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May31	May 31, Wisdumb - College Student Buried Alive Bill Belew May 31, 2007 Know More: Wisdumb amputee, carrier, check, college student, golf, lesson, mail, myspace, snake, wal mart Wisdumb ... the best lessons in life might be learning what NOT to do. You might NOT want to: Bury a co llege student alive. Ignore this sign, um, gentlemen. Ignore the puddle on the floor at Wal-Mart. Make fun of Wal-Mart on your MySpace page. Have your snakes raw even in survival training. Ask this mail carrier to deliver your mail. Park the car in the garage down the steps. Take golf lessons from this dude unless you are a really fast learner. Steal from this amputee. Try to cash the $2.5 million check. Posted at 10:43 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May31	212 Things You Should Learn Not to Do Bill Belew May 31, 2007 Wisdumb...the best lessons in life might be learning what NOT to do.Here are 212 things you might NOT want to do.NOTE - I learned just today (6/4) (a reader pointed it out), that some of the links to the original... Continue Reading Posted at 10:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May30	May 30, Wisdumb - Wendy's Customer Shoots Staff Over Sauce Bill Belew May 30, 2007 Wisdumb...the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to: Hold back the sauce to a Wendy's customer. Call the wrong fire department. Lose on this reality show if you need a kidney. Lose your $1 million golden... Continue Reading Posted at 10:44 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	6 Steps to 100,000 Page Views in One Day on Your Blog Bill Belew May 30, 2007 I can hear some people laughing. They are the ones who get 100+K page views everyday. I don't. I am just a rinky dink blogger writing about non-main stream topics, Japan, the PanAsian region and this blog about the business... Continue Reading Posted at 11:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May29	May 29, Wisdumb - Why Pretty Girls Would Kiss a Monkey Bill Belew May 29, 2007 Wisdumb...the best lessons in life maybe learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Kiss a monkey...even blindfolded. Listen to your dad. Listen to your dad. (part 2) Ask the girl you just robbed for a date. Let the lion sleep with you tonight. Wait... Continue Reading Posted at 10:55 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How to Spot a Child Prodigy Bill Belew May 29, 2007 My son plays the piano. He is NOT/was NOT a child prodigy. When I asked one of his teachers how she could determine if a child was gifted or not, she told me she could generally tell by how long... Continue Reading Posted at 6:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How to Kiss a Monkey Bill Belew May 29, 2007 I remember watching the Planet of the Apes some 30+ years ago. At the end of the first movie, the female monkey, er, excuse me, ape, was so happy she wanted to kiss Charleton Heston...but, "I am sorry, I can't.... Continue Reading Posted at 5:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	5 Second Rule Upheld, Revision Proposed Bill Belew May 29, 2007 The length of time that one will allow when dropping something that they plan to eat varies by location.California - 5 seconds.Texas - 10 seconds.Kentucky - no limit.Connecticut College has concluded in a study - ‘Five-Second Rule’ for Dropped Food... Continue Reading Posted at 4:14 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Riyo Mori's 10 Steps to Becoming Miss Universe Bill Belew May 29, 2007 What little girl doesn't dream of being called the Universe's most beautiful woman...in every aspect?1. Beauty2. Intellect3. Well-mannered4. Cultured20-year old, Riyo Mori, is living that dream...and sharing her secrets to becoming Miss Universe.1. Dream of being Miss Universe - Mori's... Continue Reading Posted at 1:16 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May28	Top 10 Chinese Universities by Quality of Freshmen Bill Belew May 28, 2007 The Chinese are well known for their attention to rankings when it comes to choosing schools, especially the higher education ones.There are rankings according to reputation, deserved or otherwised. Then there are rankings according the quality of the students.Here are... Continue Reading Posted at 4:31 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top 10 Chinese Universities by Reputation Bill Belew May 28, 2007 Rankings By Reputation: 1st : Tsinghua University and Beijing (/Peking) University, both in Beijing, share the 1st place 3rd : Fudan University and Zhejiang University 5th : Nanjing University and China Science and Technology University 7th : Shanghai Jiaotong University 8th... Continue Reading Posted at 1:31 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Male Teacher Knucklepunches Female Student Bill Belew May 28, 2007 Japan has it, China has it, the US has it...Korea might as well join in the idiocy.I am not sure if this qualifies as cyberbullying...but somebody is getting the best of someone else and it's been recorded and sent around... Continue Reading Posted at 12:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Cyberbullying in China - Students Record Video While Physically Belittling Teacher Bill Belew May 28, 2007 Cyberbullying? The students are cussing at, knocking the hat off, and taking other actions that are totally belittling their teacher. What's more, someone took a video tape of the affair and posted it on Youtube.How is it that students can... Continue Reading Posted at 12:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May27	7 Steps to Fake Your Way into Stanford Bill Belew May 27, 2007 An 18-year old Asian girl posed as a Stanford student, living in the dorm, attending classes, working in labs for almost 9 months before she got caught.Apparently bright, having graduated from one of the better high schools in Fullerton, but... Continue Reading Posted at 8:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How to Kill A Friend Bill Belew May 27, 2007 I think the girls could have been sisters. My brother and I used to play the same game...climb a tree and jump. Climber higher, jump. Then climb higher until one of us chickens out. The other wins.Now that I think... Continue Reading Posted at 7:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How to Kill and eat a 1000+lb Pig Bill Belew May 27, 2007 Pig, hog, boar...maybe it was all three in one plus a couple of more.The boar weighed 1050 lbs...maybe 1060. It's head is 4'6" around and its shoulders, more than 6'.From the eyes to the end of the snout...a whisker under... Continue Reading Posted at 6:17 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	10 Torture Techniques Employed by Al-Qaeda (NOT for the Faint of Heart) Bill Belew May 27, 2007 There are generally two ways to learn things.Someone tells you and then you know it.You experience something and then you know it.Here is something I hope I never learn from experience.The Department of Defense released images and cartoons found by... Continue Reading Posted at 4:54 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	8 Lessons on Adultery Bill Belew May 27, 2007 Adultery is not a pretty word. Think no one you know has ever participated in the action? Think again.Think you are invulnerable? Vulnerable? Wondering if it's worth it?Ten Lessons on Adultery1. An adulterous woman's lips taste like honey and are smoother... Continue Reading Posted at 11:52 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May26	6 Inactions of a Wise Person Bill Belew May 26, 2007 There are a lot of things a wise person will choose to not do...walk into the street without looking comes to mind and other lessons we learned in kindergarten.But on a different level...what things might a wise person know to... Continue Reading Posted at 11:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	6 Reasons - Wisdom Beats Wealth Bill Belew May 26, 2007 Given the choice of being wise or being wealthy, which would you choose?It seems to me that if I were wise, I could determine the right way to accumulate wealth or decide if being wealthy was the right path for... Continue Reading Posted at 11:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	6 Reasons to Study Proverbs Bill Belew May 26, 2007 I suppose I am a quote nut, a proverb junkie. I like to hear about what people I respect have learned and try to NOT have to learn the same lessons over again on my own.I determined a long time... Continue Reading Posted at 9:50 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Get a Degree, Lose Several Thousand Dollars Bill Belew May 26, 2007 Thailand's ousted PM and globe-trotting ex-leader, Thaksin Shinawatra, was awarded an honorary degree in science from Moscow's Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy.When he stopped at McDonalds to celebrate, somebody made off with his briefcase containing about $9,200 worth of money and... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	3 Ways the Index and Ring Finger Length Can be Used to Predict Academic Performance Bill Belew May 26, 2007 It's going to have to be a might accurate measurement, I think.But...psychologists at the University of Bath in Britain are saying the length of the index and ring fingers can be used to measure how well children will do academically.Calipers... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May25	May 25, Wisdumb - Woman Bites Cop on the Leg! Bill Belew May 25, 2007 Wisbumb - the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Bite the cop in the leg. Forget the back half of your car. Promote peace with flowers in Oregon. Where your movie cop uniform... Continue Reading Posted at 10:52 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	HAL - A "Robot Suit" from Japan Bill Belew May 25, 2007 A professor of engineering at the University of Tsukuba's graduate school is the creator of HAL - Hybrid Assistive Limb - a suit that will give the wearers super human strength. Well, not that much strength but much more than... Continue Reading Posted at 1:14 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	9 Things You Should NOT Do in Church Bill Belew May 25, 2007 It's a good thing God is the forgiving type.However, one wonders if these, um, infractions are forgivable.1. Forget to give communion to the little guy.2. Pass out at your friend's wedding.3. Pee on the priest.4. Sprinkle holy water in the... Continue Reading Posted at 11:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	8 Steps to 2,000,000 Page Views Bill Belew May 25, 2007 Yesterday, I celebrated a milestone. My three blogs, this one, PanAsianBiz and RisingSunOfNihon combined to reach 2,000,000 page views. Yea! Two questions come to mind -1. How did I do it?2. What took me so long? First things first...what I think... Continue Reading Posted at 8:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Happy Birthday to TheBizOfKnowledge Bill Belew May 25, 2007 Happy Birthday to TheBizofKnowledge.I begin my second year today writing TheBizOfKnowledge and before doing that I wanted to set aside a post to thank the many visitors (370,000+) who looked at the many pages (540,000+) of the 1470 posts I... Continue Reading Posted at 8:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Duke Business School Harder on Asian Cheaters Bill Belew May 25, 2007 Asian students who are caught cheating at the Duke University Business School get punished more severely than others.Some 34 students were caught cheating on an exam or other assignment. Nine students were bounced from the school, 15 were suspended for... Continue Reading Posted at 4:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Help Wanted - English Teachers Needed Bill Belew May 25, 2007 The National Institute for International Education Development, affiliated with the Education Ministry, operates "English Program In Korea" to recruit, train and managing native English teachers for schools.The hope is to recruit 500 teachers, from the United States, Canada, New Zealand,... Continue Reading Posted at 2:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fudan University to Send 500 Teachers Overseas to Learn Bill Belew May 25, 2007 Fudan University is one of China's best...has been for 102 years. The school also realizes the benefits of an international perspective for its teachers.Over the next five years, the university will send 100 teachers, aged around 35-years old, overseas for... Continue Reading Posted at 12:27 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May24	May 24, Wisdumb - Man Wears Same Pair of Pants to Work Everyday for 2.5 Years Bill Belew May 24, 2007 Wisdumb...the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Wear the same pair of pants to work everyday for 2.5 years. Move the golf cart too far out of the way. Put the baby in... Continue Reading Posted at 10:04 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	After Scaling 7 Highest Summits, What's Next? - Stanford University Bill Belew May 24, 2007 An 18-year old girl became the youngest foreign woman to scale Everest and the youngest person to have completed the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on all seven continents. The previous record was held by a 20-year old British climber,... Continue Reading Posted at 5:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Prisons Get More Money than Colleges in California Bill Belew May 24, 2007 This will be the headline in California in about five years.Based on current spending trends, California will be spending more on putting and keeping the bad guys in jail than on educating student in its public institutions.I read once that... Continue Reading Posted at 8:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	7 Kinds of Advertisements that are Banned by Google Bill Belew May 24, 2007 Google just added a seventh type of advertisement that it will no longer allow.The first 6 are advertisements for:1. weapons2. prostitution3. drugs4. tobacco5. fake documents6. "miracle cures". ... Continue Reading Posted at 6:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	5 Reasons Why the Arab World Needs More Education and What the Dubai Ruler Hopes to do with His Own $10 billion Bill Belew May 24, 2007 Move over Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. There's another rich dude who wants to make a difference in education...this time in the Arab world.Here's why:1. 18% of youths under 15 in the Arab world are illiterate2. 43% of all women... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	28 Suicide Warning Signs for College Students Bill Belew May 24, 2007 Suicide.org says that suicide is the number two reason why college students die. It ought to be the number nothing reason.College kids should be studying hard and enjoying life, in that order.28 Suicide Warning Signs1. Appearing depressed or sad most... Continue Reading Posted at 2:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	5 Reasons Why UC Students Need More Counseling, Commit Suicide Bill Belew May 24, 2007 The 10 campus University of California public school system is supposed to be one of the best. UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, UCLA...and so on.So, why did 45% of UC Berkely students say they had an "emotional problematic... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May23	May 23, Wisdumb - Teen Tasered for Spitting Near Mickey Mouse Bill Belew May 23, 2007 Wisdumb....the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Spit at or near Mickey Mouse. Keep all those newspapers, books, magazines. Keep hitting yourself on the head with that beer bottle. Have friends shoot yourself in... Continue Reading Posted at 10:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	4 Weight Loss Questions - Answered Bill Belew May 23, 2007 The answers are in...until someone else asks the questions again...or another research institute or university finds a different control group.The 4 questions Should you weigh yourself every day? University of Minnesota says it won't hurt...no link to depression. I think the... Continue Reading Posted at 5:52 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	10 Reasons to Stay Home from Your Class Reunion Bill Belew May 23, 2007 Reunions, class, military, family, can be fun. We have a family reunion planned for next month. This year is also the ?5th high school reunion.I won't be at either one. Why don't people go to their reunions?1. They have bad... Continue Reading Posted at 5:51 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	4 Reasons Why China and Russia are Going to Mars Bill Belew May 23, 2007 The Chinese and Russians are planning a probe of Mars...the launch will be in 2009 and the arrival 10 months later...2010.A Russian rocket will lift a Chinese Probe and a Russian exploration vehicle known as a Phobos-Grunt. Great name! And... Continue Reading Posted at 2:30 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	3 Things to Not Do in a Fountain Bill Belew May 23, 2007 When I was a college kid, and I am hoping the statute of limitations has expired on this, we use to climb up on Cincinnatus at 'Fountain Square' in downtown, you guessed it, Cincinnati.It has been known, not by me,... Continue Reading Posted at 1:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	100 Dinosaur Footprints within 225 sq ft area discovered Bill Belew May 23, 2007 China has pandas, a wall that can be seen from space, the highest mountain, the oldest everything else and now claim to once having had dinosaurs. One hundred dinosaur footprints were found on a mountainside in Chongqing municipality in southwest... Continue Reading Posted at 12:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May22	May 22, Wisdumb - Woman's Head is Cut Off at Meat Processing Factory Bill Belew May 22, 2007 Wisdumb...sometimes the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Lose your head at work. Light the firecracker if it does NOT have a fuse. Send your best product to China to be copied. Dump your... Continue Reading Posted at 10:34 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Men Only Gyms - 3 Reasons why they sell, 3 Reasons why they fail Bill Belew May 22, 2007 If places like Curves can attract only women, then why can't men find a place where only they hang out?There are three selling points to men only gyms...1. Fast...nobody sitting around reading newspapers, People, or jabbering about General Hospital.2. No... Continue Reading Posted at 4:51 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	6 Ways to Poke Fun at Your Teacher Bill Belew May 22, 2007 It used to be that students would give a teacher 'ears' the peace sign behind his or her head when she wasn't looking.Or...graffiti on a whiteboard that made a point...or didn't about something regarding the teacher you didn't like.How about... Continue Reading Posted at 12:54 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The 100 Most Prolific Bloggers - by Post Count Bill Belew May 22, 2007 It has been a while since I posted an update of the list.For those who read down far enough...you will see we are 14 people shy of 100 bloggers with 1000 or more posts.Are you one of them?The 100 most... Continue Reading Posted at 12:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May21	May 20, Wisdumb - Man marries eight women at the same time and wants more Bill Belew May 21, 2007 Wisdumb....the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Marry seven women too many at the same time and want more. Let these kids play yakuza on you. Listen to this doctor tell you your... Continue Reading Posted at 10:47 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	5 Reasons for and 3 Ways to Fight Depression for Granny and Gramps Bill Belew May 21, 2007 The University of Pittsburgh is studying how to keep Granny and Gramps out of the dumps, from getting depressed in the first place and what to when the feeling reoccurs.Old people...think retired, get down for different reasons than youngsters.1. Thinking... Continue Reading Posted at 3:53 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Top 25 Web Hoaxes and Pranks Bill Belew May 21, 2007 I write regularly about wisdumb...the best lessons in life might be learning what NOT to do.These 25 web hoaxes and pranks are the best lessons in life that being learning what NOT to believe.MSN's top 25 hoaxes and pranks...1. The... Continue Reading Posted at 2:50 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	15 Myths about Eyesight Bill Belew May 21, 2007 I am not a doctor, but I do know my eyes are getting worse...mostly because I am getting older. I wonder what I might have done in the past that caused my eyes to go bad.I came across these 15... Continue Reading Posted at 1:47 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	5 Ways to NOT Lose Weight Bill Belew May 21, 2007 A doctor at a Gastroenterology Clinic in Taiwan is saying that he has debunked yet another quick way to lose weight.A fad diet popularized by a pop singer from Japan, Utada Hikari, involved eating hot chili peppers.1. Chili peppers do... Continue Reading Posted at 12:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top 20 Star Wars Moments - How to tell you are NOT a man Bill Belew May 21, 2007 My wife and I decided I am not a man. Somehow I started getting the Men's Journal. I think I got it free for using Hotels.com or for having excessive miles on my travel account or something.At any rate, I... Continue Reading Posted at 11:27 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	8 Tips for New Runners Bill Belew May 21, 2007 I have never run a marathon. I have run 100 miles in a day, 100km in under 12 hours but never a full marathon and then stopped. The distance is too short and the runners too fast. Same for distances... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May20	Next - 1 terabit of info per square inch of recording surface Bill Belew May 20, 2007 Toshiba Corp. and Tohoku University have come up with a new basic technology that promises to increase the storage capacity of hard drives by 10X or more....or one terabit of info/sq inch of recording surface.The question is...who needs 1 terabit... Continue Reading Posted at 7:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How many college students can fit in one Sauna? Bill Belew May 20, 2007 A group of students challenged the Guiness Book of World Records with an unusual claim...the biggest group of people from different nationalities taking a sauna in the same place.Whew! That's a good call. If they were all Americans, Germans, or... Continue Reading Posted at 5:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May19	May 19, Wisdumb - Donkey and Peacock meat? Tigers and Monkeys? Bill Belew May 19, 2007 Wisdumb...the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Allow your dog to raise tiger triplets.Stop to count your loot before you make a clean getaway. Lose a shoot out to a human sacrificing cult. Let... Continue Reading Posted at 10:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Cure for Cancer Rediscovered Bill Belew May 19, 2007 I have a good buddy, MD-type, who tells me that some 75% of his patients come to him because of 'sin' diseases. Eat too much, smoke too much, drink too much, worry too much about the wrong things they do... Continue Reading Posted at 12:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Walking School? Bill Belew May 19, 2007 There's an organized "Walking School" in Yichang, Hubei Province that teaches kids how to walk...long distances ... for the purpose of experiencing hardships and building their strong wills.Walking long distances is something I know about...experiencing hardship...developing strong wills....I know about... Continue Reading Posted at 11:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May18	TieCon 2007 - What is America afraid of? Bill Belew May 18, 2007 From TiECon 2007 What's wrong with America? What are Americans afraid of?I learned yesterday... IBM estimates that they have about 53,000 people working in India. As a result...the company thinks it is saving $8 billion each year from this outsourcing activity.... Continue Reading Posted at 9:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	From TiECon 2007 - What can keep India and China from growing? Bill Belew May 18, 2007 I am hanging out at the TiECon 2007 in Silicon Valley...today May 18th and tomorrow May 19th.More about that here. What I am looking for here are several things....1. Entrepreurship and Venture Capitalist activity, trends, inclinations in Asia.2. # 1 above... Continue Reading Posted at 9:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How to Land an Airplane on a Recreational Vehicle Bill Belew May 18, 2007 There's a Youtube that shows viewers how to land an airplane on the top of an RV. Slow down, match speeds and so on.My question is, how will they get the airplane back OFF of the RV after the show. ... Continue Reading Posted at 12:36 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May17	May 17, Wisdumb - Forbes Misery Loves Paying Taxes in France, Belgium, China.... Bill Belew May 17, 2007 Wisdumb....the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might not want to:Have to pay taxes in France, Belgium, China, Sweden, Italy....Forget to check the statue of limitations before turning yourself in Read your Bible in public in... Continue Reading Posted at 10:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Virginia Tech Enrollments Ahead of Last Year - Smarter, More Asian Students Coming, too Bill Belew May 17, 2007 Seems more students are eager to try their luck this year. Or it could be the mindset, the safetest airline is the one that just experienced a crash.Virginia Tech has received 5,215 deposits from new incoming freshmen, more than the... Continue Reading Posted at 3:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	16+ Miles of Files on Nazi Activity to be Made Available to Scholars Bill Belew May 17, 2007 Scholars have long complained about being restricted from accessing the vast repository of material about the 17.5+ million people who passed through concentration camps or were victimized during the Nazi period in Germany.Electronic copies, everything has now been scanned, will... Continue Reading Posted at 2:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Copwatch Volunteer/University of Colorado Student Beat Cop in Court Bill Belew May 17, 2007 A University of Colorado at Denver student and local copwatch volunteer videotaped a policeman arresting another individual in a parking lot.The cop asked the student for his ID, which he produced. When the student asked the policeman for a business... Continue Reading Posted at 1:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How Hard is it to Fire a Tenured Professor? Bill Belew May 17, 2007 University of Colorado ethnic-studies professor has been accused of plagiarizing, fabricating and falsifying material in his research and writing.All of these are good reasons to bounce students out of class.However, enter a lawyer for the accused.Blah...blah...blah...The committee reviewing the misconduct... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	10 Grammar Mistakes That Make You Appear Stupid Bill Belew May 17, 2007 In a couple of my online college classes this week we are discussing tone in written correspondence.Invariably, the on line school students will point out how important it is to be professional, not use IM chatspeak, spell correctly and use... Continue Reading Posted at 11:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Easy Way to Learn to Speak 7 Languages Bill Belew May 17, 2007 I can speak English, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, some German and I can read Greek.But this woman can do one better than me...she speaks seven languages and does it so well and appears to have learned it quite easily.How envious I... Continue Reading Posted at 10:19 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Lose Weight - Work Better - Less Injuries Bill Belew May 17, 2007 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy has determined that the more overweight a person is, the more likely they will be injured on the job.7,690 workers were classified into six categories:1. underweight2. normal3.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May16	May 16, Wisdumb - The Best Lessons in Life May be Learning What NOT to Do Bill Belew May 16, 2007 Wisdumb....the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Join the ranks of one in six people worldwide. Listen to mom. Try to catch a falling tree. Believe in Intelligent Design if you want tenure at Iowa..

May31	May 31, Wisdumb - College Student Buried Alive Bill Belew May 31, 2007 Know More: Wisdumb amputee, carrier, check, college student, golf, lesson, mail, myspace, snake, wal mart Wisdumb ... the best lessons in life might be learning what NOT to do. You might NOT want to: Bury a co llege student alive. Ignore this sign, um, gentlemen. Ignore the puddle on the floor at Wal-Mart. Make fun of Wal-Mart on your MySpace page. Have your snakes raw even in survival training. Ask this mail carrier to deliver your mail. Park the car in the garage down the steps. Take golf lessons from this dude unless you are a really fast learner. Steal from this amputee. Try to cash the $2.5 million check. Posted at 10:43 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May31	212 Things You Should Learn Not to Do Bill Belew May 31, 2007 Wisdumb...the best lessons in life might be learning what NOT to do.Here are 212 things you might NOT want to do.NOTE - I learned just today (6/4) (a reader pointed it out), that some of the links to the original... Continue Reading Posted at 10:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May30	May 30, Wisdumb - Wendy's Customer Shoots Staff Over Sauce Bill Belew May 30, 2007 Wisdumb...the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to: Hold back the sauce to a Wendy's customer. Call the wrong fire department. Lose on this reality show if you need a kidney. Lose your $1 million golden... Continue Reading Posted at 10:44 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	6 Steps to 100,000 Page Views in One Day on Your Blog Bill Belew May 30, 2007 I can hear some people laughing. They are the ones who get 100+K page views everyday. I don't. I am just a rinky dink blogger writing about non-main stream topics, Japan, the PanAsian region and this blog about the business... Continue Reading Posted at 11:42 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May29	May 29, Wisdumb - Why Pretty Girls Would Kiss a Monkey Bill Belew May 29, 2007 Wisdumb...the best lessons in life maybe learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Kiss a monkey...even blindfolded. Listen to your dad. Listen to your dad. (part 2) Ask the girl you just robbed for a date. Let the lion sleep with you tonight. Wait... Continue Reading Posted at 10:55 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How to Spot a Child Prodigy Bill Belew May 29, 2007 My son plays the piano. He is NOT/was NOT a child prodigy. When I asked one of his teachers how she could determine if a child was gifted or not, she told me she could generally tell by how long... Continue Reading Posted at 6:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How to Kiss a Monkey Bill Belew May 29, 2007 I remember watching the Planet of the Apes some 30+ years ago. At the end of the first movie, the female monkey, er, excuse me, ape, was so happy she wanted to kiss Charleton Heston...but, "I am sorry, I can't.... Continue Reading Posted at 5:15 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	5 Second Rule Upheld, Revision Proposed Bill Belew May 29, 2007 The length of time that one will allow when dropping something that they plan to eat varies by location.California - 5 seconds.Texas - 10 seconds.Kentucky - no limit.Connecticut College has concluded in a study - ‘Five-Second Rule’ for Dropped Food... Continue Reading Posted at 4:14 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Riyo Mori's 10 Steps to Becoming Miss Universe Bill Belew May 29, 2007 What little girl doesn't dream of being called the Universe's most beautiful woman...in every aspect?1. Beauty2. Intellect3. Well-mannered4. Cultured20-year old, Riyo Mori, is living that dream...and sharing her secrets to becoming Miss Universe.1. Dream of being Miss Universe - Mori's... Continue Reading Posted at 1:16 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May28	Top 10 Chinese Universities by Quality of Freshmen Bill Belew May 28, 2007 The Chinese are well known for their attention to rankings when it comes to choosing schools, especially the higher education ones.There are rankings according to reputation, deserved or otherwised. Then there are rankings according the quality of the students.Here are... Continue Reading Posted at 4:31 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top 10 Chinese Universities by Reputation Bill Belew May 28, 2007 Rankings By Reputation: 1st : Tsinghua University and Beijing (/Peking) University, both in Beijing, share the 1st place 3rd : Fudan University and Zhejiang University 5th : Nanjing University and China Science and Technology University 7th : Shanghai Jiaotong University 8th... Continue Reading Posted at 1:31 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Male Teacher Knucklepunches Female Student Bill Belew May 28, 2007 Japan has it, China has it, the US has it...Korea might as well join in the idiocy.I am not sure if this qualifies as cyberbullying...but somebody is getting the best of someone else and it's been recorded and sent around... Continue Reading Posted at 12:27 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Cyberbullying in China - Students Record Video While Physically Belittling Teacher Bill Belew May 28, 2007 Cyberbullying? The students are cussing at, knocking the hat off, and taking other actions that are totally belittling their teacher. What's more, someone took a video tape of the affair and posted it on Youtube.How is it that students can... Continue Reading Posted at 12:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May27	7 Steps to Fake Your Way into Stanford Bill Belew May 27, 2007 An 18-year old Asian girl posed as a Stanford student, living in the dorm, attending classes, working in labs for almost 9 months before she got caught.Apparently bright, having graduated from one of the better high schools in Fullerton, but... Continue Reading Posted at 8:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How to Kill A Friend Bill Belew May 27, 2007 I think the girls could have been sisters. My brother and I used to play the same game...climb a tree and jump. Climber higher, jump. Then climb higher until one of us chickens out. The other wins.Now that I think... Continue Reading Posted at 7:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How to Kill and eat a 1000+lb Pig Bill Belew May 27, 2007 Pig, hog, boar...maybe it was all three in one plus a couple of more.The boar weighed 1050 lbs...maybe 1060. It's head is 4'6" around and its shoulders, more than 6'.From the eyes to the end of the snout...a whisker under... Continue Reading Posted at 6:17 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	10 Torture Techniques Employed by Al-Qaeda (NOT for the Faint of Heart) Bill Belew May 27, 2007 There are generally two ways to learn things.Someone tells you and then you know it.You experience something and then you know it.Here is something I hope I never learn from experience.The Department of Defense released images and cartoons found by... Continue Reading Posted at 4:54 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	8 Lessons on Adultery Bill Belew May 27, 2007 Adultery is not a pretty word. Think no one you know has ever participated in the action? Think again.Think you are invulnerable? Vulnerable? Wondering if it's worth it?Ten Lessons on Adultery1. An adulterous woman's lips taste like honey and are smoother... Continue Reading Posted at 11:52 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May26	6 Inactions of a Wise Person Bill Belew May 26, 2007 There are a lot of things a wise person will choose to not do...walk into the street without looking comes to mind and other lessons we learned in kindergarten.But on a different level...what things might a wise person know to... Continue Reading Posted at 11:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	6 Reasons - Wisdom Beats Wealth Bill Belew May 26, 2007 Given the choice of being wise or being wealthy, which would you choose?It seems to me that if I were wise, I could determine the right way to accumulate wealth or decide if being wealthy was the right path for... Continue Reading Posted at 11:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	6 Reasons to Study Proverbs Bill Belew May 26, 2007 I suppose I am a quote nut, a proverb junkie. I like to hear about what people I respect have learned and try to NOT have to learn the same lessons over again on my own.I determined a long time... Continue Reading Posted at 9:50 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Get a Degree, Lose Several Thousand Dollars Bill Belew May 26, 2007 Thailand's ousted PM and globe-trotting ex-leader, Thaksin Shinawatra, was awarded an honorary degree in science from Moscow's Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy.When he stopped at McDonalds to celebrate, somebody made off with his briefcase containing about $9,200 worth of money and... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	3 Ways the Index and Ring Finger Length Can be Used to Predict Academic Performance Bill Belew May 26, 2007 It's going to have to be a might accurate measurement, I think.But...psychologists at the University of Bath in Britain are saying the length of the index and ring fingers can be used to measure how well children will do academically.Calipers... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May25	May 25, Wisdumb - Woman Bites Cop on the Leg! Bill Belew May 25, 2007 Wisbumb - the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Bite the cop in the leg. Forget the back half of your car. Promote peace with flowers in Oregon. Where your movie cop uniform... Continue Reading Posted at 10:52 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	HAL - A "Robot Suit" from Japan Bill Belew May 25, 2007 A professor of engineering at the University of Tsukuba's graduate school is the creator of HAL - Hybrid Assistive Limb - a suit that will give the wearers super human strength. Well, not that much strength but much more than... Continue Reading Posted at 1:14 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	9 Things You Should NOT Do in Church Bill Belew May 25, 2007 It's a good thing God is the forgiving type.However, one wonders if these, um, infractions are forgivable.1. Forget to give communion to the little guy.2. Pass out at your friend's wedding.3. Pee on the priest.4. Sprinkle holy water in the... Continue Reading Posted at 11:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	8 Steps to 2,000,000 Page Views Bill Belew May 25, 2007 Yesterday, I celebrated a milestone. My three blogs, this one, PanAsianBiz and RisingSunOfNihon combined to reach 2,000,000 page views. Yea! Two questions come to mind -1. How did I do it?2. What took me so long? First things first...what I think... Continue Reading Posted at 8:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Happy Birthday to TheBizOfKnowledge Bill Belew May 25, 2007 Happy Birthday to TheBizofKnowledge.I begin my second year today writing TheBizOfKnowledge and before doing that I wanted to set aside a post to thank the many visitors (370,000+) who looked at the many pages (540,000+) of the 1470 posts I... Continue Reading Posted at 8:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Duke Business School Harder on Asian Cheaters Bill Belew May 25, 2007 Asian students who are caught cheating at the Duke University Business School get punished more severely than others.Some 34 students were caught cheating on an exam or other assignment. Nine students were bounced from the school, 15 were suspended for... Continue Reading Posted at 4:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Help Wanted - English Teachers Needed Bill Belew May 25, 2007 The National Institute for International Education Development, affiliated with the Education Ministry, operates "English Program In Korea" to recruit, train and managing native English teachers for schools.The hope is to recruit 500 teachers, from the United States, Canada, New Zealand,... Continue Reading Posted at 2:30 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fudan University to Send 500 Teachers Overseas to Learn Bill Belew May 25, 2007 Fudan University is one of China's best...has been for 102 years. The school also realizes the benefits of an international perspective for its teachers.Over the next five years, the university will send 100 teachers, aged around 35-years old, overseas for... Continue Reading Posted at 12:27 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May24	May 24, Wisdumb - Man Wears Same Pair of Pants to Work Everyday for 2.5 Years Bill Belew May 24, 2007 Wisdumb...the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Wear the same pair of pants to work everyday for 2.5 years. Move the golf cart too far out of the way. Put the baby in... Continue Reading Posted at 10:04 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	After Scaling 7 Highest Summits, What's Next? - Stanford University Bill Belew May 24, 2007 An 18-year old girl became the youngest foreign woman to scale Everest and the youngest person to have completed the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on all seven continents. The previous record was held by a 20-year old British climber,... Continue Reading Posted at 5:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Prisons Get More Money than Colleges in California Bill Belew May 24, 2007 This will be the headline in California in about five years.Based on current spending trends, California will be spending more on putting and keeping the bad guys in jail than on educating student in its public institutions.I read once that... Continue Reading Posted at 8:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	7 Kinds of Advertisements that are Banned by Google Bill Belew May 24, 2007 Google just added a seventh type of advertisement that it will no longer allow.The first 6 are advertisements for:1. weapons2. prostitution3. drugs4. tobacco5. fake documents6. "miracle cures". ... Continue Reading Posted at 6:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	5 Reasons Why the Arab World Needs More Education and What the Dubai Ruler Hopes to do with His Own $10 billion Bill Belew May 24, 2007 Move over Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. There's another rich dude who wants to make a difference in education...this time in the Arab world.Here's why:1. 18% of youths under 15 in the Arab world are illiterate2. 43% of all women... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	28 Suicide Warning Signs for College Students Bill Belew May 24, 2007 Suicide.org says that suicide is the number two reason why college students die. It ought to be the number nothing reason.College kids should be studying hard and enjoying life, in that order.28 Suicide Warning Signs1. Appearing depressed or sad most... Continue Reading Posted at 2:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	5 Reasons Why UC Students Need More Counseling, Commit Suicide Bill Belew May 24, 2007 The 10 campus University of California public school system is supposed to be one of the best. UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, UCLA...and so on.So, why did 45% of UC Berkely students say they had an "emotional problematic... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May23	May 23, Wisdumb - Teen Tasered for Spitting Near Mickey Mouse Bill Belew May 23, 2007 Wisdumb....the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Spit at or near Mickey Mouse. Keep all those newspapers, books, magazines. Keep hitting yourself on the head with that beer bottle. Have friends shoot yourself in... Continue Reading Posted at 10:46 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	4 Weight Loss Questions - Answered Bill Belew May 23, 2007 The answers are in...until someone else asks the questions again...or another research institute or university finds a different control group.The 4 questions Should you weigh yourself every day? University of Minnesota says it won't hurt...no link to depression. I think the... Continue Reading Posted at 5:52 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	10 Reasons to Stay Home from Your Class Reunion Bill Belew May 23, 2007 Reunions, class, military, family, can be fun. We have a family reunion planned for next month. This year is also the ?5th high school reunion.I won't be at either one. Why don't people go to their reunions?1. They have bad... Continue Reading Posted at 5:51 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	4 Reasons Why China and Russia are Going to Mars Bill Belew May 23, 2007 The Chinese and Russians are planning a probe of Mars...the launch will be in 2009 and the arrival 10 months later...2010.A Russian rocket will lift a Chinese Probe and a Russian exploration vehicle known as a Phobos-Grunt. Great name! And... Continue Reading Posted at 2:30 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	3 Things to Not Do in a Fountain Bill Belew May 23, 2007 When I was a college kid, and I am hoping the statute of limitations has expired on this, we use to climb up on Cincinnatus at 'Fountain Square' in downtown, you guessed it, Cincinnati.It has been known, not by me,... Continue Reading Posted at 1:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	100 Dinosaur Footprints within 225 sq ft area discovered Bill Belew May 23, 2007 China has pandas, a wall that can be seen from space, the highest mountain, the oldest everything else and now claim to once having had dinosaurs. One hundred dinosaur footprints were found on a mountainside in Chongqing municipality in southwest... Continue Reading Posted at 12:19 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May22	May 22, Wisdumb - Woman's Head is Cut Off at Meat Processing Factory Bill Belew May 22, 2007 Wisdumb...sometimes the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Lose your head at work. Light the firecracker if it does NOT have a fuse. Send your best product to China to be copied. Dump your... Continue Reading Posted at 10:34 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Men Only Gyms - 3 Reasons why they sell, 3 Reasons why they fail Bill Belew May 22, 2007 If places like Curves can attract only women, then why can't men find a place where only they hang out?There are three selling points to men only gyms...1. Fast...nobody sitting around reading newspapers, People, or jabbering about General Hospital.2. No... Continue Reading Posted at 4:51 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	6 Ways to Poke Fun at Your Teacher Bill Belew May 22, 2007 It used to be that students would give a teacher 'ears' the peace sign behind his or her head when she wasn't looking.Or...graffiti on a whiteboard that made a point...or didn't about something regarding the teacher you didn't like.How about... Continue Reading Posted at 12:54 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The 100 Most Prolific Bloggers - by Post Count Bill Belew May 22, 2007 It has been a while since I posted an update of the list.For those who read down far enough...you will see we are 14 people shy of 100 bloggers with 1000 or more posts.Are you one of them?The 100 most... Continue Reading Posted at 12:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May21	May 20, Wisdumb - Man marries eight women at the same time and wants more Bill Belew May 21, 2007 Wisdumb....the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Marry seven women too many at the same time and want more. Let these kids play yakuza on you. Listen to this doctor tell you your... Continue Reading Posted at 10:47 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	5 Reasons for and 3 Ways to Fight Depression for Granny and Gramps Bill Belew May 21, 2007 The University of Pittsburgh is studying how to keep Granny and Gramps out of the dumps, from getting depressed in the first place and what to when the feeling reoccurs.Old people...think retired, get down for different reasons than youngsters.1. Thinking... Continue Reading Posted at 3:53 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Top 25 Web Hoaxes and Pranks Bill Belew May 21, 2007 I write regularly about wisdumb...the best lessons in life might be learning what NOT to do.These 25 web hoaxes and pranks are the best lessons in life that being learning what NOT to believe.MSN's top 25 hoaxes and pranks...1. The... Continue Reading Posted at 2:50 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	15 Myths about Eyesight Bill Belew May 21, 2007 I am not a doctor, but I do know my eyes are getting worse...mostly because I am getting older. I wonder what I might have done in the past that caused my eyes to go bad.I came across these 15... Continue Reading Posted at 1:47 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	5 Ways to NOT Lose Weight Bill Belew May 21, 2007 A doctor at a Gastroenterology Clinic in Taiwan is saying that he has debunked yet another quick way to lose weight.A fad diet popularized by a pop singer from Japan, Utada Hikari, involved eating hot chili peppers.1. Chili peppers do... Continue Reading Posted at 12:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top 20 Star Wars Moments - How to tell you are NOT a man Bill Belew May 21, 2007 My wife and I decided I am not a man. Somehow I started getting the Men's Journal. I think I got it free for using Hotels.com or for having excessive miles on my travel account or something.At any rate, I... Continue Reading Posted at 11:27 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	8 Tips for New Runners Bill Belew May 21, 2007 I have never run a marathon. I have run 100 miles in a day, 100km in under 12 hours but never a full marathon and then stopped. The distance is too short and the runners too fast. Same for distances... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May20	Next - 1 terabit of info per square inch of recording surface Bill Belew May 20, 2007 Toshiba Corp. and Tohoku University have come up with a new basic technology that promises to increase the storage capacity of hard drives by 10X or more....or one terabit of info/sq inch of recording surface.The question is...who needs 1 terabit... Continue Reading Posted at 7:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How many college students can fit in one Sauna? Bill Belew May 20, 2007 A group of students challenged the Guiness Book of World Records with an unusual claim...the biggest group of people from different nationalities taking a sauna in the same place.Whew! That's a good call. If they were all Americans, Germans, or... Continue Reading Posted at 5:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
May19	May 19, Wisdumb - Donkey and Peacock meat? Tigers and Monkeys? Bill Belew May 19, 2007 Wisdumb...the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Allow your dog to raise tiger triplets.Stop to count your loot before you make a clean getaway. Lose a shoot out to a human sacrificing cult. Let... Continue Reading Posted at 10:18 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Cure for Cancer Rediscovered Bill Belew May 19, 2007 I have a good buddy, MD-type, who tells me that some 75% of his patients come to him because of 'sin' diseases. Eat too much, smoke too much, drink too much, worry too much about the wrong things they do... Continue Reading Posted at 12:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Walking School? Bill Belew May 19, 2007 There's an organized "Walking School" in Yichang, Hubei Province that teaches kids how to walk...long distances ... for the purpose of experiencing hardships and building their strong wills.Walking long distances is something I know about...experiencing hardship...developing strong wills....I know about... Continue Reading Posted at 11:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May18	TieCon 2007 - What is America afraid of? Bill Belew May 18, 2007 From TiECon 2007 What's wrong with America? What are Americans afraid of?I learned yesterday... IBM estimates that they have about 53,000 people working in India. As a result...the company thinks it is saving $8 billion each year from this outsourcing activity.... Continue Reading Posted at 9:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	From TiECon 2007 - What can keep India and China from growing? Bill Belew May 18, 2007 I am hanging out at the TiECon 2007 in Silicon Valley...today May 18th and tomorrow May 19th.More about that here. What I am looking for here are several things....1. Entrepreurship and Venture Capitalist activity, trends, inclinations in Asia.2. # 1 above... Continue Reading Posted at 9:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How to Land an Airplane on a Recreational Vehicle Bill Belew May 18, 2007 There's a Youtube that shows viewers how to land an airplane on the top of an RV. Slow down, match speeds and so on.My question is, how will they get the airplane back OFF of the RV after the show. ... Continue Reading Posted at 12:36 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May17	May 17, Wisdumb - Forbes Misery Loves Paying Taxes in France, Belgium, China.... Bill Belew May 17, 2007 Wisdumb....the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might not want to:Have to pay taxes in France, Belgium, China, Sweden, Italy....Forget to check the statue of limitations before turning yourself in Read your Bible in public in... Continue Reading Posted at 10:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Virginia Tech Enrollments Ahead of Last Year - Smarter, More Asian Students Coming, too Bill Belew May 17, 2007 Seems more students are eager to try their luck this year. Or it could be the mindset, the safetest airline is the one that just experienced a crash.Virginia Tech has received 5,215 deposits from new incoming freshmen, more than the... Continue Reading Posted at 3:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	16+ Miles of Files on Nazi Activity to be Made Available to Scholars Bill Belew May 17, 2007 Scholars have long complained about being restricted from accessing the vast repository of material about the 17.5+ million people who passed through concentration camps or were victimized during the Nazi period in Germany.Electronic copies, everything has now been scanned, will... Continue Reading Posted at 2:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Copwatch Volunteer/University of Colorado Student Beat Cop in Court Bill Belew May 17, 2007 A University of Colorado at Denver student and local copwatch volunteer videotaped a policeman arresting another individual in a parking lot.The cop asked the student for his ID, which he produced. When the student asked the policeman for a business... Continue Reading Posted at 1:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	How Hard is it to Fire a Tenured Professor? Bill Belew May 17, 2007 University of Colorado ethnic-studies professor has been accused of plagiarizing, fabricating and falsifying material in his research and writing.All of these are good reasons to bounce students out of class.However, enter a lawyer for the accused.Blah...blah...blah...The committee reviewing the misconduct... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	10 Grammar Mistakes That Make You Appear Stupid Bill Belew May 17, 2007 In a couple of my online college classes this week we are discussing tone in written correspondence.Invariably, the on line school students will point out how important it is to be professional, not use IM chatspeak, spell correctly and use... Continue Reading Posted at 11:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Easy Way to Learn to Speak 7 Languages Bill Belew May 17, 2007 I can speak English, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, some German and I can read Greek.But this woman can do one better than me...she speaks seven languages and does it so well and appears to have learned it quite easily.How envious I... Continue Reading Posted at 10:19 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Lose Weight - Work Better - Less Injuries Bill Belew May 17, 2007 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy has determined that the more overweight a person is, the more likely they will be injured on the job.7,690 workers were classified into six categories:1. underweight2. normal3.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:08 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
May16	May 16, Wisdumb - The Best Lessons in Life May be Learning What NOT to Do Bill Belew May 16, 2007 Wisdumb....the best lessons in life may be learning what NOT to do.You might NOT want to:Join the ranks of one in six people worldwide. Listen to mom. Try to catch a falling tree. Believe in Intelligent Design if you want tenure at Iowa..

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