The Mediterranean Diet is one of the most recent and popularly accepted methods of losing weight, and it’s based on one of the most ancient ways of eating anywhere in the world. So named because of its origins around the Mediterranean region, the Mediterranean Diet today is frequently said to reflect the healthy culinary habits [...]
Working capital is one of those business school topics that has real-world relevance for the small business owner with no formal training, operating mostly on his or her own common sense, such as Zalman Silber, serial entrepreneur and success story. In business management theory, working capital is a way to measure finances, in particular those [...]
Catholic saints are people canonized by the Catholic Church, officially recognized for their piety as residents of Heaven. Nonetheless, in a technical sense, all who are in Heaven who had once been human on earth are, by definition, saints, folks perfected in holiness; this is the view subscribed to by the Eastern Orthodox Church. And [...]
A swimmer needs to practice each day, which is why the occasional swimming pool resurfacing could be so devastating to an athlete. But while traditional methods can take entire days, now there’s a much better way to do things, one which doesn’t even require hired help. That’s correct, do-it-yourself swimming pool resurfacing is now possible [...]
The recent PBS/POV documentary “Wo Ai Ni Mommy” concerns the adoption of a Chinese eight year-old by an American family. More specifically, it is a movie chronicle of a somewhat handicapped older child’s integration into the social milieu of a Long Island Jewish family. Most of the documentary may be rather uncomfortable to watch, in [...]
Welcome to another edition of Isaac Toussie’s real estate insights. Today Isaac Toussie will be talking about an upstate town that once rivaled New York for industry and commerce. Derived from the native term “Uppu-qui-ipis-in” which means “reed-covered hut by the water,” Poughkeepsie today has grown beyond huts into a permanent settlement of some forty-three [...]
Green energy. You hear about it all the time nowadays. The U.S. needs it. China is getting ever more involved with it. Green energy. But what does it all mean? Our newspapers tell us that it is the wave of the future, the only way forward. Yet nothing is happening in this country, where most [...]
Hoping to buy a home? if you are like most people, you more than likely dream of buying your own home. There are a large amount of benefits to buying your own home, benefits which includes the pride of ownership, developing your own equity instead of developing someone else’s, never having to deal with your [...]
Ever seen somebody with a New Orleans Saints license plate – out of state? That’s either a true football fan or an individual wanting to demonstrate solidarity with the city of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Of course, it is usually both, a sports fan with a social conscience. Sports are usually [...]
Soundproofing walls often indicates the use of soundproofing drywall, a unique kind of insulation product designed to damper noise. Soundproofing refers to any methods of reducing sound pressure by employing noise reduction and sound absorption. The former term involves blocking the passage of sound, usually by means of prolonged distances and the use of obstacles [...]