Pest control and the in-demand jobs of the future

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Between 2010 and 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the number of pest control workers will increase by 26.1 percent.

By Samuel Weigley & Alexander Hess, 24/7 Wall St.

With an unemployment rate still stuck above 8 percent and much talk about a mismatch between worker skills and the jobs available, many people are trying to scope out the fields that will have many job openings in the future.

Many college graduates are struggling to find work and are saddled with student loan debt, prompting many colleges to shift resources to fields that are expected to be in high-demand. Many who are currently unemployed or underemployed are seeking training in different fields where the jobs are considered ?hot.?

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To find the jobs that will be in highest demand, 24/7 Wall St. has compiled a list of the occupations that will have the most job openings in this decade. The professions on this list are diverse, consisting of both white-collar and blue-collar jobs. They also require a range of educational achievement. For instance, a glazier needs just a high-school diploma to break into the field, but a statistician requires a postgraduate college education. Similarly, the pay spectrum for jobs on this list is quite wide. The median pay for a pest control worker was just $30,340 in 2010. Meanwhile, the median pay for a natural science manager was $116,020.

24/7 Wall St. was primarily interested in looking at openings for occupations where people usually work full-time and without frequent turnover. Therefore, we decided to exclude occupations where the median pay in 2010 was less than $30,000, thus discounting many occupations that will see many job openings. Without this salary floor, most of the occupations on this list would be low-skilled, low-wage jobs, such as home health aides, personal care aides and food concession workers. In fact, only two jobs on this current list would have made the list if we didn?t impose the $30,000 minimum pay. ??

For some professions, considerable job growth between 2010 and 2020 is the main driver behind the job openings. While there were only 41,900 glaziers as of 2010, 17,700 positions will be added by 2020, accounting for more than half of the job openings during that time. In other professions, most of the job openings is simply the result of normal turnover cycle. While there will be 18,700 job openings for statisticians, only 3,500 jobs will be added to the 25,100 people already working in the profession, with the remaining openings meant to replace existing workers.

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24/7 Wall St. looked at data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on more than 1,000 different occupations. In addition to excluding jobs with median pay below $30,000, we also chose to exclude jobs employing fewer than 20,000 people as of 2010 in order to represent jobs that will clearly provide opportunity for many individuals in the future. From there, we ranked the professions based on the number of job openings projected between 2010 and 2020 as a percentage of the 2010 headcount in that specific field. We also calculated the number and percentage of those openings due to added positions as well as replacing current employees. Finally, we considered factors such as industry, median salary and credentials of these professionals to provide context on the types of jobs likely to see many openings. ?

These are the 10 best job opportunities of the future.

1. Actuaries

• ?Future job openings as a percent of 2010 employment: ?87.1 percent
• ?New Openings, 2010 to 2020: 18,900
• ?Median annual wage: $87,650

An actuary analyzes the financial costs of risk for individuals and organizations, using a combination of statistics and financial theory to make projections. While there were only 21,700 actuaries in the U.S. as of 2010, there will be 18,900 new job openings in this field by the end of the decade. However, only 5,800 of those new openings, or slightly less than 31 percent, will be derived from job growth. The other 13,100 actuary openings will be available to replace those leaving the field, meaning more than six of 10 actuaries won?t remain in the field during the decade. Once a person graduates from college and finishes actuarial exams, he or she can expect to make a decent income. The median annual pay of $87,650 is better than accountants and auditors, whose median income is $61,690, and budget analysts, whose median income is $68,200.

2. Glaziers

• ?Future job openings as a percent of 2010 employment: 79.7 percent
• ?New Openings, 2010 to 2020: 33,400
• ?Median annual wage: $36,640

Glaziers, the BLS explains, ?install glass in windows, skylights, storefronts and display cases to create distinctive designs or reduce the need for artificial lighting.? The number of job openings for glaziers between 2010 and 2020 is projected to reach 33,400, or 80 percent of the total number of glaziers employed in 2010. Of these openings, roughly 17,700 can be attributed to job growth as glass is increasingly used in construction and glass windows become more energy efficient. However, another 15,700 job openings will be needed simply to replace former glaziers, as the occupation remains exceptionally physically demanding and has a particularly high rate of injury due to cuts from glass and tools as well as from falls.

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3. Statisticians

• ?Future job openings as a percent of 2010 employment: 74.5 percent
• ?New Openings, 2010 to 2020: 18,700
• ?Median annual wage: $72,830

Statisticians work in virtually every field that requires the collection, aggregation and analysis of large amounts of data. In 2010, there were roughly 25,100 statisticians employed in the U.S. By 2020, the number of statisticians is projected to increase by roughly 3,500, as statistical analysis becomes a more commonly used tool in decision-making. However, between 2010 and 2020, 15,200 positions will be filled just to meet replacement needs -- a figure that is equal to roughly 75 percent of 2010 employment. The issue of high turnover is probably unrelated to salary, however, as the median annual wage for statisticians is $72,830.

4. Pest control workers

• ?Future job openings as a percent of 2010 employment: 70.9 percent
• ?New Openings, 2010 to 2020: 48,500?
• ?Median annual wage: $30,340

Pest control workers use traps, fumigants and other methods to remove rats, roaches, bedbugs and other unwanted creatures from buildings. Between 2010 and 2020, the BLS estimates that the number of pest control workers will increase by 26.1 percent, as ?population growth, particularly in the South, where pests are more common, should result in more buildings that will require additional pest management.? However, while there are are projected to be 48,500 openings between 2010 and 2020, 30,600 of these will address replacements needs as workers leave the industry. Among possible reasons for such high turnover: work schedules that often include weekend and evening hours and an increased likelihood of injury and illness due to exposure to pest control chemicals.

5. Interpreters and translators

• ?Future job openings as a percent of 2010 employment: 69 percent
• ?New Openings, 2010 to 2020: 40,300
• ?Median annual wage: $43,300

Becoming an interpreter or translator is not easy, usually requiring a bachelor?s degree, and above all else, fluency in English and at least one other language. Additionally, work experience is critical as many employers will only hire interpreters and translators with past work history. Some 40,300 openings for interpreters and translators are expected to become available between 2010 and 2020 as the U.S. population becomes increasingly diverse and international trade expands. Though roughly 24,600 of these openings will come from new growth, the remaining 15,700 positions, roughly equal to 27 percent of the 2010 workforce, will be needed to replace previous workers. Many established interpreters and translators also have the option of working for themselves, as 22.9 percent were self-employed in 2010.

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Breast cancer research, advances | City & Shore Magazine

How far has research come since the first Breast Cancer Awareness Month 27 years ago?

BY NANCY McVICAR

For 37 years, Dr. Charles L. Vogel, director of the Women?s Center at Sylvester at Deerfield Beach, has devoted his practice to treating only breast cancer and searching for new ways to improve survival rates.

As the annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month approaches in October, Vogel took some time to talk about the advances that have been made and other promising new approaches.

?What patients need to know,? he says, ?because some are afraid of being guinea pigs if they go into a clinical trial, is that?s where you get the most exciting stuff.?

Vogel was among the first to test Herceptin (trastuzumab), a treatment that greatly improves survival chances for women with a particularly aggressive type of tumor classified as HER2 positive, which accounts for about 20 percent of breast cancers. And some of his patients got it in clinical trials years before it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

He was a pioneer in expanding trials to local oncologists? offices, not just major university medical centers, giving patients greater access to promising drugs. The Cancer Research Network he founded is affiliated with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine?s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

?A lot has happened since Herceptin was first approved [in 1998)],? Vogel says. ?We?re making really rapid strides in HER2 positive disease. One new drug, Perjeta, (pertuzumab) has just been approved; another exciting one is soon to be approved, and another one next year.?

Perjeta is classified as a monoclonal antibody like Herceptin, but acts in a different way, Vogel says. Monoclonal antibodies are engineered to attach to a defect in the cancer cells, helping your body?s immune system to find and destroy them.

Another approach Vogel says is ?very exciting? uses Herceptin as a Trojan horse to deliver a potent chemo drug directly to tumor cells where it is unleashed without harming healthy cells. Results of the study on this combination called T-DM1 were reported in June at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference.

?It was a very positive study that will allow the company [Genentech] to go to the FDA? for approval, he says.

Advances in other types of breast tumors, those classified as estrogen or progesterone receptor positive, which account for about 65 percent of cases, have also been life-extending. They include tamoxifen, which blocks estrogen from breast tumors in premenopausal women, and a class of drugs called aromatase inhibitors, (anastrozole, exemestane, letrozole),? used to cut off the fuel needed by the tumors to grow in post-menopausal women.

In patients who have developed a resistance to hormonal therapy, Vogel says approval of a drug called everolimus is imminent.

?Although not a hormone, it is designed to overcome resistance to hormonal therapy,? he says. ?It is the first advance in hormonal therapy in 20 years.?

Vogel says research is continuing to find more effective treatments for an aggressive subtype of breast cancer that accounts for 10-15 percent of cases. They are classified as ?triple negative? because they are not HER2, estrogen or progesterone positive.

?We have very little new for them right now, so everybody is looking genomically for targets for triple-negative disease,? he says. ?However, we still have chemo which can be very effective in curing early stage triple negative disease and extending life in later-stage disease.?

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The actress lists a house in Toluca Lake for sale at $2.895 million and tries to lease out another place she owns up the street ? complete with watercraft.

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World markets mixed ahead of Bernanke speech

LONDON (AP) ? World stock markets were mixed on Friday ahead of a speech by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke that investors hope will show the central bank is still considering new stimulus for the U.S. economy.

In morning trading in Europe, Germany's DAX was up 0.6 percent at 6,933.99 while France's CAC-40 added 0.6 percent to 3,399.90. London's FTSE 100 rose 0.3 percent to 5,734.35.

Wall Street appeared headed for gains, with Dow Jones industrial futures rising 0.3 percent to 13,023. The broader S&P 500 futures added 0.4 percent to 1,402.20. Asian indexes, however, closed mostly lower.

Bernanke will deliver his speech on Friday at a global gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Hopes for further stimulus action took a blow this week when the Fed's "Beige Book" survey of economic sentiment was fairly positive. Traders will look to Bernanke to clarify the Fed's position.

"The Federal Reserve symposium at Jackson Hole is widely expected to disappoint," said DBS Group in a report. "The Fed has scope to continue its wait-and-see approach, and keep open the door for action if needed."

Europe's debt crisis will also remain a key driver of market sentiment in coming weeks.

The latest official data showed unemployment in the 17-country eurozone remained at a record high of 11.3 percent in July, a sign the economy continues to suffer amid government spending cuts and financial uncertainty.

To help solve the crisis, the European Central Bank will next Thursday present more details on a plan to buy government bonds to drive down the borrowing rates for some countries, like Spain and Italy. Germany's central bank remains opposed to the plan, but investors expect some deal to emerge by next week.

On Thursday, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who usually avoids pointed comments about other governments, expressed alarm about Europe's debt problems and called on Greece, Spain and Italy to embrace budget cuts and other reforms.

Inspectors from the so-called troika of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund are due in Athens next month for a financial review on which hinges a rescue loan installment of ?31 billion.

Earlier, in Asia, Tokyo's Nikkei 225, shed 1.6 percent to 8,839.91 points. China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index was off 0.3 percent at 2,047.52 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng declined 0.4 percent to 19,482.57.

Seoul's Kospi index shed 0.1 percent to 1,905.12 and Sydney's ASX/S&P 200 ended unchanged at 4,316. Taiwan's Taiex rose 0.4 percent to 7,397.06.

India's Sensex fell 1 percent to 17,363.29 after the government reported disappointing growth of 5.5 percent for the second quarter of the year, compared to 8 percent from a year earlier.

South Korea reported July industrial production growth slowed more abruptly than expected, falling to 0.3 percent over a year earlier from June's 1.4 percent.

Benchmark oil for October delivery rose 32 cents to $94.94 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 87 cents to finish at $94.62 on the Nymex on Thursday.

In currencies, the dollar fell to 78.56 yen from 78.63 yen late Thursday in New York. The euro rose to $1.2569 from $1.2505.

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California Lawmakers Look to Approve Pension Reforms

California lawmakers were poised to pass a sweeping pension reform measure and a flurry of other bills on Friday as they prepared to break until after the fall elections.

The pension law, unveiled by Governor Jerry Brown on Tuesday after months of talks with fellow Democrats who control the legislature, would put new limits on pensions for future state and local government to save tens of billions of dollars in retirement-related spending.

Brown intends to promote those savings to help sell voters on his November measure to raise the state's sales tax and boost income taxes on wealthy Californians. Revenue from the measure would prevent further immediate cuts in spending on education programs and bolster the state's finances in coming years.

The tax measure has a modest lead in polls but support for tax initiatives in the California typically wanes as election day nears. Brown needs to hammer home to voters how he has tackled pressing fiscal concerns to rally them behind tax increases, analysts say.

Pension costs are one of those concerns--and not just in California. State and local governments around the country have struggled with lean revenue, requiring them to slash spending on services but at the same time honor promises to retirees.

Brown and top Democrats hailed the reforms in the legislation to be voted on Friday. The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest U.S. public pension fund, said the plan could cut $40 billion to $60 billion in pension expenses for government employers over 30 years.

Public employee unions panned the agreement, complaining that Democrats who are routinely their legislative allies had sold them out by agreeing to the proposal.

But others said the changes do not go far enough, noting they do not include Brown's proposal for "hybrid" pensions combining features of traditional pensions and 401(k)-style retirement accounts.

"I hope people acknowledge there is much, much more work to be done," said Joe Nation, a former Democratic member of the state Assembly who now teaches public policy at Stanford University. "It's better than moving backwards but this barely moves the ball forward."

Nation in recent years has overseen studies warning California and its local governments face unfunded pension liabilities that stretch into the hundreds of billions of dollars.

Pension costs are contributing to the financial hardship that pushed Stockton and San Bernardino, two sizeable California cities, to file for bankruptcy this year.

Tackling unfunded pension liabilities will require changes that effect the retirement benefits of current public-sector employees, not just the future employees targeted in the bill, according to Nation.

"Because we are so under water right now there just really has to be more," Nation said.

California lawmakers must vote on the pension bill by midnight Friday, the close of the legislative session.

The legislation will require new public-sector workers to split payments to their pension accounts at least evenly with employers.

Current employees would also be responsible for half their contributions as talks phase in higher payments. Savings to the state from its employees paying more toward their pensions will be used to reduce its unfunded pension liability.

The legislation also will raise retirement ages for new employees and impose new formulas for calculating pensions. That will leave the newly hired with less generous benefits than current workers.

The legislature will also be considering a workers-compensation reform measure.

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Backup That Data With the Appropriate Software

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Before making your final decision as to the kind of backup system you will use, consider the difference between a backup and an archive. The latter is the primary source or copy of your data. A backup, on the other hand, is a secondary source of your data. In order to determine the best manner of backup for your data, you must consider costs, maintenance factors, bandwidth and other system impacts. By looking at all of these factors, you will be able to ensure that your data stays safe for as long as you need it.

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