And why don't I like her?

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Hi Bill - No one thinks you're crazy. Continued participation in this thread serves a purpose. That is to counteract the propoganda put out by peaceforall. She's just a dixieclone.
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Who is she? And why does a person who so obviously lacks any knowledge or intelligence feel obliged to give her opinion continuously?

Note that she is talking about someone who is crazy. I don't suppose she has taken the time to look up the thousands of posts of Huffman stalking Derek Smart. That would involve getting off her ass and doing research.

"The Best Advice I Ever Got"
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fort...index.html

In this interesting article in Fortune magazine 25 successful people talk about the best advice they ever received.

Here's a summary of the advice they received and where they got it:

1. Michael Bloomberg
Mayor of New York City, founder of Bloomberg LP
Who:  "I must have gotten this advice at Salomon Brothers in the 1970s"
What: "The advice was, first, always ask for the order, and second, when the customer says yes, stop talking. … Ready, shoot, aim is not the smartest policy."

2. Larry Page
Co-Founder and President, Google
Who: "In graduate school at Stanford University…My advisor, Terry Winograd"
What: "I had about ten different ideas of things I wanted to do, and one of them was to look at the link structure of the web. My advisor…picked that one out and said, "Well, that one seems like a really good idea."

3. Peter G. Peterson
Co-founder and Senior Chairman, Blackstone Group
Who: "When I was at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, I had Milton Friedman as a professor."
What: "Focus on those things you do better than others."

4. Gen. David Petraeus
Commanding general, multinational force - Iraq
Who: " My boss at the time, then-Maj. Gen. Jack Galvin"
What: "'I think you ought to look for an out-of-your intellectual comfort zone experience.' So that's what I did. After attending the command and general staff college at Fort Leavenworth, I went to the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, where I got a Ph.D. in international relations.

"… Finally, grad school also gives most folks a healthy dose of intellectual humility. That was certainly the case for me, and that's not a bad thing either."

5. Tina Fey
Actress; creator and star of 30 Rock
Who: "About 15 years ago, I saw an Oprah show"
What: "Always be the only person who can sign your checks."

6. Mark Hurd
Chairman and CEO, Hewlett-Packard
Who:  "[NCR] CEO, Chuck Exley"
What: "At the conclusion, he nodded and said something brief but profound: "Good story, but it's hard to look smart with bad numbers." …You have to focus on the underlying substance. There's just no way to disguise poor performance. …Deliver good numbers and you earn the right for people to listen to you. "

7.  Indra Nooyi
Chairman and CEO, Pepsico
Who: "My father"
What: "From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent."

8.  Sam Palmisano
Chairman and CEO, IBM
[Gave a general and a specific.]
Who: "…I've observed many CEOs, heads of state, and others in positions of great authority."
What: "I've noticed that some of the most effective leaders don't make themselves the center of attention. They are respectful. They listen."

Who: "a former boss"
What: "Don't view your career as a linear progression." He advised me to take horizontal rather than vertical steps: to try out situations that are unstructured, to learn different ways of working, and to get outside of headquarters and experience different cultures."

9. Eddie Lampert
Chairman and CEO, ESL Investments; Chairman, Sears Holdings
Who: "my father"
What: "This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious….The plays my father designed for me helped me learn to think ahead."

10. Thomas S. Murphy
Former CEO, Capital Cities/ABC
["I got two pieces of advice I have always remembered."]
Who: "The first was from my father Charles E. Murphy, who was a justice of the New York State Supreme Court."
What: "It was a point about ethics. He said, "Doing the wrong thing is not worth the loss of one night's good sleep."

Who: "The other came from Benjamin Selekman, a Harvard Business School professor who taught labor relations."
What: "The last thing he said, at his last lecture to my class, was, "Here is something to remember for the rest of your life: Don't spend your time on things you can't control. Instead, spend your time thinking about what you can."

11.  Bob Iger
President and CEO, Walt Disney
Who: "My father.."
What:  "…wrote in my sixth-grade yearbook quoting Hamlet - Polonius to his son, Laertes: "To thine own self be true."

12.  Nelson Peltz
CEO, Trian Fund Management
Who: "It was my dad…"
What: ""Get sales up, and keep expenses down."

13.  Zhang Xin
Co-founder and CEO, SOHO China
Who: [not specified]
What: [Gave worst advice instead] "'Don't work with your husband. Marriage and business don't mix.' …The best way to lower risk is to specialize: Put the things that you love into one portfolio."

14.  Charlene Begley
President and CEO, GE Enterprise Solutions
Who: "Jeff Immelt, before he became CEO [of GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms]"
What: "Spend a ton of time with your customers. Especially when you're new, the first thing you should do is go out to customers and ask them how you compare with competitors, how your service is, what they think of your products….You'll never get anything straighter than from a customer. "

15.  Craig Newmark
Founder, Craigslist
Who: Back in 1990, I was a systems engineer at IBM in Detroit. I had a manager…"
What "…who told me that aside from my technical knowledge, my sense of humor was my saving grace….I was advised to use my dry sense of humor to help diffuse that atmosphere. In business there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong. "

16.  Joanna Shields
President, Bebo.com
Who: "my dad"
What: "Your career is long and the business world is small. Always act with integrity. Never take the last dollar off the table."

17.  Elon Musk
Founder and CEO, SPACEX
Who:  "It's from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams."
What: "Don't panic." You have to be wary of emotion clouding your decision-making process - and of making a decision that you'll later regret.

[Bad advice]
Who: "my parents"
What: "…ignore bullies. That doesn't work. You have to punch them on the nose."

18.  U. Mark Schneider
CEO, Fresenius
Who: "When I was growing up in Germany, my father…"
What: "… pushed me hard to become fluent in English. "No matter what you are going to do," he told me, "this will give you an edge. The English language is the operating system of the free world."

[Worst advice:]
Who: "a Harvard Business School professor"
What: "…encouraged me to display more independence and contrarianism in job interviews: "Firms that hire here," he told me, "don't want yes men." At my interview with a top-tier consulting company, I suggested that the firm might be heading for a decline in market share and prestige. Needless to say, no consulting career for me! Was it bad advice or overzealous execution?"

19.  Tony Robbins
Performance coach
Who: Jim Rohn, a personal-development speaker
What:  "You have to stand guard at the door of your mind." He was saying that the selection of [my friends and advisors] will matter more than anything else, and that you can't take anybody's approach as sacrosanct.

20.  Eileen Collins
Space Shuttle commander, Columbia (1999) and Discovery (2005)
Who: my father
What: Do what you [want] to do; whatever you think is right. Don't follow the pack.

21.  Stewart Copeland
Drummer, The Police
Who:  my father
What: "Son, count your own money before the professionals who say they do it for you." I've since added the words, "or pretend to every now and then."

22.  Andrea Guerra
CEO, Luxottica
Who: "Roger Abravanel, formerly of McKinsey, who is on the Luxottica board. "
What:  "He says that if you move into emerging markets such as China or India, you shouldn't listen to the people telling you to try franchising, licensing or joint ventures, but to go into the country directly and commit your management to getting involved. "

Who: "…my first boss, when I was a young man starting out on my career. I was working at Marriott."
What:  "He told me that in your first years of business life, you shouldn't go chasing after fancy titles, but try to find people who can teach you something. "

23.  Leonard Lauder
Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies
Who: "my mother, Estée Lauder:"
What:  "She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face."

24.  Nell Minow
Editor and co-founder of The Corporate Library
Who:  "one of my law school classmates, Deborah Baughman"
What:  "…work part-time…. I was pregnant …I was thinking maybe I could work mornings. She said, "You'll be much better off working Monday, Wednesday, Friday.",,, I had to be very productive because I could never say "I'll do it tomorrow." I had to get it done before I left on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. And then I really had a day to think out of another part of my brain and come back with a different perspective."

25.  Alan Mulally
President and CEO, Ford Motor Company
Who: [not specified]
What: "… have a point of view about the future that focuses on the customer."

Commentary:  I realize that 25 people is too small a sample to have much statistical significance.  Some cited more than one advice source, while others didn't specifically cite the source, and some focused on bad advice rather than good   So it's not exactly a dissertation-type statistical analysis, but it's still fun to try to spot a trend among this distinguished and successful group of people.  

Source of best advice: number
Family (parents):  10
Job (bosses, colleagues, co-workers):  8
School (professors, fellow students):  5
Media (authors, TV hosts):  3

Some of the 25 questioned cited advice related to very specific job or business concerns,  some seemed focused on personal areas, while others responded with more general or philosophical examples.  Still others offered a combination.  Editing concerns might well have condensed or eliminated alternative or additional responses.  

Of the seven women queried, five either cited family members as sources of advice or advice related to family matters (such as working while married or pregnant).  The three women who cited advice from family sources cited their fathers.  Only one man cited his mother or any other woman as the source of best advice.

Interesting that the two "show business" people each had almost identical advice: count your own money, and write your own checks.

Some poor dumb bugger living in Tanglewood Gardens in Miami is soon to be homeless. What does Lis Pendens mean? Lasalle Bank filed such a thing on May 14, 2008.

Miami-Dade Register

http://www.miami-dadeclerk.com/public-re...earch1.asp

Just type in the name of anyone you know who lives in Miami.

When you discover your minister has an "offshore diploma mill" degree on his wall and insists on being called "Rev. Dr.," should you:

a) stalk him
b) out him
c) report him to the feds
d) all of the above?

In Canada, where common sense and civility prevail, the answer seems to be "none of the above."

Quote:Faux diploma is vain, but not fraud
May 17, 2008 04:30 AM
Ken Gallinger

Q The senior minister in our church is doing a good job, and is well liked both in the congregation and in the community, where he contributes to many worthwhile charitable projects. However, he insists on being called Rev. Dr., and on his wall is a PhD certificate that is fake – that is, from on offshore degree mill. I have broached the topic with him gently but he becomes offended and even a shade derogatory. Should I pursue this matter any further with the board of our church?

A Once upon a time, I proudly displayed my university diplomas on my office wall. Sadly, my office was directly beneath a washroom used by a daycare centre. One day, the little Heaven's Angels decided it would be fun to stuff approximately 432 rolls of toilet paper in the loo directly above my proud parchments. By the time the flood subsided, my hard-earned pieces of paper had returned to the pulp from which they came.

Strangely, I have discovered that, since becoming diploma-less, I am not one whit more or less competent, compassionate or employable than I was before the deluge. This experience has taught me exactly how much a diploma, per se, is worth.

The issue with your pastor's mail-order diploma is not one of credentials. I know of no church where a PhD is required for pastoral ministry, so it's not like a medical doctor displaying a fake MD or an engineer wearing a dime-store ring. Your minister, by your own admission, is doing a good job, which only proves the point.

There is an issue, however, of honesty. And, unlike a doctorate, honesty is essential in the relationship between spiritual leaders and their flock. Even here, though, his indiscretion is a minor one – not an outright lie, just a bending of the truth. If the diploma were a forgery from a real university like Queen's, Western or U of T, then you'd be talking about fraud and would be fully justified in pushing the point further.

But the piece of paper is what it is – it admits to where it's from, and anyone reading it can make their own judgment – just as you have.

As for insisting on being called Rev. Dr. – well, that's pompous, regardless of whether the degree is real or fake, and if pomposity were a prosecutable offence, half the ministers I know would be in jail.

What you're dealing with here is a foolish but minor image enhancement – nothing more or less. Why your minister needs such an ego boost is up to him to sort out. I know ministers who dye their hair to look younger (thank goodness I don't know any who colour their beards). I know ministers who wear coloured contact lenses to look sexier. I know ministers who preach with fake Scottish accents to sound more erudite. Big deal.

You've raised the issue. You've made your point. Let it go. It's the good "doctor's" problem, not yours.

Send your questions to Ken Gallinger at ethical@sympatico.ca

Oh my, Bomber has resorted to "outing" people, something that I thought that he had told us he didn't believe in. This is going to get very ugly ...

DD thread (see Bomber Douglas' comments)

http://www.360connect.com/andersson/

The self-appointed sphincter of higher education, UIUC physics professor George Gollin (aka George D. Gollin, aka George Dana Gollin) is at it again.  

He believes no one and nothing should be allowed to exist in higher education without first passing through his socialist sphincter of scrutiny.

But his outrageous statements about the good folks who run the charter.edu domain name are about to land him in a fat defamation lawsuit.

Here is Gollum's defamatory post, from October 3, 2007:

Quote:I am sure that EDUCAUSE will take DECISIVE IMMEDIATE and VIGOROUS action to verify the investigative abilities of this provider because "charter.edu" is selling access to EDU domains.

Quote:Professor Gollin, I'm writing to you with regards to the posting and comments you made on DegreeDiscussion.com on Oct 7, 2007 about Charter.edu. Namely:
http://www.degreediscussion.com/viewtopi...ey&p=32931

Quote:"I am sure that EDUCAUSE will take DECISIVE IMMEDIATE and VIGOROUS action to verify the investigative abilities of this provider because "charter.edu" is selling access to EDU domains."

It was brought to our attention by several schools, and we consider it to be libel as it gives appearance that Charter.edu is engaged in illegal operations.

Charter.edu is a grandfathered domain, whose status is legally protected by the Agreement between EDUCAUSE and the U.S. Department of Commerce:
"All .edu names in existence as of October 29, 2001 are grandfathered, regardless of current or past eligibility requirements". Furthermore, Educause regulations stipulate that: "Eligibility for the .edu domain is content-independent. Educause neither places nor enforces restrictions on the content or use of the .edu domain. Holders of .edu domain names are free to establish policies that limit or otherwise manage the use and content of resources within their own domain as they see fit."

We kindly request that you remove the above-stated libelous posting on DegreeDiscussion.com.

Thank you,

Adam
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Adam Seagroves
Academic Director - Charter.edu
SEC Labs
2515 Warren Avenue, Ste 500
Cheyenne, WY 82001
Tel (307) 222-4562
Fax (307) 222-4563
www.charter.edu

Stalker Steve Foerster announed at DD that he has "finallly finished that MA." I wonder how our membership feels about this milestone in Stalker Steve's career?  


Stalker Steve announcement at DD

As if getting an entire chapter in hooker Jody Babydol Gibson's book wasn't honor enough, former Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda is set to receive yet another honorary degree.  

Quote:05/12/2008 12:43 PM ET
Lasorda to deliver commencement address to Argosy University
Special Advisor to the Chairman will receive his seventh honorary Doctorate

LOS ANGELES -- Hall of Fame Manager and Special Advisor to the Chairman Tommy Lasorda will give the commencement address to the 2008 graduating class of Argosy University it was announced today. Lasorda will impart his life's wisdom to the 185 graduates while receiving an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration degree, the highest honor the university bestows. The ceremony will take place Friday, May 16, at 11:00 a.m. at the Costa Mesa Hilton Hotel.

"It is an honor to be asked to address the graduating class," said Lasorda. "Education is the most important investment anyone can make, and these students are ones who realize that and have done the necessary work to improve their lives"

Lasorda, who never attended a single day of college as a student, has given seven commencement address, this being his eighth. He has received honorary degrees from Pepperdine University (1996), St. Thomas University (1997), University of Phoenix (1997), Cal State Long Beach (1998), Concordia University (2003), and the University of Hawaii (2006). He gave the commencement address to the University of Southern California's School of Pharmacy in 2005, and received the Commencement Speaker Recognition Award.

Argosy University, which is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and members of North Central Association for Schools and Colleges, was formed in September 2001 by the merging of three separate academic institutions. The American School of Professional Psychology was founded in the early 1970s by a group of psychologists, educators, and other professionals who called for a clinical psychology degree that emphasized teaching and practical training over the research-oriented approach of the traditional PhD degree. The University of Sarasota had offered degree programs in business and education to working adults for more than 30 years through a delivery format that mixed distance learning and brief, intensive on-campus study periods. Responding to the emerging needs of the medical community, the Medical Institute of Minnesota was established in 1961 to prepare skilled allied healthcare personnel for careers in the booming medical technology fields.

Building on these successful foundations, Argosy University today comprises four colleges within 18 campus locations across the U.S., and also offers degree programs online through the Chicago campus. All of the degree programs available through the College of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, College of Business, College of Education, and College of Health Sciences are designed to instill the knowledge, ethical values, and interpersonal skills of professional practice and to foster values of social responsibility in a supportive, learner-centered environment of mutual respect and academic excellence.

Any lesbians out there want to get in touch with me?  Here's my email address at Oberlin:

Cordelia Rose Loots-Gollin  
Campus Address:   OCMR 1568  
E-mail:   Cordelia.Loots-Gollin@oberlin.edu  


It's pubic record, errrr, I mean, public record on the internet, so don't blame anybody but me and my bald, effeminate, ass-scratching, nose-picking, pocket-pool-playing daddy dearest!

http://www.oberlin.edu/fussers/STU_NLOL0030.htm

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Jigamafloo took a cheap shot at Uncle Janko in a thread about the Stolen Valor Act and got bitch slapped in return. I don't know what possessed Jig (who had previously been on good terms with Janko) to go after Janko who didn't seem out of line. Janko was just offering his non-veteran opinion, and referenced personal observations of his combat vet father's view on military medals. Jig, retired USAF, took umbrage and went after Janko. Probably more telling, though, Jigamafloo managed to disagree with Rich Douglas (also retired USAF) yet simultaneously complimented him. Jig then accused Tenured Prof of being jinagrom/jim morgan, a retired Army officer who has dogged Rich Douglas (and Bruce Tait) for years.

In a final act which I find typical of some retired Air Farce E-8, Jig announced that he was leaving DD and would only post at gay porn-associated DI going forward. Talk about a gutless coward ... in a conversation about valor and medals??? Jig may be worrying that the USAF is going to want the medals they awarded him for "a considerable amount of hardship"* during his career returned. The only thing disgraceful in that thread was Jigamafloo, a career wrench-turnin' rear echelon support dweeb, expressing faux outrage over something real heroes fought for ... freedom of speech. Go back to DI with your pal Chip and the other deviates and perverts!!!

DD thread on Stolen Valor Act

* "A considerable amount of hardship" to Air Force types means the fairways on the base golf course were a little rough and the sand traps weren't raked.