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Job Profile: Registered NurseAdapted from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07 Edition Significant Points Nature of the Work Working Conditions Employment Training, Other Qualifications and Advancement Job Outlook Earnings Related Occupations Significant Points • Registered nurses constitute the largest health care occupation, with 2.4 million jobs. • About three out of five jobs are in hospitals. • The three major educational ...Published about 7 years ago |
Find Your Path to the RN TitleIn all States and the District of Columbia, students must graduate from an approved nursing program and pass a national licensing examination, known as the NCLEX-RN. But there are many ways to get there! [widget:445] You can obtain one (or more!) of several degrees in order to become a nurse. Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN): This degree ...Published about 7 years ago |
How to Be a Registered NurseA Registered Nurse (RN) is a nurse who completes a course of study and passes the examinations to obtain a license and register as a nurse. You'll find many RNs in hospitals throughout the world, and the need for RNs still continues. Read on to know more about registered nursing, and how to become a registered nurse. What Does An RN ...Published about 7 years ago |
CRNA CareersThe poor morale that plagues many overworked and underappreciated RNs isn't an issue for the 30,000 nurses who practice one of the profession's most desirable specialties: Nurse anesthesia. Certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) - nurses with master's degrees who administer approximately 65 percent of all anesthetics given to patients each year nationwide, according to American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) data ...Published over 7 years ago |
Setting Nurse-to-Patient Ratios = More RNsLegislation in California that set nurse-to-patient ratios added more registered nurses to the hospital staffing mix, not fewer as feared, researchers say. Lead researcher Matthew McHugh, a nursing professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, says California was the first state to pass legislation setting staffing levels. However, mindful of the ongoing nurse shortage California legislators determined that hospitals could ...Published over 7 years ago |
Radiation Levels and Their Effects on PeopleIf you're at all like me, while watching the nuclear crisis unfold at Fukushima, you've been really confused by the reports of levels of radiation released at the plants, and at various locations nearby. One report, for instance, says that "radiation levels near the stricken plant on the northeast coast reached as high as 400 millisieverts (mSv) an hour." But what ...Published about 8 years ago |
5 "Women's Diseases" Your Husband Can GetIt's hard to escape the flagrant gender labeling in our society. Dolls and the color pink are associated with girls, while guys are assigned GI Joes and the "manly" color blue. And the trend doesn't stop at childhood, either. Even the medical industry tends to ascribe certain diseases to men or women, even when both sexes run the risk of developing ...Published about 8 years ago |
$225 Million Medicare Fraud ExposedMore than 100 doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals were arrested Thursday, Feb. 17, in what is being called as the "biggest crackdown ever in a single day in connection with Medicare fraud," according to CNN. According to various news reports, authorities arrested suspects across the nation in LA, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, Brooklyn, Tampa, and Baton Rouge, uncovering an ...Published about 8 years ago |
Jared Loughner, Schizophrenia, and Mental Health Care in AmericaWe still don't know what Jared Loughner's motives were, but the media's preferred adjective to describe him, "troubled," certainly seems apt. From his YouTube videos, filled as they are with nonsensical, vaguely paranoid syllogisms, he comes off as a cross between Glenn Beck and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Many in the media have speculated that he might suffer from schizophrenia. While it's certainly ...Published over 8 years ago |
UPDATE: Police Searching for Shooter at University of New Mexico Hospital[photo:181146] Police continue their search for Cesar Dominguez-Garcia, age 21, CNN reports. The suspect was visiting the University of New Mexico Hospital with his girlfriend Tuesday afternoon. According to reports, the suspect became upset and reported fired a shot on the hospital campus; nobody was injured. Parts of the University of New Mexico Hospital were on lockdown as police searched for ...Published over 8 years ago |
What an Average American Woman EatsThis graphic, from Visual Economics, breaks down the elements of our diet in pounds. The quantity of fruits and vegetables we eat is actually a little higher than I'd expect, though we still consume more sweets and sodium than we should. The chart also doesn't expose the extent to which corn goes into other foods. If you want to find ...Published over 8 years ago |
Nursing Assistant Charged With Killing Eight BabiesA FRENCH woman has been charged with murdering eight newborn babies and her husband with hiding the bodies after skeletal remains were found in a village. The woman and her husband, both believed to be aged about 45 and thought to be the children's parents, were arrested in what French officials said could be the country's biggest infanticide case. The woman ...Published over 8 years ago |
Nurses Get Hands-On Trauma TrainingJuly 20 - Megan Brown of the Washington County Lifesaving Crew wedged herself into the floorboard of a sidewise pickup in the Virginia Highlands Community College parking lot and smeared fake blood on her face. She's getting ready for a femur fracture and a head injury and in about half an hour. In front of the two dozen Nursing Workforce Diversity ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Home Health Nurse Wins National AwardJuly 12 - TUPELO - As Registered Nurse Jan Starling was preparing to transition from work on a hospital floor to home health, one of her colleagues had a dire prediction. "I don't know how you're going to make it in home health. You cry when we send them home from the hospital," she recalled a co-worker telling her. "What are ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Nurses Fired for Facebook PostingsProtecting patient privacy is one of the cardinal rules in nursing (hello, HIPAA). The legalities behind breaking a patient's trust and breaching their confidentiality is one of the first principles nurses are taught. It doesn't matter how it's done — verbally, on paper, via texting or online — it's still wrong. Earlier this year, five nurses who worked at Tri-City Medical ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Can Nurses Fix Health Care?The United States spends more than any other country on health care, yet ranks dead last for access, patient safety, coordination, efficiency, and equity. Apparently, we're not getting much bang for our buck. Sadly, we've been in last place for awhile. The Commonwealth Fund analyzes and compares the health systems of seven industrialized countries each year — Australia, Canada, Germany, the ...Published almost 9 years ago |
16 Hilarious Home RemediesSummertime. Most of us love it. Some of us are plagued with allergies, bug bites, bee stings, sunburns, and all the other joys that being outside in lovely weather bring with it. Just the other day at work I was involved in a conversation with fellow coworkers about holistic remedies for everyday summertime woes. Sure, I took note of some of ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Nurse Practioners in Britain as Good at Detecting Breast Cancer in Patients as SurgeonsSpecially trained nurse practitioners and surgeons were found to detect breast abnormalities at similar rates, researchers in Wales reported. [widget:career_profiles_quiz_career_profiles_quiz__] Researchers at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Wales -- which treats nearly 300 women with breast cancer a year -- asked a specially trained nurse practitioner and consultant surgeon to do breast assessments. "This study aimed to test the theory that ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Navy Weighs in on Video Games to Whip Recruits into ShapeThe Navy has frequently been seen in the headlines for advancements made from using hardware technology to get its aircraft and fighting vehicles into shape; it may now turn to software technology to get its newest recruits in motion and out onto the playing field.Navy officials are weighing in on using interactive video games like the Nintendo Wii and Dance Dance Revolution to help ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Nurse Myths – "Have You Heard About the Nurse Who…?"Myths and misconceptions abound in every profession, and nursing is no exception. Sometimes these myths come from colleagues, sometimes from people outside the profession—either way, they don't serve us well. So, the next time you hear a stereotype you know is nonsense, use your know-how to clarify, inform and enlighten. Myth: "Real" nurses work in hospitals. Fact: More than half of ...Published almost 9 years ago |


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TAMPA, Fla. — Derek Jeter said 20 years in the major leagues will be enough. He just wouldn't really say why.
The New York Yankees captain responded to questions for nearly half an hour Wednesday, a week after announcing this will be his final season. But he provided few answers.
"You can't do this forever. I'd like to," he said. "There's some things I look forward to doing."
On the day the team's position players reported for spring training, Jeter spoke in the pavilion behind the third-base stands, where closer Mariano Rivera said last March that 2013 would be his final season.
The Steinbrenner family that owns the team sat in the front row, manager Joe Girardi and general manager Brian Cashman in the second. Teammates, who said his decision shocked and saddened them, were in the rows after that.
Wearing a navy Yankees pullover and shorts, it was the start of the final season for No. 2, the last of the single digits to wear a Yankees uniform. He spoke from a table with arms crossed most of the time. He spoke directly and dispassionately, much like every interview since he first reached the major leagues in 1995.
"Trying to get me to cry?" he said after one question. "I have feelings. I'm not emotionally stunted. There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day."
Accessible, yet opaque, as he has been throughout his career.
"I know I haven't really been as open with some of you guys as you would have liked me to be over the last 20 years, but that's by design," he said. "It doesn't mean I don't have those feelings. It's just that's the way I felt as though I'd be able to make it this long in New York."
Jeter, who turns 40 in June, was limited to 17 games last season, hitting .190 with one homer and seven RBIs after breaking an ankle in the 2012 AL championship series opener
"I took a lot of time thinking about this," he said. "I've been very vocal on how disappointing last year was, how hard it was for me to come to the stadium each and every day. You start thinking about how long do you really want to do this?
"And let me say one thing is, this is not a retirement little press conference. I still have a season to play. This is just letting you guys know that this is going to be my last year.
"But I felt as though it was the right time. I've been doing this for a long time. This will be parts of 20 seasons that I've been playing here in New York and parts of 23 if you count the minor leagues. So I just think I've done it for long enough, and I look forward to doing some other things in my life."
He left a voicemail with Hal Steinbrenner the night before the announcement, but Steinbrenner didn't check the voicemail until the next day and didn't recognize the area code of the missed call.
"Right now it's kind of surreal and it's strange to think of the Yankees without him in the lineup. But we're not there yet," he said, adding he didn't try to change Jeter's mind. "I respect when an individual makes a decision like this because I know how much time and thought they put into it. It's not my place to second guess."
Jeter wouldn't put an exact date on when he made the decision.
"I wanted to make this announcement months ago. I really did, but people I don't want to say forced, but they advised me to take my time before I said it," he said.
He kept getting asked about his future, and wanted to put an end to that.
"Even walking down the street," he said, "people ask because I missed last year: Are you playing this year? How much longer are you going to play? How many years to do you have? You get tired of hearing it."
Jeter is a 13-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glove shortstop who led the Yankees to World Series titles in 1996, `98, `99, `00 and `09. Jeter enters his 20th big league season with a .312 average, 256 homers and 1,261 RBIs
"This has nothing to do with how I feel physically," he said. "Everyone I told when I first started speaking about this with family and friends, they all told me to make sure you take your time, don't base this decision on what happened last season, wait until your healthy and then make the decision. So this has absolutely nothing to do with how I feel physically. Physically I feel great and I'm looking forward to playing a full season."

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Hey everyone, this is Mike Galimi and the AmericanMuscle.com guys have asked me to post regular blogs about stuff going down in the wild world of Mustangs. Please check back regularly as I will be posting various information, experiences, videos, pictures, and everything cool in our hobby on a regular basis.
Is Going Fast Too Easy?
I think I am ready to part ways with my supercharged 2007 Mustang GT. It runs mid-11s and getting there was far too easy. But I think I am ready to part ways with it in order to make room for a 2011 Mustang GT. The reason is simple, the new 5.0L is even easier to make run 11s, and ultimately 10s, than my supercharged Three-Valve. Not to mention all of the creature comfort upgrades between the two model years. After covering the AmericanMuscle.com 2011 Mustang GT for Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords December 2010 issue, I saw how easy it was to run fast.
Since that article hit newsstands, the car has gone a best of 11.90 at 118 and they haven't even hit with a shot of juice from the Zex kit that's onboard. The speed is just 1.5 mph shy of where my supercharged Three-Valve car runs. The shop car's track life is about to get quicker as there are rumors running around the AmericanMuscle.com compound that a supercharger is waiting to be bolted on this winter. Once that happens, 10-second times are sure to be reality.
It seems every new Mustang makes achieving certain performance benchmarks that much easier. We went from 14-second stock cars to 13-second ones, and now the 2011 Mustang GT can run 12s with the right driver and weather conditions off the showroom floor. The AmericanMuscle.com car was the first 2011 I drove and I loved it, smooth, comfortable and soon to be a 10-second player.
So, is it too easy to go fast? Tell me how you got your car to tear it up at the track…


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Thanks for that advice Yoda
You have a pre-established feeling towards someone, therefore whatever they do comes across as negative and wrong, but really it's your own mind causing an issue. This is what I meant. Standard buddhism
As for "inventing phrases", there is nothing wrong with translating a concept hard to describe into some terminology that makes sense to oneself.. We all do it all the time
The trick is to keep breathing.


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Today, every organization needs technology to run operations, scale growth, and transform its business to achieve success. Technology is at the core of capacity building, yet the social sector is severely behind the for-profit sector in investing in and fully utilizing technology. As a result, VMware is creating this resource hub for nonprofits that want to invest in the systems, processes, and technology that increase their effectiveness in achieving its mission. Check back often as we'll regularly update with new resources and tools.
Whether you are a person working in technology, for a nonprofit, leading a company engagement program, or a donor, we invite you to discover how we can co-create solutions for a brighter future. Together, through our collective impact, we can advance the direction of technology pro bono and bridge the growing technology divide.
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The VMware Foundation collaborated with the Taproot Foundation to create a practical approach to engaging technology talent for nonprofit capacity building. Check out the research paper in the blue box to discover ways you can get started.


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Thirty-five chapters across the state locally promote the CNPS mission. All enjoy the strengths and legal benefits of being one incorporated non-profit organization, but chapters select projects according to interests of local members, elect their own officers, and manage their own finances. The Society office in Sacramento handles common administrative work and is the center point for statewide programs.
When you join CNPS, choose a chapter affiliation to receive the local newsletter. Chapter newsletters have notices of meetings, field trips, plant sales, work projects, and other events. Most CNPS Chapters have their own web pages as well.


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Marc Andreessen has been pretty busy in the last 24 hours. First he gets everyone all excited about Oculus, hours before a Facebook deal, then he basically calls Warren Buffett a fuddy-duddy:
Here\'s the background: Andreessen, partner at venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz, was speaking at the CoinSummit conference on Tuesday. In a panel discussion, he said the fund is looking at building a portfolio of diversified bets on bitcoin, calling it a \"fringe technology,\" which is where new technologies are birthed, rather than the mainstream.
The conference moderator then asked Andreessen and partner Balaji Srinivasan to comment on Buffett\'s bitcoin perspective. Buffett advised investors in a recent CNBC interview to steer clear of bitcoin, saying the idea it has a \"huge intrinsic value is just a joke in my view.\"
Srinivasan quipped that Bitcoin has outperformed Buffett\'s Berkshire Hathaway by a lot. Then Andreessen piled on with above technology-is-no-country-for-old-men quip.
Later on Twitter, Andreessen launched into a nine-step backing-off-Buffett-plan. (One never knows when one of the wealthiest men in the world will come in handy).
At first, straight-up sorry:
Then #sorrynotsorry:
Then \'heck, let\'s educate the poor old geezer\':
No word from the Sage of Omaha, but sides were feverishly (well, sort of) being taken on Twitter:
— Barbara Kollmeyer writes for MarketWatch.
Follow her @bkollmeyer.
Follow The Tell blog @thetellblog.
More must-reads from MarketWatch:
Venture capitalists: We\'re looking for bitcoin\'s killer app
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I had some chores to catch up on today and the main one was to assemble the new bed we have bought for our guest room. There had been an option to pay £45 for the men who delivered it to assemble it, but that seemed a bit pricy and I mean, how hard could it be to construct a bed from some instructions?
It's like I had forgotten who I was. But I was thinking that I had built the last three beds I've bought over the last 20 years. I had forgotten that on each of those occasions Al Murray had come round to help me. And by help me I mean that Al Murray had put the beds together whilst I just held an Allan Key and watched him.
The moment we had unpacked the two boxes that the bed had come in I was massively regretting not parting with £45. There were 16 pieces of wood, 20 or so assorted screws and bolts, bits of wooden dowling (is that a word?) and some of those circular metal things that you use for strong connections. The instructions said the bed would take two people 45 minutes to make, but I knew that it would take us a lot longer and I seriously doubted we'd be able to do it at all. I have always fucked up stuff like this and looking at the instructions, oh yeah and the little pots of glue, I thought that failure was inevitable. But at least when I bought the replacement bed I would not be so stupid as to not pay the £45.
But we soldiered on and it was good to have my wife there to give a second opinion, though surely such a high-pressure task could only see us arguing and smashing broken bits of bed over each others' heads. Our first disagreement came when my wife thought the spirally metal circle things should be one way up, whereas I insisted they should be the other way up. The arrow surely had to go on the top. The ones we had didn't look like the ones in the picture so it was confusing. I tried to put them in upside down like my idiot wife thought, but they didn't fit. I put them in my way and in they slid. 1-0 to Richy in today's chapter of the lifelong competition that is marriage. But then a few minutes later with bits of dowling (is that the word?) glued up, I very nearly stuck two bits of headboard back to front. I stopped myself and so that came very close to being at least an equaliser for my wife. Had I not spotted the error I am not sure we'd have been able to rescue the project, so really I had saved a major humiliating defeat.
Yet things were progressing OK. Smithers had come into the room and seemed to be keen to help, holding on to various bits of wood as I screwed in screws, but then letting himself down by playing with the dowling (I am not sure that is what those things are called). The headboard was completed, but when we got to the other end of the bed we couldn't get the bolts to slide into the little spirally circle things. I was ready to give up and then cry, but my wife experiemented and realised we had to hammer the metal circles further into the wood. I told her that she was insane, but she was vindicated when we followed her course of action. It was a lovely equaliser. 1-1. And it was a goal that shifted the tide. Now we were no longer hoping the other one would fuck something up so that we could take the moral high ground, but actually hoping that we might complete the task and have a usable bed.
And in just under two hours I had slotted the last slat into place and the thing looked like a real bed. Though I didn't dare lie on it just in case it collapsed and I was speared by a piece of gluey dowling. I felt inordinately proud of us and like a proper man. I think it might be the first time I've assembled something without then having to unassemble it when I've realised I've put something in upside down. I was now delighted that I had built the thing myself (with my wife) rather than pay a man. I had essentially earned £22.50 an hour by doing this too. I was a God with £45 that I would otherwise not have had. My days are spent constructing towers of meaningless and intangible nonsense on my computer, so to craft something with my hands and something that would be useful for years to come, felt properly and disproportionately good. This bed might be here after I've gone. People as yet unborn might sleep in it. Later tonight as I was coming home in a taxi I looked at the buildings on route and thought that they had pretty much all be built by hands of people who are now dead. My work won't live on beyond my death, or even before it. These pretend inky smears on a computer screen are as throwaway as the boxes my bed came in. But if you've built a building there's a chance that your work will live on for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Which is something to be proud of. If you've built a bed then you've probably created something that will exist for a few decades. Words can suck things' cock.
I then put together a garden table, but to be honest that was very easy by comparison and I could probably have got something looking like a table even without the instructions. But evenso I am probably the most manly man in the world today. I would have been the most manly man ever if I hadn't been helped by my wife.
But manly men who think they can only be manly if they do stuff without women can suck my cock. In fact, no they can't, because that's clearly what they're secretly after with all their "manliness".


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Jabra Xpress
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MFiesta needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 27 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
Mexican Fiesta
Mexican Fiesta is an ethnic festival, which brings the sound, culture and taste of Mexico & Latin countries to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This festival has 37 years of existence; last year attendance was more than 80,000 people (paid entrance). Mexican Fiesta is a family oriented Festival. The entertainment ranges from national and international groups. One of the most educational and important areas is the Cultural Village, in which more than 60 artisans form Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, etc. display their unique work. Plus, more than 250 exhibitors, who display their merchandise. Here are some of the areas that you can enjoy at this festival.
-Cultural Exhibits -Art Gallery
-Sports Area -Children stage & playground
-Community & Social Services - Mid-west biggest Car Show HOTWHEELZ
-Contest (Jalapeño, El Grito, Salsarengue, Traditional Costume, & Dance)
And much more!
(Open to the public)
Anyone, who wants to experience the culture and traditions of Mexico & Latin countries.
We are looking for a new and clean concept, which can reflect our traditions, festivity, and colors, with an urban twist.
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Mexican Fiesta
August 26, 27 & 28, 2011
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Milwaukee, WI
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6 panel brochure & Poster which is distributed in the Mid-west area of the US. For more information about the festival you can visit http://www.mexicanfiesta.org or send an email to email@example.com
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All items > Knives > Folding Knives > Paragon (Folding) > Paragon Warlock
- Overall Length:9.375"
- Blade Length:4.00"
- Blade Thickness:0.12"
- Blade Material:CPM-S30V
- Blade Style:Dagger
- Finish:Satin, Stonewash
- Edge Type:Plain
- Handle Length:5.375"
- Handle Thickness:0.62"
- Handle Material:Aluminum
- Color:Black
- Weight:6.23 oz.
- User:Right Hand, Left Hand
- Pocket Clip:Tip-Up
- Knife Type:Manual
- Opener:Push Button
- Brand:Paragon
- Model:Warlock
- Country of Origin:USA
- Best Use:Everyday Carry, Tactical
- Product Type:Knife
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The Use of Old Exams
Whatever I feel like talking about.
Here's an idea that might help reduce the incentive to memorize answers: Include something intermediate between an answer and no answer. Often this could be a strong hint, or it could be a partial explanation with the last step or minor details left out. This helps students who genuinely tried to answer the question, and dissuades students looking to memorize since a tiny amount of effort would be required to produce the answer to each question.
I'm just speculating, but this approach might work best if the questions are presented in a structured format such that work in correctly answering one question is rewarded when trying to solve a later one. This way students will actually feel like they gain something from trying to figure out your old exam questions, as opposed to regarding it as a chore or a list to be memorized.
I am impressed that a professor has noticed "extra time" is often for bogus reasons.
An additional use of past papers is to help filter out what material is part of the course and what is just background interest. Some courses are not clear enough to do that naturally.
Another is that it is when you find out that you have not done nearly as good a job of teaching as you thought you had.
That isn't always obvious. There are courses which I only really understood a year or even two after the final exam - so the benefit I gained from good teaching was never recorded.
It seems to me that what you take as the pathological effect of exams being made available may well be the actual purpose of doing so, as far as universities are concerned. Offering a look at past exams gives students the ability to focus their study effort on just the areas that are required to pass, without actually mastering the subject. That's bound to be popular with a lot of students. It lets a university administration gain popularity with students, and appear "responsive" to student desires, at what seems to them to be a low cost—even if it actually hinders learning.
The best way to solve your exam problems, as well as many others, is to grant everyone a PhD, MD and JD at birth. Then classrooms would stop being polluted by students who didn't want to learn and those whose chief qualification is rich parents.
Just think how happy professors would be, teaching, like Socrates, only those who were desperate to improve themselves.
Of course, few profs measure up to Socrates; the others will always need classrooms filled with dumb students with rich parents.
Crowd Source it!
Have an online 'discussion' after each lecture and a standard topic perhaps "What are the 'three' most important ideas presented in this lecture?"
Then have a round where the various similar suggestions are coalesced, then another round where the ideas presented are voted on and ranked. (Negative numbers could mean various degrees of "wrong!" )
This initial ranking could then be followed by discussion and re-ranking, elimination of lowest ranked suggestions, discussion, re-ranking until the top 'three' suggestions remain.
Depending upon the quality of the students and their participation, it could well happen that the students would learn more from active participation in the online discussion than they did during the lecture. :)
The instructor would certainly get immediate feedback on efficacy of his or her lecture and, if the students have collectively misunderstood something important, the matter can be addressed in the very next lecture.
It seems possible that students who regularly participate in the discussion could be excused from a final exam or, if records are kept of 'performance' in the discussion, that students could accumulate 'points' sufficient to excuse them or make the grade points achievable on the final redundant.
A similar procedure could allow students to propose test questions -- or even grade the answers.
I'm still pretty new to making and giving exams, but have moved at this point to open books and open notes for all tests, in large part as an attempt to get them away from spending too much time trying to memorize material rather than understand it. This is related to one of the reasons you (and I) try to keep them short, too; the ability to do problems quickly on a desert island may occasionally be handy, but ultimately the ability to do things more deliberately and with access to the usual array of materials will be of more importance (though I do think this purpose can be advanced at times by inducing students to memorize material and practice doing problems quickly).
(I commented earlier, and it seemed like my comment was accepted. Now it's gone. Was it held for moderation?)
You hardly have to have anything that fancy for an online discussion to produce productive results - if you can get people to participate in it.
One of my favorite professors had for two of his courses a discussion forum. Students were encouraged to post questions frequently, and then to respond to each others' questions. This resulted in the students explaining the material to each other, which at least for me was very productive - I felt much more motivated to double-check my sources and reasons for reading things the way I did when there was another student going "Where did you get -that-?"
... Of course, that was a literature course. I don't know how much the same ideas would apply to economics.
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An interesting article! Some notes from me (I don't know how useful as economy and mathematics differ considerably):
1) Why not have oral exams instead? It depends on the amout of students that take your class, but if possible, it gives a much better info about who actually understands the topic. You can give out a list of broad topics before the first exam term and then have each student draw a card from a box or generate a pseudorandom number each associated with a topic. Then talk about that with the student, have him draw another one (more topics - reduction of the chance of the student being just "lucky" with the first draw) and repeat the process.
2) If the possibility of examining each student orally is out of hand due to too many students, have a combined written/oral exam. A written exam that is aimed to cover the width of student's knowledge, with a lot of rather easy questions from various part of the lecture and then an oral exam for those who pass that on one or two topics as described in 1).
2b) An interesting method used by one of the professors at my school - you draw just one card, but if you are not satisfied you can draw again - which reduces your final grade by one step. You can repeat drawing if not satisfied until the resulting grade would be a failure for sure anyway (which means you can change the card twice at our school). That again fixes the problem of luck a bit...or bad luck in this case. A student that knows all but the last topic and he picks that, can still pass quite well.
3)In parts of the exam where there is not an explicit demand for definitions or things that can be simply copied from the book, let students have the book(s) with them at the exam.
The following file is one of my exams (it is in english) in the last semester (the teacher having the same policy as you do...he provides the answers in a separate file):
I was allowed to use all the material for the class at the exam. It helped me to check some minor details in definitions and such, but had I not understand the subject it would have been of no use.
If you formulate the questions in the way that for a student who doesn't understand the topic the book is of very little use, it is a good way to reduce the "information distortion". And it also eliminates the option of cheating. You can already have any book, so nothing can help you. It is definitely possible to make such exam questions in mathematics (or physics), but I am not sure if it is in economy.
4) I like your policy of more-time-than-needed exams. I often find myself doing a far better job at the exam when I know I don't have to worry about the time (which is fortunatelly all of them now at the master's level when I am often the only student at the exam term). I even think faster that way. And I believe that at the end of the day it is about who has the knowledge and skill and can figure the problems out and not about who can think the fastest (or is most resilient to stress from time pressure).
I liked the approach of my biochem professor years ago. His exams had a list of questions every student must answer, for ~50% of the total points (iirc), and a list of other questions the students could choose from to achieve the remaining 50%.
If students had extra time they could provide answers to more questions than necessary in the optional list, increasing the possibility of getting 100% of the total points, or even more.
In that class we were sometimes provided exams (both Q&A) from prior years, but it was made crystal clear to us not to expect any reuse of those questions on the current year's exam.
I got my first driving licence in Italy. At least at that time, there was a theoretical test of 20 multiple-choice questions, all taken from a published book of 2000 such questions. To prepare for the test, I bought and went through the book. Most of the questions were easy, so I concentrated on the small proportion of more difficult questions and memorized the answers. I did very well in the test; better, I think, than most native Italians, who were less methodical about it. This is just a little anecdote that comes to mind in this context, make of it what you will.
I'm also a prof (undergrads at a SLAC), and also favor short tests, but came to them in a different way. Even among students who do not have fine motor issues, handwriting and typing speed vary hugely -- and, critically, not in ways that correlate with knowledge of and insight into the class material.
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After a long and controversial process, Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe has been acquitted of manslaughter charges in the Czech Republic. Although fans worldwide are celebrating Blythe's freedom and exoneration, Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler made a point to memorialize Daniel Nosek, who died soon after suffering head trauma at a Czech 2010 Lamb of God show.
Randy Blythe took a massive chance returning to the Czech Republic instead of harboring himself in the U.S., but with a "not guilty" verdict handed to the vocalist yesterday (March 5) by a Prague court, Blythe's name has been cleared. Soon after the judgement, Blythe posted a short statement on his Instagram page:
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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Monday, November 23, 2009
Some steaming hot dishes, ready for the table (photo by Emma-Lena Lezard)
My stepson and his girlfriend Emma-Lena stayed with us for a couple of days and, the first night, I had to plan an impromptu meal. I wanted it to be fun and a little special, because we don't see them very often and Sean always enjoys my cooking. So I searched my refrigerator and quickly planned a Chinese-style meal with 4 dishes. The menu was:
Stir-Fried "Chicken" and Mushrooms in Vegetarian "Oyster" Sauce
(From my Chinese cookbook, except that I used commercial Chinese mock chicken instead of tofu)
Stir-Fried Peas and Tofu
(A simple Cantonese-style dish, also from my Chinese cookbook)
A Broccoli Stir-Fry with red onions, sweet potatoes, and cashews, which I made up on the spot and seasoned with a bottled "Thai Teriyaki Sauce" that someone gave me (Cheating, I know, but it was tasty!)
Fried Rice
(also from my Chinese cookbook, and made with cold cooked brown basmati rice)
I have a small kitchen, and I wanted to be able to sit down and eat with everyone, so I followed my own advice from my cookbook "Authentic Chinese Cuisine for the Contemporary Kitchen":
"A Chinese cook can prepare a six-dish meal in half an hour in a tiny kitchen with no oven. This takes practice, of course, but it is achievable in our modern kitchens. The Chinese cook will stir-fry or deep-fry some of the dishes in turn, transferring the finished dish to a heated serving plate with a cover while the next dish is completed (stir-frying and deep-frying, when all of the ingredients are prepared ahead of time, take only minutes).
However, if the thought of all this last-minute cooking makes you nervous and will keep you from your guests, you must chose your dishes with care and prepare as many things ahead of time as you can. Have all the vegetables chopped and all the cooking sauces mixed."
For a meal like this, I like to do what I do for a cooking class and gather the ingredients for each recipe on a separate tray or cookie sheet, so that I don't mix anything up! (This is what is referred to in cook's parlance as "mise en place", [pronounced [MEEZ ahn plahs], which is a French term referring to having all the ingredients necessary for a dish prepared and ready to combine up to the point of cooking.) I thought it might be instructive for those of you who haven't attempted several Chinese-style dishes in one meal to see this. Here are photos of the mise en place for each dish, and then the finished dish:
Stir-Fried "Chicken" and Mushrooms in Vegetarian "Oyster" Sauce, and the finished dish:
Photo by Emma-Lena Lezard
Stir-Fried Peas and Tofu, and the finished dish:
Photo by Emma-Lena Lezard
Broccoli Stir-Fry and the finished dish:
Photo by Emma-Lena Lezard
Fried Rice (with scrambled tofu instead of egg), and the finished dish:
Photo by Emma-Lena Lezard
The cooking went quickly and smoothly, and the dinner, I'm happy to say, was much enjoyed. We had leftover Fried Rice for lunch the next day! (And, BTW, it is much easier to keep your kitchen clean when you use mise en place, especially with rapid-fire cooking like stir-fries. You can wipe up after chopping, put everything away, clean dirty utensils, etc., before you begin the actual cooking. If you don't do this, your kitchen will look like a bomb hit it and you will be frazzled from trying to locate the soy sauce, or a measuring spoon, at the crucial moment!)
Photo by Emma-Lena Lezard
4 comments:
- j and s said...
hi Bryanna,
Enjoyed this post very much! I have a question. Does your Chinese cookbook give recipes for the mock meats so often found in Buddhist/Chinese vegetarian cooking? I am trying to locate recipes for making the actual mock meats used from scratch, and have been curious about your cookbook...
jamie dehner
- Tue Nov 24, 08:54:00 PM PST
- Bryanna Clark Grogan said...
Thanks, Jaimie1 And, yes, my cookbook has recipes for making mock meats. I found that those recipes were missing from most Chinese vegetarian cookbooks.
- Tue Nov 24, 10:12:00 PM PST
- Dori said...
This looks scrumptious. I am finding myself in need of more convenience. What brand of mock meats do you use? I think this would be more feasible for me in my current lifestyle.
I need to revisit the Chinese cookbook duringmy Christmas two weeks off from work. mmmmm. :-)
- Thu Nov 26, 07:12:00 AM PST
Just wanted to say, how much I use and love your Chinese cookbook! After living in Vancouver for 25 years with an abundance of good healthy, Chinese food, I moved to the country and needed to learn to cook it myself! Your book has made the transition enjoyable and satisfying. Thank you.
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SKY REPORTER: January 2013
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Sky Data
On New Year's Day, sunrise is at 7:20 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. That evening the Sun, located in the constellation Ophiuchus, sets at 4:39 p.m.
Tuesday January 15th, sunrise is at 7:18 a.m. and sunset occurs at 4:53 p.m.
On the last day of the month, Thursday the 31st, the Sun is in Capricorn, rising at 7:06 a.m. and setting at 5:12 p.m. The altitude of the sun at solar noon, its maximum daily elevation, increases during January from 27 degrees of arc on the first to 33 degrees on the 31st. This change results in an increase in duration of daylight during January from nine hours 19 minutes on New Year's Day to 10 hours and six minutes on the last day of January.
During January average overnight temperatures recorded in Central Park drop from 28 degrees Fahrenheit on the first to 27 degrees on this month's last day.
Principal Phases of the Moon are:
|Last Quarter
|January 4 at 10:58 p.m. ET
|New Moon
|January 11 at 2:44 p.m.
|First Quarter
|January 18 at 6:45 p.m.
|Full Moon
|January 26 at 11:38 p.m.
Sky Cast
Mercury is low in the predawn eastern sky at the start of January. It rises at 6:45 a.m. in Sagittarius on the first of the month, just 35 minutes before sunrise. It is at superior conjunction with the Sun Friday January 18, after which Mercury moves east of the Sun into the evening sky. On the last day of January Mercury is within boundaries of the constellation Capricorn and sets at 5:56 p.m., 44 minutes after the Sun.
Venus is bright, although rather low, in the southeast during early mornings of January. It rises at 5:49 a.m. in the constellation Ophiuchus on the morning of New Year's Day. On the last day of January Venus rises at 6:27 a.m. in Sagittarius.
Mars continues to be seen low in the southwestern evening sky. On the first of the month it's in Capricorn and sets at 6:31 p.m. At month's end Mars has moved into Aquarius setting at 6:35 p.m.
Jupiter remains in Taurus near first magnitude star Aldebaran and the "V" shaped Hyades open star cluster. The big planet is a vivid highlight to beautiful star fields of winter nights. On January first Jupiter sets at 4:55 a.m. and at month's end it leaves our sky at 2:51 a.m.
During January Saturn is in Libra. On the first of the month the sixth planet from the Sun rises above the east-southeastern horizon at 2:24 a.m. and on the morning of the 31st it rises at 12:34 a.m.
Sixth magnitude Uranus is in Pisces. On the first night of 2013 it sets at 11:34 p.m. and by month's end it will set at 9:40 p.m.
Neptune remains in Aquarius setting at 8:44 p.m. on January 1st, and at 6:51 p.m. on January 31st.
The Earth is at perihelion, its annual closest point to Sun, late on the night of January first. At that time our distance to the Sun is about 91,407,000 miles.
The Quadrantid Meteor Shower peaks during the night of January 3rd and early morning of the 4th. This shower's radiant is near the star Alkaid at the end of the Big Dipper's handle. However moonlight will be present after midnight this year and will interfere with viewing these meteors. This and all meteor showers are best seen when viewed from a site far from urban lights.
On the evening of Saturday January 5th at about 7 p.m. telescopes magnifying at least 20 times can show the four largest moons of Jupiter all arrayed to the west of the planet. At that time their apparent sequence from Jupiter's limb is Europa, Io, Ganymede, and Callisto. Both Io and Europa are approximately the size of Earth's moon while Callisto and Ganymede the solar system's biggest satellite, are about 50% larger than our Moon. If you recently obtained a telescope you can hardly find a more appealing first sight than watching Jupiter and its retinue of moons. This evening provides a very pleasing view of the tableau, surely one of the finest sights seen with a small telescope.
If you look toward the southeast after 3 a.m. Sunday January 6th the Moon may be seen in the constellation Virgo between the first magnitude star Spica and Saturn. Saturn currently has a visual magnitude of 0.62 compared to 0.98 for the slightly less bright Spica, brightest star in Virgo at a distance from Earth of 262 light years.
Visible if the early morning sky about seven a.m. Thursday January 10th is clear, the Moon is located about 12 degrees of arc from Venus in brightening twilight. Venus then has a visual magnitude of -3.93.
From twilight until about 6 p.m. during the early evening of Saturday January 12th the thin waxing crescent Moon is about eight degrees to the right of Mars. At similar times the following evening the Moon will have moved to about eight degrees above the Red Planet in the west-southwestern sky.
During the night of Wednesday the16th the wide crescent Moon is four degrees northwest from Uranus, with the planet having visual magnitude 5.87.
The night of Sunday January 20th the Moon is near the Pleiades open star cluster, a wonderful sight in binoculars.
On the evening of the 21st, the waxing gibbous Moon is near the Hyades open star cluster in Taurus and around 9 p.m. the Moon will be less than one degree of arc from Jupiter. This eye-catching conjunction is well worth noting on your calendar. For observers in South America and the southern Pacific the Moon will occult Jupiter, blocking views of the planet.
With a telescope Jupiter's four Galilean moons may be seen arrayed on both sides of the planet at around 7 p.m. on the evening of Tuesday January 22. At that time Ganymede and Io are to the east of Jupiter and Europa and Callisto are on the west of the planet's disk. Ganymede and Callisto are the larger and brighter members of each pair.
January 23 the bright Moon is between the sky locations of the supernova remnant Messier 1, known also as M1 and the Crab Nebula, in Taurus and the open star cluster M35 in Gemini.
Wednesday evening January 23 at seven p.m. the Moon is about six degrees of arc from the eighth magnitude Crab Nebula, which is located near the third magnitude star ZetaTauri representing one of the Bull's horn tips. At that same time the Moon is five degrees from M35 in the constellation Gemini. Unlike M1 which requires a moonless night far from urban lights to glimpse with a telescope, M35 is visible with binoculars on any clear night. At seven p.m. the evening of Wednesday the 23rd, the Moon is also just two degrees directly south of the point on the ecliptic known as the summer solstice, the sky position of the Sun on the first day of our summer season.
Friday January 25th, the Moon is between Procyon, brightest star in the constellation Canis Minor and the twin stars of Gemini. Procyon is one of the brightest stars in the sky with a visual magnitude of 0.40. At a distance of 11.41 light years from the solar system, it is also one of the closest stars to us. Pollux, the more southerly of Gemini's twin stars, has magnitude 1.15 and is 34 light years from us. Just four and a half degrees to the northwest is Castor, Pollux's mythological twin. Castor is certainly not a physical twin since at a distance of 51.6 light years from Earth, Castor is nearly five times further from us than Pollux. Nevertheless, with a visual magnitude of 1.58 Castor is just slightly fainter than Pollux—and this apparent similarity combined with their proximity in the sky inspired the ancient notion of them being twins.
The evening of Saturday January 26 the Full "Wolf" Moon is just south of the beautiful open star cluster known as Messier 44 in the constellation of the Crab. M44 covers approximately four times the sky area of the full moon and may be seen with unaided eyes from locales that provide dark skies.
On January's last evening at six p.m., all four of the Jovian moons discovered by Galileo will be visible to the east of Jupiter. Their order in apparent distance from Jupiter then will be Io, nearly at the edge of the planet's disk, followed by Ganymede, Europa, and finally Callisto, which will be about four minutes of arc from the limb of the planet.
Sky Lore
This winter Jupiter graces the constellation Taurus, believed to be one of the first recognized star patterns in western sky mythology. The Bull, representing the vigor of emerging spring, marked the location of the Sun at the time of the Vernal Equinox during a period from approximately 4000 to 1700 B.C. Since then, the precessional wobble of Earth's rotational axis has brought the Spring Equinox into the constellation Aries and then to its current location in Pisces. In classic Hellenic myths, stars of Taurus represented a handsome bull into whose form Zeus had transformed himself in order to entice affections of lovely Europa. In addition to the famous and easily seen open star clusters of the Pleiades and Hyades, Taurus provides us with two fine examples of objects representing opposite stages in stellar evolution. The variable proto-star designated T Tauri, located near the Hyades, is puffing out vast quantities of dust and gas as it settles down to eventually begin producing light and heat through the process of nuclear fusion. At the other end of the evolutionary spectrum, a fast spinning neutron star, produced by a long-ago supernova explosion of a massive star, illuminates the Crab Nebula located between horn tips of Taurus.


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The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said Thursday that Caleb Gordley of Sterling died from a gunshot to the back of his shoulder.
Caleb died Sunday morning. His family said he sneaked out of the house Saturday night and went drinking with friends. Walking home, he mistakenly entered a similar home two doors down from his own by crawling through a back window.
The sheriff's office said Thursday that the homeowner gave verbal warnings and fired a warning shot, but Caleb continued up the stairs. Caleb was shot in the back after passing the homeowner in a hallway and walking toward a bedroom where others were located.


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Aug 4, 2014 6:25 PM PT
Online reviews are a modern-day fact of life for any company operating in the hospitality industry, but an Internet maelstrom erupted on Monday when one hotel's surprising response to that reality was brought to light.
Namely, the Union Street Guest House in upstate New York threatened to charge those who booked wedding parties at the venue US$500 for every bad review posted online by any of their guests -- or at least it did until Monday morning.
"Please know that despite the fact that wedding couples love Hudson and our inn, your friends and families may not," read a policy on its website exposed in the early hours of Monday by the New York Post.
"If you have booked the inn for a wedding or other type of event ... and given us a deposit of any kind for guests to stay at USGH ... there will be a $500 fine that will be deducted from your deposit for every negative review ... placed on any Internet site by anyone in your party," the warning read.
The stated policy was captured and posted by a commentator on the hotel's Facebook page:
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The hotel's Web page no longer mentions the fine, however, and an anonymous respondent to an inquiry CRM Buyer emailed both to the hotel's general and events email addresses suggests that the hotel was "just kidding" about the original policy.
"The policy regarding wedding fines was put on our site as a tongue-in-cheek response to a wedding many years ago," the respondent wrote. "It was meant to be taken down long ago and certainly was never enforced."
By press time, CRM Buyer had received no answer to a follow-up inquiry requesting the respondent's name and title at the hotel.
The hotel finally did manage to get around to changing the language on its website, though:
Meanwhile, by late afternoon on Monday the hotel apparently had not made any attempt to respond to numerous related attacks and inquiries on Facebook.
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The hotel has been bludgeoned by countless negative Yelp reviews since the story broke, and at least some of them suggest it has in fact attempted to enforce its original stated policy.
"The management of this hotel had the gall to email us twice to threaten us financially about the negative review!" wrote Rabih Z. late last year, for example.
"Here is an excerpt from their first email: 'Please note that your recent on-line review of our Inn will cost the wedding party that left us a deposit $500. This money be charged via the deposit they have left us unless/until it is removed. Any other or future reviews will also be charged to the wedding party (bride & groom) from the guarantee they have provided us.'"
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Such a policy is "clueless," Paul Gillin, blogger, podcaster and author of Attack of the Customers, told CRM Buyer.
"Why would you have a policy like this?" he wondered. "If you were booking an event, why would you do it at a place that would fine you?"
Also evident is a "complete misunderstanding of the fact that you can't control this stuff," Gillin noted. "There have been more than 40 new reviews in the last 20 minutes.
"People in travel should know that the Internet is a big game of Whac-a-Mole -- you can hit one place, but they'll pop up in another, even more angry," he said.
In short, the policy was "a lame, stupid idea," Gillin concluded. "It's kind of sad, but they're getting what they deserve."
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The Union Street Guest House isn't the first to try strong-arm tactics to prevent negative reviews, said Greg Sterling, founder and principal analyst with Sterling Market Intelligence.
"In the end, this sort of thing doesn't work," he told CRM Buyer.
"I find this practice of fining negative reviews counterproductive," said e-commerce and social media consultant Rob Abdul. "Potential future customers will not be able to trust the validity of the reviews if a system to punish negative reviews is in place."
Bottom line: "They've been caught with their pants down," customer service expert, professional speaker and bestselling author Shep Hyken told CRM Buyer.
"It's amazing that companies actually do this type of thing," Hyken said. "I understand why they're concerned, but they're making the rule up for a very small percentage of people that are probably going to complain no matter where they go or what they do.
"We all hate to get a negative review, but there's always an opportunity to respond," he added. "I encourage companies that get a negative one to respond and address the issue, and hopefully get the customer to follow up with a positive one."
In other words, Hyken concluded, "if they give you a second chance, don't mess it up."


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In my recent discussions with customers, I have found people asking how the IBM Worklight adapter can be used to integrate back-end systems. I've heard questions like "What if we have enterprise service bus (ESB) providing the business services?" and "How does mobile integration work in the absence of ESB?"
In this post I will go through three possible scenarios for mobile back-end integration using Worklight. But before we go deeper, here are some short definitions of important terms:
- Worklight adapter: An adapter is a connector that is used by the Worklight platform to connect to various back-end systems.
- Enterprise service bus (ESB): Wikipedia says that ESB is a software architecture model for designing and implementing the communication between mutually interacting software applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) manner using a lightweight, ubiquitous integration backbone.
Here is an example use case to explain this topic:
Use Case: A banking mobile app provides the account balance service to the user. The app takes the user's customer ID. In the back-end system, all the account information is stored at the account level and thus requires an account number as an input. Here are the two interfaces given by the system:
1) getAccountNum: This returns the account number for a given customer ID.
Input—Customer ID
Output—Account number
2) getAccountBal: This provides the account balance for a given account number.
Input—Account number
Output—Account balance
Let's take up the above use case with three different integration styles, considering both ESB and non-ESB scenarios.
Scenario 1: Back-end integration through ESB through a coarse-grained business service.
In this case, we assume that ESB provides a coarse-grained service that can be directly consumed by the Worklight server. Here the Worklight adapter has the role of hooking up the business service. While writing the Worklight adapter, a procedure should be written that invokes the coarse-grained service exposed by ESB. ESB should further call one or many back-end interfaces to fulfill the use case.
In the example, ESB exposes a coarse-grained service called getAccBalService, which in turn invokes multiple interfaces exposed by the back-end system and finally returns the account balance to the mobile app client.
Scenario 2: Back-end integration through ESB with multiple fine-grained services rather than a single coarse-grained service.
In this case, we assume that ESB exists in the enterprise, but it provides multiple fine-grained services rather than a single coarse-grained one. At the Worklight adapter end, a procedure should be written that invokes multiple fine-grained services, forming the aggregated output to be sent back to the client application.
In this example, ESB exposes fine-grained services: (i) getAccNumService and (ii) getAccBalService. These services are mapped to the back-end interfaces. The adapter makes multiple service calls and returns the account balance to the mobile app.
Scenario 3: Direct Integration through Worklight adapter where no ESB exists.
This is a case where ESB does not exist for back-end integration. The back-end application provides one or multiple interfaces, which are directly consumed by the Worklight adapter. The Worklight server provides a variety of pre-built technology adapters, which can be configured easily without doing any additional development.
In this example, the back-end system exposes the interfaces: (i) getAccNum and (ii) getAccBal. The adapter makes multiple direct calls to the back-end system and returns the account balance to the mobile app.
Another case could be integration through IBM WebSphere Cast Iron, but to me that looks like another flavor of ESB. In this case, Worklight provides a ready-made Cast Iron adapter for quicker integration.
In conclusion, it doesn't matter if the back-end services are available through ESB or non-ESB. I recommend building the back-end integration through the Worklight adapter(s), as it provides the following advantages:
- The Worklight adapter provides various authentication and authorization mechanisms to control access to the back-end resources.
- Communication between the mobile app and back-end systems is optimized by the Worklight platform.
- It provides enterprise grade auditing and logging capabilities, which give better control to the IT administrator to manage the back-end connections.
As the IBM Worklight server positions itself as a leader in mobile enterprise application platforms (MEAP), the adapter component will have a decisive role in delivering enterprise mobile applications.
Do you have any other integration styles for mobile back-end integration? Leave a comment below.