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Category: Business & Economy: Business Training

Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show, the annually held premier automotive specialty products trade, flaunted the hottest and the most striking cars in the auto industry. This year’s show started on October 31 and ended on the third day of November at the Las Vegas Convention Center. - More details

Category: Business & Economy: Economics

Flying Stars or Fei Xing is a powerful form of Feng Shui derived from the famous Xuan Kong Fengshui. It is an Analysis of the Five Elements and Star Combinations (representing certain energy patterns) that occupy every building. Each new year these annual stars change, Qi (energy) shifts happen, bringing good and bad energy with them - thereby producing different effects. - More details

Category: Arts & Humanities: Humanities

The Easter Egg is a common symbol seen throughout the world as one celebrates the annual spring holiday, Easter. Egg decorating has evolved over the years in different countries, and is as varied as the cultures across the world. - More details

Category: Business & Economy: Cooperatives

New Orleans was terribly hit by Hurricane Katrina in September 2005, resulting in an unprecdented loss of property and lives. But despite the damage, the people of the Crescent City rallied and pushed ahead with the annual Mardi Gras tradition - More details

Category: Arts & Humanities: Cultures and Groups

Most policyholders pay their premiums monthly but many life insurance companies give customers who choose to pay their premiums annually a discount. - More details

Category: Arts & Humanities: Job and Employment Resources

It’s your first moment back at your desk after the annual meeting. The telephone is already ringing, 314 email messages lurk in your inbox, the staff meeting starts in 20 minutes, and your coffee just spattered on something marked “Urgent.” You look up at that ticking clock, feeling smothered by all the demands on your time and attention - More details

Category: Blogs

We all succumb to the annual ritual of making a bunch of resolutions about how we will change our lives with the start of the New Year: eat better and healthier foods, exercise more, reorganize our rather hectic and stressful lives in order to live longer, and learn to enjoy what we have. In most instances, regardless of how dedicated we are to these resolutions, most of our good intentions give way to the realities and pressures of everyday living, and before we know it, we are pretty much back to where we were on December 31. - More details

Category: Blogs

“Six Sigma has galvanized our company with an intensity the likes of which I have never seen in my 40 years at GE.” Jack Welch admitted this in the year 2000 annual report of GE. As one goes by various comments, it becomes clearer that Six Sigma is not just a fad created by top management but an effective tool to fix gaps in performance which play a role in making improvements to the bottom line and customer satisfaction. - More details

Category: Computers & Internet: Training: Databases

Gourmet coffee retailers know what their customers want. It is there job. If they didn’t know how to better reach their customers, they would miss out on their chunk of $18 billion spent annually on coffee and coffee products. - More details

Category: Computers & Internet: Training: Databases

Annual reports often lead to a company or an organization deciding to overhaul or review their own system. This occurred when a State run Text Book Committee recently decided to review their text books that were being used in the class rooms. - More details

Category: Science and Technology: Aeronautics and Aerospace

Few people realize the importance of dryer safety. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there are an estimated annual - More details

Category: Blogs: Internet

We all succumb to the annual ritual of making a bunch of resolutions about how we will change our lives with the start of the New Year: eat better and healthier foods, exercise more, reorganize our rather hectic and stressful lives in order to live longer, and learn to enjoy what we have. In most instances, regardless of how dedicated we are to these resolutions, most of our good intentions give way to the realities and pressures of everyday living, and before we know it, we are pretty much back to where we were on December 31. - More details

Category: Recreation & Sports: Outdoors: Walking

A very interesting story was reported recently by WebMD.com. A report was made at the annual scientific session of the American Diabetic Association (www.diabetic.org) by Sharon P. Fowler, MPH, of the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Medicine in San Antonio, Texas. - More details

Category: Society: Urban Legends

As a nation, we annually waste billions of dollars on uneaten food,__over priced clothes, unused, unnecessary items, uncompetitive savings__account rates and excessive credit cards interest. American consumers__throw away money as never before and the credit card bills roll in__with their record of excessive Christmas spending. This makes January__a perfect time to start putting your personal savings finances in__order. - More details

Category: Shopping: Computer Games

Sportsman from around the world annually congregate in Alaska for their chance at landing a giant fish. Trophy King Salmon, Halibut, Rainbow Trout and Northern Pike are continually taken across the state in trophy fashion. - More details

Category: Entertainment: X of the Day, Week, etc.

According to the Center For Disease Control and Prevention, 910,000 people will die this year from some form of cardiovascular disease. That’s a staggering forty percent of all annual deaths! The great irony is that cardiovascular disease is largely preventable. Have you taken the necessary steps to heart attack-proof yourself? - More details

Category: Blogs: Internet

The other day I entertained for a senior organization and was shocked when I was told that we can no longer use the word Christmas, but instead must call the gathering a Holiday Party. I assume it is no longer politically correct to use the word Christ at Christmas. There is also a movement about to erase the word “God” in anything containing the word. In San Diego, at Balboa Park, an annual celebration is no longer called “Christmas on the Produe”, but rather, “December Night.” - More details

Category: Blogs: Internet

Nothing announces the start of the Halloween season better than the appearance on neighborhood doorsteps and lawns of the famous Halloween pumpkins. The annual spookfest may take place for one night only, but the fun of pumpkin carving for jack-o’-lanterns and the preparation of all the ‘haunted house’ trimmings make Halloween a rival for Christmas as a decorating extravaganza. - More details

Category: Blogs: Internet

For some reason, the average American citizen is awed by the presence of high government officials, especially those reputed by executive department sources and the media to have been privy to state secrets as spies or intelligence agents. They are said to have such honest eyes and believable faces. I suppose that modern movies, which portray exaggerated and propagandized renditions of fictional federal intelligence operations and the heroic paramilitary agents who go about saving the world from disaster, are responsible in large part for the public’s favorable impression of professional spies. Porter Goss is one of those individuals about whom a curriculum vitae has been officially written and circulated by highly talented government propagandists who have recently regaled the impressionable U.S hoi polloi with stories about Goss’s forty-year service with the federal government. Little, however, is actually known about the real Porter Goss, and other people like him, who have done the clandestine bidding of the Central Intelligence Agency, the federal spy corps with the annual three billion dollar budget. - More details

Category: Recreation & Sports: Outdoors: National Parks

Planting times for vegetables and other annual plants vary from species to species. In much of the United States the prime consideration is the date of the last spring frost/freeze. Many vegetables can be planted up to four weeks before the last frost, while others need to wait until a couple of weeks after the frost. - More details