Monthly Archives: November 2012

Collegiate Athletics in Peril

Football at the collegiate level is growing faster than it has in its storied history, but unfortunately it is threatened by a fan base that is constantly crying foul against the governing body of college football. The NCAA has come …

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Kickstarter is the Answer

Entertainment execs continue to pull their hair out over piracy. With new tools available to the common consumer, the same old business model just doesn’t work. It’s understandable why changing the old way they’ve done business for decades would not …

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The Need to Share: Social Media Etiquette

As I started thinking about the upcoming holidays and how they would be presented on social media, I started thinking about our need to share. Thanksgiving is tomorrow and while families gather and spend time together, most social media applications …

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Make Time to Stop and Pause

Do any of you have any secret spots or special locations? A place you can travel to, a place you can go to get away from the busyness, a place where you can imagine yourself immersed in a completely different …

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Advancing Curriculums and Advancing Technology

Every year, K-12 curriculum’s are getting more and more advanced.  Students are always being expected to learn more at a younger age.  But with these advances in materials taught, should there also be advances in technology in the classroom?  While …

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Love and Other Drugs – The Halo Effect

Research shows that the type of person you are sexually attracted to is locked in by the age of 5. What happens throughout the rest of our life is we meet people based on this script. When we first meet …

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Brace yourself! Holiday sales are coming!

Thanksgiving has just passed and you know what that means! It’s time for Christmas music to fill our airwaves! The countdown is on for Christmas and the stores are getting ready to release sale after sale after sale to attract …

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Online Dating, Among Other Life Choices

In romantic comedies of old we see boy meet girl, boy woo girl, boy and girl date, boy and girl get engaged, boy and girl get married. These days boy and girl can meet, date, flirt, get engaged and even …

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What time of year is it?

It’s crazy to me that it is almost Thanksgiving already. Usually I wait all year for the holidays to come around and then this year it is as though they have just been sprung upon me. I think this is …

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Social Media and the Israeli Attacks

Once again, I will be discussing Twitter and its continued use in worldwide events. It seems as though every week, social media sites are being used more and more to update people on traumatic and extremely important events.

According to …

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