Sunday Newscape Magazine

As small business owners, we know that every day our business is open is a day we defy the odds. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) reports that two-thirds of new businesses survive at least two years, and about 44 percent survive at least four. SBA researchers note that these numbers don’t differ greatly by industry. Therefore, no matter what market you’re serving with your small business, you have about the same chances of survival as everyone else.

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that our culture really has it in for the ex-wife. On TV, movies, even literature, ex-wives are portrayed as these shrewish, nagging, money-hungry women who obviously made their ex husbands’ lives so miserable, that he had no choice but to leave her. And being an ex wife myself, I take offense to this misleading, one-sided, completely false representation.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have launched a joint effort to gather enhanced climate data from spaceborne climate observation instruments planned for a group of satellites now under development.