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What kind of degree do you hold, fake or genuine?
A very brief comment I made towards the end of an article last week in one of the leading Arabic newspapers brought me an avalanche of emails. The comment was on news that broke a few weeks ago: a German minister of education had been stripped of her PhD after it was discovered that she had quoted works of other authors in her thesis without giving proper references. And because of that she had to leave her ministerial post as well. My comment on that was: what if this happened in the Arab world? How many people with such degrees would remain in their positions?
The emails I received were quite amazing. Some people referred to certain individuals they knew, holding professional degrees with no knowledge whatsoever, and posing as doctors, teachers, engineers and university professors. In fact, for some of them, holding a higher degree had become a matter of social prestige rather than something to do with knowledge. The issue in not theoretical; the widespread use of fake certificates led to the committee for education at the Kuwaiti parliament form a special panel to look 10 years back for authenticating the awarding of PhDs. And the institutions that awarded them.
Once, a gentleman came to my office at Kuwait University, and presented me with a big volume of bound papers, and said that washis dissertation. He said he wanted me to help him get a post at the university. I looked at the work, and it was on Mahatir Mohammad of Malaysia. So I asked him, "Do you know English?" His answer was "No, I depended on what had been translated into Arabic." I was shocked; the PhD had been awarded by a provincial university in an Arab country! It did not require any specific hours of attendance or any knowledge of a second language. The only thing that mattered was paying the registration fees, which was a huge sum of money.
During the battle for the liberation in Libya two years ago, a similar scandal had broken out. It was the discovery that a respected educational institution in the UK had granted Saif Al Islam, Muammar Gaddafi's son, a PhD. It was later revealed that a good portion of his dissertation, which he claimed to have written, had been plagiarised. These days, money and deception have come to the surface of education; there's no doubt about it.
The phenomena is widespread, whether in rich Arab countries or in poorer ones. Some citizens in oil-rich states are eager to enhance their social status. They look for a higher degree at all costs, and in any specialisation; all they want to do is to exchange their money for a "Dr" before their names. To the poorer countries, the title means money itself, as that secures a good position for the individual, who can pose as a professional in one discipline or another. The issue became serious, with the increase in the number of weak private educational institutions in the region eager to earn money and the lack of government inspections. Some people would travel faraway just to get this prestigious title in exchange for some money under the table. It is not necessary for some to enter into practice of any kind; it is a ready tool to deceive the community, either by doing business or by going into politics. Some of them even get away with practising the professions but are soon discovered fficially or at a social level. They are shallow figures, and nothing more.
For presenters on our TV talk shows, it is safe to refer to the guest as "Dr", and if they don't do that, they will be corrected immediately by the guest himself. Once I was engaged in a debate on a TV show, with one of those "titled persons". It was a heated political debate, and I refered to my opponent, out of courtesy as "Mr". When I repeated that, he cut the discussion by angrily saying "you are not recognising me as Dr." I was shocked, as addressing someone as "Mr." to me is much more respectful. His attitude could be a sign of a possible case of low self-esteem and a non-deserving "title"!
This phenomena in our society needs to be looked into. Soon we will know the results of Kuwait's parliamentary enquiry. I think it will be hushed up, as it's hard to judge, and catch some of your colleagues red handed!
Mohammed Al Rumaihi is a professor of political sociology at Kuwait University.


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Yes, it nice to see it back up to 52 week high. Little confused about the low volume. Any thoughts? I don't plan on buying or selling anymore shares but sit back and enjoy the monthly dividends. If you are retired and looking for a nice income (like me) stock this might be a buy but I wouldn't buy it for price increase. If it pulls back again to $29 I might buy more.
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The year was 2009. Coach Mike Holloway and his current assistant Erin Tucker were scouting four sprinters who would make Florida a threat for years to come.
With three of the four sprinters living in Florida — the other from New Jersey — Holloway and his program had a great opportunity at snagging them all to compete for the Gators for their collegiate careers.
Now recognized as one of the best 4x400-meter relays squads in the country, Hugh Graham Jr., Dedric Dukes, Najee Glass and Arman Hall have seen their share of success while donning the Gator uniform.
"I remember when Hugh and Dedric were seniors and Gino and Najee were juniors (in high school)," Holloway said. "Coach Tucker and I sat down and talked and looked at the list, and our goal was to get four of the top five guys in the country.
"Our goal was to get four of those five guys here, and we did. We knew we'd have something special with those guys."
The quartet of sprinters have accumulated personal records on several UF top-10 lists, are the defending national outdoor champions and recently set the second-fastest collegiate time in the 4x4.
But the core group has also accomplished noteworthy feats individually.
Hall is the 200-meter dash Southeastern Conference indoor champion. Dukes was named USTFCCCA's Division I National Athlete of the Week.
Graham was one of four athletes in 2013 to receive three USTFCCCA D1 First Team All-America accolades outdoors, and Glass is an All-American who just set his personal record (21.05) in the 200m at Florida Relays.
Furthermore, Hall, Dukes, Graham and Glass hold the Florida record in the 4x4 with a time of 2:59.73, which was also the world-leading time this season edging out Gainesville Elite.
"You have to give credit to all four guys," Holloway said. "You also have to thank the elite group that ran with us pulling us to that."
What's even more special about this group of athletes is that they didn't realize they would clock a sub-three minute time this early in the season and still have a chance of breaking that record come outdoor nationals.
"We knew we would have something special with those guys," Holloway said. "That's what you saw, four very talented athletes, four very strong competitors and they just go out there and get after it. I'm very proud of them."
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Motivating and inspiring today's Hispanic nursing students calls for updated approaches, as the National Association of Hispanic Nurses knows from experience. In response to the need for an organization tailored to Hispanic students, NAHN Houston Chapter president Jackie Crespo Perry, RN, BSN, CA-CP, SANE, formulated a pilot program that became the NAHN Students Association.
Flash of Insight
"Students need someone to accept them for who they are," says Perry who realized this as she observed the cross examination of a defendant in court. Perhaps, if the young man had had someone to turn to, his life choices would not have revolved around gang membership and the resulting crime, she mused.
Perry planned a start-up organization affiliated with NAHN for nursing students to be involved, have input and even reach out to high school students.
In the Beginning
In early 2008, then NAHN president Maria T. Villot, RN, BSN, appointed Perry to chair the NAHN Select Committee of the Students Association, to formulate the program. Perry initiated the bylaws for the Students Association and developed an advisory committee of nine volunteer regional NAHN representatives, comprising of six NAHN members and three student members.
Until elections take place, the NAHN advisory committee functions to govern the association. An appointed slate of student officers including President Jorge Luis Prada, Hunter-Belleview School of Nursing, NY; Vice President Nina Gonzalez, Northern University, Philadelphia; Nicole Zavala, Mt. St Vincent's Hospital School of Nursing, NY; and Jasmine Seunarine, pre-nursing student, Hunter-Belleview College, NY; are working to prepare for a Students Association national election at the national convention to be held in San Antonio in July 2009.
Student Voice
The novelty of the organization is its open membership benefits to high school and pre-nursing students. "It's necessary to provide needed support to students from their first moment of choice for a nursing career," says Prada, who recounts the void he felt as a pre-nursing student. At that time, admission requirements for existing organizations required acceptance into an accredited nursing school, he says.
The Students Association welcomes other level nursing students as well, and is an opportunity to develop leadership skills.
Student members Alejandra Vazques and Angeles del Desierto (Yuma, Ariz., Chapter); Illiana Suarez, Chris Ruiz, and Marylee Gonzalez (Staten Island, NY, Chapter); and Linda Hinogiante (Phoenix Chapter) helped create the association's mission as well as the vision statement and core values. With its attention to educational enhancement of Hispanic students, the association considers core values of integrity, respect, creativity, innovation and service to the community.
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Student Advisory Board members Vasques, Prada and Gonzalez set up a Students Association group page on Facebook. "We thought it important to provide peer-to-peer support through this social network as well as contact through e-mail," said Prada.
Future plans include providing presentations to high school students, recruiting and welcoming new members, formulating promotional letters for high schools and nursing schools, creation of a logo and preparation of an association presentation at the 2009 NAHN annual conference.
"We plan to provide members with opportunities to improve test-taking skills and NCLEX reviews, and on creating a networking environment, all that will contribute to their professional development," Prada says.
"Although the organization targets Hispanic student nurses, others are welcome to join as associate members," Prada says. "We believe in inclusion and working together," he says.
All of NAHN's 32 Chapters have been invited to initiate Student Association affiliates. To date, Student Association members total approximately 180 across the country.


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The Epistle to the Romans
This inductive Bible study focuses on a message for the early Christian church who were living in the city of Rome. The study carefully examines the apostle Paul s concerns for believers in the first century. This in-depth twenty-three week study takes a close look at the themes presented by Paul. The study also investigates the practical guidelines for living for each who are in relationship with Christ and His followers. Many practical application questions are considered so that students are challenged to grow stronger in their faith and in their walk with the Lord. The study provides a number of options for completing the lessons. The student could complete the observation questions followed by application questions, or complete the remainder of the lesson for an in-depth study. Students could also study only portions of the in-depth lesson beyond the observation questions. The study also offers a reflection in Scripture every day to provide a time of worship that addresses the role of Christians in the church as followers of Christ.
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When we talk about modifying diets, the best and healthy way to do so would be to start letting children eat the right food while they are young.
According to Acting World Health Organization (WHO) representative of the Philippines, Dr. Susan Mercado, children should maintain that healthy diet as they grow older.
"It should begin from mothers [especially those] who breastfeed," Mercado said in a press conference at the Goldiland Millennia Suites in Pasig City during the World Health Day celebration on Friday.
As an infant slowly progresses to being a toddler, Mercado said boiling vegetables such as camote (sweet potato) and squash, and putting it in a blender without adding anything like salt or sugar, is one good way to make children get used to eating food without seasoning or additives.
"Lots of foods have natural taste. If mothers start kids without adding salt to their foods, they would not grow up looking for salty foods," she said.
She explained that since salt was usually used to enhance food taste, Filipinos, especially children have gotten the bad habit of eating food rich in salt, including junk food.
"In cafeterias, offices and so on, we should try to see to it that people have more choices to healthier food," Mercado said. In some restaurants abroad, Mercado said there are dishes indicating how many calories, trans fat and how much sodium is in the food.
She said it would be good if restaurants in the Philippines adopt the same healthy measure because it would at least help people watch what they eat.
"The whole of society can contribute in making better choices throughout the life course of the individual," she said.
During the press conference, Health Secretary Enrique Ona said the Department of Health (DOH) will soon undertake some type of pilot study to see how Filipinos respond to front food labeling which is now a bill in Congress.
Ona said the DOH would like Congress, when it resumes in July, to consider the importance of food labeling. This bill seeks to place nutritional facts in front of food packages instead of at the back so people could easily read them.
According to Ona, this can be a major source of information and advocacy in what is considered to be a major shift in the Filipino diet.


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Homicide detectives are investigating a crash into a canal that killed three men near Homestead, Florida.
Shortly after 3:30 a.m. Sunday, officials said four men in a car were involved in an accident in a shopping center parking lot, then drove away.
The car careened into a fence, drove through a vacant lot and landed in a canal.
A passerby pulled one of the men out of the car, but authorities later found two bodies inside the submerged car and a third in the water.
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Want to quickly find all the photos you took a year ago today? Or in a certain place? Or with a specific set of camera and lens settings? Thanks to metadata, searches like these are easy.
Metadata may not be glamorous, but it's a priceless tool for managing and organizing photos. Your camera records metadata with every shot: the date, time, camera and lens settings, and much more. You can also add metadata using programs like Adobe Lightroom.
In this course, photographer, author, and educator Tim Grey demystifies metadata, describing what it is and showing how it's an essential part of photo management, from categorizing photos to creating fun searches, such as "show me all the photos I took a year ago today."
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Put your stills into motion with cinemagraphs. A cinemagraph is a still image that contains a trace of subtle motion: wisps of hair in the breeze, water running through a stream, or a dog's tail wagging. You can use numerous tools for creating cinemagraphs, and one of the best is Photoshop. With Photoshop's masking, compositing, and video features, you can combine the layers of a still image with video that makes a cinemagraph come to life. Photographer, author, and educator Seán Duggan shows you how.
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Explore the tools and features of Lynda.com while creating a learning game plan, so you can better achieve your learning goals. Aaron Quigley shows how to find the right courses for you and engage with the training materials, and offers tips for making the learning stick. Throughout the course, coauthor and content producer Matt Fishbach will test your knowledge through a new tool—the knowledge check.
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This installment of Photoshop for Designers shows how to combine Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, taking advantage of the strongest features in each program. Learn how to work with symbols, custom brushes, Live Paint, creative filters, clipping masks, and more, while following along with veteran graphic designer and teacher Nigel French. Nigel explains the relationship between Photoshop and Illustrator and walks through hands-on projects such as a montage, a movie poster, and a print ad, while demonstrating how to work back and forth between the two applications.
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Prime Studio doesn't design products to suit themselves; they build products that fit their client's DNA. Founder Stuart Lee has assembled a multicultural team that uses software and old-school techniques like sketching to come up with innovative, functional product designs. Meet the designers of Prime Studio and learn about the process behind their new line of collapsible home products, Squish, in this short film. Find out how the designers go from sketches, to CAD models, to prototypes; how they integrate feedback from the factory into manufacturing; and how they tie the whole design together with a smart logo and branded packaging.
Photoshop: Create a Satyr Using Layer Styles
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Photoshop is a great tool for creature creators. You can use it to create composites, or use its digital painting toolset, as shown here, to create fine art and concept drawings. In this course, artist Rayce Bird takes a hand-drawn sketch and brings it to life in Photoshop, showing how to use one particular feature, layer styles, to make interesting and realistic textures for a well-known fantasy creature: a satyr.
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HR administration is vital to the success of every business and every employee. Effective HR administrators make sure companies stay compliant with regulations, and keep their employees motivated and engaged. If you are a small business owner who wants a deeper understanding of HR, someone looking for a job in HR, or an administrative professional whose duties include HR, this training course is for you. It provides a general introduction to the role and duties of an HR administrative professional.
HR consultant Catherine Mattice outlines some of the considerations of the human resources professional, such as balancing the needs of employees with the interests of the organization. She reveals how to conduct an HR audit to identify HR practices that need improvement. She then outlines core HR responsibilities: staffing, training, documentation, compensation and benefits, performance reviews, job descriptions, compliance with state and federal regulations, and more.
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Make the switch from Windows to Mac. Learn about the similarities and differences between the two operating systems, including new terms that can be mystifying for first-time Mac owners. Author David Rivers explores the software—Mac OS X and its bundled applications—as well as important hardware differences: working with the Mac mouse and keyboard, interacting with gestures, and connecting to printers and cameras. The course also covers transferring files and email from a Windows 10 computer to a Mac, and installing new applications. David shares his top five favorite free apps and tips for adjusting the system preferences, so you get the most out of your Mac experience.


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For most Americans, the days of having a large family is a part of the past. Today most families consist of two to three kids. As women wait longer to have their first child, there are only so many years left to bear children without imagining chasing them in a walker.
For some families, the first kids are all the same gender, be it boys or girls. This leaves some of them with the question of whether something is missing from their lives by not have at least one of each gender.
The risk of course is that the next child could also be a boy or a girl, depending on whether the baby's room has been permanently painted either blue or pink, respectively. There are enough stories about fathers storming out of the delivery room because they were not gracious enough to accept having another daughter.
There is no guarantee that the long awaited girl or boy will be what one expects, given having a house filled with the other gender. How will the boy react to a house filled with older sisters? Will the girl in a house full of boys become a tomboy or will she try to spend all her time with her friends?
Of course there are financial considerations as well. The cost of raising a child from birth through college can cost upwards of $900,000 these days. With the rate at which college tuition is rising, this may be a low-ball number.
For some women, there is the thought that they want to slip one more baby in before the age of 40.
Some people favor waiting several years or even longer between children. Others say that having the children close together allows for them to have playmates and you won't have small children in your life for the rest of your life.
If you do decide to have another child there are several things to consider.
First, the relationship with the other parent may change. There are studies that show that each child causes a sharp decrease in marital satisfaction. This is in contrast to couples who have no children and experience a more gradual decrease.
Second, you and your partner should try to agree on having another child. This increases the support each of you will provide. Remember, if your partner was not helpful with the first child, they are not going to be helpful with the next one or the one after that.
Third, you will need more help with more kids. It is that "it takes a village" concept. Do you have family members or friends who can babysit so you and your partner can get away for a while? Can you find help with the errands or the chores?
Fourth, a newborn needs all your attention, but your older children need attention also. Are you capable of handling two babies? If the sibling is older, will you have time for homework and extra-curricular activates? Remember sibling jealousy is a real issue that will need to be handled.
Finally, always expect the unexpected. Everyone hopes for and plans for a healthy baby. But sometimes babies are born prematurely. Sometimes they are born with health conditions. And there is always a chance of having multiple births. If you are planning to use fertility treatments, remember that you will have a 44 percent chance of the baby being twins.
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Here's how I got into development: I moved with my family to a small, economically-challenged community in northwestern Wisconsin. My trade, by chance and predilection, was carpentry. Shortly after we got settled in, the construction trade (and the rest of the economy) tanked. I decided to get a two-year degree, and had three choices locally (online):marketing, accounting, and something called "web analyst/programmer". I decided to try the last one, but first I checked out a book called C++ Primer. I found out that I could vanish into that stuff. I'm almost finished with the degree, and wish I had the time for a full-on four-year degree. Oh, well.
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Sesame Street Season 46
Sesame Street's 46th season officially began Saturday January 16 on HBO. After you see the new episodes, post here and let us know your thoughts.
Which characters have had their own song since the switch to HD?
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