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Credit Repair Companies – Are They White Knights or Sharks?

Credit repair companies are on the rise with the sudden surge of unpaid debt Americans are amassing on a daily basis, and their advertising of services is increasing. Many credit repair companies offer to help improve or fix your credit history for a fee – sometimes affordable, but more often than not, for astronomical rates.
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Posted in Financial Issues, Scams and Fraud

Disease Fighting Foods You Should Start Eating Today

You are what you eat. And, if you eat healthy, you can boost your immune system and increase its efficiency in fending off infections and diseases from cancer to the common cold.
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Posted in Health and Safety

How to Avoid Catching the Flu

Given the concerns about potentially deadly stains of avian bird flu and swine flu virus, here are some common sense precautions that you can take that may prevent you from catching a flu bug.
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Surviving Wild Animal Attacks

For hundreds of years the rule for dealing with potentially dangerous wildlife was, “shoot on sight”. As pioneers moved westward, this helped to keep the threat of attack on humans on ranches and remote settlements to a minimum, and reinforced a predator’s natural fear of humans.
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Posted in Survival Skills

Swine Flu Information from the World Health Organization

Due to the elevated importance of the potential pandemic situation with Mexican Swine Flu, also referred to as H1N1 Flu or Swine Influenza A, we have posted the current flu epidemic notices and press releases from World Health Organization.
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Preserving Seeds for Your Garden

Given the current economic situation, garden seeds are once again in demand. People are wisely cutting their budgets and looking for ways to reduce their food bills. One way to do that is to grow your own vegetables.
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Posted in Miscellaneous

An Emergency Preparedness Travel First Aid Kit

As someone who has traveled around the world on business, I learned the importance of maintaining a traveler’s first aid kit or emergency preparedness first aid kit to deal with the lack of adequate medical care in many countries.
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Posted in Emergency Preparedness, Health and Safety

Tips for Safe Food and Water When Traveling

Traveling around the world can be an adventure. It can also be a health hazard if you do not take the proper precautions, especially when enjoying the local food and drink. Here are some of the important precautions and things to watch out for.
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Bump Keys and Lock Bumping

When we first saw the videos about lock bumping, we found it to be disturbing, because it is so easy to make bump keys and the information is readily available on the Internet.
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Posted in Home Security

Is Your Bank Account Safe?

This topic is not meant to scare people, but it is a reality check about the safety of your life savings when the funds are held in a US bank.
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Posted in Financial Issues
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