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Reducing your rates of homeowner insurance

Every insurance company that provides homeowner coverage uses its own package of "special" discounts to market its products to particular types of customers. The following list contains suggestions on how to reduce your rates. Be sure to ask your agent about:Non-smoker discount – Some insurers offer a discount when all family members are nonsmokers.Long-time customers – Some insurers offer

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All Quiet on the Baby Front

Still nothing.

It is like the Phoney War (the bit of the second world war between the invasion of Poland and the invasion of the Low Countries and France, for anyone educated after 1986). We know that a dictator is about to march (well, OK, be carried) into our home and change our lives forever (how long can I keep this analogy going?), but at the moment we're just testing our early warning systems (baby monitor), stocking up with basic foodstuffs (Tesco Finest ready meals) and negotiating lend-lease agreements with a major neutral power (borrowing a travel cot from a friend).

Though I'm still waiting for my government-issue gas mask.

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B-Style Awards: Fashion Phenoms

B-STYLE AWARDS
Fashion Phenoms

Help The B-Life pick the winner in each category by leaving your vote in the comment section or sending us an email at theblife@gmail.com. (THIS IS THE FINAL DAY!)

Our nominees for Fashion Phenoms are the overall Best Dressed stars who professionally play dress-up and do it with a personal touch that is oh so identifiable. They consistently bring it 24/7 and rarely disappoint. Whether we should honor their stylists or the celebrity is up the in air, but one this is certain...their style is something like a phenomenon. It's so yeah!

FEMALE NOMINEES...


KERRY WASHINGTON
JENNIFER LOPEZ


RIHANNA

MARY J. BLIGE

GABRIELLE UNION



MALE NOMINEES
...

LENNY KRAVITZ

WILL.I.AM

DUANE WADE

PHARRELL WILLIAMS

JOHN LEGEND

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B-Style Awards: Fashion Misfit

B-STYLE AWARDS
Fashion Misfit

Help The B-Life pick the winner in each category by leaving your vote in the comment section or sending us an email at theblife@gmail.com.

Though we love some of these Fashion Misfits dearly, they are wrong so often that we question whether no style is better than bad style...Cheers to the ladies who are just begging for a fashion comeback.

NOMINEES...

LAURYN HILL
NEW YORK (a.k.a. TIFFANY POLLARD)OMAROSA

PAULA ABDUL

LIL' KIM

COCO

VIVICA FOX
There's just one more category before the winners are revealed...don't forget to vote!

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Just the Two of Us

No baby yet.

I am, however, pleased to have calculated that due to a combination of a surprise win by Aston Villa, the Euro 2008 qualifiers fixtures list, and our local hospital's policy on inducing overdue mothers, our baby will almost certainly be born with Liverpool topping the football tables for the first time in years.

If it is very late and a long labour then I will be looking for a win in the lunchtime game at Portsmouth on the 15th to make sure (should be OK on goal difference). Anything less and I will be telling my girlfriend to push it out before 4:45. I am sure that me switching over from whale music to Sport on 5 will help.

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B-Style Awards: C-Suite (a.k.a. Chic Suite)

B-STYLE AWARDS
C-Suite (a.k.a Chic Suite)

Help The B-Life pick the winner in each category by leaving your vote in the comment section or sending us an email at theblife@gmail.com.

Our C-Suite nominees are fly in the boardroom and beyond...Let's take a look at the movers and shakes who make dollars and just as much fashion sense.

FEMALE NOMINEES...

TYRA BANKS

OPRAH WINFREY

CRYSTAL McCRARY


KIMORA LEE SIMMONS

JUNE AMBROSE

MALE NOMINEES...

RUSSELL SIMMONS
MAGIC JOHNSON

JAY-Z

STEVE "THE COMMISSIONER" STOUTE

DIDDY

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How to obtain the best value of travel insurance

If you are an occasional traveller you will probably ensure your the agent travel. But if you travels more than twice a year, it is much more profitable to have an insurance to last all the round year, than buying one each time you travel. Think ahead, plan ahead. Annual travel insurance easily pays for itself with just a couple of trips. But not all insurances are worth the same and as always

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