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I asked a question before about my 2.3 GPA and if it is possible for me to get a job when I graduate with a bachelor’s in Computer Network Specialist from Penn State affiliated school. I am worried now that I have a “worthless” degree by the responses. I have been hearing the networking field is growing rapidly and shouldn’t be a problem to find a job is this true?
My school (Penn College of Technology) says there is over a 90% job placement for my degree which gave me hope when I started there.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Militants on Monday launched their fourth assault in a week on strategic targets across Pakistan, this time with a suicide car bombing against a military vehicle in a crowded market in the northwest, killing 41 people and wounding dozens more.
The bombing took place in the Shangla District, an area within the Swat Valley but under separate administration. The Pakistani military had declared the valley cleared of militants after an offensive this summer and announced that the Taliban were a shattered force.
Since the Swat campaign and the death of the Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, in an American drone strike in August, the militants have been relatively quiet. But the attack on Monday showed they could still shake the country with serious terrorist attacks in a short period over a wide geographic spread.
It was the latest in a series clearly intended to prove the Taliban’s resilience, to exact revenge for government and American strikes, and to discourage the Pakistani military from expanding its campaign into South Waziristan, the heartland of the Taliban in Pakistan.
The Pakistani Air Force has been pounding areas of South Waziristan in the last day, a prelude to a possible ground campaign, military officials said. Hundreds are reported to have fled in recent days in expectation of an attack.
On Saturday, in one of their boldest gambits, 10 militants dressed in army fatigues and armed with automatic weapons, mines, grenades and suicide jackets breached the perimeter of the army headquarters in Rawalpindi in a raid that left 23 people dead and set off a 20-hour siege.
The standoff ended Sunday morning with the rescue of 39 hostages by army commandos, but showed that even a building of the intelligence wing of the army was vulnerable to Taliban attacks. On Monday, the Pakistani Army announced that it had a telephone intercept showing that the Tehrik-e-Taliban, the umbrella organization of the Pakistani Taliban, was responsible for the assault.
The group’s deputy, Wali ur-Rehman, was heard telling a colleague by phone after the raid had begun to pray for the success of the operation, the army spokesman, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, said at a news conference.
A Taliban spokesman, Azam Tariq, told The Associated Press on Monday that the Rawalpindi assault was to avenge Mr. Mehsud’s death. “This was our first small effort and a present to the Pakistani and American governments,” he said.
He said that the raid had been carried out by a Punjabi faction and that the Taliban had given orders to other branches in Sindh, Baluchistan and North-West Frontier Province to carry out similar operations.
The sole surviving Taliban gunman was captured by the military and identified as Muhammad Aqeel, also known as Dr. Usman, because he had once worked with the Army Medical Corps.
Mr. Aqeel was in serious condition and unconscious from wounds suffered when he tried to blow himself up, the military spokesman said. He is a member of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Punjabi militant group affiliated with Al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban, General Abbas said.
A senior police officer in Punjab said Mr. Aqeel led the commando operation against the Sri Lankan cricket team during its visit to Lahore in March, and military officials said he was behind a suicide bombing that killed the army surgeon general in 2008. On Friday, in the busiest bazaar in Peshawar, the capital of North-West Frontier Province, militants set off a car bomb that killed 48 people. Last Monday, five people were killed when a suicide bomber dressed in military fatigues walked through the security cordon at the World Food Program offices of the United Nations in Islamabad.
The attack in Shangla on Monday was clearly aimed to shake the confidence of the underfinanced local government and the people who returned to their homes only two months ago after the military operation in Swat.
Among the dead were six soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, who were part of a quick response force and four newly recruited members of a community police force, a local police official said. Last month, the Taliban sent a suicide bomber to a police training center in the Swat capital, Mingora, resulting in the deaths of 16 new policemen.
One Pakistan general angrily denounced Monday’s bombing as “a diversionary tactic” that would not dissuade the Pakistani military from carrying out an expected offensive in South Waziristan. But the officer conceded that there was no “foolproof antidote” to stop suicide bombers, and acknowledged that the militants could conduct such attacks at will.
The officer said the bombing in the crowded market in Shangla District on Monday, as well as the bombing on Friday in Peshawar, could backfire against the militants, and present the Pakistani military and civilian government with a chance to tap into public anger over civilian deaths.
“There is opportunity in calamity,

NEW YORK (AP) — After weeks of insisting they wouldn’t cave in, NFL officials did just that Wednesday. Now all of America can see the Patriots’ shot at history.
Saturday night’s game between New England and the New York Giants on the NFL Network, which is available in fewer than 40 percent of the nation’s homes with TVs, will be simulcast on CBS and NBC.
The Patriots could become the first NFL team to go 16-0 in the regular season.
“We have taken this extraordinary step because it is in the best interest of our fans,” commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement after the league announced it was reversing course. “What we have seen for the past year is a very strong consumer demand for NFL Network. We appreciate CBS and NBC delivering the NFL Network telecast on Saturday night to the broad audience that deserves to see this potentially historic game. Our commitment to the NFL Network is stronger than ever.”
NFL Network spokesman Seth Palansky said officials would have no further comment Wednesday.
The NFL had claimed that the onus of making the game widely available fell on the major cable providers with which the league has bitterly feuded. Companies such as Comcast and Time Warner have declined to carry the network as part of basic packages.
But lawmakers have pressured the NFL to ensure more viewers could see the game. Last week, two prominent members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Goodell threatening to reconsider the league’s antitrust exemption.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who co-wrote the letter with Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he was “delighted” by the NFL’s concession.
“I think it was a smart move on their part,” he said in a phone interview.
Leahy expected to speak with Goodell again next month about the ongoing question of how many fans will be able to see games on the channel. Saturday’s matchup wraps up the NFL Network’s second season of airing live contests, with eight per year. This one and a key Thursday night game between Green Bay and Dallas last month drew widespread complaints about the lack of availability.
“I never completely gave up hope, but I was getting a little discouraged Christmas afternoon when we still had not gotten a positive answer,” said Leahy, who added that his staff members were talking with NFL officials during the holiday.
Local TV affiliates in the Boston, Manchester, N.H., and New York areas that were already set to simulcast the game under NFL policy will still air it. That means viewers in those markets will have four channels to choose from if they get NFL Network.
That did not make officials at WWOR in New York happy.
“The NFL is in clear violation of their agreement with WWOR/My9,” the station said in a statement. “We fully expect the league to honor their commitment to My9 as the exclusive free over-the-air broadcaster for Saturday’s telecast of the New England Patriots at New York Giants game.”
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who had urged cable and NFL executives to settle the dispute, had a much more positive reaction to the league’s announcement.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled that as the Patriots rush toward an historic undefeated season, football fans everywhere have won a victory of their own,” Kerry said. “With today’s announcement, the NFL showed their loyalty to the sports fans who made the NFL an empire in the first place.
“The best news of all is that now no die-hard Pats fans will be shut out from watching their team take aim at football history,” Kerry said in a statement.
This will be the first three-network simulcast in NFL history and the first simulcast of an NFL game since the inaugural Super Bowl in 1967, when CBS and NBC televised the meeting of the champions of the newly merged National Football League and American Football League.
“We’re happy to accommodate the NFL’s request for a joint national simulcast of this potentially historic game to make it available to the widest possible audience,” said Dick Ebersol, NBC Universal’s chairman for sports and Olympics.
NBC was scheduled to air “Dateline NBC” and a repeat of “Law & Order: SVU” during the time slot. CBS was set to broadcast the movie “Good Night, and Good Luck” and “48 Hours: Mysteries.”

I went to bed last night with a very heavy weight on my chest and a distant feeling of doom eminent around the corner. Am I being a little dramatic, maybe? But did you watch any of the election results? We have voted against life and precious little children, the sanctity of marriage, belief in God, personal protection and the 2nd amendment, protecting our boarders, we voted against the free market and business and good old fashion hard work. And what about becoming self-reliant in energy?…that’s not going to happen, regardless of the fact that We (America) are the Saudi Arabia of Coal. Obama says he will “bankrupt” anyone who chooses to exercise the right to develop clean coal or any type of coal energy. We have traded in all those things that make our country great for the Marxist views of Obama, his supporters and his radical acquaintances. Yes, I just called him a Marxist, and I meant it, I’ve studied the theories of Karl Marx in detail, so I’m not just throwing around the term as a buzz word. He is a Marxist. Is there anything good about Obama? Sure, as a person I’m sure he is a good man, father and husband. I think he’ll do great things for our foreign relations and I do think it’s great that our country is in a place that we can elect a black president, I love it, in fact…I just don’t want it to be this black president, not this man. He’s full of lies and empty promises. While he spins his eloquent rhetoric of the “ideal” society he will spend trillions more in money we don’t have, and open our boarders for terrorists and radicals to take over and tax away all the hard earned money of those who work hard to make this country better, he’ll destroy our quality health care and it will be rationed away like food-stamps. Can anyone, ANYONE, out there name a single socialized country where their healthcare works? (I could go on all day on this topic, so maybe I’ll just save it for it’s very own post). I’ve been told by some that this is mean-hearted…well to that I say, Americans are the most generous and giving people in the world. Allow us to stay that way, let us be generous and give and help and provide…don’t hand it over to the government to ruin. Because they will, you just watch. I know hundreds of doctors that give away their treatment and help to those truly in need, and I’m sure there are thousands more out there that I don’t know that do the same. Millions of people donate their time to help at charities. People are donating to the food-banks and DI type donation centers all the time. All these charities are run by individuals or companies NOT affiliated with the government, and they WORK. If we start handing all those responsibilities over to the government to take care of…these charities will go by the wayside. It’s happened in Europe, Asia and Australia. Think about it. Is there any country more charitable than here? Why do you think that is. For example: why would a Doctor or a Dentist give away his service’s to help the needy when he’s already required to give away all of his service for a government decided salary? And, how do you decide who is in need?…with lots of paperwork, lines and regulations. Look at the tax system if you have any doubt!
‘You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen
the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by
discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage
payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.’ - Abraham Lincoln
On another note. From a religious standpoint we know that we are living in the last days. The decay of our morals and values is a good sign of that. BUT we still must stand up for the things that are right, like the right to life, the sanctity of marriage and so on…because no one else will. I don’t condone people who live a different lifestyle than I do, and I don’t think anyone should - but I do think that we must stand as an example of those things that Christ lived for…and died for. (And we should vote in support of those values as well) Because in these coming days when “everything goes”, it’s going to be really easy to just fall in step with the norm so as not to ruffle any feathers. I honestly believe that is what happened in this election (and I’m not just talking on a national level, it happened on a local level all across the country with many of the politicians put into office) people fell for the popularity and excitement surrounding the candidates and never bothered to look at what they actually stood for. ***I disagree, I need help proving her little rant is over exaggerated and false. Thanks!

I am currently employed at Kroger (super market) in Evans, GA as a courtesy clerk (bagger). I have been there now since 10Novermber 2009. I love bagging, but I have bigger goals.
I am wondering what is the best way to get moved up in the company? My goals is as followed:
I would like to learn how to run a cash register and work at the Customer Service desk. Or Work Sea Food/Meat Dept or Deli/Bakery.
or GM/Nutrition or Produce.
The managers and supervisors say that they hire within, but they also said that they never post openings for our particular store, however most of them say that for a 25 year old male with aspergers and from observing me that my best bet is produce del/bakery and or customer service.
Now the question is should I go ahead and talk to my dept manager or one of the above dept managers? I am very eager to learn new skills and I absoultely love where I am working (kroger in general) this is the best company I have ever worked for.
I would prefer to have those who have worked for the company before or curent associates or managers of Kroger or its affiliates to answer this question please.
Also the only jobs that are listed are only for other stores, and I don’t want to leave the store I am currently working at now because its only 5 mins from the house, everyone is so friendly and knows what they are doing and the managers actually take time to do the right training etc.
Not to mention the Store Manager and two of the floor supervisors are always complimenting me on a job well done and I even have certain customers who request me to bag strictly for them.

Regulations. He testified in congress 1998 that Regulations serve no useful purpose and hinders the efficiencies of markets to enlarge standards of living”. Robert Rubin Treasury secretary (1995-99)agreed but voiced qualms. Lawrence Summers who replaced Rubin opposed regulations completely.
They all sought a lame self regulation rule and then pursued the idea of a clearing house.
SEC had became alarmed because it lost its authority over fraud and insider trading. The SEC used to have authority over the brokerage arms of investment banks such as Lehman brothers and Bear Stearns but were in the dark about its holding companies and unregulated affiliates.
2004- Europe pushed for US transparency on these holding companies, unachievable without regulation.By then the damage has been done. To this day there are still no regulations.
All 5 brokerages filed bankcruptcies or converted into commercial banks.

While child-man Obama blusters about Ghandi and peace in Norway, Jihad continues …
Ralph Peters writes today:
In recent weeks, a renewed epidemic of suicide bombings has swept Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, climaxing in huge blasts in Baghdad that killed 130 innocents on Tuesday.
The Obama administration says these bombings have nothing to do with religion. It’s purely coincidental that the perps preach severe Islam. The attacks are merely meant to destabilize governments.
Once again, we grasp at a comforting explanation, deceiving ourselves. Yes, Islamist fanatics want to disrupt Pakistani society and Iraq’s upcoming elections. But they’re not butchering thousands of Muslims just over ward politics.
Our make-nice president and even our generals refuse to accept the core motivation for mass atrocities committed by al Qaeda, the Taliban and affiliates: It’s about punishing imperfect believers and infidels.
But “punishment” isn’t even in our vocabulary.
When a bomb strikes a government ministry, that’s one thing. But attacks that routinely turn public markets, clinics or schools into bloody craters aren’t just about political rivalries.
True fanatics don’t really want to reform or convert you. They need to make you suffer to please their god — and for their own psychological needs. Aztecs without the architecture, fanatics always crave an angry god. They may preach the kingdom of heaven, but long to burn others in hell.
Religious fanatics delight in killing and torturing the imperfect and impure. It’s not about justice or redemption. The fanatic’s joy lies in the deed itself, in the god-like thrill of inflicting pain. Religious butchers really love their work. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/ope…

I learned something about Haiti and Jamaica. I am certain it has occurred elsewhere. The countries get cash strapped and borrow huge loans from the World Bank and USAID. The World Bank make conditions with these loans, that allow international manufacturing plants to be set up ….and the loan is dependent upon allowing cheap, foreign, bulk food products like grain, milk products, potatoes….to be brought in to the country and dumped onto the market. Soon, the local Haitian/Jamaican farmers cannot compete with the cheap, foreign, food products flooding their market. The farmers loose profits and go bankrupt. The international outfits buy up the cheap land. The poor people flee to the cities in attempts to find work in the sweat shops and few manufacturing plants. The end result is high unemployment, farmers no longer grow their local food stuffs….and the nation is indebted (legally bound to) to the International Bankers. Economic disaster for the Haitians/Jamaicans…..Economic takeover by the corporate elite affiliated with World Bank sleazy contracts.
Corporate America had arrived years earlier with the removal of the democratically elected former leader of Haiti….and with the introduction of the World Bank sly “takeover” loans.
John Perkins biography… “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”
According to his book, Perkins’ function was to convince the political and financial leadership of underdeveloped countries to accept enormous development loans from institutions like the World Bank and USAID. Saddled with huge debts they could not hope to pay, these countries were forced to acquiesce to political pressure from the United States on a variety of issues.

NYT in 1999 wrote,
Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets — including the New York metropolitan region — will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.
”From the perspective of many people, including me, this is another thrift industry growing up around us,” said Peter Wallison a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. ”If they fail, the government will have to step up and bail them out the way it stepped up and bailed out the thrift industry.”
So for all you out there blaming capitalism for all of our problems… Part of the root cause just so happened to be a socialist policy.
Now everyone affiliated with both parties shouldn’t be off the hook for not warning the people about this. However, why are you all blaming one guy for policies started years before his presidency?