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Professional & Adult Continuing Education Academy
What is this course about?
To train construction site supervisor on the environmental health control work. The primary aim of the ECO scheme is for the contractors to take a more pro-active role to ensure that construction sites are kept free of environmental health problems.
Suitable for
Supervisory staff in the construction industry.
Course Entry Requirements
Applicants must possess at least one of the following qualifications:
As the Environmental Control Officer (ECO) course is conducted in English, all applicants are required to have a good working knowledge of the language.
Funding Incentives
NTUC union members enjoy 50% (unfunded) course fee support for up to $250 each year when you enrol for courses supported under UTAP (Union Training Assistance Programme). Conditions apply.
For more information, please call NTUC Membership hotline at 6213 8008 or email email@example.com Website: http://skillsupgrade.ntuc.org.sg
Skills Development Fund (SDF)
Type of Funding: Training Grant and Absentee Payroll Only
Support level: CAT B, Certifiable (Non-WSQ), External, PME (CF with AP), Eligible for MCES, SME, WTS
For more information, please refer to ECO WDA Funding or http://www.skillsconnect.gov.sg/
SkillsFuture Credit (SFC)
With effect from January 2016, Singaporeans aged 25 years and above who received their SkillsFuture
Credit account activation letter will be eligible for an initial credit of $500 which can be used to pay for
course fees for a range of eligible skills-related courses. The credits can be used on top of existing
course fee subsidies/funding.
This is only applicable for self-sponsored applicants. Application via SkillsFuture Portal can only be made starting from 60 days before the course commencement date.
Course Outline
- Roles and Responsibilities of ECO
- Environmental Public Health Law
- Vector Control
- Air Pollution Control
- Noise Pollution Control
- Water Pollution and Drainage Control
- Prevention & Control of Infectious Disease and Food Hygiene
- Solid Waste Management
Mode of Assessment
There will be a 2-hour e-Exam (100 multiple choice questions) 2 weeks after the end of the course.
Participants are required to meet the 75% attendance requirement to be able to sit for the examination,
Please note that Deferment of ECO exam is not allowed.
A Certificate of Performance will be awarded to participants who pass the examination and whose attendance is not less than 75%
a. Attending and passing ECO course will NOT automatically lead to the successful registration as an ECO with National Environment Agency (NEA),
b. For ECO License registration requirements, please check with NEA: Online feedback form: http://www.nea.gov.sg/corporate-functions/feedback or NEA Contact Centre Hotline: 1800-2255 632
c. For more information on the role of the ECO, click here.
This course is accredited under the Registered Workplace Safety & Health Officers' Continuing Professional Development Programme. Participants will gain 11 SDUs upon completion of the course. Course participants must complete this course with at least 75% attendance rate.
Application Procedure
1) Application through online only.
2) Once registration is completed, please email the following documents to PACE via email@example.com
2.1 Copy of NRIC or Employment pass; and
2.2 Copy of degree or Technical diploma from a local polytechnic or a valid RSO pass; and
2.3 Company letter/Resume (To proof the 2 years of relevant working experience); and
3) The Original documents will be required for verification during the enrolment exercise.
4) The successful applicants will be notified via email to come for enrolment and make payment (NETS or cheque)
Confirmed enrolment is based on a first-come, first-served basis, upon full payment of the course fee. Registration does not guarantee enrolment in the course.
Singapore Polytechnic, its governors, officers, agents and employees shall not be liable for any loss, damages and/or injury, including loss of life, which participants of our Courses may suffer arising out of or in connection with our Courses, whether the loss, damage and/or injury was suffered on any of Singapore Polytechnic's premises or at any other venue(s) in connection with our Courses.
For NETS payment, you can pay at:
Singapore Polytechnic
PACE Academy
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Mon-Fri: 8:30am to 7:30pm
For Cash payment, you can pay at:
Singapore Polytechnic
Finance Department
Admin Building, Level 2
Mon-Fri: 8:30am to 5:00pm
Cheques should be made payable to Singapore Polytechnic. Please cross the cheque and write the Registration Reference ID, Applicant Name and NRIC/FIN number on the back of the cheque. Mail the cheque to:
ATTN: Manager (CET Programmes)
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PACE Academy
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Withdrawal and Deferment
Withdrawal and deferment notice must be made in writing to the Professional & Adult Continuing Education (PACE) Academy via email to email@example.com 2 weeks before the course commencement date. For withdrawal less than 2 weeks notice, the portion of course fee to be refunded is based on the date of notice as follows:
• 2 weeks before the commencement of the course - Full refund
• Less than 2 weeks before commencement of the course - 70% refund
• On or after date of commencement - No refund
The Singapore Polytechnic reserves the right to cancel or postpone any of the courses. Applicants will be duly notified and where applicable, the full fees will be refunded.
The Singapore Polytechnic also reserves the right to amend the fees charged or the period and duration of the courses.
* PACE Academy course schedules, course trainer, course fees and course availability are subject to change without prior notice.
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Intake 89: 8 Jan to 12 Feb 2018
(Evening Class: Mon, Wed & Fri) /
Date of exam: 28 Feb 2018)
Intake 91: 5 to 10 Mar 2018
(Day Class: Mon to Sat) /
Date of exam: 21 Mar 2018)
Registration Period:
11 Sep 2017 to 1 Dec 2017
<Registration may be closed once seats are filled up.>
1) NO Deferment of ECO exam is allowed.
2) PACE reserves the right to withdraw applicants without having Minimum Entry Requirement from the course.
Day Course:
Mon - Fri: 8.30am to 6.30pm
Sat: 9.00am to 12.00 pm
Duration: 48hrs (excluding a 2-hr exam)
Evening Course:
6.30pm to 9.30pm
(16 sessions @ 3hrs)
Duration: 48hrs excluding a 2-hr exam)
Venue: Singapore Polytechnic
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Doing Your Homework: Some Tips on Telecommuting From A MR Pro
Editor's Note: I often take telecommuting for granted. I started occasionally telecommuting in 1997 when I was a Regional Manager for a financial services company, but since 2002 I have worked exclusively from a home office. During that time I have built 6 companies (all virtual), hired over 50 employees, worked with literally hundreds of clients, and amassed a global network of many thousands of colleagues. All from my home, and only rarely actually meeting people face-to-face. I have been blessed to convert some of those colleagues to dear friends, and in some cases we have never physically met. It's pretty amazing, and I forget that for many people this style of work is a foreign concept.
That is why I was thrilled when Kevin Gray sent me this post. I believe that technology will only continue to make telecommuting easier and more effective and will eventually become the norm for just about anyone who works in a professional service industry. That being the case, some basic tips, tricks, and wisdom are in order and this is a fantastic primer for anyone, but especially for those who work in the insights field.
So kick back in your bathrobe and enjoy!
By Kevin Gray
When I established my consultancy in 2008, I chose to keep my operation to minimal size – hopefully, too small to fail – and to work from my home office. Besides keeping overhead down, my main motivations for flying completely solo were to maximize efficiency and minimize hassle so I'd be able to concentrate on the things I like to do most and think I do best. I am my company's sole employee and my business partners include a few end clients but are mostly marketing research agencies scattered throughout the world. Only part of my business is local and face-to-face.
People were working from home long before "telecommuting" was coined by Jack Nilles in 1973, so I cannot call myself a pioneer. However, most of us physically commute to offices, as I did for the bulk of my career, and some may find the very idea working remote from home hard to grasp. There are plusses and minuses to anything, to be sure, and before I made the leap I sought the advice of contacts who had worked this way at some point in their careers, some in marketing research and others in unrelated fields. Self-discipline and the need to structure one's workday were mentioned by several as crucial, as was being able to work autonomously without becoming a hermit. It's not for everyone.
I should stress that this would not have been a realistic option if I hadn't already been an experienced marketing researcher when I set up my company. Before I set out on my own I'd worked for Nielsen's Customized division, Kantar (Research International) and McCann's Marplan division for more than 15 years, in addition to having been on the client side early in my career. At Nielsen and Kantar, in particular, a significant component of my responsibilities was international and I'd worked with colleagues and clients located in dozens of countries for many years. When one is establishing a consultancy I think it's quite normal to work through existing contacts, at least initially, and therefore not working remote was not really an option for me at the time.
How can you work as a consultant without regularly meeting with your clients face-to-face? With the right experience and know-how, it is actually more efficient that way. Though there are times when face-to-face meetings are truly essential, over the years in my role as a marketing science consultant and statistician, I have found that these are rare exceptions. In fact, taking part in meetings too early in the process in some instances can cause the conversation to stray towards technical details before the basic issues have been sorted out.
At this phase in my career if I must be physically present explaining methodological details to a client, it usually means I haven't done my job well enough, to be honest. Of course, I do join meetings or presentations remotely – sometimes at odd hours and sometimes with the assistance of an interpreter – and now and then meet with clients face-to-face as well. However, considering the cost and downtime that comes with travel, hopping on a plane at a moment's notice for a two-hour meeting is usually not sensible, at least for what I do. Phone, Skype and email are all I need, even when involved from the early stages, as I typically am.
Do your homework. Whatever your specialization within marketing research and regardless of your own working arrangement, if you will not be the user of the research I would urge you to do your homework in another sense. Marketing researchers are researchers and part of our job is to unearth important business questions and help clarify the objectives of the research. I do a lot of on-the-job coaching about how to tackle this with business associates who are new to our profession and, even when working with veterans, I often ask lots and lots of questions. Put simply, we need to find out what the end client really needs, which may be very different from what they say they want. As a former client, I know this all too well!
When designing research, it's important to consider who will be using the results, how the results will be used and when they will be used, and then work backward into the methodology. Though I have read more than one-hundred textbooks on research methods and statistics, I am not preoccupied with methodology (though I will admit to a strong interest in it). Marketing researchers need to be prepared to respond to diverse requests very quickly and to be able to do this requires a large multipurpose toolkit. On the other hand, we shouldn't let the tools be our boss or sell statistical techniques, in my opinion. Instead, it's better to concentrate on what you need to do to help your client make decisions more effectively. Though complex solutions sometimes work better, aim for simplicity whenever possible. Avoid jargon but also be wary of oversimplifying…this is like a tightrope walk at times!
Be especially cautious about making assumptions when dealing with a client for the first time. Try to learn about their corporate culture. The client's website and web searches will tell you a lot about the company and their industry, and also give you hints about what goes on within their walls. That is often the best place to begin and takes little time. Having some sense of corporate culture and marketing research expertise comes in handy because these things can have a big impact on how your proposal is received. Suggesting an innovative solution to a conservative organization in which marketing research isn't well-established or is viewed skeptically can backfire; to paraphrase Voltaire, the "best" may be the enemy of the good enough. In some situations it may be appropriate to propose more than one option, for example, a basic option and an advanced option with different costs.
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Long before the recent clamor about "big data" clients have been incorporating internal company data, such as customer transactions, and external data, such as economic trends, into their decision making. It is very helpful to learn what data your client is using now to make decisions. Also consider what other information they might have on hand or would be able to acquire that would enhance the research. When appropriate, ask them directly. And, even if you're a hard core quant, don't write off qualitative approaches. Qual can help bring numbers to life and your client may have past reports they'd be happy to share.
Think ahead. Multivariate analysis is generally more useful when planned in advance and designed into the research and, with methods such as conjoint, this is imperative. Once again, though, for most projects it's best to avoid selling statistical methods and a good idea to keep several options in mind when designing research since the data you obtain may not behave as you'd expected.
It's important that marketing researchers do their homework, and even more so when they are working from home because communication can break down more easily under that arrangement. In my experience, you have to be more proactive and more cautious about making assumptions if you're telecommuting. Either way, though, given today's understandable fascination with information technology, we all must sometimes remind ourselves that marketing research is more than math and programming. The human side is a great deal bigger and we need to put ourselves in the shoes of the decision-makers who will be using our research and in their customers' shoes. This means doing a lot of homework, wherever you're doing it from.
3 Responses to "Doing Your Homework: Some Tips on Telecommuting From A MR Pro"
January 23rd, 2015 at 9:55 am
Kevin, thanks for sharing your thoughts! I agree completely with the need to do research to understand your client, client's industry, culture, stated and hidden objectives, etc.
As someone who first started telecommuting one day a week in 1995 (wow – 20 years!) and has been running a business from home since 2002 (WHP Research, Inc.), I'd like to suggest some additional work-at-home tips that have worked for me:
1. Do household tasks and responsibilities before or after "work hours" (or see #4)
2. Establish and keep to "work hours" as much as much (which often isn't feasible due to client needs)
3. Pick up the phone or meet F2F from time-to-time instead of solely using email
4. Take advantage of the flexibility you have by working at home, but build that flex non-working time into your schedule as appointments (some structure is good)
5. Dress as comfortably as you want, as Kevin indicated, kick-back in your bathrobe if you want!
January 23rd, 2015 at 4:08 pm
All good tips, Wendy. Thank you. (Actually, the bathrobe was Lenny's suggestion; I'm normally in jeans in my home office. 🙂 )
January 23rd, 2015 at 4:12 pm
I'm typically wearing yoga-type loose pants, which are even more comfortable than jeans!


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Drop-Dead Easy Knits came yesterday via UPS. It's my latest pick from Blogging for Books. I'm not the greatest knitter or even crocheter in the world, I freely admit that. But I love yarn, working it up, playing with it, buying it… Yeah, I have a problem. When I saw this title available for review, snatching it up was a no-brainer. Remember that "not the greatest knitter" comment? It's true. I have a really, really hard time reading patterns. I can watch someone knit or crochet and learn better.
The first sentence in this book's description from the inner cover promises "Finally, a knitting book featuring fantastic projects that don't require you to study a pattern for hours…" I'm in!
Generally Speaking:
I liked it. It isn't without a few problems, and I'd probably not pick it up at first glance because of one of those things (which I'll detail in the next sections of this review.) But there are several patterns I'm planning to try when I have time, and they do seem fairly easy to follow. I'd recommend it.
First Impressions:
Well… It could be prettier. I'm not overly fond of the subdued colors used throughout the book, but especially on the cover. Also, the title is a bit lackluster. The book doesn't stand out, and the mediocrity in that first impression really does this book a disservice.
Meat and Bones:
The book isn't huge. It's rather slim and convenient, and it contains about thirty patterns. They range in difficulty from mindless to relaxed to attentive. I actually really like that ranking system – and I'm mostly in the mindless skill-set category. None of the patterns are outlandish, most are common, easy projects, and that's exactly the premise of the book. There is enough variation in them that there's something for almost anyone here.
Most of the patterns I was interested in–the simple things like scarves and hats–seemed pretty straightforward. They were detailed and the instructions not overly complicated, as the blurb promises. I was not disappointed in that at all. If you're a new knitter or like me, you have trouble following patterns, you should check this one out.
The not-so-good side of things… I'll start with the colors. Now, I like flashy, bold colors and jewel tones. I don't mind soft and muted colors, but if they're going to be used, they should at least do the pattern they're demonstrating some favors. I don't feel like these color choices did that. They dated the book, and in fact, I had to check the original publication date to see whether it came out in 2016 or was a reprint. In particular, the colors used for a throw and a pillow just felt wrong and made it hard to see the work. I'd love to see the book redone with new pictures, new colors. Something more modern, less dated.
Chapter dividers were another area that didn't sit exactly right with me. Maybe it's user error, but every single chapter-heading page had me stopping for a second to see what the pattern was like. The chapter number wasn't large and bold, was offset to the side and away. Each chapter is named something, for example Chapter One is "Cold Hands, Warm Heart." This added to the confusion. You turn the page and see the chapter name first as though it's the pattern name, with the chapter number as an afterthought way up out of the way. In each instance this page is opposite a full-page picture of a pattern contained within the chapter. It's entirely possible this is just a peculiarity of mine, but it felt odd.
My biggest complaint with this book was that on some of the first pages of new patterns, there's no picture to accompany the pattern to show you immediately what you're looking at. You have to turn the page to find the picture and see what you're making. That there was room on each pattern title page for a picture, albeit a smaller one, was just more perturbing.
None of that diminishes the fact that the book is solid. It just irritates me because it could be laid out a little better and it would be a stunning book. I hate the wasted potential.
Closing Argument:
I would easily and readily recommend Drop-Dead Easy Knits to friends and family who knit, but not as a "you have to purchase this book NOW" title. It's a solid book, one that could easily be overlooked because of its too-subtle colors and unobtrusive title. With a few adjustments, it could be a stunner in looks, a bit of flash to match its content.
Where to buy (links for print, though E is available): Amazon | BN
I received this book from the Blogging for Books program in exchange for this review.


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Vedantam, R.[Ramakrishna]
Co Author Listing * Adopting Abstract Images for Semantic Scene Understanding
* CIDEr: Consensus-based image description evaluation
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* Counting Everyday Objects in Everyday Scenes
* Learning Common Sense through Visual Abstraction
* VisualWord2Vec (Vis-W2V): Learning Visually Grounded Word Embeddings Using Abstract Scenes
Includes: Vedantam, R.[Ramakrishna] Vedantam, R.
Vedantham, R.[Ramakrishna]
Co Author Listing * Automatic Alignment and Multi-View Segmentation of Street View Data using 3D Shape Priors
* City-scale landmark identification on mobile devices
* Creating compact architectural models by geo-registering image collections
* Dynamic selection of a feature-rich query frame for mobile video retrieval
* Fast geometric re-ranking for image-based retrieval
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Co Author Listing * Modeling the Performance Characteristics of Computed Radiography (CR) Systems
Vedel, B.
Co Author Listing * Hyperbolic wavelet leaders for anisotropic multifractal texture analysis
* Multiscale Anisotropic Texture Analysis and Classification of Photographic Prints: Art scholarship meets image processing algorithms
* Self-Similar Anisotropic Texture Analysis: The Hyperbolic Wavelet Transform Contribution
Vedenkin, N.N.
Co Author Listing * Correction to A New Type of Space Telescope for Observation of Extreme Lightning Phenomena in the Upper Atmosphere
Vedhanayagam, M.[Masilamani]
Co Author Listing * Efficient Reconstruction of 2D-Tiling with t1,2, t2,1, t1,1 Tiles, An
Vedula, S.
Co Author Listing * 3D Room: Digitizing Time-Varying 3D Events by Synchronized Multiple Video Streams, The
* Appearance-Based Virtual View Generation of Temporally-Varying Events from Multi-Camera Images in the 3D Room
* Image Based Spatio-Temporal Modeling and View Interpolation of Dynamic Events
* Shape and Motion Carving in 6D
* Spatio-Temporal View Interpolation
* Three-Dimensional Scene Flow
Includes: Vedula, S. Vedula, S.[Sundar]
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text: Rain all day. There wasn't a moment in the day where it wasn't raining. The Bride and Groom had such a go-with-the-flow attitude towards there was sunshine all day. I was really wishing for some sunshine since their engagement session was a cold and cloudy day also. However, we took this moment at the end of the night, away from the craziness of the reception dancing, to cool off and light up the rain. What you're not seeing, is the bride is actually barefoot in the late October rain!


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View From the Right: The Rockford Jail Mall a.k.a. West side development
View From the Right: The Rockford Jail Mall a.k.a. West side development
By Judy Howard
What a concept! Only our Rockford mayor and his associates could have dreamed this one up. Develop the River District and the west side with the anchor of a downtown jail. We voters/taxpayers have approved increased sales tax to fund this new $40-plus million jail, downtown on the west side of the river. And now our city fathers have decided we should also develop West State Street to attract tourists into our beautifed downtown. New tourists will want to see the new jail, perhaps even wave at the inmates.
As taxpayers being forced to fund the downtown development, we voted no on the jail referendum, and wed like to suggest a Jail Mall be designed. Combine commercial development with the multi-block new jail building. The upper floors of the jail could be developed for jail offices, courtrooms and cells, while the ground level could house eating places and a few department stores. How about some fast-food restaurants for those on a tight a schedule, as well as Marshall Fields and, maybe Tiffanys to accommodate higher spenders like private attorneys and politicians? These developments would also attract west-side tourists.
Today, the downtown area has vacant buildings, a bus depot, some parking lots, a few small businesses, the Public Safety Building (jail), and a summer hot dog stand. Most of these are on the opposite side of the street from the proposed jail development. After spending millions of taxpayer dollars, tourists could be directed into Rockford down West State Street past expensively developed greenspace, intersections and newly constructed buildings straight into downtown Rockford where they will feast their eyes on the newly developed exorbitantly expensive jail complete with a shopping mall.
If the tourists travel far enough east, they will view our river with the senior citizen center, library and some commercial buildings. Entrepeneurs could rent fishpoles complete with bait to tourist families. Who needs a park district-proposed carousel? Or maybe I should ask, Who can afford a carousel?
Other cities will surely follow suit, locating their new jail/Jail Mall downtown to attract tourists. I have been downtown several times to the Public Safety Building. If we want to attract tourists to our Jail Mall, we will have to develop some kind of direct-to-jail-facilities walkway, perhaps overhead so tourists are not frightened.
Let me ask you: How many of you readers expect to visit downtown, entering from West State Street, after our multiple millions of tax dollars have been spent to beautify it?
U.N. political deceitoil for food
Even Dr. Hans von Sponeck, former UN coordinator directing the Oil for Food (OFF) program admits the selling pitch that the OFF funds pay humanitarian needs for Iraqi people as a result of U.N. sanctions is just not true. (American Free Press, U.N. gets Rich off `Genocidal Sanctions on Iraq, Christopher Bollyn, 1/06/03) Millions/billions of OFF funds get nowhere near Iraqi peoples pockets. In fact, only $174 gets to the needy party.
Denis Halliday resigned in 1998 after serving only two years as U.N. coordinator for humanitarian aid. He described the sanctions as nothing short of genocide perpetrated by the very organization founded to protect the human sovereignty of its member nations.
With this being the case, why are we obligated to get the U.N.s blessing before going into Iraq? When AFP asked Mark Clodfelder, State Department, about U.N. Compensation Commission (UNCC) consuming 25 percent of the so-called Iraqi OFF program, he told the reporter, Im not talking to you anymore. The UN doesnt even have any committee to monitor the Security Council.
Are we polite or just plain stupid? Forget about getting U.N. permission for anything.
They are too busy putting money in their pockets.
Judy Howard is a wife, mother and grandmother who is politically active in our community.


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The euro slumped to a three-month low and shares fell on Monday as election outcomes in Greece and France threatened to derail the region's plans to tackle its debt crisis and after weak US data undermined hopes for global economic growth.
In particular, the apparent failure of two pro-bailout ruling parties in Greece to win a majority in the parliament has put the future of its rescue plan in doubt, bringing back into focus questions over the future of the single currency. (Reuters)