(Akiit.com) Early 20th century modernism ignored classical rules of expression. But late 20th century postmodernism blew up those rules altogether. Barack Obama was a modernist candidate. He turned out vast numbers of young and minority voters, mastered new social media, and in 2008 overturned the old-guard Democratic furniture such as ...
(Akiit.com) The North Carolina NAACP President, Rev. William Barber, tore it up and then threw down in a powerful speech at the Democratic National Convention on July 28th. He called on those assembled to be a “moral defibrillator of our time,” to shock our nation with the power of love and ...
(Akiit.com) The Black Lives Matter Movement has an historic opportunity for unique 21st Century strategic community and political leadership. How they apply and exercise such leadership could potentially make it one of THE most important engines for meaningful social, economic and political justice for decades to come. They recently released a ...
(Akiit.com) A stroke is serious – just like a heart attack. Yet, we don’t know as much about it enough as we should. Stroke is one of those dreadful events that can cause death in an instant. While it is the third-leading cause of death in the U.S., it is more ...
(Akiit.com) What economists call an ability to make “compensating differences” is a valuable tool in everyone’s arsenal. If people are prohibited from doing so, they are always worse off. You say, “Williams, I never heard of compensating differences. What are they?” Jimmy Soul’s 1963 hit song, “If You Wanna Be Happy,” ...
(Akiit.com) It is true that some people are born happier. About half of your happiness is genetic, attributable to your personality and temperament. But the great news is that only about 10% is circumstances. The rest is about the intentional choices that you make every single day. There are some ...
(Akiit.com) Whether you’re new to cooking or you’ve been doing it a while and want to get better at it, you want your dishes to be as delicious as possible. But do you wonder why your dishes don’t taste as good as they should? Wish they’d taste like dishes in ...
(Akiit.com) Moving your business online is a must in today’s world. But, how can you generate a consistent stream of online customers? Follow the tips below if you want to know the secrets to gaining customers: QR Codes If you want an innovative way to gain customers, then look no ...
(Akiit.com) Have you ever counted up how many advertisements you are exposed to in a typical day? No? It would actually be pretty hard to do because the number is enormous. We see them everywhere. Adverts feature on the side of vehicles, on the side of the road, at stations ...
(Akiit.com) As many as 80,000 different chemicals are bombarding us every day. One of the most treacherous of them all is Dioxin, the name given to a group of persistent, very toxic chemicals. “Dioxins” collectively refers to hundreds of chemical compounds that share certain structures and biological characteristics. Dioxins mainly ...
(Akiit.com) A guiding principle for physicians is primum non nocere, the Latin expression for “first, do no harm.” In order not to do harm, whether it’s with medicine or with public policy, the first order of business is accurate diagnostics. Racial discrimination is seen as the cause of many problems ...
(Akiit.com) Think planning a conference is easy? Sure, you may have been organizing your company’s annual conference for a while now. But our technology driven world is continually changing. And that means there are always new gadgets and products that you could be incorporating into your big event. They can ...