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Hawkeye Community College How to Visit the Zoo: Tips for making it a better experience than what you've probably come to expect. Surprising tip: "Go cold. Winter is often best: the crowds are thinner and the animals are more active."
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I love the zoo. But here’s the thing: you don’t. Or at least, it seems like you don’t, the way you frogmarch yourself through the zoo, trudging crying children and panda-shaped souvenir soft drinks. The ...
Hawkeye Community College Easy trick for creating secure passwords: create a sentence, then use the initial letters to make a password. E.g. hccMtyci1966 (Hawkeye Community College: More Than You Can Imagine 1966). Or, hmttltysamf4r (Hey, Mom, that's the last time you snoop around my facebook, for real).
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According to the research firm Experian Simmons, online holiday shopping has started earlier than ever this year. Like most people, you likely use the same password for all of your favorite shopping sites. Back in July, Farhad Manjoo explained why that's a
Hawkeye Community College And in the category of silly things that make you smile: dancing toy robots. No reason to post this here, except that it's just really fun to watch.
SUCCEED Blog: A collection of the world's most epic, awesome, mind blowing Succeeds., Dancing Robots
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A collection of the world's most epic, awesome, mind blowing Succeeds.
Hawkeye Community College 58 colleges now charge more than $50k per year! Most of the article is behind a paywall, but the headline alone makes a good conversation starter, no? Even taking grants, etc. into account, that's a breathtaking amount of money.
The $50K Club: 58 Private Colleges Pass a Pricing Milestone - Student Affairs - The Chronicle of Hig
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Fifty-eight private colleges now charge at least that much for tuition, fees, room, and board, a Chronicle analysis of College Board data shows. Last year only five colleges did.
Hawkeye Community College Customer Satisfaction at Work: The NY Times Boss Blog's "One Hundred Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do" (1-50). Lots of good stuff for everyone whose work is about serving others. #15. Never say “I don’t know” to any question without following with, “I’ll find out.” #41. Saying, “No problem” is a problem. It h...as a tone of insincerity or sarcasm. “My pleasure” or “You’re welcome” will do.
One Hundred Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (Part 1) - You’re the Boss Blog - NYTimes.com
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By popular demand, our restaurateur-to-be offers his list of 100 things his servers will never do.
Hawkeye Community College "Using a cell phone while walking is so distracting that people are likely to miss a clown riding a unicycle." Seriously! They did a study and everything. (But it was on a college campus, where clowns on unicycles are practically normal, so maybe the research was flawed ;-)
www.livescience.com
Chatting on a cell phone while walking can distract individuals from even the most bizarre happenings.
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There are two kinds of students: those who talk to their teachers and those who don't. Okay, that's an oversimplification ;-). Seriously, though--ask for help or just make small-talk about the weekend. 99% of all professors like to talk with students.
BONUS TIP: Learn their names right away. They're human, so they like the sound of their own name.
www.lifehack.org
For university students around the US it’s time to go back to school, or go for the first time for freshmen. European and other students might have a
Hawkeye Community College MovieStinger tells you if a movie has extra scenes during or after the credits. Good to know if it's worth sticking around, sometimes.
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(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)Loading …The credits of Up show an epilogue of the events of the movie for the first two or three minutes (in still pictures) but nothing after the credits.
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Read something this summer. Seriously. We're all at the big-person table now; we should have something to talk about--other than the economy.
Stephen King has some ideas about good summertime reads. Click through and check out his recs: everything from spies to horror to (for real!) Jodi Piccoult.
www.ew.com
Stephen King, Stephen King: 7 Great Books for Summer
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The Dollar ReDe$ign Project is collecting some fascinating revisions of our paper currency.
Here's a favorite:
richardsmith.posterous.com
We need to rebuild our country, revive our economy, redesign the Dollar bill. Email us your ideas. Win a prize. In God We Trust, In Change We Believe.