WTF is wrong with Ferguson, Missouri. A wannabe or for real gang-banger and convenience store robber goes ballistic on a cop who tries to arrest him and gets himself killed. Happens every day in America.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/...ang-signs/

https://twitter.com/gretl08/status/50029...69/photo/1

Apparently he was walking to his grandmother's house when the cop attacked him. Since he was going with his partner in crime, were they going to rob grannie or is the grannie story bullshit?

Nice to see God chiming in on these issues.? Now that Irani's "degree" has been proven fake will George Gollin be endorsing her for Congress soon??

Quote:Indian minister mocked after claiming Yale degree
By Rama Lakshmi August 11 at 11:15 PM ?

NEW DELHI -- Is India's minister for education somewhat confused over the difference between a college degree and a certificate?

At a conference on Saturday, Smriti Irani, the minister for human resource development, told a journalist that she had a degree from Yale. Her claim caused a nationwide facepalm moment.

The journalist at the India Today Women Summit asked Irani to clear the air over whether she had an undergraduate degree or not and referred to the discrepancy between the information she filed during the election in 2004 and 2014 when she was a candidate.

"I do have a degree from Yale as well, which I can bring out and show how Yale celebrated my leadership capacity,"? Irani said.

When the journalist persisted, Irani added that she "should best be judged on what I deliver as a minister."?

But the damage was done.

Opposition Congress party spokeswoman Priyanka Chaturvedi tweeted a story saying the degree that Irani boasted of was actually a certificate given to her for attending a six-day leadership program in 2013 at Yale University for a group of 11 Indian lawmakers.

Irani's claim triggered a merciless lampooning campaign on social media and a volley of jokes about college degrees. #Yale trended on Twitter in India for the second day Monday.

Quote:? Puram? @puram_politics?

HRD minister should abolish all multiple year programs
and introduce 5 days ones in all colleges. India can have
degrees for everyone. Win.

10:32 AM - 10 Aug 2014

Quote:? MOUMITA CHOWDHURY? @immoumita?

2 more days at Yale, You could've been Dr. Smriti Irani
#YoSmritiSoCertified

4:39 AM - 11 Aug 2014

Quote:? maheep singh? @Genuine_Jokey?

Searched #Yale at Google. First result Irani's picture. I so
want to kill my career councillor.

11:30 AM - 11 Aug 2014

Quote:? Pawan Khera? ? ? ? ✔? @Pawankhera?

'Modi Cabinet hit by a Yale storm'

7:54 PM - 10 Aug 2014

? ?
The Twitter storm grew so big that even God could not resist.

Quote:? God? @TheTweetOfGod?

Congratulations to Smriti Irani on graduating from Yale in
the exact same amount of time it took Me to create the
world.

9:20 PM - 10 Aug 2014

Irani, who rose to fame for her role in a Hindi television soap series before joining politics, gave a weak defense on Monday.

Quote:? Smriti Z Irani? ? ? ? ✔? @smritiirani?

Unfortunate that statement re my participation in a
leadership program & certificate thereafter was
misconstrued.

12:35 AM - 11 Aug 2014

When the new Prime Minister Narendra Modi appointed the 38-year old Irani as the human resource minister in May this year, her opponents in the defeated Congress party questioned how someone who had never been to college could be a minister overseeing education policies.

But Irani is not the first Indian politician to have fudged information on education. The president of Congress party, the Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, had falsely claimed that she had a diploma from Cambridge University. When she faced criticism, it was corrected.

A lot of the clones have been online now, 10+ years. Ever notice after a decade+ what nobodies they really are in the world of Higher Education?

1. John Bear-Nobody.
2. Rich Douglas --Nobody.
3. Gus Sainz - Beyond Nobody.
4. Dave Hayden - Remember this Nobody ? No ? Because he's a nobody.
5. Chip White - Nobody. (but known for other things ehem).
6. Truck Driver -- Nobody.

Adjunct professors at community colleges are more than these nobodies.

Quote:Senator says he had PTSD when he wrote thesis


AP 7/24/2014 12:13:27 AM

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Sen. John Walsh of Montana said Wednesday his failure to attribute conclusions and verbatim passages lifted from other scholars' work in his thesis to earn a master's degree from the U.S. Army War College was an unintentional mistake caused in part by post-traumatic stress disorder.

The apparent plagiarism first reported by The New York Times was the second potentially damaging issue raised this year involving the Democrat's 33-year military career, which has been a cornerstone of his campaign to keep the seat he was appointed to in February when Max Baucus resigned to become U.S. ambassador to China.

National Democrats said Wednesday they remained "100 percent behind Sen. Walsh" in his campaign against Republican Rep. Steve Daines.

Walsh told The Associated Press when he wrote the thesis, he had PTSD from his service in Iraq, was on medication and was dealing with the stress of a fellow veteran's recent suicide.

"I don't want to blame my mistake on PTSD, but I do want to say it may have been a factor," the senator said. "My head was not in a place very conducive to a classroom and an academic environment."

Walsh submitted his thesis, titled "The Case for Democracy as a Long Term National Strategy," to earn his Master of Strategic Studies degree in 2007, nearly two years after he returned from Iraq and about a year before he became Montana's adjutant general overseeing the state's National Guard and Department of Military Affairs.

The paper includes a series of unattributed passages taken from the writings of other scholars.

The first page borrows heavily from a 2003 Foreign Affairs piece written by Thomas Carothers, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a 2009 book by Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer called "The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror."

Sharansky is a former Soviet dissident and chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel. Dermer is the Israeli ambassador to the United States.

All six of the recommendations that Walsh listed at the end of his paper are taken nearly word-for-word without attribution from a Carnegie paper written by Carothers and three other scholars at the institute.

One section is nearly identical to about 600 words from a 1998 paper by Sean Lynn-Jones, a scholar at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a research institute at Harvard. Carothers and a Dermer spokesman declined to comment.

Lynn-Jones said Walsh appears to have received a degree on the basis of work that was not entirely his own, and that anyone seeking credit for an academic degree "needs to acknowledge where the material is coming from."

"Maybe he unintentionally didn't cite my work, but it's up to the Army War College to determine whether this is acceptable by their standards or not," Lynn-Jones said.

An after-hours call to the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, school rang unanswered Wednesday.

Walsh declined to answer repeated questions about whether he believed he earned the degree if the thesis' conclusions were not his own.

"I know about war strategy and defense because of firsthand experience leading a battalion and the Montana National Guard," he said.

The senator said when he wrote the paper, he was seeing two doctors and taking medication to deal with nightmares, anxiety and sleeplessness. He said he has since worked through those issues with his doctors and family, though he still takes antidepressant medication.

Justin Barasky, spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said the committee stands behind Walsh.

"John Walsh is a decorated war hero, and it's disgusting that Steve Daines and Washington Republicans are going to try denigrate John's distinguished service after multiple polls show him gaining," Barasky said.

Daines spokeswoman Alee Lockman said she had just seen the Times' report and had no immediate comment.

Even before the plagiarism revelations, top Democratic strategists saw Walsh's campaign as an uphill pull, never counting on it as key to holding their Senate majority.

Republicans need to gain six net seats this fall to control the Senate. South Dakota, West Virginia and Montana are seen as likely GOP pickups, and Republicans have several opportunities to grab the other three contests they need. Top on their lists are incumbent Democrats running in states President Barack Obama lost in 2012: Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina and Alaska.

Walsh is the only senator who served in the Iraq war. He capped his long career in the Montana National Guard as the state's adjutant general before becoming lieutenant governor to Gov. Steve Bullock, who appointed him to the Senate seat.

Walsh's military record was first questioned in January when records revealed the Army reprimanded him in 2010 for pressuring guardsmen to join a private association for which he was seeking a leadership role.

Walsh was adjutant general at the time and wanted to become vice chairman of the National Guard Association of the United States. In the reprimand, Army Vice Chief of Staff Peter Chiarelli said he questioned Walsh's ability to lead.

Political scientist David Parker of Montana State University said Walsh's thesis combined with the reprimand raise questions about the senator's integrity.

"If this were it, in isolation, I don't think it would be a big deal," Parker said. "But now we've got two issues of honor and competency."

Gonna get my PhD
I'm a teenage lobotomy

Is this the curriculum that Foerster and Orner will be using at their new unaccredited "university"? If it's good enough for ASU it should be good enough for the Klempner Klone Konsortium.

Quote:University offers female students extra credit for not shaving their armpits
Lauren Clark
on Jul 03, 2014 at 5:29 PM EDT

•Men are also allowed to receive extra credit, as long as they shave their bodies from the neck down.

•Student Stephanie Robinson said it was a “life changing experience.”



Female [regionally accredited] Arizona State University students can receive extra credit for defying social norms and refusing to shave for 10 weeks during the semester.

Women and Gender Studies Professor Breanne Fahs, encourages her female students to cease shaving their underarms and legs during the semester and document their experiences in a journal.

Student Stephanie Robinson said it was a “life changing experience.”

“Many of my friends didn’t want to work out next to me or hear about the assignment, and my mother was distraught at the idea that I would be getting married in a white dress with armpit hair,” Robinson told ASU news.

Men are also allowed to receive extra credit, as long as they shave their bodies from the neck down.

Fahs says the experiment illustrates social issues with gender roles, particularly with the male participants.

“One guy did his shaving with a buck knife,” Fahs said. “Male students tend to adopt the attitude of, ‘I’m a man; I can do what I want.”

As the Director of the Center for Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at ASU, Fahs has been very active in women’s issues. Her academic journals have been published in outlets such as Feminism & Psychology, Psychology of Women Quarterly and Gender and Society. She has also authored books including Performing Sex, Moral Panics of Sexuality and her newest biography on the life of radical feminist and attempted assassin, Valerie Solonas.

Participant and student Jaqueline Gonzalez said the experience allowed her to start on a path of activism.

“The experience helped me better understand how pervasive gendered socialization is in our culture. Furthermore, by doing this kind of activist project I was no longer an armchair activist theorizing in the classroom.” she said. “So much is learned by actually taking part in the theory or idea we learn in the classroom, and we could benefit from this type of pedagogy being taken up by similar classes.”

Following the footsteps of their mentor, the notorious John Klempner Bear, Stalker Steve and Toelicker Talk Moderator Randy Randell have teamed up to create their own unaccredited offshore "entity."

Where's all the "TICK, TICK, TICK" talk? Isn't the mere fact that it's unaccredited enough for the klones to begin swarming? Plus it's in a tiny third world country populated largely by black people. Doesn't that automatically give it "trailer park hound" and "sons of bitches" status in some quarters? Double standard much?

Quote:John Bear
Senior Member

New World University: is there a connection with this forum?

A correspondent has asked me about New World University (Affordable Higher Education for Students Worldwide | New World University), with an office in the West Indies and a website registered in the Acension Islands. The correspondent says that its President is a long-time (more than ten years) and frequent poster on DegreeInfo.com. (I find no names on the school's website.) This is all new information to me, and I wonder what's up.

Quote:SteveFoerster
Resident Gadfly

Hi John,

Yes, your correspondent is referring to me. Actually, more than one person active on this forum is helping to build New World University. Randell Orner is the school's Provost, and has done a heroic job assembling a team of faculty members and instructional designers to put together curricula.

I hope no one minds that we haven't discussed it, but there were a few reasons not to bring it up ourselves. One is that it would be shilling, particularly when a moderator is a leader in the project. Another is that we're doing a deliberately slow rollout, we have only a few students at present and our application with Dominica's National Accreditation Board is still in process. A third reason, frankly, is that we're not inclined to spend time responding to naysayers, and this community has a number of members who have expressed what I believe is excessive skepticism of schools based in smaller developing countries.

That said, it's a pretty poorly kept secret. My sig links to my personal site, where I've blogged about it, and my LinkedIn and Facebook profiles refer to it, and so forth. There are a number of other forum participants who are aware of what we're doing, and we're happy to speak with people interested in productive conversations, especially people in developing countries.

Anyway, for those who are curious, New World University is based in Dominica and reaches students in developing Commonwealth countries through distance learning and partner organizations. Our partner organization model is not dissimilar to that used by the University of London International Programme. We're starting with one, two, and three year undergraduate programs in International Business Leadership, and will expand to other disciplines and levels going forward.

One note: there's no connection with Ascension Island. We use a .ac domain because it's the closest thing there is to a global top level domain for higher education , particularly one recognizable in Commonwealth countries. But that doesn't imply a connection there any more than CBSNews.tv implies that network is based on Tuvalu.

So that's the quick answer. I expect once we reach another significant milestone we may announce it, especially once we're through the accreditation gauntlet.

Quote:Re: What's the accreditation status of Charisma University?

Postby surprises Thu Jun 26, 2014 6:45 pm

I am back again BUT this time with the real surprises

Charisma University has sued degreediscussion.com for allowing slanderous and defamation forums against Charisma University. Among the defendants are those that have posted against Charisma University and degreediscussion.com site owner.

This lawsuit is with the Superior Court of California, County of Orange with case number 30-2014-00730009-CU-DF-CJC; the Judge's name is Judge Andrew P. Banks

The degreediscussion.com site owner has been served with the summons and complaint via his e-mail. You may need to contact him to forward the details.

If you are among the defendants and you are using your nickname/fake name to post here, please provide your contact details to Charisma University at info@charismauniversity.org to have the summons and complaint served to you. If you decide not to provide your contact details, you are agreeing that this forum is your best contact information and that you have been served.

At the end, it turns out that Charisma University was not making an empty legal lawsuit threat. This is serious!

Thank you!

Oh, the humanity! What will the two guys who still post there do without the insightful comments of Air Marshal Gravitas?

Rich Douglas Wrote:I Appreciated This Alternative Board

by Rich Douglas » Fri Jun 20, 2014 11:12 pm

When we needed to take a step back for a bit from DegreeInfo, I appreciated that Gus set this board up. But as with all things, my participation on it must end. More than 2,000 posts is plenty.

Thanks, Gus.

Quote:

Virtual Worlds, Real Economics
Video games rot your brain and teach you econ
JUNE 17, 2014 by MATTHEW MCCAFFREY

Video games are playing an increasingly large role in pop culture. Whether you play or believe they are art, gaming will no doubt continue to be a major player in the entertainment industry. More importantly, libertarian ideas seem to be popping up everywhere in gaming. Criticism of government is on the rise, for example, and there is new emphasis on the importance of free thought and action.

To cite just two examples, Bioshock Infinite criticizes militarism and jingoism, while Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag is largely a celebration of pirate anarchy. Astute gamers may even notice that an animator for Gears of War 3 put Mises’s motto, Tu ne cede malis (“Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it”) in the game’s credits sequence.

This is all good news not only for libertarian ideas generally, but also for economic education. Gaming culture is a vibrant new arena of action where sound economic ideas have a real chance to take hold. There is already discussion about how in-game economies emerge and evolve—particularly how they deal with money and inflation. But games incorporate economics at even more basic levels. Indeed, gamers are already using the economic way of thinking without even knowing it. Games are all about basic economic concepts: scarcity, choice, trade-offs, opportunity cost, trade, and entrepreneurship. If we think of games like this, we see how their virtual realities imitate real-world economic decisions.

For instance, essentially all resources in the gaming world are scarce—that’s where the challenge comes from. If resources or experience points or time were unlimited, there wouldn’t be much of a game to play. But because gamers routinely face these kinds of scarcity, they are already familiar with the limitations they impose and have taken a first step toward economic understanding.

Scarcity means we have to make choices, and in this area games are pushing boundaries. Improved production values in the gaming industry have increased the immersive qualities of gameplay, to be sure. But it’s the economic simulations that make the experiences so real. Consider games like The Walking Dead, which takes scarcity to an extreme by using the zombie apocalypse as a backdrop. Instead of combat, The Walking Dead game centers on difficult economic decisions, like how to ration dwindling food supplies among survivors. Players become emotionally involved in the story by confronting scarcity and tough choices every step of the way.

Players’ decisions in turn imply trade-offs and opportunity costs. Anyone who has ever played a role-playing game (RPG) knows this territory well; choosing to allocate money or experience to a certain skillset means forgoing other skills. And it’s a short step from there to realizing that the true cost of skills is not the resources you spend to obtain them, but the alternative abilities you could have acquired.

Because players have different opportunity costs, not everyone is equally suited to all tasks: Enter the importance of specialization and social cooperation. Cooperation on a grand scale features in many massively multiplayer online RPGs such as World of Warcraft and EVE Online, where the most important quests can only be completed if a large number of diverse character types work together. Each member of the party specializes in enhancing the strengths or offsetting the weaknesses of the others, producing intricate networks of interdependence.

Trade is another vital form of social cooperation, and through the interactions of hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of players, MMORPGs rapidly develop complex systems of barter and monetary exchange. The teaching moment comes when players get to experience the benefits of the division of labor; even better, the benefits of specialization and trade are more obvious than in some ordinary market exchanges, where economic logic might seem too abstract.

Lastly, gaming showcases some of the best of the entrepreneurial spirit. Being a gamer is about crafting and controlling virtual worlds while at the same time learning to think creatively to overcome obstacles. Entrepreneurs do the same thing when they control productive resources in the constant drive to satisfy consumers. It’s not a surprise then that the gaming industry is growing and innovating in ways similar to Silicon Valley and other focal points of entrepreneurial energy; the two go hand in hand.

The idea that gaming conventions are reflections of economic principles is just one example of the many opportunities for economic teaching presented by the mass appeal of gaming. We’re bound to see more as the industry continues to thrive, so let’s be ready to show gamers that the experience they crave is not just good fun, but good economics.