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"Little Dominelli" Gets Nine Years in Slammer
Yes, not a good idea to hang around the place you scammed.....— May 26, 2010 4:52 p.m.
San Diego’s newest corporate darling, Bridgepoint Education
State universities do their share of cranking out, shall we say, 900-day Wonders? By Twister ============== I am surprised at Twister and this comment, and it has been echoed by others in this thread as well. There seems to be a misconception that getting a degree from a state university is easy, or at least easier than private universities. My experience is the exact opposite-it is much harder to get a degree from a state supported university than a private one. State universities get funding based on their enrollment, so the state schools have a financial incentive to keep students in their school for as long as possible, and they do this by adding in numerous tests and extra classes designed to keep students in the school. The CSU and UC system are extremely hard to graduate from, and have numerous hurdles to jump over to get out, and it is far more competitive in their graduate level work/programs where just 20% graduate-as compared to just 25% of undergraduates (this using SDSU numbers). SDSU has about 10 joint PhD programs, the CSU system by design does not grant PhD's on it's own, only UC does. And to obtain a PhD from a UC campus is very difficult, certainly not in 900 days-or about 2 years. I would estimate the average PhD program at 4-5 years with 4.5 years being the mean time frame to graduate. Very hard academics in CA in my opinion.— May 26, 2010 7:56 a.m.
Brain Bucketless
Glad it was minor.— May 25, 2010 11:21 p.m.
I Feel the Earth Move
I felt it-and everytime I feel a quake I look at the clock= 8:44 PM— May 25, 2010 11:19 p.m.
"Little Dominelli" Gets Nine Years in Slammer
There were some "currency traders" in UTC in the late 90's who were all very shady-I wonder if this guy was one of them. They would not tell you where their office was located or who was running the firm-BIG red flags, anyone who had a brain and heard that baloney and didn't run as fast as they could the opposite direction almost deserved to be scammed. Don, do you remember International Trading Group ITG,who were peddling commodities back in the 80's, or how about Oxford Investments (which was right across the street from UTC at La Jolla Village Drive and Towne Centre????). What about Walker and Wellington in UTC (originally in OC), another precious metals brokerage......that went BK. Monex from OC also had a UTC office selling the precious metals, but Monex is some what legit, and still in business after 40 years. You remember any of these firms?— May 25, 2010 9:26 p.m.
Casino economy
San Diego State’s vendors included the Barona Valley Rancho Resort and Casino, ============== I wonder what that was for? I would imagine some sort of retreat of pow wow, with gambling as the entree. Very poor leadership.— May 25, 2010 7:24 p.m.
SDNN Closes Orange County Operation
Not good news, but I do think the SDNN business model will succeed.— May 25, 2010 1:21 p.m.
San Diego Shines in Wobbly Case-Shiller Numbers
House of cards.......wait and see. Housing is not going anywhere-no jobs. And we have a structural deficit that is going to copllapse the entire city-then the region.— May 25, 2010 1:21 p.m.
Neurocrine Zooms as Rest of Market Wilts
Hey, didn't everyone hear, Big Ben Bernanke said the recession OVER- in fact he said it ended 6 months ago! I predict the stock market may remain at or around the current rate for as long as 10 or 15 years-maybe longer. And things will get worse before they get better (our structural deficits-local state federal- are getting worse instead of improving, the the federal gov's deficit spending is so far off the hook it is a miracle we have not collapsed into total chaos and anarchy already).— May 25, 2010 1:19 p.m.
The Doctor Is In
My dear feline's mysterious past includes living in a foreign country. Suffice to say she would not be welcome in Arizona if her activities and true citizenship were known. =============== Simple fix, just get kitty some forged papers, problem solved!— May 24, 2010 2:17 p.m.