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Hong Kong Happiness Index 2006 : State Of Happiness In Hong Kong 2006, Lok Sang Ho

Hong Kong Happiness Index 香港快樂指數調查

The working population in Hong Kong in 2006 are generally happier, with the average happiness index rising fastest for the young and working--by nearly 5% over past year's, a survey conducted by the University's Centre for Public Policy Studies (CPPS) and the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences indicates(IHSS).

The Survey shows an overall average happiness index for Hong Kong people standing at 70.58, a fairly high score by international standards despite a slight decrease from 2005's. However, the scores for both retired persons and housewives show a noticeable decline.

Commenting on the happiness index by age groups for the …

Lanthorn, Vol. 40, No. 61, May 18, 2006, Grand Valley State University

Volume 40, July 14, 2005 - June 15, 2006

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Decentralization And Political Participation: Argentina And Chile In Comparative Perspective, Andrew W. Maki

Government and International Relations Honors Papers

This paper does not have an abstract.

The Economics Of Education: A Case Study Of Wachusett Regional High School, Carly E. Holbrook

Economics Honors Papers

[Introduction]Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle said, “the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.” (Peter 1977: 173). This study will attempt to determine some of the important factors about the economics of high school education in the United States. Schools exist to serve children, their parents, and society at large, and these three groups do not always have identical interests. Therefore, education has many goals besides the obvious one of increased cognitive ability, and the best methods for achieving the desired effects have not been agreed upon. Economists label the process by which education creates these outcomes …

The Guardian, May 17, 2006, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twenty page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

The Teeter Totter Factor In Community Development, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel

Cornhusker Economics

Think back to when you were on a playground as a child ... do you remember playing on a teeter totter? Ever try to find the balance point while the other person was on the opposite end? That took some skill! One slight move of the body by either you or your partner immediately set the board bouncing up and down. In Boomtown USA (2004), Jack Schultz uses the analogy of a teeter totter to illustrate his last key to big success in small towns. He describes it this way: It takes only a small shift one way or the …

On Fairness And Efficiency, Riz Mokal

ExpressO

What is the relationship between fairness, efficiency, accountability, and expertise? What role, if any at all, do these values play in answering the question whether a part of the law is legitimate? This paper provides an answer by introducing a distinction between the substantive and the procedural goals of any part of the legal system. Substantive goals are the ultimate ends of some part of the law, some values or objectives whose pursuit by that part of the law shows why it is desirable to have that law in the first place. Procedural goals are concerned with the methods the …

Spartan Daily, May 16, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 126, Issue 58

Metadata Committee Task 1 Update, Margaret Mering, Charity K. Martin, Judith Wolfe

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: White Papers

1. Doorway Records.
2. Migration of architectural images from the online catalog to ContentDM.
3. Registering ContentDM collections on WorldCat (OCLC)

Changes In Co-Survivorship Of Adult Children And Parents: Ju/'Hoansi Of Botswana In 1968 And 1988, Patricia Draper, Nancy Howell

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Our study addresses these issues in a sociological microcosm that makes questions about population aging particularly interesting. The group on whom we report are the Ju|'hoansi (!Kung) of western Ngamiland, part of the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. They constitute a noteworthy case for several reasons. Discussion of modernization and its impact on the lives of elderly in traditional society has focused most often on agricultural and peasant societies, rather than on economically simpler groups such as hunter gatherers1). Ju|'hoansi, though now living in permanent settlements, have a recent past of mobile hunting and gathering. Over the past sixty years, Ju|'hoansi …

Report Of Task Force On Metadata Analysis, Margaret Mering, Scott Childers, Adonna Fleming, Sue Ann Gardner, Charity K. Martin, Judith Wolfe

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: White Papers

This report :
/="/"> 1. Provides a brief overview of the different metadata schemes that are available.
/="/"> 2. Identifies the various metadata schemes being used to search and access information and digital content in the UNL Libraries.
/="/"> 3. Provides an analysis of the state of cross-searching among the various metadata schemes.
/="/"> 4. Provides recommendations on how UNL should decide which metadata schemes to use and when to use them.

Nemo News, Volume 2, Issue 8, Uno Library Science Education

NEMO Newsletter

This issue of NEMO News features Congratualtions to the Winter Semester 2006 Graduates, Please Welcome Erica Rose, Student Spotlight on Robin Brooks, Alumni Annotations with Julie Hector, Faculty Focus on Melissa Cast, SISLT Calendar, Commencement Information, Practicum Application information, and Scholarships.

Childhood Developmental Trends In Executive Function As Measured By The Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System: An Exploration Of Gender Differences., Lane Karen Dewan

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

The purpose of this study is to examine the development of Executive Function (EF). Specifically, this study investigates whether there are consistent increases in EF performance on the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) from the age of 8 years to 15 years. Gender differences in the development of EF are also examined. To this end, the standardization data for eight of the D-KEFS tests were analyzed, comparing performance across age groups (8- year-olds, 9-year-olds, etc.) and gender groups. Significant age effects were found for all tests overall. However, significant change between consecutive age groups was found only for some age …

Ddasaccident508, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

Deminer [Name removed] starts his work after the guidance of his section leader. As the working was going on and he got a signal on his detector he marked the signal and start the prodding/excavation after the prodding/excavation he discovered a PMN/AP mine and marked it then informed his section leader and subsequently the team leader. Then injured deminer [the Victim] start to [do] the detecting. After a while he got tired and went to drink the water. After coming starts the work again and he was returning back in the working line to mark the cleared/working line, during this …

Central Florida Future, Vol. 38 No. 65, May 15, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, May 15, 2006, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 126, Issue 57

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, May 14, 2006

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

Interview No. 1182, Margarita Saldivar

Combined Interviews

Ms. Saldivar briefly mentions her family and childhood; what she remembers most is her father, Francisco Leopoldo Saldívar, always talking to her about the United States and how it was a completely different country where people lived very well; he frequently spoke of the relationships he formed and how he felt free; on weekends he would make pancakes and bacon, because he missed the food so much; although he worked a lot, he enjoyed his time in the United States and longed to return, but he never had the opportunity; he enlisted when he was eighteen years old and regularly …

Interview No. 1166, Pedro Benitez

Combined Interviews

Mr. Benitez vividly describes his childhood, including the deaths of his mother and grandmother, being abandoned by his father, and the various resulting difficulties he and his two sisters faced; he sobs at the recollection of such events; growing up, he wandered from place to place in search of work and a place to stay; he later began picking cotton in the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Sonora; while in Sonora, during the early fifties, he picked two thousand kilograms of cotton, which allowed him to travel to Empalme, Sonora, to enlist in the bracero program; as a bracero, he …

Interview No. 1167, Rafael Cortez

Combined Interviews

Mr. Cortez describes how the Mexican government would often send notices about forty-five day contracts with the bracero program to various cities throughout the country; upon receiving these announcements, men would travel to designated work locations in order to obtain the necessary paperwork for contracting centers; Rafael went to the center in Empalme, Sonora, México, to enlist in the program; he states that there were over twenty-five thousand men waiting at the center, but there were only between three and five thousand men processed daily; Rafael goes on to describe the medical assessments he underwent while at the center; upon …

Interview No. 1180, Carlos Fuentes

Combined Interviews

Mr. Fuentes briefly describes his family, childhood, and adolescence; he becomes emotional and cries upon recalling his decision to become a bracero in the hopes of financially helping his family; initially, he went through the contracting center in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, to enlist as a bracero; he goes on to explain the requirements, general exams, including immunizations and delousing procedures, and the overall process he underwent at the various centers he went through; as a bracero, he labored in the fields of California, Michigan, Texas, and Wyoming, picking beets, cotton, cucumbers, lemons, and lettuce; he details the different worksites, …

Interview No. 1173, Sabas Luna

Combined Interviews

Mr. Luna recounts his childhood and adolescence, particularly his experiences as a young campesino; he recalls his dad working as a bracero, which helped his family financially, but left him without a father’s guidance; consequently, he and his older brother had to care for the family and show their younger siblings how to work; at eighteen, he obtained his first bracero contract in Monterrey, Nuevo León, México, which took him to Arkansas; it rained too much there for him to earn any money; the following year, he went through a center in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México, which took him to a …

Interview No. 1178, Jesús Rivera L.

Combined Interviews

Mr. Rivera talks about his father who became a permanent resident of the United States in the early 1900s and was repatriated during the massive deportations of the 1930s; in 1942, his father returned to the United States as a bracero and stayed with the program until 1953; as the eldest son, Jesús was left to care for his family while his father was away; in 1956, against his father’s wishes, he went to Empalme, Sonora, México, to enlist as a bracero; he describes the difficulties of surviving while waiting as well as the rudeness of the exams; from there …

Interview No. 1174, Aurelio L. Marin

Combined Interviews

Mr. Marin recalls his father and uncles working as braceros; they would often tell him what life was like in the United States; at the age of eighteen, he decided to follow in their footsteps with the hopes of earning enough money to return to México and buy land; after receiving his military ID card and the required letter of recommendation, he went to Empalme, Sonora, México, but he had to pay money and pick cotton before being able to begin the contracting process; there were thousands of men waiting for a contract; the men were examined while there, but …

Interview No. 1172, Marselina Meza Lo.

Combined Interviews

Ms. Meza describes her family and what life was like growing up in a small town; her family owned a parcel of land where they planted beans, corn, and wheat; she recalls never going to school very much, because she helped care for her younger siblings; her father was a bracero in the late fifties and early sixties; he worked in California and Texas, usually on forty-five day contracts, three to four times a year; when he was gone, she and her mother were left to care for the children and work the land; in 1962, she married Nemencio Meza …

Interview No. 1177, Heriberto Rivas L.

Combined Interviews

future for himself in helping his dad work the land nor did he see the opportunity to further his education; when he was sixteen, he came to the United States illegally; he was caught by immigration officials, and they told him about the bracero program; in 1955, he was able to obtain a bracero contract in Hermosillo, Sonora, México; he describes sneaking into the center, because there were more than twenty thousand men, and he knew he would not make it; he was then transported by train to Mexicali, Baja California, México, and then to Calexico, California; while there he …

Interview No. 1181, Perfecta Rivas De Rodriguez

Combined Interviews

Ms. Rivas de Rodriguez briefly discusses her family and childhood; she recalls hearing about the courtship between her mother and father; in the midfifties her father enlisted in the bracero program, which financially helped her family, and they were able to move out of her paternal grandfather’s home and into their own; she remembers that there were always notices around town to sign up for the program; the men had to stay anywhere between eight and fifteen days in Empalme, Sonora, México; while waiting some men ate banana peels or nothing at all, and they used cardboard as blankets; the …

Lacuny Instruction Committee Meeting Minutes, May 2006, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Reflections On Peter Drucker, C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Pollard delivered these remarks at "The Drucker Legacy: Celebrating the Life and Extending the Work of Peter F. Drucker," a symposium sponsored by Claremont Graduate University. In them, he considers how Drucker was an advisor, teacher/learner, and friend. The document also includes Drucker's handwritten notes.

Included in the physical holdings (but not online) are the program from the symposium as well as a compendium of other reflections on Drucker's life and work.

Information Professional Or Caretaker Of "Old Stuff", Daniel Davis

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Do archivists emphasize their role as technicians with specialized skills and knowledge or do they emphasize their role as sort of "semi-pro" historians? This debate has been around since the 1930s and is not likely to be decided any time soon. My argument is that young archivists cannot afford to take an either/or approach and must incorporate elements of both paths or risk obsolescence and/or continued low salaries.