DUBLIN CHURCH YOUTH MINISTER DROWNS DURING SCUBA DIVE IN SHASTA LAKE

Members of CrossWinds Church in Dublin are in mourning after a 20-year-old youth minister presumably drowned Tuesday in Shasta Lake while scuba diving alone during a church excursion, the Shasta County Sheriff's Office said this morning.
Jeremiah Murray of Dublin had gone scuba diving by himself Tuesday morning and around noon, members of his church group called authorities after he hadn't surfaced for about 70 minutes, the sheriff's office said.
About nine hours later, a dive team found Murray's body in 55 feet of water, 150 feet from the shoreline of Karin Cove in the Big Backbone Inlet, the sheriff's office said. The county's coroner's office has taken custody of the body to determine the cause of death.
Lance Hough, a production coordinator with the church, said Murray was a longtime fixture there as both a pupil of its youth ministry and most recently as a counselor and mentor. His father and brother were also heavily involved with the church, which was on an annual trip with more than 200 high schoolers who stayed in rented houseboats on the lake, forming what they called a "floating city."
"To say this is a huge loss is putting it lightly," Hough said. "He was a really wonderful guy."
Hough said the church is already making plans to remember Murray in an upcoming Sunday service, and to provide counseling and support for the youths, who are expected to return early from the trip.
"Our primary focus is making sure the families have people to talk to — resources to cope with this loss," he said. "Jeremiah was a dedicated servant to this church. We're devastated."

MOTHER KILLS SON FOR DEMANDING CHOCOLATE IN UTTARPRADESH

LUCKNOW: A mother beat her six-year-old son to death in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli district for his repeated demands for chocolate, the police said Thursday.
"Bandana, 32, a resident of Janhia village, has been arrested for killing her son by repeatedly beating him with a wooden stick," police inspector Ashok Kumar Tiwari said over telephone.
"The body of the six-year-old was recovered Wednesday from bushes in the Balkishan locality in the village. Suspecting foul play, we looked into the matter and found that it was Bandana who was behind the killing," said Tiwari.
According to police, Bandana confessed that she killed her son in a fit of rage Tuesday. Even though she pleaded with her son, he remained adamant in his demand for a chocolate. Rae Bareli is about 80 km from Lucknow.

U.S EMLOYERS CUT 97,000 JOBS IN JULY : WARN OF MORE LAYOFFS

CHICAGO: Job cuts announced by US employers jumped 31 per cent in July to over 97,000,increasing for the first time in six months, warning of a further hike in downsizing activity by the last quarter of the year, a report said on Wednesday.

After falling to a 15-month low in June planned job cuts announced by US employers jumped to 97,373 in July. It was the first increase in monthly job cuts since January, global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc said here in its latest report.

"After June's surprisingly low job-cut total, a July rebound was not entirely unexpected. While there are signs that the economy is stabilising and the pace of layoffs slowing, we are still a long way from a full recovery. In fact, monthly job cuts are likely to return to levels in excess of 100,000 by the fourth quarter," Challenger, Gray & Christmas CEO John Challenger said.

Job cuts had fallen 33 per cent in June to 74,393, the lowest monthly total since March 2008. The July total was 6 per cent lower than the same month a year ago, when employers announced 1,03,312 cuts. So far this year, employers have announced 9,94,048 job cuts, 72 per cent more than 5,79,260 layoffs through the first seven months of 2008.

The July surge in job cuts was led by firms in the transportation industry, which announced plans to reduce payrolls by 27,954 positions, a five-fold increase from the June layoff total of 5,587.

The telecommunications sector also experienced an increase in layoffs last month with job cuts surging to 17,601 in July from 802 in June.

Meanwhile, the automotive sector, which leads all other industries in year-to-date job cuts with 1,22,212 layoffs has seen layoff announcements decline in each of the last three months. These companies announced 2,716 job cuts in July.

"Declining layoffs in the automotive industry may not be indicative of a turnaround. Instead, these employers simply may not have any room for additional job cuts if they hope to build new fleets of more eco-friendly cars," Challenger added.

With consumer and business spending at a standstill transportation companies have little choice but to make further cutbacks in staffing, it said, adding, that a surge in hiring could take place around the holidays.

Other sectors which saw downsizing during July are government/non-profit (7,131), industrial goods (6,548) and financial (5,030). While economic conditions and cost-cutting claimed over 58,000 jobs, voluntary severance led to 15,070 job cuts in July.

Employers also announced plans to hire a total of 17,183 employees with retail (14,200) and aerospace/defence (1,160) leading the pack.

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