Abundantia, goddess of prosperity and good fortune
Abundantia (abundance) is a Roman goddess, personification of abundance, prosperity and good fortune. She is loosely modeled after Demeter and resembles Copia, Annona, and other goddesses of wealth, harvest, and prosperity. His name can be written Habundia, Abundia, Habonde, Abonde or Habundie. Its attributes are the cornucopia, a golden pod of grain or palm leaf. […]
How to Make Cake, Egg, Milk and Sugar Decorating Supplies Into a POWERFUL Cake Design Business
How would you like to have a very lucrative life, working from home, creating cakes to DIE? How about a professional cake design business? Enter the cake decorator, yes YOU! Think about this. How many special occasions can you think of that might require a very SPECIAL type of cake? – Answer, HUNDRED! Weddings, 18th […]
Why is Zend your ultimate PHP framework?
Web development frameworks are like abstractions where developers enter code to create complete web applications with greater precision while consuming less time. Zend is one of those frameworks dedicated to agile web development and it is helping companies develop custom web applications on the go. While most of the components available from Zend are absolutely […]
Cookbook classics
If you only have room for a few cookbooks in your kitchen, here are some classic cookbooks to consider. Fannie Farmer’s Cookbook Tea Fannie Farmer’s Cookbook, still in print more than a century after its first publication in 1896, it was originally titled The Boston Cookery School Cookbook. The Farmer’s Cookbook was a follow-up to […]
How to become a self-taught photographer?
You can search many photography web pages, professional photographer sites, galleries, etc., but you will not find the exact information on how to become a great photographer all at once. It is clear: to seriously pursue a photographic profession requires a lot of desire, patience and knowledge. In short, you must work hard to achieve […]
The brotherhood of fatherhood
As a kid growing up in Baltimore City, I often wondered what it would be like to be a father. I always felt in some way that he would make a good father, but I wasn’t sure how he would get there. For most of my childhood, I grew up in a single family home […]
The Commie Chronicles – Episode 1
Everywhere I look, someone says, “Oh, Ed, what’s wrong with you? Communism is dead.” Don’t worry, the communists closed down in the early 90’s when the former Soviet Union collapsed. And don’t we all wish that was true? Communists are like snakes in the grass, slithering until it is time to strike. In 2008, with […]
Clear and Present Danger: Running Outdoors with Headphones
(Not the movie starring Harrison Ford as CIA agent Jack Ryan) Safety Headphones 2 Running with headphones reduces awareness of your physical surroundings. If you’re running on a tape, click on the playlist. When you are outdoors, being less than fully aware of your physical surroundings compromises your personal safety. Like it or not, all […]
Trimming the tag end of a fishing knot – how short is it to cut
In fishing, as in life, your actions have consequences. If you constantly find that your fishing knots are unraveling, then you may be causing that to happen by cutting the tag end of your fishing knot too short. How short should it be? That is exactly what you will discover in this article. Let’s back […]
Film Noir Legends: Bette Davis, Claire Trevor, Eleanor Parker and John Huston
When it comes to cinema, I love the ones that were made during the 1940s and 1950s when, in my opinion, films were not made so much for their profitability, but for the art itself and the messages it contains. As a child I watched the local version of The Sunday Matinee Movie and got […]