Quotes of the Day

If there's one area of the house that the experts agree about when it comes to improving the value of your home, it is the kitchen. If your home is more than seven years old, chances are that your kitchen is at least partially obsolete. Take a look at the likely sales price of your home and try to spend no more than 10 percent on a kitchen makeover. The two areas of the kitchen that receive the most attention are the floor and the countertops (The sink and stove are also important.) Many new models for upscale homes will include traditional tile countertops around the periphery of the kitchen with a granite island in the center. Today, most people prefer the offset sink with a small higher side for the garbage disposer and a deep, wide side for soaking. [2003] - Robert Irwin

NAD boosters are effective treatment for a wide variety of ailments in mice and that they extend their lifespan even when given late in life. We know that emerging research strongly suggests they could have a similar, if not duplicative, effect on human health. The way it does this is by creating the right level of stress--just enough to push our longevity genes into action to suppress epigenetic changes to maintain the youthful program. In doing so, NMN and other vitality molecules, including metformin and rapamycin, reduce the buildup of informational noise that causes aging, thus restoring the program. [2019] - David A. Sinclair

Some e-marketers avoid "FREE" in the subject line. Despite spam filters, "FREE" typically lifts response. [2005] - Robert W. Bly

A practical way to identify an ultra-processed product is to check to see if its list of ingredients contains either food substances never or rarely used in kitchens (such as high-fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated or interesterified oils, and hydrolysed proteins), or classes of additives designed to make the final product palatable or more appealing (such as flavours, flavour enhancers, colours, emulsifiers, emulsifying salts, sweeteners, thickeners, and anti-foaming, bulking, carbonating, foaming, gelling and glazing agents). [2020] - David Raubenheimer

a short-term (over the next few hours) trading range may be 20 to 50 pips wide, while a longer-term (over the next few days to weeks) range can be 200 to 400 pips wide. Medium-term traders are normally looking to capture larger relative price movements — say, 50 to 100 pips or more.  [2007] - Mark Galant