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A Brief History On September 14, 1975, Elizabeth Ann Seton was canonized by Pope Paul VI, thus she became the first person born in what is now the United States to be granted sainthood.  Born in New York, on August 28, 1774, she just missed being born in the United States, but more importantly, was not even born into a Catholic family!  Seton was also the founder of the first religious order for nuns in America, the Sisters of Charity. Digging Deeper Born Elizabeth Ann Bayley to a French Huguenot family, her father had been a prominent doctor in New…

A Brief History In 2019, extensive automation is practiced in practically every type of manufacturing and assembly process.  Modern technologies allow the productive implementation of automated process control systems in industry. Integrated automation of plants leads to a noticeable increase in production productivity. The electric linear actuators technology plays probably the most noticeable role in the linear motion automation that became the cornerstone of every industrial sphere of implementation. On the basis of linear motion technologies, the range of the most promising startups and projects of the new generation gained popularity and transformed into massive corporations and companies that like…

A Brief History On September 11, 2001, the fanatical Islamist terror group, al-Qaeda, carried out coordinated attacks against the United States, resulting in the crashing of a fully occupied jetliner into the Pentagon, the hijacking and subsequent crash of another jetliner, and the crashing of yet another two jetliners into the World Trade Center, taking down two of the tallest buildings in the world.  Lost were nearly 3000 innocent lives with another 6000 people injured.  About $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure was also destroyed.  For what? Digging Deeper Apparently misguided Islamists see the United States as an enemy…

A Brief History In 1935, the first modern theory of software was proposed by Alan Turing in his essay Computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (decision problem).  Today, the manufacturing sector is one of these that requires a big focus on management. Otherwise, the effectivity together with safety goes down drastically what is dangerous for the business. How to avoid it? Combine manufacturing software with good business practices and HR.  There are many ready-made strategies for improving your enterprise’s and employees’ workflow; however, the best approach is to combine them with your knowledge and experience to create an effective…

A Brief History In the sixteenth century, the term “marketing” first appeared in dictionaries, where it referred to the process of buying and selling at a market.  Today, whether you are starting new or want to expand, one thing you will have to do is market your services or products. In today’s world marketing takes even more center place because of the intense competition and new competitors entering the market every day.  It sure seems like an easy task that it just takes financial inputs to create a successful marketing campaign. In fact, nothing can be farther from the truth…