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In many digital designs,
booklet prints or
brochure prints you will notice that artists are using more and more arrow icons to guide readers to specific areas of content. Now, while you can use some of the built in graphics in some desktop publishing software out there to aid you, there is nothing like your own custom arrow icon to add real…

climb%20wabash-2.jpgI finished up my first year at Wabash College last week, and now I’m jumping right into an internship with an Indy-based company, Leonard-McDowell (leonard-mcdowell.com), doing sales and marketing. So far I have attended several networking…

                                                  The INDIANA FEVER HOME OPENER IS MAY 19!!

      The INDIANA FEVER HOME OPENER is Sat May 19, when the Fever take on the Atlanta Dream at Banker's Life Field House at 7 p.m.  Whether you only come to a few games a year, or have never been to a game, you will want to be here for this! One…

Illustrator has a lot pretty great features that allow you to turn standard vector text into artistic handwritten type artwork. In this tutorial we will go through the steps to help you learn how to do convert your own typical title text designs to exquisite looking handwritten work. You can apply this effect to your posters, magazine ads or even on your web site design. Follow the steps below and you will see the easy step by step process in adding that artistic handwritten look for your…

Social media has given all of us that perceived 15 minutes of fame, sometimes every day depending on how many people commented, liked or shared something you have said. We feel mighty important, and this recent blog postby one of my favorite bloggers,…

Bankruptcy helps you to get rid of your debts but it also hits your credit score badly. When you file bankruptcy, it gets listed on your credit report and is supposed to stay there for 7-10 years. If you had filed chapter 7 bankruptcy, it will stay on your credit report for 10 years. However, if you had filed bankruptcy chapter 13, it will stay on your credit…

My Grandmother loved to rake leaves.  She hired my brothers and me to rake leaves at their farm.  There are five acres of yard and trees.  That’s a lot of leaves.  Her love of this particular task I did not – and do not still – share.  She had told me at one time all she needed in heaven was a rake.

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“Mama Dot, when’s supper gonna be ready?”

“Right now’n a minute” was her reply, without fail. And we knew – you might as well go sit down. It’s been done for a while. If we stall, she’ll just command, “You kids get in here and sit down. Dinner’ll be ready, right now’n a minute.” So you might as well go sit down.

This phrase of hers was almost always tied to a meal, though it was handily applied to most every situation in life. And while it might have sounded as if it were left…

Taking a leap of faith from investments to fashion design for Stephanie Williams was a wonderful transformative experience.   With faith in herself, work she loves and a happy marriage and home life, Stephanie models a life of Courageous Creativity.   Courageous Creativity is having the courage to fully be yourself, to create what you most want in your life, to make a difference in…

Leonard-McDowell, provider of innovative technologies for data storage, protection and recovery products and services to Indiana businesses today announced the addition of two Wabash College students as summer interns as Lilly Grant Business Summer Interns. Ben Cook and Ben Finley will assist the firm in the coming summer.

“We are excited to help prepare Ben and Ben for careers after Wabash,” said Frank Leonard, managing partner. “We’ve also hired interns from Marian University - I am…

  Somewhere during my lifetime (in college I think) I bought in to the idea of "I'm okay, you're okay". I believe if ever there was a place where people would, as a group, also buy into this mindset it's…

With the unseasonably warm temperatures this winter and spring, your perennials may already be starting to bloom. You’ve probably made a few trips to the garden store and have seen the abundant variety of annuals available.

Annuals are plants that complete their life cycle in one season and there are pros and cons to using annuals in the landscape.

The biggest advantage is that annuals provide lots of color all season long. They can be used in the ground in flower beds, as well…

Assistance League^® of Indianapolis members and guests dined and danced to the "Music of the Night" during the Star Gala event April 14th at the Ritz Charles. It was a wonderful evening and our largest fundraiser which brought in nearly $75,000 to support our programs.  Go to www.ALindy.org to learn more about us.  I have included a few highlights of the evening.…

Renew Your Energy - May Green Hour

Tuesday, May 15 - 6pm at Legend - 5614 E Washington Street, 46219 



This month we'll continue our effort to provide a forum for 'Green' in Indianapolis by bringing you Lane Ralph, longtime Aide to Senator Richard Lugar and …

The Internet Represents Enormous Complexity, And One of The Most Profitable Vehicles For Commerce And Crime The World Has Ever…

Last blog, I discussed a bit of history about the whole hunter/farmer analogy. I can tell you, the whole hunter mentality I see alive and well in many entrepreneurs I meet. Are they ADHD/ADD? Many of my entrepreneur friends may not have been diagnosed with it, but they do joke about it!

So, let’s dive into what I view as the definitions and some pros and cons of each – now remember, these are my definitions:

Hunter – someone who is engaged in new business development – finding…

Ah, tape backups. They’re expensive, require a lot of manual intervention, leave gaps in protection, have high failure rates and those little tapes leave your hands smelling funny.  If you can afford to lose time and data, by all means, keep swapping those tapes…

I can too easily answer that question for myself – I’m a farmer, but then again, I am in the business of relationship marketing and a social worker at heart, so it makes sense. First off, let’s cover a little history.

Let’s go way back -  when we were nomadic people, yes, years back, like 10,000 years ago – and we were definitely by far hunters – finding our dinner, killing our dinner and moving on when the dinner had been depleted. Then we started to cultivate a bit more –…

We're angry in this country. Angry, exasperated, outraged, filled with righteous self-indignation. We're a nation of upset people, and there's no apparent reason for it.

Whose fault is it? Who's making us so mad?

The Other Guy.

If you're into politics, it's the other side's fault. If you're in business, it's the competition's fault, or the customer's fault. If you have a neighbor, it's his fault.

Someone cut in line? They're an…

Indy Business Owner Runs 35^th Consecutive Mini Marathon for Charity

Runner raises funds to provide local high school students with scholarships

Indianapolis, IN. – 26, April 2012 – Leonard-McDowell, provider of innovative technologies for data…