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Are All Chocolate Chip Cookies Equal?



Chocolate chip cookies are the most popular cookie
. Would you agree? Moreover, home baked, from scratch are the absolute best.


But,  not all recipes and ingredients are equal for the perfect tasting...chocolate chip...cookie. It is amazing that some folks prefer a recipe that diverts from the great American classic Nestlé’s Toll House cookie.
 


Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies originated in 1930 through the
ingenuity of Ruth Wakefield at the Massachusetts Toll House Inn. Ruth apparently decided to put a little spin on plain sugar cookies.

Ms. Wakefield broke a Nestlé’s Semisweet Yellow Label Chocolate’ bar into bits, and then added them to the batter. The rest is history for taste buds ever after and the Nestlé’s company. 


One family group and friends well known to the author of this article always votes for Toll House cookies. Their consensus must substantiate that one good recipe for chocolate chip cookies with the right semi-sweet morsels is all any cookbook or cook needs!  Why mess around with spoiling perfection?


Besides, a random comparison of Chocolate Chip cookie recipes revealed they all use the same ingredients, which are white flour, white and brown sugar, vanilla, butter or margarine, salt, baking soda, eggs, chocolate chips, and optional walnuts or pecans. Amounts vary slightly. So, why are... N E S T L E S...cookies the best?
  Here are some good guess.

Nestlé’s Tollhouse cookies call for real butter, real vanilla extract, and only Nestles' Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips.
  Substituting shortening, flavored shortening, or margarines for butter do alter the flavor and consistency.

Most important is to never use milk chocolate chips or other semi-sweet chip brands. They  just are not the same in flavor and quality as Nestlé’s semi-sweets.


It must be true..... N E S T L E S is the very best!


 


Relax, Enjoy Read Something

It is hard to imagine that reading is not a tool of relaxation for everyone. The truth is everyone has not yet found the glory of finishing a good book.

Knowing how to start enjoying or exploring reading materials may not come natural.  If picking up a book is stressful or you cannot make time read on. By the way bah humbug to not having time!

Well some one has started a web blog to help strugglers enjoy the written word. The author reinforces time out of busy schedules exists. Examples of eking out time are included.

Think of it this way, you managed to read this review, so go to the article and get started. Click here to read more!


Part 1: Postcards, Eras One to Four

Postcards once were the “emotion icons” for communication. So fascinating are antique postcards, that they are a top collectible.

Deltiology is the study of postcards and deltiologists collect postcards.From those two groups eight historical eras categorize postcards.

Era one, the Pre-Postcard Era spanned 1840-1869. Postal regulations barred mailable postcards, so messages were hand-delivered via lithograph prints, small wood or leather cards. Still, by 1861, John P. Charlton made and copyrighted private postal cards.

Carlton transferred the copyright to H.L.Lipman, who decorated the borders and labeled his cards with “Lipman Postal Card, Patent Applied For”

Before, Lipman cards, countries made stamped plain “Postals”. Then 1869 to 1870, two years before Lipman cards left the market, Austria developed “non-Postal”. Also private postcards were made for applying a stamp and pictured non-Postals followed in 1870.

Era 2, the Pioneer Era spanned 1870-1898.and alleges Dr. E. Hermann  the recommended development of the first Postal. Hungary printed his card in 1870 and tagged it to the Franco-German War.

Then in 1872, England presented their first advertising Postal. The US followed in 1873 their first Postal that displayed a particular Chicago industrial building. The next year Germany released  an initial postal card

Before 1893, advertising was the only intent for
Postcard s. However, in 1893, Chicago printed the first collector’s card.

In addition during the 2nd wave of postcards mailing private cards took a two-cent stamp.  The US Government solely preprinted Postals with busts of Grant or Jefferson and a one-cent stamp.


The third era in Postcards titled Private Mailing Era began in 1898 and acclaimed the first multi-colored card. The third phase also manufactured cards displaying the Eiffel Tower which elevated popularity.

Era 4 began May 19, 1898  when the Private Mailing Card Act approved private printing and a mandate to print ” Private Mailing Card" on the back. 

Only the United States Postal Service warranted using the word “Postcard" on the back.

Other private terms private printers legally were permitted to use were " Souvenir Card, Correspondence Cards and Mail Cards."

Up to 1898, no line down the center back existed.  Even with a near blank backside, US Law did not permit writing on the back until March 1, 1907.
Messages were written across the front over the picture or design. 


Philadelphia VA Medical Center apologizes for wrong radiation doses

Philadelphia VA Medical Center apologizes for 6 years of wrong prostate cancer radiation.
 
At a recent hearing, per Inquirer Staff Writer Josh Goldstein, the Department of Veterans Affairs apologized repeatedly for incorrect radiation doses during treatment of prostate cancer cases.
 
Then to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission‘s surprise, Philadelphia VA Medical Center and the Veterans Health Administration shunned violation of eight radiation regulations.
 
Making matters even more controversial, Veteran Administration officials claimed reduced number of ill-treated prostate cancer veterans than they previously accounted.
 
What is a Philadelphia area Veteran to do? 
A new methodology is available but not approved for VA use yet. Reported recurrence of prostate cancers treated at Philly’s VA Hospital continues and Michael Hagan the VA's national director expects more recurrences in the next few years.

Hagan ordered a new evaluation of all the cases whether under or over doses of radiation were the case. Re-analysis is prudent in light of Hagan’ comment the program obviously had its problems.

Again, what is a Philadelphian area Veteran to do?
1. Continued following of this issue at Philadelphia’s VA Hospital  is a must if receiving care there
2. Depending on your Veteran status, three levels of TRICARE Insurance is available to Vets. That
    could make treatment elsewhere an option.
3. Review TRICARE plans at
http://www.tricare.mil/mybenefit/home/overview  if you are a retired
    military person.


How and Why to Backup Bookmarks from a Web Browser

Bookmarks.......Favorites.......Bookmarks
 
"How to Back Up Your Bookmarks from Your Web Browser" is such a great article for everyone who uses a computer...and who doesn't these days?  This author not only tell 'how', he tells 'why' and includes the primary reasons for such a backup. 
 
So you are a seasoned key clicker and mouse director, that is wonderful, regardless these are the kind of blog sites that really help  simplify your computing wotk. Some of us, and the arrow is pointing to the person behind this keyboard, do not know everything.
 
It is okay to read helpful information, egads this article could actually help save a tree , not to mention some computerist's time.  Anyhow, and with all the encouragement musterable here, please read the full article at www.eastvalleycomputerrepair.com/2009/07/16/how-to-back-up-your-bookmarks-from-your-web-browser.html .
 
Check out the rest of EastValleyComputerRepair.com. Is a very helpful website in many ways. First, it began early this year (2009) and began with quality entries like "How to Back Up your Hard Drive" or " Backing Up Your Outlook Data".
 
If you have every opened "Help" to learn, get unstuck, or while scanning the web and the content frustrated you or seemed useless, raise your hand.
 
That is why keeping a website like EastValleyComputerRepair.com in favorites is a good thing.