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The Parked Blue Van: No, I don't have...
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Thursday, August 7, 2008. No, I don't have. A blue van parked in my yard. After half-dozen of proposed aliases were rejected by Blogspot as already taken, in frustration I growled, "Probably something as offbeat as, say, 'The Parked Blue Van' is already taken, too." Lo and behold, much to my surprise, it wasn't. Well, that's as good a name as any, let's go with it and get this blog up and running! Andy Egizi, Program Coordinator. August 8, 2008 at 7:02 AM. August 8, 2008 at 4:54 PM. I miss you man, lol!
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Tell Your Story | BIFOCALS ON CAMPUS
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Inspiring People over Forty to Follow Their Dreams. If you have a story to share about going back to school after age forty, I want to hear about it! Whether it’s your story or that of someone you know, here’s your chance to tell it. These questions will help get you started:. What motivated you to go back to school? Did any services or books help you decide? What work were you doing before that decision? What caused you to leave it? How old were you when you started school? How did you decide? You are c...
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Ignore the Wave and You’re Toast | BIFOCALS ON CAMPUS
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Inspiring People over Forty to Follow Their Dreams. Laquo; Thanksgiving Grad-itude. Ignore the Wave and You’re Toast. December 7, 2009 by Jennifer Gaie Hellum. When my Aunt Kathy read the post I wrote about finding “my tribe” of non-traditional students, she left a comment reminding me that like my mom, she and two other aunts, Carolyn and Judy, got degrees later in life. My husband’s cousin added a comment that his grandma went back to school when she was in her 50s. Posted in Student Success Stories.
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The Parked Blue Van: January 2009
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Thursday, January 1, 2009. Gearing up for another semester. Another semester beckons, and is fast approaching! Under Will's direction, the Critical Thinking class took on a new dimension this fall. We applied the critical thinking skills we were learning to the recent presidential election debates through posts on our discussion board. It was surprising the extent to which we picked out the hyperbole and fallacies of the campaigns' rhetoric even after only a few weeks into the course. Links to this post.
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The Parked Blue Van: February 2009
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009. More on Morning People. Since Blackbird has led off on a rant about Morning People, ( http:/ black-bird-sings.blogspot.com/2009/01/morning-people.html. All joking and ribbing of Morning People aside, though, just recently there was an interesting article by Robert Boyd of McClatchy Newspapers you can read on Yahoo News at http:/ news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090205/sc mcclatchy/3161423/print. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Champaign, IL, United States. The fo...
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The Parked Blue Van: September 2008
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Thursday, September 11, 2008. Andy's posting about convention burn-out inspired this one: For our first homework assignment in Critical Thinking, we were asked to watch the conventions and then post our comments on the speeches, basically analyzing them the best we could based on our readings in the first chapter of our text. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Champaign, IL, United States. Liberal Studies Major at University of Illinois at Springfield. View my complete profile. Http:/ charle...
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The Parked Blue Van: Lincoln-Douglas Redux
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Thursday, September 11, 2008. Andy's posting about convention burn-out inspired this one: For our first homework assignment in Critical Thinking, we were asked to watch the conventions and then post our comments on the speeches, basically analyzing them the best we could based on our readings in the first chapter of our text. September 11, 2008 at 8:05 PM. Critical thinking and party conventions. Isn't that like combining matter and antimatter - won't there be an explosion, likely your head. 1958 Into...
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The Parked Blue Van: April 2009
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Well The weather's warming up, and it's almost time to get my bike out of the storage shed. This winter I didn't get it put away in time before it snowed, but I juiced it up real good with WD-40 so it wouldn't rust too bad. As you can tell already I'm not a bike aficionado or a dedicated biker by any means, but still I used to bike around quite a lot. I eventually replaced the stolen wreck with a 10-speed Walmart $35 on-sale special, or 15-speed, or whatever it is, but then I ins...
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The Parked Blue Van: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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Friday, August 22, 2008. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Still, the prospect of buried treasure holds a tremendous attraction. Whether it's Jean Lafitte's booty down in Louisiana, the Lost Dutchman Mine in Arizona, or the Knights of the Templar's holy grail at Oak Island, treasure hunters are always on the prowl for the big payoff, just like all the people at the gambling boat in Peoria. Your class does sound interesting! Do you think your friend is looking to get rid of his metal detector? Interesting...
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The Parked Blue Van: Summer Reading
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Friday, August 22, 2008. This comment has been removed by the author. August 24, 2008 at 1:02 PM. Andy Egizi, Program Coordinator. Think I'll look for the Witold Rybczynski book. My wife works for the American Institute of Architects. She's taught me a thing or two about the field, some of which is only tangentally related to a building. For example, she told me a few years ago about green roofs - planting a roof to save on energy costs - and now we have one on the UIS campus. August 24, 2008 at 1:03 PM.
