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The science is in! Communing with nature improves our health, for both our bodies and our minds. Going for a walk, sitting under a tree, working in a garden or just putting your bare feet on the ground all have health benefits. We all know this to be true, but here is why......

So... You want to write a book? You have a great idea and want to put it into words. Before you do that, there are some things you need to take into consideration to make sure your book – and you as an author – are ready for the Digital Age....

Caregiving is a tough job and for the growing number of families who are responsible for both their aging parents and dependent children, the responsibility can feel like climbing an endless mountain. The collective physical, financial and mental toll can be exhausting and even more so if you're also attempting to juggle a career and personal time....

An excerpt from Writing for the Web by Crawford Kilian

Avoid clichés like the plague. A cliché is a phrase or expression that was once so new and surprising that everyone repeated it. Like an unspoiled tourist destination ruined by too many tourists, the cliché loses its whole reason for existence when everyone uses it...

By Kevin Paul, author of Study Smarter, Not Harder

1. The world is changing in favour of those who command knowledge.

Being a successful learner is no longer a matter of choice or mere preference. It is a necessity in order to survive and thrive in the “information age.” The future belongs to learners. As we are constantly told by the various media, we live in a time of rapid change. Every year, 20 to 30 percent of what we learned and understood about our world is obsolete...

If you're one of the lucky bride or grooms-to-be getting married this summer, you're likely spending your free time meeting with vendors, checking out venues, tasting cakes (and hopefully wine!), and choosing blooms. A process that starts out fun but can quickly turn overwhelming. The truth is, weddings are a MULTIBILLION-dollar industry that is trying to persuade you to buy buy buy. It's hard not to get carried away when millions of marketing dollars are screaming: “It's your big day!” and to “Go nuts!”...

Debbie Elicksen is the author of our new book Business Cyberbullies and How to Fight Back. Her inspiration to write the book came from a personal experience she had with a former client turned cyberbully which she talks about below. Our hope is that through telling her story, she gives those of you dealing with online harassment the courage to fight back. For everyone else, let hers be a lesson to be proactive and learn about the simple steps you can take to protect your reputation online....

Almost three months and more than 5,000 kilometres after beginning, Tanya Lee Howe and Jocelyn Rawleigh’s bike ride across Canada to raise awareness for Alzheimer’s disease is almost complete.

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Caring or career? Given the choice, which would you choose? With Bill 203, Alberta’s caregivers won’t have to agonize.

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Readers of Managing Your Medicare can now use the “check for updates” link from the CD packaged with the book to download updated information about Medicare in 2013. The updates in the download package (a 1mb ZIP file) include:

• Appeal steps for 2013
• A new worksheet for Medigap Standard Policies
• A new Part D Benefit Table
• A Part D Extra Help Benchmark Premiums by State list
• Six gender- and age-specific Prevention Tables
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