Engineering Crossing

http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com This video is about Manpower Services Canada Ltd. It released a survey on Tuesday announcing that 34 percent of Calgary’s employers expect to expand their workforce from October to December. According to Manpower’s Alberta region chief executive Randy Upright, of the Canadian cities, Calgary is ranked second in terms of the proportion of employers looking to expand in the last three months of 2008. According to reports 64 percent plan on staying the same, while 2 percent are unsure. The Manpower survey also found that 20 percent of employers across the nation plan on hiring, while 7 percent plan on having job cuts. The mining, public service, and construction sector had the highest net hiring bias. On Friday, Statistics Canada also announced that in August Canada had a jobless rate of 6.1 percent and Alberta had a jobless rate of 3.5 percent. 1,700 employers across Canada participated in the Manpower survey

http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com Japan’s Matsushita Electric is shuttering its Panasonic car stereo manufacturing plant in Georgia, cutting loose 500 people American workers. The plant closing is one of the largest business losses in the Peach state this year. Panasonic workers were notified of the decision on Thursday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The company will still operate its product development department and regional administrative headquarters at the Peachtree City location, which opened in 1987. Panasonic says they are responding to the troubled U.S. auto market, which has been affected by high gas prices, falling home prices and the poor economy. “All the companies that supply the auto industry right now are affected by the downturn,” said Jim Reilly, spokesperson for Panasonic North America. The closing will happen in phases over the next 16 months.

http://www.EmploymentCrossing.com Scientists Friday published a report meant to put to rest fears that the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, might cause disastrous, Earth-destroying events, such as the creation of black holes. “The LHC will enable us to study in detail what nature is doing all around us,” said the facility’s Director General, France’s Robert (“row bear”) Aymar. “The LHC is safe, and any suggestion that it might present a risk is pure fiction.” The LHC, which has been under construction at Europe’s CERN (“sern”) research facility since 1998, will conduct its first experiments on Wednesday. The device, basically a 17-mile ring-shaped underground concrete tunnel, is expected to produce evidence of the Higgs boson (“bow sawn”), the mysterious fundamental particle that gives objects mass. The cost of construction of the LHC is 1.6 billion Euros, or $2.3 billion dollars. The safety report was prepared by a group of scientists at CERN, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The scientists are responding to media reports that the experiments might produce dangerous phenomena, such as micro black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles. Some members of the public are fearful that the Earth will be destroyed by the experiments at the LHC, and scientists associated with the project have received many protests. Much of this concern has arisen due to the book “Our Final Century?: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century?” in which Britain’s Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, estimates a 50% chance that mankind will destroy itself before the year 2100.