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Natural Savvy: Healthy Eating Guide to Cereal

Rina Risper15 years ago07 mins

By Lilian Presti, NaturallySavvy.com

Cereal is an American breakfast classic that many of us grew up on. Because it’s so easy to prepare and most kids love it, today’s parents continue to buy cereal week after week, hoping to keep breakfast time stress-free and to get some nourishment into their children. But depending upon which cereals you choose, you may not be getting exactly what you think you’re getting.

Your Other 8 Hours: 7 Tips to Master Every Meeting

Rina Risper15 years ago07 mins

By Robert Pagliarini,

Tribune Media Services

Would you like to nail job interviews, close new clients and maximize every meeting? It’s simple with a little preparation. “Can’t I just wing it?” I hear you asking. No. It’s easy to think you don’t need to prepare because you’ve been in 100 meetings/interviews/presentations just like it, but if you don’t spend some time planning, someone else will control it.

How do I wear that trend…velvet and velour

Rina Risper15 years ago04 mins

By Ashia Sims

Velvet is back! Well by back, I mean for the second fall season in a row. So if you took the challenge I presented last year and got yourself some velvet, rejoice because you made a sound style choice. Velvet and velour made appearances on the runways of Fall 2010 fashion weeks so it made my fall trend list as well.

Potter Park Zoo Receives Millage Renewal

Rina Risper15 years ago03 mins

Potter Park Zoo Red Panda

Voters in Ingham County showed their support for the Potter Park Zoo by voting for the Zoo’s millage renewal.

My Answer – 9-21

Rina Risper15 years ago03 mins

By Billy Graham

Tribune Media Services

Q: My husband and I just lost our home. We got talked into buying it with nothing down and low payments the first two years, and we just didn’t think about what would happen later. Now we’re back in a rented trailer. We’re so discouraged we don’t know what to do. Maybe you’ll have some encouraging words. – Mrs. N.H.

me2u- Cliche’- 9-21

Rina Risper15 years ago07 mins

By Melik

It was two and a half years ago and I was not in a good place mentally. My life seemed to be a perpetual pendulum of positive and negative. I was surrounded by negative people that made dealing with everyday life more difficult. I was surviving but I was suffering.

Excuse me, are you listening? – 9-21

Rina Risper15 years ago06 mins

Dear Readers,

Karma is something else!

Karma is a law in Hinduism, which says that every act you do, no matter how small, will eventually return to the doer with equal impact. Good will be returned with good and bad with bad.

Teen Talk: Teen Pregnancy

Rina Risper15 years ago03 mins

By Kasserine Tyler-Hicks

The other night I was watching a movie on Lifetime called The Pregnancy Pact. This movie was about a group of girls at a high school who made a pact to get pregnant. In one school, there were eighteen girls pregnant at the same time, all under the age of 18.

Movie Review: “Red”

Rina Risper15 years ago03 mins

Studio: Summit Entertainment

Plot: A team of retired secret agents embark on an impossible, cross-country mission to break into the top-secret CIA headquarters, where they will uncover one of the biggest conspiracies in government history.

Cast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban

Rating: PG-13

Bottom Line: ***

By Laurence Washington

Die Hard Bruce Willis stars as an ex-CIA agent Frank Moses who has been tagged as “RED,” which refers to his alert level (“retired: extremely dangerous”) by the agency. The film, which attempts to answer the question, is older better, opens up with a black ops hit team invading Moses’ home at night. Although, there are about 10 members of the hit squad trying to kill him, they don’t stand a chance, because in Die Hard fashion, Moses eliminates them one-by-one.

Exercise Lowers Blood Pressure in Kids, Adults

Rina Risper15 years ago06 mins

By Eric Heiden M.D.

Tribune Media Services

More and more kids are being diagnosed with what was once thought to be an almost exclusively adult malady: high blood pressure. These children join the large contingent of American adults — estimated to be 25 percent of the population — who also have high blood pressure. New research shows that exercise lowers blood pressure in children as effectively as it does in adults.