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Health & Wellness

Pay Attention to your Prostate

What the heck is a prostate gland? Only men have a prostate gland, which starts out as the size and shape of a walnut, but grows bigger as you age. It is located underneath the bladder and surrounds the urethra. Its main job is to help make semen.   How do you get prostate cancer? Prostate cancer occurs when some of the prostate cells reproduce far more rapidly than normal, […]

todayNovember 14, 2018

Home Improvement

Fighting Porch Pirates

We are coming on to that holiday season, and with it, a major increase in online orders and package deliveries. On average, package deliveries double during the three weeks before Christmas, which is fine, unless you are one of the 25.9 million Americans that will have a package delivery stolen this holiday season.   The problem is that it’s hard to guarantee your package is safe once delivered. That delivery […]

todayNovember 14, 2018

Food & Drink

All That Glitters is not Gold Flaked

In seeking those elusive Instagram follower fame, people have gone food-trend foolish.  One of the worst seen this year is shellacking your edibles with the precious ore. Gold flake-dusted dishes seem to be everywhere these days, but why stop at flakes when your entire dish could be covered in gold? From chicken wings to chocolate, dusting food with gold is the latest edible trend to be embraced by chefs and […]

todayNovember 14, 2018

Fashion

Platform Sneakers Are Back!

If you loved your LA Gear chunky high-top sneakers and cried the day you finally had to face parting with them, your dreams have just come true. Platform sneakers, those crazy 90’s step aerobics-inspired footwear staples, are back with a vengeance. But these aren’t your grandma’s Jazzersize sneaks, oh no. Brands like Fila, Naked Wolfe, Converse, Buffalo, Nike, Steve Madden, Jeffrey Campbell and Modern Girl have all come out with […]

todayNovember 14, 2018

Tech Made Simple

XBox Drops One on Black Friday

Microsoft is offering its latest Xbox One X console at its lowest price point ever for Black Friday. The software maker is dropping the price to $399, a hundred dollars off the normal retail for the Black Friday bargain hunters. Microsoft’s deal will be available at a variety of retailers, but the company warns it’s a limited offer between November 18th and 26th.   But Microsoft isn’t stopping there. Alongside […]

todayNovember 14, 2018

Tech Made Simple

Amazon Cozies Up to Apple

If you’re an Amazon shopping junkie with an iPhone habit, you just hit the jackpot. The online retail behemoth has made a deal with Apple to sell all its best-selling portable communication gadgets, including iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches direct from its website.   Technically Amazon has offered Apple products before, but those have been sold from third-party sellers, which means that the prices are often variable (and wildly different […]

todayNovember 13, 2018

Food & Drink

Chicken Soup is Good for the Soul…and Flu

Tis the cold and flu season, and when you’re feeling crummy, nothing seems to taste better than a comforting, steaming bowl of chicken soup. But is it, as old wives tales tell us, really going to cure what ails us?   According to the National Institutes of Health, the idea of hot soup as a cold and flu remedy has been around since at least the 12th century and may […]

todayNovember 13, 2018

Health & Wellness

Take A Nap!

Do you love to make like a cat and snooze away some of the afternoon hours? Don’t feel guilty about it! Turns out napping has a whole slew of health benefits, including: Makes you Leaner Turns out getting a few Z’s helps you lose weight by upping your metabolism and shifting chemicals that affect appetite, so you’ll want to eat less while you burn more calories. Makes your more Productive […]

todayNovember 13, 2018

Home Improvement

Don’t Fall Down on the Job

It’s getting late in the Fall season, and there are some simple maintenance to-do’s that are really musts before Winter hits your home. Clean Out your Dryer Vents It may sound silly, but lint build up in your dryer can cause a clog that will seriously increase your fire risk. The good news is, it’s an easy fix. Empty your lint trap every time you use your dryer. Every. Single. […]

todayNovember 13, 2018

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