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9/2/2010
Are you one of those people who pour the milk down the drain on the expiration date?
Expiration dates on food products can protect consumer health, but those dates are really more about quality than safety, and if not properly understood, they can also encourage consumers to discard food that is perfectly safe to eat.
A recent poll of more than 2,000 adults showed that most of us discard food we believe is unsafe to eat, which is a good thing, of course, but it is important that we understand what food expiration dates mean before we dump our food -- and our money -- down the drain or into the garbage. On average, in the U.S. we waste about 14% of the food we buy each year. The average American family of four throws out around $600 worth of groceries every year.
Which five foods are most often feared as being unsafe after the printed date? According to ShelfLifeAdvice.com, we are most wary of milk, cottage cheese, mayonnaise, yogurt, and eggs, and the site offers these helpful explanations:
Milk: If properly refrigerated, milk will remain safe, nutritious, and tasty for about a week after the sell-by date and will ...
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9/2/2010
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9/1/2010
Wayne Newton has finally relocated the $2 million private jet he had previously abandoned at a Detroit airport three years ago ... and it's now right in his own backyard -- literally.
According to employees at the Oakland International Airport, Wayne -- who left the plane to rot after repairs became too expensive -- finally paid the aircraft's mounting storage fees last month and had it shipped to his famous Casa de Shenandoah estate in Las Vegas.We're told the plane had to be disassembled to make the long haul from Michigan to Nevada -- but it has since been put back together ... and now resides in the yard of Wayne's Las Vegas estate for all to see.This is now the second loose end involving sky miles that Wayne has tied up recently ... we've also learned Wayne just settled a $500k debt with his former pilot.As we previously reported, Monty Ward won a $501,388 judgment against "Mr. Las Vegas" back in 2009 for unpaid wages.But now ... according to documents filed in Clark County, Nevada last week, Monty "acknowledges full satisfaction" of the debt ... which means the two are now officially even-steven.
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9/1/2010
Phobia can be termed as an illogical or irrational fear of certain things or events. From the phobia of public speaking to that for open spaces, there are a wide variety of phobias. There are almost 700 different types documented in the list of phobias. Phobias can stem from elements of nature like lightning, storms or water, from animals like snakes and spiders or from entities of the medical world like blood or injections. Even situational instances like standing at an altitude, leaving home etc. can trigger panic attacks in some people. The absolute cause behind these phobias hasn't yet been found. Nevertheless these phobias have captured man's interest because of the illogical fear that an individual experiences due to his specific phobia. Here is a list of the top 10 most common phobias that people all over the world seem to suffer from.
Top 10 Most Common Phobias ListIf you want to know about the top 10 most common phobias that grip the human race here is a list to your help. However, the phobias are not listed as per the rate of their incidence. So let us take a view of some of the scary faces that ...
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8/31/2010
Check out the 10 best company nicknames!
http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/08/30/10-best-company-nicknames/
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8/31/2010
Check out the link here!
http://www.pawnation.com/2010/07/27/should-you-sleep-with-your-dog-the-pros-and-cons-of-sharing-the/?icid=main%7Cmain%7Cdl5%7Csec3_lnk3%7C167182
In the darkest hours of Bruce Sallan's divorce when he didn't want to get out of bed, his two dogs were there jumping on the mattress and licking his face. And when his worries kept him awake at night, the big black German Shepherd mix and the Pointer mix with brown and white spots were there then too, lying beside him on top of the covers. "Petting one of my dogs was almost like a way I'd calm myself down and fall asleep," says Sallan, a writer and radio host in California. But then he met and married Debbie, who had a dog of her own but suffered from allergies and liked her furniture free of dirt and hair. She was adamant: "No dogs in bed." "He would have his dog on the bed and there would be dog hair on my pillow and I'd be sneezing," Debbie tells Paw Nation. The solution? She spent several hundred dollars on plush beds for all three dogs and ultimately, everyone was happy. The StatsSome pet owners may be sheepish to admit it, but Sallan is far from alone. A 2007 survey of more than ...
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8/30/2010
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, a six-year White House reporter for The Associated Press, is National Political Correspondent for PEOPLE Magazine. She was honored with the 2009 White House Correspondents' Association Award "for excellence in presidential news coverage under deadline pressure" for her Election Night cover story taking readers into the room as Barack Obama and his family privately greeted the news that he would be the first black president of the United States. Westfall won the same award in 2001 for behind-the-scenes reporting on the Election Night 2000 conversations between Al Gore and George W. Bush. Her White House tenure spanned President Clinton’s impeachment scandal (she was in the Roosevelt Room for Clinton's lectern-thumping "I ... did ... not ... have ... sexual relations ... with that woman"); Vice President Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign; and President Bush’s response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. She was in the small press pool that accompanied the President to New York's "Ground Zero" just three days after the Twin Towers fell.Ms. Westfall joined the AP in July 1994 when she was assigned to Washington metro crime and politics. Her background on Capitol Hill (she was a legislative aide and ...
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8/26/2010
Dave Farrow is a two-time Guinness Record holder for Greatest Memory. In 1996 he memorized the order of 52 decks of playing cards, randomly shuffled together and recalled them correctly under Guinness Record (total 2704 cards). In 2007, Dave reclaimed this record by memorizing 59 decks of playing cards, making him the current record holder for Greatest Memory (total 3068 cards). Dave is featured in the 1997 and 2009 editions of the Guinness Book of World Records.
Dave is also a recognized speed reader and in October of 2008, he was hired by Sony Corporation to be the spokesperson for the Sony Reader (a handheld digital reading device). For this literacy campaign, he lived in the DataVision store window on 5th Avenue, NY, for a full 30 days. During this time he read constantly on the reader. Dave read a total of 44,097 Pages, which translates to 102 books. For every page he read, a school received an eBook classic library from Sony.
In high school student when he was diagnosed with ADHD and Dyslexia. Labelled with these learning challenges and told by a teacher that he would never excell in anything other than a blue-collar job, Dave ...
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8/25/2010
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8/25/2010
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