Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...

I do not give much importance to abstract concepts. President Lula da Silva of Brazil ponders the new human-based economic order. Channeling Genghis Khan, Kazakh premier suggests a global currency. Riding news of Citigroup's profits and Bernanke's call for reform, Wall Street posts its biggest one-d...

In a continuation of my jokes forwarded from friends series, this one is from my most regular contributor Andy, who may have been thinking of our friend Mary when he forwarded it. Hee hee hee. Four Retired Guys Four old retired guys are walking down a street in Naples, Florida. They turned a corner ...

The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Chris Pomery. Time certainly flies. I find it hard to believe that genetic testing aimed at genealogists has been around for ten years. A decade ago DNA tests were rarely seen on TV and broadly unused outside of academia. Roll forwa...

Donald Trump doesn’t mince words and most of the times he hits the nail right on its head. But this time he may have gone a bit too far by calling Rihanna a loser. Weighing in on the Rihanna/Brown drama ‘the Donald’  told Inside Edition that Rihanna should ‘get the hell out...

Astounding story about the obstacles--thugs, secret prisons, beatings--Chinese citizens face to lodge a complaint about the government. Bad paintings of Barack Obama. Bush lawyers find themselves too toxic for employers; Gonzales blames "partisan politics" for his unemployment. Instapaper for the co...

I have always found that one of the toughest parts about working in Photoshop is selecting parts of an image for deletion or enhancement. When I first started using Photoshop many years ago, I thought the only way to accurately make complicated selections, ones that aren’t simple rectangles or...

I came across this event over at Facebook early this evening and it definitely caught my attention. Through it I learned that premier bag designer Amina Alunan-Aranaz had worked together with the empowered women of Payatas in her latest bag collection. Working her magic, the collection will showcase...

Your mother always told you you'd never sell enough gold records, or fall hard enough from a high enough office, to make the cover of a magazine. Prove her wrong with spoof site WriteOnIt. Photo by Photo source by HiggySTFC. WriteOnIt it is a web-based application that allows you to make spoof magaz...

The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. Would your genealogy or historical society like to accept payments on the web? Possible uses are to accept membership dues, to sell books or other materials, or to accept registration fees for seminars and other events...