New from CareerLink

Event Name: Manufacturing 2000: Free Training in Machining
Event Date: Wednesday 4/27/2005
Event Time Start: 1:00:00 PM
Event Time End: 3:00:00 PM
Event Description:
Learn about free machining training program and how to qualify and be accepted into the program.
Location
Pittsburgh/Allegheny Co CareerLink 425 6th Ave, 21st Fl
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Allegheny County
Contact Information
Name: Customer Service
Phone: 412-552-7048
Fax:
Email: workshops@pghcareerlink.org
Sponsor: New Century Careers


Event Name: How to Prepare for Job Fairs
Event Date: Thursday 4/28/2005
Event Time Start: 1:30:00 PM
Event Time End: 2:30:00 PM
Event Description:
This workshop will tell you how to put together an introduction, clarify your goals, review a list of companies attending, and prepare a list of four questions to ask, so that you are able to use your time at a job fair to the greatest advantage.
Location
Pittsburgh/Allegheny Co CareerLink 425 6th Ave., 21st Fl Conf Rm
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Allegheny County
Contact Information
Name: Customer Service
Phone: 412-552-7048
Fax:
Email: workshops@pghcareerlink.org
Sponsor: Pittsburgh Partnership RESET Program
Registration Information
Attendees must register for this event.
Fee: None
Registration Information
Attendees must register for this event.
Fee: None

what to do? what to do....?

Computer Basics and the Internet Wednesdays, 6 Weeks. Computer basics designed for new users or users who are out of practice. Mouse skills, intro to Windows 98, customizing your desktop and computer system, accessing programs, managing files, understanding computer technology and how computers work, intro to keyboard, using Windows accessories. The internet skills is designed for users who want to become confident Internet surfers. Netscape toolbars, three ways to search, online treasure hunt, Internet terminology, email accounts multi-tasking, copying images to desktop. We’ll teach you everything you need to know. Then you’ll get good at it through old-fashioned practice. You must be registered and available for those 6 days. No make up classes are available. Cost is $20 ($10 if person is unemployed and registered with CareerLink, price covers all sessions and is non-refundable, payable first day of class	Tuesday 4/26/2005
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES JOB FAIR A variety of employers want to meet you!! Bring copies of your resume and network with employers. Come dressed and prepared for an interview.	Tuesday 4/26/2005
INTRODUCTION TO WORD PROCESSING Learn basic word processing using Microsoft Word.	Tuesday 4/26/2005
WORD Tuesdays, 4 weeks. Learn the basics of WORD and word processing applications. Must be pre-registered. Cost is $20 ($10 if the person is unemployed and registered with CareerLink, price covers all sessions and is non-refundable, payable first day of class.	Tuesday 4/26/2005
COMPUTER BASICS AND THE INTERNET Tuesdays, 6 Weeks. Computer basics designed for new users or users who are out of practice. Mouse skills, intro to Windows 98, customizing your desktop and computer system, accessing programs, managing files, understanding computer technology and how computers work, intro to keyboard, using Windows accessories. The internet skills is designed for users who want to become confident Internet surfers. Netscape toolbars, three ways to search, online treasure hunt, Internet terminology, email accounts multi-tasking, copying images to desktop. We’ll teach you everything you need to know. Then you’ll get good at it through old-fashioned practice. You must be registered and available for those 6 days. No make up classes are available. ($10 if person is unemployed and registered with CareerLink, price covers all sessions and is non-refundable, payable first day of class	Wednesday 4/27/2005
FINANCIAL AID WORKSHOP Discuss federal and state student loans and grants to attend school.

not work related

ok, ok.
maybe it was the pain meds i was taking last night or maybe i've gone soft in the head as of late (or both) but...
i realized that by the end of this tv show, i had the widest, silliest grin on my face and, and...
a really good feeling inside about people, service and relationships....
just thought you should know.

j

IVY LEAGUE at DollarTree prices!!

The March 2005 MIT OpenCourseWare Update Contains:
1. New Courses Published
2. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
3. Utah State University OCW
4. A Frequently Asked Question
5. Comments
6. Newsletter Available Online


1. New Courses Published
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MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) is pleased to
announce that 175 new courses will be published over the course of
the next month, which will push the total number of courses available
at http://ocw.mit.edu to almost 1100.

This Spring 2005 publication represents a significant achievement for
people across the Institute who worked with the MIT OCW Team over the
last six months, including the MIT Libraries, MIT's department heads,
and most importantly, MIT's remarkable faculty. Close to two-thirds
of MIT's faculty have now voluntarily participated in MIT OCW, and we
know that MIT OCW would not be succeeding were it not for the
faculty's dedication to MIT's institutional mission and belief in the
promise of openly sharing their materials through OpenCourseWare.

noblisse oblige- the noble must serve!

Educational mentor

Holy Family is seeking mentors for an educational mentoring program, which serves children in our residential care in grades 4-8. Mentors will combine education support with one-on-one mentoring with a child to whom a volunteer will be matched. Our staff will provide all tutoring materials.
Holy Family asks that vounteers commit to maintaining weekly contact with the child.



Last updated: April 12, 2005

Who can volunteer for this:
Both sexes
Adults, Seniors
Languages:
English
Organization:
Holy Family Institute
Area of Focus:
Children and Youth, Education, Health, Mental
Location:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15202,
United States
Contact Person:
Nicole Nalevanko
Phone:
412-766-9020 X336
Fax:
412-766-5434

"Seven Blunders of the World" by Mahatma Gandhi

"Seven Blunders of the World" by Mahatma Gandhi
"Seven Blunders of the World"

1. Wealth without work

2. Pleasure without conscience

3. Knowledge without character

4. Commerce without morality

5. Science without humanity

6. Worship without sacrifice

7. Politics without principle

—Mahatma Gandhi

get to stepping....

(this is a great opportunity for someone..give Scott a call)

Dear all,

If anyone knows somebody who would be interested in a part-time, temporary
instructor's position, please let me know. I need someone willing to
contract for 20-30 hours per week. Instruction would include Data Entry, MS
Word, Internet, Filing and Keyboarding. I can pay as much as $17 per hour.
This position may possibly become a permanent, full-time position within the
next month or so. For now, it would be a week-to-week contract.

Thanks,

Scott A. Albert

Senior Training Specialist
YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh
305 Wood Street
Pittsburgh, Pa 15222
412-255-1163

Le Mond/the World

* Turkey: NGO report on BP's Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline raises human rights concerns (BP response provided)
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/522973

* Increasing access to essential medicines in developing countries: UK Govt. launches framework for good practice in pharmaceutical industry, with input from companies including GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Merck, Pfizer
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/862213

* Global coalition of 83 NGOs & social investors makes recommendations on business & human rights to UN Commission on Human Rights
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/35831

nonProfits Work

Nonprofits Crucial to North Carolina Economy
Asheville Citizen-Times
A study in Western North Carolina has tracked the impact of nonprofits on the region�s development. The results: nonprofits are a critical sector in the state economy. Already, nonprofits employ more people than construction, professional and business services, and finance or information services. Nonprofit leaders hope the findings will help dispel the outmoded image of nonprofits as entities with perpetually outstretched hands.
more...

GOODWILL of PITTSBURGH - Job Fair

Goodwill Industries of Pittsburgh is an equal opportunity employer.

JOB FAIR

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 -
A variety of local employers will have the opportunity to meet
hundreds of motivated and prepared job seekers.
Attached are details, instructions and forms
for reserving tables and ad space.

For more information, please call Tim Smith at 412-390-2208 or
email: tsmith@goodwillpitt.org

from the Desk of Donna Little

Hello, Friends -
Attached is information about the UPMC Health Plan Rainbow Kitchen Community Services W.A.R. (Walk And Ride) Against Hunger. This is a walk and bicycle-ride fundraising event, to be held on the beautiful Yough River Trail on April 30th. Please join us if
you can, and also help us to get the word out by forwarding this information to everyone you know who might be interested.

Thank you!
Donna

Donna Little
Executive Director
Rainbow Kitchen Community Services
135 East 9th Avenue
Homestead, PA 15120
412-464-1892 phone
412-464-1069 fax

April 30th - Rainbow Kitchen Walk & Ride

This event is sponsored by Rainbow Kitchen. The Rainbow Kitchen is having a Walk and Ride (W.A.R.) to raise money to fight hunger. The date is April 30, 2005, on the Yough Trail. For more information call: (412) 464-1892.

Event Day: Saturday, April 30th
Location: Yough River Trail
Cost: For more information, call: (412) 464-1892.

A Bold Venture:

Creating an 'Electronic Town Square' with Blogs
Ellen Simon AP Technology Writer

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) --

It's a journalist's job to ask questions, but they're usually aimed at outsiders.

At the News & Record, a 93,000-daily circulation newspaper in Greensboro, reporters and editors are asking tough questions about the paper itself.

The biggest questions: If the paper needs to change to survive, what changes should be made? What can it do, especially online, to make itself the electronic equivalent of a town square?

Seeking the answers, the paper has launched an audacious online experiment.

The News & Record's Web site features 11 staff-written Web journals, or blogs, including one by the editor that answers readers' questions, addresses their criticisms and discusses how the paper is run.

MORE...

parts is parts!

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Kids in the Thrall
by Anya Kamenetz

Congress defeats a minimum-wage increase, but at an indie coffeehouse in Brooklyn unionized employees are getting what they deserve.

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All PART Of The Game
Gary Bass and Adam Hughes

The Program Assessment Rating Tool, or PART, is a system in the President's Management Agenda that's supposed to be used to evaluate a program's effectiveness so decisions about expansion and funding can be more accurate.
But a little digging reveals that Fiscal Year 2006 budget cuts were made based on ideology—not on a measured, objective system. Gary Bass and Adam Hughes of OMB Watch explain.
Gary Bass is executive director and Adam Hughes is budget policy analyst at OMB
Watch, a nonpartisan government-watchdog organization in Washington, D.C.

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Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young
The Blue-Blood Revolution
A movement to help the poorest students grows—at the Ivies
by Anya Kamenetz

You've probably never heard of Gateway Community-Technical College. The fastest-growing of Connecticut's colleges, it occupies a former factory building on New Haven's waterfront but is due to move to a new downtown location next year. Thirty-seven percent of Gateway's 7,391 for-credit students rely on need-based grants from the federal and state government and the school itself, to fund nearly all their direct educational expenses.
Eighty-eight percent of the students work, 38 percent full-time, and most are quietly chipping away at a part-time course load, stretching their enrollment out over many years. The average student is a 29-year-old, white, single working mother.

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Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young
Borrow More Now! Pay More Later!
by Anya Kamenetz

The Greatest Generation had the G.I. Bill to pay for college. Baby Boomers got the Pell Grant program in the 1970s, and back then it paid for an average of 50 percent of a public university education, compared to 25 percent today.
Students these days are supposed to be grateful that Bush's new budget will allow them to borrow even more, raising the annual limit on federal student loans from $2,625 to $3,500 for freshmen.

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Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young
Feeling a Draft?
Poor kids of color fight the Pentagon
by Anya Kamenetz

Chris Dugan, 27, signed up for his future hitch in the marines while still in high school. "I wanted to be hard and serve my country," he says. "My grandfather was a marine." Dugan was lucky enough to serve in peacetime, from 1995 to 1999. Included was a short stint as a recruiter for high schoolers like himself, patriotic working-class kids without a lot of options to pay for college, get job training, or find work.

from the desk of Mark Rauterkaus

Hi All,

You, your friends and famiily are invited to a community concert and
rally at 7 pm on Thursday, April 7, 2005, at the 10th Street Holiday
Inn Express on the South Side.

The guest singer / songwritter is a wonderful performer, Johnsmith.
His tune, "Don't Put Me In a Box" makes a great title track that fits
well with my perspective in the campaign for Pennsylvania Senate as a
Libertarian.

http://www.Johnsmithmusic.com

The venue, with onsite parking, is on the South Side between the 10th
Street Bridge and the Oliver Bath House.

Thanks for the consideration.


Ta.

Mark Rauterkus Mark@Rauterkus.com
http://Elect.Rauterkus.com
412 298 3432 = cell
Candidate for PA Senate (42nd district) in the special election.
Vote on May 17, 2005.

from the desk of Lynette Taylor-Criego

Subject:
The fundamental purpose of Kappa Alpha Psi is ACHIEVEMENT!

To that end, your Pittsburgh Alumni Chapter is in need of your assistance. We
have the opportunity to impact the lives of several Black young men in our
community by soliciting their participation in our scholarship Programs.

This year in addition to our monetary awards, we will offer 2 full tuition/four
year scholarships to Black men interested in attending Robert Morris University.
Each scholarship valued at over 15K annually, over four years that is more than
$120,000.

We must be aggressive in our pursuit of qualified applicants! Which is where
you come in. We are asking you to distribute the attached scholarship
application to as many Black families and organizations as possible. We must
identify at least two candidates that meet the requirements of at least a 3.7
GPA.

Some strategies we are asking you to employ:

1. Forward the application to your church secretary for distribution and
publication in your church bulletin or bulletin board.

2. Contact your local high schools and talk to the principal about identifying
high achieving black men in your alumni school and forward the application.

3. Contact your relatives and friends that have high achieving sons and forward
the application to them.

4. Share the application with co-workers that have sons that are planning to
attend college.

Spread the word, the Nupes are making access to a university degree that much
easier for young black men in our community.

Lynnette Taylor-Criego
Director, Placement Services
Bidwell Training Center
1815 Metropolitan Street

this worries me...

Undoing the Worrying Habit

Once acquired, the habit of worrying seems hard to stop. We're raised to worry and aren't considered "grown up" until we perfect the art. Teenagers are told: "you'd better start worrying about your future". If your worries (over "adult" matters – job, finances, etc) aren't at least as frequent as your bowel movements, you're seen as irresponsible, childish, aimless. That's a "responsible adult" game rule.

To the extent that worrying is learned/conditioned behaviour, it can be undone. There are psychological gimmicks for undoing the worry habit. There are also obstacles.

Obstacle 1: Happiness Negation....
http://www.anxietyculture.com/worry.htm

life has new meming..?

Meme: an information pattern, held in an individual's memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual's memory.

Memetics: the theoretical and empirical science that studies the replication, spread and evolution of memes.

Cultural evolution, including the evolution of knowledge, can be modelled through the same basic principles of variation and selection that underly biological evolution.

This implies a shift from genes as units of biological information to a new type of units of cultural information: memes.

no tube for you!

NO LIFE SUPPORT FOR YOU
Brian Montopoli, CJR Daily.
The media coverage of the Schiavo case doesn't
include one important detail: a Texas law that
authorizes health care providers to remove their
patients from life support. Guess who signed it
into law?
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/21571/

FROM THE DESK OF Andrew Cheeseboro - Financial Literacy Seminar

Andrew Cheeseboro
Director of Employment & Training
Urban League of Pittsburgh
One Smithfield Street, 3rd Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2222
412.227.4164 (P)
412.227.4171 (F)
acheeseboro@ulpgh.org
United Way Code # 103

Join us for our World-class Financial Literacy Seminar:
INVESTING FOR SUCCESS
APRIL 21 FROM 6 PM UNTIL 9 PM
To receive an invitation, leave your name and address at 412.227.4233

The Urban League of Pittsburgh: Empowering Communities - Changing Lives -
Learn more at www.ulpgh.org

support for our workers in the field

The Human Services Workforce Initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation is the first national effort to address the critical condition of the workforce that helps care for America's most disadvantaged children and families.
The initiative highlights the urgent need to recruit and retain workers who have the appropriate training and support to make crucial decisions that affect families. Through its extensive experience in the field, the Casey Foundation has found that a stable, prepared and motivated human services workforce yields real reform and better results for children and families.