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Magnets are great for promoting your business. You can get car magnets and put them on the side of your car and promote your business everywhere you go!

I think everyone knows that they can get all sorts of printing done online with VistaPrint, but I wonder if you know that you can get magnets as well. I’ve heard really good things about them. I have heard that people are quite pleased with the quality of the products VistaPrint offers. They not only do custom postcards, but they also do business cards, address labels, notepads, oversized cards, car magnets and more. Their printing is reliable and can be custom made to fit your needs.

For instance, if you are promoting your business you can upload your brand and whatever wording your want to have magnets made just the way you want them. Its not just for business, they can be used for personal needs as well, such as birth announcements or pride in your favorite little league player. The prices at VistaPrint are very good and offer faithful customers some really good deals or freebies along with their orders. They take good care of their customers which is part of the reason they have such a good reputation.

Marketing and branding are very important for the success of any business and VistaPrint is a great help in doing just that.

The Stark Museum of Art

The Stark Museum of Art is located in Orange, Texas and celebrates the American West. In fact, they boast one of the most significant collections of American Western Art. It was started from a collection of art collectors H.J. Lutcher Stark and his mother, Miriam Lutcher Stark. Lutcher Stark had the dream of displaying his art in a museum one day and his particular focus was on American Western Art. His dream eventually became the Stark Museum of Art.

Stark Museum of Art - Photo

Lutcher Stark’s wife, Nelda, shared her husband’s passion for American Western Art. The two of them spent their lives collecting and building the fine museum we are able to visit and enjoy today. Among the many contributions the Stark’s made in their lives, they also established the Stark Foundation in 1961 as a non-profit charitable corporation set up to continue the philantropic legacy of the Stark’s life work. The foundations offers grants and scholarships to assist in education and to assist in the work of the purpose of the foundation, which is to improve the lives of the people of Southeast Texas through encouraging, promoting and assisting education, the arts, and health and human services.

The museum, along with other properties, helps to keep the foundation solvent and fulling its purpose.

In front of the museum is a lifesize replica of Buck McCain’s ‘The Invocation’. The sculpture is of a Plains Indian holding up a buffalo skull in prayer for the preservation of his people. The artist is quoted as saying that the sculpture represents ‘the moment when human aspiration soars and we rise above our daily lives.’

Stark Museum of Art - Photo

The End of the Trail is a beautiful bronze by James Fraser. You can see it in the foreground of the photo above. We have a replica of that piece and love it. The details and the emotion portrayed in that sculpture are breathtaking.

Both of the individual pieces I have mentioned are in the Western Art collection at the museum. Other collections include American Indian Art, Decorative Art and Rare Books and Manuscripts. I love just browsing through the collections and enjoying the beautiful depictions of the American West. I think you might enjoy it too. Visit their website and browe through the collections and exhibits. Better yet, visit the museum in person when you are going through Orange, Texas!

Val Thomas had several heart attacks and had no life signs for 17 1/2 hours, rigor mortis had set in and the family was discussing organ donation. The organ donation issue is why she’s alive now. She was kept on a respirator even though she had not had any brain wave activity for hours. She was put on other machines as well to keep her organs healthy while the organ donation process continued.

It wasn’t until the nurses started removing her from the oxygen that she came back to life. She has no heart blockage and appears she’s going to be just fine.

Woah! Bet that freaked some people out!

I love seafood and I love Cajun cooking so it seems like a natural that I would love Cajun seafood. It makes me think of the days when my daddy took me fishing. That’s one of my favorite memories of my father. Sometimes we fished in the creeks of North Georgia and sometimes we went out of boat to do some deep sea fishing. Whatever the case and where ever we went, it was a good time spent with my father.

I was his ‘baby girl’ so he pampered me a bit. He would bait the hook for me and take the fish off because I would squeal and just hated the feel of the bait and fish. He thought that was cute, I think. My brother, on the other hand, had to bait his own hooks and take his own fish off the hook. I guess he was old fashioned like that, but neither one of us minded. Plus, my brother really didn’t seem to mind touching the worms or whatever else we were using for bait.

I ALSO love the fact that you can buy all sorts of things online. I’ve gotten to where I do most of my shopping online. So imagine how happy I was to find an Authentic Louisiana Seafood shop online. They will deliver your food fresh to you where ever you might live in the United States. That’s so cool.

I’m drooling over the Cajun crawfish they have over there. It looks fabulous. I might have to give it a try. Why don’t you go check out their website and see if they have your favorite. I’m betting they do!

When my kids were little we had chores they had to do. I’m a believer in kids learning responsibility and participating in the work as well as the fun. I used to try to make chore charts to keep track of who was doing what. The problem was that I never kept the charts up and usually didn’t even get them made up to begin with.

I have found a place online that has some great chore charts that are easy to make out, downloadable and free! The designs and graphics are all there and with just a few clicks of your mouse you can have a chore chart ready to go for the week. ChoreCharts.com is adding many more designs and features to their website so that it is becoming even more functional and fun than it is already.

I have heard people who have been concerned that using a chore chart was just a way of rewarding kids for doing chores they should do because they are a member of the family and not for reward. Its really not like that at all. The reward is the accomplishment. The charts take the parent out of the role of nagging the children to do their chores. The child can look at the chart and know what they are supposed to be doing and see whether or not there is a star next to the chore. They actually learn to be more independent because it becomes their responsibility to check the chart and make sure they have done their chores.

Eventually you won’t need the charts anymore because the goal is for your children to become independent enough to do their chores without reminders. Once they have learned, then you can use the chore charts for all sorts of other things … like maybe your grocery list! The website makes it fun to create the charts!

So why not take it easy on yourself and quit nagging your kids. Set up a chore chart at ChoreCharts.com. Its great and it works!

High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is an innovative, non-invasive prostate cancer treatment. This treatment uses ultrasound waves to target specific cancerous cells without affecting the surrounding tissue. You can read more about The Sonablate 500 treatment of prostate cancer at Internationalhifu.com. The website provides a wealth of information about prostate cancer and the treatments available. It also provides a directory of doctors who perform the treatment with profiles of those doctors.

The Sonablate 500 is not approved for use in the United States. It is currently being studied and evaluated through clinical trials as required to get FDA approval. The FDA FDA has made no decision as to the safety or efficacy of the Sonablate 500 for the treatment of prostate cancer. Currently, the device is approved for the treatment of prostate cancer in Canada and the Dominican Republic, authorized in Argentina, and available in the Bahamas and Mexico.

I love Craig Ferguson. He’s hilarious to me and I LOVE his Scottish Brogue. I can be shallow at times like that.

Here’s videos of him from last night’s dinner. Its in three parts, but well worth it.

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My kids used to love Halloween. I suspect they still do! Picking out a Halloween Costume costume was always a big deal and they always had very definite ideas of what they wanted to wear on any given year. My daughter was a witch so many times that I lost track!

I know its not Halloween, but there’s nothing wrong with playing dress up year round. My husband’s grandchildren love to play dress up and I have bought them costumes on several occasions so they could be princesses or whatever they wanted to be.

Finding good kids costumes can take some time, but there are some safe and creative designs out there. There is a wonderful selection at InCostume! I hope you’ll check it out. You are sure to find just the right thing whether its for the kids or yourself, for Halloween or any other special occasion.

Leonids Meteor Shower (Photo)

There’s supposed to be a Leonids Meteor Shower tonight that should be visible to our side of the earth. Some reports call them Leonids and others call them Lyrids. I don’t know which are supposed to be seen tonight or if they are the same things and someone just doesn’t know how to spell it.

Leonids Meteor Shower comes around once a year. They should be visible in the early morning dark hours if the a full moon doesn’t wash out the view. The meteor is the remnants of an ancient comet that is visible as the earth flies through its debris.

Below is a video of a previous Leonid meteor shower.

I’m betting that just about everybody has heard of the company Lifelock by now? I saw the CEO of the company on television the other day and realized that his company is just exploding with growth. He obviously hit on a much needed service for the internet community!

I’m always looking around to see what kinds of jobs are available and ran across lifelock jobs. That’s right, they are hiring. I can see that as a fantastic opportunity considering how new the company is, the level of enormous growth they’ve experienced and the demand for their services. Its got all the elements of a real opportunity to grow with a great company.

As you undoubtedly know, Lifelock is the pioneer of the identity theft protection industry. They became so well known because the effective advertising campaign of the company CEO. He drives around in a truck with his social security number on it and has his social security number plastered at the top of his website in huge impossible-to-miss lettering. He does that because he’s so confident in the company’s ability to protect identities that he doesn’t need to hide his social security number.

Lifelock is currently providing identity thief protection for companies like AAA New Jersey, NextAdvisor.com, Ohio Valley Bank, Heartland Credit Union, Ident-A-Kid, US Airways, NARFE Premier Federal Credit Union, AAA Carolinas, Founders Bank, Michigan International Speedway, Gillett Evernham Motorsports, and Willis Group. They just announced this month that they have signed a multi-year agreement with Chicagoland Speedway to be the title sponsor for the NASCAR Sprint Cup series race. They will be at the 1.5 mile tri-oval with this years race.

It looks to me that this is an opportunity to get in on a good thing. They are looking for people in numerous areas, from sales to human resources to public relations and more. If you are looking for a good job, this would certainly be worth looking into!

Mereana Mordengard Glasgow (also known as Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv) is a pretty creepy internet legend. Its also hard to find any information on it. So, for your weekend reading pleasure, I present the creepy story (probably urban legend) of Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv. [pretend you are hearing Dark Shadows theme song here].

Apparently, at some point in time someone uploaded a video onto YouTube that was/is bewitched. The video shows a man’s face through a red filter for two full minutes. In the last seconds of the video there is a close-up of the face and the man is smiling. The video was titled, Mereana Mordengard Glasgow and is also called Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv.

YouTube removed the video from the internet after 153 people who had viewed the video gouged their eyes out and mailed into the YouTube offices in San Bruno. These people were said to have committed suicide in various ways. Its not known if they mailed their eyeballs into YouTube before or after they committed suicide (just kidding). Its also reported that they had carved a cryptic inscription into their forearms that no one has been able to decipher. [insert Dark Shadows music here]

Periodically, YouTube puts the first 20 seconds of the video online in order to stop people from looking for the real video and uploading it. Only one YouTube staff member watched the video itself and that staff member screamed hysterically after watching the video for only 45 seconds. He has not been able to recall what he saw and has required medication since. The other YouTube staff who were in the roo at the time turned the video off when he started screaming and were too frightened to look at the screen themselves.

No one has ever been able to identify the man in the video and the IP that uploaded the video doesn’t exist.

That is the legend of Mereana Mordengard Glasgow.

Sweet dreams ……

Great News! CARCHEX is offering a service that will help you when you are in the process of buying a car. CARCHEX is a service that is called Car Buying Concierge.

It can be such an ordeal to buy a car so its very nice to have some help with it. I have learned the hard way that the salesman will work hard to sell you a car you don’t even want. Fortunately, I’m pretty hard headed and it hasn’t worked with me. In fact, my husband has laughed at how I deal with car salesmen. He says he’s going to let me deal with them every time we buy a car. Its not that I’m that good at it. Its that I’m that cheap. I don’t like spending more money than I have to spend on something and I know they’ll come down in price. I know they want to sell the car even if it means making a smaller profit. So I keep at it until I can tell they won’t go any lower. My husband thinks that’s really funny!

That why its good to have a company like CARCHEX. They are available 24/7 and whenever you are ready to purchase new or used they are there waiting to help you with the step by step process.

I think this could be a very useful service for people who are uncomfortable dealing with sales people or are uncertain about making major purchases. You can call them or chat with them via live chat. The service is free which is even better. How about you? What’s happened to you when you have bought a car? Could a service like CARCHEX help you in purchasing a new car?