Lifestyle & Great Living

The Lifestyle section of MarquetteTurner.com features articles on travel, hotels, yachts, technology, food and drink, recipes, restaurants & more for great living.

RECIPE: Banana Walnut Muffins

A good friend recently shared this great banana walnut muffin recipe with me, for which there are now many appreciative people. It takes only 30 minutes from start to finished. Enjoy!

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iPhone Apps for Home Improvement

There’s an iPhone or smart phone application (app) for pretty much everything. So, it’s not surprising that there’s some pretty good tools to assist with your home improvement, and like most apps they’re very cheap. We feature apps for gardening, color matching, estimation tools, time management tools and a tool kit.

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GOOD CAUSE: Pepsi Refresh Project

A friend in the USA recently brought my attention to the Pepsi Refresh Project, and the fantastic social cause that she is involved with in Detroit. The Pepsi Refresh Project is looking for people, businesses, and non-profits with ideas that will have a positive impact in local communities, and offers grants from $5000 USD up to $250,000 USD.

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Become a Citizen of The Smarter City

A new project by IT-giant IBM, The Smarter City, seeks to bring together existing ideas and future plans for cities around the world to improve on their livability everywhere. This project seeks to utilize information technology to make cities work more efficiently, more effectively, more sustainably and in harmony with one another.

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RECIPE: Potato Truffle Soup

From the kitchen of Hotel Realm, a five star destination that we recently stayed at in Canberra, the nation’s capital, comes this great winter recipe for potato truffle soup.

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Location Location: St John, US Virgin Islands

St John is an island in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands, an unincorporated territory of the United States. Of the three main islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands, St. John is the smallest. Overall, the weather is fantastic year round and the fact that two-thirds of the island is under the US National Park system, are easily accessed from anywhere in the world, and not to forget the boating and beaches and fantastic weather make St. John a wonderful place to live!

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