This article will give you an overview of some of the pertinent facts about your muscles, which collectively comprise a system of your body that (just like your car) can be kept running at its operational best through proper and regular servicing. In this instance, you’re called on to do your own servicing. The good news is that the steps involved in properly servicing your muscular system are relatively straight-forward: Adhere to a nutritionally sound diet (i.e., eat a well-balanced diet and minimize your dietary intake of fat), don’t overly stress your muscles at work or play and engage in a sound strength-training regimen on a regular basis.

Picture it: A private villa stands over crystal blue water; days finish with orange sunsets that make you hungry for local citrus; gourmet room service and a masseuse are on call to avoid any unnecessary trips from your porch; and the only thing to make you want to leave is the breathtaking coral reef and underwater creatures that demand a scuba session for a proper introduction. This is the Maldives.

Three weeks ago, the CMO of a San Francisco startup backed by Alist investors emailed me about her new sales deck. "It lacks oomph," she said. "The information is there. The slides look great. But we’re not telling a compelling story. Can you help?” One of my favorite things is helping entrepreneurs craft better pitches — for fundraising, sales, recruiting, whatever. I was busy with other projects and couldn’t start immediately, so I sent a link to the man on the CMO’s team who built the deck — a guy named Zack. Five days later, the CMO texted me: “Andy, what did you send Zack? Because his deck got a lot better. Kind of like night and day."

Once upon a time, there were no unicorns. Well, maybe in fairy tales, where the "once upon a time" usually starts off the story, but quite rarely in business, where the term is mostly found these days. "Unicorn" is the colloquial expression describing companies — more specifically startups — valued at or above 1 billion dollars. Which is not bad when you think about it. Obviously, the implied notion when using the word "unicorn" to qualify a startup is that there are very few of those — next to none, actually. However, and this is where it becomes interesting, reading any tech blog for a couple of days will show you that they are actually far from mythical — that there are indeed a bunch of unicorns roaming the earth or, rather, California. Naturally, there a two ways to interpret such a trend:

There's nothing quite like rushing to the earth at 120 miles (190 km) an hour after jumping from a perfectly good airplane. There are no perfect airplanes, however. Skydiving is an exhilarating and intense adrenaline rush that can't be described, you've just got to do it! Here is some advice on how to go about it the right way for your first jump, and hopefully many more.

I met a girl once. She changed my life. Whether for better or for worse is still to be decided — I won’t be able to decide until the last domino falls. We split years ago, but not until recently did I have to accept that it was actually over. I held onto the idea that one day we would find each other and finally be ready to make it work, to start our lives together, to be happy. Even though I was the one to break things off, I never completely let go. It took some time for me to realize how much she meant to me, how much she changed my life. Most recently, I experienced another sharp change in my reality...

- a faster kind of GTI confirmed for Worthersee In 2016 the VW Golf GTI hits the big four-oh, and in true mid-life crisis style it’s pulled on a trendier wardrobe and gone down the gym. This is the Volkswagen Golf GTI Club Sport, an upcoming range-topper created especially to celebrate the GTI’s 40th anniversary. It’ll be displayed at the Worthersee show, an annual festival that celebrates all things VW (and GTIs especially), on 14 May. And indications are that it’s not just a show car – it’s likely to get a production run in 2016.

Although Beijing might be cheering the swift rebound in the A-share market after the worst rout in seven years, its nightmare may not be over. In terms of valuation, a 30 per cent correction is not enough to justify the doubling of the A-share market price between October and June in an economy that is slowing down. More importantly, the rescue measures by Beijing in using the most extreme administrative measures to intervene in the market could hurt stock price performance in the longer term as those steps represent a huge set back in cultivating a healthy onshore capital market.

Flying fish is one of the most interesting types of fish due to its ability to glide through the air. There are 40 different species of flying fish that can be found in all oceans of the world. They prefer tropical and subtropical water of Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean. Flying fish are especially abundant in the Caribbean Sea. Barbados was known as the "The land of flying fish" in the past. Flying fish are often hunted by fisherman. Luckily their number in the wild is still stable and they are not listed as endangered species.

For many beginner investors dipping their toes into stock investing, the first stop is penny stocks. As the name suggests, penny stocks are those companies that trade with a low share price, often less than $1. It's understandable to see why rookie investors get hooked by the dream of buying into a company for only few cents and then selling for a substantial profit when the price trades back in the multi-dollar levels. The extremely low share prices allow an investor to hold thousands of shares for a relatively small amount of invested capital. With that scale, the gain of just a few cents per share can translate

The law of attraction is a very insightful law by which to live. In other words, your ability to become intuitive will skyrocket if you attract what you want in life, especially what you dream of. - How I went from being broke to having financial abundance within 3 months. I use to think everything was working against me. After I lost my job and having almost 30k in credit card debt I didn't have a clue how I was going to get back on track…

New video I made dedicated to my beautiful sweet soul of a girl.. Traveling the tropics the last 3 months have been beyond crazy! Hope this little video can express to you xo xo

More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land. Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now cover only about 6 percent. And if current deforestation rates continue, these critical habitats could disappear from the planet completely within the next hundred years. The reasons for plundering rain forests are mainly economic. Wealthy nations drive demand for tropical timber, and cash-strapped governments often grant logging concessions at a fraction of the land’s true value.