Everyone wants to celebrate a new graduate with a party, but feting your high schoolers graduation shouldnt cost as much as the first semesters college tuition. Ginger Venable, party planner at graduationparties.com and author of Graduation Parties: Everything You Need to Know From Start to Finish, says planning ahead is the key to keeping a [...]
If you are a pet owner, then you need to know some life saving information to protect your pet during severe weather. The National Association of Pet Sitters (NAPPS) offers strategies for pet parents facing the problems associated with severe storms or tornadoes. Preparation is essential. Household pets are in great danger during tornadoes, states [...]
Zoo Story is the latest in TeamLavas Story series of games for iPhone, iPad and iPad Touch. In Zoo Story, you can create and grow the zoo of your dreams and discover countless wild animals from the jungle, ocean and beyond! To play the game and successfully manage your own zoo, you need to breed [...]
Culturally, gift-giving is not rational … In fact, much of consumer behavior, including gift-buying rituals and holidays, is completely irrational. The insight comes from Cele Otnes, a University of Illinois professor of business administration. Otnes was prompted to discuss the rationality (of lack thereof) of consumers behavior–specifically when it comes to buying infomercial products like [...]
In light of the cat that was shot in the head with an arrow in the Santa Cruz area earlier this month, I urge readers to protect their animal companions by never allowing them outdoors unattended. Every day, countless animals are used for target practice, stolen for experimentation, used as bait for dogfighting, poisoned (accidentally [...]
A remedy to high gas prices could be found by looking to Illinois’ own natural resources, US Sen. Mark Kirk said Monday. Kirk proposed ideas for easing the pain at the pump, including research on harnessing natural gas from shale in the Illinois basin, making tax credits for renewable energy permanent, speeding up the drilling [...]
This year I plan to turn over the RSVPs to my wife, and not just because two of the three weddings are for youngsters on her side of the family. To accept an invitation requires no end of planning – from travel arrangements to gift-buying to clothes-shopping – and is best handled through the logistical [...]
Registration has opened for six-week studio classes at the Pickens County Museum of Art History, 307 Johnson St., Pickens. The classes are for adults. Tuition for each class is $78 for museum members and $88 for nonmembers. Preregistration is required. article source
CARNESVILLE – Veterinarians in Franklin County will once again join forces with the County Health Department to provide low-cost rabies vaccines. An annual rabies clinic is set to happen May 14 at 10 locations across the county. Louis Korff, the county environmental health director, said rabies is still a problem in certain types of wildlife, [...]
AUSTIN — Sen. Robert Duncan revealed his much-anticipated list of non-tax revenue ideas to the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday. The revenue, which includes 20 items totaling $4.1 billion, will help pay for the Senates budget proposal, which the committee is expected to vote on later this week. In the past few weeks, the committee [...]