When I came across Talking Heads front man David Byrne's online blog the other evening it felt like meeting up with an old friend and spending time catching up on the past few years.

I have been playing music, guitar, blues harp and pe

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Is your voice helping you close more sales or hurting you? It had to happen but the Wall Street Journal this past week ran a front-page article on how voters can be impacted by how the voice of a candidate sounds. The article talked about how the deepness of a voice commands authority and the inclusion of “ums” and “ahs” can hurt how a cand

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And you thought your cat had problems?!

Doctors recently took a 10-pound hairball from an 18-year-old woman after she came to them with pain and a 40-pound weight loss.
The New England Journal of Medicine said the woman had been suffering with pain in her abdomen for about five months. Doctors found a mass there, and when they used a smal

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It started with a teddy bear. A new British teacher at a school in the Sudan thought it would be fun for her class to name a teddy bear and journal about its adventures through out the year. Its not a new teaching method and its one that has helped kids get in to creative writing and thinking for ages now. This one turned out a little differe

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If you’re as old as I am, you may recall the episode of the Brady Bunch where Peter’s voice begins changing. The kids are working on one of their legendary musical numbers and Peter starts croaking when he should be singing. I swear I never heard anyone’s voice do that in the real world. Anyway, what does this have to do with career developme

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I almost goes without saying that when it comes time to switch jobs, more money is usually one of the key criteria. But sometimes you have to step back to go forward. In yesterdays Career Journal, Terri Cullen relates her and her sisters experience with quitting jobs they hated and then taking a new job for less money.

In both cases the fi

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I’ve written quite a bit about my experience working from home and how much I’ve enjoyed it. I’ve given you some tips and insights into what I think makes for a successful tele-commute environment. Today, Marshall Loeb at Career Journal posted his 5 tips for being productive in the home office. Here’s a brief point, counter point discussion.

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In the United States, some feel that feeding a raw meat diet to their pets could bring parasites, e.coli and salmonella. Actually Europeon countries have fed raw diets for decades, and the diet is routinely recommended by veterinarians. Dogs and cats are carnivores and are intended to eat freshly killed prey. Healthy Pet Journal reported that

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Doodles, Squiggles, Sketches, and Memories - My Sketchbook Journal | ArtsSpot.com - Art by Graham Matthews
A post by Visual Artist Graham Matthews detailing his sketchbook experiences.
Graham Matthews is an artist from Newfoundland, Canada. His online art gallery is at ArtsSpot.com, where he has several of his artworks, portraits, and pain

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So who among us would admit to being overpaid. Not many I'm guessing, certainly not me. I'm a fairly compensated IT professional. :-) Here's a look at the top 10 most overpaid professions according to the Career Journal. From dockworkers to orthodontists, we'll look at them all. My comments, as always, are included.

So what abo

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After years of not being able to get a diet kick-started this August I started a blog dedicated to my journey from fat to fit. In the course of writing about my journey and finding other people out there struggling with the same issues I have struggled with I learned that writing the blog was keeping me in the game. I believe a weight loss

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A mine on the edge of the capital of the Northwest territories, Yellowknife is being decommisoned but may well be brought back into service as a source of geothermal energy for the city.

The old Con mine sits on the edge of the city of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories (N.W.T.). Rumours have it that even in the dead of winter the mi

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There always seems to be at least one dork at the office who has a Swear Jar. This article demonstrates how to get around the rule by implementing your own version of the Swear Jar. The method seems to work quite well and something I think everyone should try if they find themselves in this situation at work. I really don't have anything els

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* My Adsense ads are horrible, they only pay out (insert low dollar figure here)
* My Adsense CTR is horrible, I only get a (insert extremely low CTR here)

To be fair these comments weren’t coming just from bloggers, but bloggers did make up an overwhelmingly large percentage. I think this stems from a misconception on the part of the

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