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Comedy Gladiators Duel to the Death! NYC Jan 10th!!

PR for People Team

January 09, 2017

Kicking off the New Year! Comedy Gladiators Duel to the Death!

On January Tuesday, 10th at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York City, Comedy Gladiators will battle to the death to win the Wali Collins Comedy Trophy!! Wali Collins presides as judge of this deadly battle where there is only one winner at the expense of another comedian’s sure death.

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Books

BOOKS: Hygge your way to happiness

Barbara McMichael

January 02, 2017

PR for People® Reviews:

BOOKS:

By Barbara Lloyd McMichael

Hygge your way to happiness

The Cozy Life – Pia Edberg CreateSpace – 148 pp - $11.96

With high marks for its balance between a strong social support system and tolerance for individual freedom, Denmark ranked first in the United Nation’s World Happiness Report this year.

What can we...

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Food

A Revolutionary Remembrance

Matt Robinson

January 02, 2017

Boston Tea Party is feted 243 years later

When it comes to food, Boston may be known as land of the bean and the cod, but a certain beverage also plays a major role in this city’s history.

In December of 1773, Colonial Patriots dressed as Native Americans and, in an act of treasonous protest against the King of England, dumped what they saw as overtaxed tea into Boston Harbor....

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Tech

Digital Joy

Dean Landsman

January 02, 2017

Digital Strategy continues to enter more facets of our lives. As the holiday season is upon us, many of the lights and displays on peoples’ houses and storefronts are now controlled digitally. An automated Santa sliding down a chimney in the mall, controlled by a server or PC, or even an app on a tablet or a phone, is the new reality. In the past these were unwieldy electronics, requiring an engineer or two on-site, and...

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Spirituality

Placebo and Play

DavidLLaing

January 02, 2017

It has been well documented that we can change our biology simply by what we believe to be true. The placebo effect is defined as the measurable, observable or felt improvement in health or behavior not attributed to medication or invasive treatment. This suggests that we can treat various ailments as well as highly disruptive mood swings by using the mind to heal.

A placebo is a fake treatment, an inactive...

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People

Peace, Love, and Joy Huber: Cancer Patient Squashes Sadness with Travel

Kindra Foster

January 02, 2017

No one plans on getting cancer, especially in their 30s, but for Nebraska businesswoman and songwriter Joy Huber, fate had other plans.

After her diagnosis, Huber began treatment and was determined not to let her spirit break, but chemotherapy left her feeling exhausted and sick.

“When you get the diagnosis, you’re terrified,” Huber said. She adds that cancer patients often don’t have the time or energy to find...

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People

Freedom Train

Patricia Vaccarino

December 31, 2016

I’m looking for a ride to take me where I need to go. I’m looking for the freedom train. I know it’s there. I’ve seen it before. I’m going to find it again. I’m going to take that ride. I’m going to get where I need to go.

Deep down inside I know the truth about America and so do you. Democracy is fundamentally stewardship in action. Being a good steward means that we take care of things. Money, cars, houses, jobs,...

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Arts & Culture

How To Make Good Ski Photographs

PR for People Team

December 19, 2016

by William Lulow

With the ski season coming up, here are a couple of tips for getting good ski shots. As I usually take a camera with me whenever I go just about anywhere, and since skiing has been a passion for the last 40 years or so, I love to make skiing images. The best advice I can give for those interested in making good ski shots is to separate the skiing from the photography. If you are going skiing to challenge...

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Arts & Culture

Ilya Moshenskiy | Joyful Photographer

PR for People Team

December 15, 2016

What is Joy? Is it a thought, a feeling or a fleeting notion touching us one moment and gone the next? Is Joy deeper and more meaningful than happiness. Here are some photos created by our extraordinary photographer Ilya Moshenskiy who shows us what Joy means to him.

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Arts & Culture

Experience Joy | Kiyon Gaines

Patricia Vaccarino

December 13, 2016

Kiyon Gaines is from Baltimore, Maryland. He trained at Baltimore School of the Arts, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School, the School of American Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet School. He joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2001 and was promoted to soloist in 2012. As a choreographer, Mr. Gaines created blitz…Fantasy, ə {SCHWA}, Infinite Intricacies, and Interrupted Pri’si’zh’en for PNB’s annual...