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China In 2008: A Year Of Great Significance

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Last month, we announced our forthcoming book, China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, to be published by Rowman & Littlefield in early 2009. With the manuscript beginning to take its final shape (and 2008 far enough advanced that we felt somewhat—but only somewhat, given what a crazy year it’s been so far—safe beginning to reflect on it), we thought we would share a little bit from the book with you. In the coming weeks, we hope to share with you a preview of the table of contents as well as perhaps snippets of other new pieces from the …

Greatball

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

Taiwanese baseball has just been giving a powerful shot in the arm, with three consecutive shots out of the park by the Brother Elephants’ star player Peng Chen-min 彭政閔 during his team’s 7-1 victory over the LaNew Bears in the first game of their playoff series.

For video highlights, please click here. I especially like the announcer’s comments about a home run ball resembling a girlfriend who has just had a change of heart — neither is coming back (In the case of one of Taiwan’s 40-something superstars, Chang Tai-shan 張泰山, this is modified to include a reference to his …

Cedarville Vs. Daemen, Cedarville University

Men's Soccer Statistics

No abstract provided.

Wood, Rhonda (Fa 328), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan of comilation (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 328. Compilation: "Tales of Tales of Tales" by the eighth grade class, Hughes-Kirk High School in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, under the direction of Rhonda Wood.

Fostering Critical Thinking And Intercultural Understanding: Canada’S Contribution To Media Literacy, Brian O'Neill

Other resources

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Cedarville Vs. Daemen, Cedarville University

Women's Soccer Statistics

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October 2008 - Staff Meeting Minutes

ALEC Committee Minutes

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Lacuny Executive Council Meeting Minutes, October 2008, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Lacuny Junior Faculty Research Roundtable Meeting Minutes, October 2008, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

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Central Florida Future, Vol. 40 No. 91, October 17, 2008

Central Florida Future

Apollo astronaut lands at UCF; Face to face; Bomb scare ends up dry ice; Students learn how to defend against attacks; Done with the paper? Make origami.

Precarious Collaborations. Working-Class Subjectivities, Community Activism, And The Problem With “Social Movement Unionism” In Late-Apartheid East Rand (South Africa), Franco Barchiesi, Bridget Kenny

Franco Barchiesi

An influential current in South African labor studies has used the concept of ‘social movement unionism’ to characterize organized labor’s contribution to South Africa’s post-Apartheid democratization. Part of the concept of social movement unionism is the idea that during the 1980s independent black workers’ unions combined workplace struggles with community-based concerns related to social services, repression, and political disenfranchisement. In this way, trade unions came to play a politically transformative role, which implied both innovative labor-community alliances and the appropriation by organized labor of social movements’ mobilizing modalities. After a decline in the immediate post-Apartheid period, when scholars and union …

Water Borne Diseases And Rural Development In Sudan Study Of Malaria In Gezira Irrigated Agricultural Scheme, Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed

Professor Issam A.W. Mohamed

Gezira irrigated scheme is globally one of the biggest agricultural productive units administratively managed. It has seen deteriorating productivity for the past two decades. There cries that it should be privatized. That was seriously taken by the government in an economic liquidation of its assets. However, in this study we discuss analyze other aspects than the previously mentioned aspects of production parameters. We focus of health economics and how gradual negligence led to the prevalence of waterborne diseases. That degenerated farmers' abilities to produce. The present study was carried out in the Gezira scheme to measure the impact of water …

Making Waves: Technical Services Past, Present, And Future, Pamela Bluh

Faculty Scholarship

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E-Commerce Patterns In South Asia: A Look Beyond Economics, Nir Kshetri, Nikhilesh Dholakia

College of Business Faculty Publications

Conflicting and complex forces are shaping the diffusion patterns of the Internet and e-commerce in South Asia. Drawing upon the literature on institutional theory, we explore the drivers and inhibitors of the Internet in South Asian countries. We examine the influence of the three pillars of institutions (Scott, 1995) on the digital world of South Asia. The paper discusses how regulatory, normative, and cognitive institution–such as laws, relationships, culture, and habit–have shaped the diffusion patterns of the Internet and e-commerce in South Asia.

City Club Report On Ballot Measure 63; City Club Report On Ballot Measure 65, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

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Budgeting For Library Technical Services In An Electronic Age, Adetoun A. Oyelude, C.O. Ola

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Library budgets have serious implications for the smooth operation of services. In an electronic age, technical services become more relevant and it is essential to budget for personnel, equipment, supplies, and maintenance. A large number of academic, research, and public libraries in Nigeria were surveyed, and virtually none had a technical services budget. In light of those results, the need for budgeting in libraries and budgeting techniques in technical services are examined. The decentralization and democratization of fiscal management are recommended.

From Migrant Surveys To Migrants’ Stories: Reflections On Research On And In Southern Africa, Belinda Dodson

Migration and Ethnic Relations Colloquium Series

No abstract provided.

Lacuny Interlibrary Loan Roundtable Meeting Minutes, October 2008, Lacuny

Meeting Minutes

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Lanthorn, Vol. 43, No. 17, October 16, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 43, July 10, 2008 - June 7, 2009

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

Identity And Technology: Organizational Control Of Knowledge-Intensive Work, Guowei Jian

Communication Faculty Publications

Much has been written about the functioning of managerial ideologies in identity-based organizational control. However, less attention has been given to the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and identity defined by a technological discourse in regulating knowledge-intensive work. The purpose of this research is to examine the roles of identity and ICTs in the control of knowledge-intensive work. A case study of a technology service organization reveals that the construction and consumption of a technologist identity operate as organizational control, and that ICTs enable the functioning of a dialectic of technological control. This study also demonstrates the paradoxical …

Cedarville Vs. Houghton, Cedarville University

Volleyball Statistics

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Painted Skin: To Scare Or Not To Scare?, Haiyan Lee

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

It may come as a surprise that movies about ghosts and monsters are strictly speaking illegal in China, a land that has given us such an enchanting array of supernatural figures as the White Serpent Lady, the Weaving Girl, the three-headed Nuozha, and, of course, the delightful trickster Monkey. Gods and ghosts do show up on the Chinese screen, but they have to be framed as “characters” of folklore or fanciful creations of the “primitive” mind, something of ethnographic interest but no longer relevant to our sense of self and world. However, if they end up unsettling our secular confidence …

Revisiting Feminism: Who’S Afraid Of The F Word?, Delia D. Aguilar

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

"While preparing for today I discovered that I had already used the 'F' word in a panel presentation at Sarah Lawrence College almost 15 years ago. This was something I had completely forgotten. But that time I was questioning feminism itself: what’s wrong with the 'F' word?"

Introduction To Frbr: Functional Requirements For Bibliographic Records, Debra G. Skinner

Library Faculty Presentations

What is FRBR and what will it mean to libraries? An introduction to the concept of FRBR and the impact on libraries, cataloging, and OPACS.

Wikifying Your Workplace, Audrey Defrank, Karen K. Hein

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

A presentation on adding an organizational wiki to your workplace drawing upon gardening analogies. What's a Wiki?; Wiki your Work; Sowing the Seeds; Why Wiki?; Your Monitor?; Your Inbox?; Your Shared Drive?; Your Intranet?; Your People?; Choosing a Wiki; Planting; Growing; Weeding; Future Harvests; Criss Library Wiki; Criss Library Wiki Stats; New Crops and Cultivation for Criss Library; Keep Tilling!

Spartan Daily, October 16, 2008, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 131, Issue 27

The U.S. Economic Crisis And A Revised New Jobs Tax Credit, Timothy J. Bartik

Upjohn Institute Policy Papers

An efficacious economic stimulus to help the U.S. economy recover from its current recession is the revival of the New Jobs Tax Credit. Unlike the original credit utilized by the federal government in 1977– 1978, the new version should be a refundable credit but at a lower current dollar value. My 2001 book, Jobs for the Poor: Can Labor Demand Policies Help? proposed a permanent version f the New Jobs Tax Credit that would be automatically triggered when the unemployment rate is high. My estimates, updated to 2008, suggest that such a revised credit might increase aggregate U.S. employment by …

Reinventing Libraries For Next Generation Of Library Users, La Loria Konata

La Loria Konata

Libraries have reinvented themselves to remain relevant in the 21st Century. During the early 1990s voters pushed towards “reinventing government.” Like governments in the 1990s, libraries are operating in a new environment and community that forces them to advocate their own relevancy against competitors and attract millennials as the next generation of library users. This paper examines how libraries are “reinventing” themselves and discusses key business management principles libraries must adopt to compete in a more diverse and abundant information environment.

Remarks At The Ncaa Division Ii Conference Commissioners' Award Of Merit Reception, Delivered At Cheyenne Mountain Resort On October 15, 2008, Arend D. Lubbers

Presidential Speeches

Remarks at the NCAA Division II Conference Commissioners' Award of Merit Reception, delivered at Cheyenne Mountain Resort on October 15, 2008 by Arend D. Lubbers, who served as President of Grand Valley from 1969-2001.

Ordinance Drafting And Enactment: Issues And Recommendations, Steve Lobertini

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication contains a discussion of legal issues relevant to ordinance drafting, with sample charter provisions, as well as a summary of issues and an ordinance-drafting guide.