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If they have a business card, most of the folks I know in our profession have the title of "Accounts Receivable Representative".
A very few will list themselves as a "debt collector".
A young woman came to one of my seminars some years back from St. Catharines where she was an accounts payable/accounts receivable clerk with her firm. In less than ten days from attending my program, she was Vice-President of Finance in the same organization!
Am I good or what?
Well, it helps that her father was the owner of the firm and even more important, only her and her dad worked there.
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet but one can be a lot more effective as a V.P. than an A.P when calling a past due account.
What's in your wallet?
My recommendation is to never waste the other side of a business card. Why not have some fun with 'TOS' (the other side).
Here are some additional job titles to consider:
Professional Onion Peeler:
What happens when you remove a layer from an onion? That's right, there's another layer.
Resolve one excuse from a debtor and what will you often hear? Another excuse that we continually peel back until we get to the 'real reason' for non or delayed payment.
Left Tackle:
As told in the movie "The Blind Side", the highest paid member of a football team is often the quarter back, followed by the left tackle. It is the latter's job to protect the quarter back.
"Any housewife will tell you, first you pay your mortgage, and then you pay your insurance." (Once again – from the movie with Sandra Bullock.)
Sales Closer:
Some of us say we don't perform collections, that's for lawyers and third parties, we're just completing the terms of the sale.
Speaking of fun…wanna play?
1. Get yourself a bit creative and firstname.lastname@example.com potential job titles to me. I'll take care of the rest.
2. I'll publish all of those received by April 4th in the next newsletter. (Nothing risqué or demeaning.)
3. Selections of 'the best', chosen by me to be on a business card. If we use one of your submissions, I'll send you a package of ten business cards – you provide information for the 'boring side', all fun and great job titles on the other.
Pithy Quote:
It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
…Damien Hurst


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Complementary Therapy
There are limited or only small studies of HIV-positive people using natural therapies for improving HIV health. This is because HIV cannot be effectively treated using natural therapies alone.
Natural therapies are considered as "complementary" therapies in an HIV context, NOT "alternative" therapies, because only HIV drug treatments can effectively treat HIV – by lowering HIV viral load and therefore giving the immune system a chance to build CD4 (T) cells back up again.
Complementary (natural) therapies may only assist in bolstering or adding to immune health, they cannot suppress and treat HIV. That said, many natural remedies can co-assist building general health robustness, although most studies of natural therapies are within the general population (without HIV), not specifically among HIV positive people.
Because some natural therapies may interact with HIV drugs, or they may cause other adverse events (side effects), they may not be considered 'complementary' at all. Some natural therapies (supplements and herbs) may prevent HIV drug treatments from working properly, so it is always important to discuss your use of specific natural therapies with your specialist doctor and/or pharmacist.
When any natural therapy you are using is considered safe to use (as advised by your doctor or pharmacist) then the other matter is to consider how effective is the particular natural therapy you are choosing to take?
Many PLHIV use all different kinds of natural therapies which they consider are good for their overall health – so the general advice is first ask if it is doing no harm, then you are best to decide whether it is doing any good.
Some natural therapies are simply nutritional supplements (such as vitamin B tablets), but generally adequate daily nutrition from a well-balanced diet precludes the need for such supplements. See the Australian Dietary Guidelines for more information.
If you intend to take natural therapies, first make sure you are taking them for complementary reasons, rather than alternative reasons, but even complementary use of certain nutrients may be unnecessary beyond a normal adequate diet with adequate nutritional absorption.
Ask a dietician for advice. Also speak to a naturopath or nutritionist skilled in HIV as there may be other reasons beyond diet alone that natural therapy supplementation is right for you.
The choice is individual, but should be guided by good evidence and the seeking of professional advice.
Feel free to contact QPP if you seek evidence and information on complementary therapies. We can also provide referral to a complementary medicine practitioner or dietician.
Note: Articles about complementary therapies in the context of HIV are also periodically contained within our Treatment Update Newsletters and in QPP Alive Magazine, so please have a look in those sections of our website or consider joining our subscription for those publications.
QPP Resources for Complementary Therapies
Web links for Complementary Therapies
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is the US Federal Government's lead agency for scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine. Find sources of information and research studies on complementary therapies and treatments.
Further information about natural therapies can be found on aidsmap's website (including body therapies and supplemental therapies).
The Australian website My Doctor also has some useful information about complementary therapies.
There are numerous natural supplement manufacturing companies, but we are unable to endorse or recommend one over the other. It is recommended you ask about reputable companies and search their products online or enquire at naturopathic centres or natural health stores. Peers may also be another source of information about natural therapies.
If you have any questions about complementary therapies, please call QPP's Health Promotion and Treatments Officer toll free from a land-line on 1800 636 241, use the contact form provided or call (07) 3013 5555 (nationally).

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Welcome to our locksmith homepage. We appreciate you offering us the opportunity to tell you about our services. We realize that you know this is an advertisement for our company but we have included additional information for do-it-yourself 'ers to make this an instructional website also. We have included some reference material on different types of locks and will continue to update both this and our educational do-it-yourself section. We hope to include some videos also so please stop by often or join our mailing list and we will notify you when additional information is published.
Since 1997 we have been serving the community offering residential, commercial and automotive services. Along the way, we have made so many friends and business associates. By treating our customer's right our locksmith business has continued to grow by leaps and bounds even in this troubled economy. We've always tried to put the customer first and by doing this we have gained many referrals.
Areas we serve are West Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Greenacres, Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Coral Springs Pompano Beach
Locksmith Time Line
2000 bc Locks have been around since almost the beginning of recorded records. The oldest recorded lock is estimated to be 4000 years old. This lock is found in Egypt is what is now considered a pin tumbler lock. Pin tumbler lock is what most locks are in today. The kwikset lock you have on your front door is a pin tumbler lock.
1857 James Sargent invented the first lock that you can change the combination on, or rekey, in 1857. He also invented the time lock that keeps bank vault locks on a timer.
1916 Samuel Siegel, a New York policeman invented the first Jimmy prove lock.
1921 Harry Sorefall started the master lock company to make padlocks.
Just a little history on locks for your reading pleasure.
According to Wikipedia, "locksmithing began as the science and art of making and defeating locks".
Of course, making keys for locks, making lost car keys and rekeying locks is a big part of our business, our locksmith business is involved in the installation of better quality locks and the design of keying systems. We also offer the specialty of automotive transponder keys and high-security keys. We are also able to do many motorcycle keys.
In our society, unfortunately every exterior door must have a lock on it. They say that locks only keep honest people. In some cases this is true, but if a high quality lock is put on correctly it will keep an undesirable person or thief out also. An improperly installed lock will give the owner a false sense of security. When a lock is installed incorrectly many times we are able to open it with a credit card. Not even a butter knife is needed.
In choosing a locksmith it's important that you have a knowledgeable, trained, professional person provide the services you desire. Since 1997 we have been called to countless lockouts only to find that although the front door was locked, when we walked around back the lock had been installed incorrectly and we opened it with a plastic card in a few seconds. The person that called himself a locksmith who installed that lock was an untrained unprofessional individual masquerading as a locksmith. Whether it's us or another company, find someone who's been in business for a while and hopefully your chances of having a lock installed correctly will increase.
Our company, having been in business since 1997 has installed 95% of the locks available to you now. It's very rare that were ever called to work on any lock that would be new to us. By now we've seen it all.
There was the right way to do things and the easy way. We are always conscious of the fact that we can be liable if we are negligent in our locksmithing duties. That's why we are all bonded offering you an insurance policy against our negligence. Unbelievably as it may seem, we have been called out to rekey locks that had only one or two of the five pins used in most locks today. Most pin tumbler locks have five spaces for pins to go. You see this when you look at your key, that there are 5 cuts on it. If the locksmith only puts two of the five pins in it, it will still work with your key. It might work with your new key and not your old key. However, it will work with maybe 20% of the keys that will fit in it. Which means two out of every 10 people you know. How secure is that? Did you save a lot of money without locksmith? You didn't get what you paid for. Our company always pins all possible spaces. We will advise you if upgradeable pins are available to increase your security.
Most hardware we come across is repairable. A real locksmith will repair a lock if possible rather than replace with a new set. In the past locksmiths made their living by repairing locks. Nowadays many locksmiths increase their revenue by just taking a look at your lock and saying" its lady, you need a new one". You don't hear that from us. Most locks we come upon, of any quality, can be repaired. Every lock that we carry is meant to be serviceable. Don't get ripped off by a quick scam artist who sells you thousands of dollars of hardware you don't really need.
Our company offers you 24-hour a day service. We understand that emergencies happen around-the-clock. If necessary we can be to you within approximately 20 min. or we will advise you the arrival time in advance.
Our professional locksmith technicians are trained in the different methods of entry for residential, commercial and automobile emergencies. We specialize in doing this without destruction or harm. We don't use a drill instead of a lock pick. We are specialists in picking and bumping locks to open them without damage or destruction. Keep our phone number handy, in advance for all of your locksmith needs.
We are experts in replacing lost car keys and motorcycle keys. Our locksmiths are trained in" car college" to learn the skills of today's automobile car keys. We have on our trucks the equipment to make transponder, vats and high-security keys. We have the programmers onboard to be able to program the new keys to your car's computer. We continue to invest in the technology to keep up with today's automobiles. Many car dealers call us to replace lost car keys on their lots. Don't let an inexperienced individual touch your valuable asset.
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text: Have you ever kept a journal? While the practice may bring to mind your teenage years of keeping a drama-filled diary, it turns out that the practice may offer real health and wellness perks. Read on to learn more about how journal writing can benefit you, and how to get started. Journal Writing Benefits Elevated mental wellbeing: Research from Advances of Psychiatric Treatment indicates that writing about a stressful or emotional event can improve wellbeing. Experts agree that in conjunction with professional help, journaling may help patients to better cope with anxiety and depression.


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The 4th Annual Baltimore County Police Department Baseball Camp is scheduled for June 24 to 28. Precinct 12 Dundalk will host the camp from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Merritt Point Park located at 7800 Dunmanway in Dundalk 21222.
The week-long camp focuses on underprivileged and at-risk youth from ages 8 to 14. It is free to participants nominated by local schools, recreation councils and other programs. There will be "skills and drills" for the participants in the morning and games after lunch. A cookout is scheduled on the last day of camp.
Officer McElfish, a 25-year veteran of the department who works in Precinct 12 Dundalk, began this program in 2016. He was awarded the Baltimore County Police Foundation's Community Service Award this year for his dedicated efforts in creating and leading youth sports camps and his outstanding commitment to serving the community. He has also played in the minor leagues for the Cleveland Indians.
The camp helps to strengthen relations between police officers and young people.
Watch video from last year's baseball camp.


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Both of my grandmothers had a positive impact on my life. I can still hear the laughter of my grandmother on my mother's side. I see her in her summer home, on the beach in Michigan City, Indiana, preparing fresh corn on the cob in her kitchen, adding a drop of sugar to the boiling water for sweetness. She said this to me as if it were a legendary secret – shhh, don't tell her I'm sharing with you! At times, I still notice things I say and do that I carry with me, and I marvel at her ability to have managed to leave a piece of her behind with me to this day. As a grandmother, there are so many seemingly simple things we can do that will leave a lasting impression on our grands.
The Impressions Left on Me
I lived sixty miles away from my grandmother. I did not see her often, and yet, she holds a big place in my heart and mind. So much so, I was determined to emulate her by leaving a part of my essence with my grandchildren — all twenty of them.
A young mother sent me a quote that best describes my feelings on the most important role of a grandmother. It goes like this:
"It is not what you leave your grandchildren when you are dead; it is what you leave them in their head. Your wisdom and your values, Grandma!"
Leaving a Lasting Impression
The question remains, how do we do this when our grandchildren have such busy schedules right up until bedtime? I have the following scenarios to attend to. Some of these may sound similar to your own:
- A granddaughter, who is a star pitcher on her college softball team.
- A grandson in middle school, a hockey goalie, who has private hockey practice every morning and then team practice each afternoon.
- A grandson who practices daily with his high school football team and just won the Arizona State Championship this season.
- A grandson who is a star tumbler on a large cheerleading squad that won first place in the West Coast Region of the U.S.
And that's just the beginning! Other grandchildren of mine hold lead roles in their class plays, one is an exchange student in Beijing, China, and another is studying at Haifa University in Israel! I'm sure many of you are in a similar boat!
So, how do we try to be an important part of our grandchildrens' lives and leave a lasting impression when they are so busy and live so far away? My grandchildren live in Arizona, Texas, Indiana, California and Chicago. Not to mention, I live six months out of the year in California and the other six months in Chicago. It can be hard to be a grandmother!
I am sad that I am not in the middle of their daily lives, but I have to be creative in finding ways to leave them with "Honey wisdom" and "Honey value builders!" Here are a few things I have done that I hope have instilled a part of me in their minds forever. Maybe you will gather some insight from my doings and do something like this for your grandchildren.
- My grandson, Michael, the football star, loves the color green. I sent him a green protective cover for his computer. On the card I wrote: "I know your favorite color is green. I know your computer needs to be cared for. Enjoy the cover, and always take pride and care of your possessions." I was in Arizona with him last week. I noticed he still had the same computer cover I gave him when he was thirteen. He is now seventeen!
- My 12 year-old grandson, Joshua, has two turtles. I bought him tiny turtles at Pet Smart about six years ago. I told him it was his responsibility to feed and care for them. Now they are huge and live in a gigantic tank in his home! He always tells me: "Honey, see how healthy I have kept my turtles and how old they are!?" He is so proud of those turtles, and that makes me proud.
- My grandson, Jack, the athlete and acrobat, has a rock I bought him in the shape of a pyramid. I walked into his bedroom and was surprised to see it sitting on a tray in a primary spot. When I gave it to him I told him "the rock should remind you to climb your mountain in life with honor."
- My granddaughter, Skylar, has a little fairy that I gave her when she was six. The card read, "This is your personal fairy. Keep her in every bedroom you live in all of your life. She will guard and protect you!" Her fairy sits on her desk in college. She has kept this fairy with her for over a decade, and it's still very special to both of us!
- My granddaughter, Samantha, is studying in China. We are weekly pen pals. "Our" goal is to put together a book! We are partners with a project!
- My grandson, Rob, my first-born grandchild, has a painting hung behind his desk that I recently had painted for him. It is a picture of four half filled glasses of water with the saying, "Always See the Glass Half Full." We had an experience together when he was four. I put a half-filled glass of water in front of him and asked him, "Do you see the glass half full or half empty?" He said, "half full." I have taught him that his life will have hills and valleys but he can overcome them by maintaining a positive outlook.
How Will You Leave a Lasting Impression Unique to You?
I am creative with my "Honey messages" and small "Honey gifts." They seem to stick, and hopefully they continue to as the years go on. I truly feel that I make a contribution to their lives and that is very important to me. I know a grandmother can always be in the minds of her grandchildren.
One last note: I text often, call them on their cell phones, Skype, email and Facebook with them. I know my grandchildren love me, respect me and have learned much from me. That is the gift they have given me, and it truly is priceless!
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I recently took on a client who's into competitive body building. She needs a diet that's high in protein, and seriously low on carbs, fat, calories and sodium. She's also a self-employed, time-stressed, overworked single mom with zero time to cook. This dish is the perfect lunch for her busy schedule.
Sayur Bening Bayam (Indonesian Spinach, Carrot & Tomato Soup)
Serves 4
2/3T coconut oil
1 1/3 medium shallots, chopped
1C chicken stock, low-sodium
1C beef stock, low-sodium
2C water, more if needed
2″ piece ginger root, peeled, sliced in planks, crushed
2/3lb carrots, peeled, coarsely chopped
2/3lb tomato, coarsely chopped
2/3lb spinach, fresh, washed, chopped
1 1/3t fish sauce
salt and pepper to taste
2/3lb boneless, skinless chicken breast, poached, shredded*
In a good-size stockpot, heat the oil over medium heat. Add shallots, cook until softened (aka "sweat" the shallots), about 4 minutes. Add the broths, water, ginger, bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce to low, simmer until fragrant, about 6 minutes.
Add the carrots and cook until slightly tender, about 5 minutes. Remove the ginger planks, add tomatoes, return to a simmer. Add spinach, chicken. Remove from heat when the spinach is bright green. Stir in the fish sauce, taste. Add salt and pepper, taste, adjust.
Calories: 223, satfat: 3.37, sodium: 293, carbs: 24.94, protein: 23.04
*Note: the chicken is not part of the original recipe, added here to increase the protein.
Recipe, adapted from one posted by: thedomesticman.com
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OCO-One Cancels the Other Order
A combination of two orders in which the execution of either one automatically cancels the other.
Open Market
The reopening of the market after the close of the session, weekends and holidays.
Open order
Buy or sell order that remains in force until executed or cancelled by the customer.
Open position
Any position (long or short) that is subject to market fluctuations and has not been closed out by a corresponding opposite transaction.
A client�s order to buy or sell a certain amount at a given rate.
An open position transfer to the next day.
Overnight position
Trader's long or short position in a currency at the end of a trading day.


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All students are given a Microsoft Office 365 account when they start at JCG. All students must have signed the Acceptable Use Policy in order to access this along with all other platforms used in the college.
They can access Office 365 from any device, both at school and at home, by going to login.microsoftonline.com. This account allows them to download a free copy of the Microsoft Office Suite onto a personal computer and a mobile device. Students can save their work into One Drive and access their documents from both home and school.
Please note that once a student leaves JCG, this account is deleted and the software will no longer work on personal devices and any data saved in One Drive will be lost.
Mobile Devices
Whilst having a mobile device is not compulsory, it is desirable. Many students bring their device into school to support their learning.
We advise that all mobile devices be connected to the school's Wi-Fi network. By using the school network students will be able to access the internet using a secure and filtered system and have the option to print work if necessary.
By a mobile device we mean smart phone, tablet or notebook. Please be aware that some devices are not compatible with our network, non- compatible devices include android phones and tablets, Chromebooks, and windows phones. We recommend where possible that the mobile device is connected to a keyboard to improve functionality and ease of use.
We would recommend the following apps for learning:
Modern Foreign Languages
Word Reference
Generally recommended by students and teachers
Office 365 apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook and OneDrive – students will receive a free licence for Office365 apps for the duration of their education at the College.
Show My Homework (iOS app only)*
Clickview (iOS app only)*
Chrome web browser
Quizlet – a revision and quiz app
All of the generally recommended apps listed are free to download and are pre-installed on the school iPads
*Can be accessed using web browser/Webapp shortcut
Before your child downloads the suggested app, please create an under 13 Apple ID or a Windows account for your child. Details can be found on the following links.
Apple ID: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201084
Windows account: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12417/microsoft-account-add-members-to-family
It is essential that students have their separate account which is managed by parents or guardians. Students will be given their school email address and passwords at the start of term.
At the start of the Autumn term there will be a Year 7 induction course where we will assist your child with connecting their device to the College Wi-Fi, accessing their email accounts and licensing the Microsoft Office365 products.
If you require further advice please contact the JCG IT department by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com


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Kevin Hart just received the best birthday gift ever. The famous funnyman was honored with a celebration and mural of himself near his childhood home.
According to NBC 10, the festivities took place on Thursday (July 6), which was dubbed "Kevin Hart Day" in the City of Brotherly Love. Free to the public, the celebration was led by Councilman David Oh and Mural Arts Philadelphia and also included performances from Philly artists Freeway, Chill Moody, Bria Marie and The International DJ Casper. The decision to create the mural was introduced by Councilman Oh to recognize Hart's dedication to his hometown and to the arts.
"Kevin Hart is a fantastic ambassador for the City of Philadelphia, and this is a simple way to show him gratitude," Councilman Oh said to NBC 10. "Whether through his hilarious sense of humor or through his heartfelt generosity towards his hometown, Kevin Hart knows how to bring a smile to everyone in Philadelphia."
During the event, Councilman Oh invited the Ride Along star back to his hometown to unveil the mural on Max's Steaks, located a block away from Hart's childhood home. Hart shared the exciting news on Instagram and thanks the city that made him who he is today.
The father of two (and one on the way) has definitely put on for his city. The Get Hard actor has donated thousands of dollars to help improve the city of Philadelphia. Back in 2013, Hart donated $250,000 to the Philly School District and the Parks & Recreations centers for new computers. But generous donations didn't end there! Hart also sponsored college scholarships for four Philly High school students, valued at $50,000 each.
Hart recently starred in five stand-up specials and is slated to star in the remake of the classic film Jumaji alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, which is slated to premiere Christmas of 2017. The comedian also dethroned Jerry Seinfeld after he was named the highest paid comedian by Forbes– raking in an estimated $87.5 million between June 2015 and June 2016.
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OnePlus Announce 9 Customer Service Centers in India
OnePlus is set to announce the OnePlus 2 on July 27th (it'll technically be the 28th in some parts of the world, like India and China), and before the launch, the company has announced that they have opened 9 new customer service centers in India. These service centers mean that those in India with the OnePlus One (and the upcoming OnePlus 2 when that's available) will be able to send their phone into one of these service centers to be fixed, should anything happen to them. OnePlus has opened service centers in Bangalore, Chennai, Cochin, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai (Andheri and Lamington), New Delhi and Kolkata. You can check out OnePlus' blog post in the source links below for the exact address of these service centers.
The company has also partnered up with Regenersis. They are a global provider for diagnosis and repair services for many consumer electronic brands in the industry. They have strategically placed repair centers and facilities around India, and will be providing technical repair. These repairs include micro components, parts management and logistic services for OnePlus users. Of course, this is just for India.
This is a big investment, not only for India, but for OnePlus. Seeing as it's just ahead of their OnePlus 2 announcement, and the company is looking to continue expanding in India. As is so many other companies in Asia. This is going to make it easier for users to get their OnePlus 2 smartphones fixed in case something happens, although we're all crossing our fingers hoping nothing does happen.
This is also an investment in customer support for OnePlus. They haven't already had the best customer support, but that appears to be changing pretty quickly. Recently, the company announced that if your smartphone is being worked on for 15 days or more, they will extend your warranty for an additional 3 months. That may not sound like a lot, but when your phone breaks in that extended 3 months timeframe, you are going to love this idea.
It's clear that customer support was one of the disadvantages OnePlus had over many of their competitors, and it appears that they are working hard to fix that. So they can get more customers and keep them. Which is the hardest part of a business, keeping your customers.
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What U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin Doesn't Know About Higher Education
Senator Dick Durbin (R-Il), acting as lap dog for the radicals in the Obama White House, has picked up the baton from departed Undersecretary of Education Robert Shireman and gave a stunning and biased speech at the National Press Club. You can read the text of that speech given at the National Press Club by clicking HERE. The National Press Club is but a few miles from Georgetown University where Sen. Durbin earned the B.S. in 1966 and the J.D. in 1969. It's clear Sen. Durbin didn't learn much about education at Georgetown.
Here's what he missed:
1) Traditional higher education is in crisis because of a broken business model.
Despite the size and importance to the domestic economy of the United States of more than 4,000 accredited colleges and universities, the operation of these institutions is inefficient, highly fragmented, lacking in professional management, based on 19th century technology and governed by the government sanctioned Cartel defined by regional accreditation. Added to the dysfunctional administration of operations is an ideology of "Political Correctness" which politicizes the administration of most academic Departments and residence facilities. The transition to cafeteria style education in the late 1960s was accompanied by the introduction of pseudo academic disciplines in Gender, Women, Black, Chicano, Peace and other politically motivated studies. The growth in college administrators versus classroom teachers also has enhanced the power of a new class of non-academic administrators whose responsibility is to conduct re-education programs in residence halls. Modeled on classic prisoner interrogation methods, these programs are designed to break down traditional attitudes of impressionable students and replace them with politically correct views about gender, race, politics and the environment. This politicization leads to expenditures for politicized programs and non-market oriented business decisions that add to a pattern of spiraling tuition costs. In 2007–08, public institutions spent $261 billion ($27,176 per student in 2008–09 dollars). According to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 28 percent of this amount, $7,703 per student, was spent on instruction. Between 1987-1988 and 2007-2008, the cost at a four-year public institution rose 78 percent from $7,631 to $13,589. Average undergraduate tuition, fees, room and board rates increased to $13,424 at public 4-year institutions and $30,393 at private 4-year institutions.
The education consumer now faces college tuition costs that have been driven to levels far beyond the ability of most middle class families to pay and students are compelled to seek low cost alternatives at two-year public institutions.
Public institutions that are subsidized by the states are incapable of reducing tuition costs at a time when students from middle class families are moving from high tuition private colleges to public community colleges and universities. Proprietary education companies now find that they can compete, even on the basis of price, with some public institutions. In that context, proprietary Internet universities that do not grant academic tenure, operate with "flat" organization structures and programs attuned to market demand are a substantial threat to traditional higher education. As such, the first glimpse of a future reorganization in the 21st Century of higher education has become visible.
In light of these high college tuition costs, a crisis of major proportions is in development that is challenging the ability of many small colleges to survive. Dick Durbin wants to bar the acquisition of those failing colleges by for-profit colleges.
2) Traditional education costs more than for-profit education.
Here is a list of tuition costs at Internet-based institutions, many of which are "for-profit."
3) Traditional education lacks intellectual diversity.
Social, political, and economic developments since the Great Depression have created a void of course content in classical Economics, humanistic studies grounded in the Judaeo-Christian tradition and the traditional Liberal Arts. College Faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences who challenge Wilsonian Idealism in foreign policy and state intervention in the economy represented by New Deal, New Frontier and Great Society economic programs represent an insignificant percentage of all Faculty teaching in these disciplines. In History Departments few traditional "History" programs remain offering potential scholars instruction in "Western Civilization." In Political Science and Government few and far between are the Universities where graduate students may study Classical political philosophy. And in Economics, George Mason University, Texas A&M, Auburn and a few others are the only Economics degree programs that continue to offer classical studies that are focused on markets and public choice. Few institutions feature Supply-Side economists. If graduate students earn degrees and write dissertations in these subjects, they find that tenure-track University employment is often difficult to obtain.
Classical Economics usually associated with Adam Smith and neoclassical schools that we associate with the Austrian economists, Milton Friedman and especially the Supply-side Economists, are under-represented in Academe. That is also the case with historians schooled in the history of Western Civilization who formerly taught Western Civilization survey courses that are no longer required. Also absent from today's university curricula are courses in philosophy exemplified by Christopher Dawson, Eric Voegelin, Bernard Lonergan and other philosophers and political theorists rooted in the philosophical traditions of ancient Greek philosophy and Christian philosophers such as St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. The recovery of the history of the American Founding and the philosophy of limited government of the Founders of the Constitutions of the United States that has enriched American post-World War II historical scholarship is absent in the Core Curricula of American institutions of higher education. The traditional Core Curriculum of American higher education has been abandoned for cafeteria style education that puts undergraduates at a loss to acquire the knowledge required of citizens of a representative government. By dropping these traditional subjects, higher education has become an engine of cultural and civilizational disaffection, disdain bordering on hatred of our core institutions, and shoddy instruction scaled up for mass consumption that has helped to put American higher education into steep decline. The new elite that is moving into general succession of America's basic institutions has less love of country, less understanding of history, and less regard for its civilizational inheritance than any previous generation in the nation's history. If it is collectively moved by anything, it is the earnest desire to rid the world of American prosperity and power and to usher in the imaginary era of "global citizenship."
1National Center for Education Statistics, http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/2010/section5/indicator49.asp
2Neal McCluskey, "Unbearable Burden?" Cato Institute Policy Analysis, No. 629, December 15, 2008.
4Klein & Stern, "Among social-science and humanities professors up through age 70, the overall Democrat:Republican ratio is probably 8:1." Your author learned recently that the University of Oregon doesn't employ even one registered Republican on its Faculty.


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"When you think of Mexican food, there's a good chance you're imagining tacos, burritos, and enchiladas — and margaritas, of course.
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The Qiraash were a sentient species of Near-Humans with pale, pink skin. Their large craniums were bald except for hair growing from the back of the neck. Some Qiraash plaited this into elaborate top-knots. Leesub Sirln was a Qiraash with limited powers of precognition. High Inquisitor Antinnis Tremayne encountered Sirln and declared her a Force Adept. In order to avoid imprisonment or death at the hand of the Empire's Inquisitorius, Sirln went into hiding on Tatooine.
Biology and appearance[edit | edit source]
The Qiraash were a sentient species of Near-Humans.[1] They were humanoid—having two arms and two legs—but their pale, pink skin and large craniums set them apart from Humans. The Qiraash head was bald except for curly hair growing from the nape of the neck. Some Qiraash grew tufts of this hair long and wore it in elaborate coiffures. For example, the Qiraash female Leesub Sirln plaited it into a top-knot at the crown of her skull. From here, three smaller plaits ran toward the front of her skull; one each running along the sides of the head and down past the front of the ears, and the third running down the center of the forehead and ending just above the eyebrows.[4] Qiraash facial features otherwise resembled those of Humans[1] with high cheekbones.[3]
The Qiraash were unable naturally to interbreed with members of the Human species; however, with a certain amount of genetic manipulation, such couplings could produce viable offspring.[5] One Qiraash, Leesub Sirln, had limited precognition powers; these were interpreted by High Inquisitor Antinnis Tremayne as Force-sensitivity.[6]
History[edit | edit source]
The Qiraash were known in the galaxy from at least 84 BBY, when Qiraash Doffen Gaitag oversaw construction of the space station known as the Wheel, which quickly became one of the most popular gambling dens in the galaxy. Gaitag eventually sold the Wheel to the J'feh crime lord Skijid Vrescot, and his granddaughter, Qimberly Gaitag-Delio, went on to become a celebrity attorney nicknamed "the Devourer".[2] At one time, the Hutt Wallanooga[5]—a slaver in the Outer Rim Territories[7]—speculated that his slave Aurra Sing might have been a Qiraash/Human hybrid, despite the inability of the Qiraash genome to account for her longevity.[5] Also during the Clone Wars, a Qiraash served as a bartender at a tavern on the Mid Rim planet Vaced.[3]
A full-blooded Qiraash was the female Leesub Sirln, who was enslaved while only a youngling. During the administration of the Galactic Empire, Sirln encountered High Inquisitor Tremayne, who,[6] suspecting the woman had precognition powers, declared her a Force Adept.[4] The Inquisitorius was charged with hunting down Jedi and other Force-sensitives and either turning them to the dark side of the Force or eliminating them.[8] Consequently, to avoid imprisonment or death, Sirln fled to the remote planet Tatooine, where she hid for many years in the town of Mos Eisley.[6] She was present in Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina in 0 BBY when Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker chartered the services of Han Solo and Chewbacca for transit to Alderaan.[9]
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
Only one Qiraash has appeared in Star Wars canon: Leesub Sirln. Originally identified only as "Weird Girl" in the production notes for Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, she was filmed in London as an extra for the cantina scene. She can be glimpsed briefly in the film just behind Kenobi and Skywalker in Chalmun's Cantina.[10] An early cut of the cantina sequence shows her more prominently, talking to Hrchek Kal Fas at the bar,[11] and a production photo shows her standing in front of the Millennium Falcon, but these images were never part of the film.[10]
Sirln's name and identification as a Qiraash did not occur until 1995 with the release of the of the first set of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game,[10] in which she appears as a Light Side card.[1] In addition to mentions in reference sources such as the Star Wars Encyclopedia and The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, as well as some StarWars.com features, the Qiraash are also mentioned in Michael Reaves' Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows, published in 2008. In 2009, Sirln received an action figure as part of Star Wars: The Legacy Collection, and in 2011, a second Qiraash character was created by Ryder Windham for his young reader book The Clone Wars: Secret Missions 3: Duel at Shattered Rock.
Dining at Dex's, a Hyperspace-exclusive article released in 2009 mentioned Qiraadishes. The article's author, Gregory Walker, confirmed this was a play on the word "Qiraash".[12] The in-universe connection between the vegetable and the species is not clear.
Appearances[edit | edit source]
- The Clone Wars: Secret Missions 3: Duel at Shattered Rock
- Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (First appearance)
Sources[edit | edit source]
- Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Premiere Limited (Card: Leesub Sirln) (First identified as Qiraash)
- Star Wars: The Magic of Myth (book) (Concept design)
- Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Star Wars: Behind the Magic
- Cantina Roll-Call: Shedding Light on Some Alien Aliases - Of Hare Mice and Gila Men on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link)
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Star Wars: The Legacy Collection
- The Sounds of Star Wars (Picture only)
- Sirln, Leesub in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Star Wars Galaxy Series 7
- Star Wars: The Ultimate Action Figure Collection
- "A Star Wars Family Legacy"—Star Wars Insider 141 (Picture only)
- Viva Space Vegas! The History of the Marvelous Wheel, Part 1 on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
Notes and references[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Star Wars Customizable Card Game – Premiere Limited (Card: Leesub Sirln)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Viva Space Vegas! The History of the Marvelous Wheel, Part 1 on StarWars.com (article) (backup link)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The Clone Wars: Secret Missions 3: Duel at Shattered Rock
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Star Wars: The Legacy Collection
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Coruscant Nights II: Street of Shadows, p. 36
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Sirln, Leesub in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ "Hutt! Hutt! Hutt! #6" on Wizards.com (original article link, backup link)
- ↑ Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force, p. 141
- ↑ Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Cantina Roll-Call: Shedding Light on Some Alien Aliases - Of Hare Mice and Gila Men on StarWars.com (article) (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ Star Wars: Behind the Magic
- ↑ Hyperspace New Short Fiction: "The Forgotten War" & "Dining at Dex's" now online! on the Jedi Council Forums (Literature board; posted by NarbFlick on 12/6/09 10:29am) (backup link)
External links[edit | edit source]
- Profile of a Weird Girl on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)


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Call for Action to Stop Fighting in DR Congo
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Women for Women International
30 October 2008
Women for Women International is an organization that promotes stability and sustainability for women who have survived deadly conflict, in the hopes that it will encourage strong and lasting civil societies. Women for Women International does this by providing women survivors of war, civil strife and other crises, resources and tools to ove from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency The press release reprinted below is from a panel on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, hosted by Women for Women International and attended by various experts. The group called for humanitarian assistance and international leadership in preventing further atrocities in the countrys Eastern provinces.
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Members of the international community and opposition groups in Togo are expressing concern ahead of legislative elections that are scheduled in this West African country in March.
The opposition and the government are deadlocked in their preparation for the elections, which are seen as a test for longtime ruler General Gnassingbe Eyadema's promise to finally relinquish power.
The elections are supposed to provide a chance for Togolese opposition parties to challenge the 35-year mandate of President Eyadema, Africa's longest-serving head of state. The parliament has been controlled by his supporters since 1963 when General Eyadema, then a sergeant, led post-colonial Africa's first military coup.
The Togolese leader has promised that he will step down when his current term expires next year. His supporters in the government, however, have proposed a change in the country's constitution that would allow him to serve another five-year term.
European mediators who met with Eyadema government officials and members of the opposition in Togo in recent days have said both sides remain deadlocked over preparations for the March elections.
The main sticking points include a disagreement over ballots. The opposition says they should be printed in France to minimize the possibility of fraud, while the government insists that they be printed in Togo.
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It's one of the most enduring symbols of modern medicine: the stethoscope.
Thanks to the School of Medicine's new Stethoscopes for Students program, alumni, parents, and friends donated $31,165 to provide the timeless instruments to members of the Class of 2021.
"It's one of the major tools that physically connects patients to a doctor," said Amy Kuhlik, dean for student affairs at the medical school. "Receiving one's first stethoscope is a rite of passage that all doctors seem to remember and cherish," added Kristin Hill, director of the Fund for Tufts Medicine who oversaw the initiative.
When students opened their stethoscopes at orientation in August, they were touched to find personal notes from the donors in the boxes. Some included jokes ("I hope they don't ask me to show the student how to use it. I'm a urologist."), others were short and sweet ("Happy heartbeats!!"), and all were, well, heartfelt.
Tufts President's Council member Harlan W. Waksal, M79, and his son Julian Waksal, M17, jointly donated several stethoscopes to the cause. "Having the ability to share in the path of others becoming physicians was an action both of us could embrace together," Harlan said. The Waksals shared the following quote from Sir William Osler in their message: "Live a simple and temperate life, that you may give all your powers to your profession. Medicine is a jealous mistress; she will be satisfied with no less."
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Another recent graduate, Laura Horton, M16, also contributed a stethoscope. A Maine Track alum who's completing her residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Horton always keeps her stethoscope close at hand. "I still carry mine with me everywhere I go," she wrote in her letter. "Never forget that the physical exam can be incredibly important in how you diagnose and manage every patient."
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How to hook into UserLand.Com through XML, XML-RPC and SOAP.
New version available, October 2002
RSS 2.0 is the current version. It is upward compatible with 0.91, that is any 0.91 source is also a valid 2.0 source.
6/9/00: Changed copyright to the IETF-inspired copyright we used for XML-RPC.
6/9/00: Minor changes and clarifications in response to feedback.
4/20/01: Pointed to the RSS 0.92 spec from this page, which is an extension of 0.91.
5/3/01: The Netscape 0.91 spec, written in July 1999, has re-surfaced. Archived here.
For a political introduction to this specification, see Scripting News for 6/7/00.
Post comments on the discussion group here, or on the Syndication mail list hosted on eGroups.
A brief history of RSS with pointers.
In December 1997, UserLand began
offering Scripting News syndicated in XML, as a public Web resource.
Other sites adopted the format, known as <scriptingNews> format.
In March 1999, Netscape opened My.Netscape.Com, based on an XML syndication format known as RSS 0.9.
In April 1999, My.UserLand.Com opened, an aggregator that processed RSS 0.9 content.
In May 1999, My.UserLand.Com supported <scriptingNews> 2.0b1 format.
In July 1999, Netscape introduced RSS 0.91, incorporating most of the features of <scriptingNews> 2.0b1. At the same time My.UserLand.Com supported RSS 0.91.
In December 1999, UserLand shipped the Manila content management system with built-in support for <scriptingNews> 2.0b1.
In March 2000, O'Reilly's aggregation engine, Meerkat, opened, reading all the above formats.
In April 2000, UserLand added built-in RSS 0.91 support to all Manila-authored sites.
About this document
In June 2000, after a year of active deployment, we've learned a lot
about RSS, there are lots of ideas in the community for its evolution,
and the ideas are maturing. Editorial tools have improved a lot in the
last year, further innovations are possible in the near future.
But we lack a firm foundation to build on, the only specification we
have for RSS is on the Netscape website, and it's not being maintained,
as far as we know.
Therefore, this document is explains RSS as it's currently practiced.
Questions about the future
Will RSS remain as-is, to be superceded by new formats? Or will RSS
evolve, and if so, how will that happen? We now have at least three
24-by-7 aggregation engines, and a thousand RSS sources. Because RSS is
a simple format, and because the community is relatively tight-knit, it
seems possible that we could make improvements without disrupting the
Sample file
For an example please refer to this sample RSS 0.91 file, containing selected links from WriteTheWeb.Com, on its opening day 6/5/00.
It may be helpful to refer to the My.UserLand rendering of its RSS file to see how the XML can be turned into something browsable.
What is RSS?
There is no consensus on what RSS stands for, so it's not an acronym,
it's a name. Later versions of this spec may say it's an acronym, and
hopefully this won't break too many applications.
RSS is dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.
At the top level, a RSS document is a <rss> element, with a
mandatory attribute called version, that specifies the version of RSS
that the document conforms to.
Subordinate to the <rss> element is a single <channel>
element, which contains information about the channel (metadata) and
its contents.
Required <channel> sub-elements
Following are the required elements of a <channel>.
<title> -- The name of the channel. It's how people refer to your
service. If you have an HTML website that contains the same information
as your RSS file, the title of your channel should be the same as the
title of your website. Maximum length is 100 characters.
<link> -- A URL pointing to the website named in the <title>. Maximum length is 500 characters.
<description> -- A phrase that describes your channel, your
channel's positioning statement. Maximum length is 500 characters.
<language> -- Indicates the language your channel is written in.
This allows aggregators to group all Italian language sites, for
example, on a single page. A list of allowable values for this element
is here.
<image> -- An XML element that contains several sub-elements, explained here.
Optional <channel> sub-elements
<copyright> -- Copyright notice for content in the channel. Maximum length is 100.
<managingEditor> -- The email address of the managing editor of
the channel, the person to contact for editorial inquiries. Maximum
length is 100. The suggested format for email addresses in RSS elements is firstname.lastname@example.com (Bull Mancuso).
<webMaster> -- The email address of the webmaster for the
channel, the person to contact if there are technical problems. Maximum
length is 100.
<rating> -- The PICS rating for the channel. Maximum length is 500.
<pubDate> -- The publication date for the content in the channel.
For example, the New York Times publishes on a daily basis, the
publication date flips once every 24 hours. That's when the pubDate of
the channel changes. All date-times in RSS conform to the Date and Time Specification of RFC 822.
<lastBuildDate> -- The date-time the last time the content of the channel changed.
<docs> -- A URL, points to the documentation for the format used
in the RSS file. It's probably a pointer to this page. It's for people
who might stumble across an RSS file on a Web server 25 years from now
and wonder what it is. Maximum length is 500.
<textInput> -- An XML element that contains several sub-elements, explained here.
<skipDays> -- An XML element that contains up to seven
<day> sub-elements whose value is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Aggregators may not read the
channel during hours listed in the skipDays element. (Most aggregators
seem to ignore this element.)
<skipHours> -- An XML element that contains up to 24 <hour>
sub-elements whose value is a number between 1 and 24, representing a
time in GMT, when aggregators, if they support the feature, may not
read the channel on days listed in the skipHours element. (Most
aggregators seem to ignore this element.)
What is an <image>?
An <image> is a sub-element of <channel>, which contains three required and three optional sub-elements.
<url> is the URL of a GIF, JPEG or PNG image that represents the channel. Maximum length is 500.
<title> describes the image, it's used in the ALT attribute of
the HTML <img> tag when the channel is rendered in HTML. Maximum
length is 100.
<link> is the URL of the site, when the channel is rendered, the
image is a link to the site. (Note, in practice the image <title>
and <link> should have the same value as the channel's
<title> and <link>. Maximum length is 500.
Optional elements include <width> and <height>, numbers,
indicating the width and height of the image in pixels.
<description> contains text that is included in the TITLE
attribute of the link formed around the image in the HTML rendering.
Maximum value for width is 144, default value is 88.
Maximum value for height is 400, default value is 31.
What is an <item>?
A channel may contain any number of <item>s, each of which links to a story, with an optional description.
<title> is the title of the story. Maximum length is 100.
<link> is the URL of the story. Maximum length is 500.
<description> is the story synopsis. Maximum length is 500.
What is a <textInput>?
A channel may optionally contain a <textInput> sub-element, which contains four required sub-elements.
<title> -- The label of the Submit button in the text input area. Maximum length is 100.
<description> -- Explains the text input area. Maximum length is 500.
<name> -- The name of the text object in the text input area. Maximum length is 20.
<link> -- The URL of the CGI script that processes text input requests. Maximum length is 500.
RSS 0.91 places restrictions on the first non-whitespace characters of
the data in <link> and <url> elements. The data in these
elements must begin with http:// or ftp://. Among others, https:,
file:, mailto:, news:, and javascript: are not permitted.
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At a time when ever-changing values and varying beliefs are shifting what defines "good," "tasteful" and "fine" – few areas are more impacted than the world of art. Today we visit a young Native American man to discuss the evolution of a creative form that was once only considered juvenile vandalism.
It's a busy afternoon in the village of Pine Ridge. Cars regularly come and go at the local supermarket as two young men stand before a nearby building holding cans of spray paint.
These two artists known as "Focus" and "AMP" are busy creating graffiti on a 30-foot long wall. But this isn't vandalism, says Focus – this is art.
"I believe that there's a very strong difference between the term that is used as graffiti and then there's just flat out vandalism," observes Focus. "And the vandalism is what is often seen and mixed, intertwined with the terminology and the use of the word graffiti."
Derek "Focus" Smith is Lakota and Dine`. He grew up in "the cities" – in an environment where the stereotypical image of graffiti as words and names illegally sprayed on buildings, highway overpasses and subway trains was the norm. Focus says that's not what he does, but it is where graffiti art originated.
"It is disheartening and very disrespectful for somebody to go and, you know, ruin somebody else's property," Focus comments. "I firmly know that I wouldn't want that to happen to my own property. I think that the art now that is seen should be appreciated for its qualities and its origins, because there's no separating the two. They're one begat from the other and that's the way that it has been and that's the way that it always will be."
Put another way, you can't separate modern popular music from its rock'n'roll roots or the boogie-woogie and jazz that preceded that or the blues that started it all.
But as AMP – Aaron Michael Pearcy – notes, pointing to an adjacent wall that's covered with illegal sprayings called "scrawlings," it's pretty easy for anyone to tell the difference between graffiti art and vandalism.
"What we're looking at right here is a, uh, call it a gang," says AMP. "They just come through and they write their name and they like to have their presence known in the area. And so they just go through and they hit every wall that they can without getting caught."
AMP and Focus have a different mission by creating a graffiti mural on a wall, and they say that is has nothing to do with gang vandalism. AMP comes from a fine art background and says that his work is relative.
"A muralist or you could call him a graffiti artist as well if he uses a spray can, which generally is why people call it graffiti is because it's art using a spray can," explains AMP. "That's, in essence what it is. And so, I could be using an air brush and somebody could still call it graffiti, although I could show them what I'm using and they'd call it something else. So, it all depends on everyone's mindset."
Of course, the key to making graffiti such as this art is that it's legal. Not only are Focus and AMP creating their mural on a wall with permission to do so, but the work is part of a larger project.
"We're producing a mural to raise the awareness to advocate for change of the youth here on the Pine Ridge Reservation due to the high suicide rate," says Focus. "The intention is to produce a feeling and a motivation that would increase the level of hope amongst the youth."
Focus – who chose his name to reflect changes he was making for himself and his family – intends to create a "Hope" mural on each reservation in the state. The Pine Ridge version includes the face of a beautiful Lakota woman. Her long black hair flows into a tree whose branches list the seven Lakota virtues. The Hope murals have the support of the Lakota Voice Project, a suicide prevention campaign backed by local members of the American Advertising Federation.
If that isn't evidence enough of graffiti's acceptance in the mainstream world, there's The Dahl Arts Center, home to the Rapid City Arts Council. Tyler Read is the Center's co-director of arts education and a graffiti artist himself. Read sees letters, words and pictures with a message on a wall as a natural evolution of art in a culture that's been marketed to for years.
"And graffiti is really a sort of an extension of advertising and marketing, really, in its most creative form," Read observes. "You know, we design our own fonts. We design imagery. We select places to put these advertisements. And it's just a campaign of ourselves or our later ego."
The Dahl's acceptance of graffiti as a serious art form may assist Focus and AMP in their long range goal of being considered for art commissions in public places – just as traditional painters and sculptors are.


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ARRA Whistleblower Protection
The University was awarded funding for research, student support, and other needs from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). In order to accept ARRA funding, employers must have in place policies prohibiting retaliation against employees who make good faith reports of misconduct. The University already has such a policy (See Non-Retaliation/Non-Retribution policy), and will provide appropriate support to reporting employees to protect against retaliation and respond to concerns of retaliation or unfair treatment linked to the employee's reporting.
ARRA expressly states that:
- As a receiver of stimulus funds, the University may not discharge, demote or otherwise discriminate against a University employee as reprisal for disclosing information that the employee reasonably believes is evidence of:
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WHEREAS, the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, R.S. 29:721, et seq., confers upon the governor of the state of Louisiana emergency powers to deal with emergencies and disasters, including those caused by fire, flood, earthquake or other natural or man-made causes, to ensure that preparations of this state will be adequate to deal with such emergencies or disasters, and to preserve the lives and property of the citizens of the state of Louisiana;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Proclamation No. 48 KBB 2005, a state of emergency was declared and is currently in effect;
WHEREAS, R.S. 29:724(D)(4) provides that the governor, subject to any applicable requirements for compensation, may commandeer or utilize any private property if she finds it necessary to cope with the disaster or emergency;
WHEREAS, there is an immediate need for mass transportation to move citizens to shelters and other safe locations from disaster areas; and
WHEREAS, given the current exigent circumstances, buses are the most reasonable and practical mode of mass transportation to move our citizens to safety;
NOW THEREFORE I, KATHLEEN BABINEAUX BLANCO, Governor of the state of Louisiana, by virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution and laws of the state of Louisiana, do hereby order and direct as follows:
SECTION 1: Each Superintendent of Education for each school district in Louisiana that remains substantially operational following the passage of Hurricane Katrina shall contact the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness at 225-925-3916 and provide an inventory of school buses and bus drivers in their district;
SECTION 2: As determined by the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, such buses shall be made available to be used as necessary for the mass transportation of Hurricane Katrina evacuees, accompanying law enforcement personnel, and necessary supplies to and from areas of concern to areas of safety;
SECTION 3: The Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness is hereby authorized to commandeer and utilize such buses for such purposes;
SECTION 4: Each Superintendent of Education for each school district in Louisiana that remains substantially operational following the passage of Hurricane Katrina shall coordinate with local law enforcement agencies and peace officers to ensure that at least one peace officer ride in each bus and at least two marked law enforcement vehicles accompany every ten buses;
SECTION 5: The Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness shall make efforts to work with the superintendents and local boards of education to minimize interruption of regular transportation of students;
SECTION 6: La. R.S. 17:158, relative to parish and city school boards providing free transportation to students, is hereby suspended until Sunday, September 25, 2005, unless reinstated sooner; and
SECTION 7: La. R.S. 32:402, relative to the requirement for drivers to secure commercial driver's license (CDL), is hereby suspended until September, 25, 2005, unless reinstated sooner. Notwithstanding the above suspension, such driver's must have a valid Louisiana or other valid driver's license of their state of residence.
SECTION 8: Executive Order No. KBB 2005-31, issued on August 31, 2005, is hereby rescinded and terminated.
SECTION 9: This Order is effective upon signature and shall continue in effect until amended, modified, terminated, or rescinded by the governor, or terminated by operation of law.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand officially and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of Louisiana, at the Capitol, in the city of Baton Rouge, on this 2nd day of September, 2005.
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: Hum (06/06/13)
TITLE: Trochilidae | Previous Challenge Entry
By Tom Parsons
The birds in the Trochilidae family are able to beat their wings up to 80 times per second. That is up to 4,800 beats per minute. This gives them the ability to hover in the air. The sound made by their wings flapping so fast gives these birds their more familiar name: hummingbird.
The hum created by these birds can resemble the sound of a bee or other insect. Many years ago, my wife and I were enjoying the view from the top of Spruce Knob in West Virginia when we heard a buzzing sound and saw a small dark body fly by. I was ready to take a swing at it, thinking it was a bumble bee. "Don't hurt it," my wife said. "It's a hummingbird."
They are the only birds that can fly backwards. They can fly forward at speeds that can exceed 34 mph. Their Creator gave them long, slightly curved bills that can reach deep into the heart of a flower to feed on its high energy nectar. They also feed on small insects since nectar does not provide needed protein or other nutrients.
At the heart of the hummingbird lies a muscle that is able to beat more than 1,000 times per minute. This requires a great deal of energy, so the hummingbird actually rests about 80% of its time, and feeds about 20% of the time.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about these little birds is the fact that they are not able to store very much energy, primarily because their metabolism, which is higher than any other animal, uses up their energy supply so quickly. If it were not for a unique feature given them by their Creator, hummingbirds would not have enough energy to survive the night.
The birds are able to slow down their metabolism as the temperature cools down, or when food is limited. It is called torpor, similar to hibernation in other species. Their heart rate can slow to about fifty beats per minute, and their body functions adjust similarly to preserve fluids and minerals.
However, twice each year, many of these birds make a non-stop migration across 500 miles of water as they fly from the United States to Mexico and South America. This can require more than fifteen hours of continued flying across the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Since these birds have a life span of five to ten years, some of them make this trip ten to twenty times in their lifetime.
The hummingbird is an exquisite example of God's creative abilities. From its quick movements, its high energy life-style, from its colorful feathers which are iridescent in some birds, to its ability to evade being photographed by an amateur photographer, God gave this little bird everything it needs to survive in a world filled with hostilities.
But God made me smarter than a hummingbird. At least I like to think so. One of these days I am going to capture this little fellow with my lens. He can't outsmart me forever.
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The world's biggest outbound travel market – CHINA – recognises there's a new 'way to stay' when travelling in the UK …. serviced apartments
- China is now largest overseas market for many serviced apartment operators in the UK
- Serviced apartment sector is booming right across the UK
- 18% increase in future pipeline – 3,803 new serviced apartments across 47 properties expected to open by 2020
'China Daily', the leading English-language newspaper in China (daily circulation 500,000 in 150 countries/regions), ) ran a special report on 23 October '17 about the phenomenal growth in Chinese visitors to the UK using serviced apartments as their accommodation of choice, offering the true home-from-home experience and the flexibility in cooking for themselves.
VisitBritain – the national tourist board – reported earlier this month that inbound visitors from China to the UK had grown 47% in the first 6 months of 2017 with expenditure similarly up at 54% year on year.
ASAP's members have seen an upturn in Chinese guests, including The Knight Residence by Mansley Apartments where Chinese visitors are up 18% year on year and now their single biggest overseas market for the first time. Six of ASAP's members are currently members of the CHINA Ready welcome charter – Go Native, Marlin Apartments, Premier Suites, The Apartment Network and The Knight Residence in Edinburgh and Week2Week in Newcastle.
Image courtesy of SilverDoorChina3.recognises.new.way.to.stay.s.apartments.24oct2017


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Why do we recite the Apostle's Creed?
Kim Riddlebarger answers.
4 Ways we Need to Grow in Evangelism
J.D. Grear and his church staff identified four ways in which his church could grow in evangelism.
The Value of Higher Education is More Than Getting a Job
"If you can take advantage of the amazing opportunities that a college education offers, not for job training, but for life training, you will help to ensure that, no matter what the world throws at you, you will be able to adapt and turn your challenges into opportunities. Start thinking about those required classes outside of your area not as a burden, but as a chance to help future-proof education and yourself."
Ruth: More than a Love Story
"The book of Ruth is first and foremost about the covenant faithfulness of the LORD to ensure the arrival of our Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ."
Teaching Resources for Equipping Counselors
Few people give away so much helpful free stuff as Bob Kellemen.


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TOGA Four Strap Boots in black and black/white (LN-CC).
I love the versatility of these boots. The cut-outs allow the boots to be worn in warmer weather without socks, or worn with stockings or socks in the colder months. Can you just imagine the countless sock/boot combos that can be worn with these?!


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Amazing free Machine Learning and Deep Learning public data sources for 2018
These public data sources can be used for machine learning and deep learning research. Datasets are an integral part of the field of machine learning.
Finding a good machine learning dataset is often the biggest hurdle a developer has to cross before starting any data science project. Whether you're new to machine learning, or a professional data scientist, finding a good machine learning dataset is the key to extracting actionable insights.
Below is an up-to-date list of freely available data sources.
World Bank Open Data
Datasets covering population demographics and a huge number of economic and development indicators from across the world.
IMF Data
The International Monetary Fund publishes data on international finances, debt rates, foreign exchange reserves, commodity prices and investments.
The US National Center for Education Statistics
Data on educational institutions and education demographics from the US and around the world.
The UK Data Centre
The UK's largest collection of social, economic and population data.
5 FiveThirtyEight
A large number of polls providing data on public opinion of political and sporting issues.
FBI Uniform Crime Reporting
The FBI is responsible for compiling and publishing national crime statistics, with free data available at national, state and county level.
Bureau of Justice
Here you can find data on law enforcement agencies, jails, parole and probation agencies and courts.
Qlick Data Market
Offers a free package with access to datasets covering world population, currencies, development indicators and weather data.
NASA Exoplanet Archive
Public datasets covering planets and stars gathered by NASA's space exploration missions.
UN Comtrade Database
Statistics compiled and published by the United Nations on international trade. Includes Comtrade Lab which is a showcase of how cutting edge analytics and tools are used to extract value from the data.
Financial Times Market Data
Up to date information on financial markets from around the world, including stock price indexes, commodities and foreign exchange.
Google Trends
Examine and analyze data on internet search activity and trending news stories around the world.
The advantage Twitter has over the others are that most conversations are public. This means that huge amounts of data is available through their API on who is talking about what, where, when and why.
Google Scholar
Entire texts of academic papers, journals, books and legal case law.
As with Twitter, Instagram posts and conversations are public by default. Their APIs allow likes, mentions and business details to be analyzed.
The world's largest open database of companies.
Glassdoor API
Information about job vacancies, candidates, salaries and employee satisfaction is available through their developer API.
IMDB Datasets
Datasets in a number of formats drawn from the web's largest resource on movies, television and people working in those industries.
OpenLibrary Data Dumps
Datasets on books including catalogues from libraries around the world
Labelled Faces in the Wild
13,000 collated and labelled images of human faces, for use in developing applications involving facial recognition.
Microsoft Marco
Microsoft's open machine learning datasets for training systems in reading comprehension and question answering.
Machine Learning Dataset Repository
Collection of open datasets contributed by data scientists involved in machine learning projects.
EBay Market Data Insights
Data on millions of online sales and auctions from Ebay
Natural History Museum Data Portal
Information on nearly 4 million historical specimens in the London museum's collection, as well as scientific sound recordings of the natural world.
CERN Open Data
More than one petabyte of data from particle physics experiments carried out by CERN.
One Million Audio Cover Images
Dataset hosted at archive.org covering music released around the world, for use in image processing research
Complete Public Reddit Comments Corpus
Over one billion public comments posted to Reddit between 2007 and 2015, for training language algorithms
Microsoft Azure Data Markets Free Datasets
Freely available datasets covering everything from agriculture to weather
Irish Electric Vehicle Charge Point Status
Collates data from the body which oversees the network of EV charge points across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Pollution and air quality data from across London
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2018 has been full of the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. It has been a wild year, and nothing demonstrates that more than the rivalries that sprang up and dominated the headlines. Here are your biggest beefs of 2018.
Drake and Pusha T have been trading punches for awhile now (technically the roots of this rivalry go all the way back to 2006) with tracks like Pusha's "H.G.T.V." and Drake's "Two Birds One Stone." But Pusha breathed new life into the beef with his track "Infrared" off this year's album DAYTONA. Drake immediately fired back with "Duppy Freestyle," but then things got real when Pusha dropped "The Story of Adidon," not only bringing the revelation that Drake had secretly fathered a child but also somehow digging up an old photo of a young Drake sporting minstrel Blackface. Drake responded… with an iPhone Notes "press release" earnestly addressing the blackface photo and that was the end of that. For now.


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Sometimes, it takes more than a Facebook photo album to show that traveling to places is the ultimate love of your life.
Here are few tattoos to invoke you to get inked right away!
Let your suitcase soar high to the different parts of the world.
Because your heart is locked in different parts of the world.