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Posted November 16, 2011
There are advantages to keeping things simple, especially when it comes to money and finances.?If simple and straightforward is best, why is it that so many people have trouble organizing their budget, cash flow and debts??Maybe they find it easier to adopt the mindset of: ?Someday I’ll be rich, or at least have more than
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Posted November 15, 2011
Down a dozen donuts, three large pizzas, a couple Big Mac?s, and a few plates of spaghetti over the weekend? If you?re fitness trainer (that?s right, fitness trainer) Paul James from Melbourne, Australia, that?s just a pudgy little walk in the park. This Aussie packed on nearly 90 pounds in a matter of six months
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Posted November 15, 2011
You may think there is a contradiction in my beliefs in regards to this next statement, but I don?t think there is. Here it is: I have never been able to believe in a world of puppets. So, when I watch a movie like the upcoming ?The Muppets? starring the beautiful Amy Adams all that
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Posted November 10, 2011
For some reason, people who study human sexuality tend to be intemperate weirdos. Not that there’s anything morally wrong with being an intemperate weirdo, but it’s an awfully self-selecting sample. Granted, it’s also an unavoidable one in Puritanical backwaters like America and, for the purposes of this column, England, but I wanted to point it
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Posted November 10, 2011
After looking at the Maipo; Aconcagua and Casablanca; and Cachapoal, Colchagua and Curico wine regions of Chile, it is time to finish up this endeavor with an examination of the Maule region and the southern regions of Itata, Bio Bio and Malleco. Maule Just over 160 miles from Santiago along route 5 is the town
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Posted November 8, 2011
Gyms are home to an assortment of body types. There?s the hulking, muscle-bound guys with arms the size of California, the noobs with arms the size of California raisins, and everyone in-between. Your first thought might be that all those jacked dudes must be doing everything right. I mean, they?re jacked and you don?t know
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Posted November 8, 2011
How You’ll Pay in the Future! The way that you pay for things will change in the near future, but perhaps not in the ways that everyone excepts.?High-tech mobile phone payment systems like Google Wallet have made headlines, but it will be several years, at least, before we know if Wallet and its peers are
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Posted November 8, 2011
Thursday nights are truly the best night for television. It opens with ?Community,? my favorite sitcom on the air that stars the lovely Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs. Then, comes ?Parks and Recreation? from the mind that brought you the Fire Joe Morgan website and has created perhaps two of the most perfect characters, Andy
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Posted November 4, 2011
It hides in the shadows. In decorative dishes across America, it waits for our most vulnerable moments ? the mid-day lull, the breakfast-less morning, the hour-long episode of ?Deadliest Warrior? ? and strikes with an unrelenting barrage of saturated fat and empty calories. Forget Freddy. Michael Myers? Meh. Leatherface, Chucky, Jason Voorhees: All these chumps
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Posted November 4, 2011
Occupy Something that Matters I got heckled by the 99%. I?d just left my Upper East Side apartment?a broom closet-sized studio?and was making my way toward Central Park for my late afternoon jog. As I approached Park Avenue, a human centipede of protest stopped me. The angry parade tore through the quiet residential streets, rattling
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Posted November 3, 2011
This week’s installment of Awesome Men Throughout History is going to be about a writer. Again. I had a huge apology all typed up for this glaring conflict of interest, but then I saw that I’d already written one for the George Lippard article. Oops. So go back and read that, then keep it all
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