It makes perfect sense to emphasize that rising dropout rates affect every part of our systems from: poverty-level living wages, more people without health insurance, higher prevalence of malnutrition, less time for parents to raise their children, less supervision of children, which portends future criminal and other behavior problems, and children imitate parents…so if their parents dropped out of school […]
The story of Charles Revson, founder of cosmetics giant Revlon, is truly one of “rags to riches.” By the time of his death, Revson, a business icon, had grown his small cosmetics shop into a global cosmetics giant. The son of a tobacconist, Charles Revson entered our world in 1906, in Montreal, Quebec. He moved to Manchester, New Hampshire when […]
Pink Noise: A Posthuman Tale takes place in a Plasma Universe is a futuristic tale of intelligent beings without consciousness or self-awareness. Could this be possible? The author, Leonid Korogodski, makes you think that it could really happen, that our human consciousness could possibly be a direct result of evolution. In case you’ve never heard of plasma cosmology, Korogodski describes […]
PICTURE THIS: You just landed an interview at the local news station. Or in the newspaper of your city. But we CNN. Or in a trade publication. Or on the local morning radio show. Congratulations! Now all you have to do is remember ONE word. LIFTING!! See, without leverage, your interview might as well never have happened. Because being That […]
Homes, hospitals, businesses, clinics, airports: the list of places that depend on a constant supply of electricity is long, varied, and weighted. But the storm season does not discriminate. Thunderstorms can hit anywhere and cause a power outage. And even a single minute without power can mean business interruption, data protection threat, equipment damage, or chaos. Therefore, it pays to […]
Search Engine Optimization or SEO is the process or series of steps one takes in an effort to make their website or other online assets more visible to others when others search for content online using search engines. This is also known as positioning one’s assets to be found by “organic” searches as opposed to “Pay Per Click” (PPC) where […]
Whether you own your own home or some type of commercial property and/or both, heating costs and energy expenses are often significant. While it is important to ensure that your system is working properly, effectively, and is well maintained etc., there are several simpler and more basic considerations that could, significantly, factor into how best to address this important factor. […]
But first, what is podcasting? Podcasting is a relatively new type of technology, so here’s some background for those who haven’t come across the term yet. The definition on wikipedia is pretty good: “Podcasting” makes audio files (most commonly in MP3 format) available online in a way that allows software to automatically download the files for listening at the user’s […]
A guy named John Markoff wrote an article for the “New York Times” in 2006 that sparked quite a heated discussion, which continues to this day. He proposed, early in the scheme of things, but certainly not for the first time, that the term “Web 3.0” be used to describe the next evolutionary step of the Internet, which he predicted […]
Over the course of the last few months, electronics manufacturers have released a fair number of new HD radios. There are new tabletop radios, car radios, and even a new category: shelf systems. Tabletop HD Radios The new tabletop radios are from AGT, Directed Electronics, Dice Electronics, Polk Audio and Sony. Additionally, Visteon has introduced a portable HD Jump receiver […]
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