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Television has played a pivotal role in the socialization of the 20th and 21st centuries

A television, commonly referred to as TV, telly or the tube, is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting sound with moving images in monochrome (black-and-white), colour, or in three dimensions. It can refer to a television set, a television program, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium, for entertainment, educational television, news and advertising.

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Leica Factory Tour: Learn how it’s done

Leica Camera AG (pronounced [ˈlaɪka]), is a German optics enterprise and manufacture of Leica cameras. The predecessor of the company, formerly known as Ernst Leitz GmbH, is now three companies: Leica Camera AG, Leica Geosystems AG, and Leica Microsystems GmbH, which manufacture cameras, geosurvey equipment, and microscopes, respectively. Leica Microsystems AG owns the Leica brand and licences the sister companies to use it.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica_Camera

Google: Organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible.

Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords, an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results.

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” and its unofficial slogan was “Don’t be evil”. In 2004, Google moved to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to restructure under a new holding company called Alphabet Inc.

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Do you believe in time? What is it anyway?

Time is a measure in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them. Time is often referred to as the fourth dimension, along with the three spatial dimensions.

Time has long been a major subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a manner applicable to all fields without circularity has consistently eluded scholars. Nevertheless, diverse fields such as business, industry, sports, the sciences, and the performing arts all incorporate some notion of time into their respective measuring systems. Some simple definitions of time include “time is what clocks measure”, which is a problematically vague and self-referential definition that utilizes the device used to measure the subject as the definition of the subject, and “time is what keeps everything from happening at once”, which is without substantive meaning in the absence of the definition of simultaneity in the context of the limitations of human sensation, observation of events, and the perception of such events.

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Hello world! A new theme has born into the WordPress world.

“Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.” -Michael Jackson

Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection is a 71-track triple disc box set commemorating Michael Jackson’s early years with Motown Records. The album features Jackson’s four solo LPs from Motown (dating from 1971 to 1975), plus songs that were released after he left the company.

On June 12, 2009, Universal Music Group reissue label Hip-O Select announced on its Twitter page that the 3-CD set was now available for pre-ordering, with an announced shipping date of July 3, the same date the set would be released to retail stores. However, some copies were shipped before that, the earliest being June 26, the date after Jackson’s death.

The set was released digitally on iTunes on June 30. The release date has caused some controversy, as some people think Motown used this release as a quick cash-in after Jackson’s death (it is the fourth such album to be released). This rumor was denied by fans, who said they were told in emails that the release date for iTunes had been set in advance.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_World:_The_Motown_Solo_Collection

Steve Jobs on Entrepreneurship

“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” – Steve Jobs

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