Over the last month or so you may have noticed a lot of post on this hypnosis blog around the subject of building your business, marketing, getting new clients and so on. If youve been a long time reader of my blog then you know Ive always enjoyed the subjects of business, entrepreneurship and marketing.

Ive always been a very strong believer that anyone who owns or runs a hypnosis practice should have or at the very least learn more about these subjects. Understanding them can make the difference between being a full time, successful Hypnotist and being a part time Hypnotist who barely makes a living doing what they love or not being in business at all.

Ive talked about these subjects before and Im sure some of you wondered why? I may have even lost some readers who thought this blog was only going to be about techniques.

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In an 88 to 63 vote, the Texas House of Representatives approved $4.3 billion in cuts in the formula funding a school district gets per child.

Another $1.3 billion in cuts were approved for special programs that include funds for drop-out prevention programs, teacher training and pre-kinder education.

Texas State Rep. Rene Oliveira (D-Brownsville) said the Rio Grande Valley schools won’t “know what’s going to hit them.”

“Most districts will not be able to have early education and pre-kinder programs,” Oliveira said. “Those are the best things we have for children to get ready for school and hopefully avoid them dropping out. We lost funding for drop-out prevention programs.”

Oliveira said he’s concerned that school districts will have little choice but to eliminate more jobs, which will create even more problems throughout the Valley.

“The biggest employer in each and every town in the Valley is almost always the school district, and when you start cutting there, you affect the entre economy of the community,” Oliveira said. “That means les

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas would give school districts a set amount of money per student to buy instructional materials under a bill lawmakers have sent to the governor.

Both chambers of the Legislature approved the bill Monday that would give districts greater control over the materials they buy. The measure requires the State Board of Education to set aside half of the money from the Permanent School Fund to buy instructional materials. That money will be distributed to school districts to spend a minimum amount per student.

The measure enjoyed bipartisan support, passing unanimously in the Senate and the House 142-1.

The goal of the measure is to encourage school districts to spend the money more wisely and have more flexibility in purchasing appropriate materials, including electronic materials instead of traditional textbooks.

PHILADELPHIA — “An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art” opens at the University of Pennsylvania’s Arthur Ross Gallery on Aug. 13. 

An exploration of history through art, the traveling exhibition from Tuscaloosa, Ala., consists of paintings that chronicle the American experience from 1799 to 1969 in portraits, genre, still life and landscapes.

From the private collection of Jonathan “Jack” Warner and his wife, Susan Austin Warner, and the collection of the Warner Foundation, the exhibit includes works by Albert Bierstadt, Mary Cassatt, Frederic E. Church, Thomas Cole, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, James Peale and Andrew Wyeth.

Warner began his collection in the 1950s when he purchased a series of prints by John James Audubon.  During the next 40 years, he assembled one of the world’s most notable collections of American art.  In 2003, he founded the Westervelt-Warner Museum to share his collection of paintings sculptures, furniture and decorative arts with the public.

Special events include an American art symposium on Friday, Oct. 21.

 “An

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If youve visited my college blog in the past, you probably did a double take today.

Yes, The College Solution looks dramatically different. And all I can say to that is THANK GOODNESS!

I had grown sick of the old look last year, but it required a lot of work before the launch day for the new site finally arrived.

Youll find all my old posts still archived on the site and Ill continue to blog about college as often as I did in the past. I hope that the new look to The College Solution will make visiting my college blog a more enjoyable experience. If you havent spent much time on the site, please do. There is lots to explore.

I think my updated college blog looks at least 1,000 times better than the old one. I want to thank Mike Dickerman, who redesigned the website from North Carolina and Visual Asylum for their design work including the banner right here in San Diego.

The blog is not completely finished, but it was in good enough shape to unveil the site today.

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Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna is putting the feds on notice: His state will not follow key parts of the No Child Left Behind law anymore. Instead, Idaho will use its own accountability system.

In a June 21 letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Luna says Idaho will keep its proficiency targets at current levels rather than continue the onward march toward the 2014 goal for 100 percent proficiency for all students in math and reading. (For one example, Idaho’s accountability plan said schools could be said to make adequate yearly progress if 89 percent of their students were proficient in math this year, up from 83 percent the year before. But under Luna’s plan, the target would hold steady at 83 percent. Thanks to state officials for clarifying this for me.) In return, the state will implement a new accountability system based on student growth, Luna said. (As an aside, there is a formal growth model pilot program under NCLB, but the state doesn’t appear to be interested in that.

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Someone once told me that no one ever remembers the speech given at his or her graduation (quick: do you remember yours?) and its true that many commencement addresses are laced withplatitudes and banalities. As a colleague who attended a graduation this past weekend observed, “Nothing has changed since I graduated. The same encouraging words, the same quotes from Thoreau.”

Making much the same point, the New York Times created a graphic to illustrate how many times certain bracing words wererepeated in commencement speeches this year,and the top contenders wont surprise you, including “responsibility,” service,” “opportunity,” “God,” and “nation.”

Still, a glance at some of this years college graduation speeches provides a moving portrait of our times — as well as some humor and good advice. Writer Jonathan Franzen, for example, challenged students atKenyon Collegeto go beyond “liking” the people they encounter on Facebook, and take the much greater risk of loving instead: “Because the fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. And

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