Archive for October 2014

LONGTIME BTC ASSOCIATE CARLOS SALUM FEATURED ON NPR’S “ALL THINGS CONSIDERED”

We’ve frequently featured the founder of Charlotte, N.C.’s Salum International Resources Inc. on this blog. And for a number of reasons: the compelling life story that Carlos Salum has to tell about growing up under a dictatorship in Buenos Aires, his activities as a world-class professional tennis (and “peak performance”) coach and his ongoing successes [...]

A CELEBRITY IN OUR MIDST: THE PHILIPPINES’ DR. PERLA RIZALINA MATURAN TAYKO REMINDS US ONE MORE TIME WHY WE CALL HER ‘THE PEARL’

For more than 20 years, one of Brain Technologies’ most influential and successful associates has been a personable, resourceful, highly educated self-starter who calls the Philippines home. That is, when she is home.
Which was the primary point of her latest honor—the prestigious Bagong Bayani Award, bestowed annually by a government ministry (labor) and an educational [...]

The dolphinthinker’s first impulse is to skedaddle when she or he spots stupidity. But anymore, where would you go to get away?

When things that humans are doing or had hoped to do show signs of flying apart or coming to a halt, the first impulse of the dolphin mind is anything but heroic. Almost certainly, it’s not what most folks probably would expect. In such “London Bridge is falling”-type circumstances, the first urge of the dolphinthinker [...]