Saturday, October 31, 2009

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How to Prepare for Your Digital Death

by Amy Kniss

Your mother always warned you to wear clean underwear, lest you (or she) be humiliated when you’re caught dead in dirty drawers. Dying before clearing away your dirty digital laundry (like unfiltered IM, politically incorrect emails and overall TMI) is just as bad if not worse, since it colors how everyone in your social network remembers you.

Those of us stretched thin over social networks -- with multiple email accounts and never-ending status updates -- have much to lose if we don’t take the proper precautions to protect our online legacy. Unless we plan ahead we risk being (at best) being forgotten or (at worst) over-exposed in front of our fellow social networkers. (Imagine mum finding her way in to your "Direct Message" tweets to your former flame.)

Dressing as a vampire, zombie or other specimen of undead on Halloween provides a playfully haunting reminder of our own mortality. Vampires and zombies fear neither death nor social shunning; if only the rest of us were so lucky.

But for mere mortals who need to think ahead, read on for instructions on prepping for your own digital death. If you want to keep your family from realizing that you really were the black sheep and save your postmortem reputation -- online -- keep reading and embrace your digital death like a zombie on Halloween.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

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How to Make a Ghoulish Skull

by mariehorrigan1

Just in time for Halloween, you can make your own creepy, cadaverous life-sized skull to display for friends and foes alike, thanks to instructions from Ravensblight.com.

The Web site offers several different types of toys and paper crafts, including a ghost house and haunted car. Everyone loves Halloween crafts, so why not check Ravensblight out (see link in Resources) and download and print the skull so you can create your own oddly realistic paper cranium today!

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Thursday, October 29, 2009

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How to Pull Off 1930's Retro Glam Fashion - Tips from Project Runway

by Gigi Starr

The smoky, softly sensual beauty of Hollywood's Golden Age is epitomized by elegant fashion, a sleek silhouette and clean glamor. Project Runway Season 6 contestant Nicolas Putvinski knows this look well, and is a huge fan of actress Marlene Dietrich. Inspired by the beauties of yesteryear, Nicolas shares his retro tips in an exclusive eHow interview.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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How to Hammer Out a Prenup

by Amy Kniss

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the reality show. At least that’s the way it usually works for celebrities, especially when they marry one another. Of course a prenup is usually penned before any public personality says "I do."

The hullabaloo surrounding the made-for-TV wedding of E! reality show starlet Khloe Kardashian and Los Angeles Lakers’ Lamar Odem calls into question the sanity of any celebrity -- no matter how far down the Hollywood food chain -- who weds without a prenup.

Despite the bling celebrities bring to the altar in pre-marriage assets, pre-nuptial agreements deal with the millions celebrities stand to earn over the course of the marriage and what each party stands to gain -- or lose -- should the union crumble. Prenups may get more publicity among high-profile pairs, but they provide much-needed protections for the 40 percent to 50 percent of first marriages that end up coming undone.

Here’s how you can draw up an effective prenup to protect your assets, should you meet and marry your soul mate and it doesn't end as a match made in heaven but a typical Hollywood ending: divorce.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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How to Carve a Pumpkin

by eHow Holidays & Celebrations Editor

Jolly jack-o'-lanterns are a traditional welcome for trick-or-treaters, an invitation to stop by for a Halloween surprise. It's also something you can make with the leftovers you can't use for Halloween cooking. Just remember that carving a pumpkin takes more tenacity than skill.

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eHow Halloween Contest-- Win an iPod Nano




Hi cpedley,

We have a few exciting things going on this month.  Not only are we hosting a Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest, but we're re-launching our eHow Category Emails with a new look and feel very soon.  Category emails allow you to subscribe to newsletters that are specifically catered to your topic of interest.  With 24 different topics to choose from, you can start getting your personalized dose of eHow knowledge delivered to your inbox once a week.  Look out for the new category emails this month.

Halloween Contest Bonanza!

Speaking of Halloween, are you the ultimate pumpkin carver?  This month we are on a quest to find the most creative jack-o-lantern created by our members.  If you think you have one to show off, share your pumpkin carving story through text and photos with an eHow "I Did This."  If we pick your pumpkin, you'll win an iPod Nano.

To enter, please do the following:

Go to this How To article: http://www.ehow.com/how_3983_carve-pumpkin.html
     
Click on the "I Did This" button
     
Submit your pumpkin carving experience through text and photos, and don't forget to include an image of the template of your pumpkin design as one of your photos, so others can use it to carve their pumpkins.

The contest starts on 10/20/2009 at 12:01 AM Pacific Time and ends on November 7, 2009 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.  One entry per person.  Winner will be notified by e-mail on or about November 16, 2009.

For more info on this contest, please click here.

Good luck and happy carving!

Best,
The eHow Team

Monday, October 26, 2009

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How to Pick Pain-Free Shoes

by Katherine Huether

Are you a woman who loves to wear pretty shoes? Or a guy who wants the latest from "GQ" on your feet--no matter what? If so, your shoe habit could be causing you some pain.

A recent study of more than 3,000 men and women shows that those who went for function over form in their footwear early on--suffered half as much foot pain in later years, "The New York Times" reports.

Here are some tips for choosing shoes that will preserve your feet--yet still let you walk in style.

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Sunday, October 25, 2009

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How to End Worry

by Judy Ford

“Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you, a real and objective danger,” writes Robin Marantz Henig in her "New York Times Magazine" article, "Understanding the Anxious Mind."

“If you're anxious, you find it difficult to talk yourself out of this foreboding; you become trapped in an endless loop of what-ifs," according to the article. In other words, you fear what may not even happen.

Jerome Kagan, a psychology professor at Harvard, has been conducting longitudinal studies of temperament since 1989, and has found that anxiety does have a neurological fingerprint that is not easy to overcome. It seems that if you were an anxious baby you will retain those tendencies through adolescence and into adulthood. It is possible to tackle the demons of anxiety, however, with cognitive behavior therapy. By stopping the endless loop of worry--and replacing thoughts with actions--you can learn to do what non-anxious people do automatically.

If worries are getting in the way of enjoying your loved ones and life--here is a practical way to end the worry cycle. These 13 action steps, which I've created and use with couples and families in counselingâ€"are appropriate for all agesâ€"from 6 to 106.

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

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How to Stay Hip on Internet Lingo

by msnatali

"No Texting @ Dinner!” read a recent MSNBC.com headline. The article is among the latest to highlight the digital divide between parents and their teens, and the stresses parents face when communicating with a plugged-in offspring: During the recent technology boom, texting has become a dominate form of communication for teens.

Technological advances have heightened the problem of typical teen self-absorption. Teens appear oblivious when it comes to how (turn off the phone!) and when to limit their texting or online activity. (No Facebook at Grandma’s. No picture messages from the funeral. No phone when someone is talking to you. Where does it end?)

Parents need to be the model of good manners, to teach by example. You can't model it if you aren't doing it. If your teen is texting, you need to get hip to online lingo. (You may even find that it is the quickest and easiest way to stay in touch -- and easiest way to model proper texting etiquette.)

Follow these simple steps and you’ll be on your way to bridging the digital divide with your teen via texting. Who knows, you may like it so much you even branch out to tweeting!

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Friday, October 23, 2009

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How to Not Choke on a $1 Million Shot

by Michael Corcoran

Opportunities to win $1 million come along more often than you might think - as long as you can keep your cool.

In September Jason Hargett who won a cool million by sinking a hole-in-one at a local charity golf tournament in Utah.

Four years ago, an Army veteran and landscaper threw a 25-yard pass with a football through a target hole, and cashed in for $1 million during halftime of a Florida State vs. Clemson game.

And just a few years before that, 23-year-old Don Calhoun made a three-quarter court shot at halftime of a Chicago Bulls game to win ... you guessed it, $1 million.

Sense a pattern here? Yep, at sporting events all over the country you can win $1 million. Now, certainly this requires a bit of luck, but if you get the opportunity and find yourself in position for the big shot, here's how not to choke.

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

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How to Be Fashionable in a Hurry - Tips From Project Runway

by Gigi Starr

You know the drill: time is short, and an important event is starting in a little under an hour. What to do? In an exclusive eHow interview, Project Runway Season 6 contestant Shirin Askari gives us some pointers for last-minute fashion flair.

A designer from the age of 4, Shirin favors old-school glamor and has put her expertise to use as a tech designer for Fossil. Today, she helps make some sense out of those now-or-never rapid glamor moments for our eHow users!

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