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#4 Cooking offal: Gizzards, hearts and livers
Part four and time to get into what some people might think of as the 'less desirable' internal bits of the duck.
by Laura Jean King on May 18, 2012
As defined in Larousse Gastronomique, offal is "The edible internal parts and some extremities of an animal… it therefore includes the head, feet, and tail, and all of the main internal organs. The offal from poultry is called giblets." While most people in the Western world wouldn't have any qualms about throwing duck giblets into boiling water to make a stock or gravy, many would balk at the thought of eating a heart, liver or gizzard on their own. In reality, these parts of a duck are very enjoyable to eat and have a wonderful, pronounced flavor. Think of them like meaty bacon – good as a garnish, good by themselves, and good as ingredients incorporated into recipes.
All of these organs can be cooked and eaten any way you want. I decided to confit the heart and gizzards and make a pate de foie gras out of the liver… both dishes were so incredible that I can't wait to do it again and, furthermore, can't wait to try new recipes with them. What surprised me when beginning my giblet journey is there's a whole subculture of chefs out there who are absolutely crazy about eating innards! Not too long ago, I agreed with the masses that these parts of a bird had no other purpose than to flavor a stock. I have now been converted to the other side and am eager to rush out and buy a bag of duck livers and gizzards as soon as possible. The recipes I'm about to share with you are decidedly inspirational. Besides knowing how good giblets can taste, this kind of cooking is truly a new frontier in eating both for me and many others out there because not a lot of people have discovered these ingredients yet. Cooking something new and wonderful gets me excited about cooking in general. I hope these offal recipes and ideas have the same effect on you and yours!
The duck innards most commonly eaten are the gizzards, heart and liver. The heart of a duck is very tiny – so petite, in fact, that my duck heart almost got lost in the shuffle when I was cooking it with the gizzards. Oh the gizzards, the divine morsels of meat that are much larger than the heart, come in pairs, and look like red lumps. Gizzards, before they hit your kitchen, are actually a digestive pouch in ducks acting as their second stomach. One of my ducks came with two gizzards, a heart, and a liver while my other duck came with none of the above. Make sure you buy a duck that includes the innards or you will be sorely disappointed. Gizzards and hearts can be cooked with the bird, deep fried, roasted, poached, boiled, ground, grilled, sautéed… you can really treat them both like any other meat… however, I gather that slow cooking and not over cooking produces the most desirable textures overall.
Confit hearts and gizzards
The recipe I tried for my first experience eating the heart and gizzards of a duck (or of any animal, really) was Geisers de Canard Confits. Simply put, these are the gizzards marinated and then slowly cooked in duck fat. I decided to toss in the heart as well. It is said that the heart and gizzards tend to be chewy, but if you decide to poach them confit they can be as supple as any meat prepared in a confit. To start, thoroughly rinse off the meats and then the recipe prescribed marinating them for 24 hours in your favorite seasonings. I marinated mine in a little bowl with garlic powder, salt, and thyme but didn't give it the prerequisite 24 hours. They ended up marinating only 2 or 3 hours, however it seemed sufficient. Heat your oven to 110°C (or 225°F). Before dunking them into the fat, rub away excess marinade with a paper towel and make sure they are as dry as you can get them. A dry marinade with salt added in works well for confit because the salt continues to remove moisture from the meat as it's marinating. The point of confit is to eventually remove all moisture from the duck so it can be properly preserved and stored.
After situating your meat in the pot, fill it up with duck fat or olive oil until it just covers the top of the meat. Put it in the oven for 2-3 hours depending on how much meat you have cooking. A good way to test if the meat is cooked is to see if a knife can easily cut through it. Be careful, though! I suggest removing the gizzard or heart from the fat before poking it. I didn't do this and hot grease spewed out everywhere on the counter and on me. Another thing to remember is if you want to cook hearts and gizzards, consider doing them in separate dishes because it won't take the hearts nearly as long to be ready and you don't want to overcook them. When they're done cooking, like any confit, you can either eat them on the spot hot from the oven or go ahead and store them in air-tight containers surrounded by the fat they were cooked in. To prepare them from storage just take them out, slice them up if you want, and sauté them in a hot pan for a few moments. While I ate mine immediately on their own- and by the way they are heavenly that way- I hear they're great sautéed and used as a topper for salads too. Jaques Pepin suggests putting sautéed duck giblets onto an escarole salad dressed with a lovely vinaigrette of shallots, Dijon mustard, red wine vinegar, salt, pepper, duck fat and olive oil.
and over rice
Another recipe I found that I'm eager to try is gizzards, hearts and mushrooms sautéed over rice. Put about 120ml (or ½ cup) of olive oil in a pan and get it hot. Pick out your favorite smaller mushrooms, halve, and throw them into a skillet along with about 900 grams (2 lbs) of gizzards and hearts. Cook over high heat until the mushrooms are browned, then add a cup of your favorite wine, port or sherry and reduce to medium heat. Add some minced garlic, parsley, thyme or tarragon, and pepper and salt to taste. Continue to cook the mixture for 20-25 minutes, adding more of the wine, port or sherry as needed. If you don't like rice, you could even put this dish over pasta too. If you like cream sauces, why not add a touch of cream towards the end? Soy sauce, lemon juice and onions would be another great combination to sauté giblets in. This way of cooking gizzards and hearts is very versatile, cost effective, and extremely easy to put together.
Sous vide
The very next recipe I'm going to make with gizzards when I can get my hands on about 10 of them is cooking them sous vide and confit at the same time! All you do is pack them in a single layer in a heavy duty freezer bag, surround them with liquid duck fat or olive oil, and after getting as much air out of the bag as possible you seal and submerge the bag into 60°C (or 135-140°F) water. If you're having a hard time submerging the gizzards, it means you have too much air still trapped in the bag. Try sealing most of the bag and sticking a straw in a little opening in one of the corners and suck out as much air as you can… I have done this and it works! Cook the gizzards for at least 4 hours. It isn't hard to maintain this temperature over low heat and it's perfectly safe with the freezer bag as they are made to sustain extreme temperatures. If you feel nervous at all, put a silicon mat in the bottom of your pot so your bag isn't directly touching it. If you are patient and have the time, leave your gizzards in for up to 8 hours to get them even softer; after you're done, you can eat them right away or add them to another dish.
Another interesting recipe I saw for sous vide gizzards has a marinade of salt and thyme and a dressing to drizzle on them after they're done cooking made of mushrooms sautéed in duck fat or olive oil, shallots, and garlic with some thyme and verjus.
… or super simple
If all of this sounds too adventurous to you just yet, consider pan-frying the gizzards and hearts in a little butter or fat, mincing them up, and adding them to your traditional bread-stuffing recipe. There's no shame in easing in!
A purportedly natural cough remedy that is by some more prized than the duck breasts even, gizzards and hearts thankfully can be very cheap to purchase. Take a look at your local grocery and butcher and see what they offer you. Fortunately it has not caught on yet how delicious these organs are, so since there are less people seeking them out there are deals to be had. If you have a hard time finding them in an average grocery, check out an Asian market and see if they happen to carry them. Anywhere you get them they likely will come frozen, but this is perfectly fine since it is said that freezing the giblets does not hurt the flavor or texture.
The liver
The duck's, of all the assorted edible livers, is considered to be one of the best you can eat, whether it's been specially fattened or not. As with gizzards, there are many things one can do with them. They can even be cooked and eaten whole, but I decided to do something a little less boring this time around; I decided to make a pate de foie gras out of mine. There are 3 terms you really should know to be able to intelligently discuss duck liver that are all related to one another and are sometimes confused: Foie Gras de Canard, Pate de Foie Gras de Canard, and Mousse Foie Gras de Canard.
One of the most culturally French foods in the world, Foie Gras literally translates in English to "fatty liver." While some are stringent in their opinions that the term foie gras can only apply to a properly fattened goose liver, Larousse Gastronomique lists duck along with goose and makes no special addendum when terming both fatty livers as foie gras. What is special about French foie gras is that it is legally mandated by French law that 80% of the content of pate de foie gras has to be made of goose or duck liver that has been specially fattened; the fattening process is said to create a more sweetly decadent, fattier liver. Foie gras made outside of France can be made from goose or duck livers that are naturally fed, but technically the resulting dish cannot be considered a true foie gras. Some states in the United States even have laws against products derived from force-feeding animals and therefore have no true French-style foie gras at all. In America, it is said that 80% of the foie gras sold here is made from duck. Unless you travel to France, expect to get a less traditional type of foie gras made from a duck or just a mock foie gras made from a naturally fed duck or goose liver… or both.
Foie gras de canard, sometimes confused elsewhere as pate de foie gras, is just the fatty liver of a duck. What you do with your foie gras is up to you! Besides just modestly cooking and eating it whole, you can grind the liver up with flavors and spices and create pate de foie gras to serve either by itself sliced up like a bread loaf or serve it on pastry, bread or crackers of some sort.
Pate de foie gras
While you can confit the livers to make pate de foie gras, I chose to simmer them in spices. Get a large pot, fill it with water and add some salt, spices and herbs. I chose a few bay leaves, some whole peppercorns, and salt. You can really add whatever you want, but I chose to keep it simple. Bring the water to a quick boil and then bring it down to a simmer for 10 minutes to bring out the flavors in your spices. Add your duck livers and simmer for another 5 minutes or so for a total of about 15 minutes. The livers should still be a bit pink inside, so to judge adequately, think about 5 minutes of simmering for each 450g (or 1lb) of liver. I only had livers from one duck so I simmered the livers for about 2 minutes. When they're done, drain the livers, remove the spices and put the livers in a big bowl along with butter, diced onion, mashed garlic, dry mustard, chili powder, apple vinegar and bourbon. If you don't like one of those items, feel free to omit it and/or add in something else, like nutmeg, juniper berries or even cinnamon. Use about 120g (or 1 stick) of butter, 1/3 of an onion and 4 cloves of garlic per 450g (or 1lb) of liver, and employ the rest of the spices to taste. A splash of each liquid should be enough. When you're done, mash everything together with a fork. Taste it, and add salt or more of a particular spice if you think the mixture needs it. Find a pretty, shapely dish to put your pate de foie gras in and let it chill. When it's done you can either unmold the pate and slice it or you can simply spoon it and spread onto toast or crackers. I loved this recipe- I actually used it to make a quesadilla with some of the leftovers (I'll get into that recipe in a subsequent article!).
Getting lost in translations
Loosely translated as bread of fatty liver of duck, pate de foie gras de canard confused me at first. Pate, in French, means some sort of pastry, dough, batter or pie. So, it made perfect sense that when talking about a pate, it was not about some French meatloaf sans pastry. Julia Child and Martha Stewart seemed to agree that a meatloaf lined with bacon and cooked in a terrine constituted a pate that was sometimes called a terrine. I thought to myself, how does that make sense when the French word directly means some sort of pastry? Anyways, to bridge the culinary gap between terms, I believed at first that pate de foie gras had evolved into something much more practical than pie-like pastry with foie gras. I began to think we've merely substituted fancy baked pastry for toasted bread and crackers. It made perfect sense and it was immediately understandable why the essential piecrust associated with the name of the dish fell by the way. I still wondered, why are so many pate de foie gras dishes served without a cracker or other breaded accoutrement? It wasn't until much later that I realized something else: pate is another word for bread. Perhaps pate de foie gras got its name because it was literally a loaf of meat! Finally. My troubled thoughts had been satisfied. It turns out, the proper name for pate baked in a pastry or pie is called "pate en croute" and when pate is baked in a terrine, it is properly called "pate en terrine." It all seems so straightforward now. Perhaps with this thorough explanation, some of you won't have to experience the frustration I went through trying to sort through the terminology!
I've seen a few great recipes for foie gras recently. Jaques Pepin published a recipe for "Duck Liver Pate": a recipe for foie gras served with bread. With ever-delicious duck fat in the hot pan, you brown some shallots, add in one foie gras, some herbes de Provence (a compilation of herbs typical of Provence such as savory, fennel, basil, thyme and rosemary) and some fresh garlic. Cook over medium high heat for a minute or so before adding salt and pepper. Put everything into a blender with a splash of Cognac and puree. For extra smoothness, put the mixture through a fine strainer. Chill in the refrigerator for a couple of hours and serve with toasted baguettes or crackers. Just so you're aware, if for some weird reason you don't finish your pate that day, it will keep covered in the refrigerator for about 4 days. While pate is, some say, the best way to enjoy duck liver as it is such a pure concoction, another way to enjoy duck liver and elongate the experience is to make mousse foie gras de canard.
et la mousse
Mousse foie gras de canard, or fatty liver of duck mousse, is about 55% duck liver whipped together with cream, eggs, and spices baked in a terrine and served hot or cold. Sometimes called a parfait (though parfaits are officially known to be chilled sweet desserts, not savory mousses), this type of dish is as complicated and gorgeous as it sounds. I have not had the privilege of trying this dish yet, but I've collected a small arsenal of recipes standing at the ready to serve me when I get the opportunity.
A talented chef from the Culinary Institute of America suggested a somewhat simple mousse foie gras recipe in one of his video blogs. You start by marinating the liver in brandy for a day, then pour it all into a blender with eggs and cream. While it is mixing away, drizzle in some duck fat. Mix until it is well blended and smooth. Put the whole thing into a terrine (again a sort of meat-loaf style mold) that is sitting in a water bath (properly termed a Bain-marie). Bake for about a ½ an hour in the oven at 175°C (or 350°F). The mixture will set up into a rich mousse- a seemingly impressive sight to behold! I look forward to trying this recipe soon when I gather enough duck livers to fill a terrine. It continues to amaze me how limited our food supply is in such a populous area of this country.
While the previous recipe is admittedly a bit vague as far as exact measurements, another interesting recipe that is more specific includes 570g (or 1¼lb) of duck livers, 450g (or 1lb) of hard pork fat, 180ml (or 6oz) of cream, 6 egg yolks, 55g (or 2oz) of salt, 1 teaspoon of mixed spices and 60ml (or 2oz) of brandy. Just puree the livers and pork fat together with the seasonings in the blender, then add the brandy, cream and egg yolks. When it's finished, pour everything into a terrine sitting in a Bain-marie and cook in a 160°C (or 325°F) oven for about 25 minutes or until firm. When it cools a bit, pop it in the refrigerator and serve cold the next day. When you feel confident, change around a few of the ingredients while maintaining the same sort of ratios. To have fun in the kitchen and be a true chef you need to develop a sense of what foods are going to do with each other, and there is no better teacher than experience. This mousse dish excites me because I feel how very adaptable it really is. Some ingredients you may want to play with in this recipe are shallots, garlic, different liqueurs, nutmeg, thyme, rosemary, Balsamic vinaigrette and dry mustard. Another idea is to layer the pate with asparagus in the terrine so when you carve into it there is a very appealing design.
A great type of mousse to make from repurposed, already cooked pate de foie gras is Mousseline de Volaille by Julia Child. Basically, you cook a handful of shallots with butter and 475ml (or 2 cups) of stock to start. She suggests mixing in gelatin, however I don't like to cook with gelatin. If you want to use it, she says add a couple of envelopes- or 2 tablespoons. Put the mix into a blender along with two cups of cooked duck and a ½ cup of cooked foie gras. Feel free to take out some more of the duck meat and replace it with more liver. Puree all of the ingredients together in the blender. Add a few tablespoons of brandy or wine and some pinches of salt and nutmeg. In a chilled bowl with a chilled whisk, beat 175ml (or ¾ cup) of whipping cream until it has doubled in volume. Fold the puree into the whipped cream and put it into a mold. For this sized dish, a 1.5-1.75l (or 6-8-cup) mold works best. Julia suggests refining the dish by lining the mold at the bottom with congealed stock jelly, but I find this somewhat repulsive so I would just say use a nonstick mold, cover the entire thing with wax paper and let it chill for many hours before serving.
Over to you
I hope I have made you think twice about just tossing duck gizzards, heart and liver meats into a stock or -gasp!- just throwing them away altogether. If you have problems locating big bags of frozen duck innards, please don't lose hope and be resourceful. Call up any market, specialty store, farmer's market and butcher you can think of. If you can't have them for the moment, I found that everyplace I called had chicken gizzards and chicken livers at least. You can substitute chicken for duck if you can't wait. What's comical is most food purveyors sell chicken gizzards but act like it's so odd when someone requests duck gizzards! Is it truly that far of a leap? If you encounter this attitude from someone, ignore them, continue on your search, and enjoy the chicken innards for the meantime. After trying the duck gizzards, heart, and liver just once, I feel as if a whole new world of cooking has opened its doors to me. It's like discovering chicken for the first time. While these well known bits are certainly an adventure to be had, there is an even more mysterious world of innards awaiting you in duck cooking! I will leave it up to your own imagination to delve into cooking and utilizing the head, neck and feet of a duck. You may be surprised at what you can do beyond the stockpot with these items as well!


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Before any smart alecks pose the question: Yes, Dave Bonk and Mark Derlago do know we have hockey here, too.
That hasn't stopped them from circling the globe to compete head-to-head on the ice. The Brandon buddies are two of the top scorers this season in Asia League Ice Hockey — Derlago with South Korea's Anyang Halla, and Bonk with Japan's Nikko Icebucks.
It might seem odd that two players from the Wheat City would find their way to one of the farthest-flung of professional hockey leagues, but less so when you realize that Bonk played a role in bringing Derlago, who played in Germany last season, to the Far East.
"I'd actually talked to him about trying to get him to our team a little bit earlier and he was still, I think, kind of leaning towards going back to Europe," said Bonk, a 30-year-old second-year member of the Icebucks who played with Derlago in 2008-09 for the ECHL's Bakersfield Condors. "But he had lots of questions. I just kind of told him about the league and then he ended up going to Korea.
"I think it's kind of like a hidden gem. … Guys don't want to come over here maybe, but once they do they realize that actually they pay really well and they treat you really well and the hockey actually's pretty good."
Although the style of play is different from what they're used to, both players are impressed by the calibre and are handling themselves very well on the ice. Derlago is currently third in the league in scoring with 39 points (15 goals, 24 assists) in 24 games, while Bonk is sixth, with 37 points (15 goals, 22 assists) in 23 contests.
Derlago, a 26-year-old former Brandon Wheat Kings captain, said the biggest adjustments have come off the ice.
"It was definitely a culture shock getting over here," he said of his arrival in Anyang, which is a Seoul suburb. "There were a lot of big changes, but at the same time, it's a big city with a lot of North American food chains and the building we live in is very nice and hockey is still hockey."
To be sure, the players have their share of not-in-Brandon-anymore moments. For Derlago those include watching teammates wolf down squid and octopus for their pre-game meals.
Bonk, meanwhile, has gotten used to Japan's frequent earthquakes, although he admitted that a magnitude 7.3 tremor that shook the Icebucks' dressing room during their pre-game meeting on Friday was a little unnerving.
Even the atmosphere at games takes a little getting used to.
"We get a decent crowd because there is an (American) army base nearby, so there are actually a lot of North American fans that come in and watch the games, so it's pretty good," said Derlago, who is on a one-year contract, while Bonk signed a two-year extension with the Icebucks prior to the season. "All the guys come with their hockey jerseys on and they're cheering and yelling."
"There's no concessions at the game, so it's bring your own food, bring your own beer, so it gets pretty wild in there," he added. "People just bring stuff in backpacks, bring whatever they want."
The biggest challenge the players face on a day-to-day basis, however, is definitely the language barrier, with teams allowed as few as two imports (it varies from club to club).
"It's tough to hold a conversation with people here," Derlago said. "They can say 'yes' and 'no' but there is a lot of nodding and smiling.
"There are probably three or four guys only on the team that you can carry a conversation with. So in the dressing room and in team meetings, you kind of have to look to them. We have a translator who helps us out a bit, but he doesn't get involved as much as you'd like."
Because of that, the imports tend to stick together in the Asia League — one of Anyang's imports is former NHLer Ric Jackman — and it's one more reason why Bonk and Derlago appreciate the chance to cross paths. Bonk has his wife Lane and daughter Vesper in Nikko, which is about 150 kilometres north of Tokyo, while Derlago's wife Jenna is in Anyang and all of them appreciate seeing a familiar face in a sea of strangers.
"Both times we go (to South Korea) it's kind of an extended road trip because there's two teams there," said Bonk, who played hockey at Northern Michigan University before setting out on a professional career that has taken him across the United States as well as to the Netherlands, Germany and Norway. "… We were pretty close to his house and went out for dinner a couple nights, went over to (Derlago's) apartment, saw his wife and stuff. That's one of the really nice parts. …
"Here it's a really small (import) community, so usually you kind of befriend the guys on the other team. You play hard against them, but if you have a day off you might go out for dinner and have a few beers or something and just relax. It's kind of a tighter community than in other places I've played."
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On the heels of providing my Aperture Cheat Sheets, I didn't want to leave out my friends who are using Lightroom to manage their photographs. I've made up a set of cheat sheets for Lightroom using my copy of Lightroom 1.3 for the Mac. I'm going to call this a beta release of the cheat sheets because I don't use Lightroom daily like I do Aperture. The sheets are made for Mac users in mind, simply because I do not have Lightroom for the PC and don't know if there is any differences in the shortcuts. If you're a PC user and can help verify this and want to help me make up a set for PC, let me know.
Making shortcut cheat sheets for Lightroom is a little harder than it was for Aperture simply because of the different views available for the application (develop, print, etc.). Each view modifies the menus and shortcuts somewhat, so what I've tried to do is reduce replication of the shortcuts and have provided some specific groupings for any items that seem to change per view.
Download the Mac cheat sheets.
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Cherry-Orange Bourbon
Why should food have all the fun? Let liquors take a turn with fresh, seasonal ingredients. You'll find the results are perfect for making summer cocktails in a snap. This infused booze is great simply mixed with seltzer or ginger ale, but try it in a Sour-Cherry Old Fashioned for something special.
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- 2 cups fresh or frozen sour cherries
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No one likes to fail. But sometimes failure can be a great learning experience, especially in business. The key is being able to take a step back and look at the failure objectively and figure out how to move past it.
"Understand that failing is not equivalent to being a failure. Failure only happens from not trying at all," notes personal growth and relationship coach Dawn C. Reid of Reid Ready Coaching, LLC. " Learn from the mistakes that contributed to the failed situation so that you are not doomed to repeat them."
It is not every time you will hit a home run. "Accept failure as one potential outcome; simply bring it into your consciousness. Don't dwell on it or wish it; just recognize and accept that your actions may not produce the desired result. In other words, failure is not your final destination, but it may be a place you visit on your journey," adds Angela Winfield, successful blind, attorney, inspirational speaker, certified coach, author and entrepreneur.
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You don´t have to make failure your best friend, but you will need to recognize (or embrace) it--and not ignore the failure. Part of embracing it is looking at your role in the failure. "Own it – What was your role in the failure? Yes, you had something to do with it. Examine your responsibility in the matter, acknowledge it and breathe through your disappointment in self," explains public relations strategist Holly Rodriguez, founder of H-Rod & Associates.
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Keep the big picture in mind: "Failing is not personal. Some things simply do not work out as planned. That's okay. You are not a failure because you failed at something," says Reid.
Recognize your effort: "Be proud of yourself for making an attempt to step out and try," Reid points out. "You would never have known what you are capable of, or what was possible had you not tried."
Where you are, where to go: Examine the situation from all sides. "Take stock of where you are to begin figuring out your next move. Call on your network for support – either a shoulder to cry on, or that friend who will tell you, in a straightforward way, how you messed up. From there, you can re-build," says Rodriguez.
Give yourself some time and space: Don´t rush a comeback. Reflect first. "Many people will tell you to´just get back out there!´, but without introspection, how are you going to do so and not repeat the same mistakes? Give yourself some time to grieve for your loss/failure. Write in your journal about your disappointment and hurt, talk with a friend, and if necessary, see a therapist to get past it. Treat yourself lovingly – a massage, pedicure, round of golf – whatever will help revive you. But don't hang out in this step for too long – dealing can turn into dwelling very quickly," suggests Rodriguez.
Look for the lesson: There is something to be learned from every experience, even failure. "Be willing to learn from failure. To get what you want, you have to move from self-consciousness to self-awareness. Get really real and curious about what worked and what didn't. Failure is your teacher. If you pay attention to it rather than run from it, it will give you valuable information and help you improve so that you have a better chance of succeeding," says Winfield, author of the forthcoming book, OPEN: How to Create A Life You Absolutely Love Living.
Get another opinion: Open up to your trusted circle--friends, mentors, colleagues. "Failure makes us more open to guidance. Use this 'open period' to seek and form new relationships that can help you get to the next level. Develop a strategy to stay there and cultivate those relationships. Failure makes us feel alone, but with the right network in your corner, you are never alone,: says Maryann Reid, senior marketing coach, Books & Buzz.
Never be afraid to fail: "It's really only failing if you stop there instead of continuing to take action until you succeed. If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed and, when you do succeed, your past failure doesn't matter," says Winfield.
Reconnect with your end goal: Just because you failed doens´t mean you have to give up your dream.
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membraine studios has begun beta testing their upcoming game for iPhone called Orbital Defence. The game is based on the popular shoot 'em up genre, your objective is to stop the aggressive aliens from invading your world. Though there are many intergalactic shooting games in the App Store, the developer claims that its design is genre-defining and will appeal to … Read More
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I want to use tiles in my house to improve its beauty but i don't understand which kind of tiles are used in now days, my house is very old but it has good building material and very good infrastructure.
For tile styles ,I suggest you go to Houzz.com and get a few ideas---you also need to consider what will look right in an older home---or is appropriate with the architectural style of the building--
If you will post your floor joist size--unsupported lenght--spacing--and type of wood-someone will run a span chart for you and let you know if your floor will support tile or stone.
I'll move this thread to 'tile' for you.---Mike---
Thank Mike,
U give me a very good suggestion to improve my house.... :)
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Welcome to the forum.
There are a lot of threads around here about taurus and the 24/7 in particular. Look around and I think you will find what you're looking for.
I have asked a few folks that know about guns what they think of the 24/7...and the words that I hear are crap and garbage. What do you guys think of the 24/7?
Welcome to the forum.
There are a lot of threads around here about taurus and the 24/7 in particular. Look around and I think you will find what you're looking for.
About half the people I know who have owned them think they are decent guns. But half has never been a resounding enough endorsement to make me want to try one.
I have one. its not the best pistol I've owned but everytime I load the chamber it goes boom. I hate the 2 dot heinie sites but that's minor and you adjust. it was my first handgun and it works fine. my .02
I have noticed that taurus seems to have a love or hate it following. I personally own two of there guns 24/7 pro .45cal love it has 500 rnds down the pipe and never ever a problem. I also own the PT111 and the same deal. I own sig HK and other higher end gun and would say that I have more trouble with my HK Sig and FNH then I have ever had with my Taurus. And really you can't beat the lifetime warranty.
Personally, no. But I have a friend that has had issues with Taurus and their warranty before. Also, if you search around online you can find stories of people having issues with Taurus. I'm not saying they are a bad company or that everyone has problems with them, but I'm just going by what I have heard. I also have friends who own Taurus guns and haven't had to bother with the warranty because they love them and they perform flawlessly for them. I think the PT92 is one of their best guns, and that would probably be the only Taurus I would buy if I was going to buy one. If you have experiences, like many, that don't have any issues at all, then you won't have to worry about it.
Sometimes Taurus has a little problem with their costumer service dept and/or honoring their warentee SOMETIMES. I've heard about as many good stories as bad. The idea that you hear the bad stories will throw people off. AS well as some peoples bias if a gun is not American or German made.
Personally I've had a few Taurus guns and have two right now. I've not had the first problem with any of them. My PT1911 is one of my favorite guns to shoot these days. The warantee thing don't worry me as much being I do most all my own pistol work so if something was to happen I'd just fix it. If they're was a problem with manufacture I guess I'd have to roll the dice..heh
Anyway..I wouldn't call them top shelf but they make some pretty good guns these days.
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I don't think one poor pistol in anybody's lineup would determine the manufacturer as a whole as "crap". They do have a lifetime warranty don't they?
My new 24/7 Pro had to go back to the factory within a week of purchase as the trigger would not reset. They had the gun for nearly 10 weeks, I sold it as soon as it got back. Yes, they have a lifetime warranty but when it takes 2 1/2 months to repair a brand new gun - I find that rather distressing.
I do own a PT99 and a PT1911 that are rock solid & reliable though, just don't have faith in their plastic guns anymore...
No experience with the 24/7 but no trouble from my PT1911 or PT 25.
I have a PT92 and love it. It's a little large for concealmant by a thinner guy like me, but it has always gone BOOM with no problems. I spend a lot of time on a Taurus forum and from what I read on the 24/7s it kind of seems to me like a lemon gets sent out every once and a while. Lots of guys have no problems, but there are a few who do. I researched Taurus when I started thinking about buying one and time and time again the PT92 popped up as reliable, inexpensive, and problem free. I'm a firm believer in doing my homework on something before putting my money down. Google "Taurus 24/7 problem" and see if there are any re-occuring issues that keep coming up.
A guy did a review on the 24/7 here the other day.
24/7 Pro Range Report
That's just one guy but it sounded pretty good anyway. Like I said before. I've heard both ways. I have had no trouble out of my PT1911 and have an old wheel gun..Both shoot great.
...Interesting to see that "fishing" is popular here too...LOL...I prefer casting myself...


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People considering a reverse mortgage should be aware of an important requirement -- that they must continue to live in the home after they take out the mortgage. Otherwise, the loan becomes due and payable.
So, what happens if a reverse mortgage borrower enters a long term care (LTC) facility? Will he or she end up in foreclosure? The residency requirement isn't a bogeyman to fear, but it is something that requires thorough understanding.
HECM Residency Requirement
About 90 percent of all reverse mortgages today are Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs), which are backed by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD's guidelines state:
The borrower must maintain his/her principal residence in the
property securing the HECM loan. He/she may not leave the
property for more than 12 months.
If you enter and remain in a care facility for more than 12 months, your reverse loan would be payable immediately. If you were receiving monthly checks from your reverse mortgage proceeds, those checks would stop.
However, there are some limitations to this policy.
First, if your spouse remains in the home, you're safe -- as long as he or she is also on the reverse mortgage. Some younger spouses have found themselves subject to eviction when they willingly dropped themselves from the home's title in order to increase the amount the couple could borrow with a reverse mortgage. When the older spouse died or had to enter a nursing facility, the reverse mortgage became due -- and the younger spouse was only considered a tenant, subject to eviction -- even in community property states. In other cases, the borrowing spouse left the home because of divorce or separation; the non-borrowing spouse had zero protection.
Second, if the elder spouse dies or enters long-term care, the younger spouse may be able to refinance the HECM and remain in the home. However, this is not guaranteed. It depends on the younger spouse's age and the amount of home equity available.
Third, as a practical matter, your mortgage servicer has to be notified that you've vacated the home before it can call your loan due and payable.
Finally, you're allowed to have other people live in the home with you -- SO IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE TO TAKE YOURSELF OUT OF LONG TERM CARE AND HAVE LIVE-IN HELP, CARE FROM FAMILY MEMBERS OR HOME HEALTH CARE instead of moving to a facility.
Here's what HECMCounselors.org has to say about residency requirements:
HECM borrowers must live in the home as their primary or principal residence in order to keep the HECM loan. Principal residence means
- "Where the borrower typically spends the majority of the calendar year"
- "Where the borrower maintains their permanent place of abode"
- Functionally, the borrower could be away for up to 6 months of the year and still claim the home as their primary residence. Longer absences may be possible if approved on a case-by-case basis by the servicer.
- Borrowers are advised (not required) to notify the servicer if they plan to be away more than 2 months. Servicers must verify residency at least annually, and if borrowers do not respond promptly to these requests, the servicer might assume that the property had been abandoned. Shutting off utilities may also be seen as a sign that the borrower has vacated or abandoned the property.
- If there are two borrowers, the loan stays in place indefinitely, as long as at least one borrower maintains the home as their principal residence.
- If the last surviving borrower cannot live in the home due to health conditions, they are permitted to be away from the home for as much as 12 consecutive months before the loan would be called due and payable.
- There is no restriction on other people living in the home. For instance, there is no problem with having one of the borrower's children living in the home, or having a health care worker or other staff person living in the home.
- The borrower is NOT permitted to rent the entire property to someone else and live somewhere else.
- Short-term rentals (e.g., of a home at the beach during the tourist season) may be permitted. Borrowers should check with the servicer if they plan to do this.
Requiring long-term care doesn't necessarily mean you have to terminate your reverse mortgage. Understand your alternatives now in case you have to make a decision later.


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The 14th Annual North Carolina Players Championship is July 14th-16th!
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With No Review, New Skyscrapers Darken Central Park
A new report finds that the super tall skyscrapers going up along 57th Street will leave super long shadows across Central Park.
The Accidental Skyline from the Municipal Art Society shows that the carousel, ball fields and zoo will be in the shade throughout the day.
The report points out that many of the buildings are being constructed "as-of-right," meaning public input or environmental reviews are not required. MAS suggests that changes to zoning rules that would allow for public input for hyper-tall buildings around key public spaces should be studied and reviewed.
MAS said new advances in building technologies that allow for extremely tall buildings to be built near open spaces like Central Park or the waterfront could affect the future of shared public spaces.


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Had a blast and if I can borrow some good safety gear, I'd like to give another go on the dirt bike.
This is a discussion on SoCal WRX FlatFour (F4) within the South Western States forums, part of the Regional Discussion category; Originally Posted by dragonwrx1 wow thats some dirty cars !!!! I was in the garage yesterday & finally got all ...
Had a blast and if I can borrow some good safety gear, I'd like to give another go on the dirt bike.
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"modding is a disease...but a positive disease, like Chlamydia!"
anybody intrested in an arc induction box? im selling it for $215 lemme know
hey guys im looking for a set Brembos fr and Rear. If anyone can find any good ones locally hit me up asap!
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My car is going back to mostly stock, an exhaust leak started yesterday morning, seems like it's coming from the up pipe to turbo.
anyhow, on DEC 2 i'll be at my parents house working the car, getting the stock parts back on, Eric said he should be able to help me, but i'd like another few hands to assist on the up pipe and injectors since those are the most time consuming.
hey guys....im NOT dead..just been friggin busy as ****!
so yea im popping on quick to tell you guys about a meet up here in glendale...i think F4 should def attned...well at least as many as we can muster up.
and yes....im still F4 20....and always will be!!!
Glad to hear you guys are still having meets. I have driven my car once since being here a whopping 80 miles in over a month. I think I am going through withdrawls, lol. Fall is beatiful on the east coast, though it's starting to get cold. Take care everyone.
By the way Anson, on the beef patties.
Hey guys, I'm back!!!
Did i miss anything?
*** J **** I'll see what my schedule is like. I can alway offer help, I just dont' know if I will actually make it.


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Unfortunately, I have a strong feeling Webb won't be a Cincinnati Red. But I would be glad to be proved wrong.
I really like the Price signing. Honestly had not remembered ever hearing of the guy. A good sign is, he wasn't fired from AZ, he resigned. The Reds-signing press release from AZ Central News was flooded with positive comments about him.
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TAMPA – The Bulls look to stay perfect in Big East play when they face DePaul 11 a.m. Sunday at the USF Varsity Courts.
No. 57 USF defeated Marquette, 6-1, last Saturday in Tampa to improve to 5-0 against conference opponents this season. The teams of Katie Vasenina and Loreto Alonso-Martinez, and Fanny Fracassi and Paula Montoya set the tone by clinching the doubles point. Each of USF's doubles players won in singles while Alessandra Bonte produced a straight-set win of her own.
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Q: Are the green and orange colored tortilla wraps more nutritious than regular tortillas since they are made with vegetables?
A: No. So little spinach and tomatoes are used to make "spinach" and "tomato" tortillas that the nutritional difference between colored and regular tortillas is negligible. The four to six percent of daily value for vitamin A or C that may be found on labels of some of these specialty tortillas is not enough to qualify them as a good source of these nutrients. It's more important to choose tortillas that are made from whole grain and not refined flour, and to pay attention to calorie differences stemming from tortilla size and the amount of fat added. Make vegetables a major part of the filling, and perhaps have an extra salad to accompany your wrap to get the important nutritional value vegetables provide.
Q: Are there tricks for dealing with taste changes that occur during chemotherapy or radiation treatment of cancer?
A: Taste changes affect some people more than others, but usually gradually disappear a few months after the end of treatments. If food seems too bland, make it more flavorful with extra herbs, or (as long as you don't have mouth or throat sores) add lemon or lime juice, salt or spices. If food seems too salty, counter by adding sweet flavorings, such as fruit, honey, molasses, or sweet spices such as cinnamon. For food that is too sweet, try adding salty or acidic foods or flavorings, such as lemon juice or buttermilk. If food seems too bitter, producing an aversion to meat, choose other protein sources such as poultry, fish, eggs, tofu or beans. You can reduce metallic tastes that appear in foods by eating from plastic silverware. Overall, you can make food more flavorful by using marinades and sauces, highlighting the types of flavors that most need to be added based on these taste differences. When food tastes and smells become offensive, you may tolerate cold foods better than hot foods, which tend to have more aroma. Make sure to talk with your cancer care team about mouth hygiene, perhaps using mouth rinses to keep the mouth clean and to reduce problems with sores and bacterial growth. Your team can also offer suggestions to deal with a dry mouth from decreased saliva, if that develops. Ask if your cancer center has a Registered Dietitian who can help you plan meals that fit your lifestyle and tastes and meet your nutritional needs. This is a time when being proactive – before limited food tolerances affect your health – is the best approach.
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Vatican condemns embryo stem cell research, cloning
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican bioethics document Friday condemned artificial fertilization and other techniques used by many couples and also said human cloning, "designer babies" and embryonic stem-cell research were immoral.
The long awaited document from the Vatican's doctrinal body marked a big step by the Vatican into the brave new world of biotechnology, an area in which governments around the world are struggling to formulate legislation.
The document also condemned new drugs that block pregnancy from taking hold, such as the so-called "morning-after pill" and the drug RU-486, which blocks the action of hormones needed to keep a fertilized egg implanted in the uterus.
These drugs, as well as the IUD (intrauterine device), which has been in use for decades, were deemed to fall "within the sin of abortion" and are gravely immoral.
"Dignitas Personae (dignity of a person), an Instruction of Certain Bioethical Questions," is an attempt to bring the Church up to date with recent advances in science and medicine.
The document, the most authoritative of its kind from the Vatican in 20 years, said human life deserved respect "from the very first stages of its existence (and) can never be reduced merely to a group of cells."
"The human embryo has, therefore, from the very beginning, the dignity proper to a person," said the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith's document, approved by Pope Benedict who headed the same office before his election in 2005.
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Suspension, Brakes and Tires Discussion, Wire wheel lock nut solution: in Item Specific Cadillac Discussion; Are your '80s and early '90s wire wheel lock nuts making you look like this guy because you lost the ...
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Are your '80s and early '90s wire wheel lock nuts making you look like this guy because you lost the tool, or have the wrong one?? well heres a solution. The following is a list of tools you will need to remove the lock nuts without the GM factory tool, 1: 7/8 inch socket, 2: hammer, 3: Rachet to fit the socket, 4: rachet extender(optional) 5: screw driver. Thats it! SO heres what you do, take the socket, make sure its your 7/8" and attach your 2" extender to it (this is optional, but a good idea, it will protect your hands from whats comming next) position the socket over the wheel cover lock nut and gently, or forcefully tap it on with your hammer, then attach your ratcheting wrench and turn in a counter-clock-wise direction. you now have your lock nut off, heres the difficult part: getting the nut out of the socket. there are a few methods for this, but if you use them all in succesion it'll work, You can use a flat head screwdriver to put down in the socket hole and tap on it with your hammer, or you can use the screw driver to wedge between the end of the socket and the lip of the lock nut. for the first removal method i suggest the blunt end of a punch or some type of metal rod, the screw driver bites into the plastic nut otherwise. How have i discovered this you ask? Well GM made different lock nuts, my '89 has the green colored ones where as my '90 has red ones, the fulcrum holes are on oposite sides, therefor the green tool wont work, so i devised this method and decided to pass it along. Please use this on your own car, and not to score some caddy wire wheel covers!! OH, and suggest this to your service garage if they dont have the tool, DONT let them use vice grips! Take it easy guys.
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When I had cars that had the wire wheel covers with the locking nuts, I removed all of the special bolts and replaced them with bolts that had TORX heads. Not too many hubcap thieves carry a TORX set with them. If they try to pry your caps off and they don't come, they figure you have the locks and leave them alone. In the meantime, you or any garage can get them off without any major surgery. And a drop of neverseize on the threads doesn't hurt either.
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Your local GM dealer is pretty much it.
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Re: Wire wheel lock nut solution:
Above solution didn't work for me... but I did get them off without ruining the wheel cover by spraying WD40 on it the nut and then using a pair of curved pliers to turn the nut... came right off.
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I tried needle nose pliers. Didnt budge. I went out and bought needle nose vise grips. Nothing. Then I went out and bought a fancy drill bit that screws into a bolt, in order to move it. It would not even dent the screw head. #$%^(*&(&.
How did the bad guys steal hub caps so quickly back in the day?
GM dealer wants $100 to take them off. Argh. I may try the 7/8 socket trick mentioned above.


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Target: Arenac County Fair Executive Board
Goal: Immediately cancel all elephant rides on Nosey the Elephant, who has suffered abuse for years
County fairs are, for many people, a fond childhood memory or a favorite annual activity. But for animals like Nosey the Elephant, county fairs can be horrific. Sign the petition and urge the Arenac County Fair Executive Board to immediately cancel its planned elephant rides, and encourage the board to cut ties with Nosey's exhibitor, Hugo "Tommy" Liebel.
Liebel shows a startling disregard for both Nosey's well-being and U.S. law; he was recently fined $7500 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for multiple violations of the Animal Welfare Act. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) documentation of the violations is strongly worded, in keeping with the severity of the abuse Nosey has been subjected to: the report specifically states that "the gravity of the violations…is great" before providing the details of fourteen unannounced APHIS inspections, all of which turned up violations of the Animal Welfare Act.
Inspectors charged Liebel with failing to provide Nosey with adequate veterinary care, subjecting her to dangerous "housing facilities" that included exposed nail points and sharp pieces of metal, and tying her up in such a way that would restrict her movement and cause her unnecessary stress. Several of the violations also concerned two monkeys in Liebel's care, and the report also alleges that Liebel "misrepresents his own [identity], and the identity of Nosey, to the public."
Animals thus treated, in addition to being the victims of horrible abuse, pose a threat to public health and safety. Urge the executive board of the Arenac County Fair to act in the best interests of both its patrons and Nosey the Elephant. Sign the petition asking the board to cancel elephant rides at the Arenac County Fair, and urge the board to end its business relationship with Hugo "Tommy" Liebel for good.
Dear Executive Board Members,
For many children, elephant rides are a highlight of the county fair. But for Nosey the Elephant, county fairs are hellish.
This year, Nosey's owner, Hugo "Tommy" Liebel, paid $7500 in fines for repeated violations of the Animal Welfare Act. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) report takes ten pages to document all of the violations, and the report's writers note that "the gravity of the violations…is great."
Liebel, who also owns two monkeys, is charged with violations that range from failing to provide adequate veterinary care for Nosey to chaining her up so as to restrict her movement in a way that APHIS deemed likely to cause "behavioral stress, physical harm or unnecessary discomfort." He was also cited for multiple violations of the minimum safe housing facility standard, and was charged with allowing a monkey named Reggie to escape and remain missing for ten days.
But perhaps most damningly from a strictly business standpoint, the report alleges that Liebel "misrepresents his own [identity], and the identity of Nosey, to the public" by falsely claiming that Nosey has been in "the most movies ever in the country" and that she is 15 when she is in reality close to 30. He also uses aliases for both himself and Nosey.
Hugo "Tommy" Liebel has proven himself to be unprofessional at best and cruelly inhumane at worst. I urge you to maintain the high caliber of the Arenac County Fair–cancel Nosey's elephant rides and sever business ties with Hugo Liebel as soon as possible.
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I play guitar wrote 7 songs with one of the legends of rock. I use to sing and cut records in Nash,Tn got burned out with the politics of the music biz. Just an young old retired that loves my grandaughter.Originally Posted by Hal8000
I miss recording sometimes and some of the folks notice I said some.
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So I'm a little late but my plans to see the new SATC movie last week were postponed to last night, and I loved it! I heard a lot of supposed fans saying it sucked, but personally, I can't see why any fan would think that, it had everything the series and the first SATC movie had, why all the hating?
Yeah the girls look a little older, but Patricia Field still knows how to rock Carrie et al's bad selves. You got Big, you got Smith and even Aiden, what's not to like?!
I've never been a Big girl (except for when he rescued Carrie from the Russian dude), and I personally think Carrie should've stayed with 'Sam' from the first series (the epi called 'Valley of The Twenty-Somethings' girls, look it up and check out the cameo role from a very young past gratuitous nom nom of the week!) but it's cool to see them still having to work through their relationship in a time when so many women think that hooking a rich man is the immediate key to happiness (or at least happiness in Harvey Nichols). Anyway, fine holiday fun. These girls never change and I'll always love them. I doubt there will be a SATC3 unless they consider pulling a pregnancy out of the bag for Carrie and Big, which would just turn it into a high fashion, New York version of Knocked Up, and I'm not sure I want to see Carrie's va jay-jay in any sort of crowning action!
So, while we're on this subject, here's a few cool little items I spotted in the movie :)
First up is the Jennifer Zeuner £240 Clover necklace that Carrie wears throughout the movie. You can buy it at Spoiled Brat.
Then I spotted Samantha in some cool classic Patricia Field 'Polly' mules, available in tons of colours for $148 at Patricia Field .
Then the Abu Dhabi nightclub djs wore the cool Field Salutes Sprouse hoodies, available at Patricia Field for $88! I actually want all of the ladies range myself, it's such a cool print.
And finally, the vintage(ish) Dior newspaper dress that Carrie wore years ago made a reappearance! I love how they use her old clothes, because lets face it, if any of us bought an iconic dress like that, you wouldn't be putting it into storage after one wear!
So yeah, it's still got it, and it never left them! That's my opinion and I'll be damned if I'll let the haterz turn me. I <3 SATC 4eva!
JC - getting out the boxset....
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SATC2 - Shush haterz, I Liked It.
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The couple - who have been dating for the past eight months after rekindling their romance - are seemingly set to tie the knot this summer in France.
The pair have previously been engaged but ended their relationship in 2005 after it was revealed Jude was having an affair with his children's nanny, Daisy Wright. They got back together in October last year and are now set to say "I do".
A source told the Mail Online: "After all this time and such a long and rocky history together, they want a low-key wedding. Jude and his parents really want the wedding to be held in the French countryside, so that is what is being discussed at the moment.
"Jude and Sienna just want to be married and start their life together."
Sienna has been spotted walking around Vaudelnay in the Loire Valley, where Jude's parents live, holding a "wedding file".
However, Jude's ex-wife Sadie Frost - the mother of three of his children, Rafferty, Iris and Rudy - is said to be angry about their plans, because Sienna is making arrangements for the kids to have roles without consulting her.
A source said: "There are many things that Sadie is cross about at the moment. Sienna is making all these plans for Sadie's children to be part of the wedding party, she wants them to be bridesmaids and pageboys.
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