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How Can I Save for My Child's College Education?Once you've determined how much it could cost to send your children to college, your next prudent step is to develop a systematic investment plan that may help you to accumulate the necessary funds.
What are your funding options? Which would be appropriate for your situation? We've listed several below, along with a brief description of each. UNIVERSAL LIFE INSURANCEUniversal life insurance policies build cash value through regular premiums and grow at competitive rates. These policies carry a death benefit. In addition to providing cash to your heirs in the event of your death, this death benefit gives universal life insurance policies their tax-free status. Money can usually be withdrawn from these contracts through policy loans, often at no interest. These withdrawals may reduce the policy's death benefit. ZERO-COUPON BONDSZero-coupon bonds represent the ownership of principal payments on U.S. government note or bonds. Unlike traditional bonds, zero-coupon bonds make no periodic interest payments. Instead, they are purchased at a substantial discount and pay face value at maturity. The value of these bonds is subject to market fluctuation. Their prices tend to be more volatile than bonds that pay interest regularly. And even though no income is paid, the inherent interest is still taxable annually as ordinary income. MUTUAL FUNDSMutual funds are established by an investment company by pooling the monies of many different investors and then investing that money in a diversified portfolio of securities. These securities are selected to meet the specific goals of the fund. The value of mutual fund shares fluctuates with market conditions so that, when sold, shares may be worth more or less than their original cost. Mutual funds are sold by prospectus. Please consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses carefully before investing. The prospectus, which contains this and other information about the investment company, can be obtained from your financial professional. Be sure to read the prospectus carefully before deciding whether to invest. INDEPENDENT COLLEGE 500-INDEXED CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSITThe I.C. 500 is the College Board's index of college inflation based on a survey of the costs at 500 independent colleges and universities. I.C. 500-indexed Certificates of Deposit are a relatively new funding vehicle offered by a few savings institutions. Their rate of return is linked to the I.C. 500 index. SECTION 529 PLANSSection 529 Plans are also known as Qualified Tuition Plans. These state-sponsored and college-sponsored plans offer higher contributions than Coverdell IRAs along with tax-deferred accumulation. Once withdrawals begin, they are tax exempt as long as the funds are used to pay for qualified higher education expenses. As with other investments, there are generally fees and expenses associated with participation in a Section 529 savings plan. In addition, there are no guarantees regarding the performance of the underlying investments in Section 529 plans. The tax implications of a Section 529 savings plan should be discussed with your legal and/or tax advisors because they can vary significantly from state to state. Also note that most states offer their own Section 529 plans, which may provide advantages and benefits exclusively for their residents and taxpayers. Before investing in a 529 savings plan, please consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses carefully. The official disclosure statements and applicable prospectuses, which contain this and other information about the investment options and underlying investments, can be obtained by contacting your financial professional. You should read this material carefully before investing. The information in this newsletter is not intended as tax, legal, investment, or retirement advice or recommendations, and it may not be relied on for the purpose of avoiding any federal tax penalties. You are encouraged to seek advice from an independent professional advisor. The content is derived from sources believed to be accurate. Neither the information presented nor any opinion expressed constitutes a solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security. This material was written and prepared by Broadridge Advisor Solutions. © 2019 Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions, Inc. Leave a Reply. |
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Estimated Pay | $17 per hour |
Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
Location | Renton, Washington |
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Job Description
- KFC / A&W Team Member
- Are you the happiest when you are helping others?
- Do others count on you because you are dependable and always show up to work?
- Are you competitive? Do you love to win?
- Do you work harder than anyone you know?
- Are you someone who has a place for everything and everything in its place?
- Do other people consistently pick you to be on their team because you are a great team player?
- If you can answer YES to these questions, we may have the perfect role for you as a Team Member in our restaurant.
You are the face of our restaurant! You are the first person our customers see when they walk in the door or pull up to the drive-thru window. You are the friendly voice that greets them. You have the most important job in the company - you serve our customers! You prepare our world famous food every day. Each customer is someone's mother or brother or son or aunt and you have the opportunity to make his or her day. You have high standards. You would never serve a product to a customer that you would not serve to your family or best friend. You are the reason our customers return again and again. By serving hot and fresh food, delivering friendly service, and keeping the restaurant clean, you leave a positive impression on the experiences of other people. This is what gives meaning to our team members, and what we hope gives meaning to you.
Key Responsibilities (what our Team Members do):
- Needs little guidance in solving problems
- Trains on their core position and keeps up to date on their training
- Works hard to achieve goals
- Demonstrates positive energy at all the times
- Works to create a great atmosphere within the restaurant
- Cooperates with fellow team members by helping others when they need it
- Believes in all people by treating others fairly and with respect
- Recognizes others for a job well done
- Demonstrates positive energy at all times
- Organized, detailed and enjoys following standards and guidelines
- Greets each customer with a smile
- Creates a winning experience for every customer
- Knows the restaurant and shift goals, and works to achieve them every day
- Follows food and safety procedures, and reports any issues to the Manager on Duty and/or Restaurant General Manager
Other Requirements:
- Arrive at work on time
- Flexible scheduling
- Follows procedures regarding operation of restaurant equipment (including fryers, ovens,etc.)
- Able to lift up to 25 lbs and carry up to 30 feet
- Able to push/pull up to 90 lbs up to 30 feet
- Able to stand and walk for a majority of work shift
- Follows restaurant cash handling safety and security procedures
- Adheres to restaurant and City/State/United States safety requirements
- Knowledge of and compliance with restaurant's Human Resources policies and processes
We offer our Team Members:
- A mission to provide a caring culture of service, success, and ownership
- A promote-from-within culture with the potential for personal growth and professional opportunity
- A chance to work with those who appreciate and reward high performance
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Getting a group of people under one roof for an entire weekend can be a tricky, if not an intricate matter. The dynamics need to be just right; the energy has to flow in all the positive directions and the synergy between the group must be cohesive and interactive. It's difficult to get all the processes right in one group, usually a good amount of work is involved beforehand to bind each individual into forming a harmonious group.
Having worked with and in a few team development projects I know how complicated things can get. I guess that is why I am blown away by the fact that our From Plate to Page groups synthesize so well. With the Weimar workshop I thought it was because many of us knew each other through blogs, Twitter and Facebook and our first class of P2P participants would be hard to beat.
Then came Tuscany.
[Photo by Jean Pierre Dagneaux, courtesy Jeanne Horak-Druiff]
For the second time we opened the doors to From Plate to Page, this time under the Tuscan sun in the lush autumnal landscape of Pistoia. As one of the presenters, organizers and hostesses of this food photography and writing workshop, it was important to create an environment that allows for bursts of positive energy, which serves as a foundation for passionate creativity.
On paper it looks good: 12 participants with 4 instructors over 3 days in 1 villa. Add to that a good handful of exercises, sprinklings of presentations and lots hands-on advice and one has the perfect recipe for a 3 day workshop. In practice it's not as easy as that. Over the period of 6 months we meticulously organized the program, discussed each aspect of the 3 day course in detail, cajoling sponsors to collaborate with us, planning the perfect meals to include all dietary needs, checking and re-checking that everything was just right.
All of a sudden I was landing in Florence, an hour late but excited to re-connect with my three colleagues, who over the years have become somewhat of an extension to my own self. It's a friendship so natural and unpretentious that we automatically pick up where we left from. It felt great to be in this company – live and in person. We shopped for groceries, made the final touches to the schedule and packed goodie bags till late in the night giggling and chattering all the way. Being together felt good.
[Photo: Marta Majewska]
[Photo Jeanne Horak-Druiff]
[Photo Jeanne Horak-Druiff]
Friday kicked off the workshop at the Il Salicone, with a light lunch, served in a rustic Italian kitchen around tables laid with plastic table coverings, ornamented with bold flowers. It would have been cheesy anywhere else in the world, but here in Italy it felt just right.
Soon we were well underway into our program. Friday is always a bit of shock treatment for our participants. It sets the scene and the pace for what is to come and I truly think our participants were asking themselves "What have I gotten myself into?"
Writing exercises, camera techniques, lighting, finding your voice, aperture, shutter speed, ISO and once they thought it was over we were dividing them into groups for photography exercises. This brought them together to work as a team, each helping the other. It was incredible to watch how their passion unfolded and they enjoyed each aspect of the day.
They became a dynamic group and the next day after a writing workshop on the mechanics of writing and a photography and styling session we paired the groups in teams of two for the rest of the weekend and each team got their first assignment.
Maybe it was the Tuscan warmth, the rustic charm, the bright blue skies and the impressive picture-postcard-perfect landscape or maybe it was the laughter and chatter that reverberated through the stone walls of Il Salicone, maybe it was a little bit of it all, but as the group walked down the gravel path, canopied by chestnut trees still dressed in green, I could not help but feel the synergy between them.
The short walk to the vineyard was a welcomed break. The Il Salicone winery is a small artisanal family run estate producing Sangiovese blend wines for local purchase. It was the perfect day, the sun radiated its warmth as if it was high summer and not the end of Autumn.
Lunch was enjoyed outside on the humble grounds of the winery where the meal was set nonchalantly on mismatched plates. Nicoletta, our Italian hostess and owner of Il Salicone, brought out platters of chicken liver crostini, salame, prosciutto, cheese with thick runny acacia honey and baskets of crusty Italian bread.
Our next course a rustic Ribollita, slowly cooked with day old bread and seasonal vegetables drizzled with a delicate olive oil, together with a variety of frittata is so simple yet simply satisfying. The wine, a Poggioalcanto, offers a full bodied and fruity flavor. Finally, the meal takes a sweet turn with plates of cantucci. Glasses are refilled and the traditional Tuscan almond cookies are dipped into glasses soaking up the fruity wine. Contrasts of flavors explode on the tongue, resonating all that I have experienced in Italy in just one bite.
Between the food, the talk and the ideas I see the participants making notes, walking the grounds capturing the food and scenery on camera, their dedication is contagious. After a short tour of the winery we head back to the villa. The grounds of Il Salicone become a quiet sanctuary where the pairs retreat to work on their assignment. A bench beneath the trees, a sunny spot on the stairs overlooking the vineyard, a rattan chair on a balcony are all tranquil spots to think, to ponder and to work.
At the end of the day, all the hard work is rewarded with a divine dinner and plenty of Bisol Prosecco.
The final day started with a few more exercises and presentations before we set the scene for the assignment for each team. The positive creativity was channeled into great thoughts and ideas and it was incredible watching the teams bring their project to life. Within a matter of 2 days they were able to produce material of such high standard, applying all that was shared and learnt over the period of the workshop. The progress each one made was invigorating. As Sunday evening approached, a slight sadness took over. I stole away from the group for a few minutes to allow myself to review the weekend. Yes, I was exhausted but so satisfied with how the weekend turned out.
It seems unlikely that a group of strangers can produce so much creative energy, inspiration, laughter and leave filled with new ideas and friendships. But it happens … at From Plate to Page, under the Tuscan sun.
Thank you to all our wonderful participants who took a chance on us and came from Canada, Malta, California, Norway, Belgium, UK, Venice and Holland to Tuscany to learn the art of writing and photography.
Marta | Kate | Valentina | Lynn | Alexandra | Elizabeth | Hayley |
Olivia | Heidi | Robin | Denise | Judith
You rocked!
Of course a huge amount of gratitude goes out to each and every one of our fabulous sponsors. Each one helped make From Plate to Page such a success not to mention making those goodie bags bulge and creating memorable meals! Thank you for the trust you put in the four of us.
ZWILLING J.A. HENCKELS | Sunchowder's Emporia | Taste of Home | Gourmelli | Smaromi | Peppadew International | Bisol Prosecco | Riso Gallo | Nielsen-Massey |
TABASCO® | Matcha Factory
While we have wrapped up our second workshop in Tuscany, behind the scenes we are busily working on our next From Plate to Page. A location has been booked, a date has been set and soon we will be revealing more. Keep an eye out on our website as we will be opening registrations to From Plate to Page UK shortly. Maybe we'll see you there!
All photographs and written content on What's For Lunch, Honey? © 2006-2011 Meeta Khurana Wolff unless otherwise indicated. | All rights reserved | Please Ask First


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This brass puzzle was first introduced to me by Prague's own Professor Bakalar. I borrowed it in Atlanta and returned it to him in Luxembourg half a year later. While in my possession, I managed to replicate it, with full permission, of course. This Cast Puzzle version may even be better than the original. It definitely remains one of the more amusing puzzles. The key idea with this one is it's 'cage'.
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great puzzle. Solved it in few minutes, but later discovered other ways to take out the star. When after the first try i thought there is only one way out. It's my first hanayama and i love it!
This is a typical Cast puzzle. The idea of something trapped inside another object, freely moving around and only one trick makes it possible to take it out. I think the "cage" looks more like a lantern, and the star inside is a symbol of light.
Looks good, but the "cage" is made of a quite thin metal. It would not be a problem, though, if it didn't consist of four separate pieces lightly held together by each other and a little glue. A long story cut short, it falls apart easily if played a lot. Apart from this, it is quite fun to solve, including the fact that the cage makes it harder to manipulate the star inside and the fact that only one opening is suitable for the star to pass through.
Not too difficult, once you follow your common sense instinct. The Cast Star is clearly much more difficult than the Cast Cage, but the Cage is still quite fun.
Enjoyable and not too difficult, I found this easier than the Cast Star. The four openings in the sides are different, so part of the puzzle is figuring out which is the exit. My son tried to put the star back in the wrong side, and I couldn't get it out for 10 minutes or so.


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In Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk, activists who want to align the country more with Russia seized a regional administration building in the center of town last weekend. NPR correspondent Ari Shapiro went inside the building Friday and reports on what it was like:
Overnight, reports said pro-Russian protesters here in Donetsk had reinforced the barricade surrounding the 11-story government building that the demonstrators have occupied since Sunday. This morning, I made the 10-minute walk through wintry weather with my translator and security adviser, to see what the new construction looked like.
The scene had changed completely in just a few days. On Tuesday, the weather was warm and people paraded outside the building with their children. There were balloon arches. The operation looked like a Disneyland version of an armed occupation, except the Molotov cocktails and lead pipes were real.
Today, several new layers of barricades had been erected. There were two solid borders made up of tires and razor wire surrounding the building. At the only gap, a masked man checked identification of everyone who walked through. We explained that we're American reporters, hoping to interview one of the protest organizers. After scrutinizing our press cards, he handed us off to another man in fatigues, who whisked us inside.
We passed at least three checkpoints, pulling out identification at every stop. Our bags were searched. Inside, the building was a beehive of organized activity. Lights were on, even though the government says it has disconnected electricity to the building. Streams of young men ran up and down flights of stairs, carrying palettes of supplies. In a corner, a large pile of canned and jarred foods suggested that the demonstrators are planning to be here for a while.
At a table, women sliced cheese, sausages and pickled tomatoes for sandwiches. Some brewed hot tea, which they distributed to the men outside. Other women stood at a first aid station behind a table of pills and other medical supplies. Behind them, signs listed a phone number to reach a building supervisor.
The entire operation seemed far more coordinated and hierarchical than just a few days ago. On Tuesday, people were drinking in public. Today, there was no alcohol to be seen.
The walls were lined with posters and handmade signs in Russian. One read, "If you pillage, I will break your hand." Another had a dollar sign followed by, "Go away!" "Ukrainian media are lying sluts," read a third.
I tried to pull out my iPhone to take a picture. "No photos," our escort said in polite but firm English.
We walked briskly down a hall, and reached a man in fatigues sitting behind a desk. Our escort explained in Russian that we are American reporters seeking an interview. "Nyet, nyet," the man behind the desk said crisply.
We left as quickly as we arrived, our bags searched one more time at the final perimeter.
Once we had left the building but were still inside the barricade, we crossed paths with an American reporter we'd met earlier. He was eating a chocolate truffle. "They just held me in a room for an hour," the journalist said. "They gave me this on the way out."
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As the days gets colder, one color I am loving for work wear is crisp ivory or cream (also dubbed "winter white"). Unfortunately, that love is more wishful thinking, as I've been unable to find any suitable pieces. I would love a petite-friendly cozy crewneck sweater (no super long sleeves and torso) and fitted wool blazer in ivory – if anyone has any recommendations, I'd love to hear it. I seriously considered this option from H&M;, but the mediocre fabric quality and long length served as deterrents.
Until that ideal blazer can be found, this stark white jacket is the closest thing I have. At the risk of being too festive too soon, I wore it with tomato red pants and finished the look with brown and gold accessories.
There were a few adjustments made for this outfit. This gold chain necklace is an old favorite find from Savers thrift store, but the original length is very short, almost like a choker…
For wearing under a blazer, I find that longer necklaces have a more lengthening effect. Using a smaller chain necklace in the same color as the original one, I made a little "extender." This is an easy and temporary way to change up the look of your shorter necklaces.
The pants in this post also underwent some DIY adjustments. I originally thought they fit well off-the-rack, then reviewed some photos (the camera doesn't lie). The legs were baggy throughout, and the ankle openings could probably fit two ankles each. The "After" difference is subtle, but in my opinion looks more streamlined. I didn't want tight hot pants, so just slimmed and tapered the legs ever so slightly.
I put off alterations for the longest time due to the cuffs, which slightly complicated things. Here is a quick step-by-step of the process for anyone interested in doing this at home:
1. If your pants have cuffs: Using tiny scissors or a seam ripper, detach (pardon the spelling error below) the cuff from the seam of the pant leg that you plan on taking-in.
2. While pants are inside-out, put them on and mark along the seams with fabric chalk how much you want to take in. Keeping pants inside-out, stitch along this line all the way down to the leg opening.
3. You will need to take-in the cuff separately, just the right amount so it still fits over the newly-slimmed pant leg.
4. Flip the pants rightside-out and hand-stitch the cuff back onto the pant leg.
These embossed Sue heels, along with the black leather Sondra bootie, are now 30% or more off. I'm a bootie lover and tried on the Sondra's in-store – the leather is buttery soft and the heel height is comfortable, but the top opening may be wide for those with scrawny ankles. For sizing reference, I usually wear between 5 and 5.5, and took a 5 in these.


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Goalkeeper Sergio Romero saved two penalties Wednesday to send Argentina into the World Cup final with a 4-2 shootout win over the Netherlands after the game finished in a 0-0 stalemate.
A day after Germany lit up the World Cup with its clinical 7-1 destruction of host Brazil, the Netherlands and Argentina could not manage a goal between them in 120 minutes before the shootout.
Romero — thought to be a weak link in this Argentine team and not even a starter for his Monaco club most of last season — blocked penalties by Ron Vlaar and Wesley Sneijder. For Argentina, Lionel Messi, Ezequiel Garay, Sergio Aguero and Maxi Rodriguez all converted their spot kicks.
"It's luck, that's the truth. You can dive (the right way) and not make it, like happened to their goalkeeper," Romero said. "I had confidence, thank God things turned out well."
In a matchup of two of football's powerhouse nations, two-time champion Argentina will play three-time winner Germany in Sunday's final at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
That means an extra bitter end to the tournament for Brazilians, who will have to watch their fiercest rivals play for the world title in their most hallowed stadium against a team that humiliated their nation in the semifinals.
It was the second straight penalty shootout following a 0-0 draw for the Dutch. Against Costa Rica in the quarterfinals, coach Louis van Gaal brought on substitute goalkeeper Tim Krul in the last seconds of extra time to replace Jasper Cillessen and Krul saved two spot kicks.
This time, Van Gaal had used up all three substitutions by the end of extra time and Cillessen had to face the shootout. Van Gaal said he would have made the same keeper swap if he'd had a substitution left.
The young Ajax goalkeeper got a hand to Rodriguez's decisive powerful shot, but could only deflect it into the roof of the net, and then collapsed onto his knees and sank onto his back. Krul walked across the pitch to console him.
Van Gaal said he even had a hand in Romero's heroics, having trained him at AZ Alkmaar in the Dutch league.
"Penalties are always a matter of luck," he said. "And I taught Romero how to stop penalties so that hurts."
Many of Argentina's players stripped off their shirts in the rain at the Itaquerao Stadium and danced in front of their fans.
Argentina reached its fifth final, and its first in 24 years. It won the title in 1978 — beating the Dutch — and in 1986. It lost the championship matches in 1930 and 1990. It played West Germany in both the '86 and '90 finals.
The Netherlands, which has never won the World Cup, was seeking to reach its fourth final.
The tournament's second semifinal had been billed as a showdown between Messi and Arjen Robben, but both star dribblers were subdued. Instead it was midfield controllers Nigel de Jong and Javier Mascherano who stood out as both sides' defenses marked two of the World Cup's biggest stars out of the game.
When Robben finally broke free in stoppage time, Mascherano's perfectly timed sliding tackle blocked his shot at the near post.
De Jong, who recovered from a groin injury to start, lasted just over an hour before being replaced by Feyenoord midfielder Jordy Clasie, who made his World Cup debut.
After scoring 10 goals in three group matches, the Dutch scoring dried up in the knockout rounds. The team managed two late strikes against Mexico but failed to find the net before eliminating Costa Rica in the quarterfinal shootout.
"The issue in a championship like this one is that you score one more goal than your opponent, which we didn't do," Van Gaal said, "We didn't create very much."
Argentina also has found goals hard to come by in Brazil, not winning any of its matches by more than a one-goal margin and recording back-to-back 1-0 wins over Switzerland and Belgium in the knockout stages.
The two sides' attacking impotence was highlighted by a 73rd-minute free kick by Messi from the right corner that sailed over everybody and out of play. Dirk Kuyt followed suit a minute later by sending a long ball off the other end of the pitch.
Argentina tried to finish the match in the second half of extra time, but when the chances came Rodrigo Palacio headed tamely at Cillessen and Maxi Rodriguez mishit a volley.
"Argentina didn't create very many opportunities, if any," Van Gaal said. "So there was a balance in the match."


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Over the course of 104 meetings, the Washington-Washington State rivalry has produced scads of memorable, remarkable plays. For Washington State fans, no Apple Cup play remains as vivid as Drew Bledsoe's 44-yard rainbow touchdown to Philip Bobo in a Pullman snow storm in 1992. Or maybe it was UW kicker Chuck Nelson's infamous miss in 1982. Below are a sampling of plays that brought delight to Cougars rooters.
Lyle Maskells 43-Yard FG / 1930
Washington States Elmer Schwartz recovered a Merle Hufford fumble on the opening kickoff, setting up what proved to be Maskells game-winning 41-yard FG. WSUs 3-0 victory at Husky Stadium sent Washington State to the 1931 Rose Bowl.
Don Martins Whiff / 1967
A year earlier (1966), Martin had set a UW record by kicking four field goals in Washingtons 19-7 victory. A year later, Martin had a chance to give Washington a 10-9 win with 30 seconds to play, but botched a 31-yard field goal try, ending an eight-game UW winning streak over the Cougars. Unfortunately for Martin, it was the last play of his college career.
Grenda To Moore / 1968
Hank Grendas 64-yard TD pass to Freddie Moore capped an incredible afternoon for the WSU quarterback. He scored a TD, passed for two others, kicked three PATs, booted a field goal and did all of Washington State's punting as WSU recorded its first shutout in series since 1948.
Husky Runs Wrong Way / 1971
In the fourth quarter of what became a 28-20 Washington victory, Gordy Guinn of Washington intercepted a short pass by WSU quarterback Ty Paine and, to the delight of Cougars fans, began legging it toward his OWN goal. Guinn managed to gain four wrong-way yards before one of his teammates tackled him.
Gary Larsens Sack Dance / 1972
The Cougars tied a nasty bow on Sonny Sixkillers career by sacking him seven times in a 27-10 win in Spokane. Larsen celebrated the end of Sixkiller's career (infuriated the UW quarterback) by dancing over over his prostrate form after the last sack.
Nelsons Miss / 1982
Perfect on all 30 field goal attempts entering the game, UW kicker Chuck Nelsons 31st sailed wide right barely with 4:35 left, setting the stage for one of the most dramatic outcomes in Apple Cup history, WSU 24-20 win that snapped an eight-game Washington winning streak and knocked the No. 5-ranked Huskies out of the Rose Bowl.
Chandler Throws It Out Of End Zone / 1985
Playing in a Husky Stadium frozen solid (20 degrees at kickoff), Washington largely weathered a 167-yard rushing game by Rueben Mayes and had a chance to win by completing a two-point conversion in the fourth quarter. But Chris Chandler threw the ball out of the end zone, ensuring a 21-20 WSU win.
Bledsoe To Bobo / 1992
In perhaps the signature play of Drew Bledsoes WSU career, he lobbed a 44-yard rainbow to Philip Bobo, who grabbed the ball from teammate C.J. Davis and slid face-first into a snowbank behind the end zone. The spectacular play created instant bedlam at Martin Stadium, where Bledsoe and the Cougars thoroughly demoralized the defending national champs.
Leaf To Jackson / 1997
WSU receiver Chris Jackson, who had trash talked the Huskies beforehand by saying, I dont have much respect for them as people or players, hooked up with Leaf on a 57-yard touchdown that gave WSU the lead for good and sent them to their first Rose Bowl in 67 years.
Brink To Harvey / 2005
Washington led 22-19 with 1:20 left, but lost when WSUs Alex Brink threw a 39-yard TD to Trandon Harvey, giving Washington State a 26-22 win at Husky Stadium.


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16 Apr DOL cracks down on employer 401(k) issues
Originally posted March 31, 2014 by Scott Wooldridge on www.benefitspro.com
The press release headlines are sobering: "U.S. Labor Department files suit to remove trustees," "Department of Labor files suit to recover unpaid contributions to 401(k) plan," and "Judge orders trustees to restore losses."
The Department of Labor website is overflowing with cases of regulators taking action against employers accused of mishandling employee benefit plans.
Among the most common cases: errors in administering 401(k) plans. Although Labor Department officials and experts in the ERISA field say the majority of cases are errors in reporting and do not result in civil lawsuits, the numbers of benefit plan cases investigated (of all kinds) are still impressive: the DOL closed 3,677 investigations in 2013, with nearly 73 percent of those resulting in monetary fines or other corrective action. Lawsuits were filed in 111 of those cases.
The department says it is working to educate employers about how to avoid errors, including conducting seminars and providing information on the DOL website.
In a March 21 blog post, Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary of Labor for employee benefits security, noted that employers could find it challenging to administer benefits such as 401(K) plans.
"Most fiduciaries — people who have key responsibilities and obligations to an employee benefit plan — and employers want to do the right thing," she said in the piece. "However, inadvertent mistakes can create significant problems for fiduciaries and participants."
The problems can lead to substantial monetary fines and settlements.
In January, for example, the DOL announced that a Chicago-area manufacturing firm, Hico Flex Brass, would pay $79,000 to settle a case in which the company failed to properly distribute 401(k) earnings to employees.
A Jan. 10 complaint by the DOL asked the courts to rule that a machine shop in Santa Maria, Calif., should restore $58,000 in 401(k) contributions that the company improperly mixed with other business accounts.
For large companies, the costs are even higher.
A lawsuit brought by employees of International Paper resulted in a $30 million settlement in January, although that case was litigated by a law firm and not the DOL.
Even when the dollar figures aren't as high, cases involving 401(k) administrative errors can hit small and medium-sized employers hard.
Lawyers who work on employee benefits cases say many employers don't pay close enough attention to the complexities of administering retirement plans.
"It's just difficult at times for employers to keep up and attend to all the details," said John Nichols, an employment benefits lawyer with Minneapolis-based Gray Plant Mooty. "The rules are complex, and the administration of the plans is correspondingly complex."
Plenty of room for error
"The reality is that running a benefit plan such as a 401(k) plan has a lot of room for error built into it," said Stephen Rosenberg, an ERISA attorney with The McCormack Firm, based in Boston. "Many of these small and medium-sized companies are focused on running their business. They need to provide a 401(k) as an employee benefit but they don't really have the internal resources to do this."
Rosenberg said even large businesses often stumble with retirement plan administration. "Retirement plans, including 401(k) plans, are probably more regulated than anything in American economic life short of nuclear power plants," he said. "It's very difficult for any company not large enough to have a dedicated legal staff to hit every hurdle correctly."
Nichols said that the DOL tends to investigate certain areas of plan administration pretty consistently. "You see a lot of similarity" of the cases, he noted. "One exercise (employers can consider) is to go down the list of typical cases and say, 'How are we doing in each of these areas?'"
Common pitfalls
So what are the areas the DOL tends to investigate? The experts interviewed for this story agreed that there are several areas where problems may trigger a DOL investigation of employers.
One is failing to make a timely remittance to the 401(k) plan. Under federal rules, funds from an employee's paycheck have to be submitted to their retirement account no more than 15 days after the money is withheld from the paycheck.
A second common issue is making sure employees get their statements in a timely manner. Proper disclosure of fees owed to the plan's fiduciaries (the company in charge of administering the funds for the plan) is another area that DOL looks at closely. And some companies have been found noncompliant for failing to maintain fidelity bonds for their plans, a safeguard against misuse of funds.
"I do see companies who are loose about when they make deposits; they just treat it like the rest of the cash flow in the company," said Rosenberg.
Avoiding costly mistakes
Rosenberg and Nichols said there are several steps employers can take to avoid trouble with DOL regulators.
They both said companies need to take their fiduciary responsibilities seriously, and not expect that a retirement plan will run itself. An important first step is keeping good records.
"If you have a committee that is responsible for the administration of the plan or its investments, make sure that they meet regularly and that you keep a good record of committee actions, what's discussed, and how decisions are made," Nichols said.
Getting help
Rosenberg said companies need to be realistic about whether they have the time, resources, and knowledge to administer and monitor retirement plans themselves.
"The key in many ways for smaller and midsized companies is really to find a very good outside consultant — and I don't mean your vendor," he said. "If you have a huge company you have a department to do this. If you're not, bring in a consultant and outsource that role."
Nichols agreed that the vendor — the financial services company that provides the investment plan — has a limited role. "Vendors are pretty good at allocating accounts and providing access to account information," he said. "That doesn't mean that the whole job is done. You didn't get a totally turnkey product. There are things you need to do as well."
Failing to watch, of course, could mean triggering a DOL action.
"There's always a monitoring responsibility," a DOL spokesperson said. "The criteria we use is, 'You should have known. You might not have known, but you should have known.'"


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- She had me at the fudge!
"Whether it was making marmalade with my nan and grandad or fudge with my granny, I look back now and think it was a little odd for a 5-year old to be so obsessed with food."
My mum and granny taught me everything I know about food and cooking. My mum, Lozza, is a great cook, in particular a phenomenal baker, and I would watch her every move while she baked. I am very partial to her corn and bacon muffins so she makes these for me whenever I visit. I still call on her regularly for advice when I'm developing recipes – thanks Lozza!
I was 4 years old, just a little tucker, when I had my first, truly memorable food experience. I tried my granny's Yorkshire fudge and it was one of the first really sweet things that I'd tasted. I just couldn't get enough of it. Whenever I went to granny's place, from that first taste forward, we'd get busy in the kitchen and make fudge together. It was our thing.
It was also around this ripe age of 4 that I tried my hand at cooking. I love to eat. I've always been a greedy little monster who can't get enough food. Learning how to cook was sort of an extension of always wanting to eat. My best mate's dad was a chef. He sort of lived this rock star lifestyle: He'd come in late from work and he had long hair and tattoos and he didn't conform to my dad's social circle where they all wore suits. I wanted what he had…


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Ordinary People
That sounds pissy and arrogant, I know. But it's true. Celebrities don't impress me (which is not to say that I wouldn't shriek a little bit if I brushed sleeves with Josh Holloway, but that would be more because of his lickability than his impressive acting ability). I've encountered enough of them to know that they are usually shorter and uglier and far less pleasant in person than they appear onscreen. And in any case, the ability to stand in front of a camera and look surprised/scared/vague has never struck me as particularly impressive.
Sure, there are many talented and accomplished actors out there, as there are talented and accomplished musicians and athletes and comedians (um, Jon Stewart? Dave Chapelle?) and astrophysicists. Indeed, there are talented men and women in every field imaginable. But they are, still, just ordinary men and women and I'd need a bit more information about them before I could count myself well and truly impressed. Are they thoughtful? Intelligent? Passionate? Do they care about things other than themselves? Do they try to make a meaningful, considered difference in the world? (And no, driving a Prius doesn't count here.) Are they good people, in the most nuanced and comprehensive sense of that word?
(I should note that I make special exceptions for people who make extraordinary contributions to their field or to world history. Picasso was an ass, Nietzsche was a clapped-out weirdo and Mother Teresa tended to excessive dogmatism – but to say that these individuals were merely impressive would be gross understatement.)
My sense is that the stock of impressiveness of most of the more famous people in the world wouldn't hold up under such interrogation. But (and I assure you that this is not shameless ass-kissing) many of you – my bloggy friends – would. Which is one of the reasons why I've become so committed to our little corner of the blogosphere: it's a space full of intelligent, literate people who love their children deeply and who are passionately committed to doing the best possible job raising those children and to doing what they can to make the world a better place for those children.
It's revolutionary, as some have already said. And it's impressive. You are impressive. Really impressive.
And you know what? Gloria Steinem thinks so, too.
She said so. On the telephone.
(I'll wait while you pick yourselves up off the floor.)
(Oh. Wait. That's me on the floor. S'cuse me…)
As part of an effort to promote a new media project (Greenstone Media: radio for women by women) that she is involved with, I was invited to participate in a conference call with Ms. Steinem and a handful of other bloggers. She said a number of amazing, insightful, and inspirational things (as one would expect from one of the founders of the contemporary feminist movement) – some of which I'll try to address in posts over the coming week or two – and she totally knocked my socks off and made me want to be a better feminist.
But she also said this: never forget that such a movement, based as it is on dialogue and debate, can only ever be a support for action. It cannot replace action. Don't cocoon in your blogosphere, she said. Don't mistake speaking or writing for acting. Don't just talk: do.
So with that in mind, I have another (yes!) assignment for you: sometime this week, write a post about a cause that you are passionate about. Provide links and information and guidance for people to actually follow up on your post and take some sort of action: where can they make a donation? Sign a petition? Volunteer? How can they help promote your cause? Use this post as a catalyst for action – make it your mission to show, in whatever small way, how the blogosphere can support real action in support of real causes. It doesn't have to be big – you don't have a start a fundraising drive from your blog (although that would be cool), you just need to make a stab at showing how writing/speaking/blogging can support action. If you have already promoted a cause through your blog, or do so on an ongoing basis (as I know may of you do), simply provide me with some relevant links and a description of what you've been up to in the comments. Ditto if you know of someone else with a cause: do a post or post a comment with links and info. Then, as always, I'll compile the posts, etc. etc. and we shall be a beacon of light, a chorus of voices – cue choir – and we will have Done Something and will be Doing Something in addition to All This Talk. And we'll be even more impressive.
And Gloria will be proud.
Gloria (yes, I call her Gloria now, ahem) has offered to answer one more question from me. In writing. And I, magnanimous lady that I am, have decided to give the question-asking opportunity to YOU. Post your question to Gloria – it can be on any topic – in my comments sometime today or tonight, and I'll select one (am magnanimous dictator) to forward to her in the morning. I'll post the question (with credit to person who provides it) and her response and an update on Assignment Take Action (above) early next week.
And you will be forever able to brag that You Asked Gloria Steinem a Question and She Answered You.
(I did it yesterday, and believe me, it's worth the full caps.)


text: The Anonymity Tutorial / written by yours truly, R a v e N (blacksun.box.sk) <=============================================================================> version 1.4, 24/9/99 Note: whenever you see something like this: blah(1) it means that if you don't understand the meaning of the word blah there's an explanation for it just for you, located on the newbies corner on section 1. Note 2: if you're having a hard time reading this page because you have to scroll to the right whenever a long line comes, it's probably because you're not using "word wrapping". Most UNIX text editors and advanced Windows editors (and some less advanced ones like Wordpad) do this by themselves. To do word wrapping on Microsoft Notepad, simply go to Edit and then click on "Word wrapping". Author's notes ============== If you have any comments or questions regarding this tutorial (no flames(10) or spam, please) Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit blacksun.box.sk for more tutorials, free hacking/programming/unix books to download and much more. Disclaimer ========== We do not encourage any kinds of illegal activities. If you believe that breaking the law is a good way to impress someone, please stop reading now and grow up. There is nothing impressive or cool in being a criminal. Contents ======== Anonymity? * You mean I have absolutely zero anonymity on the web? * So what? Why would I wanna be anonymous anyway? * Okay, I see your point. Anonymize me. Proxies? * What are proxies? * What are public proxies? * Where can I find lists of public proxies? * Are they good for anything besides anonymity? * Okay, so how do I use them? Wingates? * What are Wingates? * How can I use them to anonymize myself? * Wingates sound useful. I wanna run one on my own computer. How do I do it without turning it into an "anonymity hive"? * How can I tell IRC clients, instant messangers such as ICQ, etc', to use them? Anonymous Remailers? * What is an anonymous remailer? * How can I use them to be more anonymous? * Why would a person start an anonymous remailing service? Where's the catch? Encryption? * Why should I encrypt my Email? * How can I encrypt my Email? Cookies? * What are cookies? * Can they risk my privacy? .chk files? * What are they? * How can they risk my privacy? The Anonymizer? * What is the anonymizer? * How can I sign up? Where can I learn more about anonymity? * Useful URLs. * Other useful tutorials by Black Sun. Appendix A: Using Altavista as a "proxy" * How can I use Altavista's web translation service to anonymize myself? Appendix B: Spoofing browser history * How can I spoof my browser's history? Appendix C: the +x mode Bibliography * http://www.theargon.com * Anonymizer.com * Various tutorials Other Tutorials By Black Sun * FTP Hacking. * Overclocking. * Ad and Spam Blocking. * Sendmail. * Phreaking. * Advanced Phreaking. * Phreaking II. * IRC Warfare. * Windows Registry. * Info Gathering. * Proxy/Wingate/SOCKS. * Offline Windows Security. * ICQ Security. Anonymity? ========== Whether you realize it or not, the Internet is not as anonymous as you might think. Here are a few examples: 1) You enter a website. Once you hit any one of the files on the webserver, the website owners can find out these pieces of information about you, and much more: 1. Your IP Address. 2. Your hostname. 3. Your continent. 4. Your country. 5. Your city. 6. Your web browser. 7. Your Operating System. 8. Your screen resolution. 9. Your screen colors. 10. The previous URL you've been to. 11. Your ISP. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Go to our homepage at blacksun.box.sk and find the web statistics button (later addition: we have terminated our account on our webstats provider because they were quite buggy, and we've decided to use a php3-based text counter). There you will be able to see how much we can tell about our visitors 2) Another example: you're connected to an IRC network and you are chatting with your friends. Right now all a person needs to find information on you is nothing but your nickname. He doesn't even have to know you, or be in the same channel/channels you are. Here are a few examples of what you can find by simply knowing a person's nickname (in the most optimal conditions): 1. Your real name. 2. Your Email address. 3. Your IP address. 4. Your hostname. 5. Your ISP. 6. Your continent. 7. Your country. 8. Your city. And much much more. The same goes for online games that allow players to view the other players' IP addresses. 3) Suppose my name is Paul Matthews, and my Email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. It is extremely easy to figure out that the first letter of my first name is P and that my last name is Matthews, but that's not all. Some ISPs give their entire listings to web directories. Meaning, people can go to, say... whowhere.com, punch in the words Paul Matthews or search for people with Matthews as their last name on boring.ISP.net and find out that firstname.lastname@example.com does actually belong to Paul Matthews, hence discovering your real name. But it is also possible to use these web directories for 1,001 uses. Therefore you should go to whowhere.com as soon as possible, try to track down yourself and then tell whowhere.com to delete your listing. 4) Some ISPs also run finger daemons. A daemon is a program that waits for incoming connections on a specific or several ports. The finger daemon is a daemon that waits for open connections on port 79. Once you get in, you need to punch in a username on the system the daemon runs on and you will get tons of information about him. For example: a while ago my ISP was running a finger daemon on their servers (until I forced them to take it off because it was a privacy invasion). Now, suppose you know nothing about me besides my Email address, which is email@example.com. The first thing you should do is to go to netvision.net.il on port 79 and hope there's somebody there. If there is, you can find the following information by typing in my username, barakirs: 1. My real name. 2. When was the last time I was online. 3. If I'm online right now, since when have I been online. 4. Whether I have new mail or not. And much much more (some finger daemons might give out any pieces of information, such as my home address and phone number). Besides the obvious uses (finding a person's real name and other private information), you can use this information for various purposes, such as: 1. Most instant messangers, such as ICQ, AIM, YAHOO Instant Messanger and MSN Instant Messanger, allow you to add people in or outside your contact list to an "invisible list", so they won't be able to know whether you're online or not and you'll appear to be offline to them. If they have your Email address, and your ISP is running a finger daemon, they are able to know whether you're really offline or just trying to fool them. 2. Your friend promised you to do something for you on the net, but when you finally go online to ask him if he's done it he says that he just got back from work and that he just got online. Using finger, you can test this and see when he really got online. These were just a little out of many examples. During this tutorial I will explain to you how to prevent people from finding out information about you (there will always be new tricks, but blocking the most basic / common ones will hold off most attackers and make it harder for the more experienced ones). If you really wanna learn how to do these things, as well as some really cool and advanced tricks, then read the 'Info-Gathering' tutorial. Proxies? ======== Proxies were first invented in order to speed up Internet connections. Here's how they work: You are trying to connect to a server on the other side of the planet. Your HTTP requests are sent to your proxy server, which is located at your ISP's headquarters, which are a lot closer to you than that far-away server. The proxy first checks if one of it's users has accessed this website lately. If so, it should have a copy of it somewhere on it's servers. Then the proxy server starts the connection only to check if his version is not outdated, which only requires him to look at the file size. If it has the latest version, it will send the file to you, instead of having the far server send it to you, thus speeding up the connection. If not, it will download the requested files by itself and then send them to you. But proxies can also be used to anonymize yourself while surfing the web, because they handle all the HTTP requests for you. Most chances are that your ISP has a proxy. Call tech support and ask them about it. But the problems with proxy access given to you by your ISP is: 1. Some ISPs don't even have proxies. 2. The website owner would still be able to know what ISP you are using and where do you live, since this kind of proxies are not public and they can only be accessed by users of that ISP. For such cases, there is a solution - public proxies. You can find a list of public proxies everywhere. Here are two good URLs to start from: 1. http://www.theargon.com 2. http://www.cyberarmy.com/lists To configure your web browser to use a proxy server, find the appropriate dialog box in your settings dialog box (it varies from different browsers). Note: some proxy servers will also handle FTP sessions (some might handle FTP only). Wingates? ========= Wingate is a program that is used to turn a PC running Windows 9x or NT into a proxy server. Here are several reasons for why a person would want to run such an application and turn his computer into a proxy: 1. If he owns an ISP and he wants to set up a proxy for it. 2. If he wants to turn his computer into a public proxy. 3. If he wants to give Internet access to a whole bunch of computers that are connected by a Local Area Network, but he can provide Internet access for only one computer. In that case, he would turn his computer into a proxy server and set all the other computers on the network to use him as a proxy. That way all the rest of the computers on the network will relay their HTTP and FTP requests through a single computer, a single modem and a single Internet account. The problem with Wingates is that they're highly... well... they're very... how should I say this? Stupid. Just plain stupid. Why is that? EVERYONE can connect to your little proxy by simply connecting to port 1080 on your computer and typing 'target-ip-address-or-hostname port' (no quotes) and replace target-ip-address-or-hostname with the IP address or the hostname they want to connect to, and replace port with the destination port. The "wingated" mahcine will then relay your input through it, but it will seem like the wingated machine is connecting to the target computer, not you. Sure, the sysadmin of the wingated machine can change that port to a different one, but this is the default, and if you're stupid enough to use Wingate you probably won't want to play with the defaults. First of all, if you need to use Wingate for some reason, use SyGate instead. It does exactly what Wingate does, only it won't serve EVERYONE like Wingate does. Now, these Wingates can be used to anonymize practically anything. Also, every program that can be set to run behind a SOCKS firewall (most IRC clients, most instant messangers and most web browsers) will automatically do the dirty work of routing your stuff through it if you'll give them the IP/hostname and the appropriate port for the wingated machine. Wingates can also be used to get into IRC channels you got banned from (by faking your IP). WARNING: some IRC networks run bots that will kick out people using Wingates. These bots try to connect to random people on port 1080. If they succeed, they kick you out. This works because the IRC network, as well as everyone on it, thinks that your IP is the wingated machine's IP. If the bot tries to connect to your IP on port 1080, it will actually go to the wingated machine. The bot will then detect that your IP is actually a wingate and kick you off (since it's being run by the IRC network and given enough priviledges to kick out anyone). You can find lists of Wingates at http://www.cyberarmy.com/lists. There are also tons of Wingate scanners out there that can scan whole subnets and look for Wingates, but this might take some time (and make your ISP get suspicious), so you'd just better go for CyberArmy's lists. Anonymous Remailers? ==================== Previously I have demonstrated to you what a person with very little knowledge can find out about you just by knowing your Email address. Now it is obvious that to keep your privacy, you need to sign up for a free Email account (such as Hotmail [hotmail.com], Yahoo mail [mail.yahoo.com], ZDNet Mail [zdnetmail.com], Net @ddress [netaddress.com], Bigfoot [bigfoot.com] etc'). But what if you had a special Email address on a free server that automatically forwards all incoming Email to your real mailbox and keeps all the information discreet? These are called Anonymous Remailers. Most of them are free and live out of contributions and/or sponsor banners they place on their website. You can find many many Anonymous Remailers at http://www.theargon.com. Here's a good example for an Anonymous Remailer: First, head to http://anon.isp.ee (by the way, the extension .ee stands for Estonia) and sign up your free account. Once you're a registered user, send an Email to email@example.com with no subject and the following content: user: your username pass: your password realaddr: your recipient's Email address. realsubj: the subject of your mail. Example: if I want to send an anonymous mail containing the following: Subject: ANONYMITY RULEZ!! Hi. This is an anonymous Email message. Let's see you trace me now! to firstname.lastname@example.com, and your username is user and your pass is pass, send the following Email to firstname.lastname@example.com (remember not to enter a subject): user: user pass: pass realaddr: firstname.lastname@example.com realsubj: ANONYMITY RULEZ!! Hi. This is an anonymous Email message. Let's see you trace me now! You'll receive an Email notification from anon.isp.ee once your message has been delivered. Once your recipient will reply to this Email, the message will return to you. You can also use web-based anonymous remailers such as Replay Associates (replay.com/remailer/anon.html), but it won't let you receive replies. Encryption? =========== Everyone can read your Email. Whether it's some script kiddie who hacked your Hotmail account, a skilled cracker (or a script kiddie with a lot of free time) that hacked your POP3 mailbox or a person who got your Email by mistake. If you don't want other people to read your Email, use PGP. Everyone who uses PGP can have their own PGP key. A key consists of tons of characters, whether they are lowercase or uppercase letters, number or symbols. After you make your key, you need to transfer it to everyone you want to send encrypted mail to. Once they have it, you can start sending encrypted mail to them and they'll be able to use your key to decrypt it. More info on www.pgpi.com. Note: PGP is very strong and can only be broken with giant supercomputers. The longer your key is, the harder it is to break the encryption. Cookies? ======== Have you noticed how all those websites on the net are getting "smarter" all of a sudden? You know, like the way message boards remember your nickname, some sites remember your password so you won't have to retype it every time, electronic malls remember what you last put in your virtual shopping cart etc'. This is all because of cookies. Cookies are small files which a website can request your browser to create and then retrieve information from them. Websites can put your password or any other information in these files. If you don't want your co-workers or other people to sniff around and see where you've been visiting, what items you've been buying etc', you should delete them when you don't need them. On Unix, your cookies would usually be stored somewhere in your home directory (usually /home/your-login, /usr/your-login or /usr/local/your-login if you're a regular user and /root if you're root, but anyone with write access to /etc/passwd can change that). On Windows and Mac, cookies are stored on a sub-directory at your browser's directory called cookies. Note 1: you can tell your browser to ask you before accepting a cookie. Just play around with it's preferences menu, you'll find it (there are so many browsers out there so I can't give a detailed explanation for every single one). Note 2: if you're browsing from a public computer, do not save any cookies, or other people will be able to snoop around and look at your cookies or even enter various websites with your passwords, your credit card number etc'. A reader called Stone Cold Lyin Skunk has pointed out to me that the cookies.txt file may be found in the netscape\users\default directory. This happens when you register your user (Netscape let's you have multiple users for the same program, each user with his own settings etc') without giving it a username. He also pointed out to me that some websites will require you to accept cookies in order to enter them. Also, he recommended to beware of your browser's history file (information on removing it can be found on the "Where Can I Learn More About Anonymity?" chapter), as well as your cache and your preferences.js files, because they may reveal your browsing habits (where have you been, etc'). .chk files? =========== Stone Cold Lyin Skunk has pointed out that if you're running Windows and you do a quick reboot (hold down shift while telling Windows to reset) Windows generates a file called FILE0001.chk, FILE0002.chk etc' (usually found on c:\). You will be amazed to see how much information you could find in these files! Delete them ASAP! The Anonymizer? =============== The Anonymizer is an Internet service that helps you anonymize yourself better. The Anonymizer's homepage is www.anonymizer.com. Here's a snapshot from anonymizer.com: +++++ Company Overview ---------------- Anonymizer.com is a pioneer in Internet privacy technologies, and the most popular and trusted name in delivering online privacy services. Anonymizer.com, today, has many thousand subscribers to its paid services and makes anonymous over 7.5 million pages a month. Lance Cottrell, founder and President of Anonymizer.com, authored the world's most secure anonymous remailer, Mixmaster and has been active for many years in promoting free speech. Lance received his undergraduate degree in physics from The University of California, Santa Cruz and a masters in Physics from The University of California, San Diego. Justin Boyan, while a Computer Science Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, designed and implemented Anonymizer surfing. Anonymizer Surfing is now in its 4th generation under development by the Anonymizer engineering team. Our Mission ----------- Our mission is to ensure that an individual's right to privacy is not compromised once they are online. We began this company as a means to protect this right as embodied in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." While written 50 years ago, article 19 of this document is now more than ever applicable with the advent of the recent growth of the Internet: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." You can read the full Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the following URL: http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm. +++++ You can use The Anonymizer to surf the web with anonymity for free by going to anonymizer.com and typing in the target URL where asked, or buy an Anonymizer package, which will give you more benefits. If you want some of the money you pay to go to Black Sun, subscribe through the following URL: http://www.anonymizer.com/3.0/affiliate/door.cgi?CMid=12437. If you want, you too can join their affiltrates program. Simply go to http://www.anonymizer.com/3.0/affiliate/afdoor.cgi?CMid=12437 for more information. If you will subscribe through this URL, you will still receive all the cash you deserve, but we at Black Sun will also receive some benefits. Where Can I Learn More About Anonymity? ======================================= Useful URLs: http://www.theargon.com. http://www.pgpi.com (for learning about PGP encryption and how to use it to encrypt your Emails) IP Spoofing Demystified - a long article from Phrack magazine on IP spoofing (faking your IP). You can download it from our books section. http://www.cyberarmy.com/lists - for lists of Wingates, Proxies and free shell accounts you can surf from to anonymize yourself. http://2waymedia.hypermart.net/hh/browsers/index.htm - how to completely clear your browser's history Other useful Tutorials by Black Sun: IRC Warfare by The Cyber God (for learning more on Anonymizing yourself on IRC), Proxy/WinGate/SOCKS tutorial by Jatt and Sendmail by me, R a v e N. Appendix A: Using Altavista as a proxy ====================================== If you go to altavista.com, and under their tools section choose translation (or go directly to the following URL: http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate?), you can ask Altavista to translate web pages for you. But you can also use this as a proxy, since when you tell Altavista to translate a web page, Altavista's CGI translation script retrieves the page for you. Thanks to Yoink for this information. Appendix B: Spoofing browser history ==================================== Here is something I got by Email from a reader called Stone Cold Lyin Skunk: set up a V3 redirect (http://www.v3.com or something like that) then build a quick webpage with a link to the site you want to view discretely then go to your webpage via the V3 redirect all I know is that the URL indicatoer at the top of th e borwser will not show the URL you visit even your own .index page it will only show the URL name so if there is URL logging at your job or school or whatever, they can always surf to your homepage via the V3, which they will have. But, by then, you will have erased or. Or maybe it has "hidden" links (links the same color as the background)... in any case, they will not have your URLs and they certainly won't have proof you surfed there... for instance, you may not want, say, your local library sysop to know about Black Sun...so you set up say, a Homestead homepage (these are great because they feature password protected pages) ...you then set up a V3 redirect to that page. Bingo- you can now surf to the page via V3, log in with your password, hit all those cool hidden links to Black Sun, CYberArmy, peacefire.org what wahtever, and the URL snoop software will only record the original http://surf.to/fakeoutname ... and don't forget, make the V3 URl as innocuous-sounding as possible...eg. http://surf.to.backetweaving ... Appendix C: the +x mode ----------------------- In IRC, it is possible to put yourself into mode x by typing '/mode yournick +x' (do not include the quotes and replace yournick with your own nick. For example: /mode raven +x). This tells the IRC server to hide your IP, so when others try to /whois you or /dns you, they won't be able to get your IP (they will get a partial IP instead). This will only work on some servers, but when you're on IRC, it is recommended to use this option. Also, there is a way to bypass this. By simply creating a DCC connection with someone else (either a DCC chat or a DCC file transfer), you could then type 'netstat' (without the quotes) on either Unix or Windows/DOS and see what connections your computer is currently handling. One of them will be the DCC connection to that other guy. Why is that? Because DCC stands for Direct Client Communication, which means that DCC actions are not done through the server, but directly (think - why would the owners of the IRC server want people to transfer files through their servers and initiate private chats through their servers? It'll just chew up some bandwidth). The netstat command shows all current connections (local or remote), and one of them will be your DCC connection with that other guy. You will then be able to see his/her IP or hostname. Bibliography ============ 1) The Argon - http://www.theargon.com 2) The Anonymizer - http://www.anonymizer.com 3) Hacker.co.il - http://www.hacker.co.il 4) Various tutorials. Other Tutorials By Black Sun ============================ * FTP Hacking. * Overclocking. * Ad and Spam Blocking. * Sendmail. * Phreaking. * Advanced Phreaking. * Phreaking II. * IRC Warfare. * Windows Registry. * Info Gathering. * Proxy/Wingate/SOCKS. * Offline Windows Security. * ICQ Security. * Hardware. * Cracking.


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Sunday, March 18, 2012
New Obama Executive Order Seizes U.S. Infrastructure and Citizens for Military Preparedness
In a stunning move, on March 16, 2012, Barack Obama signed an Executive Order stating that the President and his specifically designated Secretaries now have the authority to commandeer all domestic U.S. resources including food and water. The EO also states that the President and his Secretaries have the authority to seize all transportation, energy, and infrastructure inside the United States as well as forcibly induct/draft American citizens into the military. The EO also contains a vague reference in regards to harnessing American citizens to fulfill "labor requirements" for the purposes of national defense.
Not only that, but the authority claimed inside the EO does not only apply to National Emergencies and times of war. It also applies in peacetime.
The National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order exploits the "authority" granted to the President in the Defense Production Act of 1950 in order to assert that virtually every means of human survival is now available for confiscation and control by the President via his and his Secretaries' whim.
The unconstitutionality of the overwhelming majority of Executive Orders is well established, as well as the illegality of denying citizens their basic Constitutional and human rights, even in the event of a legitimate national emergency. Likewise, it should also be pointed out that, like Obama's recent Libyan adventure and the foregone conclusion of a Syrian intervention, there is no mention of Congress beyond a minor role of keeping the allegedly co-equal branch of government informed on contextually meaningless developments.
As was mentioned above, the scope of the EO is virtually all-encompassing. For instance, in "Section 201 – Priorities and Allocations Authorities," the EO explains that the authority for the actions described in the opening paragraph rests with the President but is now delegated to the various Secretaries of the U.S. Federal Government. The list of delegations and the responsibility of the Secretaries as provided in this section are as follows:
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Rachel Whiteread: Drawings
Allegra Pesenti with contributions by Ann Gallagher & Rachel Whiteread
As a consumer of art, looking at the finished piece is thrilling, but what about the creative process? We rarely get the opportunity to see this. Whiteread is well known for her sculpture and for being the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993 for her piece House.
Her works on paper remain largely behind the scenes, and she has even said: "My drawings are a diary of my work." The images are produced independently of her sculptures, but record the artist's mind at work looking at notions of both presence and absence. Whiteread developed her dedication to drawing during a residency in Berlin in 1992.
The collection assists in understanding Whiteread's technique and inner creative workings, alongside comment from Allegra Pesenti (Curator Hammer Museum, USA) and Ann Gallagher (Head of Collections at Tate), this book provides an excellent overview of Whiteread's artistic practice. Currently, Whiteread is exhibiting in the USA, but will be at Tate Britain in September 2010.
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Barack Obama never did much to hide the fact that he was wobbly on his opposition to gay marriage. As far back as 2006, he wrote in the book that would be a blueprint for his presidential campaign that "as a christian" he would have to "remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided." More recently he had settled on an odd construction for a politician: He said he was "evolving" on the issue, suggesting an inevitable change in the works that was inexplicably not arriving.
For many of Obama's most committed supporters, this looked a lot like political expediency, that characteristic that's as natural to politicians as their insistence that such calculations don't take place. When Obama's Vice President Joe Biden went off script on Sunday and admitted what many already assumed to be the President's position, a comfort and acceptance of gay and lesbian unions, the political cost of maintaining his position went up. Suddenly, he faced an entire campaign season of questions, from reporters, if not in debates, in which he would have had to explain his differences with his own running mate. Each of his answers would have highlighted a characteristic he wants to distance himself from in this election year. If there is one thing that the Obama campaign has made clear in recent months, it is their determination to tar Mitt Romney as the politically expedient candidate.
(MORE: Obama Endorses Gay Marriage: 'I Think Same-Sex Couples Should Be Able to Get Married')
White House aides, meanwhile, told reporters on Wednesday that Obama had always planned to announce a shift in his position before the election. The only question was when.
So what will be the political cost of Obama's evolution? His position on gay marriage is unlikely to matter, unless the election is close, as many now expect. Social issues, including marriage, barely register in polls asking voters what the most important issues are for the country, and both Obama and Romney agree that economic issues are likely to shape the debate in the months to come. It is also true that Obama has timed his pivot relatively well. A polling memo released by Obama's own pollster, Joel Benenson, and Republican Jan van Lohuizen last summer, found rapidly accelerating acceptance of gay marriage, as reflected in this chart:
The same report found a clear generational gap in acceptance of same-sex marriage, citing one Gallup poll that found 70% acceptance among 18 to 34 year olds, while only 55% support among those older than 55. Polling analysis also shows a majority of independent voters support same sex marriage.
(MORE: Obama's Gay Marriage Conundrum)
But the danger for Obama comes not from broad trends, but specific caches of voters who are only likely to be decisive if the vote in key states is close. Lohuizen, who has not reviewed recent polling on the issue, said three demographics struck him as particularly perilous: Rural socially conservative Democrats in the southern states of Virginia and North Carolina, white blue collar "Reagan Democrats" in the industrial Midwest, and church-going black voters in the south. "A lot of opposition [to gay marriage] comes from African American clergy," said Lohuizen. "And he needs those guys."
But Lohuizen also said it is not at all clear that black voters in the south, faced with a choice between Obama and Romney, will not come around to accepting the President's position. The Obama campaign and the White House are certainly hoping to make it happen. In talking points leaked to the New York Times, White House aides tried to cast the President's shift on the issue as a religious issue, following the lead of Obama's writing in 2006:
In the end, the values that the president cares most deeply about is how we treat other people. The president and first lady are both practicing Christians, and obviously this position may be considered to put them at odds with the views of others, but when we think about our faith, the thing at root that we think about is not only Christ sacrificing himself on our behalf, but it's also the golden rule: Treat others the way you'd want to be treated.
There is also little evidence that Republicans, who have been damaged in recent months among independents after extensive focus on social issues, want to make an issue of Obama's shift. On the campaign trail Wednesday, Romney tread gently, telling reporters, "This is a very tender and sensitive topic as are many social issues. But I have the same view I've had since, well, since running for office." Speaker Boehner also declined to dwell on the issue in an interview Wednesday on Capitol Hill, saying Republicans are focused on the economy.
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Here's the back! I did my usual bound buttonhole and covered button bit on the blouse back. (It looks a little rumply in this shot, doesn't it? I find that while wearing blouses and highwaisted skirts, it's sometimes so hard to keep all the works from gumming up in the back there. Ah well.)
The lower back skirt has two really cute pleats that I failed to get pictures of, but here's the pattern line drawing so you can get the point.
In a lovely twist of fate, I bought both the skirt pattern and fabric from two companies that would later become my fabulous sponsors. The skirt is Vogue Couturier 783 (purchased from The Blue Gardenia), which also has a fabulous jacket and blouse.This pattern was (for once) too big for me rather than too small, so I did a lot of work fitting it (and nearly messed it all up). The fabric is a drapey black wool boucle that I bought months ago from Gorgeous Fabrics. I don't believe they have this particular boucle anymore, but this one looks quite similar.
Here's a better shot of the full skirt. I got it to the perfect below-knee length for me. Woo hoo!
Yay! I know I'll be wearing both these pieces all the time. The part of the outfit you're missing is that my shoes are lime green pumps. (Jeff is an excellent photographer, but he's still working on honing his fashion styling instincts and I forget to remind him to get the really important details sometimes.) I set my hair in large hot rollers and then did some Victory Rolls which I'm worried are verging a little on Chloe Sevigny in Big Love here. What do you think? (Extra tip: I left the rollers in for longer than usual since I had the time - probably around 45 minutes or more. The curls have had the best staying power!)


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More Paris sandwiches...
And less...
Dearest PB~
I love seeing what you love expressing~ you are incredibly unique and your views and your response to Paris and New York are thrilling.
I have always loved the "breakfasts" that show your painter side~ the colors from your days as a pigment maker, your classes in Maine with the watercolor group, your fabulous shows in London and most of all, especially your tea cups. I can never get enough of your painting (and views of your studio). And your miniature furniture collection. Do you have a dollhouse yet? Keep having fun, we love every minute. Barbara in the Mojave.
There is no such thing as too much of Paris or macarons and definitely Eiffel Tower.
I love FG comments. I love RED. I love the little nooks and crannies that you don't usually see.
MORE parks, jardins and fleurs.
Just returned and am SO ready to go back!!! Until then I'll just look forward to PB each day.
Hi Carol-I love your blog and I was just in Paris a couple of weeks ago.
You are brave to take so many photos everywhere-I actually had my camera confiscated at the PV trade show I was at and had photos deleted. Also, every time I was in a store ready to take a sly photo, a security guard appeared out of nowhere to say 'non madame'.
So...any photos are very appreciated. I've personally seen enough macarons. I love OFG but I also would love to see more stylish kids-they are everywhere and I envy their nonchalant style. More scarves SVP, more Bon Ton, Bonpoint and Bon Marche food hall....more Marais, more Raspail Sunday food market.
Many thanks, Gayle
Dear PB EVERYTHING you do is great! Checking PB is the first (best) thing I do in the morning. And on weekends I read your archives! Your perspectives are wonderful. Sweet and savory , old and young,buildings and shops: its all good. The whole blog has changed my attitude! So keep showing the macarons, & I will keep telling my friends how cool your blog is!They seem to be reading it ,too. Thanks for doing it.Merci!
ReplyDeleteI love all that you do in bringing Paris to us. As an artist/designer, I wouldn't mind seeing more photos of the interiors of the bistros, cafes and restaurants. I found that if you ask real nice and do so after lunch and before supper, they are quite accomodating.
Thank you for your question. My spouse Eric has characterized my feelings perfectly...
More Bear and his adventures, sil vous plait!
Also, I will echo other readers in my request for more OFG's and perhaps more street scenes and people in general...
more perfume.....
and yes les chats!
I enjoy all of your posts immensely!
Thank you for ALL the lovely images, no matter what you decide to do.
For me, I love seeing your watercolor paintings, especially the simple ones I used to see of something like a simple cup du café, ou un croissant, ou relfections of the spoon on the dish or the silver tray...painterly kinds of things.
And I REALLY love seeing images of where you work. Your "studio" spaces inspire me to get mine organized...rather to create one in the first place, rather than just the dining room table!
Let's see. MORE CHATS!
Oh, sorry. Giulia took hold of keyboard there. Also we love blue. But still red, ah ouais.
Um, I like the little out-of-the-way places, the little finds as someone said, that are so French. A friend has been posting little videos from a wonderful site...by a woman who lives there & she's captured a lot of things that most people don't realize is French.
Bear is very popular here in DC. Would love to see more of his adventures. People of all ages is terrific, too.
ciao-meow, Carol.
PS: Jam is always appreciated.
First and foremost: Your lovely watercolors, the more the better. Love the confections. I have never disliked any of your posts. I would enjoy seeing more atmospheric/moody Paris, i.e., weather, nighttime scenes, passages, facades, gardens & gathering places within, all with your unique viewpoint. How people dress, young AND OFGs, but the exceptional Paris iconic male is always okay! Enjoyed seeing "my" little Papillon the other day, and cats welcome, but Bear definitely adds whimsy. Enjoy the odd bits of info, e.g. "French women don't wear earrings". esp. if I can relate. Love seeing Mona Lisa pastry, but have seen original, so a bias here. Sorry this is so long...and I've edited. Oh! The music videos! Manon des Fetes...Dans ma Chambre...sp? Thanks for that!
ReplyDeleteWould love to see more cafe life..interiors..bohemian style..chic style ..architecture..street life..flea markets..etc. Admittedly, my eyes do glaze over when I see the macaron and cake inserts..seen one too many..but there is a place for them.. occasionally..non ? And find the Bear stories witty and fun !
ReplyDeleteI love you posts about Paris. Especially the creative ones where you weave a story or take note of similarities of colors or shapes, etc. Don't change! You even inspired me to start my own blog about design. And my friend (who I took to Paris) bought me one of your double teacup watercolors. Love you.
ReplyDeleteI would be in hog heaven (ciel de cochons?) to see more cool windows, such as Printemps.
Loved_ the Harvey Nichols stuff. I tried to get photos of their mannequins when I was in London last summer.
It would also thrill me to see anything on new French makeup (not particularly perfume) -- latest trends in makeup and nail colors, etc.
Carol, why do you rack your brain trying to think of ways to alter what is already 'pure perfection'. Your writing, thoughts, shots, reflections, places you take us are constantly growing and evolving so I now ask you: 'what could there possibly be to improve upon?!' Please, simply continue doing what you do - which is INCREDIBLE and makes people, such as myself, all extremely happy, teaches us, helps us grow as well and helps us appreciate so much more in life that you help us see. So do your thing, it's amazing!!! Sending you loving vibes always!!
ReplyDeleteNo to cats, yes to more dogs, never too much Paris, although I'd love to see some other cities in France. I did a photo shoot yesterday for the "Dijon Delegation" here in Dallas, and it made me want to visit there! Rose and I love your blog, and whatever you write about, we will remain
Your Entranced Audience
Ultimately Carol keep things the way they are as you do it perfectly. But here is what I love:
On the food front, I love cakes and macaroons you are showing us. I would love to see more Eiffel Tower, more CATS!!! And do not even entertain the idea of lessening your images of Paris in general. Mon dieu!! :D Oh and I read someone elses comments about the nooks and crannies that aren't usually known, and more parks and I second that! Hm finally, maybe some markets. I never get to see food markets.
Love everything about your blog. It takes so many of us back to a wonderful time and inspires us all to go there again! I think it's so generous of you to send a little bit of Paris to so many of us all over the world. Love red, love macarons, love the fashions and the beautiful women (more beautiful men might be nice too, non?), love the shop fronts and the blue metal street signs. It's all so magnifique. Thanks Carol from Nicole in Australia.
ReplyDeleteWell, since you asked....
I'd love to see more of a variety of French food. How about cheese shops? Would also love to see more exploration of markets -- both food markets and the famous flea markets. And bookstores! Prefer canines to felines. And although I enjoy French girls and older French girls....how about French men????
Your posts are so wonderful and that is why we come back every day, but I love most of the suggestions too. Is there anything we DON'T want to see in Paris???? Other than the traffic, winos and dog poop, I can't think of anything. Markets, cafe interiors and flowers all sound wonderful!
ReplyDeletefor me there can never be too much paris pastry. i love it and absolutley love seeing pictures of the different shops and their pastries. i would love to see what you wear while in paris. i love paris dogs, i am a dog person. i just love seeing all about paris.
i love paris breakfast.
NEVER too much red, or fashion. Their ease of presenting themselves in a perfectly coordinated and comfortable outfit that is suited to their frame and the climate of any given day, is incredible :) Paris confections in general are amazing, so perhaps varying the shops a bit if you want a change there?And definite YES to more chateaus :D Can't properly travel vicariously through you to Paris without some of that gorgeous architecture :)
Thanks! &happy painting! :)
I came for the Art orginally. I stayed for the rest. I love seeing whatever Art you post. Be it yours or others. From Paris, England, Italy or NY. I love the dogs, the shops, The clothes, the Eiffel tower, The window shots and the trips. I have learned much coming here thru the years about Paris and NY. Now I look forward to England.
ReplyDeleteit's so funny how I can live in Paris and at times, just see it as just another city, when there is a world out there so in love with (al things) Paris!
to Paris Breakfast and your followers, you have revitalised my blessings as I know many out there would do anything to be where I am!
merci beaucoup tout le monde...


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This is based on the famous dessert served at the Double Musky Inn in Girdwood, Alaska which has a pecan crust and brownie layer then a layer of mousse (we Alaskans are all about mousse you know). This mousse comes from a separate recipe of mine which I think is better than the restaurant's original mousse (what am I? A mousse connoisseur?) and is just that much closer to heaven. You'll love this I promise.
It's the most requested dessert in the house, so rich and wonderful it will serve an army.
For crust:
¼ teaspoon cream of tartar
3 egg whites
pinch of salt
1 cup sugar
30 crushed saltine crackers
1 cup chopped pecans
Beat whites, cream of tartar and salt to soft peaks, gradually add sugar and beat till stiff. Fold in cracker crumbs and pecans. Bake in a greased springform pan at 350 for 12 minutes till lightly brown. Immediately flatten, pressing the crust with the back of a spatula.
For filling:
½ cup butter
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
¼ cup flour
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Melt butter and chocolate, stirring until smooth. Cool. Beat eggs and sugar till dripping ribbons (which means that when you allow some of the mixture to drip off of your beaters it drips in wide ribbon-like streams). Add flour, beat till smooth. Add chocolate and vanilla, beat one minute. Pour over the flattened crust and bake at 350 for 35 minutes. Allow to cool completely before adding the next layer.
For mousse:
1 ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips
2 8-ounce packages of cream cheese
1 1/3 cup powdered sugar
2 cup whipping cream
2 teaspoon vanilla
Melt chips, cool, add cream cheese, sugar and vanilla. Whip cream till stiff and combine with the chocolate-cream cheese mixture. Serve spread over filling and topped with extra whipped cream. Chocolate leaves make a beautiful garnish too, if you're up for some extra work.
As a bonus today, here are a few things to be aware of:
* Thank you to Summer's Nook for awarding me the Yummy Blog Award:
I'm going to pass this along to Ames at Ya Pie! And Hooray for Bananas! for her toffee pudding recipe that you must see. Make that taste.
* Susan at Food Blogga is having a Food Blogga Event called Eat Christmas Cookies that you would definitely like to see.
* Dodging Raindrops posted a Gingerbread Shake recipe that I'm determined to try--I'm on a quest to find gingerbread syrup now.
* Keeping the Castle posted 50 Awesome Crockpot Recipes--with fifty of them odds are at least a few of them are winners.
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