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Haylie Duff's Daughter Ryan Is a 'Good Little Eater'
Like mother, like daughter. The Real Girl’s Kitchen host Haylie Duff and her baby girl Ryan Ava, 18 months, are both foodies at heart.

“Funny enough, she loves stewed okra,” Duff told PEOPLE while hosting a dinner on behalf of T.J.Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods for their “Bring Back the Holidays” campaign on Nov. 10.

“She loves anything that’s slow-cooked, so she’s big into flavor,” continues Duff, 31. “She loves lentils with veggies. She loves salmon. She just loves food in general. She’s a good little eater.”

Duff and fiancé Matt Rosenberg also have a little talker on their hands. Ryan is saying “a new word every day,” shares the proud mama.

“It’s crazy. She’s talking up a storm,” shares Duff, who adds, Ryan says Mama and Dada “all day, every day.”

As for which one she said first? “Dada, of course,” admits Duff. “Devastating. Devastating — but now she says ‘Mama’ all day, so that’s okay!”

And no matter what, Ryan always puts a smile on her mom’s face.

“She makes me laugh all day,” says Duff. “I mean, her dancing. She loves music and she just started a little ballet class — and I think that just warms my heart on a level I can’t even tell you.”

Adds Duff: “This morning, we were dancing to a song in her playroom and she did a new dance move that I had never seen her do before, and that made me laugh.”

Ryan, of course, will also have a special role in the couple’s wedding. “I’m sure she will,” says the Cooking Channel host, who got engaged to Rosenberg in 2014. “We talk about it all the time, but I don’t know. We’ll see.”

Adds Duff about their future Save the Date: “We have so much going on. I’m in the middle of working on a second book. I’m trying to figure out when to do it. We’re also trying to make everybody happy about it too. Everybody has their own things that they want. If it was up to us, we would just go do it. It would be low-key and probably just us.”

For now, the family of three is getting ready for the upcoming holiday season.

“When it comes to Ryan, we’re trying to set our little family traditions with her,” shares Duff. “She was such a little baby last year, so I don’t know if we set too many traditions. I think this year we’ll probably try to start some because now she knows more about what’s going on.”

The couple “definitely” plans on putting up their tree with Ryan. However, they do have one “contrasting” tradition in their home: when to open gifts.

“Matt, his family, always waited until Christmas Day, but my family, we were Christmas Eve gift-openers,” explains Duff. “Mainly because we like to open gifts early. We like to tell people what they’re getting, and we just can’t keep secrets because we’re so excited to give the gifts.”

She continues: “Maybe we’ll do half and half. That will be interesting to see how that shakes out when it comes to when she gets to open her gifts.”

“I’m sure Dad will probably win on that, but we’ll see,” says Duff.
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A tough day for Republican spinners
Ah, the difficulty of interpreting economic numbers for Republican politicians.

Back in 2010, it was so easy: Clearly, anticipation of tax increases by President Obama and a government takeover of health care had caused the economy to tank in 2008. Everyone knows that.

But now? With solid (albeit hardly spectacular) jobs growth? It’s trickier. Is the economy still stuck in a rut thanks to the socialist in the White House? Or is it an economic boom — and if so, was it caused by the Bush tax cuts or by the anticipation of Romney tax cuts?

It’s on days like this that Republican operatives and GOP-aligned hack economists really earn their pay.

To be more serious for a moment … Democrats certainly shouldn’t be taking victory laps based on these numbers. They’re good, but mostly good in the context of what’s happened before. Remember, the economy needs to generate plenty of jobs just to accommodate normal workforce growth; even at the solid rate we’ve seen over the past three months, it will take years to get back to pre-recession unemployment rates. And unfortunately for the economy, one of the things that’s happened before are proto-recoveries that have fizzled out. Moreover, these aren’t — yet, at any rate — the kind of booming recovery statistics that propelled Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton to easy reelections. So while the past few months have certainly been a solid step in the right direction for reelection for Obama, as reflected in his recovering job-approval numbers, he’s still not there yet. Which, too, is reflected in the job-approval numbers, which still edge out only Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush among all Gallup-era presidents.

Still, with the economy, at least for now, finally moving in the right direction, you can be sure that people are smiling in the White House and in the campaign headquarters in Chicago. And there are a lot of Republican spin artists who aren’t enjoying their jobs nearly as much today.
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The improving economic numbers make their job trickier.
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Facebook, Twitter play role in college admissions
Tools for getting into college: GPA, SAT â and Facebook?

The website StudentAdvisor reports at least one case of an applicant being rejected because of something in his or her social media profile.

And one interviewer has said she is "absolutely" prejudiced by what she sees online about candidates.

"I think it's always better to be safe than sorry," Allison Otis, who conducts interviews for Harvard College, posted in a thread on the website Quora. "When you apply to college you spend such a long time crafting an image through your applications and essays that to be careless about your online data is just silly."

Otis said she regularly searches Google for students' names and looks through their Facebook and Twitter profiles.

Dean Tsouvalas, editor of StudentAdvisor, recommends in a recent blog post that students use social media to their advantage.

He suggests following the school's Twitter feed or "liking" its Facebook fan page. Students also can post a video resume on YouTube or blog about volunteering efforts or other extracurricular activities and provide a link on their applications.
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assistant: Tools for getting into college: GPA, SAT â and Facebook? The website StudentAdvisor reports at least one case of an applicant being rejected because of something in his or her social media