“Health is wealth,” goes the old adage, and with today’s very busy and often fast-paced lifestyles, this becomes even more relevant. As more and more people find themselves working extended hours and in highly stressful conditions or environment, things actually become counter-productive as the employees’ productivity diminishes due to health problems. With this, many companies […]
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1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty
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Working in an office environment can be harmful to your health. Striking the correct work life balance in the 21st century can be a constant battle, and never more so than with the development of mobile technology that means that we are constantly accessible twenty four hours a day. Technological advances mean that we can
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There are so many good reasons to jump on your bike to work, rather than jumping in the car. We have seen around a 40% rise in the numbers of commuters travelling by bicycle to work in the US. However, the numbers are still below 1 million per day. This is stark in comparison compared
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When most people think of a surgeon, they do not imagine a man putting together a unique cigar box guitar. However, that is exactly who Kirk Withrow is. A patient with a sinus infection introduced him to the instrument during his residency at the University of Alabama Birmingham about 11 years ago and gave him
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1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden. 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. 1886 – Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
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1933 – Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a “bank holiday”. 1991 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. 2008 – Gold prices on the New York
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Raising Eyebrows Not every entrepreneur gets it right the first time, or even the fifth, but persistence pays. After years of failures and $150,000 of debt, Dal LaMagna finally made it, founding Tweezerman. Read his inspirational story for success in the face of collapse. Launch Fever Timothy Taylor started his career at NASA, but made
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Gigaom: A pair of Indiana University researchers has found that a pair of predictive modeling techniques can make significantly better decisions about patients’ treatments than can doctors acting alone. How much better? They claim a better than 50 percent reduction in costs and more than 40 percent better patient outcomes. The idea behind the research,
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Babies may not come with instruction manuals, but Jodi Selander will tell you-they come with a powerful life preserver for the mother. Jodi didn’t set out to be the woman who built a global network of professional Placenta Encapsulation Specialists, but after finding a natural way to ward off her baby blues by consuming her
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