Transparency is a hot topic these days. Celebrities wear transparent clothing on the red carpet. Sometimes they even forget to put on pants. That’s being transparent, all right. And then there’s social media. We might wish people would be a little less transparent on these platforms, where they tend to digitally dissect and offer up […]
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Attention isn’t a recognized medium of exchange. You can’t buy groceries with it, or get your car fixed by listening with unwavering attention to the mechanic telling you about his family’s vacation in the Rockies. You need plastic or good ol’ greenbacks to pay for most of what you need to buy. But in one
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Leaves are all around us, and serve so many purposes. Leafy greens are good for you; you’ll want to eat lots of them. Turning over a new leaf is usually good as well: it means starting fresh, perhaps in a new business or in life overall. Trees leaves are beautiful, and provide much-needed shade in
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Impact Absorbents has been leading the spill clean up and spill containment industry for more than three decades. With worldwide distribution, it’s amazing to realize that back in 1992, we were first experimenting with innovative absorbent materials in — where are great ideas born? — a garage. When the Tharp family began developing our flagship
Remember Nancy Reagan’s Just Say No campaign? Hers targeted drugs, but made no mention of clay. Which is too bad, because clay is definitely hazardous to your health, even if you’re not ingesting it (and if you have a cat that is using clay litter, odds are they are ingesting it as they cover their
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A lot of people aspire to a management position, especially when they’re just starting out in their career. Of course, if you own your own business, you are the manager, unless you’ve (hopefully) hired a great person to oversee day-to-day operations. It’s wonderful to know your shop or grocery store is being run competently in
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Do children even study from textbooks anymore, or is it all screens now? Are there still human teachers at the head of the classroom, or are they AI? Life sure has evolved in the 21st century. But as children head back to school this fall, one thing is perennial, regardless of the calendar year: how
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Hawaii, once known as a premier tourist destination, has been under siege from wildfires. Fires have also been choking the air over the East coast as smoke drifts down from Canadian fires. California and Nevada continue to experience wildfire outbreaks. Record-breaking triple-digit temperatures decimated most of the U.S. in August. Perhaps most disturbing of all,
Remember that Jimi Hendrix classic, Purple Haze, where he sang, “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy”? Or what about when Credence Clearwater Revival appeared to give directions to the necessary, with the lyrics, “There’s a bathroom on the right”? Neither of these often-misheard lyrics is correct, though they’ve become so entrenched in popular culture
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The tune was written for Elvis, and recorded by him as well as a slew of other famous musicians, including the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, and Buddy Holly. And while Elvis sings, “You’re so square/Baby I don’t care,” we want you to know there’s one type of square we care about a lot, and we want
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