I was lucky enough to recieve the road map for the BSBA from another forum member. Take a look and let me jknow your thoughts if you would change anything for the easier. I am still waiting for my academic evaulation from 4-5transcipts to fill in electives and maybe a few Gen Ed. courses.

Thanks!

Road Map

This is my first post and I just started a membership today. I am trying to work towards a BAS in Information Systems Security. I have almost no college credit as is and I want to do CLEP tests to help with the general ed courses.

Can any suggest CLEP exams that are a bit easier then other exams or maybe some resources?

Thanks.

Hi,

I am currently studying for Business Law and I bought the REA book.
The IC covered a lot of checks and forges , but I don't even see them mentioned in the REA.

Any suggestions about the actual test would be greatly appreciated.

I am looking into taking some online courses (the cheaper the better) and I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions. I really need music theory 1&2 and music history 1&2. I know this is kind of scarce so I may end up taking them at a community college. But if you know of any courses that are on the inexpensive side let me know! (even if they aren't music related)
Thank you so much for your help!!!

Hello,

I'm sorry if this question has been answered in the past. I was unable to find it. Does one need to be enrolled at tesc to take a TECEP exam?

Thanks :confused:

If government shuts down, so would troop pay - Navy News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Navy Times

If government shuts down, so would troop pay

By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Mar 11, 2011 12:08:58 EST

U.S. troops could be required to report to work without pay if a budget clash in Congress results in a government-wide shutdown, according to draft planning guidance circulating in the Pentagon.

A shutdown could happen as early as next week, as the government is set to run out of money at midnight March 17. A bill that would keep the government operating temporarily has been prepared in the House of Representatives, but it is not clear when or if it might pass.

The government has been operating under a series of temporary appropriations, known as continuing resolutions, since Oct. 1 because of lawmakers’ inability to agree on how much money to provide federal agencies. Budget discussions have become increasingly complicated since the November general elections resulted in a divided legislature, with Republicans controlling the House and Democrats controlling the Senate.

When the government was shut down in 1995, military personnel continued to report to work and were paid, but the planning guidance sent to the services and defense agencies says a shutdown this time will be different.

“All military personnel will continue in normal duty status regardless of their affiliation with exempt or non-exempt activities,” says the draft planning guidance that was prepared for the services and defense agencies. “Military personnel will serve without pay until such time as Congress makes appropriated funds available to compensate them for this period of service.”

Discuss
• Possible pay stoppage
Troops would miss a payday only if the shutdown continues through April 1.

Defense civilian workers would be divided into two categories. “Essential” employees would be required to report to work even though they will not be paid; “nonessential” employees would be furloughed, according to the memo.

Troops and essential civilians who report for work without pay would receive back pay when government funding is restored. But whether furloughed civilians would receive back pay could depend on whether Congress specifically authorizes that, according to congressional aides who have been doing their own shutdown planning.

The memo, prepared in early March but never formally issued as guidance, attempts to spell out what defense missions would shut down and what would stay open in the event funding stops.

• Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will continue, including preparations for any units scheduled for deployment.

• Operations necessary for national security, safety of human life and protection of property will continue, but operations that don’t meet one of those three criteria will be “shut down in an orderly and deliberate fashion.”

• Recruiting offices, processing centers and basic training will remain operational.

• Emergency repairs and maintenance that cannot be deferred will be done on base facilities and housing.

• Medical and dental facilities will remain open, although elective surgery and procedures will be postponed. Suicide, substance abuse counseling and crisis intervention will continue.

• Dependents schools and education centers for service members will be open for use by private agencies for courses for which payment already has been made.

• Dining halls, gyms and child care centers will stay open.

• Base exchanges may remain open because they operate using nonappropriated funds. But commissaries, which are supported by taxpayer funds, may be closed, although the memo says military personnel might be assigned to replace furloughed civilians so the grocery stores could remain open.



Just a thought to all you civilians out there... imagine being told you have to show up to work without pay and if you don't you'll be arrested and court martialed... Something to consider next time you want to "trim the budget by cutting military benefits/pay" as some have mentioned.

Is anyone here who have done the research in nursing Exam for Excelsior, I will be doing this exam soon and would like to get any valid tips that will help me pass this exam.
Thanks

Yvonne

Is there anyone who have taken Excelsior college Research in nursing Exam, I will be taking this exam soon and will like to get some valid tips. Thanks

Yvonne

doesn't mean you have the right to act like an animal when you come out and treat the civilian populace like crap. Plus you don't know who of the civilian people you run across may also have served.

Ok. Here is the story.

I was on the train today with my son. There are signs that clearly say "NO ALCOHOL, NO SMOKING."

This guy next to me pulls out a cigarette, a can of open beer in his hand and starts talking about all the illegals on the train with his friend next to him, using many expletives that I did not want my son to hear.

I am guessing by looking at him is that he is in the Navy, from Great Lakes Naval base, probably first weekend after bootcamp that he's free to galivant around Chicago.

He also looks a bit too young to be drinking. Regardless, it's not allowed on the train so I tell him that drinking is allowed on the suburban commuter train but not allowed on the el train(the city train.) and smoking is prohibited in both places. He looks at me, puffs some smoke at me and tells me, "I serve my country, I can do whatever I want."

Really? So you can serve in the military and then when you get out you can disobey the law?

I could have also told him I served and I don't go around dropping F- bombs and smoking and drinking in places I shouldn't, especially around children. His talk of illegals on the train was just ignorant. I knew that me and one of my neighbors who is Mexican - American on the train also served.

Even without that, the F- bombs around my son and the smoking and drinking were too much.

I simply told him he needs to show respect to his uniform by acting like a gentleman when he is out of the uniform.

His response -"witch." except he used the word that starts with a B and rhymes with witch.

Most of the people I see from the navy base coming to Chicago for their free weekend are very respectful. It just seems that certain ones are more memorable, unfortunately.

My 5 yr old attends a local Montessori school and I am very pleased with his progress. At first I was a little put off when he would bring home subtraction, addition, multiplication and division problems. All I remembered back in kindergarten was learning my numbers and letters, and that was that! I was afraid that they were forcing these kids to learn too much too soon so I requested a conference. After spending a day in his class and observing how they were taught, I was very impressed. They use beads,rods, little bricks or whatever they call them to help them calculate. It's quite interesting and instead of memorizing multiplication tables, etc ...they are learning their numbers and math concepts by touching and feeling these manipulatives. I wish I had been taught math like that. I still remember my first grade teacher hitting my hand with a ruler for counting with my fingers!

Anyways, to get to the funny story....it seems my son is now learning the decimal system.


I asked him what he did in school on Fri. His answer- " An evil alien in my class is making me learn the decimal system. If I don't learn it, he buries me underneath beads and bricks!"