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Resolving Those Pesky New Years Resolutions
Tue Jan 3, 2012 6:13 PM EST
I find it amazing just how many things people will inevitably lump into their annual resolution list. If I've learned one thing as I've gotten older, it's simply this: if you haven't been successful in resolving the items you cached into your list last year, you might want …
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Leaving the life of Quiet Comfort Behind
Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:24 PM EDT
The idea started innocently enough. I'm sitting at what will be my final table as I attempt to satellite into the World Series of Poker. A guy who looks like a cross between Chuck Norris and Dog: the Bounty Hunter with a demeanor of a kind Dr.
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4/20/99
Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:45 PM EDT
Not many days on the calendar are notable. Today stands out for a number of reasons. I created a horrible cup in the make your own pottery place in the Oregon district as spring was just hitting full-force in Dayton, Ohio. Do you recall this literal freak of nature?
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Digging Deeper into No Limit Texas Hold-Em Poker
Sat Apr 4, 2009 12:12 AM EDT
I have to cash. This is the subtle subtexted mantra in my head at approximately 7:45 this evening as I'm in a poker tournament in a casino. I ask Frank, the tournament director, who, like me is from Chicago, for a position update. "Sure thing, kid."
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Selling The Rally
Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:01 AM EDT
So, did you remember to sell the rally? You know it was just a bear market rally, right? There's still nothing nice on the horizon.
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Surviving and Thriving in this Brave New World
Tue Dec 9, 2008 1:09 AM EST
I write from you in a wet, windy city where the giant on the river today just filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection.
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Economic Bailout Package Poses Biggest Threat To Our Economy in History
Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:45 PM EDT
The speech given earlier this evening by our president and the subsequent bailout plan is the greatest threat of our generation.
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Not So Comcastic After All?
Thu May 22, 2008 10:51 AM EDT
During last nght's long, drawn-out American Idol finale, DVR users across the country let out a collective WTF? as their DVRs just so happened to stop recording the program at the exact second the last name of the winning contestant was announced.
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Eating Rotten Bananas - I return to the 'Vine Less Wise
Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:50 AM EDT
These bananas, were, I fear, far too ripe to eat. Throwing caution to the wind, i ate them anyway. This minor oversight has sounds of ducks being intimate following me everywhere. It was funny until it wasn't.
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For Next Week on Todays Newsvine
Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:51 PM EDT
Here's a look at what I'm working on for this week. Got a suggestion? Leave it as a comment to this or any article I post.
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Something's wrong with the Cows
Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:00 AM EDT
Of course the running joke l hear traders share outside 11 Wall is that the media has predicted 48 of the last 3 recessions. I'm not a bandwagon jumper.
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Ronnie Baker Brooks Amazes A Late Crowd
Tue Sep 4, 2007 11:19 AM EDT
Carrying and representing the finest Chicago blues has to offer, Ronnie Baker Brooks is a blues man in his prime. Engaging and entertaining as his shows may be, he maintains a very tight ensemble cast that fit extremely well. He works for it.
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Celebrating the Laborious Among Us this Weekend
Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:10 PM EDT
CHICAGO - What could be more appropriate then brushing up the last few hours of crystal blue skied pre-holiday weekend with an article on labor in the city of big shoulders?
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Stopping by my desk on a Friday Evening
Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:11 AM EDT
Whose desk this is I think I know He should have left for home hours ago. The cleaning folks must think it queer That an early riser is still here!
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Falling Markets Provide Pause
Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:00 PM EDT
I'm not a market expert. I read the Wall Street Journal, and mix CNBC on my satellite radio with a bit of PRI's Marketplace, but I don't wear a funny suit with letters on the stock floor.
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Stay Home Memorial Day Weekend
Tue May 15, 2007 6:09 PM EDT
For those of you embracing today's meaningless 'Gas Boycott', and to those of you incessantly forwarding emails advising I do so, I have a few recommendations.
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Stupid Technology: Taking a Whack at Business Intelligence
Mon May 7, 2007 4:55 PM EDT
BI. It's the hottest thing in the industry now. Everyone's doing it, and everyone wants it. I haven't seen hype like this since Dragon Naturally Speaking. (TM)
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