Archive for December, 2008

Rebuilding and Restoring in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Rebuilding and Restoring in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Gulf Water Clean-Up and Infrastructure Rebuilds Face the Water Industry Moving Forward
By Ann-Marie Fleming, www.Water-Stocks.com September 2005
As the clean up and recovery of the Louisiana area continues, focus surrounds the region’s water systems that had been shut down, damaged and contaminated as a result of Hurricane Katrina. […]

Vitamin B1 and Its Importance to Mental Health

Vitamin B1 also called as thiamine is one of the eight vitamins that make up the powerful group called as the Vitamin B complex. Like all of the B vitamins this nutrient plays a great role in the good health of the body as well as a sound mental health. Proper care and caution should […]

Anti American and Anti US Internet Forums Say USA is Not Great

Anyone who was ever traveled around the world and also traveled to the U.S. knows that the United States of America and this great nation is the greatest country and civilization ever created in the entire rate and recorded history of the human species. No other nation even comes close to the level of […]

Why Can’t I Remember Your Name?

You’re terrible with names. You forget someone’s name within ten seconds of their introduction, and it embarrasses you. In fact, it’s possible you won’t even approach someone whose name you have forgotten. As a result, you will miss out on a valuable business contact.
If you go out of your way to identify […]

Earthquakes and Tsunamis

Tsunamis
Tsunami - a seismic sea wave - means in Japanese “harbor-wave”. It is also misleadingly called “tidal wave”. It is an ocean wave caused by an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on the Richter scale (or greater) that occurs less than 50 kilometers beneath the seafloor. Tsunamis can also be caused by volcanic eruptions and by […]

Investing In The Physical Or Virtual Real Estate World with Bryan Ellis

Landlords and rehabbers take notice - you may soon be focused on the new concepts of “Virtual Real Estate Investing“. There are many variations on what this term means, encompassing everything from using the internet to aid in real estate investing efforts to participating in online games such as SecondLife.
To […]

Black Literature: Hughes, Cullen, Baraka, and Madhubuti

The term “Jazzoetry” was coined by the Last Poets, who used it as the name of one of their albums. The term was applied to the revolutionary style of poetry with a jazz background that they had popularized during their 70s heyday. While the term may not have applied so much to the written word, […]

What You Need To Know Before You Sell Your Boat

As the owner/operator of a full service boat detailing-yacht maintenance business I can’t help but chuckle sometimes at seeing the extremes that otherwise bright, intelligent, successful, people will go to in a misguided attempt to save a few dollars.
One of the biggest mistakes that we see is that people will decide to sell their boat […]

Top Ten Reasons To Hire A Personal Coach

Have you considered hiring a personal coach? Jack Canfield, in The Success Principles says hiring a “personal coach is one of the best-kept secrets of the successful.”
1. A coach can help you clarify your vision and goals. If you have a sense that what you are doing isn’t the thing you really want for your […]

What’s In a Name? (the Green Giant Arborvita Story)

Someone asked me about the name,”Green Giant Arborvita”. Here is
its story.
The original Green Giant got its name not from ancient lore, but
from unusually extra large, hence “giant,” green peas. These
“Green Giant Peas” were introduced by the Minnesota Valley
Canning Company in 1925, in contrast to their previously
marketed LeSueur baby peas, early-picked in June. Founded in
1903, this […]