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Korean Garden offers a series of lunch specials, including this daeji (pork) bulgogi lunch box for $10.99 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The meal includes spicy barbecued pork and white rice, as well as a variety of Korean side dishes. (Chris Klint/KTUU-DT / March 22, 2012) |
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Editor's note: Lunchbox is a new series from Channel 2 staff reviewing single lunches, rather than restaurants' entire menus. We hope to deliver experiences from a wide array of Anchorage's available cuisine, as well as highlight delicious deals for your daytime dining dollar.
One of Anchorage's many ethnic groups is its thriving Korean community, which is well-represented with several local church congregations and an annual cultural festival, as well as Korean lettering alongside the English on many local businesses' signage.
Among those businesses is Korean Garden, which had a turbulent grand opening earlier this year after a car accidentally smashed through its South Anchorage strip-mall storefront in May. A modest but loyal following has frequented the eatery, which sits next door to a FedEx Office location about a block east of Dimond Boulevard's intersection with King Street.
Channel 2's Christine Kim, a newsroom authority on the city's Korean restaurants, recently came back from a visit to Korean Garden with fellow reporters Jason Lamb and Ted Land -- both well-traveled gourmands when off-duty -- raving about an incredibly good dinner there. Ted confessed that he hadn't expected to even try the squid entrée Christine enthusiastically recommended, but liked it a lot when he actually gave it a taste. The story put the place's name in my head, and I resolved to give it a try when I was next in the area.
That chance came last week, when I was leaving Costco during an early Christmas-shopping trip and it was time for a well-deserved lunch. The store's own lunch counter briefly beckoned, but then I remembered where I was and drove along Dimond to follow Christine's lead.
Although the restaurant was relatively empty at about 2 p.m., with only a pair of Korean men eating in a booth near mine, the lone waitress on duty quickly seated me and set a mug of steaming bo-ri-cha (barley tea) on the table. To an unaccustomed palate like mine the beverage was bitter and slightly medicinal, but the heat was definitely welcome after being outside loading up my car at Costco.
While the restaurant's menu offers a variety of authentic Korean meals, ranging from jung-shik (the family-style seafood meal Christine ordered with Jason and Ted) to specialties like mool-naengmyon (buckwheat noodles in cold broth) and agu tang (a sablefish stew), I knew exactly what I wanted before I even sat down: bulgogi.
The Korean answer to barbecue, bulgogi retains a strongly spiced character more or less absent from the American dish, which has largely succumbed to a wave of sugary barbecue sauces bearing an ever-greater resemblance to ketchup. I still eat both, since I have an inherent weakness for a good piece of beef brisket, but bulgogi is a rare treat -- one I'm always on the lookout for.
Korean Garden offers several types of bulgogi, including the traditional beef bulgogi as well as chicken and daeji (pork) varieties. I ordered a Lunch Box special of daeji bulgogi ($10.99, served from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.), then sat back to grasp my cup of bo-ri-cha in both hands until they were once again warm.
About half an hour later, my lunch was served with numerous Korean side dishes in a lacquered wooden box: sizable portions of bulgogi and white rice, alongside elegantly presented compartments of kong-nah-mul (seasoned bean sprouts), pickled radish and seasoned broccoli, as well as a small piece of fried tofu. No fewer than three side cups included samples of kimchi (spiced cabbage) and oh-dang (fish cakes), as well as the house beef-vegetable soup.
The first thing I sampled was the bulgogi, and it was magnificent: spicy but easily eaten medallions of pork, cooked until they were caramelized in their sauce, accented with sesame seeds and sliced scallions. The meat produced a warm, rolling burn on the tongue, more powerful than most bulgogi I've had, yet pleasantly stimulating and easily cut by mouthfuls of rice.
From there I reasoned that the soup would best be sampled while it was still warm. I was handsomely repaid with a dish strongly reminiscent of Chinese won ton soup, with the dumplings replaced by free-floating bits of boiled beef and radishes. I had only meant to try some and come back, but the soup was so surprisingly delicious and filling with every spoonful that I polished off the entire cup in short order.
The seasoned broccoli was very similar to the way I often eat broccoli at home, steamed and then doused with balsamic vinaigrette: cool and sharply sour, with an earthy touch from the vegetable itself. That also described the pickled radish and to a lesser extent the kimchi, although the other dishes possessed less crunch but more punch thanks to their uncooked preparation. The bean sprouts offered a change of pace from the rice, slightly more capable of standing up to strong fare like the bulgogi.
At this point, I was pleasantly full, so I only tried small portions of the fried tofu (much like any fried food, but a strange texture to my experience) and the oh-dang (too salty for my taste, forcing me to take a drink). It was good that I slowed down, however, because as I finished eating I was brought a small cup of impressively dark brew: cinnamon tea.
Christine says cinnamon tea is a traditional dessert course offered at Korean Garden, but I must confess that I could have put away a glass of the stuff with my meal, served just as piping hot. Don't add sugar to it, because it needs none; the cinnamon visibly clouds and swirls in the water, producing a powerful hit of flavor when it reaches your taste buds before it seemingly evaporates on your next inhale.
All in all, Korean Garden exemplifies the power of a good surprise. Many people drive past its storefront on Dimond, which isn't very visible from the road, without even seeing the place -- but if they make the turn and stop they'll find not just a good lunch but strong dishes, like the house soup and cinnamon tea, that fuel the body yet leave the mind wanting seconds.


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In 2010, Josh Bergstedt became one of thousands of people who have dropped out of Minnesota's methadone programs without completing the treatment. From 2007 to 2011, 94 percent of the state's methadone patients who left the programs did so without completing the treatment.
In 2008, after years of abusing painkillers such as Oxycontin and Lortab, Duluth native Josh Bergstedt enrolled at the Lake Superior Treatment Center. He said he had hoped to be off the methadone treatment program and drug-free within a month.
"But after the first day, I was just lit," he said. "I'm thinking, 'This is treatment? Holy cow.'"
Bergstedt, 29, said he wanted to get higher, so he told his counselor he was having withdrawal symptoms to get stronger doses.
"I wasn't being honest with them," he said. "But we're drug addicts. This is what we do. We just want to get higher and higher."
Two months later, his records show, his dosage had quadrupled. As the months went by, Bergstedt exhausted his savings paying for the methadone before he was put on state health insurance, which then paid for the treatment. He was still on high doses of methadone, but instead of being high, he said he plateaued. The drug, he said, was turning him into a zombie.
"I was living in my parents' basement, completely depressed," he said. "Methadone was just another addiction. It was two years of hell. You're functioning, but with that amount of drugs in your system, how can you be a productive member of society?
"At some point it dawned on me: I'm just going to die like this."
In 2010, Bergstedt became one of thousands who have dropped out of the state's methadone programs without completing the treatment. From 2007 to 2011, 94 percent of the state's methadone patients who left the programs did so without completing the treatment.
That dropout rate puts methadone treatment dead last in successful completion rates among other types of chemical dependency treatments in Minnesota, the News Tribune found.
But that isn't the only area where methadone trails other treatment options.
Patients discharged from methadone programs also were more likely to be in jail 30 days after being discharged and had more potential for serious to extreme withdrawal symptoms and relapse when compared to treatments such as long- and short-term residential programs.
The results come from a News Tribune analysis of chemical dependency treatment admission and discharge data provided by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. The agency provided the data when the newspaper asked for a way to evaluate the effectiveness of methadone treatment in the state.
Other discharge data provided by the DHS showed that, judging by additional criteria the agency uses to evaluate outcomes of chemical dependency treatment, methadone failed to help patients in areas such as ability to control emotional problems and ability to find housing and jobs.
Dr. Marvin Seppala, chief medical officer for the Center City, Minn.-based alcohol and drug addiction treatment center Hazelden, called the News Tribune's findings concerning, especially the lack of completed treatment.
Hazelden, which offers abstinence-only treatment for opiate addiction, has about a 53 percent completion rate, Seppala said.
"If success is defined as weaning them off, then absolutely (methadone completion rates) should be higher than 5 percent," he said.
He said methadone can be an effective treatment, but when its use isn't effectively monitored and the drug can be easily diverted and given without proper counseling, "you do get much more of the downsides of methadone."
At the Lake Superior Treatment Center, the only methadone treatment provider in Minnesota that's north of St. Cloud, about 6 percent of patients completed the program from 2007 to 2010, the News Tribune found. The average for the state during that time was 5 percent.
The director of the Lake Superior Treatment Center did not return repeated phone calls for comment.
A representative for Colonial Management Group, which owns the Lake Superior Treatment Center along with more than 50 other clinics across the country, told the News Tribune from Florida that the company does not speak to the media.
However, Dr. Tom Payte, a corporate medical director for Colonial Management Group did speak with the News Tribune. He said the goal of methadone treatment is not to wean the patients off that drug.
"We want to improve the quality of life for people," Payte said. "(Addiction) is an incurable, progressive, often-fatal disease. The best results occur for people who stay in methadone treatment long-term."
Payte, who has worked in the addiction field for 40 years, said thousands of Colonial Management patients have successfully used methadone for years. But even some addicts who seek methadone treatment, he said, won't be successful with it.
"I see some very positive results; I see some very frustrating situations where change just does not seem to occur," he said. "They may not want to change. If they don't want to stop using, then what are we to do? Obviously they're going to be out of treatment after a period of time."
On the subject of methadone treatment, the Department of Human Services said the News Tribune's findings are flawed because they compare programs for opiate addicts to programs for other kinds of addictions.
"It compares apples to oranges," said Maureen O'Connell, the DHS assistant commissioner for chemical and mental health services.
When asked if DHS had a study measuring the effectiveness of methadone treatment in Minnesota, the agency acknowledged it did not.
"Does the state aggregate that data?" asked Jerry Kerber, inspector general for the DHS. "What you're hearing us saying is: We haven't done a lot of it, but it's something that probably ought to be done."
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Other health experts on chemical dependency say it's a mistake to equate effective methadone treatment with completion.
"The successes of methadone are those who stay on it," said Dr. Gavin Bart, the director of the division of addiction medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center.
To Bart, successful methadone treatment might mean the patient is on the drug for life.
"It's not controversial in the world of addiction treatment," he said. "There are societal controversies, and it's related to stigma. But no one says, 'My God, you've been on high blood-pressure medicine for this many years? You need to stop.'"
By that measure, Duluth resident Sharon Mix is a methadone success story who wouldn't show up in the discharge numbers.
The 56-year-old said she started abusing narcotic prescription medications such as Percocet when she was 23. In 1980, she was arrested as part of a large sting of narcotic drug sales in Duluth and narrowly escaped prison time. She went to treatment but continued to abuse narcotics, which eventually saw her do time in the state prison in Moose Lake, where she said she continued to use and sell drugs such as painkillers and heroin.
"Even after all of that, I didn't learn a lesson," she said. "My kids were taken away from me."
The drug abuse continued, getting to the point, she said, where she would often spend hundreds of dollars a day on drugs. One night while at a motel in the Twin Cities with her husband, Mix said she did her "last blast."
"It was like nothing," she said. "We looked at each other. I believe we both started crying. We sat and prayed for a while, went to bed, woke up the next morning, and went to the methadone clinic down in the Cities.
"That was 18 years ago."
Mix said she's been on methadone ever since, often driving down to the Twin Cities each day until a clinic opened in Duluth.
She said she now takes a high dose of methadone each day and has no plans to get off the drug.
"I'm an addict; I'll always be an addict," she said. "I would rather have methadone there and be on methadone than have any chance in hell of going back to that lifestyle."
'It's a fog'
Mix said she doesn't get high from the methadone; rather, it allows her to function normally "the majority of the time."
"It isn't something you really get high from," she said. "It takes away the need to feel like you want to get high, but it levels you to the point where your body says you are."
Bart of Hennepin County Medical Center said proper dosing of methadone patients should prevent euphoria and relieve withdrawal symptoms.
Getting high from methadone provided at a clinic "should be prevented," he said.
But local chemical dependency treatment experts and law enforcement officials say patients they see on methadone act as if they're high.
Richard Colson, supervisor of the Tegwii Recovery Center on the Fond du Lac Reservation, said many of the people he treats have left methadone treatment and describe getting high from the drug.
He said treating patients with a drug that can keep them in that altered state for the rest of their lives is wrong.
"You have a prison without bars," he said. "You have addicted these people, and their lives essentially get flushed into some mutant reality. It's a fog. Some of the best years of their lives won't amount to anything other than a walk on a soggy beach on a foggy day."
Seppala of Hazelden said he doesn't believe people should be on methadone for the rest of their lives.
"We don't know who should be on methadone long-term," he said. "We don't have a good test or predictor that could tell me today that this person should take methadone for the rest of their lives, and this person should be off of it in a year or two.
"When they get really good recovery, they should be able to come off these maintenance treatments."
Payte of Colonial Management said because he views addiction as a disease, he believes that even people who enter methadone treatment to abuse that drug should still be kept on the treatment.
"I don't believe in terminating patients for noncompliance if we can keep them in the system," he said. "I seldom see patients that benefit from being kicked out onto the streets. If we can continue to work with them, we have a better chance of establishing a relationship and making a difference."
For methadone patients who want to withdraw from the drug, clinics are supposed to supervise that withdrawal and have it done gradually over the course of weeks, or even months, experts said.
Methadone users who have gone through withdrawal unsupervised describe it as far worse than coming down from other narcotics. Dan Stanius, who spent time in jail for being caught with illegal methadone, said withdrawing from methadone was extremely painful.
"It's right down to the bone: Everything hurts," he said. "(I) just had just horrible pain. I wouldn't eat at all, just hated life. You wish you wouldn't wake up; you didn't care whether you brushed your teeth or combed your hair or did anything like that. It's like a super-bad flu. You just hated life."
Bergstedt agreed.
"The withdrawals from methadone are 10 times worse than any street drug I've ever taken," he said. "It's the worst thing you could possibly go through."
When Bergstedt left the Lake Superior Treatment Center, he enrolled in Minnesota Teen Challenge, where he said it took a year before he was able to get sober and feel normal again.
Now he's studying to become a pastor at the Inter-Lutheran Theological Seminary in Hancock, Mich., and gave his first sermon in June.
Reflecting on his time as a methadone patient, he said the treatment never worked for him because it was just another drug to abuse.
"It was a hopeless cycle for me," he said. "You're giving drug addicts a license to be drug addicts."
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Good afternoon. Welcome to the culminating event of Fading Footprints.
Narrator: It's a big day for King Middle School's seventh-grade class. It's the day they present their class project, a CD-ROM featuring Maine's endangered species, to an audience of parents, teachers, and experts at Portland's Audubon Society.
First we took research on the Internet and stuff, and then after that, we had to format it right, doing drafts. It took me about 10 drafts to get this right.
Narrator: Producing the CD was an ambitious undertaking, especially for a school that serves the most ethnically and economically diverse population in the state, a school where 28 different languages are spoken and 60 percent of students qualify for free and reduced lunch. But it's just one of a series of impressive productions the school has turned out, byproducts of a curriculum designed to bring out the best in every student.
Right now, if I was in a moat, I would become very ill. A moat is very polluted.
Scott: The model that we use is expeditionary learning, outward-bound, so it focuses on hands-on learning. We try to integrate science, social studies, math, and English with technology, with artwork, with community members, fieldwork, etc.
Narrator: The Fading Footprints CD includes a student-made video that illustrates the production process.
For the Fading Footprints kickoff, David Sparks came in and brought animals. He talked about the animals' habitat and how they survive. Then we started our research using our laptops.
Scott: We don't use textbooks, per se. The students can sit here right on their computers with the air ports, and we can do a lot of our research right here in class.
We were also using our library and many books to try to find some information, and Internet, we use our laptops a lot.
Narrator: Through digital production, students learn to collaborate and contribute their many different talents. In music class, they recorded soundtracks for the CD. In art, they painted scientifically accurate watercolors of their animals.
It talks about fieldwork, and they're out and they're playing with other fishes.
Narrator: And in video-production class, they made the movie about the making of the CD.
On our winter walk, we learned about how animals and plants survive in Maine's harsh climate.
David: We're looking at ways for students to deepen their knowledge and work with their own knowledge so that they can become the authors of their own learning. All schools should be making things with their students that force the students to show us what they've learned, and it's in the making of things that kids actually do their learning.
Narrator: To give their products professional polish, the school has connected with local businesspeople, like print-shop owner Philip Rhinelander.
Now, would these students take a particular species and concentrate on that?
The focus started with just helping them print the newsletter, and then it turned out, "Gee, wouldn't it be wonderful if every kid could take home a book?" And so we were able to help them by donating those. And then we find our relationship with them is so good that they'll come in, "We need CD covers." "Sure, we'll do them for you." It's a synergy that just seems to have come together. To be part of that is very exciting.
So, we have Kayla filming, and we have like three angles of her filming.
Narrator: The school has also hired an accomplished documentary filmmaker to help students improve the quality of their work.
Huey: My mission is to show them how to make, I guess you'd say good movies, movies that rise above just being imitations of everything they've seen.
I think what matters more is what the flow of the video is.
Huey: Having an audience, I think, is great. I mean, it puts you on the line. It's not just like, "Well, I meant to do this," or, "I was going to do this," or, "If you let me tell you, you can really understand it." So I think that is an interesting part of the educational component of this, and hearkens back to this thing of quality. You want to stand up there. You want to show them your best stuff. And so that permeates the entire process.
Narrator: Since implementing the project-based curriculum, King principal Mike McCarthy has seen the test scores of King's diverse student body go from the bottom one-third to the top one-third in the state.
Michael: I've heard people describe what a gifted and talented classroom would look like. It should include field experiences, and it should include technology. It should include independent work. It should include work that is in depth. Well, that's basically what our school is.
Scott: Every kid has their own finish line and some kids might have done seven pages and some kids might have done three paragraphs. That's okay. They have done their work. They're on the CD. They have completed what they can do, and it's the best they can do.
Michael: Our whole goal is that every student here can have access to high-quality learning and produce high-quality products. One kid said, "Nobody feels stupid around here anymore," and I think that was one of our highest achievements.
Narrator: For more information on what works in public education, go to Edutopia.org.
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Following a great 2011, McDonald's (MCD) has been one of the Dow's worst performers of 2012. Year-to-date, shares of McDonald's are down more than 9.7%.
The shares are off their recent lows, but remain well below the 52-week high of $102.22. A number of factors seem to be weighing on the fast food giant.
Most recently, on Wednesday, McDonald's was forced to respond to a report by China Central that chicken it sold in its Chinese stores may have been fed indiscriminate amounts of antibiotics and growth hormone.
On Monday, Reuters reported that McDonald's leadership was urging its franchisees to keep their stores open on Christmas Day. This is a break from the company's traditional policy of closing on major holidays.
In a company memo Reuters obtained, management noted that McDonald's stores that remained open on Christmas averaged sales of $5,500. Given that most restaurants are closed for the holiday, impressive Christmas sales seem intuitive given the lack of competition.
Is it a sign of desperation, or just a part of a greater business trend? Wal-Mart (WMT) drew the ire of some employees in November when it moved up the time it would open to 8 p.m. Thanksgiving night.
Analysts at Bank of America don't think openings could add much to the company's top lines, noting, "We do not view incremental openings on Thanksgiving this year as a primary factor behind a surprisingly good 2.5% U.S. same store sales increase for the month of November. Likewise, we are not anticipating that more Christmas restaurant openings this year will have much impact on December results."
The biggest issue with McDonald's is likely the company's exposure to Europe, which is significant. As Europe has struggled, McDonald's performance in the region has been weak. Yet, should the European economy begin to recover next year, that could create a tailwind helping to support shares of McDonald's in 2013.
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I've contacted McDonald's corporate office about poor service, inacurate orders, several orders that had one food type look like it was picked up off of the floor and placed in the container, no maple syrup in a pancake order, and the list can go on.
Corporate thanked me for the feedback and assured me that they would forward my comments to the local, offending, McDonalds. Later they sent an email and asked if I was satisfied with the follow-up from the local store. I replied that I had not heard from the local manager, at all. That was the last communications from McDonalds corporate. They are definately in a downward spiral! They had a good run. Time for them to go away.
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It was a little disappointing to have the itinerary changed, but that happens a lot when going to Hawaii. Now I have a reason to go back to Hawaii, to see the things we didn't get to see on this trip.
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3rd Lxxy has proven to me he needs to be in the rotation . But i don't think hes proved it to Brown . Once TC comes back do we see Lexy fade into the distance. Brown seems to favor Vald, Radman , For some reason i hate his game and think Lexey would be a much better option at the back up four. The more time he post the better he gets ?
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[JURIST] The US ambassador to Norway has told Norwegian Justice Minister Knut Storberget [official profile] that the circulated draft of Norway's new anti-terrorism law is too lenient, Oslo newspaper Aftenposten reported Sunday. Ambassador Benson K. Whitney [official profile] expressed particular concern about the fact that membership of a terrorist organization was not by itself an offense; as it stands, the draft imposes criminal penalties only if a person is concretely connected to the planning of a terrorist attack. Storberget said in the wake of the letter that he had no object to the US government expressing its opinion, but that Norway would make its own decisions. Earlier this year the annual US State Department report on anti-terrorism efforts worldwide [text] criticized Norway for poor police work in terrorism-related investigations [Aftenposten report], noting that
In October 2005, Norway passed an antiterrorism law that gave the police greater leeway to investigate and prosecute terror suspects. The September 2006 arrest of four individuals suspected of shooting an Oslo synagogue and planning attacks on the U.S. and Israeli embassies was the first test of this law. Some of the new investigative tools were used in the case. However, the prosecution of the case highlighted concerns that the law's definition of a conspiracy to commit a terror act was restrictive and could limit its usefulness. Reported miscommunication among various police offices and mishandling of information and suspects illustrated the need for improvement.
[JURIST] Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed [party profile; JURIST news archive] has been charged with another count of corruption relating to a bribe supposedly taken from a Bangladesh power company, Bangladesh police announced Sunday. Hasina is accused by Bangladesh's anti-corruption commission [governing statute, PDF] of taking 30 million taka (435,000 dollars) in 1997 and using the funds to buy land for the Bangabandhu Memorial Trust charity which she heads in honor of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ("Bangabandhu"), considered the founding father of Bangladesh. Hasina is already charged with five other counts of corruption and murder [JURIST reports], and is among some 150 leading Bangladeshis arrested by the new interim government since emergency rule was declared [JURIST report] in January.Hasina was prime minister between 1996 and 2001 and is the the leader of the opposition Awami League [party website]. The interim government has also filed corruption charges against Hasina's rival, former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia [UN profile]. Scheduled elections in the country were indefinitely postponed in the wake of the emergency declaration. The country's powerful military backs the interim government. AFP has more.
[JURIST] Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas [BBC profile] announced changes to Palestinian election law Sunday which could reduce the political power of Hamas [CFR backgrounder], the rival to Abbas's Fatah [party website] party that scored major victories in last year's parliamentary elections and led a new Palestinian cabinet before that was dismissed [JURIST report] by Abbas earlier this summer. The changes will end district-based voting, instead substituting general voting for candidates running on party lists. The former electoral structure allowed half the parliamentary seats to be chosen by districts. Hamas dominated many district votes last year while national voting was much closer. A Hamas spokesman denounced the putative changes as "illegal", but Abbas insists he has power to make the amendments as the Palestinian Legislative Council [official website, in Arabic], which generally has that power, is not sitting and the previous government has been dissolved and an "emergency" government substituted. Hamas does not recognize the new government and continues to exercise de facto power in Gaza [JURIST report] in the face of resistance from the Palestinian Attorney-General [JURIST report] and the local Fatah-appointed judiciary, while the new government named by Abbas controls the West Bank. AP has more.
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Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) Volume 22, Number 3, September 2003
Table of Contents
President's Column
Greetings LITA Members and Friends!
Feature Articles
Computer Literacy: Necessity or Buzzword?
SCOTT CHILDERSBuilding an Internet Gateway
RON DAVIES An Evaluation of Computer-Supported Collaborative Serial Management:A Case Study
Implementing the SFX Link Server at the University of Iowa
PAUL A. SODERDAHLA History of Web Portals and Their Development in Libraries
JOE ZHOUThe Development of the NISO Committee AX's OpenURL Standard
ARTHUR HENDRICKSUsing Microsoft Share Point Team Services for Committee Management in the Library
Book Review
Book Review
Index to Advertisers
Index to Advertisers
President's Column
Greetings LITA Members and Friends!
TOM WILSONEditor's Note: The full text of this column is available.
Feature Articles
Computer Literacy: Necessity or Buzzword?
SCOTT CHILDERSWhile the concept of computer literacy has existed for some time, the name has certainly changed. Whatever the name, the concept of computer literacy still has merit. By looking at the history of the computer literacy movement for grounding, we can build a definition for the next century and affirm that learning computer basics is a good thing for library staff to do.
Editor's Note: The full text of this article is available.
Scott Childers (firstname.lastname@example.com), is the Assistant Systems Librarian at the University of Nebraska Libraries, Lincoln.
Building an Internet Gateway
RON DAVIESThe Library of the International Labour Organization created a gateway to Internet sites in the areas of work, employment, and social issues titled WorkGate. This article describes the design decisions that went into the project, such as the number of information resources that could feasibly be maintained and the selection criteria for including these resources. The actual development of the gateway involved the building of an underlying database and Web-based interfaces, the selection and description of Internet sites, and the creation of taxonomy to be used in classifying sites and browsing. While the gateway has been favorably received, ranking search results in a small database of brief records remains a problem. An unexpected benefit of the project was the opportunity staff had to share information about sites that would prove useful in their daily work.
Editor's Note: The full text of this article is available.
Ron Davies (email@example.com) is Senior Systems Librarian for the International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
An Evaluation of Computer-Supported Collaborative Serial Management:A Case Study
This case study was performed at Rutgers University to evaluate computer-supported serials management in an academic library context. Information in an ExtInfo folder within each serial control record of an integrated library system was manually restructured to a standard language and formatted to establish a central location to perform collaborative serials management. From interviews and questionnaires, the authors learned that serial staff and librarians are essentially satisfied with the centralized information distribution. From their perspective, the standards applied to the ExtInfo folder reduce errors in serial management, improve and streamline routine work, and require little learning effort to master.
Ying Zhang (email@example.com) is a Doctoral Student at the Rutgers University School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies, and Gracemary C. Smulewitz (email@example.com) is a Librarian at the New Brunswick Collection Services, Rutgers University Libraries.
Implementing the SFX Link Server at the University of Iowa
PAUL A. SODERDAHLIn January 2002, the University of Iowa Libraries introduced its link server—linking related content from one information provider to another—using Ex Libris SFX software. Three basic services appeared on day 1 of the link server's implementation: (1) citation reference linking to full-text electronic journal articles; (2) linking to holdings in the local catalog; and (3) persistent linking to an electronic reference service. The system is now integrated with more than seventy-five licensed databases and includes links to more than 16,000 full-text journal subscriptions. New developments beyond citation reference linking include links to Journal Citation Reports, Ulrichsweb, and interlibrary loan. This article describes the planning and initial implementation process of the SFX server.
Editor's Note: The full text of this article is available.
Paul A. Soderdahl (firstname.lastname@example.com) is the Coordinator for Information Systems and Technology at the University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.
A History of Web Portals and Their Development in Libraries
JOE ZHOUThis article studies the history of Web portals widely used in business-to-business and business-to-consumer Web applications in the late 1990s. Web portals originated from Web search engines in the early 1990s and evolved through Web push technology in mid-1990s to its mature model in the late 1990s. This article also compares Web portals with other popular media, such as radios and televisions, for their audience base and content broadness. As of January 2003, only a few libraries had adopted Web portal technology despite the widespread use of my.yahoo.com-type Web portals in the business sector. The article examines several reasons for the lack of portal development in libraries and concludes with a set of Web portal development guidelines for academic libraries. Some of the pioneer library portals are also discussed, as well as the California State Government, the first government portal to offer customization and financial transactions for individuals and business. This article concludes by probing a more fundamental question about general information storage and retrieval processes. In the last several hundred years, libraries primarily built hierarchical data structures and librarians provided information service without any search engines. In the past ten years, Web business communities have primarily worked on developing fast search engines for information retrieval without paying much attention to data structure. Now with the exponential growth of data on the Web, it is time that librarians and computer engineers work together to improve both search mechanisms and data structures for a more effective and efficient information service.
Joe Zhou (firstname.lastname@example.com) is Head of the Reference Department, California State University Library–Sacramento.
The Development of the NISO Committee AX's OpenURL Standard
This paper describes the development of the OpenURL standard and how it will impact librarians and information technologists. This article is based on information provided via email inquires sent to members of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Committee AX responsible for producing this standard. The OpenURL syntax is designed to enable transportation of metadata and identifiers about referenced works and their context from any information resource to a local link server. This allows libraries to create locally-controlled and managed link servers that enable the delivery of context-sensitive linking in and across their collections.
Arthur Hendricks (firstname.lastname@example.com) is Assistant Systems Librarian at the Branford P. Millar Library at Portland State University.
Using Microsoft Share Point Team Services for Committee Management in the Library
Library committees work for the improvement and technological advancement of library services. Managing these committees is not an easy task, especially when there are subcommittees within a larger committee. Inefficient management often leads to the disorganization of information and ultimately affects the objectives of the committee. This article explores the possibility of using Microsoft Share Point Team Services, a team Web site solution, for easier and more centralized management of library committees.
Abhijit Rao is a Master's student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Book Review
Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies
Ben Shneiderman. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Pr., 2002..
Editor's note: The full text of this review is available.


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From the total number of Twelve Thousand One Hundred Ninety Five (12,195) applicants who took the PMA Cadet Qualification Test on August 25, 2013 in the thirty-seven (37) examination centers all throughout the country, only Eleven Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy Eight (11,978)were able to complete the said test. Out of this number, One Thousand Four Hundred Fifty (1,450), composed of Nine Hundred Fifty Two (952) males and Four Hundred Ninety Eight (498) females, made it to the next phase of the selection process for PMA Cadetship which is the Complete Physical Examination (CPE) to be conducted at the Armed Forces of the Philippines Medical Center. The qualified PMAEE passers will go through medical, psychological and physical examination to determine their fitness to undergo the four-year military training in the Academy. After the series of examinations, the PMA Cadet Procurement Board will deliberate and select the most qualified candidates to compose PMA Class of 2018who are expected to report to Philippine Military Academy on April 1, 2014 for the Oath-taking Ceremony and Reception Rites.
Being a PMA cadet gives an individual a noble privilege in serving the country. Upon admission to the Cadet Corps, Armed Forces of the Philippines, one is able to avail of a free college education with a well-rounded curriculum, as well as, receive monthly pay and allowances. After graduating from the Academy, he/she is guaranteed a progressive career as an officer in the Army, Navy or Air Force.
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The Philippine Military Academy opened its door to the more or less, one thousand eight hundred (1,800) visitors of the members of the PMA Class 2017, consisting of their parents, relatives and friends, who witnessed their RECOGNITION RITES on September 13-14, 2013 Fort del Pilar, Baguio City.
Considered as one of the most symbolic and important events in a life of a cadet, the Recognition Rites finally allowed the lowest members of the Cadet Corps, Armed Forces of the Philippines to be in at ease status after being recognized by their upperclassmen through a handshake that was extended to them during the ceremony.
The class chose for their name the word SALAKNIB which stands for shield. They consider their class as the SALAKNIB of the Filipino people whom they vowed to serve and protect against threats that would undermine peace and security in the country. A total of two hundred forty eight (248) fourth class cadets were recognized, one hundred sixty four (164) of them are male and eighty four (84) are female.
The Guest of Honor and Speaker during the said rites was MGEN GREGORIO PIO R CATAPANG JR AFP, Commander, Northern Luzon Command, Armed Forces of the Philippines.
The Headquarters, Academics Group (HAG) has a new head in the person of COLONEL JOSEPH VILLANUEVA PROF. Being the head of the said group, COL VILLANUEVA , who formally assumed the post on August 30, 2013 in a Joint Turn-Over and Awarding Ceremony presided by VADM EDGAR L ABOGADO AFP, Superintendent, PMA, will be leading the members of faculty in PMA who are responsible in the academic aspect of the education and training of the cadets in the Academy.
Prior to his assignment to HAG, COL VILLANUEVA was the Commanding Officer of the Headquarters Support Group. The other positions he held in the Academy were the Assistant Commandant of Cadets, Headquarters Tactics Group, Academy Inspector General and Assistant Chief of Staff for Civil Military Operation, MA7
According to COL VILLANUEVA, his assumption of the office of the Head, Academics Group has caused his career to come to a full circle since during the early part of his stay in the Academy, he taught the cadets and assumed administrative positions in HAG, him being a member of the CORPS OF PROFESSORS.
In his assumption speech, he said, For the duration of my stay here in the Philippine Military Academy, I can say that I have come to a full circle by coming home to where I started my career as a member of the Corps of Professors, not to mention that it is also in the hallways and classrooms of the Academic building that I marched in and out until I finally became an official member of the long gray line.
COL VILLANUEVA is a member of PMA SANDIWA Class 85.
The Headquarters, Tactics Group, (HTG) PMA conducted a three-day workshop in connection with the Leadership Impact Program (LIP) for PMA Tactical Officers. The LIP is a program designed to equip PMA Tactical Officers with the values, attitudes, knowledge and skills to help them become more effective role models, mentors and coaches with a view towards building a culture of integrity, excellence and positive leadership in PMA. Specifically, the LIP aims to reinforce the Tactical Officers ownership of the Academys core values and alignment with PMAs training paradigm, help Tactical Officers understand key concepts in psychology, training and character development, and enable them to critically analyze the training systems and traditions prevailing in PMA, introduce a successful model for transformation that can be adopted as framework for comprehensive reforms training and to train the trainers.
Speaker in the said workshop was COL MICHAEL C MORALES (Ret), Director, Leadership Development Initiatives, International Graduate Schools of Leadership. He facilitated the group in the production of a plan that is actionable which provides with clearly specified goals, measures, activities, target dates and tools in effecting the programs for the development of the cadets in PMA.
The Philippine Military Academy was featured as one of the cake centerpieces which were showcased to the public in connection with the celebration of the Hotel Restaurant and Tourism (HRT) Week in Baguio City.
Rendered through a carrot cake measuring 10x10 feet, the building of Melchor Hall was presented as one of the heritage structures and tourist destinations in Baguio City, together with the Baguio Cathedral, Post Office, City Hall, The Mansion and Baguio Country Club. The six cakes which were displayed and distributed to the public weighed four tons which required 40 sacks of all-purpose flour, 11,000 pcs eggs, 1,750 liters corn oil, 300 kilos carrots, 15,000 bananas, 18 sacks white sugar, 600 cans evaporated milk, 30 kilos baking powder, 130 kilos baking soda, 12 kilos walnuts, 6 kilos salt, 6kilos cinnamon powder, 200 kilos butter, 500 grams cloves and 400 liter whipping cream.
Melchor Hall, known as the Academic Building was inaugurated and blessed on May 24, 1950 with the President of the Philippines, H.E. Elpidio Quirino, as the Guest of Honor.
The Philippine Military Academy, in partnership with Balay Mindanaw Foundation Incorporated (BMFI), conducted the second round of the SOLDIERS FOR PEACE FORUM for the members of PMA Class 2014 on August 30, 2013 at the PMA Hall of Leaders. With the theme: Winning the Peace in Conflict Affected Areas and Expanding the Role of Soldiers as Peace Builders, Conflict Managers and Human Defenders, the speakers in the said forum were able to impart their lived experiences in the field that could serve as inspiration to the cadets as they perform their duties once they graduate from the Academy. In the said forum, the cadets were able to have a clear understanding of their traditional and non-traditional roles, which are the combat/war fighting and peace-building respectively, in addressing the problems of insurgency in the country.
The speakers in the said forum were BGEN EMERALDO CMAGNAYE AFP, the Assistant Superintendent, PMA, COLONEL CARLITO G GALVEZ (GSC) INF PA, Commander, 104th Brigade, 1ID, COLONEL DICKSON P HERMOSO (GSC) INF PA, Inspector General and Spokesman, 6th Infantry Division, LTC ROY M GALIDO PA, Commanding Officer, 38th Infantry Battalion, 6th Infantry Division, and LTCOL ROMULO D QUEMADO, Battalion Commander, Marine Battalion Landing Team 2.
VADM EDGAR L ABOGADO, Superintendent, PMA, in his speech mentioned that ..through the so called transformation in our perspective and the paradigm shift, we are able to see that there are still solutions to the problems on the other side of the coin. With clenched fists we went on to battle, so it was a response with clenched fists that we received. If we open our hands and reach out to our brothers out there, then I believe it is with their open hands that they will readily receive our handshake. This is when the soldiers become the soldiers for peace.
Balay Mindanaw Foundation Inc. (BMFI) is a Filipino Mindanao-based and Mindanaofocused non-stock, non-profit organization. BMFIs work and its people articulate a sense of fierce pride for Mindanao and a passion for transforming this poorest and most conflict-torn of the countrys region into a balay, a true home for its peoples christians, muslims and lumads, indigenous peoples of Mindanao. It is a non-stock, non-profit foundation primarily engaged in promoting equity-based development and sustainable peace.
Recognizing the fundamental equality before the law, and to ensure that both men and women enjoy the same conditions necessary to realize equal opportunities to realize the exercise of their human rights and contribute to the development of the nation, the Philippine Military Academy is serious in its advocacy on Gender and Development. Since last year, a series of activities have been conducted to instill greater understanding of the importance of embracing concepts of Gender Awareness, Gender Equality and Development. These activities were spearheaded by BGEN EMERALDO C MAGNAYE AFP, Assistant Superintendent and Chairman, GAD Focal Point Committee.
Recently, General Headquarters, Armed Forces of the Philippines conducted a three-day visit to PMA to have separate sessions for different groups in the Academy to disseminate the advocacy. LCDR JAMES RAMON PN represented the Vice-Chief of Staff in the Executive Briefing Session, Gender Sensitivity Training to Command Personnel and Cadets. A very comprehensive briefing on how to do GAD Planning and Budgeting was also given to top management to ensure the GAD advocacy is supported by budget.
The briefing was complemented by the lectures conducted by Atty Mylen G Esquivel, Consultant of the Department of National Defense on Gender and Development. Her brilliance, experience in handling GAD related cases in the military, dynamism and participative teaching techniques made the learning experience informative, enjoyable and created a great impact on her audience.
The seminar allowed the participants to be aware of the legal basis of Gender and Development, the issues being addressed, and most importantly, the laws with regard to anti-violence against women.
The Cadet Corps Armed Forces of the Philippines (CCAFP) conducted on August 19, 2013 its First Phase Intramurals with the theme Awakening the Warriors Spirit: Vision without Action is merely a dream, Action without Vision just passes the time, Vision with Action can change the world.
Intramurals is a yearly activity of the CCAFP where cadets are given the chance to compete with each other in different sports event. It aims to develop the cadets physical abilities, measure and improve cadets sports performance and test the cadets level of sportsmanship. It also aims to develop the cadets management and leadership skills most especially the First Class cadets who act as organizers, facilitators, and coaches of their respective companies.
The Opening program of the Intramurals was conducted on 19 0900H August 2013 at the Covered Court, Jurado Hall. The following were the events played during the First Phase of the Intramurals: badminton, boxing, cheer dance, chess, company run, judo, marathon, soccer, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo and volleyball.
The initial ranking of the Corps is as follows: Alfa Company 4th, Bravo Company 3rd, Charlie Company- 3rd, Delta Company 2nd, Echo Company 6th, Foxtrot Company 7th, Hawk Company 1st and Golf Company 5th.
Universities and colleges in Baguio and Benguet brace for another colorful season of Baguio-Benguet Educational League (BBEAL) CY 2013-2014. Now on its 27th year, the University of Cordilleras serves as the host for this years event.
PMA cadets participated in the different sports disciplines such as Basketball, Badminton, Chess, Sepak Takraw, Swimming, Table Tennis and Volleyball. For the next phase of the BBEAL to be held on February 2014, the following events will be played: Athletics, Baseball, Boxing, Football, Judo, Lawn Tennis, Softball, and Wushu.
BBEAL was organized in 1986 with just seven (7) member schools from Baguio City and Benguet, namely: Philippine Military Academy Cavaliers (PMA), Baguio Central University Eagles (BCU), Benguet State University Wildcats (BSU), Cordillera Career Development College Admirals (CCDC), Pines City Colleges Warriors (PCC), Saint Louis University of Baguio Cardinals (SLU), University of Cordillera Jaguars (UC), and University of the Philippines-Baguio Maroons (UP.
In PMA, the sports development of the cadets is under the auspices of the Sports and Physical Development Units (SPDU). Among the functions of the unit is to boost the motivation of the cadets and prepare them for their participation in the different sports competitions. At present, SPDU is making initiatives to improve the athletic performance of the cadets by sending its trainers and coaches to the different seminars for them to be updated with the latest trends, and scientific training programs for sports development and physical fitness.
The active involvement of the cadets in competitive sports outside PMA is a good venue in molding the cadets to be efficient-disciplined confident combatants, leaders with character, as well as to be good ambassadors of PMA to the civilian sectors and other counterparts


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