1/2 cup butter
1 cup flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 to 4 oz. cream cheese
Small jar of strawberry jam
1 egg, beaten
Preheat oven to 400 F.
Mix all above ingredients to make a pastry. Roll in a ball and chill for several hours.
Roll out to 1/8-inch thickness on a floured surface. Cut circles with a [...]

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It was a busy morning, about 8:30 at our clinic, when an elderly gentleman in his 80’s arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am.
I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over [...]

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Statistics show that paying for your next commercial car wash could be much more water-efficient than doing it yourself with the garden hose. A typical commercial car wash uses 100 gallons less water per car wash than a home wash, and, in many cases, professional car wash facilities also reuse and recycle the rinse water.

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Beleaguered consumer bank Wachovia Corp. said it will quit offering a mortgage payment option that allows borrowers to pay less each month than the bank charges in interest.
The choice to pay less was one of the options of Wachovia’s controversial Pick-A-Payment mortgages, which offer customers four different payment options each month. Wachovia said it will [...]

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June is the time when many investors and analysts take stock of how the economy has fared so far this year and compared with a year ago at this time.  So how have we done?  The almost-a-year-old subprime credit crunch has wiped out some $3.3 trillion in stock market wealth in the first two quarters [...]

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Just over half of all Californians use the Internet to obtain news and consumer updates, make product purchases, search for information about health care issues, or to get details about government programs and services, according to a new statewide survey released Monday by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).
Residents who are white, black, or [...]

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Investing in commercial real estate involves a lot more than finding an available property and a willing lender.
Whether a novice or a seasoned veteran, those investing in a commercial property–which could be residential property, retail location or a building created for industrial use–must address a range of issues such as:
• which cash flow scenarios make [...]

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Nearly half of all Americans surveyed said they will make a "green" new year’s resolution this year, according to a poll released by Tiller, LLC. So why not resolve to cut down on your daily water use?
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average American uses about 100 gallons of water per day [...]

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This American style originated in homes built by German, or "Deutsch" settlers in Pennsylvania as early as the 1600s. A hallmark of the style is a broad gambrel roof with flaring eaves that extend over the porches, creating a barn-like effect. Early homes were a single room, and additions were added to each end, creating [...]

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The Creole Cottage, which is mostly found in the South, originated in New Orleans in the 1700s. The homes are distinguished by a front wall that recedes to form a first-story porch and second-story balcony that stretch across the entire front of the structure. Full-length windows open into the balconies, and lacy ironwork characteristically runs [...]

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