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Massage Device Safety Tips: Your 2025 Home Use Guide

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Core massage device safety tips you need to follow Used correctly, a handheld massage device relieves tight muscles, improves blood flow, and speeds recovery. Used carelessly, it can cause bruising, nerve irritation, or worse. These foundational guidelines keep you on the right side of that line. Limit time per muscle group to two to three minutes to prevent tissue overstimulation and bruising. Spending longer than that on one area overstimulates tissue and raises the risk of bruising. Let the device do the work. Avoid pressing down with your hand. The percussive force is already calibrated; adding manual pressure triggers muscle tightening and irritation. Start at the lowest intensity setting. Increase speed gradually as your muscles loosen, not before. Hold the device perpendicular to the muscle surface. An angled approach reduces effectiveness and concentrates force unevenly. Know where not to go. Skip the front of the neck, the spine, joints, bony prominences like the ribs an...
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I knew it. Some of these AI agents will be as lazy and unscrupulous as we are.

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By now most people have heard the story about OpenAI ’s AI agent that went rogue. Hugging Face, another AI company, notified law enforcement last week that an AI agent had been used to hack its systems. That was followed by a revelation earlier this week that no human directed the AI agent. It had acted on its own. In an article about the incident, The Economist reported that OpenAI combined a recently released model with a more powerful unreleased one and assigned the pair a task. OpenAI took the necessary precautions by placing the combined model in a sandbox—a test environment with no access to the internet. That restriction failed. The models managed to exploit a previously unknown flaw within the sandbox to gain entry to the internet. Once there, they discovered that the solution to the problem they had been assigned was already on Hugging Face’s website. Rather than doing the hard work to independently solve the problem, the lazy and unscrupulous pair decided to hack Hugging Fac...
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Alan at 80? ? Episode #95

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Name: Crysta Ames Title: Office Manager Group: Summit Consulting Group, Inc. Dateline: East Greenwich, RI United States Direct Phone: 401-884-2778 Jump To Summit Consulting Group, Inc. -- Alan Weiss, Ph.D. Adblock test (Why?) source http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Alan-at-80-Episode-95,2026316024.aspx
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WIBC-FM News Director John Herrick Exits

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News/talk WIBC-FM, Indianapolis news director John Herrick reveals that he’s been let go by the Urban One station after three years as news director. He posted to Facebook: “I am proud of the work we accomplished and the stories we were able to tell on behalf of our listeners. I especially appreciate the trust and support of the people who welcomed us into their lives through our reporting. While this chapter has come to an end, I remain committed to the values that have guided my career: serving the public, pursuing the truth, and treating people with fairness and respect. I want to thank my colleagues, mentors, friends, and family – especially my wife and sons – for their support throughout this journey. I look forward to what comes next and the opportunity to continue contributing meaningful work. I will still be broadcasting games, and I will continue to be a member of the Indiana University Radio Network.” This comes on the heels of the spring firing of late morning talk host Rob...
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Shoulder Muscle Recovery Steps: Your 2026 Rehab Guide

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Recovering shoulder muscle strength and mobility after injury or surgery follows a clear, phased sequence. Skip steps or rush the timeline, and you risk stiffness, re-injury, or a plateau that keeps you out of the activities you care about. Follow the sequence below and you give your shoulder the best chance at full, durable recovery. Core shoulder muscle recovery steps, in order: Protect and educate (weeks 0–3). Rest the shoulder from further stress, use a sling only as needed for comfort, and begin learning controlled arm movements. Wean off the sling as soon as tolerable to prevent joint stiffness. Start gentle pendulum and assisted range-of-motion exercises. These early movements promote circulation and prevent the secondary stiffness that makes later rehab harder. Progress to structured stretching (weeks 2–6). Target shoulder flexibility with crossover arm stretches, passive internal and external rotations, and the sleeper stretch, holding each for 30 seconds. Add resistance tr...
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Is a Dating Coach Worth It? Answering the Questions Singles Hesitate to Ask

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Finding lasting love may be one of the most important goals in your life, yet it’s also one you’re often expected to figure out on your own. But what if it isn’t working? What if you’re still no closer to finding your happily-ever-after? While it’s easy for me to say that working with a certified coach is the logical next step, that doesn’t mean it’s an easy decision for singles to make. How can you confidently know whether or not a dating coach is worth it? Some time ago, I ran into an old friend I hadn’t seen in at least 15 years. She’s an attractive, friendly, smart woman now in her 50s, yet for some reason, after all this time, she’s still single and never married.  She jokingly said to me, “I should have worked with you years ago!”  We talked for a while; it was bittersweet, and then we went our separate ways. But this interaction got me thinking: what kept her from asking for help? Why did she wait so long? And what keeps other singles from working with a professional? W...
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Your Best People Aren't Leaving for More Money. They're Leaving Because of You.

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Every time a high performer leaves, there's a story the organization tells itself. The story usually involves money. A competitor offered more. The market is tight. We can't compete with what they're paying over there.Sometimes that story is true. But more often, far more often than most organizations are willing to admit, it's a convenient fiction. A way to avoid the harder, more uncomfortable truth: that the person didn't leave the organization. They left the manager.The research on this is not ambiguous. Gallup has been studying employee engagement for decades, and their data consistently shows that the manager accounts for at least 70% of the variance in team engagement. People don't leave companies. They leave managers. They leave cultures. They leave environments where they feel invisible, undervalued, or controlled.The money story is easier to tell because it doesn't require anyone to ch...
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