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Feb27
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The American Council on Education wanted to use the slogan in a campaign that highlighted the role of higher ed in solving problems "Solutions for America." But, the University of Richmond wouldn't share the rights to the phrase which they have trademarked. I wonder if "Gosh" is trademarked. And, "how stupid." The University of Richmond doesn't seem to mind letting Hillary make use of the phrase in her campaign rallies. The university of Richmond promotes:
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Feb26
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Despite what one might think to the contrary given such crimes as the recent shooting at NIU, crime is down on college campuses.The number of personnel enforcing the law is up.The top ten universities in terms of number of full-time...
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Feb25
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We can learn lots of things at university.The Humanities, Psychology, Physics, Sociology...There might even be a class on how to cover up getting a DUI.Just take a leave of absence and call it 'medical leave.' That should do it.The president...
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Feb24
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A high-ranking North Carolina Central University official has been caught stealing thousands of dollars in grant money for federal research.$3,000 here. $18,700 there. $36,041 more over there. Checks for $15,341 out there.False information, forged signatures, improper attempts to bypass the...
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Feb23
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Here's a question you might ask yourself every day?Who should never be allowed to carry a $1 million Gaudagnini?A Guadagnini is a fiddle that was made in 1772.David Garrett is a 26-year old who was carrying the fiddle over his...
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Feb22
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Just when you thought there couldn't be another social media site, there is - one for education news.Blognetnews.com/education Top NewsHot CommentsMost LinkedMost ClickedMost ActiveHighest Ratedthe works. ...
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Feb21
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I thought about homeschooling some 20+ years ago when my kids were little and it was time for them to get an education. The short of it was, they ended up in public school, but we were overseas at the...
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Feb20
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Fuel cell cars have for some time now been the car of the future.It's because the cars are always somewhere in the future and never in the present.Japan Steel Works and Tohoku University and Japan Steel works may have something...
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Feb19
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Japan wants its students to do better. Better than the world, I suppose.The Education Ministry has issued new guidelines for the nation's students.1. More hours of science - 33% more. And the students know how to calculate that increase, too!2....
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Feb18
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Maybe he lost weight, got older, changed his hair style, lost his hair, grew a beard, shave off his moustache.The other day I showed my ID at the airport counter and the clerk told me "That doesn't look like you."The...
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Feb17
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How do you lose 570 pounds?Normally, you get enough overweight men to field both sides of a football game and stick them in a sauna for a couple of weeks on a diet of nothing but jellow.Or you can increase...
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Feb16
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Johnson-Klein, the former California State University, Fresno women's basketball coach says she is content to accept a Fresno County Superior Court judge's reduced award of $6.6 million insteald of holding out for the $19.1 million that a jury awarded her.Poor...
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Feb15
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An Ohio University employee climbed to the fifth floor of the Galbreath Chapel, then stepped out on the ledge and threatened to jump off.15 students gathered together to stop him. They had a strategy, too.1. The students prayed. They didn't...
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Feb14
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How to be a good wife - 1. Have dinner ready when he gets home.2. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have his favorite dish ready.3. Let him know you have been thinking about him and are concerned about...
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Feb13
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I am a blogger. Duh? I am also a writer.As I write this, I am listening to a long time editor (46 years) of books give a talk about book publishing. His name is Alan Rinzler.He is explaining four myths about...
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Feb12
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I'm not much into chain letters and all that. Okay, I'm not in to them at all.However, I got one today from my niece with an image in it.I went looking for the image online and found it at Noble...
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Feb11
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I am trying to get out more.I work at home. In my garage actually. I call it my garoffice. At least I have to walk out the door to get to work. There is some separation. See number one of...
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Feb10
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Bobby Knight was the winningest coach in Texas Tech history - 138-82 (.627) over seven years. Berl Huffman was second with .609.Bobby Knight also won 902 career victories - basketball victories. He also defeated players, athletic directors and chairs, but...
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Feb 9
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A good friend, who was in Vietnam when this came down, who participated in these events, saw them first hand and now has the perspective of 30+ years sent this to me.Sadly, sometimes we have to learn history again before...
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Feb 8
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Yesterday I wrote the 9 reasons I could think of why colleges and universities do not give credit for military training.Well, why should they give credit?1. The military offers a wide range of educatinal opportunities, a comprehensive system to translate...
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Feb 7
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Military training is intense and can be quite extensive, not to mention technical, advanced and practical.In the military I sat in the classroom 6-8 hours a day five days a week. And, I was still expected to study outside the...
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Feb 6
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I had some students ask me to do the Learn Words series. They were second language students, students preparing for an upcoming test.Unfortunately, I won't be continuing the series. I am sorry.There will be some changes here at TheBizOfKnowledge. The...
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Bush's budget is out. The highlights for education are as follows:Improving Schools and Helping and Target Resources to Students Who Need it Most 1 - $14.3 billion for the Title I Grants to Local Education Agencies program, up 63% since...
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Feb 5
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Dallas schools, for whatever reason, couldn't get the kids to study hard enough to pass their advanced-placement tests in English, math and science.In 1990, just 162 kids passed the test.What to do?Pep talk? Nah.Reason? Nah.Threat? Are you kidding? Money? Well, of...
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Terrelle Pryor has created a storm, a perfect storm among college and university recruiters.CNNSI calls Terrelle Pryor "the most heavily scrutinized, fawned-after high school quarterback in the long history of scrutinized, fawned-after quarterbacks."What's up with that?1. The boy is a...
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Adam and Even sinned. They were on their way out of the Garden... naked.God decided they needed clothing so He made garments of skin for the man and the woman. We can be sure that God did not want PETA...
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Yesterday I wrote - 4 Reasons Why College Athletes Should be Paid.I don't believe any of those arguments. Not even close.Yeah, I am biased. I have a son who is on a full athletic scholarship at a Division I school....
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Trying to predict the weather - A 2001 UN report forecast floods, extreme weather and outbreaks of malaria."They're not credible.""To get an estimate of what climate is going to be by region is not possible region by region.""Models have no...
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Feb 4
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No doubt about it. College sports is big business. The money the players, male and female alike, generate for their schools and their programs is huge. Think 10s of millions if a team can make it one of the more...
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Load 16 tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.It's been pretty much that way ever since God told Adam:1. the ground is cursed because of you2. in toil you shall eat of it3. by...
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Continued Climate Change -"... the fact that we stop emitting carbon dioxide will do nothing to change the course of the climate.""...carbon dioxide in the air in recent decades has produced a tremendous agricultural boon.""...estimates of at least a 10%...
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Feb 3
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This is a great youtube video.I heard about it the other day when I sat in on a recording of a program that was going to be aired nationwide.Yesterday, my son sent it to me.When a pack of lions and...
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I really wonder what God had in mind for childbirth BEFORE He told the woman He would greatly multiply her pain in childbirth.One thing for sure, He did keep His promise about the pain part.The memory is fresh in my...
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Unsettled Science - Predictions of an acceleration of increased temperatures are exaggerated. There is maybe some human-made warming, but it's going to be so small that it's going to be lost in the natural variability. And that's the conclusion from science.The...
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Latin Prefixes - E-, Ex- out, from, away, In-, Im- in, into, over, against, onemigrate - move out of a country. Where did you emigrate from?immigrate - move into a country. America receives immigrants from all countries.eminent - distinguished, noteworthy....
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Feb 2
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Latin Prefixes - Bi- two, Semi-half, partlybicameral - two chambers. Our national legislature is bicameral.biennial - every two years. Elections for the house are held biennially.semiannual - two times a year. We promote people semiannually at our company.bilateral - two...
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Despite the fact that the man and the woman tried to excuse their way out of the predicament they got themselves in, God came up with a plan to get them out of it.It wasn't an immediate plan or something...
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There's a history of global warming. Most of the warming that occured on the planet in this century occurred BEFORE the greenhouse gases by human activities were added to the equation.Warming in the 19th century in the high polar regions could...
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Feb 1
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A stick figure drawing of an angry man? on the Daily Northwestern Drawing Board saying -I like my women like I like my cell phone minutes:Unlimited on nights and weekends.has drawn protests for perpetuating and justifying sexual assault at the...
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Frank Oresnik can tell you how to get 1,000,000 miles on your pickup truck.First - start with a Chevy Silverado Pickup2. Change the oil and give it a tune up every 3,000 miles.3. Drive it for 40 hours a week...
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When estimating the sun's impact and the impact of human acitivity on the Earth's climate change, Baliunas says, "We see, essentially, no signal of human activity." and "Now there's some uncertainty, so there may be a human signal. But if there...
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Latin Prefixes - Ante- before, Post- afterantecedents - ancestors, forebears. My antecdents on my dad's side came to the U.S. in the 1700s.antedate - assign a date before the date. I antedate my blogs sometimes to fill up a day.postdate...
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Adam played the blame game. He blamed the woman who gave him something to eat. He blamed God for giving him the woman.God asked the woman, "What have you done?"She blamed it on the serpent. "He deceived me and I...
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