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Myron L Meters is proud to do business with Norkem, Inc. of Ontario, proud owners of the new Ultrapen PT2 pocket pH and temperature tester.

ULTRAPEN PT2 pH and Temperature Pen. Save 10% NOW – Order Online. Advanced features include automatic temperature compensation; highly stable microprocessor-based circuitry; user-intuitive design; and waterproof housing. A true one-handed instrument, the PT2 is easy to calibrate and easy to use. To take a measurement, you simply push a button then dip the pen in solution. Results display in seconds.This instrument is designed to be extremely accurate, fast and simple to use in diverse water quality applications. HIGH PERFORMANCE FEATURES - Accuracy of ±0.01 pH - 1, 2 and 3 Point Calibration - Proprietary Sensor Design - Automatic temperature compensation - Reliable Repeatable Results - Rugged, reliable, shock-resistant fully encapsulated electronics - Durable body constructed of aircraft aluminum - Simple one button function - High capacity N-type battery included - Waterproof ULTRAPEN – PT2  Push Button — turns instrument on; selects mode and unit preferences. Battery Cap — provides access to battery for replacement. Pocket Clip — holds pen to shirt pocket for secure storage. Battery Indicator — indicates charge left in battery. Display — displays measurements, menu options, battery indicator, and firmware revision (during power-up). LED Indicator Light — indicates when to dip instrument in solution, when measurement is in progress, and when to remove instrument from solution. pH Sensor — measures hydrogen ion concentration of solution. Soaker Cap — contains a sponge soaked with pH Sensor Storage solution to maintain sensor hydration. To remove, twist the soaker cap while pulling off. To replace, twist the soaker cap while pushing back on. CAUTION: Do NOT overfill the soaker cap as solution can squirt out while you are pushing the cap back on. Scoop — used to hold sample solution when dipping is not possible. To install, push the scoop onto the sensor while shifting side-to-side. To remove, pull the scoop off while shifting side-to-side. Verify the pH sensor remained fully inserted into the PT2. If not, reinstall per pH Sensor Replacement, p. 5. To use, pour solution into the scoop or hold the scoop directly under a vertical stream to collect sample. Holster — run your belt through the strap in the back of the holster for handsfree portability. Lanyard — attach through hole in top of pocket clip.

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Every day, we invest in developing new technologies to meet industry challenges, from reducing the total cost of producing water to reducing waterborne diseases and to providing environmentally friendly chemicals. We also continue to invest in our people so that they continue to provide the very best value to our customers.

GE partners with world-leading institutions and industry leaders to expand our research and testing capabilities and to develop comprehensive, seamless solutions. GE is at the forefront of wastewater reclamation, treatment, and reuse and we are focused on providing our customers with current solutions that help them save water and energy, and reduce operating costs. GE offers a unique range of solutions and experience across industries such as oil and gas, refining, power, municipal, mining, steel, commercial and institutional, and food and beverage.

Desalination

GE’s Seawater Reverse Osmosis technologies (SeaPRO, SeaPRO-E, SeaTECH, and SeaSMART) are used to remove salt and other dissolved impurities from water through the use of a semi-permeable membrane. Municipalities and industrial facilities use seawater reverse osmosis to make a consistently pure drinking water supply or as a first step in transforming it to high purity water for industrial use. Compared to thermal desalination, GE’s Seawater Reverse Osmosis technologies can reduce electricity costs and associated CO2 emissions on the power grid.

ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

Reverse osmosis desalination plants typically require 53% less energy (7 kWh/m3 water produced) than similarly sized thermal desalination plants (15 kWh/m3 water produced). A customer using GE’s Seawater Reverse Osmosis technologies to desalinate 5,000 m3 of water per day (1,320,000 gallons), could save approximately 14,600 MWh per year, avoiding the annual emission of 8,800 metric tons of CO2 on the U.S. power grid, equivalent to the annual CO2 emissions of 1,700 cars on U.S. roads.

OPERATING BENEFITS

GE’s installed desalination platforms transform more than 1.75 billion gallons a day of water. That’s equal to the daily water required for a variety of uses by more than 39 million people.

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OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU: We, the family at Natures Hydroponics, are committed to bringing you the Hydroponic Indoor Gardening equipment you need to garden successfully. We want to provide you with the convenient, secure shopping experience you deserve.

We will search for new products that will make your gardening experience more successful. In May 2012 we added the California Lightworks LED plant growing lights, SolarStorm and SolarFlare. These LED grow lights are the next generation that have been customized for Vegetation, Flowering and Full Cycle plant growth, with the first 5 watt LED we have seen. 

Our business was established in February, 2009. We have enjoyed working with you, our customers, and hope that we will continue to receive your support. We appreciate the many emails we have received from you regarding our excellent customer service, and we promise to continue. 

We are very happy to announce that Natures Hydroponics, under its parent company of New Dawn Products, has received Accreditation from the Better Business Bureau (BBB). Not every business achieves this distinction, so we very proudly display our BBB Seal, and assure you that we will do everything within our means to continue earning this honor through our service to you, our customers.

NaturesHydroponics.com is not the only website that offers Hydroponic systems, equipment and supplies, and most of our prices are about the same. So what can we offer you immediately and in the future? The lost art of Customer Service! It does still exist and is alive and well at Natures Hydroponics. We will do our best to help make your Hydroponics indoor gardening a success. Yes, it does take more time to give customers great customer service, but aren’t you worth it?

We believe in protecting our environment. Hydroponic systems use considerably less water than soil gardening, needs fewer pesticides, and topsoil erosion is never an issue with Hydroponics. Growing “green” with Hydroponic indoor gardening, and “organic” with Hydroponic organic gardening products, may soon be our only environmental solution to these existing problems. We want to help you become involved with protecting our environment also.

Each Category and Page contains useful information about the Hydroponics products being offered, above and below the Products in most cases. This additional information was added specifically for those many gardeners that are just getting their feet wet, so to speak, in Hydroponic indoor gardening. We hope that this information is a benefit to you.

If you have any ideas about how we can serve you better, or improve our site, please contact us and we will do our best to help.

We do not have a retail store outlet for customer purchasing, so please order your Hydroponics equipment and supplies through our website, or call 623-974-0787 to get your questions answered and place your order over the phone.

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PepsiCo is a world leader in convenient snacks, foods and beverages with revenues of more than $60 billion and over 285,000 employees.

PepsiCo Americas Beverages

Pepsi was founded in 1898 by Caleb Bradham, a New Bern, North Carolina, druggist, who first formulated Pepsi-Cola.

Today, Brand Pepsi is part of a portfolio of beverage brands that includes carbonated soft drinks, juices and juice drinks, ready-to-drink teas and coffee drinks, isotonic sports drinks, bottled water and enhanced waters. PepsiCo Americas Beverages (PAB) has well known brands such as Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade, Tropicana Pure Premium, Aquafina water, Sierra Mist, Mug, Tropicana juice drinks, Propel, SoBe, Slice, Dole, Tropicana Twister and Tropicana Season’s Best.

In 1992 PAB formed a partnership with Thomas J. Lipton Co. to sell ready-to-drink tea brands in the United States. Pepsi-Cola also markets Frappuccino ready-to-drink coffee through a partnership with Starbucks.

Tropicana was founded in 1947 by Anthony Rossi as a Florida fruit packaging business. In 1954 Rossi pioneered a pasteurization process for orange juice. For the first time, consumers could enjoy the fresh taste of pure not-from-concentrate 100% Florida orange juice in a ready-to-serve package. The juice, Tropicana Pure Premium, became the company’s flagship product. PepsiCo acquired Tropicana, including the Dole juice business, in August 1998.

SoBe became a part of PAB in 2001. SoBe manufactures and markets an innovative line of beverages including fruit blends, energy drinks, dairy-based drinks, exotic teas and other beverages with herbal ingredients.

Gatorade thirst quencher sport drinks, was acquired by The Quaker Oats Company in 1983 and became a part of PepsiCo with the merger in 2001. Gatorade is the world’s first isotonic sports drink as is backed by 40 years of science. Created in 1965 by researchers at the University of Florida for the school’s football team, “The Gators,” Gatorade is now the world’s leading sport’s drink.

About Pepsi Beverages Company

Pepsi Beverages Company (PBC) is PepsiCo’s beverage manufacturing, sales and distribution operating unit in the United States, Canada and Mexico. PBC handles approximately 75 percent of PepsiCo’s North America beverage volume. Its diverse portfolio includes some of the world’s most widely recognized beverage brands, including Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist, Aquafina, Gatorade, SoBe, Lipton, and Amp Energy. In many markets, PBC also manufactures and/or distributes non-Pepsi brands, including Dr Pepper, Crush, ROCKSTAR, and Muscle Milk. The operating unit is headquartered in Westchester County, New York and employs approximately 70,000 people.

PepsiCo Americas Foods (PAF) is PepsiCo’s food and snack business in North and South America. Its portfolio of businesses includes Frito-Lay North America, Quaker Foods & Snacks, Sabritas, Gamesa and Latin America Foods.

Frito-Lay North America

In 1932, C.E. Doolin entered a small San Antonio cafe and purchased a bag of corn chips. Little did he dream this savory chip would become one of the nation’s most popular snacks. Mr. Doolin learned that the manufacturer of the chips was eager to sell his small business, so he purchased the recipe, and began to sell FRITOS® Corn Chips from his Model T Ford.

Meanwhile, that same year, Herman W. Lay began his potato chip business in Nashville by delivering snack foods. Not long after, Mr. Lay purchased the manufacturer, and the H.W. Lay & Company was formed. H.W. Lay & Company became one of the largest snack food companies in the Southeast, and LAY’S® brand Potato Chips is still America’s favorite potato chip.

Years later, in 1961, the Frito Company and the H.W. Lay company merged to become Frito-Lay, Inc. Today, Frito-Lay North America makes some of the most popular snacks in the US, including LAY’S® and RUFFLES® potato chips, DORITOS® tortilla chips, TOSTITOS® tortilla chips and dips, CHEETOS® cheese flavored snacks, FRITOS® corn chips, ROLD GOLD® pretzels, SUNCHIPS® multigrain snacks, CRACKER JACK® candy coated popcorn.

Quaker Foods North America

The Quaker Oats Company was formed in 1901 when several American pioneers in oat milling came together to incorporate. In Ravenna, Ohio, Henry D. Seymour and William Heston had established the Quaker Mill Company. The figure of a man in Quaker clothes became the first registered trademark for breakfast cereal and remains the hallmark for Quaker Oats today.

In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, John Stuart and his son, Robert, and their partner, George Douglas, operated the largest cereal mill of the time. Ferdinand Schumacher, known as “The Oatmeal King,” had founded German Mills American Oatmeal Company in 1856.

Combining The Quaker Mill Company with the Stuart and Schumacher businesses brought together the top oats milling expertise in the country as The Quaker Oats Company.

The first major acquisition of the company was Aunt Jemima Mills Company in 1926, which is today the leading manufacturer of pancake mixes and syrup. Gatorade was acquired in 1983.

In 1986, The Quaker Oats Company acquired the Golden Grain Company, producers of Rice-A-Roni. Its brands today include Quaker oatmeal, Life and Cap’n Crunch ready-to-eat cereals, Aunt Jemima mixes and syrups, and Rice-A-Roni, Pasta Roni and Near East side dishes. PepsiCo merged with The Quaker Oats Company in 2001.

Sabritas

Headquartered in Mexico City, Sabritas is a leader in the Mexican snack and fun food market. Founded in 1943, Sabritas is renowned for the quality, variety and flavors of its products, and serves as the umbrella brand under which PepsiCo markets Frito-Lay products in Mexico, such as Cheetos, Fritos, Doritos and Ruffles. It is also the name brand for its own line of potato chips. Additionally, the business manufactures and markets several local brands such as Crujitos, Poffets, Rancheritos and Sabritones. Sabritas controls around 80% of the Mexican snacks market. PepsiCo acquired Sabritas in 1966.

Gamesa

Headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, Gamesa is a global leader in the cookies market, and Mexico’s largest manufacturer of cookies. The company has offered its consumers a wide variety of high-quality products for every lifestyle, producing pastries, oats, cereals and other related products. It has production facilities in five states across Mexico. Among its most successful brands are Marías Gamesa, Emperador, Arcoiris, Mamut, Chokis, and Maizoro. In 1990, it was acquired by PepsiCo.

Latin Americas Foods

The Latin Americas Foods business includes operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. Its portfolio of brands includes global snacks such as Lay’s, Cheetos, Fritos and Doritos, as well as local brands like Lucky snacks in Brazil.

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LBG was founded in 1944 by R.M. (Max) Leggette one of the earliest employees of the Groundwater Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).   He was joined in the 1950’s by M.L. Brashears and Jack Graham, also veteran’s of the USGS.  Early consulting services focused on groundwater development for public supply and industrial growth, as well as mine dewatering projects.  By the mid 1950’s, the firm had taken on its first contamination projects.

For more than half a century, LBG has worked closely with public water suppliers and authorities, private industrial and commercial companies, and government agencies to locate and develop groundwater, to investigate and remediate soil and groundwater problems, and to address a wide range of water-related issues.  To meet our clients’ increasingly complex environmental needs, the firm also offers, comprehensive environmental and civil engineering consulting services.

The firm has grown steadily and services a diverse range of clients with nineteen offices located in fifteen states throughout the country.  To better serve our clients in the southwest, in 1992 the firm acquired William F. Guyton Associates located in Austin and Houston, Texas. LBG-Guyton Associates is a division of LBG.

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Culligan has 70 years experience as a global provider of end-to-end water treatment solutions for a variety of industries—including food and beverage, oil and gas, energy and power, healthcare/hospitals/bio-pharmaceutical, manufacturing and municipal drinking water. From the water used in oil field steam injection, to the high-purity water used in pharmaceutical production—Culligan answers the distinct needs of industrial customers with an individualized approach through on-site surveys, analysis and service.

Culligan knows your individual needs cannot change to suit an “off-the-shelf” water treatment system. This inspired the revolutionary modular platform of Culligan Matrix Solutions, designed to address your particular water treatment concerns within your budget, time frame, and sustainability goals.

Culligan Matrix Solutions flexibility encourages overall improved efficiency:

Reduce maintenance costs with reliable service from certified technicians

Reduce energy costs and consumption with a system designed to your unique needs

Minimize wastewater by reusing gray water

Maximize production time with one of the fastest complete systems to market

For more information view industrial general capabilities brochure.

Learn more about the results Culligan Matrix Solutions can provide your industry:

Food & Beverage Production

Oil & Gas

Energy & Power

Healthcare/Hospitals/Bio-pharmaceutical

Manufacturing

Municipal Drinking Water

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Molecular machinery

Synthetic biology, nanostructures could boost biofuel production

Over the centuries humans have used microorganisms for activities from making wine and beer to baking bread. Common microorganisms like yeast and bacteria can carry out surprisingly complex chemical transformations in the space of a few nanometers. Today, scientists working in the field of synthetic biology are developing methods of modifying and controlling the molecular machinery within these organisms. Their goal is creating nanoscale chemical factories that are more efficient than aditional production methods and can be easily modified and eproduced.One of these eforts, aimed at boosting the efficiencyf biofuel production, is a collaboration between ORNL physicist Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera and Qing Lin, associate professor of chemistry at the University at Bufalo, The State University of New York.

Investigating microcompartments

The pair’s research, begun under a grant from the Keck Foundation, is focused on transplanting the chemical processing capability of nanoscale bacterial structures called microcompartments into a strain of yeast used in commercial biofuel production. “These microcompartments usually have a specialized function associated with cellular metabolism,” Lin says. “The structures act like completely isolated entities—small machines within a big factory,” Fuentes-Cabrera adds. “They take material from the host bacteria, perform various enzyme-catalyzed metabolic reactions, and then release the resulting products into the host organism.”

“For example,” Lin says, “we know that under certain conditions bacteria use microcompartments to convert ethanolamine to acetaldehyde and ammonia for nourishment. By performing this essential metabolic function in a segregated compartment, the bacteria are able to tolerate levels of acetaldehyde which would otherwise be toxic. Because the ethanol production pathway in yeast also involves acetaldehyde, we thought a good way to demonstrate the potential of these microcompartments would be to import them into yeast to boost ethanol production and improve ethanol tolerance. That’s the goal we’re working toward.”

Both researchers note that the ability to engineer these organisms to produce ethanol, propanol or other biofuels hinges on gaining access to the chemical processing capabilities of the nano-sized microcompartments—and that requires understanding how molecules move in and out of these structures.

Understand then modify

Computer simulations may hold the key to understanding the ins and outs of microcompartments. That’s where Fuentes-Cabrera’s primary contribution to the collaboration comes into play. The simulated microcompartments he creates not only improve the general understanding of these structures, but also help Lin’s team determine how to proceed in unlocking their function.

Microcompartments are made of collections of proteins, which include a number of pores. Some researchers suggest that these pores act like “gates” that allow molecules to move in and out; however, they’re not sure what causes the pores to open and close. The gates could be regulated by metabolites—materials produced by the bacterium during digestion and other chemical processes—in reaction to concentrations of these materials within the cell. “That’s what our simulation is helping to determine,” Fuentes-Cabrera says. “There is a lot of speculation as to how metabolites are transported through the microcompartments.” His post-doctoral assistant, Yungok Ihm, is investigating this process by creating a simulation of ions and metabolites passing through the pores in the microcompartments.

Once they understand how molecules are transported in and out of the compartments, Fuentes-Cabrera and Lin plan to turn their attention to understanding other aspects of the structures. Using simulations, Fuentes-Cabrera will investigate the proteins that spontaneously self-assemble into the microcompartments. For his part, Lin will attempt to introduce new enzymes into the interior of the microcompartments to enable the production of ethanol or propanol. “The critical fist step is to determine whether the native metabolic pathway present in these structures can be re-engineered to facilitate the bioethanol production,” Lin says. “First we understand, then we modify,” Fuentes-Cabrera says.

Bacteria to yeast

If the biofuels production capability of microcompartments can be achieved in bacteria, Lin’s goal is to reproduce the same process genetically in yeast used to produce biofuels. Providing yeast with the added metabolic capability of microcompartments could reduce the number of steps involved in the biofuels production process and, therefore, its cost.

However, genetically engineering new qualities into an organism can be problematic. “Often when researchers try to genetically modify an organism to do something that it doesn’t normally do, it dies,” Fuentes-Cabrera says. Despite that note of caution, he and Lin feel they have a good chance of having bacterial microcompartments work in yeast because of their self-contained nature. He explains this optimism by pointing to the fact that all of the engineered metabolic reactions occur within the confines of the microcompartments. “We are more confident of success because we are not interfering with the yeast’s normal metabolic processes,” he says.

So far, the two researchers have been able to express the five compartment-related proteins in yeast. Their assumption is that, once expressed, these proteins should spontaneously assemble themselves into microcompartments—which is what occurs in bacteria. The researchers are now in the process of isolating the potential microcompartments from the yeast in order to study them using transmission electron microscopy. To gain additional molecular-level insight into the protein self-assembly, they are also using simulations to model the interactions among the proteins. “When we have a better understanding of how the proteins interact,” says Fuentes-Cabrera, “we will be able to suggest genetic modifications to facilitate the self-assembly process.”

Biological advantage

Both Fuentes-Cabrera and Lin maintain that biofuel production is just one of many potential applications of this relatively new facet of synthetic biology. They emphasize that one of the goals of the field is to learn from nature and then apply what you have learned to your advantage. “In this case,” Fuentes-Cabrera says, “we are showing that we can harness natural biological processes to provide us with technologies we need. Much of the system we are working with occurs naturally. We didn’t have to invent it. It was already there.”

Lin notes that the biggest advantage of a purely biological approach to biofuel production over those using artificial or manufactured components is the ease with which changes to the system can be implemented. “Because microcompartments are naturally produced by certain microorganisms,” Lin says, “they are part of a genetically encoded system. If we want microcompartments to do other tasks, we can simply modify the genes that control the biological parts in the system and scale up the production by growing more microorganisms. Ramping up production for a new generation of nanomaterials, on the other hand, could be far more difficult.”— Jim Pearce

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DuBois (pronounced dew-boy) is a specialty chemical company that is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since 1920, our specialized representatives sell and service our chemistry, systems, programs, and solutions across the world. We offer products and services in the following sectors:

Process Cleaning and Pretreatment. This sector primarily involves the cleaning of metal and plastic manufactured goods prior to painting and assembly. Specific applications include in-process cleaning and rust inhibition, cleaning and phosphating (the process of putting a coating on metal that improves paint adhesion and retards corrosion), storage rust inhibition, plastic paint pretreatment, paint detackification, rubber to metal bonding, and metal working. Major customers include tier 1 suppliers to the auto industry, fabricated metal producters, industrial machinery, and electrical equipment manufacturers.

Paper Chemicals. This sector supplies cleaning and biological control products and programs to the pulp and paper industry. By combining cleaning expertise with safety-oriented biological control strategies, the Paper Group enhances paper machine performance by minimizing deposits. Major customers include fine paper, newsprint, tissue, paperboard, and pulp mills.

Water Treatment. This sector involves the conditioning of water to protect facility assets such as boilers and cooling towers, and the treatment of waste streams exiting facilities. The typical systems treated are cooling towers < 2000 tons and boilers < 500 HP, although this may vary. Customers include general manufacturing, institutional facilities such as hospitals, hotels, universities, and food processing plants.

Vehicle Cleaning/Industrial Maintenance Products. These sectors include an assortment of applications such as truck, car, and locomotive cleaning, general maintenance cleaning, specialty lubricants (greases and oils) for industrial equipment, asphalt release, and food plant cleaning. Customers include a wide variety of trucking, railroad, auto wash, and manufacturing businesses.

Food Cleaning and Sanitation. DuBois primarily focuses on Open Plant Cleaning (OPC), Clean-in-Place (CIP), and sanitizer applications. Some important innovations include ExteCon extended contact foam and TM Smart Track dry lubrication for conveyors.

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LBCC was established in 1966 as a two-year public college to serve the residents of Linn and Benton counties. Because our students’ needs are so diverse, we offer a variety of educational opportunities including:

• general education courses,
• professional technical training,
• lower-division college transfer courses,
• continuing education classes,
• lifelong learning opportunities,
• distance education,
• credit courses during evening hours and on weekends, so students can earn a degree without having to attend to class on weekdays,
• adult basic education programs, and
• education programs for students with disabilities.

LBCC’s 104-acre Albany campus is just two miles south of Albany, Oregon, and 11 miles east of Corvallis. The campus houses a learning resource center, bookstore, 500-seat theater, library, conference facility, and student lounge/recreation rooms. Dining facilities include a cafeteria, a cafe and a restaurant operated by students in the Culinary Arts program. The original 13 contemporary brick buildings are connected by covered walkways that encircle a landscaped courtyard. Additional buildings include the Periwinkle Child Development Center, the Luckiamute Center, physical education and sports facilities, and a greenhouse. An LBCC horse management facility is located a short 1.5 miles from the main campus.

Student services include career counseling, academic and personal guidance, financial aid and student employment, and student leadership and involvement opportunities. All campus facilities and parking are designed to accommodate the needs of people with disabilities, and public buses provide students with free transportation between LBCC and downtown Albany, Corvallis, Philomath, Lebanon, Sweet Home and other communities in East Linn County.

Our community centers offer a wide variety of credit and non-credit classes in Albany, Corvallis, Lebanon, Sweet Home and other locations throughout the district. Some of these courses are transferable and can be taken for credit; others are non-credit, special interest classes.

In addition, our special services for the community include:

• the Business and Employer Services department, which serves the needs of the business and industrial community;
• the Family Resources and Education departments, where classes, workshops, consultations and other special services help strengthen families;
• the Cooperative Work Experience and Service Learning program, in which students receive practical experience in jobs related to their fields of study; and
• Life and Employment Development, which encompasses the JOBS program and the Turning Point Transitions program.
  

Supported by tuition, local property taxes and state revenue, the college is directed by an elected, seven-member board of education. Linn-Benton Community College has been accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges. Courses are approved by the Oregon State Board of Education, and lower-division courses are approved for transfer to colleges and universities in the Oregon University System. 

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