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Did you know that February is Heart Health Month? And that today is National Wear Red Day?
 
National Wear Red Day is held on the first Friday in February each year to show support for women's heart disease awareness. Here are some interesting facts to help kick off the day:
 

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This week we'll take a look at the homeless. Winter weather is on its way and for many, that's a scary thing when you don't have adequate shelter. Here are some facts you may not know:

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Check out GirlEffect.org for an eye opening and yet, very cool, narrative. Some facts from their site:

• When a girl in the developing world receives seven or more years of education, she marries four years later, and has 2.2 fewer children.
• An extra year of primary school boosts a girl's future wages by 10 to 20 percent.
• An extra year of secondary school boosts a girl's future wages by 15 to 25 percent.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we want to show our support. So throughout the month we'll be posting some informative blogs that help this cause. What do we have today? To start off the month we pulled some facts together to help things in perspective. And of course, we've cited the sources so if you want more info... you can get it! Stay tuned for more BCA content and in the mean time here are some interesting tidbits.

We recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Wenli Jen, a girl with beauty and brains, who competed in the Miss Taiwan World pageant. She rocks a Bachelor's degree from UC Irvine, a Masters degree in Human Development & Pshychology from Harvard, AND she's finishing up her Doctorate in Education at USC. So what's this smarty pants' view on being in a beauty pageant? We wanted to find out! We asked her seven questions and here's what she had to say.