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Holman enjoyed a long tenure as the mezzo-soprano voice of the Dean Wilder Singers, a vocal quartet and piano ensemble, which toured throughout the United States, Mexico and Southern Korea performing a variety of opera, oratorio, and sacred literature. In 2007, Holman was awarded a Goldovsky Opera Directing Internship with Harrower Opera in Atlanta, Ga.
Currently, Holman serves as the central regional governor for National Association of Teachers of Singing and is an Associate Professor of voice at Wheaton College Conservatory where she also directs the opera program.
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Wow, it is Monday, well really it is almost Tuesday. It was a mad mess day.
So much happened but at least not bad stuff just stuff. But I understand we did
the last box of the estate papers for cataloging. Now that fun begins in the next
I did not find grandsons papers he needed. Alas
I did go to the San Diego Lapidary Society Club this evening and cut a few rocks.
Well, most people call them rocks but they are semi precious gems once cut. I am
laying out a pattern I want to attempt to put together. Maybe even enter into Fair.
HA ha.
Came home to the computer being down again tonight. This is getting old, so guess a
trip back to MAC store is in order.
I got a Birthday wish list item today. A little deeper into the month I may have an ' answer. Three more birthdays to go this month, Hubbies, oldest son and his youngest
Now to see if someone taped the Generations program tonight. I received two
letters back from Seminar speakers already today.
If I do not get to bed Tuesday will be here before I am in bed.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Monday's Mad Mess Day
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Medical technologies – medicines, vaccines and medical devices – are essential for public health. Access to essential medicines and inadequate research on neglected diseases have been a major concern for many years. More recently, the focus of health policy debate has broadened to consider how to promote innovation and how to ensure equitable access to all vital medical technologies.
Today's health policy-makers need a clear understanding, both of the innovation processes that lead to new technologies and of the ways in which these technologies are disseminated through functional health systems. This study seeks to reinforce the understanding of the interplay between the distinct policy domains of health, trade and intellectual property, and of how they affect medical innovation and access to medical technologies. It captures a broad range of experience and data in dealing with the interplay between intellectual property, trade rules and the dynamics of access to, and innovation in, medical technologies. A collaborative effort by the WHO, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the World Trade Organization draws together the three Secretariats' respective areas of expertise. For WHO the study is an important milestone in the context of the implementation of the Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property.
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Over the umpty years we've been scribbling this column, we've begun each new year with an homage to Janus, the two-faced god — he who looks backwards and forwards at the same time — for whom the month is named. We wanted to praise the year that ended, and invoke, if possible, better times for the coming months.
Wine makes a fine vehicle for such reviews: Wine-fiends can often recall in agonizing detail the night they quaffed that exquisite bottle of Chateau Beauzeaux 1999; wine-makers can often recollect the entire growing season, dates and times, from bud-break to harvest to crush, sometimes better than they remember their anniversaries or their kids' names.
Maybe that's just as it should be. The wine experience is intimately linked to aromas/flavors, thence to emotions. Of course, our deepest memories transcend wine, which, after all, is really just tasty grape juice, well-fermented.
Much as I'd like to review memories of the grandly goofy 2011, I'll leave that task to my colleagues — except for one minor (I thought) issue, which might turn out to be indicative of … something, hard to say what. But it does lead directly to wine.
The proposal to extend EmX into West Eugene first struck me as a mildly intriguing technical and financial question that I'd gladly let others fuss about. Then arose the clamorous responses by the shadowy organization Our Money Our Transit. Intensely tacky signs appeared on many businesses in affected areas, shouting strong resistance to EmX. Hmm, I thought, just when it seemed that West 11th couldn't possibly get uglier, someone found a way to add clatter to clutter.
Still I didn't feel involved. A lot of the emotionalism, I noted, seemed to emanate from folks clinging to the car culture; in fact, a lot of the upset businesses were car-related — sales, maintenance, repairs. And taverns.
Then the tactics turned wildly zany. Dude parked a vintage tank outside his car biz, draped with an anti-EmX sign. LTD itself became a target: Signs read "LosingTaxDollars." Huh?
The latest wiggle is most bizarre: On the four-lane 6th Avenue west of Blair appears a rash of signs: "Imagine Three Lanes," then "EmX steals your lane," and the capper (on what must be the ugliest fence in Oregon) "You paid for this lane/Now EmX wants to steal it." A tavern warns against a 5-and-one-half block "bottleneck" created during construction.
What?! If I owned a biz in those tawdry acres, I think I'd do almost anything to slow traffic so people might actually see me, maybe even stop 'n' shop. But nooo — these wheeler-dealers wanna make sure drivers can blow through the blocks.
OK. Now, I'm imagining six lanes, no lights. Maybe an elevated freeway. Bullet train? Wherever I see those signs, I imagine hitting the gas. I'm watching out for white rabbits and Cheshire cats.
Clearly, this year we're gonna need lotsa wine:
Sarver Winery is one of our region's newest (but on one of our oldest vineyards), and the Sarver 2010 Pinot Gris ($16) will please many palates. A whisper of residual sugar accents the pear/apple flavors, smoothes out the acidity. Try with fresh crab.
Capitello 2010 Pinot Gris ($15) is winning rave reviews for forward fruit flavors, flawless balance — gris as good as gris gets anywhere, elegant and firm.
Spangler 2010 Chardonnay Unoaked ($15) delivers true chardonnay flavors — baked apple, quince — not smothered in oak and vanilla notes. Lobster would be a marriage.
Stop for this: Walter Scott 2010 Pinot Noir La Combe Verte ($20) is superb, a deft blend of old-vine grapes yielding a blast of raspberries and pepper, a steal at this price (if EmX doesn't snatch it).
LaVelle 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon ($28): If you can cover the fare, this bus gathers grapes in the Columbia Valley; winds through bold, rich flavors of blackberries, cassis, whiff of mint; stops at aged cheddar or grilled filet. Open a couple hours before serving. Smooth ride, worth the ticket.
These are two-way wines, well-suited for winter fare, lovely for the coming spring. But if the face of Eugene revealed by the anti-EmX mob is an omen of the year to come, good wines and a sharp sense of humor might not be enough.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 47 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Apiary is a company with a single product with a laser focus to deliver a software tool (ASP model) that is licensible by anyone to gather feedback on market dynamics on any kind of content. The product is called CAP (Collaboration, Assessment, Promotion). The CAP tool can be used to get direct feedback via a dynamic web-based research interface. Any kind of content: written, links, logos,artwork, software - anything can be put into the system and reviewers from your affinity group can be commissioned to review and provide feeback which the system aggregates in to reports that facilitates analysis, revision, and improvement. It ensures your content - whatever it is - is market driven because you get a segment of your market to validate your approach, treatment, execution while you're creating your content. You can use the CAP anywhere along the development process.
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An apiary is defined as a place where bees are kept. The word conjours images of bees, beehives, community, colony, heirarchy and social order. The imagery of a community or colony is perfect for this company as its primary service is helping people to connect to communities and affinity groups to gain insight and feedback. We want to avoid anything too cartoony with the logo, and want an image that can survive the test of time. We do think there is something very compelling about the beehive and the honeycomb shape and that might be a place to start. The logo should be sophisticated and probably somewhat abstract to avoid suggesting that our company offers beekeeping. The logo needs several treatments that can be used as imagery on letter head, cards, print and web sites. We do not know if it is pssible to work in the acronym "CAP" Vollaboration, Assessment, and Promotion, but we'll eventually need to create another logo for the tool itself. The file uploaded was the logo used for an earlier company we owned. It incorporated the honeycomb look.
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Pirates outscore Giants in North Shore shootout
Marte leads Bucs offense with 4 hits, 4 runs scored
Starling Marte had a career-high four hits and scored four times and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the San Francisco Giants 12-8 on Wednesday night.
Neil Walker and Alex Presley homered for Pittsburgh. Jordy Mercer, Andrew McCutchen and Gaby Sanchez had three hits each as the Pirates set season highs for both runs and hits.
Francisco Liriano (5-2) survived six erratic innings to pick up the win.
Joaquin Arias knocked in three runs for the Giants and Hunter Pence doubled twice but San Francisco continued to struggle on the road. The defending World Series champions have lost 12 of 16 away from home.
Barry Zito (4-5) allowed eight runs and 11 hits in 4 2-3 innings as his ERA on the road ballooned to 11.28.
The veteran left-hander struggled all night against Marte, Mercer and McCutchen, the top third of Pittsburgh's lineup. The trio combined to go 8 for 9 against Zito, touching the 2002 Cy Young Winner for a run in the first and keying a three-run rally in the third and a four-run outburst in the fifth.
Marte had cooled off since a strong April and entered the night just 11 for 60 (.183) in his past 16 games, dropping his batting average to .279.
He had little trouble pecking away at Zito's looping curveball, slapping three singles to set the table for a Pirates offense that appears to be rounding into form.
A night after Pittsburgh lit up San Francisco in an 8-2 win in support of rookie pitcher Gerrit Cole, the Pirates kept it going.
McCutchen hit a two-run double in the third as the Pirates took a 4-1 lead. The Giants responded to briefly to tie the game on a two-run double by Arias in the top of the fifth.
It didn't stay knotted long. Marte and Mercer led off the bottom of the inning with consecutive singles.
Marte scored on a fielder's choice and Pedro Alvarez chased Zito for good with a double off the wall in right. Walker greeted reliever Jose Mijares with a two-run single and the Pirates were in control.
Pittsburgh's lead grew to 10-4 after Presley's pinch-hit homer and an RBI double by Gaby Sanchez, but the Giants hung in there on a night manager Bruce Bochy watched from the clubhouse.
Bochy was suspended one game and reliever George Kontos was suspended three games and fined after Kontos threw at Marte and McCutchen late in the loss on Tuesday night. Kontos was sent down to Triple-A before the suspension was announced.
San Francisco pulled within 11-8 after Buster Posey's two-run single off Tony Watson in the eighth but Sanchez doubled in McCutchen in the bottom of the inning. Closer Jason Grilli worked a perfect ninth in a rare non-save situation.
Liriano lacked the firepower of his past two starts, when he combined for 19 strikeouts. The left-hander struck out just two and walked three while tying his season high with four runs allowed.
NOTES: Cole, who went 6 1-3 innings in his major league debut on Tuesday, will start again on Sunday when the Pirates host the Los Angeles Dodgers ... San Francisco 2B Tony Abreu went 3 for 5 in his first start of the season. Abreu started in place of Marco Scutaro, who is out indefinitely after taking a pitch off the pinky finger of his left hand on Tuesday ... Bochy said injured 3B Pablo Sandoval had a "hop in his step" the day after being placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained tendon in his left foot. Sandoval was hitting .289 at the time of the injury ... Pittsburgh RHP Charlie Morton makes his first start since having Tommy John surgery a year ago on Thursday when he starts in the series finale. Hurdle indicated Morton won't have much time to get his feet set with starters Wandy Rodriguez and Jeanmar Gomez on the mend from forearm tightness. Matt Cain (4-3, 5.09) starts for the Giants.


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If there was any time you thought about investing and didn't, this would be the time to rethink that decision. March thru May was the first drop of what will most likely be the waterfall in the future of news about the company accomplishments that will develop in the years to come. Industry advancements in Quantum Dot (QD) technologies that have been developing for the last 20 years are about to be released due to Quantum Materials Corp./Solterra's revolutionary process for producing Quantum Dots and their flexible Solar Cells. Dr. Glass and CEO Stephen Squires have an oil pollution solution and are providing answers for improving the Environmental & Energy needs of the future! Their new Nanotechnology developments will benefit our earth and mankind in general. Consider owning a part of history in the making before it's another event in the history books you had a chance to capitalize on and didn't.
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QTMM (Quantum Materials Corp) is to the Nano technology field what Amazon.com is to the discount retail field and very few are aware of this.
That is about to change in the next couple months. Quantum Materials Corp has developed a way to mass produce economically the Tetrapod Quantum Dots. This significant breakthrough allows what no other company has been able to do to date and that is provide commercialization of the QD's to the various industries in kilogram quantities economically. The subsidiary Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. is bringing the solar phase of nanotechnology to the forefront. Solterra will be producing and distributing a Thin Film Quantum Dot PV Solar Cell which is differentiated from other PV cells by a unique technology that results in lower cost, higher efficiency, and broader spectral performance. Solterra's Quantum Dot Solar Cell achieves a dramatically lower manufacturing cost per watt because no vacuum equipment is required, no expensive silicon is required and low-cost screen printing and/or inkjet techniques are used on inexpensive substrates. Secondly, the Solterra Thin Film Quantum Dot Solar Cell has the potential to generate multiple excitons from each proton providing the potential for exponential improvements in conversion efficiency. Third, Solterra's PV cell is not only more efficient in the early morning and late afternoon compared to crystalline silicon PV cells, but it also has the potential to harvest light energy in the infrared and ultraviolet spectra. Solar power at night!
This QD technology is truly revolutionary with uses and applications still being explored that will open doors to advances in medical, aerospace, waste heat recovery, biotechnology & optoelectronics. Are you willing to risk loosing out on the next technology revolution that's been in the making for some twenty years? At least put it on your radar screen to monitor. Investing in QTMM may make your chance to retire early a possibility or at least a little more luxurious! IMO QTMM is a global play that's about to pay.
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Note: Significant business development announcements should commence in the 1st Half of 2011. Here's a couple since then:
The Best Of Both Worlds http://www.solterrasolarcells.com/downloads/nphoton2010.pdfQuantum
Dot Continuous Flow Processing Breakthrough Achieved http://www.prweb.com/releases/quantum-dot/quantum-materials/prweb8599745.htm
QMC's Quantum Dots to give NanoAxis a helping hand http://compoundsemiconductor.net/csc/news-details/id/19734037/name/QMCs-quantum-dots-to-give-Nanoaxis-a-helping-hand-.html


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The following has always been his favorite cookie, and I decided to condemn mamou (sorry!) to bake him batches upon batches as he inhales the goodies faster than you can say "snort". The texture and flavor are almost like the eggy, crispy, almond-flavored real deal, only sans egg whites—and sans gluten.
Gros bisous, papou.
1 1/4 cups (200 g) dry roasted unsalted almonds
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons (120 g) raw sugar
2/3 cup (84 g) cornstarch or arrowroot powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
2 teaspoons pure almond extract
2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons (40 ml) water
Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C, or gas mark 4). Line two large cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
Place almonds, sugar, cornstarch or arrowroot powder, baking powder, and salt in food processor. Process until finely ground.
Add extract and start with 1 tablespoon (15 ml) water, adding more until dough appears a bit dry but holds together when pinched.
Divide dough into 16 equal portions of 1 heaping tablespoon (26 g) each. Do not flatten the cookies as they will spread while baking.
Bake for 18 minutes, or until the edges turn golden brown.
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Yield: 16 cookies Note: These cookies make an excellent pie crust: Grind 20 of them and combine with 3 tablespoons (45 ml) melted nondairy butter, or enough for the dough to stick together when pinched. Press crust into lightly greased 9-inch (23-cm) round baking pan or pie plate, pour filling on top, and chill before enjoying.


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Hi fellow foodies! I hope your week is off to a great start! Today, I want to present my recipe for Cracked Buns. They are so yummy and great fresh from the oven. You can melt butter on them or even make a delicious pulled pork sandwich with them.
I'm naming them Cracked Buns due to the large cracks that form during baking. Steam builds up and needs a place to escape and hence, lovely cracks are formed. In addition, there are quite a few leveners in these buns so they really "grow". I think they look super neat but if you like uniformity, you could slice the tops of the buns with a knife before baking to get a more controlled look.
I love these buns because they are easy (as long as you don't mind waiting for the dough to rise) and they are super yummy! My husband said that they taste like the ones his grandmother used to make and he liked them so much he skipped the rest of his dinner to have room for these homemade buns. I've got to say that I was shocked! He chose bread over meat! What is this world coming to? LOL
Have a great day!
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1 cup warm water
1/4 cup warm milk
2 teaspoons yeast
3 tablespoons sugar
3 1/2 cups self rising flour
3 tablespoons melted unsalted butter
2 teaspoons salt
1 large egg
1. In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine water, milk, yeast, and sugar. Allow to sit for five minutes to allow the yeast to bloom.
2. Add flour and butter and mix on low for ten minutes.
3. After ten minutes, add salt and mix on low until incorporated.
4. On a floured surface, pour out dough. It will be fairly sticky. Shape into a ball and allow it to rise in a warm space for 4-6 hours or until doubled.
5. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
6. Place dough on a floured surface and cut into 10 equal portions. Roll into balls tucking sides underneath to create a smooth top surface. Place portions 2 inches apart on a non-stick baking mat on a cookie sheet. At this point, you can cut slits (2) across the surface or you can let them crack naturally.
7. Brush dough with an egg that has been beaten. Bake for 25 minutes.
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Date: Tue 14 Jul 2020
Time: July 14, 2020 10:00 - 15:30 pm
Location: Brentford, Middlesex
Rating: 64 reviews
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You will be welcomed with drinks and home-made honey & oat cookies then introduced to the joys of keeping bees! Our bee keeping began with our first training course at River Cottage in Dorset in May 2009. We've had honey bees here at Hen Corner since August 2011 and were delighted to win First Prize for our London Honey at the National Honey Show in October 2012 followed by a silver cup in 2015 and an armful of awards in 2016.
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Our time together will give a good introduction to urban bee keeping. You will learn about the bees, the role of the beekeeper, different types of bee hive (Omlet Beehaus, National, Poly Nuc) and much more.
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- Understanding the life cycle of the honey bee and castes of the colony
- Discovering the secret life of bees whilst behind the glass of an Observation Hive
- Recognising the roles and responsibilities of the bee keeper throughout the year
- Making frames for the bees to raise their next generation
- Lunch together
- Harvesting some honey (hopefully)
- Then wearing a full smock and veil, each delegate will have the opportunity to inspect a frame of bees at the Beehaus and get a taster of what it would be like to keep bees yourself
We finish our time together with a Honey Tasting and all delegates are forwarded The Omlet Guide to Keeping Bees (online version).
If you decide that bee keeping is for you, we recommend that you link up with your local bee keeping association and consider doing the British Bee Keeping Association Basic Assessment Course.
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Excellent introduction to hen keeping! - Barbara,
This is a wonderful venue in London where you can see chickens roaming and relaxing, and we also got to handle them. We had a great introduction to different types of chicken, what chickens need, how easy it is to keep them in London, and the legal side of what you can feed them and what to do with the eggs. We looked at the Eglu chicken houses and health and hygiene. Sara is warm and welcome and explains things clearly and patiently. She is a great hostess too and we enjoyed delicious homemade cake with our tea, and homemade jam in our goodie bags. The group was mixed with some young children and they really enjoyed it too. A great experience for all the family. Thanks to Sara and her family for running these courses!
Great introduction to urban hen keeping - Susie,
It may have been pouring with rain, but we still had an excellent time learning the basics of urban hen keeping. Sara and Andy were very generous with their time and hospitality, and gave loads of practical advice. We loved the home-made refreshments, and the goody bags too!
Introduction to Bee Keeping - Lark,
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Fake Professor at Wikipedia
Wikipedia already has an article on the controversy of course. It notes:
The Essjay controversy arose after The New Yorker magazine disclosed that a prominent English Wikipedia editor and administrator known by the name "Essjay", who was also briefly employed at Wikia, had lied about his age, background, and academic credentials, including claiming to have a doctoral degree. At the recommendation of the Wikimedia Foundation, Stacy Schiff interviewed Essjay as a source for a July 2006 New Yorker article which described Essjay as having notable academic credentials, which he confirmed at the time.[1] In February 2007 an editor's note was added to the original article, explaining that Essjay now said these credentials were non-existent and were part of an online persona he had created in part to avoid cyberstalking.[2] Essjay had described himself on his user profile as "a tenured professor of theology at a private university in the eastern United States."[3] According to the note, he now said he was Ryan Jordan, a 24-year-old community college dropout from Kentucky and that he had relied on sources such as Catholicism for Dummies when editing articles.
While shocking, this kind of deception is not new and is not limited to Wikipedia. Does anyone remember Jayson Blair? He both plagiarized and fabricated articles at the New York Times for several years. I do not think Blair has proven that the New York Times is a bad resource though despite his fraud.
And let's not forget about Stephen Glass at the New Republic. 27 of 41 stories written by Glass for the magazine contained fabricated material. He wrote such fake gems as a 15 year old at national hacker convention and a Church of George Herbert Walker Bush, Jesus Christ. I still like the New Republic as a resource despite the Glass incident.
People fabricating degrees is not new either. The Chronicle of Higher Education frequently exposes people in higher education with diploma mill degrees. For example, history adjunct Fred Ruhlman at the University of Tennessee was reported at Cliopatria, "(His) "doctorate" is from "the American University of London", a notorious diploma mill and his book, Captain Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison, was withdrawn from publication by the University of Tennessee Press because of its plagiarism from William Marvel's Andersonville: The Last Depot." While embarrassing for the University of Tennessee, it hardly means UT degrees are now worthless.
I can find those fake Blair articles in my library right now in the microfilm versions of the New York Times. Those fake Glass articles from the New Republic are still in the bound periodical section of the library too. However, every edit Essjay has made is being examined and altered if it is found to be problematic. Unlike the mainstream press who have their mistakes archived forever in libraries, Wikipedia can be fixed when the fraud is discovered.
What is the lesson here? We need to teach our students how to critically evaluate any information they find. This includes stuff in print and online. Further, we should never be allowing our students to use encyclopedias (be it Wikipedia or the Encyclopædia Britannica) as a main source for a paper. Encyclopedias exist to give background information to get the research started. They should rarely be cited.
As Wikipedia has thousands of editors from around the world, it is not surprising that bad Wikipedians can be found just like bad academics with fabricated credentials in higher education can be found and bad writers with fake stories can be found in the mainstream media. The Essjay fake professor incident can be cited as a successful example of how the Wikipedia community was able to detect and fix the problem. However, this is such a good story, I guess I am not surprised that so many news sources are taking the whole incident out of context. In the meantime, I have no doubt that Wikipedia will continue on strong and that my students will continue to keep using Wikipedia . And I will have to keep educating them about the appropriateness of using encyclopedias as their main sources...
4 comments:
- Jennie W said...
Just one more reason why I won't let my students cite Wikipedia!
- M said...
Do you let them use the New York Times or the New Republic? After all, Blair and Glass put false info in those publications and they are still sitting on the library shelves, errors and all.
People have been know to lie, even in academia. Is it really surprising that it happened at Wikipedia?
Wikipedia can be used as a teaching tool. Let the students use it but then make them prove what they find by using more scholarly resources. I do not think banning students from Wikipedia is the answer. They just read it anyone but do not list it on their references page!
- Steve Muhlberger said...
The number of offers I've had to write encyclopedia articles in recent years has made me pretty suspicious of expensive special purpose encyclopedias from reputable presses!
- Jennie W said...
I'm actually thinking of making an assignment where the students have to edit Wikipedia articles by checking all their facts.
As to my policies - I let them use it for discussion, but not a source in papers. I try to make it clear that I'm not merely being annoying, but that they need to VERIFY all the facts in Wikipedia because there is no way to know if it is accurate or not.


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- Watching the game with Pat, he implored Ben to do "4th quarter Ben stuff." In a nutshell, what it means is that we've become so accustomed to Ben doing spectacular things in the 4th quarter when the game is on the line. Well, Ben only passed the ball three times in the 4th quarter on Sunday, so we'll extend it to the last quarter and a half. His stats during that time: 4/6, 95 yards, 109.7 QB rating. Highly efficient, and he made three huge throws: a 48-yard bomb to Holmes, a 31-yard strike to Ward that got us out of the shadow of our end zone, and then a 19-yard rope to Miller against his body that helped seal the game. That, my friends, is "4th quarter Ben stuff."
- A little curious we did not see Rashard Mendenhall get any carries. Could it have been due to the wet weather and concerns about him handling the ball? On another note, Willie Parker had a grind it out type of game and a stat-line that would have made Jerome Bettis proud: 28 carries, 105 yards, 3.8 ypc. He showed he is fully capable of getting the tough yards between the tackles. He's come a long way since he arrived in camp as an undrafted free agent in 2004.
- Let's be clear, no one will confuse this offensive line with the Cowboys of the mid 90's. That said, we don't need them to be all-world. All we need is for them to be decent, and through two games, they have been. They've opened up some decent holes in the run game, and they've only allowed four sacks… more than a full sack per game less than last season. Let's hope it continues.
- The big news from yesterday was that Brett Keisel will miss up to two months with a calf injury. It won't be as bad as losing Aaron Smith at the end of last season, but it will still be a significant blow. I've liked what I've seen thus far from Nick Eason, but I question how he and Kirschke will hold up if they have to spot start. We're also going to find out just how much Orpheus Roye really has left in the tank.
- Surprise, surprise. Larry Foote missed a few more open field tackles Sunday night. Timmons can't start soon enough. As for the other linebackers, they had pretty nondescript games. Harrison generated some decent pressure but couldn't close the deal, and Woodley was quiet all night. Farrior committed an uncharacteristic unsportsmanlike penalty, although I don't know if it was bullshit or not because NBC never showed a replay.
- How nice was it to see Troy revert back to "old Troy." He made his presence felt right away, blowing up the run in the backfield on the Browns first play from scrimmage. Troy is one of the few guys in this league that has the size, speed, and athletic ability to hang with the Antonio Gates's and Kellen Winslow's of the world, and he provided superb coverage against Winslow all night. And he absolutely baited Anderson into a terrible throw at the end of the first half, resulting in a momentum-changing pick. And he almost made a highlight reel stop in the backfield, timing his jump with the two-minute warning and leaping over the Browns offensive line. Player of the game, in my opinion.
- The other guy who had a big game in the secondary? Bryant McFadden. It's going to be a shame if they don't re-sign him. He's a legit starting cornerback, and he's the perfect replacement for Deshea. They invested a 2nd round pick in him, and I question why they would take all this time to develop him and then let him go right when he's hitting his prime. He filled in admirably for Deshea, hauling in an INT and breaking up a huge pass to Braylon Edwards in the 4th quarter.
- Jeff Reed nailed a 48-yard field goal in the middle of a pseudo-Hurricane. At this point, I don't think I'd trade him for any other kicker. He's money in the bank.
- Summary of last night's NBC telecast:
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- Someone want to tell me how the hell Rogers wasn't penalized for that late hit where he planted his helmet right into Ben's shoulder?
- It seems this coaching staff learned their mistake. After playing not to lose at the end of the Jacksonville playoff game, they played to win and trusted Ben to put the ball in the air on the final drive. The result: that aforementioned 19-yard rope to Miller that pretty much put the game away.
- In response to Pat's inquiry (Re: Favorite Romeo Crennel mishap from Sunday night), my vote goes to the horrible, horrible use of his final timeout at the end of the game. Let's start from the top: The play prior to Crennel's usage of his final timeout started at 2:57, according to NFL.com play-by-play. So let's say the play ended at 2:51. At this point, you can call a timeout right away, try and stop the Steelers on 2nd down, and then make them have to snap the ball on 3rd down before the two-minute warning. Or, you can let the game-clock keep rolling, make a stop on 2nd down, then call a timeout at around 2:05 and again make them snap the ball on 3rd down before the two-minute warning. The WORST thing you can do is exactly what Crennel did: let the game-clock run a bit, then call a timeout at 2:42. Now, the 2nd down play will undoubtedly take the game-clock to the two minute warning, and the other team doesn't have to take the 3rd down snap until after the two-minute warning. In essence, Crennel cost his team a valuable 40 seconds. These are simple time-management skills every NFL head coach should have, and you can rest-assured that if Mike Tomlin ever makes the same asinine decision Crennel made, you will hear me bitching.
Bears-Panthers: Things were looking bleak, and then Jonathan Stewart saved my teaser bet in the 2nd half.
Titans-Bengals: 0-7 for the Bengals? Their next five games: at New York Giants, vs. Cleveland, at Dallas, at New York Jets, vs. Pittsburgh
Packers-Lions: 6 catches, 129 yards, 2 TD's for Calvin Johnson. He's blowing up, people. Oh, and that Aaron Rodgers guy is pretty good, too.
Bills-Jaguars: The Jags are facing the very real prospect of going 0-3 with next week's trip to Indy looming.
Raiders-Chiefs: This game may have set football back 100 years.
Colts-Vikings: It's gonna take time for Tarvaris Jackson to find his way, time that the Vikings may not be able to afford.
Giants-Rams: 79 points allowed by the Rams defense in the first two games. Scott Linehan isn't making it through this season if this keeps up.
Saints-Redskins: Saints have to play better than that. They have a legitimate contender in the NFC South in the form of the Carolina Panthers.
49ers-Seahawks: I think they were picking people out of the stands to play receiver for the Seahawks.
Falcons-Buccaneers: See what happens when you face a real defense, Matt Ryan? And Jeff Garcia is getting a raw deal down in Tampa.
Dolphins-Cardinals: Maybe, just maybe, this is the year for the Cardinals.
Chargers-Broncos: The Chargers got screwed. Absolutely, screwed. That said, what a gutsy, gutsy decision by Mike Shanahan to go for the win with a two-point conversion. I loved the call, and wish more coaches would consider it rather than placing their fates on a coin toss.
Patriots-Jets: I think the Patriots still win that division, even with Matt Cassel at the helm.
Eagles-Cowboys: Apparently, the Doubt About It crew missed quite a first half while attending the Pirates-Dodgers game.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The Stache Report: Week 2
- Watching the game with Pat, he implored Ben to do "4th quarter Ben stuff." In a nutshell, what it means is that we've become so accustomed to Ben doing spectacular things in the 4th quarter when the game is on the line. Well, Ben only passed the ball three times in the 4th quarter on Sunday, so we'll extend it to the last quarter and a half. His stats during that time: 4/6, 95 yards, 109.7 QB rating. Highly efficient, and he made three huge throws: a 48-yard bomb to Holmes, a 31-yard strike to Ward that got us out of the shadow of our end zone, and then a 19-yard rope to Miller against his body that helped seal the game. That, my friends, is "4th quarter Ben stuff."
Posted by Dave Wannstache at 12:15 AM
Labels: Pittsburgh Steelers, Stache Report
5 comments:
- Timothy Keller said...
Love the analysis on the chiefs raiders game...hahaha the west coast sucks wakin up at 10 some mornings to watch these games...keep it real
- September 16, 2008 at 2:56 AM
- Pat said...
That play Troy made jumping over the line at the end of the first half exhibited better clock management in one play than the Browns did in the entire game. He timed his jump off the clock, knowing that it would be impossible for him to be offsides given that the Browns would either snap it at 2:01 when he jumped or the two minute warning would render the play meaningless.
- September 16, 2008 at 8:49 AM
- Unknown said...
It'll be interesting to see how Kiesel's injury affects the D. I thin kyou are gonna see McNabb tear them up next week, unfortunately
- September 16, 2008 at 11:00 AM
- Dave Wannstache said...
It'll be interesting to see how Kiesel's injury affects the D. I thin kyou are gonna see McNabb tear them up next week, unfortunately
The Eagles are going to spread us out, that's for sure. In terms of next week, I think we'll miss Keisel's ability to rush the passer from the D-end spot more than his run stopping ability.
And let's hope Deshea is ready to go this week. As I said, the Eagles are going to spread us out, so the top 3 CB's, whoever they are, are going to get a ton of work.
- September 16, 2008 at 1:29 PM
- Unknown said...
Scott Linehan can't win with that team, you can't win with that team, I can't win with that team, Vince Lombardi can't win with that team. He shouldn't be canned.
Romeo, however...
- September 16, 2008 at 4:02 PM


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SUNNY, CRISP, ROCKY: The snowy scene is often the same. Picture a big lodge, some fir trees, a set of skis, an bench covered in ice, a frozen waterfall. The national parks aren't known for closing the front door in winter, but many of them go pretty dang cold come January, making them a destination for hearty 'n hale types. But a number of California parks stay golden, even in the heart of the chilliest month. Joshua Tree National Park is one, courtesy of its wild 'n rock-strewn desert location. True, a desert night can give any location on the planet an admirable run for sheer brrr-o-sity, but wintertime days tend to be downright glorious. That is, of course, if you like soft breezes, long views, and all of that yellowy-nice sunshine. So, what's to do around Joshua, when a big music festival isn't unfurling and the wildflowers haven't quite arrived? Why not go...
SCINTILLATING STARGAZING: The Milky Way? Yep, it is pretty much a nightly thing above the arid region. The park people recommend arriving with binocs and a star chart. Or maybe a miniature telescope? It's deep space time, for sure.
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RANGER PROGRAMS: Like all parks, the programs are plentiful and diverse. Canyon walks and cacti talks dot the Joshua Tree schedule. Doesn't that sound like a little slice of sunshine, after the go-go-go holiday season? Yes, it does.


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Mitra Best, Chief Innovation Officer and Principal in new ventures business at PwC shares why we should talk about race in the workplace.
Mitra Best, Chief Innovation Officer and Principal in new ventures business at PwC shares why we should talk about race in the workplace.
We must ask why the world should remember the Holocaust, which began more than 75 years ago and enveloped almost all of Europe.
For the past three years, Dr. Sybil Hampton has been featured as a guest speaker for Facing History and Ourselves' online course, "Choices in Little Rock." Her experience as one of the first African American students to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1962 makes her a witness to history. She shares her reflections on why she chooses to participate in Facing History's online professional development courses.
Rather than shy away from difficult issues adults have an obligation to help students face them. Social emotional learning is an effective way to do this.
We can look to the aftermath of the Civil War—another period of deep division within the US—to better understand the 2016 presidential election.
Acts of moral courage are not common, they are exceptional. People actively create opportunities to rescue or choose to help others. It can happen in a blink of an eye or after long deliberation, but these moments are not accidental.
Studying the history of migration reveals insight into who we are today and provides context for today's current conversations about migration and immigration.
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I became interested in international criminal law and genocide prevention through Facing History and Ourselves' founder Margot Stern Strom, for whom I interned during my gap year between high school and college. Margot introduced me to the thoughts of Benjamin Ferencz, the only surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials. As I read through Ben's articles and books, I internalized his call to action. Margot and Ben's approach to the world resonated with my heart, my deepest sense of human dignity, and my own moral reasoning as to how we must learn to get along with each other as one human community.


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High Gas Prices Transform Geo Metros From Weak To Chic
The formerly mocked and neglected Geo Metro is finding new popularity amidst high gas prices. According to CNN, the Geo Metro is making a spectacular comeback, especially on eBay. You might be surprised to learn that the Geo Metro and Toyota Prius get nearly the same gas mileage. Now consider that a Metro can be found for about $7000 compared to a new Prius which costs $21,000+, it becomes easy to see the attraction. Details, inside…
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Marci Solomon considered a Prius but decided the Metro was the best economical choice for her. The article says,
For the most part, Solomon plans on using the car for commuting from her home in Rochester, Washington, to her job. The vehicle she has now, a Honda Element, was getting 28 mpg, and she was filling up twice a week, costing her nearly $100. Stations were charging $3.97 a gallon in her area Tuesday, she said. The Metro is an investment in the future, Solomon said, even if she did pay more than five times the Blue Book value of the car.
"It was all about saving money," she said. "I don't think gas is ever going to go down, and these are going to be the types of solutions we have to turn to. I wanted to beat the rush."
The rush may have begun. The 1996 2-door 3-cylinder Metro Solomon now owns opened on eBay May 7 with a bid of $200. A week later, Solomon won the car auction with a bid of $7,300. In 1995, a new Metro hatchback sold for about $9,000, according to Auto Mall USA.
In May alone, 43 Metros of various years and models were sold on eBay, ranging in price from $221.50 to Solomon's bid of $7,300. The cars have been hot items, drawing upwards of 49 bids on certain vehicles, with many of the auctions coming down to last-second bidding wars. On Tuesday morning, 34 Metros were still up for grabs.
It's good to see this little guy making a comeback. Obviously, a Prius is going to offer more in the way of safety, speed, style and features but saving $14,000 on a car that gets nearly as good gas mileage makes good economic sense. So the next time you see a Metro roll up, don't disrespect, they're rockin' 46 miles a gallon!
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Many years ago, I was sat in a park with a few friends on one of those hazy summer days where Britain seems the most beautiful place in the world. We were discussing the rumours of Oasis – a band who held a special place in our hearts since our early teenage years – splitting after yet another Liam and Noel row. At that age, a band you love breaking up is far worse than Katie in X-Band sending you a message via a mutual friend that 'it's not you, it's me' and so, mulling over our bottle of cider, we were solemnly contemplating the end.
All of a sudden, someone piped up: 'Yeah, but imagine if Noel did a solo album. Wouldn't that be amazing?'
Nods and sounds of agreement quickly followed. Though many of Oasis's finest moments came and went in a cloud of spittle and feedback, Noel Gallagher had a remarkable ability of sitting down with a limited number of chords, beer-mat philosophies, a savvy knowledge of pop culture and like a Mancunian Rumpelstiltskin, somehow weaving poignant gold from them. 'Whatever', 'Slide Away', 'Live Forever', 'Cast No Shadow', 'The Masterplan', 'Don't Go Away', 'Talk Tonight': he had a way of writing simple, striking songs that lodged themselves into your heart and refused to budge. That's a simple concept to state, but an astonishingly hard one to accomplish. The idea of his songs, stripped down to basics and reconstructed without the ever-wearying bluster of Oasis, was a wonderful concept for our minds to savour.
The above scene took place in August 2000. Remarkably, took nine more years of slow decay for Oasis to finally implode. And over the years since that discussion, our faces aged but our confidence grew. Liam is writing more of the songs? Noel must be saving his best ones for his solo record. Oasis have split? Ah, it was coming. Noel will have his album out soon. Beady Eye's album is about as enjoyable as having your eardrums introduced to sulphuric acid? Noel will blow us all away.
And so; many months and moons on, I finally receive Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
And it's just… ok. Nothing more and nothing less.
Everything starts so promisingly. 'Everybody's on the Run' is full of portentous drama, breaking tensions and woozy strings as Noel bellows out the lyrics like a man desperate to prove his point. It's disarming, bold and captivating – a fine opener. And 'If I Had a Gun', though stuffed full of typical Noel clichés, is probably the closest sibling to his tender ballads of old: sweet, effortless and endearing. 'The Death of You and Me' garners a smile through its Tom Waits/ New Orleans jazz break but best of all is 'AKA… What a Life!', the one moment where Noel truly steps out from his safety zone while splices drone and piano with a stark disco beat. His oddly detached, existentialist vocal entwines disarmingly with the music and there's an understated threat lying just below the surface. It's one of the best tracks from him in the last decade and shows what he's still capable of. It's also a fine example of the simple and uncluttered approach showcased by his new band. Almost entirely, the musicianship on the record is excellent.
Between these standout tracks however, sit a worrying and frustrating amount of ponderous filler. 'Dream On' is a papier-mâché remodelling of 'The Importance of Being Idle' that, whilst possessing a good melody, offers little else apart from an unnecessarily drawn-out ending. '(I Wanna Live in a Dream in My) Record Machine' is pure autopilot – Noel by Numbers. Again, it's not so much bad as maddeningly meandering. It doesn't say or do anything of note and after a while, this continual drift begins to grate and irritate. 'AKA… Broken Arrow' starts off with a nice Smiths-esque shuffle but ends up compromising to a timid and predictable chorus. And most disappointing of all is the closing 'Stop the Clocks', a song Noel was extolling the virtues of as far back as 2002 and stating that it was one of the best things he'd ever written. Such proclamations appear to have little in common with the mediocre offering on display here: four minutes of nothing in particular followed by a brief explosion of adrenaline and lead guitar that seems designed to achieve some sort of belated climax. It doesn't and it's a stultifyingly anti-climactic end to proceedings.
What is most lacking here is the sense of wonder or triumph associated with Noel's finest moments. Bereft of these, what you are left with are 10 largely freewheeling tracks that neither amaze nor appal: an adequate selection that, were they were written by someone who didn't have Noel Gallagher's CV would go largely unheralded (though let's just settle one argument here: it still wipes the floor with Different Gear, Still Speeding). Lyrically potholes aside (and Noel has always been prone to those), there's nothing truly reproachable on here. But mostly, it is a formulaic affair. Tick the boxes, add a few strings, loud bit here, quiet bit there - it presents as the musical equivalent of a catering buffet that while attractive, initially satisfying and never truly souring of the palate, ends up quickly becoming a homogenised sprawl that fails to tempt you back for second helpings.
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Cundinamarca : Choachí
Choachí is a small town East of Bogotá, in Cundinamarca. Located 1923 meters above see level, much lower than Bogotá and hence with milder weather.
The road leading to Choachí is the main reason to visit. Beautiful Andean views from your departure. Also, since the road leaves Bogotá right from downtown, you avoid the horrific traffic going to the towns North and West of Bogotá.
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Coordinates 04º 31'52" of North latitude and 73º 55'33" of West longitude.
If you use a locally acquired GPS it may also route you Bogota-Ubaque-Choachi. This is also scenic but has a long stretch of mud track that is easier with a 4WD vehicle.
For 10,000 pesos, you can take a small charter bus. The buses DO NOT leave from the main bus terminal in Bogota - do not go there. You will have to find a bus station on Calle 6 at Av Caracas, next to police station.
Get around
Walking should suffice to see town. The hot springs are on a dirty road and a cab ride is in order for most tourists.
Main plaza, clean and quiet.
Hot Springs are available at Termales Santa Mónica [3]. Sundays' entry is 20,000 pesos for adults. Hotel and restaurant services available.
There is an abundance of small restaurants and bars along the main street. Leaving town towards Bogota there is also a BBQ restaurant with clay oven and excellent views over the valley and mountains.
Hotel available at Termales Santa Mónica [http://www.termalessantamonica.com/home.htm�] a 5 min drive from town.
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Distributed operations have become a reality for multinational businesses, including software development outfits — companies have to leverage talent wherever it resides, even if teams are located across several countries or continents. As such, many organizations have embraced agile development techniques in order to respond to both business demands and the changing workforce landscape. So how do vastly distributed agile teams actually work?
IBM recently joined with a team of academic researchers from the United States, India, and Senegal who put a truly distributed agile development team to the test. Using a collaborative lifecycle management (CLM) tool platform, the researchers challenged five masters-level students in computer science to work together using the agile methodology to create a mobile phone application that can be used as a first-grade-level teaching aide in underdeveloped countries throughout Africa.
The Project
In order to implement this progressive nine-week project, the researchers and project team had to determine whether agile development practices could really work across continents. The student team was generally familiar with agile principles as applied in more traditional settings, where team members are co-located in a single building or campus. The team followed the Scrum project management framework, using IBM Rational Team Concert to support the software development process.
The project was created to challenge students from New York, Delhi, and Dakar to develop a single piece of software together — a mobile application dedicated to helping children learn reading, writing, mathematics, and geography through quizzes. According to IBM Rational's Gina Poole, the emphasis was on providing students with a real experience using agile methodologies with Scrum, supported by an end-to-end tooling solution. Additionally, students had the opportunity to gain skills in mobile application development with Java ME, including high-level interface design, the design patterns common in mobile application development, and best practices in usability.
The project was managed by Christelle Scharff of the Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Pace University in New York; Olly Gotel an independent researcher also in New York; and Vidya Kulkarni of the Computer Science Department at the University of Delhi in India. It involved five graduate students enrolled in a Master of Computer Science degree program at their respective universities — one in the U.S. (Pace University), two in India (University of Delhi), and two in Senegal (Ecole Superieure Polytechnique). The project was not integrated into a course; students volunteered to participate in this project on the top of their other school commitments.
The team of five students developed a mobile phone application called "Target First Grade" that permits pupils in the first grade (5-6 years old) to practice mathematics, reading, writing, and geography, supervised by teachers or on their own. The application requirements were for use in developing countries, where classes of 60 to 80 pupils are common, and teachers cannot provide individual attention to their pupils.
Target First Grade was designed to be used in English- and French-speaking countries and to work on a wide range of basic mobile phones. It was to deliver exercises in the form of open-ended and multiple-choice questions, and to automatically compute scores.
What Was Learned?
The project provided a wealth of data on distributed agile teamwork, including finding out, first hand, unforeseen problem areas. For example:
- Estimates did not improve over the Sprints due to the unrealistic implicit goals of the students (absences were not factored into the planning of Sprints, nor were holidays and exams, and team member absences were not automatically populated in the tool)
- While three of the students had the chance to experience the Scrum Master role and daily scrums helped detect issues like Internet availability, Scrums were not done regularly, which reduced visibility for the Process Coach and the whole team, and inconsistencies in the chronology led to confusion
- No time was used for deciding how to work more smoothly together and integrate work, and the time difference between the three countries was problematic
- Current builds were not visible for demonstration and testing, and the student developers tested their own work but did not test each other's work after the first Sprint
- The developers did not work as one team, but as three smaller separate teams.
According to the researchers, "Agile methodologies and Scrum increased the transparency of both the process and the software product in development, which is crucial when developers are distributed. Their practices and principles require developers to be disciplined and regular in their work linked with engineering, communication, and project management. In students' global software development projects, instructor coaches will need to factor in time to check that developers/students are doing the tasks linked with process and management (e.g., estimations, decomposition of tasks, and standardization of code). Students need practice to get to that level of discipline."
The results of the study can be downloaded here, but the research continues. Professor Christelle Scharff said, "The project is ongoing," noting that, in another 2010 portion of this global software development project, the focus was on quality with auditors and testers involved. "The plan is to have a new version in the Fall 2011 where students will collaborate again on the development of some mobile applications on a specific theme."
And what of Target First Grade? "We did not reach the deployment of Target First Grade and its use by children of Senegal. The goal of the study was more on having students learn about global software development (its challenges and advantages first hand), process, tools, and mobile app development. The project was too short to obtain a software that could be developed as it was," said Scharff, adding, "I decided, however, to have some students working on improving Target First Grade this semester and do a small pilot." So a useful mobile app may yet emerge from the experiment.
And the study colored the perception of at least five future computer scientists in regard to global agile development work — the five students involved in the project were reportedly pleased to be part of it, and are quoted as calling it both "memorable" and "enjoyable."


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Each semester in LIS768 we take an hour and talk about Second Life and log in to see what it's like. This is the first semester that we have actually chatted with a Reference Librarian and I was very happy the class got to participate. The librarian spoke with the class and told us she does a voluntary 2 hour shift weekly in world and gets a good number of reference questions from outside of LIS folk.
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Meet Neoma
Neoma Jardon has been a Reno City Council member since 2012. Neoma came to the Council with over 20 years of business experience. She is a native Nevadan that earned her associate's degree in office administration from Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC) and her Human Resources Management certification from the University of Nevada, Reno. Neoma lives with her husband and two children in Somersett. Neoma is actively involved in the committees listed below.
- Reno City Council Member since 2012
- Current Chair of the Regional Transportation Commission of Washoe County
- Vice Chair of the Truckee Meadows Water Authority
- Chair of the Special Events Committee
- Council Liaison to Senior Citizen Advisory Committee
- Council Liaison to the Re-Development Agency Advisory Board
- Alumna of the year TMCC
- Woman of Achievement – Nevada Women's Fund
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Woman of the Year
- Graduate of the Chamber of Commerce Leadership Reno/Sparks Program
- Honorary Chair of Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
- Board of Directors – Fun Camp, Inc. a Nevada non-profit that sends under privileged Washoe County children to summer camp.