by Chris Matyszczyk c/net As the promise of warfare wafts across the world, it’s worth focusing on the future and whether the world has one. Conveniently, one of the countries that currently seems a touch bellicose, Russia, has unveiled a robot that seems very battle-ready. On Friday, the country’s deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, tweeted video […]

From: http://www.simpletoremember.com/ The original Roman year had 10 named months Martius “March”, Aprilis “April”, Maius “May”, Junius “June”, Quintilis “July”, Sextilis “August”, September “September”, October “October”, November “November”, December “December”, and probably two unnamed months in the dead of winter when not much happened in agriculture. The year began with Martius “March”. Numa Pompilius, the second […]

By: Bart Jansen , USA TODAY Bare feet. Appearing intoxicated. Smelling bad. United Airlines can remove passengers from flights for dozens of reasons. And each provision is detailed in the nearly 37,000-word document called a “contract of carriage” that every passenger accepts when buying a ticket. United’s dispute with a passenger forcibly removed from a Sunday flight […]

Passover, or Passover in English, is one of the best known Jewish holidays, as much for its connection to Jewish redemption and the figure of Moses as for its ties with Christian history (the Last Supper was apparently a Passover seder). – Introduction – Preparation – Special Foods – The Seder Introduction Passover begins on […]

By: KIM LACHANCE SHANDROW writing for Entrepreneur   Hey, McFly. Look down at your pants. Chances are there are lots of tiny metal teeth down there, interlocked tight, keeping your britches from hitting the floor. We’re talking about the humble zipper, the unsung modern marvel that dutifully eliminates the “possibility of unintentional and embarrassing disarray.” […]

From www.thedijuliusgroup.com Perspective If you are going to help make your organization a World-Class Customer  service organization, you must have a consistently great outlook. You must see opportunities where most do not. You must believe in the present and future. You must have charitable assumption of your Customers and confidence in your existing and future generation […]

By ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON  for The Atlantic How can one appreciate an obligation? This is a question approximately 30 million Americans don’t ask every year when they receive their jury summons because they are too busy grumbling about this core constitutional responsibility of citizenship. This is also a question of growing importance as courts are struggling […]

BY ANDREW CUNNINGHAM -Ars Technica The crowdfunded 14-episode revival season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, the ’90s cult favorite about making fun of bad movies with your robot pals, will officially hit Netflix on April 14. The show’s deal with Netflix was announced by series creator Joel Hodgsonlast summer, and Hodgson revealed the launch date to the project’s […]

By Kate Kelly, AmericaComesAlive.com   Binney & Smith was an outgrowth of a company begun in Peekskill, New York in 1864 by Joseph W. Binney, the father of the man who would become part of Binney & Smith. The first product sold by Binney’s company, Peekskill Chemical Works, was known as lampblack. It was ground […]

By Tim Clark, SAP writing for Forbes Business Let’s face it: there are many fragile – and oftentimes broken – moments in the customer journey. Departmental hand-offs and changes in channel, for instance, add complexity and threaten to derail purchases and sometimes harm loyalty. So how can you bridge those gaps and deliver the seamless experience […]