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Una infografía sobre las Redes Sociales en las distintas épocas.
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Redes Sociales en las distintas épocas
The woman shouting about Everest from a bridge is one of the more well-known ads that CCI uses to pitch its schools during daytime TV programming.
The letter — written by Sens. Dick Durbin (IL), Tom Harkin (IA), Barbara Boxer (CA), Sherrod Brown (OH), Jack Reed (RI), Elizabeth Warren (MA), Bill Nelson (FL), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Brian Schatz (HI), Chris Murphy (CT), Ed Markey (MA) and Mazie Hirono (HI) and addressed to Education Secretary Arne Duncan — expresses concern about allowing Corinthian to bring on new students when the company is the subject of probes by four federal agencies and at least 20 state attorneys general for its marketing practices, loan application processes, and questionable job-placement claims.
“Corinthian has shown itself to be one of the worst actors in the for-profit college industry,” write the Senators. “[W]e must not let students be held responsible for the bad actions of this company.”
In addition to putting a stop to enrolling new students, the lawmakers call on Education to require that Corinthian “fully inform students of the company’s intentions related to the sale or closure of specific campuses.”
And if Corinthian wants to continue getting any the more than $1 billion/year in federal student aid that it’s been receiving, the Senators want the company to certify that it will not enforce mandatory arbitration clauses to prevent wronged students from seeking legal claims against the company.
The recently announced deal between Corinthian and Education allows for the eventual sale of a number of the company’s campuses. But, given the number of other for-profit college operators also under regulators’ microscopes, the Senators are worried that CCI may just be handing these schools over to another company facing similar problems.
That’s why the letter asks Education to prevent Corinthian from selling campuses to other companies that are under federal or state investigation. It also wants the prohibition on binding arbitration to be extended to any business that purchases a Corinthian school.
The Senators conclude with a barrage of questions about Education’s deal with Corinthian, like when will Corinthian decide which campuses to sell, what options are going to be given to students at sold and phased-out campuses, how will online-only students be affected, and what relief will there be for students who have taken out private student loans?
Here is the full text of the letter sent by the Senators to Secretary Duncan:
[We] write to ensure that the Department of Education is doing everything it can to protect students who will be displaced or disadvantaged as a result of the impending sale or closure of Corinthian College Incorporated’s campuses nationwide. Over the past several years we have seen multiple examples of abrupt school closures that have left students in the lurch, scrambling to continue their education or discharge their loans. Corinthian College Incorporated represents a risk to students on a scale that could overwhelm the current system of support and safety net provisions for students.
Corinthian has shown itself to be one of the worst actors in the for-profit college industry – under investigation by four additional federal agencies and more than 20 State Attorneys General. It is important that the Department continue to hold Corinthian accountable for its actions, but we must not let students be held responsible for the bad actions of this company. As such, we urge the Department to:
• Immediately prohibit Corinthian from enrolling any new students.
• Require Corinthian to fully inform students of the company’s intentions related to the sale or closure of specific campuses.
• Prohibit any for-profit company or school that is under federal or state investigation from purchasing or participating in teach-out processes of any Corinthian campuses.
• Require, as a condition of receiving continued federal funding, that Corinthian certify that it will not seek to enforce mandatory arbitration clauses that preclude students who have been harmed by Corinthian’s misconduct from seeking relief in the forum of the students’ choice, and prohibit any entity that the Department permits to purchase a Corinthian school or carry out a teach-out plan from including such clauses in their enrollment agreements.
In addition, we request answers to the following questions:
• When will Corinthian Colleges designate which campuses it intends to sell and which will close?
• Do students at closing campuses have the option to refuse a planned teach-out and instead seek Closed School Discharge? If so, how will the Department ensure students are properly notified of their options?
• What process exists for borrowers who do not qualify for the Closed School Discharge to bring claims to the Department that the school’s potential violations of the law are a defense to repayment? Will individual borrowers have to bring separate actions for such an option or will all borrowers subjected to the same improprieties be granted relief? Will this process be extended to all borrowers regardless of payment status?
• If a Corinthian school is purchased and the new owner closes programs, but maintains the campus, what relief will the Department provide or require to be provided to those students ?
• How will students enrolled in online-only programs be dealt with?
• How will the Department seek to ensure relief for Corinthian students with private student loan debt?
We request a prompt response to each of these requested actions and questions. Thank you for your work to hold for-profit colleges, like Corinthian, accountable. We encourage you to continue conducting aggressive oversight of this industry.
J. provided us with the tracking number, and we were able to confirm that the tracking info does, indeed, say “CHIN.” Who is “Chin?” Did he drop the box at the base of an Easter Island statue? No, not that we know of. Was the driver trying to write “Chinese dude” or something similar? If so, J. is really not pleased with that.
“I am disturbed by how the UPS guy put my name in there,” he wrote to Consumerist when he sent along the original screen grab and tracking number. We asked what he wanted from UPS, and he requested an apology and an explanation for what happened, if possible.
Just now, we received this response from UPS:
UPS takes this situation very seriously. UPS does not tolerate discriminatory comments. When we are made aware of discriminatory comments by an employee, we quickly investigate and address the issue. We have taken appropriate disciplinary action with this employee. We have also reached out to the customer and apologized for this incident.
That’s good. We don’t want to see the driver get in trouble, but we also don’t think that ethnic designations are the best way to keep track of who received which package.
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Una infografía con 10 bares de tapas en Valladolid (Zona Plaza Mayor). Vía
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10 bares de tapas en Valladolid (Zona Plaza Mayor)
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Una infografía sobre el turismo en un entorno SoLoMo.
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That wacky, backwards-sunglasses-wearing, frost-tipped celebuchef Guy Fieri is at it again, and this time he seems to be intent on murdering cheesecake and serving it up to the masses. If half a cheesecake stabbed with potato chips and pretzels and bleeding chocolate drizzle in an apparent food-on-food crime can be called a “Cheesecake Challenge,” well, we’re not sure if the cake itself was challenged and lost, or if it’s your mortal body at stake here.
The “huge mountain” of cake is enough to inspire fear in even the strongest-hearted out there — just check out the leering skull on the plate with that huge knife casually sticking out of the thing:
Without bothering to detail how the thing actually tasted — or reveal whether or not he accepted the apparent challenge of ingesting it, Kiraly nonetheless doesn’t mince words about its appearance. And it’s pretty darn funny:
Instead of sitting flat — commonsense, quotidian, even jejune — the cheesecake is set on its edge like a wheel, so it presents itself as a sort of runaway half of a dirty and broken Thundarr the Barbarian moon that’s been ripped out of orbit by cosmic forces beyond our reckoning. And, by now calorie-drunk, swooning with surfeit, I imagined Guy Fieri straddling that ragged crescent cake-moon like a motorcycle, riding into a cold and inscrutable universe, crying for an answer, a connection, somebody, anybody, with his painted flames and chocolate-sauced potato chips, his pepperoni armor and outsized burgers: Is anybody out there? I’ve got cheesecaaaaake!
Note to cheesecakes: Do not walk into dark kitchens alone. We still don’t know what happened to the other half of the one above, but it likely met a similar fate at the hands of this madman and his snack henchmen.
Notes From My Dinner At Guy Fieri’s Vegas Kitchen & Bar [KNPR]
Ray likes Roadninja, a free mobile app that tells users what amenities and gas prices are available at the next highway exit. He doesn’t think it’s perfect, though. That’s why he was kind of annoyed when it prompted him to leave a review…and his options were limited.
“I like the app but it does have some issues that, to me, would keep it from getting a 5 star rating,” Ray writes. “Allowing only 5 star ratings gives me a further incentive to rate it lower that I otherwise would because of the not completely forthright way in which it is soliciting its rating.”
Users probably can adjust their rating once the app sends them to the review page and the ratings for the current version of RoadNinja make it clear that reviews with less than five stars are still getting through.
Still, it might make someone who isn’t inclined to give a good review but didn’t think this all the way through to dismiss the review prompt because they don’t want to post a five-star review.
Companies want perfect scores or not to hear from users at all, since various systems reward only perfect reviews. This reminds us of the feedback survey paradox: businesses from car dealerships to chain pizzerias do their best to keep customers from giving them anything but a perfect rating on feedback forms.
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Una infografía que nos dice que 2l móvil arrasa al ordenador en consumo digital.
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This message is greeting lots of people and making them mad.
The disruption complaints have spilled onto social media, with users reporting they can’t upgrade or activate phones online or at many retail locations, The Verge reports. No calling or texting services appear to have been affected, at least.
Customers throughout the northeast, midwest and certain souther states trying to use the My Verizon online portal are apparently getting a message saying that “some account actions are temporarily unavailable while we upgrade our systems,” an issue that a spokesperson says Verizon is aware of.
The company says it’s working on resolving the issue, which would appear to be more than just scheduled maintenance, based on the length of the outage.
A spokesperson tells Mashable that it’s “unfortunately experiencing issues with our billing system, affecting customer accounts mostly in Northeast, Midwestern and some southern states. We are working on a fix.”
*Thanks for the tip, KC!
Widespread outages leave Verizon customers without upgrades and online payments [The Verge]
Can’t Access Verizon Billing? You’re Not Alone [Mashable]
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According to police, the suspect pulled up to the drive-thru window and pointed a gun at workers at a KFC this week in South Carolina, demanding money. He made off with $516, reports The Rock Hill Herald Online.
Cops caught sight of his car the next day and tried to apprehend him using sirens and lights, but he allegedly led them on a high-speed chase, crashing into another car in the process.
When police eventually caught up with him by using stop sticks and arrested him, he said happened to work 40 hours a week at Chick-fil-A. But his now former employers apparently want nothing to do with this chicken crime, saying he was fired back on June 18 when he didn’t show up for work for two days.
Cops say they found the cash drawer still in his car, as well as less than a gram of methamphetamine. He’s been charged with armed robbery, possession of a firearm during a violent crime, possession of methamphetamine and failure to stop for a blue light.
He’s also been forbidden from stepping foot into any KFC or speaking with anyone who works there. So if he wants to eat fast food chicken in the future, he’s likely going to have to go back to Chick-fil-A.
Bond denied for ex-Chick-fil-A employee accused of robbing Rock Hill KFC [Rock Hill Herald]
