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The Online Beat: Obama Talks Tough on Trade to Win Wisconsin
via The Nation: All Weblogs by John Nichols on February 12, 2008
The suddenly populist senator seeks Russ Feingold's support and that of workers battered by free-trade deals.
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How Obama does that thing he does.
via Slate Magazine by Jack Shafer on February 14, 2008
Barack Obama bringeth rapture to his audience. They swoon and wobble, regardless of race, gender, or political affiliation, although few understand exactly why he has this effect on them.[more ...]
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Team Xecuter Back from Dead: 360 ROD Repair Kit
via Xbox-Scene News by XanTium on February 13, 2008
... to see a thriving 360 community although our wish is still to have a fully working homebrew solution on RETAIL machines in 2008. We have friends in the scene who have done some really amazing things with a 360 dev machine in the last year, hopefully that can be transferred to the retail unit this year. There are no sleeping dogs so who knows what will happen ?Anyway, I got my first 360 ROD b...
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College Debt? Delay Any Refi Until July
via TheJobBored by Brian on February 17, 2008
Interest rates are coming down again. Maybe it’s time to refinance your outstanding college debt?BusinessWeek says wait until July. Why?Interest rates for student loans are going to be reset on July 1. This reset could be as much as 3 percentage points lower (not basis points, percentage points). This could add up to be the largest single decrease in education loan interest rates in...
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Review: Know-How
via The Simple Dollar by Trent on February 16, 2008
Each Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal productivity or personal development book.This book drew me in by its subtitle: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t. I knew before I even picked it up that it was a book on leading a business - I was familiar with the author, Ram Charan, from his columns on entrepreneurship at Yahoo! Finance.Still, with a subtitle...
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Investing in Yourself: Education and Cultural Literacy
via The Simple Dollar by Trent on February 17, 2008
Recently, I discussed the value of investing in yourself - putting time and money into improving you, not building assets. Today, we’ll look at one area of investing in yourself as part of an ongoing series on the topic, spread out once per weekday over two weeks. If you’d like to review all the entries, look at the investing in yourself subcategory.When I graduated from high school, I was...
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Little Income, Big Debts: Managing Your Money in Your College Years
via The Simple Dollar by Trent on February 18, 2008
Here’s what you shouldn’t do. When I was in college, I used my student loans to finance my lifestyle. I worked at a decent paying job ($9 an hour at a job related to my major was great), but that wasn’t enough - I needed more. So I took out student loans, even though scholarships covered most of my tuition and housing expenses for college. Even worse, I didn’t really understand the...
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Statistics: Part 3, Why Your Stats Are Only Telling You Half The Story
via FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog by FreelanceSwitch.com on February 14, 2008
I’ll bet that you yourself track one or two major stats on a somewhat regular basis. Most website owners track visitor traffic, Adsense clicks, RSS subscribers and the like. Brick and mortar business owners track income, customers, items sold and shipped, etc. This is fine and these are definitely good things to track as they are the broad picture of your site, business, etc.Unfortunately, most...
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How Do You Know You’re Working With A Bad Client?
via FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog by FreelanceSwitch.com on February 18, 2008
While it’s best to weed out bad clients before a contract is signed and the project begins, often times it doesn’t happen that way. I recently shed the weight, stress and hassle of a “bad client”, so I want to share that experience and five warning signs of a client you should avoid at all costs.So how do you identify a bad client?1. Your client asks for several face-to-face meetings or...
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Seeking permanent prison break
via CTA Tattler by Kevin on February 18, 2008
Over the last two weeks, I've seen one persistent beggar four times on the ride home from work.He enters through the door connecting train cars. He tells us his name is Jevon Dyer, and he just got out of prison after spending five years at Stateville.That admission certainly gets people's attention, as some clutch their bags tighter, while for others, jaws drop as riders listen to his...
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