| Five Facts About Prostate Cancer Every Man Should Know
His doctors said if he had been diagnosed earlier, he could have survived. Fogelberg's death has shined light on a disease the American Cancer Society calls the most common cancer, other than skin cancers, in American men. Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men; only lung cancer ranks higher. The nonprofit estimates that about one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime, but just one in 35 will die of it. With data such as this, every male who has reached 40 should arm himself with the information that can keep him from becoming a statistic. Dr. Arnon Krongard, president of the Krongard Institute and chairman of the Prostate Cancer Mission, believes that knowing the following five facts will put men in a better position to survive this deadly cancer: 1.
Defend yourself from bad buying
Smart spending advice is all around, and deals abound in all categories of spending. Sometimes it can be a quick tip that provides the ''ah-hah'' moment -- the figurative light bulb goes on -- and ''ka-ching,'' money stays in your pocket.
Here's a list of tips and insights, from holiday spending to phone services.
Holiday regrets. How's that holiday spending hangover? Long after the gift-wrap found its way to the landfill, people had regrets about how they spent their money and their time over the holidays, according to a post-holiday survey. I helped develop the survey with personal finance speaker Matt Bell of MoneyPurposeJoy.com and market-research firm Synovate.
About 30 percent of people said they wished they had spent less money on gifts during the holidays, and 28 percent wished they spent less time shopping in stores.
Obama and Progressive Change
I don¹t want to overstate the case for Barack Obama, who has been fairly circumspect about his intentions if elected. While saying he is against the Iraq War, he has not acted very forcefully to help bring it to an end. And he certainly has not called for any downsizing of America's bloated military budget or any end to its imperialist foreign policy‹absolutely essential if there is to be any progressive change of consequence in the US. That said, those who believe that the Democratic Party is firmly in the hands of a malignant and self-serving corporate and political elite have to explain why "³their" candidate, Hillary Clinton, seems to be sinking. Meanwhile, it must be acknowledged that the Obama phenomenon is a real thing. That is to say, whatever his personal politics, his candidacy is genuinely igniting a wave of passionate support across the nation among people‹particularly the young, and more recently African Americans-who had for years been ignored by, and consequently disinterested in the political process.
Teen`s Interview With John Lennon Yields Oscar Nod
A 1969 encounter between a 14 year-old Beatles fan and John Lennon has inspired "I Met the Walrus," a five-minute Canadian film contending for an Oscar for best animated short. Think "Almost Famous" with the Beatles. Except this portrait of a young boy in a dream landscape is told from his lips. The voice track for "I Met the Walrus" is based on an interview Jerry Levitan did 39 years ago with a surprisingly accommodating John Lennon. Levitan, now a lawyer in Toronto, recalls doorstepping as a fake photographer to get into Lennon and Yoko Ono's room at the city's King Edward Hotel. "My heart was beating so fast. I was like Al Pacino in 'The Godfather,' where he's in the restaurant with the planted gun and about to kill the cop," he says, remembering how he summoned the courage to knock at Lennon's door.
moon phase info
La Nina and severe weather in the Ohio Valley...there seems to be a bond between the two entities. Much like the bond between Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, or Daryl Hall and John Oates, or maybe even Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson. You get the idea. Just for review, La Nina is the abnormal cooling of the tropical Pacific waters that usually spells warm and wet weather for the Blue Grass state. But when that warm, moist air clashes with colder, drier air to the north, stronger-than-normal storm systems for mid-winter standards tend to be the result. The past tells us a La Nina pattern can be a recipe for trouble in this part of the world. Sure enough, history repeated itself on February 5th. The "Super Tuesday Outbreak" was one for the ages! Now I won't rehash all the stats about that deadly night in this post (our links about that are on the weather page just below the forecast discussion), but I want to discuss how similar our current pattern is to another La Nina season: 1973-1974.
Enjoy winter's stark beauty in shades of gray
It can be hard to appreciate the stark beauty of winter. Storms sweep in with whirling snow on howls of wind broken only by occasional days of frozen silence. For many people, these gloomy weeks seem depressing and endless. But for anyone who loves taking black-and-white photographs, this winter has been a rare gift. Nature's elemental forces are revealed in a way they aren't during milder winters. .
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