Studying for a masters accounting degree online using one of the many online masters of accounting courses is a great feeling, but it doesn’t come without its difficulties. One of the main difficulties of studying for a degree is trying to find the time to work to help pay for it. While there are plenty of courses that you can fit around working hours, it’s still hard to fit studying and down time around a full-time. If you’re looking to earn money whilst studying for your degree, have a look at some of the possible jobs that can work around you. 1. Affiliate Marketing Affiliate marketing with websites isn’t easy to achieve, but with a little research and trial and error, it could make you plenty of cash. The … [Read more...]
Understanding Flash Storage and Your Data Recovery Options
A few years ago, not many computers came equipped with an SSD. At that point, the prices of hard drives were in steep decline and we were enjoying more storage space in return for affordable prices. 3.5-inch hard drives reached the 1TB milestone and it didn’t take long before bigger drives were available. The switch to flash-based, solid state storage (SSD) happened not too long after. As the prices of flash memory and SSDs went down, these drives became more accessible to everyday users and faster drives became standard in desktop PCs and laptops alike. The SSD Revolution One of the reasons why SSDs are now so popular is the sheer performance this new type of drives offers. SSDs can deliver read and write speeds of up to 550MB/s. Some … [Read more...]
Simple Ways to Improve Your Fitness in College
Keeping fit in college can often seem far too time-consuming, with other pressing issues such as submitting assignments on time, getting good grades, and keeping on top of revision taking precedence. When you have work mounting up quickly as lots of college students do, finding the time to work out at the gym daily can often be difficult, especially if by the time you’ve finished everything that you have to do, it’s late or you’re really tired. Thankfully, there are many small, simple changes that you can make to your routine that will help you to see significant results. Take Short Breaks With online programs such as the masters in social work online from Rutgers Online growing in popularity, more and more students are spending their day … [Read more...]
Why More Students Are Taking Online Courses
If you're thinking about going back to college or university, it's worth considering enrolling in an online course. The way people learn and obtain new qualifications has changed significantly in the last couple of years. As a wide range of technologies have improved, more colleges and universities have decided to offer online versions of many of their most popular courses. This is good news for students for the following reasons. You Get a High-quality Recognized Qualification In the early days of the internet, some fly-by-night operators offered online courses, but they were often of little value to the student and were not recognized by most employers. This situation has changed because most of the leading colleges and universities … [Read more...]
Drive Safely on Winter Roads, and Be Thankful for Help If You’re Injured
The throes of winter are upon us. And even though we live in the beautiful state of Colorado, where regular appearances of the sun and some milder weather patterns spare us some of the worst prolonged weather patterns, we still have our share of days with less-than-ideal road conditions. That's when during my commute to and from Denver, or random errands, I stay vigilant for cars with Texas, California, and Florida license plates. Why? Odds are that the driver is less experienced in handling a vehicle on the snow or ice. Even so, despite your best skill at winter driving and awareness of those around you, sometimes an accident is unavoidable. A couple of years ago during a heavy snowfall on the Interstate, we got bumped into the concrete … [Read more...]
February 1: Week in Review
I appeared on morning drive-time radio Thursday. Listen to me on AM 630 KHOW's Mandy Connell Show discuss the teachers union's new lawsuit to ensure job placement for ineffective teachers. From the Independence Institute School Choice Week Kicks Off; Good Luck Trying to Contain My Excitement (Ed Is Watching) Lawsuit to Protect Tenure Over Students Makes CEA Not Only Wrong But Lonely (Ed Is Watching) Charter Schools Continue to Grow; We Need More #SchoolChoice Now (Ed Is Watching) Honored One of the All-Time Great Composers This Week In honor of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 256th birthday (January 27), here's a recent performance of his memorable Symphony No. 40, Movement 1 (Molto allegro). Top Facebook Links of the … [Read more...]
January 25: Week in Review
Go Broncos, 2014 AFC Champs, Super Bowl Bound!!! From the Independence Institute Colorado and Washington, DC: A Tale of Two School Principal Evaluation Systems (Ed Is Watching) Dougco Collision on Testing and Accountability Could Rattle Reform Debate (Ed Is Watching) “All Aboard” with Blended Learning and My Future “Learning Engineer” Career (Ed Is Watching) Finished One Good(reads) Book This Week The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Victor Davis Hanson: a compelling argument constructed around in-depth portraits of three generals -- the ancient Theban Epaminondas, William Tecumseh Sherman, and George Patton -- three democratic liberators who studied, inspired, and led to underappreciated military … [Read more...]
Jeffco School Board’s Paula Noonan Drives Into Unwelcome Spotlight… Again
Three of the five Board seats for Colorado's largest school district are up for grabs in 2013. One of them is just inviting a challenge. Jeffco school board director Paula Noonan made local headlines for displaying a serious bout of bad judgment:Jeffco school board member Paula Noonan was arrested during a traffic stop Jan. 8 when Denver police officers became aware of an outstanding warrant from a 2011 traffic ticket. Noonan's arrest was not the first occasion during the term of the school board's First Vice President in which she has drawn media scrutiny for irresponsible behavior. Local TV news covered her controversial 2010 Dakota Ridge High School commencement speech, with one parent describing it as "a rambling, self-absorbed … [Read more...]
A New Way to Contact Elected Officials; A Solution for Grassroots Apathy?
Efforts to organize constituent groups to contact and lobby their elected officials have grown more sophisticated in recent years. Many of us like the ease of the online petition that automatically directs messages to our representatives based on our input location data -- though I frequently prefer to tailor the pre-fab messages with my own words. I can't be the only one who has subjected myself to an onslaught of email messages urging me to call my Congressman or state senator over the latest hideously outrageous or earth-saving piece of legislation. A result of the sheer volume of these messages, combined with limited resources and competing priorities, my eyes long since have glazed over most of them. Have I become too cynical? … [Read more...]
Numbers Show Government Employees Top Private Sector Counterparts in Colorado’s Union Membership
It looks very much like Colorado is only one year behind in achieving a labor movement milestone measured at the national level. A little over a year ago I reported the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finding that government employees represented a numerical majority of the unionized workforce in the United States. (You can listen to a 2010 iVoices podcast on this finding that I recorded with the Alliance for Worker Freedom.) This milestone is the culmination of a decades-long trend in which private sector unions have diminished while Big Labor has targeted government agencies as fruitful sources of revenue. As of 2010, we have the first strong indications that the same observation can be made of Colorado -- namely, that more of the … [Read more...]
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