Russell W. Dickson

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Russell W. Dickson, lives in upstate NY, and is a Freelance journalist. He has written for both print and online news/opinion pages.Russell holds a B.A. in English, minor Journalism from The University at Albany, Albany, NY. His writing experience spans more than a decade and his work has graced the pages of newspapers, magazines, online news orgs, and political websites in both the U.S. and abroad.

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Generation X and the New York City Hardcore Years

Generation X Like many "Generation X" teenagers that grew up in the NYC area in the 80s & 90s I was part of the New...

The Greatest Man I Ever Knew

When some people think of great men, I suppose great actors, writers and world leaders come to mind. As a journalist, over the years...

Hollywood Special Effects Make-up Icon Talks Shop at Walker-Stalker Con 2015

Russell W. Dickson interviews Mark Garbarino at Walker/Stalker Con 2015, chats about creature suits, puppets, prosthetic make-up, and The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials.

Kristen Luman from Ghost Mine to Ghost Hunters

Showrunners at Syfy spice things up on Ghost Hunters this season, with the addition of Ghost Mine Lead Investigator and fan favorite Kristen Luman.

The Walking Dead: AMC Has Absolutely Nothing To Fear

The Walking Dead companion series got a huge start. The 90-minute new series Fear the Walking Dead had 10.1 million viewers and 6.3 rating for adults 18-49.

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The Debt Collector’s AI Voice Agent: How Synthetic-Voice Dunning Calls Are Colliding With Decades-Old Consumer Protection Rules

Most consumers assume the friendly voice on a collection call belongs to a person following a script. It is often a script following a person. A synthetic voice, cloned or generated by an AI agent, working a call list on behalf of a collect

The Black Box in the Crossover: What Vehicle Event Data Recorders Capture in the Seconds Before a Fatal Pedestrian Crash

A pedestrian killed by a crossover has, on average, about 20 seconds of the driver's inputs sitting inside the car that hit them. Throttle position. Brake pressure. Steering angle. Whether the seat belt was buckled and whether stability con

When the CFO Leaves: How Growing Companies Keep the Books on Track

Most owners assume a CFO exit is mainly an HR headache. Post the job, run the search, backfill the seat. The seat is the easy part. What breaks first is the reporting cadence: the month-end close nobody owns, the covenant calculation that u

Frontline Supervisors Are Sinking Your Safety Program. Here’s the Fix

A single recordable injury can cost an employer tens of thousands of dollars before the lost-productivity ripple even begins, and most of those incidents trace back to a decision a frontline supervisor made, missed, or waved through, rather than to anything the safety director or the C-suite did or failed to do. The shift lead, […]
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