In his standard workmanlike fashion, the esteemed Yankees closer, Mariano Rivera, tore through the three hitters the Twins offered during the top of the 9th inning Monday at Yankee Stadium, becoming Major League Baseball’s all-time…
Exponential Growth inGuests of this year’s Shop.org Summit were treated to a talk by inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil. He stated that the exponential growth in IT/computing power means the world will probably be…
There are fifty million Americans who have no health care insurance. And the reason is mainly because health insurance is costly. And since there’s a high unemployment rate, an increasing number of individuals could not…
Netflix Chief Executive Officer, Reed Hastings, apologized to outraged customers following the company’s price increase debacle. Does he have to make amends with Netflix investors too? Shares of Netflix fell 19% Thursday and another 8%…
Virginia Tice recently completed a 2 year assignment as coordinator of Heartland Alliance’s child protection services in Sulaimania, Kurdistan, in northeast Iraq. Tice’s directive involved the establishment of programs addressing human rights violations of institutionalized…
During a significant expansion of the Off Broadway Signature Theater Company, five highly regarded playwrights Annie Baker, Will Eno, Katori Hall, Kenneth Lonergan, and Regina Taylor are going to be charter members of a program…
As flu season draws near, nearly 70 percent of employees admit to coming into work while sick, a habit that may increase the spread of this common virus at the office. Even with increased preventative…
We won’t get everything airline passenger rights groups pushed for when new federal consumer protection regulations take effect in a couple of days, but many of the changes are significant, and there’s much more to…
When news of the sports scandal at the University of Miami started spreading Wednesday, I just wasn’t feeling it. It seemed odd, given the unprecedented size and scope of the allegations. Between 2002 and 2010,…
The Health IT Standards Committee has approved a single set of terminology standards for each area of quality reporting measures, an achievement that has been ten years in the making. The areas include prescribed drugs,…
