May 21st, 2013
Guess who’s back from Basic Training!?!
May 21st, 2013
May 21st, 2013
May 21st, 2013
My job was eliminated. I got another job right away (I work in medicine), but took a 62% paycut. I tried to work with Bank of America to keep paying them for our home loan, but they “lost” our paperwork and proceeded with the foreclosure. We declared bankruptcy because we were in $175,000 worth of debt and Bank of America threatened to come after us for the difference between the value of the home and our mortgage about $60,000. We left the home when they put the house up for auction, over a year ago, and it now sits empty. It’s been absolutely ransacked. I am now working on my doctorate degree while working, so really I’m one of the lucky ones. I am the 99%.
(via fromtheclassroomtrenches)
May 21st, 2013
Njeri Rionge… Is a very successful Businesswoman from East Africa, Kenya to be exact… Njeri had a dream and a belief in the early 90’s about the internet when it was still just reserved for the elite or business’ in her Country. She wanted to bring internet connectivity to everyone in her country believing that it would bridge the Education gap between the Educated Elite and the Poor non-educated in Kenya by providing easier access to information to learn through the internet. By making information through internet connectivity available to more people it would help people in finding a vocation or learning skills which would in turn help them in being successful and to find a way to create income for themselves and their family. Njeri Rionge In 2000, she co-founded Wananchi Online as an affordable Internet Service Provider for anyone who wanted to access the internet. Wananchi, a Swahili word for “citizen”, was rightly named, being East Africa’s first internet service provider with the mass market Kenyan citizens as its target. Njeri faced several challenges starting up Wananchi and she describes the process as a “roller coaster ride”, full of the ups and downs that come with any start up environment. An Internet technology start up in Africa in 2000 however also had to face the difficulties of challenging tightly-held assumptions that the Internet was only for the elite. She took on the industry regulators, government and existing competition and won. Njeri’s is the head of many business’ now and Wanachi Online is now worth around $173 million. Njeri says “strong indigenous, African-owned companies are needed to take advantage”. Njeri Rionge drive and fearlessness helped her improve things for herself and for her Country of Kenya…
Written By: @Champion_Us
(via righteous-queen)
May 21st, 2013
Brooke Candy
May 21st, 2013
My hobby
May 21st, 2013
May 20th, 2013
Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran is a fantastic online exhibit in English and Arabic related to women’s experiences during the Qajar period (1796-1925). The collections in the exhibit include art, photographs, marriage contracts, letters, and more.
May 20th, 2013
Annette Kellerman 1907
Annette Kellerman (1887-1975) took up swimming as a child to correct a birth defect in her leg. Her marathon swimming feats made her famous in Australia and then in England, where she swam 30 miles down the Thames. In the U.S. she first gained notoriety in 1907, when she was arrested on a Boston beach for wearing a one-piece swimsuit that revealed an indecent proportion of her arms and legs. Soon afterwards she mounted a successful stage tour of the States, performing underwater routines in large transparent water tanks. Signed by Universal Studios, she appeared in a succession of aquatically themed movies beginning with Neptune’s Daughter (1914), in which she was required to perform a provocative “nude” scene, her modesty shielded only by a carefully deployed length of seaweed. Her later films included A Daughter of the Gods (1916) and Venus of the South Seas (1924). Her career was commemorated in the 1952 movie Million Dollar Mermaid, starring Esther Williams as Kellerman.
