Green
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Keeping packing material out of the waste stream

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Barbara McMichael
November 20, 2015

Marilyn Lauderdale had been working at an IKEA store in Renton, Washington, for 15 years when she transferred to their in-house furniture assembly team.

In her new position, she quickly noticed that cardboard and plastic packing materials were recycled, but other packaging – including copious amounts of expanded polystyrene foam – was not.

An innocent question about whether it could be recycled led her, she says, “down...

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Entertainment
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Ladies and Gentlemen…Wali Collins Album Launched

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November 20, 2015

 WALI COLLINS Album RELEASED BY COMEDY DYNAMICS11/20

 Ladies and Gentlemen…Wali Collins,his debut standup comedy album, was released Comedy Dynamics on iTunes, Google Play, and all other digital retailers and streaming sites on November 20, 2015.

Collins effortlessly entertains with his quick whit and gregarious stage...

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Arts & Culture
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Barbi Leifert Showing Art Basel Miami

PR for People Team
November 20, 2015

Barbi Leifert' s work will be part of the True Masters Collection that is presented by Art Bodega Magazine in partnership with L'EXCELLENCE. Exhibit opens Monday, November 30 to Friday, December 4th. Hours 10:30 to 6:00pm. Saturday, December 5th, Hours are by appointment only. This show is part of ART BASEL MIAMI 2015. For more information email artbodegaevents@gmail.com or call 305-989-6230 or...

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Tech & Science
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A Dirty Business

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Patricia Vaccarino
November 17, 2015

A Dirty Business: What Ever Happened to Jimmy Hoffa?  It’s been 39 years since Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa disappeared. On every anniversary of Hoffa’s disappearance, a new theory emerges about the location of his final remains. Here are just a few of them:

     • Hoffa’s body was put in a 55-gallon steel drum, and carried off in a truck, then buried on the...

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Tech & Science
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The State of Garbage in America

Randy Woods
November 17, 2015

“It’s a smelly, dirty, public health nuisance.”

“It’s a valuable commodity to be traded.”

“It’s a fact of life that will never go away.”

All three of these disparate statements above can be made about garbage, and all three of them are true, especially the last statement. The definition of garbage — or “solid waste,” as it is referred to in the landfill business — changes...

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Startups
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Kathy McShane Shares Secrets to Success

PR for People Team
November 16, 2015

Are women entrepreneurs different from their male counterparts? Do women need a different blueprint to achieve success in business? These critical business concepts and more are set forth in Kathy McShane’s newly released book The Survivor’s Guide for Female Entrepreneurs.

Kathy McShane, widely considered to be an Expert on Female Entrepreneurship, shares her secrets to success in The Survivor’s Guide for...

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Politics
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Veterans of No War

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Patricia Vaccarino
November 10, 2015

The political contenders who are the most conservative and hawkish bellow a mighty war cry but are veterans of no war.  George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Trump, all of whom mastered the art of serial deferments, squeaked out of going to the big war—back when real men were drafted to—the...

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News
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Lest We Forget

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David Bresler
November 10, 2015

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", George Santayana, 1905

The other day, after having commuted, on and off, for over 40 years from the Hartsdale, NY RR station, I noticed, for the first time, a plaque on a rock with the inscription, "Lest We Forget  1917-1918." The plaque, of course, was a memorial to local veterans of WWI, the seminal event of the 20th Century.  And, while it is true that both the...

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