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It had become an annual tradition. A room full of women going absolutely insane as Oprah Winfrey announced, “It’s my favorite things!” “Saturday Night Live” even did a classic skit of the moment, with women going feral and one of them even exploding. Well, just because her talk show is gone doesn’t mean “Oprah’s Favorite Things” is a thing of the past.

The talk show queen brought back the event as a special on OWN. For 2012, she gifted 30 military spouses with a wide variety of items, including an elliptical machine, motorized bicycle and Jessica Simpson shows. The spouses were chosen by their peers — 1.1 million military spouses worldwide — as representatives of their community.

They also represented the legacy of “Oprah’s Favorite Things” very well, giving those classic over-the-top reactions that made the specials so popular for so many years. And, it turns out, the spirit of giving is contagious. Babette Maxwell, the president of the Armed Forces Insurance Military Spouse of the Year Award® program reported that many of the women are giving to other military spouses, as well as setting up a gift exchange based on the concept of paying it forward.

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In December, Fujifilm will release a 99x zoom lens that also achieves a wide-angle focal length of 8.4 mm, the top specification for a broadcast telephoto lens.
For this lens, Fujifilm has upgraded its optical shake compensation, to further increase the precision of correction for camera shake, which tends to occur at long focal lengths.
“This lens has an extremely wide working range, from 8.4 mm to 832 mm. It’s ideal for not just sports like baseball, but also activities such as …

A major life change for Kim Zolciak unfolded on this week’s episode of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.” She was being kicked out of her dream home. As she was going, though, she determined she was going to get her money back. At least, the $40,000 she said she invested in the landscaping.

“I told Kroy I was rippin’ every last mother f*cking flower out of this house!” she exclaimed. “That I paid for to be planted in this yard will be plucked out!”

Hilariously, as she was going on this tirade, her assistant Sweetie was dilligently taking notes, speaking out loud as she jotted down notes. “Every last mother f*cking flower,” she muttered as she wrote it down.

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While we’ve seen some exotic PC mods in our time, most of those still dutifully stuff all the computer parts into a box, hiding them from the outside world. Martijn Laman isn’t one for that kind of traditionalism. His recently completed Project Inverted, just highlighted by ASUS, puts most of the hardware on the outside: the Sabertooth Z77 motherboard, Core i5 processor, fan cooling, memory, Radeon HD 6870 video card and watercooling pipes all sit in plain sight. Everything is joined by a unique, hand-cut case whose backbone and elevated base hide the custom wiring, the watercooling pump, two solid-state drives and controllers for both fans and lighting. And did we mention the 7-inch touchscreen? The result is a truly special gaming rig that’s relatively quiet and pristine despite baring its heart and soul for all to see. Building a replica won’t be quick, nor will it be cheap at about €1,500 ($1,909), but Laman’s detailed assembly process could well be the inspiration for a few more extroverted PCs.

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, ASUS

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By Sharon Kay

Sugary soft drinks are one of the leading culprits of the obesity epidemic in America, and now a new study shows that your favorite sugary sodas may also worsen osteoarthritis of the knee in men.

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