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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (43646)	12/8/2008 6:22:26 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217593

seeker, i actually believe as the bankers now do, and they are not taking in new borrowing/trade facility customers because this is not a good time to get to know new customers in alignment, i am at this juncture not interested in individual stocks etf's will do for now 2009 low can be lower than 2008 low, even though 2008 has so far been an oh whoa wee gee whiz bang year finance.yahoo.com^gspc;range=1y;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined cheers, tj

To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (43646)	12/8/2008 7:03:33 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217593

Degree Fraud all over - Broadcomm and other companies - frauddiscovery.net Iran interior minister news.bbc.co.uk This is rich.... MP's fake degree stokes anger in Iran Jon Leyne BBC News, Tehran Farce of the fake Oxford degree. It would make a good title for a comedy. But it is in danger of turning to political tragedy for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. For years, Iran's Interior Minister Ali Kordan has claimed to hold a doctorate from Oxford University and taken increased pay as a result. But in recent months, it emerged that the document was a crude forgery, containing several misspellings. As for the minister, he did not even seem to know the name of the institution, which he continued to describe as the "London Oxford University". In fact, it turned out he did not have a degree from any university, despite having worked as a university lecturer. The minister insisted he had acted in good faith, after he was offered the degree by someone claiming to be the Tehran representative of the "London Oxford University". Impeachment But in an angry impeachment debate in parliament, one MP said the minister had regaled his own students with tales of his student days at Oxford. Other MPs attacked President Ahmadinejad for his naivety in believing the minister's lies. All of this was stoked by a blatant attempt to buy off the impeachment by an aide of the president. The official offered wads of cash to MPs - the equivalent of $5,000 (£3,150) each. They were told it was for mosques in their constituencies. But one of two sheets of papers they were asked to sign was actually a form withdrawing their names from the impeachment motion. The incident led to a punch-up in the parliament and the dismissal of the official. As for President Ahmadinejad, he angered academics and Iran's many hard-working students by arguing that degrees did not matter as they were only "pieces of paper." Then he infuriated MPs by claiming the impeachment hearing was illegitimate, and he was not going to attend. So, it is not even clear yet whether the president will accept the dismissal of his minister. Vote of confidence But according to the letter of the constitution, he should now put up the whole of his remaining cabinet for a vote of confidence. In Iran's sometimes devious politics, it was assumed for a while that President Ahmadinejad had engineered the humiliation of his interior minister in order to replace him with a closer political ally. But the president has stood by Mr Kordan, and their political fates have become increasingly intertwined. The crisis has turned into a lightning rod for growing discontent over Mr Ahmadinejad. As the economy moves from bad to worse, he is becoming increasingly unpopular. And as oil prices continue to tumble, everyone is asking how much is left from the windfall of $147 (£93) a barrel oil. With presidential elections due next summer, Mr Ahmadinejad is in some trouble.

To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (43646)	12/8/2008 7:27:49 PM
From: acementhead	Respond to of 217593

”...false academic credentials.” Ah, credentials,Very Important. Lets look at a couple of examples. Bill Gates: Credentials equal zero. George Bush: MBA from Harvard, no less. I know which I'd put my money on. Seriously though, ability is of far greater importance than “credentials”, in order to get good results. In fact it's all that counts. Sometimes credentials even prevent good performance. For example I know a person, with zero teaching credentials, who taught two baby girls, separately, to read. He started teaching them at age 12 months and stopped about 36 months because by then they were learning so fast, by themselves(and with Sesame Street), that further teaching was superfluous. By the time they entered school at age 5 they were reading at about nine year old level. Years later he met a highly qualified school teacher woman who insisted that it was impossible to teach babies to read. She was wrong. He was right. Her credentials prevented high achievement. Bah to credentials.