By Rob Price writing for Tech Insider Has a trusted contact recently emailed you a PDF file to open? Watch out — it might not be what it seems. A new email scam is circulating that aims to trick the user into giving up their email login details by sending over a (fake) link to […]
Customer Service Lesson From An Oscar Mistake
from thedijuliusgroup.com By now you have probably seen the Oscar screw-up in which Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway where given the wrong envelope and falsely announced that “La La Land” had won the Academy Award for best picture. It was a very unfortunate mistake, one I think the majority of the public felt bad about […]
Rousing new ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is even better than the original
By Brian Truitt , USA TODAY Here’s some Disney magic for you: The new Beauty and the Beast actually improves upon the animated classic. Embracing its musical theater nature and adding depth to a familiar narrative, the live-action remake (*** out of four; rated PG; in theaters March 17) is a real Beauty. The film directed by Bill Condon […]
The Radium Girls and the Generation that brushed its Teeth with Radioactive Toothpaste
By: Messy Nessy The Radium Girls were so contaminated that if you stood over their graves today with a Geiger counter, the radiation levels would still cause the needles to jump more than 80 years later. They were small-town girls from New Jersey who had been hired by a local factory to paint the clock faces of luminous watches, […]
Oscars 2017: What It Was Like Onstage During the Best Picture Mistake
By CARA BUCKLEY and BROOKS BARNES Jordan Horowitz knew something was wrong the moment he saw people in headsets scurrying across the Oscars stage. Only a minute earlier Faye Dunaway had said the words that Mr. Horowitz had longed to hear — “La La Land” — as she announced the winner for the 2017 Academy […]
Ellen Surprises 41 Students From New York With College Scholarships
Written By NewsOne Staff Daytime’s “queen of comedy” just raised the level of surprise to new heights. Ellen, in conjunction with Walmart, gifted 41 graduating students from Red Hook’s Summit Academy Charter School with a check for $1.6 million during her show on Thursday, NBC New York reports. The donation covers four-year scholarships for students to attend any State University […]
Political apps are all the rage in Trump era
By Jon Swartz , USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — President Trump isn’t the only one venting on politics online. More than 60 mobile apps on politics — from Presidential Actions to Quartz News — have surfaced since Trump’s election three months ago, spanning the ideological spectrum. In-between, a swarm of apps such as Countable, VoteSpotter, Political Actions, Congress, Presidential Election & […]
The 5 Second Rule
By Mel Robbins at www.melrobbins.com If you are reading this then you know exactly what you need to be doing in order to get what you want. There is nothing that I could tell you about how to get what you want that you don’t already know, or that you couldn’t easily get from a […]
POLITICAL HUMOR HAS LONG AND STORIED HISTORY
BY JESSICA BLOUSTEIN writing for Newsweek As long as there have been people in power, there have been wiseacres mocking the people in power. Those Paleolithic French cave paintings of horses? It’s a safe bet that at least one of them is an old-school political cartoon meaning “Tribal leader Gary is a jackass.” Greek playwright Aristophanes’ […]
History of Hollywood, California
from U.S. History.com Hollywood was established in 1853, with a single adobe hut on land outside Los Angeles, California. Growing crops was so successful there that by 1870, Hollywood became a thriving agricultural community. One of its most notable historic figures was real estate tycoon, Harvey Henderson Wilcox and his wife, Daeida, who moved to […]
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