Thursday May 14th
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Keep forgetting about this.
Between here and live journal and a few other places, I keep forgetting about this journal here.
Anyhow, Life is good, despite the fact I "lost" my job. Hmm how can anyone lose a job, I dunno. I mean as long as the company is in operation the job is still there... ahh well.
Tough times to get canned in, but no worries mate. I aint afraid of working at any job, granted it'd be nice to make what I was making at my other job, but hey money is money. 'Course I could always Billy the kid it, and make a splash on the news as they haul my dead body away, but what fun is in that. Instead, I'll look and look and look. While I apply at temp services and burger joints. Now if I was a chick, in decent shape, I'd become a stripper. But being a mid age fat guy, I can't see that happening.
Hmm.. maybe the curent government will support me lol, ya right. |
posted Thursday May 14th, @11:04AM
Monday July 21st
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Dang, been a long in finding this.
Anyhow with an election approaching, the dollar swirling the drain, and the sky is falling... What else is there?
DSLreports of course  |
posted Monday July 21st, @05:06AM
Thursday July 19th
(jump earlier later)
Life is like a river,
always flowing, changing directions.
One day, things look like they are good.
The next day, things turn to shit.
For some, life is a short trip.
For others, it last for years.
Some are just driftwwood, drifting thru life and leaving no marks.
Others, are like a force unto themselves. After their passage, they are remembered for a long time.
Also:
I built my 1st PC, and installed windows Vista. So far after 2 months, its running great. Newegg was the source of my parts. |
posted Thursday July 19th, @05:07AM
Friday December 1st
(jump earlier later)
Got a new LCD Flat Panal Monitor.
My old monitor went on the fritz after 7 years of being on nearly 24/7. That Monitor was a Del brand Sony Trinitron.
My new monitor is a KDS LCD flat screen. Its kool.
I was checking out my Linux install when I stumbled across this site:
»www.tuxmagazine.com
Its a Linux magazine for newbies. I then discorved the picture attached to this post here:
»www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000229
Now to reload windows and see what is up with my hard drive. |
posted Friday December 1st, @09:18PM
Friday November 3rd
(jump earlier later)
Getting to be that time of year....
So from me to anyone that reads this..
Have a safe and happy holidy season. |
posted Friday November 3rd, @06:28PM
Monday August 28th
(jump earlier later)
The Vanishing Me.
Back in feb. '06 I started working, after a 6 month period of not working.
I weighed 289. A few weeks on the job got me down to 277.
I decided to change up what I ate during the day. The old menu was:
4 Pop tarts [200 cals. each times 4]
1 20 oz coke [110 cals per serving times 2]
or in other words a 1 thousand cal. Breakfast.
For lunch it would be two sandwhiches and another 20 oz or larger coke.
Supper was another cal. fest.
Now:
Breakfast:
1 glass of fiber.
1 cup of dry ceral [110 calories]
1 diet coke [zero cals].
Lunch:
A single serving of cambells single serving soup [100 to 150 cals]
or 1 can of fruit [3 servings at 40 to 100 cals]
or a Salad made up at home containing no meat, no cheese, no croutons. Salad dressing is a vigeernette.
or a Healthy Choice frozen dinner [cooked of course].
Supper:
I drink water with supper, but don't watch the cal. count.
Exercise:
Walk or bike ride 1.5 miles a day. My job also requires me to stand for 8 hours [or more if I am doing over time]. Also I am doing a lot of moving while working at my position.
Goal:
I haven't really sat a goal, but it would be nice to get to 200 pounds or less.
I have been wearing my current belt for 10 plus years. It is nearing the smallest hole. A hole I put in it when I had hit 225 10 years ago.
Another goal of mine is to pass the Army PT test. I know I am not in the service anymore, but in my mind the PT serves as a fitness benchmark.
I had posted that I was considering going back into the service. I found out that I can't until I hit 200 pounds and pass the test.
So off I go  |
posted Monday August 28th, @05:42AM
Friday August 11th
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In honor.....
I was watching "SAving Private Ryan".
During the D-day invasion, I had a flashback to a few years ago as a McD's shift manager in Marrietta GA.
Just about every Sunday around 1pm an elderly gentlemen would come in. He'd place his order, 2 burgers, 2 apple pies, and a small fry. Or he'd change up and get a Big Mac, and a Cheeseburger. I got to talking to him, as it was store policy to get to know your regular customers and make them feel welcomed. After learning that he was a WW2 Vet, I gave him his food for free. He didn't like that, nut I told him ot was from one soldier to another and a Thank you for serving his country.
One day he asked me "Ever see the movie "Saving Private Ryan"?"
I said, yes.
He replied "I was there on D-day. I kept praying each step and I was doing fine. Then all the sudden the sea closed over my head and I was drowning. I had stepped into a crater. I managed to remove my equipment and ended up on the beach with a Knife and not much else. But I was alive."
After a few weeks he came in with a gleam in his eye. He asked me to follow him outside. He showed me his birthday present from his son. It was a liscense plate frame that Had his two bronze stars [service awards] on it, and the years of service.
Shortly after that 9/11 happened. He came in angry and asked me if I wanted to join him in the enlistment line. I said hell yes.. but we both realized war is for the young, politics is for the old. Shortly after that he stopped comming for a month straight. When he did come back he said he had almost died, and that he wasn't sure of how often he'd make it in. He came back regularly for about three weeks.
Then my life got busy, my mom was in the hospitail on her death bed so I had to go and let her see the grandkids. She died and we came home. I hadn't realized as to how bitter I got over her death, at least not until I without thinking quit McD's. I had worked there for nearly 3 years, and I just up and quit about a month after my mother's death. Basically I was in a funk that said Fuck it. Nothing matters because after you die, it just fades away.
So I don't know how long he continued to MvD's. I imagine he maybe dead by now. It has been some 7 or 8 years since I have worked there.
So now I just have a fading memory of him, that resurfaces from time to time during certain movies.
Saving Private Ryan and The Big Red 1.
To him and all those that have and are serving and their families...
Thank you. |
posted Friday August 11th, @08:47PM
Sunday July 16th
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Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
»www.imdb.com/title/tt0311361/
I would have posted this in a forum, but the Christains might have taken offense.
I posted this here because I wanted to suggest something.
Stop being afraid to voice your opinion. So what if it offends someone. That person, if offended by something you say, should take a long look at themselves. Because a person that knows themself can't be offended by anyone.
I think hollywood should take a long look at the indie movies out there. The indie movies do things with much less money, and alot more/or less acting talent.
Movie Poster |
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posted Sunday July 16th, @02:42PM
Sunday June 11th
(jump earlier later)
This started as a post in the Pub, but then I decided to ....
post it here.
Equality? That aint natural!
A few days ago I was listening to a Radio talk show host.. his name is Howie and he is broadcas from Akron Ohio.
He had mentioned how once upon a time in America, there was the truely haves and the have nots.
For example:
There were places in America were only the rich could go. Now thanks to laws and credit cards anyone can go just about anywhere. And look what happened to the former play grounds of a select few. They now have become worn down amusement parts that have litter laying all over and the sounds of angry people waiting in long lines.
Another impact of this "Everyone is equal" crap:
Such things as surcharges on utility bills. Certain surcharges are there so those that are poor, retired, can get basic utes for free. I think there is even an idea to determine that basic cable and low level broadband iternet service is a neccesity of life.
Bull crap. If you can't afford utes on your own, thing bring in roommates to help pay for utes, or get a couple of jobs so you can pay for the utes. Basic cable is not a neccessity of life, nor is broadband internet service.
Then there was a comment about how in this modern day age of Equality, all kids get toplay little league baseball, and they get a turn at the bat, until they hit the ball. In the days of old there used to be try outs [forcing the kids to actually want to play, and to play well], and three strikes you were out.
Back a few years ago, people drove what they could afford, now it seems even those just above welfare level get to drive SUVs, when it eas just those at welfare level and the rich that rode around town in a SUV [I mention this because a few people I have known have said it seems that those on welfare seemed to be able to get colored TVs before the people I knew could save enough to buy one. Granted today you can buy a TV for under 120 bucks].
IMO, we need to get rid of the craack cards [credit cards] that are freely given out like candy. We need to return to a system where Credit reports and scores meant something to the Credit card agencies [remember how hard it used to be to get an Amx green card 20 years ago?]. Now today the only reason why CC companies use credit reports is to see who the dead beats are [those that pay card off every month] vs those that carry a balance or run at least on payment behind [CC companies make more money off of these people. Late fees, service charges, higher interest rates. Hence that is why bankruptices tend to draw certain CC companies to a person, like flies to crap]. Of course for other types of Credit, like House mortgage, it is all about having a good credit report. Even car loans are starting to go the way of CCs. If you have a not so good to bad report, certain places will still give you a car loan. All you need to do is put more money down, have a job you have been employed at for 6 months and pay a higher interest rate.
So basically, the only thing a good credit report will help you on is lower interest rates on Car loans, getting a house loan, or in some cases help you get a job with an employer. Some employers pull credit reports.
Now getting back to Equality betwen the haves and the haves nots...
Change the laws and make credit cards harder to get for those making umder 30k a year. Maybe we'll have fewer debtors and our economy [meaning the dollar] will get stronger as more people get out of debt.
***End post***
What brought the above to light?
This web page here:
»mcnsite.mcn.org/dsl/fusf.html
quote:
The USF helps to make phone service affordable and available to all Americans, including consumers with low incomes, those living in areas where the costs of providing telephone service is high, schools and libraries and rural health care providers. Congress has mandated that all telephone companies providing interstate service must contribute to the USF. Although not required to do so by the government, many carriers choose to pass their contribution costs on to their customers in the form of a line item, often called the “Federal Universal Service Fee” or “Universal Connectivity Fee”."
What is next? A recovery fee on cell phones so the have nots get to have basic free cell phone service? |
posted Sunday June 11th, @06:20AM
Monday June 5th
(jump earlier later)
Debt..... or the downside of Credit card addicttion.
Wife and I are considering filing for chapt. 13 bankruptcy.
We don't want to, but the high interest rates, service charges are making it impossible to pay down cards.
In my case, a few of the cards have been "charged off". Which means they are unpaid. I have two options:
1]Do nothing to the charge offs, they will vanish in 7 years.
2]Attempt to settle the debt at a reduced amount owed.
Credit still takes a hit for charge off but the zero balance will look better then a balance.
Filing for Bankruptcy will stay on your credit hisstory for 10 years. But you'll have to check the yes box when ever applying for credit for the rest of your life.
Debt settlement services/Consolidation very. Best to shop around and put out feelers to see who is good. When it comes to getting help to deal with your debt, the help costs money as well.
Info on charge off:
»www.stretcher.com/stories/03/03aug25c.cfm
»www.debtsynergy.com/html/about.html |
posted Monday June 5th, @11:59PM
Wednesday April 26th
(jump earlier later)
Immigration......
I shudder every time I here the President of the United States utter the words "Treat them with respect and dignity".
Why should illegals be treated with respect or dignity?
Just because they preform hard manual labor jobs for very low wages? Or is it because they companies they work for are joining together to fight tougher immigration laws?
IMO, we have legal Americans that need help. We have homeless children, US veterans that need to be taken care of.
In the mountains of the eastern US we have a section of poor that is often ignored, until a disaster happens.
In the gulf coast region we have people that were ignored by nearly everyone, until Katrina hit and revealed our dirty laundry.
IMO, illegals are illegal and need to be deported. No amnesty, no worker program for them.
Any elected official that wishes to grant amnesty to the illegals, needs to be removed from office.
As for the unemployed/poor. Maybe this great modern age isn't all its cracked up to be. Think of how many jobs have been lost to a machine, that once used to be held by 16 year olds and up.
Full service gas stations, Crop planters, tenders, pickers, Lumber yard help. Now we have self serve and young men hanging out with no idea on how to remain gainfully employed. Instead they have to much spare time and get in trouble.
By removing Illegals, we once again create a source of income for our young men. Unless it is to late, and our young are to spoiled by their Mommies and Daddies, and refuse to dare get their hands dirty or callused from a honest days labour. Today's parents seem willing to give their kids Cars, cell phones, computers to their children. They fil to realize that a lesson is being ignored. The lesson is the one of value. A gift has only emotional value, and that value is soon forgotten. But when a person sweats toearn money to buy a car, he treats the car very well, much better then if the car was given to him. |
posted Wednesday April 26th, @05:41AM
Wednesday April 5th
(jump earlier later)
What is in my food:
Here are the 3 posts down so far:
Mt. Dew Code Red:
What is in my soda?
I decided to see if I can understand just what exactly is in Mt. Dew code red. I do plan on doing this for other things as well.. but decided to start off with this:
Carbonated Water:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonated_water
quote:
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Carbonated water, also known as soda water, sparkling water, or seltzer water, is plain water into which carbon dioxide gas has been dissolved. The process of dissolving carbon dioxide gas is called carbonation. It results in the formation of carbonic acid (which has the chemical formula H2CO3).
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High Fructose Corn Syrup:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Fruct···rn_Syrup
quote:
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High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a newer and sweeter form of corn syrup. Like ordinary corn syrup, it is made from corn starch using enzymes
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and/or Sugar:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar
quote:
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In general use, "sugar" is taken to mean sucrose, also called "table sugar" or saccharose, a disaccharide which is a white crystalline solid. It is the most commonly used sugar for altering the flavor and properties (such as mouthfeel, preservation, and texture) of beverages and food
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Orange juice from concentrate:
[I did a search on concentrate]:»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrate
quote:
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A concentrate is a form of substance which has had the majority of its base component, or solvent, removed. Typically this will be the removal of water from a solution or suspension such as the removal of water from fruit juice. The benefit of producing a concentrate is that of a reduction in weight and volume for transportation as the concentrate can be re-constituted at the time of usage by the addition of the solvent.
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Citric acid:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid
quote:
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Citric acid is a weak organic acid found in citrus fruits. It is a good, natural preservative and is also used to add an acidic (sour) taste to foods and soft drinks. In biochemistry, it is important as an intermediate in the citric acid cycle and therefore occurs in the metabolism of almost all living things. It also serves as an environmentally benign cleaning agent and acts as an antioxidant.
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sodium polyphosphates
»www.inchem.org/documents/jecfa/j···2040.htm
Sorry no quote here, but follow the link for lots of latin wordage..
Natural flavor
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor
quote:
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According to the U.S. code of Federal Regulations, a natural flavor is "the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or any other edible portions of a plant, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose primary function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional." [1] An artificial flavor is one that does not meet the specifications listed above
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sodium Benzoate
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_Benzoate
quote:
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As a food additive it is used as a preservative, effectively killing most yeasts, bacteria and fungi. Sodium benzoate is effective only in acidic conditions (pH
Caffine
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffine
Sodium Citrate
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_citrate
quote:
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In this sense, it is similar to calcium citrate. Like citric acid, sodium citrate has a sour taste. Like other salts, however, it also has a salty taste. For this reason, citrates such as sodium and calcium citrate are common known as sour salt (sometimes, people refer to citric acid as sour salt). It is chiefly used as a food additive, usually for flavor or as a preservative. Sodium citrate gives club soda both its sour and salty flavors. Sodium citrate is common in lemon-lime soft drinks, and it is partly what causes them to have their sour taste.
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Gum Arabic
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gum_Arabic
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Gum arabic, a natural gum also called gum acacia, is a substance that is taken from two sub-Saharan species of the acacia tree, Acacia senegal and Acacia seyal. It is used primarily in the food industry as a stabilizer, but has had more varied uses in the past, including viscosity control in inks.
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Erythorbic Acid
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythorbic_acid
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Erythorbic acid, a stereoisomer of ascorbic acid, is a vegetable derived food additive produced from sucrose. It is denoted by E Number E315, it is widely used as an antioxidant in processed foods
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Calcium disodium edta
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edetate_ca···disodium
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Used in coca-cola and other sodas to prevent accidental contamination
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red 40
»www.red40.org/
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FD&C red Dye #40, also commonly called red 40, is widely used in the foods and drugs that we consume; often we don't give much thought to the fact that much of what we consume is artificially colored
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Potassium benzoate
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_benzoate
quote:
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Potassium benzoate, the potassium salt of benzoic acid, is a food preservative that inhibits the growth of mold, yeast and some bacteria. It works best in low-pH products, below 4.5, where it exists as benzoic acid.
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Brominated Vegetable oil
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brominated···able_oil
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Brominated vegetable oil (BVO) is vegetable oil that has been mixed with the element bromine. Brominated vegetable oil is used as an emulsifier in citrus-flavored soft drinks such as Mountain Dew to help natural citrus flavors stay suspended in the drink. The bromine is mixed with the vegetable oil so that it will have a density identical to the water in the drink.
Consuming BVO leaves traces in body fat; it is unclear whether these traces pose any health risk. Many people fear that BVO is harmful, but there have been few scientific studies to demonstrate this. In one case, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine on 8 May 2003 , a man who drank eight liters of Ruby red Squirt daily had a reaction that caused his skin color to turn red and produced lesions diagnosed as bromoderma. The excessive quantities together with the fact that the man had an higher than normal sensitivity to bromine, made this an unusual case.
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Yellow 5
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_5
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Tartrazine (otherwise known as E102 or FD&C Yellow 5) is a synthetic lemon yellow azo dye used as a food colouring
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Blue 1
»www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/col-ltr2.html
quote:
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would like you to be aware of several reports of toxicity, including death, temporally associated with the use of FD&C Blue No. 1 (Blue 1) in enteral feeding solutions. In these reports, Blue 1 was intended to help in the detection and/or monitoring of pulmonary aspiration in patients being fed by an enteral feeding tube
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Hmm.. that wasn't what i was looking for when I was looking up Blue 1... lol... so here is a second blue one link:
»www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuis···abetical
quote:
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BLUE 1 ... Artificial coloring: Beverages, candy, baked goods. Inadequately tested; suggestions of a small cancer risk.
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*sigh* ok a 3rd and final Blue 1 link:
»www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-221.html
well ok a 4th:
»www.foodadditivesworld.com/fdc-b···ake.html
quote:
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FD&C Blue No.1 Lake must be completely dispersed in food to optimize performance. High usage levels in food can lead to consumer complaints of stool-staining.
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And now we know what is in a bottle of Mt. Dew code red...
Reece's Peanut Butter Cup
I did this a few weeks ago with a drink, so for tonight I thught, hmm whats in this..
so here we go:
Milk Chocolate: Broken down to it's components:
Sugar:
quote:
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In general use, "sugar" is taken to mean sucrose, also called "table sugar" or saccharose
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»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar
Cocoa butter:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_butter
quote:
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Cocoa butter, also called theobroma oil, is the edible natural fat of the cacao bean, extracted during the process of making chocolate and cocoa powder. Cocoa butter has only a mild chocolate flavor and aroma
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hmm interesting:
quote:
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Cocoa butter is one of the most stable fats known, containing natural antioxidants that prevent rancidity and give it a storage life of two to five years
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Chocolate:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate
quote:
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Chocolate (help·info) (see below for etymology) describes a number of raw and processed foods that originate from the tropical cacao tree
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Nonfat Milk:
»www.ams.usda.gov/kidsweb/dairygrading.htm
quote:
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Nonfat dry milk, made by removing nearly all the fat and water from pasteurized milk, contains about half the calories of whole milk
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Milk Fat [why use a nonfat milk and then add milk fat?]:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_fat
quote:
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butterfat or milkfat is the fatty portion of milk. Milk and cream are often sold according to the amount of butterfat they contain
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Lactose:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose
quote:
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Lactose is a disaccharide that makes up around 2-8% of the solids in milk
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Soy Lecithin:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy_lecithin
quote:
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In biochemistry Lecithin is usually used as a synonym for phosphatidylcholine, a phospholipid which is the major component of a phosphatide fraction which may be isolated from either egg yolk (in Greek lekithos - ëåêéèïò) or soy beans from which it is mechanically or chemically extracted using hexane. It is commercially available in high purity as a food supplement and for medical uses.
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PGPR:
»www.spellorganics.com/pgpr.html
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PGPR is food emulsifier which is used mainly in chocolate production process to adjust the flow properly and in Bakeries as pan releasing agent for plates, tins and forms
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Emulsifiers:
»www.emulsifiers.org/page.php?p=p···326&y=97
The whole site goes into what they are and how they are used.
peanuts:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/peanut
quote:
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The peanut or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) is a species in the pea family Fabaceae----is a VEGETABLE---- native to South America
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Sugar: [listed above]
Dextrose:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextrose
quote:
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Glucose (Glc), a monosaccharide, is one of the most important carbohydrates. The cell uses it as a source of energy and metabolic intermediate. Glucose is one of the main products of photosynthesis and starts cellular respiration. The natural form (D-glucose) is also referred to as dextrose, especially in the food industry.
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Salt:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt
quote:
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The first registers of salt use were at 4000 B.C. in Egypt, Greece and Rome. Salt was very valuable and used to preserve foods. In Ancient Rome, salt started to be used as money originating the current Latin-derivative term salary.
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TBHQ [Preservative]:
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TBHQ
quote:
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Tertiary Butyl Hydroquinone, abbreviated as TBHQ, is an additive for vegetable oils. Its primary advantage is enhancing storage life and freshness. It is soluble in alcohol and ether, but insoluble in water.
It is known to have minor negative health effects on lab animals, such as precursors to stomach tumors and damage to DNA.
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Sunkist
Carbonated Water
High Fructose Corn Syrup "super" sugar from corn. I read a blurb that said it is sweeter then normal sugar.
Citric AcidTaste i think/
Soduim Benzoate Preservative, of course.
Food Starch-Modified Link opens a PDF file from the FDA.
»a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422···.890.pdf
Natural Flavors I read that this can be a not good thing.
Caffine
Glycerol ester of wood rosin
»europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/ol···_en.html
quote:
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Another rosin derivative, Ester Gum 8BG (a glycerol ester of wood rosin), used as an emulsifier and stabiliser in soft drinks,
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Ascorbic Acid Two preservatives in this drink.
Yellow 6
Red 40 |
posted Wednesday April 5th, @06:03AM
Sunday April 2nd
(jump earlier later)
My Pets part one. Felix the Cat. Warning large picture size.
Ok here is a first in a series of posts showing off, telling about my pets.
This is Felix. He followed my kids into our house when he was a kitten. He never left, and has been with us for 2 years. He is a large Cat weighing in at 17 pounds. |
posted Sunday April 2nd, @12:11PM
(jump earlier later)
Wish the mods had a standard set of rules.
Between here and work, I get a tad twisted. At work its because the work I do has to pass inspection. What is passed by one inspector may be failed by another. Because the job fails to have a set standard for the inspectors to follow. I mentioned it to my boss, and he told the inspector's boss.
So now they are working on a set standard, and my work is being judged ok. Mainly there is a tolerance problem with a peice I work with. Other the years the part had been allowed to increase in length, but the space it had to fit into remained the same. So know everyone is on the same sheet of music.
which brings us back here to the Mods.
Some will let you use any words you want, like piss, shit, fuck, masterbate [as if that is a bad function or word. I feel like a certain Surgeon General getting censored for using it], and other language. Then there are those mods that will attack such language because they deem it offensive.
So what is the standard for all the forums? Swearing allowed or not allowed?
Must all posts have a "Praise Jesus" in them?
Must the posts be "Care Bearish" full of cuddly meaningless Bull crap?
Or can the post contain normal everyday language?
I mean in my censored post, I wasn't attacking anyone. I understand that attacking a person is a no-no.
Funny how in some posts jerking off/masterbation/jilling off is ok, but in others its not.
Maybe there should be an age restricted forum, so all the minors under 18 can't get in and us old folks can let our hair down and shoot the shit.
Knowing my luck, this entry may get censored.
Just it in case:
"Praise Jesus" "Read the bible" "Go to church for your weekly brainwashing worship"
Out till next time. |
posted Sunday April 2nd, @11:48AM
Saturday March 25th
(jump earlier later)
And now a word from our sponsers
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1,000 Fires. A decent sounding CD. It had a song featured in the movie Mortal Combat. The vocalist for the songs is none other than Traci Lords.
and our 3rd sponser is... well we don't have one.
Any how keep your eyes on te road ahead as your mind travels the road of your past. |
posted Saturday March 25th, @12:09PM
Sunday March 19th
(jump earlier later)
IM attack from nowhere
I received the attached IM message from this person. Why the attack, i have no idea. I am still waiting for a reply as well, but we know how cowards are. They sting, then run away.
I removed the IM so as not to offend any mods.
But I still await a response from the coward IxAstrosxl.
But I know he wont respond as his kind only like to attack when no one is watching. |
posted Sunday March 19th, @12:34PM
Monday March 6th
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Moist tasty way to cook meat
I discorved a cool thing [took me long enough!]
Take a baking dish line it with foil. Next take your seasoning of choice and put a little on the foil. Now your meat of choice [chicken, pork, beef]. Now close up the foil. Place in preheated oven [450 degrees] for about an hour.
Now take out and toss on grill for about 3 minutes each side [to give it char taste].
Tender moist grilled flavored meat... |
posted Monday March 6th, @05:41PM
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Time to get Dirty.
I am getting a tad upset. Since moving to ohio, I have been forced to listen to conservative talk radio. When I lived in Atlanta, GA, I listened to Neal Boortz.
Anyhow, here is what is pissing me off:
1]Abortion. These people think that they have the right to control what a woman does to her body. My opinon on abortion is: I don't like it if it is used for birth control. Now to get rid of a baby/fetus created by rape, then fine. But [getting back to my opinion] Its not my concern as long as the fetus being killed has none of my genetic materail. If it was my wife or mistress having an abortion, then we both had better have been involved in that discussion.
Anyhow... Abortion, there should be no law against it.
Ok so now we move from Abortion to homosexuals, or as those on conservative radio call them filthy godless sodomites.
I bet if we could go back in time, to the time when Americans fought shoulder to shoulder against the British, there would be find some gay men on either side in the midst of battle. Some fighting for independene, some against. Now if we could leap forward to every war, I bet we'd find some gay men fighting in the same wars as hetro's.
Now lets look at the times inbetween the wars. I bet we would see gay men running business, schools, farms. They'd be paying taxes and all that. Granted they may have had to have been more discrete with their sexual orientation, then now, but I bet they were still there.
Now:
Everyone in this country is supposed to have the same rights as everyone else. Reguardless of income, education, race, religon. The only thing missing from that, maybe because the fonding fathers never thought it to be an issue, is sexual preferance.
Right now homo's don't have the same protections or rights [well maybe protections] as hetros.
A few examples:
A lesbo couple have a child. The birth mother dies. The parents of the birthmom, sue for custody. The court grants the grand parents custody of the child. Even though many had said how much the parents of the birth mom hated her being gay and never went to see their grand child.
Another case:
A gay man was dying in the hospitail. His parents, who never came to see him while he was healthy, had the hospitail refuse his lover access to their dying son.
The couple had been together for over ten years.
By giving acknowledgement that homosexuals couples play a role in our soceity like hetro couples do, things like the above could be avoided.
religon in Public schools:
NO, hell no. If people feel kids should learn religon or creation then they should send their kids to a religon run private school, or sunday school. Sure you can talk about the impact religon has had on mankind through out history.
Make sure that it shows how religon really isn't a good idea as a form of government [don't beleive me, look at Europes dark ages, look to the middle east now].
I ranted and rambled enough.... |
posted Monday March 6th, @05:38PM
Saturday February 4th
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A Cat's busy day.
I think the title says it all. |
posted Saturday February 4th, @02:04PM
Monday January 30th
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Diner...
This is for 4 people:
half pound steak, cut into squares.
quater to half pound of shrimp.
1 small onion chopped into chunks.
1 Green pepper choppedinto chunks[or any color].
1 small can of pineapple chunks.
1 jar of sweet and sour sauce.
1 cup of Rice.
Cook the steak, until just turning brown in the middle.
Add Sauce and veggies, cook for about 5 minutes to soften them.
Reduce heat, toss in shrimp, let cook 1 minute. Remove from heat and let rest.
For the rice, cook it at least two hours before the rest of the food. You want it to get a little dry. Next toss some EVO [Extra virgin olive oil] into a fry pan and heat it up.
Now toss rice into fry pan, and stir until it starts browning, then toss in the above sweet and sour mixture. |
posted Monday January 30th, @02:04PM
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