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Second time around: Following a failed bond measure in 2006, Cuesta is back at bat with Measure L

After more than 40 years without a successful bond measure—including a crushing refusal of a proposed 2006 bond—Cuesta College’s administrators were starting to feel desperate. State funding was dropping, and the school was in dire need of funds. There was only one real option, they felt: Try for a bond again, but do it right this time.

There was a palpable pall over the early internal bond discussions; no one wanted a repeat of 2006, and the school would be in some serious hot water if it didn’t get funding soon.

click to enlarge PORTABLE PROBLEMS:  Cuesta’s portable buildings are one of the major reasons administrators hope Measure L passes. Due to a state education code, the portables all need to be retired in September 2015, which means more than 60,000 square feet of classrooms and offices need to be replaced in less than a year. - PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CUESTA MAINTENANCE TEAM
  • PORTABLE PROBLEMS: Cuesta’s portable buildings are one of the major reasons administrators hope Measure L passes. Due to a state education code, the portables all need to be retired in September 2015, which means more than 60,000 square feet of classrooms and offices need to be replaced in less than a year.

Cuesta hired consulting firms to assess, reassess, and re-reassess the bond’s viability, molding the tiniest details of the measure into something that would both speak to voters and fulfill all of the items on the school’s checklist.

In July, the college set it in stone: The bond will be for $275 million and will cost San Luis Obispo County property owners $19.45 per $100,000 of assessed value. It will pay for repairs, new buildings, technology upgrades, and retiring old debt.

Now, Cuesta’s administration is holding its collective breath. Will the community decide to support the college this time around? Will voters be more receptive to this year’s $275 million than 2006’s $310 million? And what is Cuesta going to do if this one fails, too?

Pat Mullen, president of Cuesta’s Board of Trustees, has thought long and hard about these questions and thousands more as he and the other trustees finalized the measure. Another bond failure would hamstring the school’s ability to function in the coming years, he explained.

“We really needed it in 2006, and it failed to get the support of 55 percent [of voters],” Mullen said. “The needs were evident then, and they’re even more critical now. The costs to repair and refurbish some of our aging infrastructure have only increased over time.”

Repairs and refurbishments aren’t the school’s most imminent funding needs, though. Due to State Education Code 17292, Cuesta will have to discontinue use of its portable classrooms and office buildings by Sept. 30, 2015. Approximately 60,000 square feet of classes and offices will need a new home.

“We have to do that regardless,” Mullen said. “And there’s just no funds to do it.”

Early on in the bond discussion process, Cuesta’s trustees and administrators jokingly suggested moving displaced classes to double-wide trailers in the parking lot or renting out retail space for classrooms. If the bond measure doesn’t pass, the real solution to this problem will be much more serious: cutting classes and firing teachers.

“We’ll have to make significant additional cuts to be able to relocate the facilities and the student services that are housed in those buildings,” Mullen said. “We don’t have that kind of funding, so we’d have to find that by making cuts elsewhere.

“Because of the state budget cuts, we’ve already cut our budget from $54 million in 2008 to around $45 million [this year],” he added. “We’ve long since cut any inefficiencies we could, and we’ve already had to significantly reduce programs, services, even faculty and staff.”

According to Mullen, state budget cuts are the main reason Cuesta needs to resort to a bond. In the past, the school was able to pay for its maintenance and new buildings with state funding, but college funding statewide will be more and more localized in coming years, Mullen said.

Paul Feist, vice chancellor for communications for the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, backed up Mullen’s claim. Feist added that California’s community colleges have seen and will continue to see decreased statewide funding.

Feist also said that when a college gets a bond—even if it’s limited to only paying for facilities and repairs—the whole campus tends to flourish.

“When districts are successful with raising bond money, it does free up financial resources for other services that serve students,” he said. “It’s because they may not have to pour as much into their capital improvement fund when they have this other money that the voters have approved.”

That fiscal freedom could be either a good or a bad thing, depending on whom you ask. Financial planner and former congressional candidate Matt Kokkonen is not so quick to trust the trustees.

Kokkonen is against Measure L and believes that Cuesta’s Board of Trustees has been putting too much money into salaries and not enough into infrastructure. He believes that giving the school more funding would only exacerbate the problem.

“The problem with Cuesta is that the trustees have not been doing the job to which they were elected—which is to oversee the finances of the college,” Kokkonen said. “They have specifically permitted the facilities to become downgraded and to be wasted. Now all of a sudden they come to us and say, ‘Bail us out; increase your taxes to fix our facilities.’”

Kokkonen claimed that the trustees are using their funding to raise their instructors’ salaries, and he’s worried that this bond money is also going to go into the teachers’ pockets.

According to Deborah Stakes, head of the Cuesta College Federation of Teachers (CCFT), Kokkonen’s claims are off base, as Cuesta teachers haven’t had an across-the-board wage increase in more than six years.

Regardless of how Cuesta got in this predicament, Kokkonen doesn’t think that adding another tax to what he believes is already a mountain of local taxes is the answer. He said that there are ways the school can fix its infrastructure without having to lean on the community.

“It’s very paradoxical,” Kokkonen said. “Cuesta prides itself on being a technical and vocational college, yet here we have a school where there are aging bathrooms, plumbing, walkways, lighting, electrical systems. Why don’t we have the students do some of that?”

Though there are some SLO County citizens who, like Kokkonen, oppose Measure L, that group seems to be a minority compared to the “Yes on L: Keep Cuesta Strong” movement, which has more than 300 endorsements online. There’s actually no organized “No on L” citizen group, and no one stepped up to write an argument against the measure to put on the ballot.

Intern Cliff Mathieson is searching high and low, trying to find people who oppose Measure L. He’s also a Cuesta student. Contact him via Executive Editor Ryan Miller at

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The Queens County District Attorney’s Office keeps churning out high profile white collar fraud cases. Unfortunately for Matthew McEntee and Mariwa M. Mora, two Flushing residents, these two defendants are awaiting arraignment after they were arrested in connection to an alleged fraud scheme involving $16 million in assets.

According to the Queens District Attorney’s Office press release, Mr. McEntee, wrongfully portraying himself to be an attorney, and Ms. Mora, allegedly scammed twelve property owners out of $16 million in assets including properties in New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and California. “[A] ccording to the criminal charges, an unapprehended individual introduced McEntee to the victims as an investor who was looking to buy properties for his corporations – Clarity Corporate Trust and Conveyance Corporate Trust. During the introductions, McEntee allegedly claimed to be an attorney, an accountant and a banker and introduced Mora as either his fiancee or wife. In some cases, it is alleged, while negotiating the cash sales of the properties, McEntee also offered to buy the victims’ high-end vehicles – such as Mercedes Benzs, Mustangs and SUVs – and expensive house furnishings. McEntee also allegedly told some of the victims that for corporate tax reasons if they brought money or other valuables to the closing, he would issue them a check for double the value which would be in the payment check for the properties. In each instance, the certified corporate checks drawn on an HSBC bank account that the defendants allegedly provided to the victims at the closings were deemed forged.”

Beyond the properties, some of the alleged victims were duped into turning over over $300,000 in cash as well as jewelry and mink coats.

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Some applications on our systems (e.g Matlab) have a graphical user interface. To be able to display windows from an application running on an NSC system on your own computer, you need two things:

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    • If you run Linux, this is already taken care of.
    • If you run MacOS, you might need to install and start which is included in MacOS but not always installed.
    • If you run Windows, you need to find a third-party X server software (e.g Xming), as this is not normally included in Windows. Ask your local system administrator.
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    Perhaps you want to run a graphical user interface (GUI) that is using OpenGL (e.g VMD) to visualize data that is located at NSC. Rather than moving a large amount of data to your local computer and visualize it there, you can run the GUI directly on an NSC system and display the window on your computer with much better results (higher framerate etc) than using traditional X-windows tunneling through SSH.

  2. Modern GUIs that do not run well using X-forwarding

    Certain graphical user interfaces are implemented with no regard for performance when tunneled through SSH on a connection with high latency, and will be more or less unusable. Since ThinLinc presents a local X server to the application (with almost zero latency) and handles the transportation of the graphics data invisible to the application, it can perform much better for these types of applications.

Installing the ThinLinc client and connecting to Triolith

The ThinLinc client can be downloaded for free from It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris.

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  4. Change the "Name" setting to your Triolith username (e.g x_abcde).

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  6. Enter your Triolith password in the "Password" box.

  7. Press the "Connect" button.

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After a few seconds, a window with a simple desktop session in it will appear. From the Applications menu, start a Terminal Window. You are now logged in to Triolith and can submit jobs, start interactive sessions, start graphical interfaces as usual.

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The default session is a fullscreen session (will cover your entire screen). If this is not what you want, you can change it in the ThinLinc client settings. Click Options, select the Screen tab and deselect Full Screen Mode. You will then get a window with your Triolith desktop inside it, which you can resize to whatever size you want.

In most cases you also want to disable the session option "send system keys". This option is on by default, and it means that "system keys" (e.g Alt-Tab, Cmd-Tab etc) are sent to the ThinLinc server and not to your local computer while the ThinLinc session is running.

Connecting ThinLinc client to Gamma

Instructions are similar to Triolith except you need to change the server setting to "" and use your Gamma account to login. Please also notice that's server key is "fb:ba:04:38:7b:7c:f4:c0:8c:d0:69:ef:66:77:47:dc".

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If you use SSH public key authentication to login to Triolith you need to do this to use this method also for ThinLinc:

  1. Start the ThinLinc client

  2. Click "Options"

  3. In the "Security" tab, Change "Password" to "Public key"

  4. Press OK

  5. The "Password" box has now changed to "Key". Click the browse button to the right of the Key field and select your SSH private key file (or enter the path to your key directly)

  6. Press the "Connect" button.

  7. Enter the passphrase for your SSH private key (if you don't have one, you really should…)

Note: you will need to enter your SSH key passphrase each time you log in. This is due to the ThinLinc client not being integrated with the Linux ssh-agent.

Using ssh-agent with ThinLinc (unsupported)

If you want to use SSH keys loaded into ssh-agent to connect to ThinLinc, you can do that by modifying your ThinLinc client.

The method described below is unsupported by Cendio and NSC. Use it at your own risk. However, it's unlikely that anything can go wrong that you cannot fix by reinstalling the ThinLinc client.

This has been tested on Ubuntu Linux running the ThinLinc client version 4.1.1, but it will probably work with other Linux distributions and ThinLinc client versions. Note: you will have to re-apply this fix every time you upgrade the ThinLinc client.

If you use this fix, the ThinLinc client will use any keys from your ssh-agent to log in regardless of whether you have specified password or public key login in the client settings. Recommendation: set client to use password and don't enter anything into the password box.

To apply the fix, run the following as root on your Linux client:

mv /opt/thinlinc/lib/tlclient/ssh /opt/thinlinc/lib/tlclient/ssh.real
cat > /opt/thinlinc/lib/tlclient/ssh <<"EOF"
#! /bin/sh
# SSH wrapper for ThinLinc client to enable using keys loaded into
# ssh-agent to be used

# Only try to use this method if an ssh-agent is actually running
if [ "$SSH_AGENT_PID" != "" ] ; then
    if [ -S "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] ; then
        TLSSHARGS="`echo "$*" | sed s/\-o\ PubkeyAuthentication=no//`"

# Run the real SSH client
exec $0.real $TLSSHARGS
chmod 755 /opt/thinlinc/lib/tlclient/ssh

mv /opt/thinlinc/bin/tlclient /opt/thinlinc/bin/tlclient.real

cat > /opt/thinlinc/bin/tlclient <<"EOF"
# ThinLinc client wrapper to enable using SSH keys loaded into
# ssh-agent for authentication.
# Since ThinLinc will unset $SSH_AUTH_SOCK, we need to save the value
# of it into another variable.

# Launch the real ThinLinc client
exec $0.real $*
chmod 755 /opt/thinlinc/bin/tlclient

Running accelerated OpenGL applications

In order to make use of hardware-accelerated OpenGL, the application needs to be launched in a certain way.

Some applications have already been modified to do this automatically. The applications listed below will automatically be accelerated when run from ThinLinc, so you just need to start them manually.

  • GaussView (e.g "module add gaussview/5.0.9; gv")

  • VMD (e.g "module add vmd/1.9.1; vmd")

  • Maestro (e.g "module add schrodinger/2012u1-nsc; maestro")

  • VESTA (e.g "module add vesta/3.1.3; vesta")

All other OpenGL applications needs to be launched using "vglrun", e.g "vglrun SOME_OPENGL_APPLICATION".

Please note that in order to use accelerated OpenGL with ThinLinc we had to make changes that sometimes prevents using OpenGL applications over normal X-forwarding (using SSH).

If you login using SSH and cannot launch a graphical application, try using ThinLinc instead. You can also try LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/ <application>, this will enable software emulated OpenGL which will allow the application to run but with reduced graphical performance.

Thinlinc sessions

If you close your ThinLinc client or explicitly disconnect, your session on Triolith will still be running, and you will automatically be reconnected to that session the next time you login to ThinLinc.

If you will not be using ThinLinc for a few days, we recommend logging out (using the green "running man" logout icon in the ThinLinc desktop).

NSC reserves the right to log out sessions that have been idle for a significant time. Also, if a login node is rebooted, all ThinLinc sessions on that node will be logged out.

If you have no current ThinLinc session, your next one will be on the login node with the lowest load. You can not control which server your next session will use. If you need to access the other login node, login to it using SSH (e.g "ssh triolith2").

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Our new brand launches this October We're letting people know that every childhood is worth fighting for

We're letting people know that every childhood is worth fighting for

It might seem a little odd to get excited about six little words. But that's exactly how we feel about our new strapline: every childhood is worth fighting for. Because six little words can make a big statement. They can show what we stand for, not just what we stand against.

Our new brand means a new approach. In the past, we've raised awareness of child sex abuse. People know that we're firmly against cruelty to children, and that we want it to be stopped. But we haven't shown how each and every one of us has the power to prevent it. That's going to change.

Say hello to our new brand

It's not just about a new strapline and logo. We'll be making changes across all our materials - you'll see things change over coming weeks, including our new website.

From now on, we're going to look a little different and sound a little different. We're not going to stop talking about the problems children face. But we are going to start showing you how we're making things better, and how you can help us.

We want everyone to join us in the fight for every childhood.

Our brand launch

Two boys laughing.Childhood shapes who we become. Abuse never should. That's why we're celebrating childhood, and the impact it has on our whole lives.

For the launch of our new brand, we're asking people to think about how their childhood has shaped who they are today.

What words of wisdom have stayed with you since childhood? Share these words and help inspire others to fight for every childhood.

Celebrities like Stephen Fry and Alan Sugar will be revealing the inspirational words that shaped their childhoods, and you can get involved too.

How to get involved

  1. Log on to Facebook or Twitter.
  2. Share the words in a status update or tweet.
  3. Don't forget to add #childhoodwisdom, tag your friends and ask them to join in too.

It might look something like this:

"I remember being told 'Treat others how you'd like to be treated.' #childhoodwisdom @NSPCC"

We're really looking forward to seeing everyone's words of wisdom, so start tweeting and posting!

Abuse changes childhood. But so can we.

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Contact our national and regional press offices for enquiries about our work or to request interviews.

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What we do

Child abuse ruins childhood, but it can be prevented. Help us rebuild children’s lives and stop child abuse from ruining any more.
Find out how

Preventing abuse

Find out about types of abuse, the child protection system and access our research and resources
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What you can do

From reporting concerns, to making a donation or becoming a volunteer, there are many ways you can help us in the fight for childhood.
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General Resources
Ephraim I. Schechter. Internet Resources for Higher Education Outcomes Assessment. http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/UPA/assmt/resource.htm
National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/index.html

Discipline-Specific Resources
--- Assessment Resource Center http://www.aacsb.edu/resources/assessment/default.asp
--- Assurance of learning standards: An interpretation. http://www.aacsb.edu/accreditation/papers/AOLPaper-final-11-20-07.pdf

- Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Assessment for academic programs. http://www.acjs.org/pubs/167_2085_13678.cfm

- Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. Assessment planning. http://www.abet.org/assessment.shtml

- Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications. A guide to assessment of student learning in journalism and mass communications. http://www2.ku.edu/~acejmc/BREAKING/Assessment_Guide.pdf

- Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication. Assessment practices and tips. http://www.aejmc.org

- American Psychological Association. Assessment cyberguide for learning goals and outcomes in the undergraduate psychology major. http://www.apa.org/ed/guidehomepage.html

- American Political Science Association. Assessment in political science. http://www.apsanet.org

- American Sociological Association. Creating an effective assessment plan for the sociology major. http://www.asanet.org

- Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics. Guidelines for assessment of student learning. http://www.maa.org

- Council of Arts Accrediting Associations. Achievement and quality: Higher education in the arts. http://aqresources.arts-accredit.org/site/docs/AchievementQuality/AchievementandQuality-2007SepDoc.pdf

- National Association of Schools of Art and Design. Assessment of graduate programs in art and design. http://nasad.arts-accredit.org/site/docs/Assessment%20Documents/Assessment-UG_NASAD_1991-Reprint2009.pdf

- National Association of Schools of Art and Design. Assessment of undergraduate programs in art and design. http://nasad.arts-accredit.org/site/docs/Assessment%20Documents/Assessment-UG_NASAD_1991-Reprint2009.pdf

- NCATE. SPA Assessment Library. http://www.ncate.org

- Council on Social Work Education / Holloway, S. Some suggestions on educational program assessment and continuous improvement: Revised for the 2008 EPAS. http://www.cswe.org

- American Philosophical Society. Statement on the profession: Outcomes assessment - http://www.apaonline.org

- Association for Theatre in Higher Education. Outcomes assessment guidelines for theatre programs in higher education - http://www.athe.org

Associations and Agencies
- Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). VALUE: Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Assessment (RUBRICS). http://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/index.cfm
- Lumina Foundation. Degree Qualifications Profile. http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/The_Degree_Qualifications_Profile.pdf
- Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Program assessment
rubrics. http://www.wascsenior.org/findit/files/forms/Rubrics___combined.pdf
- Middle State Commission on Higher Education.
--- Student learning assessment: Options and resources. http://www.msche.org/publications/SLA_Book_0808080728085320.pdf
--- Institutional Effectiveness Bibliography http://www.msche.org/publications/Bibliography-Institutional-Effectiveness.pdf

Institutional Assessment Handbooks
Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Guide to Outcomes-Based Education. http://www.polyu.edu.hk/obe/08_Guide_to_OBE.php
University of Central Florida. Program assessment handbook: Guidelines for planning and implementing quality enhancing efforts of program and student learning outcomes. http://oeas.ucf.edu/doc/acad_assess_handbook.pdf
Western Washington University. Tools & techniques for program improvement: A handbook for program review & assessment of student learning. http://www.wwu.edu/depts/vpue/assessment/documents/prog_handbook.pdf


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Light talk on Monday: Zikomo Matope walks out of church in protest of beer preaching

I was busy preparing my early lunch at home when I heard the landlord’s son talking to someone just outside my quarters.

“Is this the house of Mr. Divaluweshoni?” The voice sounded so familiar that I went to the front door to quench my curiosity, inwardly praying that it shouldn’t be Tholo, the barman, coming after his previous day’s unsettled bill.

Enya” The landlord’s son assented in Tumbuka.

Through the keyhole, I saw a smartly dressed young man. I could not believe my eyes; it was my good friend Zikomo Matope! What on earth had brought him to my place? I honestly couldn’t figure out.

You wouldn’t believe me if I told you despite the two of us being as close as the biblical Jonathan and David for sometime now, Zikomo had never been to my place before. We only meet in town and chat over some cold greens.pius-logo lighttalk

“Zikomo Matope! You are dressed like a presidential hopeful today!” I joked as I opened the door for him.

“You can’t be completely wrong,” he answered back, smiling as he sauntered in.

“What are you cooking here?” Zikomo Matope asked and without waiting for my answer, he went to the kitchen and came back with a piece of boiled pork.

We sat down, him in the only cane chair at my sitting room and me on an empty case of Carlsberg beer that serves as a chair when need arises.

“Welcome to my place,” I said.

“So this is where you stay? How do you manage to locate this place when you are drunk especially at night?”

“But fortunately I don’t get drunk like you, Zikomo.”

“Between you and I, who drinks the worst?”

“Of course you, Zikomo. And everybody knows it.”

“We’ll ask Tholo then.”

“Today of course. That’s where we are going from here.” He said.

No news sounds better. I suppressed my smile.

Nonetheless, there was one thing I found not adding up; was the suit my good friend was wearing just meant for a drinking spree? No. That couldn’t be.

“Has my good friend just decided to pay me a courtesy visit today?” I couldn’t help asking.

“Yes,” he replied. “Just a whistle stop. I’m going home from church.”

That explained it.

“But where is the bible?” I asked.

“With Ivy, of course!” he said, a grin dancing on his lips. “I met her on her way to Tholo’s place, that’s where I’ll get it from.”

I shook my hornless head.

“You mean you are coming from church and you’re going to a bar for more sins?”

“Does it matter?” he asked. “After all, I didn’t attend the service to the end today.”

“That church pastor of ours! How could he transgress from his sermon and started preaching about beer the moment he spotted me in the church?”

“But you were not the only drunkard in attendance I suppose, how did you know you were the target?” I asked.

“Everybody knew he was hitting at me. Fancy the whole church turned to look at me the moment the beer subject was introduced.”

I wanted to laugh but I didn’t want to scratch a healing wound.

“By the way, let’s go join Ivy,” he said.

We munched our lunch and ten minutes later, we were in a taxi.

“You should’ve communicated you were coming. What if you found me busy in bed with one of your mulamus?”

Zikomo laughed his lungs out.

“I don’t have a phone now,” he said, sounding deeply concerned.

“Where has your phone gone?”

“Hey, do you have to know everything?” He replied, attracting laughter from the third female passenger in the taxi.

In no time, we were at Tholo’s place. As soon as Ivy saw us arrive, she looked relaxed. Her bottle was empty and she might have been starving.

“Tholo!” Zikomo screamed. “Beer, please!”

He fished out several K1000 banknotes from his fat wallet. “We are blowing every coin of my month’s tithe today.”

A joke here, a story there, time went by.

“Diva?” Zikomo suddenly called. He had already downed nine bottles in the thirty minutes we had been here.

“What if we start our own church?” he asked.

Ivy laughed heartily while I simply looked at him, completely caught off guard.

“Why should we?”

“You see, we can pull crowds and crowds.” He returned “I can be the pastor and I can ordain you my treasurer.”

“Go deeper, Prophet Zikomo Matope!” Ivy, who looked getting done by the haram drink, shouted.

“And later,” Zikomo took the floor again. “We can try our luck in politics as presidential hopeful and running mate, respectively.”

I shook my head at the wishful thinking.

“But what if I became president of the this republic today?” Zikomo Matope asked, opening his eleventh bottle.

“Of course I know you would first of all reduce beer prices as a token of appreciation to the drinking fraternity who, I’m sure, will account for your landslide!” Ivy intruded.

We laughed.

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Li Keqiang, China’s premier, during the opening session of the National People’s Congress in Beijing on Saturday. Credit Damir Sagolj/Reuters

BEIJING — As economic growth has fallen while debts and excess industrial output have risen, Chinese leaders have faced growing questions about whether they will carry out the painful policy surgery many experts say is needed to cut away the financial dead weight on the economy.

But the answer that Prime Minister Li Keqiang gave on Saturday was to wager that China could enjoy a relatively painless cure that avoids hard choices between spurring growth and restructuring. Chinese leaders’ usual two-sided rhetoric about their options — peril is close at hand, but so is a sure cure — was especially striking in Mr. Li’s latest annual report to the legislature, the National People’s Congress.

“Domestically, problems and risks that have been building up over the years are becoming more evident,” Mr. Li told the roughly 3,000 delegates to the congress, a Communist Party-controlled body. But “there is no difficulty we cannot get beyond,” he said in the speech, which was broadcast live nationwide.

Continued economic growth of at least 6.5 percent can be achieved in 2016, and a similar rate is foreseeable until 2020, he said. That, Mr. Li suggested, would help dull the pain from cuts to wheezing state-supported industries that must shed millions of workers, as part of a program that China’s powerful president, Xi Jinping, has promoted as “supply-side structural reform.”

The Chinese economy, Mr. Li said, is “hugely resilient and has enormous potential and ample room for growth.”

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Those may have been reassuring words for workers worried about losing their jobs at failing mines, steel mills and industrial plants. Mr. Li said the government’s policies could help create more than 10 million jobs in towns and cities this year, and more than 50 million by the end of 2020.

But many economists and investors have become much less confident that China can manage such rates of unstinted growth without piling up more bad lending and misused capital.

China Official Addresses Year’s Policies

Here are excerpts from the annual news conference by a spokeswoman for the National People’s Congress, China’s legislature, outlining crucial government policy positions.

By REUTERS and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date March 4, 2016. Photo by Wu Hong/European Pressphoto Agency. Watch in Times Video »

“I think the 6.5 percent growth target is very challenging,” Shen Jianguang, the Hong Kong-based chief Asia economist at Mizuho Securities Asia, said after hearing Mr. Li’s plans. “They want to choose a path that maintains real growth now and defers tough times for later.”

A growth rate of 6.5 percent a year is the minimum needed to achieve President Xi’s often-declared goal of doubling the size of the Chinese economy by 2020, relative to its size in 2010.

“As the government report said, setting this target is also aimed at anchoring expectations and confidence,” Tao Wang, the chief China economist for UBS in Hong Kong, said in emailed comments. “We think this ambitious growth target signals more policy easing.”

But such financial easing implies more debt, at a time when many Western economists and policy makers are already worried that total leverage in the Chinese economy has far outstripped economic output. The increased debt may help the government achieve its target of 6.5 percent to 7 percent economic growth this year, but at the price of burdening banks with even more loans to struggling businesses, or even effectively insolvent ones. That policy may also water down leaders’ promises to shut companies that are producing unwanted industrial goods.

Some economists said the Chinese government had little choice but to shore up demand through such policies until the benefits of restructuring accumulated. But several also warned that the gains from such spending were tapering off and that the efforts to revamp the economy had lagged, despite bold promises made by Mr. Xi at a Communist Party meeting in 2013.

“In China we have a new saying: ‘Reform running idle,’ ” said Yao Yang, an economics professor at Peking University.

“We talk of the reforms, but the reforms are never being implemented. That’s the problem,” Mr. Yao said. “We know that monetary expansion is not going to have a huge effect.”

In his speech, Mr. Li appeared guarded about saying how any cuts would be administered. He did not specify how many workers could lose their jobs as part of the government’s plan to close, merge or restructure mines and factories weighed down by excess capacity.

The government will set aside $15.3 billion to support laid-off workers and hard-hit areas, he said. On Monday, a labor official estimated that 1.8 million workers in the steel and coal sectors would be laid off, around 15 percent of the work force in those industries.

“They definitely are relatively cautious in those areas like how boldly we tackle excess capacity, because they still want to grow,” said Louis Kuijs, the chief Asia economist for Oxford Economics, an independent research firm. “What I am particularly worried about is the overcapacity is probably going to get worse before it gets better, given the timidity of the approach.”

To a surprising extent, the economic vision unveiled by Mr. Li echoed policies in the United States, the European Union and Japan, all of which have depended heavily on their central banks to expand money supply and keep growth aloft. The International Monetary Fund and many independent economists have strongly called for the world to shift from this reliance on monetary policy.

Of the Chinese government’s plan, Mr. Kuijs said: “The wording is that we will have proactive fiscal policy and prudent monetary policy, but if you look at the numbers, it’s actually the other way around.”

The government’s plan said the target for this year’s fiscal deficit at the national level would rise to 3 percent, from a target of 2.3 percent last year. But by most estimates, the actual deficit last year was already over 3 percent.

China’s central bank, like the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, has been wary of carrying almost the entire burden for sustaining economic growth through monetary policy, and one of its officials even publicly suggested recently that the fiscal deficit could be safely pegged as high as 4 percent.

China’s central government has a fairly low debt by international standards; what are deeply indebted are the country’s corporate sector and local governments. But the Ministry of Finance has nonetheless been reluctant to allow a large, persistent deficit to form, particularly as China may yet face very heavy costs to help banks with the costs of large loans to nearly insolvent state-owned enterprises.

To be sure, the plan announced Saturday did call for some structural changes. One of the most surprising was a proposal to expand China’s value-added tax to financial services. Banks would face a 6 percent tax on the interest that they collect on loans.

Since the global financial crisis, there have been many calls in the West for broadening value-added taxes to encompass financial services, which could encourage more orderly and systematic accounting for many transactions. But Lachlan Wolfers, the head of indirect taxes in China for KPMG, a global accounting and professional services firm, said he was not aware of any countries other than Argentina and Israel that had taken steps as specific as China’s to tax financial services.

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We've been working on many projects over the past several weeks, but we've been rather quiet here on the blog.

Seems that we've been working on a lot but haven't been getting many of those items completed. Add a crazy work schedule, Halloween, now Thanksgiving, and an early October vacation into the mix and you've got yourself a recipe for blog slackerdom.

However, what we lack in blog posts I'm hoping we've made up for in progress that we'll be sharing over the coming weeks. Most notably we've been finally moving along the long delayed master bathroom cabinets project.

You remember those right? The two cabinets we've been building that will flank the master bathroom vanity?

We've been slowly making some really great project on these babies. This includes a good deal of working to build drawers to help close up four of the glaring holes on the front of the lower section and replacing it with functional storage.

The process is very repetitive but that makes it go more quickly. All four drawers are the same dimension so it was a matter of first cutting and sanding all of the pieces...

...and then assembling them all at once. I just used a little glue and a brad nailer to assemble the 1/2" plywood drawers.

The installation of the drawers on the slides was pretty straight forward. I installed the drawers without the drawer front using a jig clamped to the front of the cabinet. This allowed me to screw the drawers to the slides while it was all in place.

Once the drawers were all set I could then slide them back to a fully closed position, and then make sure the front of the drawer was perfectly position before screwing through from inside of the drawer into the back of the drawer front.

The end result is a pretty nice looking drawer front that will work perfectly with a polished nickel bin pull matching the vanity.

I'm more or less building each of these cabinets as two separate pieces. They both consist of an upper section and a lower section. This will make things easier when it comes to assembly, transportation, painting, and life in general. My foolish younger days would have seen me build it as one giant piece and get it stuck in the basement, but I know better than that now. As a result, I attached the bottom of the upper cabinets right to the upper structure using a bunch of countersunk wood screws.

Next up I constructed and attached the face frame of the upper section of the cabinets using copious amounts of wood glue, biscuits, and clamps.

It felt like such a minor addition to the project but went such a long way to make it feel more like a piece of furniture.

Finally, I applied the finish bead on the upper cabinets as I'd already done on the lower.

After building the cabinet shell they sat along side of our vanity looking like they might one day be decent, but there was clearly something lacking about their overall aesthetic. The most obvious thing missing (aside from things like lower doors, drawers, and paint) was a crown molding embellishment of some sort. Without the crown the two cabinets had a bit of a monolith look to them.

When planning the crown detail we wanted to do something that would fit with the room, but not something to large and top heavy. Primarily, whatever we chose had to look like it belongs in the space with everything else around it.

Due to this detail we took our inspiration from the crown moulding of the room. The crown we've used in each of the second floor rooms except for the hallway is a relatively simple large cove with a bead detail both above and below the primary cove. We both love this crown and feel it's simple enough without distracting from the room.

Based on this design we decided to make our own custom crown for the cabinets that borrowed from these elements. To test out our idea we held up a few scrap pieces of wood that is more or less the gist of what we were going for. Good news for us, we liked the look a lot.

To pull this look off we started with some 1/2" pine stock and used the router to cut an inset round over. Then I ripped these pieces to work as a backer and topper for a simple cove. To get a sense for the size of each piece and where we'd need to rip them we mocked up a small piece of the cove.

The cove I'm using is a plain 1-5/8" pine cove, and it uses the round over pieces as the back and upper boundary.

In order to install crown on a cabinet it's always easier to have a solid backer and upper section that becomes the boundary. Without the upper piece to rest the crown against, it's hard to get the miters to really line up since it's really just floating in space. To remedy this I decided to install the crown as three separate parts on the cabinets.

First I applied the backer piece along the top of the cabinet with a small reveal above the bead.

I then nailed the top piece down from the top, giving myself a good right angle like you'd have with a wall meeting a ceiling. This look alone actually looked very nice, and it seemed like it could stand on its own, but our goal of mimicking the crown was a simple cove step away.

A few quick cuts on the miter saw and a few brad nails later and we had ourselves the custom three part cabinet crown meant for these cabinets.

Looking up from the floor this looks exactly as we'd hoped. Not too top heavy, similar to the larger crown above in the room, and enough ornamentation to give the cabinets a look of furniture.

You can see just how significant this rather small detail is when comparing the complete vs. incomplete cabinets.

All told, this minor detail on the top of the cabinet is a simple embellishment that goes a long way to completing the overall look. It complements the crown moulding of the room and adds just enough decoration to truly set the cabinets apart.

We still need to build the lower door fronts, prime and paint the whole thing, and ultimately build upper glass front doors and upper shelves, but this cabinet train is really moving along now. At this rate we might even have this project done before 2020! Alas, only time will tell.

What do you think of the cabinet crown, does it complete the look of the cabinets? We ca't wait to get this moving along a little further so we can check "build cabinets" off of the master bathroom list. We may be years into it, but we still want to eventually do a grand reveal of our completed bathroom projects. Oh this is the project that will never end, it just goes on and on my friend!

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Nicole Cummings
11/22/2016 at 8:52 AM

Fabulous! You have all the fun toys and vision to accomplish what will undoubtedly be a masterpiece to fit the history of your home. Jealous beyond words. It looks wonderful and I can't wait to see the finished product. Happy Holidays!

I think the promise of more toys is was helps push me to keep building more more more. Alt smile

11/22/2016 at 2:59 PM

Yes, most definitely, the crown is the finishing touch. Nice job! Happy Thanksgiving to you both.

Thank You! And Happy (belated) Thanksgiving to you as well.

11/23/2016 at 7:52 AM

Definitely worth the extra work.
The extra storage will be invaluable but it looks great as well.

11/23/2016 at 11:14 AM

They look AMAZING! Especially love the bead detail around the drawer fronts – it reminds me of English kitchen designers like deVOL Kitchens & Humphrey Munson.

The bead certainly adds a good deal of time to the build, but it does make it look so much more refined. It's my favorite detail of most high end cabinet manufacturers.

11/25/2016 at 7:11 PM

The crown molding really makes the cabinet! I love the combination of pieces.

Two questions..
1. What exactly did you use for the jig used when you attached the drawer slides?

  1. Was the face frame preassembled and then attached with biscuits?

The jig is a quick and simple homemade combination of some back support pieces and a ledge. I could clamp it to the front, make sure it was level, and then it was supported by the two legs. Then I could extend the slides, set the drawer in place, and then screw the slides to the sides of the drawers. Once in place I needed to adjust things on the slides just a little from the inside, but it was a very close fit.

The face frame was fully assembled without the beads and then joined to the cabinet. Once it was all joined, then the beads went on the finish the look.

11/28/2016 at 9:14 AM

Looks fantastic, and once it's finished it will look beautiful next to that vanity.

11/30/2016 at 11:10 AM

Beautiful! I showed my husband your work and all the detail. His commend was, "he does beautiful work, he knows what he is doing." This is from a guy that builds 18th century furniture. He also said you can justify any tool as long as you produce something useful. Looks like you will be able to justify any tool you want. Can't wait to see the finished product.

11/30/2016 at 1:02 PM

Hello - can you share the name of the paint color in this bathroom?

12/30/2016 at 8:06 AM

wow! You made an amazing job. Your cabinet looks really fabulous. This is such an inspiration. Thanks for sharing. Thumbs up!

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Claire WardleWarning: Liveblogging – error, omission and appalling grammar likely

Claire Wardle

Claire was an academic in Cardiff – deputy ethics officer – lots of conflict over journalist wanting to do illegal things in a “good cause”. On to the BBC College – where there were fights about contacting people and using materials from the web.
For her, the important stuff is the soft stuff – no-one is going to die if we do this, but is it right? Lots of journalists think that all information on the web is free for them to use. It’s nonsense that journalists are all lazy and unethical, but there is increasing pressure on them to get the best news possible… The infamous Hudson River plane crash got used for free. People are getting wise to this – and are starting to put contact details on their pictures. We should ask
Arab Spring: Bahrain – DMs on Twitter are being used to threaten people. Activists using social media are targeted in particular. If we don’t look at the darker side, we’re being naive. Protecting sources is not new.
Blagging? Journalists befriending people on Facebook just to get information about them. It’s not right, but it’s not new either. Journalists have always blagged. The BBC has a policy that an open profile is fair game, but one you only have access to through a calculated friending or because you’re in (say) a university network is wrong.
Verification: doesn’t go away just because the social web is there.
Claire ran us through a bunch of challenges, and it became clear that there’s an interesting tension between journalistic misinterpretation of the social web, and users not understanding what they are exposing to the world. When those decisions are made in a pressured news environment, some pretty nasty mistakes can be made.
Karin Robinson

Karin Robinson

Worked on the Obama campaign. Now advises major brands on social media policies. Has a day job and a night job – the night job is campaigning for the Democratic Party. Set up an Obama London blog for SEO purposes.
Sarah Palin “All round fascinating human being” – put up a photo of Gabrielle Giffords in the cross-hairs of a gun prior to the shooting. Karin wrote a blog about this. And then she noticed that the one thing not removed from Palin’s Facebook page comments was about it being good that a child was killed. It got loads of media coverage – but no-one ever contacted her about it from the media. Karin ended up feeling ambivalent because she didn’t think it was that important in the scheme of things.
This issue is about how important people are – Palin, for all her fame, is not in government. Should we hold public officials two higher standards that “ordinary” people. For what level of public good is it OK to use fake identities on social media sites? Context is everything. Karin suggests that the more powerful you are (brand or individual), the higher standard of behaviour is expected of you on social media.
Categories of unethical behaviour:
  • astroturfing – creating fake online grassroots reviewing/feedback. US airforce looked for persona management software to create fake personas on the social web. Why?
  • stolen identities – some brands write auto-posts from services you connect to Facebook as if you wrote it yourself.
  • overreaction- Fouad Mourtada created a fake Facebook profile for the Crown Prince of Morocco – and was arrested and tortured for it. He shouldn’t have done what he did – but the punishment outweighed the crime. The Trafigura case was an example of trying too hard to silence things.
  • spying – US government departments have mentioned that Twitter is hard to get information from – but Facebook is co=operative to requests. The NYPD have a team trawling social media for evidence of crime. Ethical? Probably!
  • inappropriateness – Habitat using an Iran protest hashtag with their marketing promotions. #mousavi. Wrong and stupid.
So – have clear guidelines, reinforce them constantly, follow the Hippocratic principle – and keep some perspective.
Danvers Baillieu
Getting harder for companies to maintain the “halo” of being good/ethical. Ethics and the law are not the same thing. Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 gives a carve-out for news reporting – but specifically excludes photos. The Pigs on the Wing debate about the BBC’s copyright stance… The Act suggests that you have to know you are infringing copyright for it to be criminal. Baillieu thinks that it’s reasonable to use it first and ask the question later, if it’s been pushed to a publishing platform like Twitter. It’s an “implied licence” Doesn’t apply to Facebook photos if you’re murdered, because they were published without that expectation…
Plenty of rules govern advertising, and some specifically make astroturfing a criminal offence. Two year stretch! OFT sys it is never acceptable for traders to prevent to be independent consumers. Still, lots of it is happening, and the chances of getting caught are slim. But it does happen. Are you responsible for comments left on, say, your Facebook wall? Yes, if you Like it or otherwise respond to it.
The “Twitter bomber” saga – the CPS are taking a zero-humour approach. Sean Duffy sent to prison for leaving hostile comments about people who had been in accidents our murder – both prosecuted under the Communications Act 2003 (section 127). Designed for heavy breathers on the phone, pressed into action as an anti-troll law.
Dangers inherent about using people’s social media presence to research them. You can break discrimination act if you do this and discover their race/religion/pregnancy status… Pretending to be someone else for the sole purpose of gathering information is straightforward illegal. Fine or prison.
(Unfortunately I can’t stay for the Q&A – will try to Storify any tweets later or tomorrow)

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13-2021.01 - Assessors

Appraise real and personal property to determine its fair value. May assess taxes in accordance with prescribed schedules.

Sample of reported job titles: Appraiser, Assessor, Commercial Appraiser, County Assessor, Deputy Assessor, Field Appraiser, Personal Property Appraiser, Real Property Appraiser, Residential Appraiser, Tax Assessor

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  • Determine taxability and value of properties, using methods such as field inspection, structural measurement, calculation, sales analysis, market trend studies, and income and expense analysis.
  • Inspect properties, considering factors such as market value, location, and building or replacement costs to determine appraisal value.
  • Explain assessed values to property owners and defend appealed assessments at public hearings.
  • Prepare and maintain current data on each parcel assessed, including maps of boundaries, inventories of land and structures, property characteristics, and any applicable exemptions.
  • Establish uniform and equitable systems for assessing all classes and kinds of property.
  • Inspect new construction and major improvements to existing structures to determine values.
  • Write and submit appraisal and tax reports for public record.
  • Complete and maintain assessment rolls that show the assessed values and status of all property in a municipality.
  • Analyze trends in sales prices, construction costs, and rents, to assess property values or determine the accuracy of assessments.
  • Review information about transfers of property to ensure its accuracy, checking basic information on buyers, sellers, and sales prices and making corrections as necessary.
  • Conduct regular reviews of property within jurisdictions to determine changes in property due to construction or demolition.
  • Maintain familiarity with aspects of local real estate markets.
  • Identify the ownership of each piece of taxable property.
  • Issue notices of assessments and taxes.
  • Approve applications for property tax exemptions or deductions.
  • Calculate tax bills for properties by multiplying assessed values by jurisdiction tax rates.
  • Provide sales analyses to be used for equalization of school aid.
  • Supervise staff members.
  • Serve on assessment review boards.
  • Hire staff members.

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Technology Skills

  • Analytical or scientific software — a la mode WinTOTAL; Compass Municipal Services CAMAlot; Manatron ProVal Plus; Wilson's Computer Applications RealEasy Appraisals (see all 11 examples)
  • Calendar and scheduling software — Govern Software Land and Permits Management System
  • Data base user interface and query software — Ascend Property Assessment; eTrac; Softree Technical Systems Terrain Tools; Visual PAMSPro (see all 11 examples)
  • Financial analysis software — Howard and Friends Computer CMA Plus; RealData Comparative Lease Analysis; REI Wise Commercial; TietoEnator ProMatch (see all 8 examples)
  • Graphics or photo imaging software — Bradford ClickFORMS; Wilson's Computer Applications RealEasy Photos Plus
  • Information retrieval or search software — Online title search and property report software
  • Internet browser software — Web browser software
  • Map creation software — Apex IV Assessor; Emerald Data Deed-Chek; Greenbrier Graphics Deed Plotter; Informatik MapDraw Deed Mapper (see all 7 examples)
  • Office suite software — Microsoft Office
  • Presentation software — Microsoft PowerPoint Hot technology
  • Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel Hot technology
  • Tax preparation software — Manatron MVP Tax
  • Word processing software — Concierge Systems Report Concierge; Microsoft Word; ValueTech Report Builder

Hot technology Hot Technology — a technology requirement frequently included in employer job postings.

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Tools Used

  • Desktop computers
  • Electronic charts or maps or atlases — Appraisal, mapping, and comparison data reporting systems; Electronic maps; Mapping or location-based analysis systems; Real estate mapping and property description systems (see all 7 examples)
  • Laser measuring systems — Handheld distance meters; Laser measuring devices; Ultrasonic distance measurers
  • Notebook computers — Laptop computers
  • Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers — Personal digital assistants PDA

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  • Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
  • Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
  • Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
  • Clerical — Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
  • Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
  • English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
  • Building and Construction — Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
  • Economics and Accounting — Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
  • Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

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  • Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
  • Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
  • Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
  • Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
  • Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
  • Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Mathematics — Using mathematics to solve problems.
  • Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
  • Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
  • Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
  • Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.

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  • Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
  • Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
  • Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
  • Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
  • Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
  • Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
  • Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
  • Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
  • Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
  • Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
  • Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
  • Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
  • Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
  • Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
  • Selective Attention — The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
  • Far Vision — The ability to see details at a distance.

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Work Activities

  • Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
  • Analyzing Data or Information — Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
  • Interacting With Computers — Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
  • Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
  • Performing for or Working Directly with the Public — Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
  • Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
  • Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
  • Processing Information — Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
  • Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
  • Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
  • Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
  • Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
  • Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
  • Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
  • Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
  • Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
  • Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings — Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
  • Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others — Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.
  • Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment — Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or water craft.
  • Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships — Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
  • Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
  • Developing Objectives and Strategies — Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
  • Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

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Detailed Work Activities

  • Appraise property values.
  • Interpret financial information for others.
  • Develop business or financial information systems.
  • Maintain data in information systems or databases.
  • Inform individuals or organizations of status or findings.
  • Prepare financial documents, reports, or budgets.
  • Prepare financial documents.
  • Analyze market conditions or trends.
  • Verify accuracy of records.
  • Evaluate condition of properties.
  • Update professional knowledge.
  • Verify application data to determine program eligibility.
  • Examine financial records.
  • Calculate data to inform organizational operations.
  • Analyze business or financial data.
  • Supervise employees.
  • Administer personnel recruitment or hiring activities.

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Work Context

  • Electronic Mail — 72% responded “Every day.”
  • Face-to-Face Discussions — 67% responded “Every day.”
  • Freedom to Make Decisions — 61% responded “A lot of freedom.”
  • Telephone — 65% responded “Every day.”
  • Contact With Others — 63% responded “Constant contact with others.”
  • Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 48% responded “Extremely important.”
  • Structured versus Unstructured Work — 60% responded “A lot of freedom.”
  • Deal With External Customers — 59% responded “Extremely important.”
  • Frequency of Decision Making — 45% responded “Every day.”
  • Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results — 51% responded “Important results.”
  • Indoors, Environmentally Controlled — 56% responded “Every day.”
  • Work With Work Group or Team — 45% responded “Very important.”
  • Spend Time Sitting — 36% responded “More than half the time.”
  • Importance of Repeating Same Tasks — 33% responded “Extremely important.”
  • In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment — 38% responded “Once a week or more but not every day.”
  • Letters and Memos — 43% responded “Once a week or more but not every day.”
  • Outdoors, Exposed to Weather — 54% responded “Once a week or more but not every day.”
  • Time Pressure — 56% responded “Once a month or more but not every week.”
  • Coordinate or Lead Others — 46% responded “Very important.”
  • Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People — 36% responded “Once a month or more but not every week.”
  • Physical Proximity — 64% responded “Slightly close (e.g., shared office).”

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Job Zone

Title Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
Education Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
Related Experience Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
Job Training Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Job Zone Examples These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, travel guides, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, nannies, and medical assistants.
SVP Range (6.0 to < 7.0)

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Percentage of Respondents
Education Level Required
33   Associate's degree
23   Some college, no degree
21   Post-secondary certificate Help

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Interest code: CEI

  • Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
  • Enterprising — Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.
  • Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

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Work Styles

  • Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
  • Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
  • Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
  • Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
  • Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
  • Cooperation — Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
  • Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
  • Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
  • Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
  • Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
  • Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
  • Achievement/Effort — Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
  • Concern for Others — Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
  • Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
  • Innovation — Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
  • Social Orientation — Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.

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Work Values

  • Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
  • Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
  • Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.

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Wages & Employment Trends

Median wages data collected from Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate.
Employment data collected from Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate.
Industry data collected from Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate.

Median wages (2016) $24.93 hourly, $51,850 annual
State wages Local Salary Info
Employment (2014) 86,000 employees
Projected growth (2014-2024) Average (5% to 8%) Average (5% to 8%)
Projected job openings (2014-2024) 20,500
State trends Employment Trends
Top industries (2014)

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2016 wage data external site and 2014-2024 employment projections external site. "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2014-2024). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.

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