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• Dust Bowl

  
  Silver Valley Stories — Authority: 470
  I just finished reading a book by Timothy Egan titled "The Worst Hard Time". It is a story of people who lived through the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, in the states of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado and New Mexico. I remember reading "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, about people leaving the Dust ...
  23 hours ago

• Get With the Program: "The Card Game"

  
  AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole Blog — Authority: 506
  During the economic downturn, credit card issuers have been coming under fire for raising interest rates, adding new fees and reducing credit lines -- and thats just for their best customers. Other borrowers have seen their credit lines canceled entirely. As credit card companies take steps to deal with rising public ...
  4 days ago

• Solar Energy For Africa

  
  AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole Blog — Authority: 506
  My grandfather Cosmas Binyavanga installed solar panels on the roofs of some of his properties before he passed away recently. I like to think that Grandfather was ahead of the curve because the trend is growing. He did it because it primarily was cost-effective -- our ancestral home is far from Ugandas capital ...
  5 days ago

• Test your positive thinking: make yourself the main character and feel pain

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 437
  How deep is your positive thinking? So you’ve resolved to live happily ever after?  And your friends and colleagues are mocking your for your new found happy ways? The big test Here is the big test for your commitment to happiness. Imagine yourself in the most horrible circumstances Write a short novel with ...
  6 days ago

• Identity Theft Aint Rocket Science

  
  AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole Blog — Authority: 506
  I recently had to complete an online transaction with an overseas company, and when I hit "pay," a warning popped up on my computer screen: "This information will travel over an unsecured connection, making it very easy for a third party to intercept the data. Are you sure you want to continue?" Well, if you put it ...
  1 week ago

• Washington Times subject to EEOC complaint from former editor: how independent are "private" newspapers?

  
  Bill Boushka — Authority: 127
  Here’s a good one to followup on yesterday’s story on journalism. Richard Miniter, a former editor at The Washington Times , has filed an EEOC discrimination complaint when he refused to attend a religious ceremony and mass wedding conducted by Rev. Sun Myung Moon. The expenses to the ceremony would have been ...
  1 week ago

• Hard Times, Come Again No More

  
  Utah Savage — Authority: 423
  In memory of my friend Zelita who died this morning. And for Esther, who taught me this song. Were having some hard times, arent we?
  1 week ago

• Six Essential Leadership Traits for Hard Times

  
  Coaching Tip: The Leadership Blog — Authority: 118
  The following behaviors characterize a good leader in a downturn: 1.    Honesty and credibility . Nobody can be certain about the business environment and its direction. The only viable options are intellectual honesty and humility. Your authority depends on your ability to facilitate ...
  1 week ago

• Knowing when to say good-bye.

  
  Hannah, just breathe... — Authority: 121
  For all my talk, I don’t let go easily. That would explain why I remained smitten with the same guy for seven years. And that would explain why I played water polo about four years longer than I wanted to. Probably also has a hand in my penchant for nostalgia, homesickness, want, that aching desire for the days ...
  1 week ago

• Photo Finish: Eduard Muntaner-Perich

  
  AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole Blog — Authority: 506
  In 2008 I was working as a volunteer in Pragathi Vidya Samasthe school in Bagepalli, Karnataka, India, teaching computer basics to the students. This photo was taken early one morning, just before starting classes. Most of the children attending the school come from extremely poor backgrounds. In South India, ...
  1 week ago

• Hard Times Trailer by Amrit Jain – Skate Sauce

  
  Europeskate.com — Authority: 139
  The man behind the fantastically named website “Skate Sauce” Amrit Jain has put together a video trailer entitled “ Hard Times ” which features skating from Kellen James, Vincent Alvarez, Justin Guillen, and Jesse Silvey. Amrit has put together a really good read about how he got to where he is now ( read it ...
  1 week ago

• Nairobis Street Children

  
  AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole Blog — Authority: 506
  This story from Inside Africa story on the plight of Nairobis street children is positively heartbreaking. Though much of it is difficult to watch, the hardest part about the report on the abandoned children of Kenyas capital is how one of the children makes pocket change by selling paint thinner to other street ...
  2 weeks ago

• Get With the Program: American Experiences "The 1930s"

  
  AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole Blog — Authority: 506
  These might be hard times, but wait until you see what it was like during the 1930s. A new miniseries on PBS, American Experience , takes a closer look at how the current economic period of economic malaise resembles that of Depression Era America: "American Experience draws parallels between our current age and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Want a Piece of Madoff?

  
  AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole Blog — Authority: 506
  Whats better than an autograph? Why, a boogie board with the name of the owner scrawled on the back, of course -- if that name happens to be Bernie Madoff. Madoffs personal affects will be auctioned off this weekend by Gaston & Sheehan, an effort expected to net $500,000 for victims of Madoffs elaborate Ponzi ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trusting His mind, transforming mine

  
  Heart of the Matter Online — Authority: 557
  If there is one thing I have learned recently, it’s that God has NOT changed His mind about me. Not His plans, His purpose, His calling for my life. None of it has changed. Before the foundations of the world, He had a plan for my life, just like He does for you, a specific purpose for me alone that no one ...
  2 weeks ago

• E. L. Doctorow Does Vegas

  
  Living Las Vegas — Authority: 132
  In his keynote address for the 2009 Vegas Valley Book Festival, renowned novelist E. L. Doctorow shared his journey as a writer and his thoughts about where fiction is headed in the digital age. [ Read more ]
  2 weeks ago

• How Many More Will "Go Postal"?

  
  AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole Blog — Authority: 506
  As my colleague Ron Mwangaguhunga wrote in another post today, the unemployment rate in the U.S. has exceeded 10% - the highest in a quarter-century. Were in a crisis situation: The gap between the rich and poor in this country is now on-par with countries like Mexico and Turkey, places where the wealthy can live like ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unemployment Tops 10 Percent

  
  AWEARNESS: The Kenneth Cole Blog — Authority: 506
  Although it was expected , the announcement last week that unemployment in the United States hit double digits for the first time since the early 80s didnt fail to startle. How does one prepare for news like that? And besides, didnt the economists tell us recently that we are in a recovery (jobless, no doubt )? ...
  2 weeks ago

• 9 Minute Challenge: 90 Days Free if We Don’t Deliver

  
  Learn Free Internet Marketing Learn Free Internet Marketing Strategies using Video, Articles, Social Networking, Social Media, Web 2.0, Blogs, Affiliate Marketing — Authority: 167
  30 day free trial. Yes, we are that sure that you are going to find adding ecommerce to your web site with 800Cart just that easy and fast. … 800cart eCommerce “shopping cart system” “online shopping cart” “home business” “home biz” “work at thome” telecommute “free cart” “profits from ...
  2 weeks ago

• epic friday nights...

  
  The Author's Desk — Authority: 120
  I pretty much love Noelle and Zach, and my new friend Kaitlyn. She goes to school with my two friends, and is really close to Noelle. Shes another super good friend all ready who I feel like Ive known for not forever but for longer than tonight. It started out at Noelles house after stopping at Wal-Mart with mom and ...
  3 weeks ago

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