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Fake Native American art:
A tsunami of cheap imported
jewelry - designed to look like
authentic Native American art - is
flooding the Southwest U.S., irking
law enforcement officials and
infuriating real Indian artists.
As much as 75% of the roughly $1
billion of jewelry, pottery, rugs and
other items sold every year as
authentic is not. As many as 90%
of pieces held out as examples of
Native American craftsmanship
are fake.
"I never hated a man enough to
give him his diamonds back," said
Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Russia's population has fallen
by 6.6 million since 1993, due
in part to its high mortality rate,
according to the U.N.
The Internet was born in 1969.
And no, it wasn't invented by Al
Gore. In fact he said: "The day I
made that statement about
inventing the Internet, I was tired
because I'd been up all night
inventing the camcorder."
The first host-to-host message
was sent from professor Leonard
Klieinrock's lab at UCLA to the
Stanford Research Institute over
the ARPANet, the forerunner of the
Internet. The ARPANet was made
up of Interface Message
Processors at those two sites,
with two more sites added a short
time later, at UCSB and the
University of Utah. The major
innovation was a distributed
network of computers that had no
single point of failure. If one
computer went down, the network
overall still worked. By 1971, the
first email program was being
used and two years later, the
ARPANet was international, when
connections were made to Norway
and Britain. The @ symbol was
adopted in 1972 and a year later
75 percent of ARPANet traffic was
email.
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theGeneralist, a
one-page monthly
publication of the accounting firm of
A.R. Kakhsaz Company, is in its 16th
year of providing information, presented
fairly and accurately, from sources we
can depend upon and trust.
Federal contractors must use
an electronic system to verify
whether their employees are
eligible to work in the U.S.
Long-distance motorcycling, to
a host of destinations world-wide,
has been on a roll. Sales of
touring bikes in the U.S. more than
doubled from 1998 to 2008. Sales
slipped in the past year due to
recession. Travelers have found
inspiration in media productions
like "The Motorcycle Diaries," the
biopic on the youthful travels of
Che Guevara and "Long Way
Round," the documentary
chronicling actor Ewan McGregor's
bike trip from London to New York
via Central Asia.
How bad is the economy?
The economy is so bad that a
truckload of Americans was
caught sneaking into Mexico.
Immaculate conception:
In December 1854, Pope Pius IX
defined as a dogma the belief that
the Virgin Mary was born free of sin.
The best way to find out if
you
can trust somebody is to trust
them.
U.S. Congress voted to let
people carry loaded guns in
national parks in 2009. That's a
defeat for gun-control advocates.
Most Americans believe
nuclear power is a safe and
effective way to use as an
alternative energy-source to battle
climate change.
We see more in numbers
than just numbers...
Ali R. Kakhsaz, CPA, MAcc
www.arkcpa.com
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