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FILTER RESULTS ►Interactive Website Shows Cleanest, Dirtiest European Beaches
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It's getting to be that time of year again. People are heading to the beaches, especially around the Mediterranean.
Now choosing one has been made easier by a new interactive website by the European Environment Agency. Show More Summary
Say Goodbye To Olive Oil Bottles In European Restaurants
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It's an old tradition here in Europe: sit down for a meal and at the center of the table is a little bottle of olive oil for using on your bread and other food. In the finer restaurants you'll often get a dipping bowl...Show More Summary
Genworth Financial Inc (GNW), Metlife Inc (MET): Three Retirement Planning Musts for Women
Source: Wikimedia Commons. Women live longer, make less money, and take care of loved ones more often than men. Couple these facts with countless studies on investor behavior that show that women approach investing decisions differently than men, and we see that our retirement planning should be treated differently too. Here are three critical retirement planning musts [...]
3 Retirement Planning Musts for Women
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Women live longer, make less money, and take care of loved ones more often than men. Couple these facts with countless studies on investor behavior that show that women approach investing decisions differently...Show More Summary
Preservation Group Wants To Save Civil War Battlefield
Wikimedia Commons "Cavalry Charge Near Brandy Station, Virginia," a drawing by Edwin Forbes, 1864
A preservation group is trying to protect the site of the largest cavalry battle in North America.
The Civil War Trust has announced it has nearly reached its $3.6 million goal to preserve 56 acres of the site of the Battle of Brandy Station. Show More Summary
Eye Candy for Today: Arthur Rackham Rhinegold illustration
Rhinegold and the Valkyries, page 28, by Arthur Rackham Image from Wikimedia Commons For more on Rackham, and additional links to images and resources, see my most recent post on Authur Rackham.
Airlines to Fliers: "We're Really Listening!"
Source: Brian, via Wikimedia Commons. Believe it or not, when you get an email from an airline asking you to "rate your experience from your recent flight." the airline is watching closely. As The Wall Street Journal discussed last month,...Show More Summary
The Day Doctors Began to Conquer Smallpox
Sixteenth century Aztec drawing of smallpox victims. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. One of the most celebrated medical anniversaries concerns a country doctor named Edward Jenner who lived in the tiny village of Berkeley in Gloucestershire, Great Britain. Like...
Does SodaStream Belong in a Retirement Portfolio?
Source: Eirik Newth, via Wikimedia Commons. Two years ago, I picked out 10 stocks to form the ideal retirement portfolio To date, that portfolio has returned 35%, and is outperforming the S&P 500 by almost 6 percentage points. Recently, however, I've decided to part ways with one of the 10 stocks: Coca-Cola. Show More Summary
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Wells Fargo & Co (WFC), Bank of America Corp (BAC): Will Banks Embrace the Return of Subprime Lending?
Photo: Jeff Turner, via Wikimedia Commons. Perhaps the simplest and clearest reason for the cause of the 2008 financial crisis remains the fact that lenders made loans to people who couldn’t or wouldn’t repay them. These less-than-stellar borrowers were branded “subprime” — a scarlet letter in today’s financial world. But we could still see lending [...]
Will Banks Embrace the Return of Subprime Lending?
Photo: Jeff Turner, via Wikimedia Commons.
Perhaps the simplest and clearest reason for the cause of the 2008 financial crisis remains the fact that lenders made loans to people who couldn't or wouldn't repay them.
These less-than-stellar borrowers were branded "subprime" -- a scarlet letter in today's financial world. Show More Summary
Wikimedia Commons Picture Of The Year 2012
The 2012 winners of the Wikimedia Commons Picture Of The Year 2012 contest have been announced. The picture below, made by French photographer Pierre Dalous, won first prize. The photo shows a pair of European bee-eaters in Ariège, France. The female (to the left) awaits the offering which the male will make.
image credit: Pierre Dalous cc
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The 4 Greatest Things in Comedy (Everyone Misunderstands)
By Gladstone Published: May 04th, 2013 We all love things that bring us pain. Perhaps it's the wrong woman, or our local sports team that never wins, or something else. Wikimedia Commons "Nipple clamps? Is it nipple clamps?" But this is an article specifically about what breaks my heart i
The Guantánamo Memoirs of Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Alexa L. McMahon
Mohamedou Ould Slahi courtesy of Wikimedia commons. On the difficult business of writing, people of letters often like to quote a maxim attributed to Ernest Hemmingway: "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." Yet, we are not all so fortunate as to bleed metaphorically. Show More Summary
Another Airline Adopting Expensive Add-on Fees
Source: flickr, Cubbie_n_Vegas, via Commons.wikimedia.org. First there was Spirit Air, charging for everything from printing a boarding pass to getting a cup of water. Then there was Allegiant Airlines, forcing customers to pay forShow More Summary
News: Apps: Draw Something 2, Little Red Riding Hood, Vine 1.1 + Wikimedia Commons
Zynga has released the sequel to its once insanely popular game Draw Something in two incarnations: Draw Something 2 ($3) and Draw Something 2 Free. Both games feature dozens of new tools, patterns, stamps, and colors for drawing. Also featured are new words, new play modes, and a feed that shares drawings with all of your friends. Show More Summary
Wikimedia Foundation Releases Wikimedia Commons App For iOS & Android That Allows Users to Upload Free-Use Photos
The Wikimedia Foundation has released a Wikimedia Commons app for iOS and Android that allows users to take photos on their smartphone and upload them directly to the free-use image collection for use on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the web. The app is currently available for download from Google Play and the iTunes App Store. [...]
Set Your Phone’s Photos Free With The Wikimedia Commons App
Wikipedia just wouldn’t be the same without its pictures, but someone has to go out and take ‘em. Now you can help, armed with nothing but a smartphone and some stuff to shoot. More »
Wikimedia Android and iOS app exits beta, aims for easy Wikipedia photo gathering
Wikimedia Commons, which acts as Wikipedia's media repository, has pushed its Android and iOS app out of the beta phase, giving photo collecting for the digital encyclopedia a workflow that isn't chained to a browser. By registeringShow More Summary
New Wikimedia Commons App Makes Photo Donation To Wikipedia A Breeze
Almost all internet using folks have landed upon Wikipedia at some point in their lives. The online encyclopedia has become a vital part of the internet and is heavily relied upon by students, professionals and the average Joe and Jane from around the world. Show More Summary
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