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Finance Apps to Help You Manage Money When You’re On the Go

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Whether it’s balancing your checkbook, managing your mortgage payments or tracking your investments, these 8 personal finance apps are sure to help you keep your finances in great shape in 2013. Best Finance Apps Mint Used by over 8 million people to manage their finances, Mint.com allows you to track your bank accounts, credit cards, [...]

Listen Better in 5 Steps

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Follow These 5 Steps to Listen Better and Have More Productive Conversations According to the International Listening Association (ILA), people normally retain only half of what we hear immediately after hearing it, and a measley 20 percent as time goes on. But you can be better than that. Learn how to listen better by following [...]

Why Guys Need to Accessorize

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Do real men wear hats? How about necklaces? According to Jeannie Mai, Celebrity Fashion Expert and Style Network Host, the answer is a resounding “yes”. Jeannie shares advice about how guys should accessorize to pull together the best look and not be just another “dude”. What accessories are in style for men right now? The [...]

5 Tips to Choose the Right Dress Shoes

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Dress shoes are a crucial part of any man’s wardrobe. Whether for the office or a night out, here are tips on how to buy dress shoes that are right for you:   1. Know your size. Whether you’re going to a department store or a custom boutique shop the most important aspect of dress [...]

How to Order Wine Like a Pro

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Let’s face it; the world of wine can be pretentious and dull, filled with important nuances and distinctions that to any normal person would appear to be obsessive. Nonetheless, a well-chosen wine can impress your significant other on date-night; nothing screams high society like going out to a fancy restaurant and ordering the right wine [...]

Is Hemp the Fiber of the Future?

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Hemp: An Old Cash Crop for a New Economy Hemp is so versatile that it can be used for paper, rope, and biofuel, as a food, a nutritional supplement, and in the creation of cosmetic products. It can also produce 250% more fiber than cotton, and has the ability to radically transform our dependence on [...]

The Current Status of the US K-12 Education System

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Top 3 Reasons the American Education System is Falling Behind By most accounts school isn’t the most enjoyable of circumstances. It can be long, tedious, and often not the most fun time of any kid’s day. It’s odd then, to think of such an experience as one of the most, if not the most crucial [...]

Go for the Gold: How to Eat Like an Olympic Athlete

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Learn How Olympic Athletes Eat to Support their Intense Training Having a healthy and well balanced diet is a crucial aspect of living to the fullest. For America’s best athletes however, it’s even more important as the proper diet is what sets the foundation for exceptional training regimens that can make the difference between winning [...]

3 Ways to save the Earth Today

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Learn How You can Help Fight Climate Change and Global Warming A hotter Earth is an inevitable fact of our lives. While there still might be quibbles about the chief causes and accelerators of global warming, the simple fact remains that the Earth’s temperature has risen approximately 1.5 degrees Celsius (34.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over the [...]