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Anxiety from service-users as Atos appears in mental health units ...
A mental health trust has defended its decision to carry out disability assessments on behalf of the controversial outsourcing company Atos.
Mental health service-users at four sites run by Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust have been alarmed to see Atos-branded leaflets displayed in waiting areas.
The four sites ? in Preston, Ormskirk, Lancaster and Blackburn ? are being used by trust staff to assess disabled people for their eligibility for the new personal independence payment (PIP), on behalf of Atos.
Atos information leaflets are displayed in the waiting areas at all four of the sites.
Thousands of people with mental distress have been found unfairly fit for work following work capability assessments carried out by Atos, and many have had relapses, episodes of self-harm and suicide attempts, and have needed higher levels of medication and even hospitalisation in the lead-up to those assessments.
One trust service-user said she had had an ?awful experience? during an Atos ?fitness for work? assessment, and added: ?Their presence in the building increases my anxiety and isn?t helping my mental health.
?The hospital is meant to be a place of safety and a place to improve my stability and mental health. This is not the case at this time.?
Mark Hindle, the trust?s chief operating officer, said: ?As a trust, we feel that we are best placed to provide these assessments as we have an in-depth understanding of the population and issues around health inequalities across the county.
?We also have the expert knowledge of both physical and mental health illnesses and the impact these can have on a person?s day-to-day living.?
He added: ?The trust?s core values will ensure that people attending for an assessment will be treated with compassion, dignity and respect and involved in the assessment; as they normally would be in clinical practice.?
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Job fairs to recruit for 1,800 jobs at big new call center just west of Boise
The Idaho Department of Labor has scheduled eight job fairs at its offices around southwestern Idaho over the next week to help MAXIMUS Inc. hire up to 1,800 permanent and seasonal customer service representatives and operations support staff for a large call center it plans to open in Garden City, on the Hewlett-Packard campus. Click below for Labor's full announcement, including the times, dates and locations for all the job fairs. The call center is expected to open sometime in the fall, though the Department of Labor has no specific?date.
For Immediate Release: July?17,2013
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Eight Southwestern Idaho Job Fairs Set to Hire 1,800 for Call?Center
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Eight job fairs at Idaho Department of Labor offices in southwestern Idaho are scheduled this month to hire up to 1,800 permanent and seasonal customer service representatives and operations support staff for a major call?center.
MAXIMUS Inc., which operates government health and human services programs under contract, will open a customer contact center in Garden City on the Hewlett Packard Co.?complex.
The job fairs are scheduled?for:
- Mountain Home ? July 18, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Labor office, 1150 American Legion?Blvd.
- Boise ? July 20, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Labor office, 219 W. Main?St.
- Caldwell ? July 20, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.at the Labor office, 4514 Thomas Jefferson?St.
- Meridian ? July 20, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Labor office, 1090 E. Watertower Lane, Suite?100.
- Boise ? July 22, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Labor office, 219 W. Main?St.
- Caldwell ? July 22, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.at the Labor office, 4514 Thomas Jefferson?St.
- Meridian ? July 22, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Labor office, 1090 E. Watertower Lane, Suite?100.
- Payette ? July 25, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Labor office, 501 N. 16th St., Suite?107.
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The center will operate Monday through Friday, 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. Employees will handle and answer consumer inquiries from across the United States and its territories.
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Job seekers can obtain more information about MAXIMUS or complete an application online at www.maximus.com/careers and click on ?Current Opportunities? or visit one of the Idaho Department of Labor?offices.
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Interviewing tips from the Department of Labor are online at http://labor.idaho.gov/dnn/
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Bob Fick | Communications Manager
Communications & Research
Idaho Department of Labor
317 West Main Street | Boise, ID 83735
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Google stumbles in 2Q as slump in ad rates deepens
Employees travel around campus via bicycles at Google headquarters Tuesday, July 16, 2013, in Mountain View, Calif. Google reports quarterly earns on Thursday, July 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
Employees travel around campus via bicycles at Google headquarters Tuesday, July 16, 2013, in Mountain View, Calif. Google reports quarterly earns on Thursday, July 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Google views the computing shift to smartphones and tablets as a golden opportunity, but the Internet search leader's second-quarter performance served as an unsettling reminder that it poses a nagging financial challenge, too.
The report released Thursday showed Google's average ad rate fell from the previous year for the seventh consecutive quarter. In an unexpected turn, the decline deepened for the first time in a year.
The average ad rate, or "cost per click," fell 6 percent during the three months ending in June. The magnitude of the declines had eased in each of the previous three quarters, raising hopes that the worse was over. Instead, things deteriorated from the 4 percent decline in ad rates during the first three months of the year.
The regression undercut Google's earnings and revenue. Both fell below analyst forecasts, spooking some investors. Google's shares fell $37.18, or 4 percent, to $873.50 in extended trading after the results came out.
Other unwelcomed developments also loomed over the quarter.
Excluding the costs of stock given to employees, Google's operating expenses climbed 27 percent from last year to $4.25 billion. That increase renewed concerns that Google is pouring too much money on far-flung projects, such as the development of driverless cars and balloons equipped with Internet-beaming antennas, instead of focusing on its main business of Internet search and advertising.
Motorola Mobility, a slumping cellphone maker that Google bought for $12.4 billion 14 months ago, also remains a headache. The subsidiary lost $342 million in the latest quarter, widening from $199 million a year earlier, when Google owned Motorola for only part of the reporting period. Motorola now has lost a total of $1.7 billion under Google's ownership, despite layoffs and divestitures that have whittled Motorola's workforce to 4,600 people, down from 20,300 at the same time last year.
Although he wouldn't forecast when Motorola might start making money, Google CEO Larry Page told analysts on a Thursday conference call that he is excited about the upcoming release of a new phone called Moto X. Page provided no further details about the phone, which he and other Google employees have been testing.
If Google backs the Moto X with an expensive marketing blitz, it would drive up the company's expenses again later this year.
Mobile ads, though, were the biggest issue on investors' minds.
Although the problem isn't as severe as at other companies, including computer makers such as Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., Google is still having trouble navigating a technological transition driving more online activity on to smartphones and tablets. Those devices pose a financial challenge for Google Inc. because their smaller screen sizes fetch lower ad rates than the marketing pitches made on traditional desktop and laptop computers.
Google is in a far better position to prosper from mobile computing because it makes Android, the most widely used operating system on smartphones. The software also is gaining traction on tablets challenging Apple's pace-setting iPad. Google is expected to unveil the next generation of its Nexus tablets running on Android next week.
Android typically features Google's search engine and other services, such as maps and Gmail, giving the Mountain View, Calif., company more opportunities to show ads.
Now, Google is taking steps to persuade advertisers to pay higher prices to connect with consumers on mobile devices at times when they appear to be mulling a purchase or may be in a merchant's neighborhood.
Google is trying to drive up prices more quickly by changing the way it sells ads to prod more marketers into buying spots on mobile devices at the same time they plan campaigns aimed at PCs. About 6 million advertisers have already switched to Google's new pricing system. All marketers will be forced to adopt the new approach, known as "enhanced campaigns," by the end of the month.
In Thursday's conference call, Page described the switch to enhanced campaigns as the biggest change that Google has ever made to an online advertising platform launched more than a decade ago.
"I think we're still in the very, very early stages of that," Page said. "We changed a tremendous amount for how our teams operate, how our advertisers operate, how everyone buys those ads, what the users see, and we've done it pretty well."
Wedbush Securities analyst Shyam Patil said he believes Google is headed in the right direction in mobile advertising, despite the second-quarter slip in price.
"They are going to come up with the right solution, although now I am not sure if it is going to happen this year," he said. Patil also said he expects Google's stock to rebound quickly because too many investors believe the company's remains among the best bets in technology.
Google earned $3.2 billion, or $9.54 per share, in the second quarter up 16 percent from $2.8 billion, or $8.42 per share, a year earlier.
If not for the costs of employee stock compensation and charges tied to Motorola, Google said it would have earned $9.56 per share. That missed the average target of $10.80 per share among analysts surveyed by FactSet.
Revenue rose 19 percent to $14.1 billion, from $11.8 billion.
After subtracting Google's ad commissions, revenue stood at $11.1 billion ? about $275 million below analyst projections.
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
New Egypt Cabinet led by liberals
CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's interim leader on Tuesday swore in the first Cabinet since the military ousted the Islamist president, giving members of the country's liberal movements key positions and naming three Christians and three women, their highest numbers in an Egyptian government.
The new government is led by Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, an economist. Army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who ousted Mohammed Morsi on July 3, retains his post as defense minister and also took the position of first deputy prime minister, an additional title given to defense ministers in the past.
The Cabinet of more than 30 ministers does not include any members of Islamist parties ? a sign of the deep polarization over the removal of Morsi, the country's first freely elected president. The interim president's spokesman had earlier said posts would be offered to Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, but the group promptly refused.
The Brotherhood has said it will not participate in the military-backed political process and vows to continue protests until Morsi is reinstated. The swearing in of the Cabinet took place hours after overnight clashes between police and Islamist supporters of Morsi left seven protesters dead in the worst outbreak of violence in a week.
The new government, sworn in by interim President Adly Mansour, reflects the largely liberal, secular bent of the factions who backed el-Sissi's removal of Morsi.
Women have a somewhat higher profile, with three ministries ? including the powerful information and health ministries. Most past governments for decades have had at most two women in them.
The Cabinet also includes three Christians, including one of the three women, Environment Minister Laila Rashed Iskander.
The Morsi-appointed interior minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, remains in his post, in charge of the police. Nabil Fahmy, who was Egypt's ambassador to the U.S. from 1999-2008, becomes foreign minister.
In a nod to the revolutionary youth groups that engineered the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak and the massive protests that preceded Morsi's ouster, Mansour renamed the justice portfolio the transitional justice and national reconciliation ministry and gave it to Mohammed el-Mahdi, a career judge.
The groups have been campaigning for individuals responsible for the killing of hundreds of protesters since Mubarak's fall to be brought to justice. Reconciliation is a longstanding demand by most political forces to end the nation's polarization, which often spills over into street violence.
At least three senior figures from the National Salvation Front, the main opposition grouping during Morsi's year in office, were included in the government. In addition, the new deputy prime minister in charge of international cooperation, Ziad Bahaa-Eldin, is a member of the Social Democratic Party, which is part of the Salvation Front.
Mohamed ElBaradei, one of the Front's top leaders, has already been installed as Mansour's vice president.
In a first, Mansour also swore in an icon of Egyptian soccer as sports minister. Midfielder Taher Abu Zeid starred in Cairo's el-Ahly club and the national side in the 1980s. He was a member of a star-studded national squad that won the 1986 African Nations' Cup in Cairo.
The Cabinet has a total of 33 members, not including el-Beblawi.
Soon after the swearing in, carried live on state TV, the one Islamist party that supported the military's ouster of Morsi, criticized the new Cabinet for its lack of inclusion.
"This is a repeat of the same mistake the last government was blamed for, and leads to a totally biased government," the Al-Nour Party said in a statement. It said it doesn't accept "that one movement replaces another to control the government, which should be unbiased and non-partisan."
The Cabinet is to run the country as it goes through a transition plan announced last week by Mansour, which includes the formation of panels to amend the Islamist-drafted constitution that was passed under Morsi and then the holding of elections for a new parliament and president early next year.
The new leadership is driving ahead with the process despite the staunch rejection by Morsi's Islamist supporters, who are holding sit-ins in cities around the country. Morsi's supporters accuse the military of carrying out a coup that has destroyed Egypt's democracy.
Riots broke out overnight with police firing volleys of tear gas at protesters, who burned tires, threw rocks and blocked traffic flow on a main roadway running through the heart of the capital. The Brotherhood said police used birdshot and live ammunition.
At least seven people were killed and 261 injured in the clashes in four different locations in Cairo, according to Khaled el-Khateeb, the head of the Health Ministry's emergency and intensive care department. Four of the seven were killed in clashes between residents and Morsi supporters staging a sit-in near the main campus of Cairo university, according to security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Egypt's state news agency said 17 policemen were injured and 401 people have been arrested in relation to the clashes.
The violence broke also soon after the most senior U.S. official to visit Egypt since Morsi was toppled concluded a round of talks with the country's interim leaders in which he called for the Brotherhood to be included in the political process.
Deputy Secretary of State William Burns held talks with Mansour and el-Beblawi on Monday, as well as el-Sissi. He also spoke by telephone with a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters. Ventrell would not identify the Brotherhood representative or give details on the call.
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Associated Press reporters Sarah El Deeb and Deb Riechmann contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-cabinet-led-liberals-180910267.html
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NEC talks on Lenovo mobile phone venture stalled: source
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics company NEC Corp's talks with Lenovo Group Ltd over a mobile phone venture have stalled due to disagreements over majority ownership and patents, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
The Nikkei business newspaper reported that NEC planned to exit its loss-making smartphone business after a mobile phone deal with Lenovo, already a partner in the personal computer business, failed to materialize.
The source said NEC was still considering several options, including talks with a potential partner other than Lenovo, or halting the development of new smartphones and focusing on its existing lines of feature phones.
NEC and Lenovo declined to comment.
China's Lenovo Group, the world's No.2 PC maker has been examining partnerships and acquisitions to expand in high-growth markets such as smartphones, tablets and enterprise computing, spurred by a decline in PC shipments.
NEC had been in talks with Lenovo since early this year on a possible sale or tie-up involving its mobile unit, NEC Casio Mobile Communications Ltd, according to media reports and a source familiar with the discussions.
NEC holds 70 percent of the unit, in which Hitachi Ltd also holds a stake.
NEC, once a major player in Japan's mobile phone market, has seen its market share slip to about 5 percent.
NEC's shares ended 4.8 percent higher at 242 yen after the Nikkei report, their highest in more than six weeks, compared with a 0.1 percent rise in the benchmark Nikkei average. Lenovo's Hong Kong-listed shares rose 0.7 percent. ($1 = 99.2850 Japanese yen)
(Reporting by Maki Shiraki in Tokyo; Additional reporting by Rohit T K in Bangalore; Editing by Edmund Klamann and Louise Heavens)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nec-talks-lenovo-mobile-phone-venture-stalled-source-110218121.html
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