Thanks for the post from Nora Mccoy

I have a dear friend who never lets me down when it comes to introducing me to new & exciting recipes. She has the greatest ideas for simple yet perfect appetizers like Roasted garlic & goat cheese on toasted crostini’s and drizzled with honey, to homemade pasta & Vodka sauce. Girls Night In at her home is a culinary treat for all of us who show up with a nice bottle of red wine & a few hours to catch up on each other’s lives. I am so inspired by her but she brushes it off insisting she isn’t doing anything special (she is so modest) and says she gets the majority of her ideas from the Cooking Channel! After one particularly decadent meal at her home, I rushed home & immediately logged on to www.TVByDirect.com and upgrade my channels. I have been soaking up new & creative dishes like a sponge. My friends & family are going to be blown away by my new creations over the holidays, but unlike my modest friend, I will completely agree that I am doing something very special.

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Facebook marketing is more prevalent than one can imagine. The interesting thing is that it is done in a very non-intrusive manner.

Before the advent of Facebook social media marketing was not as integrated. With the integration provided by Facebook that includes plugins and other type interfaces, the corporate use of this form will become ubiquitous.

If your corporation or company or sole proprietorship has never tried social media marketing you should try.In fact most companies’ survival will depend on it.

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Today hundreds of websites — including Wikipedia, reddit, BoingBoing, FreePress.net and SavetheInternet.com — have gone dark. They’re protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), bills in the House and Senate that could open the door to widespread Internet censorship.¹

Thousands of supporters of the open Internet will soon rally in New York and San Francisco to urge their senators to stand up and oppose this legislation.

Together we’re putting the brakes on the Hollywood-fueled momentum of these bills. But they’re not dead yet — and the Senate is voting on PIPA next week.

Pick up the phone and urge your senators to vote "no" on the Protect IP Act. We’ve created a new site that lists where every senator stands on PIPA and provides a simple script to help you make the call.

Last week the White House said it would not support any legislation that "reduces freedom of expression" or "undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet."² Today even Google altered its valuable homepage to black out its logo and include a note protesting SOPA and PIPA. And millions of Internet users have taken action to tell Congress that any bills that compromise our ability to speak freely online must be rejected.

Now it’s time to start lighting up the phones on Capitol Hill before the Senate votes next week.

Call your senators and tell them: Vote "no" on the Protect IP Act.

Let’s bury these bills.

Josh Levy
Internet Campaign Director
Free Press Action Fund
SavetheInternet.com

P.S. To learn more about the blackout and the growing open Internet movement, read the piece by Free Press’ Tim Karr today in the Huffington Post: "Why We Go Black": http://act2.freepress.net/go/8201?akid=3212.9932713.xDRF5b&t=6

1. Check out the full list of blackout participants here: http://act2.freepress.net/go/8178?akid=3212.9932713.xDRF5b&t=8.
2. Victoria Espinel, Aneesh Chopra and Howard Schmidt, "Combating Online Piracy While Protecting an Open and Innovative Internet": http://act2.freepress.net/go/8177?akid=3212.9932713.xDRF5b&t=10

Twinkie, Deconstructed

A pop-science journey into the surprising ingredients found in dozens of common processed foods, using the Twinkie label as a guide

Like most Americans, Steve Ettlinger eats processed foods. And, like most consumers, he often reads the ingredients label—without a clue as to what most of it means. So, when his young daughter asked, “Daddy, what’s polysorbate 60?” while eating ice cream bars at the beach on a hot summer day, he was at a loss—and determined to find out.

In this fascinating exploration into the curious world of packaged foods, Twinkie, Deconstructed takes us from phosphate mines in Idaho to corn fields in Iowa, from gypsum mines in Oklahoma to oil fields in China, to demystify some of America’s most common processed food ingredients—where they come from, how they are made, how they are used—and why. Beginning at the source (hint: they’re often more closely linked to rocks and petroleum than any of the four food groups), Ettlinger reveals how each Twinkie ingredient goes through the process of being crushed, baked, fermented, refined, and/or reacted into a totally unrecognizable goo or powder with a strange name—all for the sake of creating a simple snack cake.

An insightful, entertaining exploration of modern food industry, if you’ve ever wondered what you’re eating when you consume foods containing mono and diglycerides or calcium sulfate (the latter, a food-grade equivalent of plaster of Paris), this book is for you.

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The Author of this post is Kory Dotson

Sometimes, I think my dad cannot live without TV. He uses our Montgomery direct tv every day. There is nothing wrong with that obviously, but it just seems like he does not know what to do with himself if the power goes out. It is funny to me how different things are today. It used to be the norm to have candlelit evenings filled with conversation, reading or maybe just silence. I always picture the movie Pride and Prejudice whenever the power goes it. They use candles throughout the movie and the main character, Elizabeth, spends all her free time reading. It is a romantic idea in some respects and just so different from our day-to-day lives now. I really could not imagine my dad just sitting and reading all day long. He just does not have the attention span it seems for that slow, quiet activity. I wonder if I do either, though. It really is so different from how we spend out time now. When my friends and I want something easy to do, we definitely turn on the TV. It is the cheapest and most entertaining activity for some poor college students.

Free Shopping Cart Solutions for Your Website

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If you want to sell goods from your web site, you may want to look into shopping cart software so you can process your orders.

These days you don’t have to design your cart, you can just choose a web hosting company that has a built in shopping cart solution or use a third party merchant like PayPal.

Built-in Shopping Cart With Hosting

If you choose Powweb to host your website, their hosting plan comes with a shopping cart program that is already built into the hosting plan.  There is very little setup involved and you do not have to learn how to program like you would if you designed a cart yourself.

Not only do you get this free shopping cart with your hosting plan, but they also provide a whopping 5,000 megabytes of web page space and a free "point and click" website builder for only $7 per month.

Click here for details on Powweb Hosting.

Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Powweb. This means I receive a commission if you sign up from this website. My credibility is extremely important to me, therefore I only endorse products I have personally purchased and used. This site is independently owned and the opinions expressed here are my own.

PayPal – Another Free Shopping Cart Solution

One of the most popular free shopping cart software solutions is PayPal.  If you’ve spent any time on the internet, you’ve probably heard or even used their service. 

Many eBay users are becoming quite comfortable with this site since it allows sellers to accept credit cards without the hassle of applying for a merchant account.

PayPal processes the customer’s credit card and then deposits the money into your account.  They also take a small percentage of every order.

The advantage of using a company like PayPal is that you don’t need to acquire a business license to accept credit cards. There is also very little setup involved.  You simply tell PayPal your prices, copy and paste some HTML code into your site that will take your customers to the secure "checkout area" so they can pay.

There’s nothing to design or shopping cart software to install.  Everything is hosted on PayPal’s servers.

How to Create a Shopping Cart – Free Solutions!

How to Dispose of a Hard Drive at Home

Somebody bought a HD that was thrown in the trash

Is it safe to dispose of your HD at home?

It is more than acceptable to dispose of your hard drive disk at home. Most people just throw their computers in the trash when they purchase a new one, or they scrap certain parts and leave the rest in the dumpster. When it comes down to it, just throwing away your HD is not enough in today’s world. Dumpster divers, con artists and hackers can use that hard drive and mine data on it that could include bank account, credit card and other information to steal your identity, money and life.

While it is safe to dispose of your HD at home, it is only safe if you take certain steps to ensure that nobody can hack the data off of it and use it to harm you. By taking some time and making sure you go about it right, you will save yourself the headache of having your identity stolen by someone who picked up your HD out of the

How to Dispose of a Hard Drive at Home

How to set up a home FTP server

If you’ve been following the the Lifehacker Home Server Series of articles, you know how to do things like reach your home computer from anywhere in the world thanks to dynamic DNS services. Gina wrote about how to set up a personal home web server, but in my experience the killer home server feature that hasn’t been covered to date is how to set up a personal FTP server at home.

A home FTP server is useful to anyone who wants to save and retrieve files on their computer from anywhere. Ever forget a Word document on your home desktop that you really need at work? Ever download a PDF that explains how to fix something at work and you realize too late you left it at home that morning? If you have a personal FTP server, and you can reach your computer from any place on earth, your files will never be captive on your hard drive at home again.

My home FTP server has saved me on many occasions. Sometimes it’s when I’m on a business trip and need an extra file left at home, most often it’s when I’m in the office and didn’t remember to bring files I worked on at home. By far my best FTP story is from a few years ago, when my wife was giving a reading at a wedding. A couple hours before the ceremony, we realized we left the poem sitting in the tray of my printer at home. We sped to my nearby office, I FTP’d to my desktop, got the Word doc downloaded and printed it there, which we took to the wedding with time to spare. My home FTP server saved the day.

How to set up a home FTP server

How To Install WordPress 3.3 – Step-By-Step Guide

WordPress is free, open-source blogging software that you use with your own domain name.

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform – it powers more than 50 million blogs. All of my projects are run on it.

This is my step-by-step guide on how to install WordPress and start your own blog. It’s easy to follow and doesn’t require much technology know-how.

Install WordPress – it takes 5 minutes

WordPress must be installed on a web hosting server. For the simplest possible install, I recommend using Bluehost as you simply click on a button to install WordPress and get domain and hosting at a very cheap price.

It literally takes 5 minutes to have your blog up and running, no tech knowledge needed. Watch my video for step-by-step guide on how to install WordPress and click here to get your blog started.

Also WordPress recommends Bluehost for blog hosting. Bluehost offers one-click WordPress installation, unlimited hosting space, free domain name and a 99% uptime guarantee.

This is the easy and recommended way of installing WordPress and having a blog ready in 5 minutes. If you prefer to install your blog manually, please follow the process below:

How To Install WordPress 3.2 – Step-By-Step Guide