All over the world in millions of homes, each night people are having a lousy nights sleep caused by our infamous dreaded enemy. Every night we all look forward to a peaceful night s sleep and every night like clockwork we get a call from that dreaded enemy in the form of our partner or spouse. You no sooner start to fall asleep than your partner or spouse starts to snore. This results in sleep deprivation. Snoring can be more far-reaching than the cause of frustration and sleep disturbance. Snoring could possibly be a symptom of a more serious sleep disorder known as Sleep Apnea. If you stop breathing for 10 or more seconds at a time and more than ten times an hour during sleep, and if you snore, you may have what has been widely diagnosed as Sleep Apnea. Many people, who are overweight fight an endless battle with restless sleep at night and find themselves nodding off during the day. If you stop breathing during sleep, your brain receives a signal telling you to wake up. The more times you wake from a deep sleep, the more restless you become. In the...

When I was a teenager I used to race home every afternoon, sit down in front of the TV, and watch the kids dancing on American Bandstand. Like so many young people across America, my friends and I knew all of them by name. We considered those kids to be role models. We copied their clothes, hair, and maybe most of all, their dances because what dominated the TV screen were kids moving to the beat of our whole generation. We felt that beat, and watched the couples who always danced together. These were people we got to know. They were the ones setting the trends for kids from coast to coast. Watching them we saw the moves, and imitated them. From the daily dance on the tube we learned the steps that we would take with us to school dances, record hops and parties. We learned them all: the Slop, the Hand Jive, the Bop, Chalypso a combination of the Cha-Cha and the Calypso and the Stroll. The kids who appeared regularly on American Bandtstand weren t paid. These were the real thing teenagers dancing to the latest Top 40 hits. In real life the dance...

I know that diversity has been a big topic of conversation ever since the early 1990s when research supported the demographics that by the year 2000, 85 of the entering workforce would be female, African-American, Asian-American, Latino, or new immigrants. The fact that white males would be a minority entering the workplace was a wake up call for corporate America. How have we done sine then. I suggest that there has been definite improvement in the area of hiring but it seems that once women and minorities are hired, there are informal, relatively unconscious systems in place that prevent advancement of the minority worker or women, even today. If there is to be a true advancement in the area of valuing diversity, then the system must be revised so that there truly is equal opportunity for advancement for everyone, including the white male. I am not advocating for a system that promotes workers who are incompetent to meet some type of quote system. What I am suggesting is that management begins to closely examine the formal and informal systems that...