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My son wont eat his vegetables He is almost 2 we have tried everything.
Getting kids to eat fruits and vegetables can sometimes be a challenge! It is actually very normal for kids to become more picky about their foods around the age of 2. The important thing is to continue to offer vegetables at meals and encourage him to taste. It may take 5 – 10 trials before your child learns to like something … encourage him to continually taste things. Set a good example – if your child sees that the rest of the family (especially parents) are eating vegetables, he may be more likely to eat them as well. As he gets older, try letting him decide which vegetables he would like to eat (not if he is going to eat them). Take him along on your next trip to the grocery store and try engaging him while in the produce department by identifying colors, counting etc. Many moms will find ways to 'hide' veggies in foods such as meat loaf, tomato sauce, soups, etc. so that they know the child is getting the nutritional benefits. Lastly, you are not alone. See what other mothers have said about their similar challenges in our Mom2Mom section.


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Suddenly Susan
- By Mervyn Rothstein
- | From Susan Lucci, Sep/Oct 99
Susan Lucci looks into the gilded mirror and fluffs her chestnut hair. The soap-opera icon repositions the spaghetti straps atop her low-cut, form-fitting, soft-pink dress and adjusts the curves of her petite figure to make the dress fit sinuously. She suddenly hears a sound behind her, and turns her large dark-brown eyes toward the door across the room. Beyond the door, an eager visitor awaits.
The still-sexy, 5-foot 3-inch Lucci glides through the bright yellow living room of her palatial home in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, a luxurious, yet fictitious suburb of Philadelphia. On the wall, in a golden frame above her fireplace, is a full-length self-portrait, the mistress of the mansion in a shining white gown. Around her is a symphony of crystal--chandeliers and candelabras--amid an effusion of yellow and green flora. Lucci opens the door. There, facing her, is the new man in her television life, actor Vincent Irizarry.
"You look sensational," he says.
"Thank you," she responds, smiling seductively. "And you know something? I was just thinking that myself."
Susan Lucci always looks sensational. Whether she's portraying vixen Erica Kane on ABC's "All My Children," or making a series of popular television commercials for Sweet One, Wendy's or Ford, or marketing her signature collection of hair products, or having a healthy breakfast of yogurt and fresh fruit at 5 a.m., the 29-year daytime-drama veteran exudes glamour and the rarefied aura of celebrity.
Soap Opera Digest has frequently selected her as "the most beautiful woman on television," and her millions of diehard fans have long concurred. Lucci has portrayed Erica Kane since 1970, bringing to vivid life the many facets of the femme fatale audiences love to hate--the always manipulative, sometimes coquettish, often bitchy, frequently voracious, occasionally vicious yet forever fabulous soap-opera heroine. Throughout her tenure on the award-winning soap, Lucci has portrayed, among other manifestations of her character, a troubled teenager, a high-fashion model, a cosmetics tycoon and a magazine publisher. Each is a complex aspect of that magnificently tortured television creation, a character who has been married nine times to six men and is more formally known as Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick.
TV Guide has called Erica "unequivocally the most famous soap opera character in the history of daytime TV." She has been kidnapped, survived a plane crash, stared down a grizzly bear, become addicted to painkillers, posed as a nun, hunted down Nazis in Bolivia, been tried for murder, fought valiantly--and successfully--to keep her daughter from starving herself to death, has driven a race car and tried to rescue one of her lovers from prison, via helicopter. Recently, Erica suffered serious heart and facial injuries in a car crash. On the day that Irizarry, who portrays Dr. David Hayward, arrived on Kane's doorstep, they had recently returned from Brazil, where Erica had undergone facial reconstruction, and wound up, again, looking just like Erica Kane--or is it Susan Lucci?
"I love Erica Kane," Lucci says, relaxing after a long day's shoot. "I love playing her. I enjoyed playing her when she was a 15-year-old high school girl, the naughty girl in town, and I enjoy playing her now, when she's still the naughty girl, but she's broadened her area of operation to include the entire world. It's just one of those amazing parts that come along once in a lifetime."
For portraying the often challenging role, Lucci has won the People magazine poll as best soap actress (1985), People's Choice Award (1992), and the Soap Opera Digest Award (1993). In each of the last 19 years, she was nominated for an Emmy as best actress in a daytime drama. And, as much of the world knows, for the first 18 of those years she lost, and not always gracefully, if the tabloids are to be believed.
Once, she reportedly stormed out of the awards show in tears, another time, she was said to have pounded on a table in fury. After one painful loss, the actress Shelley Winters sent a note to Lucci saying the soap star deserved to win.
Then, on May 21, 1999, in front of a national television audience, Lucci finally won her long-awaited Emmy. Critics later said that her acting in a bedside vigil over her TV daughter's emotional and physical illness had pushed her past the competition in the Best Actress category. Whatever the reason, amid a standing ovation at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with a triumphant smile on her face, Lucci walked up to the podium and accepted her award.
"I truly never believed this would happen," she said that night, tears in her eyes.
Looking back later, she says, "It still feels wonderful. Winning is a much better experience. I always wanted to win. I never made a secret of that. It has been an exciting, very happy time for me. I'm enjoying it tremendously. People have been very warm about my having won, though they were very warm all along even when I didn't win. But this is a time for celebrating."
The honor, however, hasn't changed her attitude toward her work. "When I walk into the ABC building, I'm there to play scenes," she says. "That for me is really the fun part of what I do--working on the scenes, and then playing them. It's a very intimate form of communication. It's very revealing, very daring and very exciting."
Despite the Emmy and the glamour of celebrity, the life of a soap opera star is not an easy one. "All My Children" is taped five days a week, 51 weeks a year (Christmas week is a holiday). A minimum of five episodes are taped each week, sometimes six or seven, especially after Christmas to make up for lost time. Holidays such as Memorial Day or Labor Day are rarely times of rest; the shows must go on.
On the days Lucci is working--three, sometimes four days a week--she awakens at 4:30 or 5 in the morning in her 14-room Georgian colonial home in Garden City, Long Island, a well-to-do suburb of New York City--and the town where she grew up. She has some oatmeal, yogurt or fresh fruit, maybe even a bagel.
After breakfast, Lucci travels for an hour and 15 minutes to the "All My Children" set, which is located on West 66th Street, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. "I'm studying my lines all the way," she says. "Usually, on Sundays I read all the scripts for the week. My parts are underlined, and I'll think about the lines in a loose way, which I find very creative. I commit the lines to memory on the day of the shoot, in the car. Rehearsal begins at 7:30 a.m., with the director and the script. And then it's run to hair and makeup. Some days we try to be ready to begin taping at 9:30 a.m. Other days we rehearse on camera at 10 a.m. and start taping at 1 in the afternoon. It's all about doing the lines and getting in as much rehearsal as you can and getting physically ready."<
The day's work usually ends at about 7 p.m.--although it has been known to continue until 3 or 4 in the morning on particularly difficult or busy days. "And then I go home, and on the way home I look at another script," she says. "When I go home, that's really time to be home."
For her duties, Lucci is paid well, but, she says, not as well as some. She declines to discuss salary, and says that all published reports--one number or another in front of the word million--are incorrect. "By the standards of television I do very well," she says, "but by standards in the world I'm not paid as well as many athletes, or as well as many rookie athletes. But I still love what I do. And I do many other things, and I'm rewarded for those other things, too, so 'All My Children' is not my only source of income."
In the studio, the goal is to complete one one-hour show a day. But sometimes, to allow for vacations or time off to make prime-time television movies, it's one show, with an additional seven or eight scenes. Each scene is rehearsed once on the set, before the cameras, and then taped. A typical day will involve 25 to 30 scenes, and anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of them will involve Lucci. Between the rehearsal and the taping, Lucci will often stand on the set, script in hand, going over her lines, making sure she has them down. She says the lines to herself, looks up, closes her eyes and visualizes the words and the action. Sometimes she leaves the set and walks to a corner of the studio to practice the lines aloud. She will, after all, essentially have only one chance to get them right.
Unlike the movies, in which each scene is broken into individual shots and each shot can be redone many times, a scene in a soap opera, because of the time constraints, is usually taped in one long take--unless an actor forgets his or her lines or something goes wrong technically--with three cameras shooting from various angles.
There is, Lucci says, a lot of pressure to get things right the first time. "But a lot of it is good pressure," she says, "like the pressure you feel standing backstage in a theater waiting to go on. Because you do get the feeling the show is being done live, because the goal is one take, and the whole process is geared to that. We do a scene from beginning to end, and it can be a six-page scene or a twelve-page scene, so it's a lot like doing a play. On the other hand, it's like doing a new play every day, because there's a new script every day. So it's very much flying by the seat of your pants. But I enjoy the pace. And I enjoy working spontaneously and feeling the kind of electricity that comes with that."
Lucci has certainly provided more than her share of electricity as Erica, so much so that an observer might think the two have much in common. But with a few exceptions, Lucci and her television persona are as different as the sun and the moon. For instance, unlike Erica Kane, Lucci has been happily married to the same man, Helmut Huber, for nearly 29 years.
"Erica and I are both very ambitious," Lucci says. "We both love men, and we both love clothes. But I was very lucky to meet my husband. I met him when I was very young, and now that I'm grown I still think I made a great choice. He's a lot of wonderful things that make me very happy. But I think that probably the greatest difference between Erica and myself is that I had a great relationship with my father. He used to take me out with him after blizzards and hurricanes. He's the kind of man who would go out in the community to see if a tree had fallen down and if somebody needed help, because he really knew what to do. He would take me with him, when I was maybe seven or eight years old, and I would sit in the front seat of the car and I'd feel so proud that he took me with him.
"We used to watch bullfights on television together. He loved bullfights. I remember reading Hemingway when I was 12 or 13 years old just to find out about these men's men. My father always made me feel like I was important and that I could do anything I wanted to do. He would always tell me that. He would introduce me as the brains of the family. He made me feel very proud of myself.
"Erica had a father who left when she was nine years old and who did some terrible things. He allowed his best friend, who had a crush on Erica when she was fourteen, to be alone in a room with her, and turned his back when his friend raped her. He was a horrible monster. She has a lot of issues she has to get over that stem from that bad relationship. And I have a great relationship with my father."
Susan Lucci was born in Scarsdale, New York, a suburb of New York City, on December 23. She is reluctant to reveal her age. "I must come from a different time," she says, "because I really believe in mystery and I think that in any other profession no one would ask anybody, men or women, how old they are."
She says that all previous published reports of her year of birth are incorrect. She grew up in Garden City. Her father, Victor, was a construction contractor and her mother, Jeanette, a nurse; Lucci has an older brother, Jimmy, who is a business management consultant.
Her love of acting began at an early age. "I had a very happy childhood. My father would take me ice skating and horseback riding. We would sing together. He was a wonderful artist. He taught me to draw, to use pastels and charcoals. My parents were always in the audience for me. From the first play I was ever in--a Girl Scout play based on 'Cinderella' in which I got to play Cinderella--they've always been in the audience for me. They've always rooted for me. They've always encouraged me to dream my dreams. Even though they didn't want to part with me, they let me go to Norway when I was 16 as an exchange student. They didn't want me to be an actress, but they let me try for that, too. I know that was difficult for them, but what they did was very good. Because I was very headstrong, and I was going to do it anyway.
At Garden City High School, she was a cheerleader and an honors student, and she acted in all the plays, among them The King and I. She went on to major in drama at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, where, she says, she was lucky because "the drama faculty was from the Yale School of Drama and the Royal Shakespeare Company of London and the Martha Graham Dance Company."
At one point, school and career collided. When she was a senior at Marymount, one of the directors with whom she had worked on campus told her he knew the owner of the Miss Universe Pageant franchise. "He asked if I would be interested in trying out for the Miss New York State part of the pageant, and even though my parents didn't want me to be an actress, they were very proud I was asked to do this and they said yes. I was one of the five who made the finals. We were supposed to do the bathing-suit competition at the Nevele Country Club in the Catskills, but it was the same weekend I had to take my four-year comprehensive exams to graduate. So at that point my father put his pride aside and told me that I needed to get my degree, forget the Nevele Country Club and the finals, and go take my exams. And that's what I did."
After graduation, Lucci went to New York City to launch her acting career. She got bit parts in a couple of movies--Goodbye, Columbus and Me, Natalie--but her first efforts were not encouraging. A casting director told her that she should forget about television because her skin was too dark. She might have had a chance, he said, if she had blue eyes.
"He told me that olive skin and dark eyes and dark hair were the wrong combination," she recalls. "But he also told me that if I wanted to make it in New York, I should give myself a year. I shouldn't take anything out of town. And that's what I did. I remember that when he was talking to me I thought, 'I will find work. I'll do it. I'll be all right.' I was very determined."
One day, in 1969, while working on an independent movie that was never released, Lucci was called for a routine meeting with a casting director for a soap opera that was scheduled to debut in six months. "Agnes Nixon, the show's creator, really wanted somebody dark to play this part. She has always been ahead of her time," Lucci says. "At the end of the meeting they told me they thought I would be very right for a part they had in mind, and they said they would call me in six months or so, when they got the project on its feet. I didn't know whether to believe them, because six months is a long time. But they did remember, and they called me in. They called hundreds of people. But I kept progressing from one reading to the next, and then to the next, and I got the part."
The part, of course, was Erica Kane, and the soap was "All My Children," which debuted on ABC on January 5, 1970. Lucci first appeared as Erica in Episode 10. (Nixon told The New York Times in 1993 that she considered Lucci "a great find." Lucci had "innocence but with a little bit of vixen. And she understood Erica's vulnerability. Through the years Susan has created Erica as much as the writers. If she left the show we would never recast the part. It would be impossible.")
Nine months after her debut as Erica, Lucci got married. She had first met Helmut Huber when she was 17 years old, and he was 29 and divorced. "I was working during the summer at the Garden City Hotel," she says, "and he was the executive chef. Right after that he became the director of food and beverages for the hotel chain. But he was there that summer, and I thought he was the smartest person in the entire hotel. I used to stand in the back of the cocktail lounge and listen to him speak German--he was born in Austria--to two German hostesses. I thought they were so worldly, so sophisticated, so attractive. And I thought Helmut was just a great, attractive older man. He thought I was a pretty little girl, but clearly I had not been around the block yet, and he had been several times. His friend told him to stay away from me, that I was too young. And he did."
That is, until a few years later. "He happened to be in the hotel the same evening my parents were giving my engagement party--I had become engaged to someone else--and my parents knew him through the hotel and they invited him to join us. He sat across from me all evening and I remember thinking that he's really very attractive, even more so now, and that I shouldn't be feeling like this if I'm engaged. I didn't know it at the time, but that evening Helmut leaned over to my mother and said, 'This thing between Susie and this boy is never going to last.' And he was right. I broke my engagement a couple of months later."
But it still took a while for she and Helmut to get together. "I started going out with a friend of his," she says. "One day Helmut and his friend were having lunch, and Helmut asked, 'What's new?" and the friend said, 'Well, did you hear about Susan Lucci? She broke her engagement.' My [future] husband excused himself from the table. He didn't know I was going out with this guy. He went to the telephone and called me. I wasn't home, so he left a message with my mother that he'd like to talk to me. When I called him, he asked me out for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. He was very decisive and funny and he made me laugh. But he came on too strong, and I was scared because I was newly free, so I told him I wouldn't go out with him anymore.
"So he went back to Europe for a couple of months. And when he came back he called me again and asked me to a black-tie dinner-dance. Now, this is going to sound so superficial--it's not the reason I married him--but when he arrived he looked so handsome. And that night he was speaking French and Italian and German with everyone. And there was a Viennese orchestra playing beautiful waltzes, and he taught me to waltz. And I thought, maybe I'll reconsider what I feel about him."
These days, Huber manages Lucci's business affairs, particularly the hair products. Lucci has a new product coming out this fall--a fragrance called Invitation, in both eau de toilette and eau de parfum variations. It will make its debut on the Home Shopping Network and on the Internet the weekend of September 26.
In addition to their Garden City home, she and Huber have a ski villa in Colorado and a 13,000-square-foot house in the Hamptons, on the eastern end of Long Island. "We built it for entertaining," she says. "By Hollywood, or even Hamptons, standards it's not enormous. It's just a nice house." They have two children, Liza Victoria, 23, and Andreas Martin, 19. "Andreas has just finished his freshman year in college," Lucci says. "Liza graduated from college with a degree in film production. She was going to be on the other side of the camera, but we encouraged her to try her hand at acting. And after a few weeks she landed a role on a new show called 'Passions,' on NBC."
Lucci and her husband enjoy traveling, and they are especially passionate about skiing. "The city I really love is Vienna," she says. "Of course, I'm with an Austrian who speaks the language and has a lot of friends there. But we also love to ski in wonderful places. One that's little known in this country is Ischgl, on the Austrian-Swiss border. The skiing is gorgeous--it feels like you're on a lemon-meringue pie. We also go to Lech in the Austrian Alps. And we go to a place outside of Salzburg called Hohe Tauern. That's great in the spring, because it's very high up and the snow comes very late."
It was in the Austrian Alps, almost two years ago, that Lucci first tasted a cigar. "I had been wanting to try a cigar for a long time," she says. "We were at a beautiful hotel, and we walked into the cocktail lounge and sat at the bar next to four men. My German is pretty good, but I'm in a dangerous place with it. But I knew the men were flirting, and they were smoking cigars, and I said to my husband that I think one of the men just offered me his cigar. I thought about taking it. Finally, I said no. But the bartender saw what was going on, and he came over with a humidor and opened it up. And because we were in Europe, all the cigars were Cuban. I could take my pick. So I took a Cohiba. And that was my first cigar."
She liked what she tasted. "It seemed a perfect choice," she says. "It felt great. It was a surprisingly wonderful experience. It was much smoother than I thought it would be. I liked it a lot."
Lucci has since, she says, become an aficionado of the atmosphere of smoking cigars. "I've always been really fascinated by men's clubs, and men's camaraderie," she says. "I love the repartee among men, and I love being around them. I like watching men smoke cigars. The aroma in the room is wonderful. Now, of course, women are smoking cigars, too, so I thought I'd try it. But I still prefer to be around a group of men and enjoy all of what they're doing. I can go to a great place like the Grand Havana Club, which is made for it, and have fun."
About 5 million people daily watch Lucci play Erica Kane on "All My Children." The program used to rank No. 1 among the daytime soaps, but these days it's No. 5 or 6, depending on the week's A.C. Nielsen numbers. The numbers, and the ratings, have gone down in recent years, as have the ratings of the other daytime dramas, because of competition for viewers from the tabloid-television talk shows, cable networks and the Internet. This past June, "Another World," a soap opera staple, was forced to end its run after 35 years and 8,891 episodes.
Another major reason for the decline in viewership was the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, a real-life television drama that for months dominated the nation's TV screens and preempted many of the afternoon soaps. Viewers, television executives say, learned to live without their daily dose of daytime drama; after the O. J. verdict, they filled their days with other activities.
And, of course, there are fewer housewives to tune in on weekday afternoons. More women work today than in the years after the Second World War, when the soap opera medium was born on television. And many of today's women are busy making deals in the boardroom.
For Lucci, this evolutionary process has its pluses and minuses. "After all," she says, "the ratings for prime-time network television are down as well. It's across the board, because of all that competition. But as an actress, it's not bad news. It just means the work is all spread out, that our horizons are broadened. And what's good news for our show is that in terms of demographics, we do very well with the 18- to 49-year-old audience, the most desirable one."
Those broadening horizons permit Lucci to consider her future as an actress. She plans to continue as Erica, she says, at least for the foreseeable future. "As long as I'm happy," she says, "I'll stay. And playing Erica has given me the opportunity to do many other things."
One of those things has to do with helping others, and plays an important role in her life. She devotes considerable time to raising funds for Little Flower Children's Services of New York, which covers Long Island and New York City, taking in abandoned children at its home in Wading River, on Long Island, and placing AIDS babies for adoption.
Lucci has appeared in a slew of television movies, such as French Silk (1994) and Blood on Her Hands (1998), once hosted "Saturday Night Live"--where she self-deprecatingly poked fun at her yearly Emmy misadventures--and guest-starred in the final season of "Dallas," playing a scheming seductress. And, of course, there are the commercials, the hair-care products and the new fragrance. There is also the new Erica Kane collectible doll from Mattel, called Champagne Lace Wedding, featuring one of Erica's series of bridal gowns.
But, she says, what she would very much like to do is act in a feature film, and perhaps star in a Broadway play. "That's always been in me," she says. "That's where my dream started. I listened to Broadway albums as a little girl. I learned all the lyrics. I acted all the parts. My heart is really there. I still think Tennessee Williams is one of the great writers for women's parts. I'd do Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof tomorrow."
A reporter once asked Lucci if Erica Kane would ever become old and gray. "She may," Lucci replied. "I won't."
Yet, Lucci cautions against our youth-obsessed culture. "I think people make a mistake when they look only at youth as the judge of attractiveness," she says. "Some of the people I admire most are the women and men who have gone before me. If you ask me who my idol is, I'll tell you Sophia Loren. This woman is gorgeous, and womanly, and warm, and fabulous. I can only hope at some point to possess the qualities she has. And I think Sean Connery is spectacular. And I don't know and I don't care how old he is."
Yet, she is idealized by a legion of fans for the way she has seemed to discover a personal fountain of youth. So how has she managed to keep looking good? "I think that for everybody the gene pool plays a huge part," she says. "My mother is a beautiful woman who still looks wonderful. I've watched her take very good care of herself. She set a very good example.
"I believe we are born with certain things, and it's up to us to take care of them. And I think if you start very young, and just take care of them every day, pretty soon those days add up."
For Susan Lucci, those days have added up to international stardom and a successful family life.
Mervyn Rothstein, an editor at The New York Times, is a frequent contributor to Cigar Aficionado.

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Author Notes: There are many doughnuts in the world to love. But few are as plump and sugared, slight in weight, and brashly fragrant as the cardamom doughnuts from Bluebird Coffee Shop in the East Village. They're a baked doughnut, which makes them even more dangerously accessible.
You make the dough the night before, and it will seem impossibly wet -- the key to fluffy doughnuts.
The next morning you do a little shaping and spritzing and dipping into chopped pistachios, and you are near the finish line.
—Amanda Hesser
Makes: 9 doughnuts and 9 doughnut holes
2 1/2 cups plus 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons sugar (plus 1 cup for dipping the cooked doughnuts)
2 teaspoons coarse kosher salt
1 1/4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 3/4 teaspoons ground cardamom
1 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
tablespoon lukewarm water
2 large eggs
2 large egg yolks
tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon whole milk
tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon buttermilk
13 tablespoons unsalted Plugra or other high butterfat butter, at room temperature
1 cup pistachios, finely chopped (by hand, not in a food processor)
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Mix together the flour, 3 tablespoons sugar, salt, cinnamon, and cardamom, and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
- Stir together the yeast and water in a small bowl. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook (or by hand in a large bowl with a wooden spoon), combine the chilled flour mixture, the eggs, egg yolks, milk and buttermilk. Mix on low speed until a dough forms. It might be a little shaggy on the sides and that's ok.
- Add the yeast and continue mixing on low for 3 minutes. Pinch a piece of dough. It should be quite soft and sticky but should begin to stretch. If not, keep kneading for another 2 minutes.
- Add the Plugra butter, 1/ 3 at a time, and let the mixer knead for 5 minutes after each addition. The dough should become very smooth and elastic. It will seem impossibly soft, and should feel a little bouncy like a marshmallow. Don't despair. This is right.
- Brush a bowl twice the size of the dough mixture with oil. Scrape the dough into the bowl. Lightly brush the top with oil. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, and let rest at room temperature for 45 minutes.
- Using a dough scraper, fold in the sides of the dough (don't punch it down, just fold it). Let rest, covered, for another 45 minutes, then fold it again. Cover and place the dough in the refrigerator overnight (or for at least 8 hours).
- Lightly flour a work surface. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Have your kitchen scale ready (if not you'll be dividing the dough into 9 equal pieces) and a spray bottle filled with water. Spread the chopped pistachios on a small plate. Remove the dough from the bowl and set it onto the floured surface. Using your dough scraper, cut and weigh out 100 g pieces. You should have exactly 9 pieces.
- Using as little flour as possible, shape the dough pieces into rolls, and set the rolls on a floured portion of the work surface, at least 5 inches apart. Let rest for 10 minutes. If the dough becomes difficult to handle at any time, put it back in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes.
- Get out your 1-and-1/2-inch round cookie cutter. One at a time, firmly pat the rolls into 1/2-inch-thick disks. Cut out the centers with the cookie cutter.
- Working one doughnut at a time, spray a doughnut with just enough water to wet its surface. Dip the wet side of the doughnut into the pistachios, and set, nut-side-up, on the parchment-lined baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining doughnuts and doughnut holes, spacing them at least 3 inches apart. Cover loosely with plastic wrap. Let rise until fluffy and light – the doughnut should bounce back when pressed – about 1 1/2 hours.
- Heat the oven to 375 degrees. Bake the doughnuts for 6 minutes, then turn the baking sheets from back to front and continue baking until lightly browned and cooked through, 4 to 6 more minutes. Meanwhile, melt the remaining 4 tablespoons butter and place 1 cup sugar in a wide, shallow bowl.
- After removing the doughnuts from the oven, again working one at a time, brush the doughnuts with butter, then dip in the sugar, and set on a baking rack to cool.
- Pat yourself on the back, and eat while fresh!
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
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The Jets might be trying to slow-play any potential Darrelle Revis trade to maximize value, but it's becoming clearer and clearer that he's getting traded somewhere.
According to Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News, two or three "legitimate buyers" are prepared to deal for Revis when the league year opens March 12, but could move on to other targets if the Jets wait too long.
The report adds the Falcons to the list of possibilities, to the previously mentioned 49ers, but makes it clear that a resolution with the Jets isn't likely.
"He's gone," a source familiar with the situation said. "This is happening. They're moving him. They can't keep him. They're rebuilding. They're starting fresh."
If that's the case, the Jets will have to try to strike a deal before teams fill their needs otherwise. With enough quality (even if not Revis-quality) corners available in free agency, teams could go that route if the Jets insist on waiting to make the best deal before the draft.
The 49ers have a wealth of picks to deal, and an obvious need. The Falcons clearly have a vacancy after cutting Dunta Robinson and with Brent Grimes coming off injury as a free agent. And their willingness to make big deals in the past (such as the draft-day bonanza for Julio Jones) makes it consistent with their behavior as well.


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Version: 5.1
SlowThought's Math Library
This library contains functions related to various mathematical topics (currently probability and matrices), which might be of general interest.
1 Beta distributions
Beta functions are sort of binomial distributions in reverse - given a set of data, how likely is it that a given binomial distribution produced it? Questions like this are pondered in Bayesian statistics and its many applications. They are handy in many areas where a family of functions with a domain [0,1] is needed. Note that (make-beta 0 0) is equivalent in many implementations to beta [1 ,1]. This is because many implementations build the beta function from the gamma function, and then in a typical application have expressions like beta [x-1 ,y-1]. This implementation was built around the Chebyshev integral, and so starting at zero came naturally. Also note that, other than make-binomial, these functions' arguments are limited to non-negative integers. This allows chebyshev-integral to return an analytic solution, as opposed to the typical numerical one.
|(make-binomial x) → procedure?
|x : real?
returns a thunk that returns either #t or #f, with x providing the expectation of #t. It is provided to generate data sets for testing the other functions described in this section.
|(make-beta t f) → procedure?
|t : natural-number/c
|f : natural-number/c
returns a probability density function of the form (f x), which describes the likelihood that a function like those generated by make-binomial produced so many #t and #f.
|(make-cumulative-beta t f) → procedure?
|t : natural-number/c
|f : natural-number/c
returns a function that calculates the integral of (make-beta t f).
|(chebyshev-integral p q) → procedure?
|p : natural-number/c
|q : natural-number/c
returns a function which evaluates the expression
from 0 to x. This is the horsepower behind the other functions. It is provided for those who need to "roll their own" solutions for performance reasons.
2 YAML – Yet Another Matrix Library
Two dimensional matrices are implemented as vectors of vectors, and attempt to emulate vectors' syntax and behaviour. The unique part of this implementation is the ability to easily substitute different arithmetic operators in some functions so that you can do operations on, for example, matrices of quaternions or polynomials (coming soon to a planet near you).
Also coming soon, a more complete implementation, including, for instance, determinants that can handle quaternions or polynomials. For now, there are Racket-like constructors, accessors, and operators, and some arithmetic operators.
2.1 Constructors
|(make-matrix nrows ncolumns) → matrix?
|nrows : (and/c positive? integer?)
|ncolumns : (and/c positive? integer?)
|(make-matrix nrows ncolumns initialize) → matrix?
|nrows : (and/c positive? integer?)
|ncolumns : (and/c positive? integer?)
|initialize : any
returns a matrix. Each value in the matrix is set to 0, or to initialize, if provided.
|(build-matrix nrows ncolumns initialize) → matrix?
|nrows : (and/c positive? integer?)
|ncolumns : (and/c positive? integer?)
|initialize : procedure?
initialize is a function of the form (f irow icolumn) which is used to fill the returned matrix.
Immutable matrices are just as you'd expect:
|(define my-immutable-matrix #(#(1 2 3)
|#(4 5 6)))
As are mutable matrices:
|(define my-mutable-matrix (vector (vector 6 5 4)
|(vector 3 2 1)))
Some sugar is provided in the name of implementation hiding and readability. The following is equivalent to the last example:
|(define my-pretty-matrix (matrix (row 6 5 4)
|(row 3 2 1)))
2.2 Accessors
YAML follows Scheme/Racket conventions for vectors.
... is not very robust. A well constructed matrix is a vector of vectors of identical size. If the library's constructors are used, this is garunteed, but matrix? is not yet suspicious of the creative or the evil.
|m : matrix?
returns the numbers of rows and columns of the matrix m via values.
|(matrix-ref m row column) → any
|m : matrix?
|row : natural-number/c
|column : natural-number/c
returns the contents of m.
|(matrix-set! m row column value) → any
|m : matrix?
|row : natural-number/c
|column : natural-number/c
|value : any
changes the contents of m.
2.3 Operators
Again, YAML tries to follow Scheme/Racket convention.
|(matrix-map proc m ...) → matrix?
|proc : procedure?
|m : matrix?
works in the same fashion as vector-map. Because it is so straight-forward, no seperate implementation is offered for addition, subtraction, or scalar multiplication.
Things start to get complicated when you introduce multiplication. Multipliers have optional arguments for * and + for the user to provide appropriate operators for his/her special type.
|(matrix*vector m v) → vector?
|m : matrix?
|v : vector?
|(matrix*vector m v multiply add) → vector?
|m : matrix?
|v : vector?
|multiply : *
|add : +
multiplies a matrix by (the transpose of) a vector to produce another vector.
|(matrix*matrix m1 m2) → matrix?
|m1 : matrix?
|m2 : matrix?
|(matrix*matrix m1 m2 multiply add) → matrix?
|m1 : matrix?
|m2 : matrix?
|multiply : *
|add : +
multiplies two matrices to produce another one.
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That's where I'm currently heading:
The four robots I build since this project started.
Version 4 now nearly done and in testing.
Take a look at my newest video of my robot arm project, it's also the video for the HackadayPrize semifinals.
Version 4 is now nearly complete:
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Complaints about the massive open-air recycling facility in Sun Valley flow in each month in minute, sometimes stomach-turning detail.
Rats have skittered off the property of Community Recycling & Resource Recovery and into a nearby business, according to calls logged by the city. Churning dust is said to be "making everyone's eyes burn," making breathing difficult and causing bloody noses among workers at a neighborhood paving firm.
Gulls scavenging from piles of food waste have scattered bits of garbage from the sky. And then there is the stench, variously described in the logs as "a dead animal smell," a "rotten egg odor" and "putrid."
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Since joining the university, Wolfe's priorities have included increasing awareness of the role the system's four campuses play in the state; leading the campuses in a strategic planning process; finding and implementing opportunities for more efficiencies across the system; investing in the university's human capital; and expanding research and economic development initiatives.
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I am getting closer and closer to having this "Death Star" fully operational..
Er... uh...
I am very close to having my studio fully operational!
I Shot this in my basement, using my strobes pointing to a 9' long roll of Ultra White backdrop paper. Then adding red/pink gels to them, to tone...
This My Daughter Hailey before her first recital
The question is simple. How does one become a fashion photographer?
Playing with my lights again. First is my favorite one light angle 180 degree.
And the next is the my first attempt at a 2 light setup.
what do you think?
This is my first set of lights. Still have a lot to learn. I thought I would share the pictures I did and see what you think?
Ok we colored eggs this year and we got a little creative LOL...my cats had to see what the eggs were too!
So you know I had to do a photo shoot LOL!
Used the RadioStar Action in PS for this one
got an email on thursday asking me if I wanted to shoot a singer at the studio, some posed shots to portray a recording session... it was a fun night.
At the Piano
Hey all,
I just wanted to show you folks some of the images from my Airfield shoot that took place last Saturday (the 17th) at least some of the shots that I can show here. ;)
C&C is always welcome!
Image #1: Nicole
My friend came up from PA and wanted me to take some pics....I used my strobe as a Hot light light because my transmitter and receiver has a defect in it. I tried in manual mode and tried to do a custom white balance but couldnt get it right....I used Auto mode and my strobe flashed! I was shocked...
After a long (and very cool week of photoshop world) I gathered up my regular 'Muse' last saturday for an outdoor adventure shoot - To most of which I can't show her here. However these are two new images that are featuring several new techniques that I learned at Photoshop World Orlando....
Just keeping the Studio section alive..
Here is a recent shoot with Jess, a new model!
And another..
Since my Transmitter and reciever is not working and wont be getting my new ones till May, I thought I would try some natural light. I did do some editing on these. And I didnt use my tripod!:doh what was I thinking???:confused:
I dont where to put stuff like this, I though I would pass this along.
Amvona has some great stuff at very low prices, they are having a sale on 15 new studio backdrop canvas muslins. I just wanted to pass this along for all those getting closer and closer to a new studio.
These are $67.00...
Heres some more from yesterday, I just couldnt pass them up not showing you all!
Here are some pics I took today with my new light....Im thinking I need to reajust the lighting. These are edited
The ones with me I use the timer....First time WHA WHO!!! LOL
Not the Ian from here... this Ian:
I have more to go through, this is the one I had to process the least. He wanted selective coloring with him in B&W and the ink in color... that's taking me a "bit of time";)
I'll post the set up shot in a bit too. Just 2 AB800's and sume umbrellas
Hi and Happy New Year everyone.
I'm seeking to rent a studio in Connecticut on an as needed basis. Hoping to find several locations, so write me. email@example.com.
I dont have professional lighting so I use a stand light my hubby uses in the garage....I just got a floor lamp for free, it has 3 movable lights on it. My ? is what type of lights can I put in them? Clear or unclear? what watts? Can I get these in a regular hardware store?....sorry for all the ?s...
Heavy Constructive Critit for these few shots, Please be honnest!!
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U.S. equities took a hit in afternoon action as American fiscal talks that seemed promising just hours earlier skidded off track with the debt ceiling deadline looming.
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As of 3:30 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 86 points, or 0.56%, to 15214, the S&P 500 dipped 7.5 points, or 0.44%, to 1703 and the Nasdaq Composite slumped 13.2 points, or 0.35%, to 3802.
Traders had information to parse through on two front Tuesday: corporate American and political America.
In Washington, D.C., traders initially grew more hopeful that lawmakers would strike an agreement to raise the debt ceiling before the October 17 deadline the Treasury Department imposed. However, uncertainty mounted as the day went on. Indeed, Dan Greenhaus, chief market strategist at BTIG, remarked that he has "absolutely no idea" whether a debt deal will be passed by Thursday, underscoring the still tense mood on Wall Street.
Analysts at Potomac Research Group warned in a note to clients that legislation could run into two major hurdles. First, since a bill is likely to originate in the Senate, it could face up to two filibuster attempts. Second, a more worrisome, according to PRG, is the high chance the bill will face stiff resistance by Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Adding to the increasingly gloomy sentiment, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said credit ratings companies were considering a downgrade on U.S. debt. Moody's Investor Service and Fitch Ratings both declined to provide details on their plans, while Standard & Poor's didn't immediately respond to a FOX Business request for comment.
Citigroup (NYSE:C) posted adjusted third-quarter earnings of $1.02 a share, missing estimates by two cents. Adjusted revenues of $18.2 billion also came in shy of expectations of $18.6 billion. Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) unveiled adjusted third-quarter earnings of $1.36 a share, topping estimates by four cents. Revenues of $17.6 billion also beat forecasts of $17.4 billion. Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) revealed adjusted third-quarter profits of 53 cents a share on sales of $12.03 billion, matching Wall Street's estimates.
On the economic front, the New York Federal Reserve's manufacturing index fell in October to 1.52, widely missing estimates the gauge would rise to 7 from 6.29 in September. Readings above 0 point to expansion in the New York manufacturing sector, while those below indicate contraction. The reading is the lowest since May.
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MatchlockJune 18th, 2011 by admin
Military firearms are highly collectible antiques that peak a lot of buyers interests. One rare antique that fits this category is the matchlock weapon. The matchlock first came into existence in the 14th century. The significance of the matchlock was that it had a mechanism or "lock" invented to facilitate the firing of a hand-held firearm. Its design removed the need to lower by hand a lit match into the weapon's flash pan. The matchlock also made it possible to have both hands free to keep a firm grip on the weapon at the moment of firing, and, more importantly, to keep both eyes on the target.
The classic European matchlock gun held a burning match in a gun that was known as the serpentine. A variety of matchlock was also developed called the snapping matchlock, in which the serpentine was spring-loaded and released by pressing a button, pulling a trigger, or pulling a short string passing into the mechanism. This type fell out of favor with soldiers, but was often used in fine target weapons. One weakness of the matchlock was the necessity of keeping the match lit. The sole source of ignition for the powder was the match. If the match was not lit, then the mechanism was useless and the gun became little more than an expensive club. This was mainly a problem in wet weather for the matchlock gun. It became an issue when the damp match cord was difficult to light and to keep burning. Another drawback was the burning match itself. At night, the match would glow in the dark, possibly revealing the carrier's position. The distinctive smell of a burning match-cord was also a dead giveaway of a musketeer's position. This was one reason why soldiers in charge of transporting and guarding ammunition were amongst the first to be issued self-igniting guns like the wheel lock and snaphance. The matchlock was also uneconomical to keep ready for long periods of time. The matchlock first appeared in Europe in the middle of the 15th century. By the 16th century, the matchlock was universally sold everywhere. The Janissary corps of the Ottoman army adopted matchlock arms from Hungary gradually from the 1440s onwards. Improved versions of the musket were transported to India by Babur in 1526 and then to Japan by the Chinese. The Japanese were technically able to produce tempered steel such as swords and blades. However, they preferred to use work-hardened brass springs in their matchlocks. The low cost of production, simplicity, and high availability of the matchlock kept it in use in European armies until about 1720. Both the Qing Dynasty and the Joseon Dynasty used matchlock arms as late as the 1850s and 1870s. They used these during the Second Opium War and the United States expedition to Korea. Improvised matchlock guns were last used by pro-Indonesia Timor Leste militias in the 1999 conflict.


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LOC needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 96 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
We're looking for someone to design a cool, minimalist t-shirt design incorporating our eye logo and the tag line, "The World Is Your Campus" - Check out http://www.liveoncampus.com to see more about us.
Live on Campus - http://www.liveoncampus.com
We want to design a shirt which college students who work for us would wear and others might buy. Our reps on campus get students involved in creating media projects specific to their campus.
I started this project/company nearly over 15 years ago as a sophomore in college and have continued ever since - We have now expanded to India and are releasing these shirts there as part of a new project we are launching - So hopefully, ton of students in India will be proudly wearing your designs.
This is also just the start of our apparel launch - We intend to build out a more complete line for each of our media properties as well as an on-line clothing store for students, so I'm looking to develop longer term relationships with talented designers who can help us in the future.
Thank you for your time and effort in consideration of our project - Your contribution, even if we don't select it, really means a lot to me and is a part of helping to fulfill a lifelong dream of helping empower students through media, technology, and entertainment.
We're looking for a very clean, minimalist and youth oriented design incorporating the whole shirt. We want our own branding (either the name Live on Campus or the url liveoncampus.com) to be very subtle - We've even toyed with not having it on their at all and having our eye logo be the most prominent element which sparks a conversation or explanation from the person wearing the shirt.
Either of the following slogans are ok - "The World is Your Campus" or "You Will Never See Your Campus The Same Way Again"
Lastly, you can download our logo at: http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/…ring2.html
Cluttered or busy design.


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The Derby General Store and Farm Stand
Photography by Ashley Fetner
The community of Derby, near Ellerbe in Richmond County, was named for Roger Derby, a Harvard graduate who came to the Sandhills in 1911 to try his hand at farming. He purchased 2,780 acres of land and established a large farm to raise cattle and crops including peaches, corn, peanuts and cotton.
Interested in farming, business and education, Roger Derby built a school, established the Sand Hill Farmers Association, Sand Hill Board of Trade and made significant contributions toward developing the area.
In 1926, Roger Derby returned to New York, and Herbert R. and Mildred Currie purchased the farm and continued raising peaches and other crops. In 1928 they added Currie's Store that sold feed, seed, groceries, clothes, hardware, dynamite, chain saws and just about everything anyone locally needed. They even had the first Oliver tractor dealership in the area.
Stepping through the screen doors today, you are transported to a simpler time. Peaches, strawberries, melons and other fresh produce are displayed in baskets, wagons and on counters. Throughout the store you'll see a variety of jellies, jams, ciders, sauces, relishes and an old-fashioned candy counter. Every nook and cranny holds treasures such as vintage clothes, furniture, tools, a decorated Christmas tree and memorabilia handed down through the years to tell the story of this family farm.
The Curries' legacy is Triple L Farms, a fifth generation family farm. Currie grandsons Jim and Joe Lambeth run it today.
Triple L Farms store and stand are open during the spring and summer months, seven days a week. This year they have a story-telling series: "Know Thyself: From Whence We've Come." So if you are down this way, stop in for a cone of fresh peach ice cream or a grape Nehi and sit a spell. The location is 2205 Derby Rd., Ellerbe, NC 28338. Visit derbystand.com


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REVIL Choker - Mini
Smoky Quartz - Clear Quartz - Black Obsidian Crystals
Approx - 4cm x 1.5cm x 0.8cm
Black Leather Choker
Approx - 50cm x 1cm
2 x Press Studs
SMOKY QUARTZ - Is a protective + grounding stone that provides physical + psychic protection. It will take away all negative energy of any sort and transform into positive energy.
CLEAR QUARTZ - known as the universal stone for it's many uses, clear quartz holds many powers. It forms energy by absorbing + storing + amplifying + balancing + focusing and transmitting. It will also increase thoughts due to a thought being a form of energy.
BLACK OBSIDIAN - A stone that holds healing + grounding power being protective also from general abuse and negative energy. Also benefits the stomach + intestines + muscle tissue + will fight off infection.


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Resources >> Browse Articles >> Resumes and Cover Letters
8 Tips for Better Email Cover Letters
Larry Buhl | HotJobs
As the saying goes, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression. If you're doing a job search or resume submission via email, the first impression any employer will have is from your cover letter.
Some tips for creating successful email cover letters are the same as for paper cover letters: Be professional, with correct spelling and grammar, and — very important — do use them. Other tips pertain only to the electronic medium, and when disregarded, could ruin your chances before your foot is in the door.
Here's what you should you consider when crafting an email cover letter.
Don't Waste Your Subject Line
What you write in the subject line can determine whether your letter gets read, according to Lydia Ramsey, business etiquette expert and author of Manners That Sell. "Don't ever leave the subject line of your email blank and don't waste it by just inserting the job number," Ramsey says. "The subject line should be clear and specific to the job you're looking for." An example: "Bilingual CPA seeks account manager position."
Use Standard Cover Letter Protocol
Write your letter as the body of the email and include a salutation (use the receiver's actual name if you know it) and a standard closing. ("Sincerely" or "Warm regards" work well.) Leave blank lines between paragraphs, and use appropriate signature and closing lines. Include all the information in your signature line you would have on your business card, including snail mail address, phone number and email address. "Remember, your email address doesn't always automatically show up on the receiver's email program," Ramsey says.


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|How wide are freeway lanes?
This question is not exactly the easiest to answer because, depending upon when the original portion of a freeway was constructed, the widths can vary. They can also vary a little where lanes have been added to a freeway and there is no more room for expansion.
Overall, the following widths are fairly standard through the state.
An eight lane freeway would consist of an outside shoulder, four travel lanes, an inside shoulder and then on the other side, lanes going in the opposite direction, would be the inside shoulder, 4 travel lanes and an outside shoulder.
Outside Shoulders are generally 10' 4 lanes of travel way are 48' (12' per lane) Inside Shoulders are 8' So overall an eight-lane freeway would be 132' wide on an average.
Inside shoulders can vary from 5' to 8', Outside shoulders can vary from 5' to 10' and travel lanes depending upon the type of highway can vary from 10' to 15'.


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Twisted Love
Everyone's love gets all mixed up. Takes place during Eclipse, before what happens in the clearing, but after BElla agrees to marry Edward.
Hey there everyone NG speaking! This is my first story so I hope you like it!
1. Prologue and Chapter 1
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Prologue: The Wedding PlanBPOV
"YOU WHAT?!?!?!?" I shrieked as Alice just finished telling me the amount of people that would be attending my wedding.
"Well you said I could plan the wedding and I had a vision that everyone in forks would be there!!! Aww Bella please!! I already sent out the invitations!" Alice begged, bouncing up and down. One look at the irresistible puppy dog face she made pulled me in.
"Alright, but no more surprises, ok?" I mumbled. Giddy with joy, she pranced around my room, landing gracefully on the neatly made bed without making a crease.
"Yay! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Bella!" Alice sang "Now we need to talk about your dress." Ugh, the last thing I wanted right now.
But on command, just like he read my mind, (ha kind of ironic) Edward had me in his arms. You would think a person would get used to someone popping out of thin air constantly, but it still made me jump. He laughed in that musical voice that made my heart stop, then whispered in my ear,
"You don't have to let her do this, you know." Alice glared at him.
"Edward Anthony Mason Cullen your wedding is in two weeks! Do you want Bella going down the aisle in jeans and a T-Shirt??"
"Actually, that's what we had in mind first." said Edward, smiling. "Now if you don't mind, we're going to walk away on the count of three. One ... Three!"
Edward pulled me out the door and in a flash we were deep inside the forest outside my house.
"Thank you for saving me from the evil wedding pixie." I said. A dazzling smile flashed across his perfect white face.
"I would never let any little vampire annoy the hell out of you, Bells." He said.
Carefully, Edward put me down in the soft, dewy grass and settled down by my side. I closed my eyes as he wrapped his cold, stone arms around me. He pressed me close and said,
"Bella, I love you more than anything else in the world and nothing could change that."
I smiled and snuggled up as close as I could to him and eventually drifted off into an undisturbed sleep.
Chapter One: Love All Over AgainBPOV
For the past few hours, Rosalie and I have watched Esme and Alice dashing around with vampire speed making the last few preparations for the wedding. My dress was already on, hair already up, and makeup already done, so I didn't really have anything to do until I walked down the aisle. Plus, I was feeling very Edward deprived at the moment so, I tried to make myself feel better.
First, I pretended he was right next to me, but that didn't really work because, well, he just wasn't there. Then I tried talking to my hand like it was Edward. Rosalie looked at me like I was mental. So I sat there, wallowing in my Edward-less depression
Finally, Alice franticly rushed to my side.
"Bella! The ceremony is starting! You have to hurry!!!" We rushed to the front of the church and I inhaled deeply. After this moment, I will never be Bella Swan again. After this moment, I will be Edward's forever. Most importantly, after this moment, Edward will have to turn me into vampire.
Charlie walked up to me and said,
"You ready for this, Bells?" I looked into his face and found myself crying in his arms. Good thing Alice could see into the future or I wouldn't be wearing waterproof mascara.
"Its okay hon. You don't have to do this if you don't want to." He said as I squeezed him tighter. If only he understood that I would never see him again.
"No Dad. I'm ready."
We linked arms and again I took a deep breath as the big doors to the chapel opened. As the music started playing, we made our way down the aisle and I looked around at the people there. Angela was crying and waving up at the front with Ben. Jessica and Mike were right next to Angela. Billy was closer to the back, and to my utter surprise, Jacob was standing right next to him. When we made eye contact a big grin spread across his face and I stumbled on my dress. I could hear him laugh even though I was now at the front of the church.
Edward turned to look at me and my heart froze. He was in a black tux and a crooked grin was plastered on his beautiful face. He looked perfect in every way. Charlie let me go and I went to stand next the love of my life.
When the priest walked up to us, Edward's eyes widened and he tensed up. I looked at him franticly and mouthed "What's wrong???" He stayed as still as stone, eyes glued to the man in front of us. I turned my head to see what was bothering him and uttered a gasp, concealed by the still playing music.
In front of me stood a vampire with wild red hair and ruby red eyes.Victoria smiled and my heart leaped while I stared into her eyes. Edward tried to shake me away from her gaze. The whispers of the crowds grew more frantic by the second. The sounds of the room started to fade away and I grew faint. The last thing I heard was Edward shouting my name.
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text: Pre-Report Analysis of April 10 Reports April 9, 2013 09:48 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By AgWeb.com Editors Email AgWeb.com will have full coverage of the April 10 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production reports, following the 11 a.m. releases. Below are a few pre-report news items to read before the numbers come out. Grain Price Rallies Still Possible While old-crop corn prices are highly unlikely to charge back to winter highs, a springtime rally could still be in the cards from present levels for those holding on. USDA Report: What Will Happen This Time? USDA's March 28 reports sent grain prices spiraling downward. What will happen in the markets after the April 10 supply and demand report? All Eyes on Corn Feeding Futures traders, industry analysts, crop producers, and the livestock sector will all be watching to see to what degree USDA cuts corn feeding in this month's WASDE. AgWeb Radio: Closing Commentary 4-9-13 Kevin Van Trump of Farm Direction says the report tomorrow could be slightly bullish. China buying wheat from the US should be watched closely. The weather is now becoming a concern. AgWeb Radio: Midday Commentary 4-9-13 Tom Grisafi of Indiana Grain Company says there is a lot of position squaring before the report tomorrow. The German and European stock markets are weaker than the U.S. stock market. AgWeb Radio: Opening Commentary 4-9-13 Craig VanDyke of Top Third Ag Marketing says there is a concern about bean demand from China due to bird flu. Weather concern in winter wheat area still exists. The market will be positioning for the report tomorrow. Blog Commentary The Allendale Wake-Up Call: Weather And Reports Provide Standoff The Ted Spread: Are We Setting Corn Up for Failure? EHedger Report: Wheat Gains on Weather Concerns and Export Sales Current Marketing Thoughts: What should we expect with tomorrows USDA report? Even Keel Ag Perspectives: Greg Wagner's Bullet Points for CME Group Analyst Outlook Forum - USDA Crop Reports TODAY 2:30pm CT Cash Grain Insights: Corn Finds More Strength Overnight Grain Hedge: Positive Day for Grains, Will It Continue Ahead of the USDA Reports? The Allendale Wake-Up Call: Wheat Conditions Improve Before Cold Snap Listen to the latest market commentary on AgWeb Radio: Audio Analysis Hear audio market analysis from experts in commodities trading with AgWeb's Audio Market Commentary. Back to news