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Rona Gura
Feb09
The Fashion Police
Posted By : Rona Gura

I have written a few blogs about the different ways men and women are treated in the workplace. My last blog on this topic discussed a study which found that women are much more likely to receive workplace reviews which contain some kind of personality criticism, such as comments that the woman was “abrasive,” “judgmental” or “strident.” Therefore,

Donald Bernstein
Feb08
Painting
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

We are moving in a few weeks. We are doing a little bit of work in our new house. Some cabinet work, a little bit in the kitchen, staining floors. And it needs a paint job. Not the whole house, just some of it. Of all the work, the painting came in the most expensive, by far. It was lots of thousands. I did not think I was hiring Van Go

Mitch Tobol
Feb07
Don't use these
Posted By : Mitch Tobol

With the latest news of the largest security breach at Anthem I thought it might be a good public service to list the Top 25 most used passwords (as compiled by SplashData). I hope you don't use these.   Rank Password 1 123456 2 password 3 12345 4 12345678 5 qwerty 6 123456789 7 1234 8 baseball 9 dragon 10 football 11 1234567 12 monkey

Fred Klein
Feb06
Time
Posted By : Fred Klein

Did you ever ponder how long you will live and how much time is left? I do and I try to trick myself by saying that I'm going to live to 100.  Both my parents lived to 86 and neither was as physically fit as I work to be. So I like to believe I'm on track. Having said that another trick is to be in the moment and enjoy life to its fullest.  But the

Benjamin Geizhals
Feb05
Extensions of Self
Posted By : Benjamin Geizhals

Recently, I was at a seminar in one of the midtown hotels. You know, a few hundred people in neat rows of seats behind narrow tables. Since this was a high-end seminar, coffee was served. I took a cup back to my seat and placed it on the table in front of me. No sooner had I done so when a women - seeking to find a seat in the row in front of

Nancy Schess
Feb02
Facebook?
Posted By : Nancy Schess

  Note an evolving social media phenomenon. Some people post to Facebook every time they grab a cup of coffee, buy a new pair of shoes or eat a meal. (You know I am not exaggerating). Others only share recipes or links. Some share family details with reckless abandon and others use codes to describe their children. There is an entire generation

Rona Gura
Feb02
Did Godaddy Go Too Far?
Posted By : Rona Gura

As anyone who has read my blogs know, I do not watch the Super Bowl for the game. It’s all about the commercials for me. And I become especially interested when there’s controversy regarding a commercial. This year has not been a disappointment. Godaddy.com pulled a controversial commercial before it even aired during the Super Bowl.   The ad

Donald Bernstein
Feb01
A mothers' advice
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

Whenever I went skiing as a teen my mother was not pleased, would tell me it is dangerous, and when she realized that I was going to go skiing anyway she would say to please be careful. I did not think it was ever dangerous. And I poo pooed the warning to be careful. In fact I always say as I get older that as long as I can bend down to buckl

Mitch Tobol
Jan31
Vax or no vax
Posted By : Mitch Tobol

The recent outbreak of measles has thrown this issue front and center. If you haven't heard, The Washington Post has indentified Disneyland in California as Ground Zero in the current outbreak.   I wondered how this could happen and, after tooling around on the internet, I found that there are many parents who don't allow their children to be vacci

Fred Klein
Jan30
Delta Terminal
Posted By : Fred Klein

We recently flew out of LaGuardia on Delta and I was amazed by the upscale 21st Century Delta Terminal. We usually fly American from LAG and the contrast was shocking.  Shocking! Now I know why LaGuardia has been called a third World airport.  Maybe American is third World, but not Delta.  Plus Delta has direct flights to Key West!

Benjamin Geizhals
Jan29
Seventy Years
Posted By : Benjamin Geizhals

This past Tuesday marked the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in 1945. My Mother had been transported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a few months earlier. Her “liberation” would not come until a few months later.   In conjunction with this anniversary, there has been press

Erik Scheibe
Jan28
Do You Have a Problem With Deflated Balls?
Posted By : Erik Scheibe

The talk the past week and a half has been all about Tom Brady, Bill Belichek and the New England Patriots.  The Deflate-gate controversy has the entire sports world buzzing (and justifiably many sick of it).  We won't even mention the two week-long continuing flurry of "deflated ball" jokes.     For those of you who don't follow football, one of t

Nancy Schess
Jan26
Snowmageddon
Posted By : Nancy Schess

  It has arrived. The biggest storm ever, so they say. As I write this, it is Monday evening around 8 pm. It is snowing pretty hard out here on Long Island. We are hunkered down ready to spend the day inside tomorrow -- except for Bill and Eric who will have to spend a good amount of time outside shoveling. I suppose that leaves only me ready to

Rona Gura
Jan26
A Victim's Story
Posted By : Rona Gura

I am the victim of a cyber-attack. It began almost three years ago when I was forced to make a motion to be relieved as counsel for a client because he owed my firm a significant fee (five figures). Not only did the judge grant my motion but he awarded me every penny of the outstanding fee and stated that the record indicated that my entire represe

Donald Bernstein
Jan25
Something broken and something fixed
Posted By : Donald Bernstein

I am computer impaired. Some time ago a glass of water spilled on my Apple laptop. It won't allow me to type upper case and ever time you hit a key you get two letters. Our very old Toshiba laptop just gave up two weeks ago. Something like computer heart failure. And three days ago my office computer made a loud pop, then sizzled and smelled l