Career Alert: Coughing? Bring a Healthy Dose of Sick-Etiquette to Work

Being considerate of others when you’re sick is one of the first steps to good sick etiquette.

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Career Alert: Coughing? Bring a Healthy Dose of Sick-Etiquette to Work

5 smart ways parents save time and money with a boss mindset

Here are five tips for parenting like a total boss that will help you stay organized, cut wasted time and save money.

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5 smart ways parents save time and money with a boss mindset

Cyberattack 411: Protecting your vehicle from hackers

Today's technological advances for cars provide tremendous benefits for drivers and passengers, but much of this technology can also be used to launch cyberattacks on your vehicle.

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Cyberattack 411: Protecting your vehicle from hackers

Senior Health Alert: 7 Ways to Include Everyone In the Holiday Cheer

Holidays bring get-togethers filled with music, food and conversation. However, those with hearing loss often end up feeling isolated from the festivities, but there are ways you can make sure they feel comfortable joining the fun. Make the most of the opportunity to share quality conversations with loved ones who have trouble hearing by following these simple tips.

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Senior Health Alert: 7 Ways to Include Everyone In the Holiday Cheer

What to Consider When Purchasing a Utility Tractor

From a few acres of suburban sprawl to large properties in rural regions, building, mowing, digging and transporting can be a daunting task. With the right utility tractor, more work can be done with less elbow grease. Whether you are replacing an old machine or you’re a first-time buyer, give some thought to these features to help narrow down your options.

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What to Consider When Purchasing a Utility Tractor

3 Ways Soapstone Enhances Home Design

Move over, marble and granite. There’s a new, old stone that’s coming back into vogue. After first coming into use 5,000 years ago, soapstone is once again becoming a “go-to” material for kitchen and bath designs, indoor and outdoor living spaces and more for three primary reasons: aesthetics, function and versatility.

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3 Ways Soapstone Enhances Home Design

5 Time-Saving Ways to Live a Healthy Lifestyle

With busy schedules and never-ending to-do lists, it can seem like living a healthy lifestyle is out of reach. But, prioritizing nutrition doesn’t have to be a chore. Here are five quick tips to help you and your family eat well, even when it feels like time is not on your side.

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Connect Kids with Food for Healthy Habits

Building healthy habits is the top reason moms cite for encouraging more learning when it comes to food, according to recent findings. Even when the weather is colder outside, these tips – plus this recipe for a Flower Salad – make it fun for families to learn about where their food comes from and help encourage kids to eat healthy for a lifetime.

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Connect Kids with Food for Healthy Habits

Make Medicare Open Enrollment a Healthy Habit

If your health care routine doesn’t include preparing for Medicare’s Open Enrollment, now’s the time to kick-start a new healthy habit. Here are five important things every Medicare beneficiary can do to get into the Medicare Open Enrollment routine each year.

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Millennial Parents Struggle with High Cost of Living

For many young adults, heavy debt and lower-paying jobs lead to a delay in traditional life goals like buying homes and starting families. However, research suggests that millennials’ financial worries are adding up to more than stress and disappointment, particularly once they become parents.

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Millennial Parents Struggle with High Cost of Living

Feathered Friends: Feed backyard birds this season for the greater, global good

When you fill your bird feeders and put fresh water in the birdbath this season, you’ll definitely be giving your feathered friends a helping hand. But you could also be serving the greater good!

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Feathered Friends: Feed backyard birds this season for the greater, global good

Dodge Winter Lawn Damage

Winter conditions can present a wide range of challenges to your lawn and landscape, but there are precautions you can take to protect your lawn, as well as your trees and shrubs, from seasonal harm. These preventative steps can help your lawn survive the winter season’s harsh elements, including snow plow damage, cold temperature stress, freezing temperatures, winter dehydration and ice melt.

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Handy Holiday Hints

Make sure your holiday meal is a special one by following these simple tips for making the perfect holiday dinner, and try these recipes for Butterscotch Bubble Loaf and Watermelon Cranberry Sauce to complement your main dish.

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Surprising Ways to Get Your Probiotics

While researchers are still unraveling exactly how probiotics accomplish all that they do, it’s understood that probiotics help establish a healthy environment in your digestive tract. Now, you can get your probiotics from many of your favorite foods and drinks without taking pills with some surprising products that include probiotics.

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Surprising Ways to Get Your Probiotics

Holiday Entertaining Hack: Merry Made Easy

This year, instead of just letting the holidays happen, make them happen by embracing the season. No matter how or where you celebrate, sometimes you need a little inspiration – or a recipe like this Pineapple Glazed Ham – to pull it all together.

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Holiday Entertaining Hack: Merry Made Easy

Recipe Idea of the Day: Bring Maple to Your Table

Some foods just seem to evoke the smell, taste and feel of chilly weather months. As a beloved fall and winter flavor, maple syrup can be much more than a breakfast condiment or pancake topping – it can be an impressive way to transform simple, seasonal snacks, like with these recipes for New England Maple Apple Dip and Homemade Maple Cream Soda.

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Recipe Idea of the Day: Bring Maple to Your Table

5 Easy Steps for a Cleaner Home

Whether it is a family dinner after a long day at work, sitting down with a book on a rainy day or entertaining friends during the weekend, there is nothing like spending quality time in the comfort of your own home. With these simple steps for removing your shoes at the door, disinfecting door handles and appliances, using natural cleaning products, checking your air filter and exposing textiles to heat,  you can have a fresher, cleaner and healthier home, taking comfort to a whole new level.

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5 Easy Steps for a Cleaner Home

Savory Holiday Flavors Made Simple

A holiday season filled with gatherings and celebrations with friends and family calls for easy dishes that bring exquisite flavor to your festivities. One way to spend less time in the kitchen and more time celebrating is to plan for quick-prep dishes you can have on the table with next-to-no fuss, like these recipes for Ham and Cheddar Cranberry Melt or Barbecue Pull-Apart Sliders. 

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Savory Holiday Flavors Made Simple

Health Alert: Easy Ways to Warm Up This Winter

As the cold weather settles in, staying snuggled up in your comfortable house around the clock may be tempting, but it’s not very realistic. So when you come back inside from work, running errands or a quick snowball war with the kids, you’ll need some easy ways to warm up. Heat yourself by taking a bath, tossing blankets in the dryer, sticking with soup, adding a layer of clothing, relying on smart technology, baking your way to warmth or soaking up the sun indoors.

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Health Alert: Easy Ways to Warm Up This Winter

Chip And Joanna Gaines On Their Dreams, How They Got Their Start (Full Interview) | TODAY

Chip and Joanna Gaines, the stars of HGTV’s “Fixer Upper,” talk with TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager in this extended interview about how they met (Chip was wayyy late for their first date), what their hopes are as parents and for their Magnolia lifestyle brand, what they want people to experience when visiting their shop Magnolia Market at the Silos in Waco, Texas, and more. From TODAY.

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Make Gifts Personal with DIY Labels

After spending hours scouring stores for the perfect gift for each person on your list, the last thing you want to do is bury your thoughtful gesture in generic wrapping. Fortunately, with the right tools and a little creativity, you can make your gift boxes just as personal as the gifts they contain. These DIY gift topper projects – Rosette Gift Topper, Wooden Banner Gift Topper and Bow Gift Topper – will make your presents so pretty it almost seems a shame to open them.

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Make Gifts Personal with DIY Labels

Open Talk About Open Enrollment: 5 Surprising Ways Americans React to the Annual Process

We all have annual to-do’s — from filing our taxes to celebrating our birthdays, these once-a-year rituals are in the fabric of our lives. Some tasks we enjoy more than others, but each holds significance. One of these important yearly tasks is selecting your insurance benefits at work during what is commonly referred to as open enrollment. With the stresses of work and life already bearing down on us, having to choose from a sometimes complicated set of benefit options can be a struggle. But is this process really so bad? How do people really feel about open enrollment?

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Open Talk About Open Enrollment: 5 Surprising Ways Americans React to the Annual Process

Celebrate Friendsgiving with Lamb

This year, flex your culinary muscle and opt for something adventurous at your Friendsgiving table with American lamb, the perfect choice for sharing something deliciously different at your feast, thanks to recipes like Sheet Pan Rack of Lamb with Maple-Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Delicata Squash and Pears and Lasagna with Lamb Ragu.

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Tips for getting senior photos that you and your teen will love

Here it is, the final year of high school. A year from now, nothing will be the same, so this is, no doubt, an exciting and often nostalgic time for the entire family. As this final year of high school begins, now's the time to think about senior portraits.

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Tips for getting senior photos that you and your teen will love

Home Hacks: The Truth About America's Cleaning Habits

Save yourself an average of 2 hours and 48 minutes of time cleaning the kitchen each month with appliances that help prevent smearing and streaking. 

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Home Hacks: The Truth About America's Cleaning Habits

Tips to help your student succeed after high school

Following a career-focused model doesn’t exclude the possibility of a four-year college being the right option for many career paths. Taking a career-focused approach and exploring all postsecondary education options simply opens doors to other possibilities.

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Tips to help your student succeed after high school

Health Alert: Practical Tips to Combat Cold and Flu

When cold and flu season strikes, millions of Americans find themselves coughing, sneezing, congested, aching, uncomfortable – and sometimes, downright miserable. To protect you and your family, and to prevent the spread of illness, Manhattan-based physician Dr. Keri Peterson offers these tips for navigating cold and flu season. 

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Health Alert: The best wearable tech devices to help you look and feel better

Wearable health technology first started in hospitals as a way to help people with injuries heal faster. Now, the trend has gone mainstream and pro-active; one in five online adults uses a wearable device, and the majority of those devices are health-related. Here are five wearable health devices and how you can use them to help build fitness and better health.

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Health Alert: The best wearable tech devices to help you look and feel better

5 Time-Saving Ways to Live a Healthy Lifestyle

With busy schedules and never-ending to-do lists, it can seem like living a healthy lifestyle is out of reach. But, prioritizing nutrition doesn’t have to be a chore. Here are five quick tips to help you and your family eat well, even when it feels like time is not on your side.

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Sweet Treats Worth Celebrating

Creating baked goods to show your love for family and friends is one of the most thoughtful ways to display care and friendship any time of year, but especially during the holidays when they are typically shared and enjoyed the most. For a special brunch with loved ones this holiday season, consider serving a light, flaky option, such as this Strawberry Cheesecake Crescent Ring, or finish off a gathering with this Sugar-Dusted Apple Bundt Cake for dessert.

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Today's Recipe: Spaghetti Pie

Here is what you'll need to make SPAGHETTI PIE! Enjoy! From Tasty.


INGREDIENTS

• Pasta Crust
• 4 ounces angel hair (broken in half 2 times)
• 2 cloves garlic minced
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated
• 1 large egg, beaten
• 2 tablespoons bread crumbs

Filling

• 2 tablespoons oil (vegetable or canola)
• 1 small onion, diced
• 8 ounces ground beef (90% lean)
• 1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 3 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon basil minced
• 1 cup ricotta
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 ½ cups shredded whole milk mozzarella cheese

PREPARATION

Pie Crust

• Preheat Oven to 350˚F/180˚C.
• Wrap pasta in a clean dish towel and fold twice, breaking pasta into smaller 1-3 inch pieces.
• Cook until al dente (about 3 minutes) and drain well.
• In medium-sized bowl, mix warm cooked pasta with garlic, butter, grated parmesan, egg, and bread crumbs. Still until well incorporated and the butter and cheese have completely melted.
• Press pasta mixture into a deep 10-inch pie plate or casserole dish.
• Bake 15-20 minutes, until crust is set and edges have started to brown

Filling

• Heat oil over medium heat in a large skillet. Add onions and cook until softened, about 3 minutes. Add in ground beef and cook until lightly browned. Using a spoon, drain off any excess fat that accumulates in the pan. Stir in tomato sauce, tomato paste, and sugar. Simmer until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and mix in basil. Season with salt and pepper.
• In a small bowl, mix together ricotta, egg, and oregano.
• Spread ricotta mixture over the cooked pasta crust. Spread the meat sauce over the top of the ricotta mixture then cover with mozzarella. Bake at 350˚F/180˚C for 25 minutes or until golden brown on top.
• Let cool for 15-20 minutes before serving.
• Enjoy!

Fancy-Pants Parmesan Crisps (optional for garnish)

• Pour a tablespoon of parmesan cheese onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
• Bake at 400˚F/200˚C until cheese has melted and become golden and crisp, about 5 minutes.
• Let cool before removing from parchment paper.

5 simple tips for the perfect birthday goodie bag

Birthday parties are an exciting time for all, from the party games to the presents and delicious cake, birthdays are an occasion for family and friends to come together and celebrate. There are so many ways to make a birthday party special, but why not kick it up a notch and make your next birthday party even more memorable?

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Watch Dana Carvey Do 17 Spot-On Celebrity Impressions

Classic!! Dana Carvey showcased his impressions of Sean Connery, Paul McCartney, Donald Trump, George H.W. Bush and so many more during his recent visit to the Howard Stern Show. From The Howard Stern Show.

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Shared experiences and support can help people manage type 2 diabetes

Nearly 30 million Americans have diabetes, and most (90-95 percent) have type 2 diabetes. Diabetes management isn’t always easy — some people may have difficulty visiting their doctor regularly, eating healthy foods and reaching their A1C goal. That’s why America’s Diabetes Challenge, a program from Merck and the American Diabetes Association, is encouraging people to share their stories about the challenges and successes they’ve faced managing type 2 diabetes or supporting a loved one with the disease.

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Shared experiences and support can help people manage type 2 diabetes

4 easy ways to pest-proof your home

As much as we all enjoy our cozy homes, they are also the perfect setting for pests like rats, mice and raccoons to snuggle up and escape the cold air, too. Whether you’ve already noticed signs of pest activity or just want more peace of mind at home, use these four preventative tips to eliminate and prevent potential pest infestations.

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It's kids' eye exam season: Tips for children's vision health

Between 15 to 20 percent of pre-school-age kids have a vision problem such as nearsightedness, lazy eye (2 to 5 percent), and 3 to 4 percent have a condition that causes the eyes to turn in or out, according to the Vision Council. However, two out of three kids start school without having had a comprehensive eye exam.

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It's kids' eye exam season: Tips for children's vision health

Chicken Parm Lasagna

Here is what you'll need for Chicken Parm Lasagna - from Tasty.

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Chicken Parm Lasagna

Pumpkin Spice Up Your Life

Dozens of seasonal products now feature everyone’s favorite fall flavor – pumpkin spice – but if your inner chef is calling, it’s easier than ever to whip up decadent pumpkin desserts at home, such as a Pumpkin Pie Shake or Pumpkin Creme Brulee.

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Pumpkin Spice Up Your Life

The rise of the basement: Top tips for a better space

Basements are coming out of hiding these days. And they’re doing it in style, with before-and-after transformations featured everywhere from HGTV to Pinterest and YouTube.

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The rise of the basement: Top tips for a better space

Talking Turkey: It's platter season

What’s your idea of the perfect Thanksgiving meal? A big family buffet, or perhaps an intimate evening with a few close friends? Thanksgiving brings us together from near and far for all sorts of fun-filled traditions that are uniquely our own. And while those traditions may vary somewhat as families grow and our lives change over time, there’s one constant at the heart of Thanksgiving entertaining — the beloved turkey platter.

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Talking turkey: It's platter season

Crave a fun, illuminating vacation? Visit a lighthouse!

Long before global positioning devices made it possible for ships of all sizes to independently sail with confidence anywhere in the world, lighthouses and lighthouse keepers protected the safety of seafarers. Today, ships use other methods for navigation, but lighthouses remain an important part of America’s maritime heritage. Across the country, lighthouses have been converted into museums, living history centers and even hotels.


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Crave a fun, illuminating vacation? Visit a lighthouse!

New drones explore hidden depths undersea

Underwater drones are opening up a whole new frontier of exploration. The lightweight vehicles can zip along coral reefs, explore marine life and even go inside wrecks. Ben Tracy reports. From CBS This Morning.

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New drones explore hidden depths undersea

Combatting Concussions in Youth Sports

With athletes of all ages taking to fields and courts, there are important steps that can be taken to reduce young athletes’ exposure to concussions and increase overall player safety during practice and games, including knowing concussion signs, utilizing available educational resources, practicing proper technique and understanding return-to-play protocol.

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Combatting Concussions in Youth Sports