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It has been suggested that Business process outsourcing be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since May 2012. |
Outsourcing is the contracting out of an internal business process to a third-party organization. The term "outsourcing" became popular in the United States near the turn of the 21st century. Outsourcing sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another, but not always.[1]
The definition of outsourcing includes both foreign and domestic contracting,[2] and sometimes includes offshoring, which means relocating a business function to another country.[3] Financial savings from lower international labor rates is a big motivation for outsourcing/offshoring.
The opposite of outsourcing is called insourcing, which entails bringing processes handled by third-party firms in-house, and is sometimes accomplished via vertical integration. However, a business can provide a contract service to another business without necessarily insourcing that business process.
Two organizations may enter into a contractual agreement involving an exchange of services and payments. Outsourcing is said to help firms to perform well in their core competencies and mitigate shortage of skill or expertise in the areas where they want to outsource.[4]
In the early 21st century, businesses increasingly outsourced to suppliers outside their own country, sometimes referred to as offshoring or offshore outsourcing. Several related terms have emerged to refer to various aspects of the complex relationship between economic organizations or networks, such as nearshoring, crowdsourcing, multisourcing[5][6] and strategic outsourcing.[7]
Outsourcing can offer greater budget flexibility and control. Outsourcing lets organizations pay for only the services they need, when they need them. It also reduces the need to hire and train specialized staff, brings in fresh engineering expertise, and reduces capital and operating expenses.[8]
One of the biggest changes in the early 21st century came from the growth of groups of people using online technologies to use outsourcing as a way to build a viable service delivery business that can be run from virtually anywhere in the world. The preferential contract rates that can be obtained by temporarily employing experts in specific areas to deliver elements of a project purely online means that there is a growing number of small businesses that operate entirely online using offshore contractors to deliver the work before repackaging it to deliver to the end user. One common area where this business model thrives is in providing website creation, analysis and marketing services. All elements can be done remotely and delivered digitally, and service providers can leverage the scale and economy of outsourcing to deliver high-value services at reduced end-customer prices.
Reasons for outsourcing[edit]
Companies outsource to avoid certain types of costs. They outsource the non core activities. Among the reasons companies elect to outsource include avoidance of burdensome regulations, high taxes, high energy costs, and unreasonable costs that may be associated with defined benefits in labor-union contracts and taxes for government-mandated benefits. Perceived or actual gross margin in the short run incentivizes a company to outsource. With reduced short-run costs, executive management sees the opportunity for short-run profits, while the income growth of the consumer base is strained.[2] This motivates companies to outsource for lower labor costs. However, the company may or may not incur unexpected costs to train these overseas workers.[9] Lower regulatory costs are an addition to companies saving money when outsourcing. On comparative costs, a U.S. employer typically incurs higher defined benefit costs associated with taxes to account for social security, Medicare, safety protection (OSHA regulations) and FICA taxes etc. than in other countries.[10] On comparative CEO pay, executive pay in the United States in 2007 was more than 400 times more than average workers—a gap 20 times bigger than it was in 1965.[11] In 2011, twenty-six of the largest US corporations paid more to CEO's than they paid in federal taxes.[12] However, it appears companies do not outsource to reduce executive or managerial costs.
Companies may seek internal savings to focus money and resources towards core business. A company may outsource its landscaping functions irrelevant to the core business.[13] Companies and public entities may outsource certain specialized functions, such as payroll, to ADP or Ceridian. Companies may find the same level of consumer satisfaction.[14][15]
Import marketers may make short-run profits from cheaper overseas labor and currency mainly in wealth-consuming sectors at the long-run expense of an economy's wealth-producing sectors, thus straining the home country's tax base, income growth, and increasing the debt burden. When companies offshore products and services, those jobs may leave the home country for foreign countries, at the expense of the wealth-producing sectors.[2] Outsourcing may increase the risk of leakage and reduce confidentiality, as well as introduce additional privacy and security concerns.[16][17]
Management processes[edit]
Greater physical distance between higher management and the production-floor employees often requires a change in management methodologies, as inspection and feedback may not be as direct and frequent as in internal processes. This often requires the assimilation of new communication methods such as Voice over ip, Instant messaging, and Issue Tracking Systems, new Time management methods such as Time Tracking Software, and new cost- and schedule-assessment tools such as Cost Estimation Software.
Quality of service (QoS)[edit]
Quality of service is best measured through customer satisfaction questionnaires which are designed to capture an unbiased view.[18]
Language skills[edit]
In the area of call centers end-user-experience is deemed to be of lower quality when a service is outsourced. This is exacerbated when outsourcing is combined with offshoring to regions where the first language and culture are different.[19]
Foreign call center agents may speak with different linguistic features such as accents, word use and phraseology, which may impede comprehension. The visual clues that are missing in a telephone call may lead to misunderstandings and difficulties.[20]
Before outsourcing, an organization is responsible for the actions of their entire staff, sometimes a substantial liability. When these same people are transferred to an outsourcer, they may not even change desks. But their legal status changes. They are no longer directly employed by (and responsible to) the organization. This creates legal, security and compliance issues that are often addressed through the contract between the client and the suppliers. This is one of the most complex areas of outsourcing and sometimes involves a specialist third-party adviser.
Fraud is a specific security issue as well as a criminal activity, whether it is by employees or the supplier staff. However, it can be disputed that fraud is more likely when outsourcers are involved, for example credit-card theft when there is the opportunity for fraud by credit-card cloning. In April 2005, a high-profile case involving the theft of $350,000 from four Citibank customers occurred when call-center workers acquired the passwords to customer accounts and transferred the money to their own accounts opened under fictitious names. Citibank did not find out about the problem until the American customers noticed discrepancies with their accounts and notified the bank.[21]
Qualifications of outsourcers[edit]
In the engineering discipline, there has been a debate about the number of engineers being produced by the major economies of the United States, India and China. The argument centers around the definition of an engineering graduate and also the disputed numbers. The closest comparable numbers of annual graduates of four-year degrees are United States (137,437) India (112,000) and China (351,537).[22][23]
Companies looking to outsource their engineering activities should evaluate the capabilities of the providers. There are many benchmarking reports by independent research and consulting firms which analyze the vendors' capabilities.[citation needed]
The early trend in outsourcing was seen in financial constructs where a function's associated capital and personnel were sold to a vendor and then rented back over a series of years. Early benefits were a boost in expertise and efficiency as outsource vendors had more focus and capability in their specialization. As time progressed, the year 0 benefit was off the books, customer needs evolved and contracts generally aged poorly. Rigid contracts hampered the ability of customers to respond to emerging business drivers, and simultaneously tied the hands of the vendor's team who was focused on increased efficiencies for static problems. The result tended to be additional "project" contracts for incremental changes in a monopoly environment. Many deals became contentious, and many customers have become very uncomfortable surrendering so much power to a single vendor. As the contract aged, it became increasingly difficult to even negotiate with vendors with confidence, because the customer began to lack any real knowledge of the cost structure of the function, or the competitive situation of the vendor.
Industry leaders turned to each other, trade journals and management consultants to try to regain control of the situation, and the next answer that grabbed hold of the industry was labor cost arbitration; leveraging cheap, offshore resources to replace or pressure increasingly expensive legacy outsource vendors. Pressure led incumbent vendors to move resources offshore, or to be replaced wholesale. As this renegotiation was under way, many customers seized the opportunity to restructure to gain more control, transparency and negotiating power. The end result has been fragmentation of outsource contracts and a decline in mega-deals. Many companies are now relying on several vendors who each offer specialization and / or lowest cost.
Outsourcing has gone through many iterations and reinventions. Some outsourcing deals have been partially or fully reversed, citing an inability to execute strategy, lost transparency & control, onerous contractual models, a lack of competition, recurring costs, hidden costs, and so on. Many companies are now moving to more tailored models where along with outsource vendor diversification, key parts of what was previously outsourced has been insourced. Insourcing has been identified as a means to ensure control, compliance and to gain competitive differentiation through vertical integration or the development of shared services [commonly called a 'center of excellence']. Insourcing at some level also tends to be leveraged to enable organizations to undergo significant transformational change.[citation needed]
Further, the label outsourcing has been found to be used for too many different kinds of exchange in confusing ways. For example, global software development, which often involves people working in different countries, cannot simply be called outsourcing. The outsourcing-based market model fails to explain why these development projects are jointly developed, and not simply bought and sold in the marketplace. Recently, a study has identified an additional system of governance, termed algocracy, that appears to govern global software projects alongside bureaucratic and market-based mechanisms. The study[24] distinguishes code-based governance system from bureaucracy and the market, and underscores the prominent features of each organizational form in terms of its ruling mechanism: bureaucracy (legal-rational), the market (price), and algocracy (programming or algorithm). So, global software development projects, though not insourced, are not outsourced either. They are in-between, in a process that is sometimes termed Remote In-Sourcing. Projects are developed together where a common software platform allows different teams around the world to work on the same project together.
Standpoint of labor[edit]
From the standpoint of labor, outsourcing may represent a new threat, contributing to worker insecurity, and is reflective of the general process of globalization and economic polarization (economics).[25]
On June 26, 2009, Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, called for the United States to increase its manufacturing base employment to 20% of the workforce, commenting that the U.S. has outsourced too much and can no longer rely on consumer spending to drive demand.[26]
Standpoint of government[edit]
Western governments may attempt to compensate workers affected by outsourcing through various forms of legislation. In Europe, the Acquired Rights Directive attempts to address the issue. The Directive is implemented differently in different nations. In the United States, the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act is meant to provide compensation for workers directly affected by international trade agreements. Whether or not these policies provide the security and fair compensation they promise is debatable.
Policy-Making Strategy[edit]
A main feature of outsourcing influencing policy-making is the unpredictability it generates regarding the future of any particular sector or skill-group. The uncertainty of future conditions influences governance approaches to different aspects of long-term policies.
Competitiveness Strategy[edit]
Economic growth requires change, therefore a governance disposed to helping social and economic structures adapt to the changing environment will facilitate growth and a stable transition to new economic structures.[27] In less economically developed countries, policies which embrace the global phenomenon of outsourcing are a natural response to the ongoing movement towards open markets and trade liberalization. Outsourcing complements trade liberalization strategies not only by promoting technological spillovers and capital inflows but also by offsetting the increasing levels of unemployment which result from opening up domestic markets. As prices adjust to those in the global market they no longer reflect domestic productivity, driving lower-productivity firms in the previously protected sectors out of business. Economic theorists argue that the resulting unemployment is only temporary as workers readjust and are eventually incorporated into the country's most productive sectors, namely those which enjoy a competitive edge over other players in the international market. Nonetheless, rapid liberalization of markets in developing nations has not maximized the productivity potential of the region. In the Global South, where technological development is drastically lower than in the North, the redeployment of human and capital resources into new export markets has not come at the cost of necessarily low-productivity sectors but rather underdeveloped ones. In other words, many of the previously protected sectors were not competitive yet on a global scale, not because they naturally lacked the comparative advantage, but because industry efficiency had not yet been reached.[28] In such cases where liberalization stunts the growth of potential industries, unemployment is a reflection of many underemployed resources. Outsourcing fills in the gap of receding protected national industries, improving employment and living standards. Among other economic externalities, outsourcing promotes capital inflows and infrastructure. In Mexico, wage convergence was faster in cities where outsourcing first took hold through maquiladoras, along the US-Mexican border. Studies suggest that for every 10% increase in US wages, northern cities in Mexico which are most influenced by outsourcing would experience wage rises of 2.5%, about 0.69% higher than in inner cities.[29] Corruption and reduced tax revenues after signing the NAFTA Treaty have limited the economic resources available to the Mexican government, thus explaining the difference in investment policies between Mexico and China.[28] Conversely, one of the successes of Asian countries in the twentieth century has been their promotion of higher rates of saving and investment. Studies suggest that the increase in capital input fueled the 'Asian miracle' rather than improvements in productivity and industrial efficiency. Though the previous conclusion suggests production conditions in the region remained static, the situation in East Asia experienced rapid transformations. Not only were national educational rates raised drastically, but there was also an increase in patenting and research and development expenditures. Rising levels of education, urbanization and even of patenting illustrate the active role of the government in advancing education as well as encouraging research and development.[30]
Education Strategy[edit]
Jobs become outsourced not based on the skill-level group it represents, but rather based on a variety of other factors including transportation cost of ideas, wage and labour productivity edge.[27] Because of the overall uncertainty regarding the future dynamics of outsourcing it is not possible to predict the nature of labour demand in different regions. To better prepare the domestic workforce to future industry demands, therefore, national education programs ought to focus on flexibility and diversity of skills rather than on any specific task-oriented skills. Emphasis should go on preparing students both to succeed in non-habitual tasks and to adapt to changes in labour demands in the market.[31] A specific goal that ought to be adopted is teaching students how to learn rather than teach them particular skills. This strategy would help students adapt to changing skill requirements in the future thus reducing friction from structural unemployment.[27]
Welfare State Strategy[edit]
The uncertainty regarding the domestic productivity edge renders caution a key element of governance to ensure a sustainable regional development. Together with helping the unemployed re-enter the work force and smoothly transition into high-demand labour opportunities – potentially through re-training programs –, the government should also address the socioeconomic struggle and other welfare concerns of displaced employees.[32] Negative welfare effects of outsourcing have gathered substantial public attention. The possibility of outsourcing has internationalized labour markets which used to be local, opening up jobs which were traditionally non-traded to international competition. The resulting combination of lower wages and unemployment for certain jobs has driven the perceived 'losers' to engage in heated political debate. Labour unions in the European Union have succeeded in pushing through protectionist policies in favour or lower-skilled groups throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including the Common Agricultural Policy on farming.[27] Interest groups opposing outsourcing have been more active to voice their disapproval because the negative outcomes of the phenomenon are more concentrated on specific groups of people, namely those losing jobs to external competition, whereas the benefits from it become dissipated among the population at large. Overall lower prices and greater quality and variety of goods in domestic markets are some of the benefits of exploiting a country's comparative advantage through outsourcing. Unlike the alleged 'losers' from outsourcing, those affected positively by it lack the motivation to organize to voice their support. There has been a wave of protectionism concerned with deep changes in the social structure allegedly imposed on the global system through globalization and outsourcing. The activists see a readjustment of class systems and highlight an increased fracture in societies between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' as different groups adjust to increasingly or decreasingly advantageous positions in the system of outsourcing. Opponents of outsourcing have also denounced it as a threat to local cultural integrity. The argument on cultural disintegration points to the standardization of practices and norms as multinational corporations become involved with industries in regions culturally different from those in the country of origin. The alleged diffusion of culture has raised concern over the endurance of cultural norms and values, sociopolitical institutions and frameworks, or even cultural preferences and traditions in a context of increasing foreign presence.[33] Increased uncertainty regarding future socioeconomic security ought to be met with policies promoting equality and a fair redistribution of economic gains for a government to maintain its voters' favour. Because of overall unpredictability, governments will likely need to reassure civilians that the burden of employment jobs resulting from outsourcing will be shared among taxpayers.[27] The fluctuations in employment levels are determined by the types of jobs which can be profitably outsourced or offshored. Domestic jobs become offshored or outsourced when lower productivity in other regions is compensated by lower wages, making outsourcing profitable even despite the added costs of transportation. The overall cost-effectiveness of the spatial unbundling of the industrial process thus depends on the cost of transporting specific services or ideas given the available technology. Because of this reason technological advancements such as the telecommunications revolution, air shipping or the Internet have deeply accelerated outsourcing and may continue to boost this process. The future results of technological ingenuity and innovation are unknown, as are its potential impacts employment levels on any given task or job across regions.[27] In the Global South, policies attracting multinational corporations can help increase employment levels and promote growth. Governments which pursue such strategies facilitate welfare protection given the context of increased unemployment in industries which cannot compete with the international market due to trade liberalization policies.[28]
Industrial Policy[edit]
Outsourcing results from an internationalization of labour markets as more tasks become tradable. According to leading economist Greg Mankiw, the labour market functions under the same forces as the market of goods, with the underlying implication that the greater the number of tasks available to being moved, the better for efficiency under the gains from trade. With technological progress, more tasks can be offshored at different stages of the overall corporate process.[34]
Environmental Policy[edit]
There are widespread claims that outsourcing has pushed environmental standards down in developing regions as countries compete to attract foreign projects and investment. Similar to lower wages, lower health and environmental regulations contribute to giving a country a comparative advantage over another due to lower production costs. The controversy this raises, however, is that unlike wages, lower health or environmental standards does benefit the new employees joining the workforce. Import competition has caused a de facto 'race-to-the-bottom' where countries lower environmental regulations to secure a competitive edge for their industries relative to other countries. As Mexico competes with China over Canadian and American markets, its national Commission for Environmental Cooperation has not been active in enacting or enforcing regulations to prevent environmental damage from increasingly industrialized Export Processing Zones. Similarly, since the signing of NAFTA heavy industries have increasingly moved to the US which has a comparative advantage due to its abundant presence capital and well-developed technology. A further example of environmental de-regulation with the objective of protecting trade incentives have been the numerous exemptions to carbon taxes in European countries during the 1990s. The evidence suggests that even if outsourcing has promoted lower environmental protection, there are no intrinsic geographic implications that the Global South has been more negatively affected than the North. o Although outsourcing can influence environmental de-regulatory trends, the added cost of preventing pollution does not majorly determine trade flows or industrialization.[35]
Globalization and Socio-Economic Implications[edit]
Global Inequality and Development[edit]
Outsourcing has contributed to further levelling of global inequalities as it has led to general trends of industrialization in the Global South and deindustrialization in the Global North.
Even though outsourcing has promoted a movement of industrial sites from the Global North to Global South regions, it has not been the only reason for the concurrent deindustrialization and industrialization of the North and South respectively. Deindustrialization in more economically and technologically developed regions has also been affected by increased industrial productivity.[36]
The rise in industrial efficiency which characterized development in developed countries has occurred as a result of labour-saving technological improvements. Although these improvements do not directly reduce employment levels but rather increase output per unit of work, they can indirectly diminish the amount of labour required for fixed levels of output.[37] Likewise, a trending shift in demand towards non-tradable services such as those in the health-care or government sectors has further accelerated deindustrialization in the Global North. Since these tasks cannot be outsourced, the demand for them needs to be met domestically abiding by the local market price. Consequently, a shift in the labour force towards fulfilling these profitable services has mostly taken place at the expense of industry since the agricultural sector in the early industrializing Global North had already been maximizing its labour capacity.[36]
Despite the variety of domestic and international factors affecting deindustrialization in the Global North, those concerning the external influence of the global market have been the most influential ones since 1994.[38]
The recent industrialization process outsourcing has encouraged in the Global South has taken place at a much faster pace than it did during its beginnings in the North, given that the well-developed technology was already developed, and merely spread to further regions.[36]
Growth and Income[edit]
The almost simultaneous industrialization of the developing Global South and deindustrialization of the more developed Global North resulted in an international convergence of incomes.
Outsourcing has been characterized by rapid rates of growth and industrialization in the Global South. Conversely, the Global North has experienced a moderate slowdown in growth. Patterns of global industrialization and deindustrialization are explained by a combination of models in economic geography and economic growth. Models in economic geography illustrate that decreasing communication costs reduce the spatial clustering of industrial development. The lower cost to the spread of ideas improved coordination and communication within corporations across greater geographic distances. This process originated roughly after the international chaos of the World Wars, as a consequence of advancements in information technology during the 1960s. Further adaptations to technological progress, particularly the spread of the internet and liberalization of the telecommunications industry, permitted an acceleration of the movement of ideas and consequently of outsourcing since about the 1980s.[36]
The pace of urbanization in the Global North decreased considerably relative to its high levels following the Industrial Revolution. Rates of urban growth have been higher in the Global South.[39]
Outsourcing emerged with a new wave of globalization marked by high volumes of trade and capital flows. The increased movement of capital and goods contrasted starkly with the barriers and protectionism prevalent throughout the World Wars and the Great Depression during the Interwar Years.[36]
The level of migration has remained relatively low, particularly compared to the mass migratory trends which characterized the Industrial Revolution roughly between 1850 and 1914.[36]
Domestic Inequality[edit]
Outsourcing in the Global North led to a rising divergence in domestic employment levels in different tasks within a given industry, making tackling unemployment more difficult for governments as job losses ceased to be primarily sectoral.[36]
By country[edit]
United States[edit]
"Outsourcing" became a popular political issue in the United States, having been conflated with offshoring, during the 2004 U.S. presidential election. The political debate centered on outsourcing's consequences for the domestic U.S. workforce. Democratic U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry criticized U.S. firms that outsource jobs abroad or that incorporate overseas in tax havens to avoid paying their "fair share" of U.S. taxes during his 2004 campaign, calling such firms "Benedict Arnold corporations".[40]
Criticism of outsourcing, from the perspective of U.S. citizens, generally revolves around the costs associated with transferring control of the labor process to an external entity in another country. A Zogby International poll conducted in August 2004 found that 71% of American voters believed that "outsourcing jobs overseas" hurt the economy while another 62% believed that the U.S. government should impose some legislative action against companies that transfer domestic jobs overseas, possibly in the form of increased taxes on companies that outsource.[41] One prediction (from 2010) claims that, by 2014, more than 1.3 million positions will disappear because of "the accelerated movement of work to India …" and some other countries willing to accept outsourced jobs.[42] President Obama promoted an act titled 'Bring Jobs Home Act' that would help reshore jobs by giving incentives such as a tax cut or a 20 percent tax credit for moving operations back to the USA.[43]
Union busting is one possible cause of outsourcing. As unions are disadvantaged by union busting legislation, workers lose bargaining power and it becomes easier for corporations to fire them and ship their job overseas.[44]
Another given[by whom?] rationale is the high corporate income tax rate in the U.S. relative to other OECD nations,[45][46][47] and the practice of taxing revenues earned outside of U.S. jurisdiction, a very uncommon practice. However, outsourcing is not solely a U.S. phenomenon as corporations in various nations with low tax rates outsource as well, which means that high taxation can only partially, if at all, explain US outsourcing. For example, the amount of corporate outsourcing in 1950 would be considerably lower than today, yet the tax rate was actually higher in 1950.[48]
It is argued[by whom?] that lowering the corporate income tax and ending the double-taxation of foreign-derived revenue (taxed once in the nation where the revenue was raised, and once from the U.S.) will alleviate corporate outsourcing and make the U.S. more attractive to foreign companies. However, while the US has a high official tax rate, the actual taxes paid by US corporations may be considerably lower due to the use of tax loopholes, tax havens, and "gaming the system".[49] Rather than avoiding taxes, outsourcing may be mostly driven by the desire to lower labor costs (see standpoint of labor above). Sarbanes-Oxley has also been cited as a factor for corporate flight from U.S. jurisdiction.
European Union[edit]
Where outsourcing involves the transfer of an undertaking, it is subject to Council Directive 77/187 of 14 February 1977, on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees' rights in the event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of businesses (as amended by Directive 98/50/EC of 29 June 1998; consolidated in Directive 2001/23 of 12 March 2001).[50] Under that directive, rights acquired by employees with the former employer are to be safeguarded when they, together with the undertaking in which they are employed, are transferred to another employer, i.e. the contractor. An example of a case involving such contracting-out was the decision of the European Court of Justice in Christel Schmidt v. Spar- und Leihkasse der früheren Ämter Bordesholm, Kiel und Cronshagen, Case C-392/92 [1994]. Although subsequent decisions have disputed whether a particular contracting-out exercise constituted a transfer of an undertaking (see, for example, Ayse Süzen v. Zehnacker Gebäudereinigung GmbH Krankenhausservice, Case C-13/95 [1997]), in principle, employees of an enterprise outsourcing part of its activities in which they are employed may benefit from the protection offered by the directive.
Seeking to implement the cost-cutting solutions, many Western European firms have been transferring tech projects eastward. For example, Deutsche Bank has some of its software developed in Ukraine, Siemens possess R&D center in Romania. Europe Outsourcing has produced outstanding results and henceforward they are increasing them in numbers.[citation needed]
Despite unfavorable economic conditions from 2007 to 2009, the outsourcing services market continued to flourish in Central and Eastern European. In 2008 when the inflow of investment in Western Europe was down by 48%, it fell by only 9% in Central and Eastern Europe. In Poland alone, during 2009, the year following the global economic downturn, approximately 10,000 jobs were created in business process outsourcing (BPO).[citation needed]
Co-sourcing is a business practice where a service is performed by staff from inside an organization and also by an external service provider.[51][52] It can be a service performed in concert with a client's existing internal audit department. The scope of work may focus on one or more aspects of the internal audit function. Co-sourcing can serve to minimize sourcing risks, increase transparency, clarity and lend toward better control over the processes outsourced.[citation needed]
Examples of co-sourcing services are supplementing the in-house internal audit staff with specialised skill such as information risk management or integrity services, providing routine assistance to in-house auditing for operations and control evaluations in peak period activity and conduct special projects such as fraud investigation or plant investment appraisals. Another example of co-sourcing is outsourcing part of software development or software maintenance activities to an external organization, while keeping part of the development in-house.
Identity management co-sourcing[edit]
It is an approach to enterprise identity management in which the identity service interacts directly or through some technical footprint with an organization's Information Technology (IT) identity backend infrastructure (directories, databases, and other identity repositories). The organization and the external service provider typically have a shared responsibility for building, hosting and operating the identity service. The balance of this responsibility can vary depending on the service levels required, and span from an all on-premise deployment, where the identity service is built, hosted and operated within the organization's IT infrastructure and managed on-premise by the external service provider. This contrasts with an "all in-the-cloud" service scenario, where the identity service is built, hosted and operated by the service provider in an externally hosted, cloud computing infrastructure.
Counterwave outsourcing[edit]
There has been a recent overturn of the tendency to outsource. The most recent trends in outsourcing and offshoring have been precisely the opposite force as companies are drifting back to perform tasks themselves and develop facilities back in their home Western locations.
Many firms are undoing their steps in outsourcing because the consequences were not entirely as expected. The circumstances which allow firms to unbundle the different tasks or stages of its manufacturing process into different locations have not been fully determined. Though the nature of the tasks plays a role determining their interconnectedness, other factors such as innovation in the manufacturing process or advances in transport and communication technology also affect the need for direct contact among employees. As the process which ties tasks together within firms remains unclear, there is a degree of uncertainty about which tasks need to remain geographically clustered together. In many cases firms took risks experimenting with outsourcing while lacking a firm understanding of the relationship among internal tasks and its spatial implications.[36]
Despite saving money, companies have often faced unexpected drawbacks from outsourcing, such as miscommunication or lower quality of intermediate products, which end up delaying the overall production process. According to a Deloitte Consulting survey carried out in 2005, a quarter of the companies which had outsourced tasks had to reverse their strategy. Many big companies like Lenovo are increasingly considering turning around strategies of outsourcing.[53]
Another reason for a decrease in outsourcing is that many jobs that were subcontracted abroad have been replaced by technological advances.[54]
Public opinion in the US and other Western powers opposing outsourcing was particularly strengthened by the drastic increase in unemployment as a result of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. In the first decade from 2000 to 2010, the US experienced a net loss of 687,000 jobs due to outsourcing, primarily in the computers and electronics sector. Public disenchantment with outsourcing has not only stirred political responses, as seen in the 2012 US Presidential campaigns, but it has also made companies more reluctant to outsource or offshore jobs.[55]
See also[edit]
- Application Management Services Framework
- Business process outsourcing (BPO)
- Business process outsourcing in the Philippines
- Call center industry in the Philippines
- Co-sourcing
- Comparative advantage
- Contingent workforce
- Engineering process outsourcing (EPO)
- Farmshoring
- Freelance marketplace
- Globality
- Global sourcing
- Homeshoring
- Information technology outsourcing (ITO)
- Knowledge process outsourcing (KPO)
- Legal process outsourcing (LPO)
- List of management topics
- Offshore software development
- Offshoring
- Offshoring Research Network
- Outsource marketing
- Print and mail outsourcing
- Programmers Guild
- Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)
- Regional insourcing
- Socially responsible outsourcing
- Supply chain
- Telecentre
- Telecommuting
- Third-party logistics (3PL)
- Transition methodology
- Verifiable computing
- Vested outsourcing
- Virtual assistance
- Virtual Staff Finder
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- ^ a b c Stiglitz, J. And Charlton, A., (2005). "Trade can be Good for Development," Ch. 2 in Fair Trade for All, Oxford University Press, Oxford, NY.
- ^ Hanson, G. (2003), "What Has Happened to Wages in Mexico Since NAFTA", NBER Working Paper Series, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
- ^ Krugman, P., Obtsfeld, M. And Melitz, M., (2012) "East Asia: Success and Crisis", in International Economics: Theory and Policy, Addison-Wesley.
- ^ Blinder, A. (2006), "Offshoring: The Next Industrial Revolution?" Foreign Affairs, 85:2, 113.128
- ^ Baldwin,Richard. (2006). "Globalisation: the great unbludning(s)," Chapter 1, in Globalization Challenges for Europe, Secretariat of the Economic Council, Finnish Prime Minister's Office, Helsinki, 2006.
- ^ Rodrik, D., (2007), "Globalization for Whom", Ch. 9 in One Economics Many Recipes, Princeton University Press
- ^ Mankiw, G. and Swagel, P. (2005). "The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing," working paper for the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
- ^ Copeland, B. (2007), "Trade and the Environment: What do we do now", Ch. 39 in Handbook on International Trade Policy, ed. Kerr, W and Gaosford, J., Edward Elgar Publishing.
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- ^ Easterly, W. (2002), "Solow's Surprise: Investment is not the Key to Growth", Ch. 3 in The Elusive Quest for Growth, The MIT Press, Cambridge.
- ^ Rowthorn, R. and Coutts, K. ( 2004), "Deindustrialization and the balance of payments in advanced economies," UNCTAD Discussion Paper No.170
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Imports act to outsource inspections
Reps. John Dingell (D-MI), Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Bart Stupak (D-MI), have introduced the "Food and Drug Import Safety Act of 2007" (HR 3610), which they say will dramatically improve the nation's system for ensuring the safety of imported food and drugs.The bill would create a user fee on imported food and drug shipments, with the funds generated used to hire additional personnel to perform inspections at the US border and abroad as well as at FDA labs to increase analysis of food and drug imports.
Meanwhile, the FDA said in October that it is considering outsourcing some of its foreign inspections.
Without hinting what changes the agency might seek in its overhaul plan due in November, assistant commissioner for policy Jeffrey Shuren acknowledged that a third-party inspection program might be proposed.
If it does, it will be acting consistently with advice given to Congress by former FDA regulatory counsel and Office of Criminal Investigations special agent Benjamin England.
He testified that the agency "can do a far better job in picking up data that come to it from multiple different sources, including domestic inspections of imported products, foreign inspections, third parties."
England said there are already many international third-party inspection companies that could help the FDA, such as Bureau Veritas, ITS and Intertech.
They should be factored into FDA's surveillance, backed up to be "a meaningful auditing process," he said.

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Groups Allege Abuse Of Child Immigrants At Border
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
A coalition of advocacy groups says it has documented more than 100 allegations of mistreatment of unaccompanied immigrant children arrested by U.S. border authorities.
Complaint Claims Abuse At Border
Multiple advocacy groups file a complaint with Department of Homeland Security that alleges mistreatment of unaccompanied immigrant children arrested by U.S. border authorities.
The groups filed an administrative complaint Wednesday with the Department of Homeland Security that says more than 80 percent received inadequate food and water, about half were denied medical care, and about one of every four was physically abused.
The Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project and three other organizations say they documented 116 cases in interviews with children who were in Customs and Border Protection custody. The interviews occurred from around March to May.
The complaint comes amid a surge of unaccompanied children from Central America crossing in South Texas. Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Arvika camp hopeful
he can start with win
2.25 Clonmel
Clonmel Oil Chase (Grade 2) | 2m4f, 5yo+ | ATR
BRILLIANT chasers have been descending on this small country track for decades for this €45,000 event that is today a Grade 1 in all but name, with a roll of honour including Gold Cup winners War Of Attrition and Imperial Call, King George winner Edredon Bleu, and Dorans Pride.
This year the race hosts the return to action of one of last season's most exciting novices Arvika Ligeonniere, who capped an eventful term with a comprehensive victory in the Grade 1 Ryanair Novice Chase at Punchestown in April.
Among his challengers is stablemate Mikael D'Haguenet and 2011 John Durkan Chase winner Rubi Light. The trio have already notched seven Grade 1 victories between them.
This race has a rich history of producing winners who go on to score at the highest level - last season's winner Sizing Europe won the Paddy Power Dial-A-Bet Chase at Leopardstown, Tranquil Sea went on to win the John Durkan three years ago, War Of Attrition won the 2006 Gold Cup, while Rathgar Beau won the previous year's Punchestown Champion Chase and Edredon Bleu took the King George at Kempton.
In fact class acts have dominated this race over the last ten years. Mossbank, for example, won this in 2007 and was then good enough to finish second in the Ryanair Chase at the festival.
Superior record going right
Arvika Ligeonniere has won four of his six starts over fences and six of 12 starts in all. His two defeats over fences came when he failed to complete, and both were on left-handed tracks, where his overall record reads 241FP. Going right-handed, like today, his record is 4121111.
Don't underestimate Toner
Gordon Elliott's team is in fine order and his runners have been punching knock-out blows above their class. Roi Du Mee was the 12-1 outsider of six when landing the Grade 1 JNwine.com Champion Chase two weeks ago and Toner D'Oudairies was 8-1 when beating that rival and 4-5 favourite First Lieutenant in a Grade 3 at Punchestown a month ago. With that in mind it is best not to underestimate Toner D'Oudairies today.
What they say
Robbie Hennessy, trainer of Rubi Light
"He worked well the other day and Andrew Lynch was delighted with him. We'd have preferred more rain, but what can you do? It was good ground at Gowran Park when he was third to Sizing Europe. Arvika Ligeonniere looks the one to beat but I'm clinging to th e one clear advantage we have in that Rubi Light has already had a run this season."
John Ryan, trainer of Foildubh
"He's in serious order and I couldn't be happier with him. He's better over fences, but we purposely kept him over hurdles in the early part of the season because it takes him a few runs to get very fit. He's going to get some nice ground too, which he loves. "
Willie Mullins, trainer of Arvika Ligeonniere and Mikael D'Haguenet
"Both horses are in good form. The trip shouldn't be any problem for Arvika Ligeonniere as he won the Drinmore over it first time out last year and we're hoping he's able to win first time out this year too. Mikael D'Haguenet has also won chases over the trip and usually goes well first time out."
Noel Meade, trainer of Texas Jack
"It's a hot race, but we'll take our chance. He should have improved for his run at Down Royal and will hopefully run well."
Gordon Elliott, trainer of Toner D'Oudairies
"He's in good form and came out of his run in the Grade 2 at Down Royal well. He likes a small field so we felt it worth letting him take his chance here."
Clonmel yielding to soft (hurdle and bumper), good to yielding (chase)
Ludlow good, good to soft in places
Taunton good, good to firm in places
Southwell standard
Kempton standard
Today's key pointers
2.10 Taunton
Since 2006, Paul Nicholls has sent 32 horses to Taunton for handicap chases and not one of them has won, of which 13 were in novice handicaps. Sin Bin would have a big statistic to overcome if he is to win the 2.10.
6.20 Kempton
The claimer has been run only three times, but every winner has been the highest-rated on official figures. Barnaby Brook has that honour this year.
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The Horse Forum
- Horse Health
- - severed hind extensor tendon,lameness and proud flesh
severed hind extensor tendon,lameness and proud flesh In november last year our mare badly cut her leg and severed her extensor tendon after getting trapped in a rope fence.the wound measured 15cm in length and a portion of the cannon bone was exposed.we trailered her to a vet clinic where she stayed for 7 weeks ,the cost was horrendous, the leg was cast for three weeks and a bone sequestrum was removed , she was released at the end of december and was walking pretty well,she went on to stict stall rest and was doing great,so good the clinic devised a rehab plan which we began in march(5mins a day walking,building up by 5 mins a week).we have had issues with proud flesh ,our vet has removed it 3 times so far,nothing we try seems to stop it although we did get to a stage this month where it seemed to have slowed down a lot.however last week our mare has become very lame ,hitching her leg under her belly and then stamping the foot down hard when walking ,she turns very poorly and backwards is almost impossible(she waves the leg around and doesnt seem to know where the floor is) although she doesnt seem to be in any pain,The proud flesh has also gone mad,its grown back 2 or 3 times faster than before.we dont want to give up on her yet as she was doing so well but we are at our wits end, even the vet cant tell whats wrong,if anyone has any advice or any experience with anything like this,we could use some help. |
Sounds like an extreme case of stringhalt. Maybe she's getting too much activity too soon? What are you putting on the wound after the vet trims the proudflesh? |
The clinic gave us green wound cream, our vet advised vulketan and we have tried derma gel , which helped ,but didnt stop the proud flesh.I thought it looked like stringhalt too but our vet isnt saying that,she just says its 'mysterious'.Anyone had dealings with stringhalt?,i dont know much about it. |
While caring for my horse's extensor tendon laceration, I used a combination of products like you. My vet still had to come out and trim proudflesh a couple of times, too. So the usual routine was that after she trimmed, I'd leave the wound alone for a day or two. Then I'd clean with normal saline or diluted betadine solution (or even just tap water) and cover with a product called Nolvasan ointment. I'd then change the dressing every second or third day. If I would see proudflesh forming during a dressing change, I'd forgo the ointments and dust carefully with wonder dust. I was careful to *puff* it on the proudflesh growth only. If the wound started to look angry, I'd switch back to the nolvasan or just apply a thin layer of antibiotic ointment. I'd end each wound care session by covering with a supportive wrap paying particular attention to his ankle--wanted it supported properly. By covering the wound for as long a I did, I'm certain I delayed healing. But I didn't want the leg to go without support. That strategy paid off. A year later, he's sound. Ugly leg, but sound. As far as how your mare is moving, it does sound like stringhalt to me. Not in the true clinical sense of the condition-just the hyperflexion and stomping. Maybe it's a pain + spasm reaction she's having? Maybe I'm just stating the obvious? I'd ask your vet if she thought a thick supportive wrap, bute before exercise, and slowing the rehab down to a mild workout every third day would help?? Just keep after that proudflesh-it'll eventually slow down. Best of luck. I know what you're going through and it ain't fun! |
Thanks for the advice DOP.we have been doing pretty much what you have done .we started on bute a couple of days ago and it isnt making much difference.as for the wound its covered with telfa ,gauze a no bow wrap and a stable bandage,we were bandaging down to the coronet, with several layers of gamgee and vet wrap Etc..,up until a few weeks ago (vet said stop bandaging for support as she didnt need it ) .Its weird but i have thought back and i can pinpoint the exact moment the strange walk/stringhalt started ,we walked her down to the hose about 50m away from the stall,she walked normally,we then cleaned and re dressed the leg,as she set off back to the stall she kicked the leg out to the side(that happens pretty much every bandage change just to let us know shes not happy,typical TB)when she put the foot down the limping started and has got worse since that day,the limp was so mild and has come and gone since then i didnt see the connection until i thought about it last night .vet is back out tuesday to trim proud flesh but i will try to get hold of wonder dust ,i found another product that says it has 100% guarantee to get rid of proud flesh,' Equaide',was wondering if anyone has used this ,am getting fed up with expensive miracle creams that dont work!!! |
I have no personal experience with an injury like this, but far too much personal experience with other serious and chronic injuries, so I feel your pain. :( My only advice is that, since you have nothing to lose and have already invested so much money and time, you haul her to a big, expert clinic, where the very best veterinarians with the best diagnostics and treatments are available. I don't know where you're located, but I'm thinking along the lines of a Rood&Riddle type thing, or a vet university.... |
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Born: April 10, 1991 San Cristobal, DR Height: 5-11 Weight: 165 Bats: Right Throws: Right Drafted: Not drafted How Acquired: International free agent (Sept. 2007) Photo © SoxProspects, LLC
Released (April 2012)Scouting Report: Small-framed Dominican reliever. Subpar control. Spent three seasons in the DSL, which is not a good harbinger for future success.
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Within these pages you will find information and pictures of all kinds pertaining to the History of the Borough of Duryea and the people who settled there right up to the people residing there in the early 1960s. If it relates to Duryea, PA, most likely we have something about it. |
We are pleased to announce that the Duryea, PA Hometown Webpage is growing very rapidly. Thanks to the writers at the Pittston Sunday Dispatch for their excellent articles about our site and continued support, we are getting lots of visitors and we are still in the early stages of developing the page layout and collecting items from various sources. A very special THANK YOU has to go out to the unselfish people who have already shared these great old Duryea Treasures with our visitors. We are always happy to receive new items so please feel free to Email Me if you have anything you want to share with our visitors.
Some of the items we will continue posting here include old postcard images of Duryea, Duryea High School Yearbooks, scrapbooks, old school, church and misc. group photos, some great old sports photos, old newspaper articles concerning Duryea, old political items, military items, railroad related items, and much more. We will GLADLY include your items.
Everyone has to understand that this is the Internet and at times the site will go down for any number of reasons. There can be a natural disaster where the servers are, a fire or flood of any kind can shut a site down, the power can fail in any given area, any number of reasons can cause a website to go down. The hosting companies do their very best to get the site back online as soon as possible and usually all we can do is wait. If you try to send us email during this down time, please resend your email at a later date as chances are we will not receive it because the down time also affects the email servers. PLEASE, don't panic if this happens and understand that we would not put such huge amounts of time and effort into the website only to abandon it at this point. We are here to stay. We own the Domain Name, the hosting company is paid for annually, so bear with us if something like this happens. |
The April 2007 article from the Scranton Times explaining how the site came about. A big "Thank You" to Jackie Borthwick and Jack Smiles for their excellent articles in the Pittston Sunday Dispatch regarding our website. |
(originals or copies )to: Bernard Stiroh 59 Lakeside Tr Kinnelon, NJ 07405 PLEASE MARK ALL ENVELOPES "DO NOT BEND! PHOTOS ENCLOSED!" All photos will be returned promptly. You can also scan your photos and documents and Email Me to send them to us as attachments (.jpg or .jpeg) in an email. This is a great opportunity to get those pre-1960 photos and documents out of the attic and on to the Duryea homepage where they will become a part of Duryea's proud and great history. If it is necessary, we will even come to your place to scan your items. Duryea was incorporated as a Boro in 1901, prior to that it was called Marcy Township, after Zebulon Marcy. Zebulon is also credited with being the first European Settler. Duryea's roots go all the way back to the first human inhabitants of the area. Native American tribes lived near the junction of the Lackawanna and Susquehanna Rivers beginning several thousand years ago. An Archealogical dig in the Coxton area recently unearthed artifacts of these early Native American inhabitants. The town was named after Hiram Duryea, an official of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company and Civil War General. The railroad owned many of the mines in town. The Lehigh Valley Railroad operated extensive yards in the Coxton section. Prior to being incorporated as a borough in 1901, it had also been known as Babylon after a coal operation. (Some say it was called Babylon because of the various languages spoken by the many European inhabitants by that is not true.) Although mostly farm land in the 19th century, coal mining changed the face of Duryea in the late 1890s and early 1900s attracting many eastern European immigrants. |
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NEW YORK - Investors who have been snapping up foreclosed homes are backing off in light of the U.S. foreclosure fiasco, driven by sagging inventory and fears over legal title, and some economists say the trend could hurt the overall housing market.
With foreclosed properties accounting for a large portion of housing sales, and investors accounting for a large portion of buyers, the implications for the broader economy could be serious.
Investors who would buy, rehabilitate, and then sell or rent foreclosures were playing a "huge role," in helping to clear the market, housing economist Tom Lawler said.
But many of those investors are staying on the sidelines now.
"We're like a plane flying around in a holding pattern, waiting to land," said Tony Alvarez, an investor in southern California who is renting out 40 former foreclosed homes. "Nothing is going on, and why? Fear has taken hold in the marketplace."
Allegations that banks failed to review foreclosure documents properly or submitted false statements when they foreclosed on properties spurred a joint investigation by the attorneys general of all 50 states and triggered foreclosure moratoriums by some of the biggest U.S. lenders.


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From: | email@example.com (Tom Horton) |
Date: | Fri, 26 Dec 1997 11:22:03 -0500 (EST) |
Al, I built one of these several years ago and considering that it is a very short, much comprimised antenna, it worked extremely well. I made 250 plus Q's during the CQ 160 contest in 96. This was with only 5 watts!!! Also had something like 6 countries too. No way it can compete with a full size antenna but it is fun to play with. I did not tie the shield to the bottom of the tower and my antenna was only about 8 feet off the ground at the far end. The nice thing was that the thing was very broadbanded and did not have to tune a thing. Again...it's a compromise but on a very small city lot in WV, it's ok. 73, Tom K5IID >From: ATanner283 <email@example.com> To: <firstname.lastname@example.com> >Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 18:16:24 EST >To: email@example.com >Subject: [TowerTalk] Linear Loaded Sloper >Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com) >Sender: email@example.com >X-List-Info: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html >X-Sponsor: W4AN, KM3T, N5KO & AD1C >X-Status: > > I am going to put up a linear loaded sloper for 160. I have two questions: >1.does the coax have to be grounded to the tower at the bottom as well as the >top as shown in the handbook, and why???? 2. Is the tuning of the systen done >by lenghtening/shortening of the open wire line at the tower end, and does the >sloper length have be adjusted at the same time.(I guess thats REALLY more >than two). Thanks for all the good info on the 160 ants. I'm going to try this >first. 73 Al W8FAX > >-- >FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html >Submissions: firstname.lastname@example.com >Administrative requests: firstname.lastname@example.com >Problems: firstname.lastname@example.com >Search: http://www.contesting.com/km9p/search > > -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: firstname.lastname@example.com Administrative requests: email@example.com Problems: firstname.lastname@example.com Search: http://www.contesting.com/km9p/search |
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According to the datasheet and the data above, it works at 3.3V, however in wiring example it is connected to 5V. Which one is correct?
I want to buy this item in a week. Will it be in stock soon? Or is it better to search for another product?
is there a recommended antenna as a high gain antenna
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Of all the 150 or so world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is getting underway as we speak, the one we're perhaps most curious about is "Cloud Atlas." An epic adaptation from the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer of David Mitchell's excellent best-seller, the film spans thousands of years, with six separate storylines featuring an all-star cast of Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Ben Whishaw, Jim Sturgess, Jim Broadbent, Doona Bae, James D'Arcy, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving, Keith David, Susan Sarandon and more, playing multiple roles of different genders and races in a genre-hopping, independently produced epic.
In a recent, revelatory profile of Andy and Lana Wachowski in the New Yorker, revolving around their uphill battle to make the film, they explained that "Cloud Atlas" is their attempt to make their version of something like "2001: A Space Odyssey." That was certainly evidenced in an expansive six-minute trailer that surfaced a little while back, which suggested something visually amazing, and unlike anything else that'll be in theaters this year. Still, we've heard wildly mixed things about the film, some calling it a triumph, others an out-and-out disaster, and a new trailer that just debuted over at Apple doesn't give it away which it'll be.
Much of the footage has been seen before, but there's a few more tidbits (highlight: the first glimpse of a secondary character for Whishaw, as a hippieish record store employee), and stuff that's both impressive (hoverbike action!) and dispiriting (Halle Berry's line readings!). The New Yorker profile, full of insights into the directors and their films, quotes Lana as saying "'Cloud Atlas' is a twenty-first-century novel. It represents a midpoint between the future idea that everything is fragmented and the past idea that there is a beginning, a middle, and an end, a project that they hoped would "reconnect to that feeling we had when we were younger, when we saw films that were complex and mysterious and ambiguous. You didn't know everything instantly."
Ambitious and admirable intentions for sure, but only time will tell if the film pays off. Fortunately, there's not long to wait, as "Cloud Atlas" screens at TIFF this weekend, and we'll have our verdict for you then. In the meantime, check the trailer out below, or in HD over at Apple.


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Journal Journal: My first entry
This is my first journal entry ever. Oooooh!
I don't think I will use this, but one has to try it out, right?
Why would I use a journal instead of email? I guess a public figure such as CmdrTaco has a use for this with the masses of fans checking out what the Master has to say, but who cares what a simple user like me has to say?


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THE WORLD HAS BEEN INVADED BY ALIENS! It's up to a nerdy, lazy high school kid to save it!
3.83 / 5.00 7,385 Views9/19/2013: Announcing "THE BALLADS OF REEMUS 2" KICKSTARTER campaign! I'm going to flesh out (get it?!) the Death Slug storyline with new puzzles, voice acting, and shiny graphics for Reemus's beerbelly. I've already posted a prototype if you want to check it out!
Support it here:
The next chapter in the ongoing saga of Reemus & Liam.
I read all your feedback and tried to improve upon all the criticisms. It ended up being twice the workload, which is why I'm about two months late with releasing it. Hopefully you enjoy the extra effort!
Expect more animation, bigger puzzles and the ability to finally control Reemus and Liam.
There are also 3 possible end ranking combinations.
- Scene 3 - after de-rooting the lung plant you must click on another part of the tree instead of the hole. This is not a glitch! Find another part of the tree root to click on.
-Final Scene - After you throw the pineapple into the cave opening and hide, the Gygax appears to freeze. This is not a bug, you must find something else to click on.
Hope that helps.
Hope to see a new game out soon played chapter 5 but thought it to be too short xD


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SHANDAKEN — A Mount Tremper man is due back in Town of Shandaken Court on felony charges of falsifying unemployment records submitted to the Labor Department.
Kristofer Craig, 28, was arrested on Dec. 31 and charged with grand larceny and offering a false instrument filing for fraudulently obtaining more than $5,500 in unemployment benefits during 2010 and 2011. He was arraigned before Shandaken Town Judge Michael Miranda and released.
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If you like music and weren't in Austin on Friday night, you were probably on the Internet riding on something of an emotional rollercoaster, led by the unlikely triumvirate of misinformation and hastily bullshat statements that was TMZ, Mack Maine, and G
If you like music and weren't in Austin on Friday night, you were probably on the Internet riding on something of an emotional rollercoaster, led by the unlikely triumvirate of misinformation and hastily bullshat statements that was TMZ, Mack Maine, and Gucci Mane. Friday night, of course, is the night we lost Lil Wayne, then got him back only to seemingly lose him again and then discover that he was definitively un-lost (albeit with a few unanswered questions). Only minutes after we were assured Wayne was safe, Gucci Mane jumped in to announce he was kicking Waka Flocka out of Brick Squad, and then Waka Flocka told him to suck a dick. While he might be one of the greatest rappers currently rapping, a master of tact and timing when it comes to public announcements Gucci Mane is not.
The madness began in earnest when TMZ issued a report that Lil Wayne had suffered from severe seizures related to a codeine overdose, and as a result was now in the hospital. This checks out; Wayne had been in the hospital only two days before for seizures, and had been hospitalized a few months before for a similar issue. At 8:26, TMZ then reported that Weezy was being read his last rites. The scary thing about TMZ is they reportedly have contacts in most major American hospitals, which while not necessarily ethical or cool, means they're pretty accurate with reporting when and where celebrities are dying (they scooped everybody on the death of Michael Jackson, you'll recall). However, TMZ is also mostly full of shit, as we soon discovered when Mack Maine tweeted to assure us that Wayne was alive and that he'd soon be tweeting to confirm as such. That tweet did indeed come, but TMZ claimed he was asleep at the time of the tweet, which proves that neither Mack Maine nor TMZ are particularly reliable narrators. The only level head throughout the entire affair seems to have belonged to T.I., who sagely tweeted, "Just holla'd @my Lil bruh Tunechi...& he skraight! TMZ some fuck-niggaz for reporting that hoe-ass-shit!!! That man daughter is like mines… That shit surely got his mama hurtin,his kids hurtin,& he got true to da game patnas like me & Othas who ready to RIDE bout all da fuck shit." Drake also visited, because Drake seems like a genuinely nice person who is the best. It appears as of now Lil Wayne will fully recover, which is the best possible outcome given all of the intense madness surrounding this very severe health scare.
The way thos of us who don't have a direct line on Wayne were forced to experience this entire situation was through Twitter, which is literally the worst way to try to experience something in real time—when some people are reading incorrect reports and basing tweets off of them and then others are trying to get caught up to speed but in the process inadvertently confusing others, you kind of get the feeling of being trapped in the world's largest rugby scrum.
Just as TMZ got their story straight (and deleted the last rites thing without mention) and it seemed that Lil Wayne would, indeed, pull through, Gucci Mane took to Twitter to announce that he was kicking Waka Flocka out of Brick Squad, saying, "Waka Flacka Flames officially dropped off brick squad 1017. Big Guwop say give me a offa fa this disloyal lil nigga." While Gucci's team is desperately reporting that Big Guwup's account was hacked, it didn't stop Flocka from tweeting that Gucci could suck a dick (this has since been deleted), and the Gucci tweet remains online. It seems that there is a definite schism between Gucci's 1017 Brick Squad camp and Waka's Brick Squad Monopoly, both in terms of sonics, ethos, and general stability levels. It's weirdly admirable when you assess how little of a fuck Gucci Mane actually gives, because there's no way he didn't know he was picking the absolute worst possible time to announce that he was dropping Flocka from the team. It makes sense that Gucci might want to cause a bit of a controversy, as he had released a mixtape that very night. On the other hand, the tape also contains the line, "You dis Flocka Flame you dis the wrong person." Gucci Mane, Guwop, whatever you want to call him, is a master of misdirection in all its forms. It remains to be seen exactly what the relationship is between Waka and Gucci now, but Waka did issue a series of retweets joking that he hooked up with Selena Gomez. If that's true and the allegation that Gucci Mane and Gomez hooked up while filming Spring Breakers together ends up checking out, then we might be looking at a Waka-Gucci-Selena love triangle, as well as the most insane reason for a rap crew schism of all time. To her credit, Selena issued a counter-allegation to Grantland that she's never even met Gucci, which seems illogical, but whatever.
What's the takeaway from all of this? It's that the Internet is a scary-ass place and mostly full of bullshit, but sometimes things do come along to rock certain communities to their foundation. I now believe literally nothing I read, even the things that I myself write.
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Saturday, August 05, 2006
Now, back to the "more on that later" matters of packing up, moving on, settling in...
Hauling your stuff halfway across the country is a hellish task. Even with the professional movers, who amaze in their capacity to make things fit in just the right, tight crannies, it's nothing but tedious. Jesus was right on, as usual, when he instructed us to go light.
Where does this hording instinct come from? What on earth are we ever going to do with all this stuff? Why this human tendency to collect and store and stockpile?
Storage is an industry, and not an inexpensive one. We're squirrels busily burrowing niches for stuff we will never use.
In a reversal of Thoreau's wisdom at Walden Pond, why let your matters be as one or two when thousands can provide you a weird sense of security?
I was embarrassed to discover an upstairs closet at Trinity full of files from Second B that I had not so much as glanced at over the past five years. Boxes and boxes still sealed shut from the move to San Antonio five years ago.
Why not pitch this useless material? How could I possibly ever use minutes from a monthly church business meeting back in 1989, even if it were in the realm of the remotest possibility that I would have the slightest clue where among those endless reams of paper I could ever put my hands on such a document? Not to mention the infintesimal possibility that anything interesting happened in a church business meeting...
Don't worry, fellow packrats. Those files got loaded up and trucked to Atlanta where they are now safely at rest in another closet I won't enter until it's time to pack 'em up and move 'em to the next place.
It's an addiction. Somebody start a 12 step group.
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- lmk4jc said...
i know the boxes your talking about,in that closet up stairs.i thought the same thing when i saw how they where labled and where they where from.
Boy, Charlie, can I relate! Barbara and I are "battling" over the pack rat syndrome as this post is being made. I want to dump but she will hear none of it. I am resigned to accomodating her as there ar those rare instances (very rare) when we actually need one of those obscure widgets that will fix a loose wheel on a vacuum cleaner or a file that contains obscure information that no one could haver ever believed we would need.
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Charles are you married with children? If so I do not see them mentioned on your website.
CFJ- Glad to see you added your familys info to blog.
Charlie: There are many people in SA who love you, and wish you the best in Atlanta and beyond.
There is at least one good thing about keeping stuff--If you got rid of any of it, It would free up
space to buy and store more stuff that you don't need--therefore you save money. For that reason and that reason only, I would never suggest that my loved one get rid of old unneeded stuff. gbj - 7:37 PM
You are not alone! Many of us are afflicted with the hording disease.
Don and Stephanie - 2:05 PM
Charlie, I have been out of touch too long. I kind of kept track of you after you left Lubbock, but didn't keep in touch as a friend should. I am so very glad to find you here.
I just want to make an offering of prayer and support for you in your sometimes confusing (to me) journey with Christ.
Jay Morrow,
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- Mark Goodyear said...
I'm with you on the accumulation of stuff. My wife and I have two kids--who have two sets of grandparents.
So we know about stuff.
I'm more of a pack and purge kind of person. I'll store it for years and then toss it. I figure if I need it again that badly, I can just buy it again. Or else write it again. Or make it again. Or just hold it in my memory.
(And thanks for the link to "The High Calling" in your side bar.) - 12:40 PM
I also enjoy The High Calling Link.
Lately, I have meditated on the prayer in the full text of the Daily Reflections section dated 8/8/O6. - 5:32 PM
- lmk4jc said...
charlie,where are you? what have you been up to. you cant still be putting stuff away!
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With the one-year anniversary of my purchase of a ukulele about a month behind me, and my attendance at the George Formby convention in Blackpool about a month ahead of me, I felt moved to share another song with you. And so, here I am having my way with "Makin' Whoopee!," made famous by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!
I'm improving slowly … but at least I'm improving. Still quite a ways to go, though, and still hoping I'll find a local teacher someday.
Can't wait to learn from my betters next month in Blackpool!