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Cooking lessons for Cristie began at 8 years old with the best teacher in the world — her Mom! Later, she cooked for the restaurant the family owned, and her love of the ‘trade’ has grown ever since. Cristie’s creative cooking has continued for over 40 years. Her creations can soon be on your kitchen table. Check out Cristie’s books at http://www.cristiescookin.com and http://www.tjstokes.com
Some people think that sales are a dead end job. Could be who knows, in fact I once talked this over with a salesman who sold caskets and they said that; It is a dead job, but someone has to do it! Of course he was making a joke, but let us consider the incredible sub-sector industry of death and selling of caskets.
They have caskets now with cell phones incase the person wakes up he or she can call for immediate excavation or perhaps call and tell of their last goodbyes? In fact he said they guarantee the batteries for 20-years just in case? In case of what a poltergeist? Scary stuff, but it is an emotional roller coaster for many and in that time of need the requests they get are as crazy as the loved ones of the deceased, states of mind.
He said; hey do not look at me, I am just giving the people what they want and that is my job. Indeed and I suppose he is correct. He explained the product and really I was not buying anything. Actually I had stopped in to sell them on some fleet washing services for their limo, hursts and company cars, etc. I was simply helping a new franchisee in our company build his car-washing route (Carwashguys.com).
The salesman told me these new caskets are guaranteed to be air-tight for over 20-years. Wow, that is pretty incredible to say the least. It is so fascinating all the dead jobs there are in sales these days? Who comes up with all this stuff anyway? Consider all this in 2006.
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For those of you who came to age during the 1960?s, you probably vividly remember where you were when JFK was shot. For those of you who are cigar lovers, you probably vividly remember where you were when he made Cuban Cigars illegal.
For over four decades, cigar smokers of America have been left without the ability to procure what?s reputed to be the finest smokes on the market; they?ve been left empty -handed like a child who lost a favorite toy, a very luxurious, flavorful toy, in a neighbor?s backyard. This has placed cigar lovers in perpetual wonderment, asking why they are missing out on one of life?s greatest pleasures.
The History
Bent on a legacy of close economic and geographical relations, the ties between Cuba and America began to unravel when the Cuban Revolution gave Fidel Castro power on January 7, 1959. These tensions between the two countries were further compounded when Cuba and the Soviet Union appeared in cahoots, like two forces attending a Communistic tea party. Reacting to this two-headed threat, the US dealt with unraveling ties by severing them altogether.
Cuban Cigars found their way into the history books on February 7, 1962. Intending to cut off Castro and his government, JFK implemented a trade embargo. Americans, under this embargo, were prohibited from purchasing Cuban Cigars and Cuba, as JFK intended, lost a majority of their customer base, and a great amount of revenue.
The US government knew this would happen; just four years earlier 67 percent of Cuba?s exports and 70 percent of their imports involved the US. A trade embargo was sure to hit them below the belt. And so, JFK laced up his gloves.
While the embargo resulted in American exporters losing an estimated 1.2 billion, the Cuban government lost much more; the embargo cost them roughly 70 billion. However, this loss didn?t hit Cuba with the force intended; the Soviet Union, supplying Cuba with subsidies, shielded the blow.
The Criticism
As soon as the embargo began, so did the criticism. While tobacco lovers everywhere were angry, standing by and watching their ability to procure the best cigars in the world go up in smoke, much of the criticism came on a political level.
While some argued that the embargo only strengthened the unity between the Soviet Union and Cuba ? just as the attack on Pearl Harbor strengthened the relationship between the US and Great Britain ? others argued that the embargo gave Castro an excuse for Cuba?s lack of prosperity. In a time when Cuba was plagued by problems, critics feared Castro would be able to shrug his shoulders and say, ?What? It?s not me; blame the cigars.?
To this day, the embargo continues to be looked on negatively by members of the United Nations. Each year the UN calls, by a large majority vote, for the US to lift its embargo and each year the US refuses.
The Impact
No American wanted Communism to spread throughout the world, believing that the form of government that works for insect colonies would not necessarily work for humans, but no American wanted cigars from Cuba to become illegal either.
JFK himself was among those who indulged in the luxuries of a Cuban Cigar. In fact, knowing the embargo was imminent, JFK sent his press secretary out to obtain a stockpile of Cuban Cigars on the eve before he signed the Executive Order.
For those who didn?t have the inside information of the President, the Cuban Cigar embargo ended a cigar democracy Americans had come to love and expect.
Just as Prohibition forever changed the alcohol industry, the Cuban Cigar embargo forever changed the cigar industry; it is as if all the government needs to do to shake up any industry is make something about that industry illegal. While Prohibition saw bootleggers and wine smuggling, the Cuban Cigar embargo saw the black market obtain a best selling item.
And, of course, anytime anything comes onto the black market, counterfeiters sit by licking their lips and waiting for unsuspecting purchasers. This is particularly true with Cuban Cigars. While they are seemingly easy to get inside the US, everyone has a friend who has a friend who sells them, those patrons who purchase them have a better chance of being scammed than obtaining the real thing.
The Cuban Cigar embargo also added to the cigar’s already exciting reputation: smoking something illegal often seems more fun than smoking something not prohibited by law. Banning the cigars drew attention to them and, as soon as smokers learned they couldn?t have them, they wanted them even more. This resulted in a boom in the black market (Cuban Cigars began circulating everywhere), an upslope of cigar smuggling (people began transporting Cuban Cigars from Canada, where the embargo did not exist) and a foundation of counterfeiting (some people were able to quit their day jobs and start a business peddling fake Cubans, not much of a dental plan, but lucrative nonetheless).
The Cuban Cigar embargo is the epitome of tobacco history. Not only have few government acts in the entire existence of America impacted the smoking industry so drastically, but the Cuban Cigar embargo demonstrates how much the history of a nation is intertwined with the history of cigars.
The embargo had nothing to do with cigars themselves, JFK wasn?t offended or turned off by something a Cuban Cigar had once said to him. It was merely a political move to protect a country during a time when Communism seemed ready to take over.
However, times have changed: the Soviet Union has since dissolved and Cuba is not the threat they were in the years that preceded the Cold War. It seems, in fairness to American smokers, that Cuban Cigars should once again be legal in the US; the Cuban Cigar embargo needs a little embargoing of its own.
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Jennifer Jordan is an editor and staff writer for http://www.whatsknottolove.com. At home in a design firm in Denver, Colorado, she writes articles specific to the finer things in life.
The idea behind the popularity ranking algorithms is that, by linking to a page, you imply that that page deserves attention. Search engines use links to determine the authority of pages in topics described by the link anchor text. The problem is that every link is considered as a positive endorsement with no regard to the real intention of the linking person. There is no effective way for a search engine to distinguish between positive and negative endorsements in links yet.
The earliest web-like development by Tim Berners-Lee - the Enquire program – allowed the usage of various types of relationships between documents, such as similar-to, part-of, or made-by. However in his later work on the World Wide Web and HTML Tim Berners-Lee has abandoned multiple-types of relationships for simplicity. Flat links with no relationship information have been used ever since.
This article was originally published at Trust Problem in the Link-Based Popularity Ranking.
Link Abuse
The absence of this feature has been widely exploited by people trying to manipulate search engines results since the introduction of the link-based popularity ranking. The most notable examples are link farms, which used to flourish just a couple years ago. Search engines had realized the problem of abuse and started penalizing link farms and sites that link to them. But still with the anchor text and the host page’s own authority being the only parameters used to evaluate the link impact, there exist many other ways to manipulate rankings. By using anchor text large web-users communities can perform the infamous Google-bombing: see ‘miserable failure’ search results in Google. And this can be employed against other search engines as well, e.g. ‘друг народа’ (‘people’s friend’) query in the Russian major search engine Yandex.ru returns V.Putin’s bio on the top of the results
Adding Semantics Info into Link Markup
The problem lies in the very nature of HTML. Designed as a document structure markup language it is ineffective for describing the semantics of a document. Some extensions had to be introduced into the link markup to make it able to reflect the nature of the relationship to the linked document. One example is the rev attribute. This attribute is used in the VoteLinks microformat proposed by the Technorati.com to allow users to express their opinion about linked blogs. The rev attribute in the VoteLinks format can have the following values: ‘vote-for’, ‘vote-abstain’ and ‘vote-against’, thus reflecting positive, neutral and negative opinions. This makes it possible to augment or reduce the authority of the linked document respectively.
The rel attributes values such as ‘friend’, ‘colleague’, ‘sibling’, ‘neighbor’ or ‘spouse’ allow a different approach, reflecting the nature of the relationships between two documents, rather than the opinion. This approach is also used by Technorati.com and might have certain value within a community of bloggers.
None of these approaches is currently used by any major search engine. The rel attribute value ‘nofollow’ is the only one to be taken into account by Google, MSN and Yahoo. This value is intended to show that the linking person is not certain about his approval of the linked document. The search engine crawlers are supposed not to follow such links, but many webmasters report that actually they still do. However it is possible that such links do not propagate authority.
Possible Impact of Trust Links
What if search engines were able to determine the trust or distrust nature of a link? Would the existing ranking be significantly different? Currently inbound links show the measure of attention to a certain page. Therefore even those pages which are linked to express distrust or even disgust might be ranked higher than positively endorsed pages for the same query.There is another approach that would have to be reconsidered. Now if page A links to page B, it propagates a fraction of its authority value to B. If there is a reciprocal link, some authority can be returned to A, so that both pages benefit from the mutual trust. But consider now that a highly ranked page A distrusts page B. Page B also adds a distrust link to A in revenge. Should we decrease the ranking of A because a distrusted page B also negatively links to it? Or should we stop considering any opinion from B?
To determine the effect of the search engines’ ability to distinguish between positive and negative opinions in web links Paolo Massa and Conor Hayes have conducted an experiment using the linkage data from the Epinions.com website. Epinions.com is a web community where users can write their opinions on movies, books, goods and services. It is also possible to rate to use other users’ reviews, thus expressing trust or distrust. In the experiment’s model, users are considered as web pages, while their ratings are seen as incoming links. The 20 top ranked users were sorted by their total number of ratings (positive and negative) and by the number of the positive rankings only. The total number of rankings shows the attention to the user, which is similar to the link popularity of a web page. Using statistical methods P. Massa and C. Hayes have determined the alignment factor between the attention ranking and the trust ranking. The value is 0.8 and it should be noted that since people tend to assign positive ranking more frequently than negative (often a disappointed user would simply not rate ate at all) – the actual alignment value can be even less.
However trust linking would be ineffective in the web. The introduction of trust/distrust linking would create wide opportunities for abuse, and not just from gray spammers. Any highly-ranked website would be able to destroy authority of any less ranked competitor with a power of a single link! While in relatively small communities of bloggers (Technorati.com) or reviewers (Epinions.com) such wars can be prevented by human moderation, the existing technology still doesn’t allow search engines to perform a similar task in the Web.
References:
- Massa, P. and Hayes, C. 2005, ‘Page-reRank: using trusted links to re-rank authority’. Istituto Trentino di Cultura.
- Ntoulas, A., Cho, J., Cho, H.K., et al. 2004, ‘A Study On The Evolution Of The Web’. University of California.
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Truck batteries are a type of lead-acid battery which powers not just trucks but the majority of automotive equipment such as cars, wheelchairs, tractors, and motorcycles. These type of batteries are shaped similar to a rectangle and have sulfuric acid in them which if exposed to the skin burns it on contact.
Recycling is the top way of the disposal of truck batteries as there are numerous components to the battery which can be used again.
There are numerous benefits from the correct disposal of truck batteries in the procedure of recycling. There are many metals which make truck batteries which can be recycled. These metals can be used to create additional batteries. This is also the case for the plastics that are recovered from recycled batteries as it can be used all over again as well to make other products.
Considering that truck batteries have sulfuric acid in them there are some ways to be extra cautious in their disposal. Make certain to handle the batteries with gloves that are leather or acid resistant. Anything that produces a spark or a flame ought to be kept away from truck batteries when they are being recycled.
Do not place anything metal on top of the batteries as this can produce sparks which can lead to a fire. Before handling the battery get rid of everything metallic such as rings and chains. In handling truck batteries make certain that the battery stays appropriate side up as to not spill any of the acid that the battery holds.
When you are transporting batteries for recycling purposes use a container for carrying the battery that is non metallic and does not leak. Batteries that do have a leak in them ought to be neutralized by scattering baking soda or calcium carbonate on the area and after that flush the vicinity well with water.
In the event that spilled acid contacts the skin make certain to wash out the area that the acid touches with water right away. Afterwards you ought to visit a medical doctor or an emergency room if the burning persists.
When you are buying truck batteries make inquiries concerning the disposal of an old one as a lot of retailers, which sell truck batteries, will accept the old ones which they recycle. They might also markdown the cost of the new battery since you are trading in the old one.
Around 96 percent of all lead, which can be found in any automotive battery, is in due course recycled. Even though this is a high number there are still lots of truck batteries, as well as other lead based kinds, that are not stored correctly. Around 20 percent of all the households in the United States stores at least one type of battery from an automobile or truck. This number amounts to approximately 30 to 40 million second-hand lead based batteries that are not stored suitably or recycled.
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I turned 21 in 1999, decades after the Roaring Twenties. Because of this, I can honestly say that I don?t know what Prohibition feels like. I can only compare it to an empty keg at a raging party or that feeling I got one night of high school when I watched a disgruntled bouncer cut up my beloved fake ID. I, like most of us, became of age in an era when wine was freely flowing, beer was always on tap, and every teenager counted the days until their 21st birthday.
Those who were born at the beginning of the 19th Century, however, weren?t so lucky. In an era marked by pandemic flu and a world war, an era where drinking was not only used for pleasure but also used as a much needed escape from reality, Prohibition entered the picture.
Like an unwelcome patron who pulls up a stool at the local bar, saloon owners and alcohol lovers in America took one look at Prohibition and said, ?We don?t want any.? But, it wasn?t the common man?s decision and, as beer fell to tears, whiskey winced, and cases of Merlot wined, Prohibition began on January 16th, 1920 when the 18th Amendment took effect, illegalizing the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol.
There were red flags against Prohibition from the start ? anything the KKK fervently advocates is probably not the best idea ? and Prohibition, in the end, did little more than increase alcohol consumption and pave the way for organized crime. Fourteen years later, in December of 1933, Prohibition was repealed by the 21st Amendment, leaving many Americans to raise their glasses to lawmakers for the first time in over a decade.
The Volstead Act
During Prohibition, wine was treated a little differently than other types of alcohol, it was as if a bottle of Cabernet slipped the government a twenty and winked in a way that meant, ?shh?keep a cork on it.? This was due to the Volstead Act. Passed in the year before Prohibition began, it gave federal agents the ability to investigate and prosecute anyone caught in violation of Prohibition?s liquor laws. However, wines used for sacramental purposes were exempt under this act, allowing wine to slip through the cracks where beer was too thick to seep.
Because of this act, limited amounts of wine were able to be made both at home and in wineries. Yet, those made in wineries were only available for purchase through warehouses owned and monitored by the government. Wine was also only allowed to be purchased for use in religious ceremonies, particularly mass. However, these rules didn?t keep wine drinkers from only using wine for legal purposes: a conceptual ?wine opener?, the Volstead Act provided a window of opportunity; one drinkers were quick to go through.
A study performed in 1925, during the heart of Prohibition, found that demand for sacramental wine increased by 800,000 gallons in a two year period. Perhaps this demand was being legitimately made by church goers ? Prohibition brought out a religious revival of its own ? but it?s far more likely that people were purchasing sacramental wine for other uses. Just like the old saying there are no Atheists in a foxhole, there are no Atheists in Prohibition when religious wines are legal.
The Wineries
Even though Prohibition increased the consumption of wine by nearly 100 percent ? as illegalizing anything will often do - many wineries were forced to close their doors. For those who didn?t make sacramental wines, it was hard to get around the law and the grapes of wrath set in like no other time in history. Because of this, prohibition drastically changed the grape industry, placing grapes everywhere out of a job. The wineries that survived this era did so in part by transforming their grapes from wine-making grapes to grapes that served non-alcoholic purposes, such as Concord grapes used to make raisins, grape juice, and jam.
The grape industry of California, in particular, was saved by the Volstead Act, which allowed fermented fruit juices to be produced at home, giving wineries a reason to stay open. While this was intended to save the vinegar industry for American farmers, it also gave California wineries a way to break Prohibition rules. Those manning the wineries began producing a grape jelly called ?Vine-go,? a jelly that, with the addition of water, would ferment into strong wine in roughly two months.
The Wine Itself
As Prohibition swept the nation, and people everywhere began making beer, whiskey, and wine in their houses, the quality of liquor greatly suffered. Novices of brewing and mixing suddenly were forced into expert status. While some people made liquor that was so strong it left people permanently blind or paralyzed, wine wasn?t quite as dangerous.
While wine didn?t take away a person?s ability to walk or ability to see, it did take away some people?s ability to truly appreciate fine wine. This was because, during this era, fine wine wasn?t so fine after all.
Having built an elegant reputation that went back to Biblical times, Prohibition made wine a little less sophisticated and a little more spontaneous. While previously produced by people renown for viniculture knowledge, wine during Prohibition was often made by people who knew nothing about wine, other than that they wanted to drink it. This, naturally, resulted in wines of inferior taste: it wasn?t the taste, after all, that many homemade wine makers were pursuing.
As Prohibition drew to a close, wineries that had stockpiled wine over the previous fourteen years were able to quench the thirst of some of the parched nation. However, since so many wineries had closed down and others had converted from wine-making grapes to other types of grapes, the wine industry took years to rebound. During this time of recovery, wines were continually made with less quality, hindering people from planting more vineyards.
For a while after Prohibition, it looked like the wine industry was on its way down the drain. But, as wineries began transforming back to growers of wine-making grapes, the quality of wine was eventually restored. Within a few years, the wine industry was on the upslope, and Americans were savoring each and every glass, probably now more than ever.
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Jennifer Jordan is the senior editor at http://www.savoreachglass.com. With a vast knowledge of wine etiquette, she writes articles on everything from how to hold a glass of wine to how to hold your hair back after too many glasses. Ultimately, she writes her articles with the intention that readers will remember wine is fun and each glass of anything fun should always be savored.
We all get caught up with every day life that we have a tendency to forget a lot of important matters in life. For example, we usually found out about credit report errors when we apply for a mortgage to purchase our home or refinance our home. Other time, when we try to get an equity line of credit or try to get a loan to finance a new vehicle purchase. Most financial advisors would tell us that we should check our credit report regularly to make sure that the credit history reports are accurate.
Contrarily to most financial advisors, we don?t check our credit report regularly. We usually don?t even check the credit report before applying for any kind of loans. When we move from one location to another, we may not get all the bills from the previous address or sometimes we lose track some of the bills. Other time we even forget the nasty past collections from medical bills that we thought the health insurance would have well taken care off. The bills that we thought that already paid off, some how the creditors thought otherwise. The credit bureaus may add the wrong information to your credit history report.
Those things show up in the credit report when you apply for loans or credit cards. Then you realize that you need to dispute the credit report errors. According to the traditional process of disputing the credit report errors through mail would take between 30 days to 90 days to get the problems resolve. However, we live in the modern society possessed all kinds of modern communication equipments such as computer Internet access, telephone, cellular phone, and fax machine. We should use all these tools to speed up the process and with the following suggestions:
You should begin the dispute process by using telephone to contact the creditors responsible for the inaccuracy. You can find the contact information for each of your creditors on your credit report. Your financial institutions will be able to verify most inaccuracies over the phone. Next you use the copies with circled question items and verified information for disputing with the Credit Bureaus.
You should dispute all the personal information before disputing your account information through telephone. This way will help the Credit Bureaus to sort out information according to Names, Social Security Numbers, or address. Sometimes, after disputing personal information everything sort out according to names, Social Security Numbers, or addresses, your credit information will turn out to have accuracy of information.
You should use telephone to contact the collection agencies or creditors to find out about their existence or their responses. If they are no longer existing or lack of response, it is your opportunity to remove the negativity that they put on your credit report. When the collection agencies or creditors no longer exist or lack response, the Credit Bureau cannot verify the disputed items, and then the Credit Bureau must delete them.
You should use telephone and fax machine to get debt settling agreement with the creditors, by using experienced professional negotiators. From personal experience the average consumer will settle a debt for about 75 to 60 cents on the dollar including their fee. There is rarely a good reason to attempt your own debt settlement. Creditors will not take you half as seriously as they will take your attorney.
Handled properly, you will save time and money by seeking a good attorney to negotiate with your creditors. If you need debt settlement assistance, click on Lexington Law Firm for very low cost debt settlement. You will be money ahead if you get the right help.
You should dispute with the Credit Bureaus through websites then follow up through the telephone. So the communication is faster between you and the Credit Bureaus. When you dispute online then follow up on the phone, the dispute process is getting done faster. By the way, the printable pages from the online results are colorful and much easier to read than the black and white mailing reports from the Credit Bureaus.
From personal experienced, the outcome of following all the suggestion will result in getting the dispute process done in varying time frames between 24 hours to 30 days. The result may save you thousands of dollars if you in the process of getting a mortgage to purchase your home when the interest rate on the rise.
Contrarily to the suggestion, if you decide to do the dispute through the mailing process without the work of verified the information yourself; you probably finish the process between 30 days to 90 days. Sometimes, it may even take longer than 90 days. 90 days can cost you thousands of dollars, if you are in the process of getting a mortgage to purchase your home when the interest rate is on the rise.
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Johnny Saing is a Webmaster who has witnessed first hand the effects of credit report errors when he checked his own credit report. He is the publisher of Creditsknowledge.com. A website that provides articles on credit report: where to get your information on free credit report, disputing credit report errors, improve credit score and etc.
How many times should you clean up puppy mess?
Zero!
I recently purchased a very practical book on how to potty train your puppy in 7 days. Yes, I was having some problems communicating who the boss was. But puppies are so lovable.
I turned to this author because over 20,000 other puppy lovers had sought out his help also. He makes the bold claim that he can teach you how to potty train your puppy in 7 days.
His downloadable ebook is written using an easy, practical style. He takes you by the hand, and moves you step-by-step through the process. Let?s take a quick look at whether he fulfills his self-imposed 7 day deadline.
Bonding
The author places a primary emphasis on bonding between you and your newest best friend. He weaves this bonding magic all through the ebook.
Puppies respond positively to a lot of love and attention. They follow you around and cry for you when you are not there. The bonding exercises were good for me.
Admittedly, sometimes I did take things a bit too far. But the ebook contains plenty of tips on bringing things back into perspective for the puppy, (and for me too!)
Discipline/Obedience
Right up there alongside bonding is discipline/obedience. These foundation planks surely have made this the number one ebook on how to potty train your puppy.
I found discipline especially difficult. Puppies do not like it when you seem unhappy with them. The techniques employed in this section are what set this ebook head and shoulders above the rest.
Children
The author really comes into his own integrating the puppy into the family. He definitely moves away from the pack in this section. Parents are encouraged to guide their children in how to properly potty train their puppy. Children have very specific tasks in consistently applying the training techniques.
Retirees
This ebook is especially sensitive when considering our many retirees. The author understands fully the important part puppies play in filling a void in the lives of our elderly. The techniques employed are thoughtful and friendly toward our senior citizens.
For instance, his disciplinary strategies are not harsh or crude. But are designed to foster a loving and passive relationship between you and your puppy. While all the time moving toward the goal of potty training your puppy.
Passive Techniques
As the 7 days begin to draw to a close, it is very gratifying to see many of the passive potty training techniques begin to pay off. On the more practical side, I found that the passive strategies seemed to be designed to curb aggression and lessen the chances of snaps and bites.
Conclusion
I really didn?t want to mention the bonuses that come with this ebook purchase. However, one stands out high and lonely, and merits mention. It?s super bonus #1. Should you hit a roadblock in potty training your puppy, help is not far away.
The author has kindly offered a one on one email consultation. You are invited to ask him anything by email. Yes?it?s free! And the email consult is guaranteed for two years.
In closing, I found that the author more than met his promise of showing how to potty train your puppy in 7 days. Thanks to him, my house has finally regained its pleasant odor.
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Ingredients:
?-cup Shortening
?-cup Sugar
1-teaspoon Cinnamon extract
1-teaspoon Baking soda
6-tablespoons Butter
2-teaspoons Cinnamon, ground
3-large Eggs
2-cups Flour
1-teaspoon Baking Power
?-pint Sour cream
1-cup Brown sugar
1-cup Walnuts, chopped
Instructions:
Cream thoroughly shortening, sugar, and cinnamon extract; add eggs and beat well; sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda and add alternately with sour cream. Blend well. Spread ? batter in the bottom of a greased and lined with wax paper tube pan. Cream together; butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and walnuts. Mix well and sprinkle ? over the batter in the pan. Add remaining batter and sprinkle on remaining nut mixture. Bake at 350? for 50 minutes.
Serves 6
Note: This is great with a cream cheese or powdered sugar icing/frosting if you prefer cake with icing/frosting. You can also add a different extract for a little different flavor or even a different nut can change it a little and I have made those changes and they are really good, but this is the best to me family.
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Cooking lessons for Cristie began at 8 years old with the best teacher in the world — her Mom! Later, she cooked for the restaurant the family owned, and her love of the ‘trade’ has grown ever since. Cristie’s creative cooking has continued for over 40 years. Her creations can soon be on your kitchen table. Check out Cristie’s books at http://www.cristiescookin.com and http://www.tjstokes.com
Specialty license plates are one of the hottest items at the present in countless areas around the nation, and it is not so difficult to perceive why. Think about it. Whatever model your vehicle is, any other driver on the highway has, in all probability, seen hundreds if not thousands of the same car in his or her lifetime. But with custom license plates, it does not matter because you can be recognized in any case. If you have a only one of its kind and ingenious license plate, then you will be at the very least the individual one in your state to exhibit that individual message. That gets you noticed, and who does not desire to be noticed? I sure know that I do.
Some of my preferred license plates are the ones where the lettering form remarkable patterns. I saw one that went something similar to ‘wvwvwvw’ on one occasion. Know, looking back on this vanity license plate, I believe that whoever got it did so just to bamboozle the cops, but nevertheless, it was pretty cool. What is even cooler, though, is the custom front plates that you can use in some states. In California where I reside, you are required by law to have the same state issued license plates on both the front and the back of your vehicle or truck, but in numerous places this is not the case. You can in point of fact have anything you desire as your front license plate, and that is where you can allow your imagination run wild and have a lot of fun.
My preferred front license plates are the ones representing your preferred brand of something. I exceptionally like license plates that promote the kind of car that they are on. Who knows, for instance, why you are driving that Ford. It could be for the reason that you like it, because you inherited it from your aunt when she passed away, or merely because you got a decent deal on it. But if you place custom license plates that say ‘Ford’ on the front of it, all and sundry will know that you are driving that car because it is your fantasy car, and their admiration for you will go way up. Everybody loves a guy or a woman who reaches out and takes just what they feel like, someone who is decisive and a go getter, and specialty license plates can demonstrate to people that that is just what you are. There is no substitute for that kind of exposure.
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