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So how do you wake up

2011-09-23T11:38:00.001-07:00

As I sit at the table I asked myself what is that make people have the drive to wake up each and every day do what it is there doing. There is no security in every day life so what of one morning every on woke up from their sleep and just didn't do nothing but sit there knowing what they had to do. Would we fall in to a great depression or would the world change.????

on the way of becoming a security officer

2011-09-22T21:20:00.001-07:00

Unarmed Security Guard Training in California

There are many requirements for becoming an Unarmed Security Guard in California. Here are the basic requirements and steps:

Unarmed Security Guard Requirements for California

Be at least 18 years of age
Undergoing a criminal background check through the California Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and
Completing a 40-hour course of security guard training.

40 Hour Security Guard Training Requirements For California

Date of Completion	Training Hours
Prior to Being Assigned on Post	8 Hours
Training Required within the First 30 Days	16 Hours
Training Required within the First Six Months	16 Hours
TOTAL HOURS	40 HOURS

Steps To Becoming an Unarmed Security Guard in California

Step 1

Completion of the 8 hours “Power to Arrest” training course and passing the exam.

Step 2

Submission of a security guard application at http://www.dca.ca.gov/bsis/online_services/online_licensing.shtml.

Step 3

Submission of fingerprints electronically using Live Scan. Use the forms from here Bureau’s Website or get forms at your local branch. USE ONLY THE LIVE SCAN FORMS.

Live Scan branches are available at http://www.bsis.ca.gov/forms_pubs/livescan/scansites.shtml

The Live Scan forms can be downloaded from here http://www.bsis.ca.gov/forms_pubs/livescan/forms.shtml

Step 4

Once the online application and criminal history check has been completed without a problem the security guard will appear on the Bureau’s Web Site. A training facility or security guard can verify the approval by checking “Verify a License” at http://www.bsis.ca.gov/online_services/verify_license.shtml.

When all the security guard registration has been sent and completed a screen-print out from the Web Site must be made and used until you receive your full registered license. Your real license should show up in 10-14 business days.

Step 5

When working as an Unarmed Security Guard in California you must always keep the following with you:

A valid security guard registration or a print out of the approval.
A valid identification with your picture.

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2011-09-22T21:16:00.000-07:00

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Despite the slow economy and high unemployment, security guard jobs have remained plentiful as the demand for security officers has grown. For those considering becoming a security officer, there are many positions available in virtually every city in the United States.

why security works

2011-09-22T21:07:00.001-07:00

But before you start looking for a security guard job, keep in mind that you should first check with your state to make sure that you have met the basic requirements. Every state is different. Most states require security guards to be at least eighteen years of age and to have a clean criminal history. Many states also require prospective security guards to demonstrate, through study and testing, a basic competency and knowledge about the powers, duties and responsibilities of security guards. Once an applicant has met these basic requirements, the state will then issue a security guard license, which is commonly referred to in the industry as a “guard card”.

Some of the most common places that hire security guards are schools, government agencies, construction sites, commercial buildings, residential communities, industrial facilities, shopping centers, retailers and banks. Obviously, each security guard job has its own requirements and set of responsibilities. For this reason, it is important to consider what type of environment you would like to work in as a security guard and focus on applying for these types of jobs.

Before you get your security guard license, you may want to stop by some places and talk to some guards to get a better idea about what it is like to be a security guard. Most are friendly enough, and will share some information about the job. Just be respectful of the fact that they are working and can not get into a long, drawn out, conversations.

If this line of work sounds interesting to you, your next step is to get your guard card and also possibly preparing a resume. One great place to start looking for prospective employers is online. You will find security guard jobs posted on almost every major newspaper site. There are also websites that are devoted to job listings where you will find many security guard jobs. Security guard companies are also a good place to call or visit. These companies act as agencies, and they usually have numerous contracts with companies that need security guards, so they are almost always looking for new security officers.

To be a good security officer you should be, by nature, be observant, reliable, clean cut, have good public relations skills, and know how to diffuse hostile situations. A lot of people have the wrong impression about what security officers are supposed to do. Most employers do not want to hire guards to act like private policemen. Many officers make the critical mistake of being too aggressive. This is the primary reason why most states require guards to understand and demonstrate a proficiency in such things as the powers of arrest before they will issue a guard license.

Most security guard jobs can be boiled down to simply observing and reporting. That's it. The only time it is permissible to touch someone is if you are protecting yourself. If you are the type of person that gets angry easily, you may want to look for a different line of work. Unfortunately, there will be many people who will test your patience. For employers, a calm and collected demeanor is always preferable.

Mr. Apotheker would be H-P's third CEO to depart under fire in six years

2011-09-22T03:24:00.000-07:00

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board met Wednesday to consider ousting Chief Executive Leo Apotheker, according to people briefed on the matter, after a turbulent 11-month tenure in which the market value of the technology giant was cut nearly in half.

H-P's board is meeting today to consider ousting CEO Leo Apotheker, just 10 months after he took over the tech giant and shortly after endorsing his plan to spinoff or sell its PC business. Don Clark and Mark Veverka discuss on The News Hub.

H-P's share price has fallen more than 45% since Leo Apotheker took over at the helm in November of last year, following the resignation of Mark Hurd, but should the company's woes be blamed on the board as well as its CEO's? ATD's Kara Swisher and WSJ's Marcelo Prince discuss on digits.

The board of Hewlett-Packard is considering ousting Leo Apotheker as chief executive, according to the Wall Street Journal. AllThingsD reports that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is being considered as a possible replacement. Spencer Ante and Rolfe Winkler discuss on Digits.

An ouster would be the latest setback for a company that has been buffeted by a decade of board acrimony, abrupt CEO departures and strategic drift. The stakes are even higher this time. A departure would leave the company without a leader at a time when many of its key businesses are under assault.

Just last month, Mr. Apotheker, with the blessing of the board, announced a dramatic plan to revamp H-P by splitting off or selling its personal-computer business and spending $10.3 billion to acquire U.K. software company Autonomy Corp. Board members publicly supported Mr. Apotheker and his strategy even as many investors criticized the moves and H-P's stock price took a major hit. Indeed, shares soared as much as 11.7% Wednesday on news that Mr. Apotheker might be out.

Who might replace Mr. Apotheker isn't clear. Meg Whitman, the former eBay Inc. chief who joined H-P's board earlier this year, is a candidate to be named interim CEO, according to some of the people briefed, though she may not be interested in the position. Reached Wednesday, Ms. Whitman declined comment. Another person familiar with the matter said no decision on a successor has been reached.

Board members began talking in the last week about replacing Mr. Apotheker, with the situation coming to a head at the regularly scheduled board meeting Wednesday, these people said. H-P is likely facing another poor quarter and potential earnings miss, one of the people said.

In the last week, the relationship between Mr. Apotheker and H-P's independent chairman, Ray Lane, also has appeared strained, according to two people who know the men.

An H-P spokeswoman said the company doesn't comment on rumors and speculation.

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If he is forced out, Mr. Apotheker could walk away with $35 million in compensation and severance for his 11 months at H-P, according to calculations by The Wall Street Journal.

A departure of Mr. Apotheker, 58 years old, would be the latest comedown for a company that 13 months ago had been considered by Wall Street to be one of the better-run tech behemoths. Since the former software executive joined H-P in November as CEO, the company's share price has dropped more than 40%, compared with a 1.6% gain in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index over the same period. On Wednesday, shares of H-P gained 6.7% to $23.98 at 4 p.m. on the New York Stock Exchange.

An ouster would raise further questions about the governance of H-P. Its board came under some criticism for the way in which Mr. Apotheker's predecessor, Mark Hurd, was dismissed following an internal investigation into his relationship with a contractor. Mr. Apotheker overhauled the board after joining H-P, naming six new members this year.

H-P's board also drew criticism for its dismissal of former CEO Carly Fiorina in 2005 and an unrelated spying scandal in which private investigators it hired improperly accessed phone records and other information about some board members and reporters.

Among the gaffes Mr. Apotheker committed since becoming H-P CEO was a leaked memo in which he urged top executives to pinch pennies. He also oversaw three reductions of the company's financial outlook.

But the situation came to a boil last month when he sparked investor outrage by agreeing to pay a lofty premium for Autonomy. At the same time, Mr. Apotheker disclosed plans to potentially spin out the company's $40-billion-a-year PC business. He also canceled H-P's line of tablets and smartphones after about six weeks on the market.

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"Many of us lost confidence in management and also in the board," said Pat Becker Jr., a fund manager at Becker Capital Management in Portland, Ore., which held about 1.2 million H-P shares as of June. "They need to be decisive at correcting the situation, whether that's management changes or strategy changes."

If Mr. Apotheker is fired, it's unclear whether H-P will reverse course on some of the CEO's strategic decisions. It seems unlikely that directors can undo the Autonomy deal. Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Bernstein Research, wrote recently that the company is contractually obligated to go through with the deal unless there is a "material adverse change" in Autonomy's position. Courts in the U.K. have made it all but impossible to walk away from merger deals.

When Mr. Apotheker's hiring was announced almost a year ago, it was a surprise. Mr. Apotheker had been fired as chief executive at software company SAP AG in early 2010, less than a year after he assumed the sole CEO role. He had no experience managing a hardware business like some of H-P's biggest units.

Almost immediately, Mr. Apotheker was accused by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison of masterminding a massive intellectual-property theft ring while at SAP. Mr. Apotheker stayed out of public view while a trial was under way between Oracle and SAP over the issue in November 2010; Oracle said that it had hired private detectives to serve Mr. Apotheker with a subpoena but weren't able to find him. Mr. Apotheker never testified; Oracle won the lawsuit, but a judge recently ordered a new trial.

Mr. Apotheker didn't immediately publicly discuss a strategy for H-P and how it might grow, leading to angst on Wall Street. In February, H-P unveiled a tablet and smartphones built with the webOS operating system that H-P had earlier acquired along with Palm Inc.

In March, Mr. Apotheker unveiled his vision for H-P that focused on software and computing services delivered over the Internet. But his inability to execute on that vision has been a source of investor frustration.

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In May, right before announcing another lower financial outlook for the company, Mr. Apotheker sent an email to top H-P executives warning of a "tough quarter" and the need to "watch every penny," which was leaked to the public. H-P had to hastily rearrange its May earnings call.

In the wake of that incident, Mr. Apotheker in an interview blamed Mr. Hurd for not investing in H-P's services and software businesses. "We talked strategy, we just failed to execute in the past," Mr. Apotheker said at the time.

Investors were spooked last month by the amount H-P was paying for Autonomy; H-P's shares plunged 20% in the aftermath of the announcements. While Mr. Apotheker and other top H-P executives visited investors to reassure them, many investors said they remained unconvinced.

"It feels as though there's a lack of real thoughtful direction and that has damaged the stock," said Tim Ghriskey, co-founder of $2 billion fund Solaris Group, which held H-P shares for less than a month in the summer. He said he is willing to consider re-adding H-P to his portfolio, but not until the company has become more stable.

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Leo Apotheker, CEO of Hewlett-Packard

Last week, Mr. Apotheker canceled a scheduled appearance at a Dana Point, Calif., conference for corporate technology executives. H-P sent Mr. Lane in his place.

Mr. Apotheker would be H-P's third CEO to depart under fire in six years.

"This board has some real issues. It seems to attract misery,'' observed Charles Elson, head of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at University of Delaware's business school. "I give them credit for terminations" of three flawed CEOs, he continued. But "I question the wisdom of their hiring decisions."

News of the board discussions was earlier reported by All Things D, a website owned by News Corp., and Bloomberg News. News Corp. also owns The Journal.

—Ian Sherr and Don Clark contributed to this article.

Write to Ben Worthen at ben.worthen@wsj.com and Joann S. Lublin at joann.lublin@wsj.com

Taurus the lost soul

2011-09-22T02:14:00.001-07:00

Taurus
Once upon a time, a young dreamer set out with a map to find some buried treasure. He meticulously plotted out his journey, and looked for all the noted landmarks. After awhile, he became tired of the tedious route, and decided to take another path that looked like it might be a shortcut. And, while this other path didn't directly take him to the buried treasure, it did offer him a lot of beautiful scenery and some interesting new friends along the way. You didn't get what you set out for recently, Taurus, but you got something else that's valuable. Keep looking, but don't lose sight of the great value of what you've already found.

2011-09-21T23:34:00.001-07:00

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got”

You only live once

2011-09-21T23:08:00.000-07:00

Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

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Unarmed Security Guard Training in California

Unarmed Security Guard Requirements for California

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