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  • VA Stand Down Brings Hope and Help to Homeless Veterans in LA

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    They’ve sacrificed so much for our country, yet so many veterans face challenges like unemployment and homelessness. To help combat that, the Greater Los Angeles Veteran’s Administration held an event, which for many, is the first step in turning their lives around. Heidi Marston is with the VA Greater Los Angeles and explains what “Stand […]

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  • This Club Wants to Lead the Nation in Helping Homeless Veterans

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    What started as a challenge from an Ohio CEO has turned into thousands of dollars for homeless veterans in Michigan. Maureen Tobin, district director for the Lincoln Park Exchange Club, said the club partnered with Veterans Matter, a Toledo-based organization that helps homeless veterans get housing, after a fortuitous meeting at Lincoln Park Days a […]

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  • 3 Green Lifestyle Tips for Autumn

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    To me, the back-to-school months of September and October feel more like the new year than January. There’s a general sense of inspiration about fall that prompts people of all ages to do more for themselves and the people and environment around them. Speaking as the helm of a recycling company on a mission to […]

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  • Digital signage helps firefighters save lives

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    Digital signage isn’t just for advertisements; it can also supply lifesaving information. One example of this is the FireRescueTV platform, designed specifically for firefighters. Martin Grube, executive producer of FireRescueTV, created the platform to help firefighters train, get information on fires in progress and relax with entertaining content. Digital Signage Today spoke with Grube to learn more […]

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  • Don’t Use Ads To Get Your First Customers

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    Why Ads Are Toxic To Early Stage Startups If you just started a company for the first time and you’re using ads to get your first paying customers, you’re doing it wrong. Unless you’re a repeat successful founder, you’ll be out of business in 2 years. I’m sure of it. I often times post about my […]

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  • Evolution Has Already Approved of Everything You’ll Do Tomorrow

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    Darwin’s theories illustrate the improbability of the present and the unknowability of the future “Each and every one of us has been born into a given historical reality, ruled by particular norms and values, and managed by a unique economic and political system. We take this reality for granted, thinking it is natural, inevitable and […]

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  • Top 12 Things That Destroy Developer Productivity

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    A lot of articles address the role of tech leads and engineering managers. One common theme we often come across is how to increase a team’s productivity. But before you focus your energy trying to increase their productivity, you might first want to consider what’s destroying it, to have a sound base on which you can […]

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  • Time to Kill the Tech Monopolies

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    What Is The Best Way To Improve Competition In Modern Capitalism? A comedian once quipped that “if poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets”. This is yet to happen, but the populist movements across the world are a good indication of the ongoing rejection of the liberal order […]

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  • How everyone’s wrong about the energy used in Bitcoin mining

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    There’s no such thing as a free lunch. There’s no such thing as a zero sum game. The 2nd law of thermodynamics tells us this. You know, the one about entropy and how everything will be really, really lame in a couple of trillion years. There’s no action without an equally big reaction somewhere. This is […]

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  • How One Blockchain Startup is Transforming Travel and Increasing the Accessibility of Cities

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    We all know that social networks and digital content distribution is controlled by a small number of large companies. The strength of these companies lies in the content that millions of users create and share on a daily basis. In platforms like Facebook and Twitter, users are not only customers who consume advertising or pay […]

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