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Samantha Bee Swears By Parenting Technique That Allows Swearing
Full Frontal host Samantha Bee dropped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where she revealed an interesting parenting technique she developed. She said, "[My kids] don't want chocolate; they don't want anything like that. They don't care for cakes and other things normal children like, but they do like to swear."
Bee has three children, ages 3, 6, and 11. Because children nowadays are inundated with so media, Bee says curse words are something that they are not only familiar with but enjoy using.
So Bee harnessed that appreciation for salty words, saying, "I can get them do anything just by letting them use one piece of salty language in a conversation."
She said instead of using the usual things — like candy, toys, or TV — to bargain with her kids, she uses swear words. She gave an example of allowing them to say one curse word if they did a good job cleaning their rooms. But she does require that they use the words correctly in proper sentences.
Before cutting to a commercial break, Stephen Colbert was able to get Bee to share one of the recent swearing session. Bee said the kids got real excited, and one of them shouted, "B****, you cooked a f****ing s****y dinner!"
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I know I said I wasn't going to start anything new....but surely reducing scraps is completing a process rather than starting afresh? Well that's my theory and I'm sticking to it!
'Quilt as you go' has taken quilting blogland by storm, seen here and here and with a great tutorial here. The concept first appeared in Suzuko Koseki's Patchwork Style, which is a book I've owned for some time but was never brave enough to try but now there's no stopping me....except more scraps!
I cut my batting to 13" square and have trimmed them down to 12 1/2". I've also used a layer of bleached calico on the bottom to keep the fluff out of my machine. And because I had a plethora of shorter strips I've also made some 7"-8" versions that I will trim down to 6 1/2" to piece with the larger blocks. The prccess takes a while but the logic is that you don't have to heavily quilt the finished product - just a few rows of stitching in the ditch to hold the backing onto these blocks. In a night and a day I managed 5 large and 2 small blocks.
It will take quite a few more blocks to create something worthwhile so I'll shelve these....make some more quilts....have more scraps....and make some more Q.A.Y.G's. Simple!

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The retirement of the Archbishop of Canterbury is the right moment to contemplate the future of the Church of England. It is a serious moment. Does the Church have a future? Rowan Williams is a generous-spirited man who has done his best on his bed of nails these past 10 years to hold this great institution together. Surely it is an impossible task.
Riven asunder by so many controversies, how can the Church survive? There is the issue of women bishops. After agreeing to ordain women to the priesthood in 1992, it would be unjust to deny them promotion to the episcopacy. But then, how to make charitable accommodation for those thousands of traditional church people who are not prejudiced against women but who have profound grounds for opposing their consecration?
That problem on its own would be enough to flummox the very communion of saints. Add to it the controversy about gay priests and bishops. Everyone knows that there are many homosexual people among the serving clergy and that they exercise valid and sensitive ministry. Can't we just forget the whole thing then, and accept that the world has "moved on", and that there can be in today's climate no justification for discriminating against gay priests and bishops? But then where does that leave the many conscientious Christians who appeal to the authority of the Bible, which does, in both Old and New Testaments, appear to outlaw homosexual practices?
These topics are the stuff of which poor Rowan's nightmares have been made. He has always been damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. And yet, I suggest, even these churning controversies are not the most dangerous threats to the Church's future. Rather they are the symptoms of a new and much deeper intellectual and cultural crisis. It seems to me that the church cannot perpetuate a fudge. Our leaders have sat on the fence for so long that they are mightily sore. We have to decide whether we are finally going to modernise and accept the whole secular agenda of "diversity", "non-discrimination" and all the new value words of the progressive dispensation, or whether we retain a commitment to traditional doctrines and a hearkening to ancestral voices.
I have been a priest for 40 years and I am now witnessing something I have not seen before. There is no longer in English society that easy juxtaposition of the old and the new: rather there is a strident emphasis on doctrinal purity met by an equally intransigent and aggressive secularism.
The ongoing "debate" between Christians and secularists resembles an attritional slanging match, with not much give and take on either side. It is to Rowan's credit that he conducted his recent public conversation with Richard Dawkins with such courtesy and lack of rancour. But there is an aggressive secularism abroad, and there are powerful voices in public life who wish to see Christianity expelled from the res publica.
The question, therefore, is what can the poor fellow who accepts the throne of Canterbury do about this? Almost certainly, the answer is very little. I am afraid that we are at one of those, thankfully rare, crisis moments in our history. The benign combination of ancient and modern will no longer suffice. The next leader of the Church of England must come down from that most uncomfortable fence and declare whether the institution is to be ruled according to the diversified mods or the old and traditionalist rockers.
Of course, as ever, the issue will be dodged and we shall stumble on. It is the nature of Anglicanism. Compromise, it is called. But really it is the essence of a surly and increasingly bitter stand-off. And that's only in England. Don't get me started about the worldwide Anglican Communion.
The Rev Dr Peter Mullen is assistant priest at St George's, Headstone in Middlesex


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A Web video of Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, surfaced Thursday and called on Muslims throughout the Middle East to wage a jihad against Ethiopian forces occupying Somalia.
"You have to use ambushes and mines, and raids and suicidal attacks until you rend and eat your prey as the lion does with his prey," al-Zawahiri declared.
The statement was part of a five-and-a-half minute video produced by the terrorist group's multimedia arm as-Sahab.
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In the video titled "Set Out and Support Your Brothers in Somalia," and translated by the SITE Institute, Zawahiri is seen in a still image from a previous release, while his voice calls on Muslims everywhere — but specifically those Yemen, the Arab Peninsula, Egypt, North Africa and Sudan — to participate in a holy war against secular government forces in Somalia.
Zawahiri says Mujahideen must provide Somali Muslims with men, experience, money and advice to defeat the Ethiopian forces, which he refers to as the "slaves of America."
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The message is the latest from Al Qaeda on Somalia. A July 2006 audiotape showing Usama bin Laden called upon Islamists to attack the Somali government.
U.S. Intelligence officials have concluded that all previous tapes from top Al Qaeda types have been genuine. The lastest message is another example of Zawahiri's interest and ability to speak on timely issues outside of Iraq, officials said.
Addressing the Somali Muslims directly, Zawahiri refers to the U.S. military's campaign in Somalia between 1992 and 1994, saying that America has been defeated before, and due to terrorist strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq, the American army is relatively weaker.
Zawahiri also directly calls upon the youth of the radical Egyptian Islamic group al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya to participate in the jihad. He states that these members joined the group to obey Allah, and if they are prevented from that duty, "they must crush the sarcophagus where they were embalmed alive."
Further, Zawahiri also claim a Mujahideen victory over America in Afghanistan and Iraq, and urges patience and steadiness.
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No, Comcast Isn't Offering Stand-Alone HBO Go… Yet
Fans of online streaming content were excited this week by reports that HBO's online offering, HBO Go, would finally be unbundled in a new deal from Comcast. But it turns out now that the cable company and internet provider will still require users to pay for an HBO subscription through a set top box.
The "Internet Plus" trial offering reportedly provides HBO without a basic cable package (just a basic broadcast TV package), in addition to digital video-on-demand, and high speed broadband internet. The move is seen more as a marketing campaign to expand the company's broadband.
But it is targeted towards those whose viewing habits are moving away from live TV. The HBO Go, internet, and VOD all cater to viewers who are used to being in control of when and where they watch programming.
HBO has increasingly warmed to the idea of an online-only offering, but has still not wanted to undercut the cable companies that provide the network with hefty fees. Fans have regularly clamored for a way to purchase HBO's original programming a la carte; it's believed that HBO's subscription-only model is a reason that their show Game of Thrones is the most illegally downloaded show on the internet.
HBO did recently make much of its programming, including Game of Thrones, available for a la carte purchasing and downloading through the Google Play store.
What do you think- should HBO Go be available by itself?
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- Sacred Earth, Sacred Trust: This past June, faith communities around the world came together to celebrate our world as sacred, and call on leaders to fight for 1.5°C and protect the lives of millions of people.


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Police have charged the alleged accomplice in a botched carjacking of a retired NYPD detective that left a would-be thief dead in Brooklyn.
Rashawn Thompson,18, was the lookout in the carjacking when his uncle, Manuel Ocampo approached the unsuspecting victim, Derrick Bishop,55, a retired NYPD detective, cops said.
Bishop was working the graveyard security shift outside of a bottling company before the thugs tried to rob him on the corner of Georgia Avenue and Linden Boulevard around 3:15 a.m., Tuesday, according to police.
Ocampo pointed a pistol at Bishop and demanded cash, cops said.
"I looked at him, and I see his hands and see he has a .9mm pointed at my face," a shaken Bishop recalled, speaking to reporters outside his Brooklyn home. "Then he told me he's going to blow my brains out, he would shoot me in the face if I didn't hand him my money."
"I thought I was gonna die in the car at that time," Bishop said, wiping away tears. "I didn't want to die. I wanted to be able to see my kids and my wife."
Bishop was able to pull out his glock and fired four shots striking Ocampo in the chest and neck, cops said.
He was found unconscious and unresponsive with the gun still in his hand, police sources said.
Thompson ran home to his mother and she called police who then took him into custody after linking him to the crime scene.
He later admitted to police he tried to get into the vehicle after Ocampo forced Bishop out of the driver's seat at gunpoint.
Thompson has been charged with first degree robbery, cops said.
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text: Home > Medical > Diabetes > Living with diabetes Updated 17 February 2017 Tips for caregivers of diabetics Sometimes parents find themselves taking care of diabetics – usually type 1 diabetes in the case of young children and often – but not always – type 2 diabetes in the elderly. 0 Most diabetics, with the exception of young children and the elderly, are capable of managing their own care.Sometimes parents and professionals find themselves in the position of having to take care of diabetics - usually type 1 diabetes in the case of young children and often - but not always - type 2 diabetes in the elderly.Inform yourselfIn the fight against diabetes, knowledge really is power, especially on the part of caregivers of diabetics. Knowledge of the condition is crucial, as is the ability to recognise symptoms of hyperglycaemia and the ability to manage the condition as a whole. Regular testing of blood sugar is also essential, especially if you are not sure whether someone is hypoglycaemic (low blood sugar) or hyperglycaemic(high blood sugar). The blood glucose level would also determine medication, level of exercise and diet for the day.Consult the doctorIf you are uncertain about anything, rather consult the doctor than make any decisions yourself that you might regret later. If anything untoward happens, rather err on the side of caution. Schedule regular doctor's visits.Know the symptoms of hyperglycaemiaSymptoms of high blood sugar are reasonably easy to recognise. These include rapid breathing, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, stomach pain and confusion. In emergencies, these could even include becoming comatose. Get the person to a hospital immediately as this could be potentially life-threatening condition.Watch out for diabetic complicationsThis mostly applies to caregivers of elderly diabetics. Signs to look out for are skin infections, abrasions or ulcers, especially on the feet, any signs of bad circulation, such as complaints about pins and needles in the lower legs and feet, complaints about blurred vision, which could point to retinopathy and frequent urination, bladder infections or kidney pain, which signify potential damage to the kidneys.Take time outAs in the case of all caregivers, it is important that caregivers should look after themselves in order to avoid burnout. Time out is important, as is exercise, and a healthy social life. One cannot constantly give without receiving.First AidRead the section on diabetic comas. All caregivers of diabetic patients should be able to recognise the signs of hyperglycaemia and hypoglycaemia. Diabetic comas can be fatal and all caregivers.Read the labelsWhen choosing foodstuffs for diabetics, all caregivers should become hypervigilant with regards to the contents of especially prepackaged foods. 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This took me by surprise at first. It was not what I was expecting - although I am not sure what I was expecting.
Empty space is not something I am unused to... at Filosofiska we have been careful not to just fill the space/rooms up... but to observe and listen to the children to see how we can best meet their needs... which has meant that rooms have slwoly been added to, and dividing walls constructed - one room has been expanded.
There are two rooms that are "empty" in a similar way to what I saw in Iceland - and both these rooms are used for nap/rest time, which is also something I observed in Iceland with the shelves of matresses high up.
Another thing I noticed was the calmness of the children... and I was not alone in this observation... I overheard many others saying the exact same thing.
Is there a connection here?
Could it be that the emptiness of the rooms leave space for the children, their play and their ideas? Does a room filled with things albeit for inspiration, to offer choice etc etc... does all of this fill some of the space - the children's creative space?
Have we got it wrong? Does offering children a myriad of possibilities mean that we are allowing the children to be competent to be creative... or are we spoon feeding them... and therefore not giving them the creative freedom that they are capable of?
When I observe the children at my setting there is never any lack of play in those empty rooms... quite the opposite - those rooms are always filled with play. And also empty rooms also means that children can get to do one of their favourite past times... transporting toys and things from one place to another...
Empty rooms also mean that you can fill them with other things... like light and sound... and movement... which can be hard to do when the room is already full.
I would like to point out that all of these preschools had well stocked storage rooms, where they kept toys and equipment so that it could be rotated... to meet the needs and interests of the children, as well as challenge them.
If everything is always out then maybe they become invisible? Like the information signs put up for parents... every preschool I have every worked at has had that "problem" where parents simply do not see the information notices... and you start using techniques like hanging them from the ceiling so they crash into them, or changing the colour of them all the time... but parents are busy and many don't seem to always take notice of them... maybe in much the same way the children are always busy at play that they don't always notice everything that is out... and therefore it just becomes a kind of "background noise" or "visual filler" - and taking up space that could be used more creatively...
There are some images below...
|this was all the furniture in this room (Aðalþing Playschool)
|empty rooms can be filled with construction materials and with light and sound (Aðalþing Playschool)
|empty spaces... you can see in the top right that a table is being reconstructed for the room, after the Christmas party (Stekkjarás Playschool)
|this was the only shelving in the room...the rest of it was empty. (I need to find the paper, so that I can write the name of the preschool here in the small seaside village we visited... will be back to edit here)
So what do YOU think?
Would you dare to go bare? To allow the children's play to fill your setting rather than things?
What do we really need to support children's learning through play? And what is superfluous?


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Shopping- it is something that drives every woman crazy! There is no better therapy than retail therapy and works every time- whether you are angry, sad, frustrated or in pain. There is just something about stepping into a shop and picking up a new pair of shoes. The smell and sense of security is like something you've never felt before. The way you feel when you try on a brand new dress and it fits perfectly in all the right places, the feeling of going into a store and finding out you're entitled to a special discount, the big, bright boards of sales, the joy of finding that perfect shade of lipstick or nail polish, the fun of carrying so many shopping bags that your hands get tired of lifting and others eyes get tired of staring in envy. Whoever said money can't buy happiness certainly doesn't know where to shop. We love shopping anywhere- let it be at big malls with high-end brands or bargaining at the street for one-of-a-kind deals, there is just a certain thrill about getting our hands on something shiny and new, waiting to be pulled out of its covers and shown off to the world. Usually, we women are never short of places to go shopping, but if you're planning a trip around the world and shopping form a major part of your plan, here are the top destinations which must be included as a part of your itinerary, because they provide unmatched shopping experiences!
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The streets of Bangkok might be a little smelly and unappealing with the stench of raw fish and other meats taking over the air but it has plenty of shops to compensate for holding your nose in the street. There are huge malls with every conceivable brand to wholesale market places. These wholesale stores are a fun place to shop at because if you buy three items or more, you get a third off the price off your bill. And who isn't looking for deals? This applies to nearly everything- shoes, clothes, bags, make-up. In fact, certain jewellery stores offer cabbies free fuel for bringing people to their stores which in turn means free taxi rides for you. So free conveyance and cheap shopping- I must be kidding, right? I'm not, so go check the Thai Airways schedule!
9. Buenos Aires
While doing my research, I was quite shocked to come across a South American city that was topping the charts for a shopping destination everywhere. It might be a third world country but there are women everywhere so that encourages the growth of a retail market in nearly all countries. One great product of this country is their leather. It is cheap and durable. And do you know what that means? Super trendy bags, belts, shoes and boots at a fraction of the price you'll pay anywhere else! You can also haggle to bring the price down further. And if you're brand crazy, fear not, Aguirre Street has all the brands your heart desires. You can make this trip as expensive as you want or as stingy as you like, it all depends on you and your bank balance!
8. Tokyo
Tokyo has well developed infrastructure which includes everything from office buildings, residential apartments to MEGA SIZED shopping malls and department stores. Everyone in Tokyo usually shops at department stores and these stores have evolved over the years to provide quality and personalized shopping experiences with staff that are knowledgeable and well trained in handling customers as well as giving details and advice about the products they offer. Tokyo even has a district which is known as the shopping district and caters to everything that you can imagine and more! Their malls are not restricted to only clothes, shoes and bags but they have large sections on exotic and luxurious food choices like French Pastries to home and bath needs. Their stores are a maze so get ready to find yourself lost!
7. Madrid
Madrid is a beautiful city with cobbled streets, quaint cafes and gorgeous Spanish people. But it is also interesting to note that Madrid ranks third on the Global index for general luxury items. Mango and Zara are Spanish brands so you get their products at half the price that you do anywhere around the world- that is coming from personal experience. Madrid has a street called the Gran Via (which translates into the Big Road) which is a never ending street of shops and cafes. Every brand you can imagine is present of that street. If mall hopping interests you more, you can hit El Corte Ingles or the Salamanca district. And not to forgot, Spanish people still love their small markets so do remember to hit the El Rastro flea market for great deals on authentic Spanish goods.
6. San Francisco
San Francisco is known as the windy city. It is true. While the streets are windy and need you to put on your most fashionable scarves, the shopping will simply knock the wind out of you! Downtown San Francisco has the hugest selection of shops you will set your eyes on. There's everything from H&M to Versace. If junk jewellery is your thing, walk a few streets up to China Town and embrace the Chinese culture and shopping. If you like the sea, go to Fisherman's Wharf which is the ultimate place to relax, eat and shop. You will find the best ice cream over there to compliment your shopping extravaganza. Oh and if you're left-handed, you're in for a special treat as a shop called Lefties which caters to the needs of left-handed people, is found at the Wharf. And that is just one of the many unique shopping experiences you will have there.
5. Dubai
Dubai is a world in itself. It is an ultra-luxe world for the rich and powerful. That, of course, is a necessity with the number of Sheikhs with countless riches living there. Opulence is the norm and that is what every shop in Dubai is filled with. You can buy nearly anything you want within these dunes. Gold is abundant and sold aplenty. There are super high priced Prada's and your teeny-bopper Forever 21. Malls are there in huge numbers. There are also many, many tiny markets selling beautiful local makes of bags and shoes. You could drive down to Abu Dhabi and visit the markets for eye catching goods as seen in Sex and the City 2. Get lost but do not lose yourself within this little piece of paradise.
4. Milan
Milan is the ultimate shopping destination and fashion gazing is a common activity on its streets. So put on your most stylish coat and step into only the choosiest of shops and beware of the ever present gaze of the fashion police. You can visit the Golden Quadrilateral which has every high end brand you desire, eat at the lovely, family-run bakeries and look at what others are wearing and carrying with them. You might want to make sure that you have your full credit card limit available to you or else you will be one very unhappy woman and shopping is supposed to do anything but make you unhappy!
3. London
London may seem unappealing with horrible weather and sort of snooty people but do not let that affect your plans to go shopping there! Londoners are very stylish and you could pick up rather handy tips from them and a wide collection of trendy things for your wardrobe from their shops. Hop onto the Tube and get off at Knightsbridge station to go to the ever famous Harrods. You could go to any of their other streets with beautiful architecture and still find a number of shops to buy baubles and trinkets from. So go on, be a British-er for a bit and spend some quid!
2. Paris
This city of love clearly spells out our love for shopping. The Champs Elysees is easily one of the most famous streets in the world with one of the highest real estate prices. While you walk down this street with horse-chestnut trees on either side, you will find yourself surrounded by a feeling of luxury and class. Saying more about Paris would be an insult to it. You know exactly what I'm talking about- it is the place where every fashion girl wants to be!
1. New York
Every fashion magazine is usually born in New York. It has an entire avenue called Fashion Avenue. The styles of Blair Warldorf and Chuck Bass define the trendy New Yorkers. Macy's, Bloomingdale, Barneys- they're just some of the names that New York has to offer. From high-end brands to luxe boutiques, this place is the ultimate shopper's paradise. Be careful not to empty your entire bank balance in a New York minute!


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I have made it through my first week of Abraxane. I had a horrible few days with bone pain. I saw it listed as one of the side effects but it did not strike me as anything to worry about. Well, that was a miscalculation.
I felt like every joint in my body was being squeezed by a vice. It was amazing. It was hard for me to imagine there would be a "pain" I have never felt before. I'm 58, I've been through every childhood disease, childbirth, biopsies, radiation, C-section, but this was truly unique. I was up all night and eight Advils had no effect. It's actually not gone, but now feels like aching. I can't imagine no breaks from this drug.
I did get a small reprieve for which I am quite grateful. I was not allowed to travel to my daughter's 21st birthday because of my low white blood cell count, but five days later, the count was up, and I got the thumbs up for my annual trip with my girlfriends. We all met when our girls were in preschool together and have never missed a monthly lunch or dinner together since. I love these women and am so blessed to have them in my life. Over the next six months, all of our daughters will be turning 21. We share so many incredible memories.
We are staying in a 3-bedroom timeshare on the ocean, and my girls are pampering the heck out of me. They insisted I take the master bedroom so I can sleep in longer. They are making all my meals. I spend every morning alone on the beach meditating and doing yoga while they do powerhouse workouts in the gym. Then, we meet at the pool, walk on the beach, go to dinner and watch a movie. Tonight is Iron Lady with Meryl Streep. My Oscar vote goes to her.
I keep trying to push forward keeping my life as normal as I can. I had my hair colored the other day knowing that it would be gone in three weeks. It would have been abnormal to have white roots for 3 weeks. Yuck! Anyhow, I haven't decided if I will use my own hair for a wig, but if I do, that wig should be root-free, don't you think?
I have also developed this crazy laryngitis which I need to look up on the Internet. It may be one of the side effects. Life is a lot more restful when you can't talk—but frustrating as well. I'm trying not to let it get to me. My next dose of Abraxane will be the week after you read this. I will keep you posted.
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PETITIONERS concerned about emissions from a radiochemicals factory in Cardiff gained support for their case in the European Parliament during a hearing in Brussels yesterday.
The petition from Community Concern is based upon worries about emissions of ionising radiation from the chemical tritium at the Maynard Centre on the outskirts of Cardiff.
The petitioners claim the Welsh Assembly Minister in March issued a new licence to the factory without a formal environmental impact assessment and without the recommended health study.
The Cardiff petitioners say they have taken their case to Brussels to seek proper enforcement of EU law on radioactive pollution.
Plaid Cymru Euro MP Eurig Wyn helped the campaign lodge the petition and spoke strongly in its support during the hearing.
Mr Wyn said, "I'm very glad the Commission was at least willing to listen to reason and I have called on them to refer the petition to the next meeting of the expert scientific group representing all member states that is shortly to convene.
"I hope through their deliberations that present guidelines on emissions of tritium will be reviewed. I am somewhat surprised at the Assembly Government's decision not to undertake a proper environmental impact study on site."
Petitioner Alan Rosser, who spoke on behalf of Community Concern during the hearing, said, "A health survey from Imperial College London showed increased levels of congenital malformations and female leukaemia within a seven kilometre circle around the plant."
The chairman of the European Parliament's Petitions Committee, Roy Perry, said the committee would convey its preliminary view to the UK authorities that
there should be a full environmental impact assessment and the Commissioner should expedite a study on tritium levels in food.
GE Healthcare, which owns the Maynard Centre, maintains that the plant conforms with UK law.


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340. If Europe did open up, would there be adverse
consequences to the United Kingdom, such as energy supplies diverted
from the United Kingdom for commercial reasons?
(Mr Porter) If you mean fuel sources such as gas,
that is something that needs to be watched. The more liberal the
market is the lower the risk of that. The problems at the moment
are largely the ones that Dr Miller just mentioned, cross-border
trading and access.
341. You mentioned that NETA does not need any
further adjustments, is there a simple mechanism by which future
infrastructure needs could be taken into account?
(Mr Porter) I doubt whether there is a simple mechanism.
There was a mechanism in the previous trading regime, a capacity
mechanism to send a signal about capacity availability. In NETA
that would not be quite as straightforward, but the concern that
some of our members have is that the present market, although
largely working well, does not have something of the kind that
you mentioned to make it obvious to the parties that new capacity
is needed. You might say that most markets do not have such a
mechanism, I would agree with that. There are concerns that in
the electricity market you, perhaps, should not allow gluts and
shortages to occur quite as readily as you might with apples or
pears. Some of the members of the Association are looking quite
hard at that because it takes time to get a new power station
on the ground should one be needed. The question of how long between
the signal that a power station is needed and the time that the
power station is actually operating is a very good question, it
can take many years to go from a concept to a producing plant.
342. Depending on the fuel too. What sort of
range of forward indicator is needed in that sense?
(Dr Taylor) With regard to, if you like, the life
cycle of a project, a rule of thumb that one of our colleagues
who specialises in smaller renewable projects came up with was
from the identification of a windy hilltop to the first generation
of an aero-generator so that you can get money from it, in round
terms five years. Of that probably about one year is the procurement,
construction and commissioning process. That is quite a long cycle
time to get from concept to operation or contribution to the energy
needs of society. Clearly for larger power stations the larger
CCGTs, the big issue, I think, is whether or not you are into
a local public inquiry, and that, again, can add quite significantly
to the front end time.
343. In terms of the market and the commercial
side your answer, basically it is unlikely to be a simple mechanism,
in an ideal world there should be some kind of mechanism?
(Mr Porter) I think we said in the paper we thought
it was worth looking at that and that is still our position.
(Dr Miller) Can I make a comment on that particular
subject? I think we should remember that both NETA and the pooled
trading arrangements give probably, at best, day ahead signals.
They give very little signals in advance of that. That is like
a lot of other commodity markets. Investors in plant however will
forecast the future and my belief is that electricity is no different
from other commodity markets, where people make investments from
signals they get in terms of the whole economy and historic performance.
The one per cent growth we talked about earlierpeople who
built power stations over the last 10 years have not been based
on signals from the market but based on their forecasts. The successful
generating companies have continued to make those irrespective
of other signals.
344. You may be more optimistic that the market
can cope?
(Dr Miller) History has said that the market has done
extremely well over the last 10 or 11 years and we see no reason
why it should change going forward. People have not made investment
decisions based on the pool capacity mechanism. They are based
on what they expected the market price to be and the growth of
demand in the country.
345. Can I take you on further to the planning
issue, in your memo to us you raised a number of issues, the implication
of what you are saying is renewable projects have encountered
particular difficulties and you would like to see some enhancement
and inside planning systems for renewable projects to be approved
more quickly or readily. Can you illustrate what sort of things
you think that might have been and why focus on renewables?
(Mr Porter) Starting with the end of your question,
the reason we focussed on renewables was that in that area we
actually did do a study a few years ago and we found that in the
list of obstacles the problem of planning consent came very, very
high. Some of the planning applications have been well known,
well publicised and subject to a great deal of controversy. As
for what might be done, we wonder whether possibly targets might
be considered regionally to give a steer to county councils through
their own land use planning as to how renewables might be treated
and also whether we simply acknowledge that the building of renewable
projects is sometimes controversial and that if the government
is intent on meeting its target for renewables there will be more
of them and, therefore, more controversy, and whether it might
be appropriate for, perhaps, county councils in the development
planning process to be required to put forward a separate plan
for either renewable energy or for energy generally. They do this
for minerals, for example, which can be really controversial,
people do not always take readily to the idea of having a quarry
or a gravel pit, or whatever, near them and some people react
similarly in the case of power stations.
346. Do you think the parallel with minerals
is really an accurate one? With renewable projects there is some
degree of discretion, some choice, should that not be made through
the planning process rather than overriding the planning process?
(Mr Porter) We are not suggesting that it should be
anything other than the democratic process. I have personal experience
of representing minerals' interests in the distant past and I
found some really quite interesting parallels between that and
347. One more, if I may, it does seem to me
that trying to use the structure plan process to pre-empt the
question of whether these projects are going to come forward seems
to me, on the face of it, quite difficult, at the moment. Would
it not be better to respond to projects as they emerge rather
than to try and predict them in advance, structure plans, with
a relatively few exceptions, and try and predict where housing
developments are going to occur and how predictions could be made
about where renewable projects might be. Why use that end of the
process? Why not look at the questions of the legislative framework,
the guidance which is given to planning authorities and how they
address renewable energy policies?
(Mr Porter) Planning guidance plays a part, and it
should. In the dim and distant past I also spent many years working
on the structure plans. I think drawing on that experience it
is true that structure plans do not define precisely where housing
will go. In fact in the office where I worked we had to be extremely
careful not to identify particular areas of land for commercial
reasons. Indeed, when you take this to its logical conclusion
if you were to identify particular areas of land for renewables
it is rather likely that that may have an effect on the price.
It is not simple, but we come back in the end to the difficulty
that the renewables industry has faced, and if the government
is serious about its renewables targets somehow the planning issue
has to be addressed.
348. I take on board the point you make about
the difficulties associated with securing local consent, I understand
in most planning applications 85 per cent go through but with
renewables 85 per cent are rejected. You have mentioned in your
evidence consideration might also be given to steps which enable
local communities to secure direct benefits from energy projects.
Can you outline what you mean by that? Is it the Danish system
you were thinking about?
(Mr Porter) Yes, it was.
349. What are the changes you think are really
needed to the network to ensure more embedded generation projects
are able to come on stream effectively?
(Mr Porter) Can I answer that by, first of all, explaining
how the network is arranged today, it is arranged on the basis
of central production supplying a grid, then distribution down
the lower voltages to homes and businesses. The distribution systems
were not designed, either technically nor in a commercial sense,
to accept large amounts of generation connected to them - they
were the points of the system where the power was actually supplied.
There are one or two things that do need to change. One is the
distribution businesses need somehow to be incentivised to make
the production connected to their systems economically worthwhile
to them, technically they may have to alter some parts of the
physical system. Picking up on what you have asked, Mr Burden,
and what Mrs Lawrence asked earlier this morning, there is also
the issue of how much the perspective generator has to pay to
connect to the system. This can be a huge burden, in fact it can
stop projects in their tracks. At the moment they are likely to
pay under what is known as deep connection, that means that they
pay not only for the obvious cost of connecting where they are
but for the knock-on effects of connecting, which can be quite
considerable and may not be immediately obvious. They pay the
whole bill. This is under review at the moment and the Association
is fully involved in it. Those conducting the review are looking
at the possibility of changing that process to one which is called
shallow connection, where the producer would pay a much smaller
up-front cost and then a charge for using the system and being
connected to it is spread over a longer period of time. That,
on the face of it, looks more attractive but, of course, it does
not deal with the history that we have, it does not deal with
the issue that a neighbouring plant may well have to pay on a
deep charge basis. As many of these things are it is never quite
as straightforward as it sounds. Dr Taylor has been quite involved
in this and he may want to add something.
(Dr Taylor) I would just like to applaud Ofgem, they
are in the midst of consultation exactly to do with this issue
as we speak and they are doing it as a result of the DTI/Ofgem
Working Group that the Minister referred to earlier and report
from that working group. They are doing it ahead of the next price
review round for distribution companies, which is late 2005, which
we think is another good thing, because it means that gives us
an opportunity to make progress on this issue ahead of 2005 and,
therefore, get within a shout of achieving the government's targets
for a new generation. There are issues of a more detailed nature,
some of which David has just alluded to, but the principle is
350. You have alluded to some changes that NETA
would need to set up to allow those things to happen?
(Dr Taylor) It is not quite NETA, it is the connection
and use of systems rather than the trading costs per se,
it related to the totality.
351. Do you think there would need to be any
work or changes, or do these need to be changes on NETA to meet
the objectives of encouraging more renewables and greater take-up
of CHP?
(Mr Porter) There needs to be change of some kind
in order to overcome the difficulties that especially small intermittent
plants face in the trading environment. I do not think our membership
at large would be very pleased to see the NETA trading arrangements
in the round changed radically. They would be keen to see a bit
of stabilisation because they put such an enormous amount of money
into this and a great deal of effort into making NETA work, something
which the industry does not get a lot of credit for, but I think
it really should. On the other hand, they do not want radical
change so early in the lifetime of NETA but they do recognise
that there is an acute difficulty for certain smaller players.
One of your members this morning asked the Minister, I think,
why was this not recognised earlier. It jolly well ought to have
been recognised earlier because this Association and the Combined
Heat and Power Association and others like us were raising this
question years ago when the shape of NETA was described to us.
We knew that there would be difficulties for small players. We
told every Energy Minister that that was the case, we told Ofgem
as well and because the process was so hell bent on getting NETA
into place and keeping the lights on, the problems that we have
described were swept aside as something that could be dealt with
later. They were absolutely obvious to virtually everyone involved
in the generating industry.
352. Now we are at NETA it would have been good
if some of the problems had been recognised or addressed earlier,
but that is now passed and we are now where we are. Are you in
a position where you want to see some changes in order to address
those problems but also you do not want to get involved in radical
change? What I am having difficulty with is what the changes are
that you do want to see that would be effective and that would
not be radical?
(Mr Porter) We have not been specific about that.
Just off the cuff, one is the issue for CHP about the Climate
Change Levy, that might be helpful. There is a consultation paper
out on this from the Department of Trade and Industry and we have
not responded yet. I think it is fair to say that these are quite
difficult issues. It is quite unfortunate that they are having
to be picked up now and they were not dealt with much earlier.
353. One last question, the renewable issue,
you say in your paper that you are in favour in principle of the
renewables obligation, could you, perhaps, just say a little bit
more about the concerns you have about the way you think that
it will work?
(Mr Porter) The Obligation?
354. Yes.
(Mr Porter) It is actually something that we put forward
ourselves a long time ago when we could see that the Non-Fossil
Fuel Obligation was a bit time limited and we felt that the renewables
industry had done an amazingly successful job in turning itself
into a purposeful, business-like industry. We also felt that the
time had come when it was not quite so appropriate for the government
to be picking technologies which were going to be winners. That
may have been useful in the early days of NFFO but we believe
that with the market maturing it was better to go for a percentage
obligation, which would not distinguish quite so clearly between
different technologies. We also felt that the way to get the projects
on the ground was to allow that obligation to operate with full
market force. In other words, the obligation would be put on the
supply companies and it would be up to the renewable industry
to deliver what those companies needed. The government has intervened
in that somewhat by actually, in effect, capping the price that
the supply companies have to pay. That is not necessarily a very
good way of getting renewables on to the ground quickly. We felt
when we put this forward that there should not be a price cap.
If there was a shortage of renewable energy the price should reflect
that. As new plant was built it would fall again. That was not
something that the Department of Trade and Industry seemed to
be able to live with.
355. Thank you very much, that has been very
helpful. Perhaps when you have your response to the consultation
document out in the next couple of weeks you would send us a copy
of it.
(Mr Porter) We would be pleased to, Chairman. Thank
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What have Ford Retail, Maersk and Boden all got in common? (Clue: it's got nothing to do with cars, shipping or clothes).
You might have seen that Ford Retail UK has just launched a range of nail varnishes based on the colours of their latest Ford Fiesta.
The colours themselves, which include Hot Magenta and Candy Blue, might not be to your taste, but if you work in social media, you're probably already wondering why you didn't think of the idea first.
On the other hand, if you don't work in social media, chances are you're screwing up your eyes and mumbling: "why in heavenly tarnations would Ford Retail do such a thing?" And that's before you've even seen the colours.
I imagine quite a few of Ford Retail's senior executives have also questioned exactly how green nail-varnish is supposed to convince people to buy a new car.
The answer, of course, is: it isn't.
These limited-edition products have been shared with make-up and fashion bloggers who are, as I write, busily trying them out and blogging about them.
Ford Retail is creating a happening and, in the meantime, making a whole new set of younger, more female, more colourful friends. The big challenge will be how they sustain and nurture these friendships for months and years to come.
But the fact remains: what makes sense in social media doesn't necessarily make sense to everyone. A recent Econsultancy report found that only 30% of companies are fully committed to relationship marketing, or, put another way, 70% of companies aren't fully committed to developing better relationships with their customers.
Q: What are marketeers doing when they aren't relationship marketing?
A: Selling.
Old-school mentalities are hard to shift
When Maersk emerged in 2012 as a surprise social media pin-up, pretty much everyone asked: "What's a shipping line doing social media for?" It's hard to imagine that people who ship products around the world might also spend time engaging on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
And yet, of course, they do. Their friends, husbands and wives do too. Practically everyone does, to a lesser or greater extent.
So when Maersk was asked directly why they've invested in social media engagement, their answer, produced in this epic-sound-tracked video, was unequivocal: "So we can truly get closer to our customers".
It's pretty astonishing really. Here you have a B2B brand using social media for relationship marketing, while many consumer brands – whose customers are most certainly on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – haven't yet figured out where their next customer is coming from.
Yet there are lots of great examples of B2C companies leading the way. I hosted a webinar last week on Social Media Engagement for Retail. Alongside Celia Pronto, Marketing and E-Commerce Director for Ford Retail, we had Leo Tennant, who runs the social media team at online clothing store Boden.
Leo is part of a team of three Community Managers who spend their time engaging with Boden's fans and followers. This is no mean task - the brand has over 160,000 fans on Facebook, 23,000 followers on Twitter and 26,000 on Pinterest - with a high degree of daily engagement.
It's a time-intensive operation, yet when I asked Leo about the ROI Boden receives from his team's relationship-building activities his response was very nearly incredulous: "The value to the brand is immense".
While his team talks to everyone, there is a hard-core of 150 fans – known as the Boden Lovelies – who are especially close to the brand. Leo's team knows them by name and relies on them for support across the social web.
They are customers, supporters, friends and advocates, rolled into one, the embodiment of the value that relationship marketing generates.
So, going back to my earlier point, why did Ford Retail come to the conclusion that it needed to engage more online?
Well, apparently, in recent years the number of pre-purchase visits to car showrooms that customers make has dropped from an average of eight visits to just one. In other words, for car show-rooms, the customer's mind is almost always made up before they walk in the door.
That's a pretty shocking behavioural shift, so I asked Celia if she felt it was partly down to social media. Her reply was unerring: "we believe it's almost completely down to social media". If this is right, our daily use of social networks has reduced the pre-purchase interaction we have with car retailers by a whopping 90%.
This obviously makes Ford Retail's willingness to venture into nail varnish much easier to understand. It also offers an insight into why Maersk wants to be the dominant shipping company in social media and why Boden sees social engagement as a profitable investment.
But questions remain: who are these companies that aren't taking relationship marketing seriously? What are they thinking? And, is yours one of them?
You can join Luke for a discussion on 'Social Media Engagement: Customer Service or Relationship Marketing?' at Social Media Marketing 2013 (London) on 24th Oct.
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Relationship building is the keystone for any successful business - whether it's marketing, consulting, selling cars, etc. Ive been a coach for many years and what I have found is that my clients use Social Media to share things, to discus things, and to engage. Because I want to connect with them at many levels, I had to engage in Social Media too. It not only keeps me connected with them, it has increased my reach considerably. Old dog, new tricks, situation - and I'm grateful for it.


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Placements at IFIM
Placement Chairperson's Message
I would like to describe our students in one word " Brav"(German), an adjective used to commend children, encompassing qualities including being pleasant, earnest and well-behaved. They are equipped with knowledge, skill and attitude. Have aspirations to excel. They are groomed to be Ganbaru (Japanese) - to do one's best.
They are aware of Jaksaa (Finnish) or Orka (Swedish) - the importance of being energized with Kefi (Greek) - a spirit of joy, passion, enthusiasm & high spirits. They would follow processes. However, would be using Jugaad (Hindi) or Arrangiarsi (Italian) - the ability to "make do" or "get by", when the established processes are less matured; they will be Kombinować (Polish) - working out an unusual solution to a complicated problem, and acquiring coveted skills or qualities in the process. Displaying Að jenna (Icelandic) or Sitzfleish (German) - the ability or willingness to persevere through tasks that are hard or even just boring.
They possess Saper vivere (Italian) - the ability to handle people and situations with charm, diplomacy and verve. You will ultimately find our students as Majime (Japanese) - someone who is reliable, responsible and able to get things done without causing problems for others. This we state from our alumni's legacy in corporate world in last two plus decades.
Prof M h Sharieff
Chair - Placements, IFIM
"I see IFIM as one of those educational institutes that thrives towards excellence by investing a lot of time and resources into developing 'industry ready' leaders. The key differentiating factor of IFIM's success is its focus to nurture students on 'Employability of Skills'."
AVP, India Delivery at Xerox
"In our journey of transitioning into a Small Finance Bank, we were looking for management trainees who are grounded, dedicated and ready to take up any kind of challenges. Looking forward to have a long engagement with IFIM and their students."
Senior Manager -Human Capital – Janalakshmi Financial Services
"I had a good session with the B School students during the mock interview sessions. The students showed a lot of interest to understand what is expected from the corporate world. There were definitely a few sparks who could be developed as good future leaders. So it's important that they listen and take guidance of their Seniors and Faculty to move ahead in their career."
Talent Acquisition, 3 M India Limited
"We have visited IFIM and were quite pleased with the entire process. The process was flawless and the quality of the students made our task very difficult. They were able to display theoretical concepts coupled with a practical know- how of the industry. Kudos to IFIM !"
Manager - Human Resources, Cavinkare Pvt LTD.
"I would say IFIM is a treasure of talented candidates. We have recruited IFIM students for Byju's GRE and GMAT marketing and sales departments. Being a company that is into innovation and creativity we found that IFIM students are quick learners and adapt to all challenges. I would definitely recommend IFIM students to other recruiters too."
Manager, Byju's Classes
"We at Actuant always endeavor to hire the agile talent to support our growth strategy and meet our global requirements. This year we hired IFIM student and found the quality of talent is far superior. I am proud to say that IFIM Business School provides holistic education which helps the students to hone all necessary professional skills which they can apply with ease in the professional organization. I wish all the best to IFIM Management for their continuous effort in building the successful talent for the nation."
Director - Human Resources, Actuant Corporation
"With my recent interactions and recruitment activities I learned that IFIM is one of the best B Schools in the region. The focus of the institution to prepare the students to meet the industry expectation is commendable. The curricular and extracurricular activities scheduled in the institution would definitely help the students to improve the quality and meet the expected standards. My good wishes for the future batches."
Senior Manager - Human Resources, Mphasis Ltd.
"IFIM is doing a great job as far as readying the students for the industry is concerned. The interactions with industry experts (in the form of mentoring sessions, among others) is doing a lot of good I feel. This is very clearly demonstrated by the students during the Group Discussions and Personal Interviews. Other than that, conceptual clarity is an added bonus."
Assistant Manager-Human Resources, Orient Cements
"IFIM is creating a new generation of PGDM students. HOLISTIC education at its best! I am happy to associate and wish to visit and hire fresh talents in future as well."
Head - Campus Branding and University Relations, Practo Technologies
"Been associated with IFIM for a couple of years now, informally in the capacity of Corporate-Academia Relationship Executive.The hospitality extended by the institution has been exceptional. Catapulting careers of the students hired from IFIM, is indicative of the quality of students that are graduating from this intuition. This definitively is proportional to the expertise & scholarliness of the faculty that are nurturing these pupil!."
Manager - Talent Acquisition, Hinduja Global Solutions
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Companies are invited to the campus and to select students, either for the IIP or for Final Placements, or both, at a mutually convenient day/time. Once students get an offer for an Internship from an organisation, they cannot try for the same with other organisations, either through the Placement Cell or on their own. If they receive an offer for Final Placement, they cannot continue to be part of the placement process. Once they get an offer, a decision must be taken by the student and formally communicated to the Placement Cell, who will then inform the companies accordingly.
- Introduction
- Pre-Placement Talk
- Expression of Interest Form (to be filled up by the student, after the PPT)
- Written Test (if any), Group Discussion, Personal Interview
- Final Offer
The Placement Cell coordinates the entire process on campus and provides all the facilities required by the companies for the pre-placement and recruitment procedure. IFIM ensures a friendly placement process and support. It gives the students an opportunity to select a career in their chosen area of interest and the recruiters a chance to choose the right candidate as per their requirements.
For more details, Contact
Ms. Surekha Shetty
Director – Student Services
Ms. Kala Sridhar
AVP – Corporate Relations
Corporate Mentoring
IFIM Business School is one of the first Business Schools in the country to ensure every student goes through the process of Corporate Mentoring. This includes various supportive stages like purposing, training and skilling. This ensures students, from the beginning of the program, have a vision of their desired career path and have an industry mentor to help them grow and understand the necessities to succeed in their chosen industry and specialization. Empowered students can enable business by aspiring to be successful professionals, future CEO's or entrepreneurs. The Academic intervention will help them develop their subject knowledge but the Mentoring process will help them understand the Real world and its requirements while studying at the institute. The entire process begins with students attending the workshop on building a purpose map, which is converted into an 'I will....' statement in the Foundation term.
Individual Corporate Mentors from the industry have one-on-one sessions with the students and help them build their SOPs (Statement of Purpose). After understanding and guiding them in choosing their career options, the mentors help students identify the gap between their aspirations & the reality.
"The best part was the students in my group understood the concept and the expectation of this exercise and were very interactive and being the first group the main objective was to drive the passion into whatever they wanted to do and get the confidence in them for making the right choice of their career path. I am very confident that most of them will get placed to choice of industry."
Mr. Kochat Narendran
General Manager - South India, Yusen Logistics
"It is a fabulous initiative by IFIM going beyond education to caring by connecting students to industry and, helping them get an insight and guidance before they make their choices in their career. It is about making them believe in themselves and provide a framework on how to achieve their objectives and realize their dreams !!!"
Mr. Avneet Gupta
Associate Director – FSS, South ESU, IBM India
"IFIM's Corporate mentorship is one of its kind and is adorable. It is a wonderful platform where students can leverage immense experience of corporate leaders that guide them in identifying strengths & traits which will help in realizing their career aspirations/goals. Through this unique program, budding talent will be nurtured to make them industry ready.
Being a mentor, it was a rewarding experience for me to see talent transformation in action and also learn from them. Kudos to IFIM for organizing this and helping the future leaders realize their dreams."
Mr. Naveen Samala
Program Manager, GE India Exports Pvt. Ltd
"The mentorship program at IFIM provides an immense opportunity to the student to leverage the expertise of the industry experts thereby equipping them with the skills and knowledge before they are out in industry, a robust methodology to get yourself running on day one. This is a wonderful and enriching program to work and I am amazed that the institute put so much thought process in developing and nurturing their student. As a mentor it helped me learn how to interact with other people that may have trouble learning, or have different ways of learning subjects that differ from my own. I loved that every interaction with my mentee and with the mentoring staff who is always positive and supportive. Being able to tutor and mentor my students in helping them achieve what they aspire is a wonderful feeling. I hope I had this kind of opportunity when I was a student myself."
Mr. Dibyendu Sharma Mondal
Senior Program Manager, Unisys
"Mentoring is a very unique methodology of getting industry interactions with the students and I found this exercise very interesting. The students I worked with had interesting questions and I also had a few learning opportunities through this program. Wish IFIM continues to do this with the same rigour and purpose"
Mr. Chandramouli Srinivasan
COO,Feedback Business Consulting Services
"One of the key objectives of IFIM's mentorship program is to have a strong and robust collaboration between the educational Institutions & industry and such involvement helps in bringing external perspective to the students and thus builds the overall personality of the student. This is an excellent initiative by the institute; which directly contributes in preparing the students for the real corporate world and they stand better chance of acquiring a better opportunity during campus selection process.By having real life case studies and discussions, these sessions help students in terms of understanding the practical implementation of knowledge, to know more on the real time developments in the industry and I am sure this program alone gives a great competitive edge over the other similar institutes. It was a great learning experience for me; to be associated with the young students; having meaningful discussions, learning their point of view and more importantly understand how new generation workforce thinks. I always feel fortunate to be associated with this program and contribute in whatever way I can. And I must admit; this program really made me a better person."
Mr. Santosh Kotnis
CEO,Futurism Technologies
"As a mentor, I got immense personal satisfaction through sharing my experience, and providing inputs on how these management students could exploit their strengths, and make themselves extremely desirable in the marketplace. And it was fantastic to watch these students transform and mature into ready-to-take-on-the-world executives in less than a year.
Mr. Naresh Sadasivan
Founder & CEO at Zeyga
Benefits of Corporate Mentoring to students are –
- Mentors align the student's career path with their choice of specialization.
- Assist in identifying weaknesses and strengths of the student vis-à-vis the career choice.
- Mentors help in finalizing the student's career path, specializations, choice of industry projects, readings and certifications.
- All mentors have fifteen plus years of Corporate /Professional experience with a 360 degree exposure in cross functional activities during his/her tenure.
At the skilling stage, students can opt for Workshop/Certificate Courses run by professional trainers in the fields of:
- Sales Training.
- Negotiation Skills.
- Accounting.
- Analytics.
- Banking.
- Financial Trading.
- Report Writing .
Mock GDPI - Addressing the challenges faced by educational institutes in terms of job - readiness for the management students, IFIM has embarked on this initiative of conducting mock round of GD & PIs. We collaborate with the corporate and make this a continuous process prior to the final placement season. These exercises help the students in preparing and scaling up their interview skill sets & strengthens our relationship with the corporate. Functional heads join us as panel members & students get an opportunity to be gauged and hand - picked by them for final placement opportunities.
Modus Operandi – The entire batch is divided into 2 groups, Finance specialization as one group & General Management as the second. The exercise is repeated every alternate week end for each group and 4 such rounds are conducted. Functional heads from list of newer & known brands are invited to conduct the group discussion & personal interview. We have partnered with AMCAT to conduct tests and brush up their aptitude skills. Every weekend, four industry experts anchor the sessions and give them valuable inputs and share their views on the corrective measures. After every GDPI, faculties devote time with the students in the corrective actions and prepare them to be industry ready.
In the training stage, students are made industry-ready and prepared for job interviews to face HR's and recruiters through:
- Resume building
- Near real life Aptitude, GD and Personal Interviews
- In-depth interviews by HR executives from the corporate sector
- Feedback from these interviews is provided to make corrections
Industry Internship Program
Unlike other business schools, that follow the conventional 6- 8 weeks summer internship program, IFIM has a unique internship model which spans over 4.5 months.
The IIP is completely integrated into the curriculum of the program and carries around 20 credits. The students become eligible for the IIP only after successful completion of all other courses, amounting to 90 credits. Thus for the recruiting company these students have already completed all coursework that is expected from a graduating student. The entire 5th term is devoted to the IIP, after students complete 4 terms on campus.
Unlike other business schools, that follow the conventional 6- 8 weeks summer internship program, IFIM has a unique internship model which spans over 4.5 months.
The IIP is completely integrated into the curriculum of the program and carries around 20 credits. The students become eligible for the IIP only after successful completion of all other courses, amounting to 90 credits. Thus for the recruiting company these students have already completed all coursework that is expected from a graduating student. The entire 5th term is devoted to the IIP, after students complete 4 terms on campus.
- Provide a transitioning bridge between theory and practice for the students.
- Enable a 'laboratory experience' for the students to experiment and 'learn by doing', in a real work environment.
- Ensure greater access to the faculty who offer student mentorship & evaluation to make them industry-ready during the internship.
- Create a longer connect between the faculty and the industry, for assessing the outcomes delivered during the program and to fine tune it to meet industry requirements.
- Help forge strong relationships with the corporate for the institute.
- Enhance the 'currency of knowledge' through faculty engagement with the corporate.
Since its inception, the IIP has benefited all 3 stakeholders- the PGDM interns, the companies and the institute.
Here are some of the gains from the program:
- Most of the internships culminate with full time job offers. Owing to students' primary choice of company and interested area,The final rate of conversion of IIP to final placements remains at about 46%. (This is because for many of the students, their first choice of company and area was not their IIP company).
- 65 companies have partnered with IFIM so far, from diverse sectors. The list is growing in both size and stature.
- The IIP has enabled seamless transition of students to industry-ready productive employees.
- Students have given positive feedback on the benefits of IIP and their learning experience.
- Contribution of the students has been acknowledged by the companies.
- IIP companies have facilitated faculty in getting consulting projects and training programs. It has also helped faculty to develop case studies and research projects.
- Some of the IIP partners have been 'start-up companies' that have been incubated in the IFIM Campus and have recruited the students.
- The IIP initiative also won an award for 'Industry-Institute Engagement' at the Indian Management Conclave (IMC) 2013, organised by MBA Universe.
Industry Internships for 2015-17 Batch
"IFIM has made me gain knowledge & various skills through many programs and events.These were the main reasons because of which I was successfully placed at CavinKare. I have been benefited greatly from the education received from professors who have extensive professional and academic experience. Above all, in one word I can say " THE BEST TRANSFORMATION IN ME."
Shishir S Moodbidri
Intern at the Cavinkare
"I would like to thank faculty members who guided me throughout my journey at IFIM Business School. The rigorous education and innovative teaching methods helped me to be industry – ready. Due to the mentoring sessions and Personality Enhancement Program, it was possible for me to get best final placement at "Janalakshmi financial services."
Vidya D. V
Intern at the Janalakshmi financial services
"These two years in IFIM have been really amazing. The entire journey has really been nice with the best facilitators, mentors and friends from 23 states of India. Will cherish it forever. IFIM has given me the quality education, which is not only about gaining knowledge from books and library, it is also about getting the practical exposure in various aspects. The personality enhancement program (PEP) and the PGDM Finance curriculum have helped me to build confidence and has enabled me to reach my full potential to become competitive from within. I would say the curriculum that has been designed, is one of the best in the country. And finally, I had a dream to kick start my career in a good multinational company. It would not have been possible without the support which I got from the IFIM family. Thank you IFIM for helping me to become an industry ready student."
Aritra Ghosh
Intern at the CGI
"Transformation at IFIM' the institute's motto as it has always been, the two years at IFIM was all about transformation. The PGDM program is as much about unlearning as learning. The program compels you to think beyond the classroom context. The institute has well accomplished faculty base and provides world class facilities. The curriculum, though rigorous and challenging has brought out the best in me to be successfully placed at Deloitte."
Sameerchandra Mallya
Intern at the Deloitte
"First of all my thanks to all professors who have helped me in getting a great company - ANZ Bank. You guys gave me an opportunity to target for an outstanding company. Because of CCE department, I was able to grab the opportunity and yes I can definitely say I did capitalize. I also like to thank faculty for constantly motivating me, clearing all doubts."
Kushagra Ranjan
Intern at the ANZ Bank
"IFIM was a great experience. Even though the institution is in its growth towards excellence, it still gave many opportunities to learn, unlearn relearn in order to remain competitive and updated in the industry. As the saying goes- 'The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war', it applies cent percent for the rigor that students face at IFIM. The strongest pillar of this institution are its faculty. They always supported us, though they made some of our days tough as well by bombarding us with assignments and deadlines just so that we may learn, and yes I would say that it worked. The PEP department needs a special mention - now when I am working in the industry and especially in the HR function I would like to make a mention that, it does give us an edge over others, so much so we have been admired and appreciated for our punctuality and our grooming by our organizational heads."
Ritesh Joseph
Intern at the Kuoni Travels
Centre for Continuous Employability
The centre was established to fulfil the mission of ensuring lifelong employability for the students of IFIM B School by aligning the learning outcomes of academic programs in IFIM Business School to the Industry needs. We believe that Continuous Employability requires an individual to consistently augment one's inherent abilities to remain in demand. Thus, we help all current and past students in skilling, up skilling and re skilling themselves.
- Placements for existing students & alumni
- Industry Internship Program for existing students
- Developing and delivering corporate programs
- Alumni relations & assistance
CCE also conducts many short duration certification programs in the various areas of management. For most of these programs we have partnered with leading corporate and certifying bodies.
The exhaustive list of the certification programs is presented below:
- Sales Management
- Negotiation Skills
- Personality Enhancement Program
- Collaborative Working
- IFIM IBM Program on Data Analytics
- National Stock Exchange (NSE) CCMP in partnership with Prabhudas Leeladhar
- Certified Management Accounting
- Financial Risk Management
- Dalal Street Investment Journal (DSIJ) Stock Market Course
We also offer customised services for our corporate clients. A few services are listed below:
- Employee induction program for freshly recruited employees
- Short/ medium term programs specially designed to address specific knowledge and skill related areas of clients
- Programs designed for helping employees achieve certification
- Data Analytics, Brand Management and Marketing, Shopper Marketing, Equities, Derivatives and financial markets, Change Management, Quality systems, Supply Chain Management
We believe that any student who takes admission at IFIM enters into a lifelong relationship with us. We value and nurture this relationship. The twin objectives of the Alumni Relations Cell is to maintain good relations with our alumni and assist them in their future endeavours.
The key activities of this cell are:
- Maintain the alumni database and update it continuously
- Interact with the alumni on a regular basis
- Help the alumni in job search and career guidance
- Organise alumni event
Ms. Surekha Shetty
Director – Student Services
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Mob: +91-9900067706
Ms. Kala Sridhar
Manager – Corporate Relations
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My favorite quote from Maya Angelou is: "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Maya Angelou offered us a portal to see our lives in the form of real-time poetry. She gave birth to breaking through the cage and having the courage to talk about it. She reminds us that every day is a good day, because we never know what truths will emerge when faced with challenges.
Maya Angelou is more than an icon, a woman, an author, a poet, or the holder of a Doctorate. Maya Angelou was, and is, a soul of great capacity to forge forward and fly high towards where the ultimate source of her love reigned -- to God. Maya, whose name in Hindi means illusion, was anything but. She was a living example of truth. And she dedicated her life to share that truth with others, through her words, actions and vision for a better world.
Maya, we thank you. Your part was a beautiful embodiment of the light of God. Your presence will be missed.