| Accountants in demand
Beginning about a decade ago, a number of factors converged to create the current shortage: industry layoffs, competition from other business sectors and declining enrollment in accounting programs, all coupled with a subsequent explosive demand for accounting services in the past few years because of government regulations.
The result is that demand has eclipsed supply. Accountants and auditors held about 1.2 million jobs in the United States in 2004, according to the U.S. Labor Department.
Sanders, whose company employs 35 accountants, wants to hire three more.
Theresa Ahlstrom, who manages the Melville office of KPMG, one of the Big Four accounting firms, has 135 accountants and would like to hire 27 to 30 more.
"No matter how hard you look, there aren't enough resources in the market," she said.
National Inventors HOF Announces 2007 Inductees
WASHINGTON, D.C - (February 7, 2007) - Continuing its commitment to honor invention and innovation, the National Inventors Hall of Fame has recognized the next group of world-class inventors who will be inducted into its ranks. This year's wide-ranging class includes inventors such as John Franz, who discovered the non-toxic popular weed killer Roundup(R), Allen Breed, who invented the automotive airbag, Maurice Hilleman, whose vaccines have nearly eliminated many common childhood diseases in developed countries, and Robert Metcalfe, who created Ethernet, the widely used local area network. The 2007 group includes seven living inventors whose accomplishments have improved our lives. Medical imaging, information storage, communication networks, and biotechnology are just a few of the areas where their influence can be seen.
Study's reaction is mixed Care providers worry over state's budget options
MILLERSBURG -- A just-released study that found the state could save millions of dollars by paying more money to home health providers and less to nursing homes is drawing predictably mixed reactions. "A nursing facility is going to say, 'Hey, we need this money, and home health cannot take care of these people like we can.' And there are cases where that is true. But if you walk into any nursing home, you will see people who just basically need assistance with medications, but maybe for whatever reason the family is not able to do that," said Leslee Mast, superintendent at the Holmes County Home. Mast brings a unique perspective to the study by the Ohio Council for Home Care, a home health advocacy group. She's in the business of long-term care. But because the Holmes County Home is not state certified, her facility does not receive state funding.
Creating a caregiving ministry
Several years ago, a simple question by a fellow church member led MTSU professor James E. Taylor on a quest to help other family caregivers. "I interviewed some at my church, Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in Nashville," said Taylor, a social work professor at MTSU. "They asked me, 'Why don't we have a family caregivers ministry?'" .
Saint Xavier basketball coach made member of 16-inch Softball Hall ...
He didn't have blazing speed or a killer instinct, but friends who played 16-inch softball with Tom O'Malley over many years remember a solid outfielder with good hands who knew how to play a batter. "We just listened for the lineup, and we knew how well people could hit," longtime friend and fellow outfielder Jerry Schmitt said. "We studied hitters. We positioned ourselves. You cheat one way and hope the guy wanted to go long and just hope you'd catch up with a line drive." The pair, along with Ed "The Champ" Surma, formed one of the best outfields in Chicago's 16-inch softball leagues for about 20 years -- playing for several teams but mostly for the Father Perez Knights of Columbus. O'Malley and Schmitt played together for about 40 years. O'Malley's skills and years of dedication helped him get inducted last month into Chicago's 16-inch Softball Hall of Fame, an honor about 150 others have earned since the hall began 11 years ago.
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