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Summer Is Here. Get Up And Learn!!

Parents, Grandparents, Caregivers Memorial Day is behind us!! Kick off your summer with Jessyka Coulter’s “Get Up And Learn” free downloadable resource give-away. for you and your teens. Without regular engagement- Yes even over the summer- teens can experience what is known as “academic slide.” This means losing academic progress particularly in reading, writing and […]

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Where Are The World’s Happiest Cities?

Pack your bags and head to one of the world’s top 10 “Happiest Cities” according to researchers from The Quality Of Life Institute.  Copenhagen, Denmark, Zurich, Switzerland and Singapore are numbers 1 -3, respectively. The indices are based on things contributing positively to the quality of life. Citizens give their cities accolades for things like large

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AI And Spotify Endanger Organic Discovery Of Truly NEW Music 

Khemet McConville has a new release, “1216 E Palm Dr”. He’s been featured as a new music discovery artist on Earmilk.com—a legit digital music magazine with a strong reputation for being not pay-for-play. No paid articles, no fluff. Like thousands of unsigned independent artists, he and his music are buried, overlooked, and dismissed because of

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Guarding A Treasure- Preserving The Cherokee Language

This story was originally published in the Daily Yonder. For more rural reporting and small-town stories visit dailyyonder.com. And, it was subsequently reported in David Byrne’s digital “good news” magazine  Reasons To Be Cheerful. We are all, at least most of  us very aware of the many public and charter school dual language immersion programs; Spanish,

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FORCE BLUE Special Ops Veterans Come Together With Marine Science….

The result, “mission therapy” for Veterans  and  cleaner oceans and waterways for all of us. The idea for FORCE BLUE grew out of a trip co-founders Jim Ritterhoff and Rudy Reyes took in 2015 to go reef diving. Since returning home from several tours in Afghanistan Reyes, a former Recon Marine,  had been struggling with

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Good News! Deconstruction, Salvaging and Materials Reuse in Construction Is Trending Up

While the United States still lags in this trend compared to Europe and other areas, the trend is salvaging materials from demolished buildings and reusing and repurposing is definitely growing, elsewhere. In general the term deconstructing refers to taking apart old blighted buildings and salvaging or recycling useable materials.  Near the city of Grenoble in

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Urban Sketching – A New Travel Trend

True,  selfies and  everyone photographing everything on their smartphones is so pervasive you are not likely to be able to avoid it. And yes there are growing pockets of folks coming up with personal strategies to  decrease their  digital addiction. And, there are those seeking  greater engagement in the real world,  connecting with nature and

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“Yelp” For Immigrants

Rachel Micah-Jones interned for Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, and then worked on the Senate campaign of Oregon’s Ron Wyden, which stoked her interest in the law. While working in the Washington, D.C., public defender’s office, she saw that immigration laws ill-served her foreign-born clients. She began to think about combining her knowledge

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Charles Schwab And Christine Curavo Make My Day

I want to share a SUPER great Charles Schwab customer service experience with Eric of Schwab Brokerage. What does Charles Schwab, CAREBOX™, @christinecuravo and new music Your Mother Said by Khemet McConville streaming on Spotify have to do with my stellar Charles Schwab customer service experience.? Last week I called customer service and was transferred

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Earmilk – A Much Needed New Music Discovery Megaphone

Earmilk, an online music magazine,  is a much needed legitimate ”new music discovery” megaphone.  A great example is their recent spotlight on  “Your Mother Said” from artist Khemet McConville in an article by Malvika Padin and photo by Nolwen Cifuentes. As a result of their spotlight in addition to this new release I discovered other

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