| If You Are Drowning In Remote Controls, Harmony Is Lifesaver
Our love affair with entertainment gadgets has caused an unfortunate epidemic of remote controls. In my own house, there's a wicker basket on a coffee table with a jumble of remotes for a television set, a high-definition television tuner, a home-theater receiver and a couple of videogame consoles. And when that basket became flooded, I added yet another device to contain the clutter. There are "universal" remotes that are designed to let you operate multiple electronics devices from a single control. But most universal remotes, if you can figure out how to work them at all, don't help much with the tedious sequence of button pushes often required to do simple tasks, like watch a movie. In my case, just turning on the TV can require up to six punches on two different remotes, depending on what activity I happened to be doing on my home-theater system the last time I shut it off.
A reading list
Originating in England, it was America's most popular cookbook in 1776. The U.S. edition was published in 1805. • American Cookery by Amelia Simmons (Dover Publications). An exact reproduction of the 1796 edition of the first cookbook published in the United States. It includes recipes for pumpkin pudding, winter squash pudding, Indian slapjacks and spruce beer. • Civil War Recipes: Receipts from the Pages of Godey's Lady's Book by Lily May Spaulding and John Spaulding (University Press of Kentucky). The recipes are from Godey's Lady's Book, a popular women's magazine with a national circulation of 150,000 during the 1860s. • Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (Prospect Books). America's greatest cookbook when published in 1896, it was the first to use standardized measurements, rely on simple directions and show concern for nutrition.
Mellon sues mother for £5m over Jimmy Choo
For years, she put her heart and soul into building the Jimmy Choo business and made it an international success. By contrast, Mrs Yeardye played no part in the development of the business, yet she wants to cling to the stock, while keeping the lion's share of the cash. The last thing Tamara wanted was this kind of family fight." Mrs Mellon built her empire from an investment stake of £150,000, borrowed from her father, Tom Yeardye, the late Vidal Sassoon tycoon, in 1996. She sunk it into the relatively obscure label of Jimmy Choo, a cobbler in Hackney, and it has grown into one of Britain's most successful labels. The company was sold in November 2004 to Phoenix Equity Partners. After divorcing Mr Mellon, she was linked to a series of men, including singer Robbie Williams and Kid Rock, ex-husband of Pamela Anderson.
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