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Posted August 12, 2013
Let your money work for you. That phrase is, for better or worse, the end-all, be-all of financial advice. Which certainly makes sense. If you have some money then you want to be able to use that to make more money. But one of the ways to make money, in a way, is certainly not
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Posted August 8, 2013
As I researched interesting things around the Norfolk, Virginia area, I started to think about friends that I?ve had that have lived in the area. Then I realized that it is quite a few people that were in the military. I checked out Norfolk on the Wikipedia and it helped to confirm those ideas that
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Posted August 7, 2013
A fair amount of TSB’s Awesome Men Throughout History were underappreciated or underpaid in their lifetimes, but this week’s entry?legendary blues musician Arthur ?Big Boy? Crudup?had the misfortune of being both. Crudup’s life of poverty and toil (and being screwed out of royalties for years) isn’t necessarily uplifting, but it is interesting, and he left
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Posted August 1, 2013
I think I?m going to buy a bike before the end of summer. I mention this because there are certain names like Schwinn and Raleigh that make me think about bikes, even though the Raleigh in this question is in North Carolina and the main metropolis of an area that includes college basketball powerhouses Duke
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Posted July 31, 2013
I’m almost hesitant to write about this week’s Awesome Man Throughout History?writer and humorist Larry Doyle?because I get the feeling that he would be just fine with complete anonymity. I’ve seen Larry at readings and other events, and he’s not exactly a people person. Not to say that he’s a jerk or anything, but he
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Posted July 30, 2013
My middle name is Torrey. Growing up, a girl lived down the street with the name of Tori. I knew of Tori Spelling and Tori Amos, so it seemed like it was a girl?s name. In elementary school and high school I tried to hide it as much as possible. It wasn?t until I got
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Posted July 25, 2013
Maybe I hadn?t thought about it, but I didn?t realize that Charleston, South Carolina was on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Then, I realized that there aren?t too many cities where I don?t have a general idea of their geography. When I was younger, I remember that I thought that West Virginia was one
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Posted July 25, 2013
We profile a lot of successful individuals here at TSB, but this week I thought I’d take a different approach and compile the business/life advice that helped some self-made men reach their goals, and then reach beyond them.
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