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Calf Lipase powder for home cheese making. Lipase enzymes enhance the flavor of Italian and specialty type cheeses. The active lipase enzyme will produce a specific ratio of free fatty acids as a result of milkfat lipolysis when added directly to milk.
Calf Lipase has a mild "picante" flavor. Use mild lipase powder to make Mozzarella, Asiago, Provolone, Feta and Blue cheeses.
2 oz. bottle; store in freezer for up to six months for optimal performance (after six months, a larger quantity may be required to achieve desired taste).
Use as directed in chosen recipe or as follows: For 2 gallons of milk, dissolve 1/8-1/4 tsp. lipase powder in ½ c. cool water 30 minutes before use. Add to milk just prior to rennet. Amount can be adjusted to taste not to exceed ¼ tsp. per 2 gallons of milk.
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- From Roger Connelly at 4/5/2015 7:19 AM
- I have read that raw milk contains naturally occuring lipase. Can one make parmesan cheese from raw milk without adding additional lipase?
- You can. I would experiment the first time and see what it tastes like. If it's not sharp enough, etc. you might want to consider adding that lipase.
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- From Anthony at 8/29/2014 12:49 PM
- Would like to make Mozzarella for first time. Your page describes Lipase as mild. I assume that there is a strong or weak. What is the difference and which will produce the Italian style I'm familiar with cheese stores?
- We do carry 3 flavors of lipase powder. Mild, Traditional (http://www.culturesforhealth.com/traditional-peccorino-lipase-powder.html) and Sharp (http://www.culturesforhealth.com/very-sharp-peccorino-lipase-powder-lamb.html).
MIld Lipase is used for Mozzarella, Asiago and blue cheeses. Traditional Lipase is used for Romano, Provolone, and Feta cheeses. Sharp Lipase ideal for Romano cheese
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Life is great when everything seems to be going your way. Your health is good, you are happy, full of energy, full of life, and all is well with the world, right? Well, this is not a very real statement for everyone. For many, life is turned upside down, there is no energy and nothing seems to be in order. When this is the state of an individual, what do you suppose suffers first? For many, it goes unrealized how outside interference also interferes with what happens on the inside; that is, when you let "feelings" control your decisions. For example, you may not "feel" like working out today; you may not "feel" that you are making any progress in the gym; you may not "feel" that you will be able to maintain your fitness goals, and the list goes on and on. The problem here is "focus". Without focus, you will be unable to work toward any "goal" with any degree of success.
In order to set a goal, you have to focus on it. You have to be willing to do what it takes to accomplish it. If you are not focused, you lose sight of the goal and when you do, it soon disappears..How can you accomplish a goal if you are not focused on it? The answer is, you can't. So if you are unable to move forward, uninspired, unenthused and wondering what's going on, here is your reason why.
While it's true that you may have started out on fire with a specific goal or set of goals to accomplish, what happens for many is they don't set their goals high enough, hit them and then have nowhere else to go. Another reason that may be familiar to a lot of people is that the goal is too vague and doesn't carry enough meaning to accomplish; therefore, you won't know what you are striving for because it's just not clear enough to define. Lastly, many people set their goals too high and it becomes impossible to reach them. While a goal should not necessarily have a "cap" on it, it should be realistic and attainable.
Goals are what keep you getting up each morning. Simply having a purpose for being is a goal in itself. Your focus comes in when you set your mind on whatever the task is for that moment, that hour, that day.
Do you ever wonder why some people incorporate training into their lives as easily as breathing air and others bounce back and forth like a rubber ball? It's as simple as focus verses the lack thereof. A sure indication that there is no goal is the inconsistency of the individual. Where there is inconsistency, there is lack of focus. Without the two, you simply accomplish nothing.
So what's the best way to become consistent?
- Write it down! That's it. Whatever it is that you want to accomplish, put it on paper. Why? Because when you can see it, it becomes more than a thought, it becomes real, tangible. In fact, when you can see it, it will make more sense and seem more believable for you to work on. However, it's not just enough to put it on paper, you have to also nurture the goal, look at it everyday, sometimes even tweak it, but it has to be attended to.
- Enlarge your mental vision! Your mind has tremendous power over what you actually accomplish in your training and in your life. The way you think and what you believe has just as much power to harm your progress as it has to harness it. This is why it is such a good idea to keep people in your corner who are helpful and encouraging, and also people you can learn from and aspire to for progress. When you have the positives around you, you are more likely to move forward, remain focused and accomplish your goals.
- Expect obstacles and move through them! Training will not always go as smoothly as you would like. Things get in the way. Sometimes you are tired, sick, injured, or have outside circumstances that may prevent you from staying on task. Don't panic. It's okay! These are setbacks. When you accept the fact that they will be there sometimes, it then becomes easier to deal with and work through. In order to stay focused, continue to review your plan and just detour around what blocks you. You will soon find yourself back on the right path.
With setting goals and staying focused, you will learn a great deal about yourself. But the most interesting of all is the strength you build in journeying through the process.


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> I like NFLX but note in your numbers looking at Q4 revenue per subscriber
> the numbers are going down 43.96 $40.27 38.19 37.28 so that tells
> me people are moving to lower subscription rices. I know I reduced
> my own when money got tight. I now also do streaming movies on the
> XBox so that must provide some revenue from MSFT to NFLX. Also your
> comments about Q4 and Q1 being highest growth is because its wintertime,
> people stay home and might even cancel their subs in spring summer.
> If they can convince the film companies to put new releases on instant
> viewing costs will come down and revenue will go up.
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I honestly haven't gotten that far yet. I hope to take another look at them soon and post my findings.
In general, I hate to see the dilution, but it seems it was likely required to meet debt requirements. It's difficult to tell about the losses. Loan loss reserves may be swinging the other direction. It's possible that loan losses at banks in general are now more backward looking than forward looking if you know what I mean.
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Writing about Capital Source is very much like assembling a puzzle. Management gives you the pieces but it seems like they make their best efforts to scatter them around really good to obscure what's going on. Maybe it's intentional, maybe not. It makes me a bit nervous, though.
In 2-3 years there may be clarity, but investors will pay a higher price for that potentially cheery consensus.
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> Great analysis, Dan.
> I've looked at CapitalSource a few times, but have never felt I understood
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> been kinda loosely following it in order to try to understand the
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It's good to be skeptical of bank assets. They could be much worse or much better than reported. When I wrote this analysis, Capital Source was about $2 per share. I ended up not investing more for the same reasons you stated, even though it may have made sense to put some money into it because at that price, you may just earn 5x your money in the next three years.
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Dust swirls through Mecca as children head home from school, downwind of the Western Environmental hazardous waste recycling plant. / Richard Lui, The Desert Sun
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In January 2009, Riverside County fire Capt. Robert Fish ventured to the scrubby desert outpost of Mecca to check on the busy contaminated-soil recycling plant there.
He found something unusual, worrying enough to alert his superiors.
"While there I observed a number of oil-laden 'lakes,'" Fish recounted in a department email after his visit to Western Environmental, Inc., located on land owned by the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians.
"One held at least 10,000 gallons. It was only contained by earth berms."
The pools were "clearly improvised" and seeping past the berms, which were unlined.
"I would have grave concerns that this is possibly contaminating the water table," he wrote. "I know this company has permits to some degree, but based on my observations I doubt this is permitted."
Fish couldn't know it, but his description of the plant being permitted "to some degree" captured the vague nature of Western's legal standing as a business operating on sovereign tribal land.
In fact, it has only one permit, issued by its landlord, the Cabazons, who have an obvious interest in keeping their tenant in business.
For nearly a decade, the tribe and the company used the land's sovereign status to keep California's environmental regulators at bay.
They made Western the region's cheapest handler of polluted soil and waste chemicals and one of the busiest in California's billion-dollar hazardous waste cleanup industry.
That partnership also led to what environmentalists warn inevitably happens without strict rules and consistent enforcement: People sickened by odors, questions arising about the purity of groundwater beneath the plant and a breakdown of public trust.
Western has denied being the source of the smells and says its operation, which was forced by state and federal regulators last year to scale back its work, has never been cited by the Environmental Protection Agency.
But for the residents of Mecca, some of the poorest people in California, the memories of the nauseating stench that hung over their community in 2010 and 2011 have left them unwilling to accept any official action that allows the Western plant to keep operating.
"Those smells … you feel like you don't have worth. You think you have to live like that because you live in Mecca. You think that you have to endure it here because it's Mecca," said resident Angelina Guillen. "My friends would tell me, 'We don't have any other options besides what's here.' And I would say, 'Sure we're in Mecca but we're not animals. We're human beings.'"
Outcry over the smell led The Desert Sun to investigate the history of the Western plant, its relationship with the tribe and regulators and the impact on Mecca and the environment.
After seven months, our investigation found:
The tribe cited Western for violating the terms of its permit, which prohibit the plant from causing "injury, detriment, nuisance, annoyance or endanger the comfort, repose, health or safety" of employees or "persons in the Mecca community."
Along with polluted soil, Western accepted 3,600 tons of untreated sewage sludge. The bulk of the sewage arrived in 2010 and 2011, the same period that the smells reported by neighbors intensified.
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Former workers claim they accidentally tore the heavy plastic lining beneath the plant as they operated earth-moving equipment, potentially allowing waste chemicals to seep into the ground and taint the groundwater.
Former workers say they were sickened by odors on the job to the point of nausea, diarrhea and lightheadedness.
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How to Calculate Fringe Benefits
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There is far more to the total cost of an employee than just his or her salary or hourly wage. Fringe benefits, those perks that employees receive for free along with a paycheck, can add a substantial amount to human resource expenses. Also, job seekers may want to compare the offer of one company to another using the most complete data. Here's how to calculate fringe benefits for either situation.
Method 1 of 2: Employers
1Determine your number of full- and part-time employees, their hourly wages or salaries and the number of combined hours they work.Ad
2Set up an electronic or paper spreadsheet. This will also help you with the following calculations.
- Make a row for each employee with his or her name, employee number (if relevant), hourly wage or salary and total hours worked by each during a typical payroll period.
- Multiply the hours by the hourly wage in the next column. You can simply enter the salary amount for salaried employees.
- You may choose to separate the employees into full time, part time and salaried employee sections.
3Make columns for insurance premiums, vacation, paid sick or personal time and any other fringe benefits that your company offers.
4Calculate the amounts for the insurance premium column by employee.
- Part-time employees may not be eligible for insurance benefits under your company's policies.
- Insurance premiums can usually be determined from the provider's bills and allocated by the percentage of an individual employee's portion of your total wages paid.
- For instance, assume that full-time employee A makes $10 per hour, works 40 hours in a typical 1-week pay period and your total wages paid for a pay period are $1,000. Employee A represents 40 percent of your total salaries paid.
- Multiply your total insurance premiums paid for that pay period by 40 percent. This is employee A's portion of the insurance premiums for that period.
- Extend the calculation to an annual amount in order to keep all dollar amounts as annual figures.
5Enter the amount of yearly vacation pay for each employee.
- This may vary by employee depending upon your company's vacation policies. If you're working in an electronic spreadsheet, you may be able to calculate the vacation pay using a formula that considers years of service or salary level.
6Repeat the vacation calculation for paid sick leave or personal days, if appropriate to your company's policies.
7Add any other fringe benefits, such as publication subscriptions, uniform or vehicle allowance or membership dues.
8Create a final column for "Total Fringe Benefits" and sum the columns of all fringe benefit types for each row.
9Sum the fringe benefits for each employee type and divide by the number of available hours worked in a year to find the average fringe benefit cost for part-time, full-time and salaried employees.Ad
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1Create a list of the fringe benefits offered in addition to a salary.
2Ascribe numerical values to each benefit.
- For instance, if you are offered 2 weeks of paid vacation, calculate 2 weeks of the offered hourly wage or salary.
- Do the same for paid sick leave or personal time.
3Add approximate health, dental, vision and life insurance premiums paid by the company.
- Most companies will not release this information to employees. Instead, use insurance quotes to estimate what the same level of coverage would cost you personally.
- Deduct the premiums you will have to pay under the terms of your offered employment. The difference is the approximate value of insurance premiums in your fringe benefits.
4Consider any other fringe benefits, such as a uniform or vehicle allowance.
- Use approximate estimates to valuate these fringe benefits.
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- There are numerous tax issues related to receiving fringe benefits as an employee. See the United States' IRS publication linked in the Sources area or consult with a tax professional.
- Some fringe benefits may vary. For instance, your company may offer a uniform allowance as a fringe benefit. Not all employees will take full advantage of such an allowance, so you can choose to calculate this expense based on the highest possible expense or a historical average expense.
- Fringe benefits are a type of employee compensation and, as such, information concerning fringe benefits should be kept confidential. Make sure any employee working with these figures understands the sensitive nature of this data.
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Ashes of Eden before Return?
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What was wrong with "Dark Victory"? I found that the Mirror Universe books were the strongest. Unfortunately the Totality trilogy didn't live up to the MU trilogy or even the Return/Avenger storyline.
For me,
Dark Victory
was just poorly written. The plot felt rushed, the characters felt shallow and unconvincing, and the dialogue fell flat at every turn. It was hackneyed and overwrought and definitely suffered from middle-child blues, IMO.
was at least better written, but I really didn't like it. Both books were a really big letdown after so much promise in
. I'd just prefer the series end on that cliffhanger than to drag out into what it became.
I got about a third of the way into
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before I just couldn't take the stupidity anymore and put it down, never looking back.
The Ashes of Eden, The Return, Avenger
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Ford sold 14,086 Interceptor SUVs last year, as the police version of the Explorer is known, up 140% from the year before. At the same time, it sold 10,897 Taurus outfitted for police work, up 31% from 2012.
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Hours after winning its first Big South Tournament championship since the 2006 season, the Coastal Carolina softball team learned its road to the Women's College World Series starts as the No. 4 seed at the Athens Regional on May 17-20.
Coastal squares off with No. 1 seed and host Georgia on Friday, May 18 at 5:00pm from Jack Turner Stadium. North Carolina will be the No. 2 seed and will play third-seeded Georgia Southern in its opening game.
The winner of the Athens regional matches up with the winner of the Knoxville regional which features No. 7 Tennessee, Miami (Ohio), UAB and Virginia Tech in the Super Regionals.
The Chanticleers, who finished with a 13-8 Big South regular-season record to earn the No. 2 seed in the Conference tournament, secured their fifth NCAA Regional appearance by dispatching top-seeded Radford twice on Saturday in the double-elimination tournament before notching a 4-1 victory Sunday over third seed Charleston Southern, fueled by a 13 strikeout performance by Ashley Bagwell, in the Big South Championship game.
Coastal, led by third-year head coach Kelley Green, racked up a 43-18 overall record to produce the program's most wins since the 1994 squad finished the season with a 44-15 record. The team's 40-plus wins are only the third time the Coastal program has achieved the prestigious platform.


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A Horde symbol plus a guild icon.
"Here's what you'll need to make your own bandana," says Serthida. Pre-fab blank bandana (I purchased mine at JoAnn Fabrics) A stiff-bristled brush (but you can use an old toothbrush) Paint of some sort; in this case I'm using cheap acrylic craft paint, since I know how hard it is to wash out of clothes it accidentally ends up on Contact paper/shelf liner paper (I like to use the clear kind, but if you want some with flowers or puppies on it, more power to you.)
"I made a positive stencil of the image I wanted -- in this case, my guild's hammer. You can print out your symbol first, to make it easier; I just freehanded on some spare cardstock. Anyways, trace it onto the paper backing of the contact paper. If you're doing something that isn't symmetrical, like the Horde symbol, MAKE SURE TO TRANSFER YOUR IMAGE BACKWARDS."
"I flipped the hammer and traced it on. It's not exactly a mirror flip, but it's good enough."
"Cut it out!"
"I peeled the paper backing away from the contact paper and stuck it down onto the bandana. If you have a non-symmetrical image, this is why it was important to transfer it backwards in the earlier step, since now it's flipped the correct way."
"Make a mess! Load up your brush with your paint and flick, flick, flick! Make sure to take plenty of time and get enough paint on your project that you get a nice, sharp end product. Note that I put down something underneath my bandana to catch the splatters, since this step is pretty sloppy."
"Done! Let the paint dry and then peel off your stencil. Enjoy your new geeky clothing item!"
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Let's say you're traveling abroad this summer, planning a trip to Germany perhaps. You've got a lot on your itinerary: visits to Munich and Berlin, a cruise down the Rhine, a few tastings of Mosel grapes. It's all extremely exciting. There's just one problem.You don't speak German.That's OK. Foreign travelers have been braving the translation gap for centuries. But it's just OK. Negotiating an environment featuring an unfamiliar language is difficult, and for many, a language-related faux pas seems inevitable.Fear no more. Now, with the Bing Translator app for Windows, which became available June 6 in all markets that offer Windows 8, you can translate anywhere within the operating system and start deciphering all those street signs and restaurant menus you've been dreading.Once the app, which is free, has been downloaded from the Windows Store, it will appear on the Start screen for easy access, and all you need do is select text from within a Windows app, swipe from the right, and select a Share charm to share the text with Bing Translator and get your translation."Bringing together powerful technologies from Microsoft Research and Bing, the Bing Translator app for Windows takes advantage of the unique capabilities of Windows to deliver to users a compelling translation experience whether at their desktop or on the go." said Vikram Dendi, director of product strategy for Microsoft Research. "Customized machine translation that enables online and offline scenarios is combined with world-class augmented reality to bring truly instant translation capabilities, immensely useful when traveling."At the same time, the app becomes your go-to utility to translate from most modern apps by enabling Bing Translator with share features."The app, which uses features and functionality unique to Windows and the same technology that powers billions of translations per day from the Bing Translator website, Office, SharePoint, Internet Explorer, Yammer, and many more services from Microsoft, provides a fast, intuitive, natural way to help people understand languages. And it represents the latest advance in an ongoing collaboration between Bing and Microsoft Research.The Bing Translator app for Windows is powered by an impressive statistical machine-translation engine that scales to fit the memory and storage requirements of the device on which it is used. The app is the most recent product of more than a decade of natural language exploration at Microsoft Research.Today's machine-translation systems invoke "parallel corpora," modern-day Rosetta Stones that learn transformations of text from existing human translations. These massive language collections are used, along with recent advances in applied statistics and machine learning, to deliver translations of words, phrases, or idiomatic expressions in context for many language pairs and domains.That technique is a successor to the previous machine-translation method, which deployed handcrafted rules to translate between languages. Such work was painstaking and frustrating, and it didn't scale well.The new model combines the power of statistical analysis and linguistic information to provide better generalizations that lead to more comprehensive translations delivered to developers, partners, webmasters, and users via a variety of flexible web services.That is what the Bing Translator app for Windows provides—in spades. Unlike other online translation services, it can generate translations using textual or camera input, it can provide text-to-speech translation, and it can detect languages automatically. It also supports more than 40 languages—and for French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese, users can download language packs that can be used offline to gain translation services to and from English when data connections are unavailable or too expensive.As summertime in the Northern Hemisphere swings into high gear, be safe out there. No matter if your wanderlust takes you to Germany or to Greece, to Thailand or to Turkey, rest assured that, with the Bing Translator app for Windows, you'll be able to avoid ordering schnitzel when you wanted strudel.


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The Evaluation Plan
An evaluation plan is intended to reveal and convey the worth or merit of a project (Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation 1988).
The Evaluation Plan for the proposal should include:
- How goals and objectives will be met
- Whether established processes will meet goals and objectives
- If proper methods and time frame to yield results and reports have been established
- If information gathered can be used to improve a project
- Whether information gathered can be used for dissemination
Types of Evaluation that can be requested (one or both):
1) Formative or Process Evaluation – Subjective
2) Summative or Outcome Evaluation – Objective
Example: "When the cook tastes the soup" it is formative and "when the guests taste the soup" it is summative.
Formative or Process Evaluation – Formative evaluation is conducted during the development of a project or program, with the intention of improving the program. The goal of the evaluation is to validate or ensure that the goals and objectives are being achieved within the established timeframe and budget. If necessary, you should state that problem areas will be identified and remedied.
Summative or Outcome Evaluation – Should provide information on the outcome: Did the project achieve what it was designed to do? Summative evaluation is typically quantitative to assess the success of a program by collecting data at the end of the project. Summative evaluation should examine the extent to which the project will meet the stated goals, the methods in which you plan to analyze the project benefits, the sustainability of the project, and if it can be replicated.
Think about the data you will need, the sources of the data, and the data timelines.
In your Evaluation Plan, you have to include (depending on the type of project):
- Process – involves planning and recruitment activities, the number of eligible participants, satisfaction of participants (method of evaluating participants for satisfaction), and goals accomplished within the projected timeframe and budget. Show how you plan to maintain records and data that will be used in the process evaluation.
- Content — involves the examination of participants' perceptions of the relevance and applicability of activities and materials involved. Plan to include survey data at the end of each module, and state that the purpose of content evaluation is to make adjustments to project if necessary.
- Impact – Plan to develop a survey at the end of the project to evaluate success of the project. Results will be measured by changes in knowledge, attitudes, skills, and the overall impact of the project.
Plan to use a comprehensive evaluation plan that will be based on project goals, objectives and activities. This evaluation should consider the resources, techniques, procedures, and strategies employed to accomplish the goals and objectives as well as the outcomes of the project activities and their impact. This evaluation should be based on an approach that examines accountability, effectiveness, and impact:
- Accountability – Should determine if the project activities were conducted as intended, within the budget, and in a timely manner. Completion of each objective and activity will be documented and will be within the timeline and budget.
- Effectiveness – Determines if the activities were conducted as intended, within the budget and in a timely manner. Completion of each objective and activity will be documented and will be according to the project's defined timeline and budget.
- Impact – Examines the extent to which the project has made a difference in the attitudes, practices, and skills of the target audience. Impact will be measured at the project level and also in the dissemination of the outcome of the project to a wider audience.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas lawmakers are returning to the Statehouse for the formal ceremonial adjournment of the 2013 session.
The House and Senate were scheduled to convene at 10 a.m. with nothing on their agendas for what are typically ceremonial events. No attempts were expected on overriding Gov. Sam Brownback's line-item vetoes in the $14.5 billion state budget.
Legislators ended the regular session June 2 after passing more cuts in personal income taxes and lowering the 6.3 percent sales tax to 6.15 percent. The sales tax had been scheduled to fall to 5.7 percent in July.
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anyone at all can enter and the only criteria is that your work is on a 10"x10" canvas.
i entered last year and am doing so again this year (more on that tomorrow)...but what i want to show you today is my mum's entry:
i love both of her entries. but probably this next one a little more....hundreds of tiny little handstitches:
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My first day on the road also included some time on the tracks and in the air.
In case you missed my last post, I've begun a three week trek across central China. I may be in the same country, but now I'm without the daily work grind to keep things consistent; rather, I have daily doses of fresh sightings and off-the-cuff activities with an itinerary full of perspective-changing places to tour.
The whole attitude is a plateau of exploration and absorption.
So get ready to soak.
Here's my three week itinerary, loosely: My first seven days are in the historic and mighty capital, Beijing:
From here, I'll head to a small town in Henan province, just to the south of Beijing. Here, I have a date with a special, old Chinese woman to speak with about the old days–and in China that means a whole different society, government, and world.
After this trip down China memory lane, I'll ride present tracks westward to the ancient capital of Xi'an.
And after that?
Well, I left a little wiggle room at the end. Right now I'm thinking further west may be the route.
Now, let me introduce you to my travel companion:
You'll be seeing me do this at various points along my journey:
But I wasn't for long.
Moments after that shot, I was out of the apartment and out of Zhuhai.
Via many different modes…
I taxied to the bus station:
Then on the bus I hopped:
This took me north to the train station.
Trains are a neat topic because, well, trains are cool; but also because they conjure up some controversy back in The States. Obviously, they're expensive and so require the right conditions. Even then, they don't pay for themselves via ticket fees, so public subsidization makes people wonder if they're worth it. Then again, roads need subsidization, too.
Where do you draw the line?
Or do you tear a a new one?
Right now they're cutting a major corridor between St. Paul and Minneapolis. The image of a fresh new train taking smiling faces to and fro has many seeing past the current chaos of detours and jackhammers. Federal dollars granted to the Twin Cities from like-minded Washingtonians helped see the project come to fruition.
Let's hope it's a true benefit to the community. And since it's political and tied to ideology, let's also hope that people can look back minus this veil to decipher the wisdom of the decision. In China, I don't hear the clamor of debate regarding trains. Of course, could they change things if they wanted?–Do they want to? The Chinese are reliably supportive of government projects.
I don't know the finances of the train I was on. I hope it was a good investment. All I know is that I paid a small amount for a good distance and the ride was cool, comfortable, and smooth. I'm looking forward to my next train ride on this trip–though it is an overnighter in a seat!
Here were some sights on the way up to Guangzhou:
Always a lot of people, too, as seen when we got off the train at the Guangzhou subway station:
Underground we went:
We were gophers (or moles, or worms) burrowing to the airport in this contraption:
Lastly, I went from underground to the high skies. The flight was ordinary, but my earphones didn't work, thus I couldn't listen to the movie which was an English film, "The King's Speech". I found it odd the earphones weren't electronic; they worked like a stethoscope.
Oh well, guess I had to make conversation with the woman next to me:
It paid off, too.
I was in need of a ride into the city. The Beijing airport is a ways out. We got in past midnight, so the trains didn't run. My only option was a spendy taxi. I asked my new friend if I could share one with her. She said something in broken English about that being okay, her husband coming, too.
Whatever, sounds good. I'm gonna save 100RMB!
We landed and got our bags. Indeed, we left the terminal and met her son and husband. She mentioned me to her husband like "the one on the phone I told you about." If he ever looked at me, it was for the shortest second. I had the feeling he wasn't happy to have me. I realized, then, that it wasn't a taxi, but their own car we were taking. I wouldn't want to take a stranger to his hostel at 12:30pm somewhere in the huge city of Beijing, either. But I was stuck in the middle of his reasonable annoyance and her Chinese hospitality.
And of course they put me in the front with him. I tried to make some small chat, but "I don't understand" is what he responded. They needed to know where to go and couldn't read the directions I had in lettered Chinese (known as pinyin). They needed the characters. I had a phone number (and a dead battery on my phone) so sheepishly I asked them to call my hostel. They did and got directions.
It was then several miles of trying to keep it light. Then at one point Dad threw on the hazard lights and abruptly pulled over on the urban freeway, onto an exit lane. "What the heck?" I thought. The car stopped, Mom opened the passenger's side back door holding her toddler just outside as he peed–on the freeway.
A little later father had to call my hostel again and spoke loudly. The Chinese like to bellow anyway, but I think he was frustrated and lost. Oh boy. Were driving down alleys just wide enough for the side mirrors to clear (one time we had to pivot them inward to squeak through). But before I started making alternative sleeping plans, he stopped the car, opened his trunk, and pointed. We were there. Mother refused any money. Gosh, I hope they weren't far from their place.
They left and it was just me and Beijing. And since, I've been having a great time and learning much.
The next day was Sunday. I walked into a church service and later witnessed some "worshipers" in a nearby park.
You'll see.
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The Gamecocks will face Mississippi State in the final game on the schedule for Wednesday.
The Bulldogs advanced with a marathon win over Missouri - 2-1 in 17 innings.
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Mayor Taveras Applauds Student Leaders and RIC School of Nursing for new Tobacco-Free Policy
This fall, the Rhode Island College School of Nursing established a tobacco-free policy to become the first college in Rhode Island that has gone tobacco free, joining a growing number across the country. The move received the applause and appreciation of Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and Rhode Island Department of Health Director Dr. Michael Fine. On November 21, Healthy Communities Office and Tobacco Free Providence Director Peter Asen was present with Dr. Fine at RIC for a ceremony to celebrate the policy, and to present a citation from Mayor Taveras.
The policy was developed out of a student project and led by RIC Student Nursing Association (SNA) President Ericka Samoorian; SNA Treasurer Alicia Harris; and SNA Project Coordinator Alexandra Gadbois, all members of the class of 2014. The students worked to develop and conduct a survey of RIC nursing students which found that 87 percent of students would support the policy change. Nursing Dean Jane Williams worked with the students to institute the policy, believing it was the right move for the students' health, as well as for their future careers, given that a growing number of health care facilities will not hire tobacco users, including Lifespan, the state's largest employer of nurses.
The policy prohibits nursing students from using tobacco products on the campus or any time they are in a school of nursing uniform, in recognition of the important role of student nurses as providing positive examples of health promotion and healthy behavior.
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The SEC said on Friday that it would investigate a false claim made earlier in the day that Apple chief Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack. The hunt is prompted after the reportedly inaccurate assertion, made on CNN's iReport citizen journalism site, triggered a panic sell-off in the stock market and ultimately contributed to Apple's stock trading at a new 52-week low. Company shares ended the day at $97.07 and reached below $100 for the first time since May 2007, or just before the release of the original iPhone.
CNN isn't believed to be the direct target of the SEC. The news outlet's iReport section is disclaimed as unfiltered and potentially inaccurate, and so not to be taken as representative of CNN's official position. The company is known to have pulled the story and disabled the account of the contributor shortly after the inaccurate post's effect on Apple shares became clear.
Apple itself maintained that the report is "not true," according to company spokesman Steve Dowling, who reported Jobs being in good health soon after the iReport story appeared.
The Mac producer has nonetheless drawn criticism for its insistence that Jobs' health is a "private matter" and for failing to outline a direct succession plan should Jobs' health or career decisions remove him from the key company position. It was not until an off-record newspaper conversation that Jobs revealed that his unusually thin look at this year's WWDC keynote, which itself resulted in a gradual decline of Apple share value, was triggered by nutritional problems.


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November 30, 2015
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) -- The Washington State History Museum in Tacoma plans to open an exhibit in August of next year on the D.B. Cooper skyjacking mystery.
State Historical Society Director Jennifer Kilmer tells The Daily News (http://is.gd/PkXK5o) it's part of an emphasis on more contemporary events.
A man identifying himself as Dan Cooper hijacked a Portland to Seattle flight in November 1971. He picked up $200,000 in ransom money in Seattle and took off for Mexico, then parachuted somewhere over southwest Washington.
The skyjacking remains unsolved, but some of the marked $20 bills he was given were found in 1980 along the Columbia River.
The exhibit will include some of the money. It also will illustrate features of an old Boeing 727 that have been changed in modern planes to prevent skyjackings.
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LARRY CROIX: More Than a 'Small Town Newspaper'
When I passed the news to my daughter that I was being given an opportunity to write a biweekly column, she was quite excited. She scrolled through my previous incarnations as a naval officer, executive in the electronics industry, auto mechanic and business owner and now this and exclaimed "What's next?". I told her not to get carried away; it's just a small town newspaper.
Wow!! The profound lack of respect embodied in the six words — it's just a small town newspaper — is mindboggling to me. That I thought and spoke these words has been the cause of serious discomfort.
For the last 30 years, at least 90 percent of everything I know about the comings and goings; the joys and sorrows; the imperatives of who, what, why, when, and where of the county has originated with the Kitsap Sun. Every opinion I have formed written or spoken — especially on local issues — has evolved from personal beliefs, observation and the factual record produced by the likes of Steven Gardner, Chris Henry, Rachel Pritchett, Ed Friedrich and every other journalist and staff member at the Kitsap Sun, past and present.
Of course, there are many more-celebrated newspapers — the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, to name a few. They all provide useful, important and needed information. The difficulty with these famous newspapers is that what they have to say is distant in time and space, largely abstract relative to our daily lives and not relevant to our here and now. The Kitsap Sun is our here and now.
If we didn't know already, we have learned over the last few years that the greater the distance — in miles and organizational layers — government is from us, the less chance we have of influencing outcomes. From almost everyone's perspective, one or both of the last two national governments has run amok. Most of us are frustrated with all levels of government in one way or another.
Our only real chance for change is bottom up. We act to gain tight control of local governments which in turn puts pressure on state governments which in turn puts pressure on the federal apparatus. We can't do that without the Kitsap Sun.
If your interests lie in local sports, opinion, business, entertainment or the lifestyles that surround us, this is the place to be. You can be sure that if this newspaper did not provide this information for you no one else would.
Just like you and me, these professionals are not perfect. They have and will get things wrong. They have and will miss something important. They have and will support opinions different from yours or mine. It will be to our benefit if each of us points to the mistakes or omissions and challenges with differing opinions. The best part is — what we can be and do because the Kitsap Sun exists is so much more than what we could be and do if it didn't.
If I am so fortunate as to continue writing, I will always be a pretender; an amateur who only gets to write because of these journalists who spend their lives keeping us informed thereby providing the glue that makes us a community.
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IBPS CWE PO / MT IV Eligibility 2014
Institute of Banking Personnel Selection
IBPS House,
90 feet, DP.Road,
Near Thakur Polytechnic,
Off. Western Express Highway,
P. B. No. 8587, Kandivali ( E ),
Mumbai – 400101,
Phone No : 1800 222 366,
Fax : 91 – 22 – 2854 2076,
Website : www.ibps.in
The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection invites application for the online examination for the next Common Recruitment Process for selection of personnel for Probationary Officer / Management Trainee posts in the Participating Organisations listed below is tentatively scheduled in October 2014.
|IBPS PO / MT IV 2014 Online Practice Test
IBPS CWE Common Written Examination Important Dates 2014 :
Tentative Dates
|Online Registration
|22nd July, 2014 - 11th August, 2014
|Payment of Application Fees - Online
|22nd July, 2014 - 11th August, 2014
|Payment of Application Fees - Offline
|24th July, 2014 - 14th August, 2014
|Download of Call Letter for Pre - Examination Training ( PET ) for SC / ST / Minority Community candidates
|11th September, 2014 - 22nd September, 2014
|Pre - Examination Training
|22nd September, 2014 - 27th September, 2014
|Download of Call letter for Examination
|After 01st October, 2014
|Online Examination (Tentative dates ) some / all / additional dates as the need arises
11th October, 2014 & 12th October, 2014
18th October, 2014 & 19th October, 2014
01st November, 2014 & 02nd November, 2014
|Declaration of result status of examination ( CWE )
|November, 2014
|Download of call letters for Interview
|January 2015
|Conduct of Interview
|January 2015
|Provisional Allotment
|April 2015
Participating Banks for CWE Probationary Officers / Management Trainees Recruitment 2014 :
|Allahabad Bank
|Canara Bank
|Indian Bank
|Syndicate Bank
|Andhra Bank
|Central Bank of India
|Indian Overseas Bank
|UCO Bank
|Bank of Baroda
|Corporation Bank
|Oriental Bank of Commerce
|Union Bank of India
|Bank of India
|Dena Bank
|Punjab National Bank
|United Bank of India
|Bank of Maharashtra
|Punjab & Sind Bank
|Vijaya Bank
|Bharatiya Mahila Bank
|IDBI Bank
|Any other bank or financial institution
Eligibility Criteria for CWE Recruitment of Probationary Officers & Management Trainees :
Candidates, intending to apply for CWE PO / MT – IV should ensure that they fulfil the minimum eligibility criteria specified by IBPS in this advertisement.
Note : Please note that the eligibility criteria specified herein are the basic criteria for applying for the post. Candidates must necessarily produce the relevant documents in original and a photocopy in support of their identity and eligibility – pertaining to category, nationality, age, educational qualifications etc as indicated in the online IBPS CWE PO / MT IV Recruitment Application Form 2014. Please note that no change of category will be permitted at any stage after registration of the online IBPS CWE PO / MT IV Recruitment Application Form 2014. Merely applying for CWE / appearing for and being shortlisted in CWE and / or in the subsequent interview and/ subsequent processes does not imply that a candidate will necessarily be offered employment in any of the Participating Organisations. No request for considering the candidature under any category other than the one in which applied will be entertained.
Nationality / Citizenship :
A candidate must be either :
(i) a Citizen of India or
(ii) a subject of Nepal or
(iii) a subject of Bhutan or
(iv) a Tibetan Refugee who came over to India before 1st January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India or
(v) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania ( formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar ), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India, provided that a candidate belonging to categories (ii), (iii), (iv) & (v) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.
Age Limit for IBPS CWE PO / MT Exam 2014 ( As on 01st July, 2014 ) :
Minimum : 20 years Maximum: 30 years.
i.e. a candidate must have been born not earlier than 02nd July, 1984 and not later than 01st July, 1994 ( both dates inclusive ).
Relaxation of Upper age limit in IBPS CWE Probationary Officer / Management Trainee Jobs 2014 :
Sr. No.
Age relaxation
|Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
|5 years
|Other Backward Classes ( Non - Creamy Layer )
|3 years
|Persons With Disabilities
|10 years
|Ex - Servicemen, Commissioned Officers including Emergency Commissioned Officers ( ECOs ) / Short Service Commissioned Officers ( SSCOs ) who have rendered at least 5 years military service and have been released on completion of assignment ( including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from the last date of receipt of application ) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency or physical disability attributable to military service or invalidment
|5 years
|Persons ordinarily domiciled in the Kashmir Division of the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period 01st January, 1980 to 31st December, 1989
|5 years
|Persons affected by 1984 riots
|5 years
Note :
(i) The relaxation in upper age limit to SC / ST / OBC candidates is allowed on cumulative basis with only one of the remaining categories for which age relaxation is permitted as mentioned above in Point No. II ( 3 ) to II ( 6 ).
(ii) The maximum age limit specified is applicable to General Category candidates.
(iii) Candidates seeking age relaxation will be required to submit necessary certificates in original / copies at the time of Interview and at any subsequent stage of the recruitment process as required by IBPS / Participating Organisations.
(iv) In case of an Ex – servicemen who has once joined in a Govt. job on the civil side after availing the benefits given to him as an Ex – servicemen for his re employment, his re employment, his ex servicemen status for the purpose of re employment in Government ceases. There is no reservation for Ex – servicemen in Officers Cadre.
Educational Qualifications for IBPS CWE PO / MT Recruitment Exam 2014 :
A Degree ( Graduation ) in any discipline from a University recognised by the Govt. Of India or any equivalent qualification recognized as such by the Central Government.
The candidate must possess valid Mark – sheet / Degree Certificate that he / she is a graduate on the day he / she registers and indicate the percentage of marks obtained in Graduation while registering online.
Note :
All the educational qualifications mentioned should be from a University / Institution / Board recognised by Govt. Of India/ approved by Govt. Regulatory Bodies and the result should have been declared on or before 11th August, 2014.
Proper document from Board / University for having declared the result on or before 11th August, 2014 has to be submitted at the time of interview. The date of passing the eligibility examination will be the date appearing on the mark – sheet or provisional certificate issued by University / Institute. In case the result of a particular examination is posted on the website of the University / Institute and web based certificate is issued then proper document / certificate in original issued and signed by the appropriate authority of the University / Institute indicating the date of passing properly mentioned thereon will be reckoned for verification and further process.
Candidate should indicate the percentage obtained in Graduation calculated to the nearest two decimals in the online IBPS CWE PO / MT IV Recruitment Application 2014. Where CGPA / OGPA is awarded, the same should be converted into percentage and indicated in online IBPS CWE PO / MT IV Recruitment Application Form 2014. If called for interview, the candidate will have to produce a certificate issued by the appropriate authority inter alia stating that the norms of the University regarding conversion of grade into percentage and the percentage of marks scored by the candidate in terms of norms.
|IBPS PO / MT IV 2014 Online Practice Test
Calculation of Percentage :
The percentage marks shall be arrived at by dividing the total marks obtained by the candidate in all the subjects in all semesters / years by aggregate maximum marks in all the subjects irrespective of honours / optional / additional optional subject, if any. This will be applicable for those Universities also where Class / Grade is decided on basis of Honours marks only. The fraction of percentage so arrived will be ignored i.e. 59.99% will be treated as less than 60% and 54.99% will be treated as less than 55%.


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PREP Make sure to use good prep. Take a hot shower and wash your legs with a glycerin soap. You can even use a pre shave or some Conditioner if you don't have pre shave. Rub it on your legs and let it soften the hairs.
LATHER Put your lather right on top. You may have to build multiple lathers until you get used to making a decent lather. This is why I love shave sticks. Rub that bad boy on your legs and it will help supplement your lather so you know you have enough. Do one section of leg at a time. Lower, lower, upper, upper. You can even do lower front, lower back…This is so your lather doesn't dry out. You will get faster with time then can do one whole leg. Be patient!
SHAVE Make sure to shave with the grain first pass. You want to reduce the amount of hair. Then you can go across the grain. I would maybe leave out against the grain until you get a hang of it. I, personally, only do one pass. From ankle to hip, but if you are prone to irritation I suggest starting with out as I stated above. You can decide for yourself what passes are best for your legs.
Be very careful around the knees and ankles. Use no pressure and keep the angle at about 30-35 degrees on all the curves. To make sure you have the correct angle, lay the head of the razor on your skin and rock it down until the blade touches your skin. To maintain the correct angle on all curves you will use short strokes. You want to change the angle with each curve of your leg. To get the back of your knee lock your knee and turn it inward. Then very carefully with no pressure get the inner part of the knee. With the back of the thigh I have had the best luck with bending down, or bringing the thigh up where my thigh is on my chest. This stretches the back of the thigh making it easier to shave. Do not shave on an area without lather. If you need to make touch ups, re-lather.
Be very careful around all your curves/contours/muscles. I can not say it enough, use short strokes! Also check out my Leg Shaving Video and my Underarm shaving video for starters. Good Luck ladies, and email me anytime you have questions! email@example.com is my personal email if you dont want Brad reading what you have to say! -Casie Maggard
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Sign-up to join us for a day in the dirt volunteering with the Neighborhood Farm Initiative. We will meet there June 4 at 9am and work in the garden until about 12:30-1. We will enjoy a pot-luck lunch and one … Continue reading
Bison and Beef Farm Tour and Dinner, June 18
Update: This event is now SOLD OUT. Please check out some of our other great events! Saturday, June 18 2pm Gunpowder Bison & Trading Co. 1270 Monkton Road Monkton, MD 21111 4pm Roseda Beef Roseda Farm 15317 Carroll Road Monkton, … Continue reading
'Queen of the Sun' to pollinate awareness of honeybee crisis
Director Taggart Siegel will introduce his award-winning documentary 'Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us?' at a special screening 7 PM May 10 in the Byrd Auditorium at the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC). The event is … Continue reading
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EcoFriendly Dinner at Dino, June 5
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Artisanal Foods and Local Wine tasting at Northside Social, May 26
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Foraging: Ramps 2011
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9th Annual Clyde's Farm Dinner, Aug 6th
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The Ultimate Pig Dinner, May 4
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Food Justice: Author Event and Discussion, April 6
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An oil and gas company wants to drill southeast of Silt and the Bureau of Land management wants to know what you think about it.
Orion Energy Partners submitted the Kokopelli Master Development Plan for Exploration and Development on 2,240 acres on the Jolly Mesa.
Orion wants to drill 186 well over the next four to seven years.
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HPCL has a full-fledged Corporate Training Department, to augment the learning and development requirements of its officers.
The HR Department's Vision is "Excellence in harnessing the full potential of all employees for becoming a World Class Energy Company".
With this Vision in focus, the Corporate Training Department's vision is to "Create value through enhanced competencies and be a strategic partner to business by enabling employees realize their full potential through innovative and progressive learning initiatives".
Basis the above, the key focus areas of the Department are as under:
The specific training needs of individual employees are identified through Competency Mapping Exercises. The Training Department interacts with all Business Units / functions to identify and design training programs to cater to these needs. These programs enable employees to enhance their skills and realize their full potential.
The Training Policy at HPCL provides broad directions to guide the learning solutions and initiatives.
The In-company programs are conducted through internal faculty, external faculty and external courses. Focus is given to the development of core internal faculty members, who will effectively train employees at different levels of the Corporation.
HPCL has a full-fledged, well equipped Training Institute at Nigdi, Pune, standing testimony to the value that HPCL places on training. Away from distractions, it is the "Temple of learning" by virtue of its perfect learning ambience. HPMDI is equipped with the best infrastructure conducive for effective learning. It is also having adequate recreational facilities to keep the employees occupied before / after learning hours.
The faculty is largely drawn from premier institutes or reputed independent training consultants. They are academicians and professionals who are well versed with the updated techniques and changing trends in the field of professional training. Tools like Group discussions, Role plays, case studies, presentations etc are used in the training.
The training plan for the year for each Business Unit/Function is finalized after mutual discussions with them. The SBU specific requirements due to the change in market scenario and thereby required competencies are delved upon. Then suitable Consultants/practitioners are identified and customized programs are designed in consultation with line functions.
HPCL nominates officers for external seminars and conferences in connection with their functional requirements.
Advanced Management Programs are organized for officers of levels DGM and above, by reputed Business Schools like ASCI- Hyderabad, MDI- Gurgaon, ISB- Hyderabad and IIM-Kolkata, including visit to select foreign countries.
HPCL also sponsors Study Tour for employee groups to enrich their knowledge and skills, a few employee groups for select foreign training to enrich their knowledge and skills, in the form of select foreign training.
Various e-learning programs on defined competencies, including Online certification courses on Project Management, Supply Chain Management, different e learning resources on various behavioral areas are facilitated.
Learning Centers are available in all Zones and Corporate HQO for accessing information through internet, books and CDs. leading to learning.
Education Refund Plan (ERP) enables the employees to undertake academic courses to further their self-development process, in relation to Corporation's requirement.
For employees interested in higher studies, to further on their own, Corporation has a detailed Study leave policy.
Based on the post-training evaluation, the Training department continuously monitors the effectiveness of the facilitator and relevance of the content. Alterations / modifications take place on this basis. Similarly Participant assimilation of training is also recorded.
Students undergoing Graduate / Postgraduate professional courses from reputed Management and Engineering Institutions will be engaged for Summer Internship for a period of 6 to 8 weeks during April-June every year.
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Cluster randomized trial in the general practice research database: 2. Secondary prevention after first stroke (eCRT study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
1 King's College London, Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, Division of Health and Social Care Research, Capital House, 42 Weston St, London SE1 3QD, UK
2 Clinical Practice Research Datalink, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, London, UK
3 School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Trials 2012, 13:181 doi:10.1186/1745-6215-13-181Published: 3 October 2012
The purpose of this research is to develop and evaluate methods for conducting pragmatic cluster randomized trials in a primary care electronic database. The proposal describes one application, in a less frequent chronic condition of public health importance, secondary prevention of stroke. A related protocol in antibiotic prescribing was reported previously.
The study aims to implement a cluster randomized trial (CRT) using the electronic patient records of the General Practice Research Database (GPRD) as a sampling frame and data source. The specific objective of the trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of a computer-delivered intervention at enhancing the delivery of stroke secondary prevention in primary care. GPRD family practices will be allocated to the intervention or usual care. The intervention promotes the use of electronic prompts to support adherence with the recommendations of the UK Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party and NICE guidelines for the secondary prevention of stroke in primary care. Primary outcome measure will be the difference in systolic blood pressure between intervention and control trial arms at 12-month follow-up. Secondary outcomes will be differences in serum cholesterol, prescribing of antihypertensive drugs, statins, and antiplatelet therapy. The intervention will continue for 12 months. Information on the utilization of the decision-support tools will also be analyzed.
The CRT will investigate the effectiveness of using a computer-delivered intervention to reduce the risk of stroke recurrence following a first stroke event. The study will provide methodological guidance on the implementation of CRTs in electronic databases in primary care.
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Small-business owners need for low-cost advice has inspired two new consulting efforts from local residents.
The RBIZ Network is a business-to-business association recruiting Rockland County professionals who can offer entrepreneurs a half-hour of their expertise for free, with subsequent help at negotiated rates.
HourlyNerd.com is a website co-founded by Rob Biederman, a Harvard Business School student who grew up in Chappaqua, that matches business-school students with entrepreneurs.
Both ventures target entrepreneurs needing solutions to questions about marketing, growth and finances, among other matters.
Were like an Angies List, but different in the sense that its for people looking for business services, said Ed Graybow, RBIZ Networks president and a consultant who runs Graybow Associates in New City.
Graybow said the idea for RBIZ Network emerged after he and his collaborators realized that new business owners need all kinds of services that the networks members could provide.
The networks next membership meeting is 6 p.m. May 9 at Comfort Inn, 425 E. Route 59, Nanuet, with details at www.rbiznet.com.
Biederman, 26, who worked in private equity at Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital before starting his first year of business school in September, said he and his classmates founded HourlyNerd.com in February because many business-school students need part-time employment and have valuable business expertise to share.
The website has signed up about 550 masters of business administration students who charge an average of $25 to $50 an hour for their consulting.
A lot of MBA students have worked four to six years before business school, Biederman said of his consultants experience.
They are usually from the top business schools, so some of the quality selection has been made, Biederman said.
Since its national launch, Biederman said, 65 companies have signed up to hire students, exceeding his business plans estimate of 10.
Biederman said his goal is to deliver great service and in a few years sell the start-up to an employment or business-networking website.