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Courtney Bowles

January 28, 2011 by · Comments Off on Courtney Bowles 

Courtney Bowles, Students will be released at 1:30 p.m. to allow teachers and other staff in Mountain View to meet with representatives of the Sexual Assault Victims Advocate Center. School staff and people SAVA will then meet in small groups and as a whole during a working session of two hours.

The sessions are designed to help students and families cope with the arrest of Mountain View teacher Courtney Bowles.

Prosecutors charged this week with two 31-year-Bowles crimes and a misdemeanor after police found nked in a car with a student 16 years Friday night.

Bowles, Fort Collins, is accused of sexually assaulting a child by one in a position of trust and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, both class 4 crimes. She is also accused of an offense of sexual assault on a child.

It was published on a link and 50,000 personal commitment to the clause it no contact with anyone under 18, including her own children.

A teacher of secondary schools “Mountain View, Loveland, Colorado, no contact with a person under 18 years, including their own children.

The ruling by Judge Matthew Zehe site, also said that “the hope of influencing significantly the accused prohibiting contact with children.”

Bowles, 31, was arrested in flagrante delicto, on Friday, when the practice of sex with a student 16 years in her car, parked outside a public park. She is accused of sexual harassment and corruption of minors.

Coastal Contacts

January 28, 2011 by · Comments Off on Coastal Contacts 

Coastal Contacts, Coastal Contacts Inc. (TSX: COA) (Stockholm: COA) announced today that the Company generated record orders for glasses more than 1.6 million in one week, from January 18-24, 2011. Total number of units ordered for the period was about 23,000 pairs of glasses.

“We are very encouraged by the sale request of coastline known in our class of glasses growing,” said Steve Wallace, Coastal Contacts, vice president of sales in North America. “Coastal is ideally positioned to take advantage of this opportunity as we continue to build our infrastructure leading industry that combines quality, timely delivery and value. The customer response is very strong, and we are determined to ensure the best service experience to customers in the glasses online channel. ”

The executives sold the most during the week were:

Kam Dhillon 3017 purple

Derek Black Cardigan 7002

Joseph Marc 4037 Black

Nike 7008 Pilgrim

Guess 1598 Black

Three of the top five executives of the sale during the week were the coastal areas in private label home, reflecting its ability to develop and sunglasses with brands of a wide clientele.

Orders is a non-GAAP measure defined as orders placed by customers in the period through our website or our call centers. The closest GAAP measure, sales, orders differ depending on the sales orders that have shipped, net of cancellations, returns and exchanges. Coastal Command is said that the Company believes that investors can use this figure to make more informed investment decisions about the Company. Orders is a non-GAAP measure has no standardized meaning prescribed by Canadian GAAP, is unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies and should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute, sales and other measures of financial performance presented in accordance with GAAP.

About Coastal Contacts:

Coastal Contacts Inc. is the world leader in direct to consumer vision products company which designs, produces and distributes a diversified offering of eyeglasses and contact lenses. Unique combination of coastal areas of private label products represent quality, value and above all, service. Coastal sells into more than 150 countries through proprietary web properties, which reflect consumer preferences and growing, target market. As new markets for eyeglasses and contact lenses evolve, the coastline is well positioned to become the distributor of consumer products vision of choice because of its compelling value proposition combining value and service. A leader in many of its markets, coastal areas is progressing rapidly towards its goal of becoming the “World’s Optical Store”.

Forward Looking Statements

All statements in this news release, other than statements of historical facts, are forward-looking statements. The words “may,” “should,” “may,” “will,” “intend,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “goal, “” target, “” should, “” likely, “” potential, “” continue, “” project, “” anticipate “,” outlook “and similar expressions are generally intended to identify forward-looking statements.

The forward-looking statements are based on then current expectations, beliefs, assumptions, estimates and projections about our business and industry and markets in which we operate. The forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict.

Persons reading this news release are cautioned that forward-looking statements or information are only predictions and that our actual future results or performance may differ materially due to a number of factors. It should also be made to the section entitled “Risk Factors” contained in our latest annual report on Form Information Statement dated January 29, 2010 and the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm listing prospectus dated October 14, 2009, as filed on SEDAR and with the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, for a detailed description of risks and uncertainties associated with our company. These risks, as well as others, could cause actual results and events to vary significantly. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information, which are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. These statements are made as of the date of this news release and we expressly disclaim any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements, unless we expressly state otherwise and except as required by applicable law.

Webassign

November 14, 2010 by · Comments Off on Webassign 

Webassign, For Physics 208 at NC State used WebAssign, an application where students meet online homework problems. WebAssign has partnered with numerous publishing companies, so problem ‘7 -10 ‘in the manual match WebAssign ‘7 -10’. Specifically designed for mathematics and introductory science courses, WebAssign changes randomly in the number of problems, ranging from the definitive answer to discourage cheating.

The advantages are obvious. Long ago, some overworked teacher had the idea of delegating duties ranking for graduate students. Now that the task may be abhorrent to move a machine. The organization saves money, graduate students are now freed up for research assistantships (assuming said the money saved translates into additional research funds). And “teachers have more opportunities engage students in learning, “according to the promo video for WebAssign.

The benefits of WebAssign are clear, but I’m skeptical about its educational benefit to students. Here are my specific concerns:

The note does professors HW. How does the teacher know the material is absorbed if it closes the HW? So he can see the notes of all its students, the teacher can not see where a student got lost on a particular problem and address this knowledge gap if it is systemic. Maybe WebAssign can generate a list of the most missed. But the thought process of students is something that can not collect WebAssign.
WebAssign encourages guessing. Teachers specify how many “presentations” that you get. My instructor gave us 3 presentations per question, so a homework problem set 10 allow up to 30 guesses. This means that if I right the first 9 on the first try, I have 21 chances to answer the last question. And when all else fails immediately guessing is not a waste of time, as WebAssign has a variety percent default for numeric answers to allow rounding errors. If lucky, I can receive full credit, with WebAssign and, by extension, the teacher assuming I understand the matter. Since I already received my points, I may neglect to follow up assistance, while the embarrassment of presenting a half-filled (paper) assignment would lead me to ask for help.
WebAssign requires a computer. Honestly, I considered it a major problem before I bought my first laptop. I enjoy a quiet working environment, and most college computer labs are anything but. Now that I’ve come a little farther in the assimilation * millennial generation, I realize this is one that will be reduced over time.
Completed HW is not conducive to study. For engineering courses to solve problems and math, students study the issues, not lecture notes. But most students do not print their mission WebAssign, as no room is provided to work on problems. WebAssign should provide a printed version with a sufficient working space. Students can then make their calculations and reference for future tests.
WebAssign costs money. WebAssign is mandatory for applicable courses, is still charged to the card. I understand that WebAssign needs money to operate, but the additional burden instead of rolling in tuition is a way to stay in the shade of black. For the phrase the point another way, NCSU is charging students extra money to put in HW. When the tests began to be administered online have PayPal and me 5 for the right to take my last?
Again, the benefit WebAssign provides institutions is not involved, I question the students have received. As a non-traditional student I understand that the mine may be a minority report. Yet, as more technology is implemented in classrooms, online “teaching aids” could become a gap between teacher and student.

We’re all going through the pain more information on the age of colleges are not exempt. But in their desire to appear flashy or cutting edge technology, traditional universities may hasten their own death by making the institutions of brick and mortar ineffective and therefore irrelevant. Mr. Bassett brought to our attention the problems the newspaper industry is having. Could this be a harbinger of the industry that universities can expect? Both industries pay people to do professional work, journalism and research and both are undercut by online bloggers, replacements and lower paid teachers or video conferences. While I am a blogger, I write comments on idiosyncratic and not the news. I believe in the principle of division of labor (one point) and therefore thought to professionals-including journalists. So when I try to imagine a world without journalists paid, I do not see bloggers totally replace the traditional role of journalist. When I try to imagine a world without public research universities, I do not think that’s an improvement, I see private companies take over. Perfect if you’re a chemical engineer or a pharmaceutical major, depressing if you’re liberal arts major.

While 150 + years, I believe that Thoreau in Walden understood the real difference between colleges of bricks and mortar and online:

Things for which more money is sought are never the things that the student most wants. Tuition, for example, is an important element in the term bill, while for education much more value he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

* Millenialists (not the Bible variety) are the generation born after 1980, putting me about them and Generation X.

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