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Little Falls shooting: Two communities find strength amidst shared tragedy
PILLAGER — Tuesday was a typical school day at Pillager High School.
Superintendent Chuck Arns said despite the disturbing events of the last few days, he was relieved to see things on campus at Pillager are pretty normal.
"We didn't know what to expect," Arns said.
Pillager High School student Nicholas Brady Schaeffel, 17, was one of the two teens shot and killed Thanksgiving Day in the rural Little Falls home of Byron David Smith.
Schaeffel and his cousin, Haile Kifer, 18 were allegedly caught burglarizing Smith's home at the time of the shootings.
Arns said Pillager School had nine grief counselors available Monday for students who needed help processing through the gruesome and very public details of the final moments before their classmate's life was ended.
"It's difficult to process — both for kids and adults," Arns said. "It's a grievous time for a lot of people."
Pillager School counselor Sue Turner said she has been impressed with the resilience of the students and staff on campus.
"I'm pretty proud of our staff and of our students," Turner said. "Yesterday was a normal school day. We wanted to make it as normal as possible — our kids needed it."
Turner said anytime Pillager faces a tragedy involving its students the school sets up a crisis team to help students and staff cope with their feelings. "We want them to know we care about them — we're here to listen," Turner said.
Pillager School teachers were informed Monday morning of the tragedy and high school teachers were given a brief statement to read to their classes, explaining the loss. Students were allowed to meet with grief counselors to talk through their feelings and ask questions if needed.
Turner said most students she spoke with just needed someone to recount memories with as they processed the news.
"What I have found is I can't fix things," Turner said. "They just want someone to listen as they share their memories.
"The good thing is they are open to sitting down and talking about it."
Nicholas Brady Schaeffel, a junior, was a new student to Pillager School, having enrolled for the fall 2012 semester.
In Little Falls, students, teachers and community members are still reeling from the loss of two of their own. Schaeffel attended Little Falls Community High School his freshman and sophomore year before transferring to Pillager. Haile Kifer was a senior at Little Falls.
Little Falls Superintendent Stephen Jones said news of the deaths was on everyone's mind as classes resumed Tuesday following the holiday weekend and planned in-service day, Monday. "Our focus is reaching our to the kids and families of our community," Jones said.
Jones said on-campus counselors were available to students needing to talk to someone. "We will continue to be offering services to families and kids as they need them," Jones said.
Jones said he was particularly moved by the outpouring of support from communities and school districts across Minnesota expressing their concern for the community of Little Falls.
"We've really appreciated the contact of other school districts," Jones said. "People have really responded to us as a school district and reached out to our kids."
Jones said he received a phone call Friday night regarding the shooting deaths giving him, and staff and faculty a couple of days to cope with the information before school resumed Tuesday.
"Like many schools, we've faced tragedy before," Jones said. "Tragedy is tragedy. What adds to this is how many people are struggling with the logic of what is alleged to have occurred."
On Monday, curious and mourning members of the Little Falls community drove by the rural Little Falls home of Byron David Smith hoping to catch a glimpse of the house set far back off the road barricaded by a spray-painted sign that read, "Keep Out."
Among the visitors were Little Falls high school students Alex Janey, 18, and Michael Carll, 15, classmates of with Schaeffel and Kifer. Janey, a senior at Little Falls Community High School said he just thought it was a bad situation that got out of control.
"I just think he should have just called the authorities and let them deal with it," Janey said. "The extent was way too far."
Liberty Nunn, a family friend of the victims, attended Monday's news conference looking for some answers to the growing number of questions surrounding the incident on Thanksgiving day.
"It's just not right," Nunn told the media Monday. Nunn said she didn't understand why such force was needed for an incident that took place in broad daylight or why Smith didn't immediately call authorities. Smith told investigators he didn't want to bother the sheriff's department on the holiday.
"What about the families that had to have dinner without their children," Nunn questioned. "I hope he goes to jail for a very long time."
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Hy Burdon, schoolmaster
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Wm Barker, blacksmith
Richard Boulby, joiner
John Cartwright, wheelwright and vict New Inn
Wm Chapman, vict Star
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Abm Richardson and Francis Sheard, tailors
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Wm Dunnell
Hy Harrison
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I usually park ye ole bugeye in the DINFOS parking lot. There is a Forester XT(cool points for hood scooped soob), black blobeye, gold/green(I'm a bit colorblind) hawkeye, black hatch, and a blue hatch are all usually parked out there. I've seen like two of them on the road, I usually get to work after they do and leave before they do too. Yeh, I'm lucky. I'll have longer hours in a month or so.


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DRaaS provider Quorum this week named Edward Sharp as its new CEO.
Sharp comes to the San Jose, Calif-based., company from NetApp, where he served as vice president of emerging products. He takes over from Walter Angerer, who was acting as interim CEO.
"There is no better person to lead Quorum at this time of significant growth," Angerer said in a prepared statement. "Edward is a proven leader with engineering skills, strategic vision and an ability to rally an already enthusiastic team. His experience and business acumen is precisely what Quorum needs as it enters the next chapter of expanded innovation."
Sharp spent 15 years at NetApp, in various roles. His last position there entailed leading emerging business in mobile, data protection, flash and object storage. Sharp holds a patent related to network storage. Before NetApp, Sharp worked for McKinsey & Co. and the National Water Commission.
Privately held Quorum said Sharp's appointment follows a strong 2013; the company closed out last year on record growth, it said, including a $10 million round of Series C funding. Quorum is using that money to pay for more salespeople and engineers. Quorum, which sells through channel partners, touts its approach to DRaaS as a one-click, hybrid cloud solution.


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Burn Notice - Season 4 Episodes
Burn Notice - Season 4
Burn Notice stars Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen, a blacklisted spy who finds himself stranded in sun-soaked Miami. The action-packed season four commences with a new counterintelligence expert, Jesse Garcia, played by Coby Bell ("Third Watch"), who loves to fight bad guys just as much as Michael does. Heating up the night with our hot undercover agent are Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar), the beautiful ex-IRA operative and ex-girlfriend of Michael; Sam (Bruce Campbell), our favorite washed-up military intelligence muscle; and Michael's mother (Emmy(R) Award-winner Sharon Gless).
"Friends and Enemies"
Upon returning to Miami for a long overdue reunion, Michael finds Sam and Fiona neck deep in a case that has spun out of control.
"Fast Friends"
Michael tracks down Jesse Porter, the counter intelligence agent he accidentally burned, to see how Jesse's official investigation was connected to the worldwide destruction Michael is looking into with Vaughn. However, Michael quickly realizes he isn't the only one looking for Jesse: Khan, a former Golden Triangle drug kingpin is also on the hunt, and ready to serve Jesse with years worth of pent up revenge. Michael must convince Khan they are working toward the same goal, in order gain his trust and put Khan away for good.
"Made Man"
Michael's investigation into the world-wide wars for profit leads him to the port of Miami, searching for a ship that had recently passed through Algeria with a hefty weapons supply. While on stakeout, Jesse comes to the rescue of a dock security worker, Hank, and discovers that several dock workers are being shaken down by a ruthless Mafioso, Tony Caro. Persuaded by Jesse, Sam must convince Tony his bosses are planning on betraying him, forcing Tony into a desperate move that will end his mafia career, and keep the mob off the docks for good.
"Breach of Faith"
Sam volunteers to help a friend, Josh Wagner, whose veteran's charity is wiped clean by a smoothing talking investment broker. But when Josh decides to hold the broker and his assistant at gunpoint in order to get his money back, Michael and Sam find themselves in the middle of a dangerous hostage situation. Trying to keep the peace inside, Michael must also serve as negotiator to keep the police at bay, as he and Sam try to track down (and return) Josh's stolen money before things go horribly wrong.
"Neighborhood Watch"
A reluctant doctor turns to Michael for help when a group of vicious drug dealers terrorize his neighborhood clinic. Along the way, Michael is drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a sadistic killer.
"Entry Point"
Michael and Jesse capture Kendra, the dangerous killer who has information on the man behind all the worldwide mayhem and destruction. Jesse must use every bit of his counter intelligence training to find out what she knows.
"Past & Future Tense"
Michael and Jesse learn from Kendra that the person behind the global wars for profit hired a team to rip off a bank safe deposit box somewhere in Miami. When the team failed to complete the task, Kendra was sent to tie up all the loose ends. With no other leads to follow, Jesse decides to make contact with his former handler, Marv, at an intelligence conference that is taking place in Miami.
"Where There's Smoke"
Michael and Jesse learn that the man behind the rash of global terrorism attempted to rob a safe deposit box at Dade Trust Bank in Miami. The only way to figure out what he was after, and perhaps discover a clue to the mystery man's identity, is for Michael and Jesse to rob the bank themselves.
"Center of the Storm"
As a hurricane makes landfall in Miami, Michael finds himself in possession of an old family bible that looks to contain a mysterious cipher. Michael soon realizes that finding out where the book decodes, means talking to the bible's former owner: his nemesis, Simon (ep 316).
"Hard Time"
Sam learns that a dangerous gang is targeting his old friend Juan, who is doing time in prison.
"Blind Spot"
Michael finally tracks down the man behind the global wars for profit, revealing him to be John Barrett- the powerful CEO of a major communications conglomerate.
"Guilty As Charged"
Fiona attempts to find Jesse and convince him to meet with Michael. Meanwhile, Michael helps a criminal defense attorney rescue his daughter after she is kidnapped by one of his clients.
"Eyes Open"
Michael tries to stop a lawyer who is killing gang members out of revenge. With Jesse, Michael also tries to find a stolen document.
"Hot Property"
Michael and one of his enemies ally to make sure chemical weapons don't fall into wrong hands.
"Brotherly Love"
After being kicked out by his second wife Loretta, Nick Tortelli, Carla's ex-husband comes to Cheers asking Carla to take him back.
"Dead or Alive"
When Sam's old friend goes missing and is branded a dirty cop, Michael and Sam spearhead an investigation in order to clear his name.
"Out of the Fire"
Michael's ruthless enemy Brennan vows to release a valuable piece of data if Michael doesn't carry out a specific task: killing off government agents.
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Michael's world collapses when his actions force a tactical assault team to come after him and everyone he cares about. With his back against a corner, Michael will need to do everything in his power to hold them off.


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By Peter Johnson, USA TODAY
When John Francis Daley was tapped to play a shrink on Fox's Bones this fall, he had never seen the show, now in its third season.
But after he watched a few episodes, Daley says, he liked the fact that Bones— a comedic drama about an elite team of forensic scientists who solve seemingly unsolvable murder cases — wasn't strictly a nuts-and-bolts whodunit and that it also went for laughs and romance.
"So many of these procedural shows take themselves so seriously," says the Freaks and Geeks veteran, whose four-episode guest arc as neophyte Dr. Lance Sweets, which began in October, is slated to become permanent.
In tonight's Christmas-themed episode (8 ET/PT), team partners whom Sweets has been called in to counsel — FBI agent Booth (David Boreanaz) and forensic scientist Brennan (Emily Deschanel) — give Bones fans what they have long been asking for: a first kiss.
Boreanaz, who became one of Bones' producers this season, says a slow romantic build-up between Booth and Brennan has been intentional. It's better than "having them start the series by sleeping together and then saying, 'Where do we go from there?' " Boreanaz says.
"It has taken time for them to get over some obstacles so we can get to some of the crazy stuff," he says. The romantic tension is reminiscent of the '80s series Moonlighting, leading up to tonight's kiss. "It gives back to the audience what they have wanted for the past two seasons in a way that is smart and a win-win for everybody."
Says Deschanel: "We kind of get blackmailed into kissing, but we linger maybe a little bit longer than we have to."
What separates Bones from other procedural dramas is the interplay between Booth and Brennan, "about how they get along or don't get along, the tension that they have between them. It's a very unpredictable show," she says. "You never know what's going to happen next."
Tonight's episode ties together several recurring plotlines that involve Brennan's long-lost, now-imprisoned '60s anarchist father, Max (Ryan O'Neal); her fugitive brother, Russ (Loren Dean); and a serial killer who is playing cat-and-mouse with the forensic team.
In that respect, says producer Barry Josephson, it's a good episode for viewers who have never caught Bones. "This season, the relationships of the characters are progressing."
Although Bones is enjoying its best season ever, drawing 9 million viewers last week, Josephson says it has yet to become a household name, despite a loyal fan base. "We've never had the luxury of being scheduled in a place where some enormous lead-in could take us to a bigger rating."
O'Neal says that when he originally read for the part, "I couldn't make heads or tails" of his role as a dad who abandoned his daughter when she was a teen and has been a fugitive accused of murdering a top FBI official. But as he read more scripts, he noticed that "in a lot of scenes, they talked about the father."
So far, he has appeared in eight episodes and is ready for more.
He loves the recurring role. "It's the easiest time I have ever had. I guess I was born to play desolate, renegade fathers on the run."
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The American Littoral Society invites you to start the New Year with them. Members of the society will meet at 11a.m. on January 1 at Building 1 in Fort Tilden for a brisk nature walk in Breezy Point.
Naturalists Mickey Cohen and Don Riepe will lead the walk, which includes a visit to the hawk watchtower.
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Site: Escondido High.
Today: Meet starts at 9 a.m. Finals at about 5:30 p.m.
At stake: In addition to team and individual titles, top eight finishers qualify for section masters meet Feb. 27 and 28 at Olympian High. From the masters meet, the top three wrestlers in each weight class move on to the state championships March 6 and 7 in Bakersfield.
Outlook: Poway, one of the state's premier teams, should finish on top, which the Titans have done for the past 29 years. Expect all Poway wrestlers to advance as they begin a quest for the school's fourth state title. Vista, La Costa Canyon and Rancho Buena Vista will make the hunt for second place interesting. Poway's Ian Daube, who finished third in the state at 171 pounds last year, recently moved up to the 189-pound division after wrestling at 171 most of this season. Look for him to clash with Carlsbad's Chace Eskam, who was fourth at the Five Counties Invitational.
Site: San Pasqual High.
Today: Meet starts at 9 a.m. Finals at 5:30 p.m.
At stake: Top six finishers qualify for masters meet.
Outlook: Defending section champion Mt. Carmel looks strong, with several wrestlers ranked No. 1 in Division II. Last year's runner-up, Westview, will push the Sundevils, along with Bonita Vista, Hilltop and Helix. Mt. Carmel's Anthony Weber (125) placed eighth at the Five Counties Invitational and should score plenty of team points for Mt. Carmel.
Site: Valhalla High.
Today: Meet starts at 9 a.m. Finals at 5:30 p.m.
At stake: Top six finishers qualify for masters meet.
Outlook: This might be the tightest of the four divisions, with Steele Canyon, Valhalla, Ramona and Monte Vista in the hunt. Brawley has dominated Division III the past three seasons, but the Wildcats have moved to Division IV, opening the door for someone else. Steele Canyon finished second last season. Ramona has strength in the upper weights.
Site: Brawley High.
Today: Meet starts at 9 a.m. Finals at 5:30 p.m.
At stake: Top four finishers qualify for masters meet.
Outlook: Valley Center's grip on the Division IV crown likely will end with Brawley returning to the small-school division. The Wildcats have nine wrestlers ranked in the section's top six and are paced by Alfonso Osuna (112), who was first at the Five Counties Invitational. San Marcos, Imperial and Madison will be in the hunt for second.
Online: Full stories on the games listed below at utprepsports.com/basketball
(Boys) Torrey Pines 44, La Costa Canyon 43: Falcons beat rivals for share of Avocado League crown.
(Boys) Steele Canyon 59, Valhalla 50: Cougars clinch championship of Grossmont South League.
(Girls) Montgomery 55, Sweetwater 49: Aztecs'fourth-quarter rally wraps up South Bay League title.
(Boys) San Diego Southwest 59, Mar Vista 46: Undefeated Raiders run the table in South Bay League.
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The public reaction to the recent Charlie Sheen debacle is one of the definitive representations of American culture's simultaneous, irresolvable fascination with, envy of, and ultimate loathing of celebrities. While it's often written that celebrities represent America's royalty, they're really its contemporary outlaws—larger-than-life figures who appear to be above all of the problems that shackle everyone else (to varying degrees) on a daily basis. The celebrity, at least in the imaginings of the public, has an exciting job, a pick of willing and physically ideal sexual partners, and a deep reservoir of money that allows him or her to do whatever the hell they please. Audiences love the celebrity for embodying their fantasies and suggesting a hope, however slim, that they may one day for whatever reason become a celebrity themselves, but they also resent the celebrity for wallowing in pleasures they will never have.
Sheen's disaster, in other words, offered the American public the spectacle of a celebrity paying for his sins while still enjoying said sins—thus allowing the viewer to feel righteously superior while indulging a little vicarious curiosity as to how far, exactly, Sheen likes to go to satisfy his apparently considerable hungers. And that's Sheen's on-screen appeal in a nutshell. He's a bad boy who offers just enough contrition to be vaguely likeable while still indulging a sanitized version of the antics that established his current persona in the first place.
I devote this much space to the Sheen myth because it's clearly the only reason that the new Anger Management exists, and the sitcom, if it were ambitious, could have perhaps been an amusingly acidic deconstruction of the Sheen persona, which is precisely what the shrewd ads running on FX seem to suggest. There's exactly one joke in the pilot that flirts with that kind of self-awareness and you'll know it when you see it, but the rest of the series is bafflingly lame even when judged on the considerable bell curve set by Sheen's prior TV endeavor, Two and a Half Men.
Two and a Half Men offered viewers a fantasy version of Sheen's life with an extremely broad every-dweeb thrown into the mix as a viewer surrogate. The Sheen incarnation of the CBS show, which was so idiotically misogynist and homophobic as to seem strangely tame, was basically an updated Married…with Children that reveled in the still largely popular, if less freely discussed in this politically correct age, notion of the ideal woman as a willing receptacle for whatever a man wanted to stick in her. All the other females that appeared on the show were castrating shrews.
Anger Management is a little more polite, but generally follows the same formula, which is to say that it lacks the open viciousness that distinguished Two and a Half Men from every other network sitcom that depicts families arguing for our theoretical amusement. Charlie Goodson (Sheen) is an anger-management therapist who seeks counseling from a female colleague (which, this being a Charlie Sheen show, means that they're also sleeping together) when he realizes that he still has untapped anger issues of his own that are related to his divorce and his abbreviated career as a professional ballplayer.
Anger Management is one of those sitcoms, which are dinosaurs in the era of the legitimately brilliant Louie, in which a pronounced laugh track is necessary to locate the punchlines. Otherwise, we're stranded with a variety of stereotypes that would be offensive if they weren't so obligatory. The scenes with the group that Charlie counsels are the show's low point, as each member is defined by one contemptuous identifier that will inevitably be dry-humped to death in non-joke after non-joke over the next three months. The writers have assigned the patients various names, but if they'd called them Bigot, Pansy, Bitch, and Faggot they would've at least been practicing honesty.
Anger Management's biggest offense, though, is the appalling waste of talent on display. It's depressing to watch Selma Blair, as Charlie's therapist-lover, desperately try to imbue her lines with a sense of play. It's a nice surprise to see Brett Butler again, but as a bartender at Charlie's regular spot, she's given even less to do than Blair. The gifted character actor Barry Corbin turns up as well, but all the writers can think to give him are fifth-rate queer jokes below the sophistication of a sixth-grade bully.
And, yes, Sheen has talent too, particularly for line deliveries that would be sharp if the lines themselves had even a whiff of ingenuity. Sheen's a pop-cultural joke now, but there is, somewhere underneath all of the detached, postmodern party-animal meaninglessness, a pretty good actor (as proof, see Spin City or his cameos in Being John Malkovich and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps). Anger Management isn't going to bring that actor out though, and it isn't even trying to, as it's just another cynical cash-in that lamely tries to milk laughs from casual, unquestioned dehumanization. Only one line anywhere in this show manages to ring true, and for an unintended reason: "This is what we in therapy call a train wreck."


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A group of brothers plans to open a Hidalgo-style restaurant in the heart of downtown Woodburn.
The Trapala Restaurant will feature meats cooked underground in the traditional Mexican style of the Hidalgo region, said Severo Trapalo, one of four brothers who plan to open the restaurant just off the Downtown Plaza by Nov. 15.
The brothers will use the barbecoa method of digging a hole in the ground and cooking meat up to seven hours in a pot underneath.
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A parents' group and a private school are at loggerheads over a decision by the boys' grammar to enrol girls from next year.
Mentone Grammar, which announced the enrolment change last month, has accused a parents' group of making threats to its headmaster and board members.
It said the board had received threats, on behalf of the parents' group, that it would "want blood", and warning of "personal attacks" if the decision was not reversed.
The school board yesterday sent a letter to parents des-cribing the comments as "un-Australian", and saying the campaign could hurt the school and its students.
But the Mentone Grammar Schools Parents Association has strongly rejected the claim. It said it had nothing to do with the statements, which were made by its public relations adviser.
The adviser, Geoff Drucker, said he made the comments to Mentone Grammar after the school contacted him and paid him for his advice. He had not been speaking on behalf of the parents' group, he said.
The parents' association, which says it represents about 100 families from Mentone Grammar and the nearby Mentone Girls Grammar School, is calling on the 82-year-old boys' school to review its decision to accept girls.
Under the plan, the school will run co-educational classes from kindergarten to year 4, and from year 10 to year 12. From year 5 to year 9, boys and girls will be educated in single-sex classes.
Association spokesman Ian Paterson said parents had chosen single-sex education and it was unfair to change that policy without consulting them.
Mentone Grammar headmaster Tim Argall said the school had received broad support for its decision.
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#1 Thu 08 Feb 07 4:48pm
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doughnut recipe
hiya guys
We're freezin cold and fancy hot chocolate and doughnuts, but cannot find a recipe anywhere. Does anyone have a foolproof (I wish) receipe, that we could use please.
Cheers Ali x
#2 Fri 09 Feb 07 7:09am
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Re: doughnut recipe
Apple Cider Doughnuts
1 cup apple cider
1 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup solid vegetable shortening
2 large eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Vegetable oil or shortening (for frying)
2 cup confectioners sugar
1/4 cup apple cider
Boil apple cider in small saucepan until it is reduced to 1/4 cup, 8 to 10 minutes; cool.
Beat sugar with shortening until smooth. Add eggs and mix well, then add buttermilk and reduced cider. Stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg in another bowl. Add to liquid ingredients; mix just enough to combine.
Transfer dough to lightly floured board and pat to 1/2-inch thickness. Cut with 2 1/2- to 3-inch doughnut cutter; reserve doughnut holes and re-roll and cut scraps.
Add enough oil or shortening to fill a deep pan 3 inches; heat to 375 degrees F. Fry several doughnuts at a time, turning once or twice, until browned and cooked through, about 4 minutes. Remove to paper towels with slotted spoon.
For glaze, mix confectioners sugar and cider. Dip doughnuts while warm; serve warm.
Baked Doughnuts
2 packages yeast
1/4 cup warm water
1 1/2 cups scalded, cooled milk
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 eggs
1/3 cup shortening
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup melted margarine
Cinnamon sugar (for topping)
In large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add milk, next six ingredients and 2 cups of the flour. Blend for 30 seconds, scraping the bowl constantly.Beat 2 minutes at medium speed. Stir in remaining flour until smooth. Cover and let rise until double in size, about 1 hour.
Turn dough onto a well-floured board. Roll dough around to coat with flour. (Dough will be soft.) Cut with floured doughnut cutter or cans. Lift carefully with spatula and place 2 inches apart on greased baking sheet. Brush with melted margarine. Cover and let rise until doubled (about 20 minutes).
Bake 8 to 10 minutes at 425 degrees F or until golden.
Immediately brush with melted margarine and shake in cinnamon sugar
Coconut Cake Doughnuts
2 eggs
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup milk
2 tablespoons melted shortening or vegetable oil
2 1/3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup flaked coconut
Beat eggs with sugar until light; add milk and cook shortening. Add sifted dry ingredients and coconut; stir just until blended. Chill several hours.
Roll out on lightly floured surface to 1/2-inch thick. Cut out doughnuts with doughnut cutter. Fry in deep hot fat (375 degrees F) until brown; turn and brown other side (about 1 minute per side). Drain on paper towel. Sprinkle with confectioners sugar.
#3 Fri 09 Feb 07 8:15pm
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- From South Africa
- Member since Wed 31 Jan 07
Re: doughnut recipe
Hi Ali
Try this:
3/4 c sugar
2 T butter
3 c cake flour
3 t baking powder
1/2 t. salt
1/4 t ground cinnamon
1/4 t grated nutmeg
1 c milk
Cream butter and sugar.
Sift together dry ingredients.
Add to the butter mixture, alternatively with the milk.
Mix well and roll out to 6 mm thickness on a floured board.
Cut with a large round biscuit cutter, then remove the centre with a smaller one to make a ring.
Leave the rings for 10 to 15 min. before frying.
Fry in deep, hot fat at 370 deg. F. Brown on one side, turn with a fork and brown on the other side. Turn once only.
Remove from fat, drain on brown paper and roll in caster sugar or in a cinnamon-and-sugar mixture.
Serve hot. Makes 20 to 25 doughnuts.
#4 Sat 10 Feb 07 4:20pm
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Re: doughnut recipe
thanx a lot 4 da recipes
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The major stock indexes closed with losses of more than 1% Wednesday after the indexes made bearish price reversals.
The Nasdaq, which had been up about 1% earlier, closed nearly 1.2% lower. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average slid about 1.4%.
Volume rose across the board, early indications showed. Declining stocks led advancers by more than 2-to-1 on the Nasdaq and by 11-to-4 on the NYSE.
The way the indexes reversed course Wednesday quickly dampened the bullish tone of the prior session, when the main indexes made a follow-through rally confirmation.
The number of stocks rising in big volume rapidly diminished in the final two hours of trading.
Apple (AAPL) was a highlight in the stock market today after the company unveiled a series of new products. It introduced the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus, a larger tablet dubbed the iPad Pro, major improvements to its Apple TV franchise and other product upgrades.
But Apple shares fell 2%. Suppliers of components for Apple products were weaker, too. ARM Holdings (ARMH) fell 3%, Avago Technologies (AVGO) nearly 2%, Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) more than 1%, Qorvo (QRVO) 3%, Cirrus Logic (CRUS) 1%.
MasterCard (MA) dropped 3%, sinking back to its 200-day moving average, after the credit-card company warned that profit growth would slow in the next few years. The stock has been below the 50-day moving average for a couple of weeks already.
Stericlycle (SRCL) tumbled 6%, dropping to its 50-day moving average, where it now looks for support. The stock closed 5% below the 143.79 buy point of flat base. The medical-waste handling company announced an offering of 7 million depositary shares that represent 10% of certain preferred stock.
WCI Communities (WCIC) went right back below its 25.74 buy point. The homebuilders' industry group was broadly lower Wednesday, and WCI led with a 6% loss in heavy trading.


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This weekend is no different, with celebrities and some of the top DJs in the biz spinning all over town. Kick off your weekend at the pool today with Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano at Marquee Dayclub at Cosmopolitan, Carnival at TAO Beach at The Venetian or Rev. Run & Ruckus at Ditch Fridays at the Palms pool.
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BEIJING, July 24 -- China's Xugong Group Construction Machinery Co. (Xugong) has abandoned plans to sell a stake to U.S. private equity firm Carlyle, after waiting for as long as three years.
"The investment agreement signed in October 2005 has now expired," said a statement jointly issued by the two companies Wednesday. "Both parties have decided not to proceed with the investment and Xugong will embark independently on its restructuring."
The statement further said: "Given the significant changes in the market environment in the interim, both parties have agreed that it is best for Xugong to immediately proceed with its restructuring into a more integrated, streamlined company to compete effectively worldwide."
In October 2005, Carlyle agreed to buy 85 percent of Xugong for 375 million U.S. dollars. It would have been the biggest acquisition by a foreign investor of a controlling stake in a leading State-owned Chinese company.
The takeover bid raised wide concern that China was selling its strategic companies too cheap to foreign investors, and the central government weighed it for a long time.
In the past three years, Carlyle has made several concessions in its bid for Xugong, cutting its stake purchase from 85 percent to 45 percent.
"Carlyle's dropping out of the Xugong deal will make some impact on foreign companies' investment in China's machinery industry," said Sun Xin, an analyst with Southwest Securities in Beijing Wednesday. "They will become more cautious with mergers and acquisitions in the country, especially with big domestic companies. But the deal will not make a big impact on the development of the industry as a whole."
In August 2006, the Ministry of Commerce and other authorities issued new rules on acquisition of Chinese enterprises by foreign investors, saying overseas investors would need the clearance of the central government to buy controlling stakes in key industries.
Xugong is now controlled by Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group, which is owned by the Xuzhou local government. The company is a market leader in China's machinery sector.
Some analysts had said China could lose its technology to foreign competitors if important firms like Xugong are sold to overseas companies. They also said selling off a major firm like Xugong to a foreign company would hurt China's economic security.
In 2006, Chinese heavy machinery manufacturer Sany said it aimed to pay a higher price to buy Xugong. Sany Corp Executive President Xiang Wenbo said the price Carlyle had agreed to pay Xugong was below par. Sany has been planning to buy Xugong for a long time.
Carlyle yesterday said it "continues to make large investments in China, where it has invested in more than 30 companies and has put in more than $1.3 billion in equity alone in the past two years".
"Both parties believe Xugong's expansion will create opportunities for partnership with Carlyle and its portfolio companies worldwide," said the statement.
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My Market Board app, by Reuters I think, says iPhone to go on sale on China Telecom. Sorry, no link.
Hocus pokus, hope it don't poke us in the eye.
To go on sale this year. Breaking news supposedly.
(Edit: I see now the article was dated 7/12/2011. Just a rumor probably)[ Edited: 18 July 2011 03:33 AM by Douglas Stanton ]
Hocus pokus, hope it don't poke us in the eye.


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there should have been a couple m-16s there when crazed democrat mass murder suspect arrives on the school grounds last time.
i think the BATF should give school guards a exemption for the full auto tax stamp. like they do the military.
what is happening with the media there on obammas side and what obamma is trying to do id gut the us firearms industry as a whole.
i got a feeling that is revolvers were the big seller--he would be going after them instead of the top money making ar-15.
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Big hair, small hat. So goes high fashion's dictate for spring. But while the show stoppers at Spring Fashion Week parades yesterday were the huge hairdos pinned with hairpieces and teased with truckloads of hairspray, "real women" should opt for a more natural look.
Toni & Guy hair stylist Julie Moore advised women to "adopt a more natural style this spring and allow their hair's natural movement and curl to come through".
Ringlets and curls will be the go, complementing the romantic styles set to dominate the warm months.
"Straight hair's out. This season hair should have some movement, whether it be a subtle kick or curl," she said.
Oh, and blondes are out, too. Brunette models far outnumbered their fair-haired counterparts on the catwalk yesterday.
Punk-inspired hairdos were also popular, from short spikes to shoulder-length styles with blunt fringes and uneven ends - splattered with tints of burgundy and burnt orange.
The finale hairdo was of the don't-try-this-at-home variety: woven around a wide mesh saucer, it was more a "hair hat" than a hairstyle.
The hair was bigger and more audacious than any of the hats at the David Jones millinery parade that followed. They were discreet and demure.
Small-brimmed styles with lace veils were trimmed sparingly with feathers and the odd flower. Petite fedoras with tilted brims completed the unpretentious collection that featured subtle shades including cream, beige, pistachio green, apricot and classic black-and-white combinations.
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Boeing announced yesterday that the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) — a C-130H cargo aircraft tricked out with a chemical laser — had successfully engaged a "tactically representative target," i.e., a vehicle parked on the ground.
It's a step toward a new capability: A directed-energy gunship that can destroy or disable ground targets with little or no collateral damage. Current ground-attack aircraft like the AC-130 gunship do the job with area-effect weapons like 20mm Gatling guns and 105mm howitzers.
The recent ATL test took place over White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. During the test, the aircraft's beam control system locked on to the target — a stationary vehicle — and guided the laser beam to the target. According to a news release, the laser beam "defeated the vehicle" — although what "defeat," exactly, means, we don't know. I'm waiting for more details.
If everything went as described, it certainly marks a milestone in laser history. But as Noah pointed out last year, a practical model is still years away: The ATL relies on vats of toxic chemicals to power its laser, so the military eventually wants to switch over to electric lasers to make a more deployable version of the flying ray gun.
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My thoughts and concern were price range , color, design, and looking at how it would be like to have such a light of this fashion . I really like what we have chosen and wanted to let others know of the way the light works and the very beauty it protrays even in a simplistic home like ours. It sits in a cornor in our living room giving off the light we need which meets our needs . As to the uselessness, I have not found anything that I don't like about this product ... perfect as far as we are concerned .
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my mom got me this one summer to take to the beach-it removes salt and chlorine from hair. my hair definitly felt cleansed after i used it and the smell is addicting!-like fresh oranges!
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I have found this to be a gentle and effective clarifying shampoo tat removes salt and chlorine. it will not drastically dry your hair like some other carifyeing shampoos do. They say there is sun protection - and I am skeptical. First, how can a shampoo protect hair when you wash it out, and second, there is no SPF rating. Regardless, it's great in the summer to get the summer grime out!
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Employee onboarding starts from the moment a candidate says "yes." You'll find: Large amounts of onboarding information about onboarding processes, new employee orientation, techniques to keep a new hire, and more.They accepted the offer, now you have to keep them. Your onboarding program needs to engage a new employee from the very start. New hires make the decision to stay with a company long-term within the first six months of employment. As an employer you've got to make a great first impression. New hires are expensive. You want to protect your recruitment investment. A well planned onboarding process lasts more than one day and can begin even before Day 1 with engagement and information. Gone are the days of first-day, one-day HR orientation and a series of unrelated administrative tasks and forms. 83% of best-in-class organisations start onboarding prior to Day 1 by welcoming new hires warmly and tackling administrative matters in advance. To help you get there, we've compiled top resources, advice and insights in one place. Onboarding that works starts here.
5 Tips for Engaging New HiresThese 5 tips from Aberdeen Research, Engaging Your New Hires on Day One, provide a basic roadmap and great ideas. Research more onboarding ideas here.
- Empower managers – provide tools and resources to help them engage
- Communicate core values – understanding culture helps new hires connect faster
- Integrate with learning – leading organisations link learning and onboarding for optimal productivity
- Measure effectiveness – use new hire surveys and track new hire portal time
- Connect with peers – networking programs, such as a "buddy," are critical
Onboarding: Best Practices for OnboardingLaunching an onboarding initiative presents challenges, but shouldn't be daunting. There are several things that HR professionals need to keep in mind to make things easier. First, understand your own culture. If the organisation doesn't have clarity around this, how can you expect to effectively explain it to new hires? Be keenly aware of any pervasive negativity that may be present in your organisation and its potential impact on new hires. Whenever possible, new employees should be exposed to team members who are positive and want to be there. While you can't control everything, you can start with putting the right HR staff out in front. The attitudes of those leading the onboarding program are critical to its success. Next, consider how the logistics of your program will work in the real world. For instance, a series of in-person gatherings is not the best choice for a new hire population that is 75 percent telecommuters or in an organisation with multiple locations, such as a retail or banking organisation. One-size-fits-all programs don't usually work. So while some degree of consistency is important and there will be standard information that all new employees need to receive, every hire is different and requires a semi-customised approach. Look at exit interviews from a variety of departments and levels, especially those from individuals who departed after less than a year of employment. What challenges did they cite as being insurmountable, and how can you address those in your onboarding initiative? On the other side of the coin, ask your successful hires what worked and didn't work for them, and fine-tune your approach accordingly. Because proper onboarding is so much more than a one-time 30-minute presentation about the company, it requires foot soldiers to mind the ongoing process. Assign a staff member the job of Project Manager. This person should keep track of onboarding checklists and milestones as they relate to each new hire, and should ensure that nothing slips through the cracks. Finally, look for ways within the context of onboarding to showcase HR's value. In many organisations, HR struggles to be taken seriously. Present your group as a strategic player rather than a mere cost center by partnering with hiring managers to facilitate and track new hire success over the long-term.
Onboarding: How to Evaluate Onboarding Systems:When you evaluate onboarding automation solutions and solution vendors, make sure you evaluate each across these 18 critical areas.
- How easy is it to add new hires to the system?
- How fast can you kick off the onboarding process after offer acceptance?
- Can content and processes be easily customised for each new hire by job, location, role, or other criteria?
- Does the system provide a company-branded portal that you can easily customise to your organisation's brand, messaging and content?
- Is this portal easy to maintain without the help of IT.
- Does the system enable tasks to be assigned to employees, managers and HR counterparts?
- Will the system provide a way to report on and track completion of those tasks, provide automatic reminder emails and alerts when overdue?
- Does the system integrate with social media to engage new hires throughout the onboarding process?
- How well does the solution eliminate or reduce manual processes, physical paperwork, and postage required of new hires?
- Will the solution manage additional events beyond onboarding, such as offboarding, mergers/acquisitions, transfers and other employee events that require workflows, task completion, and forms/content?
- Is it easy to integrate or export new hire records to your HR system of record or the provider's HRMS reducing data entry errors with one-time data entry.
- Is the system a stand-alone application or can it quickly integrate with a talent management suite?
- Can the system help you pass compliance audits with proper tracking and reporting?
- How well is the system integrated with I-9/E-Verify processing and is it Department of Homeland Security certified?
- How easy is the system to use from administrative and employee perspectives? How much training will it take to become fully proficient?
- How comfortable do you feel with the provider? How well does the provider address any questions?
- Do you feel confident that the provider understands the security needs of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud-based software model?
- How confident do you feel that your provider will provide support, expertise, and care to make you successful?
What is an Employee Onboarding Portal?Also called a new hire orientation intranet, micro-site or website, the employee onboarding portal is designed to engage employees with a company's culture and brand message as early as possible after an employee has been hired. This helps employees feel welcome, prepared, and ready to work from Day 1. SilkRoad actually was the first vendor to provide an easily tailored, brand-able new hire portal with its original RedCarpet Onboarding Solution. Why? Because in a typical new hire situation, the new employee undergoes some level of orientation and must get up to speed on everything: from the company's corporate culture to filling out a multitude of forms to where to get the best lunch around, and from learning about the team to understanding corporate goals and executive management. It's intimidating and can get in the way of new hire productivity. From this, the idea of the web-based portal was born. An onboarding portal alleviates that paperwork pressure. A best-practice onboarding portal will act as a comprehensive, customised tool designed to help your employees feel comfortable with the organisation right away, and become a go-to place for everything a new hire needs.
- Socialise employees from day one with information on company events using SilkRoad's Portal Studio tool. Create a secure, customised event portal that is the go-to place for your employees to stay informed and compliant.
- Go paperless and get rid of cumbersome paper processes.
- Manage and track critical, time-sensitive tasks efficiently, accurately and on schedule.
- Easily update and manage content in real-time.
- Integrate with social networks.
- New hire onboarding with SilkRoad helps HR Managers reduce time spent on acclimating new employees, freeing the staff to focus on mission critical matters.
Onboarding: Best Onboarding Portal GalleryMost companies spend a lot of time and a lot of money on perfecting their corporate websites. Marketing Departments and Agencies use the latest technology to create rich customer experiences, but all too often companies overlook their most valuable digital presence: their career portals. The employee (and potential employee) experience is key to the success of any company. First impressions matter. Your career portal can make or break your hiring strategy. Creating an awesome career portal can set you apart. While the primary goal of a career portal is to share job openings and provide a place for candidates to apply, it needs to do a lot more. Successful career portals build your brand, inform visitors about the work environment, encourage candidates to connect with the company, and provide a realistic job preview. While the career portal sets expectations, the employee onboarding portal must deliver on those expectations. New hires will expect an equally effective and efficient onboarding process. That means taking another step forward with brand engagement and personalisation. Onboarding technology can make it easy for new hires to learn about their new company and position. The onboarding process is designed to welcome new hires into the organisation and get them productive quickly. This means using onboarding portals to strategically automate steps in the onboarding process for consistency. In addition, using a technology solution for onboarding allows HR and the hiring manager to focus on what's really important – building a working relationship with the new employee. Download SilkRoad's "Killer Portals" eBook to see what makes recruiting and onboarding sites great.
Onboarding: Preventing Quick Quits with Onboarding AutomationNew employees typically will decide to stay with their new employer in the first 90 days. These quick quits are expensive. Dramatically so. Organisations typically pay lots of attention to successfully recruiting employees, but then once the offer is accepted, they resort to standard paperwork and forms, boring orientations, and "information dump" training. Successful companies transition smoothly from hiring the best talent, to onboarding that talent in the best way possible. Best practices show that following through with critical processes that enable new employees to learn the skills and behaviors needed to function effectively at their jobs means they adapt to new culture, understand your brand and values better, and feel welcome and prepared for their work. These best practices also help in reducing early turnover, when employees leave within the first year. Download the Ultimate Guide to Onboarding
Onboarding: ROI of Onboarding SystemsOnboarding initiatives should be closely tied to the organisation's strategic goals. You should be able to measure how well your programs are helping to achieve those goals, especially ROI, and make improvements as necessary. If measuring the ROI of your onboarding programs is new to you, start slowly. Devise one metric per major business goal and practice tracking it, analysing your results, and communicating value before adding more metrics to your arsenal. Also, don't view onboarding ROI in a silo. The ROI of your onboarding initiatives will be intimately related to the ROI of your recruitment and talent management programs, so look for ways you can measure success once but cut the data in different ways. For instance, the retention and time to productivity metrics have implications not only for onboarding, but also for recruitment. Hopefully, effective recruiting and onboarding practices are working in concert to ensure that new hires are brought up to speed, engaged, and integrated into the team as proficiently as possible. Most onboarding technology systems have functionality that facilitates the measurement and management of ROI. If you're unsure about how your technology can help in this process, ask your account representative.
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Secrets to Retaining Millenials
SilkRoad conducted a survey to find out what HR Professionals thought about Millennials and what programs their organizations had in place for them. One of the most consistent issues HR professionals had was retaining their Millennial employees after they trained them and they developed their skills.
Calculating the ROI of an Onboarding Technology Solution
Once a candidate is hired, the goal is to quickly and efficiently make them a productive employee and feel a part of the team. Both the company and the employee have this same goal. Companies want productive employees who contribute to the bottom line. Employees want to contribute and be a part of the organization.
Top Sources of Hire 2015
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The 2015 Source of Hire report is back and more comprehensive than ever, covering more than 14,000 sources, 12 million applications, 600,000 interviews, and almost 300,000 hires. The job market is back. And so is increased competition for top candidates.
Staying in Compliance with Form I-9 and E-Verify
Staying in Compliance with Form I-9 and E-Verify In this SilkRoad Ebook you'll learn what exactly Form I-9 and E-Verify are and how to use them to stay in compliance with government regulation.
The Rhyme and Reason for Offboarding
How you exit an employee is just as important as how you welcome them. Based on conversations for SilkRoad's annual users conference, SilkRoad Connections, this white paper outlines the importance of having a standardized process for transitioning employees out of your organization.
Top Tips for Offboarding
1. Consider your offboarding strategy to be as critical as your onboarding strategy. This means devoting similar effort and resources.
2. When initiating an offboarding program, make sure you provide for involuntary separations and retirements as well as voluntary separations. According to Aberdeen, offboarding development, implementation, and evaluation should be relatively consistent across the organization.
3. Offboarding messages and offerings can be customized for different departments in the organization, especially if you have groups in different geographies.
Request a Talent Acquisition Deep Dive
This deep dive will show you how SilkRoad Talent Acquisition easily links recruiting and new hire onboarding to save time, money and effort, while providing a seamless engagement experience from pre-hire to beyond. Roll out the RedCarpet for applicants and new hires.
11 Essential Resources | Higher Education HR Leaders
Just for HR professionals in higher education: We've curated the best recruiting, new hire onboarding, and general talent acquisition resources into one easy to access location. Listen to experts, read reports, check your benchmarks. It's all designed to help you find top talent, stay compliant, onboard seamlessly across many locations.
Creating an Onboarding Process | 7 Steps to Success
Follow these 7 steps to creating a successful new hire onboarding process. Organizations have blown away the traditional paper-bound onboarding process – where an enthusiastic new hire gets deluged with paper and orientation on the first day.
New Hire Onboarding | 6 Resources Get You Started
Onboarding is your first link in employee engagement success. Most organisations struggle to get onboarding right. We've gathered 6 resources to give you the onboarding roadmap and help you convince your C-level executives that onboarding adds tremendous value.
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Onboarding Video Demo
SilkRoad Onboarding has successfully transformed the new employee orientation process for tens of thousands of users. New hires will love it! Drive ever-greater employee engagement, eliminate paper and manual processes from new hire processes. Stop the copy/fax/folder madness with electronic forms. Brand your own unique new hire employee portal. Watch the video.
Ultimate Guide to Onboarding
Most new hires have already bought into your company story and they want to take part. Onboarding takes these enthusiastic new people and rapidly engages and connects them to the life of the organization. That engagement leads to employee commitment. And their commitment leads to accomplishment.
Top 5 Ways to Make a Business Case for Onboarding Software
Gather stories of times when onboarding has gone wrong. Specific illustrations of
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We know finding the right suite of HR software products for your unique organization isn't a piece of cake, but having the right tool in place can have a profound affect on your employees and, ultimately, the success of your company.
It's a big decision! That's why we created the Ultimate Buyer's Tool Kit to help you evaluate ANY HR software suite or solution.
Onboarding: New Look at New Hires | Aberdeen Research
Aberdeen Group recently studied 230 companies to explore the best practices used to transform the onboarding process into a strategic initiative that boosts productivity, engagement, and retention. They found that 90% of organizations believe that employees make their decision to stay at a company within the first year, yet only 15% of companies are extending the process beyond the first 6 months. This proves that employee onboarding has become a key business initiative and accelerator of company growth and performance, making it one of the most critical strategies an organization can undertake.
Onboarding Business Case | How to Build One
We know how frustrating it can be to get all the pieces together in order to get budget approval and buy-in for your onboarding automation project. That's precisely why we've put together a plug-and-play business case template that you can completely customize or if the shoe fits, use as-is. We've outlined each section and even provided sample text to make it as simple as possible. Basically, we've tried to do a lot of the leg work for you!
High Performance Onboarding | Brandon Hall Report
While attracting and hiring top talent becomes a top priority for business executives today. But even more important to the success of the company is keeping those new hires engaged. From day one. That means employers must put an emphasis on consistent onboarding of new hires. High-performing organizations are more concerned with something else entirely: employee engagement.
Engage New Hires on Day 1 | Aberdeen Exclusive Report
Although engaging new hires may seem like a basic concept, companies struggle to formalize the onboarding process and create a meaningful strategy around their talent. This report, based on data collected in March 2014 will provide a sneak peek at Aberdeen's annual onboarding data and highlight key recommendations for transforming the new hire experience into a positive one.


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10 years of Jubilee
The Jubilee Fellows is in its 10th year of helping students to discern their callings to ministry.
November 17, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
600k grant to teach parallel computing
Joel Adams will be teaching parallel computing—supercomputing—to colleagues from around the country.
October 31, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
A $25,000 grant helps stroke survivors reclaim their voice in the church
Peggy Goetz is studying how people with communications disorders re-integrate into their churches.
May 06, 2013 | Myrna Anderson
A $350,000 grant to promote pregnancy planning
Nursing professor Joke Ayoola will work in three Calvin partner neighborhoods, increasing women's knowledge and self-efficacy about reproductive health.
August 10, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
A $375,000 grant to improve Plaster Creek Watershed
Calvin College has received a $375,000 state grant to further research, education and restoration efforts in the Plaster Creek watershed.
July 20, 2012 | Matt Kucinski
A grant for teaching reading
A $200,000 Teacher Quality Grant allows Calvin's education department to enhance the teaching of reading in local schools.
August 29, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
A Q&A on randomness and God's providence
A $1.7 million grant from the Templeton foundation will allow Jim Bradley to study how "God can have it both ways."
July 20, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
American Frontiers, Global Perspective
A conference, funded by a $133,150 NEH grant will put the myth of the American West in global perspective.
September 16, 2011 | Andrew Steiner
An NSF grant for better biology teaching
A $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow faculty to build more research into the biology classroom.
March 06, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Calvin prof leads nationwide literacy effort in Sierra Leone
Education professor Jo Kuyvenhoven is heading up the largest component of a $17.9 million "Revitalize Education Development Project" for Sierra Leone.
July 24, 2013 | Matt Kucinski
Calvin receives Amway One By One grant
Amway's One By One grant is enabling more high school students to participate in Calvin's Excel ACT tutoring program.
May 14, 2014 | Connor Schmidt
Calvin to install new telescope
Calvin's new telescope was funded by a $130,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Charting a new course for Plaster Creek
The Plaster Creek Stewards recently received two grants totaling $800K, allowing the group to expand its educational, research and restoration work in one of the state's most polluted watersheds.
July 29, 2016 | Matt Kucinski
Chemistry and Christmas
Chemistry professor Larry Louters and student Ola Alabi were the architects of the first-ever Christmas chemistry camp.
December 22, 2011 | Myrna Anderson
Chemistry prof named Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
Doug Vander Griend is one of seven faculty members in the U.S. to be awarded an unrestricted research grant of $60,000.
August 12, 2014 | Matt Kucinski
Discovery doesn't retire
Roger DeKock was selected as one of just five emeritus faculty nationwide to be part of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation's 2016 Senior Scientist Mentor Program.
August 30, 2016 | Matt Kucinski
Grant brings together experts on American–Chinese relations
Some of the world's foremost experts converge on Calvin's campus next summer for a three-week seminar on the relationship between the two countries.
November 19, 2014 | Grace Ruiter
ISRI awards scholarships to incoming students
The Integrated Science Research Institute (ISRI) will award a total of $32,000 in scholarships to up to eight current and incoming students in 2009–2010 through a $581,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
March 19, 2009 | Myrna Anderson
NASA-funded student fellowships renewed
Two astronomy students have received space grants to continue their research on asteroid collisions and contact binary stars.
May 20, 2013 | Amanda Greenhoe
NIH grant brings students to the cutting-edge of cancer research
Biochemistry prof Brendan Looyenga recently received a $295,939 grant from the National Cancer Institute to do research with students that could provide useful insights into both neurology and oncology.
February 04, 2015 | Matt Kucinski


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NEW YORK—I saw in the paper on Wednesday that Mr. V.K. Krishna Menon was going to deliver a very important announcement in the Security Council on the Kashmir question. The Council is considering a resolution under which it would send its President, Mr. Gunnar V. Jarring of Sweden, to India in an attempt to solve the two nations' difficulties over Kashmir. I have yet to see in the papers that the Security Council has invited Mr. Frank Graham who spent so much time as U.N. mediator between Pakistan and India and brought the Prime Ministers to their first meeting over Kashmir, to give his final report and recommendations on this particular situation. Sending another mediator without having the full background of what has already happened does not seem to me very sensible. I cannot imagine either that any message no matter how lengthy from Mr. Krishna Menon is going to solve the present situation.
The American Bar Association is again on the wrong side of a question. They seem to have a genius for taking the most reactionary point of view, so they are still for the Bricker Amendment. Senator Bricker told the American Legion's Committee on Legislation that his amendment was "the only way to stop the international planners who are determined to drag America down to a common level and socialize American life." He is apparently hoping for approval by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this year and then will put on a major fight in the Senate and House next year. I hope with this advance notice that there will be a real educational campaign throughout the country. President Eisenhower has opposed the amendment because it would make it impossible for him to enter into executive agreements and these are most important and necessary in times such as we are now living in. Why Mr. Bricker bothers to do anything more about his amendment I don't know because the State Department has given him a complete victory without any fight at all since they have announced they are presenting no international treaties for ratification.
We returned to N.Y. yesterday and I found as usual a desk piled high with mail. I look back to last Sunday and the few hours we spent in Phoenix, Arizona, with great pleasure. We saw the new house which my daughter-in-law Minnewa has built in an orange grove in Scottsdale. She has a gift for blending modern things and old things and making a house a charming home. Her taste is so good that I think she could earn a living easily as an interior decorator and she knows how to make a room comfortable for a man and still she makes all the arrangements which are most convenient for a woman. She has the kind of linen closet that I have always wanted but never had the sense to arrange for in my home, and she has inspired me to try and re-plan my closet space.
Minnewa and Elliott had a tea party in the afternoon at which I had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. William Benton and a number of their other friends, some of whom I have met in Colorado. After dinner we stopped in for a short visit with Mrs. Albert Lasker and her friend, Miss Mahoney, who have taken a house for a month on the outskirts of the Biltmore Estates. That too was a joy, so my Sunday was a very pleasant day!