So they are charging a first-year computer engineering student, who is due at an expulsion hearing, with academic misconduct charges over a Facebook study group he started. He, along with other 146 of his classmates used the social networking site to exchange homework tips and help each other out with chemistry questions. Where educators fail - students help each other (HORRIBLE!). University administrators considered the information sharing the equivalent of cheating and slapped him with 147 counts of academic misconduct. He faces one charge for his role in setting up the group, and a charge for each of his classmates that used the site. OMG!
So he says his site is no different from tutoring and mentoring programs run by the school, or study groups who work on homework together. But when the institution cannot claim it as their own, on account of hours on their Time Sheets - not so fast! He thought he could outsmart them?
Well, honestly - this guy is going to do well in the world even without academic recognition. It is their loss, really. Had a good idea, put it to work in a well organized, to the point manner, proved to be useful - therefore favourite with the users... Right on!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
So they came up with something...
It's OURS...My Precioussss.
With oil deficiencies and Arctic ice melting faster than ever, US and Russia (moreover than Canada, Denmark and Norway that are even larger part of the Arctic Power Circle) - are looking north to a possible energy bonanza. Scramble for buried Arctic mineral wealth made more accessible by freshly melted seas could bring on a completely different kind of cold war.
The irony is that the burning of fossil fuels is at least in part responsible for the Arctic melt. And now the Arctic melt could pave the way for a 21st century rush to exploit even more fossil fuels!!! The Arctic could hold as much as one-quarter of the world's remaining undiscovered oil and gas deposits. Russia has claimed 460,000 square miles of Arctic waters, planting its flag on the ocean floor at the North Pole last summer. Afterwards, Moscow sent strategic bomber flights over the Arctic for the first time since the Cold War. Coastal nations have sovereign rights over natural resources of their continental shelves, generally recognized to reach 200 nautical miles out from their coasts. But in February, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released data suggesting that the continental shelf north of Alaska extends more than 100 nautical miles farther than previously presumed. Navigation rights became even more important as scientists last year reported the opening of the normally ice-choked waters of the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
With oil deficiencies and Arctic ice melting faster than ever, US and Russia (moreover than Canada, Denmark and Norway that are even larger part of the Arctic Power Circle) - are looking north to a possible energy bonanza. Scramble for buried Arctic mineral wealth made more accessible by freshly melted seas could bring on a completely different kind of cold war.
The irony is that the burning of fossil fuels is at least in part responsible for the Arctic melt. And now the Arctic melt could pave the way for a 21st century rush to exploit even more fossil fuels!!! The Arctic could hold as much as one-quarter of the world's remaining undiscovered oil and gas deposits. Russia has claimed 460,000 square miles of Arctic waters, planting its flag on the ocean floor at the North Pole last summer. Afterwards, Moscow sent strategic bomber flights over the Arctic for the first time since the Cold War. Coastal nations have sovereign rights over natural resources of their continental shelves, generally recognized to reach 200 nautical miles out from their coasts. But in February, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released data suggesting that the continental shelf north of Alaska extends more than 100 nautical miles farther than previously presumed. Navigation rights became even more important as scientists last year reported the opening of the normally ice-choked waters of the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Don't have a place to live? Consider this.
Tom Hanks' movie "Terminal" was inspired by Iranian Merhan Nasseri, who lived at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years because of passport problems. A homeless Anthony Delaney was arrested at London's Gatwick airport in February after nearly four years' residence...
An Iranian woman, Zahra Kamalfar, was granted refugee status by the UNHCR. She took her two children, got phoney travel papers and left for Canada, via Russia and Germany. She has been living in Moscow's international airport for the last nine months...
An Iranian woman, Zahra Kamalfar, was granted refugee status by the UNHCR. She took her two children, got phoney travel papers and left for Canada, via Russia and Germany. She has been living in Moscow's international airport for the last nine months...
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