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"We're not judgmental," said Lisk. "We're welcoming, people are more comfortable."
"The mission of the Cowboy Church is to find people who love the cowboy lifestyle," said Lisk, which includes those who want a church they can come to after working all day in a cow pasture or beneath the hood of a truck. "In the summer when they're working late in the day, we've had people come in with manure on their boots and grease on their hands," he said.
The Cowboy Church is a Southern Baptist congregation, and one of 45 churches in the Ashe Baptist Association, led by Rev. David Blackburn. "We like the Cowboy Church," said Blackburn, "because it gives a unique approach to Christianity."
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But more generally, the CCNNA has only done what other successful churches have done in the face of shrinking congregations: get creative. In a 2010 study entitled "A Decade of Change in American Congregations," David A. Roozen found that, while church attendance has been steadily dropping off for years, churches with the healthiest congregations were those who adopted contemporary and innovative worship practices.
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Thast's a difficult one. I have an Acer Iconia and an iPad mini. I find there's more of the games I'm looking for (RPGs and MMOs) on the Iconia than the iPad, however the iPad doesn't seem that far behind.
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Which version of Iconia? There's the W700 and the A700, running Windows 8 and Android OS respectively.
Originally posted by birdycephon
I'm not sure to be honest. I don't know much about the Iconias.
Do they have different "stores" or something?
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Yes, different app stores.
Originally posted by birdycephon
Gah so now I'm stuck on a windows? store, an adroid store, and an apple store? :O
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Originally posted by Tidel
Cost is also important. You should put what you are looking to spend, and the size of the tablet you are looking for...
I personally got a Kindle, but then again all I really need it for is web browsing and videos.
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"Kids, try imagining how far the universe extends! Keep thinking about it until you go insane."
I also have an old kindle fire, but bought a Note 10.1 which I love... though I don't use it to game (other then poker) its primarily a productivity tablet... I do design work, and create flow charts, its also helpful for school....
I've run a few games on it.. but the resolution isn't near what some of the iconia tabs or the ipad... there are better options out now though.. and even better options in the works.
For price to performance you can't get much better then the nexus 7 though.
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Small form asus nexus 7
Large form full sized iPad or the Samsung one.
Prefer Android myself, but is is easier to get up and running. But with android there's more free apps and its easier to get your cos and dvds and stuff on there (via a pc)
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If you want a "gaming experience" on a tablet then your best bet will be any Tablet which runs Win8. Obviously the best being the Razer Edge(aka Fiona) but thats atleast a 1000 dollar drop.
The W700 is probably the next best thing as Windows 8 is still Windows meaning you can run your regular games on it like WoW... or whatever. Its just a matter of power.
If you get an android OS then you have an easier route to root your device(ie hack it) so you can play pirated apps on it much more easily than you would on iOS but the thing that android lacks are certain quality apps more things seem to go the iOS way first or atleast when things go iOS they have a larger budget.
Though Android isnt missing much or anything you may even want but still there are some things.
iOS is just that iOS. Whatever really either you like it or you dont. The nice thing about the App store is that everything is guaranteed to work on your device unless your device is as old as the iPad 1. Then some things if not many will not support your device. Things on the Play store for Android may not support your device or run well on them because of device limitation.
For example Hulu when I had an Iconia A100 was not supported on my device. But its just hulu whats the problem right? Well developers have the option to make their product only available on certain devices and you cant force apps like hulu to run on your device if it isnt on that list. You could jump some hoops and make your device say its something else but then it might not even run right(What I tried, app crashed everytime) If Hulu supports more devices now, or even devices youre looking at getting I cant say for sure.
Then back to the Windows 8 OS, its windows. It does everything your PC does, which is more than a tablet.
Also note: Android Store has refunds available if you decide you hate the app within... 15mins? I dont remember. iOS app store has no such option and once you buy it they charge you for it. And its very easy to accidently buy an app if you have your settings not ask you for your password every single time you try to buy something(Which you should but itll bug you for free apps every time)
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I have a 10" Tegra 2 powered tablet from Lenovo that runs Android 3.2 (Honeycomb). I could upgrade to ICS but I don't like the UI changes so I decided against it. I also have several friends that own iPads so I've played with theirs a little bit. The thing that I've noticed at least with iPad 2-3's is the same apps seem to run a lot smoother on mine than theirs. Less load times, freezes and whatnot. Not that the iPad is bad it's just not quite up to the performance of some of the Android based tablets. Now what people are saying about Android compatability where apps are concerned is very true. Not all apps will be available for every Android device so if there are specific apps you want to run you may want to do a little research first.
As for Windows 8 based tablets you want to be careful. Do not... I repeat DO NOT get a Windows RT tablet. These will only run apps from the Windows 8 app store which currently kinda sucks big time compared to both the Apple App Store and Google Play. You want a full Windows 8 tablet to be able to run regular Windows based programs. If you are buying the tablet for gaming I wouldn't even bother with a Windows 8 based tablet for 2 reasons. Number one is that most modern PC games are just going to be too system intensive to run on any Tablet hardware. The number two reason is that PC games aren't programmed for touch based controls so they won't play very well either.
If you are looking for good performance at a decent price you can't go wrong with an Android based tablet in my opinion. If you want to use it for gaming I strongly recommend something with a Tegra 3 proccessor. In the 7" tablets The Google Nexus 7 is a great tablet at a great price. If you want to go to a 10" tablet I would recommend something from the Asus Transformer line of Android based tablets.
Edit: If you do decide to get a Nexus 7 it does have one slight problem. Do not ever let the battery drain completely. If you do the device may never turn back on or charge. Just FYI.
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I'm going to have to recommend going with either the iPad (4th gen) or a Google Nexus 10 (by Samsung). The iPad and Nexus 10 both have CPUs that use two ARM Cortex A15 cores. The Nexus 10's Exynos 5250 is clocked higher though at 1.7Ghz and the iPad's A6X is clocked at 1.4Ghz. Very similar performance between the two. The Nexus 10 is the faster one at browsing though. The Nexus 10 is also a good bit cheaper, and has a higher resolution screen (yes, it has a higher resolution than the iPad's retina display).
Edit: Don't go with an Asus Transformer. I own one of those as well as the newer Nexus 10. Even though the Nexus 10 uses a dual core cpu as opposed to the Transformer's quad core, the Nexus 10 is still a hell of a lot faster. My Transformer Infinity TF700 really can't keep up with the Nexus 10 or my relative's iPad 4. That's how fast the ARM Cortex A15 processors are compared to the old ARM Cortex A9s (which is what is in the Tegra 3, four A9s). The ARM Cortex A15 is just an absolute beast.
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Originally posted by AvsRock21
I would have recommended the Nexus 10 as well if it wasn't for the simple fact that about 25% of the ones we sell come back dead within the first month. It has very impressive performance but it's failure rate is totally unacceptable.
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I am no fanboy of apple, in fact I don't even own an iPad or iPhone anymore. But from my first hand experience the best gaming experience is by far on the iPad. Now, that is not to say you shouldn't go for the Iconia, its a great little piece of hardware, but the iPad will have more up front. With there the two are at today (iOS and Android), the real decision to me is how much freedom you want. The Iconia CANNOT be beat there. Even if you jailbreak the iPad it is a total pain in the ass (time wise mostly) to do everyting, undo it, upgrade and jailbreak. Where as my experience with my Iconia (and Nexus 7), has been great. Heck, I haven't even done much to my Nexus 7 as its already pretty sweet!
Oh, and to see how the markets are changing (in favor of android), the developers of Sword and Sworcery said their game will NEVER come to android, their pathetic excuse was it wouldn't be true to the presentation they intended for the game... LOL! Well they caved in and its on Android too now.
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I just recently got myself a Prestigio Multipad 5080 C Pro
The Pro is the newest one, much improved and I am MOST happy with it. Its really affordable and works very well. Though I must admit I don't do much gaming and I don't know the comparison. I think Ipad is just WAY overpriced.
EDIT: I just looked, apparently Prestigio doesn't sell in US. At least not on Amazon or Ebay. Then I would tend to go for ACER. I never like Apple. Try to go for Android, I really like the Android OS.
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A lot depends on which games you want to play. iOS and Android have a lot of relatively games meant for tablets. If you want iOS, then iPad it is. For Android, there are a lot of options.
As was said above, ARM Cortex A15 (or equivalent) cores are a lot faster than the older ARM Cortex A9 cores. The Google Nexus 10 has Cortex A15 cores (paired with a very weak GPU), and there should be many other tablets with the same cores very soon. Qualcomm Krait cores are basically equivalent to Cortex A15 cores, as are Apple Swift cores (in the iPad 4--not mini).
Another alternative is a Windows tablet that can run probably an outright majority of the games listed on this site. Even if you ignore browser-based games. AMD Temash will have two or for Jaguar cores, and a GPU with two GCN CUs, so a very modern architecture capable of running basically anything. But it won't be available for a few more months. AMD says it will launch in the first half of this year; rumors put the launch at CeBIT in March or COMPUTEX around the start of June.
If you go with an ARM chip, then you'll get much graphics paired with it than you would get from AMD Temash. It should be mostly fine for purely 2D games, but won't support modern graphics APIs. There is an upcoming variant of Imagination's PowerVR graphics that will support the full OpenGL 4, but it's not available yet.


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you could catch a bloody big fish with that....
looks like a still shot of him wrestling a tentacle
you want an Eskimo who has a big tusk?
I guess people are a little bit different in Hawaii.
Lol at all of these comments.
It's really a beautiful picture though, quite awesome.
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I was just teasing you Stefan.
Beautiful coloring on the tusk.
I am surprised that we don't see more of the red/orange bark tusk pieces ending up on knife handles.
I know a couple guys who travel the back country of Alaska and buy ivory from the Inuit and Native Americans up there.
Finding a tusk like that one will support the guy in the photo's family for a long time.
Do you need one of these to go with the tusk?


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Power User
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March 30, 2010, 12:10:58 PM »
The new student loan thing makes sense on the face of it. Why not cut out the middleman if it costs more. Of course the timing couldn't be more perfect for the One when we started witnessing students demonstrating in Kaliforna.
My question is this. Why is the fed government using taxpayer money to *guarnatee* student loans?
It is bad enough if the student defaults that the taxpayer eats the cost. I agree it was worse that the gov. would pay the bank for it's loss. So 75% of the population who does not have a college degree is helping pay for college ed for others?
These loans cannot be good risks or else why couldn't the student get it from the private sector? I would like to see a better analysis of this but I haven't found one on searching this AM.
***Obama promotes 'overlooked' changes to student loan program
Under the new rules, the government will lend money directly to college students, without the involvement of banks as the "unnecessary middlemen" in what Obama called a "sweetheart deal" that provided them with billions in interest payments.
"Those were billions of dollars that could have been spent helping more of our students attend and complete college," Obama said to an appreciative audience at a community college in Alexandria, Va., just across the river from Washington, D.C.
Critics said in some cases these are the same banks that Obama is pressuring to provide more loans to business people, yet now the government has wiped out part of their operations.
"Americans are looking for jobs and economic growth, not for the government to expand its tentacles even further into their lives and the economy," said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. His office also provided examples of private lenders who will have to cut jobs in light of the new student loan system.
Direct student lending by the government will save the program about $68 billion "in the coming years," Obama said, money that can be put back into higher education.
The new law also caps the repayment of loans at 10 percent of the borrower's discretionary income.
Here's an explanation of the new rules from USA TODAY personal finance columnist Sandra Block.
Obama also planned to sign an updated version of the law, after revisions approved by Senate Democrats last week under the legislative process known as reconciliation.
As he has since passage of the core health care bill on March 21, Obama said the measure will allow millions more Americans obtain insurance and lower costs.
The bill "won't fix every problem in our health care system in one fell swoop," Obama said, "but it does represent some of the toughest insurance reforms in history."
McConnell, who like all Senate Republicans voted against the health care package, said most Americans oppose "this partisan reconciliation bill which hikes taxes even higher in the middle of a recession, and cuts Medicare even deeper for our seniors."
(Posted by David Jackson)***
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Who works for who?
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May 08, 2010, 11:32:05 AM »
Here in NJ is huge fight between Governor Christie and teachers unions. I have many patients who are teachers, ex teachers, even a close family memeber who is one.
What Christie is asking of the teachers is clearly NOT unreasonable. He requests they put of their *annual* 4 to 5 % pay raise (does anyone know of any private sector job that has that?), and contribute 1.5% towards their health care. The grand total is around $1500 per year. Teachers union wages are $730/year.
This in the state with the highest porperty taxes in the nation.
Yet the power of the teachers union and how they literally control politicians is on display to amaze all. They run ads the Christie is ruining education, harming our children and the teachers even have brainwashed out students into going out and marching for them.
I even had a retired teacher tell me she can't stand Christie and how "he is going after teachers".
I simply don't get this. They are outraged? With all their benefits, pensions, health care, reasonably good salaries for a job of 9 months a year and a milliion days off?
It is not like they are facing huge pay cuts. They think they are entitled to 4-5 % pay raises in economies with 10% unempolyment?
Quite the opposite. The outrage is not with them. Can Christie break this? I sure hope so. Thank God we have a governor who stands up to this crap. Yet he is sinking in the polls I've heard. Well they say 1/3 of Jersey residents are on some form of dole. I guess it is no wonder why teachers forget who works for who. It is time they be reminded.
****By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann 05.6.2010 A perfect storm is brewing for the nations schools and the teachers unions that have them in a stranglehold. Voter anger at the socialist, big government solutions of the Obama Administration and its Democratic lookalikes in state capitals throughout the country is about to combine with massive education funding shortfalls brought on by the unions waste of taxpayer money.
These forces will combine in November, 2010 to force gigantic changes in school financing and governance, leading to the prospect of genuine school choice for the poor and middle class as the rich have always had.
Just as a Republican landslide in November will engulf and extinguish Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, so it will sweep away the partys power at the state level. State houses in at least ten states are likely to change parties and dozens of legislative chambers will see Republican majorities, many for the first time in decades. The teachers union will be swept from power along with its Democratic allies.
Just as this earthquake is making its way through state capitals, governors will be casting about for ways to meet revenue shortfalls without tax hikes. Top on their list will be the elimination of layers of bureaucracy and of privileges enjoyed by the teacher unions. As a result more and more of the education budget will be spent in the classroom and vastly more will be channeled into education choice programs.
The number of charter schools will likely grow exponentially and programs for vouchers, scholarships, and tax credits for private and parochial schools will be passed in state after state. Given a chance to provide good education for $7,000 per student in alternative schools rather than pay $10,000 per student in dysfunctional public schools, government officials will move rapidly to expand school choice.
To learn more about this coming revolution in education, GO HERE NOW.
Now is the time for every parent and taxpayer to get involved and to push for seismic shifts in education funding and policy. Perfect storms like this dont come along every year and not even in every lifetime.****
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Forget what you know about good study habits
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September 08, 2010, 07:06:07 AM »
Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits
By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: September 6, 2010
Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all too familiar: Clear a quiet work space. Stick to a homework schedule. Set goals. Set boundaries. Do not bribe (except in emergencies).
And check out the classroom. Does Juniors learning style match the new teachers approach? Or the schools philosophy? Maybe the child isnt a good fit for the school.
Such theories have developed in part because of sketchy education research that doesnt offer clear guidance. Student traits and teaching styles surely interact; so do personalities and at-home rules. The trouble is, no one can predict how.
Yet there are effective approaches to learning, at least for those who are motivated. In recent years, cognitive scientists have shown that a few simple techniques can reliably improve what matters most: how much a student learns from studying.
The findings can help anyone, from a fourth grader doing long division to a retiree taking on a new language. But they directly contradict much of the common wisdom about good study habits, and they have not caught on.
For instance, instead of sticking to one study location, simply alternating the room where a person studies improves retention. So does studying distinct but related skills or concepts in one sitting, rather than focusing intensely on a single thing.
We have known these principles for some time, and its intriguing that schools dont pick them up, or that people dont learn them by trial and error, said Robert A. Bjork, a psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. Instead, we walk around with all sorts of unexamined beliefs about what works that are mistaken.
Take the notion that children have specific learning styles, that some are visual learners and others are auditory; some are left-brain students, others right-brain. In a recent review of the relevant research, published in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a team of psychologists found almost zero support for such ideas. The contrast between the enormous popularity of the learning-styles approach within education and the lack of credible evidence for its utility is, in our opinion, striking and disturbing, the researchers concluded.
Ditto for teaching styles, researchers say. Some excellent instructors caper in front of the blackboard like summer-theater Falstaffs; others are reserved to the point of shyness. We have yet to identify the common threads between teachers who create a constructive learning atmosphere, said Daniel T. Willingham, a psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of the book Why Dont Students Like School?
But individual learning is another matter, and psychologists have discovered that some of the most hallowed advice on study habits is flat wrong. For instance, many study skills courses insist that students find a specific place, a study room or a quiet corner of the library, to take their work. The research finds just the opposite. In one classic 1978 experiment, psychologists found that college students who studied a list of 40 vocabulary words in two different rooms one windowless and cluttered, the other modern, with a view on a courtyard did far better on a test than students who studied the words twice, in the same room. Later studies have confirmed the finding, for a variety of topics.
The brain makes subtle associations between what it is studying and the background sensations it has at the time, the authors say, regardless of whether those perceptions are conscious. It colors the terms of the Versailles Treaty with the wasted fluorescent glow of the dorm study room, say; or the elements of the Marshall Plan with the jade-curtain shade of the willow tree in the backyard. Forcing the brain to make multiple associations with the same material may, in effect, give that information more neural scaffolding.
What we think is happening here is that, when the outside context is varied, the information is enriched, and this slows down forgetting, said Dr. Bjork, the senior author of the two-room experiment.
Varying the type of material studied in a single sitting alternating, for example, among vocabulary, reading and speaking in a new language seems to leave a deeper impression on the brain than does concentrating on just one skill at a time. Musicians have known this for years, and their practice sessions often include a mix of scales, musical pieces and rhythmic work. Many athletes, too, routinely mix their workouts with strength, speed and skill drills.
The advantages of this approach to studying can be striking, in some topic areas. In a study recently posted online by the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, Doug Rohrer and Kelli Taylor of the University of South Florida taught a group of fourth graders four equations, each to calculate a different dimension of a prism. Half of the children learned by studying repeated examples of one equation, say, calculating the number of prism faces when given the number of sides at the base, then moving on to the next type of calculation, studying repeated examples of that. The other half studied mixed problem sets, which included examples all four types of calculations grouped together. Both groups solved sample problems along the way, as they studied.
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A day later, the researchers gave all of the students a test on the material, presenting new problems of the same type. The children who had studied mixed sets did twice as well as the others, outscoring them 77 percent to 38 percent. The researchers have found the same in experiments involving adults and younger children.
When students see a list of problems, all of the same kind, they know the strategy to use before they even read the problem, said Dr. Rohrer. Thats like riding a bike with training wheels. With mixed practice, he added, each problem is different from the last one, which means kids must learn how to choose the appropriate procedure just like they had to do on the test.
These findings extend well beyond math, even to aesthetic intuitive learning. In an experiment published last month in the journal Psychology and Aging, researchers found that college students and adults of retirement age were better able to distinguish the painting styles of 12 unfamiliar artists after viewing mixed collections (assortments, including works from all 12) than after viewing a dozen works from one artist, all together, then moving on to the next painter.
The finding undermines the common assumption that intensive immersion is the best way to really master a particular genre, or type of creative work, said Nate Kornell, a psychologist at Williams College and the lead author of the study. What seems to be happening in this case is that the brain is picking up deeper patterns when seeing assortments of paintings; its picking up whats similar and whats different about them, often subconsciously.
Cognitive scientists do not deny that honest-to-goodness cramming can lead to a better grade on a given exam. But hurriedly jam-packing a brain is akin to speed-packing a cheap suitcase, as most students quickly learn it holds its new load for a while, then most everything falls out.
With many students, its not like they cant remember the material when they move to a more advanced class, said Henry L. Roediger III, a psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis. Its like theyve never seen it before.
When the neural suitcase is packed carefully and gradually, it holds its contents for far, far longer. An hour of study tonight, an hour on the weekend, another session a week from now: such so-called spacing improves later recall, without requiring students to put in more overall study effort or pay more attention, dozens of studies have found.
No one knows for sure why. It may be that the brain, when it revisits material at a later time, has to relearn some of what it has absorbed before adding new stuff and that that process is itself self-reinforcing.
The idea is that forgetting is the friend of learning, said Dr. Kornell. When you forget something, it allows you to relearn, and do so effectively, the next time you see it.
Thats one reason cognitive scientists see testing itself or practice tests and quizzes as a powerful tool of learning, rather than merely assessment. The process of retrieving an idea is not like pulling a book from a shelf; it seems to fundamentally alter the way the information is subsequently stored, making it far more accessible in the future.
Dr. Roediger uses the analogy of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in physics, which holds that the act of measuring a property of a particle (position, for example) reduces the accuracy with which you can know another property (momentum, for example): Testing not only measures knowledge but changes it, he says and, happily, in the direction of more certainty, not less.
In one of his own experiments, Dr. Roediger and Jeffrey Karpicke, also of Washington University, had college students study science passages from a reading comprehension test, in short study periods. When students studied the same material twice, in back-to-back sessions, they did very well on a test given immediately afterward, then began to forget the material.
But if they studied the passage just once and did a practice test in the second session, they did very well on one test two days later, and another given a week later.
Testing has such bad connotation; people think of standardized testing or teaching to the test, Dr. Roediger said. Maybe we need to call it something else, but this is one of the most powerful learning tools we have.
Of course, one reason the thought of testing tightens peoples stomachs is that tests are so often hard. Paradoxically, it is just this difficulty that makes them such effective study tools, research suggests. The harder it is to remember something, the harder it is to later forget. This effect, which researchers call desirable difficulty, is evident in daily life. The name of the actor who played Linc in The Mod Squad? Francies brother in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn? The name of the co-discoverer, with Newton, of calculus?
The more mental sweat it takes to dig it out, the more securely it will be subsequently anchored.
None of which is to suggest that these techniques alternating study environments, mixing content, spacing study sessions, self-testing or all the above will turn a grade-A slacker into a grade-A student. Motivation matters. So do impressing friends, making the hockey team and finding the nerve to text the cute student in social studies.
In lab experiments, youre able to control for all factors except the one youre studying, said Dr. Willingham. Not true in the classroom, in real life. All of these things are interacting at the same time.
But at the very least, the cognitive techniques give parents and students, young and old, something many did not have before: a study plan based on evidence, not schoolyard folk wisdom, or empty theorizing.
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Re: education
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September 08, 2010, 10:27:30 AM »
Two important articles on our leftist academia.
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Health costs are bad? What about education?
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September 10, 2010, 09:53:19 AM »
From the Economist:
Declining by degree
Will Americas universities go the way of its car companies?
Sep 2nd 2010
FIFTY years ago, in the glorious age of three-martini lunches and all-smoking offices, Americas car companies were universally admired. Everybody wanted to know the secrets of their success. How did they churn out dazzling new models every year? How did they manage so many people so successfully (General Motors was then the biggest private-sector employer in the world)? And how did they keep their customers so happy?
Today the world is equally in awe of American universities. They dominate global rankings: on the Shanghai Ranking Consultancys list of the worlds best universities, 17 of the top 20 are American, and 35 of the top 50. They employ 70% of living Nobel prizewinners in science and economics and produce a disproportionate share of the worlds most-cited articles in academic journals. Everyone wants to know their secret recipe.
Which raises a mischievous question. Could Americas universities go the way of its car companies? On the face of it, this seems highly unlikely. Student enrolments are higher than ever this year, as Americans who cannot find jobs linger or return to education. Cambridge, Massachusetts, shows no outward sign of becoming Detroit. Yet there are serious questions about Americas ivory towers.
Two right-wing think-tanks, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Goldwater Institute, have both produced damning reports about Americas university system. Two left-wing academics, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, have published an even more damning book: Higher Education? How Colleges are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids and What We Can Do About It. And US News & World Report, a centrist magazine, says in its annual survey of American colleges that: If colleges were businesses, they would be ripe for hostile takeovers, complete with serious cost-cutting and painful reorganisations.
College fees have for decades risen faster than Americans ability to pay them. Median household income has grown by a factor of 6.5 in the past 40 years, but the cost of attending a state college has increased by a factor of 15 for in-state students and 24 for out-of-state students. The cost of attending a private college has increased by a factor of more than 13 (a year in the Ivy League will set you back $38,000, excluding bed and board). Academic inflation makes medical inflation look modest by comparison.
As costs soar, diligence is tumbling. In 1961 full-time students in four-year colleges spent 24 hours a week studying; that has fallen to 14, estimates the AEI. Drop-out and deferment rates are also hair-curling: only 40% of students graduate in four years.
The most plausible explanation is that professors are not particularly interested in students welfare. Promotion and tenure depend on published research, not good teaching. Professors strike an implicit bargain with their students: we will give you light workloads and inflated grades so long as you leave us alone to do our research. Mr Hacker and Ms Dreifus point out that senior professors in Ivy League universities now get sabbaticals every third year rather than every seventh. This year 20 of Harvards 48 history professors will be on leave.
Americas commitment to research is one of the glories of its higher-education system. But for how long? The supply of papers that apply gender theory to literary criticism remains ample. But there is evidence of diminishing returns in an area perhaps more vital to the countrys economic dynamism: science and technology. The Kauffman Foundation, which studies entrepreneurship, argues that the productivity of federal funding for R&D, in terms of patents and licences, has been falling for some years. Funding is spread too thinly. It would yield better results if concentrated on centres of excellence, but fashionable chatter about the knowledge economy stirs every congressional backwoodsman to stick his fingers into the university pie.
The Goldwater Institute points to a third poison to add to rising prices and declining productivity: administrative bloat. Between 1993 and 2007 spending on university bureaucrats at Americas 198 leading universities rose much faster than spending on teaching faculty. Administration costs at elite private universities rose even faster than at public ones. For example, Harvard increased its administrative spending per student by 300%. In some universities, such as Arizona State University, almost half the full-time employees are administrators. Nearly all university presidents conduct themselves like corporate titans, with salaries, perks and entourages to match.
At least the Naval Academy is free
Given the size and competitiveness of Americas higher-education system, you might expect these problems to be self-correcting. Why dont some universities compete by hiring teaching superstars? And why dont others slash prices? The big problem is that high-status institutions such as universities tend to compete with each other on academic reputation (which is enhanced by star professors) and bling (luxurious dormitories and fancy sports stadiums) rather than value for money. This starts at the top: Yale would never dream of competing with Harvard on price. But it also extends to second-division universities: George Washington University has made itself fashionable by charging students more and spending lavishly on its facilities.
This luxury model is unlikely to survive what is turning into a prolonged economic downturn. Parents are much less willing to take on debt than they were and much more willing to look abroad for better deals. The internet also poses a growing threat to what Bill Gates calls place-based colleges. Online, you can listen to the worlds best lecturers for next to nothing.
Americas universities lost their way badly in the era of easy money. If they do not find it again, they may go the way of GM.
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Alexcander: The Directorate of Indoctrination
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May 19, 2011, 11:56:35 AM »
The Directorate of Indoctrination
Leftist Academic Apparatchiks
"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." --George Washington from his Farewell Address, 1796
It's the end of the school year, so Barack Hussein Obama is including commencement speech whistle stops on his 2012 campaign itinerary.
In Memphis, where Obama delivered one such speech to budding sycophants at Booker T. Washington high school, he asserted, "My administration has been working hard to make sure that we ... encourage the kind of change that's led not by Washington, DC, but by teachers and principals and parents..." (Notice the order in which he lists the agents of change: "teachers and principals and parents.")
Of course, "the kind of change" led by socialist unions in government schools across the nation is already in lock step with what "Washington, DC" dictates. They're both bent upon churning out legions of useful idiots necessary to ensure incremental implementation of Democratic Socialism. Of incremental implementation, Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev once said, "We can't expect the American people to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have communism."
I must note here that there are thousands of outstanding teachers who do not subscribe to Leftist efforts to "fundamentally transform the United States of America" via student indoctrination, partisan and sectarian curricula, and a liberal worldview. However, I must also note that, unfortunately, these brave souls are the rare exception to what was once the rule.
Prior to latter-20th century, outstanding teachers dominated public schools.
Historically, establishment of most private and public academic institutions for the young was, first and foremost, for the purpose of reading the Bible. Indeed, most Christian denominations established schools, colleges and universities to train clergy.
The nation's oldest academic institution, Harvard University, was established in 1636 and named for Puritan minister John Harvard. A 1643 college brochure identified Harvard's purpose: "To advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches." Harvard alumnus John Adams (class of 1755) wrote in 1776, "It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe." In his Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, Adams wrote, "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers."
Yale, the nation's third oldest academic institution, was established in 1701 by royal charter "wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences [and] through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State." Yale alumnus Noah Webster (class of 1778), wrote in the forward of his 1828 Webster's American Dictionary, "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. ... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
Princeton was founded by "New Light" Presbyterians of the Great Awakening for the purpose of training their ministers. Jonathan Dickinson, a Presbyterian minister and leader of the Great Awakening of the 1730s, was the school's co-founder and first president. Princeton alumnus James Madison (class of 1771) observed, "The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it."
Virginia's College of William and Mary, founded in 1693, was Anglican. Baptists founded Rhode Island College, now Brown University, in 1764. Congregationalists established Dartmouth College in 1769 to extend Christianity to native populations.
Founder Benjamin Rush wrote, "[T]he only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments."
But teaching reliance upon Essential Liberty as "endowed by our Creator," in support of Rule of Law as affirmed by "the Law of Nature and nature's God" and as outlined in our Declaration of Independence, is in direct opposition to those who would advocate for tyrannical rule of men.
Benjamin Franklin asserted, "A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins."
The importance of government education as a tool for denying Rule of Law has been advocated by generations of tyrants. In order to achieve totalitarianism, they must undertake to expel God from the academy.
Karl Marx wrote, "The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions at state expense." His student Vladimir Ilyich Lenin concurred, "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." As Josef Stalin understood, "Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."
Leftists also understand that the earlier socialist indoctrination is applied, the greater its force, and the greater the likelihood it will stick.
Obama promised in his inaugural speech that he would "transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age." It was a promise that he'd previously fleshed out in "The Audacity of Hope," the second of his self-congratulatory autobiographies: "It's time to redesign our schools -- not just for the sake of working parents, but also to help prepare our children for a more competitive world. Countless studies confirm the educational benefits of strong preschool programs, which is why even families which have a parent at home often seek them out."
Likewise, its sunrise-to-sunset year-round application could provide further assurance of successful indoctrination. "The same goes for longer school days, summer school, and after school programs," writes Obama.
To that end, according to the Communist Party Education Workers Congress, "We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists. ... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists."
Of course, the Left's indoctrination agenda has been subject to exposure since its inception.
Benjamin Disraeli, the conservative 19th-century British prime minister, noted, "Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." His contemporary, John Stuart Mill, warned, "A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body."
The great 18th-century philosopher Edmund Burke observed, "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." Indeed, that delusion is dependent on erasing the knowledge of the past, as 20th-century philosopher George Santayana concluded, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
In the words of Thomas Jefferson, "If a nation expects to be ignorant -- and free -- in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Caveat emptor, my fellow Patriots! The ultimate objective of Leftist Apparatchiks in the Democrats' dumbed-down Directorate of Indoctrination is to disenfranchise Liberty.
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Mark Alexander
Publisher, The Patriot Post
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WSJ: Or we could abolish the DOE , , ,
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June 12, 2011, 06:22:35 AM »
By STEPHANIE BANCHERO and LAURA MECKLER
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is threatening to use the power of his position to alter key elements of No Child Left Behind if Congress doesn't renew and upgrade the education law before the next school year begins.
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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, right, takes questions from first graders as Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., listens during a visit to Dayton's Bluff Achievement Plus Elementary School in May.
Mr. Duncan is promising to waive specific requirements of the law in exchange for states agreeing to adopt other efforts he has championed, such as linking teacher evaluations to student achievement, expanding charter schools and overhauling the lowest-performing schools. Effectively, he's warning Congress that if it doesn't overhaul the nine-year-old law, he'll bypass lawmakers to get his way.
"Principals, superintendents and children cannot wait forever for the legislative process to work itself out," Mr. Duncan said in a conference call with reporters. "As it exists now, No Child Left Behind is creating a slow-motion train wreck for children, parents and teachers."
No Child Left Behind, President George W. Bush's signature domestic achievement, has been up for renewal since 2007. Congress has so far extended it on a year-by-year basis.
The law requires states to test students in math and reading and punishes schools that fall short of score objectives set by the states. The law has been widely criticized for labeling too many schools as failures, narrowing the school curriculum and prodding states to water down standardized tests.
Mr. Obama and Mr. Duncan have aggressively pushed Congress to overhaul the law and, until recently, it was expected to be one of the few bipartisan achievements this year. But Republicans have begun to push back, especially tea-party Republicans who want to reduce the federal government's role in K-12 schools.
Mr. Duncan's pledge to use the waiver process didn't sit well with two Congressmen working to renew the law.
"Given the bipartisan commitment in Congress to fixing No Child Left Behind, it seems premature at this point to take steps outside the legislative process that would address NCLB's problems in a temporary and piecemeal way," Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate education committee, said in a statement.
Rep. John Kline, Republican chairman of the House education committee, has said he feels no urgency to move a bill, despite Mr. Duncan's pressure. "He'd like to get this done before they go back to school in September. We're not going to do that," he said in a May interview with the Wall Street Journal. He said he hopes to have the matter settled in 2011, partly because it's more difficult to pass ambitious legislation during a presidential election year.
Mr. Kline is particularly hostile to Race to the Top, Mr. Obama's pet program that provides competitive funding for states that embrace the education changes he favors. The president has repeatedly cited this as a key to his administration's success in education and a blueprint in reauthorizing No Child Left Behind.
Jennifer Allen, Mr. Kline's spokeswoman, said the Congressman didn't know details of Mr. Duncan's recent waiver promise, but said, "Chairman Kline remains concerned about any initiativeincluding waiversthat would allow the secretary to pick winners and losers in the nation's education system."
Mr. Kline said his committee would pass legislation in small pieces so that members, particularly newly elected ones, can understand it.
The law as it stands gives the education secretary broad authority to waive certain provisions. Mr. Duncan wouldn't offer specifics on which provisions are under consideration, but said he's opposed to one that currently punishes schools for not reaching high, specified goals, even as they make dramatic improvement. He also said he might offer states flexibility on how they can spend federal education money.
Mr. Duncan said individual states could apply for waivers and he might approve them in exchange for agreements to embrace other education changes. States that already have adopted reforms favored by the administration also would be considered.
"There is zero intent here to abandon accountability," Mr. Duncan said. "In fact, ideally, this flexibility would be in exchange for courage and reform."
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Read below how William Ayers, unrepentant Weather Underground domestic terrorist, is actually Vice President for Curriculum Studies at the American Educational Research Association (AARA), the nation's largest organization of Education school professors and researchers. And you think it's an accident that our public school teachers are being taught to teach our school children anti-capitalist, anti-American, pro-Socialist ideas, including that America is a racist, sexist, oppressive nation?:
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Imagine where Timmy McVeigh would be in academia, were he only a leftist......
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How can holding down repayments, interests rates, and forgiveness timetables be good for anyone but those particular students who don't make the payments.
Why not hold our education system to the new standards they want to hold the medical system. Pay for quality performance. I propose that universities get no tuition paid for those graduates who can't get a decent job.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (March 14) - The New Mexico State women's tennis team is set to rekindle the Battle of I-10 on Friday, March 15, as the UTEP Miners (8-6) make the short drive north for a 2 p.m. dual with the Aggies (3-7) at the NM State Tennis Center.
NM State looks to snap the Miners' five-match winning streak on Friday afternoon and picking up two wins of its own a week ago at home against Western New Mexico and Tarleton State. The Aggies have won nine of the last 12 meetings between the teams that includes a 4-3 over UTEP during the 2012 season.
The Aggies are on the winning stride after halting the WNMU Mustangs 5-2 a week ago Friday. The team then came up with a 5-2 win over Tarleton State to cap off the weekend on March 10.
Part of the Aggie success comes from the hands of Ros-Polly Nguyen and Annemieke Witte. Nguyen boasts a 7-3 singles record this season with six of those coming at the No. 5 position. Her most recent win against Tarleton State was at the third court.
Witte is also on a hot streak in singles play with a 6-3 record and four consecutive wins for the Aggies. She teams up with Denise Van Der Ben in double competition for four wins this season at the No. 2 spot.
UTEP is led by junior Rebece Calvillo with a perfect 8-0 record at the top singles spot and a 12-2 overall record in individual play. Two of the Miners' juniors each have 10 wins this season in singles. UTEP's doubles are headed by Marie LeBlond and Gabi Vazquez with 10 wins in 13 matches at the top spot.
The battle between the Aggies and the Miners is set for 2 p.m. at the NM State Tennis Center on Friday, March 15.


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As promised in my 1st semester retrospective, here is a retrospective of the 2nd semester (Spring Semester).
The second semester was consisted of three courses, two core courses and one free elective. I picked the following courses:
- Distributed Systems
- Network Security
- Secure Software Systems
You can take a look at the syllabus for each course here. I can't tell for sure which semester was tougher, the 1st or this one. I guess this 2nd semester involved more work, but you are more used to it, so you can handle things better.Tags:carnegie mellon, cmu, graduate, masters, MSIT IS, msitis, security


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Seating at the Maverik Center, including wheelchair seating, is on a first come first serve. For those with physical limitations including wheelchairs, please enter at the southwest ground-level door marked "Will Call/VIP/Elevator" and seating will be available in section 113. For hearing impaired guests, seats will also be located in the front rows of section 113. The ceremony starts at 1:45 p.m. and lasts around 2 ½ hours.
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