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If you haven't had a Boom Boom Burger yet, you're in for a treat! Not only are their burgers delicious; all their ingredients are fresh and local. This is the kind of place I definitely want to support. Their beef is all grass-fed (which is more nutritious.) A major benefit of raising animals on pasture is that their products are healthier for you. The old saying "you are what you eat" is true for animals as well! Their bacon and cheeses are made at local farms and the bread is from the Flour Garden Bakery. The Flour Garden Bakery is locally owned and only the best ingredients are used to create fine, handcrafted breads. The bacon is from Polyface Farm; Polyface is a family owned, pasture-based, organic, local-market farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Boom Booms vision is inspiring; "Our vision is to enrich the lives of our neighbors, customers and employees through local, naturally fresh food and our holistic business model."
The menu is simple and I think there's something to be said for that. When I looked at the menu, I had my heart set on the BBQ Boom, but decided to go with the Boom Classic instead. The Boom Classic comes with Colby, grilled onion, BOOM sauce, and pickles for $8.00. I added bacon for an extra $2.00 and it was well worth it! First I'll start by saying that the "BOOM sauce" should be renamed the "Boom Boom Wow Sauce!" This sauce was absolutely delicious and it was very difficult to maintain my lady-like composure and resist the urge to lick my fingers! The burgers are made fresh to order; they are not assembled. I actually watched the guys in the back making the patties by hand! The burgers are then broiled with cheese and assembled. The burger was just the right size and best of all it wasn't dripping in grease. Boom Boom doesn't have traditional sides; instead they have seasonal fresh sides. Today's options were sweet potatoes, macaroni and cheese, and collard greens. I chose the collard greens braised with onions and wasn't disappointed. I'll definitely be back for more; I want to support an establishment like this that serves quality food and has a focus on fresh and local. Although it's a little more expensive that other places, it's definitely worth the extra few extra dollars for the quality of ingredients they have to offer.
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The wide tree-lined avenues of Isidora Goyenechea, El Bosque Norte and Apoquindo are filled with steel and glass skyscrapers and five star hotels, though the quieter side streets host modern apartment blocks.
This area doesn't offer much by the way of history, but it does present an interesting glimpse into how the middle class live, work and play.
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We have been hearing rumors about a potential Windows RT Nokia tablet for quite a while now, though since the end of August numerous leaks have surfaced on the web showcasing hardware and internal features as well as software.
The renowned mobile tech whistle blower @evleaks, tweeted two pictures of the forthcoming tablet. One in red and the other one dressed in Nokia's classic cyan color – the one that the Lumia 800 came in.
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The Nokia Lumia 2520, as known as Sirius, will exhibit identical design elements to the smartphone Lumia line up – since it belongs to that family – and will run Microsoft's Windows RT. Reportedly, under the hood the tablet will feature Qualcomm's latest and most powerful mobile CPU, the quad core Snapdragon 800 clocked at 2.3GHz alongside with Adreno 330 GPU for premiere 3D gaming experience and 2 gigs of memory.
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ACT 5 SCENE II. The same. A roomin the DUKE OF YORK's palace.
[Enter YORK and his DUCHESS.]
DUCHESS. My Lord, you told me you would tell the rest, When weeping made you break the story off, Of our two cousins' coming into London.
YORK. Where did I leave?
DUCHESS. At that sad stop, my lord, Where rude misgoverned hands from windows' tops Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head.
YORK. Then, as I said, the Duke, great Bolingbroke, Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know, With slow but stately pace kept on his course, Whilst all tongues cried 'God save thee, Bolingbroke!' You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage; and that all the walls With painted imagery had said at once 'Jesu preserve thee! Welcome, Bolingbroke!' Whilst he, from the one side to the other turning, Bareheaded, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus, 'I thank you, countrymen:' And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.
DUCHESS. Alack, poor Richard! where rode he the whilst?
YORK. As in a theatre, the eyes of men After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard: no man cried 'God save him;' No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home; But dust was thrown upon his sacred head, Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him. But heaven hath a hand in these events, To whose high will we bound our calm contents. To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now, Whose state and honour I for aye allow.
DUCHESS. Here comes my son Aumerle.
YORK. Aumerle that was; But that is lost for being Richard's friend, And madam, you must call him Rutland now. I am in Parliament pledge for his truth And lasting fealty to the new-made king.
[Enter AUMERLE.]
DUCHESS. Welcome, my son: who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new come spring?
AUMERLE. Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not. God knows I had as lief be none as one.
YORK. Well, bear you well in this new spring of time, Lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime. What news from Oxford? hold those justs and triumphs?
AUMERLE. For aught I know, my lord, they do.
YORK. You will be there, I know.
AUMERLE. If God prevent not, I purpose so.
YORK. What seal is that that without thy bosom? Yea, look'st thou pale? Let me see the writing.
AUMERLE. My lord, 'tis nothing.
YORK. No matter, then, who see it. I will be satisfied; let me see the writing.
AUMERLE. I do beseech your Grace to pardon me; It is a matter of small consequence Which for some reasons I would not have seen.
YORK. Which for some reasons, sir, I mean to see. I fear, I fear —
DUCHESS. What should you fear? 'Tis nothing but some bond that he is ent'red into For gay apparel 'gainst the triumph day.
YORK. Bound to himself! What doth he with a bond That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a fool. Boy, let me see the writing.
AUMERLE. I do beseech you, pardon me; I may not show it.
YORK. I will be satisfied; let me see it, I say.
[Snatches it and reads.]
Treason, foul treason! Villain! traitor! slave!
DUCHESS. What is the matter, my lord?
YORK. Ho! who is within there?
[Enter a Servant.]
Saddle my horse. God for his mercy! what treachery is here!
DUCHESS. Why, what is it, my lord?
YORK. Give me my boots, I say; saddle my horse. Now, by mine honour, by my life, my troth, I will appeach the villain.
[Exit Servant.]
DUCHESS. What is the matter?
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i have connected to DHCP address. when the server is down i do not get IP adress. [student@ws108 network-scripts]$ cat ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="" NEEDHOSTNAME=yes [student@ws108 network-scripts]$ [student@ws108 network-scripts]$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:09:18:ED:D9 inet addr:10.255.240.104 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::211:9ff:fe18:edd9/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:362179 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16013 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:33387890 (31.8 Mb) TX bytes:2192496 (2.0 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x9000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:702 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:702 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:49903 (48.7 Kb) TX bytes:49903 (48.7 Kb) [student@ws108 network-scripts]$ how to set my file to get a fixed ip addres even though the server is down. |
If it is only for a temporary until the DHCP is up again you can always (as superuser/root) use the ifconfig command to set your IP for the desired interface.
ifconfig <interface> <ip-address> Example: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.166 This is however temporary and if the dhcpcd suddenly receives an address your interface would most likely be updated. Also if you reboot the machine or do a network restart it will also revert back to the old settings. |
okey just forget about DHCP
okey just forget about DHCP server.
i have only one standalone system. i do not want to fix my IP address every time using "ifconfig" but whenever my system boot's i have to have a fixed IP address. this is what i need. ----thanks. |
I am not using Mandrake any more, but I did a few years ago and the network configuration was very straightforward.
Actual programs may have changed a little since I used Mandrake but it should be pretty straight forward. If you are using X then I suggest you find the Network & Internet settings in the menus of system configuration. When the application starts you should be given a choice to configure your interface as either DHCP assigned address or manual assigned addresses, then it should give you options to fill in IP address, netmask and anything else that you need. This change will be permanent even after reboot. Otherwise you can most likely use drakconf or drakconnect (don't remember the exact name) to accomplish this just as well from the shell. Of course you could bang the config files directly, assuming Mandrake still is quite similar to a RedHat box an example of how to do this would be something like below. Please back up any settings before you change them, if you do a mistake you can always go back. Personally I use RCS on my settings to be able to revert to an older version if necessary. in /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=YES HOSTNAME=barky GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 <--- or eth1 etc depending on which is your LAN interface DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 IPADDR=192.168.0.5 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=YES You then need to tell the system where your nameserver sits /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 192.168.0.253 Now all these IP's are just examples. You should of course change them to what is relevant for your system. After that a /etc/init.d/network restart command should bring them to effect. Cheers, Ichimusai |
yeah it works well.thanks.
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Has anyone got any information on this? Some Canadian beekeepers are claiming varroa mite control using it.
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Has anyone got any information on this? Some Canadian beekeepers are claiming varroa mite control using it.
News to me. Seems like there was some other type of biological control a number of years ago that apparently never panned out but I am struggling to remember the specifics. I would guess one of the issues is that bees just don't tolerate intruders of any kind in the hive.
The biocontrol agent from a few years ago was a fungus... Metarhizium anisopliae. I have wondered about predatory mites before as they can be effective in horticultural settings. The question is would Stratiolaelaps live and reproduce in a hive? It is a very specific environment to be adapted to and does not appear to fit into its natural life cycle. I could be wrong and maybe they are very adaptable.
What are the sources of these reports from beekeepers?
Any idea what the application protocol would be???
If it does help, we would have killed them off years ago with the acaracides... there were 30 some mites that used to live in harmony on bees before we started treating for Varroa.
The same is true in horticulture, however there are IPM strategies that specifically plan for care and consideration of the beneficials such as species specific treatments and host plant nurseries to name a few. If these things did work affordably for Varroa clean comb would be necessity. Study of the the culture of predatory mites is part of how I stumbled into bees.
Who are these Canadians making these claims? Anything published?
a report of some success
The article Linked to by Michael Palmer states these are a soil predatory mite. Perhaps releasing them into the soil around the hives would help reduce mites instead of putting them inside the hive? Since they are soil predatory mites, maybe they would work for control of small hive beetles?
Do these mites eat early instar bee larvae? The photo in the link from the initial post shows a mite preying on a beetle larva. The description suggests that these mites are general predators and will kill and eat anything small enough for them to subdue.
If it works, it sounds like a good option to get inflict some predation on a pest that seems to be lacking a predator or parasite in this country.
I emailed the "breeder" Applied Bio-Enomics and asked for info. His reply to me
"Yes, Stratiolaelaps works very well.
There is ongoing research in Niagara and a new trial scheduled in Pennsylvania"
Brian Spencer
I emailed him back asking for more details and contact info at the 2 sites mentioned. I will pass along any further info he provides.
>Dare I ask for more information on this claim that they once existed and no longer do?
I guess you did.
I got it from Nancy Ostiguy in a presentation to Kansas Honey Producers in their March meeting in 2006 and I'm sure she said the name of the study where she got the number, but I wasn't quick enough to write it down. I can give you a few of them:
Acarapis dorsalis
Acarapis vagans
Acarapis externus
Tarsonemus apis
Sennertia shimanukii
Sennertia faini
Aceria litchii
She said that was in the hive. I'm pretty sure that is not necessarily on the bees, so I'm sure some live in the debris, some on the combs, some in the pollen, and some on the bees. She said 33 different mites.
If you look at this page, you'll notice a link to a map next to "Distribution." They may have lived on the bees, but it's clear that not all 30 of them lived on bees in the same place. 30 different mites that lived on bees across the world.
Actually here is a study that says:
"Abstract: A list of mites newly found in nests of Apis mellifera. Till the present, the acarine fauna of A. mellifera includes over 170 species."
So there used to 170 species logged and they have now found more...
To clarify, you're saying that worldwide, there have been some number (170) of different mites found in nests of Apis mellifera, not that there are that many different ones found in a hive at once?
I'm not saying it. I'm just quoting an abstract, but that is probably a correct statement that that is what has been cataloged. Probably before acracides, around 30 was a more likely number.
Here is the email reply from Brian at bio nomics:
"I need to know who is asking first.
I reason I am asking is that we have found considerable roadblocks doing this research. The research in Canada has been largely secret because of this. Once I know who you are, I will pass your contact info on to the researcher, who will then decide whether or not to contact you.
It is hoped that the Pennsylvania research will be out in the open, but nothing has happened yet."
From: Bill Abell [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
Sent: February-20-13 10:46 AM
To: Brian
Subject: Re: [Applied Bio-nomics contact] Varroa Mites
Thank you. Can you give me any details on either or both. If possible a contact person name, phone and address. Much obliged.
Bill Abell
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Brian <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
I can accept that. What do we know, though, about the survival of these mites in the post varroa time frame. Are there more or less, were they susceptible to miticides or did they develop the same resistance varroa did. Arent we just assuming that these mites lived in harmony simply because they were in the hives? Perhaps some were detrimental. Lots and lots of variables wouldnt you agree?


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48192389 comment Comment Re:Sharing is caring (Score 1) 287 by d.the.duck on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @02:19PM (#44168549) Attached to: Motorola Is Listening It's always illegal except when it's not. Which is when the government does it. Just ask Snowden.
48192339 submission Submission + - Ubisoft Online Services Compromised Submitted by jones_supa on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @02:18PM jones_supa writes: An unnamed Ubisoft website has been cracked, and usernames, email addresses and password information has been compromised. Ubisoft claims that no financial information was obtained but in an 'abundance of caution' has requested users to change their passwords. While no service is never mentioned specifically, as the only system housing customer data, it's a safe bet that we are talking about Uplay and, that it was possibly also used as the attack vector. Last year, a browser exploit was identified with the Uplay plug-in that endangered users by allowing certain malicious websites access to player computers. Uplay is a cross-game interface introduced in 2009, allowing for digital distribution and social services across Ubisoft games.
48191165 comment Comment Sharing is caring (Score 1) 287 by d.the.duck on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @01:39PM (#44168011) Attached to: Motorola Is Listening Technically, the Government isn't listening to your phone calls. Google is, then they share with the NSA. Sharing is caring.
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25217792 comment Comment Duh (Score 1) 798 by d.the.duck on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @01:08PM (#37909408) Attached to: Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? I know people who are too cool for anything but C shell. We are set in our ways and cranky. Very, very cranky.
24387258 comment Comment Re:D&D (Score 1) 241 by d.the.duck on Monday October 03, 2011 @12:53PM (#37590870) Attached to: How often do you put pen to paper? I work with this.....kid really (25) who, in the midst of a discussion on D&D said "oh you mean the pen and paper version?". There IS NO OTHER VERSION!!!! What is happening to america's youth.
24164958 comment Comment Re:Why not allow the merger - and then rip apart A (Score 1) 182 by d.the.duck on Friday September 23, 2011 @04:42PM (#37496052) Attached to: If it were mine to decide ... Oh yes, that seems like a great answer. Form a mega corporation then get the government involved. I can't see where that could possibly fail.
24105804 comment Comment This could also be titled... (Score 1) 62 by d.the.duck on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @11:51AM (#37469178) Attached to: Deep-Sea Squid Mate and Run Deep-sea squids display amazing human-like characteristics.
23988908 comment Comment Re:Lack of evidence of damage.... (Score 1) 185 by d.the.duck on Friday September 16, 2011 @02:23PM (#37422864) Attached to: Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week Now why can't I have mod points when comments like this come up.
23988856 comment Comment Next up.... (Score 1) 185 by d.the.duck on Friday September 16, 2011 @02:20PM (#37422836) Attached to: Seismologist Manslaughter Trial Begins Next Week Meteorologists. You did not tell me the icy roads were going to cause my family to get in a car accident. Absolutely crazy.
23783370 comment Comment Re:why the hell not? (Score 1) 287 by d.the.duck on Friday September 09, 2011 @05:25PM (#37357274) Attached to: Are Games Worth Complaining About? Well that wasn't very nice
23778794 comment Comment why the hell not? (Score 1) 287 by d.the.duck on Friday September 09, 2011 @02:50PM (#37354962) Attached to: Are Games Worth Complaining About? Are politics worth complaining about? Is THE WEATHER worth complaining about? Is complaining worthwhile? No. It isn't. But move past that. People will complain. People LOOOOOOOVE to complain. Why should games be any different than anything else. People derive enjoyment from them, so let them have their say. Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one, and believes that everyone else's stinks.
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This article analyzes labor supervision activities reported in a survey of rice farmers in the Bicol region of the Philippines. We present a theoretical model that relates supervision intensity to institutional conditions. We estimate a supervision intensity equation and control for the decision to hire labor, the decision to supervise hired labor, and the type of the labor contract. The empirical estimates use different village-level spatial and demographic indicators as proxies for institutional conditions. The results are consistent with the prediction of the theoretical model that supervision increases with weaker institutional conditions. Copyright 2006, Oxford University Press.
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It Takes a Curriculum: Preparing Students for Research and Creative Work
Approaches to higher education have changed dramatically over the course of the past decade or so. Much of this change stems from the seminal work of Barr and Tagg (1995), whose Learning Paradigm brought coherence and energy to the study of collegiate education. At a minimum, the Learning Paradigm calls for a more open approach to student learning and an emphasis on engaging students, adopting multiple learning formats, and assessing outcomes. Three years after Barr and Tagg launched the Learning Paradigm into the mainstream of higher education, the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University took research universities to task for their neglect of undergraduates and urged a "radical reconstruction" of the approach to undergraduate education. In its 1998 report, the commission issued ten recommendations that draw directly from the research mission of research universities and build on the Learning Paradigm by emphasizing an inquiry-based freshman year.
The Boyer report offers a powerful vision of undergraduate education, but as presented and implemented, the commission's recommendations fall short in three critical ways. First, the report emphasizes research-based learning solely for research universities. Second, most universities have conceived of the undergraduate research experience only as an isolated component of a student's education, or as suitable for only some of the most advanced students. Third, both the Learning Paradigm and the research-based learning proposed by the Boyer Commission overlook the importance of student development theory for positioning research-based learning appropriately in the progression from freshman to senior year.
Technological advances have made research-based learning possible now in ways that were unimaginable in previous generations. Such learning can and, we argue, should be at the center of the undergraduate experience. In what follows, we describe an approach that combines research-based learning with student development theory to offer a more comprehensive model for organizing undergraduate education. We label this approach the Student as Scholar Model, where "scholar" is conceived in terms of an attitude or frame of mind derived from the best traditions of an engaged liberal education. The model operationalizes the Discovery Paradigm, in which scholarship—defined as original research and creative work—extends and transcends classroom learning.
Developing the Student as Scholar Model requires a fundamental shift in how the whole undergraduate experience is structured and imagined. It requires, at a minimum, the comprehensive adoption of the Learning Paradigm—from the first introductory course through the final capstone experience. It requires that a culture of inquiry-based learning be infused throughout the entire liberal arts curriculum, starting with the very first day of college and reinforced in every classroom and program. The Student as Scholar Model transcends the boundaries of the traditional classroom by taking advantage of the vast amount of raw material now available to undergraduates. And it draws heavily from a developmentally appropriate perspective on undergraduate education, one where the student moves from a more passive, externally motivated experience to the active, internally motivated posture of the scholar.
Technology as the enabler
The adoption of the Discovery Paradigm and the Student as Scholar Model as frameworks for education is possible now, in ways that were nearly impossible before, because both the nature of scholarship and access to the raw material of scholarship have changed so dramatically. The most obvious technological changes revolve around the development of the Internet and the concomitant increases in the amount of raw material readily available to students. Whether it is the human genome or images of rare documents, digital output from the Sloan Digital Sky project or galleries of art, vast sets of demographic data, or collections of historic maps, students today can readily access original materials that in years past were available only to the most advanced scholars who had privileged physical access to those materials. Students of only a generation or two ago learned by reading the summaries or conclusions put forward by others; they had, at best, very limited access to the raw material underpinning journal articles and books. Thus the possibilities of encouraging original student research were highly constrained, and student involvement in original research—especially research authored by them—was the exception.
With the availability of information limited and heavily filtered, the Instructional Paradigm provided a reasonable approach to education. With increases in the availability of information, and improvements in the tools used to examine that information, the Learning Paradigm, with its emphasis on inquiry-based education—even if constrained by prepared sets of data—became both more plausible and more effective. The explosion of technical capability over the past decade has dramatically changed the foundations for learning, especially the ability of students to access, process, and explore the raw material of scholarship. It is possible, really for the first time, for the motivated student to feel excited by a question posed in a class, generate new questions, and seek answers that might also turn out to be new. Perhaps most importantly, the student believes that this outcome is possible.
Technological change has also dramatically altered the availability of research equipment. It is now common for sophisticated equipment, such as a DNA synthesizer, to be available in advanced undergraduate courses, or for undergraduates to have access to such equipment as part of a research team. Through the use of this sophisticated equipment in controlled environments, students gain the knowledge of how to use cutting-edge devices and, even more importantly, how to imagine questions that require their use. Technology enables a sophisticated and successful adaptation of the Discovery Paradigm and the Student as Scholar Model by making it possible for students to create new knowledge and to collaborate and communicate effectively with peers.
The student as scholar
Many of the attributes of a scholar are similar to those of a learner, most notably accepting personal responsibility for learning, engaging in inquiry-driven study, and thinking critically from multiple perspectives. Others focus on elements of how to conduct scholarship, such as the ability to employ appropriate methodologies. Several attributes, however, focus on the core aspects of the "frame of mind" critical to the student as scholar, including internal motivation, a belief in one's capacity to do original research or creative practice, reliance on personal authority, and the self-perception of being a peer in the larger community of scholars. All of these attributes are critical to the success of the Student as Scholar Model, and they provide a frame through which specific goals for a curriculum, an individual course, or cocurricular activities can be established. In the broadest sense, the Student as Scholar Model provides an integrating vision of student success and development.
Set in the context of the emerging Discovery Paradigm, the Student as Scholar Model extends the Learning Paradigm in three significant ways. First, it obliterates the boundaries of a traditional course, infusing in students the sense that the course is a platform from which they launch their search for understanding, and that it does not define limits on their learning and discovery. Second, it emphasizes the integration of learning across both the curricular and cocurricular environments. Third, and perhaps most essentially, it instills in students the belief that they can be authors of new knowledge. Thus the Student as Scholar Model gives additional impetus to the best aspects of liberal education and provides a framework for linking curricular progression with student intellectual development.
Liberal education
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in liberal education, including the launch of the Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (2007). LEAP argues convincingly for the relevance of liberal education to modern society. Whether or not a student majors in a liberal arts discipline, the skills, perspectives, and self-identity that come from a liberal education are foundational to all advanced education. We build on LEAP by arguing that the Student as Scholar Model both draws on and adds to the impact of liberal education on durable and long-term student learning. A truly extraordinary student experience with superior learning outcomes can be created by combining key aspects of the Learning Paradigm—for example, establishing goals, assessing outcomes, and making learning an active process—and the philosophical foundations of liberal education through the mental frame of the student as scholar set within the Discovery Paradigm.
The complementarities between liberal education and the Student as Scholar Model are remarkable. Almost all discussions of liberal education focus on critical thinking and reasoning. It is difficult to imagine skills more central to the Student as Scholar Model, with its emphasis on developing the capacity to pose and pursue important questions. Similarly, the vastly increased access to raw material brought about by technological improvements brings opportunity and challenge that fit beautifully within the liberal education framework. Developing skills to find, critically evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information are foundational to both liberal education and the Student as Scholar Model.
But perhaps most interesting of all is the need to understand the role of personal development. Ultimately, the capacity to undertake original research rests not only on the skills achieved, but also, and most emphatically, on the extent to which the student understands his or her own capacity to author original material. Here again, the linkages between the Student as Scholar Model and liberal education are exceptionally strong. One of the most enduring goals of liberal education is to create "the educated person." The Student as Scholar Model provides an organizing framework precisely designed to achieve this important goal.
Using developmental theory to shape the curriculum
An understanding of the personal and intellectual development of (especially) traditional college-age students is critical to the successful adoption of the Student as Scholar Model. Specifically, an understanding of models of student development should be used purposefully to create developmentally appropriate curricular and cocurricular activities that build student capability progressively throughout the college years.
In Kegan's (1994) personal development framework, individuals move from the first to the fifth order of consciousness over their lifetimes—developing along the way internal foundations that help them make meaning of the world. College students typically make meaning from the second or third order of consciousness within the prototypical time frame of the traditional four-year higher education experience, although the (usually unachieved) goal is to achieve the fourth order of consciousness (Love and Guthrie 1999).
In the second order of consciousness, students have developed durable categories but view the world through an instrumentalist self-absorption lens; that is, they look at how the world serves their needs. In the third order of consciousness, students can intrinsically value others' perspectives; however, they have a strong reliance on external authorities in forming their values and personal identities. In the fourth order of consciousness, students develop a reliance on their own internal authority. The Student as Scholar Model focuses on students progressing from their reliance on external authority in the third order of consciousness to an internal authority in the fourth order. The Instructional Paradigm, in which students passively receive knowledge, upholds students' development in the third order of consciousness. The Learning Paradigm supports students in their developmental crossroad between the third and fourth order, while the Discovery Paradigm challenges students to author knowledge and utilize their developing internal foundation in the fourth order.
The challenge for higher education, Kegan explains, is consciously to build an evolutionary bridge that "fosters developmental transformation" leading from the third to fourth orders of self-consciousness. Kegan urges educators to "fashion a bridge that is more respectfully anchored on both sides of the chasm, instead of assuming that such a bridge already exists and wondering why the other has not long ago walked over it" (1994, 332–33). It is important for us to understand the level of support students need while they are "in over their heads" with challenging and transformative educational experiences.
One effective approach to Kegan's evolutionary bridge is the Learning Partnerships Model that emerged from Baxter Magolda's (2004a) longitudinal study of college students. The model supports students in learning to construct knowledge and challenges them to achieve self-authorship during college. From a developmental perspective, learning involves actively making sense of one's experiences (King and Baxter Magolda 1996). This sense-making and concomitant knowledge construction helps students grow their own personal identities and academic capabilities. The opportunity for students to author their own educational experiences is critical to the development of the Student as Scholar Model. Indeed, Baxter Magolda advocates for self-authorship as a central goal of higher education. She explains how possessing an internal foundation—that is, a foundation based on internal rather than external motivation and authority—"yields the capacity to actively listen to multiple perspectives, critically interpret those perspectives in light of relevant evidence and the internal foundation, and make judgments accordingly" (2004b, xxii).
In the Student as Scholar Model, educators must let go of their power of authority in traditional educational practices and empower students to see themselves as authorities and creators of knowledge. Rather than imposing the educator's internal authority on the educational curriculum inside and outside of the classroom, we should more consciously support the development of students' internal foundations. The Student as Scholar Model, with its emphasis on developing the habits of mind and the skills of the scholar, can be used purposefully to build those internal foundations by employing developmentally appropriate, research-based learning across the curriculum.
Most faculty and staff tend to view the distinction between lower-level and upper-level courses primarily as a matter of complexity—more skill and experience are required for advanced courses than for beginning courses— without actively considering, or even recognizing, students' developmental capacities. As a result, "what teachers expect students to understand might be different from what they are, in fact, capable of understanding," and thus "our job as instructors is both to gain a 'reading' of where our students are and then to reach out to them in a way that helps them move beyond where they are to where they want to be" (Tinberg and Weisberg 1998, 46). With this approach, designing a curriculum becomes a two-dimensional problem in which both the complexity of the material and students' developmental capacities are considered. The goal is to integrate personal and intellectual development with student learning in one seamless educational experience through immersion in a developmentally appropriate, research-based curriculum that leads students across Kegan's evolutionary bridge.
The developmental bridge
To be truly successful, the Student as Scholar Model should apply to the entire undergraduate experience and take into account the development of students. Foundational courses anchor one end of the "developmental bridge." At the beginning level, students have a limited vision of themselves as legitimate authors of new knowledge and rely on external authority for discipline and guidance. They tend to look at knowledge in absolutist terms, and are learning to understand multiple perspectives. Educators can fail to provide support "by neglecting to build a bridge out of and beyond the old world and by expecting individuals to take up immediate residence in the new world" (Love and Guthrie 1999, 75). The foundational courses should thus begin with understanding students' current developmental capabilities, especially the need to balance discipline and inquiry.
Once students have successfully completed their foundational courses, they should find themselves in the middle of the bridge (although research suggests that many will not yet be there). At this point in their undergraduate careers, students are engaging in intermediate-level experiences— experiences that take them "beyond the book" and challenge them to continue their development as scholars. These students are active participants in their learning. They find themselves involved in opportunities that demonstrate how to work collaboratively with others and enable them to feel a part of a larger community of scholars—they can look to their peers for help and support. They are more intrinsically motivated since they better understand their capabilities for authoring their own knowledge. Through these intermediate experiences, students develop the capacities necessary to judge new information based on their own personal values; they spend less time looking to external authorities for answers—and they recognize that absolute answers may not exit at all. Students are more likely to develop scholarly work by using original material, and they have a better understanding of how they can integrate their learning within and across disciplines. The Student as Scholar Model challenges the intermediate student to take on more sophisticated tasks, yet continues to recognize the developmental limitations that, though diminished, still affect the effectiveness of different pedagogical strategies.
At the far end of the bridge, advanced students have the opportunity to create their own research questions and develop their own methodologies, believing that their goal is to provide original contributions. They understand that motivation and authority come from within. They see themselves as peers in the larger research community. And, of course, they are more skilled in research. The capstone experience provides the highest level of freedom and challenge. Students extend their learning in a particular area of focus, critique existing knowledge, apply learning across disciplines, and, hopefully, discover new knowledge. Capstone experiences like this, Project DEEP (Documenting Effective Educational Practice) (2005, 188) found, "contribute to the high levels of academic challenge." If properly prepared, students are now at the far end of the developmental bridge, at the fourth order of consciousness, and they no longer need as much outside support or discipline as they did in foundational or intermediate courses.
The Student as Scholar Model has the potential to improve dramatically the impact of American colleges and universities. First and foremost, it can provide better-educated undergraduates, students who have the skills needed to deal with a fluid world. These students will also have the confidence, as well as the ability, to perform at a much higher level immediately upon graduation—and, thus, be well positioned as lifelong learners. Second, by merging developmental understanding with liberal education in the context of the Discovery Paradigm, the Student as Scholar Model provides a framework that colleges and universities can use to set goals across the entire curriculum. Third, it offers a powerful path to reducing the boundaries that separate the core higher education missions of teaching, research, and service. And the "fusion of learning" brought about by the Student as Scholar Model does not just reduce the boundaries, it actively reaches across them to draw energy for building the attitudes and competencies required to be a successful scholar.
The Student as Scholar Model also poses many significant challenges, including most directly the challenge of constructing a curriculum that embraces the model. Most faculty have little training in pedagogy, let alone student development theory. And yet, the successful adoption of the Student as Scholar Model requires a deep understanding of the bridge needed to move students from the third to the fourth order of consciousness. Additionally, moving first to the Learning Paradigm and then to the Discovery Paradigm requires faculty to take on a new and different role in the classroom. Instead of holding the power, they are now empowering students to take control of their own education and to author knowledge as well. This requires difficult self-assessment of how faculty view themselves and their relationships with students. The "developmental bridge" also requires a better melding of the curricular and the cocurricular. Students learn, learn how to learn, and develop the confidence to learn and discover on their own through the full range of college activities. Thus we need more purposively to develop and link cocurricular activities to the ultimate goal of the student as scholar.
Finally, as we work hard to spread an appreciation of the power of liberal education to the broader public, we need to see the Student as Scholar Model as providing a motivating clarity to those values of liberal education that we hold most dear. The Student as Scholar Model provides a sharper image of what it means to be an "educated person." While it may not provide all of the breadth that many would associate with this label, it does energize and coalesce many of the most essential elements of liberal education.
This is an exciting time in higher education. We have unprecedented opportunities to engage our students in their learning in new ways. We know more about how students develop, what enduring skills are most critical, what motivates students, and how to provide students with virtually unlimited access to original raw material that they can explore with "attitude." It is this attitude, this frame of mind, that can fundamentally change how students think about their education. This attitude can lead to deeper, better motivated, and more enduring learning not only during the years of formal study, but also throughout a lifetime of informal and formal learning and discovery in an ever-changing world.
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Barr, R. B., and J. Tagg. 1995. From teaching to learning: A new paradigm for undergraduate education. Change (November/December): 13–25.
Baxter Magolda, M. B. 2004a. Learning partnerships model: A framework for promoting self-authorship. In Learning partnerships: Theory and models of practice to educate for self-authorship, eds. M. B. Baxter Magolda and P. M. King, 37–62. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
———. 2004b. Preface to Learning partnerships: Theory and models of practice to educate for self-authorship, eds. M. B. Baxter Magolda and P. M. King, xvii–xxvi. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
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Love, P. G., and V. L. Guthrie. 1999. Understanding and applying cognitive development theory. New Directions for Student Services, No. 88. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Tinberg, H., and R. Weisberger. 1998. In over our heads: Applying Kegan's theory of development to community college students. Community College Review 26 (2): 43–56.
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call me sadistic but i dig watching juliet slam. she fuckin tough. one of the longest running fgfs chicks in the game too.
dj mull in portland
this is a name i didnt think we would ever see again. so fucking sick to see him back at it /// and a good edit at that. killer style effects, real good riding, definitely worth the watch. he's been out of sight for a real fucking long time now, real psyched hes back... hopefully to stay?
osaka funny /// "fall edit"
osaka funny edits are always fucking sick. this guy flies under the radar, but kills it. one of the few who still pushes a 700c whip. seems like the people that stuck to 700's are fucking shit up real good these days. so smoothe.
kyle messier /// rollin with the homies
this is pretty sick /// kyles edits are way too rare IMO. ALWAYS FUCKING PSYCHED TO SEE SOME TOM MOSHIER FOOTAGE. so sick, respect the OG's that blazed the fucking trail. kyle has good style, and you already know theres some shit from rat shit denis in the mix too. i think kyle moved closer to the rest of these guys so hopefully we'll see more footage in the future.
this weeks post is brought to you by JMIK over at BHSK COGBLOG /// ill be posting more of his gifs throughout the day. THIETH fucking loves gifs.... and he sent over a shitload of em. healing energy goes out to this yung hustler went down at the event.
a day in the life//desmond cook
chill out with desmond for the day... they hit some mellow spots and get some riding in. killer chill shit right here. desmond kills it, always pumped to see something new from this guy, i wish there were more edits mayne.
n00bs /// two flicks
some potential here.
i guess this is a teaser for an upcoming edit. n00bs coming in daily. always psyched to see shit growing see new young guns bringing shit to the table.
i guess this is a teaser for an upcoming edit. n00bs coming in daily. always psyched to see shit growing see new young guns bringing shit to the table.
matt reyes always kills it with edits... this one definitely lives up. looks like he was in the zone at this one too, fucking killing the course at this shit. super sick.
santos keeps the footage coming non stop... this ones got more than just contest footage in it. lots of good shit from before and after the comp, and santos was definitely killing it.
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"[The land the park will add is entirely Canal Corporation-owned.] There is no private property, ... There's no cost. It's a transfer."
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Service Component Architecture (SCA) SCA focuses on the assembly of various components to provide an easier design and deployment while SOA provides an architecture or style to design and develop the individual components. SCA comes into pictures only when you're ready with all the components. So, you create components with SOA and assemble them using SCA mainly to make the deployment easier.
It's a set of specifications that defines an assembly model model for composite services and also provides a programming model to build applications which are SOA-based.
A composite service can have serveral business processes, bindings, properties, human workflows, etc. all put together. We define a Composite and once the Composite is ready it's for you to be treated as a single component and can easily be exposed as a composite service the way you expose a web service.
SCA makes the deployment design very easy. Suppose your application have n business processes and let's say BP-1 is the entry point to the application then you can define a composite by specifying the navigation details among the various business processes and/or human workflows and then you can expose BP-1 as a composite service. Now, the composite service is having a well defined assembly of all the components involved in your application and ready to be deployed. You don't need to deploy the individual components separately. All will be handled by SCA. All the assembly information is stored in an SCA Descriptor.
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Sandra Kruczek and I will finish this semester's Head Start Puppy Class this week. I can't think of too many things that make me happier than spending six weeks watching these amazing puppies grow, both physically and "intellectually." I use that word light-heartedly. They are puppies, after all.
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Book chronicles history of Routt County
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Thoughtful Parenting: February National Children's Dental Health Month
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Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, but new treatments are making it easier to keep hearts healthy.
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In response to widespread malnutrition among World War II recruits and an abundance of U.S.-produced agricultural products, the U.S. Congress enacted the National School Lunch Act in 1946, with hopes of "strengthening the nation through better nutrition for our school children," while, at the same time, supporting U.S. farmers through guaranteed purchases of commodity products to use in government programs.
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The proposed model would utilize a single "expected loss" measurement for the recognition of credit losses. This would replace the multiple existing impairment models in U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) that primarily use an "incurred loss" approach.


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In the movie equivalent of hitting a home run on a first at-bat, Spike Jonze won the Academy Award for original screenplay on Sunday for "Her," the first feature film script he wrote on his own.
Jonze's sci-fi romantic dramedy follows a lonely writer (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with the disembodied voice of his computer operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson). It beat out nominees from "American Hustle," "Blue Jasmine," "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Nebraska."
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The filmmaker's Oscar arrives on the heels of wins for the "Her" script at the Golden Globes and the WGA Awards. It has also been recognized by the Critics' Choice Awards and the New York Film Critics Circle. Although he was nominated for an Academy Award for directing (1999's "Being John Malkovich"), Jonze's Oscar for "Her" stands as his first.
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H.R.2542 - Border Law Enforcement Enhancement Act110th Congress (2007-2008)
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Border Law Enforcement Enhancement Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to make grants to sheriff's offices and local and tribal police departments in jurisdictions within 25 miles of the U.S. southern border for: (1) law enforcement operations; (2) detention (including construction and operation of detention facilities) and transfer of illegal aliens to federal authorities; (3) enforcement of substance trafficking laws and other state and federal criminal laws; and (4) hiring, equipping, training, and overtime.
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For a government to botch one set of contract negotiations with National Health Service workers, as this government did with general practitioners, might be seen as unfortunate. To do it a second time, this time with dentists, begins to look like incompetence.
Yet that is the scathing verdict delivered today by the Commons Health Select Committee. The committee argues that the new NHS contract for dentists, implemented two years ago, has failed to improve services for patients because, under the new treatment pricing system, dentists have no financial incentive to treat complex cases.
The reform has also failed to increase the number of people getting NHS dental treatment. Figures released last month showed that a million fewer people are now seeing an NHS dentist than before the contract was negotiated.
We should, of course, recognise that sorting out dentistry in this country was always going to be the political equivalent of root-canal surgery, rather than a simple filling. The British, for some inexplicable reason, have always tended to place a lower priority on looking after their teeth than their general health. The infrastructure and culture of regular check-up visits to the dentist simply does not exist. But the Government certainly did not do itself any favours by failing to put the new system out to trial before implementing it.
It is hardly an attractive proposition, but if we are to see more people getting better treatment for their teeth, health ministers are going to have to persuade the patient to open wide and say "ahhh" once again.
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When I was in the Army and known to my friends as "Combat Cohen," I could not get over the fact that, during an era of almost universal military service, the American public supported high Pentagon spending, despite firsthand knowledge of astounding waste and theft. I cite, for instance, the well-known and frequently witnessed pillaging of food by mess sergeants. From tasting their stuff, I can say that theft is what they did best.
Now I am similarly perplexed. Many, if not most, Americans have some experience with our nation's mostly private health-care system. Yet they still fall prey to the scare tactic that nothing — but nothing — could be worse than a government takeover of the system. How things could be worse than they are now, I cannot imagine.
In the past two months, I have spent many hours accompanying a loved one to hospital emergency rooms — all of them privately operated. The rap on what is sometimes called socialized medicine is that if the government ran the system, the wait would be interminable. Well, I am here to tell you that even when the government does not run the system, the wait can be interminable.
And uncomfortable. In one hospital there was not enough space in the emergency room for all those seeking treatment. My friend got moved from a bed — where she was relatively comfortable — to a wheelchair in the hallway. There she sat, in agony, for about six hours. Something similar happened at another emergency room, though this time she was given a cot. The wait, though, was just as long.
The emergency room has become the equivalent of the family doctor. It is where you go if you don't have a family doctor or if you do have a family doctor and it's after-hours or the weekend. It is also where you sometimes have to go in order to be admitted to a hospital. The staff is mostly courteous, sometimes wonderfully solicitous, but the constant triaging of new people can put you on a treadmill to nowhere. The emergency room is the great leveler of American life. Everyone gets miserable treatment.
On his show, recently, Bill Moyers interviewed Wendell Potter, the former head of corporate communications for Cigna, the nation's fourth-largest health insurer. By his own characterization, Potter is one of those insurance executives who flew from meeting to meeting in private planes and hardly ever touched ground to meet real people. One day he did. He went to an outdoor health clinic over the Virginia border from his home town in Tennessee. This is what he told Moyers:
"What I saw were doctors who were set up to provide care in animal stalls. Or they'd erected tents to care for people. And I saw people lined up, standing in line or sitting in these long, long lines, waiting to get care. People drove from South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee — all over the region."
Thank God we don't have socialized medicine.
Into this debate about the role of government in medical care, I come jaded by experience. In addition to having been Combat Cohen, I was also Cohen of Claims when I worked for an insurance company. This means that whenever someone says something about "government bureaucrats," I smile, because I was once a non-government bureaucrat. It is not government bureaucrats who say that certain treatments will not be covered, and it is not the government that purges insurance rolls of the sick or the old, and it is not the government that makes money — lots of money — on health insurance. It is private enterprise.
But as Potter points out, the insurance industry sets out to spook the public with talk of "socialized medicine," "government bureaucrats," and "government-run health care." My loved one recently had to return to the emergency room because she was dehydrated. Her insurance company listed the reasons someone could return, and dehydration was one of them. They still denied her claim. The government had nothing to do with it.
The ongoing health-care debate is complex, but in deciding what to do and who to support in the current attempt to reform health care, don't rely on insurance industry propaganda but on your own experience. Recall the last time you went to the emergency room and ask yourself whether the government could possibly do a worse job. If the answer is yes, you might need medical attention more than you realize.
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I guess Ron English can get bent. Oh well. At least it wasn't Washington--Michigan is recruiting both Jonas Mouton and Antwine Perez, safeties with identical three-team lists: USC, Michigan, and LSU. Probably helps some with them.
Now that Mays has decided I can finally reveal that I thought he was terribly, terribly overrated based on my extensive lack of knowledge about his playing abilities. Also he probably eats babies.
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This is a take off on field_file_references()
My use case: I hook into hook_file_insert() and need to act on the file only if it belongs to a certain node.
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#3 | filefield_get_references.patch | 1.03 KB | quicksketch |
#2 | file_get_references.patch | 879 bytes | amitaibu |
#1 | file_get_references_1.patch | 830 bytes | amitaibu |
file_get_references.patch | 879 bytes | amitaibu |
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Thanks Amitaibu. I've been considering the improvement of FileField APIs and I think this would be a great thing to include. However I'd like clean it up a little bit and clarify its usage.
I rerolled this patch with the following changes:
- Renamed to filefield_get_file_references() and placed in the new APIs section of FileField (see #417774: Add Public FileField API Functions (Fix field_file_references())).
- Changed the parameters to use a $file object instead of array. I know this is a bit of mess since field_file_load() returns an array, but all our other API functions expect $file objects.
- Removed the quirky "$get_field" parameter. This function should do exactly what its meant for and I could see this being used for all kinds of strange loading.
- Changed the return value to be an array of NIDs, each containing an array of revisions within that node. I think most users will just be interested in the NIDs, so I wanted to make it easy to get to them while still making the VIDs available.
Let me know what you think of this version and if it'd be acceptable for your purposes. Thanks!
Status: | Reviewed & tested by the community | » Needs review |
Thanks Amitaibu, while working with #369560: Get array of files attached to node I've been thinking that we should probably make the $field parameter optional, so you could get all nodes referencing a file regardless of what field it's in. The #369560 patch also currently uses $field_name instead of $field, which I could see as being quite helpful in a public API when users don't know how to get a field through content_fields().
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See the final patch in http://drupal.org/node/369560#comment-1467494 that incorporates this API function also. It works the same as the patch in #3 only $field can be a field name string, a field array, or NULL (to get references within all fields).


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- Prep: 5 min
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A sweet and buttery treat for you and your loved one to enjoy on the most romantic day of the year.
- 1 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons water
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- food coloring
- 4 quarts plain popped corn
- Place all of the ingredients, except for the popcorn, into a small saucepan over high heat and bring to a boil.
- Once boiling, remove from heat and allow to cool slightly; about 10 minutes.
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