Dirk Lester

Taking advantage of the latest search engine-based marketing techniques can offer your business access to online consumers at exactly the moment when they are most attracted to your products or services.

Today I get to bask in the pleasure of introducing you to Chicago's first, for profit, short film Distributor …Evanston newcomer Pawky dot com and they boast a staff that would do a United Colors of Benetton ad proud.

Fighter pilots and post-production pros have something in common. Since the advent of the jet age, big thinkers have declared dogfights cool but pointless and ever since the first Avids appeared, thinkers have said the same about post production houses.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA legislation will forever change many aspects of the ways that health care services can be administered.

Madagascar offers a number of outstanding snorkeling and diving locales, whale-watching off the east coast and the opportunities for amateur photographers are virtually limitless

Your health insurance needs skyrocket once you start a family and whether yours is a traditional one, a single parent one or one you're adopting, there are a few things that you'll need to know about the road ahead.

Everyone lucky enough to have marveled through Stephen Speilberg's "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" or David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" will need little encouragement to hop the next flight to the land where those cinematic wonders were captured.

You don't need to be told how much healthcare has changed since there were family doctors who made house calls; it's a part of your everyday life. Not so long ago, both you and I would have had relatively easy access to a wide open health insurance plan.

For those with any pre-existing condition, too young for Medicare, doing too well for Medicaid, too broke to afford an out-of-pocket premium or too "self-employed" for a group medical program, today's health-insurance market can seem daunting.

International television, web-film and cell cinema venues are buying shorts like hotcakes. If you're in the "Creative Class," and an "Urban Archipelago" resident besides, it's time to hop into the engineer's seat of this train before it passes you by.

The Ecole d'Extreme Orient began a painstaking restoration of Angkor's magnificent temples that managed to survive the Khemer Rouge and attracts visitors to this day.

A perfect storm of rapid bandwidth improvements, media-friendly delivery venues and a globalized network of outlets has given birth to a market for shorts ranging from 60-seconds to 30-minutes in length.

Unlike most of us, college students are in the enviable position to wonder whether or not they really need health insurance. To them, it seems to be a reasonable question- if you're young and healthy and consider yourself all but invincible why bother.