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Sep30
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Washington City Paper is presenting The 4th annual Crafty Bastards! Arts & Crafts Fair. The GWhatchet is touting it as cheap entertainment for the cash-strapped student. Admission is free and 100 vendors will have their junk on sale 1. the most unique crafts ever created 2. cigar box guitars
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Sep29
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"I'm so excited about this," said an education professor.Whoopee! There is a pay disparity.What happened was the educator had been working for Adelphi University for 30 years, reached the rank of full professor and learned that she was paid...
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Get your cheap , expensive Hannah Montana tickets at Nassau Coliseum...Go to Ticketmaster...Go to Stubhub or otherwise....Go now!And,why get them now? Why see Hannah Montana now? The sad reason...kids and parents will want to see Disney's Hannah before she does the...
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Sep28
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Tania Head is apparently a cheat, as is 'Captain' Scott Shields.Perhaps the two can form a 9/11 survivors' cheater's network (SCN).One of the commenters to my original post - Tania Head - Teaching the World Liars Can Get Ahead?wrote something...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has seen a spike in cases of death from the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.Is Global Warming causing the killer to become more active?The amoeba has killed 23 people in the United States, from...
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When the 87-year old's daughter returned a book her mother had borrowed from the library the attendant said "that'll be 50 cents.""Excuse me, but my mother died. That's why the book is late.""That will be 50 cents."Her mother died of...
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Sep27
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Purdue University conducted a study where 10,000 students and faculty members agreed to receive a text message at 11:25 am and respond as quickly as possible.It took seven minutes to send out 9,979 text messages. Replies came back within one...
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If called upon to do CPR you don't mind massaging his/her heart but don't want to connect lips?No problem says a medical study done in Japan by Kanto branch of the Japan Association for Acute Medicine.A study of 4,068 people...
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Tania Head sold herself as a survivor of 9/11.She lost her fiance when the World Trade Center collapsed...she said.Since the Sept 11th, 2001 terrorist attack she has spoken publicly about:1. what she witnessed - (climbing through carnage and chaos on...
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Sep26
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If kids do all their reading assignments, Pizza Hut will throw a pizza party for them.In China the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force presented a "retired" J-6 jet fighter to a middle schoo.The plane will be used as...
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I used to do this all the time...ask somebody to help me wheel the television into the classroom.If a student was particularly desperate for some brownie points, he could bring the television AND take it back.A little 9-year old boy...
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I am usually a pretty good speller and reader of words that I have never met before.When I was growing up we learned to read and spelly phonetically. My little sister, a few years behind me can't spell worth a...
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It has been ruled that a 60-year old elementary school principal accidentally committed suicide due to his work.When one of his teachers made discriminatory remarks toward the sister of another student, the sister refused to come to school.The girl's sister...
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The University of Hiroshima Institute for Amphibian Biology has created* a frog with a transparent skin.The frog's organs can be seen through its skin.The application is to try to get people to be more transparent.Imagine how smoother relationships would go...or...
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Nike Air Native N7 is discrimination in action...NOT affirmative action.Or is it just good niche marketing?But, then what about us competition dancers with two left feet? Are they going to make something for us, too?Boycott! Nike has come out with a...
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Sep25
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I hope someone writes to me and tells me what I just said that was offensive, because I'll be doggoned if I know.The state of Oregon wouldn't let the Udinks get a fourth license plated for their son because the...
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A marriage expert from the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences says "if two people don't have a similar personality, life style, and values, their marriage won't last - even if they have beauty and money."A Shanghai matchmaking website says true...
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Businessweek, Newsweek, and others put out guides to finding the right college.The National Center for Education Statistics (IES) has a guide, too. The school can be searched:1. by name2. by state3. by distance from a starting point4. by major...
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President Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University.After his talk he was asked questions on behalf of the students and faculty.1. Do you or your government seek the destruction of the state of Israel as a Jewish state?2. Why is your government...
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It seems Oklahoma State Football Coach Mike Gundy would like to have Daily Oklahoman Columnist Jenni Carlson square off against his team.Instead....I think he needs to get back in the planning room to consider his game strategy.Rather...he does a pretty...
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Sep24
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While China is happy to have 162,000 students from 185 countries and region foreign students in Britain are in need of being taught how to line up to get on a bus. Lining up, queuing, is seen as a quintessentially British...
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In 2000, there were just 50,000+ students. In 2006, the number reached 162,000.They come from 185 different countries and regions...to study China, says the Ministry of Education.Gosh....and I wonder why/what everyone is studying China/Chinese these days.Beijing has agreements with with...
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Sep23
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There is a barber in Michigan who shares the same name with a known felon who is IN PRISON for armed robbery, among other crimes.The felon is in prison, NOT the barber...but, the barber has been arrested three times because...
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The China Education Expo 2007 will be held on October 20, 21st.So far, some 200 European universities are planning to attend.The China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE) says around 600 universities from 36 countries and regions, including more than...
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Marcel Marceau died at the age of 84.Marcel Marceau revived the art of mime and proved that great things can be accomplished with your mouth shut.Marceau was also a Holocaust survivor who had performed around the world.On stage, he played...
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Sep22
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Golf Digest says that the odds of two players in a foursome scoring back-to-back holes-in-one are 17,000,000 to 1.Well....17,000,000 foursomes ago two golfers must have done it. Or maybe it was the first bunch in a group 34 million foursomes...
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One of America's best...a 19-year old MIT sophomore student from Hawaii, showed up at Logan Airport wearing a wired and lit-up circuit board strapped to her chest with a play-doh configuration.The student of electrical engineering and computer science says, "I...
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Here's a recipe for crashing a cop car.One CopThree female college studentsA dose of stupidity. Put the cop and the three college students into a car and have the cop show off.A 38-year old, 6-year veteran cop was charged with reckless...
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A Nebraska Senator Sued God.Good grief!Apparently God has responded to the lawsuit. "This one (filing) miraculously appeared on the counter. It just all of a sudden was here, poof!" said John Friend, clerk of the Douglas County District Court in Omaha....
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Sep21
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My wife finished her job today and her boss refused to give her severance pay and final check. SIGH!!!It's a whole lot less than $2.5 million but it's the same principle.Ohio State University reneged on paying their former basketball coach...
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Harvard University may not be the only storehouse of knowledge among 'America's finest.'Storehouse of knowlege - the freshmen bring so much and the seniors take away so little.I laughed when I read that.Students at America's best schools are graduating with...
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Texas Southern University students have bats in their...well, bats in their dormitory.Some 211 students had to be moved out of TSU's Lanier Hall East and into two hotels because bats were discovered in their dorm.Worse yet, eleven students will receive...
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Sep20
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Prader-Willi Syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that creates an overwhelming desire for food and the inability to feel full after eating.I am pretty sure I have this disease. I can eat forever and I still want more....chocolate chip cookies...
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Forbes 400 are America's richest.It's no mystery that those with the deepest pockets in America come from the 4 best schools:HarvardStandford Princeton YaleI came across a fascinating interactive network map that shows how the richest relate by, degree type, self made/inherited,...
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It seems Andrew Meyer has a history of being confrontational.UF Student, Andrew Meyer, Tasered at John Kerry Forum On Sept 11th, yeah that Sept 11th, he protested with a giant size accusing President Bush of being responsible for the terroist...
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The Stanford University president is asking - is it time to increase the number of undergraduate students at the school?In 1970 the undergraduate population was 6,221.In 1980 - 6,630Last year - 6,689.However, last year, the university received a record number...
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Princeton University took a stab at grade inflation...and it worked.From 2001-2004 47% of all grades in undrergraduate courses were A's (A+, A, A-).From 2004-2007 the percentage dropped to 40.6%. The goal is 35%.Humanities dropped from 55.5% to 45.9%.Social Sciences -...
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Floyd Landis lost the expensive doping case and his Tour de France doping title.Arbitrators upheld the results of a test that showed the 2006 Tour de France champion has used synthetic testosterone to help fuel his comeback...spectactular as it was.The...
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Thousands of protestors are marching about in the tiny town of Jena, Louisiana.Their purpose: To show indignation over unjust and unequal punishment handed out in two racially charged incidents.Six black teenagers known as the "Jena 6" have been accused of...
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Sep19
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I don't know about you and your blog, or you with your blog, but TheBizOfKnowledge (that's me) is going to BlogWorld.KnowMoreMedia will be attending the Blogworld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Nov 8-9, 2007, as a media partner,...
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It might seems that a teacher can't have an opinion any more...just the facts.Why not hire a robot? An Illinois teacher was suspended because he was espousing the virtues of the vegan lifestyle to his middle school students.The school says he...
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I wrote a couple of months ago - 7 Reasons to NOT Be Barry Bond's 756th Home Run Ball.Mark Ecko has added an eigth and a ninth.Mark Ecko bought Barry Bond's 756th Home Run Ball for $752,467. Bidding $756K might...
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There is a teacher in Oregon who has a restraining order against her ex-husband.She's also licensed to carry a concealed weapon.However, the school has a policy that prohibits anyone except a law-enforcement officer from bringing a weapon onto campu.This is...
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Sep18
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Great idea...no longer do the little people have to be fed. No more making lunches.The kids at this primary school in China will run on solar power...well, at least the school will.30 classrooms, accommodating 860 students and teachers will get...
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I've always enjoyed studying other languages, alternate methods of communication.September 19th...is the birthday of one form and a celebration of another.According to Tech-Ex - :-) ...the first ASCII smiley face was sent on Sept. 19th, 1982 by Carnegie Mellon University Professor...
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September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.Two American friends, John "Ol Chumbucket" Baur and Mark "Capn Slappy" Summers, started the fad in the 90's but it took off when columnist Dave Barry heard about it.So, how does one...
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A University of Florida student, Andrew Meyer, had to be subdued with a taser because he didn't know when to stop talking at a John Kerry forum despite the fact there were 4-5 police officers who could have just dragged...
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A University of Florida student, Andrew Meyer, was tasered during a question and answer session with U.S. Senator John Kerry about the 2004 election.I wonder why... First thing that came to my mind...was the security provided Blackwater USA? The boy, 21, asked...
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Sep17
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A Bloomsburg University student government president apparently thinks it is okay to play by a different set of rules...to have a different set of standards for himself...after all, he's the president. Of course, he is not likely to have ever...
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Okay....I am ignorant. I admit it.I didn't know that Beaner is an old name that is derogatory towards Hispanics.Apparently, the owner of the Beaner Coffee Chain with its 77 franchises didn't know it either.Because of the 'ethnic slur' the coffee...
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Faster than a speeding bullet....stronger than a locomotive....able to leap tall buildings in a single bound...can throw chairs at his students.A teacher in Japan has been honored as 'super teacher'.The 52-year old high school teacher had been reprimanded several times...
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Americans do not have their minds in the gutter, they are in the toilet stall where Senator Larry Craig was arrested in a sex sting.An information specialist at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport says people want to know where the...
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There's a judge in Colorado who has found a way....actually four good ways to prevent people who break noise laws from becoming repeat offenders.The judge says ....'When you have a person playing rap at extreme volumes all over the city,...
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Feel like a taking a test. The University of Phoenix...yeah, those guys has created this Constitutorial. 1. Where can you find the Bill of Rights?2. TheConstitution guarantees the right of?3. The presidential candidate who gets the most _______ in an...
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Blackwater USA is a private security firm in Iraq that was started by a former Navy SEAL and employs about 1,000 people.The company is one of hundreds of private secruity firms that employ 10's of thousands of security-minded employees.The big...
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Sep16
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The new kid came to school wearing a pink shirt.A group of 6 - 10 older students mocked him, called him a homosexual and threatened to beat him up.The next day, two seniors showed up wearing pink and bought 75...
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An Amorphophallus gigas from Sumatra, Indonesia bloomed for the first time in four years in Tokyo.The plant reaches 3.1 meters and the blooming bud is about 1 meter in length.The flower is the tallest blooming flower in the world and...
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A friend invited me to sit with him in his Finnish sauna.He had it built in his backyard, courtesy of a company (some kind of fruit with a piec missing) he used to work for and something about stock options.Cool...
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