Cleaning Your Dryer Lint System Is A Must Whether electric or gas, dryers can be a serious fire hazard if not properly maintained. They create the perfect combination of elements that are needed to ignite a blaze: lint, heat, and hot dry wind. So, keeping your dryer in good working order is essential to both lowering electricity bills, and keeping …
Electric Bikes Sales Skyrocket As Gas Prices Go Up Electric Bike sales grow as gas prices continue to be artificially inflated to increase profits to greedy fossil fuel corporations. As fuel prices skyrocket at the pumps, the extreme risk to our environment from the extraction, shipping and use of fossil fuels grows worse. City traffic congestion continues to increase as …
The only thing more frightening in life than knowing that your life’s in imminent danger from a person hellbent of killing others, is not knowing what to do. You may say, “There’s nothing I can do” during an active shooter event, but you’re horribly wrong, because there are many things that you can do to save your life, and those …
Will’s Thoughts – When I look At The Childhoods That Kids Have Today… When I look at the childhoods that kids have today, I fear for our future. I’m not saying that our childhoods were picture perfect, they were just a whole lot different. We were not bombarded by a digital world, offering a dizzying array of choices, it was …
Before Getting Snippy And Lippy The next time you find yourself getting a little impatient with old people, here’s a few things about us you might want to keep in mind before getting all lippy and snippy: Yes, we’re slower than we used to be, but we should be after working like hell for 50-70 years to support ourselves and …
The Tree Of Life Is the mighty red cedar the key to all natural pest control? Well, though we’ve known of Western red cedar’s ability to protect clothing from moths for centuries, when it come to pest control, red cedar actually does a lot more. In fact, it’s a proven poisonous deterrent to rodents, cockroaches and many species of ants, …
Athleisure Apparel Designers use high-tech clothing to overcome high stress experienced by athletes, and athletic styling continues to increase its influence on casual clothing – often referred to as “athleisure” apparel – with innovative fabric treatments associated with high-performance activewear making their way into basic apparel; even underwear. Temperature-control and wicking technology that draws moisture away from skin, initially developed …
The woman who create Lamaze International’s ‘breath control’ was Elisabeth Bing. Elisabeth was born on July 8, 1914 in Berlin, Germany. She fled Nazi Germany with her family to England, where she studied physical therapy. The work with new mothers ignited her thinking about delivery practices, and in 1949 it was an interest she took with her to the United …
A Third Look At Celibacy By Ron Murdock discusses the virtues and liabilities of sexual abstinence. It’s hard to say if celibacy is making a comeback or not. People are known to fudge on numbers, saying they’ve been celibate for any length of time. Their ego starts to over inflate the length of being celibate to make themselves look good …
Texting Causing Orthopedic Issues Are you one of millions of digital hunchbacks all hunched over busily texting away, known as ‘texters’? Texters aren’t hunchbacked because of orthopedic issues, their curvature of the spine is all from horrible and harmful posture. So, if you’re suddenly feeling neck and back pain, you might want to rethink your current texting habits. Hours Hunched …
At What Age Should Doctors Be Required To Retire? The Vancouver Sun ran an excellent article about the extraordinary number of aging doctors in British Columbia who are still practicing medicine. Now, you may have a vision of two or three old codgers showing up at their office long after they should have retired, but that is not the case. …
Celibacy has its good points, as sexual energy can be channeled into other aspects of life. But as noble as celibacy sounds, if we all became celibate the human race would be extinct in a few short years. It isn’t wise to sanitize celibacy or demonize sex, or believe historical figures like Jesus Christ were celibate. How can we know …
