How to Share: Information seeking

Information literacy is more than a body of skills and a set of concepts. It is a way of knowing how to deal with information, a way of finding out about information resources, and a way of interacting with information that sets the information literate individual apart.

An entrepreneur undertakes personal research on how to satisfy customers and solve problems. He/she knows that different people have different capabilities that can be of help to them. He/she seeks relevant information from his/her clients, suppliers, competitors and others. He/she always wants to learn things which will help the business to grow.

It's essential to avoid important knowledge or skills being held by only a few people, because if they leave or retire that expertise could be lost to your business. If you have efficient ways of sharing knowledge across the business, it will be more widely used and its value and effectiveness are likely to be maximised.

Consider the best ways of sharing new ideas and information with your staff. You may already have regular meetings when you can brief employees and ask them to share ideas and best practice.

You could consider holding innovation workshops or brainstorming sessions at which staff are given the freedom and encouragement to think of ways in which the business could improve.

It can also be a good idea to create a knowledge bank containing useful information and instructions on how to carry out key tasks. Putting this on an intranet is ideal as it will encourage staff to post news or suggestions.

Reflection Paper on Responsibility and Obedience

Reflection Paper on Responsibility and Obedience

While we may hear obedience and responsibility used interchangeably, there are some major distinctions that can impact the culture of our classrooms.  Educators teach responsibility when they provide students the space to make mistakes and then together, collaborate on how they can avoid the mistake in the future.  This collaboration is where the powerful learning can take place, which can enhance students' ownership in their own thinking and decision-making.  Research suggests that when students feel ownership, their learning and levels of persistence can increase.  When they effectively teach responsibility, students are better equipped to deal with adversity when they leave our classroom. 

Today our society raises us to believe that obedience is good and disobedience is bad. We are taught that we should all do what we’re told and that the people that are disobedient are almost always bad people. Society tells us this, but it is not true. Most people will even be obedient to the point of causing harm to others, because to be disobedient requires the courage to be alone against authority.

Obedience is a behavior deeply ingrained in us. It is often an impulse that overrides ethics and sympathy. There is much evidence of this, including the Holocaust. It was not just a small group of deranged individuals that committed these atrocities, it was people who had blind obedience to authority. The tendency to locate the source of behavior disorders in a particular person or group underestimates the power of situational forces. We are prone to obey because when we are obedient to an authority it makes us feel safe and protected. We can’t make mistakes because the authority decides for us. We can’t be alone, because the authority watches over us. So, no matter what our behavior is, it can be justified on the ground that we are only following orders, doing what we’re told from above. We can easily be brought to view ourselves as an instrument for carrying out another person’s wishes, and so we no longer feel responsible for our actions. Unfortunately, that can make us feel responsible to the authority, instead of the content of the orders the authority is giving. Morality is still there, but the focus is changed. We feel the need to perform well, out of obligation or duty, to those who are in authority. This does not necessarily mean that all disobedience is good and all obedience is bad.

When I was a kid, I didn’t much enjoy obeying my parents, and when I became a teenager, that attitude became even more evident. Obeying your parents can seem like a drain on your fun or can even be interpreted as them being cruel. While no parent is perfect, many strive to be loving and consistent. Therefore, obedience is for the child’s own good. The parent can see beyond the immediate “inconvenience” of finishing chores, saving money, or completing homework to the ultimate good those responsibilities bring.
The boundaries and responsibilities parents set up for their children are not meant to be burdensome but to train. To succeed in life, children must learn boundaries, distinguish between right and wrong, and  take on responsibilities. The rules and chores are not a cruel hindrance, but they are the building materials that make for a sound and complete structure in life.
Growing up, you learn that as you get older, you become more responsible for things in life. You need to go to school, pay bills, do good things, work hard for a better future, and do your best to live your life to its fullest.
Sometimes, we choose to exclude some of these values. Ignoring responsibilities greatly affects your life. When missing payments for bills, you will have to pay additional late fees, along with a drop in your credit score. By skipping class, you might lose credit for not being present, miss any assigned homework or lose a pop quiz grade.
Responsibilities are put upon us as a way to show that life takes a little more work than planned.

How You Become an Ethical Agriculturist

How You Become an Ethical Agriculturist

Agronomy is the mother of agriculture and it is also synonymous to agriculture as well. Therefore, agronomy in general term in this article not only limits to the core discipline of agronomy and agronomists but also it entails the whole sphere of agriculture and agriculturists as well. Pressures have been brought to bear upon farming and those who serve it in any capacity to widen the list of tasks to which agriculture should be devoted. At one time, the role of agriculture was to produce food, but now many people expect agriculture to be carried out in an environmentally friendly way that maintains the rural economy. We now speak of multifunctional agriculture. One tool sometimes used to press those demands is an appeal to ethics. This appeal can appear to suggest that agriculturalists have been ethically negligent. Every agricultural ethicist knows by experience how poorly received that suggestion is. Agriculture is a vocation or profession that prides itself on the unquestionable value, even nobility, of its work. Whereas agronomists should be engaged for number of works in day to day life involving social justification in farming, soil fertility and sustainability, soil conservation, rural living condition, farming and environment, healthy and nontoxic food production to the masses in an affordable manner, and so on and so forth. Above all, there is a big morale of agriculturist to save Mother Nature for our future generation tailored with multinational companies, engaged in agriculture, which have big say in generating and disseminating agro-technologies which are mooted to profit making and patenting agro biodiversity. This paper sheds lights in all such issues and aware agriculturists if it is being done ethically on the part of agriculturists/agronomists. Also the paper cites what are the ethical concerns of agriculturists to make their profession ethically sound that include honesty, integrity, fairness, and service to the clienteles in question.

To become and ethical agriculturalists, but especially agronomist who are working as researchers and extensions by which they feel comfortable using ethics in handling the multiple and often conflicting demands that sectors of the public press on agriculture. Agricultural professionals may have not been taught about professional ethics in institutions where they developed their careers. Therefore, from ethical point of view agronomists do what they feel right personally.

Animals are used in agronomic research, especially in grazing and feeding trials, metabolism and toxicity trials, and behavioral studies involving agronomic materials. There is a need to increase productivity of animal operations and improve quality, safety, affordability, and convenience of animal product; we will no doubt continue to conduct research involving animals. The objective of most animal research conducted by or with agronomists is to improve crop as feed for animals, improve performance of animals consuming crops, or improve consumer products derived from animals that consume crops. Measures should be taken to minimize pain and discomfort and maximize animal well being in each experiment without compromising the validity of the experiment design. It definitely involves refraining from unnecessary harass treatment of animals. Animals should be treated most humanely while on the experiment.

Many agronomic researchers are also agent of technology transfer and face various ethical issues. As technology becomes more complex, users may rely more heavily on information from various technology transfer agents and be more vulnerable to the agents’ mistake. Agronomists should provide information and assistances as honestly, thoroughly, and objectively as possible. They should not portray their knowledge as being greater than it is. Agronomists should follow following guidelines with respect to technology transfer:

Role of agronomist in war and peace is equally important. In war their role is to grow crops for feeding people not to starve of them and take care about the equity and supply of foods while in peace there comes a role of increasing productivity and boost production per unit area so that glut of production for sustaining lives and commercializing agro-products take place smoothly. There are times when agronomists should involve judging what is right and wrong with respect to evaluating agriculture inputs and products brought into markets by some multinational company and big house whose aim is centered for profit making. Such organizations, presently, are deeply mooted into patenting agro-products and at the same time they are concentrated to capture natural flora and fauna in the name of patenting rights. In such situations, agriculture professional should strongly favor for the rural masses who are conserving these agro-biodiversity from the time settled agriculture was started at the dawn of civilization. This has created a dilemma as to which is ethical and unethical so as to give professional judgments for agriculturalists. There are cases when agronomists and extension people have been advocating such commercial products without thinking of professional ethics. Such issues include commercialization of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), Bt variety of crops, agro-chemicals (seeds, pesticides, hormones, fertilizers), new crop varieties (hybrid, OPV, and local but modified genotypes) so on and so forth. We have experienced, in some way or other way, some time agriculture professionals have been engaged for promoting such products with a meager hope of getting some personal incentives such as kickbacks, reward or some form of other personal motivations. It is against the ethics of professionals to involve in such activities unless benefits of products from these big commercial houses have been established by scientific standards. The consequences of such products to the ignorant masses such as allergic reaction of the products, their negative effects on biodiversity conservation, failure of crops bearings grain/fruit, effect on soil microorganisms and, underground water pollution, and sustainability of natural resources, resistance to insect pest and diseases, introduction of new pest and diseases, and above all destruction of Mother Nature is of unforgivable consequences. Agriculture professional should finally bear the impact of such devastating concerns brought about without taking into consideration of scientific paradigms for such issues. Of course, in such circumstances the consequences rest for unethical decisions of agriculture professional as well.

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Meaning of PAMULINAWEN lyrics

Pamulinawen (means a Young Lady)
Here is the real translation of the Ilocano Song


Pamulinawen- Young Lady
Pusok indengam man- Pay Attention to my heart
Toy umas-asug- This pleading (heart)
Agrayo ita sadiam. - Have a crush on you
Panunotem man - Come to think of it
Dika pagintutulngan - Don't try not to listen
Toy agayat, agrayo ita sadiam. - This lover, have a crush on you.

Issemmo diak kalipatan- Your Smile I will never forget
Ta nasudi unay a nagan, - That really nice name
Ta uray sadin ti ayan,- Even whenever I am located
Disso sadino man,-  In even in any place
{Aw-awagak a di agsarday- (I am calling endlessly
Ta naganmo nga kasam-itan}- Your name the sweetest)
No malagipka, pusok ti mabang-aran - If I remember you,  my heart is refreshed/reinvigorated

Adu nga sabsabong, adu nga rosrosas- Many flowers, many roses
Ti adda’t ditoy, Nena, nga mabuybuyak, - In this place, Nena, I can watch
Ngem awan manlaeng ti sabali nga liwliwak- But no one can give me inspiration
No di la dayta sudim ken imnas.- It's only your goodness and beauty who can give

No umulogak nga mapan magmagna- If I walk down the stairs and walk down
Dayta raniagmo, Neneng nga gapu kenka.- Your radiance, Neneng, because of you

Aywen, biagko, indengam man.

Iyasasokko nga inaldaw

Ta diak to a kayat ti sabali nga imnas

Sika laeng, o, biagko, ita ken uray tanemman

No malagipka, pusok ti mabang-aran.

Dakay nga ububbing, didakam' tultuladen

Ta dakkel kamin nga agiinnarem

Ta ituloyyo ta panagadalyo

Tapno inkay magun-od kakaligumanyo

Essem nga diak malipatan, ta nasudi unay a nagan,

Uray sadin ti ayan, lugar sadino man,

Aw-awagan di agsarday ta naganmo kasam-itan.

No malagipka, pusok ti mabang-aran.

Statue of PAMULINAWEN infront of Ilocos Norte Capitol Office

What makes me unique

On the surface I think I am like most young and modern Filipina women: I take school seriously, I have dreams and goals for the future that I am determined to make happen, and I don’t expect anyone to do the hard work for me. I come from what is an increasingly normal background: my parents are divorced and I live with my mom and sisters and only occasionally see my dad since he now lives on the other side of the country, but I still feel very lucky to have a supportive, if spread out, family behind me. What makes me different from the rest of the crowd though is how I choose to fill my time away from school. I come from a middle income background so I knew I’d have to get a job in the summers and/or after school to help fund college, but instead of getting the easiest job I could find like many of my friends, I purposely sought work that would teach me new skills as well as give me a sense of fulfillment, which is why I turned to coaching soccer and working as a camp counselor. I know that every summer I am out there I’m helping the kids in my community, not only by watching to make sure they are playing with skill and determination, but also by helping them learn invaluable life lessons, like how to be a good teammate and friend, and how to settle disputes fairly and efficiently. I also have now added the title of waitress to my resume and while at first glance this job may not seem to offer me skills useful in pursuing a college degree, I have found it to offer incomparable training in multi-tasking, responsibility, money-management, perseverance and compassion for others. My grades have always been high and I am especially proud of this because I don’t naturally excel in all subjects. Writing has always been a challenge for me because I find grammar to often be confusing, spelling too, but I have learned through my involvement with many varsity level sports that quitting never feels as good as conquering your own fears, which is why I have sought not only advanced placement writing classes to really help me focus on mastering the written word, but I have also challenged myself to take advanced placement Greek which, while very difficult, has helped me immensely with learning word origins, giving me the foundations to figure out challenging words in English as well. I am now on the cusp of attending college and preparing for a career, and I am confident that the determination I have displayed thus far will only grow stronger as my course work becomes more demanding. At this point I think I want to focus on a career in the law because the riddle of our legal system fascinates me and I really believe that, coming from a divorced household myself, I could offer empathetic legal counsel to others facing the ordeal of family court. I know that I am young and the career path I find myself on after earning an undergraduate degree may be very different than what I envision now, but I plan to make my college education a well rounded and broadening one that hopefully will allow me to explore both my academic and artistic interests so that wherever the future takes me I will have a solid foundation upon which to build a career.