Some say that work ethic in America is in decline, but is it really or are Americans simply getting too over weight and feel more lackadaisical when performing tasks? Is this then triggering a perception of laziness in some and a work effort riddled with excuses, delegation and blame gaming with most? - Read more

Business networking is all about forming strong relationships built on mutual respect and trust. Those relationships are the , The basis for the single most important tool that we all need if we want to survive in the competitive 21st century. - Read more

The Atkins diet is a weight loss diet based on the principle that the body burns both carbohydrates and fat for calories. Therefore, according to the Atkins diet, if you reduce the amounts of carbohydrates in your diet, you will burn more fat and you will experience more weight loss. - Read more

Is it nostalgia, or something more?__This weekend, Radio Veronica in Holland announced that Dire Straits‘ Brothers in Arms from 1985 was voted by its listeners as the 2 album of all time being edged out by another mega-CD from the 80s, U2’s The Joshua Tree. - Read more

Fish Oil may be more important to your health and mental creativity than you realize, especially high doses of Fish Oil. To be able to take very high doses of Fish Oil you must choose a Fish Oil brand that is free of impurities and toxins. Do not buy your Fish Oil from health food stores or any type of store and take high doses. It most likely would make you ill. If you refuse to buy the best of Fish Oil and still buy what you find in department stores and health food stores, then please do take the low doses. In a low dose, however, you most likely will not reap the greater benefits that taking high doses of Fish Oil can give you. The choice is yours. - Read more

When I decided to lose weight I of course decided to do as much planning as possible. It seems the older I get the harder it is to do anything without completely planning it out. Anyways, I had already been on the all protein diets and knew that they worked. The only problem was I could never stick to them for very long. - Read more

This article is for those who are a little more experienced at__making biodiesel at home and who wish to progress from using__straight vegetable oil to waste oil. As users of biodiesel fuel__know vegetable oil will react very similarly to diesel fuel in a diesel engine. Like diesel fuel, biodiesel will ignite when__compressed causing air in the engine cylinders to expand. - Read more

My life was always about playing ball, mostly baseball as I grew up. Therefore, I was always at the playground on Chancellor Avenue. This was a hotbed for sports activity in the Weequahic section of Newark. From Monday through Saturday there were countless games taking place. Baseball on the dirt field and softball on the blacktop. Basketball games, and volley ball games were always being played. Mr Barone, Mr Drexel and Mr Harris oversaw the games that were played. Sometimes they even played in those games. They ran the show. Organizing teams for a given game or creating teams for a new league they took charge and got things done. I did not realize some of the things they did that impacted my life until I left the playground scene many years later. - Read more

CONFIDENCE (2003) is a slick greased-lightning of a con story that some reviewers I believe mistook for a classic “caper” movie like Ocean’s 11 or 12. - Read more

If you want to be a writer, you must write and that requires sitting at your typewriter or computer and writing although it may not be easy. That also means avoiding all distractions that will keep one from writingvisitors, friends, relatives, television, radio, and anything that will keep the writer from concentrating on the task. - Read more

PURPLE NOON (1960). A fantastic thriller with an inscrutable English name. The original name “Plein Soleil” means “Full Sun” in French. How does one get from that to the “Purple Noon” is anybody’s guess. - Read more