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Tips For Teaching Kids To Be More Green

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You’ve heard it before, the children are the future, which means that you want to start teaching them now about how to be more green and how to do more for sustainable and healthy living. The best way to do this, of course, is to lead by example. Here are some things you can do to help your kids learn how to reduce their carbon footprint and help the earth.

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Stop Smoking, Or Don’t Start

There are plenty of bad things that put pollution into the environment, from the vehicles we drive to the factories that create the things we eat and use. However, one of the worst things people do to the air we breath is fill it with cigarette smoke, which is made up of many carcinogens. Not only do you work to kill or harm yourself as a smoker, but also those around you. [Read more…] about Tips For Teaching Kids To Be More Green

Top Four Dirty Jobs For 2015

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No one ever wakes up one morning and says to themselves, “I want to be a garbage collector!” It may not be a very fashionable job, but the dirtiest jobs in the nation tend to pay quite well. If you’re willing to dig through the muck and the mire, then there’s a job out there for you. Almost everything washes off, right? Here is a little more information about some of the yuckiest, yet high paying, jobs in the United States.

Hazardous Material Cleaner

When you’re a hazardous material cleaner, you will be faced with the biggest and baddest of messes created by people. You will clean up after a murder crime scene and dispose of any bodies or body fragments (depending on the nature of the crime). You’ll be faced with feces, hazardous chemicals, dead things, smelly things, and whatever else you could imagine to be disgustingly dirty. The sunny side of the job is that the Bureau of Labor Statistics claims the median pay for this job is somewhere close to forty thousand dollars a year. [Read more…] about Top Four Dirty Jobs For 2015

3 Tips for Saving Money at the Grocery Store

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With the ever fluctuating economy and world market today, finding ways to save money on your everyday items is a must for many individuals and families all across the globe. But with our demanding schedules and fast-paced lives, finding the time and energy to think of innovative yet effective ways to cut costs can be near impossible. So for those who are looking for ways to keep your weekly or monthly grocery bill lower, here are three easy tips for saving yourself some money next time you are at the grocery store.

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Come Prepared with a List

We have all been there: your kitchen is bare but you do not know exactly what you want or need to fill it with. When this happens, your grocery cart can end up being stuffed to the gills with food and personal items you do not actually want or need, causing your total to be sky high when you reach the cash register. [Read more…] about 3 Tips for Saving Money at the Grocery Store

5 Things to Consider When Changing Your Hairstyle

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Are you bored with your current look? Wanting to change up the image you portray? Getting a new hairstyle can be a great way to liven up your look and initiate a change in your life. However, without proper planning, a new hairstyle can turn into a terrible mistake in just a few snips. Included here are a few things to consider before committing to a new hairstyle.

Hair Types

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First and foremost, you should consider what type of hair you have before getting it cut. Some hairstyles do not work well with straight hair, while others can be ruined if your hair is wavy. Check that the style you are pursuing will work with the natural curve of your hair as well as how quickly it will go flat. Your hair could also be too thick to pull off a high-and-tight or your hair could be too thin for a pompadour. [Read more…] about 5 Things to Consider When Changing Your Hairstyle

4 New Innovations In Web Communication Technology

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Web communication is expanding and exploding in new directions all over the place right now. New technology and processes are allowing corporations, individuals, game companies, and video channels to communicate faster and better than ever before in history, and it’s changing the very fabric of the way we live our lives.

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To illustrate this point, check out the following four new innovations in web communication technology that have allowed people to take these gigantic steps forward – high-tech webcasting for corporations is becoming more consistent, streaming technology for gamers is opening up that industry, video channels can now stream content live more easily, and mobile devices are better equipped to handle streaming video. [Read more…] about 4 New Innovations In Web Communication Technology

Why People Patent Things That Will Make You Laugh

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Strange, crazy, or funny, there are some odd things and ideas that people get patents on. Even people that come up with weird ideas want to make sure that no one else can steal them! Just because you patent an item doesn’t mean that it is going to make you rich though.

Most of the time the concept of getting a patent is to protect and idea you had for an invention that could make you money. Just because you have a great idea does not mean you need to run out and get a patent on it. If you patented every idea you ever have you’d probably go broke.

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Make sure that you have taken all the other steps there are to take before you go for the patent. You want to know your idea is going to work and be ready to announce it to the world. Otherwise, you will end up with one of these items. [Read more…] about Why People Patent Things That Will Make You Laugh