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Family French-toast recipe everyone should know, from a chef - Insider

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I'm a professional chef, but my favorite recipe for French toast is the one my mom made me as a kid. She used to whip some up on busy mornings for a quick breakfast, sometimes wrapping an extra slice in a napkin for me to eat on the walk to the bus.  Here's the recipe. Day-old sourdough bread is the key ingredient  Crunchy bread soaks up the egg mixture better. Alissa Fitzgerald ...
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The Secret World of Pointing - VICE

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In 2004, Irish TV journalist Carole Coleman interviewed George Bush, pressing him about the war in Afghanistan. Near the end of the segment, Bush replied, "The free world has to make a choice. Do we cower in the face of terror or do we lead in the face of terror?" When he said "free world," he pointed to his own chest. For Kensy Cooperrider, a professor of cognitive science at University of California San Diego, this gesture was easy to understand, but simultaneously rich with meaning. "It was a really interesting conceptual move where he equated his own body with the abstract entity of the 'free world,'" he said. This moment helped launch Cooperrider's interest in pointing—the ubiquitous act that we all partake in, perhaps daily, without thinking too closely about. Yet pointing is a gesture that Cooperrider and other linguists, anthropologists, and psychologists have found to be wrapped up with culture, cognition, and language. Pointing...

Apple Stores Will No Longer Offer 'Delivery With Setup' as Enjoy Files for Bankruptcy - MacRumors

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Delivery startup Enjoy today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), less than one year after raising over $250 million in growth capital and going public on the stock market. Founded by Apple's former retail chief Ron Johnson, Enjoy provided what it called a "commerce-at-home experience" with at-home delivery and setup of tech products. In select U.S. cities, customers ordering Apple products through Apple's online store or the Apple Store app could choose "Delivery with Setup" during checkout and have an Enjoy employee deliver and set up the products at their home, free of charge. In an earlier SEC filing, Enjoy said it would be pausing at-home delivery and setup of Apple products in the U.S. beginning July 1 in order to "focus on its business priorities." Given the bankruptcy filing, the service may be permanently ended. Johnson joined Apple as Senior Vice President of Ret...
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The Secret World of Pointing - VICE

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In 2004, Irish TV journalist Carole Coleman interviewed George Bush, pressing him about the war in Afghanistan. Near the end of the segment, Bush replied, "The free world has to make a choice. Do we cower in the face of terror or do we lead in the face of terror?" When he said "free world," he pointed to his own chest. For Kensy Cooperrider, a professor of cognitive science at University of California San Diego, this gesture was easy to understand, but simultaneously rich with meaning. "It was a really interesting conceptual move where he equated his own body with the abstract entity of the 'free world,'" he said. This moment helped launch Cooperrider's interest in pointing—the ubiquitous act that we all partake in, perhaps daily, without thinking too closely about. Yet pointing is a gesture that Cooperrider and other linguists, anthropologists, and psychologists have found to be wrapped up with culture, cognition, and language. Pointing...

Apple Stores Will No Longer Offer 'Delivery With Setup' as Enjoy Files for Bankruptcy - MacRumors

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Delivery startup Enjoy today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), less than one year after raising over $250 million in growth capital and going public on the stock market. Founded by Apple's former retail chief Ron Johnson, Enjoy provided what it called a "commerce-at-home experience" with at-home delivery and setup of tech products. In select U.S. cities, customers ordering Apple products through Apple's online store or the Apple Store app could choose "Delivery with Setup" during checkout and have an Enjoy employee deliver and set up the products at their home, free of charge. In an earlier SEC filing, Enjoy said it would be pausing at-home delivery and setup of Apple products in the U.S. beginning July 1 in order to "focus on its business priorities." Given the bankruptcy filing, the service may be permanently ended. Johnson joined Apple as Senior Vice President of Ret...

Review: 'Elsewhere' ponders the meaning of motherhood - Star Tribune

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"Elsewhere" by Alexis Schaitkin (Celadon Books) Sometimes it's fun to read something that doesn't fit in any particular category. "Elsewhere," the new novel from Alexis Schaitkin ("Saint X," 2020), is best described as a dark fairy tale, with elements of the supernatural, but with something very real to say about a topic all readers can relate to in one way or another — motherhood. Mothers who rea...

20 Best Baked Chicken Recipes - Easy Ways to Bake Chicken - The Pioneer Woman

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Every item on this page was chosen by The Pioneer Woman team. The site may earn a commission on some products. It's a classic for a reason! Jun 6, 2022 20 Best Baked Chicken Recipes - Easy Ways to Bake Chicken - The Pioneer Woman
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How 'Stranger Things' is reviving nostalgia for '80s fashion - Forbes India

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Plaid shirts are making a comeback thanks to the fourth season of "Stranger Things." Image: Courtesy of Netflix F orget the '90s and 2000s, as fashion is now going wild for the colors and patterns of the 1980s. This is being fueled by the fourth season of the series "Stranger Things"—a veritable ode to the decade—whose characters embrace the extravagance of a wardrobe often considered cheesy and outdated. From the lumberjack shirt to bomber jackets, here are the fashion items likely to become the new must-haves this fall. The '90s and the Y2K aesthetic have been dominating fashion trends for so long that it's easy to forget the impact that previous decades have had on the fashion world. In fact, it is currently the 1980s that are buzzing on specialist search engines and social networks, fueled by the return of the series "Stranger Things." Available since May 27 on Netflix, the first part of this new season revive...

20 Best Baked Chicken Recipes - Easy Ways to Bake Chicken - The Pioneer Woman

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Every item on this page was chosen by The Pioneer Woman team. The site may earn a commission on some products. It's a classic for a reason! Jun 6, 2022 20 Best Baked Chicken Recipes - Easy Ways to Bake Chicken - The Pioneer Woman
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How 'Stranger Things' is reviving nostalgia for '80s fashion - Forbes India

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Plaid shirts are making a comeback thanks to the fourth season of "Stranger Things." Image: Courtesy of Netflix F orget the '90s and 2000s, as fashion is now going wild for the colors and patterns of the 1980s. This is being fueled by the fourth season of the series "Stranger Things"—a veritable ode to the decade—whose characters embrace the extravagance of a wardrobe often considered cheesy and outdated. From the lumberjack shirt to bomber jackets, here are the fashion items likely to become the new must-haves this fall. The '90s and the Y2K aesthetic have been dominating fashion trends for so long that it's easy to forget the impact that previous decades have had on the fashion world. In fact, it is currently the 1980s that are buzzing on specialist search engines and social networks, fueled by the return of the series "Stranger Things." Available since May 27 on Netflix, the first part of this new season revive...

Review: 'Elsewhere' ponders the meaning of motherhood - Star Tribune

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"Elsewhere" by Alexis Schaitkin (Celadon Books) Sometimes it's fun to read something that doesn't fit in any particular category. "Elsewhere," the new novel from Alexis Schaitkin ("Saint X," 2020), is best described as a dark fairy tale, with elements of the supernatural, but with something very real to say about a topic all readers can relate to in one way or another — motherhood. Mothers who rea...
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Browns fans will judge propriety of Watson signing the way they always do – in the win column: Ted Diadiun - cleveland.com

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CLEVELAND -- As the Browns conducted their annual Organized Team Activities ("OTAs," in headlinese and sports stories) that ended on Thursday, we got our first look at Deshaun Watson in a Cleveland uniform. To a man, the Browns players and coaching staff enthusiastically pronounced it good. Powerful arm. Elusive runner. Accurate delivery. Welcomed teammate. Another important entity has yet to make it official, however – and the early returns are not similarly unanimous: That would be the fans, many of whom have vowed to vote with their feet and TV remotes in registering their revulsion at the team's mortgaging its future on a guy with, shall we say, such a faulty moral compass. Just how much that translates into real numbers is yet to be determined. But my experience tells me that the dire predictions of doom many are making are overblown. The alleged wisdom I've absorbed over a journalism career that stretches back to my nascent sportswriting days in 1968 tells me ...