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Regardless of what some websites or online colleges ask you to believe, accreditation is very important because it ensures that an institution meets or exceeds an established set of educational standards. As a result, courses from an accredited online college are most likely to be transferable to other colleges and universities, and degrees from an accredited college are far more likely to be valued by both your current employer and prospective employers considering you for a position. Beware of accreditation claims. Many questionable "accrediting agencies" exist. Some are outright frauds, offering "accreditation" to any institution willing to pay a fee. In fact, operators of some well known degree mills have also run these so-called accrediting agencies. State licensure, by the way, generally means little more than a minimal investment in assets and/or registration as a business entity.
Cognizant to acquire marketRx Business
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, a leading provider of global IT and business process outsourcing services, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire NJ-based marketRx, Inc., a leading provider of analytics and related software services to global life sciences companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices segments. Cognizant will pay approximately $ 135 million in cash, which will be funded from current cash reserves. This acquisition strengthens Cognizant's full-suite of offerings across all areas of the life sciences value chain from research and development and manufacturing to sales and marketing operations. marketRx combines analytics, market research and software services to provide scalable, web-based solutions in three functional areas for life sciences companies: sales management and operations, brand marketing and product management and market research.
Poor Record Keeping Means Comcast Gets To Charge Customers For Modems ...
Let's say you're a big cable ISP who has just bought another cable ISP. One of the things both you and the other cable ISP offered was an option to buy a modem or lease a modem. However, after taking over the other ISP, you discover that there are no records of which customers bought and which are leasing. What do you do? Well, if you're Comcast, you apparently just assume everyone is leasing it and start charging them a monthly fee, even if they actually had bought the modem. Even better, it didn't even bother to notify people of this change, it just added the charge, and didn't bother to do something as silly as to make it a line item on the online bill that many people check. It was on the printed bill, but for people who get the online version, they're not going to check the printed bill very often.
Brown suffers further poll slump
At Westminster the sense of doom is growing, and no single analysis of Labour's troubles seems entirely satisfactory," Martin Bright, political editor of the left-wing weekly New Statesman, wrote in commentary published on Sunday. Brown does not have to call an election until May 2010 and his advisers hope recent crises will pass, the economy will rebound and confidence in Brown and his policies will be restored before voters judge him at the ballot box. Foreign Secretary David Miliband said it was the government's job to take the difficult decisions needed to move the country forward, even if they aroused opposition. "It doesn't feel like meltdown at all," he told the BBC. "In the end, what counts are not headlines but ideas. And it's the ideas that this government in the end will live or die by." Brown was riding high in the polls after taking office.
Online Opinion Poll
While much of the reporting going on in Pakistan is from afar because of press restrictions there, the country does have a lively blogosphere. Thanks to the Poynter Institute, I have found an on-the-ground source—a blogging Pakistani dentist—who also Twitters. A blurb from Poynter: One of the easiest ways to get started is at a blog aggregator with the unlikely name of Teeth Maestro, run by Dr. Awab Alvi (a Pakistani dentist practicing in Karachi). This site offers an RSS feed and e-mail alerts — but for a couple of months now I’ve been following alerts from this site via Twitter. I’ve added Dr. Alvi’s blog fee to the Other Blogs You Should Read widget at right as well as his Twitter update box. I hope Dr. Alvi can remain free and out of harm's way while he helps inform his countrymen—and the rest of the world—about his nation’s extraordinary events.
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Filing Shows 249 Hsu Donors Received Refunds From Clinton Campaign The Los Angeles Times reports, "The full extent of accused swindler Norman Hsu's political network was revealed for the first time Monday in campaign finance reports filed by" Sen. Hillary Clinton, "who refunded $804,850 in contributions from 249 Hsu associates. The donors came from 22 states and Washington, D.C., but Californians accounted for the largest amount refunded from the Hsu network, $308,000." Romney Burning Through Cash On the GOP side, the FEC reports have pointed out a stark difference in strategy between the top Republicans. The AP reports this morning Mitt Romney spent $21 million during the 3rd quarter, "more than twice what he raised during the period and more than what he spent in previous quarters." Romney "raised $9.8 million and lent his campaign $8.5 million over the summer, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission." Rudy Giuliani "reported spending $13 million during the same period, compared to the $10.2 million he raised for the primary campaign.
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In terms of the yawning chasm between what was promised and what has been delivered, Lair earns the distinction of being the biggest letdown ever for PlayStation 3. Worse, it's also one of those games where massive prerelease hype merely ended up underscoring its flaws, transmogrifying a game that would've been simply second-rate into a $60 personal affront on a disc. What the hell happened? Waggle is what happened: motion controls shoehorned in for no good reason, making a bad game frustrating to boot. Lair casts you as Rohn, a knight who flies dragons in a Middle Earthish version of the Air Force. And, as in most fantasy settings, there's a war raging, which provides a convenient excuse to fly around exotic locales, roaring and setting things on fire. Lair's controls, while not the game's only problem, are certainly the most glaring one.
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