Let’s face it, there is a lot of bad news in the job and financial world these days.
But here is a list of the 5 fast growing job sectors:
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Avoiding Parking Lot Accidents 1
Did you know that 20% of all car accidents happen in parking lots?
According to the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers Association, one out of every five auto accidents occurs in a parking lot.
And that total does not even include all the small nicks, dents, scratches and dings that usually go unreported.
Parking lot crashes often occur at low speeds, but they still can lead to expensive repairs, and higher insurance premiums, not to mention hassle.
Even worse, sometimes drivers and pedestrians can be injured in the car park if they are not vigilant
Book Review: Ghost from the Past: A Romantic Thriller by Sorcha Macmurrough
5.0 out of 5 stars Vulnerable and Betrayed
I really loved the dark, scarred, brooding hero in this gripping book. The hero’s major issues with the heroine make him oscillate between him being made to believe, by the agents pulling his strings, that his former fiancee had betrayed him and tried to murder him, versus trusting to love amid the most dire situation they have suddenly found themselves in.
Surrounded by double agents, and convinced she isn’t telling him the whole story, he is constantly being forced to choose between love of country and duty, and the woman he has never forgotten, or never stopped loving, even after all those years, and all the things she’s been accused of.
In the end, the bad guys are exposed for who they really are, but it is certainly a game of cat and mouse.
As for the writing, the characters are strong enough to keep the pages turning, and the plot, based on chemical weapons, is a topical one, though it was written long before 9/11.
This is far better than the absurd puerile Plum novels, which are wooden and one note, or some of the top names on the bestseller’s lists-that one about the killer dolphins a couple of years ago was so bad, Fatal Tide, it was laughable were it not for the hefty price tag attached to any of these books.
The setting, the Pacific Northwest, Portland, Oregon, in fact, is depicted so clearly I feel like I am right in the middle of the action.
For an author who specializes in British historical fiction, (which I have read, and LOVED!!!) this is an excellent effort at the popular US romantic suspense genre. Enjoy!
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This book is available in PDF from HerStoryBooks: http://www.herstorybooks.com
Hybrid Cars 2
Part 2.
For some interesting articles on whether or not you should consider a new hybrid car, visit the great social networking site 1MyLive.com
Another prediction of the end of the book business
Here is another article that suggests books are going the way of the dinosaur:
How to Apply Blusher
Blusher always makes the face appear fresh and glowing with radiance. Learning how to apply blusher so you can look natural and not too made up is a skill worth learning if you want to look your best on every occasion.
Your main tools will be your mirror, a brush and your choice of blush. With these 3 tools, you can work some make-up magic.
The choice of blusher will be your most critical decision in this process. It should:
a-suit your skin color
b-work well with your skin type
The color should be slightly darker than your complexion. Do not test on the back of your hand, as it is actually going to be at least a couple of shades darker than your face unless you constantly put sunscreen on your hands too.
For day time use, a shade of blush close to your skin tone will be more than enough to help give you a healthy glow without looking too made up. If you match it with your lip gloss, you should look fresh and healthy all day.
For more dramatic evening looks, try to match the general shade of your darker lipstick.
But remember, you do not want to look too fake.
Your blush should also work with your skin type. Dry powder blushes work well for most people, until you get over age 35 and you skin might start to change. Cream blusher can give a more dewy look, but is not the best choice for oily skin.
The application of blush should be done last, after you have finished all of your eye make up and have applied any foundation and/or powder you plan to use. If you are using a powder blush, you can powder your face for a matte look.
If you are planning to use cream blush, avoid powdering so you do not get a caked look.
To apply powder blush, run your brush over the powder to pick up a small amount of color. Tap to get off too much excess and lean towards the mirror to avoid getting it on your clothes.
Face the mirror and smile. Stroke the brush from the top part of your cheek along the cheekbone, traveling upwards toward your hairline until it is blended it.
For cream blusher, put a small dab of blush on your middle finger. Dot the blush on the top part of the apple of the cheek (the fleshy part when you smile) cheek and go upwards, adding a couple of more dots. Gently blend the dots upwards toward your hairline.
Apply blush by focusing on the outer part of your face, near your hairline if you have a fuller face. Focus on the center of your face to give emphasis on your bones if you have high cheekbones.
Apply a little amount of blush down the sides of the face for a more natural and glowing look.
Avoid too much make up, especially on hot, sunny days, and if you have acne or roseacea.
Book Review: A Dark Champion
A Dark Champion (Brotherhood of the Sword, Book 1)
by Kinley Macgregor
1.0 out of 5 stars Hopelessly confused muddle
This is supposed to be the first of the Brotherhood of the Sword books, but first of all, she mentions characters from her other books, from some novella or other that she wrote as part of a book with other authors, and secondly, she says she covered the first part of the story in a book that does not exist so far as I can find it. So the whole thing is confusing from the outset.
The trouble is that there is then so much of this back story- of the ‘he is friends with Simon, also known as Sin,’ and ‘hates Damien because…’ variety that it is confusing, tedious, and waters down the little romance there is in the book.
The hero, as a result, never really gets moving in the book, and becomes so much more dull as a hero compared to the villains of the piece. The whole Brotherhood of the Sword, presumably to help each other, seems to be pointless in a lot of respects when we find out that the villains are amongst them and the so-called Brotherhood are actually all killing each other off.
All of the hero’s duties mentioned so that he has no time for a wife, are what, exactly? He never leaves the castle!
The whole issue of his brother and his sexual preferences is done to death, and never once is the fact that he is a murderer addressed! He just says, that’s okay, you are my brother and I love you. Sodomy was totally sinful in those days, though since there is never once any mention of these people having any religion, it too is lost as a conflict point upon which the action could hinge, or be escalated, meaningful. This was supposed to be the Middle Ages. All the opportunities for really deep conflict and characterization are completely lost.
The whole issue of the heroine falling in love with a warrior is over almost before it’s begun, again because there is no believable context. These people break all ten commandments with gleeful abandon, which is kind of odd for Crusaders, supposed Christians, to want to do.
The book is weighed down with secondary characters or mentions of them for so short a novel, but when we really need them they are not there!! The Heir to Jerusalem vanishes from the book completely with little logic, and then we are supposed to find out what happens to him in the next book in the series, (first chapter included at the back of the book) when he has made hardly any impression. This is just plain bad writing and planning. The couple’s love-making in the jail whilst being spied on by the voyueristic Damien is just gross.
This book has no medieval content-they are all ‘electrified,’ ‘mesmerized,’ and they talk like teens down at the mall. There are no sumptuous or relevant details of medieval life, and there is a decidely disgusting hidden patriotic message that seemingly tries to justify the current war in America which most readers would find repellent.
If you are going to write medievals with a message, keep to facts and truth, not melodrama, and certainly not this propaganda with offensively modern outlooks which devalue both time periods.
I certainly am not going to waste my time on this sensationalist bodice ripper of a series. The blurb on the back of the book was completely misleading. This may well be trying to set up a series, but as a romance it fails completely. Very disappointing.