by IAN URBINA – New York Times
Published April 6, 2010
MONTCOAL, WV – The death toll from a blast at a West Virginia coal mine rose to 25 on Tuesday, federal safety officials said, making it the worst mining accident in the United States in 25 years.
by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 12 March 2010
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by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 1 March 2010
SAN DIEGO – A suspect was arrested Sunday on preliminary charges of suspicion of murder and rape in the disappearance of Poway teen Chelsea King.
John Albert Gardner
The suspect, identified as registered sex offender John Albert Gardner, was arrested at a landmark restaurant and bar on the west side of Lake Hodges, Hernedez Hideaway, on Lake Drive near Del Dios Highway at 4:30 p.m. according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.
The 30-year-old resident of Lake Elsinore in Riverside County is described as being 6’2″ and 230 pounds. He has a previous conviction for lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age.
His mother lives in the Westwood development of San Diego near Rancho Bernardo Community Park and Lake Hodges. It’s believed he had been staying there for several days.
San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore announced the break in the case at a Sunday night news conference. He said physical evidence found on the south end of Lake Hodges lead investigators to Gardner. Reports indicate underwear found near the lake contained DNA that lead investigators to Gardner.
Gardner’s home has been searched and he is being questioned by investigators.
Gore said searchers will continue looking throughout the night for Chelsea. When asked if the 17-year-old Poway High student is still believed to be alive, Gore said, “we’re holding out that hope.”
Gore said Sunday night there “is a strong possibility” that the suspect may also be linked to a December attack on a jogger in a nearby neighborhood,
The woman was jogging on a neighborhood trail through the Westwood housing development in the 10400 block of Poblado Rd. She told San Diego police she was tackled by a man who demanded money. She thought she may have broken his nose in the scuffle. Gardner’s mother lives in the same neighborhood.
The woman was able to escape from her attacker on December 27th. The description she provided police was similiar to the description of Gardner. The victim described her attacker as white, 25, 5’11″ and 230 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
The location where Chelsea King’s car was found is in the neighboring park. The area where she is believed to have gone jogging is on the trails in the brushy area north of there.
Sheriff Gore said investigators are also looking into any possibility that Gardner could have played a role in the disappearance of 14-year-old Amber Dubois more than a year ago as she walked to Escondido High School.
Chelsea’s family issued a statement at 9:00 Sunday night after the arrest:
”Nothing will change for us until our beautiful daughter, Chelsea King, comes home. We will continue searching for her, and we ask that all of you do the same until she’s back with us. She is an extraordinary daughter and also someone who is committed to her community. She has huge dreams and wants to change the world. Hundreds of people are working alongside us to make sure she has that chance, and we are deeply grateful. She and our entire family need your help now for Chelsea’s safe return. We thank law enforcement for pursuing all avenues to bring this situation to an expedient, positive outcome. We will be posting regular updates from our family on Facebook page: Chelsea King Search Center.“
The search for a Poway teenager who is missing near Lake Hodges continued in Saturday’s rain, as authorities investigated whether her disappearance was related to a female jogger’s assault near the the park last December.
There is still no sign of missing 17-year-old Chelsea King. More than one-thousand volunteers braved the rain and mud to help out Saturday.
by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 18 February 2010 @ 15:04 UTC
GOOD MORNING AMERICA – A friend of mine and I are both unemployed at the moment. Both of us are looking for work in order to stay financially solvent.
Tory Johnson, ABC News
But the truth of the matter is with the downturn in the economy, no one is hiring right now. The news would lead you to believe that this is easing up and the jobs are becoming more and more available. If they are, they’re certainly not coming my way. I have learned about a relatively new concept in job hunting that I find exciting and potentially promising, and I wanted to share it with others in my reading audience who may also be out of work and searching to get back on the employment roles.
Sure, if you want to sell insurance, you can find commission-based jobs, but don’t expect to find full-time salaried jobs with benefits or health insurance.
Well, that friend of mine who I mentioned turned me on to something that really has me sitting up and taking notice. It’s called Reverse Outsourcing. She asked me if I had seen a news story featured on ABC News’ s Good Morning America a few days earlier called Job Club: How to Work From Home. I had not seen the featured news story, but after hearing about it, I went searching ABC News’s website to find out more about this hopeful light at the end of the financially-troubled tunnel.
So, what I discovered in Reverse Outsourcing was that foreign companies are hiring American workers whose skills are only found in the U.S.
In the video, Tory Johnson explains how two companies: oDesk and eLance, popular online marketplaces, are bringing talented out-of-work Americans together with foreign employers worldwide who are looking for freelance talent to fill available job opportunities, and this hiring growth is accelerating. Both of these websites are free to join and you don’t have to pay a fee to get started. Once you set your hourly rate for work that you feel qualified to perform, then oDesk and eLance increase that hourly rate by 10%, which is the fee that they earn for landing you the job.
As Tory explains in the video:
“Sure, companies can — and do — hire low-cost workers worldwide to perform technical tasks and other back-end work. But in many cases, Americans have the edge when it comes to customer service and support, public relations, Web site content, branding and marketing to a U.S. customer base.”
In 2009, American freelancers earned around $15M working for worldwide businesses through oDesk and eLance. This year, that figure is expected to double as companies in India, Singapore, Germany, Israel, and many others seek the talents of unemployed Americans to fill hourly contract positions and fixed-price contract jobs.
I have investigated oDesk myself, built my profile online, added my work history, skill set, education history, and portfolio, then filled out my objective and saved it to the site. After downloading the oDesk software, my next step is to take a short online test to determine my competency for positions in the skill set that I have indicated I am capable of performing. The skills test is oDesk’s way of giving businesses more confidence in hiring freelancers with the skills for which they are seeking.
What is extremely important about oDesk and eLance is that you have the opportunity to seek out worldwide employers and bid on contracts that you want to work on rather than simply submitting a resume and waiting for employers to sift through thousands of resumes submitted by you and others until they find a freelancer who matches their needs. In other words, on oDesk and eLance, you can go after the jobs you want and the employers you want to work for rather than just standing by in the wings hoping for the best. You can work as much or as little as you want–earning as much as you want within your available work schedule.
So, please watch the video, and if you feel that you have talents that you could use to freelance and work from home–working for an overseas company–then give oDesk and eLance a try. It could just be the answer to your employment dreams.
by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 21 January 2010 @ 16:27 UTC
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