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Gary Allan revealed on Monday that he recently had surgery on his arm. In a post on Facebook, the singer lets fans know that he is doing well and will see them soon.
Gary Allan revealed on Monday that he recently had surgery on his arm. In a post on Facebook, the singer lets fans know that he is doing well and will see them soon.
Some of the biggest country stars have a pretty big secret -- they aren't who you think they are!
Big ole fun filled weekend ahead of us! That means it's time for your Weekend Rundown.
97.3 The Dawg wants to put you and a guest on our Gary Allan Party Bus to see the man in concert at Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder this Friday night.
The good vibes Gary Allan was soaking in on Set You Free have carried over to the first single from his next album. "Hangover Tonight" is the most carefree love song in a decade.
Every year, Country Weekly asks its readers to vote for their hottest bachelor in country music. This year, topping the list is chart-topper Chris Young.
Addie Roberts, a toddler diagnosed with Pre-B ALL Leukemia, is proof that good things can come out of tough situations. When her parents and a local business were scammed out of $9,000 meant for her medical bills, it was devastating. But after the rain, there's a rainbow -- and a pot of gold.
The micro-version of how Gary Allan got to Nashville is well-known, especially among his loyal fans. The 'It Ain't the Whiskey' singer recently sat down to record his episode of Guitar Center Sessions, where he shared all of the details, including the song his benefactor heard before writing him a check for $12,000. Watch him tell the story in this video, premiering on Taste of Country.
If you've been paying attention we've been killing Country Music for decades yet the genre has never been stronger. Years ago Ray Price was going to ruin the Nashville sound and Charlie Rich literally tried to burn the entertainer of the year in effigy on live TV. This grand lady that is country music has big arms that are wide open for anyone that wants to share their interpretation of three chords and the truth.
What seemed like the next round of artist vs. artist criticisms was misconstrued and taken out of context, according to one of the parties involved. Gary Allan says his answer to Larry King's question about whether or not Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift are country has been spun in a way he didn't intend.


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Judge David Johnson is the Ultimate Force—in backgammon!
The Charge
"Mirko Cro-Cop is a new Charles Bronson."—Jena Claude Van Damme
Opening Statement
But is it better than its predecessor, Penultimate Force?
Facts of the Case
Mirko Cro-Cop Filipovic is a fighter from UFC and Pride and he looks like pretty much the last dude in the world I'd want to piss off. He stars as Axon Rey (great action hero name!) a war hero from an Eastern European country and a member of an elite government assassination squad. But when he fails to pull the trigger on his last assignment, the shadowy organization he works for sends him to a secret island for forced rehabilitation.
That means he is forced to fight other exiled soldiers. But that will be the least of his troubles when he is suddenly sucked into a tornado of political backstabbing and death and betrayal and heavy accents.
The Evidence
The Random Action Movie Title Generator spit out a gem with this release. Ultimate Force as a film proves to be as generic as its title. This Cro-Cop hombre looks to be a bad enough dude and he certainly appears to have the combat skills to pay the bills. But despite his impressive physical presence the guy has the on-screen charisma of a spruce. Which is odd because he was fairly animated in an interview he did for the extras. I suppose he was directed to act like a block of granite, thinking he would come across as a hard-ass, but it doesn't work.
He knows how to fight and that's clear from he moves he busts out on the punk-ass bee-yatches, but overall the action scenes were lacking, a death blow to an excursion like this. When Axon hits the island he engages in a series of one-on-one bouts against some scary-looking white guys but none of them are very engaging. A mix of distracting camera work and disappointing fight choreography is largely to blame. There's some gunplay too, but it's even worse than the hand-to-hand stuff—idiot soldiers crouching in the wide open and getting themselves mowed down, standard-issue dopey bad guy playbook.
The plot is serviceable for a straight-to-DVD action flick. Writer/director Mark Burson tosses in a fair helping of espionage and treason, but the payoff is predictable. The twists are satisfying, however. Unfortunately, we're deprived of a kick-ass action finale to cap off the runtime.
The gripes I have with the film are augmented by the sub-par technical treatment. Picture quality (2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen) is grainy and near-impossible too decipher during darker sequences. A Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo mix pushes the sound; a 5.1 track would of course have been more suited for the mayhem. Only a couple of extras: that short interview with Filipovic and a 10-minute making-of featurette.
Closing Statement
Mediocre Force would be more accurate.
The Verdict
Go spend some more time on the island comrade.
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Released: Oct 01st, 2006
Running Time: 100
Director: Dave Raike
Company: OSK Productions
Cast: Katrina B, Samantha Roxx, Dino Bravo, Evan Stone, Annie Cruz, Maxwell Schmart, Ron Jeremy, Rene Pornero, Kenny X
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: All-Sex
Black Velvet is a legendary Cadillac hearse traveling from town to town cross-country. You get one fuck in the back, then you must pass on the keys to some other lucky guy or gal. That's the slender premise uniting the vignettes here, and it means the couplings are a bit forced, and all the scenes take place on the same cramped set.
Annie Cruz and Dino Bravo manage to turn in a great performance, complete with multiple ejaculations from Cruz, plus a lot of tasty anal action. Ron Jeremy gets to taste Cruz's goods as well, although the pair confine their activities to oral in this scene. Evan Stone shamelessly overacts in his scene with Katrina B, but the sex itself is nice enough.
Pre-nom Cruz and Bravo for Best Coupling.
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Cod Baked With Currants
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 45 mins
From Greek Cooking for the Gods, posted for ZWT IV
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- 1⁄2 cup dried currant
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 1⁄2 cup olive oil
- 6 cod steaks, each about 3/4 inch thick
- salt
- pepper
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 lemon, juice of
- 1 -2 onion, thinly sliced (or chopped)
- 3 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped
- 1 (16 ounce) can chopped tomatoes (with liquid)
- 2 whole cloves
- Preheat oven to 400. In a small bowl combine currants and wine, set aside.
- Oil a baking dish in which cod steaks will fit side by side.
- Place fish steaks in a baking dish. Season with salt and pepper, to taste, then rub with garlic and drizzle with lemon juice.
- In a large skillet over medium high heat, warm the 1/2 cup oil.
- Add onions, parsley and tomatoes and cook till onions are soft (5-6 minutes).
- Add cloves and currants and wine, simmer over medium heat 5 minutes.
- Pour sauce over fish steaks.
- Bake until fish flakes easily with a fork (35-45 minutes), basting several times during cooking.
- Transfer fish to serving plates and spoon sauce over top.
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I made this dish yesterday evening for a special birthday dinner and it was a success. I had to introduce some changes as I did not have currants neither cooking wine, so I used dried cranberries instead of currants and 1 tbs of cider vinegar, salt, pepper and the water of soaking the berries as substitute of the wine. I will repeat it following the indicated ingredients, we really loved it!!! Thanks for the recipe!
This is an outstanding combination of flavors!!!!!!! I used tilapia because my store only had freezer-burned cod. The currants balanced so well with the garlic and tomato sauce. Each bite gave you a great flavor experience. This is one of the best fish recipes that I have tried! Thanks so much for posting!!!!!!!!
Don't usually do cod, but liked the looks of this recipe & wan't disappointed ~ This baked cod is VERY TASTY! I did cut the recipe in half & that was enough for 2 of us! Enjoyed the comb of garlic, lemon & currants, & then the cloves added another whole new dimension! Thanks for sharing a great recipe! [Made & reviewed while in Greece on Zaar's World Tour 4]


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Released: Nov 01st, 1995
Running Time: 85
Directors: Chris Green, Kathy Mack
Company: Totally Tight Video
Cast: Ryan Block, Hank Hightower, Brett Ford, Grant Larson, Eduardo (I), Michael Fuller, Dallas Taylor
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Gay and Bi
Uneven, but full of stars and enthusiastic fucking, this new venture from Directors Green and Mack will likely be a brisk rental item. All of the action takes place in a garage, with most performers getting two loads off. Fetish action is minimal, but things get steamy with a standard fuck 'n suck in which Ryan Block's topper is the climax. The technical aspects are good, a usual for this increasingly interesting directorial team. Give Tools a place on your shelf.


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The Flavours EP, Vol. 5
- Artists Prolix, MC Coppa, DJ Devize, Legion, Logam, Legion & Logam, Rewind, Krakota, Harvest
- Release Date 2013-03-11
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- Catalog PLAYAZ034
Hype and Pascal present Playaz outing 33 and 2013 is looking to be a championship year. This EP sees Prolix feat MC Coppa getting things moving with 'Kick Off' - their football anthem for golden boys with golden beats - followed by break beat ace DJ Devize's 'Shock Time' as the EP's midfield general (this track featured on the acclaimed Fabric Live 65 album) flanked up by Legion and Logam's bombing tune 'Blackout' and
'Talk No More' from Wickaman which has been rated by Crissy Criss and Dogs on Acid. Rolling chill out dnb vibes from Krakatoa with 'Analysis Paralysis' keeping everything winter cool and Brummie based Harvest brings up the rear with the smooth vibes of 'Saturn' gracefully placed in the back of the net.


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As the 2013 Executive Leadership Conference wrapped up with an industry-government working group session, one question put to the participants was on the expected impact of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.
The legislation, which the House passed as part of the defense authorization bill in June, would establish a single, presidentially appointed CIO for each agency, and consolidate IT budget authority in that office. Given the choice of four different likely outcomes, roughly 250 members of the federal IT community voted two answers into a dead heat at the top.
In a real-time, unscientific survey of participants, 38 percent predicted FITARA would help by "enforcing standardization and ensuring oversight of commodity IT." An identical percentage, however, worried that the result would be "adding a level of complexity that makes it difficult for agency components to do their job."
(Improving on the Clinger-Cohen Act's technology investment provisions and creating clear technology frameworks ran a distant third and fourth.)
A divided house? Or a comment on the tradeoffs inherent in any big policy shift? That question, alas was left for next year's ELC.
Note: This article was corrected on Oct. 30. FITARA, as passed by the House, calls for agency CIOs to be presidential appointments, but not Senate-confirmed positions as this piece originally stated.
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MIDDLEBURY — Addison Central Teens (ACT) is hosting a two-day Clothing Swap & Shop at Middlebury Union High School on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 2 and 3, in the hallway outside the main office. Sale hours are 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for students only, and 3-7 p.m. for the general public.
Shoppers are invited to swap their gently used clothing, accessories, jewelry, CDs, and knick-knacks for "new" used items. Those with nothing to swap can bring money and shop.
The Addison Independent is proud to publish the Students of the Week from area High Schools each week. The students are chosen by teachers and administration from each school who would like to recognize their exceptional engagement in the high schools they attend.
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The race is all about the sense of place and the stakes, as is usually the case in competition, is about … well, let's just put it out there — it's about pride and ego, and a bit of self-serving capitalism. OK, so we're not out to save the world today. We're not even appealing to our better selves. Rather, we'd just like to win.
Still, the satisfaction would be sweet and the stakes, while small, are suddenly worthwhile.
We have a jewel in the heart of downtown Middlebury, a parcel of land behind the library, which we can do whatever we wish with. It could be a river walk, condos, restaurants, playground, park, a beautiful entrance to Middlebury seen from the bridge. It could be a magnet, a focus, to bring people to the shops, museum, restaurants, library of our Main Street. New enterprises in this parcel would add to our grand list.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police and Middlebury Regional EMS officials responded to several reports of suicidal individuals in town last week.
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I have a webserver running on a virtual platform (VBox). Have set the VBox adapter to bridged mode. I am able to access the webpage from my host machine. I have also configured dynamic DNS (No-IP) on my guest (Ubuntu Server). Port-forwarded port 80 on my router as needed for accessing the server.
Basically, I can access the internet from both the guest and the host machines and can even successfully load the webpage from my host machine when the server is up and running. However, whenever I try connecting through my no-ip URL I am faced with the login page of my router instead of the webpage I should be seeing. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Do I have to configure the No-IP settings on my gateway router as well for it to connect successfully to my webserver located on the internal/virtual network?
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. Been trying this for over a week now. Its really doing my head in =/
PS: Also all machines are on the same subnet, hence connectivity in a a way doesn't seem to be the issue, i.e. all machines internally seem to connect fine. What I wonder is why the No-IP url connects to 192.168.1.1 (my gateway) rather than 192.168.1.10 (my webserver/VBox machine).
Would this mean I have to configure No-IP on my gateway such that any incoming request to my external-IP/gateway gets forwarded to the VBox?


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Don't blame Toby Keith
Published: Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 9, 2007 at 11:30 p.m.
If you think its wrong that the family of a fallen soldier could not get permission to use a hit song by Toby Keith on a memorial Web site, then dont blame Toby Keith.
He doesnt know they made the request.
Thats what a member of Keiths management team, Taylor Schultz, said in a Friday morning interview.
"Its middle people like me. You hire these companies, and this would be directed to me, but I did not bring this to him," Schultz said from his Nashville office. "He would have said, ëYeah, sure. An artist is always going to say, ëNo problem. Id have to get permission from the record label and all the others. We get so many of these types of requests."
This all stems from the creation of a Web site by the family of U.S. Army Sgt. Jay Gauthreaux of Vacherie. The site is at www.jaygauthreaux.org.
He was an American soldier who will be 26 forever and was entombed at the Our Lady of Peace mausoleum in December. This was done with the playing of "Taps" and a 21-gun salute, as befits a hero.
Jay Gauthreaux was engaged in a humanitarian mission Dec. 4, moving water and other supplies through war-torn Iraq near a place called Balad. The convoy hit a homemade bomb and the soldiers who were there said it was not a chance meeting. The bomb was detonated by someone near the site who got to see the twisted metal and what happened to the American soldier.
As happens when a soldier dies under such circumstances, members of Gauthreauxs 1st Cavalry team who knew did a battlefield memorial right there in Iraq. For the uninitiated, this means his comrades in arms jabbed the bayonet end of a rifle into the ground with a helmet on top and there were prayers and remembrances. They each offered a coin or some other token for him and then they all went on risking their lives. And no matter your personal opinion on this war, make no mistake that everyone there is risking their his or her life, if not for a constantly shape-changing cause then at least for each other.
They then performed a final roll call, the one Jay Gauthreaux could not answer, followed by a 21-gun salute.
While this was going on, they played a recording of Toby Keiths song "American Soldier" because they said it was the perfect song for Jay Gauthreaux, and one can only think that when this song was written it is precisely who the authors had in mind.
Faye Crawford is the name of Jay Gauthreauxs mother. She is now raising his 5-year-old son Devin in Missouri where she lives with her husband, Doug Crawford.
He is the guy responsible for actually putting together this Web site that will hold Jay Gauthreauxs memory alive for all to share. These memorial Web sites are a great improvement over the tombstone, which is the only memorial most fallen soldiers have had for centuries and which provide the most minimal information.
To make visits to the Web site an even more powerful experience -- and to properly memorialize the fallen soldier -- the family wanted to use a recording of "American Soldier" for people to hear when they open it up.
They could have just gone ahead and used it, and music industry people polled this week said they doubted very much if anyone would ever seek to enforce the copyright for the song.
But that is not how Doug and Faye Crawford do things. They are strictly by the book.
"We just wanted to do it the right way. We didnt want to violate any copyright rules," Faye Crawford said.
Mind you, she did not raise a stink about all this matter of rights for the song and desires no controversy.
She just wants to mourn her son, the American soldier, in the most fitting way possible.
So the family contacted Toby Keiths management people and the request ended up with Taylor Schultz. The request was respectfully denied.
"We have received hundreds, requests from families who have lost soldiers for use of a song," Schultz said. "But also other country music artists from as big to as small, Merle Haggard, Neil McCoy, all those people. Every one of them has received the exact same requests. Weve got to draw the line. Everybodys got tons of work to do. If it fits within the policy guidelines, then yes. If not, you have to respectfully decline."
A record company and two publishing companies own the songs copyright. Permission, Schultz said, would have to be obtained from three different companies.
"You give back all you can to the community, to soldiers, to charity, to cancer research, whatever it might be, but everybody has got to draw the line somewhere. So free streaming regardless of what Web site it is, it is a policy that we can say we ought to draw the line on."
It should be noted here that Toby Keith has done a lot for American soldiers.
He has appeared in U.S.O. shows. He has gone to Iraq. The rights to "American Soldier" are made available to the U.S. military for free, Schultz said.
Attempts to learn who could say yes to the family that didnt want to break the rules resulted this week in a tangled web of companies selling companies and investors and shareholders who may or may not have rights to this song and it would give you a headache to find out whom to ask.
Perhaps, then, the dilemma is not so much a statement on the music industry or something relating to one artist, but about the state of where U.S. business has gone in general. It is all too big for one person to find out how to say "yes" so everyone just says "no."
The number of American soldiers killed in Iraq, as well as marines and airmen and sailors, stands at just over 3,000, each with a family. Each of whom might want to use "American Soldier" on a Web site dedicated to the soldiers memory.
Schultz was asked about that, if 3,000 is too high a number to accommodate use of a song about them on a memorial.
"Then theres 3,000 of them next year and how many more, and the next, and the next," Schultz said.
One can only hope that he is wrong.
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The most populous state in India is Uttar Pradesh, which is located in the north-central part of the country. Because of its location, it has often been the focal point for the history of all of northern India. The ancient civilization of the Hindus developed there, and the art and architecture of the area have contributed greatly to Indian cultural heritage. It was also the site of the rise of Buddhism.


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Will you ever develop tax table?
The last time I did the exact question was a year ago.
Thank you.
Will you ever develop tax table?
The last time I did the exact question was a year ago.
Thank you.
that long ago? the answer is probably the same - possibly.
Temporarily I made some changes in your program to help me out with the tax problem, but I have difficulties to revise every time the files because some variables are changing in each version.
I don't understand why you don't want to add tax table in the program like other plugins. I had to adopt something in order to make it work.
Because it takes time, and so far no-one has been willing to donate an amount any where near the cost of implementing it.
In the last post you mention it is time concern to create tax table for e-shop.
Well, after spending a week in front of my computer I made to program the e-shop tax for all over the world.
My statement is bulky but it worth's the try.
The new taxation supports custom tax symbol lake VAT or TAX and 3 taxation charges:
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for anyone that wants to have more than one taxation boxes.
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Myanmar's government and army were not behind recent outbreaks of deadly religious violence, the president's spokesman said Friday, amid accusations that security forces stood by -- or were even complicit -- in the clashes.
Sectarian bloodshed, mostly targeting Muslims, has laid bare deep divides that were largely suppressed under decades of military rule which ended two years ago in the Buddhist-majority country.
Rights groups have criticised the police and army for failing to stop mobs attacking mainly Muslim neighbourhoods in two separate flare-ups of unrest in western and central Myanmar.
The speed of the destruction, coupled with eyewitness reports of investigators arriving to spark violence, also led to speculation it was organised by elements within Myanmar's military intent on disrupting the reform process.
"There has been some speculation about who is behind the conflict," said president's office spokesman Ye Htut.
"However, I would like to say firmly, at this point, that it's completely false that the government is behind this and that the military carried out what happened," he said.
"In reality the first ones who get the headache of solving the problem are the government and the military."
Monks have also been accused of involvement in the clashes. Eyewitnesses have said people dressed in monks' robes were among angry mobs who destroyed houses and mosques.
Radical monks have led a campaign to shun shops owned by Muslims, but senior monks have accused foreign media of one-sided reporting of the Buddhist-Muslim conflict.
Speaking at a US Embassy event on the tensions, Ye Htut said that sweeping economic and political reforms were for the benefit of the whole country.
"There is no reason to leave a certain group or a religion or a ethnic group behind... as long as we leave someone behind in a human society our problems can never be solved."
In March at least 44 people were killed in sectarian strife in central Myanmar and thousands of homes were set ablaze. Communal unrest last year in the western state of Rakhine left about 200 people dead and 140,000 displaced, mainly Rohingya Muslims.


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no heartbeat.
no change.
have to wait for a natural miscarriage
or get a d/c...
I'm so scared and confused I don't understand.
my second MC in a row... :/
so confused..
would y'all recommended a d/c or just naturally..?
Owen Thomas 12/20/09 (C/S), Olivia Ann 12/14/11 (VBAC!), ^Angel baby 11/12^, Evan Timothy 9/14/13 (NUVBAC), CP April 2015, Emma Marie 2/3/16 (NUVBAC)
Hi Roslyn, I'm very sorry for your losses as well. I'm onto my fourth this year and it confuses me as well.
As for if to wait for things naturally or go the D&C route, it's really a personal decision on what feels right for you. It may also depend on how far along you are and if your hcg levels are already dropping.
My first m/c was in March and it was classified a missed miscarriage because my body was just holding on at almost 11 weeks (baby stopped growing at just over 6 but I was always measuring 2-3 weeks behind and had seen the hb for the first time at 8.5 weeks). I chose the D&C option because I knew I couldn't emotionally handle waiting.
The next two were very early losses (just days after my period was due and getting the hpt +) so those were natural and so early that there really wasn't any pain (physically at least). And the last was a molar pregnancy and I had no option but to have a D&C and remove the molar tissue.
Have a look at the other threads on here about the same topic and maybe talk through the pros and cons of each option with your doctor until you're satisifed that you're making the right decision for you.
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Like everyone else has said, it's really what you feel works best for you. I had a missed m/c around 9 weeks. I gave it two weeks from when I had lost and then took misoprostel because I didn't want to wait anymore. I didn't want a D&C just because I didn't like the risk, even though they are minor. So sorry for your loss.
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Raw Protein?
Does anyone eat raw or very rare protein foods?
Lately ive been eating fresh raw tuna(expensive!) and grass fed beef(actually pretty tender), I eat rare kangaroo too.
Ive had zero acne since doing this for 2 of 3 of my daily meals.
Fruit I eat raw(obviously), cruciferous veg I cook.
Ive also been eating baken sweet potatoes for some carbs, esp after workouts.
Why do they taste so much better baked than boiled? Maybe all that acrylamide and glycated carbohydrate due to the higher temperatures?
http://waisays.com/index.html "Cooking food creates the toxins that cause welfare diseases"
I've started cooking my meat less, except chicken. I still get my chicken at the local grocery, but it is antibiotic/hormone-free and I can get it on the cheap (wait till a few days before the sell-by, $.59-$.79/lb...load up the 15' freezer). I throw my steak on the grill long enough to singe the outside and leave the inside rare...or more appropriately raw. It's tougher to cut though, that's for sure. I do the same with liver...it's grass-fed from Slankers. I put it in with the onions long enough to cook it a touch, but leave the middle still somewhat rare. I'm not willing to go fully raw due to not knowing the full processing chain, but I think leaving it mostly raw can be beneficial.
The beef I eat is typically very rare...still cook the outside. I've had two raging bouts of food poisoning in my life, not excited about a third. I steam most of my veggies. Salads are of course raw but I tend to mainly do those in the spring and summer.
Costco has Ahi tuna steaks frozen. . . I have debated if this fish popsicle thawed would be okay to eat.
How does the Grassfed beef taste raw?
I eat the grassfed ground beef really rare. As in, pan fried just enough to make it warm. Pretty tasty to me...
I live with a Japanese Partner and if you haven't investigated their diet I would recommend it.
Very heavy in seafood and sea vegatables.
In regards to Raw Foods
On a weekly basis we would have Beef tataki,Sashimi and variety of seafood sashimi,as well as Korean (S?)Yukii(Raw beef with Nashi Pears and Raw egg).
Soups made from fish bones,snacks from chicken cartilage,lots of meals involving tripe and bones,fun to pick at.
Lucky enough also to have access of a variety of high quality fresh veg,salad greens and Asian Greens all year round in Aus.
I love that the Japanese diet is portrayed as being largely vegetarian.
I'm game for dinner wiht you folks anytime!
I've been eating some raw meat periodically the last few months. It is actually quite good, especially when seasoned well.
Hmm... a raw meat recipe issue??
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|Plain flour
|8 Ounce, sifted (225 Gram)
|Baking powder
|5 Milliliter (1 Teaspoon)
|5 Milliliter, softened (To Grease Tine, 1 Teaspoon)
|Caster sugar
|6 Ounce (175 Gram)
|1⁄2 , rind grated
|3 Medium, beaten
|30 Milliliter (2 Tablespoon, At Room Temperature)
|Candied citrus peel
|3 (Thin Slices)
1. Let the oven heat to 350°F (180°C/Gas 4) and grease and line an 18 cm (7 in) round tin.
2. Combine together the flour and baking powder.
3. In a separate bowl, cream the fat, sugar and lemon rind together until light and fluffy.
4. Whisk in the eggs, a little at a time, adding 15 ml (1 tbsp) of the flour with each addition.
5. Whisk hard to incorporate plenty of air.
6. Using a metal spoon, fold in the remaining flour and then add the milk.
7. Combine together thoroughly and pour into the prepared tin.
8. Let the cake bake for 1 hour.
9. Remove out of the oven, press the strips of citrus peel lightly over the top of the cake and bake for a further 30 minutes until golden and well risen and a skewer comes out clean.
10. Remove from the oven and let it cool in the tin for at least 5 minutes before turning out on to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 1818 Calories from Fat 201
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 23 g34.8%
Saturated Fat 8.8 g43.8%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 572.1 mg190.7%
Sodium 592.8 mg24.7%
Total Carbohydrates 368 g122.8%
Dietary Fiber 7.3 g29.4%
Sugars 181.4 g
Protein 31 g62.9%
Vitamin A 16.1% Vitamin C 37.2%
Calcium 51.4% Iron 22.7%
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La HSUS Felicita a SeaWorld por Comprometerse a Ponerle Fin a la Cría de Orcas
En un hecho dramático que abre el camino al eventual fin de la práctica de mantener orcas en cautiverio para su exhibición pública, SeaWorld anunció que suspenderá todos sus programas de cría de orcas para todas las 30 ballenas propiedad de la compañía.
June 23, 2015
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Poll Reveals Americans Oppose Keeping Orcas in Captivity for Public Display
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, together with The HSUS and the Animal Welfare Institute, released the first-ever nationwide opinion poll gauging attitudes about keeping orcas, also known as killer whales, in captivity for public display.
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"Death at SeaWorld" examines the risky business of keeping killer whales in captivity
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The Swiss company GoldVish, creator of the world's most expensive phone – GoldVish Le Million – has unveiled another luxury handset, called GoldVish Revolution. The GoldVish Revolution is a weird candybar that looks like a mix between the very stylish Motorola Aura and a Mobiado phone. The device is covered in diamonds, as well as … Continued
Designed by Katherine Hughes for Goldstriker, this elegant handset boasts 40gms of hallmarked 925 Sterling silver handmade veneers struck with 24ct gold complete with Sterling silver dressings again struck with 24ct gold which house 60 beautiful Swarovski crystals. Available 1st April 09 from goldstriker.co.uk Priced at £2,995 as a limited edition of 250 handsets.
Known for their watchmaking, the Ulysse Nardin has the mechanical intricacy you would expect along with a 2.8-inch multitouch screen, 5-megapixel camera, biometric fingerprint unlocking, WiFi and an email browser. A first for the mobile phone industry, the Chairman features a functioning mechanical watch rotor that is also incorporated into its aesthetic design. Similar to … Continued
Goldstriker, known for its extraordinary and luxury offerings has announced that it will be retailing the latest Nokia Passion Edition. This Nokia handset adorns 40gms of hallmarked 925 Sterling silver handmade veneers. Sterling silver dressings embedded with 60 Swarovski crystals complete the design.
There seems to be quite a few luxury mobile phones hitting the mobile arena lately, one would think there isn't an economic downturn going on. The latest from the house of Gresso is the Lady Diamond luxury phone, which looks to be aimed straight at trendy women. The design takes its inspiration from the Swiss … Continued
Only two months after announcing the first handsets from its Avantgarde Skeleton Collection, Gresso has now unveiled the Skeleton Gold phone. Not too different from the Avantgarde Skeleton, the Gresso Skeleton Gold is, obviously, dressed in more gold. Its 23 functional keys are "executed of 18k gold", while its QVGA screen is protected by hand-polished … Continued
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Swiss luxury designer and jeweler Knalihs Athem, who earlier gave us the Apple iPhone 3G festooned with 475 brilliant cut diamonds, is now back with yet another stunning creation – the Diamond Vertu Constellation Gold. Each phone is done in 18K gold and covered with more than 1500 brilliant cut diamonds. The handset can be … Continued
Amosu, known for adding bling to just about anything, has just announced the pink diamond blackberry bold and 3G iphone with diamonds for all the late Valentine shoppers. The pink BlackBerry Bold comes with 86 white and pink sapphire diamonds of approximately 3.95 carats, fixed firmly on the front and 242 on the back of … Continued
The luxury phone maker Mobiado released 105GMT White Luxury Watchphone.There are 2 built-in mechanical watches on the bottom of the phone that emphasizes shining sapphire crystals in the front and in the back. Also buttons are made of sapphire crystals and a sapphire plate protects the movements under the removable battery cover.
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British stationers Smythson have created a unique case for the iPhone designed to complement their diaries and other items. Part of the Smythson Autumn Winter 2008 Raspberry Collection, the case is made in luxurious Raspberry leather and lined in leather. It comes presented in a Nile blue tissue-lined gift box. The Smythson iPhone case fits … Continued
Peter Aloisson has decked out the Nokia E51, and there are two models available: the Nokia E51 "Blossoms of the Eight†and the Nokia E51 "Terezzoâ€. The Blossoms of the Eight (pictured below) is made of solid 18-carat yellow gold. It is hand engraved with a design of lotus blossoms and the lucky number "8.†… Continued
Nokia has announced yet another variation of its 8800 slider phone, the Gold Arte. This new entrant to Nokia's Arte series of luxury phones comes decorated with 18-carat gold and white leather. The tri-band GSM handset features a 2-inch OLED display with 240 x 320 pixels, 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus, 4GB of internal storage, Bluetooth … Continued
Got $30,000 to spend on a mobile phone ? Amosu luxury is now creating the new 3G diamond iphone in whatever colour diamond you want, and to match they will do the back in the same coulour. So all you ladies who want a 3G Iphone with pink diamonds can now have the back in … Continued
After the Black Diamond collection and the White Diamonds collection, Gresso, the Russian company distinguished for its luxury high-tech articles, has introduced its limited edition Avantgarde Skeleton Collection. As the name suggests it is a "skeleton" phone, inspired by the complicated Swiss Skeleton watches. The Gresso Avantgarde Skeleton follows the same principal and allows one … Continued
Bang and Olufsen is well known for producing high end products like telephones and other electronic devices. The Danish company is all set to launch its cordless phone- the 'BeoCom 2', in Korea soon. Crafted from a single piece of aluminium, it sits naturally in the hand, while its gentle curve matches the shape of … Continued


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REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala.-Soldiers from around the globe will compete here June 23-25 during the U.S. Army Contracting Command's Best Warrior Competition 2014.
According to ACC's Command Sgt. Maj. David M. Puig, the competition gives special recognition to the ACC noncommissioned officers who have demonstrated outstanding military performance, leadership and achievement in their daily duties.
"It's going to be a tough competition that will challenge each of them mentally and physically," he said. "I am excited and looking forward to seeing them go through the various events we have planned for them."
The competitors will take a physical fitness test and participate in warrior task drills, weapon's qualification, a road march and and appear in front of a board of senior NCOs.
Other local U.S. Army Materiel Command units will also have Soldiers using the competition course to help fine tune their skills as well.
"The AMC command sergeant major (Command Sgt. Maj. James K. Sims) realized that the ACC competition has been a high-quality, first class event and that anyone participating in it will walk away a better Soldier," Puig said.
The ACC winner will represent the command at the AMC competition July 27-31 at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.
"Any NCO who competes next week has the ability to represent not just ACC, but AMC at the DA Level. I know the high caliber of NCOs in this command and am very confident in them," Puig said. "Winning a Best Warrior competition provides an NCO with huge bragging rights. It's a great opportunity"


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BURLINGTON — A University of Vermont student who was found dead in his off-campus apartment is being remembered as a friendly, funny, competitive and offbeat young man.
About 150 people gathered at UVM's Billings Student center on Wednesday to share stories about Jamie Love.
The 20-year-old from Armonk, N.Y., studied engineering and mathematical sciences and ran cross country and track at UVM.
The university said his suite mates called 911 early Sunday morning after they couldn't wake him. Police have found no indication of foul play. The investigation into his death is continuing.
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Action shots from The Forum, where Gennady Golovkin made short work of Dominic Wade and Roman Gonzalez made longer-than-expected work of McWilliams Arroyo.
Action shots from The Forum, where Gennady Golovkin made short work of Dominic Wade and Roman Gonzalez made longer-than-expected work of McWilliams Arroyo.
Weigh-in shots for Saturday's show at the Forum in Inglewood, California, starring pound-for-pounders Gennady Golovkin and Roman Gonzalez.
Middleweight combatants Gennady Golovkin and Dominic Wade hosted the media for a workout on Wednesday, just days away from their fight on April 24.
Amir Khan hosted a media workout just under three weeks away from his clash with middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez in Las Vegas on May 7.
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Weigh-in results for a pair of world title fights on Showtime this Saturday: Gary Russell Jr. vs. Patrick Hyland and Jose Pedraza vs. Stephen Smith
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Weights and photos for Saturday's card in Washington, D.C., featuring heavyweights Luis Ortiz and Tony Thompson, plus welterweights Sadam Ali and Jessie Vargas.
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Julian "J-Rock" Williams at the James Shuler Boxing Gym in Philadelphia as he prepares to face Marcello Matano this Saturday on Showtime.
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For decades, public health initiatives successfully have changed the publics perceptions and personal behaviors regarding a range of health conditions including lung cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis and HIV. Yet past initiatives to enlighten the public about a health condition that can limit quality of life severely as people age have failed to catch fire. The condition, which affects one in three women and costs the country more than $19 billion per year, is urinary incontinence. The problem with incontinence as a public health initiative is that it has not been terribly successful, said Mikel Gray, RN, PhD, FNP-BC, PNP-BC, CUNP, CCCN, FAANP, FAAN, a leading nurse expert and researcher on UI and a clinical professor of nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing in Charlottesville. Continence and voiding behavior are more intensely private than almost anything else in our culture. Gray is a clinical faculty member within the Department of Urology.
Indeed, it seems one of the few times Americans openly talk about urination is during child rearing when parents share stories about toilet training. But when it comes to adult bladders that leak or need to be emptied too often and in an urgent rush, the conversation stops.
Women and men of all ages can start learning the simple techniques and lifestyle changes to prevent and treat lower urinary tract symptoms such as stress UI and urgency UI, and a group of dedicated healthcare professionals is ramping up public education efforts to help spread the word. In 2010 experts in urology, urogynecology, nursing and behavioral health gathered to fashion a new public health initiative that focuses on the importance of healthy bladder habits on overall health, rather than narrowing in on just continence and incontinence, said Gray, who was one of those experts. The group decided a consensus statement was necessary to raise awareness among the general public, healthcare providers, payors and policymakers, with the goals of minimizing the impact of poor bladder health and stimulating primary prevention of bladder conditions, according to an article in the October 2011 issue of the International Journal of Clinical Practice.
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The impact of poor bladder health on society is not fully appreciated by most healthcare professionals or the general public, including the affected individuals the consensus article states.
The perception that urinary incontinence and overactive bladder are inevitable and irreversible is almost as common among healthcare providers as it is among the general public, said Diane K. Newman, RN, DNP, CRNP, BCB-PMD, FAAN, a research investigator and clinician, adjunct associate professor in the school of medicine and co-director of the Penn Center for Continence and Pelvic Health at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia. She also is a member of the expert consensus group.
One of the first lessons to be learned about bladder health is that UI and overactive bladder are not unavoidable as people age, and they are largely preventable conditions even in the elderly. T. Maria Jones, RN, BS, CWOCN, DAPWCA, FMNLI, teaches staff nurses at Kennedy University Hospital in Cherry Hill, N.J., that it is wrong to assume elderly patients need adult briefs while hospitalized. It is important to do a focused assessment on each patient, she said. I want nurses to develop a plan of care that matches what the patient was doing at home. Jones, a wound care specialist, was named Wound/Ostomy/Continence Nurse of the Year by the United Ostomy Associations of America Inc. this year.
Patients should be assessed for their voiding patterns and habits at home, Jones said. For example, do they have the mobility to get up and use the bathroom and were they using collection devices, such as bedside commodes or panty liners, she said. When hospitalized, patients automatically lose mobility because of bedrails, catheters or cluttered rooms. We need to maintain patients dignity and only use disposable products if absolutely necessary, Jones said. We have to be clear with the terms we are using with patients and not embarrass them by treating them like children. Putting a brief on an adult can be humiliating. The second leading cause of nursing home placement is incontinence, which family members and other caregivers find difficult to cope with, Jones said. But if incontinence can be controlled in the hospital, it is possible to prevent the elderly from being placed in nursing homes.
The healthcare professionals interviewed for this story say primary prevention needs to take a higher priority than secondary and tertiary treatment, where most of the research emphasis has been placed until now.
Newman is working with Carolyn Sampselle, RN, PhD, ANP, FAAN, from the University of Michigan (another member of the consensus group) as principal investigators in an NIH/NINR funded incontinence prevention study called Translating Unique Learning for Incontinence Prevention. The five-year TULIP study is a prevention program that teaches women about low-risk self-management practices such as lifestyle changes, bladder training and pelvic floor muscle exercises. The study will measure the effectiveness of two interventions: a bladder health class and a bladder health DVD.
They are recruiting 600 women who are older than 55; are not taking overactive bladder medication; and either do not have incontinence, do not leak urine or only slightly leak urine. The women will be followed for a two-year period. We have had an overwhelming response to our TULIP study, Newman said. When asked, women say they want to enroll in the study because they know of someone who has bladder control issues and they want to learn what to do so they do not develop those same problems.
Julie Tupler, RN, president of Diastasis Rehab (diastasisrehab.com), said pelvic floor muscle exercises, not medications, are the answer to preventing and treating stress UI and urgency UI. Incontinence is primarily muscular, she said. Tupler said education about strengthening the pelvic floor muscles with exercises using resistance, more commonly known to women as Kegels, should begin early in a womans life and well before having children. You wouldnt run a race and not train, would you? Tupler said. Tone them and practice how you use them. At birth, you need to know how to relax the pelvic floor muscles that you have strengthened during pregnancy.
For the initial management of stress, urgency and mixed UI, lifestyle modifications, such as weight loss, elimination of bladder irritants from the diet, bladder training, interventions and pelvic floor muscle training are recommended by the Adult Conservative Management Committee of the 2008 International Consultation on Incontinence. Medications are listed as the last choice for management of overactive bladder and urgency UI. One out of three women report stress incontinence five years after childbirth whether or not they have another child, so nurses have to ask Are you having problems with your bladder? Do you have any leakage when you laugh, cough or sneeze? Do you wear pads and, if so, why? Newman said. The strains of pregnancy and labor and delivery on pelvic floor muscles predispose women to stress UI and urgency UI. But preparing the muscles before pregnancy can prevent these problems, especially later in life, Tupler said.
Many women are taught incorrectly how to do pelvic floor muscle exercises, said Edna Moore, RN, MSN, ARNP, WHNP-BC, who works as a practitioner and nurse researcher in the continence clinic at the VA Medical Center in Atlanta. Most people are taught to quickly squeeze and relax, squeeze and relax. But that doesnt strengthen the muscles, she said. The squeeze should be held for up to 15 seconds. We teach a 15-second squeeze, a 15-second rest, repeat that 15 times and do that three to four times per day. Most people use their abdominals, but you need to relax the abs and squeeze only the pelvic floor, she said. The second correction is to gradually lengthen the time you squeeze the pelvic floor muscles, eventually holding for up to 15 to 20 seconds with each squeeze and resting for the same amount of time in between each squeeze.
Primarily a female issue
Although men experience UI, often because of problems related to the prostate, twice as many women are affected, making it a largely female issue. Women should start exercising the pelvic floor as soon as they understand what the pelvic floor muscles are, Moore said. And it is never too late to learn. Ive had 95- and 97-year-olds in the clinic, and we teach them these as well. Even women whose pelvic floor muscles are weakened because of chronic conditions such as multiple sclerosis, still can benefit from the exercises, although it will take longer to see the effects, Moore said. However, stress UI caused by structural problems, such as urethral hypermobility, may not be resolved by pelvic exercises and often requires surgery, she said. Nurses have an important role in filling the knowledge gap about UI, the nurse experts say. Nurses are still primarily women, and this is a female issue, Newman said.
To learn more information about the TULIP Study, call 215-615-3780 or email Newman at firstname.lastname@example.com.