Desperation isn't an attractive trait in most people -- maybe anyone. If you've ever witnessed desperation in a relationship, you know how unappealing it can be to see someone willing to settle for something. Anything. It makes you wonder just how much that person values himself or herself.

You just don't get it. You've applied to numerous jobs, been to countless interviews and made several new contacts in your network -- yet here you are -- still sitting on the unemployment list. What gives? Well ... have you ever stopped to consider that what gives might in fact be ... you?

• Paul Cuffe (1759-1817), a free black man, operated his own successful shipbuilding company in Connecticut in the late 1700's and early 1800's. He used the wealth he accumulated to help other blacks.
• William Johnson, freed in 1820, earned a modest fortune operating barbershops in Natchez, Mississippi in the 1830's and 1840's. He kept detailed records of his business and personal life.
• James Forten (1766-1842) sail maker, abolitionist and inventor made a fortune in the maritime industry, in which blacks were represented at every level.
• Cee McCarty ran an import and dry goods business in New Orleans which operated throughout Louisiana. She owned thirty-two slaves and accumulated a fortune of $155,000 (about $2 million in today's dollars.)
• According to local tax records, before 1855 there were twenty-one black businessmen in New York City who made more than $100,000 per year.

• Arthur George Gaston formed the Booker T. Washington Burial Society in 1923 in Birmingham, Alabama. Operating on a subscription basis it offered a decent burial at a reasonable cost. In 1939 he founded the Booker T. Washington Business College, offering courses in bookkeeping, shorthand, and typing for blacks who could not attend white business schools. Also started the Gaston Motel, and Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association in 1957. In the 1960's he founded the A.G. Gaston Boy's Club.
• Maggie Lena Walker (1867-1934) the daughter of a poor washer woman, started the black-owned and operated Saint Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, Virginia in 1903, becoming the first American woman to found a bank.
• Sarah Breedlove McWilliams Walker (1867-1919) known as Madame C.J. Walker, invented a treatment for straightening hair and began a million-dollar business promoting and selling her hair care products.

A Hindu,as per modern definition, is an adherent of the philosophies and scriptures of Hinduism, the religious, philosophical and cultural system that originated in the Indian subcontinent.

First aid, no matter how simple, can make the difference in saving your eyesight. When an emergency happens, it is important to seek medical attention for your eyes immediately after injury. A severe injury can lead to infection, vision loss, or blindness. Using some of these simple first aid techniques when an accident happens may help save your sight or the sight of someone else: