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Friday, September 28, 2012

Fourth Graders... Come on Down!

Name that State - New England Edition is the newest gameshow created by the fourth graders. They researched a New England state and then as a team created facts to present gameshow style.  Can you guess the state?  Pause after each "What state is it?" to make your guess!  Alex Trebek has nothing on these fourth graders!

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Fifth Grade Mock Trial

What better way to learn about the justice system than to participate in it?  That's what our fifth graders did in the case of the State of Nurseryland vs Roy L. Kingsman.  Did Mr. Kingsman cause Humpty Dumpty to fall off the wall?  Taking the roles of judge, jury, prosecutor, defendant, defense counsel, baliff, and key witnesses, the students learned first hand how our justice system works.  The students learned important life lessons as well - can someone else make us feel and act a certain way?  Media coverage of the case provided by the fifth graders.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Fall into First Grade

First graders are learning about the season of fall.  We had a discussion about the sights and sounds of fall, and then using a sheet of words that relate to the season, each first grader created an acrostic poem. Afterwards, they colored fall scenes on the iPad.  Autumn experts!

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Second Grade Goes on Virtual Field Trip!

The second grade visited the White House this week, virtually, from their classrooms.  They learned so much about the many rooms and even saw President Obama while they were there!  Here are some of their favorites from the tour...

To go on your own interactive tour, click here:
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Third Grade Appleseed

The third graders learned how to podcast by putting their knowledge of the lifecycle of an apple tree to use.  Check student work below.  They did a great job figuring out how to tackle this challenging task!

Saturday, September 15, 2012

First Graders are Unique!

After reading the book on their iPads, Elmer and Rose by David McKee, the first graders learned about unique elephants.  Then the students brainstormed about what made them unique!  The following are some examples of their illustrations using the Scribble Press app. Fantastic!

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The One and Only Second Graders

The second graders made "All about Me" posters from templates they downloaded in class.  They learned a lot about creating a poster and we all learned a lot about each other!  Each student has a copy of his/her poster.  Great job!

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Kindergarteners Learn about Sharing

On only their second day of school (WOW) the kindergarteners learned about sharing by using the iPads to illustrate the main character of the book, The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. Impressive!


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Mini Meatloaves

Ground beef is cheap and there are always bits of random veggies to use up in the fridge. Meatloaf freezes really well. This recipe makes bite-sized meatloaves, great for leftovers. Make a couple dozen at a time on a Sunday afternoon! Ok, no more attempts at convincing, just try 'em, they're really easy.

2 lbs Costco organic ground beef (comes in three square packs)
1/4 red onion
2 cloves minced garlic
2 TBS sun dried tomatoes, chopped (you can leave this out and just add more tomato paste)
3 TBS organic tomato paste (Trader Joes)
1+ cup almond meal or walnut meal (again, just threw whole nuts in the blender)
3 TBS horseradish
1 TBS worchester sauce
2 tsp cumin
2 tsp onion powder
2 green onions (optional)
1 TBS parsley
1 TBS thyme
salt and pepper

optional additions:
red pepper

Preheat oven to 350.
Saute starting with the red onion, then add the sun dried tomato, garlic, horseradish, worschester, and any other veggies(green onion, mushrooms, etc.) you want to throw in there.
Mix ground beef with the almond meal, tomato paste and spices (cumin, onion powder, thyme, basil, parsley, etc.)
Mini-muffin tins are what I used because you get about an ounce of meat at the end (like a meatball, perfect for a quick snack). Fill up mini-muffin tin and pop in the oven for about 20 minutes?? Just watch them so they don't get to done and dry out.

You'll end up with a bunch of these suckers so freeze them and use them for protein emergencies. =)

Notice no egg...I ran out and still haven't gotten to the store.

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Never Enough Hope

  • Constellation 3111 North Western Avenue Chicago, IL, 60618 United States (map)

I will be joining Toby Summerfield and a host of veteran improvisers for this record release show at Constellation.  The music, in Toby's own words, manifests "the collective voice or rock, post-rock and punk; New York No Wave minimalist/maximalist extremes; joyful big band theatricality; highly orchestrated new music soundscapes; powerful, dense, freewheeling improvised music; lush, thick polytonal/polyrhythmic textures."

Earlier Event: September 21
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The Foundry Shows Sneak Peeks of Elara and Nuke 11
April 20, 2017

The Foundry Shows Sneak Peeks of Elara and Nuke 11

LONDON, UK (NAB)  – The Foundry will unveil the first public previews of Nuke 11.0 and Elara, a new service for post-production in the cloud.

In open beta starting April 2017, Nuke 11.0 will be the next major release of the industry’s leading compositor. Focusing on collaboration and performance, Nuke 11.0 introduces new features to the Nuke family including Live Groups, Lens Distortion improvements, and Timeline Disk Caching, as well as a huge update to the latest industry standards via the VFX Reference Platform 2017.

In a special event, The Foundry will introduce Elara, a cloud-based service for post-production that centralizes infrastructure, creative tools and pipeline. Now studios can access everything they need via their web browser, including Foundry and third-party applications, integrated cloud rendering, scalable storage and compute. Foundry will demonstrate how a global team can set up a virtual studio, complete with central pipeline, storage and resources in a few clicks, without worrying about a high upfront investment or management complexity.

After seeing how a VFX short film can be delivered through Elara using a wide variety of creative applications – including Nuke Studio, Katana, Houdini and V-Ray – Foundry will host Buzz Hays, General Manager of Lytro Cinema, who will provide an update on Lytro Cinema with a focus on a Lytro Cinema Light Field workflow in Nuke.

The session will then close with a panel on how cloud technology could change the VFX industry. Hosted by Foundry CTO Jon Wadelton, the panel will feature expert insights from Simon Pickles (Foundry), Buzz Hays (Lytro Cinema), Austin Meyers (Steelhead), and Jeff Kember (Google Cloud Platform), giving attendees a wide-angle view on where the cloud could take us. The event will be held in the Las Vegas Convention Center’s North Hall in room N239/N241 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. on Monday, April 24.

At NAB 2017, Foundry also will show off new support for depth data, drawn from VR camera rigs like Nokia OZO, for Cara VR. By opening up this new depth information, users can now design more immersive 360 experiences, utilizing the depth-based compositing toolset in Nuke.


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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Personal Branding Books

We call it personal branding, but the catalog uses these terms:

Making Lists in Simply Map

Want to know where people by the most used SUVs?  Eat the most hot pockets?  This video will show you how to generate lists in Simply Map..

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Dividends and Stock Splits

You can look up stock splits and dividends in our databases. I recommend Standard and Poor's and Valueline (which only has dividends).

Below is the screen from Standard and Poor's. After you enter the stock, look at the left side of the screen.

Valueline has information on dividends. Their screen is a little busy, but dividend information appears in two places on the stock record. Here's the view from the lower left hand side of the record.

Older stock dividends can be found in print for the NYSE and ASE.

Link to our database of decades of Mergent Manuals as well. These entries contain dividend records.


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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Letter from Dr Kumar Devaraj (detained under Detention Without Trial laws)

Call for the immediate and unconditional release of Dr Kumar Devaraj, the 5 other PSM activist and all others currently being detained under Detention Without Trial Laws in Malaysia. Call for the repeal of all Detention Without Trial Laws in Malaysia

On 2/7/2011, at 1.20pm, human rights defender and parliamentarian Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj  and  5 others were arrested under Section 3(1) of the Emergency (Public Order and Prevention of Crime) Ordinance 1969, a detention without trial law which allows for 60 days detention by the police, and thereafter continued detention under 2-year detention orders which can be issued by the Minister indefinitely.
A letter from Dr Kumar Devaraj, as appeared in the Malaysiakini website, is attached below:

Dr D Jeyakumar
Jul 8, 11

I would like to thank everyone who is supporting us by the hours, prayers, urgent appeals etc.

The six of us have not broken any laws and our crime is that we are socialists and we are attempting to put the issues affecting the poorer 60 percent of Malaysians in the national agenda. eg hospital privatisation, minimum wage and decent wages.

Our detention is totally unwarranted and we are working within the democratic framework. 'Udahlah' the pamphlet distribution call for people to think properly for the general elections.

Our actions and activities is totally within the democratic space allowed by constitution. Sad to see, higher ups in police unable to differentiate between nation and constitution from the party of power (Article 5).

Stand up for democratic rights and let us not allow this kind of intimidation to hold us back.

Dr D Jeyakumar is still being detained under the Emergency Ordinance.

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Manage Your Money.. Manage Your Gift.

Yanique Taylor from junior Achievement

The show went on this morning when the Charles Hyatt Foundation visited Boys’ Town All Age School and held this months “Straight Talk” session.  The topic this month was how to manage money. The students had a wonderful time coming up with ideas about managing their money from giving it to family members to investing it. Unfortunately Ms. Anika Smith, of Mayberry Investments, was not able to make it. (we wish her a speedy recovery).

We went through different scenarios that allows for managing money. We had ideas from buying and selling goods such as onions and other ground provisions, to buying many houses and renting them out. We described investment schemes and how bad they are to everyday life in Jamaica. We were then treated by a surprise visitor, Ms. Yanique Taylor from “Junior Achievement Jamaica” who explained their program of working with students from age 5 to 20 on how to be effectively positive business people. She also explained the process of becoming an entrepreneur and what types of entrepreneur there are.

The day was filled with positivity and as we were closing, we were joined by the school principal, Ms. Sylvia Banks, who announced that for the first time, a Boys’ Town student had won the Western Sports essay competition. Now, that is extremely exciting, especially since a year and a half ago the students literacy levels were at 32%. Now it’s at 72% and 90% of the student now have either ‘almost mastery’ or ‘mastery’ in the numeracy exam. Quite excited about that.

Thank you Ms. Taylor for jumping right in and making yourself comfortable. We look forward to the partnership between Junior Achievement Jamaica and Boys’ Town.


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Lisa Gooder is executive director of BRIDES, overseeing all brand content, product strategy, and licensing. Prior to her appointment, Lisa was executive digital director for the brand, having joined in 2011 to revamp and grow its online and social audiences.

Lisa began her career in weddings in 1998 as one of the earliest employees of The Knot. She also previously held posts at Associated Content and CaféMom.

She graduated from Brown University and lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

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Influencing and Inspiring Change

Newsletter: April 2015

This month’s topics include:

Is Relationship Quality a Business Issue?

Earlier this year we were invited to write a blog for Equal Approach on the research conducted by OnePlusOne and Working Families on a ground-breaking study to increase understanding about the association between Relationship Quality and Work Engagement. This has become a highly debated subject given the recent article in People Management on Dave Ulrich’s view that ‘the Future of HR is Relationships’ and both the Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal regularly write about relationships and business impact. This article focuses on what this means for recruiting and retaining employees, although it has an impact on every aspect of the employee life cycle.

In 2012 OnePlusOne and Working Families collaborated on a ground-breaking study to increase understanding about the association between Relationship Quality and Work Engagement. The findings gained significant interest from companies who wanted to understand the impact this has on attracting and retaining the right people. This resulted in a further action-orientated study with five leading employers over a 12-month period to identify how they could convert research findings into action.

In this blog Charlotte Sweeney shares a brief overview of the research findings and what this means for companies who want to increase employee engagement and are committed to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces.

“Given the current economic difficulties, with; increasing global competition, downsizing, long hours cultures, intrinsic job insecurity, and a more robust bottom-line management style, the work-life balance agenda has never been more important. In the midst of this environment, now is the time to focus on - rather than ignore - the impacts that work and home can have on each other.”

Professor Cary Cooper CBE
Distinguished Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health,
Lancaster University

The initial research, Happy Homes and Productive Workplaces, surveyed employees to gain their perspectives on aspects such as relationship quality, levels of work engagement, work-family conflict (work impacting on family life) and family-work conflict (family life impacting on work life).

The headline finding from the research was the positive association between relationship quality and work engagement existed independently of other factors. In short, work-family conflict has a stronger negative influence on both relationship quality and work engagement than family-work conflict. That is stress from work exerts a greater negative impact on work engagement and family life, compared to stress originating from family-life.

This suggests that it is in employers’ interests to recognise relationship quality as an area that should warrant focus and be supported in order to improve work engagement.

Factors that Predict Levels of Work Engagement

The following nine factors were shown to have an impact on work engagement:

  1. Relationship Quality: Those with better relationship quality reported higher levels of work engagement
  2. Gender: Women reported higher work engagement compared to men
  3. Flexibility: Those who work flexibly were more engaged at work than those who did not
  4. Work-Family Conflict: Those with greater levels of Work-Family Conflict (work-life impacting on family-life) reported lower work engagement
  5. Family-Work Conflict: Those with greater levels of Family-Work Conflict (family-life impacting on work-life) reported lower work engagement
  6. Sector of Employment (Public): Those who work in the Public sector were less engaged at work compared to those in the Private sector
  7. Level of Seniority (Junior level) (which correlates with low annual income): Those employed at a Junior level were less engaged at work than those at a Senior level
  8. Level of Seniority (Mid-level) (which correlates with middle annual income): Those employed at a Mid-level were less engaged at work than those at a Senior level
  9. Work Centrality: Those who saw work as more central to their lives were more engaged at work

Factors that Predict Levels of Relationship Quality

The following five factors were shown to have an impact on relationship quality:

  1. Work Engagement: Those who were more engaged at work reported better relationship quality with their partner
  2. Parental-Status: Parents had lower relationship quality than non-parents
  3. Work-Family Conflict: Those with greater levels of work-family conflict reported worserelationship quality
  4. Family-Work Conflict: Those with greater levels of family-work conflict reported worserelationship quality
  5. Flexibility: Those who worked flexibly reported lower levels of relationship quality compared to those who do not

The detailed findings from the research can be viewed here.

This research was taken one step further to understand how the findings could be converted into practical actions that would have a positive impact on relationship quality and work engagement. To do this, we worked with a number of large organisations, employing collectively over 100,000 people in the UK, covering both the public and private sectors and a diverse range of industries. A number of Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SME) were also engaged in a number of interviews to understand their perspective

The research identified a number of key issues:

  • Senior Leaders, Human Resources (HR) Professionals and employees could identify the importance of relationship quality to employee engagement and motivation.
  • There were limited references to relationship quality or capability in organisational policies, procedures and guidelines
  • The majority of participants were able to share clear examples of where work-life and stress from work had a negative impact on their home and personal relationships or where they had seen this in a colleague.
  • All agreed that relationship quality is an important business issue and should be taken more seriously by companies, very few were pro-actively responding to the challenges.

“Although this is not an issue that is actively discussed within UK organisations, with workplaces becoming more pressurised and reported levels of stress on the increase this is a subject that should move from the margins to an important part of a company’s commitment to employee engagement.”

HR Director
Large Employer

The detailed findings from the action orientated research, including a number of tools to enabling you to start working on this can be viewed online by clicking here.

What Does This Mean for Recruiting and Retaining Employees?

As the research shows, creating an inclusive working environment where employee engagement is paramount is much more than fine words in a flexible working policy or a widely communicated diversity aspiration.

Companies that are more advanced on this subject take a holistic approach and understand the impact the quality of employees personal relationships has on all aspects of their employee life cycle.

This has already started to gain traction in the United States with publications such as the Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal debating

  • ‘How Couples Cope with Professional Stress’
  • ‘How A Good Relationship at Home Gives People Emotional, Cognitive and Physical Vigor, Which is Advantageous for the Workplace’
  • ‘Companies Work to Please Spouses - Happy Relationships Lead to Productive Workers’.

For companies to consider how this could have a positive impact within their company consider the following five questions when working on your next recruitment project or reviewing workplace policies and behaviours:

  • If hiring candidates for positions where they may be required to relocate their family, what support do we give them to maintain good family relationships throughout?
  • If candidates / employees spend a significant amount of time away on business how do we support them to maintain effective personal relationships?
  • If candidates / employees are required to change their flexible working arrangements for business reasons how do we consider the impact this may have on their personal circumstances and how do we support them through that?
  • How do we ensure our shared parental leave offerings consider the impact of personal relationships at such a critical life stage?
  • How do we ensure that relationship capability is considered throughout our employee offerings such as onboarding, pay and benefits, health and wellbeing?

Although in its infancy, to create a truly inclusive company and ensure everyone is able to be themselves in the workplace more and more consideration should be given to relationship capability and the impact this has both at work and at home.

“The evidence is mounting that support for individuals and families enhances both employee and organisational wellbeing. It is then vital to devise and implement policies to enable employees to have healthy, functional personal relationships, and be fully engaged at work.”

Professor Cary Cooper CBE
Distinguished Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health,
Lancaster University

For further information of how this could have a positive impact in your workplace please contact Jessica.

About OnePlusOne:

OnePlusOne is a UK charity that strengthens relationships by creating resources that help families and employees tackle relationship issues early.

Building the Best Jobs Market in the World - The Expert View

The UK labour market has undergone significant change in the last decade and can only be expected to accelerate over the next few years. The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) feels strongly that the UK’s dynamic labour market is a real competitive advantage and must be nurtured and protected. To explore this, they invited a group of labour market experts to contribute to a book of essays about how we can achieve our important ambition. Their latest piece of research has 24 high profile contributors including economists, trade unionists, academics, members of the House of Lords and business leaders.

We were asked to contribute to the research, Charlotte’s essay ‘A woman’s place is in ... the labour market!’ can be read here where she shares a number of recommendations for action.

A Woman’s Place is in ... The Labour Market! In November 2011, The Home Secretary, Theresa May MP, noted in a speech on Women and the Economy that if the skills and qualifications of women who are currently out of work were fully utilised, the UK could deliver economic benefits of £15 to £21 billion pounds per year - more than double the value of all our annual exports to China. In a similar vein, the Women’s Business Council conducted a number of pieces of research when launched in 2012. They found that by equalising the labour market participation rates of men and women, the UK could further increase economic growth by 0.5 percentage points a year, with potential gains of 10% of GDP by 2030. Female participation in the labour market has undergone a significant shift in the last 50 years. There are thought to be a number of contributing factors to this, including:

  • Growing appetite amongst women to engage in public life and to attain economic independence
  • Increasing economic imperative for women to work as a single wage often no longer supports a family
  • Increasing levels of employment rights - such as equal pay and maternity leave - that have better enabled women to balance work and other responsibilities
  • State investment in childcare

Progress continues to be made in increasing female participation. In February 2015 the Department of Work and Pensions stated that:

  • The female employment rate stands at 68.5%, which is a new record
  • Over half of growth in female employment since 2010 has been in higher skilled occupations such as managers, directors and senior officials
  • There are 250,000 more women in IT, manufacturing and professional and associated industries since 2010
  • Women on FTSE 350 Boards is now at an all time high with no ‘Male Only’ boards in the FTSE 100

Although there has been a much welcomed shift over the years there continues to be challenges and barriers to women fully taking their role in the labour market and the country realising the positive impact this will have on our economy. These include:

  • The continuation of a pay gap in the average full-time pay between men and women. In April 2014 this stood at 9.4%, the lowest it has been since comparative records began in 1997 when it stood at 17.4%
  • Women continue to dominate low paid, low grade work such as within the caring and leisure occupations
  • Women and men are retiring later. Expectations are also shifting as nearly twice as many women (66%) than men (34%) expect to retire past state retirement age
  • Women’s average personal pensions are only 62% of the average for men’s and they make up the majority of pensioners living below the breadline
  • Women continue to be underrepresented in the worlds of business and finance, particularly at higher levels where women continue to be missing from many of the top tables of power
    Caring responsibilities have typically been a major reason for older women’s non- employment as one in five women aged 45-59 is classed as a carer

The Women in Work Index recently ranked the UK 18 out of 27 OCED countries on five key indicators of women’s economic empowerment including equality of earnings with men and the proportion of women in full-time employment, putting the UK behind countries such as Norway, Germany, Australia and Poland.

There is an economic, cultural and moral case to ensure that all barriers are removed to enable women to take their place in the Labour market as they wish. If we were to complete a report card on progress to date the comment may well be “C+ A good start, much more needed to be done!”

Looking forward, there are a number of actions required to take advantage of the progress made to date and to continue to build from this. There is no silver bullet to increasing the participation of women in the labour market, as we have seen in the past. It takes the determination and focus of a number of stakeholders to create the right environments for change and progression, such as Government, Employers and Individuals.

A number of recommendations and actions that would have a positive impact include:

  1. Accountability - Many leaders from all backgrounds talk about creating more diverse and inclusive workplaces and removing barriers from labour market participation and are genuinely committed to making the change. In all cases ’Actions speak louder than words!’ Hold leaders accountable for their specific actions to progress this within their sphere of influence
  2. Much more that Diverse Boards - Focus on the executive pipeline, identify and remove the barriers, creating the leaders of the future that will ensure we see a flow rather than a trickle of women reaching senior roles in all sectors and industries
  3. Flexible Working - Create a serious focus on making flexible working a reality for the majority of the labour market. Create a culture where outputs are valued over and above time spent in the workplace. Create expectations that flexibility is a critical commodity to attracting and retaining future talent - this isn’t a ’nice to have’
  4. Make Shared Parental Leave a Cultural Reality - Drive the principles of Shared Parental Leave through employers. Focus on the actions required to make this a cultural shift where all employees feel they have the opportunity to share their parental leave in a way that works for them rather than a well written policy gathering dust
  5. Support those with Caring Responsibilities - Get serious about supporting workers who have caring responsibilities. Identify the support mechanisms required to keep people with caring responsibilities in the workplace enabling them to combine work with care
  6. Increase Transparency - Be open about the challenges employers are facing to reach parity in the labour market. Publish commitments, share plans for action and be honest about the impact and progress made. Ask for views and thoughts from people at all levels as to what could improve progress and transparency.

As we continue to drive towards gender parity in the labour market it is important to recognise that women are not a homogenous group and should not be treated as such. The wider diversity agenda, including both protected characteristics and diversity of skills, sectors and experiences should not be forgotten.

What is the role of women in the labour market? Surely, that should be exactly the same as men in the labour market, shouldn’t it? As the labour market functions through the interaction of employers and employees one thing is clear for the future. As employee demographics and expectations continue to change so should the interaction and offerings from the employer - what worked well in the labour market 50 years ago, doesn’t work now. What is identified as innovative now will be archaic in another 50 years time. Employers must embrace the changes and adapt to continue to be relevant to a changing employee landscape and remember ... one size certainly does not fit all!

Download your copy of the research and watch the introductory video here.

Opportunity Knocks in 2015?

At the beginning of the year we were interviewed by Thomson Reuters to contribute to an article titled ‘What are the major challenges facing HR directors at banks in 2015?’

The article covered a number of areas that all HR Directors should consider... with many relevant aspects for all sectors, not purely for the Banking domain.

When it comes to Diversity and Inclusion, we highlighted the introduction of the Shared Parental Leave Regulations, the attention shifting slightly to Cultural Diversity and the impact of Age and Generational Diversity as important developments that should be considered by all employers.

Article by Karen Higginbottom - 15th January 2015

What are the major challenges facing HR directors at banks in 2015?
2014 was a tumultuous year for the banking sector, which was beset with corporate scandals, the latest one being the recent forex-rigging debacle.

On top of this, the sector is getting to grips with an avalanche of regulations with regard to remuneration and board governance such as the Capital Requirements Directive IV and the forthcoming Senior Managers and Certified Persons (SM&CP) Regime. What are the major challenges facing HR directors of global banks in 2015? Karen Higginbottom asks the experts to look into their crystal balls.

Andrea Eccles, chief executive of City HR Association, said the challenges facing HR came under the categories of regulation, remuneration and restoration. Eccles said that both EU directives and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) consultation papers had had a major impact on people management activities within banks. “These include the reward elements arising from the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) IV and the introduction of bonus caps of 100 percent of base pay or 200 percent with shareholder approval. Furthermore, the PRA/FCA are also proposing new conduct rules with the introduction of the Senior Managers [and Certified Persons] Regime which will hold employees - particularly those at the top end - more accountable for their actions. This will result in seismic changes in HR strategy given that the SM&CP is likely to impact the full employee lifecycle from recruitment and on-boarding to performance management and exit.”

Running alongside regulation will be the issue of remuneration and the proposed changes to the Remuneration Code, as put out to consultation by the PRA and FCA between July and October 2014. “Among many proposals,
this is likely to see changes to bonus deferrals, clawback, malus and potentially bonus buy-outs, with tougher financial sanctions aimed at the top management of any future bailed-out banks,” Eccles said.

She said that another remuneration challenge facing HR directors at global banks was the reform to pensions announced in the spring 2014 budget. “The introduction of flexible access on the drawdown of funds within defined contribution schemes will see the need for workplace pre-retirement education of employees up to five years before their actual retirement date,” she told Compliance Complete.

The third challenge facing HR directors in global banks was the need to restore the industry’s reputation, Eccles said. “Many financial institutions, including those of financial disciplines other than banking, have worked hard to identify or re-emphasise their corporate values and to re-state the behaviours required of their employees. As the custodians of most aspects of culture, HR will have its work cut out for it in terms of looking to align performance management schemes to the corporate values and to ensure that reward is allocated accordingly.”

Competition with international markets

There is a fear among banks that regulatory restrictions on bonus payments will mean that talent will move outside the EU, said Mark Thompson, associate director for the Hay Group. “The challenge is therefore to compete with international markets within the new restrictions. The banking industry is responding by introducing new reward elements that are not fixed or guaranteed like base salary, but paid as an allowance which can be adjusted depending on the performance of the business and the contribution of the individual. They have also responded by increasing base pay to make up for the lower bonuses. The challenge that reward managers have is to leverage these new approaches and the new terms around clawback of bonuses to incentivise some intangible elements of the scorecard such as customer satisfaction, as well as the hard cash measures of success.”

Society’s requirements of banks are substantially different coming into 2015, Mark Quinn, UK and Ireland market business leader for talent at Mercer, told Compliance Complete. “If you think back to 2005, societal requirements from banks were about driving economic wealth and about shareholder return. If you reflect to now, the contrast could not be starker. In 2015, there are questions of protection for customers and risk with tier 1 capital requirements imposed onto banks in a different way. A completely different regulatory framework drives banks to be thoughtful about risk appetite.”

Talent strategy

Quinn said this had meant the business strategy of a bank had had to undergo major change. “It’s not about being an engine for growth but it’s about being a steady custodian. What does that mean for the talent strategy? Banks are there to make money but not in a risky way and they require a different profile for success. The template model for the senior leadership in banks has changed radically. Increasingly, there are requirements for people who rise in organisations to have the ability to lead on a generalist basis. Banks are looking for different leadership qualities. It’s about how the business interacts with customers rather than innovation with products.”

There is also the challenge of constant regulation in the banking sector, Quinn said. “The HR function is facing constant application of regulatory rules. There has never been so much external intervention in banking. There is a lot of stuff to do for HR directors because regulatory change is driven heavily by political change and subject to constant change. That constant change feeds into the organisation and they have to deal with it all the time. HR directors will spend far more time dealing with implications of regulatory issues in 2015 than they would like.”

Shared parental leave

One area which HR directors of global banks will need to consider this year will be the impact of shared parental leave in UK, said Charlotte Sweeney, founder of Charlotte Sweeney Associates, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing experts. “This allows eligible women to curtail their right to maternity leave to enable their partners to take shared parental leave. Although this is UK law, there are a number of potential ramifications across global organisations, which include creating the right cultural shift, which means that effective shared parental leave is important. For HR directors that are serious about creating inclusive cultures, this is a key area of focus.”

Sweeney said that although there had been a huge focus within banks on the women on boards agenda, attention was now moving to the need for boards to be culturally diverse. “Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures as opposed to monoculture. For global companies where there cannot be a single definition of who is or isn’t an ethnic minority because of the countries [in which] it operates, cultural diversity gives a sense of wanting to bring people in who have different cultural backgrounds and experiences. Regardless of the focus at the board level, the key has to be focusing on the talent pipeline and ensuring talented people, regardless of background, are filling the spaces ready to progress to the senior roles.”

Another diversity challenge facing global banks in 2015 is that a whole range of different generations are now working together following the eradication of the default retirement age, Sweeney said. “In the coming years, we will experience, for the first time, five generations in the workplace together,” she said. "What’s important for the HR director is reflecting on the culture of the company and identifying what is important for all. Given the multiple generations in the workplace and the increased ageing demographics in many countries, this will have a knock-on effect for employers to ensure they are really thinking of how they support their employees who have caring responsibilities and those who have some form of disability.”

Central role for HR

The HR function has a vital role to play within the banking sector in the coming year, said Rona Beattie, professor of human resource development at GCU London. “The HR function could help banks rebuild their reputation both internally and externally. Some of the banks are working on ethics and values and HR is heavily involved in that.

They also have to look at how they are going to attract young talent to the sector. Banks are trying to educate people in responsible leadership and it’s about using resources in a sustainable way, including people and capital. HR is central to that.”

Karen Higginbottom is a freelance journalist who writes on employment issues for The Guardian and People Management magazine. She has written on a diverse range of topics, from transexuals in the workplace to bullying bosses.

‘First published on Thomson Reuters Accelus on January 15, 2015’

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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Random Homeschool Moments

O(6) woke up before E one morning and had a great time playing with the Handwriting without Tears letter forms while I made breakfast. This is her monkey.

She was practicing her handwriting while discreetly wiggling her two front teeth.

We had fun playing with the sight words power tower.

O reviewed simple addition with her math wrap-ups.

We've played and built structures on the light table.  We reviewed colors and shapes with E as we played.

E loves these blocks.

O(6) reads leveled readers from Reading A to Z on the ipad.  We like how we can enlarge the words that she is reading.

We all really enjoyed studying the Vikings.

We made slime!

We learned that it will stretch if you pull it apart slowly or let it hang, but it rips if you pull it apart quickly.  They thought it was absolutely hilarious when I pretended to sneeze the slime out of my nose :)

We had fun making spin art!

We learned that pumice floats.

O likes working with the Rightstart abacus.

O loves to carry baskets on her head while pretending that she is an African lady.

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  1. So fun! I really love the light blocks, that is on my wish list for sure.


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Delicious Onion Rings At City Lobster

Ignore the oysters and the seafood risotto in this picture. What you really want to focus on are the delicious onion rings. At City Lobster in Midtown West, the onion rings are $5.95 and AMAZING. Made from red onions, they are sliced thin and have a really tasty, but light batter. The crunch is great as well. Stop by the bar after work, get a cold beer and some of these babies and you are good to go. I really enjoyed how they weren’t that huge, overpowering onion ring, where you when you bite into it, the entire onion slice pulls out of the crunchy batter. With these, I would take a bite and my teeth would slice right through, not dragging any of the onion out. I even got a batch to go hoping that I could reheat them to snack on the next day, and I did, and they tasted quite good still. Not as good as they are fresh, but definitely still had no problem gobbling them up.

To reheat onion rings, all you have to do is pop the onions in a 350 degree oven for 10 minutes. The crisp will come back.

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Sunday, December 14, 2014

How to Prepare Chitti Chegodilu?

Prepare Chitti Chegodilu: (Andhra )
  • Plain Flour
  • Rice flour
  • Carom seeds
  • Ghee
  • Salt
  • Oil

Preparing Method:
  • Warm up ghee to melt it. Bring to boil around half a cup of water and keep aside. Sieve maida and rice flour into a bowl. In a mixing bowl, add maida, rice flour, ajwain, salt and melted ghee.
  • Using hands mix everything well. Pour sufficient amount of hot water into the mixing bowl and knead the mixture into somewhat tight dough(tighter than chapati dough).
  • Cover the dough and rest it for an hour. Divide the dough into big peanut sized portions. Roll the portions into quarter inch thick strips.
  • Alternatively, a large portion of dough can be rolled into a long strip and later it can be divided into app. 2 inch long strips. Bring two ends of the strip together and press to form a ring. Repeat the same with remaining portions of the dough.
  • Place all the prepared rings on a plate.Heat oil in a deep frying pan on medium heat. When oil gets hot, carefully drop all the prepared rings at once(if there is space in the wok).
  • Deep fry them on medium heat until they are crisp and turn light golden brown in color. Remove the deep fried rice flour rings onto absorbent paper. Store the rice flour rings in a tight jar and they stay fresh for couple of weeks. Serve rice flour rings chitti/chegodilu as a snack or use them for chat.
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Thursday, February 05, 2009

It's the Big One!

We finally got more than an inch of snow! And just in time for theme Thursday! How lucky is that? This was first thing in the morning, maybe 7:15-ish. The snow had stopped falling sometime after 3am, so the road had been plowed once, but everything else remained untouched.

Sam looked out the window and declared the world 'boo-tee-ful!' I couldn't agree more!

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Stacy said...

It definitely is boo-tee-ful! That is my favorite...when the snow is fresh fallen and still a beautiful pure white. It just seems so quiet and peaceful outside, too.

susan said...

So jealous! Make a snow angel or two for us, mkay?

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Monday, February 13, 2012

Aphrodite's Baked Oysters

This month's  Kulinarya Cooking Challenge is about First Love,
thanks to our hosts - Abigail and Marni for coming up with an exceptional and exciting theme!

On a quest for gastronomic scrutiny, it was in Via Mare when I was a kid that I first discovered synergistic flavour of baked oysters. Who can resist the delightful sight, tempting aroma of melting cheese, and unique taste and succulent texture of oysters- temptation at its finest! From the table to my palate, it has indeed utilized all of my senses. Two simple ingredients combined together to form layers of complex flavour. That first moment of curiosity prompted my instant gratification love affair with Baked Oysters.

Aphrodite’s Baked Oysters

24 oysters in shells
½ cup butter
3 tablespoon Worcestershire
1 tablespoon, Garlic paste
¼ cup Gruyere Cheese
¼ cup Parmesan Cheese

Shuck the oysters and scrub the shells. Brush the inside of each shell with melted butter.

Dip oysters into Worcestershire sauce and place 2 pieces on each shell.

Divide garlic paste, gruyere and parmesan cheese and place on top of each shell.

Place oysters on a shallow pan and bake until cheese is light brown and bubbly (about 8-10 minutes).

Food Notes:

1. Oysters are excellent source of minerals, including iron, zinc and selenium.
2. Oysters are universally considered as an aphrodisiac
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Banned Books Week is an annual event that celebrates the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment—highlighting the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the potential harm of censorship. Visit the special display featuring books challenged for attempted bannings through Oct. 3. Sponsored by the American Library Association.


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- Top 3 in each Age Division (5K only)
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Monday, August 27, 2012

16) 9 Books We Have Been Reading to Get Ready for Back to School

For a lot of kids in our area today is the first day back at school, although the Bee doesn't go back until next week. This year for the first time the Bean is going too. While it is only for a few hours a week, I am still pretty nervous about it. Nervous for her because I am not sure she knows whats coming. To get us all ready we have been reading a lot of books about school, so I thought I would share a few of the ones we have enjoyed. What is your favorite back to school books? Do you have any other ways to prepare little ones for the first days of school?

Yoko Learns To Read by Rosemary Wells-  The stories in the Yoko series are about a young girl from Japan and her adventures at school in America.
Little Rabbit Goes to School by Harry Horse - Little Rabbit learns all about why it is important to listen on his first day at pre-school.
Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn- There are a few of these back to school stories that make me a little teary and this is one. Such a great story for a little one feeling nervous about being at school on their own.
Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney- This is the other one that makes me a little teary. Llama llama goes to pre-school for the first time and discovers that school is actually pretty fun, even without mama.
The Berenstein Bears Go To School by Jan and Stan Berenstein- We are big Berenstein Bears fans, Brother and Sister are always favorites and this story about sisters first time at school is no exception.
Curious George's First Day of School by H.A. Rey- Curious George spends his first day at school and is of course a little curious.
I am Too Absolutley Small for School ( Charlie and Lola) by Lauren Child- Lola is a little nervous about starting school fortunatley she has a big brother Charlie
Wemberly Worries by Kevin Henkes- For all those back to school worriers, Wembley helps to put some of those worries at ease.
Best Best Friends by Margaret Chodos-Irvine- We love this book anytime, but it is especially good now as we head back to school and return to playing with lots of friends.

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  1. I was just sitting down to write the exact same post! Such an exiting time for everybody!


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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Respectful vs. Sucker

It is so hard to find a good balance between teaching our children to share, respect others, take turns, wait in line and to be a doormat, sucker, wallpaper. Today I watched what I thought was that line crossed so here I am writing. :)

I always try to make sure that I am right there to tell Ari, do not take that toy they are playing with, wait your turn, be patient, share what you have been playing with for a while, etc. I also make sure that she sees me advocate for her though when other children aren't playing by those rules. If she has just started playing with something, that is not a share time, that is the time when the other child needs to learn not to take someone else's toy. When she has been waiting patiently to take a turn on something, I make sure she gets her turn at the right time. I do not allow another child to walk all over her rights as much as I don't let Ari walk on other people's rights.

Today at an indoor play place we like to go to, Ari and I were playing in one area that had a little kids roller coaster type thing and at the end of it, there are soft blocks that you can make a tower to ride through if you so choose. Next to us were two moms chatting away. They each had a boy around 4 or 5 years old and one had a little girl around a year. We will call them Mom A, who has just Little Boy A, and Mom B with Little Boy B and Little Girl B. Little Boy A was trying to build himself a tower to then rise through but it was taking a while because it kept falling over. Ari and I were playing with something else, but she ended up taking an interest in the roller coaster. I was about to tell her she could go after Little Boy A. Mom A stepped in and said, Little Boy A should let Ari have a turn. I wanted to tell her that it was okay he had been working on this tower for a while, etc., but I don't like to contradict a mom trying to teach her child a life lesson like sharing so I went with it. I made sure to tell Ari how nice it was for the boy to have built us a tower, to thank him, and that he was going to have his turn as soon as she was done. We took our turn and kept playing in the area with something else. Little Boy A starts building his tower again. A little boy about one walks into the area unattended and keeps knocking this boys tower over. The little boys mom isn't around to correct it, and Little Boy A's mom isn't doing anything about it either. I wasn't really involved so I wasn't sure what I should do, but I know that if it was Ari working so hard, I would have actively distracted this little child away from the tower so she could build it.

Anyway, the little boy finally distracted himself elsewhere and Little Boy A was starting to make progress on his tower when Little Boy B runs up, sits on the roller coaster thingie, and says it is his turn and that Little Boy A should make him a tower. Little Boy A tries to say it is his turn, but both mother's are ignoring the whole affair and the one sitting down, Little Boy B, wins. He builds the tower and right before Little Boy B starts to go, Little Girl B comes up to her brother wanting a turn and her mom says to Little Boy B, "You can take your turn, but it is her turn next." So... right after Little Boy B, Little Girl B gets to go. My heart was breaking for Little Boy A. He had been trying so hard to make himself a tower to go just once and he was being so very patient and he just kept getting pushed off. I did the only thing an outsider could possibly do, since I'm not his mother, I told him how patient he was being and that it was so nice of him to build the towers for the other children.

In my book, if you are going to interfere with normal child interactions where they need to resolve their own conflicts with might to teach respecting each other, then you also need to interfere in a way that advocates for your child so they learn not only do others need to get respect, but that they deserve to demand respect from others in kind. Otherwise, just step out of it entirely so you don't demolish their self worth.

Kindness and respect are a two way road.

Ari's Language Leap

Ari has been speaking so much lately. The latest bought of not sleeping through the night has been punctuated with her unable to sleep so she cries and I go in to her, I do the normal check the pacifier, check for froggy, rub on the head and leave. When she really can't sleep, she cries again like she has been and now that she is in her big girl bed, I lay down next to her. As I lay there praying we both just fall asleep, Ari chats and chats and chats. I'm not really sure I remember to well what she was talking about, but it was pretty much anything. She was running the gambit. In between bits of conversation she would reach over and kindly pat my head. LOL Sweet but it also kept me from falling asleep. We see these times of bad sleep as her leaping forward in something. In the past it was practicing crawling, pulling up, walking, etc. Now it is sentence forming and understanding and describing concepts and the world around her.

The other day Daddy and Ari were playing with a plastic gardening claw that I had gotten her. It still had the tag attached by a plastic ring. She said, "Take it off." So I responded, "Okay, I'll go get the scissors." Ari said, "Mommy going to get scissors to cut it off." 8 Words! We couldn't believe it. Her longest sentence yet!

People who know Ari also know that since she was little she has been fascinated by letters and numbers and anything to do with them. The other day in the shower, she grabbed one of her shower crayons and wrote an H, an A, and a T. HAT! She has spelled her first word by herself! It was messy, obviously, but it was definitely HAT. I was so excited for her. She's been practicing for so long.

Okay... that is the Ari update for today. Next post is of the parenting style type. :)


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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Adobe Photoshop CS3

Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Full Version - 50 MB Only!

This is the full adobe photoshop cs3 in a 50mb package...

It is not portable!!! It is the full version

To install you simply extract the rar to C:/Program Files/Adobe Photoshop

And then create a shortcut to photoshop.exe inside that folder and put it in your desktop

This version of photoshop has all the features working and in perfect order...

It is amazing and it is what I use for all my editing

It is only 50mb so please download as free user

If your screen just flashes when you run the exe you must right click and press RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR

NOTE: Please DONOT complain if you're using crap antivirus. Some Antivirus detects it as virus since it has been **ULTRA COMPRESSED**. But The file is totally CLEAN. I have shown the working Live Proof in the Screenshot.

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