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When I took physics at my university, my professor was one of those that advocated studying in groups and teaching ourselves. We would receive a problem, solve it, and then put our ideas on white board. We would then sit in a circle and discuss our solutions to problems. Afterwards, the professor would make his rounds, take pictures of our boards, and let us do another problem. I believe he was doing the exact same sort of research discussed above, and really believed in his methods. He was a nice guy, but I learned absolutely nothing. I hated having no structure to the lessons and never having my questions answered by the professor. I don't think my prof liked me that much. I dropped out a month before the end of the semester, despite the fact I was passing with high marks. I just couldn't take it any more.
I took Physics I+II at a university a few miles away the next year. It was traditional lecture+powerpoint+occasional blackboard. I loved it. I learned a great deal, even though I had to cycle through snowstorms and rain at 6:30 in the morning every day. I definitely gained an appreciation and understanding of the subject.
I, for one, prefer learning in structured environments. I drown in unstructured learning and despise Fermi problems. I know I am not alone. From my experiences in tutoring (which in no way could compare to the experiences of the profs above me, but I believe this to have a grain of truth) one must have a very fine and adaptable mix of structured+unstructured teaching methods to reach out to a group. After all, everyone is different and thus everyone learns differently.
There are plenty of potentially confounding variables in this type of research most of which have not been addressed in the article, and I'm willing to bet that they haven't been addressed by the researcher either. It doesn't strike me as very scientific at all. Educational research I read about often seems poorly done and poorly criticised. Many fads have been forced through the world's education systems, each one hailed as a breakthrough at the time, most of them failing to deliver the goods. On another note, I don't think anyone who went to university in recent times would have had exclusively sat through lectures. Mostly there's a combination of lectures, tutorials (which sound an awful lot like the discussions mentioned in the article) and lab work. Lectures are indispensable because they allow some engagement between the lecturer and the learners (question time is necessarily limited) but are efficient because one lecturer can deal with many students. I have been through online courses and face-to-face, and face-to-face is FAR superior. Face to face allows the possibility of establishing relationships. Online education only allows that in a limited way. Such relationships are not as solid. Ask anyone over 35 whoever had a pen friend when they were younger whether they are still in touch with that person. Out of sight (and sound, smell and touch), out of mind. Relationships are the biggest single incentive to learn something. The information may be interesting and potentially valuable door-opening stuff, but the main gain in the present is the relationships for most students.
If my undergraduate chemistry students at one of the University of California campuses are any judge, part of the learning "bump" from the active learning style comes from the students actually spending time with the material. As far as I can tell, too many of them spend minimal time actually learning on their own.
My problem with active-learning lecture approaches of the sort discussed in the article is that, as far as I can tell, it reduces the overall amount of material we get across to students. Active learning techniques seem to spend a long time on a handful of key points, which the students learn, but leaves no time to discuss the details that make the material interesting.
I recently sat in on a introductory chemistry lecture that used such an active learning approach. The instructor spent 20 minutes having students analyze a plot that showed the electron density versus the position relative to the nucleus of an atom. After watching the students and hearing their responses to the instructor's questions, I have no doubt that they got a better understanding of that concept than they would have in one of my more traditional lectures. But I'm not convinced that the additional understanding of that particular concept is worth 1/8 of the week's lecture time.
Now if students actually studied the book after class, then maybe giving them a good basic foundation on a handful of major points in lecture would be enough. But I find that anything I don't explicitly mention in lecture doesn't get learned.
Well, students learned two times longer (time in class + extra time before class) so learned more.
No accomplishent of the teacher here. If anything, he cut himself out of the curriculum, becoming simply a handler of xerox copies and onlooker for better students teaching weaker ones.
Reminds me of B-class private schools in Poland. Only nobody considers them good.
As someone noted here, the learning part could be done using virtual classes, videos, open courseware or something similar.
There's an interesting TED presentation with Salman Khan, the man behind Khan Academy, about online learning:
One thing not mentioned is the effect of the optional test itself: repeated studies have shown as well that the test itself is a valuable element in learning the material. Just having a weekly quiz tends to reinforce the use of the material and improve retention. Lots going on here.
Having used active learning in teaching my college level economics classes, I must point out that my teaching evaluations suffered somewhat. Several students were critical of the fact that the professor did not teach them. So much for a university being a community of scholar-learners.
On the flip side, the majority of students commented that they learned more in the class than in their other classes. And they enjoyed it, which is saying a lot for most students taking economics.
I never saw a point in listening to someone improvisationally dictate a book. Facts should be professionally written, edited, and illustrated. Discussing them, asking questions, and otherwise engaging is what a textbook can't offer.
I hate to be cynical about such teaching methods, students and teachers in general, and the education system as a whole. But this Study is making a lot of unwarranted and non-generalised assumptions.
The professor has the time, inclination, or skills to enact any of these 'action' sessions - my instinct, having been in upper level academia as a student for almost 10 years and communicating with other uni students across 3 continents, is that this is not typical.
The students are interested in doing the work, on an ongoing, intensive basis (as opposed to cramming the night before for any assignment or test) and in a well-ordered, thoughtful way is rare.
The group study has enough 'bright bulbs' within each group to provide intellectual stimulation and advance/help with ideas is also unlikely.
The bottom line is that the education environment is not properly set-up to maximise the potential within the majority of students that otherwise deserve to be there - and it simply cannot be left to the professor to bridge this gap with such limited time and administrative resources.
In this day and age, it boggles my mind that each and every undergrad 'taught' non-lab subject is not set-up as a standardised, computerised course. A well-crafted computer program can meet the pace and individual needs, in my opinion, of 50-75% of the entire teaching process of a course. The content is delivered one-on-one to the student with the type of remedial and alternative method teaching programmed in. Deadlines, proper content, and a timeline that ensures that all material is covered is easily programmed in and, ideally, accessible by the professor to assess the comprehension of the class. Of course not every student can succeed without some 'human' guidance to assist in the learning process - either through peers or the professor. Also, testing and projects need to have supervised components. The point is that the pace, content, and style of the classroom is utterly non-sensical. However, since we have had the technology and non-course software for at least 10 if not 20 years, this can change if there is the will. With 24-hour computer labs and access off-site to those who have their own computers, there is little reason to believe that this cannot be implemented in short order with little student resistance. Ongoing programmes through MIT and other schools show that content can be stimulating and thoughtful when presented on a computer screen. So let us discard the hippies for the geeks and let every student reach their true potential unburdened by outmoded teaching styles and repressive educational facilities.
Perhaps the voluntary test looks good cs only people who were confident they'd do well bothered to volunteer for the test...
asbr01 is correct. Why are being presented with scientifically conducted educational research as if it's a brilliant and brand new idea? Can it be that such research has only just been invented, or has the Economist only just noticed that this research is being done?
Either way, this article comes under the bulging heading of "fatuous Economist padding". Perhaps you should fill your mag with more pictures of naked people if you can't come up with any substantial material. Now there's an original idea!!
Hey, I'm willing to embrace hippy ideas.
Just not hippies. They reek of self-indulgence.
I did this approach of learning at the Social Sciences Institute of Giessen University in Germany. The results were the same. The trained group manage to cover all the material it was supposed to, because the material was adapted to that approach of learning.
It is surprising that a very obvious selection bias is/was not seen as an issue. The problem is greater in one of the ways of administering the "voluntary" test; the article is not clear. If only the experiment group took the voluntary test, and the scores compared with another boarder test that included the control group, there is a clear selection bias. On the other hand, even if the test scores compared are those of volunteers from both the groups, the weakness still remains that the findings regarding the differential might only apply to motivated individuals who would opt for an extra test in the first place!
I agree with Alexander Rudolph
Wieman's results are not new. [indeed much better research in this field has been done] Science Educational research dates from 1968. See the first chapter of my book
Successful Science and Engineering Teaching: Theoretical and Learning Perspectives (Innovation and Change in Professional Education)
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The topic is old (150 years). Fortunately there exist a theory (by Ernst Mach) published on more than 1000 pages. The bad news is: they are scattered all over the world. Mach founded a sensualism (in contrary to spoken language). He founded Gestalt psychology which was used in Finland by Eino Kaila and Rolf Nevanlinna with the big success shown by OECD PISA statistics. To follow Darling-Hammond: it is not common in the US. One of the students of Nevanlinna was Ahlfors, who together with 65 american and canadian math professors wrote a paper "On The Mathematics Curriculum Of The High School". Alexander Wittenberg's and Mach's concept were explicitely included. Polya was also referenced (as done by Dr. Deslauriers).
To start with Mach's articles, "Open Court" and "The Monist" are a place to look at (www.archive.org as well). Deeper is his "Psychophysics" and the "Compendium für Physik für Mediciner", unfortunately untranslated to english (which I recommend to do as early as possible).
My son and I documented a lot of statistics very similar in results to that shown here. The statistics were taken over a half year and the OECD Pisa over 10 years. The critics of asbr01 and arudolph can be avoided by looking into literature and abstract from the single event.
Dr. Deslauriers measurement is correct, the description of behavior of the students misses some topics essential to reproduce (the sensualism, psychophysics, especially hapts, Gestalt psychology, monism, genetic way of teaching, Einsteins "mother milk"). I hope the time of speculation in education is disappearing and solid empiry (as Mach made demands on) will come 150 years after the concept was written down.
"hippy nonsense"? That's a strange way to characterize what is standard practice in most business schools.
As a physics professor who teaches scientists and engineers, and conducts research in physics and astronomy education, I need to point out that at least 30 years of research of this type has been done showing that traditional lecture-only instructions ("chalk-and-talk") is not a very effective way to teach physics, or any other subject. Research on human learning has shown that, for people to learn fundamental concepts of any subject, they must be actively engaged with the material in some way, the opposite of sitting and listening in a lecture hall.
Thus, the results of this article are not surprising, nor are they terribly new. Many different so-called "interactive learning strategies" have been shown to work more effectively than lecture-only. It is only resistance to change, and the extra work of implementing such learning strategies that have slowed their adoption, but they are catching on, especially in the U.S. and Canada. For those who want to see some of the history of this research, they can see a 10-year-old review article of the literature, which even then was reviewing 20 years of research: L.C. McDermott and E.F. Redish, "Resource letter on Physics Education Research," Am. J. Phys. 67 (9) 755 (1999).
I hope that future articles of this type make more of an effort to put this type of work into some historical context, rather than leaving the reader with the impression that this is the first work of its kind.
Alexander L. Rudolph, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
California State Polytechnic University
Pomona, CA
Wasn't this originally called "Action Learning" from the 1940s and spurned by academia?
It's hard to tell given one test, but it looks like there may be a double peak within the sample that was given the new testing method. Would this be indicitive of possible "collaboration" on the faux exam among that sample group?
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Averett University is pleased to announce its 2011-12 Outstanding Faculty and Outstanding Staff members of the year. Dr. Patricia Horne, assistant professor of education, was named the Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year. Stephanie Mullins, associate director of admissions and transfer counselor, was named the Outstanding Staff Member of the Year. Horne has made a big impression on her co-workers and students in her relatively short time at Averett. She has been active in the local community by serving on the SMART Beginnings Committee and judging Gretna Elementary School's Science Fair. At Averett, she has served on a number of committees including academic assessment and evaluation, technology integration and student success. In addition to her work both on and off campus, Horne has made time for her own scholarly pursuits this year including involvement in VISTA (Virginia Initiative for Science Teaching and Achievement) Science Education Faculty Academy; she has presented four sessions at VAST's Annual Conference (VA Association for Science Teachers); conducted ongoing research based on VISTA training; and co-authored a research article submitted to the Journal of Mathematics and Science. One student nomination noted "Dr. Horne has taught eight classes this semester and isn't even breaking a sweat. She is a phenomenal instructor, and I believe more professors should be like her — firm, fair and consistent!" Another student nomination stated "She is very open-minded and exemplifies what an instructor should be." Mullins, a 1983 Averett graduate, has worked at the University for more than 20 years. During that time, she has worked in the admissions office in various capacities including as international student admissions counselor. Mullins was instrumental in establishing the PASSPORT Transfer programs with Danville Community College and Patrick Henry Community College. During her tenure, she has served on various committees including the student transition committee, the student transfer advisory committee, and she is currently the Phi Theta Kappa coordinator. Mullins is also very involved in the church choir at Christian Tabernacle. One nomination said "Stephanie is there to advise and guide the students through the admissions process and is wonderful with the older students as she helps them feel at ease after years of being away from the academic world. She is willing to lend a hand with any activities going on in the admissions office and gives many hours of her time to the University, always with a smile." Another nomination said "Her experience in financial aid and admissions is an invaluable resource for the transfer students that she helps through the admissions process."


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Edmonton Oilers goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin opened up with Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal on his time spent in Arizona's Tent City for a drunk driving conviction. The 38-year old goaltender learned the hard way that incarceration is worse than tending goal for the lowly Oilers.
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Thanks for the info on the extras in the new release.
I have been trying to decide if we needed to add this release to our collection. I guess we'll have to because of the HM footage.
Quick thoughts on the new release.
First off, bought it on Bluray, and the picture/sound are incredible. In some ways, the sound is more improved, if your system can process the 7.1 master track. The only way the picture could improve is a Disney 3D version, but that's a couple years off.
The only special feature I watched was the tour of the Haunted Mansion Holiday. This feature makes the purchase worthwhile. You get 2 versions, a 7 minute ride through, with optional pop-up trivia, and a 37 minute behind the scenes feature of making it. Both are in 1080i, which is a little bummer, but they're both still in widescreen with surround sound.
This is an DVD easy to recommend to any Disney Park fan for the Haunted Mansion content alone. I hope the standard-def release is close to this quality.
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Thanks for the info on the extras in the new release.
I have been trying to decide if we needed to add this release to our collection. I guess we'll have to because of the HM footage.
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Hi there!
Oh, I am definitely getting this. I'm a Nightmare freak.
-I saw a MONSTROUS super duper collectable set, the Ultimate Set, with a huge Jack head in it. And it comes with a Santy hat and beard.
-That was something like $160. Yikes! Ah me, if I were rich.
Yes, I've been wanting to see what the Haunted Mansion looks like. I think it must be tremendous. My favorite attraction and one of my favorite movies, I'd flip out.
I saw the box set and it looks awesome. Too bad they did not release the Blu Ray in the same sort of set. Oh well, saved me some money.
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Hi! Me again.
I feel inclined to give my impressions about Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas in general. Here it goes.
Back when it first came out I worked at the Disney Store. They used to offer sneak peek previews to the cast members, so we would know what the next big thing was. We'd be a little familiar with the characters and songs.
-So I went. And loved it, LOVED IT! My eyes popped and my jaw dropped. Great characters, astonishing attention to detail, weird humor, lovely songs and music, and animation unlike anything I had ever seen before.
-But my coworkers said things like: "Well. .... That was ... interesting ..."
And I think this response got back to Disney Headquarters. For I once remember a preview for The Nightmare Before Christmas that put Nightmare in the Official Disney Canon. It would be mentioned right up there with Cinderella, Dumbo, and Snow White.
-But I think the Corporate guys got cold feet. They said "This is REALLY weird." So instead of being released under the Disney label, they shifted it over to Touchstone and hoped for the best.
-I don't even know if Touchstone is around anymore.
-But there it did well enough. I think it was about $80 million for the initial release, and Number One for two maybe three weeks.
-End of story? Obviously not!
What I think is neat is that Nightmare began to take on a classic status. I have bought memorabilia from collector's shops and eBay. I think it really was big in Asia, for some of my collectibles are in Japanese.
-And I think Disney began to take notice. "Hm! People seem to like this!" What's more I think it's one of Disney's few Holiday movies, TWO holidays for the price of one in fact.
-So they started coming out with merchandise. Then re-releases.
Just a year or two ago they came out with a 3-D movie. I want to say it was the first Disney movie in 3-D, but don't quote me on that.
-And NOW there's merchandise almost every year. There's decorations at the Haunted Mansion. A new super release to DVD and Blu-Ray has come out, as JeremyES noted.
The point is I think it's a really cool journey. From a movie that might have embarrased the company to "The little movie that could." A genuine classic, maybe a cult classic.
-Now Disney proudly puts the castle and Walt Disney right in front of it.
Some may argue they're milking Nightmare for all it's worth.
-But not me. I'm fanatical. They keep making stuff, and I will keep buying.
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My 10 year old Homelite trimmer/edger finally bit the dust yesterday. I'm pretty sure its a fuel system issue and will try and tinker with it to get it running again just because I've never tinkered with a small engine like this before. I doubt its worth paying someone to repair, so if I can't get it running myself its going to the trash. But in the meantime, I'd like to get a new trimmer and/or edger. This one was a great trimmer but a little underpowered with the edger attachment on it, so I'm thinking about getting a dedicated edger and a cheap electric weed whacker. I don't need the weed whacker as much as an edger. I've got about a 100 yards of edging to do vs. most of the weedeating can really be done with my small pushmower that I use as a trim mower. |
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Was the edging attachment a hard blade type? Are you planning to replace with a dedicated hard blade edger only? The fuel issue can usually be easily detected in 3 places IMO if it is a sudden issue. 1. Deteriorated fuel line. Dump the gas and see if the filter falls out with the gas. 2. Examine the fuel line at the carb (usually under the air filter) for deterioration (cracked, broken, etc). 3. Carefully pull the simple carb, take a pic if needed, pull one plate to inspect rubber diap., the other to inspect the very fine screen. 4. Also check your muffler and spark arrester screen for build-up causing back-pressure which would affect the power. I'll start a new post related to a recent experience with back-pressure. Good Point on what do you have to loose vs learn. Good Luck! loger |
- Posted by Homechicken 7b/metro-Atlanta (My Page) on Wed, Jul 20, 11 at 12:54
Yes, the edger was a hard blade type. I briefly tried using the trimmer to edge with, but was going through trimmer line like crazy, so I bought the blade type edger attachment. I prefer the blade type, so that's what I want to replace it with. The fuel line looks good, everything looks good. I believe its a carb issue, probably the diaprham or something internal. It isn't a completely new problem. Its been getting tempermental (ocassionally bogging down when I press the throttle tigger)since I first fired it up this season. It just finally decided to quit. |
Clean, re-build and adjust that carb if the kit is needed and reasonable in cost. Remember to clean that small screen but leave that "Monster" in-place. Be sure to verify all ports are open with small wire, compressed air or compressed carb cleaner (from your auto store in a can). If the carb has varnish built up in it, you might need to soak it in a small container to reduce the amount of cleaner needed. If disassembling the carb is beyond your interest. You might try a quick fix. 1. Count the turns/half turns it takes to seat your carbs adjustment screws as a ref to back them out to and remove them. 2. Remove carb fuel line, use wire and compressed carb cleaner to try and verify all ports are open to capacity. Replace all to specifications. 3. And OR! Just add a small amount of carb cleaner to a tank of fresh fuel mix (1/4th cup to a tank is my guess ??) try and start and run the Monster to verify cleaning and hopefully good results. 4. Have you checked the spark plug's condition and fire and air filter?? This TX heat is keeping me in on this One Eyed Thing. I hope to add AC to my Garage tomorrow X back to Projects. loger |
- Posted by Homechicken 7b/metro-Atlanta (My Page) on Sat, Jul 23, 11 at 11:34
I'm planning to try and rebuild the carb, but there's no big hurry, so it may be a fun winter project. I went and bought a Stihl FC90 today. Wow, the thing is great. I didn't know what I was missing not getting a top of the line edger earlier. I tried it out on the curb in front of our house that hasn't been edged in a couple of weeks, so no big surprise that it worked fine there. The surprise came when I edged the curb in front of our neighbor's house. It hasn't been edged in at least a year and was overgrown with thick tough weeds. Two passes at almost regular walking speed and it was done. The FC90 didn't bog down once, just sliced right through the weeds and dirt and cut a nice crisp edge. My old Homelite would have bogged down repeatedly and taken me 5 to 10 minutes to do what I did in about 30 seconds with the Stihl. |
Great Feedback! I hope you learn a good lesson with the Carb and etc when you have time. I just helped a friend on 3 Trimmers and to my surprise all 3 were combo machines with split shafts. They appeared they would do hard blade and string trimming "At Least" worthwhile. Their problems were simple neglected servicing, bad fuel lines on one and blocked spark aresstors on two (due to a bad mix IMO). We are trading time and products (since 1969), when extra hands are needed on his tasks or mine. I got a working 110V - 7,600 BTU Window AC unit out of the trade. To cool my work-bench area and etc from a cart I can roll vs cooling the garage (only during morning needed work vs experimenting). Have Fun! loger |
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I purchased the latest version of Autosketch 2 years ago.
I just bought a new laptop (Windows 7 and 64 bit) which will not allow be to load my Autosketch.
I have all my files.
What can I do to work with these files?
Thanks for any help.
I am experiencing similar issues. Using AutoSketch 2.1
Ive tried the compatibility tool, which only comes back with:
"A problem is preventing the troubleshooter from starting."
There is nothing wrong with the trouble shooter.
I tried right clicking and opening the setup.exe properties, and setting the compatibility mode to both XP and 95.
Each time getting the error message:
"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."
So here I am, checking with the publisher... or this message board provided by such.
My next move would be to try installing Autosketch using the Windows XP emulator (virtual machine) provided with Windows 7.
If anyone has any other solutions Please let us know.
I have autosketch 2.1, used with an old geotechnical database. Works fine on XP but need to load it on borrowed win 7 laptop and get message missing BWCCENI.dll file when I try to display logs. Can you advise or copy me missing file?
Many thanks
Did you ever get any satisfaction regarding your Autosketch and Win7?
I have the same problem.
Running it in Windows XP virtual machine within XP has been the only solution I have had.
We're talking two very different things in one thread. A very old AS (2.1) and a very new AS.
I've put and run AS9 on several Win 7 machines. No problem except so far I have to open AS and then open the file.....just douple clicking the file doesn't open AS.
AS9 was made before Win7 and before Vista. I would think that AS10 should be even better with respect to this.
AS10 does seem to be running smoothly on Win7, although I have a limited amount time working with this configuration. The install was pain-free.
I'll also add that even though the op is asking about AS7, I had absolutely no joy trying to get AS6 loaded on a Win7 machine, in case that is of use to anyone.
I have had no problems with AS-9 on my Windows 7 laptop except that I too have to start Autosketch prior to clicking on a .skf file (which under XP would start AS).
I have AS6 and win7. Any cures for installing?
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Have you ever received a wedding invitation and wondered how you know the parents or the bride and groom? Every year my husband and I receive a few wedding invitations that leave us wondering "Who are these people?". With a little detective work we usually find out that they are an employee, or child of an employee, for the large company where my husband works. These invitations come from people that he works with very rarely, or not at all. We can't help thinking that this is a way to extend their present giving circle. We decline the RSVP promptly, but do not send a gift. Last year, after doing the same, my husband never even ran into these people at work. Why do people send out invitations to those they do not know? |
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Ignorance and/or greed. Sounds like you've handled it well. |
- Posted by nancylouise (My Page) on Fri, Jun 18, 10 at 7:16
Yep, gift grabbers. We have received a few invitations like this and have declined them. I didn't send a gift but I did send a card wishing the couple happiness. NancyLouise |
It may be to increase the gusts at wedding ceremony and to express the other family. |
Actually your original guess is probably the best one--your husband works at a big company. Some employees are concerned that if they invite Joe in accounting and don't invite another employee that they will create enemies. Usually men don't care if somebody else is invited and they are not--but since you can turn down the invitation if you don't know them well I don't see the harm. People who aren't in a big company don't usually get mystery invitations. |
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1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: | 1 The word of the LORD came to me: |
2 And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the land. | 2 "Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says to the land of Israel: The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land. |
3 Now is an end come upon thee, and I will send my wrath upon thee, and I will judge thee according to thy ways: and I will set all thy abominations against thee. | 3 The end is now upon you and I will unleash my anger against you. I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices. |
4 And my eye shall not spare thee, and I will shew thee no pity: but I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord. | 4 I will not look on you with pity or spare you; I will surely repay you for your conduct and the detestable practices among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD. |
5 Thus saith the Lord God: One affliction, behold an affliction is come. | 5 "This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Disaster! An unheard-of disaster is coming. |
6 An end is come, the end is come, it hath awaked against thee: behold it is come. | 6 The end has come! The end has come! It has roused itself against you. It has come! |
7 Destruction is come upon thee that dwellest in the land: the time is come, the day of slaughter is near, and not of the joy of mountains. | 7 Doom has come upon you--you who dwell in the land. The time has come, the day is near; there is panic, not joy, upon the mountains. |
8 Now very shortly I will pour out my wrath upon thee, and I will accomplish my anger in thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and I will lay upon thee all thy crimes. | 8 I am about to pour out my wrath on you and spend my anger against you; I will judge you according to your conduct and repay you for all your detestable practices. |
9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I shew mercy: but I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord that strike. | 9 I will not look on you with pity or spare you; I will repay you in accordance with your conduct and the detestable practices among you. Then you will know that it is I the LORD who strikes the blow. |
10 Behold the day, behold it is come: destruction is gone forth, the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded. | 10 "The day is here! It has come! Doom has burst forth, the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed! |
11 Iniquity is risen up into a rod of impiety: nothing of them shall remain, nor of their people, nor of the noise of them: and there shall be no rest among them. | 11 Violence has grown into a rod to punish wickedness; none of the people will be left, none of that crowd--no wealth, nothing of value. |
12 The time is come, the day is at hand: let not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller mourn: for wrath is upon all the people thereof. | 12 The time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller grieve, for wrath is upon the whole crowd. |
13 For the seller shall not return to that which he hath sold, although their life be yet among the living. For the vision which regardeth all the multitude thereof, shall not go back: neither shall man be strengthened in the iniquity of his life. | 13 The seller will not recover the land he has sold as long as both of them live, for the vision concerning the whole crowd will not be reversed. Because of their sins, not one of them will preserve his life. |
14 Blow the trumpet, let all be made ready, yet there is none to go to the battle: for my wrath shall be upon all the people thereof. | 14 Though they blow the trumpet and get everything ready, no one will go into battle, for my wrath is upon the whole crowd. |
15 The sword without: and the pestilence, and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword: and they that are in the city, shall be devoured by the pestilence, and the famine. | 15 "Outside is the sword, inside are plague and famine; those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague. |
16 And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity. | 16 All who survive and escape will be in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valleys, each because of his sins. |
17 All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water. | 17 Every hand will go limp, and every knee will become as weak as water. |
18 And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall cover them and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads. | 18 They will put on sackcloth and be clothed with terror. Their faces will be covered with shame and their heads will be shaved. |
19 Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a dunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul, and their bellies shall not be filled: because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity. | 19 They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will be an unclean thing. Their silver and gold will not be able to save them in the day of the LORD's wrath. They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it, for it has made them stumble into sin. |
20 And they have turned the ornament of their jewels into pride, and have made of it the images of their abominations, and idols: therefore I have made it an uncleanness to them. | 20 They were proud of their beautiful jewelry and used it to make their detestable idols and vile images. Therefore I will turn these into an unclean thing for them. |
21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of the earth for a prey, and they shall defile it. | 21 I will hand it all over as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, and they will defile it. |
22 And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall violate my secret place: and robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. | 22 I will turn my face away from them, and they will desecrate my treasured place; robbers will enter it and desecrate it. |
23 Make a shutting up: for the land is full of the judgment of blood, and the city is full of iniquity. | 23 "Prepare chains, because the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of violence. |
24 And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: and I will make the pride of the mighty to cease, and they shall possess their sanctuary. | 24 I will bring the most wicked of the nations to take possession of their houses; I will put an end to the pride of the mighty, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated. |
25 When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace and there shall be none. | 25 When terror comes, they will seek peace, but there will be none. |
26 Trouble shall come upon trouble, and rumour upon rumour, and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. | 26 Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will try to get a vision from the prophet; the teaching of the law by the priest will be lost, as will the counsel of the elders. |
27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with sorrow, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled. I will do to them according to their way, and will judge them according to their judgments: and they shall know that I am the Lord. | 27 The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct, and by their own standards I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the LORD." |
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The tomatoes are in. Why on the earth did my humans plant 75 Roma tomato plants? They claim they plan to make all thier own spaghetti, chii, and ketchup. I think we've more than reached that goal. So far I think we've brought in over 100 gallons of tomatoes. Who knew Romas would bear and bear and bear. They obviously love the hot, humid summers in Georgia. The thing is, we can't possibly work up all of them and we can't even give them away. Believe me we've tried - come pick all you need for free. No takers so far. Just to keep up, Peggie's freezing them to work up later. And to be on the safe side, this spring they planted 20 more various tomatoes to come in later this summer. Still, who can complain about such a bounty. I can since I don't eat spaghetti or chili. But the ketchup is good on hamburgers - when I can sneak one off the grill.
Boomer the Basset Hound and I have also discovered that tomatoes don't make great balls either. Just to mushy to hold in the canine mouth, and the taste. Well, it's not meat or peanut butter flavored. Although they do make an exciting explosion when they hit the grass.
There is other good news too. We have 7 new chicks. One of the barred rocks hid her nest under the hydrangea bush and one day there they were - the Magnificent Seven. She's a bit touchy! A dog can't even get close enough to sniff the new babies. The way they peep and run around, I bet they'd be fun to play with. But Mama Hen will have none of that. She even scratched my nose and ran Boomer back in the house one day. Maybe she'll let them play when they're a bit older.
Speaking of older - the other hens are laying like crazy. I have to admit, I'm a little tired of the smell of pickling brine for pickled eggs. They are yummy if you can manage to snag one.
A final thought. In all this canning frenzy I have yet to see a jar labeled Smokey Joe's Hash or Boomer's Meat. I hope they haven't fogotten us!


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The Wales Deanery, in the School of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education has honoured two Welsh doctors for their excellence in training the next generation of medical professionals across Wales.
Dr Mick Button, a Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Velindre Caner Centre, Cardiff and Dr John Rees, GP/Director of Community Based Learning, Ty Cerian from Llandovery have been named Educational Supervisors and Trainers of the year in the BEST Awards 2011.
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All Welsh doctors in training were able to nominate the consultant, dentist or GP who they believed performed outstandingly.
Dr John Rees said: "This is a real honour for me. Often teaching skills of senior doctors are undervalued compared with clinical skills and research. If we want future doctors to remain highly skilled, this needs to change and I hope this award will help redress the balance".
Dr Mick Button said: "This award is fantastic recognition for all the hard work that many colleagues put into medical education on the South Wales Oncology training scheme. I hope that this will help us to continue to develop and improve the education experience for oncology trainees here in Wales."
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Content Marketing Builder Part 1 | Variety is the Spice of Life
15th January
Innogage is a content marketing company. We help small to mid range businesses with their content creation, business blogging and managing content marketing. Since this is our world, we thought that it would be a good thing to share some of the better lessons we have learned through the years.
For this first installment of the Content Marketing Builder series keeping content fresh & vibrant felt like a great place to start. So let's just jump into the conversation about building the content you plan to use in your business:
Variety of content is your biggest asset when building your online content marketing platform. There are two major reasons to keep the topics moving and fresh: 1) your blogging audience and 2) the SEO bots. The first is kind of a no-brainer. People get bored fast. By recharging your blog … Read More »
Content Marketing Success | Lose the Fear
16th December
Want to dominate in content marketing? Well, you can start by answering people's questions.
So now you're probably asking: "what questions"?
Well, what's on everyone's mind? How about Price? Problems? Comparisons? Which is the Best? What are the reviews?
That's 5 posts right there. And those posts will drive traffic to your content marketing blog. Why? Because (assuming you actually answer these questions) you are answering the same queries that every business has. After all, you've asked those yourself, right?
When it comes to building links in your online content marketing, be sure to write good stuff that people want to share. Don't hire some company to hand you links out of straw-built directories. You'll want to take the time to grow your own links through the fertile soil of good content. It is the only way to qualify the links. And … Read More »
5 Fundamental Questions to Answer When Blogging for Business
15th September
We talk a lot about content and the value of quality content in this blog. When it comes to business blogging the charge is more than just good content. If you need a high bar set for your home business blog or content marketing, you can always strive to be a thought leader.
If you want to be a thought leader in your industry there is a simple approach:
Have an opinion…
and then share it.
Of course, it's easy enough to say: be the best teacher in the world and your customers will love you. But the truth is- that takes a lifetime of effort. But now that the bar has been set, how do we reach for greatness in a hairsbreadth of time?
As with most things, the fundamentals are a good place to start. Let's look at five simple questions … Read More »
Business Blogging for B2B : Part 2 | 7 Tips for successful content
26th July
In our previous post about business blogging for B2B we covered wisdom of vetting your content to a sustainable group of employees and writers. We also established that 'story' is paramount when creating powerful content for your small business blog. So by now you should have a story, writers and your business blogging software ready to go. What now?
No matter how great your story is, the story, in-and-of itself, can only go so far. To get the most mileage for your brand, you'll need to have a few other tricks up your sleeve. Here are 7 tools to take your story to new heights:
Timeliness – Look at any Calendar and you will see something worth commenting on every month. Creating posts a few days out from holidays, seasonal changes or Hallmark holidays, you can drive traffic … Read More »
Business Blogging for B2B : Part 1 | Finding your Muse(s)
18th June
In the world of B2B content marketing, you hear a lot about story being the backbone of your brand. But, how do you insert your brand into that great story of yours? When blogging for business how, exactly, do you wrap that story around your brand effectively — without coming across as forced?
In order for your blog to be successful, you need a sustainable content strategy. You could build your internet business blog all by yourself, but not only is that a bad idea, those goals usually end up getting shelved when business starts pouring in. Having other "owners" to this project can make the business blogging less of a chore and more likely to get done.
Ideally, when looking for help, you'll want a person with a writing background who knows your company and products very well. This … Read More »
Optimize and Socialize your Content Marketing for better results
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We've been there: month four or five of posting regularly on your business blog and you still don't know if your online content marketing is working. Time to recharge by taking stock of your program. Sure, you could spend hours surfing other online content marketing success stories, but for more actionable results, let's do a gut-check and see what is really under the hood with your digital content marketing campaign.
The first in this series of tough questions is probably the most obvious question to ask. And yet we tend to forget to ask it when we are in the thick of our workweek. What are your content marketing objectives? are you looking to increase awareness about your company or new product? Are you looking to encourage engagement with your customers? Or, maybe, you honestly just need more sales to … Read More »
Search Engine Marketing News | Tips for Facebook Marketing
25th March
If you have spent any time building content or looking into organic search engine marketing tactics, you undoubtedly have come across Facebook as a possible platform. Since Facebook started as a personal social site, you might have some reservations about building Facebook into a search engine marketing blog for your business. As we dive into this topic, you will hopefully find your niche in this rich marketing soil as well as come to understand a little more about content marketing in general.
As with any professional search engine marketing you do, you'll want to consider the value that you're providing to your clients and search engine bots. Your content should contain at least one of the 3 E's. Provide educational information, empower your audience with the tools to succeed or simply entertain them. Do any one of these things–or … Read More »
Using visual assets for content marketing
11th March
I recently came across some notes I took during a content marketing conference about using visuals in content marketing. While excellent text content creation is still crucial to the search engines and building a reliable resource for your clients to rely on, images can move your business blogging to the top of the charts.
As you can imagine, there are plenty of reasons to use visuals when marketing on the web. Despite the need for large amounts of text to make your blog SEO ready, we're drowning in content. We simply don't have enough time to read everything that is on the web. That's obvious, but the point I want to make is that Images cut through the web content marketing like a hot knife. After all, a picture is worth 1,000 words.
Images are also more sharable than text. … Read More »
5 steps to make your B2B Content Marketing effective
3rd March
Is content marketing worth the weight content marketing professionals are giving it? Sure, you hear a lot of buzz about blogging for business and SEO content being a powerful marketing tool, but how do you know what the real value of your content marketing strategy is? To answer that, I think it goes back to the old adage: GIGO.
As with anything in marketing, your results are largely based on how much effort and focus you give it. But before we go too far into this post, let's get one thing straight: there are enough companies out there who have made effective use of blogging for business that we can rest assured of its overall effectiveness as a marketing tool. But how are B2B companies, specifically, making this effort effective and successful?
There are 5 major things that … Read More »
4 important things your business blog should have
11th February
There are plenty of blogs out there that expound on how to write better business blogs or how to put the right links in your small business blog or how lovely to make your content for a home business blog. While these are all great topics, I find very few blogs that talk about what your business blog should actually look like. I'd like to take a moment to look at 4 things to think about when crafting your next blog post. Not all of these things need to be in every post, but working them into your blog now and again will create a powerful overall business blog.
1. It's Your Catchy Commercial
Most of us remember the super bowl because of its ads. We can remember the ad, sometimes, even better than the company it's promoting. … Read More »


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ANNA'S MOUNTAIN HIGH: At a Sundance Film Festival crammed with films about the human condition, international political strife and old-fashioned romance, a documentary about the fashion world is causing the biggest buzz. "The September Issue," R.J. Cutler's two-year-long project about the making of Vogue's September 2007 edition, oversold at its Friday premiere and three public screenings between Friday and Sunday, and its press and industry screening played to a packed house on Saturday. There are two more screenings on Wednesday and Sunday. The 89-minute film will air this year on A&E at a yet to be determined date.
Several people who bought tickets to the Friday premiere in Salt Lake City, a 45-minute drive from the festival headquarters in Park City, were turned away because there were more ticket holders than available seats.
One studio executive who paid for tickets, which cost several hundred dollars each, said the $5,000 all-access pass holders get precedence at any screening, and if all of them happen to be interested in a particular movie, then ticket holders are out of luck. Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour arrived late into town so she didn't make Friday's premiere, but did show up at the late-night premiere of the Mexican soccer comedy "Rudo y Cursi," starring Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal, and a casual dinner on Main Street. She attended a public screening of her magazine's documentary on Saturday afternoon, held in a converted temple and, along with publisher Tom Florio and Cutler, walked a mini press line set up in an upstairs reading room, shielded from any uninvited paparazzi. And the obvious question about the editor of a major fashion magazine was: What was she wearing? Wintour, clad in a leather Michael Kors jacket with a fox collar, an Oscar de la Renta turtleneck, J Brand jeans and Manolo Blahnik boots, said she was "channeling mountain casual. It is actually my first time wearing jeans to work." But a relaxed Wintour was quick to deflect the spotlight back to Cutler, who also produced the award-winning documentaries "The War Room" and "A Perfect Candidate."
"This is very much R.J.'s film. I want to make it very clear that he had complete freedom to put together the movie that he wanted and it's not in any way Vogue behind him telling him what he can and cannot do," she said. Asked if she placed any restrictions on filming or editing, Wintour replied, "He showed us the film a little while ago and we made a few suggestions, all of which he ignored."
For his part, Cutler said, "I don't know that I've ignored them all but I will say that everyone was incredibly supportive of my vision and also very open with their opinions."
The film has garnered mostly positive reviews, though some have commented that Vogue appeared to be given the kid-glove treatment due to the admiring portrayals of Wintour and creative director Grace Coddington. September 2007 cover girl Sienna Miller didn't fare as well, drawing criticism for her hair and teeth (pre-hairstyling and retouching). Also featured is Thakoon Panichgul, as the film recorded Wintour's support of him through the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund GAP collaboration, editing his white shirt sketches, and revealed how she brokered a well-paid consulting gig for him at the Spanish company Mango. "I'm always fascinated by people who are very good at what they do," said Cutler. "I learned that the fashion industry is a lot of things. It's glamorous and workaday, exhilarating and exhausting, exciting and thrilling, and rewarding and tough."
When asked if Wintour intimidated him at their first meeting, Cutler said, "You try to focus on your curiosity. But I wore all new clothes and I got my first manicure." — Marcy Medina
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Quoted from Peppermint Twist I'm just glad I remembered the beet-laden sweet potato chips. Otherwise, I might be in the primary-care-doctor-from-h*ll's1 office right now, and none of us wants that.
Quoted from Kristin Any health practitioner worth their salt will ask if you have eaten any beets recently with a concern about possible blood in the urine.
Quoted from Peppermint Twist I love the icon you picked! It accurately depicts my reaction to my "scare", I'll tell you that!
Quoted from Tea Rose Peppermint Twist,I have to tell you that your "rolling on the floor in laughter" icon, I have copied and pasted to use in other emails, etc. I love that one!!
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Music That Starts Your Day Christmas Songs List!
Music That Starts Your Day wishes you a Merry Christmas! We hope you enjoy our list with the best Christmas songs of 2012!
Enjoy your 2012 best Christmas Songs! Merry Christmas!
1. Mariah Carey – Oh Santa
2. Cee Lo Green – What Christmas Means to Me
3. Backstreet Boys – It's Christmas Time Again
4. Alphabeat – X-Mas (Let's Do It Again)
5. Far East Movement – Christmas in Downtown LA (feat. MNEK)
6. Karmin – Sleigh Ride
7. Cascada – Jingle Bell Rock
8. Scotty McCreery – Holly Jolly Christmas
9. Colbie Caillat – Christmas in the Sand
10. Michael Bublé – White Christmas (Duet With Shania Twain)
11. Keo Nozari – Christmas Came Early
12. Justin Bieber – Home This Christmas (feat. The Band Perry)
13. She & Him – Blue Christmas
14. Christina Aguilera – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
15. Kelly Clarkson – I'll Be Home for Christmas
16. Lady Antebellum – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
17. Christina Perri – Something About December
This is our Christmas Songs selection for 2012! Enjoy all these fantastic Christmas Songs!
It's the most wonderful time of the year — the time when you can hear Christmas songs on a seemingly endless loop everywhere you go, whether it's to the mall for holiday shopping, Starbucks for an iced mocha or simply your car, where the radio's waiting with holiday jams. Most Christmas music gets old fast — but not the 10 picks on our Best Christmas Songs list.
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