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Pond Appeal Series: Teaching Community Stakeholders To Manage Pestiferous Aquatic Midge Emergences From Storm Water Retention Ponds, Kenneth T. Gioeli, R Leroy Creswell, Jeffrey P. Gellermann, Edward A. Skvarch

Journal of Extension

Saint Lucie West (Florida) residents living adjacent to storm water retention ponds complained about the emergence of large swarms of pestiferous aquatic midges. Pond Appeal is a program developed by the Saint Lucie County Cooperative Extension to educate residents about pond best management practices that would result in a reduction in midge emergences. One hundred and fifty people participated in the program. All participants indicated they increased their understanding of pond management techniques and adopted practice changes that enabled them to better manage these ponds. This resulted in a reduction in pestiferous aquatic midges and improved quality of life.

Team Approach To Pesticide Applicator Training, Testing, And Recertification In Four Central Florida Counties, Richard Tyson, Celeste White, Jennifer Welshans, Juanita Popenoe

Journal of Extension

A regional team approach to pesticide training and certification improves clientele opportunities to comply with regulations and requires less time per agent to implement the program. Agents in central Florida identified pesticide licenses with high public demand and developed education opportunities for this group. Program success was measured by comparing exam results from clients taking exams immediately after pesticide training with the results from clients who took the exams without training. Attendees realized a 21% increase in passing percentage. Agents can stretch limited resources and expand quality programs by reaching across county lines in a regional team approach.

Financial Simulations For Young Adults: Making The "Real World" Real, Barbara O’Neill

Journal of Extension

Simulations are a useful tool for teaching personal finance concepts. Keys to a successful simulation experience are easy to replicate materials, realistic scenarios, clear instructions for participants, and a thorough debriefing where students discuss their experiences and what they learned. Simulations provide an opportunity for students to appreciate the economic impact of a post-secondary education and to practice financial management skills such as check writing and budgeting. In addition, they are interactive, which makes learning fun. This article provides Extension educators with brief summaries of a "toolkit" of 11 simulation products that teach personal finance concepts to young adults.

Midwest Grape Production Guide, Maurus Brown

Journal of Extension

The Midwest Grape Production Guide (OSU Extension Bulletin 919) is a joint publication with The Ohio State University and Purdue University and a comprehensive guide on commercial grape production. There are 155 text pages in the bulletin, with 121 color pictures, 22 diagrams, and 18 tables. Sales of this publication have reached a total of more than 2,300 copies in 32 states, with the highest number of copies being sold in Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana, New York, and South Dakota. This bulletin would make an excellent resource guide for Midwest grape growers and Extension educators.

Rating Stock Price With The Price Earning Ratio (Per): A Case Study On The Shares Of Food And Beverage Industry In The Indo, Nazwirman Nazwirman

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

Stock exchange investment gives return more than saving money in bank. For instance, in form of a deposit with average of 6 % per annum. But investor must be analyze carefully in buying shares. Using one analytical share techniques, the price earning ratio (PER) method. Investor will easily know which share they should buy. Price earning ratio method in analyzing the share of food and beverage company in Indonesian stock exchange use three alternative (k*= 11%, k*=16% and k*=21%). From 15 company on listing, only 6 companies give dividend to investor every year. Company share to buy only one share …

Political Parties In Singapore, Malaysia, And The Philippines: Reflection Of Democratic Tendencies, Ulla Fionna

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

This essay examines the role of political parties in different forms of government. In the three Southeast Asian countries, the different governments have distinctive methods of utilizing the parties according to their needs. The more democratic the country usually the less control the government has on the parties. The more reliant the government on its party, the more systematic its control over it. Consequently, the stronger control of government the less likely the parties would be able to reach democracy.

New Product Development (Npd) Process In Subsidiary: Information Perspectives, Firmanzah Firmanzah

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

Information is an important resource for new product development (NPD) process in subsidiary. However, we still lack of research to analyze NPD process from information perspective in subsidiary context. This research is an exploratory research and it exploited 8 cases of NPD process in consumer goods subsidiaries operating in Indonesian market. Three types of information have been identified and analyzed NPD process; global, regional and local information. The result of this research reveals that new product will be resulted is determined by the type of information used. This research reveals four new product typology using information types. The semi-structured interview …

The Interpenetration Between Amaterasu Oomikami And The Japanese Environment, Ike Iswary Lawanda

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

The article indicate the interpenetration between Amaterasu Oomikami and environment within the Japanese thought. The protection of environment as a product of interpretation of Japanese culture in reciprocal relation is categorized by: the normative – the real; the sacred – the profane; supranatural world – human world. The system classification is the product of knowledge from the Japanese way in seeing the world based on the classification of the inside (uchi) – the outside (soto/yoso). This classification and its attributes produce differentiation between the inside – the outside. The environment destruction is considered as disgrafuk and dirty action. Any violation …

Metode Analisis Akar Masalah Dan Solusi, Ari Harsono P.

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

Most of discourses in meetings, discussions, conferences and talk shows are not equipped with a method which analyzes the root cause and its fundamental solution, and even without the need of analyzing it. As the result,. the discourses almost never find the root cause, and so automatically there are be no fundamental solution. The Method of Root Cause Analysis and Solutions (MRCAS) gives a mode of thought figured by a flow chart and some examples. Application of MRCAS helps its users simultanously thinking inductively and deductively, qualitatively and quantitatively, more deeply and holistically, and also facilitate them in inter or …

Implication Of The White Group In Perspective Of The Democracy Development In Indonesia, H. Soebagio

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

Politic participation in democratic State is an indicator of valid implementation of highest State power exercise by people (people sovereignty), that is imbodied by their involvement in democracy event (general elections). The increasingly higher level of political participation indicates that people follow, understand, and engange in national activities. Reversely, a low level of political participation generally indicates that people place less appreciation or interest in national affairs or activities. The low level of peoples’s political participation is reflected in golput (golongan putih-white group or non-voting) attitude. In democratic perspective, golput attitude will of course has implication on development of democracy …

Web Portals To Taiwan’S Past

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

One of the blessings of the Internet Age is the availability of valuable information about the past, in this case Taiwanese history. This post introduces a few English and Chinese websites that I have found most interesting/useful. The list is hardly meant to be exhaustive, and people should feel free to recommend other sites that would benefit all those interested in this topic.

1. The Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection — Put together by Paul Barclay at Lafayette College, this website contains 340 photographs and postcards gathered by Warner from 1937 to 1941 during and after his tenure as U.S. …

Do The Coefficients Of A Modular Form Really "Encode Arithmetic Data"?, Ken Mcmurdy, Hari Ravindran

Mathematical Sciences Technical Reports (MSTR)

Language and terminology are so critical to the understanding of modern math- ematics that it is often difficult for even very good mathematicians from different fields to discuss their work in any detail. As a result, common phrases often evolve within each discipline which attempt to capture the avor of some impor- tant idea while avoiding technicality and jargon. For example, when algebraic number theorists are asked why they are so interested in modular forms, it has become common to say with enthusiasm that the coefficients of a modular form "encode arithmetic data". If pressed further, one might go on …

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, November 30, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2008

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Deaf Sports News November 30, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Sports 2008

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, November 30, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

No abstract provided.

Confessions Of An Angry Insomniac, Gayle Greene

Scripps Faculty Publications and Research

The first thing to go is your sense of humour. Then it's the desire to do the things you used to do, and then the desire to do anything at all. Parts of your body ache that you don't even know the names of, and your eyes forget how to focus. Words you once knew aren't there any more, and there's less and less to say. People you once cared about fall by the wayside and you let them go, too.

11/30/2008 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 11/30/2008. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

St. Francis Of Assisi Catholic Church And Center For The Deaf Sunday Bulletin, November 30, 2008

Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Landover Hills, MD

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Center for the Deaf Sunday Bulletin Finding Aid

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, November 30, 2008

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid

Macroalgae And Eelgrass Mapping In Great Bay Estuary Using Aisa Hyperspectral Imagery, Shachak Pe'eri, J. Ru Morrison, Frederick T. Short, Arthur C. Mathieson, Anna Brook, Philip Trowbridge

PREP Reports & Publications

Increase in nitrogen concentration and declining eelgrass beds in Great Bay Estuary have been observed in the last decades. These two parameters are clear indicators of the impending problems for NH’s estuaries. The NH Department of Environmental Services (DES) in collaboration with the New Hampshire Estuaries Project (NHEP) adopted the assumption that eelgrass survival can be used as the water quality target for nutrient criteria development for NH’s estuaries. One of the hypotheses put forward regarding eelgrass decline is that a possible eutrophication response to nutrient increases in the Great Bay Estuary has been the proliferation of nuisance macroalgae, which …

Restoration Of Oyster (Crassostrea Virginica) Habitat For Multiple Estuarine Species Benefits, Shachak Pe'eri, J. Ru Morrison, Frederick T. Short, Arthur C. Mathieson, Anna Brook, Philip Trowbridge

PREP Reports & Publications

Increase in nitrogen concentration and declining eelgrass beds in Great Bay Estuary have been observed in the last decades. These two parameters are clear indicators of the impending problems for NH’s estuaries. The NH Department of Environmental Services (DES) in collaboration with the New Hampshire Estuaries Project (NHEP) adopted the assumption that eelgrass survival can be used as the water quality target for nutrient criteria development for NH’s estuaries. One of the hypotheses put forward regarding eelgrass decline is that a possible eutrophication response to nutrient increases in the Great Bay Estuary has been the proliferation of nuisance macroalgae, which …

Campus Weekly Crime Report For The Week Ending November 30, 2008, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. University Police Services.

Crime Reports, Alerts, and Information

The weekly crime report for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's campus for the week ending November 30, 2008.

As Economy Shrinks, This Program Grows, Bill Freehling, Alan G. Heffner

Administrative / Professional Faculty Articles

As the U.S. economy struggles to gain footing, the University of Mary Washington’s graduate business program is thriving.  Enrollment has risen steadily for the past couple of years at UMW’s Master of Business Administration program, said MBA Director Alan G. Heffner. Applications for students looking to start this spring were up 22 percent over last year.

Introduction To Lgbtq America Today, John C. Hawley

English

l was born in Los Angeles in 1947 and learned from my classmates in seventh grade that boys who wrote with their left hand or wore green and yellow on Thursdays were homos. Because I did both, I knew I was in deep trouble from the start and might have some pretending to do. Such was the atmosphere for LGBTQ folks in the United States throughout the 1950s. Things loosened just a bit in the 1960s, when hippies were shaking society up. Then, in the 1970s, gay folks seemed to be-a lot more visible--disturbingly so, in the minds of many-and …

Announcement In Relation To Covered Institutions, Ireland: Department Of Finance/An Roinn Airgeadais

Documents

Press release discussing potential capital support from the government

The Government Presented A Plan To Strengthen The Polish Economy, Poland: Office Of The Prime Minister

Documents

Press release from Polish Office of the Prime Minister; in Polish: "Rząd przedstawił plan wzmacniający polską gospodarkę"

Affidavits Of Two Guatemalan Prisoners From The Postville Raid Of May 12, 2008, Erik Camayd-Freixas

Postville Project Documents

The affidavits of two federal prisoners in Miami who were arrested in the 2008 Postville immigration raid.

Nota Informativa No. 116-2008 From The Banco Central De Reserva Del Perº – Bcrp, Dated November 30, 2008, Banco Central De Reserva Del Perº / Central Reserve Bank Of Peru

Documents

No abstract provided.

Quantitative And Qualitative Corneal Endothelial Morphology Of Omani Patients With Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome, Upender K. Wali, Abdullah S. Al-Mujaini, Nadia S. Bialasiewicz, Alexander A., Syed G. Rizvi

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objective: Pseudoexfoliation (PEX) syndrome is one of the leading causes of secondary open angle glaucoma and blindness. This study explored whether in PEX eyes, preoperative changes in corneal endothelial cell morphology might be a risk factor for postoperative corneal decompensation. Methods: One hundred twenty six eyes of 69 preoperative cataract patients (43 males, 26 females) were enrolled in this cross-sectional study from the Ophthalmology Department at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital between 2003-2005. All patients were subjected to confocal biomicroscopy. Results: The mean age of patients with PEX eyes was 63.2 years. One hundred and eight (85.7%) eyes with PEX had …

Satisfaction Among Expectant Mothers With Antenatal Care Services In The Musandam Region Of Oman, Mohammed Ghobashi, Rajiv Khandekar

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: As client feedback is useful to improve health service delivery, assessments should be undertaken periodically. This study aimed to determine the level of satisfaction among expectant mothers visiting health institutions for antenatal care services in the Ministry of Health, Musandam region of Oman in 2005. Methods: This was a cross sectional survey in a hospital setup. Women registered in the antenatal clinics of different health institutions of Musandam region were interviewed. Arabic speaking investigators in six health institutions of Musandum region collected personal profiles, details of different antenatal services offered and responses regarding the satisfaction with these services. The …