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Is this real? I can't believe it. I do admire his honesty. God Bless You George Gollin!

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George Gollin Apologizes for Stalking
by g-gollin on Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:13 pm
I, George Gollin (George D. Gollin, George Dana Gollin), do hereby publicly confess that I am
responsible for all these false and defamatory posts about .
I posted out of bitterness and spite because I erroneously believed he was involved in disseminating
true but highly embarrassing facts about me.
Like nearly all of my alleged “research,” I failed to do any actual investigation whatsoever and simply
guessed, presumed and speculated.
Just like my collaborative dissertation, without 15 other people to do all the actual work I cannot
possibly get it right, and as a result every word I have written is completely and totally false.
I humbly apologize for my inexcusable behavior and pray that everyone I have offended will find it in
their hearts to forgive me.
I am currently receiving psychological counseling and ask for everyone’s prayers for the strength to
recover from the crippling mental disorder that afflicts me.
George D. Gollin
Department of Physics
University of Illinois
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IFTS is a well-known Theological College in Nairobi, Kenya. On another board, they were classified as a degree mill operation in connection with one of the founders from Germany.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTnC3wl69V0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdlu4xwXla0

The videos show, among other things, the 2010 and 2011 graduation ceremony of successful IFTS graduates, work in the office, and other aspects of college and church life.

In summary, this is how an alleged degree mill operates over there, with lots of money they have made, and all the pretend professors, bishops, popes, or whatever.

And yes, the deceased Uncle Janko and his likes are always right; they even have telepathic capabilities and can see from afar across continents with thousands of miles of oceans between them how degree mills operate over there! Really exceptional and noteworthy...

The crocodiles over there couldn't do better!
LOL

Passages in bold are irony and sarcasm and should not be taken literally..
Meanwhile, IFTS has qualified for a government interim university charter, are they still a degree mill?

A certain Levicoff spreads his bile here:

http://www.eslteachersboard.com/cgi-bin/...read=39743

Since when is this person competent enough to post on issues relating to Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language or on translation matters?

Am I correct in understanding that (if it is the "same" Levicoff) that he is a former degree mill operator? Or just a self-styles "expert"?

Malingering union goon, moderator at a gay boy porn front and occasional Quincy MA cop Bruce Tait claims he is about to begin his "first *official* doctoral class."

Bruce Tait Wrote:My first *official* doctoral class starts next month, and the term "ABD" already scares the Hell out of me......

Bruce Tait Wrote:I don't surf the 'net for porno. But when I was in the Army in Germany, I saw a film of a guy having sex with a chicken. Considering the chicken died, no, I don't think the chicken enjoyed it very much. ...

Stay safe and in the saddle,


Bruce Tait
Quincy Police Mounted Unit
Quincy, MA

Coincidence? You be the judge...

Quote:Prostitutes Flood Vallejo as Bankrupt City Slashes Police Force by a Third
By Alison Vekshin - Aug 21, 2011 9:01 PM PT

When Ruth Rooney moved in 2005 to a two-bedroom house in Vallejo, California, near Napa Valley’s famed wineries, the historic St. Vincent’s Hill neighborhood attracted young professionals and there were few vacancies.

Things began to change in 2008 after Vallejo, a city of about 116,000 that had lost its biggest employer, the U.S. Navy’s Mare Island shipyard, filed for bankruptcy, said Rooney, a 54-year-old marketing consultant.

“I see prostitutes, pimps and drug dealers out my front window,” Rooney said in a telephone interview Aug. 5. “There’s two on the corner right now.” Her property value has dropped 70 percent in six years, she said.

Vallejo’s experience comes as Central Falls, Rhode Island, proposes $5.6 million in budget cuts after seeking Chapter 9 protection this month and Jefferson County, Alabama, negotiates with creditors to avoid what would be the biggest government filing in U.S. history. There have been five municipal bankruptcies this year, compared with six in 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Prostitution became a growth industry in Vallejo as the San Francisco Bay city slashed its payroll, cutting police by a third, to 90 from 134. The largest municipal bankruptcy in California since Orange County in 1994 has forced law enforcement to focus on violent crime at the cost of so-called “quality-of-life” issues, residents and officials said.

‘Half the People’

“When you have half the number of people, you can only do half the amount of work,” Robert Nichelini, Vallejo’s police chief, said in an Aug. 15 telephone interview. “Where it’s taken a toll is the lower-priority crimes, which have had to take a back seat.”

Prostitution and drug dealing used to be fought by a crime- suppression unit of 12 officers and a sergeant, Nichelini said. Since it disbanded in 2010, arrests for solicitation have dropped from about 96 a year to about 24, he said.

The arrest rate “is very low because it’s labor intensive,” Nichelini said. “You have to have a minimum of five people to make the prostitution arrest, which is a misdemeanor and they’re out of jail within an hour.”

Vallejo, located 24 miles (39 kilometers) north of San Francisco, emerged from bankruptcy on Aug. 5. The city’s general-fund spending fell to $66.2 million this year from $87.1 million in fiscal 2008, when it sought court protection.

The recession has also battered the city, eroding tax revenue and leading to a 12 percent unemployment rate as of June. One in every 124 Vallejo homes had a foreclosure filing in July, according to RealtyTrac Inc., an Irvine, California-based provider of default data.

Safety Worries

Matt Russell, 27, a Vallejo resident and private contractor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Francisco, said the city’s police presence has declined since 2008 and “prostitution, especially downtown, is huge.”

Russell said he has considered moving because he’s worried about the safety of his mother, sister and grandmother.

Interim Fire Chief Paige Meyer said his department employs 67, down from 122 in May 2008. Three of eight stations were closed about the time the city filed for bankruptcy.

“What that means to our citizens -- there’s no way to sugarcoat it -- you’re going to get longer response time,” Meyer said in a telephone interview.

The sharp reduction in city services has prompted residents to fill the void, particularly in law enforcement.

Neighborhood Watchers

Vallejo has 302 neighborhood-watch associations with 2,552 members, up from 10 groups with 60 people in 2009, said Tony Pearsall, executive director of the Fighting Back Partnership, a Vallejo-based nonprofit social-services group.

“They’re doing crime prevention themselves because there is no crime-prevention unit in the police department anymore,” Pearsall, a retired Vallejo police captain, said by telephone.

Another group, the Central Core Restoration Corp., hired two armed security guards beginning in 2008 to patrol Georgia Street, the city’s commercial center, on bicycles during business hours.

“They help us with the panhandlers, loitering and assist us in calling the police if we have more serious infractions,” Janet Sylvain, the group’s president, said in an Aug. 11 interview at her upholstery shop, Pieced on Earth.

About half the stores along Georgia Street stand vacant and existing shop owners say they are scraping by or relying on the Internet or out-of-town business to generate sales.

While the street was almost deserted on a weekday afternoon in August, around the corner, the Greenwell Cooperative, a medical-marijuana dispensary, had a steady flow of customers.

Pot and Prostitution

“You know the only businesses in town making money? Pot and prostitution -- that’s it,” said Matt Shotwell, 30, who opened the dispensary in January 2010 and keeps a bong on the desk in his office.

Shotwell’s dispensary, which also sells pot-infused barbecue sauce, olive oil and cherry slushies, draws about 250 customers a day, he said.

“I’m bringing foot traffic down here,” Shotwell said in an interview.

Vallejo, which doesn’t have local laws controlling medical- marijuana dispensaries, has seen an influx of about 20 such businesses, according to a city estimate. Three shops are within four blocks of Ruth Rooney’s home.

“They came here and feel they’d be under the radar,” Phil Batchelor, Vallejo’s interim city manager, said in an interview this month at City Hall. “But we’re going to change all that. We’re stepping up enforcement, we’re going to tax them and we’re right now looking at setting up zoning requirements.”

Rebuilding Vallejo

With the bankruptcy behind them, city officials said they are taking steps to rebuild Vallejo and its image.

The City Council has approved a November ballot measure asking voters to add a 1 percent local sales tax for 10 years, in addition to the 7.38 percent levy already on the books. It would raise $9.7 million annually, said Deborah Lauchner, Vallejo’s finance director.

Vallejo’s council has also agreed to put a ballot measure before voters in November to impose a business-license tax on the dispensaries of as much as 10 percent of gross sales.

The city has created an economic development department, formed a prostitution task force, and is hiring back some firefighters and police officers.

Kaiser Grant

Kaiser Permanente, the largest U.S. nonprofit health management organization, gave the city a grant of about $736,000 that will be combined with federal funds to hire three police officers, Batchelor said. Kaiser operates the Vallejo Medical Center. The city also got a federal grant to hire nine firefighters and reopen a fire station.

On Georgia Street, a sign in the front window of the Procyon Gallery depicts a pair of women’s boots and reads “Prostitution Free Zone.”

The owner, Greg Leopold, 64, said he earns just enough from his art and framing business to pay the bills and has no plans to move despite the city’s problems.

“I’m stupid and I’m stubborn and I still think the same way about Vallejo as 20 years ago, which is this place has so much potential,” Leopold said. “It can’t stay like this. You’re in the Bay Area for God’s sakes. It can’t stay like this even by mistake.”

Even the NY Slimes sees it coming--how much more obvious could it be?

Quote:Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree


Mariah Long, who got a degree online from Western Governors University while in Germany, went to graduation in Utah.

By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: August 25, 2011

Harvard and Ohio State are not going to disappear any time soon. But a host of new online enterprises are making earning a college degree cheaper, faster and flexible enough to take work experience into account. As Wikipedia upended the encyclopedia industry and iTunes changed the music business, these businesses have the potential to change higher education.

Ryan Yoder, 35, a computer programmer who had completed 72 credits at the University of South Florida years ago, signed up with an outfit called Straighterline, paid $216 to take two courses in accounting and one in business communication, and a month later transferred the credits to Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey, which awarded him a bachelor’s degree in June.

Alan Long, 34, a paramedic and fire captain, used another new institution, Learning Counts, to create a portfolio that included his certifications and a narrative spelling out what he had learned on the job. He paid $750 to Learning Counts and came out with seven credits at Ottawa University in Kansas, where he would have had to spend $2,800 to earn them in a traditional classroom.

And Erin Larson, who has four children and works full time at a television station but wanted to become a teacher, paid $3,000 per semester to Western Governors University for as many classes as she could handle — plus a weekly call from a mentor. “Anywhere else, it would have cost three arms and legs,” said Ms. Larson, 40, “and as a certified procrastinator, I found that weekly call very useful.”

For those who have the time and money, the four-year residential campus still offers what is widely considered the best educational experience. Critics worry that the online courses are less rigorous and more vulnerable to cheating, and that their emphasis on providing credentials for specific jobs could undermine the traditional mission of encouraging critical thinking.

But most experts agree that given the exploding technologies, cuts to university budgets and the expanding universe of people expected to earn postsecondary degrees, there is no end in sight for newfangled programs preparing students for careers in high-demand areas like business, computer science, health care and criminal justice.

Chester E. Finn Jr., a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, predicted that all but the top tier of existing universities would “change dramatically” as students regained power in an expanding marketplace.

“Instead of a full entree of four years in college, it’ll be more like grazing or going to tapas bars,” Mr. Finn said, “with people piecing together a postsecondary education from different sources.”

While many students at the nascent institutions offer glowing reviews and success stories, a recent study by Teachers College at Columbia University that tracked 51,000 community college students in Washington State for five years found that those with the most online course credits were the least likely to graduate or transfer to a four-year institution. And traditional professors like Johann Neem, a historian at Western Washington University, see places like Western Governors University as anti-intellectual, noting that its advertising emphasizes how fast students can earn credits, not how much they will learn.

“Taking a course online, by yourself, is not the same as being in a classroom with a professor who can respond to you, present different viewpoints and push you to work a problem,” Professor Neem said. “There’s lots of porn and religion online, but people still have relationships and get married, and go to church and talk to a minister.”

But Anya Kamenetz, whose 2010 book, “DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education,” tracks the new wave of Web-based education efforts, says the new institutions will only continue to improve and expand. “For some people, it will mean going from a good education to a great one,” she said. “For others, it will mean getting some kind of education, instead of nothing.”

The emerging menu of new offerings is startlingly varied, as are the institutions. One unaccredited nonprofit startup, University of the People, gives English-speaking high school graduates a chance to study business or computers free, with volunteer teachers. There are also budding joint ventures between brick-and-mortar campuses and online entities, like Ivy Bridge College — a collaboration between Tiffin University, a nonprofit school in Ohio, and Altius Education, a commercial business, offering two-year online degrees transferrable to dozens of partner four-year colleges. And there are grass-roots nonprofits like Peer 2 Peer University, where people start study groups on topics as diverse as JavaScript and Baroque art.

Nationwide, almost three quarters of college students attend public institutions, and commercial career colleges like the University of Phoenix and Kaplan now make up almost as much of the remaining quarter as traditional nonprofit private universities like Stanford or Duke. Many of the emerging models are far cheaper than the publicly traded career colleges, some of which have come under scrutiny over the last year for leaving students with mountains of debt and credentials of little value.

Most are still new and very small, making it hard to locate students who have used them, other than those referred by the businesses themselves.

And it is too soon to know which will take off, or what might come along to overtake them.

“I’m just waiting for a Wikipedia University, with high-quality, online, open-source courses provided by a variety of different people,” said Richard Vedder, an Ohio University economics professor who directs the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. “Or the moment when someone like Bill Gates creates Superstar University, finding the best professors for the 200 courses that a good liberal arts college offers, and paying them $25,000 each to put their classes online.”

Plagiarist and philanderer Martin Luther King was honored Monday when a 30-foot statue crafted in Communist China was unveiled on the National Mall in DC.

Tourists queuing for their "first shots" at King? James Earl Ray may have beaten them to it.

Who better to depict a commie than another commie? Mao, King, and Obama, definitely three of a kind. If King was "turning over" in his grave it would only be to get his plagiarising ass kissed again by the leftist news media.

Did the Chinese guy get MLK mixed up with Shaq?

Quote:

As tourists queue up for their first shots with the statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at the new memorial to the slain civil rights leader, many are asking why a Chinese sculptor was hired to do the statue instead of an American. (Getty Images)

King Would 'Turn Over in Grave' at Made-in-China Statue
Tuesday, 23 Aug 2011 12:10 PM

By Jim Meyers

The Martin Luther King Memorial was opened to the public on Monday to much fanfare, but one fact was largely overlooked amid the hoopla: The 30-foot statue of King was made in China.

The statue forms the centerpiece of a $120 million, four-acre memorial to the slain civil rights leader on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

The statue, which will be dedicated Sunday, shows King emerging from a mountain of Chinese granite with his arms crossed.

Lei Yixin, a master sculptor from Changsha, China, was commissioned to carry out the work.

“Critics have openly asked why a black, or at least an American, artist was not chosen and even remarked that Dr. King appears slightly Asian in Mr. Lei’s rendering,” The Telegraph reported.

Lei, who has carved two statues of Mao Tse-tung, carried out almost all the work in Changsha. Then more than 150 granite blocks were shipped to Baltimore and reassembled by a team of 100 workers, including 10 Chinese stone masons brought over for the project.

Ed Dwight, a sculptor in Denver, told The Telegraph that King would be “turning over in his grave” if he knew his statue had been sculpted by an artist living under a communist regime.

Lei also has prepared a bronze bust of Barack Obama that he intends to give the president as a gift.