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New library books
These personal memoirs are newly available through the Allen County Public Library. “The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing” by Lara Love Hardin The New York Times best-selling author, who was convicted of 32 felonies, recounts her slide from soccer mom to heroin addict to jailhouse “shot caller” and how she made an unlikely comeback despite a system that makes it almost impossible for us to move beyond the worst thing we’ve ever done.
Brain tumors left me totally deaf at 25 - here's how I learnt to live without my mom's voice and my favorite songs
As a child, I didn't know that the way I heard the world around me wasn't the way that everyone else did. Because of the workarounds I did to fit in, even the school nurse didn't catch my condition at the annual hearing and vision checks. But by the time I was a prospective college student aged 16 - and falling in love for the first time - my condition, generated by tumors on my auditory nerves, was unavoidable: my hearing was going, and fast. Medicine has come a long way in the last 30 years.
Bookworm
That one Prom Song always does it for you. Just a few notes and you're reminded of sweaty hands and wilted corsages, awkward poses for parents with cameras, arms around your date, and tiny steps while swaying in a circle. A song sure can be a memory-tickler. In the new memoir, "Soundtrack of Silence" by Matt Hay (with Steve Eubanks), it can also be a lifeline. It was an easy assumption: didn't every kid grow up learning to read lips? Matt Hay did, and he figured it was a part of being human.
All The Songs We Cannot Hear: On the Challenges of a Life Without Sound
“Sweet dreams are made of this.” –Eurythmics * If your life was made into a movie, or better yet, a multiple-episode limited series that people could stream whenever they liked, what would be the soundtrack? What music would set the pace and mood of your story? As the opening credits fell away and the first scene faded in—overhead shot of a car on a narrow, straight country road—what song would provide the overlay?
Why Gaming is Your Next Brand Touchpoint
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Food Source: What We Eat Shows The Plate We’re In
If you’re worried about the soaring cost of everything, this month offered a glimmer of light amidst an ever-darkening economic outlook. Grocery price inflation hit single digits for the first time this year. A report by Kantar found that after 16 months of double-digit growth, the rate is now hovering at 9.7%. Anyone hoping for a decline in food bills shouldn’t celebrate just yet. Grocery prices are still rising, they’re just not going up as quickly as before. You are what you eat.
SOUNDTRACK OF SILENCE
A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.
Why brands need to read the gaming playbook for online community building
Truly dedicated gamers might not have noticed the excellent weather we’ve had in the UK of late. Unfortunately for them, this sudden burst of sunshine has coincided with the release of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The blockbuster title is the latest instalment in the exploits of Nintendo’s elfin hero, Link. It is the fastest-selling Zelda game ever. And it’s out-sold all competitors this year when it comes to physical copies. The phenomenon of Nintendo’s latest release might have passed you by.
The threat of AI: Just how dangerous is artificial intelligence?
Most stories that imagine a world where artificial intelligence supersedes our own involve machines waging war on humanity. In these tales we become slaves, pets or a biological underclass to our mechanical betters. As companies plough more resources into generative AI, experts in the field are warning of the corrosive effect the technology might have on our civilisation.
OPINION - AI might hurt the environment before it begins to help the climate crisis
AI: The environmental impact is being questioned (AFP via Getty Images) When it comes to the climate impact of generative AI – the dizzyingly fast tech category that generates realistic images, audio, and text, and which is led by OpenAI’s breakthrough programme ChatGPT – opinion is divided. Zealots proclaim such innovation to be a key weapon in our arsenal against carbon emissions. The more cynical view is centred on the vast amount of power needed to both train and run AI systems.
OPINION - The SVB affair was a near-miss for UK tech: what do we know now?
London’s FTSE 100 index sunk into the red and US banking stocks saw sharp declines amid fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), sparking fears across Wall Street that interest rate rises may be crippling the banking sector (Ian West/ PA) (PA Archive) The tech landscape gave a collective shudder last month as Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was taken in hand by US regulators.
OPINION - The metaverse might be unpopular, but haptics might change that
The metaverse has not proven hugely popular (Facebook) (PA Media) Tech giants are getting smaller. This month, Meta announced it would be cutting thousands of jobs, with its founder Mark Zuckerberg branding 2023 the “year of efficiency” for the Facebook parent company. While most of the moves involve a hollowing out of middle management, some roles from Reality Labs, Meta’s metaverse division, are likely to get the chop too. The plan makes sense.
The future of AI to crypto and the metaverse: five tech predictions for 2023
Scientists say there’s no such thing as proof, only evidence. Those who work in the hype-filled tech sector don’t always remember this. We’ve been clinging on to some fallacies, which, in 2023, are about to be upended. Here’s my list of new truths for the coming twelve months. 1. Your job isn’t safe from AI In recent years, artificial intelligence has pervaded our lives in a way that is almost impossible to detect.
Kantar hires consulting practice head | News
UK – Kantar has appointed Natalie Vander Vorst to lead its consulting practice. In her new role, Vander Vorst will focus on areas such as demand generation, brand and creative positioning, sustainability, retail optimisation and organisational performance. The consulting practice has around 150 staff and advises brands on commercial and marketing strategies.
Tempted to be toxic? The impact of bad leadership | Opinion
Toxic leadership can have a profound impact on a business. Matt Hay of Bulbshare examines recent research on some of the more destructive facets of modern leadership. Leaders seem to be behaving badly. In the 2020s those who exhibit toxic traits appear to be filtering up to the highest echelons of government and business. But it wasn’t supposed to be this way.
Porky polls: How to dissuade customers from lying in surveys
There aren’t many studies examining how frequently people lie. It is lunacy to assume that respondents will truthfully answer questions about how truthful they are. Neither is it socially desirable to brand yourself a liar – even in an anonymous questionnaire. Nevertheless, a report published some years ago by ORB International, tried to determine how many of us fib in questionnaires.
Porky Polls: People Lie in Surveys, so How Do You Get To The Facts?
[Editor’s note: How many times have you embellished your answer when a survey asks how many times you exercise or how many units of alcohol you drink per week? Researchers found that 80% percent of people in the UK say they always provide truthful answers to surveys, but just 9% said they were prepared to trust published polls.
How To Solve The Energy Crisis? Citizens Are Key
Except it hasn’t been like that. Not even a little. The UK is in the midst of its “weakest decade for pay growth since the 1930s”, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation, a think tank. Meanwhile, the cost of living in the UK is at its highest since September 2011, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Then there’s inflation. This almost hit a 30-year high of 5.4% in December. But the great compounder of peoples’ travails is the energy crisis.
New Natures Down the Hill: A forested vision for the lowlands of Scotland
Our latest blog is a guest article by Dr Eleanor Harris, who takes her Confor hat off on this occasion to give us a personal view, outlining a vision for the lowlands that speaks to the needs of a 21st century society. I was inspired by Gus Routledge’s ‘upland vision’ on this blog. I’m not an ecologist: I’m a historian and environmental campaigner who has found a niche in the forestry industry.
Open landscapes and closed minds
Our latest Directors’ blog is a guest article by Gus Routledge, professional ecologist and ‘Scotland: The Big Picture’ trustee. In it, he explores the mindset of those opposed to native woodland expansion and the legitimacy of their concerns. Scotland’s native woodland was found to cover about 4% of our land area by the Native Woodland Survey in 2014, with less than half of this being in ‘satisfactory’ condition (‘not good enough condition’ is what I read there, but that’s for another time).
How to Protect Your Hearing Aids from Moisture
If you want your hearing aids to work without interruption, keeping them protected from moisture is the single most important thing you can do. Hearing aids are body-worn electronic devices. They are full of high-tech circuit boards and microelectronics, and are particularly prone to the corrosive effects of humidity and perspiration. Source: Phonak Over the years, hearing aid manufacturers have made huge advances in water-proofing their products.
The Best Waterproof Hearing Aids of 2026
As body-worn electronic devices, hearing aids are particularly prone to the corrosive effects of humidity and perspiration. If you want your hearing aids to work without interruption, keeping them protected from moisture is the single most important thing you can do. Over the years, hearing aid manufacturers have made huge advances in water-proofing their products. With the introduction of rubber seals and nano-coating, some hearing aids are even rated for shallow underwater use.
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