| Ed Balls's cooking lessons won't stop obesity
My nine-year-old son is crazy about football. Like his Dad, he is a Leeds United supporter, which is not an easy thing to be these days, particularly if you are growing up in London. But he is a determined sort and loves nothing more than to put on his Leeds kit and kick a ball around with his mates. He tells them that his favourite club was once as great as theirs, and will be back up there with the Chelseas and Arsenals in a few seasons. .
'Motorcycle Chick' turns love of making chocolates into a business
Debra Hammond-Ocasio tackles life's detours head-on, armed with determination and a sense of humor.
The Howell resident loved her job managing information technology projects, but when that job ended, she became a bridal consultant, then began selling Harley-Davidson motorcycles, too something the Harley rider enjoyed. Nowadays, her work is decidedly sweeter: In 2004, she opened a candy store in Allentown.
Five years ago, the only chocolates in her life were the ones she made for family and friends, something Hammond-Ocasio a woman happiest when busy has done since first experimenting with candy molds about 25 years ago.
"Mostly novelty chocolates, some filled chocolates, and of course, dipping pretzels,
marshmallows, strawberries. I always loved sweets.
Cooking cause of DeBordieu fire
Authorities have ruled unattended cooking caused a fire that destroyed a home in the DeBordieu community near Pawleys Island Tuesday night, according to a Wednesday statement from Midway Fire Rescue. Firefighters were dispatched to the structure fire at 2981 Luvan Blvd. at 8:20 p.m. to find the closest fire hydrant was not working, reports Midway Fire spokesman Lt. Bob Beebe. As a result, crews laid 1,800 feet of hose to access the next-closest hydrant. Beebe reports the home did not have a sprinkler system, which would likely have minimized the damage. The malfunctioning hydrant was possibly damaged in a traffic crash on Friday, Beebe reports, and was to remain in temporary service until it could be completely repaired. A crew began to repair the hydrant on Tuesday, but emergency repairs to a broken water line nearby interrupted the work and the crew marked the hydrant as being out of service, according to Beebe's statement.
Tight "Money"
There is a whole big issue...which has not fully played out in regard to providing credit and liquidity to institutions, so I think it is a dangerous period for the world. I think we are going to go through next year, certainly the first half of next year, with considerable traumas.'" November 28 - Financial Times (Michael Mackenzie and Saskia Scholtes): "Investor flight from anything bearing the taint of the US subprime mortgage crisis has pushed financial companies debt to its weakest versus US Treasuries in more than five years. Energy, utilities and telecommunications companies, conversely, have seen their lower-rated BBB bonds attract haven buying. This divergence is a stark indicator of one root cause of the current credit crunch: the unwinding of leverage on the part of investors.
The best of theater: New York shows golden, but regional theater not ...
Both sides finally came to their senses after losing the lucrative Thanksgiving tourist trade. And just in time for Christmas. For waiting in the wings of the Imperial Theatre on West 45th Street was a lightning bolt of theatricality called "August: Osage County." The playwright is Tracy Letts ("The Man From Nebraska," "Killer Joe," "Bug"), who has enjoyed a string of off-Broadway successes. But "August," Letts' holiday gift to the city, warmed up a frost-bitten Broadway. It's the kind of play that changes the future of the art — this decade's "Angels in America," although it has nothing to do with the themes explored in Tony Kushner's epic drama. No, "August: Osage County," with its original Steppenwolf Theatre Company cast nearly intact, is about a family so dysfunctional it makes the Tyrones of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" look like Ozzie and Harriet, David and Ricky.
MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them
That's why, as machines become more complicated, good interface design becomes more essential—you can't just keep adding buttons and menus. The iPhone is a good example. To combine several machines into a pocket-size device, Apple did away with almost all the buttons in favor of a touchscreen that can be reconfigured for each new application. Personally, I have no use for anything fancier than a basic cellphone, but the iPhone is smart technology. Here are some prime examples of technology that's not smart. Instead, it ranges from mildly annoying to knuckle-gnawing infuriating. But since our show, like Popular Mechanics magazine, is about problem solving, we've included the MythBusters fix for some of this misguided machinery. .
Women's Hearts Take Center Stage at New Stanford Clinic
Months after joining an exercise group, Valerie Garcia would stay red in the face, gasping for air, feeling like she was going to pass out, while the rest of her classmates jogged by. No matter how hard or how often she exercised, she was incapable of building any endurance. "I was sure it wasn't my heart but nothing .
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