Indian Garden is where the riders who are overnighting at Phantom Ranch separate from the day riders and embark on their own private adventure. Although they have now come half the distance from the South Rim to Phantom Ranch, a quick look back up at the rim will verify that they have descended two thirds…
Late fall is the time of year to prepare your lawn and sprinkler or irrigation system for the coming winter months. To avoid the damaging effects of frozen pipes and sprinkler heads, you can either prepare your sprinkler system yourself or hire a professional to winterize your system for you. The extent that your system…
Modern digital signage (DS) media players do not use typical PC architecture. This is a crucial distinction. A modern DS media player is essentially a media appliance to the Internet. It contains optimized hardware and software to accomplish the task at hand-nothing else. Of course, today’s choices for digital signage include displays with built-in players…
Regardless of where any of us actually work as guitarists, there usually comes a time when many of us dream of wearing the major label tour coat (perhaps one with a pretty rainbow on it). Yes, many of us dream of making millions and millions of dollars, driving fast cars, and touring the world with…
Mexico is a diverse country and a millennial culture with the Olmecan tribe being the first civilization that appeared around 1500 years BC. Mexico is rich in traditions, history, art and religion offering a complete tourist infrastructure that guarantees a comfortable and secure stay of those visiting its different destinations. Mexico has everything! Mexican travel…
Firstly, it is very important to have a Technicoloured coat, because this is what sets you apart from other businesses, so if you do not have one already, this is something that you need to work on before moving to the next step. Secondly, you can only have one Technicoloured coat, in metaphorical terms, anything…
To see the best of the "Other Europe," go to Budapest, Hungary, the city on the Danube, the city of rose-tinted sunsets and ancient hills crowned with fabled fortresses. It is both the capital of Hungary, home to 2 million of the country's 10 million people, and the seat of Hungarian history. It is a…
Over the long nineteen year period … the problem was not with the handling of the boys. The problem was with my ex-wife. From day one, she did everything for them … clean their rooms, pick up after them, etc. If I assigned the boys a chore, she would do it for them if she…
In a previous article I discussed how important it is to have a solid footwork foundation. Now it’s time to expand your setting skills to include not only footwork but your hands as well. There are three main principles that you should keep in mind when setting: 1. Your hands need to be both soft…
Last week it was my daughter Heather's birthday-now 25! Out of college, employed, about to get married, and wise, and pretty, I could not be but the proudest father on Earth. I thought I heard her say, "… a promotion with a salary increase," as she punched the microwave buttons to heat the fudge. In…
Building your dream home yet remaining within a realistic budget can be one of the most challenging aspects of home building. If you build the dream home you really want but can’t afford you either don’t build or surpass your budget and probably lose your home in the process. At the other spectrum, you may…
Slow cookers are often tucked away in a cabinet and seldom thought of as a regular kitchen tool. Most of us cook from habit; grab a familiar pan and stand over the stove stirring and adding ingredients. Think of the time and energy that could be saved as we learn to rely on the slow…
If you decide that you want to start your janitorial company you should not just start buying supplies and equipment and look for people to work for your company. You need to take the time to do research on whom your perspective customers will be and drawing up a business plan. The business plan is…
Education is a social process; Education is growth; Education is not preparation for life; Education is life itself. — John Dewey The prosperity of a country depends not on the abundance of its revenues, not on the strength of its fortifications, not on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number…
One aspect of electrical appliances that tends to cause a lot of confusion is the question “What fuse should this appliance have?” In this article, we look at fuses in detail and give guidelines on how to work out the correct fuse for the appliance. What are fuses? A fuse is an electrical component that…