Does Couples Therapy Work?
By ELIZABETH WEIL WE’VE all had that horrible experience: you throw a party or invite a couple over for dinner, and they start fighting, right there in front of you — the character assassination, the…
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Apple Loophole Gives Developers Access to Photos
By NICK BILTON SAN FRANCISCO — The private photos on your phone may not be as private as you think. Developers of applications for Apple’s mobile devices, along with Apple itself, came under scrutiny this…
Zynga Seeks to Match Up Players for Online Games
By DAVID STREITFELD SAN FRANCISCO — There is an old saying that if you have two real friends, you should count yourself lucky. No doubt. But you are going to have a hard time playing…
Disruptions: No More Innovation for the Fun of It
By NICK BILTON SAN FRANCISCO –I wouldn’t describe the car industry as fun. The airline industry isn’t fun either. Phone companies are far from fun. Yet these industries all started out fun. They began with…
Bank of America Alerts Customers To Possible Breach
Rochester, N.Y. — Some Bank of America customers received letters in the mail Saturday informing them of a possible security breach. The bank states, “We take your account security very seriously and have learned that…
Android Apps Can Also Secretly Copy Photos
By BRIAN X. CHEN and NICK BILTON It’s not just Apple. Photos are vulnerable on Android phones, too. As Bits reported this week, developers who make applications for Apple iOS devices have access to a…
Pawn Shops Thrive In Tough Economy
By Yardena Schwartz July 19 (Source: By Yardena Schwartz, The Miami Herald) – When William Toro’s car stopped running a few years ago, he was short on cash and didn’t have easy access to credit….
Maria Eftimiades – Books
Books Written By Maria Eftimiades Sins of the Mother by Maria Eftimiades 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1995 My rating: Lethal Lolita A true story of sex, scandal and deadly obsession by…
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Making it Big by Being Your Own Publisher One of the best examples of a success story is that of author Amy Fisher with her work “If I Knew Then”. Her work sold over 32,000…
The Quiet Man – People Magazine Archive By Maria Eftimiades
The Quiet Man – People Magazine Archive By Maria Eftimiades EACH DAY FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS, Margarita Gonzalez has sat in the front row of a Mineola, N.Y., courtroom, listening. Sometimes she weeps; sometimes…
World of Beer brings beer snobbery to the masses
World of Beer has arrived in Central Florida — with the openings of three franchise stores in Lake Mary, near UCF and in the Dr. Phillips area. And after stopping by the Lake Mary and…
The Pawn Shop Regulations for Starting Up a Business in Florida
by Melanie J. Martin Florida pawn shops must obtain a license from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Pawn shop owners must renew their license annually. In addition to obeying state laws, pawnbrokers…
Florida Pawn Shop Laws & Rules
By Roger Thorne The buying and selling of used or secondhand goods has been going on since the earliest days of history. In Florida, pawn shops and other secondhand goods dealers must comply with numerous…
Florida Pawnshops
All pawnshops are required to apply and obtain a license with the Department annually. Each pawnshop must maintain a net worth of at least $50,000 or file security in the form of a surety bond,…
Playing the Lin Card Pays Off for a Collector
By KEN BELSON Linsanity may have cooled a bit after the Knicks lost two games in recent days. But by one measure, the fervor for Jeremy Lin, the sensation also known as the Knicks’ point…
Lin’s New Challenge: Media Onslaught at All-Star Weekend
By HOWARD BECK ORLANDO, Fla. — The profound changes in Jeremy Lin’s life can now be measured in microphones and cameras and the square footage needed to accommodate the growing legion of scribes hanging on…
Taxpayers Ask IRS: Where’s My Money?
By Michelle Smith As of last week, the IRS had cut fewer checks and refunded less money than during the same period last year. USA Today reports that taxpayers, who are waiting longer than normal…
Postal Service to Cut 5.4% of Staff by Closing Almost Half of Plants
The U.S. Postal Service, which predicts an annual loss of $18.2 billion by 2015, plans to eliminate 5.4 percent of its workforce by closing almost half of its mail-processing facilities to cut costs. The service…
Pepsi’s Mid-calorie Soda Aims to Win Back Drinkers
Pepsi hopes to win back drinkers with a compromise. Some people don’t like the calories in regular soda, but loathe the taste of diet. So, PepsiCo Inc. is rolling out “Pepsi Next,” a mid-calorie drink…
Ice Cream Addiction Is Real
By Nick Tate Think you’re addicted to ice cream? New research says it may be possible. In fact, that hankering you have for Häagen Dazs may parallel an addict’s cravings for drugs – at least…
Food Network in the Kitchen: A delicious app
By Marc Saltzma If you spend a lot of time with Guy Fieri, Rachael Ray and Bobby Flay on TV, why not take these chefs into your kitchen via your iPad? The new and improved…
Apple buys app-discovery search engine
By Charlie Szold What good is it to have 500,000 apps in your app store if you can’t find any you like? Apple is trying to bring order to its app store by purchasing app-discovery…
More drivers than ever may pay $5 per gallon
By Gary Strauss More drivers than ever could soon be paying $5 for a gallon of gasoline. But the national average, up sharply in recent weeks, is still expected to top out at about $4….
Stroke and Heart Attack Symptoms You Never Saw Coming
By Katrina Turner Strokes and heart attacks are among the deadliest conditions in the United States. And while a stroke affects your brain and a heart attack affects your heart, the main symptoms and causes…
The Evolution of a Point Guard
By HOWARD BECK ORLANDO, Fla. — The most captivating strand of the Jeremy Lin mystique is that he came from nowhere, emerging overnight to become a star, after being underestimated and overlooked, disregarded by college…
We Lose Clean Energy Race without Government Investments
by Richard W. Caperton Continuing and expanding investments in clean energy is the smart choice to meet the next generation of energy challenges and produce a foundation of affordable, reliable, and clean energy alternatives. Budget…
Review: The iPad 2
by Jason Snell A year ago, nobody had an iPad. Then Apple sold 15 million of them in just nine months, creating a whole new category of technology product. The iPad may have become, in…
Where the iPad 2 lets you down: Top 12 complaints
The iPad 2 is the best tablet available, but it brings its own share of frustrations. By Galen Gruman I really like the iPad 2. I use mine every day for work and personal purposes,…
Home based business owners turn passions for food and fabrics into group travel adventures
By Kimberly L. Jackson Beyond vacation memories and souvenirs, an increasing number of international travelers want to bring home new skills and experiences from their journeys abroad. For some, it’s learning the cooking techniques that…
Home Based Business
What do Apple Computer, Hershey’s, Mary Kay Cosmetics, and the Ford Motor Company have in common? These well-known corporations all started out as home based businesses. In fact, more than half of all U.S. businesses…
IRS Releases the Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2012
WASHINGTON –– The Internal Revenue Service today issued its annual “Dirty Dozen” ranking of tax scams, reminding taxpayers to use caution during tax season to protect themselves against a wide range of schemes ranging from…
Clean Energy and Green Jobs in 2010
By Robert Ludvig Green energy is taking center stage as 2010 gets underway. The Obama administration is making good on their promises that were made in 2009. There are critics who point out that the…
Bill Gates Calls for More Accountability on Food Programs
By JUSTIN GILLIS The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has brought a distinctive approach to problems of global development: a sense of urgency, a willingness to make big investments in pursuit of ambitious targets, and…
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
By CHARLES DUHIGG Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted…
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
By Kashmir Hill Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details about your consumption patterns with retailers. And many of those retailers are studying those details to figure out what you like, what you…
Disarming the Myths Promoted By the Gun Control Lobby
By Larry Bell As much as gun control advocates might wish otherwise, their attacks are running out of ammo. With private firearm ownership at an all-time high and violent crime rates plunging, none of the…
Ten Reasons NOT To Invest In Facebook
By Kym McNicholas If you’re a Robert Scoble follower, you know he believes Facebook will be worth a half-trillion dollars by 2015. But not everyone’s as confident as Scoble that the social network will be…
How To Use Social Media To Promote Your Small Business
By Kym McNicholas You have a small business and you haven’t bought into the social media craze? Guess what? Silence is no longer an option. People are online talking about your company as you read…
Apple’s GarageBand And iTunes Have Some New Competition
By Kym McNicholas The former head of Virgin Records, Matt Serletic, is hoping to give Apple‘s GargeBand and iTune’s a little competition. The Grammy Award-winning producer/songwriter has started his own music making business, Music Mastermind,…
What Are SOPA and PIPA And Why All The Fuss?
By Larry Magid Knowing that Wikipedia would go dark for 24 hours in protest to SOPA and PIPA, I took the precaution of printing it out last night. Just kidding. Wikipedia is huge. I wanted…
Web Firms to Adopt ‘No Track’ Button
By JULIA ANGWIN A coalition of Internet giants including Google Inc. has agreed to support a do-not-track button to be embedded in most Web browsers—a move that the industry had been resisting for more than…
George Harrison’s Beloved Guitars, Gently Weeping on Your iPad
By DAVE ITZKOFF Some music fans understandably regard the guitars owned and played by George Harrison, in his Beatles career and as a solo artist, as sacred relics that may still contain fragments of their…
Hip Hop Mogul to Unveil Plan for Music Cable Channel
By BRIAN STELTER Like Oprah Winfrey and Ryan Seacrest before him, the music mogul Sean Combs wants a spot on the cable channel lineup. Mr. Combs will unveil on Tuesday his plans for a music-oriented…
Monitoring Your Health With Mobile Devices
By PETER WAYNER Dr. Eric Topol is only half joking when he says the smartphone is the future of medicine — because most of his patients already seem “surgically connected” to one. But he says…
Six Attributes of Successful Entrepreneurs
By JAY GOLTZ I recently read an article in The New York Times about a program that had been proving for many years what lots of people had long suspected — that SAT scores are…
Price Cuts Hurt Target’s Earnings
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Target reported a 5.2 percent drop in earnings for the fourth quarter, as big discounts to get tight-fisted shoppers to buy during the holiday season eroded profits. The discount retailer, however,…
Jobless Claims Hold at Four-Year Low
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The number of people seeking unemployment aid was unchanged last week and the four-week average of applications fell to its lowest point in four years, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The…
Jeremy Lin Unlikely to Make U.S. Olympic Team
By GREG BISHOP The past three weeks have no doubt made many big-time college basketball programs and N.B.A. teams wish they had seized the chance to add Jeremy Lin to their rosters. Will the United…
Obama Offers to Cut Corporate Tax Rate to 28%
By JACKIE CALMES WASHINGTON — President Obama will ask Congress to scrub the corporate tax code of dozens of loopholes and subsidies to reduce the top rate to 28 percent, down from 35 percent, while…
Aging of Eyes Is Blamed for Range of Health Woes
By LAURIE TARKAN THE HYPOTHESIS The aging eye filters out blue light, affecting circadian rhythm and health in older adults. THE INVESTIGATORS Dr. Martin Mainster and Dr. Patricia Turner, University of Kansas School of Medicine….