Sharing an email full of
tips.
Take your bananas apart when you get home from the
store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen
faster.
Store your opened chunks of cheese in
aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter
and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the
bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
Add a
teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help
pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a
couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy
cream; then beat them. ?
Add garlic
immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic
and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste
of garlic.
Reheat Pizza
Heat leftover pizza
in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove; set heat to
med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No
soggy micro pizza.
Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked
egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal; mash till they are all
broken up Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing
it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy; squeeze
mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done – easy clean
up.
Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm
biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place
them in a microwave next to a cup of water. The increased
moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
Newspaper weeds away
Start putting torn
newspaper in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil.
Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants, overlapping as
you go; cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will
get through some gardening plastic; they will not get
through wet newspapers.
Broken Glass
Use a
wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of
glass you can’t see easily.
Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge
add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to
your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow
openings.
Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small
safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a
clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that
cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks
and … ta da! … static is gone.
Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill
with hot water.
Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry
cup. Next, add your ingredient (peanut butter, honey, etc.)
and watch how easily it comes right out.
Foggy
Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard
eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car When the
windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
Reopening envelope
If you seal an envelope
and then realize you forgot to include something inside,
just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour
or two. Viola! It unseals easily.
Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s cheaper
than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It’s
also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but
didn’t like when you tried it in your hair.
Goodbye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies,
take a small glass, fill it 1/2 with Apple Cider Vinegar and
2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find
those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
Get
Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see
ants. They eat it, take it ‘home,’ can’t digest it so it
kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it
rains, but it works and you don’t have the worry about pets
or small children being harmed!
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MORE:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/08/google-censoring-islam/
China passes up the US as
the largest consumer of automobiles
China
supplanted the U.S. as the world’s largest auto market after
its 2009 vehicle sales jumped 46 percent, ending more than a
century of American dominance that started with the Model T
Ford.
The nation’s sales of passenger cars, buses
and trucks rose to 13.6 million, the fastest pace in at
least 10 years, according to the China Association of
Automobile Manufacturers. In the U.S., sales slumped 21
percent to 10.4 million, the fewest since 1982, according to Autodata Corp.
China’s vehicle sales
have surged since 1999 as economic growth averaging more
than 9 percent a year has helped automakers including
General Motors Co. and Volkswagen AG compensate for slumping
demand in the U.S. and Europe. The market will likely remain
the world’s largest, even as sales slow this year on a
reduction in tax cuts, according to Booz & Co.
“China is becoming the center stage of development for the
21st century global auto industry,” said Bill Russo, a
Beijing- based senior adviser at Booz & Co., which advises
automakers. “Economic growth has directly translated into
growth in automobile sales.”
December sales of
passenger cars, trucks and buses rose 92 percent to 1.4
million. For the whole of 2009, passenger-car sales rose 53
percent to 10.3 million.
MORE:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aE.x_r_l9NZE
The 5th to the last
Shuttle flight is running into issues
NASA
is still shooting for a shuttle launch next month, despite
bad hoses for a new room at the space station.
Endeavour is supposed to blast off Feb. 7 with the
Tranquility module. It's a chamber that will provide
additional living quarters at the International Space
Station.
Recent tests found a problem with the
ammonia coolant lines for the module. The metal braiding on
two of the four hoses began separating.
NASA manager
Pete Hasbrook said Monday that the California contractor is
beefing up the 14-foot high-pressure hoses. The hoses are
longer than usual because of a change in location for
Tranquility at the orbiting outpost.
At the same
time, engineers are building new hoses out of old equipment.
Hasbrook said either option hopefully will keep the mission
on track. If not, NASA might send up Tranquility in February
and fly the improved hoses in March. But in that case, much
of the equipment, like the treadmill and life support
systems, could not be used until the hoses arrived. That's
because the machines need to be cooled.
Tranquility —
named after the Apollo 11 landing site on the moon — is one
of the last major pieces of the space station. It will sport
a cupola with seven windows for prime Earth viewing.
NASA decided to change Tranquility's location at the space
station, late in the game, to provide more flexibility in
docking berths, Hasbrook said.
Space station
construction is due to wrap up this year with the retirement
of the shuttle fleet. Five more shuttle missions are
planned.
MORE:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/science/6809885.html
Greetings!
Elvis
died in his bathroom at Graceland allegedly of a heart
attack as according to one medical examiner report at the
time. Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley was
visiting Graceland the day he died. She was nine years old
at the time. 
