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Your One-Stop Shop

By Jason Holland | 11/25/2008

A new business recently opened a few blocks from the Early to Rise offices. But it seems to have an identity crisis.

The small shop has perplexed potential customers by offering not just vintage designer threads, but also vegan organic food. And they proudly proclaim this dual identity on their front window sign.

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7 Strategies for Staying Healthy Through the Holidays

By Kelley Herring | 11/25/2008

This time of year, family dinners, cocktail parties, and get-togethers pack our calendars and fill us with festive fare. But while the season is a welcome and joyous time, it is all too easy to overindulge.

Along with sticking to your exercise regimen and taking time to rest and de-stress, a little planning and the following simple nutritional strategies can help you stay healthy and maintain your weight.

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The Surprising Truth About Those Late-Night Infomercial Gadgets

By Craig Ballantyne | 11/24/2008

Ten young men and 12 young women did all the exercises. And the researchers found that the Ab-Slide worked the abs the hardest. On the other hand, the seated knee tuck-ins required a lot of hip flexion, and they believed it could cause problems in people prone to low-back injury.

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How to Keep Your Promises

By Bob Cox | 11/24/2008

You put together a team of people to help you with preparations. And you interview a dozen more before choosing “Jeff” to handle all the event details. He makes a very compelling pitch. He knows the best audio-visual teams in town. He has contacts with the best caterers. And he knows the perfect designer to create your banners and signs and brochures.

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A Market This Ruthless Requires Attention

By Andrew Gordon | 11/24/2008

I’ve never seen the market so ruthless and so volatile at the same time. Wall Street is pouncing on weaknesses in sectors and companies. And because of the huge swings the market is making on a daily basis, when it attacks it really ATTACKS. Companies that had been fairly stable are going down 5-10 percent in one day… 30-50 percent in one week.

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Keep Yourself in Trades by Widening Your Stance

By Rick Pendergraft | 11/22/2008

In golf, when you are putting in the wind, you have to widen your stance.

In volatile markets, this rule can be adapted to apply to trading as well. It may seem like strange advice, but in times of extreme volatility, you need to widen your stop-loss points. Most people think you have to do the opposite and tighten them.

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Traveler's Guide

The Grouchy Traveler’s Guide to Airplane Etiquette

By Suzanne Richardson | 11/22/2008

In this traveler’s guide I’ll give you seven travel manners rules that everyone, I repeat everyone, should follow during airplane travel.

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3 Reasons to Eat Breakfast

By Craig Ballantyne | 11/22/2008

Some experts say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day because it “boosts your metabolism.” I’m not one of those people. But I do believe you should eat breakfast.

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The Language Perfectionist: Mixed-Up Expressions

By Don Hauptman | 11/22/2008

Recently, a friend of mine, attempting to convey the idea that someone was naive, referred in an article to “a babe in the manger.”

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The Other Big Three

By Rick Pendergraft | 11/21/2008

When you hear investment people talk about the big three, they are usually talking about GM, Ford, and Chrysler. But what about the other big three?

As children, most of us dreamed of having three things when we grew up: a nice house, a nice car, and a nice job. Right now, the outlook for this big three is about as optimistic as the outlook for GM, Ford, and Chrysler.

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The 5 Faces of Your Customer

By Wendy Montes de Oca | 11/21/2008

One of the most profound business books I ever read was Permission Marketing by Seth Godin.

The ideas in the book were very innovative at the time. The Internet and e-mail marketing were still young, and, like the Wild Wild West, most marketers and business owners were still trying to “wrangle it in” and figure out how to leverage the Web’s possibilities… and, more important, turn those possibilities into profits.

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10 Things Jason Holland Loves About Thanksgiving

By Jason Holland | 11/21/2008

1. Watching B- and C-level pop stars doing a terrible job of lip syncing from tacky-fantastic parade floats in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Bonus points if they are “playing” an unplugged electric guitar. 2. Another thing about the Thanksgiving parade, which happens only when the weather is extremely cold…

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