It was discovered, last Monday, that a tree has grown in Brooklyn, NY. Amazed residents stared dumbfounded at the three-year-old sapling. Two girls discovered the North American Honey Birch (Honeyus Bircheus) on the way to school. "At first I thought, like, it was just a tall weed," Melissa Hanes, 1...

Make your life enjoyable, buy a decent chromatic tuner. Don?t try to tune your guitar by ear or by using a pitch pipe. If you are new to the instrument use a tuner. For example a Korg CA-30 Chromatic Tuner Using a chromatic tuner is quite easy. Plug the guitar into the tuner using a standard guitar ...

With the college basketball season in full swing, Matt Fargo takes a look at three big games on tap that you cannot miss this Saturday. While Connecticut/Indiana and Florida/Kentucky are getting the headlines, there are bigger happenings in the smaller conferences that you should be aware of. Southe...

Longer golf drives are the desire of every golfer. Yet this is something that remains elusive to many golfers. Yet this should not be the case. Achieving longer golf drives is much easier than most people realize. It is really just a matter of improving on your strength and endurance. Some simple go...

Have you ever dreamed of penning your own compositions? Writing music has been a dream of mine for the longest time. And it`s a dream I am fortunate enough to have realized. The idea of having a finished piece of music in front of you is exciting to say the least, but many students rush the process ...

Almost all engineers approach their mixes differently. I like to think of my mix, from the very first track all the way to the mastering stage, as a house. The first thing you need when building a house is a good foundation. Your low end should provide you with this. It is on this foundation that...

Sea and rich people: where else to find a better combination than in Monaco! A real Monaco yachts parade can be admired throughout the year in the Hercule Port, beside the local yearly yachting events. From imposing, big-sized ones to neat, small, jewel yachts. If you are a yachting amateur or if yo...

There has been a lot of controversy about steroids in baseball. Does it enhance performance and what are the side effects. Are records today the result of steroids. And are athletes harming themselves. First of all, we need to understand what is a steroid. And why do players use it. Anabolic steroi...

If you`re looking for a quick way to transpose guitar chords, then you`ll want to use a capo. These nifty little gadgets are a great way to change keys WITHOUT changing all the chord shapes you`ve been using to play the song. Capos can also be especially handy if you`ve spent a lot of time le...

The most famous Egyptian pyramids to be built are the Great Pyramids of Giza, located in the outskirts of present-day Cairo. There are over 100 Egyptian pyramids of various sizes, and over 50 more in neighboring Sudan. However, the three Great Pyramids of Giza earn their fame by being the largest of...

When was the last time you saw an eagle descend from the sky, or stood in awe as a glacier cracked and an ice berg emerged? Imagine your sense of wonder as you glide past glacier after glacier or your first sight of a cresting whale. While we have much to be proud of in our Alberta parks, I think Al...

It is early fall here in Southern Oregon. The trees are full of color, and so are the rivers and streams. If you have ever wanted to witness firsthand the majesty, power and persistence of Salmon and Steelhead, then you owe it to yourself to jump in your car, hop the next train or bus, or take to th...

Jonathan Levitt, an GM with a lot of chess experience under his belt, created what I believe is one of the most effective and simple, "self-tests" to determine chess aptitude. This test is discussed in his book, "Genius in Chess." To take the test, you first need to know how to understand the diagr...

At some point, every serious writer is forced to sit down and conclude that there is something seriously wrong with their work. It wanders; it is pretty in some spots and horribly ugly in others. It doesn`t always make sense, and is uneven in places. Even though every sentence is grammatically corre...

?Now that he?s alone again??said Muse Harding. I stopped short of responding, I really didn?t want anything to do with old man Beck. My uncle Jeffery told me the old man was dangerous, that he may not look or act it, but he had kind of one of those?so he called, ?evil eyes.? Oddly I thought it was,...

[Headlong] ?Come?hier bitte?Günter,? [here please] asked Carmen, distinctly; again getting caught with her thinking in English and German at the same time. ?Ja??? said Günter, eyes moving kind of nervously, as he took in a deep breath as if to say: now what. She was about to make a headlong assault...

You may wonder why I have chosen this title of this post. Well from my experience is that it is really hard to put the feeling into words about what letter writing means to me. Letter writing is becoming a lost art on many levels. It is fading into the background of society. It is still practised by...