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One of Recycling's main concerns this semester has been the disposable cups given out by the new café in Sunderland, the Owl's Nest. The café has become a popular spot for students to get their caffeine fix, but the only cups they have to offer are not reusable.
More than 3,000 cups are used every month, a huge number according to Gladfelter Manager Brian O'Laughlin.
"If students come to this school they should be responsible for bringing their own mug [to the café]," O'Laughlin said. "But we're using almost 4,000 cups a month? That tells me they don't care."
Though these cups are "Eco-Products" and can be composted, they have to be taken to a facility off campus that has an industrial composter that can process them.
And though the lids claim to be recyclable, they can not be processed at the recycling center, so they all end up in the trash.
According to Taylor Chappell, who has been on Recycling Crew for two years, it costs the school over $90 to take the cups to be composted. These trips to the composting facility are made about once every two weeks according to Chappell and the cost adds up quickly.
However, even though the cups are compostable, the vast majority end up in trash cans. Recycling goes through the trash, usually taking out things that can be recycled or composted. However, according to Chappell, it is a lot of work for the crew.
"It's the responsibility of everyone else to decide whether or not something's recyclable," she said. "[Sorting through the trash to find recyclables] isn't our job. And we don't always get everything."
To reduce the use of these cups, Chappell has set out a crate of clean, reusable mugs from the free store outside of the café and Gladfelter, which she cleans and replaces regularly. The Owl's Nest would have its own reusable mugs, but the space is simply too small, according to O'Laughlin. In addition, O'Laughlin is all too familiar with students taking cups and other dishes from dining places, giving the café further reasoning to not provide their own mugs.
The best alternative was to buy the cups the café currently uses, which are environmentally friendly, and three times as expensive as traditional disposable cups.
"My hope was that students would bring their own mugs," O'Laughlin said. "But if we're going to sell coffee we're going to have to have a cup people can walk away with."
The Recycling Crew met with O'Laughlin, Sustainability Manager Jenna Marshman and the café boss Marc Santos Nov. 28 to discuss potential solutions to cutting down the use of these cups.
The Owl's Nest will begin selling travel mugs starting next semester, which can be purchased with Flex dollars. Hopefully the ceramics department can be involved, so that the mugs sold in the café are student-made, which would "benefit the whole campus," Chappell said. Recycling will also continue to provide free store cups outside of the café.
"Next semester we're going to try and incentivise people to bring their own mug, moreso now than before," O'Laughlin said.
While the use of the disposable cups is unavoidable in some situations, they are simply being overused, according to Chappell.
"We're not trying to completely get rid of them," she said. "But the majority of cup usage is able to be reduced. It's not impossible or difficult."
The white disposable cups in Gladfelter have also plagued the Recycling Crew for years. Though these cups can be composted, Recycling has been throwing them away because they have to ship them off to get composted too frequently.
"It's sad and we don't want to do that, but it's costing us money," Chappell said.
With the recent Trashocolypse, Recycling Crew was hoping to raise awareness, bringing attention to the excessive and unnecessary amount of waste that we produce every day. From getting take out in styrofoam containers to scraping our plates into the compost, students are only adding to the campus's total waste, which can be easily diminished.
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Ever think about making a career change? If so, you're not alone. According to recent Bureau of Labor Statistics, Baby Boomers change jobs, on average, 10 times during their working years.
Career counselors cite a number of reasons why we search for greener pastures: The lure of a bigger salary or greater job flexibility, involuntary layoffs or termination, even intolerable co-workers. For one reason or another, 45 percent of us last year—in the private sector alone—left an existing job to work elsewhere.
The challenge is clear: Employees today have to rethink their roadmap to success, rediscover their talents and strengths and sometimes remake their dreams for the future.
A time of career transition is also an ideal time to stop and reflect on God's plan for your life. Reevaluate your strengths and weaknesses objectively; this will give you the courage to scrutinize your personality and help reaffirm your self-confidence. And be sure to make Christ the centerpiece of any job change; seek the Lord's guidance before you accept a new position, no matter how attractive it appears.
Finally, you don't want to carry the stress of your previous job into a new position, so take a deep breath and embrace a fresh start to a bold, new adventure.
A job search is similar to a typical business developmental plan: you identify your objective, you identify the resources needed to achieve your objective, and you develop a well-thought-out plan. So, if you are one of the 4.1 percent or more than 5 million who are part of the unemployed in this country, we encourage you to develop a strategy similar to the one listed below that addresses the three parts of a typical developmental plan.
At this nation's present rate of industrialization and technological advancement, we are forced to come to grips with the fact that jobs are now less secure than they have been in the past. Over the long haul an employee generally cannot look to his or her employer for job security. However, the best way to increase the odds of being employed or staying employed is to know your talents, develop them, and be truly excellent in work habits. Since jobs are so insecure, flexibility is essential. Therefore, knowing how to find a career that best fits into the parameters of your talents, abilities, and capabilities and then focusing on the follow-through of that search—while relying upon God's guidance and His directive—are the primary ingredients needed to insure success in the job search market.
The past century has been an era of unbelievable changes. We literally have gone from the horse and buggy days to outer space in less than 100 years. At the turn of the twentieth century, 90 percent of Americans worked in agriculture, usually on small family farms. At the close of the 20th century, less than five percent made their living by working on family farms.
The advancement of technology, with its need for thousands of technology related jobs, was the fuel that powered the shift in this country from an agricultural society to an industrial society. Before long a person's employment was at the discretion of and the will of the industrial machine. With the advancement of technology came the evolution of mass production from one that was primarily people oriented to one of mechanical orientation. In so doing, a new generation of the unemployed has evolved—a generation that can be separated into four different categories: job mismatch, no job, entering or reentering the workforce, or no direction.
Job mismatch is the most common justification for people to quit their jobs. Experiencing a lack of fulfillment and corresponding low motivation toward work, along with a sense that they have chosen a field of work that is not a good match for their talents, are the primary factors that have caused people to quit their jobs without having other jobs lined up. The vast majority of these who quit their jobs are stressed out, even to the point of not wanting to go to work every morning. In some cases this job stress has been so acute that it has resulted in health problems. So, to ensure a less stressful and healthier life, they have quit their previous jobs and are job hunting.
Many who had jobs have become victims of cutbacks, restructuring, and downsizing; many have lost their jobs after years of loyal service to a business, company, or corporation. These layoffs generally are not personality motivated; rather, the layoffs are economically motivated. A business cannot afford to stay in business if it pays more in employee salaries and benefits than it collects in revenues. Sometimes these cutbacks are known far enough in advance for people to begin looking for replacement jobs. At other times cutbacks come without warning and have a tremendous impact on families. For those who have experienced downsizing, layoffs, or cutbacks, it's much like a death or a divorce, especially if the victims are middle-aged and find that their work experience and expertise, loyalty and work ethic, or education are no longer enough to ensure new jobs.
This group has expanded rapidly in recent years. Some are homemakers who have chosen either to enter the workforce or reenter the workforce and pursue careers. Some are divorce victims who are forced to reenter the workforce. Still others have been victims of layoff or cutbacks and are trying to learn new careers or enhance their talents and gifts to become more valuable on the job market.
A large number of this group are young people who have little exposure to the outside world of work, so they don't know much about what is available. They then tend to choose occupations out of ignorance or based on trends and the values of society. Another part of this group are those who have been laid off and have no direction regarding which way to go next, have no training in anything other than the job that was taken from them, or feel that they are too old to start over.
A survey in Business Week magazine reported that only one out of six Americans is content with his or her job.
That means that nearly 83 percent are dissatisfied. The most consistent complaint was a lack of fulfillment or long-term purpose.
Certainly, many Christians also fall within this large group of dissatisfied, fearful workers. Why? Primarily because their value system has been altered by worldly standards to a great degree.
Our society defines successful people as those with good educations, secure positions, and plenty of money.
However, the Bible says that successful people are those who serve God first, are of service to other people, provide for family needs, and are at peace with themselves and with contemporaries.
For Christians to accept non-Christian vocational goals is to invite future problems. "But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction" (1 Timothy 6:9).
Regardless of the income, prestige, or security of a vocation, unless it truly merges with God's will, unrest will persist.
The primary characteristic of those who successfully discern God's will for their lives is that they continually seek to put God first. Most Christians experience doubts and anxieties when faced with major decisions. However, consistently putting God first eliminates most anxiety-producing decisions before they become crises.
Without exception, most people who are trapped in prestigious, well-paying jobs that don't meet their inner needs spend their lives envying the very people who are envying them. "There is one who pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, but has great wealth" (Proverbs 13:7).
The only true way to find God's direction is to seek it earnestly.
Most Christians do not sense His direction because of worldly pressures associated with the income, prestige, or security of a good job, or they sense it and then lose it by failing to act on it.
The best indicators of correct vocational direction for people are their basic abilities. God has endowed every Christian with unique abilities, desires, and gifts to accomplish His will through them (see 1 Corinthians 12). As Christians seek to truly serve God, the Holy Spirit will make known God's perfect vocation for them.
Authentic vocations should not be based on our wills or our desires in life. A vocation is not doing what we want to do in our lives, unless of course it is also God's will. Choosing the right vocation must include discerning what He wants for us in our lives.
As Christians, we have the advantage of knowing a certain future. Thus, we have the responsibility to orient our lives accordingly. In addition, we have the advantage of being able to see life from God's perspective.
Therefore, it is vital to seek discernment regarding God's plan. Because our decision must be based primarily on how we can best use our gifts and talents to serve Him, accepting nothing less than the vocation that will complement and extend that ministry is essential.
There is nothing wrong with a successful career; in fact, God promises great blessings. "The reward of humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, honor and life" (Proverbs 22:4). However, attitude is the key ingredient in any vocational decision. Is the decision made by worldly standards—security, ego, income—or is it made to please and serve God and thus serve other people? "He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity" (Ecclesiastes 5:10).
In choosing a vocation Christians must weigh their priorities very carefully, because when we are out of God's priority guidelines, we are out of His will. Christians can tell whether they are out of His priority system by asking the following questions. (1) Is my personal relationship with the Lord affected? This includes my time spent in God's Word, in prayer, and in worship with others; and (2) Is my relationship with my family affected? This includes time spent with my spouse/child(ren).
Many vocational alternatives and options can be eliminated simply because they do, or have the potential to, conflict with these priorities. By evaluating every alternative and option through prayer and mature Christian counsel, Christians can guard against violating God's laws while fulfilling life's goals.
Choosing a career is generally not a one-time decision; it's a series of decisions, made as you progress through different stages of life, experience, and responsibility. As we move from one stage of life into another, we begin to adapt our lifestyles and family commitments to conform to our present employment needs or demands. However, this adaptation might not be the best way to approach career decisions. In fact, because the majority of us are not satisfied with our current jobs, it seems obvious that the way we adapt our lifestyles to fit our current employment demands has been in error. As such, most of us need to unlearn the errors and then learn the truth regarding career decisions.
The following are the eight most common career-choice errors.
The following are eight steps we should take as we prepare to make career decisions.
Too often we work things backwards. We decide on the results we want and then pray that God will bless our decision, and we try desperately to fit into the mold that is demanded. When we do this, we deny Him full control and we deny ourselves a career that is compatible with our God-given gifts and talents. If we are going to be successful in career selection decisions, we must identify our talents, abilities, and personalities; understand how they can best be used; and then turn the results over to God.


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This unit focuses on network applications including its design and development in a Java programming environment. Students will learn about the Java programming language as well as skills to develop networked applications using the language and libraries that supported it. Students will begin with an overview of the programming language to see its similarities to other modern OO languages. They are then introduced to basic Java development through the Java applet before students move on to more complex application development requiring an understanding of both low level Java networking facilities such as sockets, Web URLs and datagrams, and higher level object-oriented networking such as Web Services and CORBA. To extend the capability of network programming, other related topics will also be introduced.
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