From OfficeExpress Even though funky new office equipment and gadgets are churned out almost everyday, many of the core items in offices all around the world stem from the 1970’s. Now, before reading this post, take a look around your office and have a guess which items were invented in the 1970’s? 1. Email In 1971, Ray Tomlinson sent a number of test messages to […]

Kelly Lawler , USA TODAY Winter may be here, but there’s a long summer behind us.    Game of Thrones returns July 16 (HBO, 9 ET/PT) for its penultimate seven-episode season, which promises to begin wrapping up the show’s many storylines. It has been quite a long journey, featuring political power plays, wars, affairs, dangerous weddings and too […]

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By Brian Truitt , USA TODAY Spider-Man is dealing with a situation he’s never had before on the big screen: remembering the corsage for his homecoming date. It’s a muggy August night and Tom Holland, the new Spidey who made his debut in last year’s Captain America: Civil War, is sitting in a rusty burgundy Volvo with Marisa Tomei in front of a cushy […]

By Chris Stewart – Staff Writer Dayton Daily News J.D. Vance, the Middletown native who turned the story of his turbulent childhood and family dysfunction into a best-selling book, was near emotional collapse when his path out of the rust belt took him to Yale Law School, he said during a television interview broadcast over the weekend.  […]

The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System (formerly known as the New York State Barge Canal). Originally, it ran about 363 miles (584 km) from Albany, on the Hudson River, to Buffalo, at Lake Erie. It was built to […]

How a British king and a Los Angeles race riot gave rise to modern office wear by: EMILY CHERTOFF Good morning, gentlemen. You look lovely today. Is that a peaked lapel I see? Yes, Casual Friday is four days away. While you carve another hash mark into the wall of your cubicle, wouldn’t you like to […]

By Michael Hyatt.  michaelhyatt.com One Simple Way to Empower Meaningful Discussions love a good conversation. When I think to the most meaningful moments of my life, many of them have happened around a table, talking with the people closest to me. But we all know some conversations are better than others, right? Maybe you’ve had […]

from U.S. Flag.org The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America’s birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary […]

by Kevin Sheridan When asked about the single greatest detractor of workplace productivity, most employees, and especially managers, will incorrectly cite workplace meetings or meeting mismanagement. While it is certainly true that a great amount of productivity is lost to these things, the real answer is workplace interruptions, especially given the push to open-office floor […]