Aug 23, 2010
Interested in starting your own travel company?
1. Call your state's Department of Licensing, and ask whether or not you need a special license to start a travel agency business. Many states do not require such licensing. If your state does require you to obtain a travel agency license, expect to pay a fee for it.
2. Obtain a general business license for the area in which you live or ...
Aug 21, 2010
To add a separator to the left side of the dock (the application side) enter this into the terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type="spacer-tile";}'
Repeat this step for each separator you would like, and make sure to press Enter each time to execute the command.
To add a separator to the right side of the dock (the document side) enter this into the terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock ...
Jul 6, 2010
50 Million Minds Diverted, Distracted, Devoured
"For decades, concern has been brewing about the dumbed-down popular culture of young people and the impact it has on their futures." - Mark Bauerlein
Who is concerned? Whose world is it? And what kind of world was left to them?
Could it be that, as with each successive generation, today's youth have taken a good hard look at preceding generations and come to the ...
Jul 6, 2010
Spinal Muscular Atrophy 'Doesn't Define Me'
by Ben Mattlin (NPR's MORNING EDITION, April 28, 2010)
I get a lot of recommendations to join Facebook groups with names like Fight SMA. I never respond.
SMA stands for spinal muscular atrophy, and I was born with it. I've never walked or stood, and over time have lost the use of my hands. It's a progressive, neuromuscular weakness. It occurs in one of every ...
Jun 8, 2010
"If you ain't who you is, you is who you ain't." - Mrs. Jenkins
We, in our own lives, have everything we need to discern the truth. If we cannot glean truth by critically and unashamedly assessing ourselves, then how do we know truth?
How do we relate to truth we cannot apply in our own lives? And if we cannot apply it in our own lives, how is it ...
Jun 8, 2010
Christ isn't Christ-like - he IS Christ. Marc isn't Marc-like - he IS Marc.
What was that song from back in the day from "School Daze"? "I Can Only Be Me" by Keith John.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6laIAWUzg8
I understand that there is an argument based on scripture that says we must deny ourselves (our own base proclivities) in order to realize our God given potential.
Paul said "if anyone is in Christ, he is ...
Jun 7, 2010
... in the beginning God fashioned flesh (earth, the physical world) and spirit (the sky, or heaven, the realm of the intangible); the kingdom of our senses and the kingdom within.
The Law governs our sensual being. Love governs our spiritual being. The Pharisees were criticized for zealously defending every jot and tittle of the Law and missing the spirit from which it was offered.
There is a story I have ...
Apr 11, 2010
By Dr. Virender Kumar Jain | Published 04/20/2006
Cow is a mobile dispensary. It is the treasure of medicines. The cow urine therapy is capable of curing several curable and incurable diseases.
The holy texts, like Atharva Veda, Charak Samhita, Rajni Ghuntu, Vridhabhagabhatt, Amritasagar, Bhavprakash, Sushrut Samhita contain beautiful description about these things.
Cow Urine Treatment and Research Center, Indore has conducted a lot of research in the past few years and ...
Nov 15, 2009
Stretched thin by 2 wars, military may have missed Hasan warning signs
By STEWART M. POWELL and GARY MARTIN
WASHINGTON BUREAU
Nov. 14, 2009, 10:30PM
WASHINGTON — At a time when U.S. Army troops are fighting two wars halfway around the globe, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan possessed all the qualifications the military so desperately needs: He is an Arabic-speaking Muslim of Palestinian descent, a doctor, a psychiatrist and a midlevel commander.
But that ...
Oct 4, 2009
Jeffrey R. Henig
Good research can spawn good policy, but only if we understand the limitations and benefits of research—and use a good dose of judgment.
Among the apple pie issues in U.S. education is the notion that good policy should be based on the best and latest research. This is a premise of long standing, embedded, for example, in the training requirements for school leaders who are expected to ...