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WASHINGTON (Apr. 23)
The White House issued today a special statement mourning the death of Israeli President Izhak Ben-Zvi, stating that Americans "share the sorrow of the people of Israel" at his death. The statement said:
"The United States mourns the death of Israel's eminent statesman, scholar and second President, Izhak Ben-Zvi, with whom we have enjoyed long and cordial relations. His distinguished contributions to his country and his people ensure his lasting place in their memory and his passing will be noted with sorrow by peoples around the world who have known and respected him for his gentleness and wisdom. We share the sorrow of the people of Israel in their great loss."


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There is a trend on Facebook that I've noticed last month. The challenge goes something like this: "Everyday this month until Thanksgiving, think of one thing that you are thankful for and post it as your status. The longer you do it, the harder it gets!"
As I review my friends' status updates, many of them are citing things for which we are all undoubtedly thankful: a wonderful family, a home to live in, plenty of food to eat, etc. As I consider the things that I am thankful for in my life, all of these things top the list. I am certainly thankful for my family and all that they have given me. However, I am also thankful for my second family—my Greek family. As I consider my experience as a sister in Pi Beta Phi, there aren't words enough to express my gratitude.
I'm thankful for connections. Through my experience as a Greek woman, I have made connections with sisters, both those who came before me and those who are just now discovering the meaning of their Greek letters. I've learned from alumni generous enough to share their wisdom, and I've had the opportunity to mentor talented, intelligent young women who are now taking an active role in Greek life.
I'm thankful for leadership opportunities. I began my Greek experience as a young woman, unsure of myself. Largely, through my leadership experiences on our chapter's executive board, I became more confident and ready to take on challenges, encouraged by my Pi Phi sisters. Even today, I use the leadership skills I learned during my Greek experience in my career, drawing on my experiences to better understand how to bring together a team for the good of a common cause.
I'm thankful for fun times. When I think back on my college experience, the times I spent with my Pi Phi sisters are always some of my fondest memories. Late night study sessions, initiation ceremonies, spring formal, fall recruitment…the list goes on.
So, for me, the Facebook challenge of posting something I am thankful for each day isn't a challenge at all. It's not hard for me to think of what I'm thankful for and there aren't enough days on the calendar to list each one of them—they are thousands of my Pi Phi sisters! μ
Autumn Scott, BA, is the Assistant Director of Admission at Monmouth College. She is affiliated with Pi Beta Phi Fraternity, and was graduated from Monmouth College in 2004.

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Mimicking Nature, Minimizing Turbulence
A school of snappers arranges itself to reduce drag and increase efficiency, much as a flock of geese flies in a "V".
"There's a lot of information in the literature as to what the optimal fish school should look like," said CalTech bioengineering professor John Dabiri. So in order to design a better arrangement of wind turbines, his team looked to fish.
Arranging vertical turbines in a school-of-fish pattern allows them to be placed closer together without the turbines' wakes interfering. "We wanted to achieve something similar [to fish schools], where instead of minimizing energy consumed we wanted to maximize energy generated," said Dabiri, of California Institute of Technology's Center for Bioinspired Engineering. The goal, he said, is to increase the amount of wind energy that can be generated in the same amount of space, and so far, the experiments have produced a stunning ten-fold gain in efficiency.
Because the turbines are vertical and shorter than typical propeller-style turbines, they're also quieter and safer for migratory birds than the typical turbines, Dabiri said.
But as seen in the energy applications of bull kelp and termite mounds, nature doesn't necessarily hold all the answers. A lively debate on the limits of biomimicry was touched off when 13-year-old Aidan Dwyer last year won a Young Naturalist Award from New York's American Museum of Natural History for a bio-inspired array of solar panels: instead of arranging them in rows, he built a "solar tree," with panels arranged like leaves on branches.
Bloggers and scientists took Dwyer to task because, when he measured the effectiveness of the panels, he measured voltage instead of power (a combination of voltage and current). In fact, arranging panels to mimic a tree isn't the most efficient layout, because trees aren't the most efficient collectors of sunlight, said Jan Kleissl, an environmental engineer at University of California, San Diego, in an email. "Trees have to combat weight and wind loading. If trees used a steady, continuous surface that was always oriented perfectly towards the sun, the force of strong winds would topple the tree . . . Evolution has to make great trade-offs in supporting life."
The fact that nature can't always serve as a cheat sheet for humans is the "unpopular yet true story," Kleissl added. "Human 'evolution' left natural evolution in the dust during industrialization."
Still, biomimicry advocates believe that nature offers enough lessons about storing and using energy that civilization needs to try to apply these ideas that have evolved over eons, combining them with the human ingenuity of today.


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Research has shown that an empathic, nonjudgmental relationship with a client is the most important element in successful therapy. My approach to psychotherapy has been strongly influenced by my experiences as a client in therapy. My career as a counselor has always involved a deep commitment to developing my knowledge and skills in a variety of therapies, while also being creative and innovative with each client. While in a session the client is always the focus of my attention, as we work together to find solutions to their problems. I avoid formality, interacting with the client candidly as an equal, typically relaxed, and even humorous at times, without compromising my professionalism.
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When I work with clients individually, I provide a safe place for them to talk about their problems and move toward finding solutions that will make further treatment unnecessary. .It really shouldn't be necessary for therapy to go on for years. I am very interactive with people, am a good listener and a firm believer that humor provides needed objectivity to promote treatment. Even though we are talking about personal problems, I examine the family and social environments to provide a context for the client.
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified EMDR Therapist
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Clients will get a better understanding of how their current behaviors/relationships are influenced by their past family, school, work, and history. I provide a safe environment for clients to examine if and how they are going to change to better their lives and increase their level of happiness. I utilize a variety of treatment methods and give challenging "assignments" to help clients realize their full potential and practice skills taught in sessions. The trusting relationship I build with a client in therapy is my best therapeutic tool as clients can then safely explore topic "usually" uncomfortable in the outside world.
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Licensed Professional Counselor
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When working with individuals and couples, my approach to counseling is warm, compassionate, and empathetic as we identify your concerns, develop an action plan and practice new skills that will work for you. I combine proven, effective therapies and strategies that are custom made for your particular situation or issue. Together we find practical, easy to learn and use techniques that best fit your needs.


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Hair dye is fun, but dangerous. There are so many great hair colors that are appropriate for weekends on the town, but may not be acceptable in the workplace. Colored streaks and dip-dyed ends are examples of two cool, quirky trends that are often neglected because of their semi-permanence and unprofessional nature. But fear not, Lovelyish hair experimenters! There is a new, fun way to go crazy with hair color and still maintain your chic Monday morning office look. Now hit up your local craft store and head straight for the pastel aisle, because you're going to need some chalk. Hair chalking is a commitment-free way to add splashes of color to your hair.
You need:
- soft pastel chalk (inexpensive, and found at craft stores such as Michael's or Jo-Anns)
- a spray bottle of water
- a straightener or curling iron
- rubber gloves
- Be sure you're wearing an old shirt that you won't mind chalking!
- Spray water on the section of hair that you wish to dye. It can be a one-inch piece, multiple sections, or just the tips of your hair. Be creative! (note: if you have blonde hair,do not wet before chalking, as this will stain the hair and increase the color's permanence. For a one-day wear, blondies, chalk dry. If you don't mind a few days' color, though, then wetting the hair is okay. Brunettes need the water, as this releases more pigment in the chalk and allows it to show on dark hair.)
- Color on the hair with the pastel of your choice. Note that this stuff gets everywhere, so a towel on the floor will help prevent a mess. Twist the hair as you color, as this releases more pigment in the chalk.
- Wait for the hair to air-dry.
- Once hair is dry, go over the colored pieces with the curling iron or straightener. This helps the color last longer.
Chalking Tips
- Be sure to get soft chalk pastels, not oil pastels. Oil pastels will feel sticky and be a lot harder to remove.
- Note that the color will rub off on your clothes over the course of the day, so wear a color similar to your chosen pastels. An updo is also a cute way to wear any color and avoid staining your clothes
- Before showering, brush your hair. This will get rid of most of the chalk.
- Use a moisturizing shampoo after washing out chalk. Doing this will replenish the moisture that the chalk's powder absorbed from your hair.
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Ken Tram: Would you recommend stabilizers on the sides? I have a double hammock so my wife and I will be in it...or will it support our weight together? With little to no sway.
liamh713: do you think that you could lash this together with rope?
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The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) website posted an article Monday that severely criticizes an article by Justin Martin, that appeared on CJR two weeks earlier, which portrays Israel as a country that stifles the press. Martin´s reply to the criticism exposes at least one outright lie in his claims.
The original article by Martin, a journalism professor at the University of Maine, relied on statistics from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) to determine that Israel ranks second in the world in a ranking he titled "Jailed Journalists by Population." The ranking was obtained by dividing a country´s population by the number of journalists detained in it.
Eritrea came in first and Iran came in third, followed by Syria, Myanmar, Ivory Coast and Rwanda.
Monday´s critique by Sohrab Ahmari notes that Martin drew political conclusions from the data. Although the Islamic Republic is up there, he wrote, Eritrea and Israel also need to do some explaining.
"Israel jails more journalists than either the Palestinian Authority (zero) or militant group Hamas (three), both of which it criticizes for human rights miscarriages," wrote Martin. He went on to explain that countries like Eritrea do not care if they are portrayed as brutal. "Israel, though, wants to be called a modern democracy and gets cranky when critics point out that it is not."
According to Ahmari, "Mr. Martins findings soon sparked a firestorm of controversy, with supporters of Israel crying foul at the latest instance of Israel-bashing in the prestige press. The outrage intensified once Jodi Rudoren, The New York Timess newly appointed Jerusalem bureau chief, took to her Twitter account to weigh in. ´What do Israel and Iran have in common? Jailing journalists, according to [CJR],´ she wrote, without pausing to consider the soundness of such a claim. (She later apologized.)"
"The outrage was justified," determined Ahmari. Martins methodology was "a classic example of the sort of statistical recklessness that CJR scolds other journalists for." He cited Commentarys Omri Ceren who pointed out that If you want a per capita number describing which countries disproportionately target journalists, you divide the jailed journalists in each country by the total number of journalists in each country, not by the total number of people.
"Otherwise," explained Ahmari, "tiny Israelhome to a huge press corps and where commentators in the Arab and leftist presses regularly question the states very right to existends up appearing more repressive than, say, North Korea, where a totalitarian regime does not permit journalism as such to exist."
"In Iran, where I was born and spent the first half of my life," Ahmari added, "journalists and writers are persecuted on a nearly industrial scale; dozens of outlets are shuttered every year But why should Western audiences care about these very real injustices when seemingly authoritative ´statistics´ show the Westincluding Israel and the U.S.to be equally authoritarian?"
Justin Martin responded by saying "I fully agree with this criticism. Unfortunately, we dont yet have reliable data on national tallies for working reporters in many of the countriesEritrea, Sudan, Ethiopiathat jail journalists. And even if such data were available, we would want counts of how many newsmakers in each country were working for regime-owned news sources versus private organizations. For now, although the data are a bit large and cumbersome, ratios of imprisoned reporters to countries population still deliver some meaning."
He denied any anti-Israel bias and even said that he "did Israel a favor," because the CPJ data actually "make Israel look worse." He explained that the CPJ report lists seven journalists as having been detained in "Israel and the Occupied Territories" and that he did some further reading and discovered that "three of them had been jailed by Hamas in Gaza" -- so he reduced the number from seven to four.
This leads to at least two questions:
1. How could Martin claim that "zero" journalists were jailed by the Palestinian Authority if he admits that three were jailed by Hamas in Gaza?
2. Maybe journalists are not jailed because, like Vittorio Arrigoni, they are abducted and murdered instead?
Question number one indicates that Martin simply lied when he claimed there were "zero" journalists imprisoned by the PA, because he admitted in his later posting that he knew at least three had been imprisoned in Gaza. (IsraelNationalNews © 2012 04/17/12)
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Information as an object of study, including theories, concepts, and principles of information, information seeking, cognitive processing, knowledge representation and restructuring, and their relationships to physical and intellectual access to information. Development of information systems for storage, organization, and retrieval. Experience in the application of theories, concepts, and principles.
Class description
Informatics is the study of information and information technology to meet people's needs. All these elements are essential – people, information, and information technology – but the magic happens in the interplay among the three.
The course focuses on the foundations of the informatics field in terms of conceptual understandings and implementation in practice. The topics are divided into five major modules:
(1) The Information Perspective (2) Human-Centered Approaches (3) Informatics In Practice (4) Information Ethics & Policy (5) Looking Ahead
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Book Review: 'Bruce Lee' by Tommy Gong
Published 10:00 pm, Friday, June 13, 2014
Before I read this book, I only knew that Bruce Lee had been a martial arts movie star. I had never seen one of his films or read anything about him. I had no idea what a fascinating person he was - not only was he a great athlete, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover what an incredible artist and philosopher he was. In fact, "artist" better defines him than "athlete," in my opinion, because as Tommy Gong shows in Bruce Lee: The Evolution of a Martial Artist, Bruce Lee was devoted to his art, constantly studying form and learning how to improve it, seeking to make it the formless form that could never become stagnant by making it adhere to hard principles.
Gong retells Bruce Lee's life story by focusing on his development of his own form, Jeet Kune Do. Gong explores the three primary periods of Lee's development and teaching while living in Oakland, Seattle, and Los Angeles at different times in his life. By interviewing Lee's former students, Gong found significant differences in what they were taught. The result is a new understanding of Lee's methods and the evolution of his formless form of Jeet Kune Do, and a close look at the philosophical beliefs Lee held about martial arts and about life itself.
Anyone already familiar with Lee and his martial arts will find all the details needed here to take that understanding to a new level, including the curriculum Lee gave his students, the influences on Lee, and his own thoughts and desires to develop his art. Gong states that the book's purpose is to answer the question, "What drove him [Lee] to modify his techniques and training methods, influencing his direction and development as a martial artist?"
What I found most amazing about this book is that while it could be used to understand and improve one's own technique, complete with photos of various moves and stances, more importantly, it reveals Lee's philosophy behind creating Jeet Kune Do and his refusal to capitalize upon creating a form that could be taught in a franchise of schools because he knew the students would suffer as a result. Lee insisted on personally teaching Jeet Kune Do to his students, and he did not expect them to follow his methods exactly but to use what they could and develop their own skills according to what worked best for each one. Among the many numerous quotes in the book from Lee about the development of Jeet Kune Do, Lee states, "Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style," and "The function of Jeet Kune Do is to liberate, not to bind." Gong adds, "He encouraged followers to blaze their own paths in their personal development and excellence in martial arts, to have faith and trust in themselves when taking directions that might even stray off the Bruce Lee path."
Lee understood that martial arts was about far more than physical fighting. He stated, "To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately mean self-knowledge. So, there are people coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body."
More than an athlete, movie star, or artist, Lee was also a philosopher. He was an adamant believer in positive thinking and even wrote poetry with a positive message to it. He believed in the spiritual side of his art, stating, "Jeet Kune Do, ultimately, is not a matter of petty technique but of highly developed personal spirituality and physique. It is not a question of developing what has already been developed but of recovering what has been left behind. These things have been with us, in us, all the time and have never been lost or distorted except by our misguided manipulation of them. JKD is not a matter of technology but of spiritual insight and training."


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I've mentioned PDF Download before – it's one of my favorite unobtrusive Firefox extensions. It sits in the background, and when you click a PDF link, you get a choice as to whether to open them in the browser, open them in an external viewer, or view them as HTML. Now, there's a beta of version 2.0 available, and it's better than ever.
The new version supports Firefox 2/3 and Flock and has an improved PDF to HTML engine. But the best part is the new address bar button that lets you save the current page as a PDF. The rendering into PDF is quite good; I threw some complex pages at it with no trouble. The only limit I hit was that it can't be used on password-protected pages, since the conversion is proxied through the NitroPDF servers. The beta is limited to the first 10,000 signups; if you don't get there in time, you can still install version 1.0.


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Competencies for Information Professionals of the 21st Century Revised edition, June 2003 Prepared for the Special Libraries Association Board of Directors by the Special Committee on Competencies for Special Librarians Eileen Abels, Rebecca Jones, John Latham, Dee Magnoni, Joanne Gard Marshall What is an Information Professional? An Information Professional ("IP�) strategically uses information in his/her job to advance the mission of the organization. The IP accomplishes this through the development, deployment, and management of information resources and services. The IP harnesses technology as a critical tool to accomplish goals. IPs include, but are not limited to librarians, knowledge managers, chief information officers, web developers, information brokers, and consultants. What are Information Organizations? Information organizations are defined as those entities that deliver informationbased solutions to a given market. Some commonly used names for these organizations include libraries, information centers, competitive intelligence units, intranet departments, knowledge resource centers, content management organizations, and others. Background The Special Libraries Association (SLA), an organization of dynamic and changeoriented IPs, has long been interested in the knowledge requirements of the field. The Association's members have explored and shared their vision of the competencies and skills required for specialized information management in many forums over the years. The first edition of the competencies document published in 1997 attempted to synthesize and build on earlier work in the light of ongoing social, technological and workplace change. This document has been widely used by IPs, as well as educators, employers, and current and prospective students. The 1997 edition may be found at: www.sla.org/competencies1997/
In preparation for the 2003 revision, the committee discussed the latest trends and reviewed other competency documents in peer industries. SLA's revised research statement, Putting OUR Knowledge to Work, with its emphasis on evidence-based practice, was also found to be highly relevant. Evidence-based practice involves consciously and consistently making professional-level decisions that are based on the strongest evidence from research and best practice about what would work best for our clients. The research statement is recommended as a companion document to the competencies. The SLA research statement may be found at www.sla.org/researchstatement/ In the information and knowledge age, specialists in information management are essential – they provide the competitive edge for the knowledge-based organization by responding with a sense of urgency to critical information needs. Information, both internally and externally produced, is the lifeblood of the knowledge-based organization and essential for innovation and continuing learning. Information sharing is also essential for any organization that is attempting to understand and manage its intellectual capital, often in a global context. IPs play a unique role in gathering, organizing and coordinating access to the best available information sources for the organization as a whole. They are also leaders in devising and implementing standards for the ethical and appropriate use of information. If IPs did not exist they would be reinvented as organizations struggle to gain control over ever-increasing amounts of information in multiple storage formats. The astounding growth of the Internet and the rise of electronic communications and storage media generally have transformed our work and personal lives. Information overload is a growing problem and IPs are needed more than ever to quality filter and provide needed information in an actionable form. In order to fulfil their purpose, IPs require two types of competencies: Professional Competencies relate to the practitioner's knowledge of information resources, access, technology and management, and the ability to use this knowledge as a basis for providing the highest quality information services. There are four major competencies, each augmented with specific skills: A. Managing Information Organizations B. Managing Information Resources C. Managing Information Services D. Applying Information Tools and Technologies Applied scenarios illustrate many of the myriad roles and responsibilities that IPs perform in organizations of all types. Personal Competencies represent a set of attitudes, skills and values that enable practitioners to work effectively and contribute positively to their organizations, clients and profession. These competencies range from being
strong communicators, to demonstrating the value-add of their contributions, to remaining flexible and positive in an ever-changing environment. Core Competencies anchor the professional and personal competencies. These two core competencies are absolutely essential for every information professional. As educated professionals, IPs understand the value of developing and sharing their knowledge; this is accomplished through association networks and by conducting and sharing research at conferences, in publications and in collaborative arrangements of all kinds. IPs also acknowledge and adhere to the ethics of the profession. The importance of these two cardinal core competencies cannot be emphasized enough; these are paramount to the value and viability of the profession. The competencies outlined in this document are a set of tools for professional growth, recruitment, and assessment. Specific jobs will require specific sets of competencies at various skill levels. We encourage you to use these competencies to create roadmaps of growth and development for yourself, your colleagues and your organizations.
Core Competencies I.
Information professionals contribute to the knowledge base of the profession by sharing best practices and experiences, and continue to learn about information products, services, and management practices throughout the life of his/her career. Information professionals commit to professional excellence and ethics, and to the values and principles of the profession.
Professional Competencies A. Managing Information Organizations Information professionals manage information organizations ranging in size from one employee to several hundred employees. These organizations may be in any environment from corporate, education, public, government, to non-profit. Information professionals excel at managing these organizations whose offerings are intangible, whose markets are constantly changing and in which both hightech and high-touch are vitally important in achieving organizational success. A.1 Aligns the information organization with, and is supportive of, the strategic directions of the parent organization or of key client groups through partnerships with key stakeholders and suppliers. A.2 Assesses and communicates the value of the information organization, including information services, products and policies to senior management, key stakeholders and client groups. A.3 Establishes effective management, operational and financial management processes and exercises sound business and financial judgments in making decisions that balance operational and strategic considerations. A.4 Contributes effectively to senior management strategies and decisions regarding information applications, tools and technologies, and policies for the organization. A.5 Builds and leads an effective information services team and champions the professional and personal development of people working within the information organization. A.6 Markets information services and products, both formally and informally, through web and physical communication collateral, presentations, publications and conversations. A.7 Gathers the best available evidence to support decisions about the development of new service and products, the modification of current services or the elimination of services to continually improve the array of information services offered. A.8 Advises the organization on copyright and intellectual property issues and compliance. Applied Scenarios
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Develops strategic and business plans that support the host organization's goals and that establish long-term stretch targets and near-term priorities for the information organization. Inspires a shared vision and creates a compelling mission for the organization that energizes people to work towards achieving its strategies and delighting its clients and key stakeholders. Conducts market research of the information behaviors and problems of current and potential client groups to identify concepts for new or enhanced information solutions for these groups. Transforms these concepts into specialized information products and services. Sets clear performance expectations linked to organizational strategies and priorities. Provides professional development opportunities for staff members. Calculates a return on investment for information services and products or develops other measurable contributions of the information organization. Clearly demonstrates the value-add of the information organization to clients and key stakeholders through communications with top management.
B. Managing Information Resources Information professionals have expertise in total management of information resources, including identifying, selecting, evaluating, securing and providing access to pertinent information resources.. These resources may be in any media or format. Information professionals recognize the importance of people as a key information resource. B.1 Manages the full life cycle of information from its creation or acquisition through its destruction. This includes organizing, categorizing, cataloguing, classifying, disseminating; creating and managing taxonomies, intranet and extranet content, thesauri etc. B.2 Builds a dynamic collection of information resources based on a deep understanding of clients' information needs and their learning, work and/or business processes. B.3 Demonstrates expert knowledge of the content and format of information resources, including the ability to critically evaluate, select and filter them. B.4 Provides access to the best available externally published and internally created information resources and deploys content throughout the organization using a suite of information access tools. B.5 Negotiates the purchase and licensing of needed information products and services. B.6 Develops information policies for the organization regarding externally published and internally created information resources and advises on the implementation of these policies. Applied Scenarios •
IPs are experts in identifying the best information resources, comparing free versus fee resources to determine if value-added features warrant the cost, examining features of resources available from multiple vendors, and providing access to those resources for the organization by negotiating cost-effective contracts with vendors. IPs select and secure information resources that are appropriate in terms of format, language, content, coverage and that provide special features that tailor the content and retrieval capabilities to specific needs of the user group; IPs may work together to provide group pricing or other cooperative arrangements both inside and outside the organization that provide the maximum value for the investment made.
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IPs integrate externally published and internally created information resources as well as knowledge resources to create new client-specific information collections and sources. IPs may use off-the-shelf information products recognizing that these products could require modifications to meet the needs of specific user groups; IPs then select or design and implement the required modifications. IPs select, preserve and make accessible technical reports, standards, best practices guidelines and other internal documents for ongoing use. IPs establish document retention schedules and access procedures to meet regulatory requirements.
C. Managing Information Services Information professionals manage the entire life cycle of information services, from the concept stage through the design, development, testing, marketing, packaging, delivery and divestment of these offerings. Information professionals may oversee this entire process or may concentrate on specific stages, but their expertise is unquestionable in providing offerings that enable clients to immediately integrate and apply information in their work or learning processes. C.1 Develops and maintains a portfolio of cost-effective, client-valued information services that are aligned with the strategic directions of the organization and client groups. C.2 Conducts market research of the information behaviors and problems of current and potential client groups to identify concepts for new or enhanced information solutions for these groups. Transforms these concepts into customized information products and services. C.3 Researches, analyzes and synthesizes information into accurate answers or actionable information for clients, and ensures that clients have the tools or capabilities to immediately apply these. C.4 Develops and applies appropriate metrics to continually measure the quality and value of information offerings, and to take appropriate action to ensure each offering's relevancy within the portfolio. C.5 Employs evidence-based management to demonstrate the value of and continually improve information sources and services. Applied Scenarios •
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Seeks opportunities to work with clients on projects or within their environments or operations to fully understand their processes, information behaviors and how information services can most effectively be utilized. Analyzes and synthesizes information into accurate answers or actionable information for clients, and ensures that clients have the tools or capabilities to immediately apply these. Customizes information services to better meet the specific needs and usage patterns of clients. Develops and delivers specific information packages or alerting services for clients such as competitive intelligence, business intelligence, industry monitors, topic or issue indicators.
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Develops, delivers and manages curricula educating clients in information literacy, Internet usage, and locating and interpreting information sources. Uses evidence-based management to present reasoned evidence of a service's value and an organization's abilities. Develops and applies measures of service/product usage, client satisfaction and the organizational or client impact of services and products. Regularly assesses clients' information wants and gaps using market research tools including questionnaires, surveys, interviews, focus groups and observation.
D. Applying Information Tools & Technologies Information professionals harness the current and appropriate technology tools to deliver the best services, provide the most relevant and accessible resources, develop and deliver teaching tools to maximize clients' use of information, and capitalize on the library and information environment of the 21st century. D.1 Assesses, selects and applies current and emerging information tools and creates information access and delivery solutions D.2 Applies expertise in databases, indexing, metadata, and information analysis and synthesis to improve information retrieval and use in the organization D.3 Protects the information privacy of clients and maintains awareness of, and responses to, new challenges to privacy D.4 Maintains current awareness of emerging technologies that may not be currently relevant but may become relevant tools of future information resources, services or applications Applied Scenarios •
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IPs are active partners with technology vendors, providing feedback, suggesting improvements, and keeping the needs of the clients in the forefront. IPs maintain awareness of emerging technologies through reading professional and popular documents, participating in peer dialogs, and attending courses, workshops, and conferences. IPs are prepared to advise all levels of the organization on how technology trends will affect the organization and the clients. IPs lead technology initiatives in their organizations by forming partnerships, obtaining buy-in of upper management, overseeing the project management life-cycle, and communicating to all critical levels of the organization. IPs test, select and use new technology tools as they are developed. IPs maintain awareness of the latest policy and legislative initiatives that will impact privacy, accessibility, and openness of information use and transfer, and of technology deployment. IPs educate others in the use of information tools and technologies in a variety of ways, from training people in finding the information they want on the Internet or in proprietary databases to integrating information tools into their clients' workflow or curriculum.
Personal Competencies Every information professional: - Seeks out challenges and capitalizes on new opportunities - Sees the big picture - Communicates effectively - Presents ideas clearly; negotiates confidently and persuasively - Creates partnerships and alliances - Builds an environment of mutual respect and trust; respects and values diversity - Employs a team approach; recognizes the balance of collaborating, leading and following - Takes calculated risks; shows courage and tenacity when faced with opposition - Plans, prioritises and focuses on what is critical - Demonstrates personal career planning - Thinks creatively and innovatively; seeks new or 'reinventing' opportunities - Recognizes the value of professional networking and personal career planning - Balances work, family and community obligations - Remains flexible and positive in a time of continuing change - Celebrates achievements for self and others Applied Scenarios as prepared by the Competencies Development Committee, January 2004: Seeks out challenges and capitalizes on new opportunities • • • • •
Actively pursues new roles in the organization that require an information leader. Demonstrates that their professional knowledge and skills solve a variety of information problems in a wide range of settings. Foresees changes impacting clients or patrons and aggressively explores services and programs options and offerings. Helps others develop their new ideas. Views and uses technology as an enabler of new information ideas, products and services.
Sees the big picture • •
Understands the environment in which her/his parent organization is operating and how the library or information services contribute towards those operations. Views the library and its information services as part of the bigger process of making informed decisions; gives the highest priority to
demands and projects critical to the organization's competitive advantage. Monitors major trends and world events that may impact the parent organization and/or the library profession; considers the impacts of these trends and pro-actively realigns library and information services to take advantage of them.
Communicates effectively • • • •
Presents ideas clearly, succinctly and enthusiastically, either verbally or in writing, always in the 'language' of the audience, and with an understanding of their perceptions and perspectives. Demonstrates a professional, approachable presentation style with all audiences. Actively listens, considers and then responds. Requests feedback on communications skills and uses it for selfimprovement.
Presents ideas clearly; negotiates confidently and persuasively • • •
Conveys effective, clear and assertive messages and coaches others to do the same. Believes in his/her ability to provide the best possible information service and relays that message to staff, management and clients alike. Demonstrates well-honed negotiation skills and the ability to secure the terms most beneficial for all concerned.
Creates partnerships and alliances • • • •
Seeks alliances with other functions in the organization, such as information technology or human resources, to optimize complementary knowledge and skills. Forms partnerships with other libraries or information services inside or outside the organization to optimize resource sharing. Seeks alliances with content and technology suppliers and other information providers to improve products, services and operations. Seeks alliances with researchers in faculties of library and information studies to conduct relevant and practical studies.
Builds an environment of mutual respect and trust; respects and values diversity • • •
Treats others with respect and values diversity. Knows own strengths and the complementary strengths of others. Delivers on time and on target and expects others to do the same.
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Creates a problem-solving environment in which everyone's contribution is valued and acknowledged, and helps others optimize their contribution. Advocates for a work environment that encourages and supports ongoing knowledge development and that values the contribution of people.
Employs a team approach; recognizes the balance of collaborating, leading and following • • •
Works as part of the team regardless of his/her position or level. Develops and uses leadership and collaboration skills. Keeps abreast of trends in leadership skills and styles, using this knowledge to help self and others develop the most effective and appropriate approaches in different contexts. Willing to share leadership or to follow when this is in the best interests of all involved. Mentors other team members and asks for mentoring from others when it is needed.
Takes calculated risks; shows courage and tenacity when faced with opposition • • •
Shows courage when faced with opposition. Works closely with those in power who may say 'no' to clearly understand what's required to arrive at 'yes.' Asks "what's the worst that can happen?" and, if they can live with the answer, goes for it.
Plans, prioritizes and focuses on what is critical • • • •
Recognizes that in order to use resources (including human resources, content and financial resources) most effectively, ongoing, careful planning is required. Refuses to let the 'cry of the urgent' drown out the 'drone of the critical' if the urgent is not aligned with where the library or service organization is strategically headed. Incorporates strategic imperatives into the individual goals and objectives of self and others to ensure long-term plans drive daily decisions and operations. Regularly reviews plans to ensure the organization is still on track or is responsive to unforeseen developments.
Demonstrates personal career planning •
Is committed to a career that involves ongoing learning and personal growth. Takes personal responsibility for finding these opportunities for
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learning and enrichment as well as for long-term career planning. Maintains a strong sense of self-worth based on the achievement of a balanced set of evolving personal and professional goals. Seeks out performance feedback from management, clients and/or mentors and uses it for continuous improvement. Envisions his/her individual 'preferred' future and maps a path to arrive there successfully.
Thinks creatively and innovatively; seeks new or 'reinventing' opportunities •
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Pursues positions or projects outside the information service department or library to gain a better understanding of how other functions apply information in their work; uses this understanding to create inventive services and programs that are indispensable to patrons and clients. Regularly scans for new ideas both within and beyond the library field to anticipate the future, "guesstimate" the implications and carve out new opportunities. Looks at existing operations, processes and services and asks "why?" Examines changes to these operations, processes and services and asks "why not?"
Recognizes the value of professional networking •
Actively contributes to and participates in SLA and other professional associations, sharing insight, knowledge and skills; bench marks against other information service providers and to form partnerships and alliances. Recognizes the need for a forum where information professionals can communicate with each other and speak with one voice on important information policy issues, such as copyright and the global information infrastructure. Contributes towards the building and maintenance of a strong profession, thereby enhancing its value in the eyes of colleagues, clients and the broader community.
Balances work, family and community obligations •
Supports self and others in the continual search for a balanced lifestyle. Optimises opportunities for all those involved to lead healthy and satisfying professional and personal lives.
Remains flexible and positive in a time of continuing change
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Willingly assumes different responsibilities at different points in time that respond to changing needs. Maintains a positive attitude and helps others to do the same. Seeks solutions and initiates problem-solving processes.
Celebrates achievements for self and others • • • •
Nominates employees and colleagues for awards in the organization, association or community. Creates and contributes towards an environment where achievements, large and small, are acknowledged, celebrated and rewarded. Knows that "little things count" and encourages mutual support and sharing in the organization and within the profession. Celebrates own success and that of others; takes pride in a job well done.
CONCLUSION These are the competencies of Information Professionals for the 21st century. They have their roots in the past and reach far into the future. These competencies form the basis for growth in the information age. IPs recognize and embrace the expanding nature of the field and the challenges facing them. Although the core of the profession remains the same, the methods and tools for information delivery and the scope of the enterprise continue to grow and change dramatically. While maintaining their client and content-centered approach, practitioners increasingly require advanced knowledge of information technology to realize their full potential. Continually emerging opportunities will propel the prepared professional into as yet unseen realms of advanced information retrieval, interpretation, synthesis, product development and virtual services on a global scale. The Special Committee on Competencies hopes that this document will evolve and grow through continuing discussion of our expanding knowledge and practice base. We encourage SLA members to provide examples of their activities in relation to these competencies. Mutual support in the form of building a shared culture of evidence-based practice will be a key to meeting the challenges ahead. The Committee recommends that members consult the association's research statement Putting OUR Knowledge to Work cited earlier for additional information on this concept. A regularly updated Career Planning and Competencies Portal can be found at www.sla.org/competenciesportal.
Published on Apr 23, 2010
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Marketing to Generate Revenues
Posted: January 6, 2016
As I have conversations with grain producers about farming, markets and generating revenues; I am regularly impressed with the wide diversity across individual businesses. There does not seem to be a set response when you consider the needs and expectations of specific farm management teams and individual families.
How about the following list of business topics as a substitute for a standard response? I believe we should all be discussing these, if we haven't already, as we continue our careers in food production.
Business topics to consider:
- Risk tolerance of each management team member
- Tools to mitigate the risk we want to share with others
- Costs, benefits, and flexibility of these tools
- 2015 cost-of-production
- 2015 revenues generated
- 2016 projected cost-of-production
- 2016 projection of revenues
- 2017?
When grain producers are squeezing their budgets, typically; seed, fertilizer, land, and machinery are the places to control costs with the most effect. The market will only give us a price that the market agrees with. The market has no responsibility to give us profits. Our current management challenge may be to maintain, and perhaps grow our enterprises. From at least 2008 through 2013; grain cropping was offering many opportunities to gain income above expenses. More recently, most grain producers decreased their net worth in 2015. 2016 might be similar. Now is the time to control expenses without losing site of maximum production.
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Oakland, Berkeley, And East Bay News, Events, Restaurants, Music, & Arts
Oooooohhhh very well put Carol, I'm from Oakland and there is a lot of truth to everything you have written.
RESPECT AND LOVE is a key attribute for balance.
Actually, don't come to First Friday. The people in the neighborhood that actually live where it happens (me being one of them) hate it. It inconveniences and disturbs us, and the police harass the homeless people in the area that have been displaced by rising rents and illegal evictions in order to "clean up" to hide the city's inhuman treatment of homeless folks -- most of which are people of color. Two buildings for disabled people have residents that are literally prisoners on that night because they're wheelchair bound and the crowds are anything but wheelchair friendly. Drunk people cause a fuss in the streets when our children are trying to sleep. The neighborhood the days after is awash in garbage. First Friday is part of the gentrification long time residents of Oakland hate. So stay home or go somewhere else on the first Friday of the month because we don't want you here.
Wow. It has gotten bad there. I owed a home in West Oakland from 2005 to 2008. In 2004 the city of Oakland was supposed to help build a People's Co-op Grocery store where the old abandon train station is on Wood St. They didn't do this not because the funds weren't there or that they didn't have a location. The real and honest reason simply is that city officials don't care about the black community. If you live there or move there, help support community gardens, keep calling and writing to the city until they come through with their end of the bargain, and if you can help the schools out by offering to tutor kids that need it for free. It's been over ten years that the city was suppose to build the grocery store. It's time. And if you have a problem with music then don't live there. West Oakland historically was been one of the corner stones for jazz, blues, hip hop, you name it. There are several music studios in West Oakland. That neighborhood has been a black community for many generations and they deserve some respect and some nurturing.
In regards to the amount of existing housing units in Oakland and the myth that more housing needs to be built-
According to the last US Census and data from the City of Oakland, the number of vacant, habitable Oakland housing units being purposefully held off of the rental and sale market by the owner is 6.2 per every unsheltered person in Oakland.
The housing crisis in Oakland is not about a lack of housing units, it is about a lack of access to the existing housing. Access to housing is blocked not only by sky rocketing prices, it is also blocked by the city's and the state's policy of allowing housing to sit vacant in the midst of a housing crisis of historic proportions. Oakland citizens die on the streets while our elected officials allow speculator property owners to hold housing units vacant thus decreasing the supply in a time of extremely high demand. Consequently the lack of supply drives the rental prices and thus property values unattainably high.
Can anyone look into another judicial injustice in Hillsborough county florida. Gang crackdowns have sentenced a young man to 6 yrs and 8 months for florida rico violations. Look into Operation SURrender by the Hillsborough county Sheriffs operation and Pam Bondhi claiming that these young boys are the worst of the worst of the Surrenos. A real life witch hunt to further the re election of Pam Bondhi has ruined several young Mexicans lives as they have sat in county jail for over two years with Judge Holder denying every motion for bond reduction. Now forced to take a plea or get threatened with thirty years if taken to trial. The state had no evidence of racketeering or proof of two predicate acts. Makes me hate being a white american when such injustices can put an innocent young man in prison for over 6 years and ruin his future as well as his five year old sons. Sickening and nobody cares because these boys grew up in gang life. That doesnt mean they dont have the same civil rights as you and I.
Thank you for your reporting and your snarky writing, when such was not just appropriate, but required. Telling truth to and about power i.e. our senior Senator; the rot at the Coastal Commission and private profiteers in our national park are but a few examples. You published stories that other so-called news organizations turned a blind eye to or dumbed down for click bait. So, thanks, Bob. Long may you run. I've set up a Google Alert in your name and look forward to your ongoing outstanding reportage. With deep bows. Susan Ives
Rent affordability, home purchasing and the growth of the middle class is in serious jeopardy and this issue is not isolated to a few Cities. Its an issue that is growing rapid and its spreading across America as this article states. BTW to all the jack behinds commenting you should go to college and the likes...lets see recently at the Google headquarters a few Programmmers are living in utility trucks parked in the employees parking lot. There are engineers in SF currently paying for the privilaged to sleep on a couch the same amount the entire apartment should actually cost. So this isnt an issue that is solve with education as many of you Arseholes would like to chime in on. This has more to do with an elitist class whom have choosen not only to stop paying Taxes. Who have figured out that you can buy large scores of land cash using Shell Realtor Comp and speculating neighborhoods. Money Laundering you betcha!!! Panama Papers 2.0
This is a WORKING CLASS ISSUES AND THE WORKING CLASD NEEDS TO MOBILIZE IN AMERICA.
"Costa-Hawkins, which doesn't get nearly enough attention from the news media, prohibits Oakland from establishing rent control on buildings constructed after 1983."
Mr. Gammon: Costa-Hawkins exempts units constructed after 1995, not 1983.
Oakland's own rent control ordinance sets 1983 as the cut-off date (Art. 1, sec. 8.22.030(A)(5)), and not Costa-Hawkins. San Francisco has a similar built-in date to their ordinance (1979). Like Costa-Hawkins, both were set at the time the laws were respectively passed - and Costa-Hawkins was modeled on this.
I just spoke with some anti-gentrification activists at the city council meeting last night. They told me with a straight face they wanted to stop all luxury housing in the entire bay area and only building low income housing to stop the gentrification of the region. I asked them how they could actually stop investors from building any market rate housing and they simply asserted they could. I asked them what it cost to build a unit of housing and they didn't dispute a cost of 300,000 to half a million dollars but they said there were enough state and local funds to build low cost housing.
I proposed we needed to build more housing at all income levels and they sneered I was one of those "supply side people."
One of the pair said he knew how to crash the real estate market. I asked with great interest how we could do this and he said that currently the city of Oakland pays landowners of vacant land in Oakland not to build housing in order to keep the price of real estate high. " If housing were built on the vacant land it would lower the price of housing."
I jumped on the comment to say I completely agreed with him more housing would help to lower or "crash" the market price. He then seemed to realize t he was also supply sider.
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We'll miss all your great reporting, writing, and editing. Thanks, and best of luck!
Yes, Robert did the best article on AC Transit and the new buses from hell...and, I was always surprised when Chris Peeples from AC Board (usually a man with intelligence and reason) who I rode the bus with over the years, didn't want to admit to the mistakes made by the board....it was terrific journalism and Chris apparently was caught in the middle of a thorny issue and took to throwing the reality exposed in the article, under the bus!
Your very well researched two issue expose of AC Transit's Buses from Hell was a great example of investigative reporting. Too bad the lover of the buses, Chris Peeples on the board, just dismissed it as "yellow journalism." If that was "yellow journalism," I hope you get a chance to do some more. We need it!
Moving here from LA in 2008 (the day of Obama's election), I quickly became a devoted reader of EBX. You introduced me to the real Oakland and I always read your stuff first. Thank you for reporting facts.
I am sorry to see you leave your post. I usually read Seven Days and have often found it to contain very valuable information that was lacking in other newspapers. I wish you the best.
Thanks, Robert, for your work all these years at the EBX -- and the Oakland Trib!
Thanks for the shout-out, Bob. Oh, what fun we had in those heady mid Aughts, huh? Good luck to you!
Best wishes Bob. You have big shoes to fill. Thanks for all your good reporting over the years.
Bob, hate to see you go as Seven Days is the way I get my day going, much more stimulating than the proverbial cup of coffee. I have to say, without the Express in the last year, we may have never known all the shenanigans around the E 12th St parcel fiasco and today's piece on Redefining What Affordable Housing means in Oaktown is the kind of journalism I hope will continue without you. I am so very grateful for the cover story the Express did on Oakland's mobile food policy and the lack of permits for food trucks to pull that caused then food writer Jon Birdall to describe me as "calculating or clueless!" I happen to know where you're headed and wish you'd also replace Chip Johnson with a column for the Chron but maybe that is truly dreaming. Blessings on you.


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Have I mentioned lately that I'm in a season of waiting, wondering, and doubting?
Oh yes.
I'm forced to wait on God because I thought He was taking me to a different place, another destination, right now.
I was anticipating something special to be happen that never panned out.
It's a dashed dream that I dared to dream.
We don't like to talk about that sort of thing very much. We rather focus on living out our dreams, dreaming our dreams, chasing our dreams.
But what should we do when the dream ends? When the dream is forced to change? When your dream turned out to not be God's dream for you?
No matter how much I've prayed and surrendered my dream to the Lord, the disappointment still takes my breathe away as I face the reality today.
I've wondered if there is something wrong with me. Did I do something wrong? I've doubted whether I really heard God clearly. Or was it my deceitful heart clamoring more loudly than God's whisper. Is that even possible?
I've looked for perspective on why things went the way they did, and occasionally, I feel like I can peak behind the scenes to gain a some measure of understanding. Occasionally.
Even without answers, I'm learning how to press into the Lord, asking for His leading as I face this crossroads and wonder, "What's next?"
Waiting seems to be the marching orders I have from the Lord, but I take comfort in knowing I'm not alone. It's part of what He does with His people. Noah waited in the boat for an entire year. Abraham waited on a son. Hannah waited, too. The Israelites waited…and wandered…before entering the promised land. Zechariah waited to speak again. Paul waited in jail. Jesus waited to be reunited with His Father in heaven.
In the waiting, we can experience God's constant, tender spirit reminding us to be more in the present than concerned with the future. I'm learning this truth, as my friend, Jennifer penned in her Loop Devotional…
"Waiting on Me is not a place of being alone—really. For I am always with you. Waiting on Me yields alignment with Me. It produces greater trust in my will, with believing it is okay for you to not see what is ahead so clearly. You know that I see, and you trust that it is okay for you to trust my sight, my heart, more than you trust yourself."
And so I am waiting…and choosing not to worry or wonder myself into a paralyzed state.
In the waiting, there is life to be lived. {click to tweet}
As the Lord so gently reminded me, to wait is not to do nothing. It is to be active in my faith and my focus.
Waiting can be a call to action.
Watch God work in His ways.
Ask God about His purposes.
Invite God to work in your heart.
Trust God to fulfill His plans.
Waiting on God isn't about doing nothing — or NO thing; It is about allowing God to do His thing.
So how will you face the waiting in your life today?


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Accessory rural occupations are intended to support agricultural and rural enterprises with reasonable operational characteristics, scale, and intensity so that they function as accessory to the principle use on the property without negatively impacting the enjoyment of life, investments and rural living expectations on neighboring properties.
Outside of Growth Management Area (GMA) overlay zone districts on property zoned FA- Farming, FA-1 Farming, FO- Forestry, FO-1 Forestry, O-Open, or RE- Rural Estate; property must be at least 2 acres in size
There are two levels of accessory rural occupation uses, those that are "Use by Right" and those that require approval through a Public Site Plan Review.
Prohibited uses: Accommodation uses, Adult uses, Auto body or paint shops, Community halls, Flea markets, General industrial uses, General retail, Hazardous material storage and/or processing, Junkyards, Pet animal facilities with outdoor uses, Shooting ranges, Solid waste disposal or transfer centers, Uses prohibited by State or Federal law, Value-added agriculture, Uses classified as hazardous waste generators under State or Federal legislation, Outdoor storage of recreational vehicles, boats, and other large items. See Land Use Code Section 4.3 for descriptions of these uses.
If you would like more specific information or if you have a question that's not answered here, please contact the Larimer County Planning Department at (970)498-7679 or send us email.


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Juma'ah bin Ali bin Juma'ah, Oman's Manpower Minister, has said results of population, housing, establishment census carried out by Ministry of National Economy in December 2003 will offer the opportunity to verify the comprehensiveness and improve the accuracy of the statistical data on expatriate workforce his Ministry publishes.
According to <i>ONA</I>, the Minister said figures with the Ministry of Manpower indicated that around 580,000 expatriates were working in the private sector as at the end of 2003 while the census numbers for the same were less than that.
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1/2 cup cold milk
1 pkg. (3.9 oz.) JELL-O Chocolate Instant Pudding
36 OREO Cookies, finely crushed (about 3 cups)
1-1/2 pkg. (8 squares each) BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate (12 squares), melted
1 square BAKER'S White Chocolate, melted
STIR milk and pudding mix in medium bowl with large spoon just until moistened. Immediately stir in cookie crumbs; mix well.
SHAPE into 42 (1-inch) balls. Freeze 10 min. Dip in semi-sweet chocolate; place in single layer in shallow waxed paper-lined pan.
REFRIGERATE 20 min. or until firm. Drizzle with white chocolate; refrigerate 10 min. or until firm.


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MINORITY INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM NIH GUIDE, Volume 21, Number 16, May 1, 1992 PA NUMBER: PA-92-72 P.T. 44, FF Keywords: Biomedical Research Training Cardiovascular Diseases Pulmonary Diseases Hematology National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Letter of Intent Receipt Date: July 1, 1992 Application Receipt Date: August 24, 1992 PURPOSE The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) announces a program to support full time research training for investigative careers at minority schools in areas related to cardiovascular, pulmonary, and hematologic diseases. HEALTHY PEOPLE 2000 The Public Health Service (PHS) is committed to achieving the health promotion and disease prevention objectives of "Healthy People 2000," a PHS-led national activity for setting priority areas. This program announcement, Minority Institutional Research Training, is related to the priority area of heart disease and stroke. Potential applicants may obtain a copy of "Healthy People 2000" (Full Report: Stock No. 017-001-00474-0) or "Healthy People 2000" (Summary Report: Stock No. 017-001-00473-1) through the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9325 (telephone 202-783-3238). ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Grants in this program will be made to minority institutions, each of which will collaborate with a research center that has well-established cardiovascular, pulmonary, or hematologic research and research training programs. The applicant institution must be a domestic medical or non-medical college, university or equivalent school in which students of underrepresented minority groups, including Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, and Asian and Pacific Islanders, comprise a majority or a significant proportion school enrollment. The program director at the minority school will be responsible for the selection and appointment of trainees and the overall direction of the training program. The collaborating research center should be a medical school or comparable institution that has strong, well-established cardiovascular, pulmonary, or hematologic research and research training programs. Cooperation between institutions is needed to provide each trainee with a mentor who is recognized as an accomplished investigator in cardiovascular, pulmonary, or hematologic research and who will assist the advisor at the minority institution in the trainee's development and research plan. Each trainee will be placed with a mentor who is an accomplished investigator at the cooperating research center and who will assist the advisor at the minority institution in the trainee's development and research plan. Trainees must be training at the post-baccalaureate level in a relevant biomedical or behavioral science and have made a strong commitment to completing a doctoral degree, be enrolled in a minority health professional school, and have a doctoral degree or equivalent in a biomedical or behavioral science. MECHANISM OF SUPPORT The mechanism of support is the Institutional National Research Service Award (T32) research training grant. Institutions may request up to five years of support. Training programs may support predoctoral students, postdoctoral trainees, and short-term trainees in health professional schools. Stipend levels for predoctoral and short-term trainees are $8,800 per year and stipend levels for postdoctoral trainees range from $18,600 to $32,300 per year. Stipends may be supplemented from non-Federal sources. Training related expenses, tuition and fees, and travel expenses may also be requested for trainees, although the levels may vary depending on the type of training to be supported. The trainees may be appointed for 9-12 months (for short-term trainees, the period of appointment may be of 2 to 3 months duration) at any time during the course of the budget period after he/she has been accepted as a full-time student. A strong interest in a cardiovascular, pulmonary, or hematologic research career must be evident. Indirect costs will be awarded based on eight percent of total direct costs with no exclusions from the base for training- related expenses. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES The Minority Institutional Research Training Program is designed to offer research training grant awards in cardiovascular, pulmonary, and hematologic research to minority schools to enable qualified graduate students, health professional students, and postdoctoral students to participate in research programs. It is expected to attract students in the developmental stages, increase awareness of these diseases, and to acquaint them with career opportunities in research. The Minority Institutional Research Training Program is intended to: o Train graduate students, health professional students, and postdoctoral students at minority schools that have the potential to develop a meritorious program in cardiovascular, pulmonary, or hematologic* research for research careers in areas relevant to these diseases. o Stimulate cardiovascular, pulmonary, and hematologic diseases and hematologic resources research, prevention, control, and education by offering minority school graduate students, health professional students, and postdoctoral students the opportunity to enhance their research capabilities in these areas. * Within NHLBI, the term "hematologic" covers research on thrombosis and hemostasis, immunohematology, blood cell disorders, sickle cell disease, blood resources, including blood component and derivative therapy, blood substitutes and blood resource management, aspects of AIDS products in AIDS prevention and treatment, and AIDS-related bone marrow and hematologic disorders. Other Institutes of the NIH are responsible for research on disorders of white cells, including the leukemias, and other blood malignancies, and basic immunology related to the lymphoid system. Therefore the NHLBI does not provide support for such studies. LETTER OF INTENT Each prospective applicant is requested to forward a letter of intent that includes a descriptive title, the name and address of the Program Director, the name and location of the institution to serve as the research center, names of key investigators, and any other participating institutions. Such letters are requested for the purpose of obtaining an indication of the number and scope of the applications to be reviewed. A letter of intent is not binding, is not a requirement of submission, and does not enter into the review of the application. The letter of intent is requested by July 1, 1992, and is to be addressed to: Scientific Review Administrator Research Training Review Committee Division of Extramural Affairs National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Westwood Building, Room 550 Bethesda, MD 20892 APPLICATION PROCEDURES Applications are to be submitted on the grant application form PHS 398 (rev. 9/91). Application kits are available at most institutional business offices and may be obtained from the Office of Grants Inquiries, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, Westwood Building, Room 449, Bethesda, MD 20892, telephone (301) 496-7441. The title and number of the announcement must be typed in section 2a on the face page of the application. The completed original application and five legible copies must be sent or delivered to: Division of Research Grants National Institutes of Health Westwood Building, Room 240 Bethesda, MD 20892** Applications must be received on or before August 24, 1992. REVIEW PROCEDURES All applications responding to this announcement will be reviewed for scientific and technical merit by the Research Training Review Committee of the Division of Extramural Affairs, NHLBI, followed by a second level review by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council. AWARD CRITERIA Applications will compete for available funds with other approved applications assigned to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. The following will be considered in making funding decisions: o Scientific and technical merit of the application as determined by peer review o Availability of funds o Program balance among the research areas of the announcement INQUIRIES Written and telephone inquires are encouraged. Guidelines for this program may be obtained from any of the following: John Fakunding, Ph.D. Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Federal Building, Room 3C04 Bethesda, MD 20892 Telephone: (301) 496-1724 Helena Mishoe, Ph.D. Division of Blood Diseases and Resources National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Federal Building, Room 504 Bethesda, MD 20892 Telephone: (301) 496-6931 Mary Reilly, M.S. Division of Lung Diseases National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Westwood Building, Room 640A Bethesda, MD 20892 Telephone: (301) 496-7668 For fiscal and administrative matters, please contact: Grants Operations Branch Division of Extramural Affairs National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Westwood Building, Room 4A15C Bethesda, MD 20892 Telephone: (301) 496-7255 AUTHORITY AND REGULATIONS This program is described in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Nos. 93.837, 93.838, and 93.839. Awards will be made under the authority of the Public Health Service Act, Title III, Section 301 (Public Law 78-410, as amended; 42 USC 241) and administered under PHS grants policies and Federal Regulations at 42 CFR Part 52 and 45 CFR Part 74. This program is not subject to the intergovernmental review requirements of Executive Order 12372 or Health Systems Agency review. .
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The International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering
The International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering (IJSLE) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal offered free, semi-annually, over the World Wide Web. The Journal welcomes manuscripts based on original work of students and researchers with a specific focus or implication for service learning in engineering, engineering entrepreneurship in service, or related service learning pedagogy.
Campus Compact
A national organization or more than 900 college and university presidents committed to developing skills of civic participation among college students through involvement in the community.
Commission for Student Involvement
Did you ever need information on a student activities program or want to chat about earth-shattering research and trends in campus activities? Thanks to technology, you can now interact with other student activities professionals through an Internet discussion group sponsored by Commission for Student Involvement.
Corporation for National and Community Service
A government organization created by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993.
Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
Home of the distinguished Michigan Journal for Community Service-Learning.
Service-Learning LISTSERV
The active listserv of service-learning educators.
NSLC Funding Sources
An excellent resource on Service Learning funding.
Related Readings
Useful articles about service learning in higher education.