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Author: Terry Edwards With home security systems more popular today then ever before, you may be wondering what is fact and what is fiction when it comes to looking into one for your home. Here is a look at two of the most common misconceptions in home security.

When I was in college, I got a part-time job at an insurance agency. My job was highly low-level - filing, answering the phones, and typing (yes, typing) envelopes. Before this time, I had worked primarily in offices in my small hometown, or in jobs laden with other college students. This was the first job I’d [...]

When I was in college, I got a part-time job at an insurance agency. My job was highly low-level - filing, answering the phones, and typing (yes, typing) envelopes. Before this time, I had worked primarily in offices in my small hometown, or in jobs laden with other college students. This was the first job I’d [...]

I’m certainly no expert in English, and the following text probably breaks a dozen or more rules of the English language, but I do know something about my own Swedish language that many of my Swedish geology professors obviously don’t. I’ve noticed something about people within the natural sciences that I didn’t know before. Something that [...]

Arbaaz Khan turned angry while clarifying the recent controversy surrounding his married life owing to a brand endorsement at a press conference held for his upcoming film 'Woodstock Villa'. Arbaaz also spoke about his character where he plays a businessman who loves his wife in the film. Bollywood Wallpapers

Canadian country superstar Shania Twain and her spouse, producer Robert Lange are separating. She lives in the French area of Switzerland and in New Zealand, and only sporadically goes in the states for an event. Shania Twain hasn’t made an album in almost 4 years, since her Greatest Hits came out in 2004. Maybe Shania Twain [...]

In honor of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and my parents Ruth and Albert Zimbler, I thought I’d reveal some of the differences between my fictional character Sharon Gold in MRS. LIEUTENANT and myself.While Sharon Gold’s experiences as a new army officer’s wife in the spring of 1970 are based on my own, Sharon’s background is different than mine. Sharon was an anti-Vietnam War proteste

The recently held protest meeting of the Kollywood fraternity in connection with the Hogenakkal issue had brought forth many interesting facts. Trisha and Nayanthara were flashed in the media along with the top honchos of the industry. Silambarasan sitting beside Nayan and not communicating with her was also the talk of the town. While discussing [...]

Every time spring and fall rolls around something predictable occurs — a massive increase in ads talking about gutter covers that are supposed to end clogging your rain gutters once and for all! Is it true or just hype? More: continued here

During the Great Depression, there was a man who walked into a bar one day. He went up to the bartender and said, “Bartender, I’d like to buy the house a round of drinks.”The bartender said, “That’s fine, but we’re in the middle of the Depression, so I’ll need to see some money first.”The guy pulled out a huge wad of bills and set them on the bar. The bartender can’t believe what he’s seeing. “Where did you get all that money?” asked the bartender.“I’m a professional gambler,” replied the man.The bartender said, “There’s no such thing! I mean, your odds are fifty-fifty at best, right?”“Well, I only bet on sure things,” said the guy.“Like what?” asked the bartender.“Well, for example, I’ll bet you fifty dollars that I can bite my right e

Another thing that can be on the radar from the IRS does not necessarily come at any great surprise.  Nor is it a surprise that this is getting looked at a bit more closely. It’s separating the personal side from the business side. The IRS wants to make sure that personal expenses are not being run through the company and being taken as an expense to reduce the money owed to the IRS. What would be some of the areas that the IRS might look for: 1.  Travel and entertainment.  You want to make sure that the travel has some legitimate business purposes and that while on the trip that personal expenses aren’t run through. 2.  Meals and entertainment expenses.  Do these reflect a real business purpose?  Is there adequate documentation for it? 3.  Vehicle expenses.  Is the mileage reported being used for business purposes?  Have the commuting miles and personal mileage been separated out?  Is there adequate documentation? 4.  Other e

Most Americans have heard of China’s One-Child Policy and the supposed Chinese preference for sons. The very mention of the policy causes them to shake their heads and tightly purse their lips, disapproving of the harsh governmental regime that forces Chinese parents to abort or abandon their daughters. What they do not realize is that this belief is one of many variations of what Amy Klatzkin, an expert on adoption from China and the editor of several books on the subject, calls a “cultural myth”. While Klatzkin concedes, “Like most conventional wisdom, there are elements of truth in these myths,” she points out that although the Chinese government’s family planning policies do pressure families to limit births, this does not mean that the Chinese need to have a son precludes wanting daughters, or that they must abandon female children (xvii-xviii).The process of “blaming culture and tradition” is a simplistic cultural explanation to which people often fall prey w

Ayn Rand suggested that there should be a total separation of economics and state. She saw no benefit in forcing individuals to cough up their money to the government at the expense of liberty. While that was certainly wishful thinking, few could have predicted how big the government would actually grow over the last 200 years. Even Thomas Jefferson who stated, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground,” could not have fathomed the Country he created with trillions of dollars in debt and a $2.9 trillion budget.It is inevitable at this point that unless the government lives within its means, in twenty years some politician will need to create the biggest tax increase in history. Sadly, instead of decreasing the size of government, the government keeps expanding. Take for instance the Medicare Part D prescription drug bill, which exacerbated an already insurmountable debt. Ironically, those politicians who claim to reduce government spendin

This week we (at my workplace I mean, not the forum) were visited by a sales person from one of the online directories.I knew in my mind at the beginning of the day that we didn't want to buy a 'better' listing on the directory, because we thought the site was pretty useless all in all. We decided that the only reason for buying a better listing would be if it helped with the search engine optimisation of our site.I started off by asking how many people actually searched for web design on their directory. She logged into her control panel - I forget how many it was but it wasn't a lot. I told her that I thought people were more likely to just Google it than use a directory. She wasn't happy with that.I then told her that I'd done extensive research (which I had), and found no entries in Google from her directory and that buying a better ad would be useless for us because it didn't fulfill our target of SEO.She really didn't like that, and started to get quite aggressive in her

Pueblo Life, Separating Seeds from Hullswatercolor wash drawing, arches cold press paper 12"x9"Pueblo women separate seeds from hulls getting supplies ready for winter storage.They will store seeds and dried corn in specially made ceramic jars designed with wide bellies with narrow necks. These clay jars--usually unglazed, allow little air for less oxidation, longer shelf life and fuller flavor preservation. Jars are stored in the pueblos in small, underground rooms or caves, similar to today's wine cellars. Any underground cave will hold the median temperature of the climate at it's average annual temperature. Thus these caves are always cool and dry--even in blazing summer heat. Just think, this was all figured out by Native Americans over 10,000 years ago when they inhabited the North American continent and tribal life went on rather eventless for these people until the invasion of Western Europeans. Buy this painting on PayPalPrice: $100 plus $4.5 s/h Or, send me an email

The Real Story With No Historical Revisionism What The Movie Did Not Tell About The SpartansThe hit American movie “300” is a great movie and very entertaining. However the movie has falsely portrayed Spartan culture in such a way, that many would be misled into glorifying and defending that ancient culture. This post will try to put this story in a more accurate context and historical setting. It might be a good idea to first read an article from an assistant professor of hellenistic history who shares his thoughts before continuing reading here.The movie alluded to Spartan eugenics for the severey deformed, while ignoring that infanticide was also practiced for something as insignificant as an ill-omened birthmark. Allowing children to die of exposure was a common practice in ancient Greece.Spartan children were, indeed, taken from their mothers and given a martial education called the agoge. They were indeed toughened by beatings and dispatched into the countryside, forced to wa

Okay, I know I am going to sound like a therapist here, but I can't help but see the parallel in teens separating from their parents and students separating from their teachers. As teens/students move to maturity and start to gain their own identity, it's natural for them to pull away, make themselves distinct, and do something different. I get that. What I don't get is when it has to be difficult.Isn't it the parent's/teacher's role to support the emerging independence of the child/student? Isn't the point of all that nurturing to make it so that the child/student CAN stand on her own two feet? If both parties understand that, then there should be no ugly battles for individuation. It's not healthy for parents and children (or teachers and students) to be enmeshed. There should be distinctions of where one ends and the other begins. If there are differences in style, goals, or ideas, that is to be celebrated. If this is not understood by either side, perhaps it is something t