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Posted April 23, 2012
People who want to grow their wealth usually look to stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.? These investment vehicles often lead to decent returns, as long as the investor is able to wait out recessions and stock market lulls.? But, unless you get lucky and find the next Microsoft, stocks aren’t going to make you a
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Posted April 19, 2012
Most of you remember William Shakespeare as a guy who wrote what felt like hundreds of plays featuring words like o’er and s’blood, and only ended when either everyone died or all the men were dressed like women for no substantive reason. That’s not far off, really. But Shakespeare was also, as a lot of
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Posted April 19, 2012
I?ve been to San Diego quite a few times now. A few times for Padres games at Petco, a few times for Comic-Con and a couple of times just to see other parts of the city. I?ve had drives from Los Angeles that only took me two hours to get down there and I wonder
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Posted April 18, 2012
Do you know what it?s like to have a bully kick sand in your face? I don?t. But I do know what it?s like to walk around out of shape and ripe for abuse. A sand-kicking incident in his childhood prompted Angelo Siciliano from Long Beach, New York to transform from a ?scrawny weakling? into
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Posted April 17, 2012
I think this is a first for me when I?ve been looking at the filmography of an actress: I found a book. At the top of Mia Kirshner?s?page on IMDB, there?s a sentence labeled ?Trivia? and it says, ?Has written a book called ‘I Live Here’.? I?ll admit that my jaded mind?s first thought was
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Posted April 17, 2012
First off, raise your hand if you watch Mad Men. Okay, good. Now put your hands down because none of us can see each other and we’re all being ridiculous. Now then, if you’re like me, you’re immediately drawn into Mad Men by the cool opening credits sequence that introduces the mood and tone of
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Posted April 16, 2012
Starting your own business from scratch, whether a small operation to earn some side income or something that you hope can carry you all the way to a comfortable retirement, can be like banging your head against a brick wall.? After experiencing the ups and downs of working for myself over the past five years
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Posted April 12, 2012
Last week’s Self Made Men article touched upon punk rock entrepreneurship, which would probably require its own weekly column to fully understand, by talking about Epitaph Records founder Brett Gurewitz. Brett’s an unorthodox guy for sure, but he’s cut from the same cloth as all the tech billionaires and CEOs we’ve talked about here ?
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Posted April 12, 2012
I?ll admit it. For most of my life, I never considered Denver as a destination. I considered it an interstate landmark, a city that marks the entryway into the mountains and places like Aspen, Breckenridge or Estes Park. I considered it a place to fly into so that I could go check out the college
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Posted April 11, 2012
How much can you bench? Oh, really. That?s quite a lot. Think you have to bench press to build a bigger chest? Nope. Now, how many proper push-ups could you do at this moment? Don?t know? Step away from your computer, hit the floor and give it all you?ve got. Push-ups, when executed with proper
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Posted April 10, 2012
I sometimes wish that I didn?t hamstring myself with the narrow focus of ?top five movies? so that I could expand to TV shows for these lists, especially in the case of Alyson Hannigan. Alyson played one of my favorite characters ever, Willow Rosenberg on ?Buffy the Vampire Slayer.? However, can you really just list
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