At the NAB Show 2015, in the Las Vegas Convention Center, surrounded by every video camera made, virtual sets, lighting equipment, online streaming hardware and software platforms, they didn't forget that it all begins with writing.
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Common Core Wars: Parents Opting Out of Testing Can Change Education for the Better
Parents and teachers are forging an alliance to take back education, which in essence means eliminating most or all of these standardized tests in favor of something really radical – a day devoted to actual teaching!
Read More »New Software Newsflash: Adobe Creative Cloud For Photography – April 2015
This release of Lightroom CC contains a lot of new features that photographers will really like in that it will make them less reliant on Photoshop.
Read More »NAB 2015: Drone-ing On and On – The Pizza has Landed
Drones were everywhere at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas this year. No, not male honeybees or parasitic loafers, but unmanned aircraft remotely or programmatically controlled. More specifically, drones with cameras attached.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Public Enemy,’ Wild Rice’s Adaptation of Ibsen’s ‘An Enemy of the People’
Just as with the questions Dr. Chee faces in the play, do you stand up for what's right when the cost is so large? Is there a limit to how much cost you will bear? Will the limit be jail time, or harm to your family?
Read More »Black Like Me
That their torments be many and can only be explained in the darkest Yiddish proverbs by the cruses of a thousand rabbis. That the imps of a far-distant abyss visit each of them, every other night, for all the rest of their lives to keep their eyes propped open and their minds restless through the night, so they awaken tired in Hellhelm where there is no mornings. And if this does not get them to change their evil ways – for them I further wish:
Read More »4 Reasons Your Small Business Needs a Blog Even If You Don’t Have a Website Now
Blogs influence buying decisions and allow you to establish yourself as an expert, which can lead to a wider network of professional resources and can make it easier for customers and potential customers to give you valuable feedback on your product or service offerings.
Read More »Seven Bogus Health Trends You Shouldn’t Waste Your Time On
Every year people buy into more and more health trends in an attempt to lose weight and feel healthy. But all too often they buy into the wrong things.
Read More »Black Lives Matter: A Proposed Amnesty Program for Dirty Cops
As a good faith gesture of conciliation to the black community, police departments around the nation should create South African style reconciliation commissions and grant amnesty to members of their departments who confess to wrongdoing that has resulted in the death or conviction of an innocent black man.
Read More »Obama Was Right: Learning a Trade May Be a Better Path for Many
Whether you agree with the President on other matters, on this one issue, he was speaking an inarguable truth: skilled trades are careers worth considering.
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