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What is it About Breasts?
The Oscars illustrious “boob song” didnt really affect me, but I did think it seemed rather juvenile, until I saw a click through to the best celebrity breasts. I started thinking about what the BEST breasts meant, beyond who has them and what shape they are in.
The 6 Financial Habits Of Mentally Strong People for Year-End Planning
As the seasons start to change and the holiday season approaches, it’s the perfect time for a financial check-up. Let’s reflect on how much we’ve accomplished this year and set the stage for financial success in the upcoming year with some year-end planning. If you haven’t scheduled a meeting with your advisors yet, now is the time to get your financial planning done. In fact, for our clients, this is one of the busiest and most important planning periods of the year.
Many of us set ambitious financial goals, but how often do we follow through with them? It’s time to take a page from the mentally strong and map out some to-dos to achieve our financial objectives as we head into the end of the year. Remember how important reaching financial independence is?
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Muppets Most Wanted: 2 Frogs, 2 Furious [REVIEW]
It’s hard to think of anything that has been more integral to my cultural awareness than the Muppets.I mean, I’m not necessarily a fanatic, but the Muppets have this level of significance that spans generations – one of my earliest memories is sitting with my brother reading/listening to The Muppets Take Manhattan book/record over and over again. They connect to us through a very special avenue of nostalgia in a way …
Eclectic Baby Names
If you want your baby to have an interesting, rare or customized name, put down the baby name book and start looking around you. Your own experiences, culture and life can provide a host of great names that may be quirky, different or special. Don’t give your baby the same name everyone else chooses just because it is popular. Choose a name with a story that will make you proud for years to come.
France Stands Strong on Burqa Ban
A “burqa” is an enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions to cover their bodies in public places. The burqa can refer to the woman’s loose body-covering plus the head-covering and face-veil, but is more generally understood to refer to just the head-covering. I, like many others, have seen women wearing these pieces, but have never truly understood their significance. I always assumed they were a vestige of cultural and religious tradition, and I never expected them to be at the root of such uproarious controversy. But since France’s recent ban of most types of face-coverings, these little pieces of fabric have spurred other European countries to consider similar laws and inspired fear in French Muslims that the rule will permanently stigmatize them.