Letter to Carlton West regarding the North Carolina Library Association Constitution and Bylaws Committee, February 20, 1963

A letter from Winston Broadfoot to Carlton West regarding the activities and proposed meeting of the North Carolina Library Association Constitution and Bylaws Committee

Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics

The call for papers Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics was published on 30 July 2015. In it, the editors made a public invitation for scholarship that proposed meeting points between the disciplines of jazz studies and comics studies. This editorial discusses the motivations for the collection, the editorial methodology, and the research articles included. Finally, the editors suggest some areas in which jazz studies and comics scholarship might address under-researched and fertile topics

Contextual Suggestions of Suitable Meeting Times

This disclosure describes the use of text parsing and suggestion techniques to simplify and automate the process of setting up meetings, e.g., via email. Per techniques of this disclosure, with user permission, text being composed in an outgoing email is analyzed using a contextual parser. The parser detects when the outgoing message is related to a meeting to be set up and also identifies meeting parameters such as participants, date/time, duration, etc. Based on the identified parameters, a list of suggested times for the proposed meeting is provided to the user. Upon user acceptance of the suggestion, the meeting is automatically set up and added to the participants’ calendars

Oregon Wine Board Meeting Minutes November 6, 2012

These meeting minutes list individuals in attendance and missing at the November 6, 2012 Oregon Wine Board (OWB) meeting, held at the offices of Davis Wright Tremaine in Portland, Oregon. Michael Donovan, who had traveled to Asia along with representatives from other Oregon agricultural industries as part of Governor John Kitzhaber\u27s Asia trade mission, reported on his experiences during that trip. Updates included information on the 2013 Board nominations, an overview of the OWB website launch and social media efforts, details on international marketing activity, and information from the Oregon Wine Research Institute (OWRI) Policy Board. The meeting concluded with reports on the budget and financial statement review, staff time allocation, and the meeting schedule for the 2013 Board. The meeting lasted 2 hours 15 minutes, and the Board went into Executive Session after the meeting was adjourned

Recruiting More Mathematics Teachers Using Collaboration as the Main Ingredient: An Effective Model from Missouri

A National Science Foundation grant was designed to develop a series of courses to connect mathematics concepts taught in middle school classes with actual class materials used at the middle school level; however, a second component of the grant focused on efforts to recruit more teachers into the field of mathematics. By collaborating with several groups across Missouri, several strategies were developed that were shown to have positive results, both in increasing awareness of mathematics teacher shortage issues, and in encouraging attendance in Missouri mathematics education programs. The strategies developed were easy to implement and low in cost. The Missouri team encourages others to duplicate or adapt this recruitment model in their own regions

Communication in animal health and welfare planning

The project ‘Minimising medicine use in organic dairy herds through animal health and welfare promotion’ is focused on animal welfare assessment and its role in the active use of animal health plans in order to improve animal health and welfare on organic farms. To be active, a health plan requires dialogue between the farmer and those who are able to view the farm from the outside e.g. vets and advisors. The importance of this communication is the focus of this paper. Across Europe we see highly diverse farming systems and similarly diversity in advisory systems and their approaches to communicating with farmers. One of the objectives of the AniPlan project is to develop approaches to health planning that are robust yet sufficiently adaptable to be applied across these various conditions. This will involve utilising knowledge of current approaches to communication between farmer and advisor, but also the opportunity for new ways of communication that contribute to the process of animal health and welfare promotion. Relevance to the farmer is paramount. In this paper, three current approaches are summarised, focusing on the dialogue between farmer and ‘external persons’. These are the Danish Stable Schools, the Dutch farmer study groups (where farmers participate in doing animal welfare assessment in a fellow-farmer’s herd) and the Swiss pro-Q project, where there is a very active dialogue between advisors and farmers in a continuous feed-back system. Further to these descriptions, the paper summarises the results of discussions between participants at the first AniPlan workshop in Hellevad, Denmark on the subject of communication in the animal health planning process