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Available in print with CD-ROM or CD-ROM only.

This edition represents an update and expansion of the Business-Focused Quality Assurance Review Manual, Third Edition, published in 1996. The original manual was published in 1984. It continues to be the principal guidance and set of practical tools to assess conformity to the Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing, and to reveal opportunities for enhancing the effectiveness and value of internal audit activities.

This edition has been updated to respond to issuance ofThe IIA's Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing, the related changes in the internal audit profession, and the increasingly demanding business environments in which the profession operates.

This product is divided into chapters based on the principal elementsof the quality program required by the Standards for the ProfessionalPractice of Internal Auditing, with a continued strong emphasis onexternal assessments.

Chapter 1 gives the rationale for a new edition, based primarily on the Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing and the recent evolution of internal auditing. That evolution of internal auditing includes its increasing focus on business risk, closer alignment of its activities with management strategies and accountabilities, and its strong emphasis on assisting management through advisory and consulting services, while continuing to provide traditional assurance services.

Chapter 2 outlines the external quality assessment, which should be the capstone of any activity's quality program.

Chapter 3 represents a new concept designed to expand the external assessment process to a wider range of internal audit activities and provide an alternative means of complying with Standard 1312. This alternative would require a rigorous and documented quality assessment, similar to that outlined in Chapter 2, but not as extensive, and performed on a self-assessment basis under the direction of the CAE. This self-assessment would then be validated by an independent evaluator, with qualifications similar to those of an external quality-assessment team. In addition, it is recommended that the evaluator obtain a certificate indicating proficiency in external assessment.

Chapter 4 sets forth the elements of an internal audit activity's internal quality assessment process, such as evaluation of conformity to the Standards, compliance with the charter, mission statement, objectives and policy manual, supervision, staff development, and other steps to assess the activitiy's effectiveness and promote continuous development.

Chapter 5 provides an overview of various special projects/services designed to implement or improve specific internal audit processes. Some examples of these are laying the foundation for an effective internal audit function, implementation or enhancement of a risk assessment and planning model, improving relationships with the internal audit activity's stakeholders and the value of its services to them, defining the role of the audit committee, and detection and prevention of fraud.

Chapter 6 is an overview of the program segments for quality assessment and other tools, with brief guidance for their use in external and internal assessments, as well as in self assessments (Chapter 3) and special process-improvement projects (Chapter 5). Chapter 6 also serves as an overall index and control document for applying the program segments and tools.

Supplementing the six chapters are four Annexes and an Appendix containing practical guidance, model documents, and the various assessment tools described and referenced in the six chapters. ... Read more

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Born the son of a nobleman, Ben Hur is condemned to the galleys for accidentally harming a Roman procurator. He escapes prison and gains revenge and glory before the cheering multitudes in the chariot races at the Roman Circus. A classic historical saga. 16 cassettes. ... Read more

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BEN-HUR by Lew Wallace
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is an 1880 historical novel by Lew Wallace. In the time of Christ, Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur is sent to the Roman galleys for an accidental "assassination attempt" on the Roman governor. The book chronicles his attempts to free himself and locate his mother and sister; along the way he has various encounters with biblical characters, including Jesus himself.

Ben-Hur is full of rich historical detail. Wallace certainly did his research, although his blond-haired and blue-eyed Mary and Jesus are rather egregious and indefensible. The works and miracles that Christ does, and their effects on the characters, give the book a significant emotional weight. Beyond that, Wallace's characters love to sit around and discuss theology in detail, and there's quite a bit of solid Christology to be found here.

The story in Ben-Hur is fantastic, but Wallace has written a bloated, flawed novel. Characters and dialogue are flat, the plot often advances by means of convenient developments, and the book makes great jumps through time to place Ben-Hur at so many key events in the life of Christ, which causes his own actions not to make a lot of sense. But worst of all, the novel is all over the place. Wallace is rambling and verbose, and there are too many half-baked story elements: The love triangle, such as it is, adds nothing to the story. Messala is not developed as a friend or as an enemy. A 65-page introduction that does nothing other than relate the Nativity story is unnecessary.

It is worth mentioning William Wyler's 1959 MGM film that starred Charlton Heston and won 11 Oscars; there have been other films, but it is through that movie that the Ben-Hur story is known to the most people now. The movie distills the overlong, wandering story down to its key elements, developing them to a fulfilling degree, and the story is all the more powerful for it. It's a great story, and the film, which is one of the greatest ever, in any genre, takes full advantage of it.

The novel Ben-Hur is a powerful, moving story not at all well told. It pains me to say this, but the movie is better. Considerably.

Chariots and Miracles, by Joe Ayres
Have you ever seen someone heal a leper right before your eyes?How about a high speed chariot race?"Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" is a form of religious fiction.Since it is set in the same time period as the life of Jesus, it shows what His ministry was like from the eyes and mindset of people who could have actually been there.It is almost like witnessing the story first hand.Although this novel is fiction, it displays a sense of realism as if it really did occur.

This is a great book for anyone to read, however, it would be best for people who enjoy realistic fiction and are at least somewhat familiar with the life of Christ.The audience should be patient because some sections of the book, especially the first several chapters, can become dull because they take a long time to introduce minor characters.It does get better though.There is a very exciting chariot race scene full of action and danger.

I really thought that it was interesting reading the thoughts and opinions of people who could have lived during the time of Christ.I liked how it showed Christ's life in a different perspective.I believe that this is worth reading because it is important to have another view of this time period apart from the Bible.Having another view of the time period is important because it helps you understand the setting and what is going on.

This book shows a normal man and how he has his life affected by Jesus in a major way.Even though it is fiction, I believe that this is the most realistic, Biblical fiction book I have read.Despite the occasional tedious parts, I highly recommend this book because the rest of it is an exciting story.

Interesting for the history of the book as much as for the book itself.
Lew Wallace was actually a pretty interesting guy. He was a lawyer, a Civil War Union General, and Governor for the New Mexico Territory. In terms of cultural history, Ben-Hur is actually a pretty interesting book. Wikipedia tells me that until 1936 (when Gone With the Wind was released) it was the best selling American novel. It has never been out of print since its date of publication. What I knew already about the book was that it returned the feeling of morality to the popular novel-- it quickly became required reading at public schools and Sunday schools alike.

Before it became a popular film (which I have never seen, by the way-- limited patience for toga flicks) it was also a popular stage play. An online article by Amy Lifson tells me that twenty million people saw it staged between 1899 and 1920. (And a revival arrived this past September in London, by the way.)

But all this is history. What is it like to read? I was dreading it, a little bit, because I had heard about the tedious and long pages of description and dated plot. I have to say though, it really wasn't bad. Once I got into the text I found that it read rather quickly, and it was hard not to feel how much effort Wallace had put into historical research and detail. Part of his mission, quite clearly, had been to bring some realism to the typical understanding of the nativity story. (The Christ is born in a cave, not a manger, etc.)

The main plot actually has little to do with religion, and has all the typical potboiler elements. A choice between the good girl and the bad girl; A prince falsely accused by a bad man; leprosy endured and cured. It's all very exciting and keeps the pages turning. Some of the description does go on and on (and Wallace isn't Dickens, it sometimes isn't charming) but I found it easy enough to blow through those sections and into the next bit of exciting plot.

I don't know how much I would recommend this as a reading experience, exactly. Probably interesting, if you're excited by the history of the popular novel and want to trace this book's influence on popular culture.

The General Books Edition is messed up. DO NOT GET IT.
Notwithstanding the inherent value of Ben-Hur itself, the General Books Edition is a complete waste of your money. According to General Books, "We have recreated this book from the original using Optical Character Recognition software to keep the cost of the book as low as possible. Therefore, could you please forgive any spelling mistakes, missing or extraneous characters that may have resulted from smudged or worn pages? When in doubt, please consult the original scanned book which may be available from our website." This means that they charge you $20 for a book with random characters inserted at random points in random places. They're not everywhere, but there's enough of them to annoy you considerably. If that wasn't enough, the book is divided into sections that do not correspond to the original chapters, meaning that there are sentences stretched across sections, which is annoying. THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT IS: IF YOU WANT TO BUY AN EDITION OF BEN-HUR, DON'T GET THE GENERAL BOOKS EDITION.

Best ever written
"Ben_Hur, a Tale of THE CHRIST" is in my opinion one of the best books ever written (and so much better than the movie).It deals with the most important question presented to humanity:"Who was Jesus Christ?" Lew Wallace spent much of his early life ambivalent to that question, and thus understands that getting the answer right isn't necessarily an easy process. Read the book and it will help you answer the question for yourself.
Then read Robinson Crusoe, an equally beautiful rendition of a difficult faith walk.
In both you will end with this fact, both Wallace and Defoe believed that"The Lord Jesus Christ is who He says He is in the Bible....He is the God who saves". ... Read more

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This handbook provides managers and security personnel with lists of IT security actions that could be followed as the Threat Conditions change.The handbook suggests actions for 17 critical IT system security components, to include:backups, anti-virus, spam filters, firewalls, modems, intrusion detection systems, websites, external organization coordination, etc.

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This digital document is an article from College Student Journal, published by Project Innovation (Alabama) on March 1, 2010. The length of the article is 7624 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Changes of dietary pattern, food choice, food consumption, nutrient intake and body mass index of Korean American college students with different length of residence in the Los Angeles areas.(Report)
Author: Nam Kim
Publication: College Student Journal (Magazine/Journal)
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Includes: Articles - Let the Dying Die (spaking out) by Paul Moor; Vietnam, Great Miscalculation? (affairs of State) by Stewart Alsop; My son the Outfielder (The Human Comedy) by Marvin Kitman; California Tax Scandal, When I Looked in thos files, my eyes popped by James Phelan; A Drean as big as a Mountain by Harry James; The Trials of Candy and Mel (conclusion) by Lewis H. Lapham; Divorce Clinic, Help me I'm alone; by Bill Davidson; Mickey Mantle, troubled tiem for a wounded hero by Bil Gilbert; The Black man leading a GOP March on Washington by John Skow. Fiction - The Assassin (part 1) by Derek marlowe; Rose Whate and Rose Red by Rona Jaffe; etc. ... Read more

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