Honduras Votes for President

Hondurans choose a new president and congress today as the world's highest rate of violent crimes hurts the economic growth due to the former president, Manuel Zelaya. Polls show the race in a statistical tie between the ruling National Party’s Juan Orlando Hernandez, 45, and Zelaya’s wife, Xiomara Castro Both candidates vowed that they would improve the safety of their citizens after an increase in murders due to drug gangs linked to Mexican cartels.

Castro, 54, is seeking to break a century-long grip on the presidential palace by the country’s two traditional parties. She has tapped into frustration from the coup, during which she led protests to have her husband returned from bannishment. Hernandez led the national assembly when Zelaya was driven out for backing a vote to change the constitution.

“It’s going to be difficult for whoever wins to govern,” said Geoff Thale, director of the Washington Office on Latin America.

 Economic growth in the $19 billion economy has slowed to an average 3.2 percent per year since the 2009 coup, compared with a 5.7 percent average in the four years before, according to the International Monetary Fund. The final opinion poll showed a tie between Hernandez, with 28 percent support, and Castro with 27 percent.
Investors wary of Zelaya’s former alliance with late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have fueled a rally in Honduran bonds since September as polls showed Hernandez gaining on Castro, who led earlier this year.

Honduras dollar bonds have returned 2.5 percent this month, compared with a 2.9 percent decline in Latin American debt over the same period.

5 Jobs inching towards extinction, and who will their replacement be?

It is a fact of life, not everything will last, from food to jobs. Some figure this out the hard way by losing what they know best, their jobs. There are many jobs inching towards extinction, but these five are the most known ones. It is effecting people all over the world today, but mostly the United States. Starting with number 1, Desktop publishing. One of the places using it are brick-and-mortar bookstores who are almost as rare as aliens. Newspapers are closing down or laying off entire departments. And desktop publishers are the ones who design the layouts for these dying industries. Many of the employees of different bookstores are saying that it is no surprise, the need for desktop publishers is one in a million and software is now more powerful than ever making it easier for regular everyday people to utilize desktop publishing. The next best job to take its place is graphic designing. At first glance, the two are similar except for one is graphic designing and the other is desktop publishing.

The second job nearing towards extinction are reporter and correspondent. Getting the Sunday paper is now very uncommon and the reporters and correspondents who inform us of the daily news are beginning to lose their jobs. Many people of this profession say it is mostly because of the internet, many blogs and social cites are a source to the world now because technology is the next big thing. The latest and greatest job taking over this profession is public relationships specialist. Just as the reporters, the specialists deal with the public, yet mostly work with Organizations to maintain there public image.

The third job is Computer Repairing, computer repairers fix computer systems and hardware, but unfortunately, as technology advances, these professionals are getting left behind.
"When people owned their computers for 6 or 7 years, then the repairman was necessary," Galdwin, a computer programmer says. "Today, with the majority of computers sold costing less than $500, and most of them laptops that offer little or no upgradability, most people simply buy a new one every few years instead of repairing them." If people were to actually call someone, nowadays they would call a computer programmer.

The fourth job is floral designer. They are the creative master minds behind the making of flower arrangements. Though they do beautiful work these places are a lot more inconvenient than walking over to a grocery store where flower arrangements are also sold. Convenience is now the most important thing in Americans, we are lazy and cheap. The newest job pertaining to this type of profession would be an event planner. There job includes floral designing if the event calls for it, but they are detailed and focused enough to do it themselves without hiring a separate person.

The fifth and final job is a file clerk. Paper trails - every company has one. File clerks are used to managing companies' mountains of documents. Again, technology is beating them up, so many records are now held electronically and are easier to manage. Technology strikes again! Most of the jobs relating to file clerks are Medical Records and Health information technicians. They use a lot of technology to file in different medical files and organize them for specific patients with specific diseases.

These jobs may not be gone, but they are on the fence. They are working hard to stay a float but what they don't realize is that other business are beating them on the charts. Hopefully they update their jobs to better ours.