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What Colleges Have the Highest Tuition? How To Save $244,000 On Your Education; Avoid the College Debt-Trap
September 22, 2013 0

What Colleges Have the Highest Tuition? How To Save $244,000 On Your Education; Avoid the College Debt-Trap

By News Desk

Fast Company also commented on the sad cost situation in How To Save $244,000 On Your Education . You, too, can experience the best that American education has to offer–without enrolling at NYU. Might I recommend that the curious would-be undergraduate or returning student check out: Coursera , one of the three major Massive Open Online Course platforms, just announced a $43 million Series B round of funding to expand its mobile apps, API, and its "Signature Series" classes, which can be taken for a small fee and applied for college credit.

Attack of the "Digger Bees"
September 20, 2013 0

Attack of the "Digger Bees"

By News Desk

I remarried June of this year to Liz (see Celebrating Life: I Got Married on Friday ) Digger Bee Attack With that background out of the way, here is the story on "digger bees". Tonight I was digging in the garden, just before sunset, and accidentally hit a huge nest of yellow jackets (Liz calls them digger bees because they live in the ground). I got stung about 15 times, one right near my eye, the rest on my arms and back.

Purposeful Class Warfare? Breathing Room for Rupee? Sheer Stupidity? Ridiculous Comment of the Day
September 19, 2013 0

Purposeful Class Warfare? Breathing Room for Rupee? Sheer Stupidity? Ridiculous Comment of the Day

By News Desk

Some people think the Fed’s actions are purposeful, but in a favorable sense. For example, please consider Bernanke Buys Time for Brazil to India as Rupee Leads Rally The Federal Reserve’s surprise decision to refrain from scaling back monetary stimulus provided a respite to investors in emerging markets, where currencies are in the midst of their worst rout in two years.“It gives everyone some breathing time,†Denise Simon, an emerging-market fixed income manager at Lazard Asset Management, which oversees $147 billion, said by phone from New York. “It certainly takes some of the immediate pressure off the more vulnerable countries