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Some Tools for Good Living

On the way to work recently, I found myself coming up with a small list of things I do regularly that keep my spirits high and don’t cost much:
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Some Tools for Good Living

Limiting “the News”: Sometimes a list of headlines is enough to make me want to disappear. I don’t want to [...]

29Jan2009 | Garry | 8 comments | Continued
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Summer Ecology Research Opportunity for Undergrads

Remember when I was saying that undergraduate research is a good thing? Well, fresh off of the Ecological Society of America ECOLOG presses, here is a FABULOUS opportunity.
Summer Research Program in the Arkansas Ozarks Assessment and Sustainable Management of Ecosystem Services
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Univ. of Arkansas

The University of Arkansas is conducting a Research Experience for Undergraduates [...]

28Jan2009 | dnlee | 1 comment | Continued
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It’s the simple things that make things more simple

If you’re anything like me, when someone drops a load on your plate the first thing you do is figure out how to organize everything and write out a to-do list.

ToDoist.com

Well, since I’m mostly on the computer and I know that by now there is someone who has invented an easy way to create [...]

10Dec2008 | Kimberly | 2 comments | Continued
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The Newest Coupon Queen

It’s time I shared with you all my new hobby. My husband coined it “hyper-couponing”, but I just like to refer to it as “coupon collecting.” After reading this article in the Chicago Tribune and watching an Oprah episode on the same topic, I decided to give it a try myself. I’ve always been a [...]

25Aug2008 | Kimberly | 10 comments | Continued
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Africa Update

Some good news updates from The Continent (and a cool pic of Cape Town). I think I’ll try to make this a regular feature. Check ‘em out:
President George W. Bush will visit Africa early next year to check out some U.S.-sponsored HIV/AIDS programs and pressed Congress to approve a doubling of funds to combat [...]

2Dec2007 | Eugene | 4 comments | Continued
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Where’s Booker T. now?

Are we still suggesting people “pull themselves up by their bootstraps?”
By now, some of you have probably read about how getting or remaining in the middle class for blacks is much harder. Here are some excerpts from a recent column on race and class in America:
“The ‘rags to riches’ story is much more common in [...]

23Nov2007 | Eugene | 0 comments | Continued
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12 years later

Today is the 12th anniversary of the Million Man March, a “day of atonement” for black men across the nation that took place on the Washington Mall. Since then, Oct. 16 has been known as the Holy Day of Atonement. Minister Louis Farrakhan will speak about it today at the Atlanta Civic Center. Read about [...]

16Oct2007 | Eugene | 5 comments | Continued
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Everyday Health Dilemmas

Do you ever think about the daily small decisions you make that affect your health? Whether to cook or eat out? Whether to get up and work out or save it for the weekend? Well Real Simple has broken a few dilemmas for us. Here are a few of my favorites:
Sleep an Extra Hour or [...]

27Sep2007 | Kimberly | 0 comments | Continued
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10 things that are not ybp (young, black, or professional)

i feel like this post will be me on a soapbox, but i was on the train this morning and felt it needed to be addressed. while i don’t consider myself anyone’s keeper, i do think that common sense and professionalism yield a set of unspoken rules about being a ybp.

being late. rule of thumb: [...]

14Aug2007 | Fredric | 19 comments | Continued
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Seven Things Every Well-Rounded YBP Should Know

You are black professional. You are a young black professional. Chances are even if you’ve scored a great paying job in a lucrative field and you’re involved in upliftment of your community, there are still some things that you don’t know. Here are the few things that every YBP should know (in no particular order):
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4Jun2007 | Alisha | 4 comments | Continued
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the absolute best instant messenger - pidgin

you have instant messenger (IM). maybe it’s from yahoo. maybe it’s from aol. heck, you may even be on msn (eww). either way, it can be a pain having to switch in and out, back and forth between programs to talk to your giant fanbase. well, no longer.
pidgin (formerly called gaim) is an excellent application [...]

4Jun2007 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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Putting Off Procrastination

You have a LOT of work to do and you know it. For a month, you have known that a major project or school assignment was due. It’s a couple of days before deadline and you’ve done…..NOTHING! Have you ever had an important task to fulfill, yet when it’s time to accomplish it, you find [...]

23May2007 | Alisha | 3 comments | Continued
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