Recipes for Success: Youth Council Guide to Creating a Youth Development System Under WIA

As we enter the new millennium, several trends exist that are radically changing the way our nation's young people will participate in the workforce. New technologies have opened up new industries and revolutionized our notion of the workplace. A booming economy has contributed to remarkably low unemployment rates. Today's young people can look forward to unprecedented opportunities, but only if they are prepared. Young people with little sense of direction, who do not obtain the knowledge and skills necessary to enter an increasingly complex workplace, will be left behind. The disparity between skilled and unskilled workers will become particularly dramatic in the next decade, when shifting demographics will increase/intensify competition for jobs.Those of us charged with helping young people reach their full potential must re-examine the way in which we prepare them for tomorrow's workplace. The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 provides an excellent opportunity to do just that. WIA authorizes over one billion dollars per year to help low income youth acquire the education, skill, work experience and support they will need to make the transition to productive adulthood.In creating the Youth Councils -- a mandated component of the Workforce Investment Boards -- WIA provides local communities with the framework for developing comprehensive and effective strategies that ensure such successful transitions. The partnerships represented on the Youth Council bring together a diverse set of stakeholders and resources, partners who can address the needs of young people more effectively that any one partner can do alone. Because the leadership provided bythe local Youth Councils will be pivotal in making this initiative work, it is essential that communities compose these Councils with great care.This guide is designed to provide practical information for community leaders, local Workforce Investment Boards (WIBs), Youth Councils, staff and others that are committed to effective youth and workforce development. It contains four sections and several appended exercises.Chapter 1: "Planning the Menu" defines youth development, outlines the basic concepts of making connections for young people (system-building), describes how WIA can make a difference and starts a work plan for Youth Councils.Chapter 2: "Youth Councils: Essential Ingredients" addresses the wide range of Youth Council responsibilities, from organization and staffing to strategic planning and accountability.Chapter 3: "Transition to WIA: From Soup To Nuts" addresses resource allocation decision making, follow-up services, the performance system, selecting service providers and other important administrative decisions.Chapter 4: "Coming Together At the Table" depicts the path ways to comprehensive service delivery based on proven princi ples and practices. The building blocks that are available as the platform for developing a system for young people are described.Youth Councils offer a leadership opportunity for local communities to bring about change in youth activities and outcomes. If communities take advantage of this opportunity, Youth Councils will be in a strong position to stimulate broad-based change, reward innovation, and improve performance in youth development and youth organizations. Communities will need assistance building effective Youth Councils. This guide will provide communities with the help they need to transform the potential of Youth Councils into measurable results, results that will make a profound difference in the lives of our nation's youth

Recipes for Success: Worksheets/Attachments

These attachments and exercises are designed to give Youth Council members and staff an opportunity to take a "hands-on" approach on dealing with complex Youth Council issues. See "Recipes for Success: Youth Council Guide to Creating a Youth Development System Under WIA" for more information

Research on Access and Success of Under-Represented Groups in the Geosciences

The geosciences as an allied group of fields touch virtually all aspects of the human enterprise: locating and providing water, energy and mineral resources; assuring a safe and resilient environment for civilization; and providing an understanding of how the Earth system functions today, in the past and into the future. Given how the geosciences touch the lives of all people, it should also be a field that is representative of all people, but this is not yet the case. Especially with the global importance of the geosciences growing and the geoscience workforce projected to encounter shortfalls of qualified practitioners in the coming decades, it is imperative that the geoscience education research community frame and investigate central questions that can help increase the diversity of the geosciences at all levels. We must find ways to attract all kinds of students, especially those from under-represented groups to our sciences and build programs, experiences and careers in which they thrive. The research challenges proposed in this chapter focus on two essential and interdependent perspectives (1) the point of view of the individual students, faculty and professionals as they manage their own internal balance of identities as they traverse curricula, programs and career pathways, and (2) a view that captures system-wide interactions around the individuals at all stages, including family, culture, department, university and society

The Grizzly, November 13, 2008

Berman Expands to Envelop Art and Imagination • Election Night Brings Cheer to Liberal Ursinus College • Changes Expected for This Year\u27s New Member Education • Passage of Prop 8 Leaves Same-Sex Couples Concerned • Days After Election: Obama Gets to Work • Forensics: Not the Science, but the Ursinus Debate Team • Escape Velocity\u27s Eternalmotion Strikes a Chord at UC • Finding the Phillies Parade: An Unforgettable Adventure • History Attached to a Philly Row Home • Opinions: Barack Obama: Our Next President • Kait Sutherland Finishes Out Hockey Reign at Ursinushttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1775/thumbnail.jp

The First Provenance Challenge

The first Provenance Challenge was set up in order to provide a forum for the community to help understand the capabilities of different provenance systems and the expressiveness of their provenance representations. To this end, a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging workflow was defined, which participants had to either simulate or run in order to produce some provenance representation, from which a set of identified queries had to be implemented and executed. Sixteen teams responded to the challenge, and submitted their inputs. In this paper, we present the challenge workflow and queries, and summarise the participants contributions

KG-Hub-building and exchanging biological knowledge graphs.

MOTIVATION: Knowledge graphs (KGs) are a powerful approach for integrating heterogeneous data and making inferences in biology and many other domains, but a coherent solution for constructing, exchanging, and facilitating the downstream use of KGs is lacking. RESULTS: Here we present KG-Hub, a platform that enables standardized construction, exchange, and reuse of KGs. Features include a simple, modular extract-transform-load pattern for producing graphs compliant with Biolink Model (a high-level data model for standardizing biological data), easy integration of any OBO (Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies) ontology, cached downloads of upstream data sources, versioned and automatically updated builds with stable URLs, web-browsable storage of KG artifacts on cloud infrastructure, and easy reuse of transformed subgraphs across projects. Current KG-Hub projects span use cases including COVID-19 research, drug repurposing, microbial-environmental interactions, and rare disease research. KG-Hub is equipped with tooling to easily analyze and manipulate KGs. KG-Hub is also tightly integrated with graph machine learning (ML) tools which allow automated graph ML, including node embeddings and training of models for link prediction and node classification. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: https://kghub.org

Fall, Recovery and Characterization of the Novato L6 Chondrite Breccia

The Novato L6 chondrite fragmental breccia fell in California on 17 October 2012, and was recovered after the Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) project determined the meteor's trajectory between 95 and 45 km altitude. The final fragmentation at 33 1 km altitude was exceptionally well documented by digital photographs. The first sample was recovered before rain hit the area. First results from a consortium study of the meteorite's characterization, cosmogenic and radiogenic nuclides, origin and conditions of the fall are presented. Some meteorites did not retain fusion crust and show evidence of spallation. Before entry, the meteoroid was 35+/-5 cm in diameter (mass 80+/-35 kg) with a cosmic ray exposure age of 9+/-1 Ma, if it had a one-stage exposure history. However, based on the cosmogenic nuclide inventory, a two-stage exposure history is more likely, with lower shielding in the last few Ma. Thermoluminescence data suggest a collision event within the last approx. 0.1 Ma. Novato likely belonged to the class of shocked L chondrites that have a common shock age of 470 Ma, based on the U,Th-He age of 460+/-220 Ma. The measured orbits of Novato, Jesenice and Innisfree are consistent with a proposed origin of these shocked L chondrites in the Gefion asteroid family, but leave open the possibility that they came to us directly from the 5:2 mean motion resonance with Jupiter. Novato experienced a stronger compaction than did other L6 chondrites of shock-stage S4. Despite this, a freshly broken surface shows a wide range of organic compounds