Several local groups are among the businesses, public agencies and universities that will receive $5.6 million to create energy-related jobs and internships, the North Carolina Energy Office announced Tuesday.
The federal stimulus funds will be combined with other private and public dollars to create an internship program worth nearly $8.7 million.
The local recipients include, according to the energy office:
Guilford County government will use one sustainability fellow to assist with energy audits of county buildings, analyze energy audits and recommend savings, perform energy surveys of county buildings, provide training on energy usage for employees, review billing rates of each energy provider, develop training and protocols for facilities employees and write energy-related grants. Grant amount: $40,000. Total project cost: $47,662.
The city of Winston-Salem will use six interns to focus on one of three areas: sustainable architecture, environmental studies and science, or education through a public awareness program. Materials prepared by the interns will become reference materials in the city’s new sustainability resource center and used to respond to questions from the various public sectors. Grant amount: $115,085. Total project cost: $226,285.
Alamance Community College [ACC] proposes to place 40 interns both inside and outside the college. These positions offer practice of classroom knowledge and support for the Green Technology Certificate Program, a 12 credit-hour program to train a green workforce. Grant amount: $339,276. Total project cost: $438,240.
N.C. A&T [State University] will have 13 internships and seven fellowships that will provide experiences in energy-related businesses, industries and agencies in the Piedmont Triad [area]. Grant amount: $149,074. Total project cost: $ 164,913.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
More stenography from the News & Record
(Greensboro, NC) The News & Record regurgitates more government propaganda. Here is a story from the N&R web site, the highlighted portions are plagiarized word-for-word from this press release.
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I'd look up the definition of plagiarize, Roch.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting, John. Are you implying that copying multiple paragraphs word for word without quotation marks is not plagiarism because it is preceded at some point by "according to..."?
ReplyDeleteI would disagree. There is a more honest way to report this kind of stuff.
Plagiarism is a serious charge to make. My dictionary says that plagiarism is writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that is really being presented as our own work. It's a news release and is intended to be used for just this purpose. We attribute it to the energy office. I wish the link had gone to the release instead of the office. I suppose someone could be confused if they don't look very hard.
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ReplyDeleteAgain, pasting multiple paragraphs word for word without quotation marks conceals the fact that the words are not the reporter's and that the facts asserted therein have not been independently substantiated by the reporter -- although they appear to be.
It is possible, as you demonstrate, to make a defense that by some extremely narrow interpretation one can say this is not plagiarism. I think by its common understanding, it is.
What would be the harm in setting a higher standard for your enterprise by telling your staff "When we copy stuff, let's put it in quotation marks or block quotes and make it perfectly clear to our readers that we have copied something from another source because, as journalists respectful of our audience, clarity is an important goal"?
The only reason I can imagine for not doing so would be pure laziness or an intention to hide the fact that many of your stories involve no reporting but are merely transcriptions of government propaganda.