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Interiors

7 Real Ways Your Home is Making you Kick the Bucket

Is your home slowly killing you? Of course it is—after all, that is what all marketing agents tell you. Acidic water! Formaldehyde in mattresses! Fluoride! Electromagnetic voltage! We are constantly bombarded with dubious fearmongering which aims nothing but to sell us useless products. But that’s not to say your home […]

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Giants of Pro Wrestling

Professional wrestling has always welcomed gigantic performers into its ring. The audience also loves gigantic performers because large men portray an air of intimidation that smaller men do not. In fact, the wrestling world is so obsessed with size that it often over-bills wrestlers’ height and weight statistics to make […]

Exteriors

Common Causes for Chimney Leaks

A fireplace in your home is a very adorning addition, but the issues accompanying it can be a real pain. One such problem involves a leaky chimney. A chimney leakage can be a very common and annoying problem in the household. This is because, if your chimney shows any signs […]

Employment

How to Launch a Career in Insurance

After the great recession and subprime mortgage collapse of 2008, the financial world was plunged into a state of disrepair. Most importantly, lenders and banking institutions began to be viewed with genuine mistrust, while consumer spending ground to a halt and the global economy weakened. The impact of this was […]

Electronics

How CES Revelations Will Impact PC Gaming

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYT-U6p4oDo] The International Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, is where the world gets to see the newest groundbreaking technology in every industry from cars to devices to video games. CES is where thousands of innovators and consumers gather every January (the official CES website reports more than 160,000 attendees at […]

Society & Culture

NEWS VALUES: Do News Values Apply to Feature Stories?

Do news values apply to feature stories? Mostly. It is important to understand that news and features are not different worlds but different approaches to the same world. The eight most commonly identified news values—impact, relevance, proximity, prominence, timeliness, conflict, currency and the unusual—are just that, values. News does not […]

History

Top Craziest Construction Accidents in History

OSHA has encountered some significant worker safety violations over the lifetime of their organization. Many of these violations were preventive and actually saved workers from serious injury or death. All of OSHA mandated safety procedures are important to the longevity and prosperity of hard-working manufacturing, construction, and test research workers […]