Comments on: Whatever You Are, Be A Good One http://www.theputnamscoop.com/whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one/ Putnam County, The Entire Kanawha Valley & Us Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:41:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Buffy http://www.theputnamscoop.com/whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one/#comment-2753 Buffy Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:25:43 +0000 http://www.theputnamscoop.com/whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one/#comment-2753 I'm loving these WV Day posts. :) I’m loving these WV Day posts. :)

]]> By: Jim Lee http://www.theputnamscoop.com/whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one/#comment-2751 Jim Lee Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:15:13 +0000 http://www.theputnamscoop.com/whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one/#comment-2751 People often have the same impressions of east Tennessee. After I point out we have a new Spallation Neutron Source accelerator-based neutron-scattering facility, one of the 5 fastest supercomputers in the world, and the Lady Vols championship basketball team as well as throw in a few local job openings: "A postdoctoral position is available in the Bioenergy Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) http://www.ornl.gov for an individual with training in computational microbial genomics, proteomics and/or metabolomics." they usually become pretty quickly disabused of that preception. ;-> People often have the same impressions of east Tennessee.

After I point out we have a new Spallation Neutron Source accelerator-based neutron-scattering facility, one of the 5 fastest supercomputers in the world, and the Lady Vols championship basketball team as well as throw in a few local job openings:

“A postdoctoral position is available in the Bioenergy Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) http://www.ornl.gov for an individual with training in computational microbial genomics, proteomics and/or metabolomics.”

they usually become pretty quickly disabused of that preception. ;->

]]> By: rebecca http://www.theputnamscoop.com/whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one/#comment-2710 rebecca Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:44:45 +0000 http://www.theputnamscoop.com/whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one/#comment-2710 Great post, Sarah! Great post, Sarah!

]]> By: Todd Beane http://www.theputnamscoop.com/whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one/#comment-2705 Todd Beane Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:42:17 +0000 http://www.theputnamscoop.com/whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one/#comment-2705 Great post Sarah. Glad you are involved with changing the perception of West Virginia! Great post Sarah. Glad you are involved with changing the perception of West Virginia!

]]> By: Susan http://www.theputnamscoop.com/whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one/#comment-2695 Susan Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:53:53 +0000 http://www.theputnamscoop.com/whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one/#comment-2695 What you wrote is so true. We, as individuals, are always representing someone or something else, when we interact with others. It could be our employer, our parents, our children. We should keep in mind that we are also representing West Virginia and how we present ourselves does a lot in combatting the negative images "outsiders" have formed - maybe you are the first taste of West Virginia they have ever received. When we travel outside the state, Ron always wears a WVU shirt. He is proud to be from this state and proud to be a mountaineer. We meet all kinds of people that way - it's a great conversation starter. We meet people who have been forced to move, folks who also live in the state, and others who maybe made a stop here once and they tell us how beautiful and friendly West Virginia is. Good advice, Sarah!! What you wrote is so true. We, as individuals, are always representing someone or something else, when we interact with others. It could be our employer, our parents, our children. We should keep in mind that we are also representing West Virginia and how we present ourselves does a lot in combatting the negative images “outsiders” have formed - maybe you are the first taste of West Virginia they have ever received.

When we travel outside the state, Ron always wears a WVU shirt. He is proud to be from this state and proud to be a mountaineer. We meet all kinds of people that way - it’s a great conversation starter. We meet people who have been forced to move, folks who also live in the state, and others who maybe made a stop here once and they tell us how beautiful and friendly West Virginia is.

Good advice, Sarah!!

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