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Still Blogging and Some Changes

Hello world. You may have noticed that I have not posted much here recently. But do not worry, I am still  blogging.

I'm making some changes to  this blog. I'll introduce you to a few of them in this post.

I took my Mindware Forum blog on personal growth technology which has coexisted with Vision thing in the http://bruceeisner.com/mindware since I stared writing them in 2003. and moved it to its own domain at http://mindwareforum.com. 

That is still a bit of a work in progress and I have spent a lot of time just getting the programming plumbing right with Read more »

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Memes for the Making of a New Culture — A Work in Progress Part 1

In my post in November about my mother’s passing Remembering My Mother, I related about how a dream at age four provided as way of thinking about those early years of my life, the ones that hardly anyone remembers anything about.

I am going to be 62 in February and so I have gone through a lot of my life, much of which seemed like endless mid-life crises and reached maturity. In terms of The 12 Stages of Life by Bruce Carnahan, I have arrived at Stage 9 called which he calls Reflection.

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R.I.P. hipster homeowners (in Vegas) on Rebecca’s World

Link for this Post: Rebecca's World on vegas-times.com

A UNLV student in a Public Relations class was assigned to do a press release and media kit for a local non-profit. She picked Island Foundation and so we have been talking about blogs and social media and relaunching Island.

This is Rebbecca's blog, a post about the blight on Las Vegas Neighborhoods during this current recession. In my neighborhood as in the ones she describes, almost half the houses are vacant with foreclosure stickers.

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Recession Over by the End by 2009 — Another Opinon Based on NY Fed Model

Link for this Post: NY Fed's Model Predicts End of Recession in 2009 by Mark J. Perry on his Carpe Diem blog

In my last post, I wrote about the opinion of "Dr. Doom" Nouriel Roubini that the current ecomomic crisis will continue until the end of 2010. Here is another view published on the blog of Mark J. Perry, a Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Michigan.

Based on a usually reliable predictor of future economic activity, a model based on trends in the spead between interest rates  of 10 year US Treasury bonds and 3 month US Read more »

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