Being a woman, I disagree with this article, but I thought I would share it.
10:30 AM Wednesday October 19, 2011
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Having combed through more than a thousand 360-degree performance assessments conducted in…
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BY FC EXPERT BLOGGER AARON SHAPIROThu Oct 27, 2011
This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone.
Some digital companies are hiring--and in fact are in hot competition for certain types of…
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Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011 By: thegrio.com
Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, Sean Combs and Serena Williams now have a place in the National Portrait Gallery in a new show featuring leading black figures from entertainment, politics, sports and business.
"The Black List" opens Friday…
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Valeisha Butterfield-Jones will head up Greater Together. (Google)…
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You may have heard about the gloomy report from the National Center for Health Statistics that says second marriages are more likely to fail than first ones are. So much for learning from experience, right? But wait! Buried in all that data, there's good news for Boomers.
A close look at the…
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SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed a bill giving illegal immigrant college students access to state-funded financial aid, the second half of two-part legislation known as the "Dream Act."…
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Updated 1/18/2013... Lisa Steele did win... but it's always cool to be named in the top in your industry, I don't know Lisa personally, but if you do- tell her I said congrats! I love to see people from Gary Indiana doing big things- the little things our city doesn't celebrate- we have to do better! if you know of others doing big things from GI around the world- let us know about them..…
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Did you ever wonder who invented the Cell Phone? Ok, let's say that you are On a TV game show and have to answer this question to win $10M. The question is, who invented the cellular phone? In all probability most of us could not answer this question. Those of you who know are in a very small minority.
The inventor of the Cellular phone is Henry Sampson, Jr. Sampson…
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Unemployment Issues Examiner
Posted: 9/18/11 07:36 PM ET
President Obama recently addressed the nation during a joint session of Congress and the main theme of that address was the need to create jobs, lots of jobs, millions of jobs. The Great Recession has cost US workers millions of jobs and those jobs have not come…
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By GEOFF MULVIHILL - Associated Press | AP – Fri, Sep 23, 2011
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) — Nine-time Olympic gold medalist…
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Date: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 By: Madame Noire
Hanging with hoes
I didn’t call her a ho, you did; so why do you go out with her every Friday night? It’s always interesting when women bash their “friends” but they keep said friend around. Not only does it confuse us but it also makes us rather skeptical of your judgment.…
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by Alex Alvarez | 2:24 pm, August 30th, 2011
On his radio show today, Glenn Beck tackled a particularly sticky issue when it comes to race. How does it make any sort of sense, he wanted to know, to refer to all black persons as “African American,” particularly when so many black individuals don’t live…
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Six months waiting tables at the local Red Lobster when I was in college turned me from “Black people do tip! Don’t spread those stereotypes…
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Hello all, I have been missing in action for a few months. But I have not forgotten this site. I tried to keep up as much as I could between all that I was doing. During the month of July I went to visit my ailing 92 year old mother in my hometown of Gary, IN. I did post a blog of that experience.
After returning home to Dallas, I was headed off the Washington DC for a job training. I was real excited about that because not only was I there for a new job, but I would also be able…
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I took a tour of one of Gary's natural wonders yesterday after not seeing it for 16 years and was totally disappointed. The Lake Michigan beach front known as Marquette Park was a total disaster. The beach on Lake St and Wells St is not the beach I knew growing up. It has overgrown…
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Eve Tahmincioglu
msnbc.com contributor
It’s hot. The economy stinks. And many bosses across the country seem to be caving under the pressure.
That’s bad news for workers like Mike, a senior-level employee for a communications …
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At a PA restaurant it's no shirt, no shoes, no kids, no dice. (ThinkStock Photos)
At McDain's Restaurant, in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, kids don't eat free. And starting next week, they don't get to eat at all. Mike Vuick, owner of the Pittsburgh area eatery has just…
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