Chief Massasoit sold the town to Miles Standish in 1649 for some coats, hatchets and knives. The land was low and swampy in the east, rising to rolling pastures and fertile ground in the west. The business of making a life played out over the generations. Families settled, young men went off to war, fortunes […]
via mjperry.blogspot.com More people, living longer, consuming more resources, increasing competition, drives innovation. I look back over my lifetime and believe that the single biggest force of change has been the growth of the U.S. population from 150 million to 300 million and the global population from about 3 billion to 7 billion. One major […]
On late days one summer, I would walk through the rich heat to the small chapel in the sacristy in the rear of the church, off the corridor that joined the monastery and the church together. Bishop Ansgar would say Mass each afternoon: sepulchral, solemn, devout. What I can remember about those Masses was how […]
Text while driving? Thought everyone did. That’s cause I’ve got my head down texting.…uh-huh. clipped from www.marketingcharts.com 26% of Mobile Users Text While Driving Despite an increasing number of state bans on driving while texting (DWT) and numerous reports of texting-related accidents, more than one-fourth (26%) of US mobile-phone users send and/or receive text messages while […]
There’s a lot of concern about employment in the U.S., justifiably so, as a multitude of companies have trimmed their workforce to reflect current or anticipated downturns in results. Here are some useful charts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: The first looks at the growth in the labor force over the past 10 years. […]