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Additionally, the Los Alamos Visitor Center (LAVC) will be relocated to the current NMSU Cooperative Extension office in the Community Building located at 475 20th Street, Suite A, adjacent to the Los Alamos Teen Center. The Los Alamos County Tourism Strategic Plan, accepted by County Council in February 2018, recommended that the Los Alamos Visitor Center be relocated.
The Council-appointed Tourism Implementation Task Force performed a trade-off analysis in order to provide Council with a recommendation for an alternate location for the Los Alamos Visitor Center. County staff reviewed all five final locations recommended by the Task Force for on-going costs (lease and operational) and one-time costs (relocation, build-outs, etc.). It was determined that by moving the LAVC to a County-owned facility, costs would be decreased by eliminating the leasing cost.
Due to several other County service providers being moved to accommodate this relocation, it is anticipated that there will be a short lapse in operation of the LAVC that will not extend beyond March 1, 2019. The White Rock Visitor Center will continue to operate during this time.
The new LACDC space will feature a large common area with room for small meetings as well as private offices. Businesses and organizations seeking use of a conference room through the Chamber of Commerce will still have access to a space within the Small Business Center. The phone numbers for the respective program contacts will remain the same.
The Los Alamos and White Rock business community is invited to attend an open house and ribbon cutting of the new space on Wednesday, Jan. 16 from 4-7 p.m. Food and beverages will be provided by Pajarito Brewpub and Grill.
Local Scientific Coordinator (LSC) is wanted for ISABEL 2011. The LSC will be responsible for the definition and the coordination of the Technical Programme (i.e., conference theme, tracks and topics; call for papers; committees, invited organizers and speakers; dissemination sources; review process; programme structure, etc.).
The LSC position was created to remove the burden of the overall practical organization and the risk therein involved from the so-called (Local) Organizing Committee. ISABEL has embraced a new vest by restructuring and renewing its internal organization, and by proposing its own model for organizing international conferences.
The Local Scientific Coordinator will elect its committee and will be titled General Chair of ISABEL 2011. The Local Scientific Coordinator's Institution will receive a percentage from the eventual profit, which will be negotiated on the base of the number of regular submissions received, the number of organizers (e.g., special sessions organizers) and speakers invited, and the number of patrons and sponsors successfully involved.
Note that ISABEL will provide project management support based on a consensual work/time plan and an internal initial training concerning ISABEL policies, guidelines and templates.
Read more and find all the required documentation for your candidature here.
Interested candidates are required to send all their material (i.e., forms, attachments and any additional information) electronically to secretariat@isabelconference.com by September 15, 2010.
The Board of Directors along with the International Scientific Committee will then gather and vision the information sent by all candidates and, on the base of strategic as well as scientific considerations, will decide who to elect Local Scientific Coordinator of ISABEL 2011.
The notifications will take place by September 30, 2010.
ISABEL has enormously evolved in 2010 and has emerged as one of the fastest-growing and leading emerging interdisciplinary conferences worldwide.
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This Africa vacation package includes: Chobe Chilwero Lodge, Chobe National Park - Botswana: Chelinda Lodge, Nyika Plateau; Likoma Island and Kaya Mawa, Lake Malawi.
Suitability: Ideal for everybody who has an interest in eco-systems and the wonders of nature.
Note: This Africa vacation package is based on - arrival at Kasane Airport, Botswana - departing Lilongwe Airport, Malawi.
This unique safari, gives you a new perspective of Afica's stunning ecology.
Upon arrival at Kasane Airport on day one of your Africa vacation package, you will be met by a representative and transferred to Chobe Chilwero Lodge.
Enjoy exploring the northern Chobe area on extensive game drives.
Accommodation: In cosy cottages on a full board basis including activities.
Chobe Chilwero is an elegant 5 star lodge blending old world charm with modern comforts and style. Chilwero means 'place of view', and accurately describes this lodge as it boasts undisturbed views across the islands and floodplains of Botswana.
Chobe Chilwero is ideal for excellent game viewing conducted by highly qualified and knowledgeable guides in custom built 4X4 safari vehicles. Exciting water activities like fishing are conducted from safari motor boats. Sundowner cruises affords the opportunity of witnessing a spectacular African sunset over the Chobe River.
After breakfast this morning, you will be transferred from the lodge to Livingstone Airport for your charter flight to Mfuwe in Zambia. Here you will connect to your flight via Lilongwe to Chelinda Lodge.
Spend your time enjoying the activities offered by the lodge.
Accommodation: En-suite log cabins on a full board basis including activities. Chelinda Lodge is situated in one of Africa's most spectacular setting, boasting breathtaking views over the rolling grasslands of the Nyika Plateau.
Accommodation is in 8 charming en suite log cabins, each boasting a welcoming fire place, main dining area and raised wooden walkways. Activities include horse riding safaris, walking, mountain biking, fishing and birding.
On day 6 of your Africa vacation package you will be transferred to the airstrip for your flight to Kaya Mawa on Likoma Island.
Accommodation: In lovely thatch cottages in a full board basis.
Kaya Mawa Lodge is situated at the head of a crescent shaped bay, surrounded by mango trees and ancient baobabs. Kaya Mawa offers an excellent location, world class accommodation and a wide range of exciting activities, guaranteeing guests a memorable and rewarding experience.
Activities include walking or biking around the island, visits to the cathedral or local markets, swimming, diving, water skiing, tube riding, wake snaking, sailing safaris and kayaking.
Spend your days relaxing and enjoying the activities of this unique lodge.
On the final day of your Africa vacation package you bid farewell to the Lodge before your transfer by light aircraft to Lilongwe for your connecting flight home.
Roland Barthes, the French intellectual and semiotician, introduced three levels of mythic language: the denotative level, the connotative or symbolic level, and the ideological level. He believed that the development of mythology, where some particular thing that exists in a specific cultural context develops into something timeless and general, can also be found in pop culture and its products. He called this process of transformation “Mythicization”. By applying this perspective to one of the advertisements of Baedal Minjok, we can see that the brand strategy of Baedal Minjok can be laid out in Barthes’ three different levels of mythic language. Additionally, we will examine how the messages found in the advertisement supports the mythicization of the brand.
Mythicization is very appealing to modern brands. As names like Nike and Hermes, or the Starbucks mermaid symbol show, brands are trying to build a strong association through storytelling or unique imagery in order to become a part of culture, rather than just a product. In the 1960s, Barthes also paid a special attention to advertisements and tried to decode their cultural meanings embedded in deeper level. In “Rhetoric of the image”, he deconstructed an advertisement into linguistic and iconic messages and then uncovered the symbolic meaning (connotative level) under the surface meaning (denotative level). While the fact that Barthes applied these two levels of mythology analysis to advertisements contributes deeply to our understanding of the pop culture, they are not enough when trying to understand the strategies of contemporary brands and their mythicization. Brands now communicate more diverse channels in a bigger and global market. In this highly competitive environment, one well- written ad copy or a famous good-looking model won’t guarantee the same level of cultural impact that Barthes may have witnessed in the past. The messages of brands these days try to permeate our culture in a deeper, more diverse way. That is where the ideological level, the final level that Barthes introduced in the language of mythicization, kicks in. Ideologies are “the belief system within people’s collective conscious” (Dobson “Mythology and Ideology”). The ideological messages in myths and fairytales have a pedagogical function as they pass values and old wisdom on to the listener. The ideological messages of brands help them to stay in people’s awareness and affect their attitudes toward a brand’s product. For example, seeing at the words “Innovative”, “Simple” or “Perfection” many people may instantly think of the brand Apple, and Coca-Cola will be associated with the words such as “Happiness” or “Fun”. In other words, successful brands in contemporary culture contain ideological messages and succeed in making strong associations with those messages in the cultural context.
Korean’s most successful food delivery service, “배달의 민족 (Baedal Minjok, meaning the Nation of Delivery)” is often seen as a modern success story in the Korean business world due to its fast growth. Even though ordering food delivery from home, office, or even from parks or public outdoor places during any time of the day has been a big part of food culture in Korea for a long time, Baedal Minjok, was the first startup in Korea that came up with the idea of acting as a delivery service that connects customers and restaurants (like Grubhub or Seamless in the US) and now is regarded as a symbol of Korean food culture. One piece of evidence for the brand’s impact is the cultural phenomenon of other companies and individuals copying or parodying the brand’s imagery, visual style, and way of storytelling. What makes this brand even more worth investigating for our analysis is its global expansion. Despite of its strong base in localized service and the Korean culture, the company was invested by global investment companies such as Goldman Sachs and is actively expanding to the global market. Just like good stories can be shared and understood across borders and cultures and become a myth over time, brands, like a modern myth, can show us deep understanding of culture and human communications.
The image above shows the advertisement that we will analyze. The linguistic messages shown in the ad are the ad copy: the phrase written in Korean on the left side, “우리가 어떤 민족 입니까” (What kind of nation are we?) and the brand name: the black colored letters written on the metal container, “배달의 민족” (Baedal Minjok — the Nation of Delivery).
Baedal Minjok, the brand name, literally means the nation of delivery. By putting Baedal (Delivery) in the name, it intuitively informs people that the brand is related to a delivery service. If one tries to understand the deeper meaning and origin of the brand name, he or she reaches the connotative level, where contextual interpretation is involved. Putting the word “delivery” and “nation” together implies that the business is targeting the whole nation and it is fully dedicated to the delivery service. Originally, however, Baedal Minjok has been familiar to Korean people in a different meaning — the phrase is originally a colloquial expression for saying the “Korean people” in a sophisticated way (“Baedal” is also the name of the mythic founder of Korea, so Baedal Minjok can be read as Baedal’s Nation). By using a familiar expression as the brand name, the brand achieves not only a sense of humor but also a strong feeling of nationalism. In Korean society, where a single race speaking one language has been regarded as a virtue for many decades, the sense of community and nationalism prevails in people’s collective conscious. This feeling of nationalism is what the brand embraces at the ideological level. The ad copy is a question that leads to an answer, the brand name. It may be seen as a simple format on the denotative level, but on the connotative level, this format puts the emphasis on the brand name and its dual meaning. Moreover, by using the subject ‘we’ and the concept of ‘nation’ in the phrase, it ideologically plays to the patriotism and the connectedness of the viewers.
➊ The scene represents a man riding a horse to deliver food to his customer. The background image is a parody work of a historical mural of Goguryeo Tombs, one of Korea’s UNESCO cultural heritage sites (see Figure 7). The original mural describes the hunting scene of the former ancient kingdom, Goguryeo, where people were known for skillful horse riding and hunting, bravery, and quick in action. This historical background is connected to the word “nation” shown in both linguistic elements mentioned earlier. This historical context of the brand name not only emphasizes its sincerity in achieving high quality of service in the connotative level, but also identifies the brand image with the agility and energy of the ancient culture, representing the ideological level.
➋ Comparing the Baedal Minjok advertisement and the Goguryeo’s mural art painting above, the biggest difference is what the rider is holding in his hands. The bow in Goguryeo culture symbolizes their agility and accuracy that were known for the hunting skills. The ad, through the parody process, replaced the bow to the metal food delivery container (see Figure 6). The metal food delivery container is considered as one of the most symbolic items in the Korean contemporary food culture. Just like a beer mug indicates beer, the color, shape and the size of the metal container in the image is an icon in Korean culture for the delivery food. By putting the brand name “Baedal Minjok” on this iconic metal container image, the ad not only clearly indicates the business type of the company (connotative level) but also symbolizes itself as a part of Korean food culture at the ideological level.
➌ The man who is playing the delivery horseman in this image is the Korean film actor, Seungyong Ryu. He is known for his charismatic and heroic character in many successful Korean films. Therefore, his presence in the ad connoted the message that his personal brand endorses Baedal Minjok. Given the fact that Baedal Minjok was from a small, new startup with comical advertisements, the juxtaposition of a serious actor in a comical pose added additional interest to the ad.
➍ The copy functions not only for the linguistic message but also for the iconic message due to its visual aspect: the font type. The font used in the copy, Hanna, was created for Baedal Minjok. Because of the high attention of the public, the company even shared the font publicly so that anybody could download and use it. The style is chiseled with square shapes but gives a fun impression as it accentuates curves in the letters. The unique look and feel of neatness but fun at the same time support the connoted message of the brand: we are new and fun but our business is reliable. At a deeper level, the font also contains a strong ideological message. Inspired by “the hand-drawing letters used in educational propaganda posters for children in Korean elementary schools” (Kim), the font type was designed to bring a prompt attention from the viewers, like a propaganda, but in a friendly way similar to the educational posters do for young kids (See Figure 7). Due to this motif, the overall advertisement resembles the traditional propaganda posters which encourage patriotism, ideal national characteristics, and community spirit.
Even though these four main elements are “discontinuous and not linear” (Lanir), they are coherently tied to certain messages. On the connotative level, all the elements imply the idea that Baedal Minjok provides fast, accurate and friendly nation-wide food delivery service that can satisfy all the country. While this message can be interpreted as a marketing message for introducing the new business, the ideological level is closer to the collective conscious, especially tied to Korean culture. Each element — the historical motif of the overall image, the symbolic metal delivery food container, the nationally popular actor, and the unique font inspired by Korean education — is linked to the patriotism and the celebration of “Koreanness”.
The coded messages discovered in this image of “What kind of Nation are We?” campaign are continuously reproduced in their further Baedal Minjok campaigns. For example, they released a series of print ads which only feature the actor, the font, and their witty copy (See Figure 8). Furthermore, applying another parody work in the movie poster format, the brand continues to use the font, the actor and the motif of artistic content (with the movie poster replacing the historical painting on the artistic vehicle).
These variations are diverse in format and channels but consistent in messages. In other words, for the brand the ad we analyzed in this paper and its messages became a new doxa, “the rules and regulations of a culture,” (Dobson “Fairytales: From History to Theory.”) and mythicize the brand by applying the their own doxa to their further communications.
With the elaborately executed brand strategy demonstrated in the advertisement we analyzed, Baedal Minjok could be in Korean people’s awareness not only as a high quality food delivery service brand but also as a symbol of Korean food culture that celebrates Koreanness. As a result, Korean people think of Baedal Minjok when they see the words like “national” “connectedness” or “love for Korea” — even though it’s not a national enterprise. When a brand can be remembered in a cultural context beyond its product and its usage, it is mythicized and passes the ideology on to the next generation as a modern myth.
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Pursuing a career in biology can be immensely rewarding and exciting. Studying biology teaches us to ask questions, make observations, evaluate evidence, and solve problems. Biologists learn how living things work, how they interact with one another, and how they evolve. Their work increases our understanding about the natural world in which we live and helps us address issues of personal well being and worldwide concern, such as environmental depletion, threats to human health, and maintaining viable and abundant food supplies.
Carleton University Biology graduates are continuously successful at gaining employment in industry, government, and academic sectors.
The degree program is designed to be a qualification in itself and many Carleton graduates take positions in government and industry directly upon graduation. The degree is also an entry point for various graduate (Master’s and Doctorate) programs.
Health care: Biologists in health care may develop public health campaigns to defeat illnesses such as tuberculosis, AIDS, cancer, and heart disease. Others work to prevent the spread of rare, deadly diseases, such as the now infamous Ebola virus. Veterinarians tend to sick and injured animals, and doctors, dentists, nurses, and other health care professionals maintain the general health and well being of their patients.
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Explore your university options. Deciding where to go to university and what to study can be a daunting task. Research schools of interest. Talk to your guidance counselor, as well as to admissions counselors, faculty, and current students at these schools. There are excellent programs at a wide range of institutions, from large research universities to small liberal arts universities.
Have fun! While studies are important, remember to get out and enjoy yourself as well. Participate in any extracurricular activities of interest: a school club, a science fair, a sports team, or volunteer work. You’ll learn teamwork while developing leadership and social skills, making you stand out not only as a future biologist but also as an individual.
Consider how long you want to be in school. Most life science careers require at least a bachelor’s degree and often an advanced degree, such as a master’s degree. Research jobs typically require a doctorate, which may take five or six years of intense and demanding training.
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Job growth is expected in a number of areas, biotechnology and molecular biology in particular. In addition, the number of openings in federal government agencies charged with managing natural resources, such as Environment Canada and Agriculture Canada, is expected to grow. These openings will become available as many senior-level biologists and life scientists retire in the coming years.
A 2003 survey in conjunction with the Abbot and Langer Company found that biologists with less than one year experience have a starting salary of around $35,000 per year. Data from a 2003 US Bureau of Labor Statistics report show that the field of life sciences as a whole has a mean annual salary close to $55,000. As biologists gain more experience and education in their field, those in private industry may earn salaries of over $80,000, while those working in government, academia, and the nonprofit sector earn around $60,000 to $70,000. Those with over 30 years of experience have a median salary of around $103,000. Keep in mind that salaries may vary greatly depending on geographic location, job type, and experience and education.
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If there is one thing I would recommend us to change or improve on this year it’s the battles we choose to fight. We probably don’t realise this but sometimes we pay so much attention to things that really do not add value to our lives. And this is exactly why I want us to focus on battles that are worth fighting, battles that one can someday look back on and think ‘wow I’m a warrior’.
But that is only possible if we become selective of the problems, arguments, and confrontations that we engage in. That’s why it is important to always ask yourself if tackling that particular problem outweighs the costs before engaging into it. That way you can decide if you should fight the problem or abandon it, because not all problems are important.
Truly some battles just don’t hold water and they simply don’t matter especially in the long run. Imagine fighting so hard just to pull another woman down or simply being judgmental about other people’s lives. Encounters with rude people are another. Gossip is another thing – there is no way you want to live your entire life paying attention to what people say about you. For as long as you breathe, people are going to talk about you. These are things that you cannot allow to weigh you down by rather letting them go.
After all, there are many other things worth worrying about. It’s better to concern yourself with your big rocks and Quadrant 2 goals, other than petty problems that have no place in your life. Some problems may seem pressing, but the payoff from addressing them doesn’t outweigh the costs. Battling such problems will only waste your time and energy since the costs outweigh the benefits. This year let’s choose battles where the benefits outweigh the costs.
Instead of getting involved with everything, you save your time only for the important situations, the ones that will give you the best payoff, and the ones where there is a good chance of success. As humans, we also need to remember that we have limited time and energy on Earth and that is why we need to conserve our resources for the things that matter.
It’s all about winning the big war. In life, you are going to face countless problems. Do you want to spend your life battling petty problems that do not make a difference in the long run? Or do you want to battle the big rocks, like carving out your dream career, building your ideal relationship, being financially free, and living the life of your dreams? You need to choose your battles and focus on the big rocks to win the big war of life.

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