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Apps to Manage Your Money
How do you keep track of your financial life? When I was just starting out, it was a combination of sticky notes, highlighted pages of a notebook, Excel spreadsheets and an unbalanced checkbook. I would make a transaction and then tell myself that I’d record it later, but of course later never came. In fact,…
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Real Housewives of Atlanta Star Lisa Wu Launches Lipstick Line
Lip Addyct announced today they have partnered with Real Housewives of Atlanta’s star Lisa Wu to launch a new line of lipsticks named “Chameleon.” “When making the decision to enter the lipstick market, we decided to partner with an entrepreneur we admire and Lisa Wu fits the bill,” said Adrienne Owens, owner of Lip Addyct. “She’s fearless and works hard to…
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Black Teens Create Bicycle Powered Water Filtration System To Provide Clean Drinking Water
Representing a team of inventors who designed the bicycle-powered water filtration system, the young innovators—Elliot and Payton Karr— presented the device to President Barack Obama during the third Annual White House Science Fair, highlighting the student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions from across the country, last April.…
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Plaxico Burress Launches New Luxury Sock Line
NFL wide receiver Plaxico Burress is doing his best to not be part of that staggering Sports Illustrated statistic which states that 78% of NFL players are bankrupt or in severe financial distress just two years after retirement. The 35-year-old Pittsburgh Steeler is diversifying his income stream by launching a new collection of luxury socks. A…
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My Man Wants Me to Drop My Male Bestie
(The Root) — “My best friend is a guy I have known for almost seven years. We’re former co-workers, and he now lives in a nearby state with his girlfriend. We’re both busy with work and our relationships and don’t speak very often, maybe once every other week. Mostly we text and send emails sporadically…
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Jose Canseco's Shaming Tweets
(The Root) — Jose Canseco danced around many of Twitter’s terms of service yesterday when he posted the personal information of a woman charging him with sexual assault. The tweets have since been deleted, but not before screenshots were taken. In one tweet, Canseco writes, “Wow thats funny I raped u then y did u…
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Remember Twitter's Music App?
(The Root) — If you’re surprised to hear that Twitter launched a music app for the iPhone and the Web last month, you’re not alone. The app, #Music, seems to have slipped under the radar of many Twitter users, and now, one month after its launch, it looks as if the app will soon be…
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Suspect Michael Adebolajo Held in Kenya in 2010 Amid Terror Training
UPDATED Sunday, May 26, 1:05 p.m. EDT: BBC News reports that though Kenya originally denied it, the Foreign Office has confirmed that suspect Michael Adebolajo was arrested in Kenya in 2010. Adebolajo was believed to be training to fight with the Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab, which is connected to al-Qaeda, but was deported when authorities discovered he was British. Elsewhere on…
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Kanye, New Slaves, Kim, College Dropout, and Kill Bill
Damon Young writes: With Kill Bill Volume 2, though, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to see. Yes, I knew Beatrix would find a way to kill Bill at the end of the movie, but would Elle Driver and Budd be given the same type of anime-intro O-Ren received? Which genre would Tarantino lean on more?…
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Iyanla Vanzant: Don't Call It A Comeback
There are a couple things you should know about Iyanla Vanzant. You know, in case you ever run into her on the street. First, no matter what kind of abracadabra you saw the spiritual thought leader perform with troubled Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada, mentally ill actress Maia Campbell, or the scores of regular folks she helped…
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