47-year-old virgin's candid confession

47-year-old virgin's candid confession

47-year-old virgin's candid confession, Virginity and Celibacy, One man explains why he's opting to wait, while two women admit to being "decidedly celibate." Host Niecy Nash shares virgin daiquiris with a real 40-year-old virgin and two celibate ladies and discusses society�s expectations when it comes to having sex.

47-year-old virgin's candid confession

47-year-old virgin's candid confession

47-year-old virgin's candid confession, Virginity and Celibacy, One man explains why he's opting to wait, while two women admit to being "decidedly celibate." Host Niecy Nash shares virgin daiquiris with a real 40-year-old virgin and two celibate ladies and discusses society�s expectations when it comes to having sex.

Week's worth of dinners for just $50

Week's worth of dinners for just $50

Week's worth of dinners for just $50, Make 5 Dinner Recipes from One Bag of Groceries, It takes only one grocery bag full of ingredients to make these five dishes for your family.

Think you can make five whole meals from just one $50 bag of groceries?

I recently accepted Eating Well's "5 Dinners, 1 Bag" challenge. Their test kitchen team provided me with a grocery list and I hit the local D'Agostino's supermarket in New York to collect my ingredients, which included:

one bunch each of asparagus, chives, scallions and cilantro

one lemon

8 ounces snap peas

1 pound of sea scallops

1 pound of lean ground beef

12 ounces of pork chops or tenderloin

1 15-oz can of crushed tomatoes

1 14-oz can reduced-sodium beef broth

1 16-oz package whole-wheat spaghetti

1 14-oz box instant or quick-cooking brown rice

1 15-oz can kidney beans

1 16-oz box of whole wheat spaghetti

1 10-oz package frozen chopped spinach

1 8-oz block extra-sharp Cheddar cheese

1 4-oz block Fontina cheese

1 dozen eggs

1 lb ball whole-wheat pizza dough or 1 ready-made pizza crust

After ringing up my items, I quickly headed over to meet Jessie Price of Eating Well to see how to put my ingredients to work. Jessie gave me the following five easy and delicious recipes, one for every day of the work week. What do you think? My favorite is from Wednesday!

(Note: We assumed we'd have some basic ingredients already at home like cooking oil, spices like curry, salt and pepper, garlic, onions, sugar, vinegar, butter, and milk.)

Monday: Spring Pizza

Eating Well likes to advocate Meatless Mondays, so Jessie and I started by cooking up a Spring Pizza, using our minced garlic, cooking oil, about half of our fresh chives, as well as one cup of shredded Fontina cheese to top the dough. Asparagus was the star vegetable. We arranged the spears in a circular fashion, just like the sun's rays over the dough. If asparagus isn't your favorite, you can simply sub in another seasonal veggie to top your pie.

Makes: 5 servings

Active time: 25 minutes

Cost per serving: under $2

Tuesday: Curry Scallops with Cilantro Rice

Our next recipe stemmed from what the magazine likes to call "Sustainable Seafood Tuesday." For this, we took our scallops and coated them with curry from our spice rack, and sauteed them in a pan. We then added the scallops to three cups of cooked brown rice. We added cilantro, scallions, lemon juice and salt for added flavoring.

Makes: 4 servings

Active time: 25 minutes

Cost per serving: under $4.50

Wednesday: Cincinnati Chili

Cincinnati has a unique spin on chili, where locals like to serve it over spaghetti. Typically, it's made with just meat, but you can also add beans for fiber. This recipe uses ground beef, onion, spices from home, a can of tomatoes, a can of beef broth, kidney beans, and some of your leftover cilantro from Tuesday's curry dish. Cook your entire one-pound box of pasta, and reserve half of the cooked noodles for tomorrow night's meal.

Makes: 4 servings

Active time: 20 minutes

Cost per serving: under $3

Thursday: Stir Fry

For Thursday, we prepared a pork and snap pea stir-fry, which we also served over our leftover Pasta. For this, mix up a simple sauce of soy sauce, sugar, cornstarch, and rice vinegar. Then sautee your snap peas, adding pork, garlic, and your sauce mixture. Serve over your pasta.

Makes: 4 servings

Active time: 30 minutes

Cost per serving: under $2

Friday: Rice, Spinach and Cheddar Pie

For the last day of the work week, this recipe proved to be cinch, especially with leftover rice from earlier in the week. Saute some onions along with the thawed, rinsed spinach. In a bowl add your leftover rice, seasonings and crumbled cheddar cheese. Then transfer it all to a baking dish, pour an egg mixture over it and bake.

Makes: 6 servings

Active time: 15 minutes

Cost per serving: under $2

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Tanja Djelevic Workout in a Box

Tanja Djelevic Workout in a Box

Tanja Djelevic Workout in a Box, Weird running workout's effective moves, The Workout in a Box, This calorie-burner's more fun than a treadmill and just requires space and fancy footwork. Celebrity trainer Tanja Djelevic (http://tanjadjelevic.com/) shows host Judy Greer an agility workout that requires nothing more than a large square space.

Weird running workout's effective moves

Weird running workout's effective moves

Weird running workout's effective moves, The Workout in a Box, This calorie-burner's more fun than a treadmill and just requires space and fancy footwork. Celebrity trainer Tanja Djelevic (http://tanjadjelevic.com/) shows host Judy Greer an agility workout that requires nothing more than a large square space.

Home-makeover reveal moves man to tears

Home-makeover reveal moves man to tears

Home-makeover reveal moves man to tears, Episode 2: Ruben, Ruben's blown away by a beautiful new backyard and the group that gathered to create it. Ruben is a hardworking family man who works two jobs and in his spare time helps underprivileged kids get into college. Because he does so much for others, his wife of twenty years, Trish, wants to give back by surprising Ruben with the backyard he�s always wanted. But with just one weekend to pull it all together, will Team Ruben be able to pull off the surprise of a lifetime?

When Your Kids Get Sick, So Will You

When Your Kids Get Sick, So Will You

When Your Kids Get Sick, So Will You, Kid's Got The Flu And So Do You, Video: The moms of 'Today in the Park' chat about germ stories, handling a sick family & the ability of children to function as 'chemical weapons.'The only thing worse than having the flu? Having to take care of your sick kid while you're sick too.


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Tricks to save money on beauty products

Tricks to save money on beauty products

Tricks to save money on beauty products, Stretch Your Beauty Dollar: 4 Ways to Save, There's a far cheaper way to moisturize your skin than fancy department store creams.While the beauty industry would like us to believe that the more we spend, the more beautiful we can look, we don't have to dig deep into our pockets to look our best. Makeup artist to the stars and beauty editor Nicole Williams shares some of her best tricks and tips to help us stretch our beauty dollar.

Double-purpose everyday kitchen ingredients

Some of the cheapest beauty finds can be found right in your kitchen cabinets, starting with coconut oil, says Williams. "This is an amazing moisturizer for dry skin," she says. "It's all natural and great for shaving, too." The ingredient can also assist with weight loss, she says, because it contains fatty acids which help to speed up our body's metabolism.

Olive oil is another natural ingredient we can use to safely and effectively moisturize the entire body, while cooking spray can help give dry legs a silky, smooth shine. It's not too heavy, either. "The general rule is, if you can eat it, you can put it on your skin and hair," Williams says.

Reduce Oily Skin With Milk of Magnesia

Check your medicine cabinet. Another household product that could double as a beauty enhancers is Myalnta or milk of magnesia. Williams swears it can help eliminate unwanted shine on your face. Before applying your makeup, just add a small amount to a cotton swab and dab it along areas on your face where you shine the most, typically the forehead, nose and chin. It dries almost instantly.

Brighten Eyes With Collyre Bleue

Ever suffer form a hangover and need to desperately revive your reddish, tired eyes? Or just want to enhance the natural beauty of your eyes? Williams recommends investing in Collyre Bleu eyedrops. They cost $22 (not cheap) but she says they outdo cheaper, competitive products such as Visine and Clear Eyes. "You'll pay more, but one or two drops can leave an impact for days," she says. Use this sparingly and an entire bottle can last you a year or longer. "Go for the quality product and spend less in the long run," is Williams' motto.

Skip Multiple Concealers

"I always notice women own crazy amounts of concealer, one for the under eye and one for the face," says Williams. Instead, opt for simply one concealer or corrector that can be used on your entire face. Her favorite brand for this purpose is William Tuttle, which can be found online at Alconeco.com, an online makeup shop popular with beauty insiders. Tuttle's product line there ranges from $7.50 to $15.

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Thriving in a male-dominated industry

Thriving in a male-dominated industry

Thriving in a male-dominated industry, Thrive in a Male-dominated Workplace: Elizabeth Baron's Secrets to Success, Elizabeth Baron's cool job didn't even exist when Ford hired her 24 years ago. Elizabeth Baron knows what it's like to succeed as a woman in a man's world. She's worked in the male-dominated auto industry for almost 25 years, and knows women's voices can sometimes be drowned out. Thrive in male-dominated worplace: Elizabeth Baron of Ford, Ford's virtual reality innovator Elizabeth Baron talks to Kathryn Eisman about succeeding in a male dominated industry.

"Sometimes just being a woman and having that different perspective, and a little softer touch or tone, you can get really ignored and talked over."

Elizabeth, who creates virtual reality programs to improve car safety and design at The Ford Motor Company, says the key to being heard has less to do with talking louder and more to do with perseverance.

"If they talk over me, I'll say it again, and then I'll say it again. I'm very persistent and I keep going until I can get either a discussion of why not, or let's go that way."

That perseverance has paid off big time for the chirpy mother of four, whose children range in age from 7 to 19. Based in Saline, Michigan, Elizabeth now runs Ford's Immersive Virtual Environment (iVE) lab, a state-of-the-art facility she helped create that uses sophisticated virtual reality technology to enable designers and engineers to fully experience a vehicle before it is ever built.

When we caught up in Santa Monica, California, I got to step inside her virtual world and was amazed with how lifelike the experience was.

"The CAVE is a room where images are projected in stereo onto three walls and the ceiling to generate real-time, virtual vehicle interiors and exteriors at actual scale. When you look around, you can see virtually everything inside and outside of the vehicle. We set up key dimensions - steering wheel, gas, brake, center stack, etc. - and then we put the virtual world around that physical model. Instead of being in a room, you're actually sitting in a representation of the vehicle. You can touch and feel most everything, but what you're looking at is digital."

Elizabeth began her career at Ford in 1988 developing software, and shared one of her secrets to success was learning to trust her "core values".

When she first started out like many women with "perfectionist" tendencies, she would wait until her ideas were completely hashed out, until every kink had been ironed out, before presenting them to her team. With experience, she learnt that true innovation came by following a hunch, by combining information with educated guess-work, and then committing to figuring the rest out along the way.

"If you really believe it's the right way, you don't have to have 100% of the solution. You have to have a faith that it's true, and you also have to have data that supports what you're doing, but you don't have to say that this is totally bulletproof."

It was that "hunch" that led her to virtual reality, and the idea that the same technology that was revolutionizing the film industry, might be just as revolutionary in the car manufacturing process.

Like so many big ideas, Elizabeth's started small. First, convincing her bosses to give her idea a shot and then using the tiny amount of capital she was given to create a makeshift workshop.

Today, Ford's iVE lab is so advanced and well renowned that she recently received a call from NASA's visualization lab asking for a tour of Ford's facility. "The chance to collaborate with them and share ideas was so exciting," exclaimed Baron.

After the visit to Ford's iVE lab, Baron was invited to the Kennedy Space Center to see their virtual technology. "We found out what we shared in common and what we could learn from each other."

While at Cape Canaveral, Baron had an opportunity to see the space shuttle Discovery preparing for launch. "I even had a chance to take a peek inside the shuttle. It was just phenomenal!"

What's also phenomenal is the fact that Elizabeth not only uses her imagination to create cars before they can go into production, but she had to use that same power of visualization to imagine her dream job before that too could become a reality.

"When people ask how I got such a cool job, I tell them that I created it, and Ford supported me. Virtual reality didn't exist when I hired in at Ford more than 20 years ago. The virtual reality team kept pushing the envelope until we were able to figure it out."

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'Ideal' woman revealed via surgery requests

'Ideal' woman revealed via surgery requests

'Ideal' woman revealed via surgery requests, ‘Ideal’ woman revealed through plastic surgeons’ most popular requests, The Australian Marie Claire magazine compiled surgeons' most popular requests into a single image of a woman. Want Anne Hathaway's eyes? Natalie Portman's nose? Scarlett Johansson's lips? Join the club. In its April issue, Australia's Marie Claire magazine spoke to leading surgeons around the world who said the most requested surgeries over the past 12 months include the above, as well as Taylor Swift's wavy hair, January Jones's apple cheeks, and Halle Berry's pronounced jawline.

Gathering all the data together, the mag created a photo of the "ideal" woman's face, which could almost be mistaken for a younger version of "Revenge" star Madeleine Stowe.

Surprisingly, none of People's most beautiful women of 2011 appeared on the list. Those faces include Jennifer Lopez, Katie Holmes, and Sandra Bullock.

And despite being commonly referred to as the most gorgeous woman in Hollywood, Angelina Jolie didn't make the list either. (Neither did her leg.)

Is this progress? We wouldn't go that far.

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