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IC2 stands for "Innovation, Creativity, and Capital". It was the leading authority in US Higher Ed for 30 or more years on entrepreneurship, and more or less invented the "incubator" phenomenon for young companies

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No, they didn’t. The incubator was an academic in-housing of Silicon Valley culture that was an outgrowth of William Shockley of Bell Labs relocating to CA in ‘57 and the Fairchild Semiconductor exodus that occurred in the 60’s. And any reference to academic environment venture incubating without including Stanford is wrong on first principles.

I would know, be careful to not assume who your audience is.

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ranked in the most remunerative fields by the very same publication

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Very interesting. I agree there is rampant grade inflation. But at least on the standardized testing side, is there empirical evidence to substantiate that test has been weakened, or it is that students have actually increased in testing knowledge, relative to a stable benchmark?

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When most people talk about government interference, they are talking about several unelected judges doing the damage.

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Not at all. You sound like a parrot of the current political environment.


When most people talk about government interference, they are talking increased regulations, compliance requirements, rules, laws, and enforcement upon the [business] private sector that increase costs, reduce transaction efficiency, and increase time, friction, and uncertainty

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Problem is a lot of our stadiums are old with concrete bases with seating right up by the field, making them too narrow for a soccer game and not able to remove seating to fix that issue

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That’s a feature, not a bug

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I know this, as sure as I'm white

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?? Platner is that you?

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These used to be called donations, endowments, etc. Sounds like the Haslams want a return.

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I had a buddy that got in to UPenn, North Carolina, Duke and Dartmouth. He got waitlisted at UGA and it’s likely because he was an out of state student

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He got waitlisted because UGA saw his admissions profile and knew he was capable of getting into better schools.

In addition to selective admissions, it’s now all about admissions “yield rates”. Schools have started not accepting and just waitlisting candidates that are highly likely to enroll elsewhere (e.g. at the better school they also applied to as their first choice), in order to make their conversion rate of offers to enrollees as high as possible.

The WSJ had an article about this just last week or so: WSJ article link

I’m shocked to learn they’re all CEOs of all of energy companies too.

WSJ Article Link

A few highlights:
• “valuations went up 46% over last year”
• “one reason valuations have surged is that the deeper pool of potential champions—created by the loosening of rules”
• Most valuable teams: #1 Texas, $2.2bn; #2 A&M, $1.6bn
• LSU, UGA and Bama in the top 10, worth $1.4–1.5bn




bye, y’all

Lots of Bama enforcers out today! I applaud y’all.

I do like this response though, this is the analysis I was looking for.

On Bernard’s contested catch, both players hands were on the ball as Bernard was making his “football move”, therefore he never “established control” as it was contested all the way through it coming out.

So if it was a catch, the ball came out as a result of the defender causing it to come loose, and so he wasn’t yet down (see the replay) and the ground didn’t cause the fumble.

On the FG, the camera angle wasn’t exactly underneath, so it by itself isn’t the evidence you need, but it provided the basis for a fair review to reassess whether the ball did entirely pass within the uprights. And it really surprises me there wasn’t more dissection from the media (as stated the officials can’t review it as it was above the uprights).

So it appeared to be a prime opportunity for officials putting their hand on the scale, and I’m surprised therefore no one is questioning the call.

The kick looked good. Period. Fowler barely had a peep after Lemonnier commented.

On Bernard, it was either a catch, and then a fumble, or not a catch (as it was contested the entire way to the ground). Remarkable how there wasn’t even a hint of inquiry to a review from Herbie and Chris.

Tells you all you need to know.