Dear Heloise: Can you tell me the best way to clean onyx countertops, sinks and showers? I love my new bathroom, but I’m afraid I will scratch the surface. My contractor highly recommended it, but I ...

DEAR HELOISE: I have several hints for multiple ways to use a 5-inch electric fan on a kitchen counter. You can use it to cool off closed containers of warm food before storing them in a fridge or ...

Dear Heloise: This is to add to Karen from Michigan’s suggestion about recycling toilet paper rolls. I reuse them by cutting the rolls in half and standing them upright in the bottom of a plastic ...

Dear Heloise: To get more use out of discarded Christmas lights, I place a strand in a decorative container and leave them on at night as a night light. This is helpful when walking into a dark living ...

DEAR HELOISE: For Marvin Tiffany of York, Nebraska, I agree about missing the old days when an actual print newspaper arrived at the house in the morning. Here in our part of Oregon, I can get the ...

Abstract: Cost based SQL optimizers remain brittle under real world data and engine diversity; small errors in cardinality or cost estimates can cascade into poor plans. We propose a conceptual ...

Dear Heloise: My husband is in an assisted living facility. I keep an erasable white board in his room. When a visit or trip is planned, I write it on the board. It helps him remember, and the staff ...

Dear Heloise: I have two thermal mugs. One is for coffee, and one is for tea. They can’t be used in the microwave or in the dishwasher. To get the stains out, I boil some water and put it in the mugs.

Julie Murphy DEAR HELOISE: On vacation this summer, my husband fell and had a couple of cuts that needed more than a bandage. We were staying at a friend’s house, and all they had was a box of ...

DEAR HELOISE: So many people don’t know that the accessible parking placard is to be removed while driving. In many states, it can even get you a ticket! I think one of the reasons why people don’t ...

DANVILLE — More than 20 Valley entrepreneurs were advised on how to jumpstart their business using artificial intelligence during a Wednesday morning StartUp Danville workshop and lecture. AI, as a ...

Abstract: Text-to-SQL generation bridges the gap between natural language and databases, enabling users to query data without requiring SQL expertise. While large language models (LLMs) have ...