Employment At-Will, Wrongful Discharge, and the Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing in Montana, Past, Present, and Future

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Career development training, certification, supervision and professionalization: case examples from four countries.

The career development sector is professionalizing internationally, through training, certifications, and an abundance of opportunities to learn from colleagues at conferences and international symposia. However, there are significant differences in how the profession is developing in different parts of the world; the notion of “career” is recognized as culturebound and, perhaps, inconceivable to many individuals. In this paper, career development educators from four countries in Asia, North America, and Europe share case examples of the career development sector’s evolution in their regions. Together, they represent institutions and training programs from the public and private sectors, in both formal and informal settings. Several of the authors have been influential in introducing and customizing career development practitioner competency frameworks and training for practitioners from diverse backgrounds to meet certification requirements. Together they examine how professionalizing the delivery of career development services has emerged in their regions, the variety of training opportunities available along a continuum from preparation for practice to reflection of practice, the diversity of standards and certifications in the career development sector, and the early stages of addressing the need for training and equipping supervisors and leaders. The authors advocate a “both/and” approach to professionalization, grounded in local research that surfaces felt needs and then customizing training, resources, and standards that incorporate relevant elements from international sourcesN/

Scat DNA as a non-invasive method for estimating the abundance of the vulnerable mala (Lagorchestes hirsutus)

Context: Population-monitoring programs often use direct (e.g. live capture or spotlighting) or indirect (e.g. scats sightings) observations to estimate population abundance. Such methods, however, are often inadequate for rare, elusive, or cryptic species due to the difficulty in achieving sufficient encounters or detection rates. The mala (Lagorchestes hirsutus), a small native Australian macropod, listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN, is difficult to capture, susceptible to capture myopathy, and not easily sighted in their dense habitat; consequently, the population size cannot always be estimated. The use of molecular markers to identify individual genotypes from non-invasively collected samples is increasingly being used in wildlife conservation and may be an alternative approach for mala. Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of non-invasive scat DNA sampling to estimate the population abundance of mala. Methods: A panel of microsatellite markers was developed for the identification of individual mala via profiling of their scats. Scats were systematically collected from a wild mala population located in an 1100-ha fenced reserve in Western Australia. Individual genotypes were determined using the microsatellite markers, and the abundance of mala was estimated using the genotypes with spatially explicit capture–recapture (SECR) and mark–resight analyses. Key results: The genetic markers proved variable and with sufficient exclusionary power to confidently identify unique individuals (mean locus genotyping error rate: 3.1%). Individual genetic identification from scat sampling, when used with traditional mark–recapture/resight analytical models, provides feasible estimates of population abundance. This is the first reliable abundance estimate of this mala population, suggesting a \u3e70% increase in population size since the initial reintroduction of 64 individuals in 2011–13. Conclusions: Given the inherent difficulties in surveying mala, this approach would be valuable to ensure effective monitoring of the few remaining fenced and island mala populations to prevent further decline of this vulnerable species. Implications: This is the first study to identify species-specific microsatellite markers for mala and use genetic-capture sampling with scat DNA to estimate the abundance of a mala population. The study provides an evaluation of a valuable species monitoring technique that can be applied to other rare, elusive, or cryptic threatened species

Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy, volume 21, issue 2

Contents include: Celebrating 25 Years of Review; On African American Dramaturgy One Professional\u27s Personal Response; The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, But Can It Theatricalized?; Tahrir Stories Excerpts From A Verbatim Theatre Project Composed and Performed During the 2011 Egyptian Revolution; Introduction to the review of Burning the House: On Directing and Dramaturgy, by Eugenio Barba; Eugenio Barba\u27s On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the House; A Servant of Two or Three or Four or More...Masters, Business Advice for Dramaturgs Working in Virgin Territory; Bryan Doerries\u27s Theater of War, A New Incarnation of an Ancient Ritual. Issue editors: D.J. Hopkins, Sydney Cheek O\u27Donnell, Lauren Beckhttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1042/thumbnail.jp

Review: The Newsletter of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, volume 13, issue 2

Contents include: On Borders, LMDA Conference 2003 Turgs in the Hood, Reading Between the Lines, Acting Locally: The Lysistrata Project, and Regional Updates News and Info from Each LMDA Region. Issue editors: D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, Liz Engelman, Madeline Oldham, Jacob Zimmer.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1027/thumbnail.jp

Review: The Newsletter of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, volume 13, issue 1

Contents include: Reading Review (Again), Radical from the Root, Arthur Ballet Recipient of the 2002 LMDA Loessing Award, Notes from the Lunatic Fringe, Regional Reports Info: News and Previews From All Over, Review is Inaugurating a New Section in the Next Issue: Projects-In-Process, and LMDA Prize in Drammatury 2002 The Elliott Hayes Award. Issue editors: D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, Liz Engelman, Madeline Oldham, Jacob Zimmerhttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1026/thumbnail.jp

Faculty of Health Cultural Safety and Indigenous Working Group Showcase

Cultural Safety and Indigenous Perspectives in Teaching and Learning showcase shares tips and examples of how Cultural safety and Indigenous Perspectives have been embedded in health curricula including, in classroom science units, optometry work integrated learning units, course redesign in exercise and nutrition courses and a Seeing me Seeing you elective unit

LMDA\u27s 20th Aniversary 1985-2005: Celebrating the First Twenty Years

Contents include: Introduction: Only the Beginning..., A Brief History of LMDA, LMDA Canada - A History, Being There: Chance Memories of a Kitchen Dog, Interviews with the Past Presidents of LMDA, The LMDA Lifetime Achievement Award: Portraits of the Lessing Award, The Elliott Hayes Award: A Thumbprint History, LMDA\u27s Residency Programs, LMDA: A Living Chronology, Afterward: Looking Forward to Looking Ahead

Review: The Newsletter of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, volume 15, issue 1

Contents include: Dramaturgical Debris, LMDA Conference 2004 Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, The Production Notebooks Edited by Mark Bly: A Conversation between Danielle Mages Amato and D.J. Hopkins, Interviews with Past LMDA Presidents Alexis Greene and David Copelin, and LMDA Regional Updates Issue editors: D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, Megan Monaghan, Madeleine Oldhamhttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1030/thumbnail.jp