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Severity of desertification on world stage
Desertification puts the health and well-being of more than 1.2 billion people in more than 100 countries at risk, according to the United Nations. The theme of this year's World Day to Combat Desertification, held every year on 17 June, is 'Desertification and Climate Change – One Global Challenge'.
According to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), desertification is a process of land degradation that is partly due to human-induced activities. With their view from space, satellites can track land-use changes that often drive desertification – such as over-cultivation, ill-managed irrigation and deforestation.
As stated by the Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-moon, "The theme of this year's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought … reminds us that climate change and desertification interact with each other at a variety of levels. They are two major manifestations of the same problem.
"On this World Day, let us strive to address desertification and climate change in a synergetic fashion, as part of an integrated approach to achieving sustainable development for all."
Desertification does not so much refer to the spread of existing deserts as the creation of new ones, through the reduction of productivity of vulnerable dryland areas by soil deterioration and erosion as well as the long-term loss of natural vegetation.
Because dryland desertification can be remedied or even reversed by using appropriate land management techniques, monitoring and forecasting areas most at risk are essential. As well as highlighting any relevant land use change, the view from space can support authorities in getting an overall picture of key pressures on land, such as burned land due to forest fires, erosion processes and their trends over time. This information, together with climatic data and socio-economic information provides an overview of the main causes and effects of land degradation.
ESA has been working closely with the UNCCD secretariat for more than five years to develop user-tailored and standardised information services based on satellite observations to assess and monitor desertification and its trends over time.
In 2004, ESA launched a satellite-based information service called DesertWatch to work with three of the European countries most affected by desertification – Italy, Portugal and Turkey. In addition to helping national and regional authorities to assess and monitor land degradation and desertification, DesertWatch also aims to support these authorities in reporting to the UNCCD.
To this end, satellite observations have been combined with in-situ information, processing tools, numerical models and geo-information systems to create standardised and comparable geo-information products that can be used to satisfy UNCCD reporting requirements.
The DesertWatch project is now close to completing its second phase, during which a full operational system has been developed by an international consortium. The DesertWatch information system will provide key public administrations with a large number of indicators and geo-information products relevant to monitoring and assessing the status of land degradation.
The ultimate objective of DesertWatch is to install software tools in the main operational centres of participating countries to help national and local authorities to complete and improve their assessment on land degradation and facilitate their decision making process in their fight to combat desertification.
The Eighth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 8) of UNCCD will be held in Madrid, Spain, from 3 to 14 September. The COP is the main decision making group of the UNCCD, which meets regularly to further the Convention's objectives.
ESA will host a side event throughout the UNCCD COP entitled 'Earth Observation Technology to support the UNCCD: the DesertWatch project'. DesertWatch is taking place as part of ESA's EO Data User Element (DUE).


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Browse the Library's DVDsSunday, February 28th, 2010
If you are a regular user of the Library's DVD collection, you already know that it wasn't always easy to browse our holdings. NOW, we've made it easier to browse and find something good to watch. The DVD cases have been moved from behind the desk, out on to display shelves, adjacent to the Circulation Desk and just next to the Library's video collection. To check out a DVD, just pick a case from the shelf and take it to the Circulation Desk. Normal loan rules still apply:
DVD check-out is limited to current CFCC students, faculty, & staff.
No more than 2 DVDs may be checked-out at a time.
The loan period for DVDs is 1 week.
The overdue fine for DVDs is $1 per day, per DVD.
If you're looking for a specific title, you can still browse the printed list or use the online catalog. We hope you enjoy the new arrangement!


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UN-Biodiversitätsrat gegründet
UN gründet WeltbiodiversitätsratDNR, 21.12.10
Die UN-Generalversammlung hat am 20.12. der Gründung des Weltbiodiversitätsrat (IPBES) formal zugestimmt. In Anlehnung an den Weltklimarat IPPC existiert nun das neue Gutachtergremium zur Biologischen Vielfalt unter dem Dach der Vereinten Nationen. Die Gründung des Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, kurz IPBES, war bereits im Juni auf einer Konferenz des UN-Umweltprogramms UNEP in Pusan in Südkorea beschlossen worden.
Hauptaufgabe des internationalen politischen Gremiums soll es sein, nach Vorbild des Weltklimarates IPPC regelmäßig politischen Entscheidungsträgern zuverlässig unabhängige und glaubwürdige Informationen über den Zustand und die Entwicklung der Biodiversität als Entscheidungshilfe zur Verfügung zu stellen. Außer globalen Analysen sind aber auch nationale und regionale Berichte vorgesehen, die die Wissenschaftler fast ausschließlich ehrenamtlich erstellen sollen. Der erste Bericht soll in drei Jahren vorgelegt werden.
Darüber hinaus soll die Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services eine Brücke zwischen Politik und Wissenschaft schlagen.
Die geschätzten jährlichen Kosten von zweieinhalb bis fünf Millionen Euro für Gutachten sowie von etwa drei Millionen Euro für die Unterhaltung eines zentralen IPBES-Sekretariats und möglicherweise regionalen Sekretariaten sollen auf freiwilliger Basis durch die Geberländer getragen werden. Wo der Rat seinen Sitz haben soll, ist noch nicht geklärt.
UNO schafft Expertengremium zur Erforschung von ArtensterbenAFP, 21.12.10
Neuer Weltrat soll Artensterben bekämpfenAPA, 21.12.10
"Wir müssen noch viel mehr wissen"UN gründen Expertengremium zur Biodiversität
Reinhold Leinfelder im Gespräch mit Georg Ehring, Deutschlandfunk, 21.12.10
Zur Erforschung des Artenschwundes hat die UN-Vollversammlung die Forschungsplattform für Biodiversität und Ökosysteme gegründet. Professor Reinhold Leinfelder, Generaldirektor des Museums für Naturkunde in Berlin, sagt sinngemäß, nur was der Mensch wirklich kennt, kann er auch schützen.(...)
Biodiversity Year Ends on a High Note as UN General Assembly Backs Resolution Signing into Life an 'IPCC-for Nature'UNEP Press Release, 21.12.10
New York/Nairobi, 21 December 2010 A new international body aimed at catalyzing a global response to the loss of biodiversity and world's economically-important forests, coral reefs and other ecosystems was born yesterday by governments at the United Nations 65th General Assembly (UNGA).
It underlines a further success of the UN's International Year of Biodiversity and should provide a boost to the International Year of Forests which begins in January 2011, and the international decade of biodiversity, also beginning in January 2011.
The adoption, by the UNGA plenary, was the last approval needed for setting up an Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Governments gave a green light to its establishment in June at a meeting in Busan, Republic of Korea, coordinated by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), but this required a resolution to be passed at the UNGA.
The independent platform will in many ways mirror the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which has assisted in catalyzing worldwide understanding and governmental action on global warming.
The new body will bridge the gulf between the wealth of scientific knowledge on the accelerating declines and degradation of the natural world, with knowledge on effective solutions and decisive government action required to reverse these damaging trends.
Its various roles will include carrying out high-quality peer reviews of the wealth of science on biodiversity and ecosystem services emerging from research institutes across the globe in order to provide gold standard reports to governments.
These reports will not only cover the state, status and trends of biodiversity and ecosystems, but will also outline transformational policy options and responses to bring about real change in their fortunes.
The IPBES will achieve this in part by prioritizing, making sense of and bringing consistency to the great variety of reports and assessments conducted by United Nations bodies, research centres, universities and others as they relate to biodiversity and ecosystem services.
"IPBES represents a major breakthrough in terms of organizing a global response to the loss of living organisms and forests, freshwaters, coral reefs and other ecosystems that underpin all life-including economic life-on Earth," Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director said.
"2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, began on a mute note after it emerged that no single country had achieved the target of substantially reversing the rate of loss of biodiversity. But it has ended on a far more positive one that underlines a new determination to act on the challenges and deliver the opportunities possible from a far more intelligent management of the planet's nature-based assets," he added.
Builds on Biological Diversity Convention Achievements
Mr. Steiner said the sign-off by the UNGA came in the wake of the successes at the meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity that took place in Nagoya, Japan, in October. Here governments adopted a new strategic plan including targets for addressing biodiversity loss to be met by 2020.
For example, governments agreed to increase the extent of land-based protected areas and national parks to 17 per cent of the Earth's surface, up from around 12.5 per cent now, and to extend marine protected areas to 10 per cent, up from under one per cent currently. Other elements of the extensive plan include, by 2020 lifting the extinction risk from known threatened species.
The meeting agreed to study resource mobilization for assisting developing countries to meet the new targets in the plan based on a methodology that relates support to needs and gaps.
Other decisions included taking a 'precautionary approach' in terms of emerging areas such as geo-engineering in order to combat climate change and the development of synthetic biofuels.
Builds on Green Economy TEEB Successes
Nagoya also delivered a sea change in the global understanding of the multi-trillion dollar importance of biodiversity and forests, freshwaters and other ecosystems to the global economy and to national economies, and in particular for the "GDP of the poor".
The case has been built via The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), an initiative hosted by UNEP, requested by G-8 environment ministers as well as developing country ones and supported by the European Commission and governments including Germany, Norway and the United Kingdom.
The TEEB partnership also brings together a wide network of contributing organizations, institutes and individuals from the world's of science to economics from developing and developed countries.
In Nagoya the final global TEEB report—a major stream of the UNEP Green Economy Initiative- was launched as countries including Brazil and India announced they would be launching their own national TEEB studies.
A parallel and supporting partnership was also announced by the World Bank in collaboration with organizations including UNEP to 'green' national accounts in order to mainstream 'natural capital' within national economic and development plans. The project is initially set to be implemented in between six and 10 countries including Colombia and Mexico.
Mr. Steiner said the formal go-ahead for an IPBES meant much of what had been possible in 2010 had been transformed into a reality. He said the UNGA backing now triggered a series of steps needed to get the work of the new body up and running.
UNEP, as the interim Secretariat, will now organize a plenary or meeting of governments in 2011 to decide on issues such as which country will house the independent IPBES and which institutions will host it alongside other institutional arrangements.
Notes to Editors
IPBES-what is it likely to do? There have been and are currently a myriad of global, regional and national assessments being carried out from time to time that relate to biodiversity and ecosystem services.
These include the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment; the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development; UNEP's Global Environment Outlook; the Global Biodiversity Outlook and the Global Forest Resources Assessment.
Others include the State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity and the IUCN Red List of threatened and endangered species.
While most, if not all are important, many of the findings are failing to translate into meaningful and decisive action by governments on the ground and in global and national planning. This is in part due to different methodologies and standards operating across such assessments.
IPBES can bring greater rigor to such assessments while bringing together their findings in order to provide governments with greater clarity and confidence on the conclusions in order to act.
Other areas include bringing to the attention of governments 'new topics' identified by science, outlining what is known and also aspects where more research is needed.
Some scientists, for example, claim that evidence that deoxygenated dead zones in the world's oceans took too long time to migrate from scientific circles into the domain and in-trays of policy-makers.
A similar argument is made concerning the pros and cons of biofuels. IPBES could provide better early warning of such new topics to governments before decisions are taken.
While IPBES will support some capacity building in developing countries, its main role will be to catalyze funding to assist developing country scientists and developing country assessments through, for example, harnessing funding via UN agencies; foundations and other sources.
Unraveling the precise role of animals, plants, insects and even microbes within ecosystems and their functions in terms of the services generated-from water purification to soil fertility-could also be a major thrust.
Some experts are convinced that many scientific discoveries, from the identification of new lower life forms to the fast disappearance of others, can often remain within the corridors of research institutes and universities for many years before they reach the wider world.
By that time is may be too late to act to either conserve or protect the species concerned whereas early warning might have put the species on the political radar giving it a better chance.
For more details including the history of IPBES www.ipbes.net
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Write a small record management application for a school. Tasks will be Add Record, Edit Record, Delete Record, List Records. Each Record contains: Name(max 100 char), Age, Notes(No Maximum Limit). No database should be used. All data must be stored in one or two files. Listing records should print the names of the users in alphabetical order. And the important thing is, total file should not be re-written for every add/delete operation. I had done this using jva files concept i have done like this
when data is given it is adding into a text field but the data is not storing in the next Line, how can i search a string with the data in the Text file.
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WASC Projects is the product of SJSU students from the Fall'12 CS 100/200w class. Students were split into two groups, WASC Essay No.2 and WASC Literature Review. For a semester, these students researched and developed tools used for their clients namely Dr. Anne Marie Todd, and Toby Matoush.
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Jun 8, 06, Thursday, everybody fear the worst. all the news talk about that there will be a serial of interest increase because of the inflation. This cause the globle market tumble. This is the buying opportunity.
Jun 9, 06, The market rebounds.
Jun 5th, 6th, 7th (Monday to Wednesday) Market has the worst down turn. But GGG goes up more than 10% against the down trend. There is no news why it goes up. Could it be relating to the booming Chinese economic?
May 24, 2006 after yesturday's rebounce, the market is back to its down trend today but GGG did not drop dramatically
week May 15 to 19, 2006 rising US interest rate, droping oil price, cause US stock market, followed by UK stock market slump more than 10%
week May 22, 06. firmer metal and oil price cause UK stock market rebounce.
2005 is the year of Oil and mining stock. If you pick the right sector, your return will be rewarding. What is this year's sector? Could it be banking? As banking was not performing well in 2005. Could it be pharmaceutical?
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I spent the weekend at SBR making plans for next summers National Jamboree. The site is in great shape and many changes will be in place for 2017. Yes there were mistakes me in 2013 and those in charge are big enough to admit it.i will list some of those in a bit but first my rant. Yes you must pay for the privilege to staff the jamboree. For a 16-26 year old this is a really great way to attend the jamboree. We adults get to supplement those young people so they can attend and help. There are many that have told me they would staff if they got a cheaper deal or free. Well you are getting a cheaper deal. The staff fee is 100 less then the skull leader fee. Or even the youth fee which by the way is the same as the adult. With a staff of 5000 hopefully, if we cut there another 100 that's a half a million $ that needs to be made up.
The schedule for next year was adjusted so staff can arrive on Saturday and leave late Friday or early Saturday two weeks later.
The solar showers for staff are awesome they really do work
There will be bus transportation to your work site plus to get participants to those far out sites.
Bus pickup for staff will be right by the dining hall. No more hill to climb.
There will be constant staff shuttles from Echo to C and D for summit center access across the dams.
No scheduled activities except canopy and big zips. Everything is open activity.
Saw some new tents not sure if these will be the new staff tents or not but they are very nice. Also it seems they are making platforms for all the staff tents.
You all know about bridge day in WV.? If not look it up the Summit has there own version from the Consol Energy bridge. 92' free rappel. It's being done for the Helmets and Harness program.
You can register for staff on the summit website if you want to have a really great time sign up for Aerial Sports Climbing experience is not necessary but is nice. We will train on site. So if you want you can be a Level 1 climbing instructor for the jamboree.
To end this I will say something. The jamboree is not about you it's about the youth. I will just about anything to help insure a youth has a great time.
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in the Community - 2010
Our cooperative has a long history of giving back to the communities we serve through contributions of both time and money. From donating over $30,000 annually to educational scholarship for local students to sponsoring major events such as the Lake Bemidji Dragon Boat Festival, we remain committed to improving the lives of those we serve and the communities we call home. Check the news & events section to see our most recent activity.
Below are some of our donations, scholarships and supported community events from 2010.
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We have been focusing on the theme of "Getting to Zero" for World AIDS Day since 2011 (Zero HIV infections, zero stigma/discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths). Nations have been focusing on this theme which runs until 2015.
Concerted efforts by various stakeholders (government, nongovernmental organizations, faith-based organizations) have led to increased awareness on the life-threatening disease in developing countries and especially in Kenya. They deserve to be applauded for their efforts.
Despite a number of very positive strides that have been made in Kenya, one major drawback is in terms of the annual infections (ranging between 100,000 - 120,000). The prevalence level, according to the latest Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey, conducted in 2012, is at 5.6 percent (approximately 1.2 million Kenyans living with the HIV virus).
Current research has shown that girls as young as 9 years are engaging in sexual activities. It has been found that there is a linkage between this early sexual debut and the high prevalence of HIV amongst the youths. Girls also fear getting pregnant rather than contract the dreaded HIV virus (this explains the high demand for the "morning-after pill" in the local pharmacies).
Previous anti-HIV campaigns started off in the '90s as simple ABCs -- (Abstaining, Being faithful to one partner and Condom use) in preventing HIV transmission. It was assumed that it would be as simple as getting people to abstain or be faithful. Condoms in the earlier days were viewed as a "ticket to promiscuity," and church leaders burned condoms and mobilized their flock to march through the streets. They alleged that their use would promote "immorality" and that condoms were "un-African Western concepts."
Recently there has been the "Wacha Mpango wa Kando" (Swahili for "stop relationships on the side") campaign, an advert focusing on infidelity in marriages/relationships and its linkage with HIV. As a society we are uncomfortable on our seats in our living rooms when the advert is being aired. We are furious with the participants in the short clip who seemed to advocate for infidelity. I find Kenya a society that "buries its head in the sand." Current statistics from the latest Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey show there is a high prevalence of infection especially between the ages of 40 to 55 years (persons in monogamous unions and steady relationships). Hence these data indicate increasing infidelity amongst married couples.
Let us face it: Faithfulness is not guaranteed in our relationships and marriage can offer a false sense of security.
The advert, which focuses on a casual conversation between two women, clearly highlights the notion that unfaithfulness is not entirely a male concept. The campaign acknowledges that many partners in steady relationships cheat. We know this. They know this. Everybody knows this. New cases of HIV infection are being reported in married couples as opposed to single couples. Let us as a society stimulate dialogue on this difficult topic.
As a society we are passive and stifle our feelings when it comes to difficult topics. Kenyans prefer to get ballistic, complaining about how wrong it is to air such issues around our kids, the state of moral decadence, anything to separate us from the reality.
As a society we are passive and stifle our feelings when it comes to difficult topics. Kenyans prefer to get ballistic, complaining about how wrong it is to air such issues around our kids, the state of moral decadence, anything to separate us from the reality.
No one is talking on the early sexual debut of teens engaging in sex as minors. We still want to believe that it is happening to someone else's daughter and as such we are not willing to discuss the issue in an open forum.
I think as much as we are focusing on what is being termed as "key populations" in HIV transmission (men having sex with men, injecting drug users, sex workers, etc.) in stemming the tide of new HIV infections, emphasis needs to be laid on persons who are "straight" (heterosexuals). We need to dispel the notion that it's only one's sexual orientation that can play a big factor in HIV transmission. The key message should revolve on the fact that "the risk of contracting HIV is not on who you are (sexual orientation) but the risk is on what you do (especially for persons who are complacent when engaging in sexual activities)."
Let us as a society have a "put-everything-on-the-table," candid talk on sexual issues if we are to achieve our goal of "Getting to zero."
Matong lives in Kiambu county, Kenya, with his wife and their four children. He works as an advocacy officer for a nongovernmental organization that reaches out to women infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Read Matong's story of his HIV diagnosis.


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Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak will have an individual meeting with Dallin Bachynski and Jarred DuBois on Friday to make sure coach and players on the same page when it comes to Utah basketball.
Krystkowiak spoke of Bachynski on Thursday night, following Utah's 62-57 loss to Cal at the Huntsman Center.
Bachynski played three minutes in the defeat. He didn't score, and didn't grab a rebound, while turning the ball over once. He seems nothing like the player who looked so good in November that he wrested away a starting job from incumbent senior Jason Washburn.
But Bachynski has been listless lately with his play. And as he's struggled, his minutes have been drastically reduced. Krystkowiak even said freshman Jeremy Olsen will see more time as Washburn's back-up as the season wears on.
"I'm not sure Dallin's not more worried about his trials and tribulations than about what the University of Utah is going through," Krystkowiak said.
DuBois, normally a starter at shooting guard, played nine minutes and didn't play in the first half, after sitting out Tuesday and Wednesday's practice with an undisclosed injury.
Krystkowiak said DuBois proclaimed himself good to go on Thursday. But Utah's coach then said he couldn't play in the first half because he hadn't practiced.
"You can't miss two days of practice and then show up on the day of the game ready to play," Krystkowiak said.
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Re: OOTS...2013
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Agree 1000% but the loss of Emilin will hurt. LOVE to see them beat Boston and remember the series with Cherry coaching B's. Looked better on him than his suits or the dog he plays with in a strange manner.RoyalDude wrote:I've watched a fair amount of Habs games this year and I know it's early but this Galchenyuk is gonna be a beaut IMO. Excellent in both ends of the rink, plays with passion, your prototypical classic centre, great hockey sense, looks like a young Ron Francis out there. I'm liking this Hab team, good young pieces there.


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Beren and Lúthien being recorded
Hopefully good news for all those attending this year's Tolkiencon (as well as those abroad): False Fellowship is working hard on studio record the Beren and Lúthien cycle. As of now, first 9 songs are complete (but not released yet).
Poetic Musical Fellowship
This year's second session at studio has brought us eight new recordings, as well as a new musical community has been born!
The Flight of the Noldor
We have just released a songs from our first recording session of this year, for The Flight of the Noldor cycle by Alex Lewis.


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Social Security trust funds are sound for at least the next 10 years, but deficits will increase beginning in 2021, according to the 2012 Social Security Trustees report released Monday. The report notes that assets in the Old Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund and the combined OASI and Disability Insurance (OASDI) trust funds will be "adequate" for the next decade.
However, assets in the DI trust fund are projected to fall below 100% of the annual cost by the beginning of 2013. The report notes that between 2010 and 2011, the increase in the number of beneficiaries claiming DI benefits "was more pronounced than the corresponding increase in the number of OASI beneficiaries, due to the increase in applications for disability benefits associated with the weak economy." The Trustees expect the DI fund to be exhausted by 2016. Assets for the OASI trust fund are expected to be exhausted in 2035.
When looking at the combined assets of the OASI and DI trust funds, the Trustees' projection is not so bleak. Combined assets are expected to increase from $2.69 trillion at the beginning of 2012 to $3.06 trillion by the beginning of 2021. However, in 2021, annual costs will begin to exceed total income. Excluding interest earned on trust fund assets, annual cost exceeds non-interest income in 2012 and remains higher throughout the remainder of the short-term period.
At the end of 2011, the OASDI program provided benefits to about 55 million people, including 38 million retired workers and their dependents, and 11 million disabled workers and their dependents, according to the report. The program took in $805 billion, including $691 billion in non-interest income and $114 billion in interest earnings, with expenditures of $736 billion. Assets held in special issue U.S. Treasury securities grew to $2.7 trillion.
Trustees project that the deficit between Social Security's costs and tax income will be $165 billion in 2012, up from $148 billion last year. The report attributes the deficit to a temporary reduction in the Social Security payroll tax for 2011 and 2012. The deficit excluding interest in 2011 was $45 billion; in 2012, it's expected to increase to $53 billion.
In the long term, the Trustees expect the combined assets of the OASI and DI funds to be fully exhausted in 2033. Projected OASDI costs generally increase faster than non-interest income, according to the report, because as boomers retire, the number of beneficiaries claiming Social Security benefits will increase faster than the increase in the number of new workers. The Trustees project that between 2035 and 2050, costs will decline due to the aging of the already retired boomers. After that, OASDI costs will increase relative to non-interest income, but more slowly than they did prior to 2035.
OASDI costs are currently 5% of GDP and are projected to rise to 6.4% by 2035. The Trustees project costs will fall to 6.1% of GDP by 2055 and remain near that level until 2086.
The report suggests that to keep the trust funds solvent, lawmakers should:
- Increase the combined payroll tax rate from its current level of 12.4% to 15%.
- Reduce scheduled benefits by 16.2%.
- Draw on alternative sources of revenue.
- Adopt some combination of these approaches.
"Lawmakers would have to make significantly larger changes for future beneficiaries if they decide to avoid changes for current beneficiaries and those close to retirement age," according to the report.
The Trustees' report met with mixed emotions from industry groups.
The Strengthen Social Security campaign predicted on April 19 that the Trustees report would reveal a "large and growing" surplus.
"Rather than frightening hard-working Americans who have earned their benefits and demagoguing the issue, policymakers should simply eliminate Social Security's projected shortfall, still decades away, by requiring millionaires and billionaires to pay the same rate of contributions as most Americans pay," Nancy Altman, co-chair of the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, said in a statement following the release of the Trustees report.
Social Security is the "most sound source of retirement, disability and survivor protection" for American workers and their families, Eric Kingson, co-director of Social Security Works, the group responsible for the Strengthen Social Security Campaign, said in the statement. "What we really need to focus on is the impending retirement income crisis facing working Americans, especially those in their forties and fifties whose retirement savings have been hit hard by the Great Recession, the collapse of the housing market, slow wage growth and loss of pension protections."
Other groups were not so positive. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said Social Security was on an "unsustainable path."
"The Trustees report is a good reminder of what we've known for decades now—that the Social Security program is on a troubling path and must be reformed," said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Budget. "Time is not on our side, and the longer we wait the harder it is going to be to fix this program."


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Luke Greiner recorded his first career hat trick against BU Monday evening (Gil Talbot).
BOSTON, Mass. – The Harvard men's hockey team seniors erupted for six goals—three by Luke Greiner—as the Crimson rallied to knock off No. 11/13 Boston University, 7-4, Monday afternoon in the Beanpot consolation game at TD Garden.
The Crimson fell behind by scores of 2-0 and 3-2 but battled back behind four consecutive goals from members of the Class of 2013 in the second and third periods to defeat the Terriers twice in a season for the first time since 1979-80.
Greiner recorded his first career hat trick in his final Beanpot game, and classmate Marshall Everson tallied two goals to pace the Harvard offense. Captain Danny Biega, who had one assist, and Dan Ford scored to erase a two-goal, first-period deficit. Kyle Criscuolo added two helpers.
The Terriers struck quickly, getting on the board with 16:48 and 8:15 left in the first to take a 2-0 lead, but the Crimson answered shortly thereafter to swing the momentum in its favor.
Just moments after a power play expired and 79 seconds after BU's second goal, Harvard found the back of the net, as Criscuolo picked up the puck behind the cage and sent a backhand off the front of Sean Maguire's pads. Ford skated across the face of the crease, picked up the rebound and flicked it into the upper left corner of the net.
Harvard knotted things up in the waning moments of the period on Biega's second goal of the tournament. The senior captain recovered from getting checked into the nearside boards and kept a BU clear attempt in the zone. After gathering himself and the puck, the Montreal native fired a shot over Maguire's glove to make it 2-2 with 14.2 seconds left.
As the first period ended, Harvard was whistled for its fourth penalty of the game, and the Terriers capitalized after the intermission on an Evan Rodrigues slap shot.
Harvard drew even just over a minute later. Criscuolo scooped up the puck behind the net and feed it to Everson camped in the slot. The senior sent it into the top right corner of the net with 3:19 gone by for his second goal in as many days.
Harvard then took its first lead of the game at the 1:13 later on a similar play. Greiner crashed the slot, and Morrison, who was patiently waiting behind the net, dished the puck straight to Greiner, who sent it into the same spot that Everson scored from for a 4-3 advantage.
After going up by one, the Crimson killed off back-to-back penalties to maintain the advantage with Traber making an impressive glove save to keep the Terriers off the board during the four-minute span.
While the Terriers failed to capitalize on their man-up situations, Harvard made the Terriers pay after going back on the power play. Brian Hart blasted a feed from Biega that careened off Maguire's pads to Greiner's stick in front of the crease. He sent the puck high and to the glove side to push the lead to two.
The Crimson pushed across its sixth goal on another rebound, just moments after another BU penalty ended. After a cross-ice, backhand feed from Colin Blackwell, Fallstrom rocketed a one-timer that Maguire could not corral and that Everson cleaned up with his second tally of the game.
BU threatened in the remaining 17 minutes but only struck once, a power-play tally with 8:36 remaining, as Traber continued to turn away BU shots and finished with a career-high 43 saves.
The Terriers attempted to mount one last rally, pulling Maguire with 1:04 remaining. Greiner took advantage and completed his hat trick with only 8.6 seconds remaining. He stole the puck in the BU zone and flicked it into the empty net for a short-handed goal to give Harvard its first seven-goal game since Nov. 22, 2011, when the Crimson rallied to defeat New Hampshire, 7-6.
Harvard jumps back into ECAC play Friday night at Bright Hockey Center against Colgate at 7 p.m in a game televised on WBIN-TV.


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Slightly different Call to Action
For a number of reasons – which I will discuss in this post, in a bit – I "twitched" at the current call for action on behalf of Aetherial Circle's Lamaa. That said, buried within the call is one I've made before, which I've made directly to them more than once, which would help them, and which I still feel needs made.
Blizzard, please make your Account Administration office available 24/7. Of all the complaints and pleas, those to this department are about the MONEY. Tech support is more or less timely, and tends to be in game. But this is where we go when something is wrong with our WHOLE ABILITY TO PLAY. You serve a global customer base, please SERVE that customer base.
In this, I'm fully supportive of AC, both whole and sum.
So… why didn't I just offer that support in the previous thread? Outside complications and experiences, of which I'm about to ramble. Oh – and if you follow all the way, you'll even see me tie this to WoW again.
I'd like to begin with my personal view of evil. None of this IS evil, but there are tendencies… The root of all evil, contrary to the Bible, is power. And power lies at least tangentially near every evil committed. It may be willful, or unthinking – or even the withholding thereof. But power misused results in evil. Please keep that in mind while I make another apparent digression/non-sequitor. I'll try to tie it all together, so bear with me.
While I was in the army, I saw an officer rate (evaluate) several officers. And I noticed a disturbing tendency. He tended to rate the ones "like him" the best – regardless of (my opinion of) their performance. As I wasn't one of the officers being rated, I had a bit of freedom from bias in this case, but it's still my opinion. Anyway, there was an incident that allows a tale to depend, but details must be vague. Basically, there were two young officers who committed EXACTLY identical offenses – not criminal, but operable. One of these officers received a letter of reprimand which was referenced in the evaluation – yes, it sunk him. The other was given a "go and sin no more" verbal wristslap. I should note that when I say identical, I mean it – they were accomplices.
On the other hand.
The job I used to pay for college was moving furniture – packing, loading, unloading and unpacking. I got that job because my widowed aunt's husband used to work for the company, and she went to the people in charge and said, basically, "My nephew needs a summer job. Give him one." (Moving companies like summer workers. Most moves are in the summer, the labor is needed then, but they don't have to pay wages and benefits over the slack period.) Because of her I got a job for which there were many applicants – and NOBODY knows who was better qualified.
On the other hand…
I have a relative who committed a felony. His father went to the judge and did the secret club handshake, and the relative got off with a stern warning. The judge sent several people to prison for the same (well, similar) offense who did NOT have fathers who knew the secret club handshake. (for the record, the sentence time would have everyone out as of a couple of decades or more ago. And this is hearsay from the relative and the father, not the judge. Still…)
The incident in the army – and others of similar sort – began to shift my views. Before, "it's family, you always help family – and friends, of course." There were intervening incidents as well. And then, I went to prison. No, not that way – I went to work in a prison.
Where some of these guys got wildly different sentences for the same crime and similar circumstances, and knew plenty of folk who'd walked. And I discovered, because of this, the reason for this word "equitability".
On the direct, selfish side, we were required to be EQUITABLE in treatment because the law required it. If we bent a rule for someone, we had to bend the rule for everyone. If we did it and didn't tell, it could and would be used against us. (The word is blackmail.) Even if it didn't, it built resentment among those who got the short end of the stick. And in a prison, resentment is bad. It leads to ugliness – increased misbehavior, stabbings, and even rioting. I became almost religious about this principle of equitability.
I've been away from that job for almost a decade, and I STILL see the advantage. I lost out on some plum opportunities because I got the short end of the stick. The person in charge of deciding who got some of them was a long-time friend of the person who DID get them. It… stung. A lot.
Am I rigid about it? No, and that may be hypocritical, or it may be human, or maybe a bit of both with other things rolled in as well. I'll note that I still use a specific test when I do bend a rule. If I had to sit in court or a lawsuit, could I justify this a more than, "I like this person, and I don't like or know that person?" Specifically, is it a reason I could apply in the future which had a fair chance of being valid for other people yet unknown? If yes, I could bend. If not… no.
One of power's evil aspects is idle whimsy that puts some above others for no more reason that convenience to the power. Part of the seductive evil of such abuse is the unawareness with which we perform it. Burke missed, slightly. It's not, "The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing." Instead, it's that good men to pay no mind – to fail to watch.
I do go overboard on this compared to many. Consider it, if you will, a character flaw. On the other hand, how many guilds have you seen ruined because loot distribution favored friends – or was, at least, perceived as such? It's just another aspect of the same thing.
Thanks for reading. Now go have some fun.
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I usually just lurk in the shadows when reading WoW related blogs and never comment. This time however, i felt i should post a comment in agreement with your sentiment.
If i read the sentiment correctly (and correct me if i am mistaken) but the whole "crusade" by the "blogginest" guild in WoW does seem predicated on the absolute and unquestioning faith on the victim.
I absolutely agree with their demand for Blizzard support to be more responsive. What i do not agree with, however, is the implication, in most of the posts, is the belief that Blizzard is/was more in the wrong than Lamaa.
I do not know much about Glider, i have not read the TOS in its entirety and i certainly cannot comment on Blizzard's ability to know for sure if a person "botted" or not. But what i can say is that there certainly was an attempt to download the program. Perhaps (and i plead partial ignorance on this subject)Blizzard doesnt really have a way of knowing whether that bot was used ot not. In that scenario, equality would dictate that all such persons should be banned. Something like if there is suspicion of cheating in an exam and no way of knowing who did and who did not – there is no other equitable way other than cancelling the exam. The blogginest guild in WoW clearly refuses to give Blizzard any benefit of doubt.
To summarize, i agree with their call for Blizzard to be more responsive. I disagree with the hamhanded way of expressing it.
Well, you spoke a lot on my blog today, and now I get to return the favor. 🙂
You are one of the smartest people I think I know, and I respect your viewpoints a great deal.
I think I see what you're saying, and I think I agree. You can be the judge of my own viewpoint by reading the post I put up on my blog when I finally saw TJ's post about Lamaa around 3:30 Eastern time.
I guess I misunderstood TJ's call to arms. I thought she was asking us as bloggers to be vocal about how we each felt about the Glider ban situation as it applies to the innocent who may be caught in the net.
that's what i got from it, and that's where I was coming from when I wrote my post.
Like you, I'm not going to automatically assume anyone is innocent just because they say so, and because people who are friends of mine believe they are.
But I absolutely feel that, if Blizzard is going to take a sweeping action that affects a large part of the user base, that it is incumbent upon them to have a professional, well administered and well advertised method of notifying them if a player feels a mistake has been made, and a process of timely feedback on the status of a problem.


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State slams Oakland Schools for wide achievement gap
There is a growing standoff between some of Oakland County's high performing districts and the Michigan Department of Education over the state's labeling some of their schools as having an achievement gap.
Oakland Schools Superintendent Vickie Markavitch and some of the county's superintendents opposes the label of "Focus School" the MDE placed on 80 schools in Oakland County's 28 public school districts, most of which are seen as being among the top schools in the county and state.
The "Focus School" label means the MDE determined these schools to be among the 10 percent in the state that have the largest gap between 30 percent of the highest achieving students and the lowest achieving 30 percent of students.
According to Martin Ackley, spokesman for the MDE, the purpose of a Focus School's designation is to help local schools recognize the large achievement gaps they have and begin developing -- with the assistance of the state department of education -- targeted academic strategies to improve the achievement levels of their 30 percent lowest-achieving students.
Oakland schools cited
In reaction to the criticism from Oakland Schools and some of the county's superintendents, Ackley released data Tuesday to prove the gap exists even in some of the highest achieving schools in Oakland County.
Here are Oakland County districts that have state-designated focus schools status and the number of such schools: Avondale, 2; Berkley, 2; Bloomfield Hills, 3; Clarkston, 3; Farmington, 11; Ferndale, 1; Holly, 1; Lake Orion, 4; Lamphere, 3; Novi, 7; Oxford, 1; Rochester, 9; Royal Oak, 2; South Lyon, 5: Southfield, 1; Troy, 12; Walled Lake, 6; Waterford, 1; and West Bloomfield, 6, according to the MDE.
However, Markavitch argues that some top academic schools that have high achieving students may have a large gap, but even the students in the lowest 30 percent may be doing better than the statewide average.
Markavitch maintains student performance should be compared to a standard in testing, and efforts be made to close that gap; not compare students to other students as she said the state is doing.
Meanwhile, districts are required to inform parents of the "Focus School" designation and pay to transport their child from the Focus School to another one if they so desired.
Oakland fights for change
So, to give her point of view, Markavitch put out a podcast that faults the labeling and the method the state is using to declare which schools have the greatest gap. She also provided testimony to the Tri-County Alliance and the Michigan Association on Intermediate School Administrators, that have since recommended the state MDE change how they determine achievement gaps.
In Oakland County, Markavitch said, 94 percent of schools on the 'Focus Schools' list met AYP (annual yearly progress) in 2012. And 72 percent of schools in the "Focus Schools" list got an A or a B on the state's report card.
"When we started talking about closing the gap, she said, "It was about trying to get students to the level of proficiency to make them work and college ready. We agreed the level of proficiency should be raised.
"We agreed the gap of where kids are today and the proficiency score is where we should get to. We never said that every kid needs to be in AP physics or a chemistry major or a prolific author," Markavitch said.
State hold firm, fights back
But in the press release, the MDE states: "When looking only at the 80 Focus Schools across Oakland County -- the lowest-achieving 30 percent of students -- nearly one-third of all the kids in Oakland County Focus Schools -- are: 93.4 percent not proficient in math; 74 percent not proficient in reading; 99.6 percent not proficient in science; 100 percent not proficient in social studies; and 93.7 percent not proficient in writing," according to the MDE.
"For too long, with no malice, some schools have been going along thinking they are doing well, when in fact, large numbers of their students are struggling," said State Superintendent Mike Flanagan.
"Many local educators in Michigan with Focus Schools are standing up and moving forward in a positive way to help lift their lowest-achieving students, while others continue to be in denial and their lowest-achieving students are paying the price.
"We stand by this Focus School designation and will continue to fight for every student in Michigan, no matter where they go to school,' Flanagan said.
This Focus School measurement was developed in collaboration and agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, according to Ackley's news release.
"Some Focus Schools, as a whole, may look good because the high-achieving student scores bring up the overall school results, but they can disguise a large number of students who are struggling academically."
Oakland achievement gap closing
However, Markavitch said the MDE data is being taken out of context.
First of all, the test ranking was changed, she said.
"Given the new cut scores most schools would have scores for the bottom 30 percent very similar to the Oakland County scores and the Oakland County scores are probably higher than the state average for the bottom 30 percent group," Markavitch said.
"Point two, Oakland County proficiency scores last year, as in other years were above the state average for every subject and every grade.
"Point three, Oakland County has been tracking the gap between student scores and the proficiency standard (MEAP cut scores) for years and almost every subgroup of students have closed the gap to proficiency in every subject and every grade.
"Finally, we have data that shows the percent proficient for schools not on the focus list is actually lower than the percent proficienct on the focus list - for the bottom 30 percent as well as the top 30 percent and for all students," said Markavitch.
Independent agency: All students important
Yet a third point of view was provided by the independent The Education Trust -- Midwest, based in Royal Oak, that focuses on closing the educational achievement gap.
"Thousands of parents are moving their families to schools where they believe their children will get a significantly better education than their previous school," said Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, assistant director of policy and research.
"Sometimes that's true, but other times, it's not.
"This is why reliable, transparent information is so important," Lenhoff said. "If a school is not serving its black or brown or low-income students as well as its other kids, then a parent needs to know that.
"The question is, how do we empower our parents with clear, honest, reliable information to help them make well-informed, contextual decisions to best serve their children?
"And how do we help educators understand how they may need to re-think their strategies to ensure all of their students are being taught at high levels?
"A state public reporting and accountability system that doesn't do that is a disservice to everyone.
"The Focus School designation is about revealing -- in places such as Ann Arbor and Rochester -- that there are students who are not as well-served as other kids in that school.
"This is a service to both schools and these children's parents.
"This is about more strategically using existing resources, and being smarter about how we educate all of our students," Lenhoff said.
The researcher also pointed out that the state's 5 percent lowest performing schools are not on the Focus list because they are on the Priority list and can't be on both.
Contact Diana Dillaber Murray at 248-745-4638 or email@example.com or follow her on Twitter at @DDillybar.


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Why Join Altec?
Imagine this…your career path leads to becoming a technical expert in a company that custom designs, manufactures, assembles, sells, and services products that are industry leaders, honoring our commitment to be there for the life of the equipment. You progress with on-going factory training and development, world-class technical support, and a company drawing on 90 years of experience. You supply hands-on technical ability, a desire to work within a value-driven team environment, a dedication to customer service, and a passion for challenging problem-solving.
Altec is present in more than 100 countries throughout the world supporting the electric utility, telecommunications, contractor, lights and signs, and tree care markets. We are known for lifting products -- bucket trucks, cranes, and equipment used to help people access tough-to-reach places -- but the success starts with thousands of associates who come together to Reach Higher!
Please send resume to [Click Here To Join]
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Basic Qualifications, Experience, and Skills Required
Should the selected candidate meet the qualifications of a more experienced level in the career path, the job level may be adjusted.
Major Responsibilities
Complete on-the-job and classroom training in the mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic components of the product line and associated repair/service procedures so as to be successful as a Shop Technician.
Customer First - Enjoyment of Work - Family - Financial Stability - Integrity - People are our Greatest Strength - Quality - Spiritual Development - Teamwork
Competitive pay which rewards performance
Comprehensive benefits including Medical, Dental and Prescription Drug Program - Retirement 401(k) Program - Vacation and Holidays - Flexible Spending Accounts - Tuition Assistance Program - Employee Assistance and Mental Health/Substance Abuse Program - Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
Altec Industries, Inc. and its affiliates are equal opportunity employers and maintain affirmative action plans to recruit, retain, develop, and promote qualified individuals without unlawful consideration of race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Altec strives to maintain a work environment free from unlawful discrimination and harassment, where associates are treated with respect and dignity.
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4girlsbygirls needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 90 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
We are a new mother-daughter business titled, "4 Girls by Girls" that focuses on selling clothing & accessories for girls between 4-16 years of age.
4 Girls by Girls
Desired Color Scheme:
Desired Style:
fresh, vibrant and kid friendly
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
We are looking for a logo for our new company that sells apparel and accessories for girls 4-16 years of age. We would like for the logo to be fresh, exciting, kid friendly, but not childish, eye-catching, polished and slick, but simple at the same time. We would also like for it to be colorful, but be able to stand alone without color, i.e. in black or white.
We would like to use the logo on clothing with and/or without the name of the company:Â 4 Girls by Girls. It will be used for branding.
The logo will also be used on business cards, letterhead and website.
Logo must be original and cannot be copyrighted or trademarked. Designer must be willing to provide in writing that you warrant the originality of the artwork you submitted.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Collection consists textual material, objects, and ephemera related to the history of the University of Northern British Columbia.
University of Northern British Columbia
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Collection consists textual material, objects, and ephemera related to the history of the University of Northern British Columbia.
University of Northern British Columbia
UNBC Labour Action Ephemera Collection
Growing collection of strike ephemera from students, CUPE staff, and faculty members at UNBC. Collection includes picketing signs, strike buttons, photographs and videos from pickets and UNBC Faculty Association events during the strike, as well a...
Aleza Lake Research Forest Society fonds
The Aleza Lake Research Forest Society (ALRFS) records encompass material that was created or collected by the Society over its existence (2001-present). Records created by the ALRFS consist of administrative and operational records, as well as pu...
David Davies Railway Collection
The David Davies Railway Collection encompasses all facets of railway history specifically in the province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory. The collection consists of research material accumulated over the course of more than fifty yea...
Fonds consists of the research and professorial records of Dr. Joselito Arocena, a founding faculty member of UNBC. Arocena was an internationally-recognized soil scientist and UNBC's first Canada Research Chair. His records demonstrate his accomp...
Dr. Joselito Arocena
Fonds consists of records Harry Coates created or received during his career as a silviculturist. Fonds includes materials from his work at the Aleza Lake Research Forest.
Harry Coates
UNBC Office of External Relations
The Kent Sedgwick fonds consists of 5.8 linear meters of textual records relating to his research interests of the history of the Central Interior of British Columbia. Sedgwick was an urban planner with the City of Prince George, as well as one-ti...
Sedgwick, Kent
Fonds consists of records held by the Board of Governors relating to the history of the University of Northern British Columbia and the operations of its Board of Governors. Includes records relating to the Interior University Society, the Interim...
University of Northern British Columbia
Japanese-Internment Oral History Project collection
This collection contains two tapes of interviews by Kent Sedgwick and Megan Heitrich, and one tape by Megan Heitrich alone. Interviews focus primarily upon the Japanese Internment during WWII in the Prince George – Valemount corridor. The intervie...
Marianne (Marika) Ainley fonds
Fonds predominately reflects Ainley's research as a professor at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her research is arranged into thirteen subseries. Research material includes: photocopies of publications and archival material, cor...
Ainley, Marianne
The material in this collection relates to Prince George music festivals, symphony performances and theatre events.
Includes an audiocassette and a CD copy of an interview conducted by Kent Sedgwick with Trelle Morrow on the history of architectural design in Prince George.
Morrow, Trelle
McGregor Model Forest Association fonds
Fonds consists of the McGregor Model Forest records documenting the operational history of the model forest from 1992 through 2007. These records document the various functions of the McGregor Model Forest reflected in the four series:1) Projects ...
McGregor Model Forest Association
The Honourable Iona Campagnolo fonds
This fonds illustrates the Honourable Iona Campagnolo's careers as a broadcaster, a theatre producer, community leader, a politician, a feminist, a social activist, a speaker, a lecturer, a Chancellor, an advocate, a consultant and Lieutenant Gove...
Campagnolo, Iona
Fonds consists of personal papers, books, manuscripts, photographic materials, audio recordings and electronic records arranged into five series, which relate to Mr. Fawcett's personal life, his creative works and his relationships with membe...
Fawcett, Brian
Northern BC Ephemera Collection
Collection consists of accumulated material relating to Northern BC. This material includes unpublished grey literature, discrete textual records with limited provenance, and other ephemeral items.
George Street Letters collection
The George Street Letters Collection consists of the inaugural issue of "George Street Letters."
Fonds consists of a large and extended correspondence, manuscript materials (both his own and others), publications, proofs, financial records, transcriptions, audio tapes, lectures and preparation work for teaching. A large quantity of influentia...
B.C. Trappers Association fonds
B.C. Trappers Association
The Geoffrey R. Weller fonds primarily comprises material involved in research toward and the publication of Geoffrey Weller's scholarly works as well as records from Weller's research for government contracts and community service positions. The ...
Weller, Geoffrey R.
Upper Fraser Historical Geography Project Collection
The Upper Fraser Historical Geography Project was conducted by UNBC faculty and a team of researchers between 1999 and 2002. The lead researchers were Aileen Espritiu, Gail Fondahl, Greg Halseth, Debra Straussfogel, and Tracy Summerville. The proj...
Northwood Pulp & Timber Ltd. fonds (accrual)
This accrual consists of 1 handwritten proclamation regarding the move of Northwood forestry staff from the old field office to corporate office; as well as various handbooks, minutes, rates & pricing, proposals, standards and reports.
Northwood Pulp and Timber Ltd.
Bill Morrison Academic Research Collection
Collection consists of a selection of academic research papers from Bill Morrison. Consists of academic works written by Morrison (often in collaboration with Ken Coates), papers presented at conferences, and background material that related to hi...
Collection consists of 2001 UNBC Commerce Graduating Class yearbook.
Red Rock Community History Project Collection
Collection consists of 17 oral histories, and transcripts generated for the Living Landscapes Red Rock Community History Project and copies of photographs. Recordings by Lorita Doudiet; Doris Holzworth; Torben Lindstrom; John Marcoll; Kate Marcoll...
Northern BC Archives & Special Collections
Aleza Lake Research Forest fonds
Contains significant materials covering a wide range of topics related to forestry research and forest management practices in Central British Columbia from the 1920s to the 1980s with the bulk of the materials dating from 1924 to 1963. Includes e...
Aleza Lake Research Forest
Fonds consists of Royal Bank of Canada records from branches across Northern British Columbia and the Yukon.
Royal Bank of Canada
Kemano Completion Project Dispute Collection
Collection consists of records regarding the Kemano Completion Project collected by four scientists that were involved in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans review of Alcan's project. The majority of the material consists of copies of publicat...
Alderdice, Don
Fonds consists of photographs, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and memorabilia, correspondence, reports and other textual material. The photographs relate to Mr. Williston's life from childhood to the late 1990s, the scrapbooks document Mr. Will...
Williston, Ray Gillis
This fonds illustrates Walt Taylor's activities as a social activist in the Okanagan region of B.C. in the 1970s, and his involvement with political-environmental activist movements in the Bulkley Valley-Telkwa-Smithers area c.1980s-1990s. The Tay...
Taylor, Walt
Island Cache Recovery Project Collection
Collection consists of material resulting from Dr. Mike Evan's Island Cache Recovery Project Collection. Includes oral history interviews of former Island Cache (Cottonwood Island) residents on recording media (cassette and VHS) as well as tr...
Evans, Michael John
Bob Harkins Recordings Collection - Accruals
Accruals consists of recording interviews and research materials generated primarily by Bob Harkins; audio recordings were conducted for radio broadcast on CJCI Radio Station or its affiliates. Also includes video recordings created with Bob Harki...
Harkins, Bob
Collection consists of 1 publication entitled "Retain 2000: Conference Proceedings: Retention in Education Today."
Al Elsey Moving Images Collection
Fonds consists of original, silent 16mm reels that portray the natural, social and land use history of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin regions named the "Natural and Guiding History of the Bella Coola and Chilcotin Regions".Possible locati...
Collection consists of a set of 4 Carrier language audio recordings from a UNBC class, a set of 4 audio recordings from the Carrier Language Translation Project, a Carrier dictionary, and Carrier language publications.
Linden, Carolyn
Prince George Oral History Group Collection
The initial collection consists of seven audio cassettes containing oral history interviews on various aspects of life in Prince George conducted by members of the PGOHG. These recordings document various social aspects of Prince George and region...
Fonds consists of textual records, photographic items and published reports related to professional life and career of Bob Harkins, broadcaster, local historian, and former city councilor. Includes textual and photographic items related to devel...
Bob Harkins
This fonds illustrates Bridget Moran's careers as a writer, a social worker and a social activist primarily within the Prince George region of British Columbia. This fonds also contains records pertaining to her personal relationships with family ...
Moran, Bridget
Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum Collection
The Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum Society Collection consists primarily of textual, photographic, and cartographic records related to the regional developments of the railway industry in Northern BC. A predominant portion of the coll...
Collection consists of the typescript of "Excellence in Teaching," by Robert Bernoff.
Bernoff, Robert
Collection consists of 2 audio recordings, 7 photocopies, and 1 release form.
Prince George Metis Elders Oral History Project Collection
Collection consists of oral histories gathered as part of Dr. Mike Evan's oral history project with the Prince George Metis Elders Society. Includes consent forms, transcripts, and the recorded oral histories on their original cassette tapes.
Evans, Michael John
The fonds consists of newspaper articles on John Ferry and several documents related to Carney Ferry's work as a CNR agent. The bulk of the fonds documents William Dow Ferry's accomplishments, from his sixth grade report card to law sch...
Ferry family
Collection consists of 2 taxidermied polar bear pelts (1 adult & 1 cub) intended for educational display.
Kitchen, Rip
Fonds consists of 2 boxes of audio recordings and 1 binder related to the Oral History Programme Project conducted by Rhys Pugh in the summer of 1999.
Collection consists of 1 video recording (VHS) entitled "Uncorrupted : The Story of Rose Prince." The documentary, originally shown on EWTN, asks "Will Rose Prince be British Columbia's First Saint?" Director/Producer Ken ...
Northern BC Fish and Fish Habitat Inventories Collection
Collection consists of reports on fish and fish habitat inventories in watersheds in Northern BC published on computer disks in 1996 through 1998.
We're All Here to Stay: Forum on the Implications of the Delgamuukw Decision collection
Fonds consists of textual records, 24 photographs, 6 video recordings, 4 microcassettes, and 1 floppy disc from the 27-28 March 1998 We're All Here to Stay Delgamuukw forum.
Fonds contains 12.5 cm of textual records consisting of drafts of papers, off-prints of articles authored and co-authored by Fish, and files pertaining to his consultancy work in the Maldives and Sri Lanka. Also contains digital records and on dis...
Fish, David G.


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Big football recruiting weekend for Buffs
For decades I have contended that "northern" schools have an inherent and distinct disadvantage in college football recruiting because signing day always falls in early February and big recruiting weekends take place in December and January.
Most recruits would rather walk on a beach during their recruiting visits than trudge through snow.
At least new Colorado coach Jon Embree can thank the weather gods for shooing out the really frigid temperatures this week. For mid-January, this weekend's weather is about as good as we along the Front Range can expect.
Good thing, too. According to Rivals.com, Embree and staff are scheduled to welcome at least nine recruits to Boulder, beginning today.
The list is highlighted by four-star linebacker Leilon Willingham of Mullen, who is ranked by Rivals.com as the state's top prospect. Willingham recently extended an oral commitment to Texas A&M, but at least he is giving Colorado an opportunity to convince him to change his mind.
Two of the visitors have committed orally to Colorado: Arvada West offensive tackle Marc Mustoe and Westlake Village (Calif.) Westlake HS receiver Nelson Spruce.
Others expected to make official visits this weekend include Rashad Wadood, cornerback, Lakewood (Calif.) HS; K.T. Tuumalo, outside linebacker, Honolulu Punahou HS; Kellen Jones, inside linebacker, Houston St. Pius HS; Kameron Jackson, cornerback, Long Beach (Calif.) Poly HS; Sherrard Harrington, cornerback, Washington D.C. Woodson HS; and Woodson Greer, outside linebacker, Gardena (Calif.) Junipero Serra HS.
Other than Willingham, each rates three stars from Rivals.com.
National signing day is Feb. 2.