Archive for June, 2007

3 June, 2007 | No comments

The head of strategy at IBM

“Yes, American workers are dislocated — perhaps permanently in the manufacturing sector and significantly among professional and white-collar employees whose jobs won’t return unless the country invests substantially in their retraining and education.”

# posted by OffshoreXperts.com : 11:20 PM 0 comments
Separating Outsourcing Fact from Hysteria
TCS: Tech Central Station reports the debate over outsourcing and its impact on the US economy reached a high level of what can only be described as irrationality, and even hysteria.

Outsourcing is not a new phenomenon, of course. Strictly speaking, the term refers to the subcontracting of any business function to an outside supplier, but in the current debate outsourcing to other companies within the home country is rarely mentioned. It is the offshore component that is controversial.

Estimates of the number of jobs involved vary wildly. The head of strategy at IBM, Bruce Harreld, has estimated that the world’s companies now spend $19 trillion per year on sales and other administrative costs, and of this only $1.4 trillion is outsourced. The McKinsey Global Institute suggests that offshore outsourcing may increase by 30-40 per cent a year for the next five years, while Forrester Research predicts that 3.3 million white-collar jobs may be relocated overseas by 2015. The potential cost savings involved are certainly very large. McKinsey has suggested the multinational companies can lower their costs by 50-70 per cent through the reorganization of their production and administrative activities. In the white-collar area, IT services are likely to be the most affected. Already some 16 per cent of such work is done remotely, and perhaps half of such jobs may move overseas in the near future.Arnie Herz, who has been called “one of New York’s most highly skilled and gifted mediators” by United States District Judge Carl Horn III, will be putting his own unique stamp on Blawg Review at Legal Sanity, the blog Arnie created to help lawyers achieve work-life balance and find reinvigorated meaning in their work.

For those of you who blog, if you’d like to help Arnie out and submit a blog post for his consideration as he prepares to deliver Blawg Review #108, here are the official Blawg Review submission guidelines.

In the meantime, Blawg Review #107 is hosted this week by the implacable Professor Kingfield. Sit up straight and make sure you’ve done your homework.

posted by Diane Levin @ 3:35 PM 0 comments
Monday, April 30, 2007
May 1 is Law Day: how will you celebrate it?

May 1 is Law Day–Celebrate!Two weeks ago I published a post explaining why I would not be observing One Day Blog Silence today, April 30, when many bloggers will be observing a collective day of silence in honor of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings along with others who have fallen to violence throughout the world.

# posted by OffshoreXperts.com : 2:02 AM 1 comments
Recruiting Overseas
Spokane Journal of Business reports American Industries International Inc., have been in the business of recruiting nurses, pharmacists, and high-tech engineers from foreign countries to work in the U.S. Though the 34-year Spokane resident says he has established business contacts in 35 countries, recruits so far have come solely from The Philippines and India.

“There is a dire shortage of nurses in the U.S.,” says Uddin. “At present, there is a shortage of 250,000 nurses in this country, and by the year 2020, the shortage is expected to jump up to 700,000 nurses. Washington state is currently short 6,000 nurses, and it is a proven fact that the higher the ratio of nurses, the lower the mortality rate.”

2 June, 2007 | No comments

cheesecake off the bottom

8-Milliners Gold Needles Size 10 #20936 $2.75

Remember all these things are available at Connecting Threads.com and they have been the cheapest and most reasonable quilting shop I have found out there yet.

Pray about it and then send in the above, you won’t be wrong in your decisison. After all, 911 is there to help you when you need them, won’t you help them now that they need you?

 

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To get the cheesecake off the bottom of the pan easily, grease the pan with cocoking spray, cut a circle from wax or parchment paper, line the bottom, then when removing, it will slide right off and you can just peel the paper away!
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If your cheesecake cracks on the top, try putting a baking dish on the bottom shelf 1/2 full of water below the cheesecake while you are bakinging it. Also, try adding a teaspoon of either flour or corstarch to the bater.
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To prevent lumps in the cheesecake, make sure your creamcheese and eggs are at room temperature when your mixing. Try setting them out for a few hours befor you make the cake. If you are mixing the batter and there are lumps, they will be in the cake, try leaving it for 1/2 an hour, then beat it again.

Any other questions, ask me and I can help! I have been making them so long to cure my cravings, I can fix just about any issue you may have when baking cheesecakes. Don’t be afraid, if they dont turn out looking like a professional baked it, taste it. Im sure it still has an amazing flavor. You can dress it up with a topping and then it looks and taste great.
I’m a little freaked out about ever having to have surgery. My mom suggested talking to a physician about it and to see if there is anyway to get tested. If I ever had to make the decision that Bev had, I would choose the same thing. The fact that she came through means that it is possible, it’s just a matter of will power.

posted by KaOs at 5/29/2007 05:56:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
I’ve Fallen in Love…
… with a car! I was saddened to turn in my rental car earlier (yesterday now I guess). What joy! What freedom! I went all around the island and only used up half a tank of gas!

The car was a Ford Focus hatchback. Before this, I would never have considered buying a Ford, I mean, Found On Road Dead. However the car handled splendidly and had plenty of zip. The leather seats helped the experience as well. My phobia of driving over overpasses and emerging from the Pali tunnel nearly disappeared. Parking in the ubiquitous compact spaces here was super easy. Best of all, when I was parked next to Kealoha’s similar sized hatchback on Sunday I realized the Focus was long enough to hold a surfboard (I’m really trying to get up the gumption to try surfing and make it a life habit). My friend Leslee has the non-hatchback version of the Focus and she said that it is definitely not a lemon and very easy to maintain.

posted by quilting1 @ 2:10 PM 0 comments
A great BIG thank you from Mississippi

I thought it appropriate to show one of the recent thank you cards I recieved from a dispatcher who received one of my quilts. It is always a blessing to hear back from someone that recieved one of my quitls and knowing how very much they enjoyed it!

Though it may be difficult to read, rest assured it is a genuine card and not something I made up myself!

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