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The Core Texts Program is a two semester course sequence, Cultural Perspectives 101 and 102, taken by all Samford University students. In these courses students engage ideas that form a narrative of human learning. Here, they are taught to read, think, and communicate by interacting with classic texts that have stood the test of time.
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Circuit Length: 5.412 Km
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2010 Results (Race cancelled in 2011)
Pole Position:
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2nd: Felipe Massa (Ferrari)
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Fastest Lap:
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`Wind, Sand and Stars': it's the name of a famous novel but it could also describe what we are about to see in Bahrain this weekend. A desert location guarantees a sandy track at the start of each session, and the wind can have a surprising effect, especially on lightweight cars at high speeds in seventh gear. But hey, these 24 guys are the stars of world motor sport so they should be able to handle it…
We go back to Bahrain for the first time since 2010, as political unrest caused last year's GP to be cancelled. It's also back to the future in terms of track layout: the extended version tried out in 2010 caused some drivers to complain of bumpiness so we revert to the 5.412km layout first used in 2005, Bahrain's second season on the calendar. The lap record referred to was set on the 5.412km layout.
There are 15 turns in that shorter version, six left, nine right, and it's notoriously hard on brakes. At Turn 1, for instance, they go from around 315 km/h to 65 in the space of 130 metres, or three seconds… The long (1.2 km) main straight encompasses the DRS zone. One feature of Sakhir is the asphalt run-off areas which promote gung-ho overtaking manoeuvres.
Pirelli takes the Medium Prime/Soft Option combination familiar from Australia and China this year to a venue where so far its F1 product hasn't raced. There were two significant Pirelli tests there in 2011 and 2011, but as the company's Paul Hembery says, "The tyres and cars have changed so much since then that it's almost like starting with a blank sheet of paper." Hot ambient temperatures, usually in the mid-30's zone, complicate the issue so once again tyre management and strategy will be key elements of the race.
This is the eight race, then, in Bahrain. So far four men have shared the spoils: three wins to Fernando Alonso, two to Felipe Massa (wouldn't he love another one now!) and one apiece to Michael Schumacher and Jenson Button. Ferrari has four desert victories to its name, Renault two and Brawn one.
For first-time Shanghai winner Nico Rosberg it's back to where it all started. A fresh-faced Rosberg debuted here in 2006 with Williams, as team-mate to Mark Webber, and set fastest race lap – the first of only two so far in his 111-race career. Williams, by the way, can claim just one other fastest lap since then – and that was in Melbourne in 2009, also thanks to Nico.
The question is: was China a one-off for Mercedes, adding race pace to qualifying performance, or was it the start of Something Big? Or will the similarly-powered McLaren duo, currently 1-2 in the Championship, be a match for them in Bahrain? It's the last of the four early-season fly-away races: watch for consolidation this weekend ahead of a development surge starting at the Mugello test in early May.
Three races so far, two wins to Mercedes engines, one to a Ferrari engine. We can discount Cosworth in terms of race win as they power back-markers Marussia and HRT, so that leaves… Renault. No wins, just one podium, for Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel. "Our potential is plain to see," says Lotus Renault team boss Eric Boullier. "I don't like being in sixth position in the Constructors' Championship but we should not remain there for long." Time to get down to business…
Back to Mercedes: their head man Norbert Haug says "I think this could be one of the best Formula 1 seasons of all time and harder fought than ever." And that's not only up front, either. As Marussia's Timo Glock says, "There's a lot going on up and down the field at the moment…"

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Just wanted to say that I think Revis is a classy guy. I dont think the jets deserve him.
I hope Revis is okay. I seriously want the Jets to be at full strength when we play them again.
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So, does "Revis Island" mean he will be sitting alone, at home, with a margarita watching games the rest of the season?
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The best ever cornbread baked in my kitchen
I have baked cornbread some 3-4 times and this was THE. BEST. EVER. I am not exaggerating.
Especially if you are someone who has shied away from baking this because you don't eat eggs, you are in for a pleasant surprise. My husband quit eating eggs a few years ago and I am constantly figuring out ways to turn out decent baked stuff with replacements for egg and yesterday I hit gold. Flaxseed which is one of the best sources of Omega-3 for a vegetarian. You can buy the seeds and powder the quantity required for each recipe in a coffee grinder / chutney jar of mixer.
For each egg to be replaced - use 1 tbsp flaxseed powder whisked into 3 tbsp of very hot water. You will get an emulsion like beaten eggs and use it at the stage of the recipe when it calls for eggs.
This was most perfect match for the chili and I must add that my toddler son loved this too - in fact he was making it extremely difficult for me to take a picture, by digging his tiny fingers into it!
Recipe for Eggless Cornbread
Serves 3-4
Loosely adapted from Alton Brown's Creamed Corn Cornbread recipe
In a large bowl, mix-
1 cup yellow cornmeal (Makkai ka atta)
1/2 cup all purpose flour (Maida)
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar
In a medium bowl, whisk well-
1 cup buttermilk
2 tbsp oil
2 tbsp flaxseed powder whisked into 6 tbsp hot water
1/2 cup milk
2 tbsp finely chopped pickled jalapenos or 1 tsp finely chopped green chillies
2 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves
1 tsp cumin seeds for garnish (optional, but gives a nice look to the bread)
1/4 cup frozen corn kernels (gives a nice sweet crunch, but I did not have it on hand, so did not use)
Preheat the oven at 200C.
Grease a loaf tin or line with tin foil.
Mix the wet ingredients into the dry - till just combined and stir in the jalapenos, coriander leaves and corn kernels. I added a few spoons of the brine from pickled jalapenos as I found the mix somewhat dry. This gave a big flavour boost to the bread.
Pour into greased loaf tin. Flatten lightly with wet fingers and bake for 20 minutes or until a tester comes out clean.
Let it rest for 15-20 minutes outside, before slicing.
Serve warm with chili. Recipe for chili posted here.
Food shopping in Hyderabad
Flaxseed also called Alsi in Hindi and Tashi in Bengali (knowledge shared by my twitter friends) is available with most grocers nowadays.
In Hyderabad, you can buy it at -
Ratnadeep (Srinagar Colony / Madhapur)
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Hypercity (Inorbit Mall, Madhapur)
Fabindia outlets that stock food
Pickled Jalapenos are available in all supermarkets. American Garden, Frigata are some of the good brands.
22 comments:
- arundati said...
looks yumm!
- 19 Oct 2010, 13:48:00
- Mona said...
Never had cornbread until now, but your description is making me want to try it too.
- 19 Oct 2010, 20:07:00
- Manasi said...
bookmarked,my neighbor was telling me how much she loves cornbread jusat 2 days ago :) got me thinking and now ur post! I have most of the ingredients, cept the flaxsed meal, will get that over the weekend.
- 19 Oct 2010, 20:15:00
- Scarlett O'Hara said...
Man! I am going to make this soon!
- 19 Oct 2010, 20:24:00
Don't you mean "raving" and not "ranting"?
- 20 Oct 2010, 02:26:00
- Srimathi said...
I used to be such a big follower of your blog, Its good to see you back.The corn bread looks well.
- 20 Oct 2010, 03:06:00
- Neha said...
This is a great recipe - I am sure to try this ...great option for vegos..!! Thanks
- 20 Oct 2010, 07:50:00
- Nandita said...
Thanks anon, you read me right, I indeed meant to say 'raving' - so thanks!
- 20 Oct 2010, 09:45:00
- anubhavati said...
Cornbread is a fun ingredient to cook with...Very versatile and yet so yummy!!!
Your addition of spices also look so yummy and very tasty.
- 20 Oct 2010, 10:05:00
- Nandita said...
Ms.Rani Kottayam,
If you come here again, please do not bother leaving your rude, negative comments. I am not going to publish them. No one asked you to follow me on twitter or my blog. So bye. Hope you have good life.
Thanking you,
- 21 Oct 2010, 22:02:00
- Siri said...
The corn bread is delicious. will try soon :). Flax seed is a very nice, healthy substitution. Thanks for the info about the stores of Hyd. I will pass that on to my mom. Hope all is well with you and kiddo N. :)
- 22 Oct 2010, 03:17:00
- Scarlett O'Hara said...
Honest to God, this was brilliant. The first savory bread I made, and that too to friends who were visiting, and it was brilliant! :)
- 25 Oct 2010, 11:38:00
- Anushruti said...
This looks very delicious and tempting Nandita! Great Job!
- 31 Oct 2010, 07:41:00
- Manasi said...
Nandita, please let me know what I can sub for flaxseed meal.. i have just moved to a new city and am finding flaxseed meal a little difficult to procure :(
- 21 Dec 2010, 05:46:00
- sangeeta said...
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- Chirpy said...
Hello Nandita,
i am one of your regular blog followers. We got our convection microwave finally and the fist thing i wanted to bake was bread :) and this recepie of your beats the garlic bread too :)
i had a question, how do i do the pre-heating in the microwave. this shall be my first baking experience ever, hence any input will be a great help.
- 7 Jun 2011, 18:15:00
This is great! Ur recipes are always inspirational and this one is no different!
Would be of great help if you could post your recipe for chilli too to go along!
- 21 Mar 2012, 18:39:00
Oops..just saw the chilli recipe too!!
- 21 Mar 2012, 18:42:00
I am planning to make this soon. One question - a family member cannot consume wheat/all purpose flours. Would this work if I substituted corn flour instead of the maida?
- 16 Jul 2012, 16:01:00
Followed your recipe to a T and made cornbread yesterday. Came out well, was a big hit and will be a repeat dish in my kitchen. Thanks for sharing!
- 25 Jul 2013, 08:14:00
Hello Nandita! I have just found your blog :) It is awesome!
One question - what oven are you suing? I have that Indian style electric aliminium oven which has glass on the lid...Will it work to bake bread in it? Thanks!
- 16 May 2014, 13:01:00
Hi Nandita,
I followed your recipe (with a few minor changes) and out came the most delicious corn bread i ever tasted! I wanted to tag you (saffron trail) in my facebook photo of the corn bread, but somehow that didn't work.
I didn't have flax seeds at home, so I added 1/4th cup of sour cream and baked for 30 minutes, for a soft light spicy cornbread.
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Is it right that mostly college drop out students run the biggest businesses in the world?
In Most of cases Mostly college drop out students successfully run biggest businesses in the world. Its a very amazing and wonderful.
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Mar 3 2013: Could you share your evidence that "mostly college drop out students successfully run the biggest businesses in the world?" We all know a few examples of college drop-outs who do- Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steven Jobs- but I have not seem the evidence that most successful big businesses fit this profile.
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Do you think people increase their odds of running a successful big business in the modern world if they drop out?
Please share your data!Mar 3 2013: Hi Daxesh
indeed it is right... if you ever wondered , you might have come to believe what schooling system teaches us.
I believe you are interested in entrepreneurship... and that is very interesting. I guess the entrepreneurial spirit is growing in India. will be very interesting to share ideas with you as I am looking forward to be in India.
Schools produce good little boys and girls to go to university, get a degree and get a job, pay taxes, buy liabilities, pay more taxes for it, retire and die (and pay taxes because you are dead, you don't need money when you are six feet under)
people who drop their education, (some end up being criminals) and had a strong desire of achievement they went for it. they know they can't get a job without a degree (no one would employ them) so they created a work for them.
and then their hire people with a degree to do the job for them.
school doesn't teach us to take risk, but the street does. (you know they say something like this: School Wise vs Street Wise)... because lie is too risky outside of classroom. and the ones who drop out, goes through this risky life and learned the advantages and disadvantages of taking risks.
there is a nice book about what Rich tell (teach) their children about money (money management) and what Poor / Middle class tell (teach) their children about money (money management)
Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki (you can find the full audio book on yourtube)
Mar 4 2013: @Edwin:) I appreciate with yr knowledge. Very Nice talking..... Good Comment. Nice to meet you.
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Mar 6 2013: Yes it is right.
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They will hire the ones who didn't drop out for a small salaryMar 4 2013: In my view, . These famous businessmen/women have been successful because of their burning desire to achieve something and more importantly they did not allow their limited academic education to make them settle for a mediocre life. They worked hard and made it to the top. As Edwin said, these drop-outs are unable to find any good jobs and are thus, are driven to create work for themselves. Unlike many college drop-outs who are happy doing a job at McDonald's for the rest of their lives (no offense to anybody who works there) and are okay with having not having achieving anything substantial in their lives. They may be exceptionally smart, maybe smarter than Bill Gates or Steve Jobs ever were, but if heshe allows the fact that they're college drop-outs to decide the quality of life they can have , they may become very successful people. The most important quality I have noticed in most of these successful college drop-outs is that they are not scared to dream or take any risks.
I would say that the fact that they were drop-outs forced them into entrepreneurship, as it's the only way they can become big. So I would rephrase the sentence and say that the most of the big businessmen and businesswomen are college dropouts rather that most of the college drop-outs being the biggest businessmen or businesswomen! :)
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Mar 4 2013: The situations of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, two of the people often mentioned in this context, don't really fit the profile some people have in mind of drop-out-with-limited-education-makes-good.
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Gates and Zuckerberg had the sorts of k12 education and enrichment their affluent families could provide, excelled in that to the degree that they started at Harvard and Princeton respectively, had ideas so compelling to them that they decided to interrupt their educations for it (either could have returned had their ventures failed), and had their families and connections to support their ventures.
They were not drops out unable to find good jobs who were forced into entrepreneurship. they had different preparation and opportunities.
Mar 6 2013: Fritzie,
I agree that Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are two people who interrupted their education to go ahead with their compelling ideas and wrere not forced into entrepreneurship, rather, they were looking for it. I see how many of these college-dropouts, though almost equally successful, had different reasons for dropping out. I think they got rich because they are extremely good at what they do and street-smart as well. I have recently read that a mass-based forrester research (from Cambridge) showed that 20% of America's millionaires have never even attended college. I have also read an article of the Forbes, which wrote about the rags-to-riches stories of 50 people. They were either entrepreneurs , or worked their way up after getting lucky. But as you said, they may have not been forced into entrepreneurship and must have had different reasons. They were nonetheless entrepreneurs. So I would say that a majority of successful college drop-outs from what I have read are entrepreneurs.
Mar 6 2013: I had misunderstood your claim. I thought you were arguing that most successful entrepreneurs were college drop outs.
Looking at this different idea, that the majority of successful college drop-outs were entrepreneurs, it depends very much on what you call successful and what you include within the category of entrepreneurs. Many people who never went to college are extremely happy with their lives. We probably have many such people here, some of whom had their own businesses and some not.
Looking forward, I have read that college is the new high school degree, in the sense that college is now expected for more opportunities within organizations. The expected earning stream of college-educated people is much higher than of those with less education, and the impact of the economic downterm has been much greater on those with less education.
But this is not the same as success.Mar 6 2013: Of course, success is rather subjective. But I am referring to success in the context of the question asked, where it talks about the somewhat small majority of rich and famous people, who , in spite of being college drop-outs have managed to get to the level that they have today.
College being a possible mandatory qualification for joining any organization is inevitable due to the increasing population and scarce jobs. Obviously, one with more qualifications is likely to get a job at any organization . And also, the impact of economic downterm on a person with less education in some way or the other is inevitable. But are you referring to all of the people who have received relatively less education, even people like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc. ?
Mar 6 2013: Sorry to be unclear. I use the word "expected" in the economic sense. It doesn't mean everyone with less education will have a lower income stream than everyone who has more. It means if you take a group of each kind and compare, on average one group has a higher income stream than the other. In each group there will be exceptions, as there is variation, typically around any average..Mar 8 2013: yes of course, I agree that the average income of a group with more education will be higher than another group's with relatively lesser education. Although I think that the people with a less-than-average income would be pulling their average down. Since we are speaking about the exceptions in both the groups, comparing them would be better. We could compare the averages of incomes of the very best of the groups, so we have an accurate comparison.
John Gianino
Mar 3 2013: People go to universities to acquire academic knowledge. Degrees are not required to become an entrepreneur but knowledge of the products, services, and business practices in a specific industry are required to effectively manage a company.
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If an entrepreneur has the resources to form a company and they wish to profit from the company, they can hire people to perform the tasks in the business and remain only an equity holder.Mar 17 2013: yes but the majority of those people are true geniuses and for the majority of dropouts from college they go nowhere and there are plenty of businesses run by people that wet through all of collegeMar 4 2013: Because from the dropping out action,it means they can be brave to take the action to stop things they aren't interested in.They have the gut to make the words'Take the action,just do it' in their lives.I think it is a very important potential in their bodies to be a successful businessman.


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Paul di Resta admits that he needs to improve on his efforts in 2012 if he is to secure a move to a top Formula One team in the future.
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It's really about the 31 members of Girl Scout troops 20912 and 20521 from Croninger Elementary and all the hard work they have put in to honor Chase who is celebrating his 60th year calling Komets games.
For the last four years, members of the troops have been building elaborate structures to participate in The History Center's Festival of Gingerbread. This year's event started Wednesday with Lighting Night and continues through Dec. 9. The History Center is open Monday through Thursday and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fridays from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m.
Troop members designed nine projects this year -- including Christmas, Girl Scouts, go-karts and Old Fort themes -- and Jessica Tarr, 10, Alena Gomez, 10, and Sarah Ihrie, 9 and team mom Kathy Gomez designed a hockey game featuring the Komets and Evansville IceMen. They had help on the final touches from Bree Winfree.
Sarah Lutz, 10, and Tarr wrote stories describing Chase's career and what he has meant to Fort Wayne. He's represented as part of the structure by his bobblehead doll, as is Komets mascot Icy D. Eagle.
The girls' creativity shows the planning involved. Ice cream cones are the goals, gingerbread men represent the players who are wearing cinnamon and peppermint candies for skates and even the gingerbread referee is wearing black stripes. A licorice gumdrop was cut in half for the puck, and cherry gumdrops serve as the lights behind each goal.
Even the two goaltenders are wearing white masks and are using Tootsie Rolls formed into sticks. Sitting in the Kit Kat bar bleachers are such dignitaries as Chase's wife Murph and former Komet Eddie Long and his wife Gayle.
The structure earned a third-place finish in the Festival of Gingerbread judging in the third-to-sixth-grade category.
``That's the most girls I've been around for a long time, and the nice thing about it is Murph would have approved,'' Chase said with a laugh after visiting the troops last week while they were working on their projects. ``That's amazing. They really put detail on it, and the amount of prep time they must have put in to put it together was something else. It was really, really nice. They really put a lot of energy into it.''
Last year, one of the groups within the troops designed another hockey game to honor the Komets' 60th anniversary season. This year's project greatly impressed Chase.
``Those are the kind of things that I've had in my activity file all my life,'' he said. ``Being around young people just rejuvenates you when you see how much fun they are having, how imaginative they were and everybody was a part of it all. They were very polite, but they were having a good time, and even at that young age, some of them knew who I was, which is really something.''


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Sunday, April 14, 2002Johnson City, Tenn. (Apr. 14, 2002) -- The East Tennessee State men's golfers finished 12th following Sunday's final round of The Intercollegiate, hosted by the University of North Carolina, from Finley Golf Course in Chapel Hill, N.C. East Tennessee State shot a 293 in Sunday's round, finishing with a three-round total of 874 (290-291-293). Wake Forest won the event by one stroke over North Carolina State after firing a 282 in the final round of play. Junior James Johnson (Barbados) led the Bucs in the tournament, finishing in a tie for 20th (71-72-72=215) at 1-under par. James had a very consistent three rounds, firing second and third-round even-par 72's after shooting a 1-under-par 71 in Saturday morning's first round. Freshman Marco Trejos (San Jose, Costa Rica) was the next Buccaneer finisher, ending the tournament in a tie for 38th at 4-over-par (72-73=144). Junior Adam Riddering (Maple Grove, Minn.) finished just two strokes behind Trejos, tying for 45th at 6-over-par (72-74-76=222). Freshman Cennydd Mills (Cardiff, Wales) had his best round of the tournament on Sunday, shooting a 72 in his final round of play to finish in a tie for 50th at 7-over-par (75-76-72=223). Fellow freshman Jeremy Hobson (Thonotasassa, Fla.) rounded out the tournament for the Bucs, finishing in a tie for 56th at 10-over-par (80-72-74=226). The Bucs return to the links on Apr. 19-21 for the Southern Conference Men's Golf Championships from the Furman Golf Course in Greenville, S.C., hosted by Furman University.
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These were yummy and VERY chocolatey...to the person who said they came out flat...it is CRUCIAL that you thoroughly mix any cookie recipe ingredients. Can't stress that enough. You can sift the dry ingredients to be sure those get mixed well and then USE A HAND MIXER when you add in the wet ingredients prior to adding the chips. Don't use the mixer when you add the chips. The cookies should be puffy when they come out of the oven and then flatten as they cool.
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in bowl, cream sugars eggs, and butter... in separate bowl combine other dry ingredients. sift dry ingredients into butter
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After peach ice cream and peach pound cake, hubby wanted something a little more decadent, like something heavy-duty chocolate. This was it! As he was eating one of these cookies I asked him how he liked them--all he could do was nod his head up and down and say, "Mmmmmmmmm." Finally, he told me this was one of the best cookies he had ever eaten. This cookie is everything you'd want it to be--chewy, gooey, chocolatey, pretty, and sinfully good. I, too, added 1/2 tsp. salt, but not for height, as one reviewer suggested, but because salt makes flavors "come alive." This is one great cookie!
A great change from chocolate chip cookies - delicious and very rich and chocolate-y. I agree that the recipe is a bit confusing. I had to read it over a few times to understand what I needed to do. It should say "Combine dry ingredients EXCEPT THE WHITE AND BROWN SUGAR; in separate bowl cream sugars, eggs, butter AND VANILLA EXTRACT." And once the dry ingredients are sifted into the wet, fold in the chocolate chips. But well worth the effort to figure it out - Yum!
I followed the recipe but added 1/2 tsp of salt for height...they turned out delicious...better than the ones in mall.
These cookies were awesome! My husband and I loved them-some of the best I've ever had. I did use salt and a stone cookie sheet. They came out thick and fluffy, soft and chewy. I agree with an earlier review-make sure ingredients are mixed together well, wet and dry separately and when mixing together!I agree the recipe was confusing and should have said, "Mix all dry ingredients except for sugars. Cream sugars, butter, eggs and vanilla in a separate bowl." Again, these cookies were awesome-some of the best I've ever had!
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Exposure to radon gas increases your risk of developing lung cancer. The EPA estimates that 21,000 lung cancer deaths each year in the United States are due to radon exposure, which makes it the second leading cause of lung cancer following smoking.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
"Back to Basics"
Last Monday was the college's Opening Day, an annual gathering where staff and faculty welcome each other back to the new semester and academic year. The president's message this fall focused on remediation and retention, and he highlighted certain facts about our student body. For example, of students who take placement tests upon entering the college, less than a quarter are able to do college-level math. Less than a quarter are able to write at a college level. And less than half are able to read at a college level.
For many staff and faculty these numbers were not surprising, and I imagine they are consistent with other community colleges nationally, but a week later I still find myself stunned. I understand that access to opportunities is part of the basic mission of a community college. We work with the underserved, the poor, minorities, non-English speakers, and people of all ages who may not have experienced high academic success in the past. However, I had previously not seen numbers such as these so starkly laid out.
The president suggested we treat the situation as a personal challenge: How can we help these students succeed? I am highly motivated to do good work, but I catch myself feeling helpless because I make many assumptions about students' abilities. For one, I have been assuming that the patrons I help at the reference desk can read. For another, we librarians try to make the library as easy to use and intuitive as possible, but what is easy to librarians with master's degrees may be very difficult for someone else.
Not to sound disheartened, but I wonder whether I am doing a good job as an educator if in the end all I can do is show students the path to success. When students are starting with such serious underlying educational disadvantages, is it enough to just show them the way? Giving everyone a chance comes naturally to me, but I struggle with the thought that that's the most I can do.
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Don't know if you saw it, but Marilyn Feingold (from CCC) shared this article with the IR group:ReplyDelete
- Anni FoasbergSeptember 10, 2009 at 12:04:00 PM EDT
There's a lot to say about this.ReplyDelete
I do think it's important not to put too much stock in standardized tests, scientific as they may make themselves out to be. A single high-stakes test may or may not tell you what a student can do (of course, some students may blow it off, or suffer from test anxiety, or just be really good at taking this kind of test and not so good at the sorts of things it purports to measure), so even if you know their scores you don't necessarily know their abilities. It's even more complex and problematic when it comes to measuring highly contextual activities such as reading and writing in a decontextualized way. Which, of course, is not to say that your students may not, in fact, have serious academic problems. No doubt some of them do (and the tests may not detect all of them, either).
A couple of things I was taught as a writing tutor really apply here. One is that it's a really good idea to find out just where the student is at before you start trying to do stuff. What do they already know? What is the class like, and how are they experiencing it? Remember, they know more about it than they do. The other is that MANY of the skills (and I hesitate to use the word for reflexive theoretical reasons, but I'm using it simply to evoke something that one can do) we are trying to teach them are ones that are only learned over the long term, through extensive practice. I think this applies to research as much as it does to writing. When we worked with ESL students, it was easy to get discouraged because at the end of the 45 minutes, their English still wouldn't be perfect! Their paper may still have all kinds of errors in it, but as our coordinator reminded us, even if we didn't get to that part of the process, even if we couldn't do much for them in that regard, they got to spend time having an academic conversation with an English-speaking person. It may not seem like much, but in the long term it's essential.
Also, the article that Doug linked is both extremely depressing and written in a way that really frustrates me.
- Anni FoasbergSeptember 10, 2009 at 12:10:00 PM EDT
Oops, typo...ReplyDelete
"Remember, they know more about it than they do. "
Should have been: They know more about it than you do.
You know, since they're in the class and you aren't.
I dunno, I thought the article was really interesting, and the "Faced with all this, even well-meaning community college personnel often evince a fatalism about their work, focusing more on students' deficiencies and who's to blame--the K-12 system, poverty, bad parents--than on what the college can do about them" part sounded a bit familiar...ReplyDelete
I'm not a huge fan of using standardized tests as indicators of ability either, but that data can be better than nothing, and according to certain standards might be meaningful.
I definitely do NOT want to start assuming that the students I work with are dumb, but I'm struggling with the fact that I may have been giving them too much credit, to the extent that I might have been ineffective in my attempts to teach. As a real-time example, in my instruction sessions this semester so far I've been asking students for a show of hands if they know what a journal is. Obviously this is informal and relies on self-reporting, but it's been a steady 5-10% in every class. Previously, I had been assuming they knew what I meant when I talked about journals.
More broadly, however, when I examine how I'm communicating and find ubiquitous examples of these types of assumptions, is it ultimately better to just say 'journals' and have them figure out what I mean, or use the (limited) time in class to go over definitions? The former tactic communicates that they should know what a journal is and that if they don't it's their responsibility to find out; the second clarifies but delays getting to the real purpose of the lesson. I'm starting to think that the first way is preferable, and that this what is meant by all the 'extending opportunities' rhetoric. I'm really not sure what to do if this leads to high failure/drop-out rates, though.
Very nice post! The simple reality is that in library instruction we often don't get the chance to find out the individual skills lvls & needs of those we are teaching (at least to the extent I would want). As a result I find I often have to find a sometimes uncomfortable middle ground between meeting the needs of as many students as possible with widely varying skill lvls. I don't want to bore the more advanced or self-motivated learners but I don't want to leave those that need more handholding behind either. It's a hard razor's edge to stay on.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 21, 2009 at 6:25:00 PM EDT
Great post & great observation Dana. I am new to library instruction and it's been so difficult to gauge the skill level of my incoming freshmen. From years of ref desk work, I know that most students don't know the basics, but that can be handled really well on an individual basis...classes though, can be tough! How prepared are students to think critically about their research, and how much can librarians do to get them there?ReplyDelete


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Yesterday MVCConf 2011 was held. MVCConf is a virtual conference about ASP.NET MVC and since ASP.NET MVC 3 has shipped a few weeks ago there was a lot to talk about. The conference is organized by the community and there are a lot of speakers from the Community as well as from Microsoft.
Some videos are online already at www.mvcconf.com/live but all videos are coming online later at the www.mvcconf.com site.
Since I'm an ASP.NET MVC fanatic I've used my free evening to watch the sessions and will view more tomorrow.
Sessions I watched:
Keynote by Scott Guthrie @scottgu
Scott talked about the history of ASP.NET MVC 3 and the older versions (ofcourse everyone knows he wrote version 1 during a single flight from his home to some conference a few years ago) and held an interactive session where people could ask questions using twitter. He talked about the difference of webforms and mvc ofcourse since this is a question that is always asked when talking about mvc on a high level. He noted again that webforms, webmatrix and MVC will all exist next to each other in the future and serve different purposes. to make this more clear he gave 3 keywords for all methods of building ASP.NET applications
- Simple
- Light
- Fast
Web Forms
- Familiar
- Reusable
- Productive
- Powerfull
- Extensible
- Agile
Other things he talked about is the focus of Microsoft on JQuery. Microsoft added JQuery to the MVC 1.0 and in 3.0 they even switched completely to JQuery when you look at all examples etc. Microsoft is also actively helping in creating a new JQuery plugin for the JQuery Datatable. this is something I would really like to see!!
Scott also told us about project Orchard which is a new open source CMS project by Microsoft. this is also looking really promising. Another thing Scott talked about really quick was an Asset management system for CSS and JS functions / snippets. more to come about this in the future. (he wasn't supposed to say anything about this.)
Finally he talked about large sites running ASP.NET MVC. He couldn't tell a lot about this since he didn't know which company liked him saying their technology choices. but some examples he did tell were bing.com and other microsoft sites. other examples people on twitter added are the channel 9 site, stackoverflow.com and cheezburger.com
Phil Haack on nuget @haacked
Phil talked on Microsoft opensource project nuget by showing how you use it in visual studio using the extension manager and the console. I think most people have already seen and used nuget but this session went deeper. phil showed us how to create packages and how to use advanced functions the console. Something that was new to me he showed us is the local repository you can add in nuget. I'm going to have another look at this later so we can use it within our company.
after this he showed us how nuget is working under the hood. All in all a really nice session for me.
Brad Wilson on "Advanced MVC 3.0" @bradwilson
Brad talked on some advanced topics of MVC 3.0. It's hard to do a recap on this one since it's a lot of stuff. some things were really interesting. he started off with statefull filters to show how to use filters per request, per session or per applications. after this he talked about validation with unobstructive Ajax with Jquery. very interesting!!
He also talked about how to use different kinds of objects as classes for your model and about routing constraints.
If you are a more advanced MVC developer this is a session you shouldn't miss.
Steve Sanderson on MVC Scaffolding @stevesanderson
Steve talked about the opensource project MVC Scaffolding. The original idea for this came from the Ruby community where people wanted to generate simple crud forms and the database itself from the model classes. Steve has created a package which you can get with nuget to have this in ASP.NET MVC 3.0.
Phil showed a quick sample of this on his nuget presentation and Steve also showed an example where he automatically generated everything using the repository pattern so you get a nice decoupled scenario without typing any code. after this he showed more complex situations. for more info check this blogpost:
Other sessions I haven't watched yet but will do later are:
BDD in ASP.NET MVC using SpecFlow, WatiN and WatiN Test Helpers by Brandon Satrom
Quality Driven Web Acceptance Testing by amir Barylko
WebMatrix by Rob Conery
Entity Framework "Code First": Domain Driven CRUD by Chris Zavaleta
I really enjoyed the sessions. MVCConf and all speakers thanks and hopefully I'll be able to join MVCConf 2012 again next year.
When all video's are up I'll edit the post with the links to the videos
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