Help! My Child Is Not Adjusting To Day Care!
From Robin McClure Question: Help! My Child Is Not Adjusting To Day Care! “Help! My toddler is not adjusting to her new day care. She is there on a part-time basis. The center is threatening to…
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Choosing Child Care
Search May Be Harder Than You Think From Robin McClure You’ve made the decision to use child care. So, why is the search for services so difficult? Many a parent has struggled with choices about who,…
Consider Options, Priorities Before Selecting Child Care Provider
Narrow Your Search by Selecting Type of Care First From Robin McClure Desiring quality child care is a given. But determining what type of child care provider who meets your family’s needs, lifestyle, budget, and even…
What are my child care options?
Finding a child care program that meets the needs of your family may be very important. The following are the four most commonly used types of child care by the general public. Some programs have…
5 ways to boost your immune system
Meditation, prayer, exercise and yoga are all great ways of taking care of yourself and keeping stress levels low. Dr. Jonah Yakel Despite all the wonderful things autumn has to offer, it’s also time to…
Will Apple’s Culture Hurt the iPhone?
By MIGUEL HELFT SAN FRANCISCO — If you want a smartphone powered by Google’s Android software, you could get Motorola’s Droid 2 or its cousin, the Droid X. Then there is the Droid Incredible from HTC, the Fascinate…
Love and Pain Relief
By TARA PARKER-POPE Love really can be a drug, according to new research that shows feelings of intense love can relieve pain. Researchers from Stanford University studied the link between love and pain by scanning the…
Aging: Longer Life Expectancy Seen for Hispanics
By RONI CARYN RABIN Scientists call it the “Hispanic paradox”: despite high rates of poverty and relatively low rates of health insurance, Hispanics in the United States tend to outlive African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. A government report…
Toddlers’ Favorite Toy: The iPhone
By HILARY STOUT THE bedroom door opened and a light went on, signaling an end to nap time. The toddler, tousle-haired and sleepy-eyed, clambered to a wobbly stand in his crib. He smiled, reached out…
Gerson Institute / Cancer Curing Society
The Gerson Institute is a non-profit organization located in San Diego, California, dedicated to providing education and training in the alternative, non-toxic treatment of cancer and other disease, using the Gerson Therapy. The Gerson Therapy…
Suggestion Box – Let Us Know What You Think
The best way to know how our services are meeting your needs is for us to ask YOU. Please take a moment to submit a comment. Tell us what is useful to you, how we…
Is Your Online Identity Spoiling Your Chances?
By PHYLLIS KORKKI YOU looked wonderful on your résumé. Your references raved about you. The interview went swimmingly. Yet you didn’t get the job. Oh, no: did they see that Facebook photo of you dancing…
10 Plus – Business Trends That Are Thriving Even In This Economy
1) Economic Turmoil – It’s not the $700 billion bank bailout. And no, it’s not the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The real economic stimulus is … wait for it ……
The 20 Best Job Search Web Sites
By: Sean Ludwig Unemployment numbers are sky high, but there is a silver lining: there are lots of great online resources to help job seekers find work. As we all know by now, unemployment numbers…
2010 Fastest-Growing Franchise Rankings
We’ve spent 31 years perfecting Entrepreneur’s Franchise 500®, the world’s first, best and most comprehensive franchise ranking based on objective, quantifiable measures of franchise success. So if you’re looking for an opportunity to be in…
As Prostitutes Turn to Craigslist, Law Takes Notice
By BRUCE LAMBERT GARDEN CITY, N.Y., — The eight women visited Long Island this summer along with vacationing families and other business travelers, staying in hotels and motels in commercial strips in middle-class suburbs like…
The Psychology of Stress
You’ve managed to keep your business afloat, but how are you managing the stress? By Tiffany Meyers In the economic tailspin of the late 2000s, loss is part of life. Workers are losing their jobs,…
Franchise Your Business
Advantages of Franchising Your Business While franchising provides franchisees with a proven system and the support of a much larger organization, the advantages to the franchisor are even more significant. Capital: Since franchisees use their…
Running a Successful Family Business From Home
Find out how these 5 families run their companies without starting World War III. By Rich Mintzer Home-based businesses and family-operated businesses each have their own minefields of potential problems, but the one pitfall they…
10 Do’s and Don’ts for Facebook Pages
Use these tips to make the most of your Facebook marketing efforts. By Scott Gerber Facebook may have 500 million users, but having an outpost on the social-media site won’t necessarily increase sales or referrals…
Blogging Made Easy
Four tips for those of you who aren’t Web geeks, starting with the basics. By Dan Briody For all of you who aren’t Web geeks, let’s start with some blogging basics — and then talk…
Netflix and NCR reach DVD distribution deals
By Sue Zeidler (Reuters) – Netflix Inc on Wednesday said it reached a deal to rent Sony movies 28 days after they go on sale, while NCR, which rents DVDs at nearly 7,000 Blockbuster kiosks,…
Battling media boxes: Apple TV vs. Roku
By Rob Pegoraro A tiny $99 box can connect your TV to a wealth of Internet-delivered TV shows, movies, pictures, podcasts and music. But which $99 box should you get? In one corner, there’s Apple’s…
Quick Guide to top cell phone carriers
by Kent German Choosing a cell phone carrier isn’t easy. Should your choice come down to network coverage, or should you decide based on the selection of phones? Or perhaps the level of customer service…
Report: Apple Investigating iPhone 4 Case Scratches, Cracks
By: Chloe Albanesius Is a third-party case scratching up or even cracking your iPhone 4? Tech blog gdgt reported Thursday that some slide-on, third-party cases can cause scratches or cracking on the iPhone 4, so…
Verizon iPhone 4 brings competition, finally, between U.S. carriers
Verizon brings the iPhone 4 to market at a time when AT&T already has the iPhone 4 on the market. It’s good news for those Verizon customers who have always had interest in the iPhone…
Government Helps to Insure Children, Even Above the Poverty Line
By LESLEY ALDERMAN THE last few years have not been easy for Dean McCrea. In 2007, Mr. McCrea, 55, lost his wife of nearly 30 years. Then last November the company he worked for folded,…
Health Insurance for Children
By TARA PARKER-POPE In today’s Patient Money column, Lesley Alderman writes about the various ways parents can find health coverage for their children, even if they think they can’t afford it. Children in families with…
Facebook Politicians Are Not Your Friends
By FRANK RICH “THE Social Network,” you’re understandably sick of hearing, is a brilliant movie about the Harvard upstart Mark Zuckerberg and the messy birth of his fabulous start-up, Facebook, circa 2004. From the noisy…
Does Your Team Have the Four Essential Types?
By ADAM BRYANT This interview with Paul Maritz, , president and C.E.O. of the software firm VMware, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What are some important leadership lessons for you? A. I’ve…
What the Squirrels Know: Acorns for Dinner
By DEBBIE LEE THE assault began in early September. That’s when my 60-year-old mother, an avid gardener, began laying mulch under the shrubs at her home in Westchester. She had her shovel in hand when…
The Claim: A Soap-and-Water Rinse Gets Produce Cleanest
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR THE FACTS The prospect of ingesting pesticides and other contaminants can make supermarket produce seem less than appetizing. Buying organic lowers the risk, but is no guarantee against food-borne pathogens. Scientists have…
New York Asks to Bar Use of Food Stamps to Buy Sodas
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg sought federal permission on Wednesday to bar New York City’s 1.7 million recipients of food stamps from using them to buy soda or other sugared drinks. The request,…
Medical Student Distress and the Risk of Doctor Suicide
By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Several years ago, I learned that a physician in a town not too far from where I was practicing had committed suicide. Neither I nor my hospital colleagues knew him,…
Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery
By KIRK JOHNSON DENVER — It has been one of the great murder mysteries of the garden: what is killing off the honeybees? Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the…
Short Attention Spans for Web Videos
By ALEX MINDLIN After watching an online video for a full minute, 44.1 percent of viewers will have clicked away, according to Visible Measures. But an outsize slice of that loss occurs in the first…
Finding Your Way Through the Mall or the Airport, With a Cellphone Map
By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF SAN FRANCISCO — Mobile phone maps have guided people through streets and alleys around the globe. But when those people step into a sprawling building, they can get lost. Inside, people…
After Building an Audience, Twitter Turns to Ads
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and TANZINA VEGA In the last two weeks, the company has introduced several advertising plans, courted Madison Avenue at Advertising Week, the annual industry conference, and promoted Dick Costolo, who has…
New Web Code Draws Concern Over Risks to Privacy
By TANZINA VEGA Worries over Internet privacy have spurred lawsuits, conspiracy theories and consumer anxiety as marketers and others invent new ways to track computer users on the Internet. But the alarmists have not seen…
Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
By JOHN MARKOFF MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Anyone driving the twists of Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles recently may have glimpsed a Toyota Prius with a curious funnel-like cylinder on the roof….
SeaWorld Discovery Cove – Orlando
No crowds. No turnstiles. Imagine a place where you and your family can touch and swim with dolphins, wade with mysterious rays, snorkel among thousands of exotic fish, hand-feed tropical birds in a free-flight aviary…
Seaworld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund Help Protect Animals In Need
Animals in need and endangered species around the world will benefit from more than $1 million in grants awarded by the non-profit SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund. Since its creation seven years ago, the…
Surplus Auctions Exposed: Is 95% Off Retail Price Possible?
Surplus auction websites are a new phenomenon that is quickly spreading through North America and Europe (like you have probably already seen). They are all over the internet in blogs and success stories of people…
How to score an upgrade: Air, car, hotel
(MONEY Magazine) — Remember when getting a free travel upgrade was as easy as walking up to the counter with your biggest smile? Now that airlines have pared back flights, and rental car agencies have…
How technology keeps movies, TV shows relevant
By Stephanie Goldberg (CNN) — Upon his release from prison in the new “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,” corporate raider Gordon Gekko reclaims his belongings: A gold watch and a mobile phone the size of…
Google opens URL-shortener Goo.gl to public
By Damon Brown, Special to CNN (CNN) — Web-page addresses can be notoriously long, but even the normal ones seem absolutely huge in our age of Twitter and text messaging. Every letter counts when you…
Health insurance, finances may matter when parents follow doctor’s orders for their kids
By Jeannine Stein / Los Angeles Times When doctors recommend treatment for children, do parents always comply? No, but it could have to do with how much health insurance they have, a study finds. Researchers…
Google Inc.
Founded in 1998, Google runs the world’s most popular Internet search engine. It’s a position that has earned Google huge profits and given it outsize influence over the online world. But Google’s ambition far exceeds…
California Reduces Its Penalty for Marijuana
By JESSE McKINLEY SAN FRANCISCO — A month before California voters decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that essentially puts those caught possessing…
Iran Says It Arrested Computer Worm Suspects
By WILLIAM YONG TEHRAN — Iran has arrested an unspecified number of “nuclear spies” in connection with a damaging worm that has infected computers in its nuclear program, the intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said Saturday….