Where the Action Is

In writing a life story, it is important to pay attention to three aspects: action, character, and setting. These will enhance your story every time. To neglect these elements is to risk having your story fall flat. Continue ...

Poor Americans Don't Live As Long

I read an interesting article in the New York Times. The article is about the widening gap in life expectancy between Americans of different races and socioeconomic levels. Continue ...

Obesity in Pets - A Cause For Concern

If you have a portly pooch or a heavy kitty, have no fear, there is help. When treating your pet for obesity there are two ways that a vet can help you balance your pet's health. First, your pet's caloric intake will need to be calculated. If it is too much, then it will need to be reduced. Read more...

Life After Cancer

Nothing about cancer is good - diagnosis, testing, treatment, surviving. However there are also some hidden gifts that help you move on and live again. Complete article at ...

Raising Chickens at Home

With the prices in gas and the scares over various contaminants in food, there has been a growing trend towards growing one's one vegetables and fruits at home as well as acquiring chickens to produce eggs. According to a variety of sources, chickens are one of the easiest farm animals to raise and to keep at home. Read more...

All You Need to Know About NYC Fashion

In fact, NYC fashion virtually sets the tone for the rest of the country, and contributes some $14 billion to the local economy every year. The Garment Distric is still home to legendary and influential figures in NYC fashion including Oscar De La Renta, Calvin Klein and Liz Claiborne. Despite the fact that most of the actual production has been shipped to China, Indonesia and Pakistan (resulting in an alarming decline in the quality of assembly and materials), the trend-setting designs still emmanate from Manhattan's NYC fashion district. Read more ...

Database Development Solutions

The Database development solutions provide high levels of data integrity and security facilitating efficient and reliable integration with existing project applications. The process of database development starts with the analysis, done by the business analysts of the clients' needs and requirements to determine the required application capacities and plan the architecture solutions consequently. The designing of a database depends on the way the data is stored and how it is inter related. Read more...

Calming Eating Habits We Learn From Our Pets

Have you ever taken the time to watch a cat eat? Commercials in TV are centered around this very thing. Try looking beyond the food that they are selling and look at the cat themselves. Continue ...

Safe High Yield Investing

The high yield certificate of deposit has an acronym of CD in the investment world. It is considered to be a safe high yield investing option because it only requires a minimum amount of money for a given period of time. When the high yield certificate of deposit expires or matures that would be the time when the lending institution agrees to pay the investor with the guaranteed amount of interests. Further reading ...

How to Find an Old Friend With a Reverse Phone Search

How to Find an Old Friend With a Reverse Phone Search
You tried to stay in touch with all your friends, but a few got away. Use online reverse search to find them again.

Nina Garcia and Her Hundred Stylish Pieces

Nina Garcia, a fashion director, got the inspiration to pen down this book when she was forced to move out of her flat for almost two years. While her first book dealt with many how to's on fashion, her latest creation is full of hundred well-defined commandments on what to's. Continue ...

Hydrogen Fuel Car - Did You Know You Can Convert Your Car Into a Hydrogen Fuel Car That Burns Water?

Hydrogen cars fix this by storing the energy as Hydrogen and use a Fuel Cell to convert hydrogen to electricity as the car is running. Unfortunately this car is only cleaning up a small percent of its own mess with this "Clean the air" device, as the electricity used to break apart the h20 molecule is generated from Coal. Hydrogen cars and fuel cells are often promoted as being potentially emission-free if they burn hydrogen, in contrast to currently more common fuels such as methane or natural gas that generate carbon dioxide. However, as mentioned above hydrogen is an energy carrier, not an energy source. Hydrogen cars represent an unproven technology. Hybrid cars with extended range batteries represent a proven technology.

Insurance Basics Part II - Life Stages

Insurance Basics Part II - Life Stages
Your insurance need will change as your life does, from starting to work to enjoying your golden years and all the stages in between. Each one of these stages may pose a different insurance need/cover for you. In this section, we have drawn up the basic life stages and help you analyze various insurance needs accordingly.

LARP - A Passion For Gamers

LARP, otherwise known as Live Action Role Play, is a role-playing game where a character is created within a fantasy setting and the role becomes both physical and mental within the game. Each game consists of three elements - a world that is created, the rules and the people in that world. Players will take on the persona of the characters in that world and will then act out that role. Various elements such as costumes, weapons and background settings are used within each game setting. Continue ...

Beds For Your Pet Help Promote Good Health

Beds For Your Pet Help Promote Good Health
Believe it or not, a good dog bed can have a bearing on the health of your pet. Just as we humans require a good nights rest to feel our best, so do our dogs and the best place for them to accomplish this is in their own bed.