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The City of Alexandria is seeking public comment on a proposal to rename the Braddock Field at George Washington Park, located at 1005 Mt. Vernon Ave., Lenny Harris Field (intersection of E. Braddock Rd. & Mt. Vernon Ave.). The proposal was forwarded by the Lenny Harris Legacy Corporation.
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I reported it to mine and I think they called the other insurance...
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What skills should future graduates possess ?
Revolutionizing higher education system, changing the paradigm, graduate skills gap, no doubt uber minds of this world are in Financial sector and responsible for GFC - moralizing, multiculturalism, technology, sustainability, et cetera, these are some of the hot topics. So how about we ask the same question that was asked in 19th Century during which the schooling system was build: What skills should future graduates posses as a responsible citizen and also as a drivers of the economy ? Answering this question might help us design the next generation of education system, what do you think ?
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Sep 16 2011: A partial list:
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History (of ideas, not war)
Any practical skill (making something ... anything)
"Life Skills" - budgeting, diet, exercise.
Professional Skills (How to do a job.)
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Learning how to learn.
Chris Aldon
Sep 13 2011: The ability to ask good questions.
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Sep 16 2011: What do you mean by that?Sep 17 2011: I think more important that asking good questions is the ability to recognize and understand good questions, to make sure you're solving the real problem, to know how or where to look for the answers, and how to explain your solution.
Sep 19 2011: How can anyone determine whether a question is good or bad? a question might make a very much sense to someone but for other could be senseless. Each and every question is important according to individual perspective and level of curosity.
Sep 19 2011: Well said.....there is saying like below"
There is no dumb questions only answer can be dumb..."
Chris Aldon
Sep 19 2011: There are such things as bad questions.
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Loaded questions
asking polar questions when more explanation is needed.
Think about Math class.
"What's the answer to number one?"
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"How do you do number one?"Sep 20 2011: "How can anyone determine whether a question is good or bad?"
Good question! :-) Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Some questions present false dichotomies: "Should I choose A or B?" The correct solution may be both or neither. Some questions are red herrings. Determining their answer many not have any influence on the next step to take. Some questions fail to get to the root of the problem: "How do I fix X?" It may be better to ask, "Why did X happen?" And sometimes a question is ambiguous so that you answer what was asked, but not what was intended.Sep 24 2011: The examples of "bad questions" given above seem fall into the category of various "logical fallacies". "Loaded question" or "questions with false dichotomies" are examples of lack of understanding in logic and/or argument. Asking good question implies understanding the context, knowing what should have been known in the context (and hence would not ask question with obvious answer) and genuinely asking a question from an angle previously has not been taken.
Not all questions are good question. But is the ability to ask good questions THE most important attribute of future citizens? While asking a good question is a good step, the ability to solve problem is more important - just my opinion.Sep 19 2011: Yes I agree, ability to constantly ask questions and creative and analytical thinking skills.
Steve Rosos
Sep 19 2011: How do you qualify a "good" question?
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The definition of a question is an interrogative statement intended to obtain knowledge. To me, a "good" question is one which not only enhances an individual's understanding of any subject, but triggers a chain reaction of exploratory thoughts in the minds of others, leading to higher dimensions of thought, information exchange, and problem solving strategies within a collective.
One of my favorite quotes, origin long forgotten, is the only "bad" or "foolish" question is the one NOT asked.....
Chris Aldon
Sep 19 2011: I was in argumentation class the other day and during a lecture a student raised his hand, the professor paused and said "question?"
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The kid replies "No it's a dumb question never mind."
The professor said, "no such thing as a dumb question"
The kid said "how do you draw a seahorse?"
Not a good question.
Sep 19 2011: Here the things are going out of the way a bit, we are talking about GRADUATES and the skills what they need to possess as a responsible citizen and also as a drivers of the economy, in that case it can be assumed they will be having enough maturity level to ask questions that actaually makes sense!!!Sep 20 2011: @Christopher agree with you. Usually kids with their all beautiful curiosity comes up with brilliant questions, diffficult question for us as adult to answer. But as they grow up or we grew up to our adulthood lost that questioning skill because different socio-psychological reason....
That's why to encourage adults (as up to some age kids automatically ask) to ask questions that saying came "All questions are good"In my professional life I do encourage my team to do so.....doing so definitely every now and then come across question which are really not good some are just question for question sake ,some are irrelavant to the topic etc....
Just sharing an age old folk joke of my culture & country
Once one very shy guy got married. He was very shy to talk anyone. Well after marriage as custom he was going to his in law place, where again as part of custom he was supposed to had dinner with his father in law every night.The mother of the groom was a bit nervous that her son could be percieved as dumb or not smart enough as he does not talk being shy which a mother would never can accept her kid to be a dumb.
Mother repeatedly told her son before the travel that he should talk at dinner table with his father in law. The guy asked his mother how can I start a talk, what to talk? Mother thought a bit then gave a tip "ok you find any subject to talk then start by asking question".
At dinner table , the shy guy in front of his father in law got more nervous. Remembering his mother's repeated advice .......so finally he asked his father in law his first question....."Are you married?"
Note : In our culture still today no one can have a socially accepte kid without marriage for whom they can arrange marraige in a socially accepted way
How was that question then ? Irrelavent ? Good? Bad? Dumb? any thoughts from anyone is welcomeSep 21 2011: Thats a great story! Brings to light a key element: an atmosphere of humor dramatically enhances the effectiveness, involvement, and engages interest in any group discussing any subject.
There are several brilliant anecdotes like this incorporated in Sir Ken Robinson's TED talks, I strongly encourage everyone to view his outstanding TED talks here.Sep 24 2011: Hi Steve , thanks for your compliment. Agree with you humor, wit, story in the right frequency etc not only facilitate immediate effective communication but also ensure longer storage in memory for future application of learning , if there was any. Well that's my feeling only.Sep 19 2011: agree!!!Sep 22 2011: One I don't know the answer to :)Sep 23 2011: I cannot emphasize this enough. Being a student myself, I find that too many of my peers fail to articulate their questions in efficient ways. In fact, most of them don't even want to ask questions. Willfull ignorance is a poisonous evil that, unfortunately, is alarmingly common among todays youth.
Steve Rosos
Sep 19 2011: The answer to your question is EXTREMELY well articulated by Sir Ken Robinson, and one need go further than his TED talks or outstanding literary achievement in his ground-breaking book, The Element. Sir Robinson's ideas represent the high watermark for me as the most gifted, insightful, and inspired thinking on this subject. I encourage all to review his work, as well as that of Jamais Cascio, whose own website contains an awe inspiring array of insights addressing this issue. Their work and ideas are astonishingly important and articulate, and offer manifold ways of utterly revolutionizing and improving all levels of education WITHOUT spending billions of dollars, wasting time and human talent taking years to implement. My friend and colleague Namit Yadev (www.namityadev.com) has already launched components of achieving things like this, exemplified by his theory of teaching high level mathematics to Kindergarten through fifth grade level students (who arent yet conditioned to be self-limiting by fear of failure by the industrial revolution modeled production assembly line batch method of American public education, which can serve best as a perfect model of disgraceful failure and waste of (human) resources and potential) with his web site www.mathzee.com.
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There is so much hope for the future IF we expedite the rendering of failing current models of public education into the fossil record as expediently as possible, and I maintain a very strong optimistic view for the future IF everyone focuses on methods to cultivate the diverse multifaceted talents of individual human beings, instead of churning out "batches" of children, where those with exceptional talents go undeveloped because of lack of challenge and those others on the other side of the bell curve who deserve much more encouragement and attention to develop their skills, instead of lowering standards just to pass them along. I hope many others begin to see it from a humanistic, not a fiscal, perspective.
Kent Spencer
Sep 17 2011: Computer skills!
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Sep 19 2011: Suggest a rephrase: "technological literacy"...
Given the exponential growth factor in computer power, and the just-around-the-corner explosive potential of the maturation of the presently embryonic brain-computer interfacing technologies, artificial intelligence (virtual sentience), and the limitless possibilities occuring from the advent of nanotechnologies and biomimemics, a new paradigm of human capacity is mandatory to exploit these things for the collective betterment of humankind.
The current trend of apathy generated by a society dominated by smartphone owners that make pancakes for them is a giant red flag, as is a youth obsessed with destruction-obsessed first person "shooter" games, technology debased into brain-stem thinkers obsessed with the current status quo trend of mindless product peddling, gadget and profit infatuation, and worst of all the continuance (and evolution) of us versus them thinking, xenophobia, aggression, war, violence,etc.
Sep 19 2011: limitless indulgence in anything leads to dangerous consequences. in this case its technological literacy.... smartphones, tablets, twitter, fb...... list is never ending. its a vicious circle
jan kinner
Sep 16 2011: Two critical skills:
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1. Critical Thinking (students simply accept internet content and media content as factual...they don't know how to think)
2. Problem Solving (it is amazing how few graduates have been taught ANY problem solving methodology)
Julian V
Sep 20 2011: Agreed, and to add to that, the ability to know and want to know why something is the way it is rather than simply accepting that it is.Sep 20 2011: True. Critical thinking is an art: how to probe at problems and derive your own conclusions to test, rather than accepting "textbook" answers as there are.
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Thomas Jones
Sep 22 2011: Mandarin
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Sep 24 2011: I would argue that future citizen should be fluent in at least 3 natural languages (human languages) and at least one artificial language (computer language).
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Sep 21 2011: i think the ability to ask questions is more important than ability to ask good questions.
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Sep 23 2011: agree!!! :)Sep 24 2011: I would have to disagree.
The ability to ask GOOD question is MORE important than just ask questions. One needs to learn to ask good questions. Stupid questions can be a time-waster for the team trying to solve a problem. There are obvious stupid questions which should not be asked - "can I go to the toilet?" is just one of example. :-)
Sep 24 2011: i would elaborate little more. what my point says is that the ability is required to ask questions to oneself. which i think is very much a necessity for any person ready to explore the opportunities around the world. thus if some one keep questioning one self (be it about his/her limitations or capabilities or faith etc. etc.) he/she will be more confidant & clear of the ideas in his/her mind. thus also the chances of failure in any endeavor decreases.
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in short - thoughtfulness & self inquisition should be the skills posses d by graduates.
Sep 25 2011: @ASHISH V, thank you for your clarification.
However, my point still stands. We have to learn to ask good and relevant questions, to the team or to oneself. Irrelevant and stupid questions are waste of time whether it is asked to a group or to oneself.
As I have pointed out earlier, good questions imply several characteristics:
1. one has done sufficient research in the problem to know what questions have already been asked and what are the answers to those questions
2. understand the context in order to ask relevant questions
3. ability to think "outside the box" to ask questions from angles which have not been tried before.
4. questions which imply logical fallacies are irrelevant questions and should not be asked.
The above list may be extended further.
The point is that asking question involves a cost - to the group or to oneself. We do not have unlimited time (at least we are still limited to our life span) and we should learn to ask good and relevant questions. Not ANY question.Sep 26 2011: a graduate suppose to be mature enough to ask sensible questions, i guess! well! would any sensible graduate ask about going to the toilet if he is in the middle of interview, important lecture, seminar, conference, meeting etc. the whole discussion is about mature undergraduate guys, not kindergarten students.... who keep on asking about going to toilet. we are talking about the guys who are going to stand on their own feet, going to make their career, going to be responsible n civilized civilians, thts the question dear - What skills should future graduates posses as a responsible citizen and also as a drivers of the economy ?
Sep 26 2011: Now, we are getting somewhere. ;-)
"Responsible" - an important quality for our future citizens. A responsibility for "whom"?
Making tons of money for oneself and leaving the planet in deep trouble for the coming generation is not responsible and we have seen lots of "graduates" doing just that in the past decades. Should good moral be part of the essential requirement of graduates? I would hope so.
You may have missed my point when I quoted the obviously irrelevant question as a counter-example to demonstrate the invalid assertion that asking question is MORE important than asking GOOD question. I think I have made the point across too strongly. :-)
Thomas Jones
Sep 27 2011: Hi Albert,
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QUOTE: "... a blanket statement for asking questions irrespectively of whether the question is good or relevant [is not good.] ... stupid questions are stupid questions when the circumstance does not call for it.
I understand. And intellectually, this makes perfect sense, but the thing is, we cannot really be sure what questions are good or relevant until after we ask and answer them.
And I agree, we should try to be appropriate as to when we ask, who we ask, how we ask and so on. (For example, in our company, we set up sessions for asking "stupid" questions.)
QUOTE: "Graduates should be 'mature' enough to understand this and not make a blanket statement as the first post in this thread."
I respectfully disagree. I think they should be mature enough to ask stupid questions. (And the fact that the original post does not explicitly state a contextual domain does not mean one is not implied.)
From personal experience, I have learned some very useful things because someone asked me a "stupid" question (at the wrong time, in the wrong venue, etc) and it forced me to look at things differently - and profitably.
So while I understand and accept your position, I would prefer to err on the side of the stupid question, rather than on the side of propriety.
I would also like the people I hire to do the same.
Personally, I like stupid questions.
Thomas Jones
Sep 26 2011: Hi Albert,
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Asking "stupid" questions can be quite useful. And the idea that we have to ask "good" question causes us to self-edit (so we don't look stupid) and, as a result, we miss lots of possible creative discoveries and insights simply because we limit ourselves to smart questions.
Edward de Bono's lateral thinking is based, in part, on the act of asking "dumb" questions. For example, asking what would happen if cars had square wheels, led to the development of modern suspension systems.
Sep 27 2011: I fully understand the need (under some situations) to ask questions without evaluating whether the question is relevant or contextual - as per de Bono. However, it is not the same as a blanket statement for asking questions irrespectively of whether the question is good or relevant.
When we are looking for creative ideas, any questions should be asked - that's a methodology rather than an attribute of responsible graduates.
Thinking skills - logical, lateral, creative - are essential for success in the future economy - but still a blanket statement for any question under ALL situations missed the point. When the situation calls for it, we can use methodologies as suggested by de Bono and others. But stupid questions are stupid questions when the circumstance does not call for it. Graduates should be "mature" enough to understand this and not make a blanket statement as the first post in this thread.
Lynn Lee
Sep 27 2011: I think its okay to even ask "stupid questions" sometimes! not the "may i go to the toilet kind" but you know...Well, because what may seem to be a silly question may as well turn out to be hitting the nail of the issue...I think no question is ever too silly to be asked given the maturity of working people...Sometimes these seemingly "silly" questions challenge assumptions behind and makes one rethink about the basis of the arguments or issues at heart..In fact, i think it is a part of critical thinking by not accepting whatever there is and taking it as the truth....Even then, if silly questions are really asked, its perfectly fine...Because sometimes after asking silly questions, it sharpens the thoughts and makes one realise the fallacies in it and from there, the person would learn to ask better questions..
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Sep 27 2011: If you can just cite an example, I will be convinced. Before that, I still do not agree ANY question is appropriate in ALL situations.Sep 27 2011: @Albert lp most of the people over here disagree with "good question" statement so i do. for me it requires a great deal of courage to ask question first, then comes the stuff whether the question is good or bad? In teacher's perspective - if student is not asking question then he is not able to understand. on understanding stuff only, question pops up in our mind out of curosity, so behind even the silly question there is always being a thought process, in order to think you need to use your mind.
Sep 27 2011: Open-minded is not the same as being totally ignorance about the context and the problem at hand. Questions which help clarify context and issues have their places at the beginning. If someone keeps coming back to the same context and issues without suggesting any further insight, I would be quite upset especially when time to solve the problem is running out.
Allowing students to ask question is again, not the same as asking questions as a graduate at work. Encouraging students to ask questions is not the same as encouraging graduates in working situation to ask stupid question.
There is stupid question. I have given an example already. The example I gave would be inappropriate in ANY standard. So, asking question (including stupid question) is NOT what we would want from graduates. However, I do not deny the need and ability to ask GOOD questions and I also support suspension of judgement during brain-storming. But this is a technique for brain storming. After the brain-storming, good questions count and stupid questions are waste of time.
Once upon a time, almost everyone on Earth would say Earth was flat. Knowledge is not a popularity contest. I respect people's disagreement with my view, but I still have not seen a compelling argument as to why asking ANY question is a good graduate attribute.Sep 27 2011: Hey Albert,
I think we take your point: There are "stupid" questions; and then there are "idiotic" questions.
A stupid question might be: "Why is the computer beige?" When all computers where beige. Or: "Why are the wheels on the bottom of the car?" Or: "Why do we build buildings from the bottom up?" Or: "Could we give our product or service away for free?"
[Those are all "good" stupid questions.]
An idiotic question might be: "Did you dye your hair?" Or: "Have you put on a little weight?" Or: "How many cents in a dollar? (Unless it's from someone familiar only with Yuan.)
The point I am making is: If we worry too much about asking "good" questions, we won't ask enough questions.
By the way, I am not talking about this from an academic perspective. I train managers. And one of the hardest things for me to train them to do is ask questions. They are terrified of looking stupid. They are also terrified of making their bosses look stupid. So they don't ask any questions just in case the question they actually want to ask are seen as stupid questions.
Sep 27 2011: Hi Thomas,
I can understand the position you are coming from.
Here is a point for your consideration.
Consider the following two situations; playing golf with your boss and with your best mates. Are these the same situations?
In work place, no matter how we "train" workers to ask questions, they won't ask questions - because of the same situation illustrated in the above scenarios.
To get workers to ask questions, we need to ensure the identity of the workers are saved and hence questions will NOT jeopardize their jobs or careers. There is only so much that we can suspense judgement and suspense judgement of questions' validity and usefulness. Asking stupid questions or smart questions are not good for office politics.
But as a discussion of graduate quality, I am still waiting for an example of how a stupid question can help. The de Bono example was for brain storming. I like an example in a group process in which a stupid question actually helps in solving a problem.
Thomas Jones
Sep 27 2011: "The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries." - Martin A. Schwartz, Journal of Cell Science, June 2008
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Hi Albert,
If you understand the benefits of being able to ask stupid questions (because you will not be ridiculed for doing so) then you understand my point. Anonymity is one way to make that possible but a better way is simply a change in attitude - making it okay to ask ANY question.
Examples are not necessary (although I have provided one or two - without transcribing the actual questions.)
"Does the earth move?" was considered a stupid question when it was first asked.
Einstein did not ask "smart" questions, he asked "simple" questions. (Jacob Bronowski)
You can probably think of some examples on your own; a time when a stupid question led to an insight.
I understand your point. You understand my point. I think we're good.Sep 27 2011: Yes,we are.
Neil Hillen
Sep 19 2011: A degree on a subject they are passionate about. I went to university and studied a subject which I liked at school (because of the excellent teachers). I was about 16 or 17 when I chose my degree. By the time I finished my degree I had realised that it wasn't where my heart was. My career has taken me in steps towards what I am truly interested in. I wish I had the head start that all my friends at school who always dreamed of being a vet or artist had.
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Sep 19 2011: i have been into same kind of situation, i know very well what you are trying to convey, Till school we dont see world from our perspective we keep on lookin at it by others (teachers, friends, parent) and like it very much that way. On attaining a maturity level with sound logical and conceptual thinking, we came to realize this is what i am? this is what i am good at? this is what i can do for lifetime? this is something what i can choose as my love my passion, my profession not as a work or any kind of burden......Sep 19 2011: Hey Neil,
I'll bet most of your friends still don't know what they want to do when they grow up. Figuring it out as we go along is standard operating procedure for humans.
My brother-in-law got a degree in business admin, became a CPA, worked for a few years and realized he would rather teach music ... he went back to school, got a degree in music and now he teaches cello.
Lynn Lee
Sep 27 2011: well stupid questions like "Why is there 24 hours, and not 25 hours in a day? " i think asking such questions challenge the well known but often least understood fact of why that is the case...and the answer would be due to the earth's rotation and a follow up would be why does the Earth rotate at this speed? What factors cause it to rotate at this speed? asking such questions in fact unravel even more scientific knowledge and facts which would enhance our understanding of the subject
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Rafi Amin
Sep 27 2011: The ability to change & improve the existing.Sep 26 2011: The exact opposite of which we are being equipped. The ability to think deeply, creatively, and ultimately solve current problems.Sep 22 2011: Future grads will need to work collaboratively with people of different cultures from across the world. The traditional work "landscape" is changing and you may be working on a project with people on three or four different continents. I think, too, that they will all need to be multi-lingual. The U.S. has fallen far behind in that area and it puts us at a great disadvantage in the world. They all need to be creative problem solvers as well. There is a wonderful book by Charles Fadel and Bernie Trilling about 21st Century Skills that addresses just this topic. I highly recommend it.
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Amy Peach
Sep 22 2011: Flexibility, patience, and clear communication. Yes, the traditional writing, research, and math skills are important. Without the first three, however, your ability to impact the world in a meaningful way is very limited.
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Katie Bowen
Sep 20 2011: I agree with the many others who talk about creative and critical thinking skills. Working in higher education, I know that these are important for my students to understand.
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Student also need to know how to connect and synthesize what they've learned. A true learner can put information that may not be coming from the place source. In the work world, these former students will need to be able to synthesize all kinds of knowledge to do their job effectively.
Eventually if we shift our education systems to be more focused on the thinking instead and less on the exact pieces of knowledge, our students can go into any job and learn it along the way.Sep 19 2011: @Roshan J in regards to your previous comment: "passion" is not a "skill". I am fundamentally self educated, lack any credentials, nonetheless believe that the key lies in unleashing, catalytically, every students potential to encourage and foster development of a lifelong love of the acquisition of knowledge, the relentless pursuit of understanding and discovering truths behind the endless universes through the process of learning and questioning everything.
to quote Plutarch, as astronaut Dave Scott, one of the twelve to walk on the lunar surface, did: "the mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted"
EX LUNA SCIENTIA, from the Moon, knowledge... the motto of James Lovell of Apollo 8 and 13, the first human to witness the Earth rising over the lunar horizon, and capturing on film the first view of the Earth from that perspective, the first one to witness this Earthrise over the surface of the moon in the dawn of discovery of such human knowledge, resulting in the most world famous photographic images of all human history... December 24th, 1968.
No one had ever seen the Earth from space from that perspective until that moment, and now it has become a modern cultural archetype... EVERY Earthling now recognizes imagery from the Earth from distant space after that stunning achievement. Just one example of how human imagination, dreams manifest in reality through massive peaceful collaboration (400,000 people who contributed their lives to the dream of Apollo, utilizing a rich array of STEM disciplines and imagination... diverse human talent making the hitherto impossible a reality) present a model to create new possibilities and solve otherwise intractable problems... within this and future generations. We must embrace this new paradigm of possibility, or risk extinction by maintaining the status quo.Sep 19 2011: First thing what I feel is not only applicable to future graduates but also to current & past graduates, if one wants to succeed one need to realize that Graduation means certification only & it's not end of learning.
And the fallacy is, that certificate never could say how much actually the graduate learned even.
So staying curious is key, expression of which @ Christopher posted below.......Sep 18 2011: There are knowledge we all need to be part of. We all need experts in all kind of professions. But what we need most are people how believe in them self, people who can cooperate, people who see possibilities and get things done. Give all the students a good portion of self esteem, wide open minds and a warm hart.Sep 17 2011: future graduate should posess a balanced combination of Hard Skills + Soft skills, which include all the mandatory set of technical knowledge as well as complimenary skills like leadership skills, effective communication, stress management, time management, coordination, positive attitude, logical thinking etc... skills cant be generalized specifically for anyone as everyone plays unique and distinct role according to respective profession, a fine arts graduate CAN afford to be introvert as his potraits or some other artistic establishment can explain his talent more than the words, but a marketing graduate CAN'T afford to be introvert at any cost. Agree???
Sep 20 2011: Absolutely. In addition to the Hard skills + soft skills, I would also add Ethical skills/values and then this would be the perfect combination.
Sep 20 2011: ultimately the perfect combination.... :) thanks for contribution!!! i completely agree with you, without ethical and moral values we cant consider any human being civilized, successful in real terms and beautiful at heart and soul....
Ken Nguru
Sep 17 2011: To be confident, and to strive to achieve their goals regardless of what others say, or their social position. That first step, is or might be the longest stride.
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Sep 19 2011: Suggested reading material addressing practical means of accomplishing this for the business/economy sector: "Executive Thinking: from Brightness to Brilliance" by Dr. Kevin Baize and Dr. Morris Graham, PhD.
My personal theory is developing lateral thinking skills at a very early age, K-5, when the physiological development of the neocortex is many orders of magnitude greater than later in life, and likewise the trend in establishing far more multidimensional reasoning and creative problem solving is directly proportional to the exponentially higher creation of neural pathways, especially synesthesia between the fusiform gyrus and amygdala. Neuroplasticity is an embryonic science in relative terms (refer to Doidge's book, "the Brain that changes Itself"), but it represents explosive potential in unleashing untapped potential in every person, regardless of conventional pidgeonholeing as widespread practiced in society today.Sep 16 2011: Let me share my current experience, I am studying in Australia at a very well reputed university. As a part of my curriculum I am working with one of the BIG4 accounting firm on business innovation. Students are divided into groups and are allocated mentors from that company to provide you feedback.
What surprises me, my colleagues are not driven by passion but they are still "manipulating" things to score marks. They are designing the "innovative" project based on the criteria that we will be marked upon and not on making project work as a whole. Issue that arises is, even though you might get "good" score on the written report but you would have certainly left some of the black-holes/black-boxes unanswered because these would be areas that might not have been covered by the marking criteria but are very important for the project that you are working on. They don't understand that in the interim reports they may get good marks but you will fail once you would be required to present the final project in front of the directors because they are certainly smart enough to figure out what is wrong with the project.
Bottom line: Graduates are not driven by passion but by marks (they should certainly see the movie 'Paper Chase'). I know passion is not a skill but a very valuable quality that a graduate should posses.
Simon Tan
Sep 16 2011: A good movie I would definitely recommend is "3 Idiots" , an Indian comedy film because it really sounds like what you're talking about .
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Thomas Jones
Sep 16 2011: You have just provided a very good description of what Edward de Bono calls "ludecy" - the ability to play by the rules of the system for maximum personal gain.
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In his book, Out of The Crisis, W. Edwards Deming quotes Dr Yoshi Tsurumi:
"Part of America's industrial problems is the aims of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. … The Japanese corporate credo on the other hand, is that the company should become the world's most effeicient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow."
Substitute the words "Australia" for "America," "marks" for "money" and "students" for "managers" and I think the sentiment fits.
Sep 16 2011: That is so true. However, from the way I see things, with so much choice available employers have to be as empirical as possible. What are you going to say in an interview-" I want the job because I am passionate about it"? Sure, anyone can say that.
That is the problem: there is no way to measure passion without ticking boxes which will then be discovered by the applicants and then the game is back on.
Hence my opinion stated lower down.Sep 16 2011: Is it passion or is it freedom - should you be judged on an outcome, or on the process or on your abilty to prodece and outcome and develop a process. Maybe Freedom is the key that unlocks innovation, that and necessity ?
If Necessity is the mother of invention, innovation is her Child from the second Marraige...Sep 16 2011: Adaptability and openmindedness. I can't help but wonder how a 12-year-old craves for answers to questions they keep coming up with about everything around them, and 25 year-old graduates know everything better and keep digging single topics. I stiil haven't found the breaking point in between.... but I keep searching! I teach 15-18 year-olds and strive to keep their curiosity as alive and wide as possible.
Sep 16 2011: I suggest one reason we lose our open-mindedness is because we are evaluated on a Right/Wrong basis.
We are rewarded for providing a "right" answer; punished for providing a "wrong" answer; and worse: ridiculed for providing a creative answer. Like this ....
Q: What causes the tides in the oceans?
A: The tides are a fight between the Earth and the Moon. All water tends to flow towards the moon, because there is no water on the moon, and nature abhors a vacuum. I forget where the sun joins in this fight.
Or this:
Q: How can you delay milk turning sour?
A: Keep it in the cow.
Or this:
Q: What does the word "benign" mean?
A : Benign is what you will be after you be eight.
----Sep 16 2011: self-reliance skills such as; Entrepreneurial skills, problem solving, creative thinking, critical thinking,
Inter-reliance skills such as team building, earning trust, earning respect.Sep 14 2011: I was about to write something very similar to what others have written below, but I felt something was wrong. I realized that I was being far too idealistic and not realistic at all. So I thought about this:
The Situation.
Today it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. That is not going to get you the job. Not because you can't think for yourself. The people who get the job nowadays are rarely those who are actually the best, but the ones who are the best competitors. In other words, unless you are willing to fight, claw, stab and be ruthlessly selfish you aren't going to get anywhere. These types of personality traits are rarely found in those who are "in it (the job) for the right reason".
Employers have to be as empirical as possible when choosing who to hire since the competition is so high and they are so spoiled for choice that choosing is almost impossible. So they look at CVs and Cover Letters and references and tick the boxes. The people who know what boxes are being ticked just present their application that ticks the boxes- so no matter how intelligent you are,unless you know what boxes to tick for each employer you are not going to get anywhere with them.Not to mention the fact that you must also be aware of how the employer perceives things.
What I think:
I think graduates should be trained in how to play the politics in their industry, be given plenty of contacts, introduced to prospective employers, arrange a political base of people they can trust, and be taught how to research their prospective employers properly. All this so that in the end the best person can get the job and is not left by the waste side because of a personality issue like shyness. All the suggestions made below are useless if the chance to use them never comes along. I look around and all I see is a huge waste of potential in this world and it's all "the system"'s fault.


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God reached down, took her hand, and brought her home. Elizabeth (Lisa) Ann Warner was born to Kenneth and Jeanette (Faust) Warner of Page, North Dakota on August 15, 1958 in Valley City, North Dakota. She died March 2, 2015. She and her sisters, Susan and Karen, had an idyllic childhood on the family farm.
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Oradour-sur-Glane (Orador de Glana) is a town and commune in the Haute-Vienne département of central-western France.
This village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants were murdered by a German Waffen-SS company.
Early on the morning of June 10, 1944, Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, commanding the I battalion of the 4th Waffen-SS ("Der Führer") Panzer-Grenadier Regiment, informed Sturmbannführer Otto Weidinger at regimental headquarters that he had been approached by two French civilians who claimed that a German officer was being held by the Resistance in Oradour-sur-Vayres, a nearby town. The captured German was alleged to be Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe, commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion, who may have been captured by the Maquis the day before.
On June 10, Diekmann's battalion sealed off the town of Oradour-sur-Glane, having confused it with nearby Oradour-sur-Vayres, and ordered all the townspeople – and anyone who happened to be in or nearby the town – to assemble in the village square, ostensibly to have their identity papers examined. In addition to the residents of the village, the SS also apprehended six people who did not live there but had the misfortune of riding their bikes through town when the Germans arrived.
All the women and children were then taken to and locked in the church while the village itself was looted. Meanwhile, the men were led to six barns and sheds where machine-gun nests were already in place. According to the account of a survivor, the soldiers began shooting at them, aiming for their legs so that they would die more slowly. Once the victims were no longer able to move, the soldiers covered their bodies with kindling and set the barns on fire. Only five men escaped; 190 men died.
The soldiers then proceeded to the church and put an incendiary device in place there. After it was ignited, women and children tried to flee from the doors and windows of the church but were met with machine-gun fire. Two hundred forty-seven women and two hundred five children died in the mayhem. Only one woman survived, 47-year-old local housewife Marguerite Rouffanche. She had managed to slide out of a small window at the back of the church and hid in the bushes overnight until the Germans had moved on. Another small group of about twenty villagers had fled Oradour-sur-Glane as soon as the soldiers had appeared. That night, the remainder of the village was razed.
A few days later, survivors were allowed to bury the dead. It was found that 642 inhabitants of Oradour-sur-Glane had been brutally murdered in a matter of hours.
On January 12, 1953, a trial began before a military tribunal in Bordeaux, France, against the surviving 65 of the approximately 200 German soldiers who had been involved. Only 21 of them were present (many living in West Germany and the German Democratic Republic would not be extradited). Seven of them were Germans, while the other 14 were Alsatians, i.e., French nationals of German ethnicity who had been regarded as members of the "Reich" by the Nazis. All but one of them claimed to have been drafted into the Waffen-SS against their will (the so-called malgré-nous).
The trial caused a huge protest in Alsace, forcing the French authorities to split the process into two separate ones according to the nationality of the defendants. On February 11, 20 defendants were found guilty. Continuing uproar (including calls for autonomy) in Alsace pressed the French parliament to pass an amnesty law for all malgré-nous on February 19, and the convicted Alsatians were released shortly afterwards. This, in turn, caused bitter protest in the Limousin region.
By 1958, all the German defendants had been released as well. General Heinz Lammerding of the Das Reich division, who had given the orders for the measures against the Resistance, died in 1971 after a successful entrepreneurial career. At the time of the trial, he lived in Düsseldorf, Germany, which was located inside the British occupation zone of West Germany, and the French government never obtained his extradition from the British authorities.
The last trial against a former Waffen-SS member took place in 1983. Shortly before, former SS-Obersturmführer Heinz Barth had been tracked down in the German Democratic Republic GDR. Barth had participated in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre as a platoon leader in the Der Führer Regiment, commanding forty-five soldiers. He was amongst other war criminals charged with having given orders to shoot twenty men in a garage. Barth was sentenced to life imprisonment by the 1st Senate of the City Court of Berlin. He was released from prison in the reunified Germany in 1997 and died in August 2007.
After the war, General Charles de Gaulle of France decided that the village would never be rebuilt. Instead, it would remain as a memorial to the cruelty of Nazi occupation. In 1999, French President Jacques Chirac dedicated a visitors' centre, the Centre de la Mémoire, in Oradour-sur-Glane and named the site a Village Martyr.
The old village, the site of the massacre, still stands as a memorial to the dead and as being representative of similar sites and events. Part of the memorial includes items recovered from the burned-out buildings: watches stopped at the time their owners were burned alive; glasses - melted from the intense heat; and various personal items and money.
Protests followed from Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel; General Gleiniger, German commander in Limoges; and the Vichy government. Standartenführer Stadler felt Diekmann had far exceeded his orders and began a judicial investigation; however, Diekmann was killed in action a few days later during the Battle of Normandy, and a large portion of the third company, which had committed the massacre, was annihilated a few days later.
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Down this road, on a summer day in 1944. . . The soldiers came. Nobody lives here now. They stayed only a few hours. When they had gone, the community which had lived for a thousand years. . . was dead.
This is Oradour-sur-Glane, in France. The day the soldiers came, the people were gathered together. The men were taken to garages and barns, the women and children were led down this road . . . and they were driven. . . into this church. Here, they heard the firing as their men were shot. Then. . . they were killed too. A few weeks later, many of those who had done the killing were themselves dead, in battle.
They never rebuilt Oradour. Its ruins are a memorial. Its martyrdom stands for thousands upon thousands of other martyrdoms in Poland, in Russia, in Burma, in China, in a World at War...
And at the end of episode 26, while another aerial shot of the village ruins plus photos of various massacre victims was being shown to the accompaniment of dramatic music, Olivier said:
At the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, the day the soldiers came, they killed more than six hundred men, women . . . and children. Remember.


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PORTLAND, Ore. - A second-half strike by midfielder Vicente Arze handed the Portland Timbers their first loss of the season in a 1-0 affair against the Vancouver Whitecaps at PGE Park before 8,688 on Saturday. The loss breaks a run of 18 consecutive unbeaten regular-season home matches for the Timbers.
Despite playing its second game in as many days, Vancouver (4-1-2, 13pts) maintained a majority of the possession and out-shot the Timbers 11-6. It's the Timbers first loss at home under second-year head coach Gavin Wilkinson and the team's first home loss since Sept. 7, 2006.
The Timbers (3-1-4, 13pts) allowed just their second goal at home this season to Vancouver, and their first goal since April 24 in a 2-1 win over the Minnesota Thunder at PGE Park.
The Whitecaps took a 1-0 lead on Arze's goal in the 60th minute. After receiving the ball in open space, he moved up field to the top left corner of the penalty area and forced Timbers goalkeeper Ray Burse off his line to challenge. Arze, with a smooth touch, chipped the ball over Burse and inside the far post of an empty net for his first goal of the season.
Portland had chances to equalize late in the match. In the 72nd minute, midfielder Lawrence Olum arched a header from close range over the cross bar. Earlier in the second half, forward Chris Brown had a blistering shot from inside the box stopped by on diving effort from Vancouver goalkeeper Jay Nolly. In stoppage time, Portland had two of its four corner kick attempts, but couldn't find the back of the net for the second consecutive match.
Burse made one of his four saves late in the match on tough angled shot by Whitecaps midfielder Alfredo Valente. Diving to his left, Burse parried the low drive by Valente off the far post and back into play.
Portland didn't take its first shot until the 27th minute of the match on a series started with a throw in by defender Scot Thompson. From the right touchline, Thompson's throw in pulled Nolly, making his first start of the season for Vancouver, off his line and found Brown on the back post. Brown's header back across the goal mouth drifted just wide allowing defender Cameron Knowles a touch on the follow up, but Knowles' shot with an open net wide of the right post.
Vancouver nearly took the lead in the 36th minute when forward Eduardo Sebrango looped a header over Burse and the cross bar from inside the six yard box.
The Timbers play their second game in three days as they face the Miami FC Blues on Monday at PGE Park at 2 p.m. Monday's match is the Timbers annual Bark in the Park, inviting fans to bring their dogs to the special day match to celebrate Memorial Day.
Notes: Timbers midfielder Neil Dombrowski made his second start of the season Saturday ... Attendance was 8,688 ... Portland has scored just two goals in their last five matches ... new forward Benjamin Totori arrived in Portland late Friday and will be available for Monday's match against Miami ... Saturday's win for Vancouver was their first at PGE Park since July 2, 2004 ... rain fell for the entire second half.
POR: GK Burse, D Griffin, D Knowles, D J. Thompson, D S. Thompson, M Higgins, M Little (Oka, 45)(Bagley, 83), M Guante (Olum, 45), M Dombrowski (Gregor, 68), F Brown, F Suzuki
VAN: GK Nolly, D Martin, D Pozniak, D Cann, D Kambere, M Moose, M Nash, M Kindel (Donatelli, 71), M Arze (Valente, 76), F Sebrango, F Jordan (Addlery, 88)
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It lets you add almost any game you want to a list where you can organize and track unreleased games. The app will email or TXT you when a game's release date changes, when it's released, or when it's about to be released.]]>
Why is this happening? PSN uses the Address Verification System (AVS) for your bank. If your bank doesn't provide this, it very well might not work at all. I use Wells Fargo, and they do have it.
For myself, I have an address like this:
1234 Street Name St
Apt 123
City, STATE 12345-1234
My statement looks like:
However, PSN only accepted it in this format exactly:
A few things to note:
The big things are: exactly as it appears on your statement (minus perhaps the zip), all uppercase, and one line address.
The fact that I have to do this is atrocious and is either the fault of PSN for not formatting my request properly to AVS or AVS itself and its terrible request processing.
Now I can finally get FF7.]]>
What has happened to the industry when a brand new game comes out and feels like it's still stuck in alpha?
It seriously took me 30 minutes trying to get the game to start since it would crash every time I tried to start it.
I noticed this happens when I tried to do fullscreen on most resolutions, but worked okay in Windowed mode. It also didn't work until I downloaded the latest Nvidia drivers (it wasn't a Geforce, so it didn't have to do with the driver release after the game's release, I was only one version behind). Maybe because I restarted my computer it magically worked, who knows? The VS debugger said that a memory address was denied access or something.
Then, after finally getting into the game, it crashes during the weird blur effect during the intro. Awesome. It doesn't just crash, no, it shuts down my damn computer. I tried this 3 times with the same effect, and I was on Medium quality at 720p.
So then, I turn everything to low and run in windowed mode and everything seems to work, although it still stutters intermitently when it absolutely should not.
Just for kicks, I turn up the settings to ultra, same resolution in windowed mode, then load up my save. Of course everything is stutterville x 10, even though when it doesn't stutter it runs fine. The game is unplayable.
I literally spun around in place about 40 times and the game crashed. Yah.
Sorry, my recommendation right now is to pass on this game until the 4th patch is released when it finally works properly.
If it's possible to look past the bugs, there seems to be a good game underneath. I want to be excited for this game, I really do, but I can't until it actually works.]]>
I chose to use VMWare Player because of VMWare's fame. The problem was, it was sometimes much slower than my host machine, suspending state made it even worse, and shared folders caused issues with Visual Studio.
I had tried looking online at potential issues it could be but didn't find anyone with my issues. wPrime showed that the guest OS was using almost as much CPU power as my host OS so that didn't seem to be the problem.
So in the end, I switched to VirtualBox, an open source software from Oracle. It was wicked fast and easy to configure (make sure to enable IO APIC for Windows machines). Shared Folders even seemed to work better because when I created a sym link to my host OS development folder, Visual Studio didn't seem to have the issues it did on VMWare.
So if your VMWare Player seems like it's not pulling its weight, I'd recommend switching.
8GB of RAM now seems like a good investment to me. The CPU seems fine even under load; I usually only use one OS at a time, not both.
Here is my configuration:
PS. Is this a mindwarp or what?
That's "Seamless" (Right-ctrl+L) where it will hide your guest OS desktop background and it will look like you have integration between both OSs. You can click any of the windows and they respond as they should. It's awesome.]]>
OK, so I still have 437GB left… but still!
My C: and D: partitions are on two 200GB drives. I was thinking about swapping my C: drive with this monster and then using the extra GB for another storage (media) drive. Then I can move my virtual machines to C: to speed them up. It's cheap but will hopefully speed things up without costing me the price of a PS3.]]>
I will keep this list updated as I discover new features.]]>
The short answer: no! It migrates all your email and settings perfectly, didn't run into any problems!
To save you the trouble, make sure to get the correct version of Office 2010 (32-bit or 64-bit). You cannot upgrade to 64-bit from Office 2007 32-bit; the versions must match.
2010 is so much faster than 2007. I have at least two mailboxes that have between 1GB-2GB of size and 2007 would crawl opening them. 2010 starts up in 5 seconds with all the mail loaded; it's so much faster.
The best feature (so far) is the ability to reorder your mail accounts and favorites in the left pane. THANK GOD.
Now to check if I can combine internet calendars into one calendar, or at least get them to show up in the right-hand agenda list.]]>
Kotaku to the rescue. Here's my experience:
After reading the article, I called my local Gamestop and they said they had 1 new Xbox left. So I quickly backed up my profiles, themes, avatars, etc. on my 4GB flash, and only about 50MB worth of stuff was backed up. Didn't transfer videos, etc.
Stuffed my Xbox Elite 120GB (no wireless adapter) into my backpack with cables and grabbed about 10 games (X360, Wii) I've been wanting to get rid of.
I drove to the Gamestop and asked if they still had it in stock, they had, and I gave them my stuff. After going through everything, they took everything except the old Xbox originals.
"Where's your controller?" Uh… crap.
I forgot a controller! So I either had to trade in everything and NOT get to apply it to my new Xbox purchase (because the trade was incomplete) or gamble and come back (traffic was about 25 mins each way).
BUT WAIT. The nice woman said that she could sell me a used controller and that'd count, I'd just be paying that much more. So that's what I did... unfortunately, but I didn't want to come back later.
The moral of my story: REMEMBER TO BRING EVERYTHING. They need wires and controller but not an HDMI if you have one; the new Xbox doesn't come with an HDMI cable. I almost gave them that, too.
So, in the end, my receipt was:
Trade-in + Edge Savings: -$198
Used Wired controller: $27
New Xbox 360: $300
Edge + GameInformer 12mo: $15
Tax: $9
This brings my total to only $153. If I had remembered my controller, I could have had the bugger for $126! But now I have an extra wireless controller, letting me use my wired for my PC... so whatever I guess.
I am very happy not only because I have a new pimp Xbox but also because I no longer need my network switch all the way across my apartment just for the Xbox. Now my Wii, Xbox 360, and laptop use Wi-Fi. So will my PS3 once I buy one.
I found out too late that the USB transfer didn't go as smooth as it said it did. It didn't transfer about 4 gamer profiles (my girlfriend's and my friend who play A LOT) and it didn't transfer most (any?) of my save games (even though it did transfer a few saves from other profiles)!
So now I have 0% in Red Dead (although I beat it) and no savegames in all my other games. At least I have my achievements, which my girlfriend unfortunately can't say.
The reason I believe this happened is because of a stupid "feature" that when you transfer, it actually MOVES the information to the other device instead of copying. I had initiated a transfer before that I canceled about 25% of the way through, then deleted whatever was on there because I assumed it just copied. Nope. I deleted my own save games.
Double check your transfer to make sure everything transferred correctly and DO NOT just format your USB drive; transfer everything over first.]]>
Anyway, my dilemma was that I only had room for one keyboard and one mouse but I had two monitors. Some might have used a KVM switch (I actually have a USB switch I used to install the OS and configure the BIOS on it). You could also use remote desktop, which I did with my last server. However, switches and remote desktop are too manual for my taste.
As you can see, my server is on the left of my desk and my PC is on the right side. The left monitor is my PC and the right monitor is my server.
Input Director to the rescue! It effectively handles all the screen switching for you so you can use your second computer as if it was connected to your primary monitor. When you move your mouse to the side of the screen where the second computer's monitor is at, it will automatically switch your keyboard and mouse focus to that computer. It even handles copy/pasting! You could try Synergy as well (I've used it previously) but it didn't play nice with Windows Server 2008 which is what my server runs.]]>
Title: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Blurb: An "adaptation" of the Prince of Persia video game with pretty "Persian"-ish actors.
Review: Yes, Hollywood, British accents definitely equal Persia in my mind.
Grade: B+
Title: Red Dead Redemption
Platform: Xbox 360
Blurb: You're the most bad-ass cowboy in the wild west.
Review: Any game that lets you hogtie people and throw them on train tracks causing them to be run over by said train is an A in my book.
Grade: A+
My university's internet backbone.
Goodbye sweet, sweet speed. I managed to order 12Mbps/5Mbps high speed DSL for my new apartment but it will never match the speed I've been accustomed to.]]>
I've just released my Web Application Template package for .NET web applications (and it's only $12). It's basically what I would prefer to start with every time I work on a new web site… in effect, a "Web App in a Box."
It supports .NET 3.5 and .NET 4 and offers a slew of features (ELMAH integration, compression/minification of CSS and JS, etc), the to-do list ever growing. You can be sure I'll keep it updated because I will be using it myself! I'm already using it for a new version of Intrepid Studios (not a total redesign, more enhancement-like).
I was sick and tired of all my projects using different file/folder/solution layouts and having to duplicate code across them all the time. I wanted a way to easily get started without spending time configuring everything. While I was working on it, I thought it would be useful for other developers. Will it really save you six hours? Well, it took me a solid 6+ hours of development time to set it up… and then some. Six is a safe bet, possibly more if you aren't that familiar with some of the components I integrated.
As always, let me know if there are bugs and improvements you think of.
You can also check out my previous CodeCanyon release, Google Picasa Gallery + API.]]>
Long story short: disable Hamachi or any other potential virtual network adapters. VMWare seems to not interfere but Hamachi enjoys taking over connections sometimes and will hijack your phone emulator.
You can view the details of my adventure right over yonder.]]>


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I originally chose Wilson because I was interested in a college not too far from home that offered the opportunity to ride so that I could pursue this interest while attending college.
With the equestrian center right on campus, it has been very convenient for me to be at the barns and keep up with all of my class work.
Wilson offers so many different opportunities that are important to me. I can pursue my interests in riding, as well as look forward to studying abroad. Getting involved in campus activities is very
rewarding. I joined the intercollegiate lacrosse team and traveled to other colleges in our league that are in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. For me, this was something new and I found it to be
very rewarding.
Honestly, I had no idea what it would be like to be at a college for women. I can say that I made a lot of new friends, many of whom I hope to have made for life.
This past year Wilson was looking for its next president because our president was retiring. When candidates were brought to campus, students were provided with opportunities to meet and talk with
them. One of us even served on the search committee right along with members of our Board of Trustees, faculty and staff. Students are looking forward to our new college president to see what
changes and new ideas she will have for Wilson.
Our science center is definitely impressive. Many labs are loaded with hands-on models and displays related to the sciences and equestrian and veterinary pursuits. Our small classes are definitely
a plus, especially in more difficult classes such as biology. Our faculty are helpful and want students to succeed.
To make the most out of college, it is up to you to get involved in activities, clubs, athletic teams and riding teams. Don't be afraid to try new things because here at Wilson you are encouraged to do
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The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies is proud to announce that this year's annual lecture will be delivered by the distinguished medieval historian, Robert Somerville of Columbia University, at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in the Pere Marquette Gallery of DuBourg Hall.
Somerville will present "Pope Urban II (1088-99): Councils, Canons (... and also the First Crusade)." A wine and cheese reception will follow.
Somerville is the Tremaine Professor of Religion and professor of history at Columbia University. His extensive list of publications includes Pope Alexander II and the Council of Tours (Univ. of California Press, 1977); Scotia Pontificia: Papal Letters to Scotland before the Pontificate of Innocent III (Oxford, 1982); Pope Urban II, the Collectio Britannica, and the Council of Melfi (1089) (Oxford, 1996), Prefaces to Canon Law Books in Latin Christianity (Yale, 1998), and Pope Urban II's Council of Piacenza (Oxford, 2011).


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- PhD in General/Experimental Psychology at University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 2001
- MA in General/Experimental Psychology at University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 1998
- BA in Psychology at University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 1993
Why I Teach
I train my students to become active learners by developing hypotheses, designing experiments to test those hypotheses, analyzing the findings and then reporting on the significance of those findings. Along with my passion for the subject, a careful and thoughtful approach to the material makes this learning process both exciting and practical for students to utilize.
I teach because I want the next generation of leaders to be excellent critical thinkers.