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Display Color Calibration to adjust color settings

2011-02-23T20:21:00.000-08:00

Display Color Calibration improves your display color by enabling you to change different color settings. After you adjust the different color settings using Display Color Calibration, you will have a new calibration that contains your new color settings. The new calibration will be associated with your screen display and used by color-managed programs.

The color settings that you can change, as well as how you change those color settings, depend on your monitor’s display and its capabilities. Not all monitors have the same color capabilities and settings, so you might not be able to change all the different color settings when using Display Color Calibration.

You can find Basic color settings

To get an accurate calibration, we recommended that you set the basic color settings on your screen display before you continue. This ensures that you have a good starting point when you begin to calibrate your screen display using Display Color Calibration.

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2011-02-22T01:11:00.000-08:00

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Getting the best display on your monitor using windows OS

2011-02-20T19:17:00.000-08:00

In this article I want to share the following:

    The best display settings for an LCD monitor
    Set the color for an LCD monitor
    The best display settings for a CRT monitor
    Set the color for a CRT monitor
    Color management
    Calibrate your display
    Set brightness and contrast
    Improve the appearance of text

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Earning lot of money online(Generate Traffic)

2011-02-20T19:04:00.000-08:00

If you have a web site, a blog, or a business online, generating traffic should be your primary concern. Driving traffic to your site can be easy if you know how to use the available tools online, which are:

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Best web hosting

2011-02-20T01:34:00.000-08:00

Probably the most crucial decisions that almost all online companies need to make is selecting the most effective internet hosting service. With a well-liked or well known and reliable Internet Service Supplier (ISP) you won’t face many issues, nevertheless with a poor webhosting service provider it can be a nightmare.
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"I.T. Issues, Question, Latest Trend, Objective, and Top Ten" Fresh News, Cool Gizmo, Latest Trends, Current Issue and Food and Healhty Bandwagon

2011-02-16T22:19:00.000-08:00

"I.T. Issues, Question, Latest Trend, Objective, and Top Ten"

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2011-02-13T21:00:00.000-08:00

http://www.techdelver.com/

Following list riskiest viruses in 2010:

2010-12-17T20:10:00.001-08:00

Discusx.vbs
Virus VBScript that one this, have size around 4.800 byteses. He will try infection in some drives in your computer, entered flash drive disk, that if infected will make file autorun.inf and System32.sys.vbs at root drive are referreds. In other hand, the even also will alter caption from Internet Explorer become “.::Discus-X SAY MET LEBARAN! [HAPPY LEBARAN ?!]::.”.
Reva.vbs
Next, type virus goodly VBScript many is griped by some readers. He will try disseminate he to every drive in computer your is entered flash drive disk. At drive infected will be existed file reva.vbs, autorun.inf, and shaheedan.jpg. In other hand, he even also will alter default page from Internet Explorer in order to aim to site http://www.arrahmah.com.
XFly
PC Media Antivirus recognizes two variants from this virus, namely XFly.A and XFly.B. Same as local virus other, he is made use Visual Basic. Have body size as high as 143.360 byteses without in compress. And he can impersonate as folder, MP3 file WinAmp or the other by alter directly resource existing icon at its body. This will more complicate user laymen in it. At computer infected, when run Internet Explorer, caption on the turn become “..:: x-fly ::..”, and when start Windows even also will emerge message from the virus maker at default browser. Or every time show at 12:30, 16:00, or 20:00, this virus even also will present black screen that also contain message from the virus maker.
Explorea
Virus that compiled use this Visual Basic attends of the size around 167.936 byteses, without in compress. Use similar icon folder standard Windows to deceive its victim. This Virus will attack Registry Windows Anda by alter default open from some extensions like .LNK, .PIF, .BAT, and .COM. At computer infected, at certain moments sometimes emerge error message, the example when open System Properties.
Gen.FFE
Gen.FFE or its maker names Fast Firus Engine is one of program local made Virus Generator. With only use this program, not needed old to be able to create virus with new variant. This Virus of program output result uses similar icon picture folder standard Windows. He even also will black out access to Task Manager, Command Prompt, and eliminate some menus in Start Menu. He also will read caption from active program, if existed antivirus related to strings then program is referreds will immediately closed.
Hampa
Virus that also made use Visual Basic and with this icon folder have body size around 110.592 byteses, without in compress. A lot of change that he make at Windows, like Registry, File System, and others, that even can cause Windows can not be used properly. At computer that infected by this virus, when start Windows will emerge message from the virus maker.
Raider.vbs
Type Virus this VBScript fairish around 10.000 byteses, if virus file is opened with Notepad for example, then not many stringses that can be read because up to scratch encryption. At Registry, he even also gives identification by make new key in HKLM Software by the name of same as name at computer name, by content a have the shape of strings value like virus name referreds, Raider, and computer date are referreds the first time infected.
ForrisWaitme
Virus that made with this Visual Basic use similar icon folder standard Windows to conduct its impersonation. This Virus exchanges left mouse button function with right, eliminate menu Folder Options, make message file “read saya.txt” at drive infected, and there is still the other.
Pray
This local Virus is made use Visual Basic. There are 2 variants from this virus, for variant Pray.A not haves icon, temporary for variant Pray.B uses similar icon Windows Explorer. If computer is infected by this virus, moment of time pointer in computer is referreds show at 05:15, 13:00, 16:00, 18:30, and or 19:45, this virus will present message that remind user to conduct sholat.
Rian.vbs
Virus this VBScript haves size 3788 byteses. When infection, he will create autorun.inf new file and RiaN.dll.vbs in each root drive that attached in victim computer, entered Flash Disk. Computer that infected by this virus, caption from Internet Explorer on the turn become “Rian P2 Humas Cantiq.

Intel 32 core Processor/CPU

2010-12-16T20:20:00.000-08:00

What does a processor do?
A processor is the unit that reads and executes program instructions, which are fixed-length (typically 32 or 64 bit) or variable-length chunks of data. The data consists of number of instructions which specifies the work that is to be done. The instructions are very basic things like reading data from memory or sending data to the user display, but they are processed at a rapid speed that we experience the results as the smooth operation of a program. Processor consists of number of cores depending on it’s design(Dual core, Quad core, Hexa core etc). The number of tasks completed per second depends on these cores, if there is only one core in processor then instructions will be executed one at a time.

Project “Keifer”

Intel has assigned name “Keifer” to the many-core processor project and “Gulftown” specifically to its 32-core processor that will be manufactured using 32nm process(The 32 nm process ‘also called 32 nanometer node’ is the next step after the 45 nanometer process in CMOS semiconductor device fabrication), and it will include eight processing nodes, each with four cores. Each core will run at 2GHz, but since there are 32 of them, processor will run at 64 GHz .

Intel 32 core is base on Sun's UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) to come up with a radical processor redesign for 2010 that could perform 16 times faster than Woodcrest. This is technical intelligence from within the Borg collective. Keifer is aimed take on Sun’s Niagara which is available in the market as UltraSPARC T1 processor.

Key to Intel's advantage may be clock speed, once again: The company estimates that Niagara III won't be able to run faster than 2.0 GHz - while Keifer will run at least at 2.0 GHz.

Project Niagara

"Niagara" architecture, which is currently available in the "Ultra Sparc T1" processor. The T1

was launched last year with great fanfare as 1.2 GHz 8-core processor with 3 MB L2 cache and capable of handling a total 32 threads at a peak power of just 72 watts. Sun currently offers the T1 in the T1000 and T2000 server series - rack-mounted 1U and 2U servers with prices ranging from about $3500 to just under $30,000.

32 core Intel Processor

Intel invented a 32 Core Processor which is a parallel working giant that will not require supporting graphics cards for doing its job efficiently and quickly and a new 32-core server chip based on a new high-performance computing server architecture that mixes general x86 cores with specialized cores for faster processing of highly parallel scientific and commercial applications.

The technology is called Many Integrated Core Architecture (MICA) and specially designed for the servers that require a big amount of multiprocessing power with parallel working technology. The prototype designed is based on 22 nanometer pipeline architecture technology on which Intel researched by a dedicated facility and expert team of engineers to produce the giant 32 core processor that looks just like a dedicated PCI Express Graphics Card in physical.

The chip, called Knights Ferry, is Intel's fastest processor ever and delivers more than 500 gigaflops of performance that mixes general x86 cores with specialized cores for faster processing of highly parallel scientific and commercial applications.

The Knight Ferry chip that is the main design base of the processor runs on a dedicated 1.2 GHz clock speed with 32 cores of XEON 7500 type and equipped with L1 and L2 shared cache memory of 8 MB size each, which the company describes as being based on a new "many integrated core" architecture. The Level 1 and Level 2 cache memories are backed by 1 GB or 2 GB sized GDDR5 Hyper Advanced RAM for enhancing the processor power and integrating it with better execution time.

The server processor is not designed for market use as of now; Intel only showcased a prototype of the processor. The technology was just display to give a hunch of the future technology and when it will come in commercial scale, should be upgraded to 50 core super server processor and will target to high end servers and super computers. The price is not announced or decided officially, the launch date of the commercially usable processor is predicted as the early of 2011.

32-core graphics processing engine

Larrabee is Intel's response to Nvidia and AMD graphics processing chips. Larrabee will be, in its first iteration, a 32-core processor. Each core is expected to be an x86 core, and each will will be paired with a vector processing unit. Larrabee will have a shared pool of cache memory and there will be memory interfaces around the edge of the chip.

Intel has made a point of Larrabee's programmability, saying it will be more flexible in use than current dedicated graphics chips.

The idea seems to be that a Larrabee workstation could use the chip for general business applications, mining the humungous x86 application base, as well as power through graphics image rendering tasks. It could also be used for new graphics processing applications because of this flexibility.

News

The 32-core chip is available for development purposes.

The first commercial product will include more than 50 cores and be called Knights Corner. An Intel spokesman would not say when that chip will be available. However, the chip will be part of the Sandy Bridge chip architecture, manufactured using the 22-nanometer process, and those processors are due to reach laptops and servers in 2011.

The initial 32-core chip is made using the existing 32-nm process. Knights Ferry includes 32 main Xeon chip cores in the server CPU socket, with corresponding 512-bit vector processing units in the PCI-Express slot. The chip runs four threads per core and includes 8MB of shared cache, and up to 2GB of fast GDDR5 memory.

The company will merge the CPU cores and vector units into a single unit as chip development continues, Skaugen said.

The Knights architecture is the biggest server architecture shift since Intel launched Xeon chips, Skaugen said. The chip includes elements of the Larrabee chip, was characterized as a highly parallel, multicore x86 processor designed for graphics and high-performance computing. However, Intel last week said it had cancelled Larrabee for the short term, but said elements of the chip would first be used in server processors, and and later in laptops.

The new architecture could also fend off competition from Nvidia's Tesla and Advanced Micro Devices' FireStream graphics processors, which pack hundreds of computing cores to boost application performance. The graphics processors are faster at executing certain specialized applications. The second fastest supercomputer in the world, Nebulae in China, combines CPUs with GPUs to boost application performance.

The chip will accelerate highly parallel applications, Skaugen said. It could also standardize software development platforms around the x86 architecture, making it easier to recompile programs, Skaugen said.

Intel has many new server chips in the pipeline. Earlier this month, the chip maker said it would release a successor to its eight-core Nehalem-EX chips next year, with more cores and faster speeds. The new chips, code-named Westmere-EX, will be for servers with four or more sockets. The company is also developing an experimental 48-core x86 chip with a mesh design, but has not announced plans to sell it.

Intel already has a significant lead in the HPC market, but the new chip and surrounding architecture could extend its presence. According to the Top500 list, 408 supercomputers -- more than 80 percent of the list -- use Intel's chips, giving it a significant lead over other chip companies like Advanced Micro Devices and IBM.

Trends in Green Computing – Go Green IT

2010-12-01T15:21:00.001-08:00

A green computing we predicted that “green” would become a major part of IT decisions for a long time to come. There is no doubt in the eyes of the press that “green IT” is hot, and getting hotter. Given all the interest, we decided that a close tracking of the trends is important for the industry.

Green computing, or eco-centric computing, is the method for reducing the environmental impact and improving the efficiency of computing systems and operations. It is not limited to a set of technology products or strategies, but rather encompasses a holistic view of the global positive and negative impact of computing environments.

The biggest business fad toward green computing “ cost “ is still not getting the full momentum needed to dramatically drive a mind shift toward environmental efficiency of IT. This continues to be stalled by a lack of changes to budget allocation and failure to make IT responsible for their energy usage. That hasn’t stopped other underlying issues from multiplying, however, as we can see from the data. Cooling issues are growing in intensity and are coupled with major power limitation problems. Together these two are creating a heightened awareness of the gravity of doing nothing and operating on the assumption of limitless power.

While not enough companies have taken personal responsibility, many users are looking to vendors to solve the problem. More and more companies place a great significance on energy efficiency in their purchasing decisions. This will continue to put pressure on vendors to consider less energy usage in their products to lower the total cost of ownership. That is great news for the industry. In the solutions camp, virtualization continues to be on the top of the hot list.

Information Resources Policy

2010-11-29T22:01:00.000-08:00

Preamble

The information resources policy replaces the selection policy. It is a policy on the purchase and withdrawal of resources and on access to resources through partnerships and document delivery services.

Contents
1. Demand-led policy
2. Format of materials
3. Provision for different user needs
4. Information searching tools
5. Collection management
6. Effective circulation of materials
7. Request and document delivery
8. Cooperation with other libraries

Appendix I - Definitions

1. Demand-led policy
The Red Deer College Library Information Common mission is to "facilitate the access and delivery of information, strengthen learning and support research needs for RDC and the community."
This requires the Library Information Common (LIC) to:
· Reflect the priorities of the college, as expressed in the Academic Plan and other policy statements, and priorities of the larger community as ascertained by ongoing consultation with partners and users
· Target resources where the use is greatest (see Appendices)
· Provide fast document delivery systems to complement the LIC’s own resources
· Operate efficient systems to ensure maximum availability and accessibility of resources
· Encourage and support partnerships with local and provincial bodies, such as TAL, NEOS and the Provincial Public Resource-Sharing Network
· Facilitate suggestions, recommendations and complaints from users
This requires individual academic staff and those representing Program Areas to:
· Communicate their own and students’ information needs
· Accept responsibility for directing student learning in ways which make effective use of available and obtainable resources
This requires partners to:
· Communicate their own and user information needs
· Work with the Collections Librarian to select appropriate resources
The following sections show how these principles will be applied in the LIC and how, in cases of conflicting demands and resource limitations, decisions will increasingly be made on the basis of use of materials. However some consideration will be given to purchase material based on expectations and needs of partners.
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2. Format of Materials
The LIC obtains and/or provides access to information in the most suitable format based on the guidelines described below. Where feasible, arrangements are also made for use of these materials outside the LIC, either by loan or by network access. Throughout this document the term materials will apply to any information format.
2.1 Print Information
The LIC will deliver information in print format when this is the most suitable format.
2.2 Electronic Information
The LIC will increasingly deliver information in electronic format, where it:
· Provides faster access
· Provides more sophisticated searching tools
· Provides multi-user access
· Provides remote access from outside the college
2.3 Electronic full text vs indexing services and hard copy full text
The LIC aims to purchase and/or subscribe to full text holdings of newspapers, journals, books, reference sources in electronic formation where at least one of the following applies and resources allow:
· There is demand for multi-user and/or remote access
· The cost benefit equation justifies the electronic purchase
· The nature of the use of data warrants it
· The ability to use the source in electronic format is a skill needed by users
· There are considerable space savings to be made from electronic provision of information
· The information is more up to date than in other formats
2.4 Multimedia
It is anticipated that information will be produced increasingly in multimedia format. The LIC will purchase multimedia resources in accordance with other aspects of the information resources policy.
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3. Provision for different user needs
3.1 Course provision
The LIC will purchase and/or obtain through document delivery services materials to meet the breadth and depth of information searching and reference needs of all taught courses. Students are expected to buy essential texts as recommended by instructors. Instructors will inform the LIC of reserve readings and will supply the material where necessary.
3.1.1 Material on course reading lists
The LIC provides copies of required/supplementary readings listed on course outlines according to the following guidelines:
· Instructors are expected to supply a copy of each course outline and reading list to the LIC
· Textbooks and and/or course readings which are essential for student purchase will not be acquired
3.1.2 Materials to support courses
The LIC buys materials recommended by librarians, instructors or selected by Program representatives to support courses according to the following guidelines for print information:
· 1 copy per 50 students of materials relevant to a specific course
· 1 copy of items bought for subject building/gap filling
· 1 copy of items bought to encourage study of wide range of materials relevant to subjects taught
· 1 copy of items bought to assist staff in keeping pace with developments in subjects they teach
3.1.3 Suggestions for purchase
The Library Information Common:
· encourages suggestions for purchase from faculty, staff and students
3.1.4 Journal literature to support courses
Journals for each subject area covered by the curriculum should be acquired. The LIC will provide a selected number of periodicals of a general nature. The following guidelines will apply:
· Titles regularly publishing articles which students are recommended to read by instructors, or which contain articles relevant to assignments/coursework/student projects
· Titles regularly publishing articles read by staff for course development and keeping pace with advances in their subject areas
· Where possible back issues of print journals will be purchased in 35 mm microfilm format, based on availability of microfilm and the suitability of the journal for viewing in this format
3.2 Community resources
The LIC will purchase and/or obtain through document delivery services materials to meet the breadth and depth of information searching and reference needs of community users as defined by established partnerships.
· PRL Agreement (See Appendix II)
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4. Information searching tools
The LIC will purchase or provide access to publications and services which facilitate subject searching of its own resources and information published throughout the world, to meet the needs of all subject areas taught within the college and through LIC partnerships. Most of these will be in electronic format, will be available through the LIC website dependent on licensing agreements, and will include:
· Access to resources using the Gate catalogue, TAL online, and other local and provincial library catalogues
· Fulltext or indexing services with electronic searching facility
· The LIC periodical holdings data
· Access to subject specific Internet resources
· Internet access
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5. Collection management
In general, material is acquired and retained which is in regular use or likely to be so for teaching and research. However these are the following exceptions:
· Material specific to the functioning of the college
· Material specific to LIC partnerships
5.1 Reference collections
Reference collections will consist of resources referred to for specific information, eg. almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias etc. These resources appear in a variety of formats and are found in a number of areas throughout the LIC. They complement and supplement the LIC’s other resources and enhance access to information.
5.2 Censorship
The LIC recognizes an obligation to present a balance of viewpoints on various subjects or beliefs in order to support academic inquiry and public awareness of these subjects and beliefs. Internet resources available in the LIC will not be restricted with the use of filtering software.
Material of a controversial, social, political, religious or other nature which may give offence to certain readers will be added where:
· The material supports courses
· The material is well written and based on human experience, no matter how strong the bias or the language
· The material is not designed to make money by appealing to a taste for sensationalism or pornography
5.3 Donations
The LIC accepts donations based on the following:
· The donation is made with no strings attached
· The LIC reserves the right to add or not add materials as it deems appropriate
· Materials not added to the collection will be offered for sale
· Tax receipts will be provided for donations where the material added to the collection is valued greater than $100.00
· If required, the LIC will arrange to have the material evaluated by a qualified librarian but any expenses incurred must be borne by the donor
· Donations to the Parkland Regional Library Collection will be considered based on the same principles and evaluation processes as materials purchased for the collection. Parkland Regional Library does not assign monetary value to donated items and does not issue receipts for tax purposes
5.4 Red Deer College Authors
Materials written or produced by the staff of Red Deer College will be acquired primarily through donations. Purchase will be pursued only in accordance with other aspects of the information resources policy.
5.6 Self renewing collections
The LIC seeks to ensure that the collection is vibrant and relevant to user needs. As such ongoing evaluation of the collection occurs to ensure that the collection holds up-to-date and in-demand materials. Evaluation of the collection includes the withdrawal of materials as described below and the addition of materials as defined in section 3.
5.6.1 Criteria for withdrawal
Resources will be considered for withdrawal when:
· Old editions are superceded by new ones (the LIC will retain only the latest edition and the immediate previous edition unless older editions include information not available through newer versions, ie. anthologies)
· The item has not been borrowed over the past 10 years
· The text is out of date or obsolete
· It covers topics that do not support academic programs or covered by partnership agreements
· There are duplicate copies of seldom used titles
· Materials are badly worn or mutilated (dependent on the worth of the item, may be repaired or replaced rather than discarded)
5.6.2 Collection Evaluation Schedule
Withdrawal will occur annually using the following schedule which allows for more frequent evaluation of collections in the sciences:
· Every two years Q,R,T
· Every three years A-H, J-N, P
· Every five years S,U,V,Z
5.6.3 Procedures for Collection Evaluation
· The Collection Librarian will determine which section of the collection will be evaluated and who will identify the materials for withdrawal and collection seeding
· Lists of materials to be considered for withdrawal will be created, indicating the title, author, publication date, and reason considered for withdrawal
· These materials will be reviewed by librarians, faculty and a Materials Committee representing partner interests
· Materials which should not be removed from the collection will be identified as core resources
· Remaining materials will be removed from the collection and from the catalogue
5.6.4 Disposal of withdrawn materials
The disposal of withdrawn materials is the responsibility of the Circulation Department.
· Withdrawn materials may be offered for sale. Proceeds will be used for enhancing library collections
· Withdrawn items showing Parkland Regional Library ownership will be returned to PRL headquarters for disposal and removal of holdings from the PRL database
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6. Effective circulation of materials
The LIC has a number of different loan period to which materials are allocated according to the demand for them:
· Reference
· Reserve
· Three day loan
· Two week loan
· 3 month loan
· PRL materials will be circulated according to system defaults in the Dynix automation system
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7. Request and document delivery
Request and document delivery are terms used to refer to:
· Borrowing books from other libraries
· Obtaining copies of articles from other libraries
7.1 Just in time delivery
Request and document delivery will be facilitated through provincial initiatives such as NEOS resource sharing, TAL resource sharing, PRL resource sharing and other agreements in place.
7.2 Entitlements
Red Deer College staff and students will have an entitlement to request and document delivery services. No charges are passed to users for basic request and document delivery services, although the LIC retains the right to charge for special services. Entitlements will vary for different groups (See Appendices).
8. Cooperation with other libraries
Cooperative activities are sought and supported. Cooperative collection development opportunities and partnerships will be addressed in the appendices to follow.
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Appendix I: Definitions
Community
The community includes library users who are part of the Central Alberta community, and those who are associated with RDC through partnerships, e.g. The Alberta Library, NEOS, Parkland Regional Library, Red Deer Public Library
Information Resources
Information resources include all formats of information, and all sources of information available to library users. This includes print and electronic information as well as information available from other libraries
Materials
Refers to any information format
Materials Committee
A committee representing RDC and RDC partner interests
Partnerships
Agreements established between RDC and other institutions to promote the sharing of resources, both information and human resources
Users
All customers served by RDC and RDC partners
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Appendix II – Parkland Regional Library Partnership
Selection Criteria:
Information resources will be provided to two main client groups as defined by Parkland Regional Library’s service agreements:
· Public
· Schools contracted to Parkland Regional Library
Financial resources will be used to purchase reference information resources for school and public libraries. Information resources will be selected on the following criteria:
· Items difficult to interlibrary loan
· Online databases – Parkland Regional Library is committed to subscription to the Universal Core of databases for public libraries, as created by TAL. This core gives unlimited remote access to all public patrons served by the regional library
· Reference materials that are not affordable to small public libraries
· Current consumer information in the areas of health, medicine, business, electronics, computers, travel
· Specialty areas not widely collected among library members (e.g. various animal breeds, automotive repair, travel guides, language learning, international biography, etc.)
· Local histories covering, but not limited to, the geographical area served by Parkland
· Some basic resources to support the information and recreational needs of Parkland area residents in non-fiction areas (e.g. comparative religion, psychology, history, geography, etc.)
· Some topographical and town/county maps for the region served
· School materials will support the grades 1 to 12 curriculum
· Audiovisual resources are acquired as appropriate/necessary
Parkland Regional Library participates in the Parkland Regional Library Cooperative Collection Development Program and is committed to collecting designated resources as a result of cooperative collection development meetings.
The IDS collection does not collection adult or juvenile fiction, except very occasionally as necessary for curriculum support at lower elementary level.
Periodicals are not collected.
Collection Management
Resources will be purchased based on the following guidelines:
· Reference resources (eg. directories, atlases, etc.) will be kept current and older editions will be withdrawn unless there is a reason to keep them for archival purposes
· Resources will be replaced within the following timeframes:
o Travel, legal, health, computers –every three to four years
o Repair manuals (older editions retained), consumer electronics, science and technology, social issues – every four to five years
o History, religion, languages, social sciences, sports, literature, fine arts, architecture, space, zoology – every five to seven years
o Government publications collection through the selective depository will be collected via the Weekly Checklist and discarded as per government regulations
Community Resources
Purchases will be made in light of changing demand. Public library service demands are currently undergoing transformation due to the influences of system-wide automation as well as the TAL initiatives. We can expect that, given the easy availability of general interest non-fiction materials around the system, libraries will be demanding from the RDC/PRL collection more research-related and subject-specific resources, as well as the traditional reference resources.
There will likely also be an ongoing need for the service to maintain a collection of current medical, legal, business and computer technology information.
It would be necessary to conduct a yearly review and evaluation of collection demand and use at least for 2002 and 2003 to see what the emerging trends are and to incorporate these trends into the long-term collection planning process.
All materials showing PRL ownership shall be available for circulation.
Service Criteria (Entitlements)
Public library reference service has a primary emphasis on giving the requested answer or information and a secondary emphasis on teaching patrons how and where to find information. Parkland is committed to this service model.
Parkland Regional Library subscribes to provincial standards and procedures for the handling of resource sharing. All interlibrary loans, originating from public libraries in-province are free. Photocopying charges, if they apply, are the responsibility of the borrowing patron or his/her local library. Any materials charge from out-of-province libraries is also the responsibility of the patron or local library. Unless prior consent to charges is given, searching for materials will be restricted to in-province sources, or other free sources.
Parkland does not discriminate in offering services to any group on the basis of age, gender, race, color, religion, or any other criterion.
Fines on overdue materials are levied according to system defaults and remain with the library collecting the, including RDC Library Information Common.
The handling of charges for lost items will reside with the PRL headquarters which will do any billing or adjustments to accounts as needed. Should RDC receive payment for patrons for lost PRL books, such monies will be transferred to PRL for credit to the appropriate account.
The Materials Committee will oversee the development and management of the collection and the Committee will have the authority to make changes to the Collection Development Guidelines in keeping with the service mandate of Parkland Regional Library.

Getting the best display on your monitor

2010-11-29T21:53:00.003-08:00

In this article
• The best display settings for an LCD monitor
• Set the color for an LCD monitor
• The best display settings for a CRT monitor
• Set the color for a CRT monitor
• Color management
• Calibrate your display
• Set brightness and contrast
• Improve the appearance of text
Windows chooses the best display settings, including screen resolution, refresh rate, and color, based on your monitor. These settings differ depending on whether you have an LCD or a CRT monitor. If you want to adjust your display settings, or if these settings were changed and you want to restore default settings, use the following recommendations.
LCD monitors, also called flat-panel displays, have largely replaced CRT monitors. They are far lighter and thinner than bulky CRT monitors, which contain heavy glass tubes. LCD monitors also come in a wider range of shapes and sizes, which include widescreen screens and standard-width screens, with ratios of 16:9 or 16:10 width-to-height for widescreen models and 4:3 for standard-width models. Laptops also use flat-panel displays.
LCD monitors are much slimmer and lighter than older-style CRT monitors.
For both LCD and CRT monitors, it's typical that the higher the dots per inch (DPI) you set to display on your screen, the better the fonts will look. When you increase the DPI, you are increasing the screen resolution. The resolution you use depends on the resolutions your monitor supports. At higher resolutions, such as 1900 x 1200 pixels, items appear sharper. They also appear smaller, so more items fit on the screen. At lower resolutions, such as 800 x 600 pixels, fewer items fit on the screen, but they are larger.
Windows allows you to increase or decrease the size of text and other items on your screen while keeping your monitor set to its optimal resolution. For more information, see Make the text on your screen larger or smaller.
The best display settings for an LCD monitor
If you have an LCD monitor, check your screen resolution. This helps to determine the clarity of on-screen images. It's a good practice to set an LCD monitor to its native resolution—the resolution a monitor was designed to display based on its size. To see your monitor's native resolution, check the display settings in Control Panel.
1. Click to open Screen Resolution.
2. Click the drop-down list next to Resolution. Check for the resolution marked (recommended). This is your LCD monitor's native resolution—usually the highest resolution your monitor can support.
The monitor's manufacturer or reseller should also be able to tell you the native resolution for your LCD monitor. (CRT monitors don't have a native resolution.)
Screen Resolution in Control Panel shows the recommended resolution for your monitor.
An LCD monitor running at its native resolution usually displays text better than a CRT monitor. LCD monitors can technically support lower resolutions than their native resolution, but text won't look as sharp and the image might be small, centered on the screen, edged with black, or look stretched. For more information, see Change screen resolution.
Because stand-alone monitors are usually larger than laptop screens, they typically support higher resolutions than laptops.
Resolution based on LCD monitor size
Monitor size Recommended resolution (in pixels)
19-inch standard ratio LCD monitor 1280 × 1024
20-inch standard ratio LCD monitor 1600 × 1200
20- and 22-inch widescreen LCD monitors 1680 × 1050
24-inch widescreen LCD monitor 1920 × 1200
Laptop screen size Recommended resolution (in pixels)
13- to 15-inch standard ratio laptop screen 1400 × 1050
13- to 15-inch widescreen laptop screen 1280 × 800
17-inch widescreen laptop screen 1680 × 1050
Set the color for an LCD monitor
To get the best color displayed on your LCD monitor, make sure to set it to 32-bit color. This measurement refers to color depth, which is the number of color values that can be assigned to a single pixel in an image. Color depth can range from 1 bit (black-and-white) to 32 bits (over 16.7 million colors). For more information, see Change color management settings.
1. Click to open Screen Resolution.
2. Click Advanced settings, and then click the Monitor tab.
3. Under Colors, select True Color (32 bit), and then click OK.
The best display settings for a CRT monitor
For a CRT monitor, it's important to change the screen resolution to the highest resolution available that provides 32-bit color and at least a 72-Hertz refresh rate. For more information, see Change screen resolution.
If the screen is flickering, or viewing the screen is uncomfortable, increase the refresh rate until you are comfortable with it. The higher the refresh rate, the less likely there will be any noticeable flicker. (Because LCD monitors don't create flicker, they don't need to be set at high refresh rates.) For more information, see Correct monitor flicker (refresh rate).
Resolution based on CRT monitor size
Monitor size Recommended resolution (in pixels)
15-inch CRT monitor 1024 × 768
17- to 19-inch CRT monitor 1280 × 1024
20-inch and larger CRT monitor 1600 × 1200
Note
• Unlike LCD monitors, CRT monitors generally don't come in widescreen sizes. Almost all have a standard 4:3 screen ratio, with resolutions in the same 4:3 ratio of width to height.
Set the color for a CRT monitor
Windows colors and themes work best when you have your monitor set to 32-bit color. You can set your monitor to 24-bit color, but you won't see all the visual effects. If you set your monitor to 16-bit color, images that should be smooth might not appear correctly.
1. Click to open Screen Resolution.
2. Click Advanced settings, and then click the Monitor tab.
3. Under Colors, select True Color (32 bit), and then click OK. (If you can't select 32-bit color, check that your resolution is as high as possible, and then try again.)
Color management
Calibrate your display
Set brightness and contrast
Improve the appearance of text

Improve performance by defragmenting your hard disk

2010-11-29T21:50:00.000-08:00

Fragmentation makes your hard disk do extra work that can slow down your computer. Removable storage devices such as USB flash drives can also become fragmented. Disk Defragmenter rearranges fragmented data so your disks and drives can work more efficiently. Disk Defragmenter runs on a schedule, but you can also analyze and defragment your disks and drives manually. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Click to open Disk Defragmenter.
2. Under Current status, select the disk you want to defragment.
3. To determine if the disk needs to be defragmented or not, click Analyze disk. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Once Windows is finished analyzing the disk, you can check the percentage of fragmentation on the disk in the Last Run column. If the number is above 10%, you should defragment the disk.

4. Click Defragment disk. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Disk Defragmenter might take from several minutes to a few hours to finish, depending on the size and degree of fragmentation of your hard disk. You can still use your computer during the defragmentation process.

Notes
• If the disk is already in exclusive use by another program, or if the disk is formatted using a file system other than NTFS file system, FAT, or FAT32, it can't be defragmented.
• Network locations can't be defragmented.
• If a disk that you're expecting to see under Current status is not showing up there, it might be because it contains an error. You should try to repair the disk first, then return to Disk Defragmenter to try again. See

Check your hard disk for errors for more information.

New SUSE/Moblin Linux netbook from MSI arrives

2010-11-29T21:47:00.000-08:00

What do you get when you mix Novell's SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 11 with the Linux Foundation's Moblin 2.1 netbook desktop? A lightweight Linux desktop that's trying to snag the netbook desktop market before Google's Chrome OS runs away with it later this year.

How well will Novell do at this? Today, on January 7th, at the CES (Consumer Electronics Association), we'll find out. MSI is releasing the first shipping of SUSE Moblin on its MSI U135 netbook.

According to Guy Lunardi, Novell's director of client preloads, the mix and match of SUSE/Moblin's core package is built on top of the Moblin 2.1's 2.6.31 Linux kernel. Above that, most of the software is from SLED 11. Instead ofKDE 4.3, though, for the interface, it uses the Moblin Web-oriented interface. So, for example, to use Firefox for your Web browser, you'll get to it via the Moblin toolbar.

The U135 is powered by a second-generation 1.66GHz Intel Atom 450 Pineview processor. It comes with a 10-in. LED backlit screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. The U135 also comes with a fully-supported 1.3-megapixel Webcam. Lunardi said that it's good enough that he now uses the U135 for all his Skype video calls.

The first model comes with a 160GB hard disk drive and supports 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3.5G WiMAX. Lunardi noted, however, that while the WiMAX drivers are baked in, MSI is still working on jumping through the legal hoops needed to support WiMAX in the U.S.

Lunardi also said that Intel and Novell had worked very hard on getting Moblin/SUSE to boot quickly. He said that the MSI netbook can go from a cold start to full up and connected to a network in less than 30 seconds. The two companies have also been working on improving battery life. While Lunardi wasn't able to say how much battery life the computer has, since final testing is still being done in Taiwan, he did say that it's significantly better than other devices in its class. The U135 comes with both 4 and 6-cell battery options.

Last, but not least, Lunardi said that the U135 has a 20% larger than usual touchpad and an improved chiclet keyboard.

In a statement, Sam Chern, MSI's director of global marketing, said: "Customers today are looking for devices that give them mobility and flexibility. MSI netbooks, in combination with SUSE Moblin, provide an innovative interface and robust computing capabilities as well as the cost-efficiency that our customers are looking for in these new devices." MSI is not, however, at this time saying what the price will be. It's expected to be in line with netbook's usual $400 price-tag. The SUSE/Moblin U135 will be available in February.

You can expect to see more netbooks appearing soon with SUSE/Moblin netbook pre-loads, according to Lunardi. So while MSI is the first to market with SUSE/Moblin, they won't be the last. Acer is expected to release a SUSE/Moblin model sometime in early 2010.

Novell is far from the only Linux vendor working with Moblin though. Canonical is also working with Moblin in its Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Linpus, Red Flag, and Xandros have also all announced plans for mixing Moblin in with their main desktop distributions. It's going to be interesting to see how all these Moblin-flavored Linux distributions do against each other, Windows 7 Starter Edition, and the real wild card, Google's Chrome OS.

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2010-11-19T20:13:00.000-08:00

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Intel Family Latest Processor

2010-11-19T18:22:00.000-08:00

Intel finally launched its 64-bit quad-core processor Itanium 9300 Series code-named Tukwila. With Tukwila Intel not only offers performance double of its predecessor (Dual-Core Itanium 9100 series), but also up to 800% more system interconnect bandwidth and claims up to 500 % increase in memory bandwidth, and up to 700 % more main memory capacity when using 16 GB DDR3 RAM. It has five models and the price ranges from $946 to $ 3,838.

SAN FRANCISCO – Intel Corporation today introduced the Itanium® processor 9300 series, previously codenamed “Tukwila,” which delivers more than double the performance of its predecessor, boosts scalability and adds reliability features to the Itanium platform that is already running mission-critical applications for 80 percent of the Global 100 corporations.

With the Gartner Group predicting a 650 percent growth in IT data over the next 5 years, businesses need increasingly powerful and scalable enterprise servers. The two-billion transistor Itanium processor 9300 series meets this need head on with twice as many cores as its predecessor (four versus two), eight threads per processor (through enhanced Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology), more cache, up to 800 percent the interconnect bandwidth, up to 500 percent the memory bandwidth, and up to 700 percent the memory capacity using-industry standard DDR3 components.

Critical corporate workloads also demand high-availability features across all platform components. The Itanium processor 9300 series adds to the architecture’s world-class resiliency with new reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features that extend across the processor, its Intel® QuickPath Interconnect technology, and the memory subsystem.

The processor’s advanced machine-check architecture coordinates error handling across the hardware, firmware and operating system, and improves system availability by enabling recovery from otherwise fatal errors.

The Itanium 9300 processor employs the second generation of Intel® Virtualization Technology to improve performance and robustness. Its Intel® 7500 chipset can directly assign I/O devices to virtual machines, further boosting efficiency.

Built for the future of mission-critical computing “Intel is committed to delivering a new era of mission-critical computing, and we are delighted 80 percent of Global 100 companies have chosen Itanium®-based servers for their most demanding workloads,” said Kirk Skaugen, vice president Intel Architecture Group and general manager Data Center Group. “Intel is continuing to drive the economics of Moore’s Law into mission-critical computing with today’s Itanium 9300 processor announcement, more than doubling performance for our customers once again.”

“Customers need a flexible technology infrastructure that can efficiently and quickly meet changing mission-critical demands,” said Martin Fink, senior vice president and general manager, Business Critical Systems, HP. “Intel’s Itanium processor 9300 series, combined with HP Integrity servers, helps customers achieve new levels of scalability and resiliency with advanced virtualization capabilities to meet those needs.”

CNAF, the French Family Allowance Service with 30 million beneficiaries, has chosen to adopt Bull’s latest NovaScale GCOS Itanium-based servers. Gérard Russeil, CNAF chief information officer, said, “The Bull Itanium-based systems have consistently provided the reliability and availability that our mission-critical workload demands. Our testing shows that the Itanium 9300 processor’s additional throughput and performance will enable us to consolidate multiple data centers into one.”
Mission-critical computing for the next decade OEM systems based on the Intel Itanium processor 9300 series will be binary-compatible with existing software and can provide major performance improvements without the need for additional software optimization.

“Poulson,” codename for the next Itanium processor, will add an advanced multi-core architecture, instruction-level and hyper-threading enhancements, new reliability features and more.
Future Intel Itanium processors in development today are being designed for socket and binary compatibility with Intel Itanium 9300 processor-based systems and software. They are designed to scale in performance and capacity through component upgrades, without software recompilation, so customers can continue to expand and adapt their mission-critical computing systems.

Common platform ingredients with Intel Xeon® processors spur innovation, add value
The Itanium® 9300 processor series and the future Intel® Xeon® processor, codenamed “Nehalem EX,” share several platform ingredients, including the Intel® QuickPath Interconnect, the Intel Scalable Memory Interconnect, the Intel® 7500 Scalable Memory Buffer (to take advantage of industry standard DDR3 memory), and I/O hub (Intel® 7500 chipset). The common elements foster shared innovation, design synergy, and manufacturing efficiency across Intel® Xeon® and Itanium processor families, and flexibility for customers.

Intelligent Energy Efficiency
An enhanced form of Demand-Based Switching (DBS) lowers power consumption when utilization is low. Intel® Turbo Boost Technology automatically senses and adapts to provide the right performance boost when needed, and to conserve power when it is not. The Intel Itanium processor 9300 series ranges in price from $946 to $3,838 in quantities of 1,000. OEM systems are expected to ship within 90 days.

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2010-11-17T23:51:00.000-08:00

Live Linux USB Flash Drive - UNetBootin - Ubuntu Linux 8.04

2010-11-17T23:44:00.000-08:00

Google Online Flash Drive

2010-11-13T22:56:00.000-08:00

Google offer 1 GB free space online. http://docs.google.com

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2010-11-13T18:55:00.001-08:00

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Fact about traditional resume

2010-11-11T19:28:00.000-08:00

Always proofread your resume at least twice. Typographical error are not tolerated by employers. Misspellings and grammatical errors present an image of disinterest and poor attention to detail. However, familiarity can cause you to overlook these mistakes. Put your resume aside and review it 24 hours later. Better yet, ask a friend to proofread and give you his impression.

A well-written resume of a qualified candidate gets an interview. Your resume goal is to obtain an interview. Target your job market, identify your skills and prove your ability to do the job. Your resume should sufficiently pique the employer's interest to offer you a personal interview.

The order of information on the resume is very important. Resumes are scanned for a maximum of 30 seconds to determine if the job candidate possesses the job's qualifications and recruiters normally scan resumes from the top to bottom of the page. Therefore, prominently list your achievements and strong points near the top of your resume. Strive to keep a smooth flow of information between sections.

Here's where you can get a MasterCard in Phillippines

2010-11-10T23:11:00.000-08:00

MasterCard International does not issue cards directly. To get a card, call, write, or if available, download an application from any of these financial institutions.

AIG Philam Savings Bank

16/F San Miguel Properties Center,
#7 San Miguel Avenue, Ortigas Center,
Mandaluyong City
Tel # 683-8888

Allied Banking Corporation

3/F Allied Bank Center
6754 Ayala Avenue, Makati City
Tel # 818-9818

Banco de Oro Unibank, Inc.

24/F JMT Corporate Condominium,
ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City
Tel # 631-8000

Bank of the Philippine Islands

15/F BPI Card Center,
8753 Paseo de Roxas, Makati City
Tel # 89-100

Bankard, Inc.

30/F Robinsons Equitable Tower,
ADB Avenue corner Poveda Street,
Ortigas center, Pasig City
Tel # 888-1888

Citibank, N.A.

Cards Acquisition, 16/F, Citibank Square,
1 Eastwood Avenue, Eastwood City,
Libis, Quezon City
Tel # 995-9999

East-West Banking Corporation

14/F Strata 2000, F. Ortigas Jr. Road,
Ortigas Center, Pasig City
Tel # 888-1700

HSBC

The Enterprise Center, Tower I,
6766 Ayala Avenue cor Paseo de Roxas, Makati City
Tel # 85-800/976-8000

MetroBank Card Corporation

10/F MCC Center
6778 Ayala Avenue, Makati City
Tel # 870-0700

SB Cards Corporation

114 Valero Street,
Salcedo Village, Makati City
Tel # 887-9188

Standard Chartered Bank

5/F SkyPlaza Building,
6788 Ayala Avenue, Makati City
Tel # 830-1111

Why Money - People Want a lot of it...

2010-11-09T20:10:00.001-08:00

All in all, it was probably a mistake to look for the answer to the eternal question—"Does money buy happiness?"—from people who practice what's called the dismal science. For when economists tackled the question, they started from the observation that when people put something up for sale they try to get as much for it as they can, and when people buy something they try to pay as little for it as they can. Both sides in the transaction, the economists noticed, are therefore behaving as if they would be more satisfied (happier, dare we say) if they wound up receiving more money (the seller) or holding on to more money (the buyer). Hence, more money must be better than less, and the only way more of something can be better than less of it is if it brings you greater contentment. The economists' conclusion: the more money you have, the happier you must be.

Depressed debutantes, suicidal CEOs, miserable magnates and other unhappy rich folks aren't the only ones giving the lie to this. "Psychologists have spent decades studying the relation between wealth and happiness," writes Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert in his best-selling "Stumbling on Happiness," "and they have generally concluded that wealth increases human happiness when it lifts people out of abject poverty and into the middle class but that it does little to increase happiness thereafter."

That flies in the face of intuition, not to mention economic theory. According to standard economics, the most important commodity you can buy with additional wealth is choice. If you have $20 in your pocket, you can decide between steak and peanut butter for dinner, but if you have only $1 you'd better hope you already have a jar of jelly at home. Additional wealth also lets you satisfy additional needs and wants, and the more of those you satisfy the happier you are supposed to be.

The trouble is, choice is not all it's cracked up to be. Studies show that people like selecting from among maybe half a dozen kinds of pasta at the grocery store but find 27 choices overwhelming, leaving them chronically on edge that they could have chosen a better one than they did. And wants, which are nice to be able to afford, have a bad habit of becoming needs (iPod, anyone?), of which an advertising- and media-saturated culture create endless numbers. Satisfying needs brings less emotional well-being than satisfying wants.

The nonlinear nature of how much happiness money can buy—lots more happiness when it moves you out of penury and into middle-class comfort, hardly any more when it lifts you from millionaire to decamillionaire—comes through clearly in global surveys that ask people how content they feel with their lives. In a typical survey people are asked to rank their sense of well-being or happiness on a scale of 1 to 7, where 1 means "not at all satisfied with my life" and 7 means "completely satisfied." Of the American multimillionaires who responded, the average happiness score was 5.8. Homeless people in Calcutta came in at 2.9. But before you assume that money does buy happiness after all, consider who else rated themselves around 5.8: the Inuit of northern Greenland, who do not exactly lead a life of luxury, and the cattle-herding Masai of Kenya, whose dung huts have no electricity or running water. And proving Gilbert's point about money buying happiness only when it lifts you out of abject poverty, slum dwellers in Calcutta—one economic rung above the homeless—rate themselves at 4.6.

Studies tracking changes in a population's reported level of happiness over time have also dealt a death blow to the money-buys-happiness claim. Since World War II the gross domestic product per capita has tripled in the United States. But people's sense of well-being, as measured by surveys asking some variation of "Overall, how satisfied are you with your life?," has barely budged. Japan has had an even more meteoric rise in GDP per capita since its postwar misery, but measures of national happiness have been flat, as they have also been in Western Europe during its long postwar boom, according to social psychologist Ruut Veenhoven of Erasmus University in Rotterdam. A 2004 analysis of more than 150 studies on wealth and happiness concluded that "economic indicators have glaring shortcomings" as approximations of well-being across nations, wrote Ed Diener of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Martin E. P. Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania. "Although economic output has risen steeply over the past decades, there has been no rise in life satisfaction … and there has been a substantial increase in depression and distrust."

That's partly because in an expanding economy, in which former luxuries such as washing machines become necessities, the newly affluent don't feel the same joy in having a machine do the laundry that their grandparents, suddenly freed from washboards, did. They just take the Maytag for granted. "Americans who earn $50,000 per year are much happier than those who earn $10,000 per year," writes Gilbert, "but Americans who earn $5 million per year are not much happier than those who earn $100,000 per year." Another reason is that an expanding paycheck, especially in an expanding economy, produces expanding aspirations and a sense that there is always one more cool thing out there that you absolutely have to have. "Economic success falls short as a measure of well-being, in part because materialism can negatively influence well-being," Diener and Seligman conclude.

If money doesn't buy happiness, what does? Grandma was right when she told you to value health and friends, not money and stuff. Or as Diener and Seligman put it, once your basic needs are met "differences in well-being are less frequently due to income, and are more frequently due to factors such as social relationships and enjoyment at work." Other researchers add fulfillment, a sense that life has meaning, belonging to civic and other groups, and living in a democracy that respects individual rights and the rule of law. If a nation wants to increase its population's sense of well-being, says Veenhoven, it should make "less investment in economic growth and more in policies that promote good governance, liberties, democracy, trust and public safety."

(Curiously, although money doesn't buy happiness, happiness can buy money. Young people who describe themselves as happy typically earn higher incomes, years later, than those who said they were unhappy. It seems that a sense of well-being can make you more productive and more likely to show initiative and other traits that lead to a higher income. Contented people are also more likely to marry and stay married, as well as to be healthy, both of which increase happiness.)

If more money doesn't buy more happiness, then the behavior of most Americans looks downright insane, as we work harder and longer, decade after decade, to fatten our W-2s. But what is insane for an individual is crucial for a national economy—that is, ever more growth and consumption. Gilbert again: "Economies can blossom and grow only if people are deluded into believing that the production of wealth will make them happy … Economies thrive when individuals strive, but because individuals will strive only for their own happiness, it is essential that they mistakenly believe that producing and consuming are routes to personal well-being." In other words, if you want to do your part for your country's economy, forget all of the above about money not buying happiness.

Function of IMU - Information Management Unit

2010-11-08T17:38:00.000-08:00

Function of IMU

The focus of the Unit will be on information systems (both manual and electronic), data quality and processes management. This will encompass:

Documentation of the set of key (to be defined) information flows within SWAHS and between SWAHS and other organisations. The aim being to make these flows explicit, streamlined and effective
Development of an Area Information Management Strategy to improve and maintain information processes. This will include a framework and policy infrastructure that is driven by the health care and service priorities and business information needs
Development of an information management structure that ensures secure and efficient management of high quality information, whilst providing appropriate access in the bounds of privacy
Ensuring information management supports a continuum of care in service provision and clinical decision making
Promoting effective and efficient use of IT to support information management
Management of the non-IT, or business, components of Area ‘mission critical’ information systems, in particular the Patient Administration Systems [PAS]. I.e. HOSPAS and i.PM)

Five key activities for their effective IRM management

2010-11-08T17:25:00.000-08:00

Five key activities for their effective IRM management

Identification - What information is there? How is it identified and coded?

Ownership - Who is responsible for different information entities and co-ordination?

Cost and Value – A basic model for making judgments on purchase and use

Development - Increasing its value.

Exploitation - Proactive maximization of value for money.