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Eggs Benedict Casserole
Brunch doesn't have to break the budget. This casserole lets you easily prepare the brunch classic for your friends or family without the cost of tipping a waiter.
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- Yields:
- 8
- Prep Time:
- 25 mins
- Total Time:
- 1 hr
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 6 english muffins
- 1 large leek
- 12 oz. Canadian bacon
- 6 large eggs
- 8 large egg yolks
- 2 1/2 c. whole milk
- 1 1/2 tsp. dry mustard
- 2 tbsp. chopped fresh chives
- 2 c. heavy whipping cream
- 3/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
- kosher salt
- Pepper
- 1/2 c. unsalted butter
- 1 tbsp. fresh lemon juice
- 1 tsp. Dijon mustard
- Step 1Heat oven to 425 degrees F. Coat a 9- by 13-inch baking dish (or eight 16-ounce baking dishes) with oil. Place the English muffin pieces on a large rimmed baking sheet and bake until lightly golden brown, 12 to 15 minutes; transfer to the prepared baking dish (or dishes). Reduce the oven to 350 degrees F.
- Step 2Meanwhile, heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the leek and cook, stirring occasionally, for 4 minutes. Increase the heat to medium-high, add the bacon and cook, stirring occasionally, until beginning to brown, 4 to 5 minutes more. Spoon the mixture over the English muffins.
- Step 3In a large bowl, whisk together the whole eggs, milk, dry mustard, chives, 1 1/2 cups cream, and 1/2 teaspoon each cayenne, salt, and pepper. Pour the egg mixture over the leek-bacon mixture and bake until casserole is puffed, golden brown and just set, 40 to 45 minutes (about 25 minutes for individual dishes).
- Step 4Ten minutes before the casserole is finished, make the hollandaise sauce. Melt the butter in the microwave. In a metal or glass bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, lemon juice, Dijon mustard, remaining 1/2 cup cream, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Place the bowl over (but not in) a saucepan of simmering water and cook, whisking constantly, until the mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon, 2 to 3 minutes. Reduce heat to low. Still whisking constantly, gradually add the melted butter. Sprinkle the casserole with additional chives, if desired, and serve with the hollandaise.
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Masks with olive butter for normal facial skin
Nourishing and softening mask with olive oil: little-fat curds (1 teaspoon) assorted with olive butter and parsley breeding juice (at? Tsp), triturated and used for 15-20 minutes on the facial skin. Bath off with heartwarming aqua.
Cleansing and softening mask with cucumber and olive oil: cucumber (?) Rubbed on a lovely grater and squeeze out extract. In a remaining slurry is added sour natural milk and the butter (1 teaspoonful), mix and used to a facial skin and neck skin for 20 min. Then wash with cold-blooded h2o and wipe a skin cucumber nectar.
With a mixture of oils can care for very dry and rule skin of the face and neck: olive oil (1 spoon) mixed with rosemary butter (5 drops), rosewood (3 drops) and geranium (TWO drops). This mixing smeared face and neck skin 1-TWO minutes a day.
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Two hands want gently shine the face cheeks - with a wings of the nose to the temples;
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Anyone worried about whether the city of Henry has been doing enough to crack down on unlicensed boat trailers would have been relieved to be at the Marshall County Courthouse on March 25.
City attorney Ryan Anderson, Henry Police Chief Bill Calbow, and Officer John Williamson were all there to bring the city's enforcement power to bear against disabled Army veteran Charles Young.
Around the first of the year, Young moved the trailer out of his garage at 313 Jefferson St. and promptly received a notice on Jan. 2 giving him seven days to "abate" the violation. He said the plate had been stolen, and it was not until late on Jan. 10 that he got a replacement plate after driving to Springfield, returning home to find he had received a $100 ticket for being a day late.
On Jan. 14, Young and another Henry resident, Dale Marliere, appeared at a City Council meeting to complain about selective enforcement of local ordinances. The city's response to Marliere has played out in the form of police using a boom truck to see over his privacy fence and later conducting a warrantless search of his property for possible violations of a local nuisance ordinance.
"Me and Dale are the only ones who've ever stood up to them. That's why they're hassling us," Young said.
Young embarrassed city officials that night by circulating photographs of apparent violations that were being ignored. Among them were photos of an unlicensed utility trailer (above) that had been sitting for about two years at the city's waterworks park.
It turned out to be owned by public works superintendent Tom Maubach, who acknowledged that at the meeting. It was moved out of town the next day, Young noted.
"So what makes him better than me?" Young asked the council that night. "I got a ticket and he didn't."
Young, 51, later provided the Journal Star copies of about 110 photos that he had taken around town after getting his ticket. Initially, he had just planned to show them to the council to illustrate the numerous apparent ordinance violations that were being ignored all over town, he said.
But he later provided them to the paper after hearing the response of Police Chief Calbow, who called Young "the worst of the worst" violators in the small town. That was repeated later in a meeting report written by Mayor David Donini for the Henry News-Republican, calling Young and Marliere "among the worst violators in the city."
The weekly newspaper does not independently report on city business, but routinely prints Donini's accounts of city council meetings.
"They made me mad when they said that," Young, 51, said later in a rather modest response. "There's a lot of properties that are a lot worse than mine."
To be sure, Young probably doesn't have much future as a photographer. He seems to specialize in rather odd subjects: Close-ups of license plates with expired stickers; vehicles and trailers with no plates at all; and local properties that might be generally described as untidy.
For instance, there are yards like the one outside that old house where remodeling apparently has been going on for some time and the fixtures being removed have been piled up outside. And what about that other one where where various furnishings and electronics appear to have been thrown into an accumulating pile of junk(above)?
There was also the old green utility truck with plates that expired last July, the red Taurus that expired in August, the silver Malibu out of date since May, a silver Mercedes that expired in August and even a Cadillac Escalade that appeared to have no plates at all.
All in all, Young's camera found at least two dozen vehicles, trailers, and RV's that appeared to be not in compliance with the licensing requirements that Young had been accused of violating.
"Everything's all still there," Young said Wednesday.
Yet Young's still in court, alone. Even though his boat trailer now bears the replacement license plate, good through April, he faces fines, court costs, and even possibly being forced to pay city attorney fees.
At the request of the Journal Star, Young posed Wednesday at various points around his yard, which includes a huge garden that he shares with the neighborhood every year. "I've talked to all my neighbors, and none of them have ever complained about my yard," he said.
"I used to like living in Henry, and I still do," he added. "But if I keep getting hassled, I'm going to have to move."
At his latest appeaance in Marshall County Circuit Court, Young requested and obtained a continuance in hopes of being able to find an attorney to represent him. But the next hearing date is set for April 24, and he has to have a lawyer lined up at least two weeks before then.
"I'm not going to pay that fine. I'm going to fight it," Young said. "But I've got to find an attorney."


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The US already has it, every Canadian mobile carrier has just released official dates, and now...a leaked screenshot showing pricing and data plans for European carrier Vodafone UK.
According to the image, the BlackBerry Torch 9800 can run anywhere from - free to £399, depending on which type of data plan you select. As far as data plans, you're looking at costs ranges from £20 to £40.
Will we be hearing shortly about another September 24th release date? Give us your thoughts.


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Ari Fleischer and Paul Begala discuss the likely topics for the upcoming presidential debate focusing on foreign policy.
Post by: John King
Filed under: 2012 Election • Afghanistan • Ari Fleischer • Israel • Libya • Mitt Romney • Paul Begala • President Barack Obama • Presidential Debate • Raw Politics
My question is why was our Ambassador in Benghazi? According to our State Departments' list of foreign embassys, we have no embassy or consulate in Benghazi, Libya. So why was Ambassador Stevens there? It is hundreds of miles from our US Embassy in Tripoli. What was this residence used for? Why would there be any US security around it? Was our ambassador meeting with Benghazi locals? Was he set up? Was this a CIA operation gone bad? Does this subject have national secuity issues? Why would there be any protests at a US consulate that did not exist?
Governor Romney's comments immediately after the Benghazi attack is political and selfserving. In the history of our country we support our president when on our citizens are attacked in times of peace or war.The facts are that it takes time to sort out conflicting statements made after an attack of this magnitude. To take drastic action before we know what really occurred in Benghazi is not in best interest of our country. We can no longer act unilaterrally in the Middle East or anywheree
else in the world. President Obama's administration has made progress and has restored diplomacy as a tool for peace. Iran has agreed to begin one to one negotiations on Irans nuclear program and Al Quada is on the run.
The Romney administration would destroy the progress being made and return our country to another program of war and destruction. A Romney administration would cater to the extreme radical right wing fringe of the party resulting in a program of war, threats, and coninued use of unilateral force in the Middle East.This will surely mean the economic destruction of America. As the world leader, our nation will collapse from within and cause havoc around the world.
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Blergh. Tonight, NBC's adored sitcom 30 Rock is coming to an end after seven seasons. The double-length series finale will pick up where last week's episode left off, as Liz adjusts to life as a mother and former page Kenneth takes the reins at NBC. Though 30 Rock has never been a major ratings success for NBC, the end of the series is a crushing blow to the many TV critics who have spent the past seven years endorsing its hilarious, idiosyncratic take on the sitcom format, which made it one of the most innovative, unpredictable, and internet-friendly shows on TV. On the day it comes to an end, six writers eulogize 30 Rock:
1. At Rolling Stone, Brian Hiatt offers an in-depth look at 30 Rock from conception to finale:
For Fey, the biggest triumph of 30 Rock is its very survival: the unlikely persistence of a show sufficiently unhinged to use blackface on three occasions; to have Jane Krakowski's monstrously narcissistic Jenna Maroney consummate her self-adoration by marrying her own male impersonator; to have Elizabeth Banks' Avery Jessup kidnapped by Kim Jong-Il as an unfortunate consequence of NBC's "Hot Blondes in Weird Places" initiative. "I feel like we made a lot of good episodes of the kind of show that usually gets canceled," says Fey. "The kind where there's 20 episodes and 'only me and my hipster friends know about it.' That part's still true. But we made 140 of them!" What's really crazy about 30 Rock is its sheer verbal velocity — punch lines go by so fast that even smart people may need to rewind (an industrious blogger calculated that a 2010 episode averaged 9.57 jokes per minute). "It requires you to pay attention in a way that you don't always want to at the end of a long day," says Fey, "and I get that. I'm a professional comedy worker, and there would be days when I'm like, 'I love Arrested Development, but I don't want to watch it right now.' " [Rolling Stone]
2. Robert Lloyd at The Los Angeles Times on 30 Rock's ultimate legacy:
I fell in love at first sight with Tina Fey's 30 Rock... We have both grown in the interim — well, 30 Rock has — and if it is not now the same series that first won my heart, by winning my head, it is an even better one, bold and confident and more completely itself.... What is the legacy of these critically acclaimed, low-rated, award-winning seven seasons? There's the useful phrase "I want to go to there," which Fey stole from her daughter Alice. And obviously, there's the example of Fey herself, as a groundbreaking Woman in Comedy: the 2010 recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, author of a bestselling memoir, Bossypants, and a role model for ambitious nerd girls everywhere. It's not fair to say that there'd be no Mindy Kaling or Lena Dunham without her, but their paths would have been different and surely more difficult. [Los Angeles Times]
3. Alan Sepinwall at Hitfix on 30 Rock's place in television history:
The show's favorite subject was always television itself, a medium for which 30 Rock felt equal parts adoration and fear. The writers came up with one horrible fake movie or TV show idea after another — among the best of the very long list: "The Rural Juror," "A Blaffair to Rememblack," "Fresh-Ass, based on the novel Tush by Ass-Fire," "Bitch Hunter," "MILF Island" and "A Dog Took My Face And Gave Me A Better Face To Change The World: The Celeste Cunningham Story" — yet there was also so much affection for the medium and our communal history watching it. 30 Rock came on the air near the start of what seems to be the death rattle of network television — it likely wouldn't have lasted seven seasons with its ratings if NBC hadn't been in such dire straits — and though Jack and other characters frequently commented on the terrible state of the business, the show always viewed that with sadness. Kenneth was a character fueled by nothing except a love of television and a desire to work in it, which is why he spent so many years in the demeaning job of NBC page; when Jack improbably promoted him to network president last week, it was treated as a deserved outcome. [HitFix]
4. Alyssa Rosenberg at ThinkProgress on 30 Rock's unique insights into race:
Almost from the moment we met her, one of Liz Lemon's signature preoccupations was demonstrating that she was not, in fact, a racist. "Race is a huge issue, according to Newsweek magazine," Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski), Liz's best friend told her in an early episode of the show they created together. "Well, it is 2007 and some of us don't have these hangups," Liz declared, proud of herself. But of course, Liz is rife with racial hangups, many of which she mistook for sensitivity. In the season one episode "Jack-tor," for example, Liz became convinced that Tracy was illiterate after he flubbed a series of cue cards. When she offered to give him time off to attend reading classes, Tracy amused himself by taking advantage of her condescension. "I can't read!" he declared histrionically as he high-tailed it out of the office. "I sign my name with an X! I once tried to make mashed potatoes with laundry detergent! I think I voted for Nader!" When she discovered that he was tweaking her, rather than examining her own preconceptions, Liz got huffy about Tracy's reaction to her assumptions. "He took advantage of my white guilt, which is only to be used for good, like overtipping, and supporting Barack Obama," she explained, casting herself a a victim, and long before Obama even formally began his campaign for president, setting up support for him as a proxy for racial self-congratulation by white voters. [ThinkProgress]
5. 30 Rock writer Tom Ceraulo gives a behind-the-scenes look at the show's final days at Buzzfeed:
In a lot of ways, I experienced my first season at the show as a 30 Rock fan: taking everything in, being as delighted by pitches, outlines, scripts, and table reads as I had been by watching the show at home during the first two seasons. I hung on every word in the writers' room — which, when you consider that one of my duties was to take notes, was actually quite helpful. But it got to the point that I'd take notes on the comedy bits that would organically break out, unrelated to the show. I stopped doing this after Tina looked through a list of potential story ideas and discovered one I'd typed about a medical condition in which a patient has a small penis growing in his or her mouth that gets aroused by hunger. "Our writers' assistants may be a little too thorough," she laughed, and I was mortified — but as with everything that happened that year, still pretty thrilled. [Buzzfeed]
6. Todd VanDerWerff at The AV Club draws a connection between the final seasons of 30 Rock and The Mary Tyler Moore Show:
Since it began seven years ago, 30 Rock has frequently been compared to Mary Tyler Moore. Even Fey has held it up as an early inspiration. But while I'd quibble with the direct lineage — the show has always seemed much more inspired by Norman Lear's 70s sitcoms and the sketch-comedy influences of Saturday Night Live to me — it's clear that Fey has drawn almost directly from the final-season well Moore set up in its final season. It's easy to see the lines she's drawn between Mary Richards — who ventured into the world of work when her thoughts of having a family just didn't prove as exciting to her as getting a job — and Liz Lemon — who found herself out of a job, but possessing a family. They're two women standing on either side of the "women in the workplace" revolution of the last 40 years, and in their final seasons, they provide different answers to the question of what it means to have a meaningful job, as well as what it means to have that job taken away from you, even if they deal with what seems to be the exact same material. The final season of 30 Rock could have seemed like a cover version of the final season of Mary Tyler Moore, but by staying true to its own voice, 30 Rock has found a new way to play around with old tropes, while still respecting all of the ground Moore broke. [The AV Club]


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/etc/decnet.conf is an ASCII file which contains the description of the executor node and other DECnet nodes you plan to communicate with. There is one entry per line, and each line has the format: Type Address Name_tag Nodename Line_tag Device The field descriptions are: Type the type of node. The local node uses "executor". Remote nodes use "node" Address the DECnet address. Name_tag the constant string "name". Line_tag the constant string "line". There must be only one line specified for the executor node. Device the name of the Ethernet card for DECnet operations. (Usually "eth0"). EXAMPLE #Node Node Name Node Line Line #Type Address Tag Name Tag Device #---- ------- ---- ---- ---- ---------- executor 1.2 name pclnx line eth0 node 1.1 name mv3100 node 1.5 name pc386


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We've been waiting for the supposed Summer launch of TomTom's turn-by-turn iPhone app and car kit ever since we saw it at WWDC. Now one UK retailer looks to be taking pre-orders for £113.85 (about $195).
I wouldn't take Handtec's pricing as gospel—they seem to have jumped the gun after all—but it does give some insight into what we might expect.
The listed price is a little higher than a basic stand alone device costs, but includes the iPhone app itself, along with the GPS-boosting car accessory—complete with windscreen mount, in-car charger, speakers, and hands-free rig. And as we've mentioned in the past, it's not inconceivable that the kit will also support the iPod Touch.
Of course, it still remains to be seen if TomTom will bleed users dry with an AT&T TeleNav-style monthly subscription, or go the one off charge route that CoPilot Live took in the UK. [Handtec via Daniweb via Techmeme]


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Monday, June 24: Main Streets and Back Roads: Bristol, Rhode Island
Bristol, Rhode Island is a lovely gem that sits at the end of a peninsula stretching out into Narragansett Bay to the west and Mount Hope Bay to the east. For a century and a half it's been home to legendary boat builders and one of the most extravagant July 4th celebrations in the country. Tonight, JC Monahan takes us to this coastal jewel for an early summer visit.
Show Resources:
Herreshoff Marine Museum
One Burnside Street
PO Box 450, Bristol RI 02809 USA
(401) 253-5000
Blithewold Mansion
101 Ferry Road Bristol, Rhode Island 02809
(401) 253-2707
Coggeshall Farm
1 Colt Drive Bristol, RI 02809
(401) 253-9062
Mount Hope Farm
250 Metacom Ave Bristol, RI 02809-5180
(401) 254-9300
The Beehive Cafe
10 Franklin Street Bristol, RI 02809
(401) 396-9994
Goetz Boats
115 Broad Common Road
Bristol, RI 02809
(401) 253-2670
Outerlimits Offshore Powerboats
91 Broad Common Road Bristol, RI 02809
(401) 253-7300
Olde China Trader
Thames Street Landing Shop 6C
259 Thames St Bristol, RI 02809
(401) 254-8954
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Bristol Rhode Island Fourth of July Committee
PO Box 561 Bristol, RI 02809


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Name: Jane Thompson AKA Gordon
Arrested for: Thief
Arrested at: North Shields Police Station
Arrested on: 13th July 1904 Tyne and Wear Archives
ref: DX1388-1-35-Jane Thompson AKA Gordon
These images are a selection from an album of photographs of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1916 in the collection of Tyne & Wear Archives (TWA ref DX1388/1). Image available on Flickr.
I thought it appropriate to start this post off with a vintage mug shot from 1904. This poor lady, I have no idea if she was actually found guilty. So if any of her descendants come across this picture, my apologies.
A distant cousin of mine recently confided in me that it had been brought to her attention that her pictures were being saved from her tree on ancestry.com to a certain person's (thief) personal computer and then uploaded to that certain person's (thief) ancestry.com tree as though the picture had generated from them(thief) in the first place. She went to this certain person's (thief) tree and counted no less that 96 of her pictures being done this way.
She (my cousin) wanted my opinion on how she should handle the situation and what I felt was the appropriate way to save photos. It's my opinion, if someone (my cousin) was kind enough to upload the picture in the first place to share, then the certain person (thief) that saved the picture to their computer, should have appropriately attached the original picture from her (cousin) tree to theirs (thief), and then saved it. Leaving the link to the original picture.
I wonder if this certain person (thief) realizes that when you save a picture from someone's tree – it tells them (my cousin). Then when the certain person (thief) uploads the pictures to their tree, it sends the person that originally had the picture (my cousin) a shaky leaf, indicating a new picture has been found! Really?? New?? Not so much…..
She emailed the certain person (thief), and got no response. So she contacted Ancestry, and this was there response.
Thank you for your response. We appreciate your feedback and are committed to providing excellent customer service.
The following excerpt from our Community Guidelines within our Terms and Conditions is in reference to the agreement between the submitter of content and Ancestry.com:
Shortly after this, the certain person (no longer a thief) did delete the pictures from their tree.
People, even though that is the policy of Ancestry, please be considerate of the source of the photos you are saving. It's ok to save them. Just make sure if you are going to add them to your tree, give credit where credit is due. You may be causing them to lose contact with another potential cousin. Why not leave it on their tree, attach it to your tree, and then you both can have contact with the potential cousin.
Am I the only one that feels this way?? Please give me feedback on this, I would really like to hear some opinions on the matter.
In the meantime, after I get some health issues taken care of for my parents, I'm going to go back through my tree and make sure I have properly credited all my pictures to the person I scanned them from. It's possible as a newbie, I wasn't so good at that. I do know however, exactly who gave me what photo. I kept very good records of that. So many of the pictures I have, cousins let me scan and some are pictures I took, of pictures hanging on people's walls, so I will know if those came from me, because no else has had access to those. I'm curious to know if this has happened to any of my pictures.
Which brings another thought to mind, does anyone know how to properly Cite a scanned copy of a photo in Family Tree Maker??
Oh, and Jane Thompson aka Gordon, I am truly sorry to drag you into this matter. I just thought it would be a really cool way to show people your awesome mug shot from over a hundred years ago, and I hope you weren't found guilty and thrown in prison, and please note, I properly credited your picture. Thank you, thank you very much.


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2015 Raleigh Tech Security Conference
This conference qualifies for CPE credits!
Passes include a full lunch, entrance into the main conference room and all conference material.
Program Description:
Data Connectors will be hosting the Raleigh Tech Security Conference on Wednesday, April, 1st. The event will start at 8:15 AM with a check-in and opening introductions before presentation sessions begin at 8:45. Between the educational sessions that go throughout the day, there will be time to visit vendor booths to obtain information regarding product and service offerings.
Event Sponsors/Vendors include:
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When you register to attend a Data Connectors vendor-sponsored conference, your event registration information is used to confirm registrations and may be used to send product information and promotional material. (Information may also be used to compile broad demographic information). As Data Connectors may disclose your event registration information to those vendors sponsoring the event, Data Connector's customer agreement with the Sponsor provides that the Sponsor (a) may use this information only to send you product information, to contact you via common methods of communication to assess your interest in its products and services, and (b) may share this information with a business partner, reseller or distributor of its products and services for the permitted marketing purposes set forth above. You should contact the Sponsor directly if you have any questions about their use of this information.
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Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding
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Publisher Description
Bride and mother-of-the-bride rebel against today's monster weddings and explain how weddings can be charming, affordable—and excruciatingly correct.
Today's brides are bombarded with wedding advice that promises perfection but urges achieving it through selfishness ("It's your wedding, and you can do whatever you like"), greed (choosing the presents that guests are directed to buy), and showing off ("This is your chance to show everyone what you're about"). Couples wishing to resist such pressure see elopement or a slapdash wedding as the only alternatives to a gaudy blowout. But none of these choices appealed to a bride who happened to have been brought up by Miss Manners. Judith Martin and her newlywed daughter, Jacobina, explain how to have a dignified ceremony and delightful celebration without succumbing to the now-prevalent pattern of the vulgar, money-draining wedding that exhausts families and exploits friends.
Customer Reviews
What every well behaved bride wants
Perfectly written for our times. A reminder to all what makes a wonderful wedding creating fond memories and happiness for everyone.


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If it is OK to tell y'all about my most favorite singer here, James Otto is his name and if you like both country and soul music, they are put together when James sings! This is what has gone to radio so far from him.
"I Just Got Started Loving You"-from his Sunset Man album, a #1 for two weeks making it the #1 country song of 2008, and scored James his very first Grammy award nomination the following year.
"For You" -from his Sunset Man album
"These Are The Good Ole Days" -from his Sunset Man album
"Since You Brought It Up" -Because this song was never placed on an album, it is only available where ever songs can be purchased online.
"A Groovy Little Summer Song" -from his album named Shake What God Gave Ya!
"Soldiers & Jesus" -from his album named Shake What God Gave Ya!
The following are more of my most favorite performances of his.
"Dam* Right" -from his second album named Sunset Man
"Never Say Good Bye" -from his first album named Days Of Our Lives
"Lets Just Let Go" -from his third and newest album named Shake What God Gave Ya!
"You Don't Act Like My Woman" -also from his Sunset Man album and co-written and co-produced by Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts
"The Blues Can't Find Me Here" -from his first ever live online performance
A Groovy Little Summer Song -also from his album named Shake What God Gave Ya!
Soldiers & Jesus -also from his album named Shake What God Gave Ya!
"Till That Sun Comes Around Again" -also from his album named Shake What God Gave Ya! (This performance is in front of a crowd that I was a part of in late January of last year. I was standing just a little bit to his left.)
I Got Your Back -This is a song that James wrote not too long ago.
God bless you and James always!!!
P.S. James has also become known for his songwriting by scoring the 2009 CMA and ACM Song of the Year awards for his being a co-writer of "In Color" from Jamey Johnson and is also a co-writer of the song named "No Hurry" from the Zac Brown Band which recently went all the way to #2 on the Radio & Records list.


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(visited by Gordon Spence)
27-May-2002 -- This will probably be the last CP in Texas for this trip - I fly to California tomorrow, so unless I squeeze one in on the way to the airport....
The Tale of "Alas Poor Weed We Knew It Well"
A scan of the site this morning showed me a point not too far away in the NW quadrant of Houston, the last visit showed no accuracy figure (SA still on) so this one it had to be.
As usual for this trip, start out on 610 going North, then West onto I-10 - a long road this I am at marker post 763, I remember passing post 123 in February - on my way to 30N 99W. A few miles out - by Katy Mills - and bear right onto business 90 heading West until you come to Brookshire.
From here it is right on CR 362 heading North for about 10 miles. All you can see on either side of the road to the horizon is what looks like corn (on the cob) growing, no doubt someone will correct me.
Just before the road swings sharp left (where if you look closely on the right, you'll see an aircraft control tower), there is a field where they obviously take their job a bit too seriously, just piles of junk everywhere.
A mile or so further on, and you see what looks like jumbo sized air conditioning units. It is a natural gas compressor plant, only one unit was powered up, the photo conveys no sense of the noise and the feeling of power.
When the road goes sharp right you go left onto Richard Frey and carry on until the road ends, here you turn right onto Cochran. Just immediately on your left you will see Monaville Fire Station.
Just before the turn off to the CP is a Texas Historical Marker), the CP access road - well track really, is Purvis at 29D 59M 50.6S / 95D 59M 35.3S, if you come to Baethe Road on the right you went too far.
I called in at the nearest house, where I talked to the landowner Mr. Blake Bird. I explained the project and he happily gave me permission to wander around. Back to the track, turn right and park at the nearest field entrance.
It is extremely dry here right now, so I parked on some dirt to avoid being a fire hazard. In fact the ground is so dry, they really need to help it along). Even just walking through the dirt I was creating a mini dust trail behind me.
At the corner of the field I was looking towards the CP. As you can see the weed is gone, along with everything else that was growing there. Well almost, it has been replanted but it is struggling to grow. Right on the spot is "Son of Weed" which also shows the elevation and the accuracy.
This spot is typical of this part of South West Texas, so the location shot facing North doesn't really show anything much at all. The W, S and E shots are very similar.
On US 290, go 10.25 miles from the center of Hempstead, TX 77445. Don't take 290A (just before Hempstead), which is a limited access highway, as I am not sure what will be an exit and what would be a crossing. Just before the town of Waller, turn right onto a road called F-M 362. Go for a total of 3.8 miles (at 1.95 miles, there should a cemetery on your right), and turn right onto Baethe Road. Go 1.9 miles. Just after the road makes a sharp left, turn right to stay on Baethe Road.
Go 1.17 miles and turn left onto Cochran Rd. Go 0.56 miles, and take the next right onto Purvis Road. Go 0.4 miles almost to the end of the road and stop. Walk due north 1000 feet to the confluence.


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Panasonic HDC-SD700 is one of the new selection of 'Full' High Definition (HD) 3x MOS memory card camcorders. It houses a 12 x optical image stabilised zoom lens, a 1920 x 1080/ 50p processor (2 x greater detail compared to 1080i models) and a large, high quality 3.0″ LCD. The camcorder also has the ability to record still images of upto 14 megapixels. Fully featured with OIS image stabilisation Full HD in a compact video Camcorder.
Final Cut Pro X, the latest version of video-editing software geared for professionals from a company increasingly focused on mainstream consumers. Final Cut Pro X is a follow-up to Final Cut Pro X, software Apple released in 2009 as part of Final Cut Studio. Like Apple's newly released of Mac OS X Lion, Final Cut Pro X was only be available to customers through the Mac App Store. However, this new released FCP X does not support well with Panasonic HDC-SD700 1080 60p/50p AVCHD Videos.
So if you want to edit SD700 1080 60p/50p 28Mbps in Final Cut Pro X, you are recommended to use Panasonic Video Converter for Mac, which is the superior Mac Panasonic 60p/50p MTS to FCP X converter for Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard. It does not only convert Panasonic 1080 60p/50p AVCHD to Prores 422 MOV or H.264 MOV on Mac, but also merges 1080 60p/50p MTS files for import into Final Cut Pro X.
Here is the step-by-step guide for you to import and edit Panasonic HDC-SD700 60p/50p MTS to Prores 422 MOV or H.264 MOV for Final Cut Pro X on iMac/MacBook Pro with Mac OS X like Mountain Lion, Lion, Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger.
Step 1. Load AVCHD 1080 60p/50p videos to Panasonic Video Converter for Mac.
After transferring .mts files from Panasonic HDC-SD700 camera, run UFUSoft AVCHD Converter for Mac as the best Mac 1080 60p/50p MTS to ProRes MOV converter, and click the "Add File" button to load .mts videos.
Step 2. Choose Prores 422 MOV or H.264/AVC MOV output format.
Click the "Format" option, choose the Final Cut Pro > Apple ProRes 422 video (*.mov) or HD video > HD MOV Video (*.mov) as output format. And navigate to the Final Cut Pro group, you will notice that there are profiles with Apple ProRes 422, Apple ProRes 422(HQ), Apple ProRes 422(LT), Apple ProRes 422(Proxy). Here we choose Apple ProRes 422(HQ) (*.mov) as output format. (The Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy) codec is intended for offline editing and contains 30 percent of the data rate of Apple ProRes 422, and I recommend you to select Apple ProRes 422(HQ), Apple ProRes 422(LT) MOV for outputting.)
Step 3. Merge Panasonic AVCHD files. (optional)
Select all the files and then click "Merge", and the Panasonic HDC-SD700 1080 60p/50p MTS converter will join and combine the video clips into a single file as output.
Step 4. Convert HDC-SD700 MTS to MOV for Final Cut Pro X.
Click the convert button under the preview window, the Mac Panasonic MTS converter starts converting 1080 60p/50p MTS videos to ProRes MOV or H.246 .mov, and joining the MTS files for editing in Final Cut Pro X.
After converting and merging the MTS files, just import the output files to Final Cut Pro X and the video is in HD 1920×1080. You can also import the output videos to Final Cut Express (FCE) 4 for editing in full HD.
If you are using Final Cut Pro 5 or lower version, ProRes is not the best format for you. However, you can choose HD video > HD MOV Video (*.mov) as output format for editing on Mac.


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The big news of Mac OS X 10.6.6's release is clearly the Mac App Store, but that's not the only change that came in the latest version of Snow Leopard. In addition, Apple nipped a pair of bugs and closed a security hole.
Apple notes exactly two fixes in its release notes for 10.6.6: one that fixes a cropping problem with some PostScript printing in landscape mode and another that resolves an issue with ATI graphics card-powered Macs where connecting an external DVI display could yield erratic mouse pointer movement.
In addition, the update patches a single security vulnerability related to the PackageKit system, preventing a man-in-the-middle attack that could force the app to quit or potentially execute arbitrary code.
Apple also updated Mac OS X Server to 10.6.6, which includes all of the above fixes as well as a DNS resolution problem: the software will now properly resolve a DNS alias that points to a host in a .local domain.
As always, Apple recommends the updates for all users running Snow Leopard; and you can download them via Software Update or from Apple's support downloads site.
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The weirder and, in this writer's opinion, the more interesting of Stephen McBean's two mountain-named bands (the other being Black Mountain) the Pink Mountaintops is playing Low Spirits tonight. No self-respecting lover of drug music will miss this. My friend Pierre LaFarge turned me on to this Vancouver-based bunch of weirdoes a week or so ago and there's been nothing else on my speakers since. Can't wait for the sun to set so we can all see the Pink Mountaintops, who are touring in support of their new album Get Back. Did I mention the show is only TEN BUCKS!? C'mon!
Local and soon-to-be-no-more mysterions the Elevator Boys and psych-practitioners YOU open.


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NEW YAWK, NEW YAWK - Failed presidential candidate and controversial former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton recently had an employee of Bare It All Glamor Shots fired for having had the "temerity to photograph" her while she was naked.
The employee, John Barrett, photographed Clinton without her permission on April 22. She was "shooting a surprise birthday gift" for her estranged husband, the controversial former president, an electronic album of her in her birthday suit.
The album, dubbed "Top Secret," was intended, she said, for his eyes only, although unnameable sources suggest that she may have seen to it that a few copies were "leaked" to her lesbian admirers, including Susan Rice, President Barak Obama's latest national security adviser, who lied about the Benghazi fiasco.
The reason that Barrett says he photographed Clinton in the buff is the same reason that artist John Currin painted the likeness of a bare-breasted Bea Arthur: "I'm a fawning fan."
Barrett said he "admires" Clinton because "she constantly reinvents herself. She's been a lawyer, a governor's wife, a First Lady, a senator, a presidential candidate, and a secretary of defense. Rumor has it that she will be president after the next election. I figured a picture of her sagging tits and flabby ass, would fetch millions, despite the pimples and cellulite. These days, nudes of ugly, but powerful, women sell better than those of the sexiest Hollywood celebrities. I mean, Jimmy Kimmel paid $1.9 million for Bea Arthur's sagging boobs."
Initially, upon learning that Barrett had photographed her '''au naturel''', Clinton wanted "his head on a platter." However, when she was informed that it is illegal, nowadays, even under the Obama regime, to decapitate criminals, she said she would "settle" for his ass being fired.
Clinton left the business no choice, a spokesman for the company complained. "At Bare It All, we guarantee our clients' privacy. No one sees them naked but those whom they select. They enjoy the highest expectation of privacy when they strip for our cameras."
Barrett, however, contends that Clinton had a different motive for having him terminated. "She's an extraterrestrial," he told reporters. "I caught her in her alien state, without the prostheses in place that give her a somewhat human appearance. Believe me, you don't '''want''' to see the real Hillary Clinton!"


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Biden vs Ryan: No. 2s key in White House campaign
DENVER- Paul Ryan likes exercise, budget charts and the Green Bay Packers. Joe Biden likes train rides, foreign policy and talking - a lot.
In some ways, these presidential ticket No. 2s could not be more different. They are separated in age by nearly three decades, were born to families in different regions of the country and have views on opposite ends of the political spectrum.
But in other ways, the 42-year-old Republican congressman and 69-year-old Democratic vice president are very much alike. Both were born to Catholic families in working-class neighborhoods and were young stars in their parties who became experts on the inner workings of Washington.
And perhaps above all, these men both do political things their respective No. 1s cannot.
Biden, with his back-slapping image, big smile and hardscrabble roots in Scranton, Pa., is seen as more effective than President Barack Obama at courting white working-class voters. Ryan, while less known outside his Janesville, Wis., hometown, is a favorite of the Republican Party's conservative base, a group that long has been skeptical of Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney's conservative credentials.
Over the next three months, Biden and Ryan will play key roles in the White House race, raising money, criticizing the opponent and helping lend credibility in complicated policy debates - Biden on foreign policy and Ryan on federal budgeting. They will also inevitably create headaches for their bosses, as Biden did this week when he told a Virginia crowd that included hundreds of black people that Romney's plans for Wall Street would put them "back in chains."
Mostly, their job: Sell the boss to Americans - and tear down the other guy.
Routinely, Biden says Obama has "a backbone like a ramrod" and says he considers himself Obama's older brother. He also unleashes scathing attacks against Romney and, now, Ryan, including his proposals to overhaul Medicare.
Ryan, just days into his new role, has said repeatedly of Romney that he's "the kind of man who you want to serve as your president. He's the kind of man who, when he gets involved, he fixes things." And he lambasts Obama, saying he's "spending our children into a diminished future."
When talking to voters, both often offer personal touches.
While visiting a firehouse in Hillsborough, N.C., to thank firemen for the work they do, Biden shared the story of his first wife's and daughter's deaths in a car accident. Then, at high school football practice in Danville, Va., he offered some of his father's favorite words: "When you get knocked down, get up!"
With a football in his hand, the silver-haired Biden told players that when he played high school football he weighed about 158 pounds but with pads he clocked in at 175. Asked if he was ready to suit up and play, the vice president declared, "I'm ready to go!"
It was a moment of connection for a man who has maintained his everyman appeal, despite having worked nearly 40 years in Washington. Elected to the Senate at 30, he commuted by train more than two hours most days to and from Delaware to see his family. An Amtrak station in Wilmington, Del., was named in his honor last year.
Biden's kids have long since grown up. Two of them are about the same age as Ryan. But he often refers to his grandchildren on the campaign trail, including one story that he uses to accuse Republicans of creating the country's economic mess: "As my youngest granddaughter, Natalie, says, 'Who do they think did that, Casper the ghost?'"
Ryan became a congressman at just 28 and is nearing the end of his seventh term. He's been sharing stories about camping, his exercise routine and demolition derby as he has crisscrossed six states - Virginia, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, Nevada and Ohio - on Romney's behalf this week.
He chatted about cow milking during a brief tour of the Iowa State Fair on Monday. The next day, his young children - and love for the outdoors - figured prominently in a speech in Colorado, where he took his family camping last summer.
Ryan said he showed his kids - Liza, 10, and sons Charles, 8, and Sam, 7 - how to cook a meal on a campfire and make s'mores. Later, he and his wife, Janna, put the kids to bed in a tent.
"We stayed up late and we talked about our country," Ryan said. "There's nothing like the stars and the skies of the Colorado Rockies at night. We looked at our kids and we know they are our future. But today, we look at our kids and we know, without a shadow of a doubt, that we are mortgaging their future."
When he makes comments like these, Ryan exudes a certain cheery authenticity. He is a former personal trainer, a skier and hiker known for his devotion to the workout routine known as P90X. The Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, Ryan is someone who draws budget graphs on napkins. He defends complicated Medicare plans with a boyish charm that prompted New York Times liberal columnist Maureen Dowd to call him "the cutest package that cruelty ever came in."
"Ryan strikes me as a policy wonk who's not a nerd," said Steve Duprey, a member of the Republican National Committee from New Hampshire.
Where Ryan's forte is the budget, Biden is an expert on foreign policy, having served as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Neither Romney nor Ryan has significant foreign policy experience.
Biden has significant credibility in the foreign policy realm, despite a tendency to stray off message.
His use of profanity was betrayed when television cameras captured him mouthing a colorful congratulations to Obama after the passage of his health care law. And just this week, he told a Virginia crowd that Obama needed their help to win North Carolina and referred to the country being in the 20th century - when it's the 21st century.
Biden made a more significant misstep while criticizing Romney's plans to eliminate new Wall Street regulations. "Unchain Wall Street," Biden told a crowd that included hundreds of blacks. "They're going to put y'all back in chains." Romney seized on the comments as proof Obama's campaign is driven by "division and attack and hatred."
Former Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Va., who introduced Biden at a rally this week, said the vice presidential campaign was a study in contrasts. Biden may be a generation older than Ryan, he said, but the vice president "hasn't missed a step."
"He may not work out as aggressively as Paul Ryan, but both of them are plenty fit," Perriello said.
Introducing Ryan this week, former Colorado Rep. Bob Beauprez said that there's one important thing to remember about Ryan: "He ain't Joe Biden."


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Microsoft is asking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to deny Apple a trademark on the name "App Store," saying the term is generic and competitors should be able to use it.
Apple applied for the trademark in 2008 for goods and services including "retail store services featuring computer software provided via the internet and other computer and electronic communication networks" and other related offerings. Apple launched its App Store for the iPhone that year along with its iPhone 3G. The store is now available on any device that runs the company's iOS software, namely the iPod Touch and iPad, and Apple introduced its Mac App Store earlier this month.
On Tuesday, Microsoft filed a motion for summary judgment with the agency's Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, asking it to deny the trademark to Apple. The status page for Apple's trademark request says "an opposition is now pending" at the trial board. The Seattle-based news site TechFlashPodcast reported on Microsoft's filing on Tuesday and provided a link to Microsoft's filing.
In its motion, Microsoft said "app" is a generic term for what is sold at the App Store and that "store" is generic for retail store services. Apple's archrival also attempted to use CEO Steve Jobs' own words against him, citing a published interview that quoted Jobs as saying "Amazon, Verizon and Vodafone have all announced that they are creating their own app stores for Android."
Microsoft also said consumers and the trade and general media use "app store" generically to mean online stores where applications are sold.
"'App store' is a generic name that Apple should not be permitted to usurp for its exclusive use. Competitors should be free to use 'app store' to identify their own stores and the services offered in conjunction with those stores," Microsoft said.
Apple's online store represented a new idea for mobile software shopping when it was launched and quickly became a big success, emulated by many other handset makers and some mobile operators.
Microsoft launched an online store for applications to run on Windows Phone 7 devices after that platform went on sale late last year. In December, research company IDC said Microsoft's store had reached 4,000 available applications in just two months. That growth compared favorably with the expansion of offerings in the Apple and Android mobile software stores during comparable times in their history, IDC said.
Stephen Lawson covers mobile, storage and networking technologies for The IDG News Service. Follow Stephen on Twitter at @sdlawsonmedia. Stephen's e-mail address is email@example.com


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Post–Breast Cancer Lymphedema and the Family: A Qualitative Investigation of Families Coping With Chronic Illness (2011-06-07)The number of women who experience breast cancer is increasing. Meanwhile there have been improvements in technologies used for detection and intervention. As a result, more women are living as breast cancer survivors who ...


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MetaVis: Exploring Actionable Visualization
Software visualization can be very useful for answering complex questions that arise in the software development process. Although modern visualization engines offer expressive APIs for building such visualizations, developers often have difficulties to (1) identify a suitable visualization technique to answer their particular development question, and to (2) implement that visualization using the existing APIs. Examples that illustrate the usage of an engine to build concrete visualizations offer a good starting point, but developers may have to traverse long lists of categories and analyze examples one-by-one to find a suitable one.
We propose MetaVis, a tool that fills the gap between existing visualization techniques and their practical applications during software development. We classify questions frequently formulated by software developers and for each, based on our expertise, identify suitable visualizations. MetaVis uses tags mined from these questions to offer a tag-iconic cloud-based visualization. Each tag links to suitable visualizations that developers can explore, modify and try out. We present initial results of an implementation of MetaVis in the Pharo programming environment. The tool visualizes 76 developers' questions assigned to 49 visualization examples.
A limited version of the tag-iconic cloud-based visualization is shown below. For a fully interactive version please refer to the installation instructions.
How to install
- Download Pharo 4 VM for your OS.
- Download the image that contains MetaVis.
- Download the data set.
- Copy the CSV file in the same folder of the image.
- Open the image using the Pharo VM.
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Sometimes it's nice to just toss the "light" cake recipes out the window, and go with a really fluffy and rich cake, with a texture that can only be obtained by using meringue – a rich whipped mixture of egg whites and sugar. And while at it, why not top it all with a rich and tasty butter cream that, how else, can only be obtained by using lots of butter and sugar? And to add even more flavor and fragrance, why not drizzle the cake with a Rum and Maple syrup?
Indeed, the cake takes a bit more time to make, but I'm sure that once you'll taste this scrumptious decadent cake, you'll agree it is worth the extra effort. Try it and enjoy.
– For best results, all the ingredients should be at room temperature. So make sure to take them out of the fridge at least an hour before starting.
– If you want to end up with a fluffy cake and smooth butter cream, make sure not to skip the sifting stage.
– The bowl in which you whip the egg whites should be clean of any traces of fat, otherwise they will simply not whip. Note that egg yolks are fatty, so separate the eggs carefully.
– Egg whites whip better with a bit of acidity, which is why we add the vinegar. The vinegar will not effect the flavor, so no need to hesitate about using it.
The cake:
Makes: 2 cakes: 9 ½"(24 cm) + 8"(20 cm)
Prep time: 30 minutes
Bake time: 30 minutes
2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
6 XL eggs
¼ cup oil
1 cup fresh orange juice
½ tsp vanilla
1 ½ cups sugar
½ tsp vinegar
1. Preheat the oven to 340F (170C). Place a rack in the middle of the oven. Butter and lightly flour 2 round baking pans 9.5" (24cm) + 8" (20cm).
Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
2. Separate the eggs: place the egg whites in the mixer bowl and the egg yolks in a large mixing bowl.
3. Add the oil to the egg yolks and mix well. Add the orange juice, vanilla and ¼ cup of the sugar and whisk together.
4. Add the vinegar to the egg whites and start whipping on medium-low speed. When large bubbles start to form, increase the mixer's speed to medium and start adding the sugar slowly. Increase the speed to medium-high and continue whipping until a firm and shiny meringue is formed.
5. Add a small amount of the meringue to the bowl with the egg yolks mixture and whisk well. (This will fluff the mixture). Now add about half of the rest of the meringue, and this time, whisk gently, so that the meringue will not break.
6. Add the flour mixture and fold gently with the whisk. Change the whisk to spatula, add the rest of the meringue and mix gently to form a smooth batter. Do not over mix.
7. Divide the batter between the two pans and place, side by side, in the oven. Bake for 30 minutes, until the cakes are golden and pull from the sides, and when you press the center with your finger, the cakes bounce back.
8. Transfer the cakes to a rack and let cool for 3 minutes in the pans. Turn out of the pans on the rack and let the cakes cool completely, upside down.
Maple-Rum Syrup
In a small pot, combine 1/3 cup of golden Rum with 1/3 cup of Maple Syrup. Bring to a boil, lower the heat and cook 2 minutes. Cool to room temperature.
Maple-Rum Butter Cream
Prep time: 20 minutes
4 cups powdered sugar
½ tsp salt
3 sticks (340 grams) butter, very soft
1/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 Tbs real Maple Syrup
1 Tbs golden Rum
1. Sift powdered sugar and salt. Set aside. 2. Place the butter in the mixer bowl fitted with the creaming hook, and whisk on medium speed until it is fluffy and pale. Scrape the sides at least once.
3. Lower the mixer speed to very low and add the powdered sugar. Cream to incorporate, while scraping the sides from time to time.
4. Add the milk, maple syrup and rum. Increase the speed to medium-high, and keep creaming for about 5 minutes. Scrape the sides and cream for 4-5 minutes longer, until the cream is pale and smooth.
To assemble
1. Drizzle the syrup over the top of both cakes, and spread evenly with the back of a spoon.
2. Using a large spatula, spread a thin layer of the butter cream on the top and sides of both cakes. Place the smaller cake on top of the larger one.
3. Spread a thin layer of the butter cream all over the cakes and transfer to the freezer for 5 minutes, to let the first layer harden. (This step helps with spreading the rest of the frosting more evenly and without crumbs.)
4. Set aside about 1 cup of the frosting, for piping (optional). Spread the rest of the cream evenly all over the cakes.
5. Fill a pastry bag, fitted with a pasty tube in any pattern you prefer, and pipe the frosting all around.
6. Transfer the cake to the fridge for at least an hour, to let the butter cream set. Transfer to a serving plate, garnish with some berries and serve.


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TULARE — Gov. Jerry Brown visited California's drought-stricken agricultural heartland on Wednesday and called on Republicans and Democrats in Congress to strike a compromise that will benefit the region and nation.
As part of his busy schedule of stops in the Central Valley, Brown met with farmers at a breakfast and briefly walked the midway of the 47th Annual World Ag Expo in Tulare, a massive farm show where he attracted attention from curious onlookers as he answered questions from reporters.
Brown said bickering among federal lawmakers over drought aid accomplishes nothing.
"They like to fight, and now they're fighting," Brown said. "That doesn't help farmers, doesn't help California, doesn't help the country."
Brown's visit to California's agriculture region came after he declared a drought emergency in January and before President Barack Obama visits Fresno on Friday.
Brown's reference to political bickering involved a drought measure proposed by three Central Valley Republicans that was approved by the House last week largely along party lines. It would reallocate water from the San Joaquin Delta to farmers south in the Central Valley and stop efforts to restore the San Joaquin River, which now runs dry a short distance west of Friant Dam.
In response, Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both Democrats, proposed legislation that would pour $300 million into emergency aid and drought relief projects, upgrading city water systems and water conservation.
It also would speed up environmental reviews of water projects and allow operational flexibility to state and federal officials wanting to move water south from the Delta to San Joaquin Valley farms.
Brown, whose administration supports the bill proposed by the Democrats, said he is doing what he can to find middle ground, rather than exploiting the drought as a chance to throw "cheap rhetorical missiles" at the other side.
"Look, if anybody can get it done, I can get it done," said Brown. He did not elaborate on those efforts.
Brown said the president will view devastation brought on by the drought and recognize the need for the federal government to invest in water projects, improving water quality and technology.
Brown said the farmers he met over breakfast expressed their frustration, which he shares.
"When you're in a drought, you're in a drought," he said. "From biblical times there are plagues and there are droughts, and we have to learn how to live with them."


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April 15th, 2011
Brooke Baldwin: Love the sun, hate the sun, but wear sunscreen!!
I've always had a love hate relationship with the sun. Since I was a kid, growing up in Georgia, I've loved the outdoors. The pool during the summer. Playing sports outside. and of course getting a tan at the beach. Only, I wasn't like my other girlfriends who would sit by the water and turn a nice shade of bronze. Oh no. I, being the blue-eyed, brunette fair-skinned girl that I am, would burn. And I mean burn.
I can remember going to Hawaii as a kid with my family. Spring break. We'd head to the beach and then there was my mom (whom I love dearly, mind you, but after so many times of hearing this, I started to tune her out), "Brooke, put on your sunscreen!" Ugh. "What do mothers know?" I thought. (Ha! A lot, apparently. More on that later.)
In my teen years I cared more about beating my brother to the beach, rushing out into the water first. Sunscreen? No time. And reapplying? Forget it. I didn't want to deal. And so I remember I just about ruined our trip to Maui one year - I must've been in the fifth or sixth grade. One day in the scorching sun.Woke up the next morning and could not move. Scorching pain. I'll spare you the details. Needless to say, the sun held me hostage in my Hawaii hotel room for the next 24 to 48 hours. Snorkeling trip? Forget it. Horseback riding? Nope. (Sorry, family.) I, Brooke Baldwin, did not "do" sunscreen.
But then I got older and wiser (about time). In college and beyond, I would slap on the SPF. But by this point in time, I'm afraid serious sun damage had been done. Keep in mind, I never dared to hit a tanning bed or ever coat myself in coconut oil (How do girls do that? Can we say "burn!"?). Sunscreen was becoming part of my vernacular but it certainly wasn't a day-to-day thing.
Fast forward to summer 2010: I start to notice this tiny scratch on the bridge of my nose. Almost looked like a cat got me. In fact, I thought at first it was a scratch. And working on-air at CNN I go into makeup every day. So by the time I get home and vigorously wipe it all off, it would bleed. Barely bleed. But it was enough to cause me some pause. But did I go into the dermatologist then? Nah. Because in a matter of months, it went away. And I thought I was in the clear.
But I wasn't. Just two months ago this little obstinate scratch - poof - came back. And it was this time that I knew I needed to get into my dermatologist. ASAP. So I went. And it was one of those visits when the doc asks you a bunch of questions and you answer "yes" to every one of them. (Does it bleed? Yes. Have you had it more than a month? Yes. Have you had a few bad sunburns as a kid? Yes). So she said to me: "Brooke, we need to do a biopsy." OK, never had one of those before. So she took out the tiniest little scalpel (keep in mind, this thing is on my nose and I'm watching my dermatologist's every move as she narrows in on my nose with a sharp scary object). Oh and did I mention I work in TV... like ON TV. So all I could think was "Of all places I could have skin cancer it could be - bullseye - in the center of my face?" Great. She took a small scoop, popped a bandage on my face and sent the sample into the lab.
A few days later the biopsy came back: positive - basal cell skin cancer, the lowest form. The doc told me, "You'll be fine, but you have to go to this specialist and go get a Mohs (procedure)." So being a reporter, I go home, do my homework and start Googling everything I can about a "Mohs." You know the first picture that popped up - a woman with a dent in her nose from her cancer removed. A dent. Not kidding. (Great.)
So a month later, I take a few "vacation" days from work (Ha, vacation) and go to this specialist/plastic surgeon to have this Mohs procedure. Basically it was very similar to a biopsy but more invasive. They numbed my nose (oh yeah, a big, long needle headed straight into my face - and now I can say, THAT was the most painful part of the procedure.) He then took a small scalpel and in he went, cutting out the cancer. And then the wait. They take the skin, test the margins and figure out if they need to go back in and cut out some more. They did - but only one more time. All in all, fairly painless.
The following two days, I kept a large pressure bandage on my face and a steady rotation of frozen peas on my nose and eyes to keep the swelling down. The pain was minimal. It was the stares I got in the grocery store or out walking my dog that were the best part. It's that, "Oh my, did she get a nose job?" look. Finally, that bandage came off and on came a tiny BandAid. And as I sit here and type exactly a week later, I still have a small BandAid on my nose. I've worn it on air the last three days. Even my newsroom show team put bandages on their noses in solidarity. By now, the stitches have just about dissolved. And I think soon enough I'll be good as new.
I do have to admit: Still love the sun. You can't stop me from being the outdoorsy gal I am. But I now carry SPF everywhere. And I, at nearly 32 years of age, still have a mother who always finds a way to work in "wear sunscreen" into any conversation. And now, she has good reason. So learn from me (what I should have learned from my mother years ago): Wear sunscreen.
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Obama takes field trip to the Hoover Dam
LAS VEGAS (CNN) – For the second day in a row, President Barack Obama took an afternoon break from preparing for Wednesday night's debate with a field trip. Tuesday's trip was a visit to the Hoover Dam.
The president's motorcade drove 30 minutes to Boulder City, Nevada, where he stopped at the site ofa heliport overlooking the Hoover Dam and the Colorado River Bridge.
"Its spectacular and I've never seen it before. I didn't realize it was so close by," Obama told reporters along for the trip. "Marvin [Nicholson] said we were only 15 miles away and I said well we've got to go check it out."
Obama was led on a short tour by Rob Skordas, Assistant Dam Manager for History and Operational Logistics, and Janel Brawner-Potucek from the United States Bureau of Reclamation in the Department of Interior.
The president was surprised to learn the dam didn't provide water and electricity to Las Vegas. Curious about the history of the construction, he spent slightly more than an hour viewing various parts of the dam, including the transformer deck and the power house.
On Monday, the president ventured out to visit a local campaign office and thank volunteers. While speaking with one worker, he commented on being at his hotel while he practiced for the debate. "Basically they're keeping me indoors all the time. It's a drag," he joked. "They're making me do my homework."
Campaign officials attributed in part the president's pre-debate Nevada swing to a desireto speak to voters and focus on early voting in the state, which begins on October 20th. But in his stops for the past two days, interactions with voters have mostly been limited to campaign volunteers during Monday's stop, followed by officials at the Hoover Dam on Tuesday.
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Call me an equal opportunity technologist. I've given them all a try. From Windows to Linux and everywhere in between. Do I have my have opinions? Absolutely. Do I participate in the "Holy wars" for OS? Yes, on occasion, for entertainment in my life. So I thought it would be fun to write a few confessions about my experience. It's purely for entertainment. 🙂
Mac OS
- The ultimate OS right? Yet so many run Windows Parallels and I find that ironic.
- I inherited a MacBook hand-me-down from daughter. To my frustration, Apple capped the MacOS upgrade level. It also ran super hot around the power cord connector so I had to download a special app for fan control and heat. I found these were common complaints via internet search. In the end, it was not a great experience.
- Can we just agree on keyboard keys and shortcuts please?
- Many Mac OS X zealots may not realize that Mac OS is a Unix based operating system.
- While viruses aren't as prevalent on Mac OS. Mac OS is not immune to viruses as some have told me with a smirk.
- Oh please Mr. PC tell me why you get slower with age? If your registry is bloated then give me a way to release the blockage please.
- A breeding ground for viruses. Virus scanners are pricey and taxing to system performance.
- Windows XP and IE 6. A match made in heaven and a marriage that outlived many attempts to kill it.
- I have confirmed how long it takes my PC to boot in the morning. I turn it on. Then I go to the break room to put my lunch away and to get a cup of coffee. When I return, it's ready to go. That's Windows 7 and a platter based disk. (I've seen better with Windows 8 and a SSD.)
- Windows 8? I get it.
Ubuntu Linux
- It gave a few of my old PCs new life because it has less hardware requirements than Windows.
- You can't beat the price!
- Software availability isn't the best. Open Office has the basic features needed for word processing and spreadsheets. But it can lack the advanced features for power users and may not fully read a document prepared in MS Office.
- Support is plentiful on internet forums. But I'll admit, you have to be a geek to understand it.
Chrome OS
- You're right Google. I mostly just need a browser to complete my computing activities.
- Google Docs is great. But just wait until someone passes a MS Office document to your non-techy spouse using a ChromeBook.
- Boot-up time is amazing.
- It's really a "cloud" terminal.
- It works well for me because I'm in the Google ecosystem. Google docs, Gmail, Google contacts, Google+ and Google Voice.
- Performance tends to lag at times. But I realize it's tough to make judgements on this. Google doesn't lock and control the hardware. So many combinations, so many possibilities.
- Android phones don't focus on simplicity. Some customizations can be hard to find, like speed dial and email account setup.
- It's not perfect as some make it out to be.
- My daughter had reception problems from a dorm room in the basement of a building. I asked her to use wifi-calling, but found out it's not supported yet. I've been using that for years on my Android device.
- The marketing at Apple is the best. I'm not an Apple fan-boy, but their ads have won over an allegiance and created a brand title wave.
- Let's be honest, Apple die-hards are a bit snobby.


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WESTMINSTER, Colo. — The multi-agency search for a 10-year-old Colorado girl continued in Denver's suburbs Thursday, nearly a week after she disappeared on what should have been a short walk to school.
At a brief news conference, Westminster police refused to suggest any connection between a body discovered late Wednesday in a grassy park seven miles from where Jessica Ridgeway disappeared Oct. 5 — or even to say whether it was the body of a child.
The search for Jessica continues, spokesman Trevor Materasso said.
He also said authorities were processing evidence from the park and that no additional information was available. He left without answering questions.
Dozens of police officers reported to the Westminster police headquarters before dawn, including officers from Arapahoe and Boulder counties and other agencies.
Jessica's mother last saw her daughter walking to school Oct. 5. Police say the girl is believed to have been abducted and never made it to school, setting off a frantic search by hundreds of law enforcement officials and residents. Her parents were ruled out as suspects Thursday.
Thousands of people have posted photos of the fifth-grader in the neighborhood and online since she vanished on what should have been the short walk to school.
Police initially said the public didn't need to fear a kidnapper — then said they were investigating whether the case might be related to that of another girl who was abducted for several hours Monday in Wyoming, among other tips they received.
On Wednesday afternoon, authorities changed course more definitively, saying they believe Jessica was kidnapped by an "unknown suspect."
The only real clue police have revealed is the discovery over the weekend of a backpack and water bottle that Jessica had with her when she disappeared. The items were found in the town of Superior, some six miles from her home. Police won't discuss what was found in the bag or testing results on it.
Adding to the mystery was a reported sighting more than 2,000 miles away in Maine of a car with Colorado license plates — one of hundreds of leads being investigating from at least five states.
Westminster police repeatedly have urged the public to study the details of her face in a photo — a small, gap-toothed grin, a slight bruise on her nose — and a short home video, in hopes they may have seen something or come across the girl. They've thanked thousands of Coloradans and others for helping with a search they have insisted is focused on the area surrounding Jessica's home.
Materasso said Wednesday the investigation's focus is not the girl's parents, who are cooperating. Jessica's mother, Sarah Ridgeway, lives Colorado, and her father, Jeremiah Bryant, lives in Missouri.
"We're confident they are not involved in Jessica's disappearance," Materasso said.
Police say they are looking for any possible connection to an abduction and assault of an 11-year-old girl Monday in Cody, Wyo., some 500 miles north.
In that case, a man lured the girl into a sport utility vehicle, saying he needed help finding his puppy. The girl was released four hours later and was discovered by hunters. Police there are looking for a white man, between 55 and 60 years old, with short, strawberry-blond or white hair and a neatly trimmed mustache.


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I am mystified by the tenacious practice of slavery in history. What transpired in the American South is merely a page in the saga of human trafficking, traceable all the way from the 20th Century to 1700 BC when The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi distinguished between slave and free. The Hittites were among the ancient civilizations to keep slaves as did the influential Roman and Greek empires. Then came the prominent period of transatlantic human commerce. Spain and Portugal bought from Muslim traders North Africans to work the farms and mine the gold in the Central and South Americas they had conquered. When the "need" exceeded resources and enslaving the Indians in the New World wasn't enough, the European countries went on to kidnap ordinary villagers out of West Africa. The Dutch joined in on the lucrative melee, followed by the British who kept their hand on Africa for over three hundred years. Which brings us well into the ironic dealings of America who had insisted on independence from her oppressive English mother.
So I watched Twelve Years a Slave and went blindly save the knowledge that the movie had earned critical acclaim and a string of award nominations. I didn't go to do a review but to see what it might contribute to this series. The film added perspective and detail to the African-American story I was well familiar with. Twelve Years spotlights a quieter segment of American slave history, free blacks in the North who were kidnapped to the South into an unthinkable life. Based on the true story of Solomon Northrup, the movie not only goes no holds barred in the depiction of injustice but offers a stirring conceptualization of bondage. It is horrible to be born into a box, to know nothing from birth but that you are disposable, unsafe, and must buy with blood and sweat your right to breathe. But to have known freedom? To have enjoyed love and esteem, fine dress, house and land, opportunities to develop gifts; and one day find yourself literally thrown at the door to a life that denied your personhood, stripped you of your family, property, accomplishments, and name? It's a dream you go crazy to wake from. I had not realized that blacks were actually never fully free in the North. You could believe your horizon as wide as anyone else's but if you were dark, you laughed and worked possibly a marked man. Just like a West African.
The way a slaver inducted Northerners into the ways of the South was to beat them until their spirit, identity, humanity broke. The heartbeat of Solomon's struggle is to hold onto his dignity and refuse despair. How long can you fight despair, especially when the majority of slaves born or kidnapped into the madness never made it out? How far will you go to survive? He sees a man who tries to defend a black woman from rape stabbed to death without second thought. Yes, Solomon learns to bow, call the white man Master, run when Master barks, hide how smart he is. A psychopathic plantation owner orders Solomon to lash a female slave who had left the premises to procure soap. Solomon reaches a point of paradigm shift. The need to live supersedes principle and loyalty. He has a wife and children he's been praying to see again one day. He whips Patsy as long as he is required. Hearing her scream with the deep, bloody grooves running across her back in the next scene, we wish she had died.
The endless sky under which Solomon labors is his endless prison. When Solomon incredulously wakes from his bad dream and jumps on a carriage to be escorted back home toward the end of the film, you see the very air is different. He marvels. It is free air. I had planned to name this post Out of the Mouth of Slavery but decided to keep it a tribute to the millions of people around the world Solomon came to represent those twelve years deep in the mouth of hell. I take pause to acknowledge the desperate fight within the human spirit to maintain dignity and keep hope in view when darkness prevails. I recognize those who stood helpless as their wives were raped, children sold, and marshaled the strength to put one foot in front of the other. Great men, women, and little ones who triumphed over the assurance that their sun will never rise.


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Taylor, Maxwell Davenport
Taylor, Maxwell Davenport, 1901–87, U.S. general, b. Keytesville, Mo., grad. West Point, 1922. In World War II he served in Europe with the 82d Airborne Division and as commander of the 101st Airborne Division. After serving as superintendent of West Point (1945–49) and U.S. commander in Berlin (1949–51), he commanded UN forces in Korea. From 1955 to 1959 he was army chief of staff, and he argued for an army capable of fighting a limited war. When the Eisenhower administration continued to emphasize U.S. nuclear capability, he resigned; he outlined his views in An Uncertain Trumpet (1959). In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Taylor to the post of military representative to the President, and in 1962 he became chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. He served until 1964, when President Johnson named him ambassador to South Vietnam. While in that post (1964–65) he urged continued limited U.S. participation in the Vietnam War. He wrote Responsibility and Response (1967) and Swords and Plowshares (1972), a memoir.
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I have heard a number of people say over the years that one of the best things about reading Adam Smith and Henry Thornton and other classical economists is that they argued their points fairly. In particular, Smith and Thornton argued in favor of their own views and against opposing views while taking these opposing views at face value. They did not attack straw men. They did not caricature their intellectual adversaries (in fact, Thornton and Smith were intellectual adversaries to some extent in their views on the role of bank notes, bills of exchange, and the operation of the monetary system).
This characteristic is, at times, missing from contemporary discourse. This doesn't mean that modern disagreements are fraught with malice. However, sometimes ideas are not given the proper understanding sufficient for critique. Franco Modigliani, for example, once joked that what we would now call real business cycle theory blamed recessions on mass outbreaks of laziness. Similarly, when Casey Mulligan published his most recent book on the recession in which he argued that expansions of the social safety net can explain a significant fraction of the increase in unemployment, others shrugged this off by saying that this was akin to saying that soup lines caused the Great Depression.
My point is not to defend Casey Mulligan or the real business cycle theorists. It is perfectly reasonable to view real business cycle theory as unconvincing without referencing mass outbreaks of laziness. Rather my point is that more care needs to be taken to understand opposing theories and views of business cycles, growth, etc. so that one can adequately articulate criticisms and rebuttals to such views.
The fact that there is little understanding of (or perhaps just little credit given to) opposing viewpoints is never more apparent than when predictions of two different theories are observationally equivalent. To give an example, consider two explanations of the cause of the most recent recession. Please note that these are not the only two explanations and that the explanations that I give are sufficiently broad to encapsulate a number of more nuanced views.
The first explanation of the recession is what I will refer to as the Debt Theory. According to this view, the expansion that preceded the recession was fueled by an unsustainable accumulation of debt. There are many varieties of this theory that emphasize different factors that caused the run-up of debt, such as monetary policy, policies that subsidize housing, etc. Regardless of the reason that "too much" debt was accumulated, the debt eventually reached a point (most often argued as the beginning of the collapse in housing prices) that was unsustainable and hence the beginning of a recession. The recession is largely the result of de-leveraging.
The second explanation is what I will refer to as the Money Theory. According to this view, it is a deviation between the supply and demand of money (broadly defined) that ultimately results in reduced spending and, as a result, a lower level of real economic activity. As a result, when the large haircuts became apparent in the market for mortgage-backed securities, this reduced the supply of transaction assets thereby causing a deviation between the supply and demand for money. The Federal Reserve, in its failure to provide a sufficient quantity of transactions assets, thereby allowed this deviation to persist and resulted in decline in nominal, and ultimately, real spending.
As these brief descriptions imply, there doesn't appear to be much overlap between the two views. However, they actually produce a number of observationally equivalent implications. For example, advocates of the Money Theory point to the negative rates of money growth in broad measures of the money supply as evidence that the Federal Reserve failed to provide adequate liquidity. Nonetheless, this observation is consistent with the Debt Theory. According to this view, de-leveraging reduces the demand for credit and therefore reduces the need of financial intermediaries to create new debt instruments that are used as transaction assets. Thus, we would expect a decline in money growth in both cases.
On the other hand, advocates of the Debt Theory point out that there is a strong relationship between counties that had higher levels of debt prior to the recession and the reductions in consumption during the recession. Nonetheless, this observation is also consistent with the Money Theory. Most advocates of the Money Theory are intellectual descendants of Milton Friedman. In Friedman's theory of money demand, money is considered similar to a durable good in that individuals hold a stock of money to get the flow of services that come from holding money. Thus, contra the transactions view of money demand, individuals do not draw down money balances during a recession. Instead individuals make adjustments to different parts of their portfolio, most notably consumer debt. In other words, we would observe de-leveraging under both frameworks.
To distinguish between the two views it is not sufficient to point to characteristics that they have in common (although those observations are still important). It is also necessary to find areas in which the theories differ so that one is able to develop an empirical approach to assess each framework's validity.
The examples given above are obviously simplifications, but this is what makes being an economist difficult. It is not enough to use inductive reasoning to support one's theory. One must be able to differentiate between other theories that would produce observationally equivalent results. Admittedly, this is a problem that exists to a greater extent in the blogosphere than it does in academic journals. The reason is obvious. If one submits a paper to an academic journal, a good reviewer is able to spot the ambiguities between testing the predictions of a particular theory and contrasting the predictions of theories with observationally equivalent predictions. In the blogosphere, the "reviewers" are commenters and colleagues. However, the differences don't often get resolved. Perhaps this is because there is no gatekeeper that prevents the blog post from being published. (Ironically, the lack of a gatekeeper is perhaps the best quality of the blogosphere because it allows discourse to take place in public view.) Nonetheless, given the degree to which blog posts and debates in the blogosphere ultimately spill over into the popular financial press and public debate, it is important to be careful and considerate regarding opposing views.
[Note: For an example of someone who tries to disentangle the issues surrounding the Debt View and the Money View, see Robert Hetzel's The Great Recession: Market Failure or Policy Failure?]


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Guys' body hair comes in all levels of furriness, textures, and patterns, for better or for worse. And while us ladies have been long saddled with the responsibly to rid our bods of unwanted hair—basically everywhere except our heads and brows—there's a growing pressure on dudes to do some serious manscaping.
Waxing and shaving among guys has been on the rise of late, according to a recent poll. And now, in a new commercial featuring the ever-gorg Kate Upton, shaving brand Gilette is touting its facial hair trimmer, the Fusion ProGlide Styler, as a full-body styling tool.
In showcasing various women's opinions on body hair (from hair on the chest, but not on the back, to totally hairless) the message of the ad is pretty clear: Guys, you need to figure out how much hair your lady friend likes, and then trim your shit accordingly.
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We kinda like how the playing field is leveling as far as beauty maintenance goes—after all, why should we be the only ones trying to look hot, right? And since the onus is on us to set the tone for how hairy we want our guys to be, we have to ask you: How much fur do you like on your man?
Me? I'm all about moderation. I like enough hair so that a dude looks manly, but not so much that he seems more bear-like than man-like. Share your preference in the comments below!
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There is something incredibly neat about helium balloons! If you buy one at the circus or fair, you can hold its string and it will ride along above you. If you let go of the string, it will fly away until you can't see it anymore.
If you have ever wondered why it flies away, then read on. In this edition of HowStuffWorks, you'll find out all about helium!