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Food & Drink

Spring Ahead With Spring Vegetables

Celebrate spring with farm-fresh foods that usher in the season. They're low in calories, have fresh flavor and are the perfect way to energize for warmer weather.  Enjoying vegetables and fruits during their peak season has many benefits. Seasonal produce: Has more nutrients because it often doesn’t have to be transported as far (produce begins losing nutrients as soon as it’s harvested). Is better for the environment because it travels […]

todayMay 2, 2019

Food & Drink

Knives: Essential Equipment for Healthy Food Prep

Every home chef will find that cooking healthfully is easier with a well-made set of knives. When shopping, let quality, not quantity, be your guide.  You can master most any cutting task with just three knives: the chef's, serrated and paring.   Chef's Knife.  The workhorse is the chef's knife, about eight to 10 inches long. It's the all-purpose knife you'll use every day for chopping, slicing and dicing.   […]

todayMay 1, 2019

Fashion

Don Your Bike Shorts, Get Set, Go!

It could go wrong really quickly. Bike shorts, a controversial relative to leggings, were unmissable on the spring runways. But it wasn’t just black spandex; designers jazzed up the shorts with prints, bold color, elaborate embroidery and unique fabrications to amp up the appeal, or create the potential for more fashion disasters.   “From a commercial standpoint, we’ve really seen the bike short popularize this past year with the immense […]

todayMay 1, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Caffeine Gives Solar Cells an Energy Boost

What started out as a joke over morning coffee among colleagues has turned into a real breakthrough in solar technology. Scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Solargiga Energy in China have discovered that caffeine can help make a promising alternative to traditional solar cells more efficient at converting light to electricity. Their research, published April 25 in the journal Joule, may enable this cost-effective renewable energy […]

todayMay 1, 2019

Home Improvement

Home Improvement Tasks To Do in May – Safety and Security

 You've been holed up all winter, feeling a little like a bear in hibernation.  Time to emerge, stretch, and explore the outdoors.  But before you do, make sure your home is safe and secure before you roam.   Check safety devices.  According to the U.S. Fire Administration, smoke alarms should be tested at least once a month and replaced every ten years, even if they still appear to be in […]

todayMay 1, 2019

Food & Drink

113,000 Pounds of Ground Beef Recalled Due to E. Coli

If you have any ground beef in your fridge or freezer, you might want to double check before you incorporate it into your dinner for the night: k2D Foods, a Georgia-based company operating under the name Colorado Premium Foods, has recalled around 113,000 pounds of ground beef due to concerns of E. coli contamination.   According to an official statement, the company has recalled packages of its 24-ounce vacuum-packed "ground […]

todayApril 30, 2019

Home Improvement

Home Improvement Tasks To Do in May – BBQ and Entertaining

With Mother’s Day and Memorial Day coming up this month, there is plenty of incentive to get those outdoor spaces ready for entertaining. From scheduling house painting to organizing your outdoor cooking tools, tick these 13 items off your to-do list so you can get to the good stuff: hanging out around the grill, kicking back on the porch and savoring the season. Let the countdown to summer begin!   […]

todayApril 30, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Spoiler Alert! How to Avoid GOT and Endgame Spoilers

The internet is full of spoilers, making it a dangerous place to hang around if you’re trying to steer clear of what happens in Avengers: Endgame, Game of Thrones, or any other TV shows, movies, or video games that you’re still catching up on. Even when you think you’ve got things under control, Google’s autocomplete feature has spoiled things before. And URL’s can contain spoilers, too. In addition, trolls can […]

todayApril 30, 2019

Fashion

Fashion Comes to the Indy 500

With headquarters  in Indianapolis — the racing capital of the world — it’s no wonder that Simon Property Group developed a strong affinity for the sport. This year, the 103th Running of the Indianapolis 500 will be on Sunday, May 26, and has put the shopping center developer and operator into overdrive with a slate of racing-related initiatives at its Indianapolis-area properties.   At the Fashion Mall at Keystone recently, […]

todayApril 30, 2019

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