Screenwriting, Screenplays, Monomyth, Hero`s Journey
By Kal Bishop - 04/01/2008
The Monomyth is another term for the Hero?s Journey. The concept derives from the idea that there is, in fact, only one story and that it is retold universally and cross culturally. There are at least 188 stages to this story. The Hero?s Journey (or Monomyth) originates with the dawn of Man in Mesop...
Orion Telescope-A Matter of Quality
By Eriani Doyel - 04/01/2008
In 1975, the Orion Telescope Company began as a mail order catalog company offering telescopes for both new and seasoned astronomers. They joined with the Imaginova Company in 1999 to better serve their customers and market their product. Orion offers telescopes but they also sell binoculars for al...
Teach Your Kids To Eat The Healthy Way Without All The Complaining
By Janna Hagan - 04/01/2008
Help you and your kid`s follow the food pyramid by avoiding fast food and unhealthy food choices. With the fast food restaurant down the street, it can be a tempting convenience, but an unhealthy food choice for your family. It is getting harder and harder to please families with whatever type of me...
How To Start Your Information Technology Career - Or Jumpstart It!
By Chris Bryant - 04/01/2008
Many newcomers to the IT field are surprised when they find out it`s tougher to get that first job than they thought it would be. I know exactly what that`s like. I`ve had a great career in IT and I`d recommend it to anyone, but I had a tough time breaking in as well. I`d like to share some tips ...
Product Review: Bubble Bath from Bath Time Suds
By Kara Kelso - 04/01/2008
What kid doesn`t like to splash around in a bubble bath? Bath Time Suds offers several sizes and scents to put the fun back into bath time! Our package from Bath Time Suds came very quickly - excellent shipping times. The 4oz bottle of bubble bath was packed extremely well, I was impressed with that...
Chinese Dumplings on Chinese New Year
By Shelia Woo - 04/01/2008
One of my fondest childhood memories is the celebrations around Chinese New Year. This was a time of great excitement and joy, families came together, children were given gifts, and everyone enjoyed traditional New Year?s foods. Perhaps my favorite New Year food was Chinese dumplings. Each New Year?...
The Benefits of Fireproof Home Safes
By Steve Valentino - 04/01/2008
A home fire can destroy your house and all your belongings. You probably have smoke detectors on every floor, have a family escape plan, and know to call 911 in a home fire emergency. But have you protected your valuable possessions? A fireproof home safe is an easy way to protect your most importan...
Gas Scooters Safety Rules For Staying Alive!
By J Larry Alan - 04/01/2008
Gas motor scooters are often thought of as toys, innocent and cheap fun. But it`s exactly that type of thinking that can get a gas scooter driver into deep trouble. First and foremost scooters are motor vehicles just like motorcycles and automobiles. They share the road with other cars and trucks an...
A Brief History of Tattooing
By David Z - 04/01/2008
Because the historical and archaeological records of most forms of body art are incomplete, we still don`t know where and where tattooing originated. Tattooed mummies provide the earliest concrete evidence of tattoo, and these have been found in various parts of the world, from Nubia to Peru. Probab...
The Humanscale Freedom Saddle Seat, Offering Unique Options for Task Stools
By Amy Lieberfarb - 04/01/2008
Humanscale has become a name that is well known in the world of ergonomic design and style. They are respected in the office furniture world for their unique ergonomic design, adjustability features and stylish look. When seated in the Freedom Saddle Stool, you can almost immediately feel your back ...
Aquamarine Gemstones
By Julie Lee - 04/01/2008
March`s birthstone and the traditional stone for a nineteenth wedding anniversary, Aquamarine is the greenish-blue to blue-green variety of the mineral beryl (which includes emerald and the pink variety called morganite). The name comes from the Latin for "sea water." People in the Middle Ages thoug...
Bragada Mattress
By Paul Cris - 04/01/2008
The bedroom is a place where you can unwind after a hectic day. The room should offer a person complete relaxation. The bed plays a huge part in providing the required relaxation after a good day?s work. But often you find that people are not happy with their sleep, look tired or have back pain in t...
What Makes a Bestseller? - Canon PowerShot S410
By Melinda White - 04/01/2008
Canon PowerShot S410 4MP Digital Elph with 3x Optical Zoom The Canon PowerShot S410 4MP digital camera is the bestseller among the 4 - 4.9 MegaPixel cameras. What makes this camera the best? The features, the look, the price? Let`s see... Product Description Updating the popular S400 Digital Elph, C...
Job Resignation - Counter Offer Issues
By Mark Baber - 04/01/2008
You are currently employed, but dissatisfied with
the slow pace of your career. So you decide to
quietly investigate other job opportunities, to
see if anything good pops up. You manage to find a prospective employer
who appreciates your job experience, your personality,
your training. And, you seem...
Screenwriting Structure ? Part 7 and 8 (of 17)
By Kal Bishop - 04/01/2008
The hero?s journey is the screenwriting template. Screenwriters can use it to write effective screenplays. Below are a few of the elements of each stage of the journey. Meeting with the Goddess. Encountering a supreme ideal. In Out of Africa (1985), Karen is drawn to the possibility of...
Creating Job Opportunities At Work
By Mark Baber - 04/01/2008
In this article, we will take an in-depth look at why new ideas rarely survive within corporate organizations, and how you can counter these factors, and open the way for innovation; thereby creating some very unique and viable career opportunities that you may not have ever considered for yourself ...
A Brief History of Golden Caskets
By Thomas Morva - 04/01/2008
Caskets made entirely of gold are very rare. When they are found, they are usually priceless artifacts of historical significance. In the modern day, some people choose to buy caskets with decorative golden inlays. It is important to keep in mind that not all caskets are used in burial or funerals...
Christmas Recipes: Main Dishes. No.8 of 12 - Christmas Pheasant
By Paul Curran - 04/01/2008
Christmas recipe serves: 6
calories per serving: 490
preparation time: 30 minutes
cooking time: 2 hours 15 minutes
suitable for freezing (after step 4) Christmas recipe ingredients: - shallots or small onions, 225 g (8oz)
- streaky bacon, rindless 225 g (8 oz)
- pheasants, ...
What to Watch For When Buying Child Ugg Boot
By Brian Fong - 04/01/2008
Children are more in tune to today?s marketing mania than most parents realize. The producers of television and radio stations that are geared towards children select and run advertisements that are especially created to attract the attention of this younger audience. Today?s children are more capab...
Hookah Tobacco
By Ross Bainbridge - 04/01/2008
The tobacco used in hookahs is different than that associated with cigarettes, or, indeed, any other form of smoking. It is, traditionally, a damp blend--called tobamel or maassel--of fresh tobacco leaves with molasses or honey and semi-dried fruit or fruit pulp. Some smokers would add pomegranate j...
Resealable Plastic Bags
By Marcus Peterson - 04/01/2008
One of the best inventions in the plastic bags industry is resealable plastic bags. Apart from the advantages provided by regular plastic bags such as strength, durability, versatility, and variety, resealable plastic bags have the additional advantage of being reusable. Resealable plastic bags can ...
Holiday Shopping the Easy Way
By Sylvia Calhoun - 04/01/2008
This article has been written to save you gas, money, and time with your holiday shopping. I have been shopping for years. (Clothes being my specialty) I have been to many a mall at 8:30pm during the holiday season, waiting in line while my feet ache and sweat ran down my brow. The thought of carr...
Research Department Tips
By Keri Wissell - 04/01/2008
The SearchLogix Group?s Research Department utilizes job boards. Job boards, such as Monster, can be very useful. The ?perfect? candidate is never found on a job board; however, we almost always find someone who could potentially ?lead? us to a candidate who might be. The SearchLogix Group uses j...
For Amazing Effects Choose Line 6 Guitar Amps Spider II
By Jeremy Hier - 04/01/2008
Line 6 guitar amps Spider II deliver seven exciting
different types of effects, consisting of chorus/flanger,
phaser, tremolo, digital delay, tape echo, and sweep
echo. By using Smart FX all effects can be tweaked
easily, Top Tempo allows adjustment of delay times. Line 6 has equipped the Spider II ...
I`m a Work at Home Mom, But I Still Use My Crock Pot
By Sherry Frewerd - 04/01/2008
Most of my friends work outside of their homes. That?s not unusual. There are a few of us, however, who have chosen to stay at home with our young children. We?re the minority, but still not unusual. What should be considered unusual is the discovery recently uncovered among my group of busy female ...
Changing Careers at 50 - Are You Crazy?
By Kurt Stewart - 04/01/2008
It was all just too much fun. Really. I moved to Portland, Oregon last year after living and working in Europe for 23 years. I was on a self-induced sabbatical and I thought I?d get an office job to earn a modest living while there. I just assumed that this would be easy to do, like mowing lawns in ...
A Guide to Hookah Smoking
By Ross Bainbridge - 04/01/2008
The slow and relaxed experience of smoking a hookah, which includes preparation of the hookah and the tobacco, is the whole point of hookah smoking. It`s not about a buzz or a nicotine fix, it`s about the relaxed space, among friends and out of time, that is created by the hookah and the act of smok...
Chop Till You Drop
By Lisa Paterson - 04/01/2008
You use it everyday in the Kitchen. If not looked after it can make you sick ? And yet you probably never give it a second thought. The Chopping Board is a large board you use in the kitchen for chopping, cutting and preparing food on. When purchasing a new board there are heaps of options to choose...
Juicer Comparison: From Confused To Connoisseur In 80 RPM`s
By Rika Susan - 04/01/2008
No need to do a juicer comparison? Let`s see... So you want a juicer. You go wherever you go to buy kitchen gadgets. The salesperson or website starts to spit out all these tongue-twisters: juice extractor, centrifugal, triturator, masticating, hydraulic press, single-gear, double-gear, high noise l...
ABC`s "Nightstalker"
By Nicky Jones - 04/01/2008
I`m sure many of you horror or SCI-FI fans remember the old "Kolchak:The Nightstalker" series from the mid 70s which only lasted 1 year on ABC. The series starred Darren Mcgavin as a semi-goofy reporter named Carl Kolchak who was always out to uncover the truth about weird and mysterious stories suc...
What the Trend in Online Databases Means to the Employment Screening Industry
By Cathy Taylor - 04/01/2008
The most prominent trend in the employment screening industry has been a proliferation of online databases offering cheap background checks. Any one can access the internet and with a quick search be able to purchase, for example, criminal records for a low fee. While that is very appealing to com...
How To Find Best Online Deals When Shopping For Software
By John Deprice - 04/01/2008
With so many comparison shopping search engines, you no longer have an excuse to buy software full price. These simple pointers will show you how to get 10-50% off practically any software or game. Tip One - compare the price comparison engines. The top three price comparison engines are Froogle (b...
Job Search On The Web
By Terje Ellingsen - 04/01/2008
Job search on the internet has gradually become common. The rapid growth of the online culture with more and more people surfing the web followed by more and more different offers, mean that the internet has become a useful tool for many everyday activities. We have also seen an increase in the num...
Publish or Perish: It?s Not Only for Academia, Part 2
By Emily Hanlon - 04/01/2008
The Writer`s Journey Is the Biggest Payoff of All! There are ways, too, to share our writing short of being published. Several come to mind. I think of Terry, a writer in one of my weekly workshops. He?d been working on his book for several years and during that time, the make-up of the group hadn?t...
Graduating With A Plan of Action
By Ann Baehr - 04/01/2008
Congratulations, you?ve just graduated with a degree in your chosen field. So what?s your next step going to be to launch your long-anticipated career? Like a young racehorse at the starting gate, you have tons of energy and determination, and are anxious to get out there and seize new career opport...
L`Equip Juicer Collection - Limitless Luscious Liquids
By Rika Susan - 04/01/2008
The L`Equip Juicer range bowls one over with its quality, ease of use, and sleek styles. The company clearly doesn`t believe in producing `just another juicer`! As far as centrifugal-ejection juicers go, the L`Equip Juicer Model 221 must rate as one of the very best. Apparently L`Equip agrees, as th...
Guide To Buying Wine Glasses
By Brian G Johnson - 04/01/2008
You?ve heard somewhere or read somewhere that wine must be served in the best crystal to get its full advantage, well not necessarily but there are a few basic principles to remember when choosing glasses that will help you get the best from your favorite bottle. It is true however that the appearan...
What is Your Reputation Really Worth on eBay?
By Paul Duxbury - 04/01/2008
Your eBay reputation is everything you are on eBay ? without it, you?re nothing. Your reputation is worth as much as every sale you will ever make. If you?ve ever bought anything on eBay (and the chances are you have), then think about your own behaviour. Buying from a seller with a low feedback rat...
The Emergence of Sewing Machines
By Alison Cole - 04/01/2008
Sewing machines are one of the great inventions credited with transforming the economies of global societies. In 1851 that Isaac Merritt Singer, after studying a poorly working example, spent $40 and 11 days to develop a practical sewing machine that used an up and down mechanism. The first Singer s...
Yamaha Motorcycles - Creativity and Spirit of Challenge
By Daniel Levy - 04/01/2008
"If you are going to do something, be the best"
Ginichi Kawakami, Yamaha Motor Company First President. Yamaha Motorcycles, under this motto, employing all its creativity, and with a very strong spirit of challenge, became what it is now: one of the biggest players in the worldwide motorcycling ...
History of Ketchup
By Shauna Hanus - 04/01/2008
Ketchup dates back as far as 1600 AD when sailors traveling to China discovered a sauce made of soy or oysters called ?ketsiap?. This
version quickly changed ingredients to include mushrooms, anchovies, shallots, and lemon peel. Then in the late 1700?s tomato ketchup
appeared in Nova Scotia and ...
A Book Review: ?The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements"
By Nash Ville - 12/02/2007
You can never find a graphic art professional who doesn?t know about Adobe Photoshop. This well-known professional digital imaging tool has been widely used in the world of web and graphic design. Adobe Photoshop Elements, on the other hand, is the student-friendly version of Adobe Photoshop. Photos...
6 Important Tips For Rose Care In Your Rose Garden
By Bob Roy - 08/02/2007
Many people could not resist a rose`s beauty and scent. Imagine this coming from your rose garden. These flowers are known to be a bit complicated to grow, but anyone could start rose gardening in the comfort of her own backyard. Good rose care will keep it beautiful.
To make sure that your most p...
How To Become A Mystery Shopper
By Jeff Schuman - 04/02/2007
?Like this shirt? I got it at the mall, free. We?re going to dinner tonight, free. Oh look, another check in the mail and another PayPal deposit. C?mon kids, we?re going to BurgerLand, free. This new hammer, free. A bouquet of flowers? For Me? How beautiful and free.?
Nothing in this world is fr...
Shopping Tips for Collectible Figurines
By Irene Graham - 29/01/2007
Precious Moments collectible figurines are among the most popular in the world. Doe-eyed boys and girls made in pastel ceramics adorn the shelves, dressers, and display areas of countless homes. There are numerous types and styles of figurines that people can buy to build a personal collection in ad...
How to Make Your Own Swimsuit
By Vanessa Lausch - 22/01/2007
Summer is nearly here, and it is time to ensure the maximum amount of fun and relaxation for those fun, warm months. You have your pool and/or spa ready to go, but do you have that ideal, flattering swimsuit to showcase all of your hard work? As most women know, shopping for a swimsuit can be one ...
Flower Pictures - A Mild Obsession #2
By Patrick Heathcock - 19/01/2007
So a gorgeous yellow daisy mesmerises me, swaying elegantly in the light afternoon breeze, bathed in the warm light. Mmmm...emotions gently bubble to the surface, excitement foremost, followed by the deep satisfaction that I`ve been able to make time to return to this spot to revisit my yellow daisy...
Training Beautiful Flowering Shrubs into Unique Ornamental Trees
By Michael McGroarty - 18/01/2007
There is nothing more beautiful than a flowering shrub in full bloom, except maybe a flowering shrub in full bloom that has been trained to grow as a single stem tree. Imagine having a fragrant Viburnum Tree next to your patio or outside your bedroom window, waking up to such a wonderful aroma.
Go...
Shopping for a Mattress? Get In the NOW!
By Neil Teasdale - 16/01/2007
It still amazes me to see that in almost every walk of life, consumers are looking for the latest and greatest on the market. Except when shopping for a mattress, it still seems that people are drawn to the `same old same old` one mattress fits all coils and springs. Ouch! But that`s not the big kic...
Design a Web Album Using Adobe Photoshop- Part 2
By Robert Kennedy - 25/01/2006
So let`s begin crunching down these 300 images using Adobe Photoshop from start to finish. When I say `crunching`, to some 300 images may seem like allot, but it`s not. I have done jobs for clients that have 100,000 plus images. When you have that many images to produce there are other programs I u...
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