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Let's Brave School Shopping Together

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School shopping

When I drove up to my neighborhood Walmart last night and saw an abnormally crowded parking lot – I should have immediately turned my car around and sought shelter. I shrugged off the aberration and walked inside to complete my routine shopping stop.

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Certification, Not Superpowers

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Suicide Squad

The summer movie season is winding down, but the dog days (it often seems that "daze" would be equally appropriate in that usage) of August got a cardiac jolt over the weekend with the hugely lucrative release of the hotly anticipated antisuperhero blockbuster Suicide Squad. The movie is about ...

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Set a Course for Success with a 'Cert-nado'

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Steve and Bruce

It was the summer of 1975, and the movie Jaws was making a splash. Like most 12-year-old boys, I thought the idea of a monster from the deep was pretty cool, and I’ve been mesmerized by sharks ever since.

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Good Partnerships Get More Stuff Done

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Han and Chewie

The truthfulness of the age-old expression “Two heads are better than one” is borne out by a myriad of examples. There’s everything from the fictional partnerships of Han Solo and Chewbacca, or Batman and Robin, to the real-world success of Jordan and Pippen, or Lennon and McCartney. Successful duos even include the likes of the delicious cookies and milk, or the ever-palatable peanut butter and chocolate. (Mmmm, cookies and milk.)

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Back to Basics: Securing Information

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One of the greatest minds the world has ever seen once made this observation: “Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.” If Leonardo da Vinci himself could espouse such a mantra and still bestow on the world a dazzling legacy of artworks, inventions and scientific discovery, then it seems safe to say that we ourselves could benefit from spending some time covering the basics.

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