Links to new job listings posted on May 30, 2013
By Jonathan Allen
May 30, 2013
The following job listings were posted on Indeed.com on May 30, 2013.
They are all listed as being within 15 miles of Charleston.
See a full list of Who's Hiring in the Charleston area.
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ADMISSIONS COORDINATOR — Southeastern Institute - Charleston, SC
Cashier — The Home Depot 4,385 reviews - Charleston, SC
MD Receptionist — Roper St. Francis Healthcare 2 reviews - Charleston, SC
Wildlife Biologist I (2 POSITIONS) — State of South Carolina 8 reviews - Charleston County, SC
FT Driver — Homewood Suites 33 reviews - Charleston, SC
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http://mountpleasant-sc.patch.com/articles/who-s-hiring-norfolk-southern-johnson-johnson-48-others
Conway, South Carolina - June 1 marks the beginning of the 2013 hurricane season, but are most people prepared? Are you prepared?
The Horry County Emergency Management Department wants residents to get their family’s emergency plan in place and put their emergency supply kit together prior to a storm.
Now is the time to get ready, and it’s easy with the help of the Horry County Hurricane Guide. The public can go http://emd.horrycounty.org and click on the Know Your Zone link to download, print and share various preparation tips on how to protect yourself, your family and your property during this hurricane season.
“Horry County Government is always preparing for a storm and working with other local and state agencies to do so, but everyone has an individual responsibility to get prepared and make sure their family has a plan,” said Randy Webster, Horry County Emergency Management Director.
In anticipation of an evacuation order, which can only be given by the governor, Webster also reminds the public that they should plan to leave town if at all possible, and everyone along the coast is strongly encouraged to make travel arrangements well in advance.
“Because of the low-lying areas in our county, we will never have enough safe shelter space for all of Horry County’s residents and its visitors,” said Randy Webster. “Therefore, we encourage everyone who has the means to leave town to do so and to consider shelters only as a last resort when they have nowhere else to go.”
Also, those who have the ability to leave should do so as early as possible.
“You don’t have to wait until an evacuation order is issued,” Webster added. “If you can, leave as early as possible to make your trip easier and to help relieve the traffic congestion on our roads.”
Horry County Emergency Management has developed the Know Your Zone Guide which contains important information regarding hurricane preparedness. The guide includes:
Hurricane preparation tips
Local evacuation routes & tips
Shelter information
Know Your Zone map
Resources for pets
Local re-entry information
Know Your Zone is a public education campaign to inform the citizens and visitors of Horry County of the new hurricane evacuation zones and their vulnerability to storm surge. The Know Your Zone campaign was developed as a result of the information contained in the South Carolina Hurricane Evacuation Study (HES) for the Northern Conglomerate that was released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in 2012. The campaign also reflects the National Hurricane Center’s (NHC) decision to separate the association of storm surge inundation from the category of storm. “Again, it’s not so much the category of storm or even if we are in the error cone, but rather the impact the storm can have on our community and the impact it will have on your home,” stated Webster.
For more information on hurricane preparedness, please contact Horry County Emergency Management at 915-5150.
by Jesse Emspak
May 28, 2013
Fusion, the same process that powers stars including the sun, would be a relatively clean, safe and near-limitless source of power. Unlike the fission of nuclear reactors that splits atoms to make energy, fusion fuses atoms. In nature, a star's immense gravity works to do the job of crushing hydrogen nuclei, protons, to create the reaction. But on Earth, crushing hydrogen atoms is no easy matter. It typically requires a machine that generates plasma -- atoms stripped of their electrons -- and runs at ultra-high temperatures in the millions of degrees Fahrenheit range. In short, more energy gets put in than what comes out, and that is not efficient.
But some scientists are trying to figure out how to get a fusion reaction to occur at room temperature. If successful, a so-called "cold fusion" machine would require little energy to run, but conversely produce a tremendous amount. In 1989, two scientists, Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman, said they managed to achieve cold fusion, but after some initial excitement, the general consensus was that they didn't achieve cold fusion and in fact probably never would.
In the last couple of years, Italian inventor and entrepreneur, Andrea Rossi, claims he has achieved cold fusion with his "Energy Catalyzer," or "E-Cat" machine. The latest news is a supposedly independent test that validates his claims of a machine that somehow emits more energy (as heat) than it gets from the electrical outlets it is plugged into. A paper describing the test was posted on the ArXiv, a site where scientists post research before it goes for full peer-review.
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http://news.discovery.com/tech/alternative-power-sources/5-reasons-cold-fusion-bunk-130528.htm
Money magazine's Best Deals on Everything: Your guide to the latest bargains in renting, buying or remodeling your home.
Buying a home 1 of 8: best deals home. Housing prices, on average, have risen over the past year.
The asking price per square foot in the 38 metro areas tracked by brokerage Movoto increased an average 12% in the 12 months through March. That's just an average, though; eight of the markets are cheaper now.
Calculator: How much house can you afford?
The three below are also forecast to have gains over the next year above the 4% national average projected by Fiserv.
Greatest decline in listing price per square foot
Chicago: Declined 15% last year, forecast to increase 6% next year
Charleston, S.C.: Declined 4% last year, forecast to increase 5% next year
New Orleans: Declined 3% last year, forecast to increase 7% next year
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http://money.cnn.com/gallery/real_estate/2013/05/21/best-deals-home.moneymag/?google_editors_picks=true
It's a 'Social Burden,' Pew Study Finds
by Bianca Bosker
05/21/2013
The Facebook generation is fed up with Facebook.
That's according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, which surveyed 802 teens between the ages of 12 and 17 last September to produce a 107-page report on their online habits.
Pew's findings suggest teens' enthusiasm for Facebook is waning, lending credence to concerns, raised by the company's investors and others that the social network may be losing a crucial demographic that has long fueled its success.
Facebook has become a "social burden" for teens, write the authors of the Pew report. "While Facebook is still deeply integrated in teens’ everyday lives, it is sometimes seen as a utility and an obligation rather than an exciting new platform that teens can claim as their own."
Teen's aren't abandoning Facebook -- deactivating their accounts would mean missing out on the crucial social intrigues that transpire online -- and 94 percent of teenage social media users still have profiles on the site, Pew's report notes. But they're simultaneously migrating to Twitter and Instagram, which teens say offer a parent-free place where they can better express themselves. Eleven percent of teens surveyed had Instagram accounts, while the number of teen Twitter users climbed from 16 percent in 2011 to 24 percent in 2012. Five percent of teens have accounts on Tumblr, which was just purchased by Yahoo for $1.1 billion, while 7 percent have accounts on Myspace.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/teens-facebook-pew-study_n_3313812.html
AIR DATE: May 22, 2013
Controversy over the additional scrutiny the IRS paid to conservative organizations has raised attention about the regulations governing tax-exemption criteria.
Transcript:
Excerpt:
Jeffrey Brown: Today's hearing came to an end after six hours, but there's no end in sight to the three congressional investigations under way. More hearings are expected after the Memorial Day recess.
Even as these hearings unfold to find out exactly what happened at the IRS, there's continuing confusion about the tax laws and regulations at the heart of the matter: who qualifies for tax-exempt status, how is that determined, and other questions we will try to get at now with Duke University law professor Richard Schmalbeck. He's a former tax attorney. And Kim Barker, she's a reporter with ProPublica.
Well, Kim Barker, you have been looking at the history. So take us back. How did it come to be that groups can seek tax-exempt status in the first place?
KIM BARKER, ProPublica: It's a very good question, and nobody is entirely sure even how social welfare nonprofits came about in the first place.
All we know is that as part of the Revenue Act of 1913, Congress created the idea of social welfare nonprofits. Eventually, they were defined as being formed exclusively to promote social welfare. And then over the years, that was -- that exclusively was defined to mean that you should have a primary purpose as being a social welfare nonprofit.
So there's this big debate over exclusively vs. primary. In the '80s, it came about that these groups -- these groups started to interpret primary to mean that they could actually spend money on politics. And the IRS has agreed with that.
The real argument here is over whether they should have to disclose the donors for the money that they're spending on politics and on these political ads that are then reported to the FEC.
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/government_programs/jan-june13/irs_05-22.html
By Jeanne Sahadi
@CNNMoney
May 22, 2013
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
Apple is one of America's most profitable companies. And it pays a substantial income tax bill to the U.S. government -- by its own account, $6 billion in 2012 and an estimated $7 billion this year.
But many tax experts and lawmakers say Apple's tax bill should be bigger. A lot bigger.
The concern is that Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500), while complying with U.S. laws, is nevertheless taking advantage of loopholes in the tax code to shift a substantial amount of income to offshore subsidiaries in low-tax countries. The result is billions of dollars in profits every year that go untaxed.
Apple is hardly the only American company to minimize its offshore tax bite. But it has become a poster child for it.
In Apple's case, the focal point is its subsidiaries in Ireland, where the company faces a maximum tax rate of just 2%. That's well below the 35% top rate in the United States and even well below Ireland's top statutory rate of 12.5%.
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http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/22/news/economy/apple-taxes/
Links to new job listings posted on May 30, 2013
