Whether it's in your front yard, backyard, on your porch or under a shady tree – entertaining outdoors is the easiest way to gather friends and neighbors together. The beginning of fall is the perfect time to connect with the people around you. Friends have been busy with the whirlwind of summer. Kids have been…
Nothing compares to sitting down at the dinner table with a fresh home-cooked meal. What makes it even better is when the dish is full of nutrition but at the same time good for the taste buds. Tonight, enjoy a healthy meal with your family by making any of these hearty vegetarian dishes: Cheesy Veggie…
Developing a LEAN culture with a LEAN Management system developed in parallel with the LEAN process system ensures that the roles, processes, standards, and procedures are documented and followed. Although we are not discussing physics, the law of entropy applies. It states “Organized systems tend to move toward disorganization”. LEAN involves the adoption of new…
From 1966 to 1969 I taught English at Robert Academy, located on the Bosporus in a northern suburb of Istanbul. Clothing was a problem for us American faculty and our families. What was available in the Turkish marketplace was not of the high quality we were accustomed to in the States. We could not have…
If you are looking for the right kind of ground beef recipes you should take a look online and see what all those different cooking sites have to offer you. The internet is an amazing database of recipes where you can find an endless collection of ground beef recipes too. You just have to make…
If you're looking to improve the outside appearance of your home, maybe it's time for you to consider outdoor deck lighting. If you have your indoor lighting down pat, then you should turn your attention to illuminating your exterior property. Deck lighting is one type of lighting that you should not forget to look into.…
In an effort to move up the corporate ladder and achieve a higher salary everyone seems to be striving for a management position. Aside from the fact that it offers greater financial compensation and status few people know why they would want to be a manager. Many technical professionals are not really interested in people…
As a business, having a commercial property is very important but adding value to it makes it a more lucrative proposition. In order to maintain the utilities within a property there has to be a deliberate intention to seek the right resources that ensure all real estate assets are well maintained. An integrated facilities management…
Manufacturing of tapes: The granules of polypropylene bags are fed to the extruder hopper, where they are plasticized and the melt flow is passed through a T-die. Film thus produced is slit into the form of tapes. These strips are then oriented by stretching them under heated condition at a predetermined ratio. Finally the tapes…
Many building owners and manufacturers have asked me why I don’t offer PVC membrane to my flat roof customers. I simply feel that PVC is too great of a risk to take. What is PVC? PVC, or Polyvinyl Chloride, is made from the polymerization of vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), a toxic, carcinogenic gas. It is…
Cardboard Introduction Cardboard boxes are primarily used for packing goods or materials. Cardboard referes to various types of paper material which is heavier than paper. To be termed as cardboard, the stiff paper has to be more than 0.006 inch thick. It can be known as paperboard or corrugated fiberboard which are manufactured in the…
Paint odors are an often neglected side-effect of undertaking a paint job – neglected, that is, until the paint is actually on the walls and we find our heads throbbing with pain after inhaling the irritating fumes, vapors that paint gives off while it dries. In order to understand what makes paint smell, we must…
Bob the Builder is a character from the children’s television series created by Keith Chapman and originally broadcast on the BBC in 1997. Bob has been watched by millions of children around the world and has been favored by parents for his positive influence on children and family values. Bob the Builder is a great…
For most of us in Direct Sales, 10 new recruits equals a promotion – either for someone in our organization, or for ourselves. Sometimes it equals qualifications for a special incentive – perhaps a trip to some exotic locale, or maybe some designer jewelry. Most of us, who follow the out-dated ideas that our upline…
There are few projects that could be more important and potentially costly for your home than installing a waterproofing system (or upgrading your current foundation drainage). Basement projects are expensive for a reason: water damage can lead to some very steep repair costs and can significantly lower the value of your home. Although homeowners from…