Code Red: raising funds and AIDS awareness
November 29, 2008
Code Red: raising funds and AIDS awareness
It’s human nature to avoid things that scare you. However, certain Kansas Citians are prepared to make sure that our community is well-educated about the prevention of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a disease with a scary reputation.
“As a member of the heterosexual community, I know that people are scared of AIDS,” said Lauren Jones, University of Kansas graduate student and co-chair of the Millennial League, an AIDS-awareness group in Kansas City.
Quartet disrupts library silence (with permission)
November 29, 2008
Quartet disrupts library silence (with permission)
A string quartet made of Kansas City Symphony members performed at The Kansas City Public Library last Tuesday for library patrons as a part of its Community Connections program.
Using the city skyline as a backdrop, the quartet played four songs in the east corridor of the library.
Science Dissemination Using Open Access: Table of Contents
Science Dissemination Using Open Access: A Compendium Of Selected Literature On Open Access / Editors E. Canessa and M. Zennaro (ICTP-SDU, Italy).
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) / July 2008 / 207 pp. / ISBN 92-95003-40-3.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: Selected Literature – 1
OVERVIEW – 3
GETTINGS PROFESSIONAL – 37
Challenges for new journals ….. 38
Measuring your impact …… 39
Journal standards and identifiers …… 40
Building reliable and ongoing content …… 42
Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) ….. 42
LEGAL FRAMEWORK – 43
Open Access journals ….. 73
Campus discusses transit
November 29, 2008
Campus discusses transit
A number of students, faculty and members of the community gathered at Epperson House Thursday to discuss the state of transit in Kansas City and its controversial future.
Nick Grunauer, a recent MBA graduate of the Bloch School, voiced his opinion about the issue.
Briefly Mentioned
Law school promotes public service
A new public service fellowship established by the School of Law will assist graduates with repaying student loans.
The first recipient of the John W. Oliver Public Service Program fellowship will be chosen from the School of Law graduating class of 2009.
Beasiswa S2 USA: Master Programme in Advance Management Studies at JAIMS
November 29, 2008
Beasiswa S2 USA: Master Programme in Advance Management Studies at JAIMS
THE FUJITSU ASIA PACIFIC SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
A full-tuition Scholarship For Management Training in Hawaii.
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace, established the Fujitsu Asia Pacific Scholarship Program in 1985. The Scholarship was established to enhance international understanding and cross-cultural communication through management education and training. Fujitsu is committed to promoting the development of both technology and human resources at global level.
East-West Knowledge Leader Program (EWKLP)
An intensive three-month Graduate diploma program at JAIMS in Honolulu, Hawaii. JAIMS is a nonprofit postgraduate institute that has been a pioneer in intercultural management education since 1972. Over 22,000 participants from 59 countries have come to JAIMS to learn skill essential for success in the international arena.
JAIMS
* Intercultural Business Leadership
* Global Marketing
* Cross-Cultural negotiation and Problem-solving
* Business Plan Development and Entrepreneurship
* Business Communication
* One-week field study in Japan
Program Information: www.jaims.org
Application Deadline: January 31st, 2009
Please send your application letter and CV to:
PT. FUJITSU INDONESIA
Wisma Kyoei Prince 10thFloor
Jl. Jend Sudirman Kav.3-4
Jakarta 10220
Indonesia
Attn: Mr. Raditya Padmawangsa
Ms. Ella Lamzia
E-mail: scholarship@id.fujitsu.com
Scholarship information: www.fujitsu.com/scholarship
Are You Making This Dreadful Newsletter Marketing Mistake?
November 29, 2008
Are You Making This Dreadful Newsletter Marketing Mistake?
The typical client newsletter is one of the most mind-numbing, agonizingly boring pieces of mail ever sent to consumers. The main reason is that most companies think what they do is incredibly fascinating to their clients. So based on this false assumption, their newsletters cheerfully discuss the latest equipment purchase or the new back office operation and how Mary Sue has moved from Payroll to Marketing.
While this might be riveting stuff internally, I can assure you that your clients just don’t care. If you’re making this newsletter marketing mistake, don’t worry. It’s not your fault. No one ever taught you the system, until now.
4 ‘Set in Stone’ Rules to Publishing a Winning Client Newsletter:
Rule #1: Never make your business or company the focus of your client newsletter. This concept is difficult for most business owners to wrap their minds around. Read my words: Our clients don’t care about how our business operates! The sooner we accept this fact, the sooner we will be sending them something that they actually want to read.
Rule #2: Focus on article content that people grab hold of and actually use in their lives. That means you must provide appealing and interesting content that is relevant, useful and engaging. The goal is to create involvement. The more time they spend with your newsletter, the more likely they’ll take action.
Rule # 3: Be consistent. If you tell your customers to expect a newsletter from you every month, you better do it. And ask yourself: How often do I want my customers and prospects to think of me? While daily would be wonderful, it’s not going to happen. Following a monthly newsletter schedule is perfect. They will expect to receive it just like they do their favorite magazines.
Rule #4: Never forget that a client newsletter is a marketing tool. Within your compelling content weave client testimonials and the names of people who have referred your company. Have contests that give away free services or gift cards to create further goodwill between you and your clients. And always, always, always have a compelling offer just for them. Follow these rules and you will have a winning client newsletter that will get you more sales. But, you have to keep in mind that…
You Must Take a Long-term View on Using Newsletters as a Marketing and Customer Relations Tool.
Be aware that the results will not happen overnight. In fact, it will take several months for your customers to develop the ‘habit’ of looking for it. But over time, your clients will come to expect getting your newsletter. And they will hound you if you missed sending them an issue! You will definitely see the desired results with the payoff being client retention and more purchases from you.
Client newsletters that include the four rules listed above will build relationships with your customers and create a sense of reliability and professionalism. You’ll be sending literature that your clients will look forward to reading every month. And since your rivals don’t understand my newsletter success system, you will create a powerful marketing machine that will blow your competition out of the water.
This post provided by David Gruttadaurio. David was sick and tired of wasting money on marketing that didn’t work. So he searched for a profit-producing, client-retention & referral-generating tool until he found newsletter marketing! Now go to http://www.NewslettersMadeForYou.com & get his FREE “Profit Exploding Newsletter Secrets Report” that reveals how to reclaim tons of money that should be sitting in your bank account now simply with newsletters.
Dave’s place – Pepperoni rally
November 29, 2008
Dave’s place – Pepperoni rally
When I think of a pep rally, like the one advertised by the UMKC Athletics Department last week, I envision a vocal, raucous student body at fever pitch, egged on, perhaps, by a spirited cheer squad and a marching band.
I hear blaring horns, thundering percussion and feedback from a hot microphone.
Various PhD Positions, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
November 29, 2008
Various PhD Positions, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
website link: http://www.unimore. it/en/academics/ doctorates. html
The Call for admission to Ph.D. Programmes (XXIV cycle – year 2009) with administrative headquarters at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia is published on the website of the University http://www.unimore. it/en/ at page http://www.unimore. it/en/academics/ doctorates. html (in the sections relating to each Doctoral School).
In particular Italian and foreign applicants in possession of an academic qualification awarded outside Italy and equivalent to an Italian degree (ante D.M. 509/99) or specialist/teaching degree (D.M. 509/99 and D.M. 270/04) will be required to provide the degree certificate with a list of exams taken complete with Italian translation, legalisation and “declaration of legal value in loco (Dichiarazione di valore in loco)” supplied by the Italian consulate or diplomatic representative competent for the country concerned, in accordance with current admission regulations concerning foreign students (further information is available in the enclosed file).
PhD researcher Environmental toxicology and chemistry – Utrecht University
PhD researcher Environmental toxicology and chemistry (1,0 fte)
Utrecht University
(Utrecht), 38 hours per week
Job description
The objective of the PhD project is to get a better understanding of the sorption and bioavailability of cationic surfactants in sediments. This knowledge is essential for improving the environmental risk assessment of this class of contaminants. The project is funded by the European Chemical Industry Council and will be performed in collaboration with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig.
One of the tasks is to improve the analytical procedure for measuring the freely dissolved concentration of cationic surfactants in environmental samples, including sediment suspension. Sorption studies will be performed to elucidate the contribution of sorption to clay minerals to the overall sorption capacity in natural sediments. Measuring freely dissolved concentrations in the pore water phase of a sediment toxicity test will clarify whether adverse effects to biota are solely controlled by the freely dissolved concentration in the pore water.
Requirements
Required education/skills: University Graduate
We are looking for an enthusiastic candidate carrying a master’s or equivalent degree in biology, chemistry or geochemistry with a background in environmental toxicology or chemistry and an affinity for analytical methodologies.
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s) :
- Research trainees, non-tenured lecturers, researchers( Scientific discipline: Health)
Organization
Utrecht University
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
The Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) is an interfacultary research institute from the faculties Veterinary Medicine and Medicine, and the departments Biology and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Science faculty at the Utrecht University. The mission of IRAS is to provide research and education on human health risks of exposure to potentially harmful agents in the environment, at the workplace and through the food chain. IRAS has three research divisions. The Environmental Epidemiology division performs epidemiological research on respiratory, cardiovascular and carcinogenic health risks in relation to biological and chemical exposures. Within the Veterinary Public Health division research is conducted to identify and study possible adverse health effects from microbial and non-microbial agents occurring in food derived from the animal production process. Research within the Toxicology division covers the part of the risk assessment in which the availability and dose – adverse health effect relationships of toxic substances are studied. The aim of IRAS is to perform quality research with a high relevance for society.
PhD researcher Environmental toxicology and chemistry
Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2500 – 3000
Salary: scale 10.
Maximum salary amount in Euro’s a month 2558
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract: 1,5 year
Maximum hours per week: 38
Additional conditions of employment:
The IRAS can offer you a temporary full-time appointment of one and a half year with the perspective of prolongation with another 2½ years. The gross salary starts with € 2,000.- per month in the first year and increases to € 2,558.- per month in the fourth year of employment (salary scale “P” Collective Employment Agreement of the Dutch Universities) .
Secondary benefits, based on the Collective Employment Agreement of the Dutch Universities are excellent in general and include e.g. a pension scheme, flexible employment conditions and salaries are supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and a year-end bonus of 6.4% per year.
As a partner in the Postgraduate Education in Toxicology (PET) programme, IRAS offers the opportunity to follow courses in this programme with the aim of obtaining the possibility to register as a toxicologist with the Dutch Society of Toxicology as well as with EUROTOX.
Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
Dr Joop Hermens
Telephone number: 31 30 2535337
E-mail address: j.hermens@uu. nl
Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links:
* About the organization (http://www.vet. uu.nl/viavet/ viavet_english)
* About the function (http://www.iras. uu.nl/)
Application
You can apply for this job before 09-10-2008 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
J.C.M. Schoonenberg
Yalelaan 1
3584 CL Utrecht
E-mail: vacatures1@vet. uu.nl
When applying for this job always mention the vacancynumber 12875.
Golden Ford Worlds tickets
November 29, 2008
Click the image to zoom in.
These are the “gold” end-zone seats available as nine-day event passes, saving you upwards of $150.00.
There’s another ticket announcement coming later today concerning the two “Champs” packages: “Weekend Champs” (Thursday through Sunday) and “Weekday Champs” (Monday through Wednesday and then Friday through Sunday).
Watch for all news and ticket announcements on the event webpage, with the ticketing page located here.
This year’s Ford Worlds is a very big deal, as it celebrated 50 years of world men’s curling. You do not want to miss this one, folks.
To conclude today’s brief blogpost, here’s a rundown of last weekend’s event winners. Watch tomorrow’s blogpost for still more awesome curling news and info …
• Mirjam Ott and surprising Stefan Karnusian will represent Switzerland at December’s European Championships while the unsurprising Scottish results see Kelly Wood and David Murdoch also returning to defend their 2007 medals ….
• The impressive junior skip Kaitlyn Lawes was the real story of the second women’s Slam, won by Michelle Englot …
• Team Glenn Howard is pretty in pink after winning their third straight Brandon tour event …
• Victoire pour Guy!
• To no one’s surprise, Kevin Martin won in Bonnyville …
• And finally, Suzanne “No Longer Gaudet” Birt won the Lady Monctonian …
Kiffin will either sink or swim at Tennessee – San Francisco Chronicle
November 29, 2008
Kiffin will either sink or swim at Tennessee – San Francisco Chronicle Kiffin will either sink or swim at Tennessee
Los Angeles Times
San Francisco Chronicle -
(11-28) 19:00 PST — Lane Kiffin's 22-month tour of Al Davis' circle of hell was finally completed this weekend when he agreed to an extended contract to be the new head coach at the University of Tennessee.
Report: Kiffin is set to coach Tennessee
Reports indicated Kiffin may be introduced as soon as Monday.
NYPD, MTA beef up security in wake of attacks abroad – Newsday NYPD, MTA beef up security in wake of attacks abroad
BBC News
Newsday -
BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO AND ROCCO PARASCANDOLA | In the face of new warnings about a possible terror plot, the New York Police Department and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority beefed up security in the subways and commuter rail lines yesterday …
Video: NYC Transit Threat
Thai police cordon Bangkok’s main airport – Washington Post
November 29, 2008
Thai police cordon Bangkok’s main airport – Washington Post
A row of volunteer ambulances wait outside Suvarnabhumi airport Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand in anticipation of possible violence. Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat has declared a state of emergency for Thailand’s airports under siege by the People’s Alliance for Democracy. (AP
Shoppers kill Wal-Mart worker – Beeld
Answerit can help. New York – A worker was killed in the crush on Friday after a throng of shoppers eager for bargains burst through the doors at a suburban Wal-Mart, authorities said. At least four other people were injured, and the store in Valley Stream on New York’s Long Island was closed. Wal
Indian commandos complete operations – Gulf News
Mumbai: Indian commandos on Saturday completed operations to clear Mumbai’s Taj Mahal hotel of militants, officials said. At least three militants and one trooper were killed, the country’s commando chief Jyoti Krishna Dutt told a news conference. He said a body seen thrown out of a window at the
FDA sets melamine standard for baby formula – San Francisco Examiner
» 2 hrs 41 ago: FDA sets melamine standard for baby formula « 6 hrs ago: FDA sets safe level for infant formula contaminant Chemist Michael Filigenzi demonstrates how vials of liquefied pet food are placed in trays for testing for the industrial chemical melamine at the California Animal Health
