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Last month, Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) hosted its second annual blog day, “America’s Budget Matters (So Does Yours)” . People from across the country blogged about fiscal responsibility on the federal and state levels and shared their personal insight on budget matters
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WOW’s Blog Day A Success!
Through the early 1960s, it was common practice for employers to segregate job listings for men and women. In many cases, identical ads were run for each gender – but with a lower pay rate for the job targeting women.
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Mind the Gap — All the Way to Retirement!
Last week, the Elder Economic Security Initiative™ officially launched in West Virginia at a press event at the state capitol in Charleston! Our state partner, the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy hosted the event in collaboration with the West Virginia Long Term Care Partnership , the Gerontology Institute at UMASS-Boston , and WOW . Speakers discussed the importance of the Initiative to the citizens of West Virginia and explained the county level data of the Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index
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West Virginia Launch!
Octavio Paz From his 1990 Nobel acceptance speech : The feeling of separation is bound up with the oldest and vaguest of my memories: the first cry, the first scare. Like every child I built emotional bridges in the imagination to link me to the world and to other people. I lived in a town on the outskirts of Mexico City, in an old dilapidated house that had a jungle-like garden and a great room full of books.
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Octavio Paz – Separation
The Financial Times reports that according to Google sources, all versions of Microsoft ‘s Windows OS are henceforth banned.
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Google HQ Bans Microsoft Windows In-House After Hacking Scare
A makeshift Oil-Man Scarecrow was placed along the road on the way to Grand Isle, La., complete with respirator, X’ed-out eyes, and an oily fish in hand. Image by Ryan Marshall for FastCompany.com
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Top Kill is Dead. BP Fails to Stop Gushing Oil Well in the Gulf
A short passage to get a feel for the narrative: When I heard his thin voice answer the telephone, I dreaded saying my name, imagining that he would be utterly dismayed at the sound of it, but at once he began to apologize, saying: “I should have written, just a note even, I should have written to thank you for the lunch.” “Oh, no, Gerald!” I said relieved, “it was a terrible lunch and I think I should have written to you really. You see, I was brought up in India, Gerald, and I’m afraid I’ve never quite lost it, the habit of never saying anything that’s helpful. No one in India seemed to have a feeling for helpfulness, only a feeling for what is right , and it took me a long time to see that almost everything they thought was right was actually not all that right, but in fact rather wrong
Actor and artist Dennis Hopper died of complications related to prostate cancer on Saturday. He was 74. We recently covered his debut at MOCA under new curator Jeffrey Deitch.
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Dennis Hopper’s Art in Jeffrey Deitch’s First Show at MOCA
Earlier today, Matt Van Horn of Digg sent around an email with a private YouTube link to publishers and other influential folk Digg wants to show the redesign to. If Digg really wanted this email to remain quiet, which is a big if , it was a huge blunder to send it to a bunch of journalists with no formal embargo. Of course, it was promptly published by TechCrunch and several other publications (and now, us).
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First Look: Digg Version 4
After the devastating Gulf oil spill , I wrote a few weeks ago about BP needing to look after their brand’s soul and not worry too much about their brand image. But the longer this tragedy goes on, the more I wonder if this company ever had a soul. In the latest news, as BP scrambles to stop the leak , the misguided brand is drowning in poor word choices that are making its failing efforts feel even worse
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From "Top Kill" to "Dead Man’s Switch": What BP’s Oil Spill Lexicon Reveals About Its Brand
Stephen Fry’s business partner details the creation of the new FryPad iPad app, and the upcoming launch of their online talent agency, Untied Artists. Today, the iPad launched in the U.K
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Meet Andrew Sampson, the Guy Who Makes FryPaper Sticky
The Motor City has 33,529 vacant houses. To most of the country, that’s 33,529 reasons to wring its hands over What To Do About Detroit. To architects, it’s a gold mine
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Young Architects Buy Detroit Home for $500, Turn It into Design Lab
In his series on making Memorial Day more meaningful, Steve McCallion presents solutions from quieting our social networks in observance to asking companies to celebrate country over commerce. So far we’ve explored how Memorial Day lost its meaning , but how can we get it back?
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Reinventing Memorial Day: Solutions for Silence and Sacrifice
The Apple TV may be about to graduate from a “hobby” project into a world-beater, if leaked info that’s reached Engagdet proves true. It’s set to rival Google’s TV offering, and will see Apple embrace cloud-based content streaming for the first time
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Today’s Vision of Tomorrow: Apple TV, Revamped, Rocketed Into the Cloud
On April 22, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig sank into the Gulf of Mexico, spewing hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil a day into the water. Here’s a visual timeline of the spill’s effects
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The BP Oil Disaster Timeline in Pictures
Most of us assume deaf people can’t register sound, let alone enjoy Rachmaninoff. Wrong.
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How a Collar Could Help Deaf People "Hear" Music
Japan just revealed some of its plans for space exploration, including the amazing hope of landing a robot explorer on the moon by 2015 and having an entire base of robots by 2020.
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Japan vs. NASA in the Next Space Race: Lunar Robonauts
Ticked off by Facebook’s hosting of a page that had a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed, a group of tech professionals in Lahore have created a rival social net for Muslims, just a week after the social networking site was blocked by the Pakistani authorities. It’s called MillatFacebook , and it’s founders are fervently anti-Facebook
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MillatFacebook, Pakistan’s Answer to Facebook, Goes After Facebook
She has spent her career chronicling real life, but Sheila Nevins’s work is the antithesis of stereotypical reality TV. “I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can’t get guys,” she says
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Most Creative People 2010: #15 Sheila Nevins
Doodle The Doodler is a happy little hand-drawn figure, jumping calmly higher while dodging sweetly nonthreatening monsters and the occasional black hole. He’s friendly, gentle, tenacious, and insanely addicting. “People seem to project a lot of interesting things on him,” says Igor Pušenjak, 34, of the character who is at the heart of an iPhone game that has catapulted into the Apple Store record books
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Most Creative People 2010: #14 Igor Pusenjak