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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Mid-Tier Outsourcing: Minefield or Greenfield? | ITOnews.eu
ISG research shows that mid-size organizations are increasingly turning to outsourcing IT systems and business processes to reduce costs, increase organizational agility and focus on core competencies. In other words, they outsource for the same reasons that their larger, global business counterparts do.
As relative newcomers to the sourcing marketplace, mid-tier businesses can potentially benefit from the experiences of more mature sourcing organizations ? by adopting established best practices, by leapfrogging to new technologies, and by avoiding mistakes of the past. That said, businesses with limited outsourcing experience often don?t know what they don?t know, and remain vulnerable to the pitfalls inherent in managing sourcing relationships.
This webinar will assess recent trends in the mid-tier sourcing marketplace. Specific topics addressed will include:
- Basic considerations faced by buyer organizations with differing levels of outsourcing experience
- Risks and opportunities around cloud, BPO and procurement
- Emerging trends in the service provider landscape
- Strategy options and key success factors
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Medical helicopter hit bad weather before crash
CHICAGO (AP) ? A medical helicopter pilot hit bad weather and was trying to return to the hospital hangar shortly before the aircraft crashed into a northern Illinois field, killing him and two nurses, authorities said Tuesday.
Pilot Andy Olesen radioed to dispatchers at Rockford Memorial Hospital that he was turning around because he had "encountered some weather" while heading to another hospital to pick up a patient Monday night, hospital spokesman Wester Wuori said.
Olesen, 65, and flight nurses Karen Hollis, 48, and Jim Dillow, 40, died when the plane crashed about 8:30 p.m. near Rochelle, about 70 miles west of Chicago. No patients were aboard at the time.
The Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.
National Weather Service observations showed light snow, seven-mile visibility and light winds in the Rochelle area around the time of the crash, meteorologist Jamie Enderlen said. She said the NWS usually worries about visibility of a mile or less, "but there could have been localized" weather at the point the helicopter turned around.
Wuori said he was not sure where the helicopter was when Olesen turned. It crashed several miles south of Rochelle.
The hospital issued a statement saying it was grieving for "three heroes who dedicated their careers to serving others."
"This is just a complete shock to everybody," Wuori said. "The crew ... worked with so many people."
Wuori said the hospital bought the helicopter in 1991 and it had a "perfect safety record up until last night." The hospital contracted with Colorado-based Air Methods for services, which included the pilot, maintenance and FAA certification.
The nurses were employed by the hospital.
Air Methods Vice President Craig Yale said the hospital's helicopter, an MBBK 117, was "a very reliable aircraft" and a "workhorse in our industry." He could not discuss the crash because of the ongoing investigation.
He also said that Olesen was an experienced pilot who had worked for the company for 19 years, after flying for the U.S. Army for 23 years.
"We are trying to recognize his professionalism," Yale said. "(Olesen) was a seasoned and professional pilot."
Rockford Memorial said Hollis was a critical care nurse who had worked at the hospital for more than 25 years. Dillow had worked there for 20 years with experience in critical care and in the emergency room.
Air Methods pledged its "full cooperation" with investigators.
"We extend our heartfelt sympathy to the family, colleagues and friends of those who perished in Illinois while on duty," Air Methods CEO Aaron Todd said in a written statement.
Yale said Air Methods is the world's largest medical air transport company. He said the company provides services to hospitals all over the country, and it was unusual for a hospital to own its own helicopter rather than contracting with the company for an aircraft.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/medical-helicopter-hit-bad-weather-crash-214224090.html
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Message on the occasion of International Human Rights Day 2012
(Forimmediaterelease.net) Seychelles Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jean-Paul Adam, delivered the following message on the occasion of International Human Rights Day:?On December 10, Seychelles joins the rest of the world to celebrate ?International Human Rights Day,? marking 64 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
?The promotion and protection of human rights has always been at the heart of our government?s policy, which recognizes that such rights are vested in each and every person. And as citizens of Seychelles, we also recognize that our rights under the Constitution are intertwined inextricably with our responsibilities.
?Adherence to the principles of liberty, democracy, and the rule of law are at the core of our national human rights strategies, which constitute the prerequisites for peace, development, and security in our society.
?This year?s theme for International Human Rights Day is ?inclusion and the right to participate in public life.? Every Seychellois has the right to have their voices heard, and to have a say in the decision making process which shapes their lives and their communities.
?It is in this spirit that wherever possible, the government engages in consultation at all levels to facilitate the participation of all segments of our society. However, I must admit that we can do a lot more.
?From our macro-economic reforms to the Indian Ocean Games, it is clear that Seychelles? success is always linked to maximum inclusion and participation by all.
?Creating the conditions for full participation in public life in our society implies that we must create the space for different ideas to be shared. This space starts in the relations between two people in whatever discipline in life (and so we must actively foster the principles of good neighborliness and respect for one another in our communities). This space must thrive within our schools and public institutions. This space must grow and widen its scope within our media. This space must also exist at the international level, and this has also inspired our own bid for the Security Council in 2017, as we believe strongly that every voice counts.
Full participation in public life also means that we, as a nation, categorically reject and condemn discrimination in all its forms and the barriers it can create in our society. The government is fully engaged to achieve this through the various mechanisms already in place and more to be set up as will be identified by the National Human Right Action Plan which is currently being developed.
The creation of the Human Rights Treaty Committee is part of the government?s wider strategy to create more awareness of human rights conventions and their relevance in our national context. Seychelles? commitment to human rights is reflected in the progress made in achieving the recommendations of the Universal Periodic Review, which Seychelles undertook last year. This includes issuing an open invitation to the Special Procedures of the United Nations last month.
?Our progress and achievements should never make us complacent, however. There are a number of areas in which we must redouble our efforts - not just to meet the requirements of reports or treaties - but to ensure that we are truly creating the space for inclusion and participation at a national level.
?The pursuit of guaranteeing every Seychellois the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of human rights, and in our own Constitution, can only be achieved through the collective action of our people.
?Let us mark this year?s Human Rights Day by embarking on a journey to foster to a culture of tolerance, acceptance, and non-discrimination for all.
?It starts with each and every one of us.?
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Source: http://www.forimmediaterelease.net/pm/8017.html
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A Little More Re: Writing For Free ? Whatever
To address a few things asked to me in e-mail, comments here and out on the Internets, about my previous entry on writing for free (and why I don?t):
1. I was asked if I?ve ever worked for free, and the answer is: No, not really. I started getting paid for writing while I was in college, took a job at newspaper, then went to AOL, and then went freelance for corporations and non-profits, then started writing books. Pretty much through all that time I got paid because I didn?t see the point in writing for other folks if they weren?t going to pay me, because this is what I did to make money. Not taking on work that didn?t pay me left me time to look for work that did pay me.
Now, you could probably argue that I was fortunate in that I never had to take on work that didn?t make me money, and I wouldn?t argue the point; I?ve always acknowledged that I?ve been very lucky in my career. However, luck has a lot to do with the particular choices we make and the circumstances that arise from those choices. I made the particular choice to get paid for my work, and not to do work for people who won?t pay me. One result of that is that in my career I?ve moved through circles of people in which it is understood that when people work, they get paid for it.
2. But what about charity and/or friends and/or [insert what you think is a good reason not to take money here]? Well, what about them? I?ll note that when I approach friends about doing work for me, I typically pay them for their time. I mean, you don?t think Paul & Storm or Jonathan Coulton wrote those songs for me for free, did you? No, I paid them. Do you think Jeff Zugale did that awesome Unicorn Pegasus Kitten painting out of the kindness of his own heart, or the writers of Clash of the Geeks did it for nothing? No, everyone was paid. Why do I pay them? Because when I do work, I like to get paid, so I assume my friends who are creative people like to get paid too.
As for charity, well, if it?s the actual charity group, the organization probably has a budget, and my work falls under that. If I do the work pro bono, then I get a nifty tax deduction, which counts as compensation for my time, but a charity would be foolish to assume that I should expect that to be the entirety of my compensation. Alternately there are times when I?ll decide to do something for a charitable reason without getting paid for it, but that?s me deciding to do it, not the organization asking me to; typically the organization is surprised when I show up with money for them because they didn?t know it was coming.
As for any other reason you might think of, look: When I want to write for fun, then I do it. But when people come to me ? especially people I don?t know ? looking for writing, they?re asking for work. The work might have the potential to be fun, or interesting, or morally edifying or whatever, but it?s still work, and the bright line for work is this: You want work? You have to pay. Because it?s my skill and talent and expertise and time you are asking for, and they are all worth something.
3. Over at Metafilter, where there?s a thread open on this topic, someone asks: ?I dunno, couldn?t he just write a form letter and send it to people?? The response: What do you think that entry was? I wrote it to point people at. It serves other purposes too (as people on that thread have also noted), but one very big reason to write it is to point free-seekers at later, so I don?t have write all this crap again, or at least, not for a few more years.
But of course the other reason to do it this way is that I have a voice and an audience, a non-trivial portion of whom are writers and other creative people, and I think it?s useful for someone who?s had a reasonable amount of success in his chosen creative field to say this sort of stuff out loud. The sort of person who expects work for free, and/or preys on creative people by trying to convince them that working for free ?is how it?s done? benefits when creative people are publicly silent about this sort of crap. So this is me saying to creators: Guys, in fact this is not how it?s done, and you deserve to be paid for your work. It?s also me saying to people who prey on creators: Fuck you. Pay me. Pay us.
4. Also, of course, some people think that way I said it wasn?t nice. Bah. It?s as nice as it should be. You want me to do work but you don?t want to pay me? What sort of response should you expect? A hug? Fuck you! Pay me!
5. That ?Fuck you. Pay me.? icon above? Feel free to take it; right click on it and save it to your own computer. Use it, love it, send it to people who want you to work for free. No, I don?t expect you to pay me for it. But that?s because I did it for myself, for fun, and now I want to share it with you. That makes a difference, it does.
Source: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/12/10/a-little-more-re-writing-for-free/
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Part-time workers dream of full-time jobs
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Bonnie Gray knows there are people out there who are worse off than she is. After all, at least she has a job.
?It?s just not a full-time gig.
Like many other Americans, she works part time and it?s barely enough to pay for food, fuel and shelter.
Millions of?Americans were working part?time in November but they?would like to have been working full time. These so-called ?involuntary part-time workers? are an example of some of the stubborn pockets of weakness that remain in the labor market even as the jobs picture improves very slowly.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that nearly 8.2 million people classified themselves as involuntary part-time workers in November, meaning that they settled for less work because they couldn?t get more. That?s around double the number of involuntary part-timers in 2006, before the nation went into recession and entered a prolonged period of weak recovery.
A separate group of more than 18?million people were working part-time in November?for noneconomic reasons, either because they are in school or they?want to spend more time with their children, for example.
The number of people who are involuntarily underemployed has gone down since it hit 9 million in?the depths of the recession, but progress has been slow and rocky.
'A demand problem'
For people like Gray, 63,?improvement can?t come soon enough.
Gray, who lives in Cary, Ill., for years worked two jobs: a full-time administrative job and, for extra money, a part-time cashier job at a major home retailer. She was laid off from her full-time position, which paid close to $16 an hour, in January of 2012.
She was left with a part-time job that?pays $12.40 an hour. That plus some unemployment compensation she receives is barely enough to cover her mortgage and other expenses. She sometimes relies on her church for food, and worries about what will happen when the unemployment runs out at the end of the year.
She?s spent nearly a year looking for another receptionist or administrative position.
?I?m on the computer, it seems, 24/7. I am networking. I?ve walked out my resume to 83 companies,? she said. She?s also?taken classes on how to interview and on invoicing, and she?plans to take another one on PowerPoint.
She?s had many job interviews in the past 12 months, but no full-time job offer.
Gray said she can?t work any more hours as a cashier because a tumor on her foot makes it difficult to stand for a long time.
According to her doctor, the mass isn?t cancerous, she said, but she can?t afford to have it removed. Her insurance as a part-time worker wouldn?t be enough to cover the procedure and rehabilitation.
Gray will turn 64 in February, which means she won?t qualify for Medicare for another year. Until then, she said, she needs a job that offers health insurance.
She?s hoping to avoid dipping into Social Security for as long as possible because the longer she waits, the more she stands to collect.
?I was actually hoping to hang on until 70,? she said.
She may still be in for a tough slog. Heidi Shierholz, a labor economist with the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said the basic issue plaguing involuntary part-time workers like Gray is the same one plaguing the overall labor market: There?s just not enough demand to compel employers to add to their labor costs?substantially.
Shierholz said she expects involuntary part-time workers to gradually see improvements?but ?it is a going to take a long time.?
?I think by far the dominant reason that we aren?t seeing employment in both dimensions ? full (time)? people or ramping up hours for workers that already are there -- is just a demand problem,? she said.
Once employers have more work that needs to be done, they?ll add more hours for people to do it.
'Now I have to watch everything'
Debbie Fiore doesn?t see that happening any time soon at the small company where she works.
Fiore, who lives in Nottingham, Md., lost her full-time job with a long-term care company nearly two years ago, and has?struggled for more than a year to find another job.
A friend connected her with a small company that hired and trained her for an accounts payable and receivable job. She works about 25 hours a week and makes about half what she used to.
Fiore, who turns 57 this week, and her husband struggle to pay their bills. It?s not the situation she envisioned they would be in heading into their golden years.
?We?re basically living paycheck to paycheck. We?re not able to save anything for the future at this point. There?s hardly any emergency money if an emergency comes up,? she said.
She?s immensely grateful for the job she has, and said she loves the work. But financial worries weigh heavily on her.
?I think my attitude, my demeanor has changed,? she said. ?I used to be a very carefree, fun person, and now I have to watch everything.?
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Woman Gives Birth At Rosamond Gifford Zoo Near Bear Exhibit
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- An upstate New York zoo got a surprise visit from the stork.
A woman gave birth on a wildlife path at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse on Friday, delivering her baby girl with the help of zookeepers not far from the bear exhibit.
Other zoo workers arrived with blankets to keep mom and baby warm.
The zoo's elephant expert herded away curious zoo patrons.
An ambulance soon arrived to take the newborn to a hospital. Zoo Director Ted Fox says the zoo plans to send a gift to the family.
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