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Sherlene Stevens: Thanksgiving Food Prep Advice

These are just a few suggestions that I am sharing with you, your family or family business: Do not use a potato that has a stem or leaves growing from it, is turning green, or is rotten. It may make you sick. Try cooking some items the day before. Store in fridge or in a non-heated room. How long have you had spices? sugars? salt? These items are preserved to last for years. Over time, however, they begin to lose their original flavor. You will know because it seems like you have to use more to get the taste that is familiar to you. To avoid pots boiling over put a wooden spoon on top of the pan, instead of a lid. Store milk- or butter-based dessert items in the fridge. You may also freeze most dessert items up to at least three months. Applesauce should be prepared and stored in the fridge until usage. Allow your turkey to thaw in the fridge or fill your kitchen sink with water and cover. Avoid placing food in direct sunlight or near a window. Sodas and prepared drink...

How Women Change Men

Source: S. Yager, "How Women Change Men." ( The Atlantic,  December 2013) See article for studies analysis. Most interesting points from the article, Did you know that Male CEOs, with firstborn daughters, actually pay their employees more, giving female employees the biggest raises? Male CEOs typically pay their employees less and themselves more after having sons? Men who have daughters also grow less attached to traditional gender roles? Having a sister, makes most men more supportive of traditional gender roles, more conservative politically, and less likely to perform housework? Men with stay-at-home wives tend to disapprove of women in the workplace, judge organizations with more female employees to be operating less smoothly, and show less interest in applying to companies led by female executives. They also, more frequently, deny promotions to qualified women? Working with women, on the other hand, can encourage egalitarianism (belief in human equality in mos...