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Suze Orman PH money culture must change
START SAVING. Personal finance guru Suze Orman tells Filipinos to learn to spend with their means. Photo by Rappler/Aya Lowe MANILA, Philippines - If Filipinos want to save and become financially sustainable in the future, they should start changing their culture of spending beyond their means, world-renowned personal finance ...
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10 things cruise lines won’t tell you
It's been a tough couple of seasons for the cruise ship industry. First, the Costa Concordia, a 3,800-passenger ship operated by a unit of Carnival Corp., ran aground off the coast of Italy in January 2012. Thirty-two people were killed, while images of the abandoned ship, lying incongruously on its side. beside a picturesque beach town, flashed around the ...
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Simon Read Time to act as complaints about payday firms soar
Simon Read is Personal Finance Editor at The Independent. He edits the Saturday Your Money section as well as writing for the news and business pages of the Independent and i ...
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Personal Finance What to give that beloved graduate
"Obviously, cash is king," said personal finance blogger Joseph Audette, a personal finance writer/blogger for NerdWallet. But students, especially high school graduates juggling their own finances for the first time, can quickly blow through a lot of cash, he notes. Instead?"Get a gift card from the university's student bookstore. It's a little more thought than writing ...
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Teach kids personal finance through experience six tips
When teaching older children and teenagers about personal finance, experience is key. Here are six real-life experiences that can get them on the right financial ...
Movie Review
(500) Days of Summer [Blu-Ray]
(500) Days of Summer, a romantic comedy that coyly wraps its moments of sharp-edged truth in a comfortable blanket of indie-film quirk, is built on a clever temporal structure that whips us back and forth through the eponymous 500 days of the relationship between a yo ... ...
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Why use a database instead of just saving your data to disk
appears to think that databases are overused. "Instead of a database, I just serialize my data to JSON, saving and loading it to disk when necessary," he writes . "All the data management is made on the program itself, which is faster AND easier than using SQL queries." What is missing here? Why should a developer use a database when saving data to a disk might work just as ...
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Simple strategy saving birds from colliding with wires electrocution
It was treeplanting that triggered environmentalist Nikki Heck's epiphany: working in industry was the best way to make a difference."I got frustrated being the person putting the trees in the ground," says Heck, 33, an environmental adviser with the electric utility company AltaLink. "I wanted to be the person making the decision about how the land was managed in the first ...
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Writers offer their take on President Obamas personal finance disclosure
President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the White House briefing room in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2013, following after meeting with congressional leaders regarding the automatic spending cuts. (AP Photo/Charles ...
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Investing tips Cyclical sector ETFs heat up
They say the best defense is a good offense. That could be the case in sector ETFs amid signs investors are rotating from defensive, dividend-paying sectors into aggressive, , cyclical ...
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Nissan’s mad scientists grow a bluntly boffo GT-R
Nissan's GT-R was among the first, if not the first, of the supersport cyborgs, cars with multimode, fully algorithm-based handling, and powertrain and dynamics control pumped through a fantastically dialed-in all-wheel-drive ...
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He is the most evil, vile, demonic criminal. He is dead to me. There will be no visits, there will be no phone calls. He can never be Daddy again. I have no sympathy for the man.
Angie Gregg
Gregg was speaking about her father Ariel Castro who allegedly kidnapped, raped and held captive for a decade, three young women in Cleveland, Ohio.
Hotel Review
The Hawaii Prince Hotel
I took a cab from downtown Waikiki to the Hawaii Prince Hotel. It was only a few minutes, and cost ...
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