You can get into Axia, otherwise known as the University of Phoenix very quick.

How quick?

They, the Enrollment Counselor at Phoenix will walk you through on the phone and tell you what to click in order to get your MPN, otherwise known as your Master Promissory Note. This MPN is what locks you into the loans you are asking for, like subsidized and unsubsidized loans. You will get immediate help and be nudged into getting it done quickly.

The University of Phoenix are a polite staff that have a deferment policy that forces you to sign a MPN with their list of Lenders. This list, if you do not choose one on it will force you to wait until fianancial aid comes to start. There are good lenders on the list, I had no problems with Wells Fargo for instance. The nudging gets _HARD_ at this point for you to sign as you are one step closer to being locked into paying loans.

Franklin.edu on the other hands forces you to take a test in order to sign the MPN. This test makes you understand all the aspects of the MPN and what you will expect in the future. Phoenix does not force you to answer questions, rather, they just ask that you agree  without expecting you to show knowledge about the subject.

If you want to know what you are getting into, Franklin will test you on the subject of borrowing money. Phoenix will show you the information and quickly speak on the phone to get you started but requires no testing of the pitfalls of Stafford loans.

Franklin is looking out for you as there exists the possibility you might not understand what is going on. I must concur at this point that Phoenix, while good for some students, is interested in money first then education. I received my education the first year but can fully understand why some did not and are left with bills to pay.

You see the hype and hear from your friends: “The Magic Jack is great” but I do not agree. I had a client tell me it was great device only to learn he returned during the trial too. He had the same problem I encountered: I could not make a call.

The technical glitches are varied, but my complaint was that you seemed to have to perform Magic to get it to work. My wife had to press “end” on the client that runs on your computer in order to make a call while repeated dialing attempts returned me to dial tone.

What good is $19.95 a year phone service when you simply cannot make a call at least %50 of the time? Two out of the three times I tried to use the Magic Jack, it failed to dial or required multiple tries. When I tried to RMA the unit, I got a “page not found” and had to click twice to get the page to load. The failure to call when trying and multiple attempts to RMA is just laughable and evidence for me it is a waste of time.

By the way, my RMA # is near the 200,000 mark. Does it seem odd that if they sold 2,000,000 of the units and 200,000 RMA numbers are out there it might be a bit of Magic in advertising? Time will tell if I get my monies refunded but if it does not return, Magic will make my complaint appear here.

I hope to elaborate later on Chantix, how it helped me and especially the words from a medical student who shall remain forever anonymous except for this statement:

The following three things are true of smoking:

1. You get poor
2. You get sick
3. Tobacco companies make money

I could of course add a fourth:

4. You get cancer, if you believe in that sort of thing.

I might have screwed up the words a bit, but I hope you get the point. Put down the stick of sick and live a free live.

Zero Smoke.

Franklin.edu has a distinction of having two pages of information about preferred lenders. Franklin University takes lengthy time to explain the difference in types of loans and the reasons some charges happen when you take money.

Axia has no such page when you are rushing through the pages, just an enrollment officer trying to push you to sign today. They also refuse to defer your tuition unless you choose one of their preferred lenders. Franklin claims no such distinction, instead just promotes it is faster.

In a CNN story about wind turbines John Yancey talks about life staying the same way. He speaks of shadows and noise that upsets his sleep. Get some insulation, earplugs or play some ambient noise. Find a solution instead of bickering.

Listen Mr. Yancey…. for a person that is so tough I lived next to a church that had a loudspeaker play bells for up to an hour every Sunday. Guess what happened after I stopped complaining about them? I didn’t notice the sounds any longer when I stopped bickering.  I’ve heard turbines and the sound I have heard pales in comparison to the speaker system that blasted bells less than 50 feet from my bedroom that was underground. It was louder than my 15″ sub woofers.

If you want your life to stay the same, namely not live in a scorched earth that can no longer sustain life then you should just quit complaining. Your father is doing what is economically, enviromentally and just plain right. I hope my son does not hate me when he gets a small electric car that hums too loud and is not an atmosphere nightmare.

Shame, you hate your father for trying to make money and help save the world. Would you rather have no world to complain about? You sound a lot like Mark Cuban so I have to wonder if you two are related.

It is truly useful to just type in quicken trial 2008 deluxe and just about even visiting intuit’s site, which just did not work. Btw that link for the quicken trial 2008 deluxe is here

I was once a supporter in the Axia branch that is the online classes for UoP. The curriculum appears sound from real people I’ve spoken to that should know what it takes to get into college.  The issue from what I can tell is the administration of the college in general.

In the next few months I will blog a little more about what drove me from attending for a second year. For now, I can say that it is lack of accountability inherent in what they do, the teachers that is. So a word of warning, your teacher can ignore emails requesting information and you will never know one way or the other what happened.

“I told you so” or “Did you read rip off report?” comments will be denied. I learned a lot in a year but the learning is not the issue here and if you want to wait there is a valuable lesson to learn.

I had this problem too, being told that something was wrong with SSL or TLS. My solution? Rapid click on the “Ok” and then back on your unactivated device in Itunes. Within 3 minutes my pre 2.0 iPhone was activated, with my previous “wait a few minutes” was fruitless after over 15 minutes of waiting.

I am assured that rapid clicking helped. The chances of getting that free server slot is just much higher if you click fast.

Recently I had the (dis)pleasure of hearing an employeer tell me that they had intentially tried to make an employee mad. Why would someone do this? I implored them to realize that it was not right in any way to provoke your own employee.  I felt very upset over this, given that the person involved was more than 10 years younger than the manager.

Had the employee done anything wrong? I had asked myself the question for a week, asked friends and bounced the situation off a lot of websites. In the end I concluded that in fact the employee did nothing in public to suggest that the reason the manager gave me. Intentionally trying to make the employee mad is not only bad, but makes someone appear liable if that employee decides to crash their car and kill five people.

Why did the manager do this? I asked this question the most in the last week and have only the manager’s own explanation as to why. I examined the accusations and can find no fault by the employee, yet only reckless libel laced behavior by the manager.

If you are a manager, take some tips from Casey Hawley who wrote these ideas:

1. Your employees are not going to talk to you about faults.
2. When you think an employee is truly trying to make you mad, write a letter in his or her point of view. After you are done, you might see how paranoid you really are and what a fool you could have played the part of.
3.  Do not clip people when they talk, give appropriate time for a response. No matter what do not ever talk over people. If you think you do not do this, ask a friend or an employee if you do. Listen to both of the people you ask and wonder why one told you that you don’t.

In the end, the only employee that tries to make you mad is the one you already did that to. I’m glad that if you’re a manager and you’ve read this article this will never happen to you. I am the employee in Hawley’s book that cannot get an appropriate response from his employer. Taking my frustration out on a blog is the better route for anyone when anger is an issue, even if you do not feel angry. Take it easy on the little guys that work for you and for everything Holy: do not ever try to provoke an employee into anger.