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 SURVIVOR GAMES
Dizzy from digging through dozens of job postings (or from the fact that there aren't dozens of job postings)? Check out the Japanese Logic Puzzle; your brain will feel better. Or, if words are your type, the NYTimes has the best crossword puzzles. For shapes and persception puzzles, check out SET. Pissed off at Bankers? Get your vitual revenge with live Monopoly. Have a game you like better? Then, post it in Discussion, or write and article and send it to us to post!
Oh, and puzzles go really well with Mac n' Cheese and/or Blueberry Pancakes, so check out the recipes in the Comfort Food section! (FYI, the games photo above is of a giant wood scupture called Equinox located in a hotel where a Mel Brooks movie was shot. Know where it is? Post it in Discussion!)
SURVIVOR TV
The Office -- whether it's the original with Ricky Gervais or the Scanton, PA cousin with Steve Carell -- it's not just for breakfast anymore!
But there are lots of others, like....
 Flight of the Conchords (HBO or DVD) -- two Kiwi (New Zealanders) musicians are in NYC looking for jobs, gigs, and hot chicks. Refreshing and brilliant -- warning: your stomach will hurt from laughing. See Business Time, one of their more famous music videos.
SURVIVOR BOOKS
 Is there a book you're reading, or have read, that is particularly helpful or pertinent to you surviving the laid-off world?
Here's your chance to review it and post it here. See below for Survivor Books.
SURVIVOR MOVIES
 Movies -- they're the best for forgettin' your troubles. What kind do you like to kick back to?
You've been laid off; you need a hearty laugh and an uplifting song to sing around the house. The film Life of Brian has it all!
Go ahead -- sing it!
Always look on the bright side of life!
If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten,
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps.
Just purse your lips and whistle. That's the thing.
And...
Always look on the bright side of life.
-- Eric Idle
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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US Corporations have rights as persons under the 14th Amendment
  ... with full civil rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Today's US Supreme Court Decision to allow Corporations to spend as much money as they like to fund their congressional candidates against the interests of US Citizens is built on the Corporation's 1st and 14th amendment rights decided earlier last century. How did we get here?
Buy it, rent it or borrow from the library but "The Corporation" is a must watch documentary.
Amazon Review of The Corporation:
An epic in length and breadth, this documentary aims at nothing less than a full-scale portrait of the most dominant institution on the planet Earth in our lifetime--a phenomenon all the more remarkable, if not downright frightening, when you consider that the corporation as we know it has been around for only about 150 years. It used to be that corporations were, by definition, short-lived and finite in agenda. If a town needed a bridge built, a corporation was set up to finance and complete the project; when the bridge was an accomplished fact, the corporation ceased to be. Then came the 19th-century robber barons, and the courts were prevailed upon to define corporations not as get-the-job-done mechanisms but as persons under the 14th Amendment with full civil rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (i.e., power and profit)--ad infinitum.
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 The classic recession flick, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Ferris, fingers the man and teaches his best friend about living. Rent it, buy it, netflix it or best of all, borrow it from your local library. Its free!
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 Here are some must reads for all no job survivors. Get them from Amazon or even better park yourself in the public library.
Check Books, Games and TV for other reading and watching ideas.
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David Korten's Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth discusses the nature of wealth. Korten refers to the current measure of wealth as "phantom wealth," in which he lays out a case for its replacement with "real wealth." The book is very timely as the US Federal government is plying Wall Street with billions to prop up or stabilize the US financial system. The need is real but there is an unsettling feeling that Wall Street needs some fundamental changes. Korten articulates some of those feelings into concrete recommendations.
Korten asks "What do Wall Street institutions do that is so vital that it justifies spending trillions to save them from their own excesses?" "Might there be other ways to provide necessary and beneficial services with greater effectiveness and at lesser cost?"
Korten's recommendations:
- Full-cost market pricing (includes subsidies, pollution, injuries),
- assessing fees and prohibitions to make Wall Street theft and gambling less profitable (eg. outlaw selling, insuring, borrowing against assets one doesn't own, taxing trades),
- tax hedge fund earnings as ordinary income (not capital gains),
- rebuild the economy for greater self-reliance,
- make the U.S. wealth distribution more equitable,
- and require the Treasury Dept. to take over failed banks - not just loan them money.
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Why do some people succeed? 
Malcolm Gladwell's Blink is worth a general read. In Outliers he poses a more provocative question: why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their potential? He examines the lives of many successful and famous people from Mozart to Gates.
Gladwell makes the assertion that superstars don't arise out of nowhere, propelled by genius and talent: "they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot."
This is a good read to encourage no job survivors to get out there and start something. Its cheap on Amazon and elsewhere or go to that great free resource the library or park yourself in Barnes and Noble for a few hours and browse.
"Outliers can be enjoyed for its bits of trivia, like why most pro hockey players were born in January, how many hours of practice it takes to master a skill, why the descendents of Jewish immigrant garment workers became the most powerful lawyers in New York, how a pilots' culture impacts their crash record, how a centuries-old culture of rice farming helps Asian kids master math. But there's more to it than that. Throughout all of these examples--and in more that delve into the social benefits of lighter skin color, and the reasons for school achievement gaps--Gladwell invites conversations about the complex ways privilege manifests in our culture. He leaves us pondering the gifts of our own history, and how the world could benefit if more of our kids were granted the opportunities to fulfill their remarkable potential." --Mari Malcolm
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- Managing your money in hard times.
by Malcom Gladwell - How certain products and ideas become fads. A good read for those of you starting a business. Also check 
by David Allen - Reducing stress and aiding performance.
by Stephen Covey - Principles for success.
by Louis Uchitelle - the necessity of preserving jobs.
by Steven Mitchell Sack - Everything you need to keep your self-respect, protect your rights and obtain the money that justly belongs to you in the event of dismissal. 
