Sarah Jessica Parker’s Favorite Fragrance: Warm, Wet Diapers
Courtesy Elle Most parents agree that integrating an older sibling into the process of welcoming a new baby is essential. However, when actors Sarah Jessica Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick were approached by their 7-year-old son James Wilkie asking if he could take on the task of naming one of his baby sisters , the couple were more than a little apprehensive! “He told me he really wanted Marion to be in the mix,” Sarah Jessica reveals in the December issue of Elle
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Ethics schmethics. For lawn-tractor care, it’s a matter of scheduling
The latest installment of Randy Cohen's The Ethicist column in The New York Times Magazine featured the following question, under the headline “Waiting for the Lawn Tractor”: “The shop that services my lawn tractor told me to expect its return in a week. I want it back sooner and am considering giving the workers an up-front cash bonus to put my tractor at the head of the line
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Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days DVD Review
Tomorrow Sesame Street will celebrate its 40th birthday. In honor of 40 fabulous years, tomorrow Sesame Workshop will release Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days (retail $29.93 or $19.99 from Amazon), a brand new two- disc set that includes over 5 hours of favorite stories, songs, celebrity segments, and classic scenes that feature the Muppets™ from Sesame Street like Kermit in It’s Not Easy Being Green As a kid who grew up on Sesame Street, Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days brings me back to my years of watching Sesame Street with my younger brother on Sunday mornings. Waking up at 6 am, we would drag blankets and stuffed animals into the living room and camp out on our parents’ couch to watch a Sesame Street marathon of 3 back-to-back episodes.
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Shopping for Portable Gaming Systems?
If you are looking at a possible purchase of a portable gaming system for your child this winter, you won’t want to miss Stimey’s post titled Comparing Portable Gaming Systems for Kids on her Things and Stuff blog where she reviews the V.Smile Cyber Pocket, Leapfrog Leapster 2, Leapfrog Didj, and Nintendo DSi. It is an awesome review full of pros and cons of each gaming system and an honest offer to contact Stimey via her comments if you have any questions. As someone who only has the Leapster in her household, my attempts at such a comprehensive portable gaming review would have fallen far short
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The evolution of Frigidaire’s logo and brand identity
Frigidaire's new look gets a cool reception from one blogger If you're into graphic design and/or appliances, you might enjoy ” Ninety Years of Refrigerators, and Logos ,” an interesting post on Brand New, a site that covers corporate-brand-identity strategies. In the item, author Debbie Millman focuses on Frigidaire, tracing the appliance maker's logo from its original crown design with embedded “F” through cursive versions to the current all-caps iteration (shown right). The latest look doesn't seem a winner for Millman: “The placement of the red triangle results in breaking the word Frigidaire into two separate words: Frigid and Ire
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Inside Consumer Reports Test Labs: Putting carpet shampooers through their paces
Last week we told you about a scary-looking tool our technicians are experimenting with to embed pet hair into carpeting as part of vacuum testing. This week, for our scheduled March 2010 report on carpet cleaners (online and on newsstands in early February), other testers have been using a big roller that grinds topsoil into panels of off-white carpeting
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Alcohol-Free Smart & Silky Hand Sanitizer Wages the War Against Germs
The fact that computer keyboards are hotbeds for harmful bacteria that invite illnesses is the reason why I stand at the door of our school’s computer lab and dispense hand sanitizer by the gallon. With H1N1 making the rounds with the regular seasonal illnesses, I try to make sure that the germs stop at the door so they aren’t passed through the school on our computer lab’s keyboards
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Guiding You Through Treatment and Beyond
Today we asked our Twitter community “What is the one thing you know now that you wish you had known before your cancer treatment.” We received tons of responses ranging from “I wish I had known about the nausea.” to “I wish I had known it would be hard for me to get pregnant.” to “I wish I had known I wasn’t alone in my fight.”. We have created a resource to help prepare and guide patients from the point of diagnosis through the balance of life called The LIVE STRONG Guidebook.
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Paradise Cost: Hawaii’s not a better place to live than West Virginia or North Dakota . . . at least when it comes to electricity prices
Cutting down on how much electricity you use at home is a good move for your finances and the environment. Some steps to using less energy are simple, like choosing energy-efficient appliances and using and maintaining them properly—read about the U.S. Department of Energy's $300 million State Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program , otherwise known as cash for clunkers for appliances —and replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescent lightbulbs, like those covered in our new ratings-based report on CFLs .
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Daniel Koontz from Casual Kitchen Shares How to Get the Benefits of Organic Foods-Without Paying Organic Prices
As you know, I love food. It isn’t just fancy meals with locally grown and sustainable ingredients made by famous chefs or Top Chef Cheftestants . I love everything about food- from planning a meal that uses a new recipe or ingredient to harvesting items from our backyard garden, I’m always trying to learn new things to expand my culinary horizons
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At opening of Florida solar-energy facility, President Obama focuses on smart grid and renewable energy
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama promoted the smart grid and renewable energy at the opening of Florida Power & Light's DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center (shown). The facility consists of more than 90,500 solar panels, making it the largest solar-photovoltaic plant in the country and, according to FPL, its annual estimated generation is about 42,000 megawatt hours. The president outlined how the federal government is making a $3.4 billion investment from Recovery Act funds to modernize the country's electric grid with a goal of creating a more-reliable, more-efficient system.
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Halloween Tips from Ice Age 3’s Sid (& Win 1 of 5 DVDs)
Can you feel the excitement? Not only is Halloween right around the corner but Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs just came out on DVD! If you are a fan of the Ice Age movies, you can now see all of your favorite Ice Age friends on the new DVD that was released on Tuesday or better yet, leave a comment below to win 1 of 5 copies that I have courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox ! Today Sid from Ice Age 3 has some safety tips to help your family have a very happy Halloween: It is best to travel in a herd, preferably in one that includes an adult human-type. Stick to familiar neighborhoods and never enter a stranger’s house, car, or cave.
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Shale gas holds promise, but drilling for it is controversial
As we covered in Buzzword: Shale gas , this natural gas contained within fine-grained, sedimentary rock is a topic of much interest for the energy industry. There are vast reserves of shale gas nationwide, and energy companies are working hard and fast to tap these natural-gas sources through what's called water fracturing, also known as hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking.
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Detroit house to be turned into giant ice cube
You might have heard about or even had to deal with ice dams, those frozen build-ups around the eaves of a home that can damage roofing and siding during winter (see illustration). In Detroit, two artists are taking the concept of the ice dam to the extreme, and perhaps that's appropriate in a city known as Hockeytown, USA. Architectural photographer Gregory Holm and architect Matthew Radune plan to encase one of Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes in ice this winter, according to this Associated Press report
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WorldVitalRecords Database in Review: Sims Index
Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia (http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=gpc0806317140_simsindex) Land records comprise one of the most important sources for early American genealogical research, since sometimes they are the only records that can place an individual in a particular place at a particular time. For this reason Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia is an essential resource for anyone researching their early Virginia/West Virginia ancestors. A comprehensive guide to pre-1900 land records in West Virginia (which until 1863 was part of the Commonwealth of Virginia), Sims Index lists land grants that were made by Lord Fairfax prior to the creation of the Virginia Land Office in 1779, as well as those issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia for land now located in West Virginia, and by the State of West Virginia under its first Constitution.
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Inside Consumer Reports Test Labs: Which vacuums make pet-hair cleanup less of a nightmare?
The menacing-looking device in the photo (right) isn't a prop from Saw VI or some gruesome Halloween slasher film, though it could play a part in Nightmare in Yonkers: Pet-Hair Perils . The photo is actually a shot of John McAloon, a project leader in our Technical department, holding a new device he and his team created to embed pet hair into the carpeting we use for vacuum testing. About three years ago, we instituted pet-hair testing, having recognized that so many readers were looking for the best vacuums to deal with their dogs' and cats' (furry) droppings.
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Once in a Blue Moon- Connect with Author Eileen Goudge on Facebook and Twitter!
Believe it or not, I don’t actually spend all of my time online. I do spend a fair amount of it reading and commenting on the many blogs in my reader (comments are currency in the blog world!) but I also love quiet moments when I actually get to sit down and read a good book or go through my stack of magazines. As you can imagine, those moments are few and far between and I have a whole list of books that I want to read.
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Vintage Consumer Reports: Steam irons didn’t impress in October 1951
“The introduction of the first home steam-electric iron a few years ago was greeted with considerable fanfare, and the fervent hope, among iron-tired housewives that here, at last, was a good answer to their ironing problems.” —Consumer Reports, October 1951 Those first-generation steam irons didn't impress. Manufacturers made bold claims, but the irons ran out of steam and clothes still had to be dampened before ironing, according to our 1951 test results. Even worse, for the October 1951 report, nine of 11 steam irons were judged Not Acceptable, eight presented burn or scald hazards, and the soleplate melted and the thermostat failed on the Silex (shown)
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H1N1 Swine Flu Products & Protection on Sale
Stock up and save on a wide selection of cold and flu products from AllegroMedical.com this season. The H1N1 virus may be in your area, but our Swine Flu protection products can help slow the spread and prevent contraction of the virus. If you end up with the flu, our H1N2 flu remedies can make you more comfy. How do you know you have the flu versus a cold? You know you have the flu when you get sick suddenly, have a fever, headache, chills, muscle aches and fatigue. You also may have a dry cough, sore throat and nasal congestion. It will hit you like a ton of bricks, and if left untreated you could suffer for up to 10 days. Best to get a flu shot and try to avoid it. Remember to eliminate or avoid contact with people as soon as you start feeling flu symptoms, and remain indoors for at least 24 hours after your fever has passed to avoid spreading the virus.
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Climb Aboard Dinosaur Train for Natural Science & Paleontology
I hate to break the news to Whyatt, Princess Presto, and the rest of the cast of SuperWhy but Dinosaur Train is our new PBS favorite. Ever since the debut on September 7, 2009 (yes, it is only 7 weeks old!) , Little Miss Techie and Captain Computer ask to watch it on a daily basis. Captain Computer belts out the fast paced lyrics at the start of every show and Little Miss Techie can tell me which dinosaurs are herbivores, omnivores, or carnivores and if they lived during the Jurassic or Cretaceous periods
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