Wed Before Graduating From the “U”

While most college students are hooking up on the dance floor or checking each other out by scrolling through Facebook profile pictures, a small number of students are doing something really counter-cultural — they’re getting married before they graduate.

The average national age of marriage is 28, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics, and experts say planning a wedding while still taking finals and cheering at football games is going against the norm.

Out of 20,928 undergraduates surveyed by the National Center for Education Statistics in 2008, about 18% reported they were married.

While there are various reasons why college sweethearts decide to tie the knot, one thing is for sure: Married students face more challenges than they did in the past.

It’s financially more difficult for married students today than just five years ago, said Kelly Roberts, a marriage and family therapist and clinical instructor at Oklahoma State University. She cited the decreasing number of student loans available and married students taking on more jobs to cover expenses.

“Students are not just juggling one job to try to make ends meet, but they’re juggling two,” she said.

Though all marriages are vulnerable in the first few years, experts say people who marry at age 21 or younger are more susceptible to divorce.

“The longer you can wait to get married up to approximately age 30, the greater your chances are at having a successful and stable committed relationship stay intact,” Roberts said

Paul Bowers, who started a blog called Married in College, said he didn’t miss out on anything by becoming a husband as an undergrad.

“There’s this idea that the college experience is based on watching ‘Animal House’ too many times, but we didn’t go to a lot of parties … we lived a pretty simple lifestyle,” he said.

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A Very Gaga Christmas to Be

Lady Gaga will be creating her own North Pole style workshop campaign for the iconic New York City department store, Barneys, in mid-November.

Barneys has given Gaga an entire floor to create her workshop, as well as the famous store windows to show her display. There will also be a collection of Gaga’s Workshop gift items to which 25% of the profits will go to a charity of Gaga’s choice, which is very commendable!

Today, Barneys released a sneak peek at what to expect in the coming months. It is a cartoon image of a very festive Gaga with blue hair and a sparkly red jumpsuit! The image will be used on shopping bags and the company’s website.

Mark Lee, CEO for Barneys said: “Lady Gaga is a rare cultural phenomenon, not only because of her exceptional talents as a singer, songwriter and performer, but also with regard to her support of equality and individuality and status as a fashion icon. Partnering with her in this unprecedented collaborative way to create the largest and most all-encompassing holiday theme that Barneys has ever mounted is a thrill. As a New York City landmark, we wanted to celebrate Lady Gaga as a fellow New Yorker and amazing talent.”


How to Choose a Corset

Breathe in deep, because corsets are all the rage. They aren’t just underwear anymore. Paired with a cute skirt or stylish pants, they look fresh and flattering for a night out. Below are tips you need to think over when choosing corsets.

Consider how often you will be wearing the corset. If you plan to wear one daily, avoid tight-laced items which constrict your waist and breathing! For occasional wear, a waist-cincher is ideal, such as an hourglass shape.

Think about why you will be wearing your corset. Is it for reshaping of the body or more for costuming? You might consider a corset with extra reinforcing, seaming, piecing and boning can transform your hips, abdomen and bottom.

Decide on your fabric. Corsets are available in many materials including: pvc, leather and satin. Satin corsets offer the customer a wide color palette. For the plus-size woman, leather offers a bit of stretch and can be more comfortable.

Height is always a consideration when purchasing an over-bust corset. If you are tall, you may need to order a ‘long’ version. Under-bust corsets, however, fit all heights.

Sizing for corsets varies from maker to maker. If you are a 38C, choose a 38. If you’ve been blessed with breasts larger than a D cup, it’s always wise to go up one number, so a 40E should purchase a 42.Sizing a corset is simple. The size numbers refer to bust size. If you are a bust size 40C or D, you would wear a size 40 corset.

If you are purchasing your product without having a chance to try it on first, such as online, it’s always best to contact the seller before purchasing with your bust and waistline measurements.

A corset can enhance any bust if you choose well, no matter what your cup size. An over-bust corset provides supports the bust while providing support. It can create the illusion of an ample cleavage. However, for the woman with the fuller bust, this may be constricting. Larger- breasted women will feel more comfortable in a corset which is under-bust. It does not provide support for the breasts, but by smoothing down the ribcage, it can minimise the bustline.

Start Romantic Life With Sexy Lingeries

Lingeries makes a woman beautiful, confident, and sensuous, and women in sexy lingerie are certainly any man’s fantasy. So, get ready to start your romance life with scintillating sexy lingeries.

To set the mood right, you can start by planning for a romantic time with your partner. An evening with rose petals and a steamy bath or a candle-lit dinner at home and a bottle of wine can take the thrill of the romantic night to a different level altogether. Once the backdrop is ready, step in as a sexy goddess in sexy lingerie.

You have to choose your lingerie with great care to make those magical moments memorable. First and foremost, select lingeries that you are comfortable in. Also keep in mind how your partner would love to see you. If you are daring enough, then you can choose sheer babydolls, fishnet teddies, or lace thong sets to make him swoon. Next is the choice of color. For instance, red lingerie is ideal for if you have in mind a fiery night of passion. When it comes to the choice of material, silk or satin are great as they caress your skin with the smoothest touch.

A romantic getaway with your sweetheart also calls for sexy lingerie. Be it a second honeymoon, birthday, or anniversary you can make it an occasion you guys will remember forever. No matter what your size or age you can feel sexy nevertheless with lingerie that suits your body shape.

Donning sexy lingerie need not necessarily be to impress your man, you can don sensuous lingerie to feel good about yourself too. If you’re a full figured woman, then there is sexy plus size lingerie to make you feel great about yourself.

Become a bad girl in the bedroom with raunchy lingerie and your man is bound to follow.

Google to Buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn

Google has announced a deal to buy phone hardware maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn (£7.7bn).

In its biggest deal to date, Google said it would pay $40 per share in cash, a 63% premium to Motorola Mobility’s Friday closing price on the New York Stock Exchange.

Monday’s move, the company’s biggest foray into the hardware market, comes weeks after a failed attempt to buy patents from bankrupt Nortel.

The deal will give Google an intellectual property library in wireless telephony to wage war on Apple and Microsoft.

But the purchase, which took many in Wall Street by surprise, means Google risks alienating the hardware partners that license its free Android software.

Larry Page, Google’s chief executive, said on Monday that Android, the leading smartphone software, would remain open to all in what was seen as a move to allay investors’ fears.

“Motorola has a strong patent portfolio which will help protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies,” Page told analysts on a conference call.

John Biggs, editor-in-chief of CrunchGear, a New York blog covering gadgets and computer hardware, told Al Jazeera: “Motorola gets a shot in the arm. They have a second chance to make a difference in the mobile phone market.”

Page said that Motorola Mobility, which is based in Illinois, would be run as a separate company, licensing Android software in the same way as its rivals, which also include HTC Corp and LG Electronics.

Richard Windsor, Nomura Securities global technology specialist, said: “The danger is that other handset makers feel disenfranchised. Motorola is the weaker player. This could actually collapse the entire community.”

Motorola split into two separate companies earlier this year, with Mobility developing and manufacturing mobile phones, and Motorola Solutions covering wider technologies for governments and corporate customers.

The deal between the two would allow Google to “supercharge” its Android operating system, the joint statement said.

Google said it would continue to run Mobility as a separate business.

A joint statement said the boards of both companies had unanimously approved the deal, which should be completed by the end of this year, or early in 2012.

Lady Gaga’s Most Normal Look!

Lady Gaga was spotted leaving a recording studio in Los Angeles Aug 11, but doesn’t it kind of look like she could have been leaving a recording studio in Boca Raton, Florida? I’m afraid it was the most normal look we’ve ever seen.

Believe this black frock with printed yellow and purple flowers is like, made by some famous designer and costs thousands of dollars or something, but — and is in the best way possible — think our Gaga has the same one.

Don’t quote anyone, but it seems that we are pretty sure “retirement chic” is a new fashion genre for Gaga, and we’re excited to see where this trend might take her (track suits?). But let’s also talk about how “normal” the “Born this way” singer looks here. We mean, seriously, if probably pass this lady on the street and we would think, “That woman’s shoes were amazing,” not, “OMG slkdjf;klajl!! That was Lady Gaga!!!!!!” So keep your eyes peeled, folks. Lady Gaga could be showing up sans fishnets and stilettos at an early bird special near you.


 

How to Role-play With Sexy Lingerie

One of the relationships that can get old rather quickly is sex, so how to keep it lively and fresh? Role-play with sexy lingerie will put the spice back in the bedroom.

Take hints from romantic novels or movies that both you and your partner enjoy. Try being a princess, albeit a scantly clad one, that needs her prince to come and rescue her. You can be the maiden taken briskly away by her pirate lover. These fantasy worlds work well because they aren’t reality and they feel safe to discover together as you role-play with lingerie.

Put a little reality into your roles and pose as a wonderfully handsome gardener, pool boy or plumber. Take your pick as almost any trade has their share of sexual innuendos. Provide a lingerie outfit for the woman of the house and the blue-collar worker has a chance to slip into a sexy role-playing uniform as well. A little emphasis on the right words and the woman can pay her “hired” man a bonus.

Send your man to school for a little learning. That fantasy that every teenage boy has about their young English teacher can do wonders for imaginative role-play with sexy lingerie under a conservative schoolmarm outfit. It’s a subtle way to have the “teacher” be in control of an unruly student.

Clean up your act and the bedroom while wearing the tried and true French Maid costume. Although it’s from another time and place, the costume is still sexy as ever and drives almost every man crazy. This is the man’s chance to be in control and seduce a willing servant.

Look at lingerie designed for couples who want to experiment with role-playing. Specialty shops have dozens of pairs that can start the imagination running wild. Decide on your comfort level and what areas you want to explore together and what is off limits. With those guidelines, there’s a lot of room for experimentation as you role-play with lingerie.

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How to Make Sexy Nurse Costumes

Sexy nurse costumes are great for Halloween or for adult role-playing. You can make a sexy nurse costume from a second-hand nurse uniform or from a regular nurse costume with a little alteration. Follow these instructions to dress up like a sexy nurse.

First, purchase a standard nurse costume or uniform from a costume shop or from a uniform catalog. It won’t do to wear scrubs, even though a modern day nurse might wear scrubs. In order to be a sexy nurse, you’ll need the old-fashioned nurse dress.

Next, alter the dress to be form-fitting, and bring the skirt up as short as possible. You might want to pay a seamstress to do this tailoring. In many areas they charge $5 to $10 per seam, which is really worth it if you’re terrible at sewing and you want it to look right.

Then purchase a little white nurse hat. The nurse hat was traditionally worn through the sixties.

The forth step, style your hair into a sexy up do with wavy hanging tendrils. Wedge the little nurse hat in like a tiara, only further back.

The fifth step, wear sexy white high heels. You might even want to wear stockings with garters, if your skirt is short enough for the garters to show.

The last step, put a stethoscope around your neck.

Easy and interesting uh? You can try and be a sexy nurse for him.

Britney Spears Give Pauly D Sexy Lap Dance

Seductive treatment!

Britney Spears gave her Jersey Shore star tour mate DJ Pauly D a sultry lap dance. The pop star certainly puts on an energetic show for concertgoers lucky enough to score tickets to her current Femme Fatale tour!

At the night of Aug 11, the sexy moment was caught on tape! Pauly D and Nicki Minaj are Britney’s opening acts on tour and last night in Montreal, the 31-year-old deejay got the surprise of a lifetime — Brit pulled him up on stage for her performance of “Leather and Lace.”

Brit tickled and teased Pauly D with her pink feather boa and handcuffed him to a stripper pole as she sang and danced around him.

“Wow Just Got A Lap Dance On Stage From @britneySpears !!!!!!” Pauly Tweeted after the show, followed by the below photo of the action, with the caption “Yup That Did Happen loll …”

Britney responded, Tweeting: “@DJPaulyD Hope you enjoyed your dance! Was tough getting my legs around that big blowout  -Britney”

Last week in New York at her Nassau Coliseum show, Britney clad in lace and fishnets, performed an impromptu pole dance with boyfriend Jason Trawick on stage!

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Choose Sexy Lingerie to Define Your Style

There are different types of fashion clothing, and lingerie is one special kind, which is not just limited only to the category of undergarments, but has been more of a seductive trigger for the people who love their beloveds with the sexy lingerie. As a fashion lady you should taking sexy lingerie as not just the innerwear or merely a seducing garment, and choose the right ones to define your unique style and taste.

The first thing that you need to do is to know which size of sexy lingerie would fit you, which material will suit your skin and which color will suit you well. Once known about these factors, you can go on trials checking out sexy lingerie with different patterns and colors, according to what you want and buy them.

The sexy lingerie comes with many different styles, depending on what purpose would you want to wear it, like sexy lingerie for the occasions like first night or other special nights, more revealing sexy lingerie, also in the dance, the sexy lingerie dance wear that come in different materials like reliable leather, fur, cotton, satin, latext, metals or chains is there as an option for you to prefer.

You can define your style well with sexy lingerie with the different materials that are transparent, little translucent opaque, which is meant only to keep the body in shape and have your partner enticed during your personal special time to have it enjoyed at a very satisfactory level.

It is very important to know from which source should you be buying the sexy lingerie, as there are many sellers that cheat people when it comes to selling them. You can either buy the sexy lingerie from the stores, from where you will get them only at very higher rates; or from the online vendors, that are one of the very reliable sources from where you can buy the sexy lingerie of any size, color and pattern. The sexy lingerie available online comes with all the sizes and very cheap prices, which you can pay on delivery. Go for btbone.com if you have necessary for sexy lingerie.