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Thinking of a career change? A new list is out today detailing Indiana's "hottest" jobs of the future.

At the top of the list is registered nurse, earning an annual salary of about $57,000.

Next up? K-12 teacher ($49,000); followed by truck driver ($38,000), sales representative (wholesale and manufacturing - $53,000), general and operations manager ($90,000), licensed practical nurse ($39,000), postsecondary teacher ($60,000), accountant ($59,000), Officer manager ($45,000) and electrician ($60,000).

See the complete list.

You can also search job openings on the Hoosier Hot 50 Jobs site.

The list will tell you what's in demand right now, along with jobs that are projected to be in higher demand over the next several years.

The list was created from an index of seven weighted occupational measures of growth by 2022, as well as opportunities for Indiana workers. It utilizes data from the Occupational Employment Statistics survey and Indiana's Occupational Projections (produced by the state's Department of Workforce Development.)

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RACINE When voters in the citys 5th District head to the polls this month to vote in the spring primary, they will have candidates for both mayor and alderman to select.

With current 5th District Alderman Melissa Kaprelian-Becker not seeking re-election, four candidates are running to take her place.

The top two vote-getters in the Feb. 17 primary will advance to the general election on April 7. It is the only aldermanic race with a primary.

Bordered by English Street, the Union Pacific railroad tracks, Melvin Avenue and Lake Michigan, the 5th District includes the Racine Zoo, and about a mile stretch of the Douglas Avenue business district. What it is mostly comprised of, however, is middle class neighborhoods.

Here is a brief look at the four candidates seeking to represent the residents of those neighborhoods:

Sue DeKeuster has never run for public office but she has spent her fair share of time at public meetings. A regular speaker during the public comment period of City Council meetings in recent years, the Racine native said she is running to serve the 5th District because shes not happy with the decisions being made and wants to make a difference.

I have a lot of friends that have moved from the city, and the main reason for that is the crime and the lack of jobs, said DeKeuster, a staff accountant. What I see, in my opinion, is a lot of money that should be going to educating kids and bringing businesses in here, being wasted.

If elected, DeKeuster, 66, said she would also like to focus on issues specific to the 5th District, including working to clean up the bike path along the Union Pacific railroad tracks on the western edge of the district near her home. She would also like to meet with the Douglas Avenue Businesses Association and get involved in Neighborhood Watch.

Monte Osterman may already have a job as a local representative the Indiana native has spent five years on the Racine County Board of Supervisors serving District 3 but there has always been something about the position of alderman that has attracted him.

Thats why hes running to represent the citys 5th District, he said.

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Benjamin Recht has been named the 2015 recipient of the National Academy of Sciences William O. Baker Award in the field of statistics and machine learning. This award is given to "recognize innovative young scientists and to encourage research likely to lead toward new capabilities for human benefit." Prof. Recht is receiving this award for his significant contributions to the field of data science, an area of research that combines statistics (the analysis of large amounts of numerical data), computer science, and mathematics. More>> January 30

EECS alumnus Jyuo-Min Shyu, Ph.D. 88 (advisor Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli) has been appointed the Minister of Science and Technology in Taiwan. Dr. Shyu was formerly president of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan. More>> January 30

Christos Papadimitriou has been chosen to receive the 2015 European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) Distinguished Achievements award. This award is given to acknowledge extensive and widely recognized contributions to theoretical computer science over a life-long scientific career. Previous recipients of the EATCS Award represent a Who's Who of Theoretical Computer Science including EECS Prof. Richard Karp. More>> January 15

James O'Brien and his colleagues Ben Cole and Eric Parker will be receiving a Technical Achievement award from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Finite Element Destruction modeling. The software they developed has been used in over 60 Feature films during the last five years, including Harry Potter, Man of Steel, 300: Rise of an Empire, Godzilla, Life of Pi, Maleficent, and Guardians of the Galaxy. January 13

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been named as an ACM Fellow for 2014. ACM Fellows have achieved advances in computing research and development that are driving innovation and sustaining economic development around the world. Prof. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been recognized for his contributions to electronic design automation. More>> January 12

Murat Arcak has been selected as the recipient of the 2014 Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize. This prize is awarded by the IEEE Control Systems Society to recognize distinguished cutting-edge contributions by a young researcher to the theory or application of systems and control. Prof. Arcak is receiving the award for contributions to the theory and applications of nonlinear control, stability and passivity. December 16

Research conducted by Sayeef Salahuddins group, Laboratory for Emerging & Exploratory Devices, has been published in the online journal Natural Materials titled " Negative capacitance in a ferroelectric capacitor. Capacitance is the ability of a material to store an electrical charge. The article describes the first direct observation of a long-hypothesized but elusive phenomenon called negative capacitance. This property, if successfully integrated into transistors, could reduce the amount of power they consume by at least an order of magnitude, and perhaps much more, says the papers lead author Asif Khan. That would lead to longer-lasting cell phone batteries, less energy-consumptive computers of all types, and, perhaps even more importantly, could extend by decades the trend toward faster, smaller processors that has defined the digital revolution since its birth. CITRIS press release December 16

Ana Arias research group, Flexible Electronic Devices and Systems Laboratory has a paper published in Nature Communications titled All-organic optoelectronic sensor for pulse oximetry. Pulse oximetry is a ubiquitous non-invasive medical sensing method for measuring pulse rate and arterial blood oxygenation. Conventional pulse oximeters use expensive optoelectronic components that restrict sensing locations to finger tips or ear lobes due to their rigid form and area-scaling complexity. Prof. Arias group is developing a new organic optoelectronic sensor to create a device that could ultimately be thin, cheap and flexible enough to be slapped on like a Band-Aid during that jog around the track or hike up the hill. UC Berkeley Newscenter press release December 10

Dan Garcia was interviewed by NBC Bay Areas Jessica Aguirre about code.org and their Hour of Code initiative that launches today as part of CS Education Week. NBC Bay Area video December 8

On the 1 year anniversary of the first Hour of Code, over 50 million students have tried the Hour of Code. President Obama kicks off the 2014 Computer Science Education Week with a new call to motivate students worldwide to try the 2014 Hour of Code. On Tuesday, Dec. 9, 500 local high school students will come to UC Berkeley for CS ED Day 2014, a full day of computer science related activities. President Obama video December 8

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By Andrea Stone January 29 at 5:26 PM

In 1981, the year Steve and I left New York, they made a movie about the place we grew up: Fort Apache, the Bronx. It was a violent cop drama. The South Bronx wasnt pretty, it wasnt safe, and it wasnt where we wanted to be.

Fast forward to now. My husband and I emerge from the subway at Third Avenue and 138th Street to meet Lloyd Ultan, the septuagenarian borough historian and go-to guy for all things Bronx. We are excited to be back.

Ive asked Lloyd, an author of the forthcoming book The Bronx: The Ultimate Guide to New York Citys Beautiful Borough, to show us around this part of SoBro because of its little-known connections to the city weve lived in for 30 years: Washington, D.C.

I already feel a quirky geographical connection to a couple of famous Bronx-born Washingtonians. As a girl, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor lived at 940 Kelly St., a few doors down from future Secretary of State Colin Powell, at 952. Before either of them, though, my grandparents, father, aunt and uncles lived a few blocks down, at 851 Kelly, now a park.

The Bronx made all of us. But it also made two all-but-forgotten Founding Fathers and some of the most iconic structures in our nations capital.

Lloyd begins our journey in the heart of gritty, industrial Mott Haven, the place where the Bronx began. Standing in the shadow of the Major Deegan Expressway, we stop at a complex of red brick buildings on the west side of Third Avenue near the Harlem River and look up at a ghostly sign: J. L. Mott Iron Works. Jordan L. Mott, inventor of the coalburning stove, established a foundry here in 1828, giving the area his name and launching one of Americas earliest industrial parks.

Before World War I, German immigrants made the Bronx the piano manufacturing capital of the United States. The old Estey Piano company, housed in the landmark Clocktower building, is now home to artists studios.

The South Bronx may be, based on the 2010 Census, the poorest congressional district in the nation, but on Bruckner Boulevard, along a well-established Antiques Row, signs of gentrification are everywhere. A freshly painted mural on a new gallery advertises an exhibit of 1970s and 80s Bronx graffiti artists.

Across the street, scaffolding envelops a former furniture store being turned into market-rate apartments. The building sits on the site where the first European settler, Jonas Bronck, built his farmhouse in 1639. The only New York City borough attached to the mainland is named for the Swedish sea captain. I know that because I wrote a paper about him in third grade.

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By Mike D'Orso The Virginian-Pilot January 30, 2015

Originally published March 22, 1987

The sun lay low in the Vietnamese sky. Steam rose from the damp jungle mulch. The only sound in the sweltering stillness was the buzzing of flies and gnats as they swarmed above Carlos Hathcocks body, collecting on his neck, probing the corners of his eyes, digging into the creases of his mouth. His knees and elbows were blistered and bleeding. His pants were soaked with urine. But Hathcock felt nothing, He had moved beyond feeling. He had climbed into the bubble, and he was ready for the kill.

For two days Hathcock and his partner Johnny Burke had crawled through ferns, mud and rotting leaves, silent as snakes, stalking their prey, a lone North Vietnamese army sniper. And now it had come to this, the two Marines lying flat on their stomachs, their eyes trained on the tree line across a grassy clearing. Burke saw nothing. But Hathcock, his body frozen, his right eye glued to the telescopic sight of his Winchester, his mind locked in on the hunt, caught a flash, a quick glint of angled sunlight bouncing off a point in the foliage.

He needed nothing more.In an instant the cross hairs of his scope were on the point of the light, and he squeezed the trigger.

Only when he reached the dead mans body did Hathcock realize that the NVA solider, too, had been zeroed in for the kill. The point of light had been the lens of the Asians rifle scope. Hatchcocks bullet had whistled cleanly into that lens, entering the mans head through his eye. Hathcock was alive for one reason: He had fired first.

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One shot. One kill.

That is the snipers creed and no man in any war embodied it more than Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Norman Hathcock II. During two tours in Vietnam, he was credited with 93 confirmed kills. By Hathcocks own count, jotted in the dog-eared notebook he carried in his shirt pocket on each mission, the number was actually three times that. But some bodies were carried away by the enemy and others were obliterated by ensuing artillery fire. And some of Hathcocks kills were simply too extraordinary for his commanding officers to believe.

It was hard to believe a man could live in the Vietnamese jungle for days at a time, creeping through areas controlled by the Viet Cong, stalking and shooting unsuspecting enemy soldiers from distances that were rarely less than three football fields and were sometimes as far as 1 1/2 miles.

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CHENNAI: A special court in Chennai on Tuesday declined to remand three persons, including an aide of former Union telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran, in police custody saying the CBI had not clearly stated the reasons for their custody.

The CBI arrested the former Union minister's additional private secretary V Gowthaman, chief technical officer of Sun TV Network S Kannan and TV group's electrician K S Ravi on January 21. The charge against them was that they aided and abetted the laying of BSNL telephone lines to the minister's residence here and helped in its misuse by Sun TV Network.

The other accused in the case are Maran and two former chief general managers of BSNL.

On Friday, the agency sought their custody for five days. On Tuesday, special judge for CBI cases J Krishnamoorthy rejected the agency's plea saying it had not given proper reason for their custody.

Pointing out that the three had appeared before the CBI for several sessions of inquiry, the judge said their further custody could not be ordered.

Earlier, counsel for the accused argued for their bail, saying their arrests were unjustified since they had been cooperating with investigation officers all these years.

Electrician Ravi's counsel R C Paul Kanagaraj set the ball rolling by saying the case pertained to the alleged illegality between 2004 and 2007, and that the complaint surfaced in 2008.

Noting that since then all concerned had been summoned several times and inquiries held, Kanagaraj said the central agency had started arresting people on specious ground that they failed to cooperate with the agency.

He said that due to aggressive telecom policy, the mobile penetration had increased in India, while call rates had plummeted. Arresting people belonging to a private organization, that too when the main suspect himself had no case against him, was not proper, he added.

The judge said he would pass orders on the bail pleas of the trio on Wednesday.

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(Bloomberg) -- As U.S. and Cuban diplomats met to begin restoring diplomatic ties after five decades, Havanas residents followed the developments with a fervor normally reserved for a Papal visit or a sporting championship.

Cuban media aired and rebroadcast briefings throughout the two days of negotiations, a rarity in a society where the press is state-run and people often get news from relatives or friends. While U.S. and Cuban officials said differences between their governments remain profound, participants from both sides smiled broadly for the public and said the talks were productive.

Clara Gonzalez Perez, a 56-year-old nurse, said she gathered around the TV with family for two days to get every bit of information about la apertura, or the opening, between the nations.

Theres not a baseball game that people here would watch with as much excitement as for these talks.

Clara Gonzalez Perez

Theres not a baseball game that people here would watch with as much excitement as for these talks, Perez said. Shes so enthusiastic she said she began hugging Americans visiting as part of cultural tour groups in the streets, saying, I love Obama! We love America!

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson, the highest-ranking diplomat to visit Havana since Jimmy Carters presidency, cautioned that the two sides need to overcome more than 50 years of a relationship that was not based on confidence or trust. She said it isnt clear Cuba is ready to move as fast as the U.S. in loosening economic restrictions.

What Cuba is looking for, first and foremost, is new economic activity, said Ted Piccone, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. The U.S. economy, the largest in the world, is right next door and really important to their economic future. But they want to do it in a controlled way on their terms.

Even winning Senate confirmation for an ambassador could prove difficult for U.S. President Barack Obama. Cuban-American members of Congress, including Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Democratic Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, have assailed Obamas Dec. 17 move to reestablish ties, signaling a battle with Congress over the half-century-old embargo.

That uncertainly didnt damp the excitement among many Havana residents.

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New Delhi, Jan 21:

CBI tonight arrested three people, including V Gowthaman, the then additional private secretary of Dayanidhi Maran, in connection with alleged allotment of more than 300 high-speed telephone lines to the then Telecom Ministers residence in Chennai which were extended to his brothers TV channel.

Besides Gowthaman, CBI arrested Chief Technical Officer S Kannan and electrician L S Ravi of Sun TV network, the agency said.

The three have been arrested to collect some crucial evidence which may come up during their questioning, CBI said, adding that they would be produced before a designated court in Chennai tomorrow.

CBI has named Maran and BSNL officials, including the then Chief General Manager K Bramhanathan and MP Veluswami in the FIR filed in October 2013 following a preliminary enquiry in which the agency claimed to have found enough material to proceed with a regular case against the former minister.

CBI alleged nearly 323 residential lines were allegedly in the name of the BSNL General Manager connecting the Boat House residence of Maran with the office of Sun TV through a dedicated underground cable during his tenure as Telecom Minister.

The probe had started in 2011, nearly four years after getting complaints that a virtual telephone exchange was allegedly set-up at the then Telecom Ministers house for facilitating data transfer from Sun TV.

The agency had recommended action to the then Telecom Secretary in 2007 but the department allegedly did not give its nod in the case, sources in CBI said.

CBI filed a preliminary inquiry in the case in 2011, they said.

The sources said these lines were not ordinary telephone lines but costly ISDN, capable of carrying huge data thus facilitating faster transmission of TV news and programmes across the globe.

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CBI had named Maran and BSNL officials, including the then Chief General Manager K Bramhanathan and MP Veluswami in the FIR filed in October 2013.

A day after CBI arrested his close aide and two others in illegal telephone exchange case, former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran on Thursday charged the agency with trying "to fix" him to please an RSS leader from Tamil Nadu.

"CBI should be a fact-finding machine and not a fixing one. I am being singled out. CBI is fixing me to please an RSS ideologue from Tamil Nadu," a combative Maran told reporters here after briefing DMK chief M Karunanidhi on the developments. He, however, did not name anyone.

Maran, who is facing CBI heat, alleged that the investigating agency was compelling the three arrested persons to complain against him and that they were even tortured to give "false statement".

CBI had yesteday arrested V Gowthaman, then Additional Private Secretary of Dayanidhi Maran, and two others in connection with alleged allotment of more than 300 high-speed telephone lines to the the former Telecom Minister's residence in Chennai which were extended to his brother's TV channel.

CBI had named Maran and BSNL officials, including the then Chief General Manager K Bramhanathan and MP Veluswami in the FIR filed in October 2013.

"...after eight years, they are just fixing this case. They have arrested three people. Irony is they have been ill-treated and were forced to give false statement. When they refused, they were arrested. They were compelled to complain against me. Third degree treatment was meted out to them,"Maran alleged.

Asserting that he would fight out the case, Maran hit out at CBI, saying "Is CBI trying to impress the RSS ideologue from Tamil Nadu? The telephone line still functions in my residence....CBI wants to pass the buck, I have no choice but to fight it out."

"CBI has filed FIR against me alleging when I was the telecom minister and there was excess use of telephone connection. I have explained. This investigation has been going on for eight years", he said.

He said for the last 18 months the arrested people have been called by CBI and they cooperated in all the investigation procedures.

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New Delhi, Jan 22: CBI on Jan 21 arrested three people, including V Gowthaman, the then Additional Private Secretary of Dayanidhi Maran, in connection with alleged allotment of more than 300 high-speed telephone lines to the then Telecom Minister's residence in Chennai which were extended to his brother's TV channel.

Besides Gowthaman, CBI arrested Chief Technical Officer S Kannan and electrician L S Ravi of Sun TV network, the agency said. The three have been arrested to "collect some crucial evidence" which may come up during their questioning, CBI said.

The investigating agency also informed that all arrested people would be produced before a designated court in Chennai on Thursday, Jan 22.

CBI has named Maran and BSNL officials, including the then Chief General Manager K Bramhanathan and MP Veluswami in the FIR filed in October 2013 following a preliminary enquiry in which the agency claimed to have found enough material to proceed with a regular case against the former minister.

CBI alleged nearly 323 residential lines were allegedly in the name of the BSNL General Manager connecting the Boat House residence of Maran with the office of Sun TV through a dedicated underground cable during his tenure as Telecom Minister.

The probe had started in 2011, nearly four years after getting complaints that a 'virtual' telephone exchange was allegedly set-up at the then Telecom Minister's house for facilitating data transfer from Sun TV.

The agency had recommended action to the then Telecom Secretary in 2007 but the department allegedly did not give its nod in the case, sources in CBI said. CBI filed a preliminary inquiry in the case in 2011, they said.

The sources said these lines were not ordinary telephone lines but costly ISDN, capable of carrying huge data thus facilitating faster transmission of TV news and programmes across the globe.

CBI had in its report to the Telecom Secretary alleged these lines were for use of large commercial enterprises to meet special needs such as video conferencing or transmission of huge volume of digital data for which heavy fee is charged but Sun TV got it for free.

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