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The rules of wedding etiquette are constantly changing, making it difficult for modern brides, grooms and guests to find up-to-date and correct information. But here at HuffPost Weddings, we’re all about making your life easier. That’s why we’ve launched #MannersMondays, a weekly series in which we ask our followers on Twitter and Facebook to submit their most burning etiquette-related questions. Then, with the help of our team of etiquette experts, we get you the right answers to your biggest Big Day dilemmas. You can send yours via Facebook or tweet it to us @HuffPostWedding with the hashtag #MannersMondays. Check out this week’s question below!

Xochitl Gonzalez — etiquette expert, wedding planner and HuffPost Weddings blogger — is here to help us figure out this sticky predicament. Find out what she had to say below:

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Pollsters are all over the potential government shutdown. Polls show “the American people” have plenty of confusion and doubt about Obamacare but are in no mood to defund it. And everyone hates Congress, now more than ever. This is HuffPollster for Monday, September 30, 2013.

GOV’T SHUTDOWN POLLING – Pollsters have turned their attention to the budget confrontation in Washington the seemingly inevitable government shutdown. Here is a summary of their findings.

Post/ABC – Scott Clement: “On the eve of a government shutdown, Americans disapprove of all players in Washington’s latest budget standoff in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, although they save particularly ire for Republicans handling of the fight to fund the government beyond midnight. Barely one in four (26 percent) approve of congressional Republicans’ handling of budget negotiations, while 34 percent approve of Democratic counterparts and 41 percent approve of Obama. In each case, larger numbers say they “disapprove” of how Republicans, Democrats and Obama are handling things. Underscoring the disgruntled mood, 27 percent of Americans disapprove of all three. The poll shows a stronger hand for Obama than a Post-ABC poll earlier this month where similar numbers said they trust Obama (43 percent) and congressional Republicans (40 percent) to better handle negotiations over the federal budget.” [WaPost]

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n mid-May, a few days before Yahoo announced it would be acquiring Tumblr, there was a housewarming party in Greenpoint. A Tumblr employee was moving into an apartment with a friend who happened to be dating another Tumblr employee, and the overlapping social circles resulted in a room full of Tumblr people. It was Saturday night. Late the previous afternoon, a cluster of posts had appeared on tech blogs with the announcement that Yahoo’s board would be meeting on Sunday to approve a $1.1 billion offer for Tumblr, and though everyone at the party had read the posts or fielded texts from someone who had nobody had really paid attention. Rumors skittered around the office on a weekly basis. Employees always joked that it didn’t matter what kind of options you had because Tumblr was never going to sell.

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DoCoMo R&D: users can interact with virtual objects like in a Virtual Reality environment

CEATEC, the largest electronics show in Japan is opening its doors in a few hours and Ubergizmo is in Tokyo to report about the latest gadgetery and technologies being shown there. We have already had an opportunity to try out some of the wearable technology concepts from DoCoMo, including a few smart glass user interface concepts, but there is much more to come. You can expect to see a new crop of 4K TVs and monitors, along with ultra-high resolution displays for smartphones and of course some unexpected designs found only in Japan. (more…)

Don’t Miss Our Coverage of CEATEC Japan original content from Ubergizmo.

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