As many of you already know, starting this week, by popular demand, the Beacon Bulletin will now be published each Wednesday!
We take our readers requests seriously, and the majority asked for a day in the week when they can better focus and appreciate the information we dispense.
Your wish is our command – Wednesday it is. See you in two days with another well researched, informative and topical Bulletin article.
As always, stay safe.
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With the rise in the prices of airline travel, hotel stay rates and means of local travel (cars, mini bus…), many Americans have decided to remain in-country and enjoy “stay-cations”; touring the wonderful sites across the United States instead.
As we travel around our great country, we are going to meet people of varied backgrounds, mannerisms and in some cases, physical differences. Our focus today is on communicating with deaf people. According to the NCHS (National Center of Health Statisitics), approximately 9 to 22 people out of every 1,000 suffer from severe partial to complete hearing loss. So the odds of meeting someone with a hearing loss condition are sufficiently in favor of us all becoming knowledgeable of at least the basics, that of signing in basic letters.
Hopefully, the below American Sign Language letter chart may prove to be helpful if you are in a situation that requires communication with a person suffering from hearing loss.
BNI Operatives; Street smart; Web Savvy: People aware.
As always, Stay safe.
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Many of us lead incredibly complex lives, with full, active schedules. While our priorities shift, often hourly; our children remain our first concern. That parental concern is often in competition with rapid technological advances in combination with constantly evolving “netspeak”. Every generation (and every 1/4 generation now) has developed and communicated in a secret tongue (necessary to better navigate among peers) of its own. Today’s netspeak has advanced to what is now known as “sexting”: nude/semi nude photos + text acronyms via mobile.
We can’t do much about the inappropriate photos once they are out there (actually, we can; separate article), but we can help parents decode sexting.
From Fox Atlanta News: The Top 50 Text Acronyms That Parents Need to Know and
from our favorite security shop, Brickhouse Security, please take a moment to watch the below video on sexting:
Tip of the Week for Registered Bulletin Viewers: 5 Free Password Recovery Applications.
BNI Operatives: Street Smart: Web Savvy.
As always, stay safe.
REMINDER: NEW BORDER CROSSING DOCUMENT COMPLIANCE REGS GO INTO EFFECT TODAY, JUNE 1, 2009.
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