Voice communication is an essential part of everyday life. Staying in touch with loved ones, managing finances, and dealing with insurance issues all require real-time voice conversation. For me, I am trying to start a business and everything, from registering a company with the state to opening a business banking account and providing customer service, […]
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August 18, 2015 the Food and Drug Association approved Addyi, the “female Viagra” said to increase desire for sex among premenopausal women. When available in October, the Sprout Pharmaceuticals product will carry a black box warning, the strongest caution the FDA issues for side effects. Addyi can cause life-threatening complications for women with liver weakness,
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Today marks the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb detonated by one country on another in hostility. Little Boy was dropped by the B-29 Enola Gay over Hiroshima killing somewhere around 100,000 civilians and leaving a legacy of radiation that still kills today. Japan is not yet done counting its World War 2 casualties.
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Yet again this nation is mourning what most people are calling a tragedy. The hate murders in Charleston were not a tragedy, they were an inevitability, the inevitability of a culture of violence and a cult of gun ownership.I was unable to complete this post before hearing of another fatal mass shooting. Another movie theater,
Sorry, George Lukas. The Empire Strikes Back is no longer my second-favorite science fiction movie. Ex Machina is a brilliantly conceived, written, and executed film inhabited by deep characters subtly, expertly, portrayed. This is a gripping psychodrama encased in an exploration of artificial intelligence that questions the definitions of humanness, femaleness and patriarchy. It is creepy, mesmerizing, horrifying, and
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, a landmark in civil rights legislation. Less than a generation ago people living with physical, emotional, or cognitive disabilities were largely shut out of employment opportunities, shut out of community life, and shut in their homes. We were invisible and deemed insignificant.I benefit every
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Flying the Confederate battle flag is not only racist, it’s seditious. The Confederacy was a movement that broke away from the union, set up it’s own government, created their own currency, and fought to overthrow the legitimate, elected, government of the United States. All so that states could have the heinous “right” to allow white
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Boundaries and limitations exist only where we place them.Freedom, independence, and fun are 3 words rarely heard in conjunction with life with disability. While people with disabilities are no longer hidden away in shame by their families, nearly every time I am out in public I see someone’s face cloud over in pity. I can
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It’s a beautiful, breezy, late spring day, a gorgeous day for an outdoor concert. I roll into my spot, tilt the chair back, put my feet up and eagerly await the show. The gust hits our backyard birch first, the tree’s slender branches motioning an easy downbeat. The Instrumentalist breathes and the birch leaves enter
Those eyes. Those stomachs. Terrible images of starving children haunt our comfortable lives. Whether we see pictures of fly-covered children in Africa, orphans taking up residence in South American landfills, or homeless American children picking through dumpsters, our hearts sink at the utter horror of the helpless dying unimaginable deaths. What are we to do?
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