industry.
Eating and Drinking
Industry description
This industry largely consists of fast food and full service restaurants. Cafeterias are also available to the general public.
Needs and initiatives
There is a growing need for drive-in and delivery services. Full-service restaurants are increasing their menus to include more appetizers, entree's, side dishes and desserts. More contracting is also being done out of institutional food services to schools, hospitals and company cafeterias.
To work in this area 25% of employees are 16 -
19 and are amenable to evening, weekend and holidays, with much work
being done in rotating shifts. Direct contact with the public, requires
pleasant and professional manners, even if things get hectic and
Greatest segment needs
The greatest needs are for waiters and
waitresses, hosts, counter attendants, food preparation workers and
Eating and Drinking Establishment's Occupational Outlook
To advance in this industry it is becoming increasingly important to have post secondary training in restaurant and food service management. Management programs last from 18 months to 4 years, when a bachelor's degree is awarded. Training for chefs has changed radically, requiring more business courses in leadership, computer skills and management. There are many entry level positions and on-the-job training is becoming increasingly done by formal video or computer training sessions. Computers are also tracking sales and inventories.
Earnings are much lower then average for all industries. Most jobs are minimum wage, supplemented by tips from customers. Waiters and waitresses, fast food cooks, food preparers and bartenders make approximately $6.00 - $7.00 per hour. Head cooks make closer to $7.50 and managers close to $12.00 per hour.
Employment Outlook
Outlook is excellent for skilled cooks and
chefs, with slow growth for unskilled jobs. More and more formal
culinary training and baking is required. The number of bartender jobs
is expected to decline, as people shift from mixed drinks The number of
salaried managers jobs is expected to grow as a result of growth in
chain and franchised establishments. One area of particular growth in
jobs concerns work in nursing homes, or assisted living care.
Wholesale Trade - This industry accounts for 6.8 million jobs in 1998, which is about 5% of all jobs in the economy. Most of the establishments are small with under 10 workers. Merchant wholesalers employ most of the workers in this industry.
Wholesale Trades
Industry description
Wholesale trade firms buy large quantities of goods from manufacturers and sell them in smaller quantifies to business, government and other wholesalers or institutions. They are intermediaries who bring goods from the manufacturer to the final customer. This makes the number of customers for manufacturers manageable. There are three types of wholesale firms. Merchant wholesalers are the most common and comprise 90% of firms in this industry. Sales branch managers market company products and coordinate distribution. Wholesale brokers coordinate the sale of goods from one party to another. Wholesalers may sell a narrow scope of goods or a broad variety of goods.
Needs and initiatives
A trend is increasing of distributors providing credit and financing, marketing and advertising and technical and service installation and repair services. More and more there are automated or computer-controlled storage which reduces labor.
The physical demand of this job can be great. Moving stock can be strenuous when forklifts and automated movement is not used. Sales jobs require extensive travel and work outside of the office, while office administration is conducted in-house. Most workers put in long shifts and tend to work full-time.
Greatest segment needs
Most of the work centers on stocking, storing, selling and transporting goods. There are many administrative jobs, shipping and receiving, sales and marketing, laborers, order fillers, stock clerks, freight and material handlers, industrial truck operators, drivers, counter sales workers, inside sales workers and outside sales workers. The outside sales requires much skill in maintaining customers, securing new ones and demonstrating projects. The most skill is required for sales managers and executives who monitor and coordinate work of the sales staffs.
Wholesale Trades and Occupational Outlook
For most jobs you do not need a college degree. Many new workers receive training by third party training organizations, who apprise them of the newest selling techniques, on-line purchasing systems, electronic data, management methodologies and information systems. Advancement in this industry is usually good, as you are usually advanced from within the company. You may move from counter sales, to installation and service, to outside sales to management. The trend though is that it is becoming more difficult to be promoted without education. Many companies are training their personnel with university programs. New workers need financial, logistical, technical and advertising knowledge.
Earnings vary greatly. The highest earnings are in the professional and commercial equipment line, and the lowest wages come from farm and agricultural materials. Part of earnings can be based upon performance, if you work outside sales and work on commission. Truck drivers earn about $8.00-$10.00 per hour. Order fillers and sales make about $9.00 - $10.00, while sales district representatives earn $16.00 - $19.00 per hour. Supervisors typically earn the most and start at about $18.00 - $30.00 for top executives.
Employment Outlook
The jobs in this industry will grow more slowly then average for the next decade. There is much consolidation of this industry to reduce costs as the use of technology spreads. Advanced computer systems will reduce the needs for administrative jobs in record-keeping and processing orders. Many customers are ordering goods electronically through the Internet and bills are being paid electronically with electronic funds transfers.
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I'm Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and Director of Clinical Laboratories for the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. My a bachelor's degree is in Biology from Rice University in Houston, Texas. I completed my M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in the Medical Scientist Training Program at Baylor College of Medicine, also in Houston. I was a resident and post-doctoral fellow in Laboratory Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. I'm board certified in Clinical Pathology and Medical Microbiology by the American Board of Pathology. I'm medical director of microbiology, chemistry, and point-of-care testing for VA Connecticut, and have a role in the chemistry, hematology, and microbiology specialty areas for the New England Veteran's Integrated Service Network laboratories. My research interests include education of pathology residents and medical students, point-of-care testing, HIV testing, and evidence-based medicine. I direct the Medical Microbiology second-year medical school course, and compose and perform original songs on a wide variety of topics, many related to infectious diseases and laboratory medicine.
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Mobile technology is fast becoming the preferred method for connecting to the Internet, especially for people on the go. Librarians must keep pace with this trend and integrate themselves into the mobile realm if they wish to deliver enhanced user services. Mobile Technology and Libraries is a practical, easy-to-follow new resource that will walk you through the start-to-finish steps for strengthening your library's mobile presence.
Author Jason Griffey outlines the different mobile platforms, devices, and services, and shows you how to create mobile library websites and implement a number of important developments including mobile reference and SMS. He also explains how the various affected parts of the library –reference, I.T. circulation--can work together. You'll learn techniques for marketing and measuring your services, and best practices to follow during planning, implementation, and evaluation.
This highly practical new Tech Set title will help both novice and experienced librarians embrace these crucial new technologies and stay relevant in an increasingly mobile society.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Mobile Technology Basics
- Definition and Examples
- Importance to Libraries
- Platforms
- Become Part of Your Patron's Information Ecosystem
- Get Staff Buy-In
- Explore the Uses of Mobile Technologies
- Create a Mobile Library Website
- Make Your OPAC Mobile
- Create Portable Instructional Resources
- Offer Mobile Library Tours
- Offer Mobile Collections
- Provide SMS Services in Your Library
- Explore Other Implementation Ideas
- Get the Word Out
- Promote Open Communication
- Establish Mobile Reference Services
- Make Your Services Simple
- Track Services
- Ask Questions
Bibliography and Recommended Reading
About the Author
Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion – equivalent to half the global population. In over 50 countries, cell phone penetration (the number of cell phones per person) is above 100%. By 2010, 90% of the world's population will have access to a cell phone signal.These statistics are indicative of a major shift in the way that the world interacts with information, and illustrate the next real paradigm shift in information gathering, use, and sharing.
As phones become more and more capable, fewer and fewer people find the need to connect with their infosphere via computer. Instead, the majority of people use a cell phone as their primary interface for surfing the web, listening to music, watching television, reading books, and communicating with friends. The mobile phone has become, over the last 10 years, one of the major methods by which people interact with information around the world. Librarians need to be aware of these changes, peer forward, and prepare for the future of library mobile interaction.
Mobile Technology and Libraries will help integrate your library into the mobile revolution, showing you the steps to development a mobile library website, reach library patrons in a new and exciting way, as well as use Short Message Services (SMS) communication. The book is aimed at librarians just beginning to step foot into the mobile environment, but will include code samples and other technical information that will assist in more advanced development of mobile systems. The book will also speak to the various functional parts of the library, demonstrating places in public services that mobile technology is applicable, as well as provide the recipe for the production of services used by information technology librarians. At the conclusion of this book, you will be able to launch your library into the mobile realm.
Chapter One begins with an introduction of mobile technology in libraries and a discussion on what mobile technology is and why it is important to libraries. Chapter Two discusses the topic of planning, including learning the major and minor platforms, cell phone types, and other mobile related services. Chapter Three covers how to implement a mobile technology plan, including what to know about mobile services, why your library should go mobile along with tips for getting buy-in. Chapter Four covers mobile services marketing techniques. Chapter Five covers general best practices, while Chapter Six covers measuring the success of your library's mobile services and how to build off one success and into another.
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It's a sunny August morning in Minneapolis, and deep in a Theodore Wirth Park meadow, Erin Rupp '04 is leading the search for a missing queen.
After several unsuccessful leads amid mounting uncertainty, her group spots the queen. "There she is—you found her! She's huge!" Rupp says. The five students in her class are equally excited. "That's so wonderful," says one, her relief palpable.
When a beekeeper like Rupp goes into a honeybee hive, tracking down the all-important queen bee is always a priority. "We check our hives every 7 to 10 days to make sure the queen is still alive," she says.
The Wirth Park location is part of the network of eight host sites and 45 hives that Rupp helps maintain through her work at The Beez Kneez, a Minneapolis-based business that provides honey and honeybee delivery, production, and education. A self-described "informal science teacher," Rupp is a firm believer in experiential education: the more people she can persuade to put on beekeeper suits, the better she's doing her job.
She developed that philosophy while studying geology and environmental studies at Macalester, and today it defines her work at The Beez Kneez, which she runs with partner (and Beez Kneez founder) Kristy Allen. For Rupp, hands-on learning—watching the bees at work inside their hives—is the best way for students to understand both the intricate structure of how bees live and the significance of their role in our food system.
As most people know, that role is now in peril. Honeybees pollinate a third of everything we eat, and while much of our food system has been mechanized, machines can't replace bees. Commercial agriculture farming practices mean the number of North American acres needing pollination is at an all-time high, yet the number of hives has declined significantly. Large fields of homogenous crops make it impossible for bees to pollinate one location year-round, leading commercial beekeepers to move hives around the country from crop to crop. With hives thus concentrated, diseases spread more easily among bees often already weakened by pesticides.
In Rupp's words, it's a stressful time to be a honeybee. "They're in trouble," she says. "They do such important work for us. To have the whole system rely on something so tiny is fascinating. If honeybees die, we lose reasonably priced fruits and vegetables."
Hence Beez Kneez' mission: to revive the hive. Rupp and Allen met and honed their mutual passion for beekeeping at western Wisconsin's Foxtail Farm, though so far their own work has been centered in Minneapolis. It's a surprisingly rich environment for bees, Rupp explains, because the city's many gardens, flowers, and urban green spaces provide a diverse habitat in which bees can flourish.
There's also a growing interest in beekeeping. New Minneapolis ordinances make beekeeping easier by allowing residents to maintain hives on their roofs without getting neighbors' approval. Enrollment has surged, too, in a University of Minnesota beekeeping course that Rupp herself took a few years ago. Those trends are steps in the right direction, says Rupp. "With increasing numbers of people growing food in the city, we need to talk more about that ecosystem," she says. "Pollinators are a critical part of it."
Awareness is best raised through inquiry education or teaching through doing, says Rupp. Through Community Bees on Bikes, the educational component of Beez Kneez, Rupp teaches students of all ages. ("Anyone over age five can put on a bee suit," she says.) With each class she goes over the basics before heading into a hive, so the group is ready to recognize a drone from a queen or a worker bee.
To ease neophytes' nerves, she runs through standard safety precautions: wearing a protective beekeeper suit, using a smoker to mask the bees' communication with each other, and encouraging students to step away from the hive if they need a break. "Erin is very genuine and welcoming," says Allen, "so people are able to work in the beehives with more comfort and ease."
Along with teaching, Beez Kneez also opened a honey house in Minneapolis this summer, funded by a Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $40,000. Beez Kneez' honey sales—all delivered by bicycle— support its programming and host sites, so owning a honey house will allow the organization to boost its production and expand its reach. They'll also rent out extracting equipment to hobby beekeepers.
Given the many projects in store for Bees Kneez, it's no surprise that Rupp recently decided to leave her day job teaching at the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum of Natural History to focus full time on her new enterprise.
It's a leap, but during the transition there's one certainty: The nearly four dozen hives—with 50,000 bees—will keep her busy. Each hive produces roughly 120 pounds of honey per season, so in the summer Rupp has her hands full teaching classes and maintaining hives. During the winter and spring she develops and advertises classes, fulfills honey orders, applies for grants, and maintains the organization's yellow and black bike fleet.
New educational partnerships and audiences—including potential collaborations with Minneapolis Public Schools—are also being developed. Her eventual goal, says Rupp, is to use bees as a teaching tool in as many academic fields as possible. "Basic honeybee curriculum is mostly experiential and scientific, but there are also connections with math, literacy, and geography that I'm excited to develop," she says. "I want to set up more opportunities for kids to succeed with learning— through bees."
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