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This report represents research on the UBC Food System sustainability project for the Land, Food and Community III class within the faculty of Land and Food Systems. Since 2002, this project has generated a multitude of research reports and campus sustainability initiatives without having a system to track its progression in achieving greater or lesser sustainability. This Community Based Action Research project was given the specific task of mapping this progress from pre-determined indicators that attempt to measure its subsystems’ and overall past and current status regarding sustainability. These subsystems include the UBC Food Services, Alma Mater Society, UBC Farm and UBC Waste Management. Benchmarks were then created as future goals for which the UBC food system− and its components− will strive to attain. These benchmarks were integrated into a model which acts as a ‘visual framework’ to portray the general vision of a sustainable UBC food system and secondly to document and evaluate the projects progress. It was determined that the two purposes of the model would be best embodied by two distinct representations. Borromean Rings, portraying the general vision can serve as an educational tool and an amoeba graph as a managerial one. The findings revealed that out of 31 indicators, 16 were preliminary benchmarked. The remaining 15 could not be benchmarked either because the data is not available or because the indicator itself needed to be re-assessed altogether. It was concluded that the benchmarking process would be more efficient if indicators were developed through a specific set of criteria before being benchmarked. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”

Human services integration attempts to improve the availability and effective delivery of services to clients who require the attentions of more than one service provider. Services integration is an issue of concern to many state governments, and has been attempted through a variety of mechanisms. Public education has typically been excluded from the human services integration movement. Although education is set apart from other human services by the comparatively large size of its state-supported budget and by its relatively autonomous administration, there are, nevertheless, significant commonalities in services provided by education agencies and other human service agencies. It is these service commonalities which warrant consideration of integration of services provided by education agencies with those of other human service agencies. The purpose of this study was two-fold: first, to develop a situational framework for analysis of the feasibility and appropriate design for human services integration; and second, to recommend a new and appropriate role for the Maryland State Department of Education, in concert with other Maryland human service agencies, directed toward the integration of State human services. Four research procedures were undertaken for accomplishing the study objectives. A review of the literature consisted chiefly of study of the experiences of other states with human services integration projects. This part of the study resulted in the development of a set of indicators to suggest the likelihood that a particular attempt to bring about services integration would or would not succeed. Information on the various mechanisms which have been used in attempts to bring about human services integration was also provided, and led to the development of a scale of possible structural and procedural mechanisms. These two classification schemes became the foundation for the situational framework which was used to analyze State human service agencies in Maryland and their social, political, and economic environment. Review of selected Maryland State documents provided the primary source of information on the organizational arrangements, missions, operational programs, and linkages of state human service agencies. A secondary source of information on the same topics was provided through the researcher's role as participant observor in Maryland State government. Validation of the material gathered and assembled from State documents and from participant observation was pr6vdded through a set of interviews with five State agency administrators and planners. The second set of interviews with these officials elicited professional judgment on desirable and feasible types of integration of the services of the Maryland State Department of Education with those of other State human service agencies. Both sets of interviews provided information for revision of the framework constructed from the review of the literature and Maryland State documents. Finally, conclusions of the study were formulated. Recommendations were provided for the development of services integration in Maryland and for the conduct of further study. Doctor of Education

A collection of folklore and local history stories from Dundalk (Mercy Convent) (school) (Dundalk, Co. Louth), collected as part of the Schools' Folklore Scheme, 1937-1938 under the supervision of teacher Sr. Pól., Herbs / Gee, Eleanor Mc -- Herbs / Durkan, Julia -- Herbs / Gernon, Mena -- Herbs / Gollogley, Bridie -- Herbs / Cumiskey, Hetty -- Local Heroes / Keown, Josie Mc -- Local Heroes / Durkan, Julia -- Local Heroes / Muckian, Peggy -- Bird-Lore / Wilson, Maureen -- Bird-Lore / Gee, Eleanor Mc -- Bird-Lore / Keown, Josie Mc -- Bird-Lore / Leech, Iris -- Bird-Lore / Dardis, Kathleen -- Local Happenings / Gernon, Mena -- Local Happenings / Ardle, Mona Mc -- Churning / Gee, Eleanor Mc -- Churning / Cumiskey, Hetty -- Local Cures / Wilson, Maureen -- Local Cures / Gee, Eleanor Mc -- Weather-Lore / Gee, Eleanor Mc -- Weather-Lore / Gernon, Mena -- Weather-Lore / Keown, Josie Mc -- Fairy Forts / Keown, Josie Mc -- Local Ruins / Gernon, Mena -- Local Ruins / Keown, Josie Mc -- Old Graveyards / Dardis, Kathleen -- Old Graveyards / Durkan, Julia -- Old Graveyards / Gee, Eleanor Mc, Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.

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