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I'm sure all of them take it directly from the big purple veined straw.... 

 

I didn't know you knew MLSkins.

 

Congrats.

But she's a fitness model so why post half naked pics of your ass and stuff? Seems odd.

 

Same reason Sports Illustrated posts male and female athletes in their Naked issue, or the Swimsuit issue.

To create a little chatter so people will go and check it out, it's all marketing herself.

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Blend with ice,water,some frozen berries and the whey protein in the Magic Bullet. The whey protein is usually the Combat stuff they sell at Costco or a decent protein that I find on sale at grocery outlet. The Combat stuff is great if you add some peanut butter to it. I usually take it only on days that I work out and twice a day only on the heavy days. Been doing that for nearly 20 years and for me,it's worked out great that way. 

 

 

I even throw in gobs of kale or fresh spinach and if you're using a vanilla or strawberry flavored protein (the good stuff like you're talking about) it covers up/changes most of that taste.

 

Though the spinach is easier to overcome then the kale. I also toss in random fruit (hell, some raw oats too) other than berries at times. I don't take well to eating most fruits just on their own, unfortunately, so that's a big way for me to go--bless blenders. And I can deal with pulp/skin, no sweat, for the nutrition added in most cases.

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Spinach for sure. Kale is one I grew up on,but raw is asking a bit much. ;)  I just had a "green" smoothie the other day at a hotel we stayed at outside of Loomis Ca.,(went to watch my nephew's team play Deloro HS). The green came from avocado. It was actually quite good. May have to keep that in mind as I get more in to this fruit and veggie smoothie thing. :) 

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But she's a fitness model so why post half naked pics of your ass and stuff? Seems odd.

Because her ass is fit too. I'm failing to see what's odd.

Let me just sit here and judge her traps and delts.

Wow, look at those ankle muscles, Doc.

Fitness models have always been showin their stuff. I say go ahead girls.

#showmewhaturworkinwith

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Dubs, you're killing me. Now you got me watching the butterface thing. I went to you tube to find it, put it on pause, just started watcheing.

 

That's messed up man. I haven't seen a bad body yet (especially when you account for the age). Couple faces though, ehh, couple faces...not too bad.

 

EDIT: Only about halfway through the show.

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I should be offended, I know this...

 

I just don't know why. Oh well...

 

Because you are the OG Baby Shaq ? Almost as tall and just as crispy. It's a complement sir. I do recall that picture of you and your cousins/friends/family. This was around 10 years ago...you were like 16 and at least a foot taller than everyone else in the picture.

 

Folks were asking you to play OL,DL, or C for the Bullets.

see now... after i tried hard to make it poster neutral, and not single out anybody specifically....   

... y'all are ALL wankers 

 

You brought up the veins.

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Did somebody say they no absolutely nothing about chickens?

 

 

The chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated fowl, believed to be descended from the wild Indian and south-east Asian Red Junglefowl.

With a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. They are used to produce two sources of food: their meat, and their eggs.

Chickens generally live five to eleven years depending on the breed. Male chickens are known as roosters (in the U.S., Canada and Australia), ****s, or ****erels. Castrated roosters are called capons. Female chickens are known as hens. Young females are known as pullets. Roosters can usually be differentiated from hens by their striking plumage, marked by long flowing tails and bright pointed feathers on their necks.

However, in some breeds, such as the Sebright, the **** only has slightly pointed neck feathers, and the identification must be made by looking at the comb. Chickens have a fleshy crest on their heads called a comb or ****scomb, and a fleshy piece of hanging skin under their beak called a wattle. These organs help to cool the bird by redirecting blood flow to the skin. Both the male and female have distinctive wattles and combs. In males, the combs are often more prominent, though this is not the case in all varieties.

Domestic chickens are typically fed commercially prepared feed that includes a protein source as well as grains. Chickens often scratch at the soil to search for insects and seeds. Incidents of cannibalism can occur when a curious bird pecks at a preexisting wound or during fighting (even among female birds). This is exacerbated in close quarters. In commercial egg and meat production this is controlled by trimming the beak (removal of two thirds of the top half and occasionally one third of the lower half of the beak).

Domestic chickens are not capable of long distance flight, although they are generally capable of flying for short distances such as over fences. Chickens will sometimes fly to explore their surroundings, but usually do so only to flee perceived danger. Because of the risk of escape, chickens raised in open-air pens generally have one of their wings clipped by the breeder � the tips of the longest feathers on one of the wings are cut, resulting in unbalanced flight which the bird cannot sustain for more than a few meters.

Chickens are gregarious birds and live together as a flock. They have a communal approach to the incubation of eggs and raising of young. Individual chickens in a flock will dominate others, establishing a "pecking order," with dominant individuals having priority for access to food and nesting locations. Removing hens or roosters from a flock causes a temporary disruption to this social order until a new pecking order is established.

Chickens will try to lay in nests that already contain eggs, and have been known to move eggs from neighbouring nests into their own. Some farmers use fake eggs made from plastic or stone to encourage hens to lay in a particular location. The result of this behavior is that a flock will use only a few preferred locations, rather than having a different nest for every bird.

Hens can also be extremely stubborn about always laying in the same location. It is not unknown for two (or more) hens to try to share the same nest at the same time. If the nest is small, or one of the hens is particularly determined, this may result in chickens trying to lay on top of each other.

Contrary to popular belief, roosters do not crow only at dawn, but may crow at any time of the day or night. Their crowing - a loud and sometimes shrill call - is a territorial signal to other roosters. However, crowing may also result from sudden disturbances within their surroundings.

Recent studies have shown that chickens (and possibly other bird species) still retain vestigial genes to produce teeth in the jaws, although these are dormant in living animals. These are a holdover from primitive birds such as Archaeopteryx, which were descended from theropod dinosaurs. (It has been suggested that chickens are related to Tyrannosaurus rex.

When a rooster finds food he may call the other chickens to eat it first. He does this by clucking in a high pitch as well as picking up and dropping the food. This behavior can also be observed in mother hens, calling their chicks. In some cases the rooster will drag the wing opposite the hen on the ground, while circling her. This is part of chicken courting ritual. When a hen is used to coming to his "call" the rooster may mount the hen and proceed with the fertilization.

Sometimes a hen will stop laying and instead will focus on the incubation of eggs, a state that is commonly known as going broody. A broody chicken will sit fast on the nest, and protest or peck in defense if disturbed or removed, and will rarely leave the nest to eat, drink, or dust bathe. While brooding, the hen maintains constant temperature and humidity, as well as turning the eggs regularly.

At the end of the incubation period, which is an average of 21 days, the eggs (if fertilized) will hatch, and the broody hen will take care of her young. Since individual eggs do not all hatch at exactly the same time (the chicken can only lay one egg approximately every 25 hours), the hen will usually stay on the nest for about two days after the first egg hatches. During this time, the newly-hatched chicks live off the egg yolk they absorb just before hatching. The hen can sense the chicks peeping inside the eggs, and will gently cluck to stimulate them to break out of their shells. If the eggs are not fertilized by a rooster and do not hatch, the hen will eventually lose interest and leave the nest.

Modern egg-laying breeds rarely go broody, and those that do often stop part-way through the incubation cycle. Some breeds, such as the Cochin, Cornish and Silkie, regularly go broody and make excellent maternal figures. Chickens used in this capacity are known as utility chickens.

Chicken egg incubation can successfully occur artificially as well. Nearly all chicken eggs will hatch after 21 days of good conditions - 99.5 �F (37.5�C) and around 55% relative humidity (increase to 70% in the last three days of incubation to help soften egg shell). Many commercial incubators are industrial-sized with shelves holding tens of thousands of eggs at a time, with rotation of the eggs a fully automated process.

Home incubators are usually large boxes (lead incubators are popular) and hold a few to 75 eggs. Eggs must be turned three to eight times each week, rotating at least 180 degrees. If eggs aren't turned, the embryo inside will stick to the shell and likely will be hatched with physical defects. This process is natural; hens will stand up three to five times a day and shift the eggs around with their beak.

The meat of the chicken, also called "chicken," is a type of poultry. Because of its relatively low cost among meats, chicken is one of the most used meats in the world. Nearly all parts of the bird can be used for food, and the meat is cooked in many different ways around the world. Popular chicken dishes include fried chicken, chicken soup, Buffalo wings, tandoori chicken, butter chicken, and chicken rice. Chicken is also a staple of fast food restaurants such as KFC, McDonald's, and Burger King. Chicken has a fairly neutral flavor and texture, and is used as a reference point for describing other foods; many are said to 'taste like chicken' if they are indistinctive.

The first pictures of chickens in Europe are found on Corinthian pottery of the 7th century BC. The poet Cratinus (mid-5th century BC, according to the later Greek author Athenaeus) calls the chicken "the Persian alarm". In Aristophanes's comedy The Birds (414 BC) a chicken is called "the Median bird", which points to an introduction from the East. Pictures of chickens are found on Greek red figure and black-figure pottery.

In ancient Greece, chickens were still rare and were a rather prestigious food for symposia. Delos seems to have been a centre of chicken breeding.

An early domestication of chickens in Southeast Asia is probable, since the word for domestic chicken (*manuk) is part of the reconstructed Proto-Austronesian language (see Austronesian languages). Chickens, together with dogs and pigs, were the domestic animals of the Lapita culture, the first Neolithic culture of Oceania.

Chickens were spread by Polynesian seafarers and reached Easter Island in the 12th century AD, where they were the only domestic animal, with the possible exception of the Polynesian Rat (Rattus exulans). They were housed in extremely solid chicken coops built from stone. Traveling as cargo on trading boats, they reached the Asian continent via the islands of Indonesia and from there spread west to Europe and western Asia.

The Romans used chickens for oracles, both when flying ("ex avibus") and when feeding ("auspicium ex tripudiis"). The hen ("gallina") gave a favourable omen ("auspicium ratum"), when appearing from the left (Cic.,de Div. ii.26), like the crow and the owl.

For the oracle "ex tripudiis" according to Cicero (Cic. de Div. ii.34), any bird could be used, but normally only chickens ("pulli") were consulted. The chickens were cared for by the pullarius, who opened their cage and fed them pulses or a special kind of soft cake when an augury was needed. If the chickens stayed in their cage, made noises ("occinerent"), beat their wings or flew away, the omen was bad; if they ate greedily, the omen was good.

In 249 BC, the Roman general Publius Claudius Pulcher had his chickens thrown overboard when they refused to feed before the battle of Drepana, saying "If they won't eat, perhaps they will drink." He promptly lost the battle against the Carthaginians and 93 Roman ships were sunk. Back in Rome, he was tried for impiety and heavily fined.

In 161 BC a law was passed in Rome that forbade the consumption of fattened chickens. It was renewed a number of times, but does not seem to have been successful. Fattening chickens with bread soaked in milk was thought to give especially delicious results. The Roman gourmet Apicius offers 17 recipes for chicken, mainly boiled chicken with a sauce. All parts of the animal are used: the recipes include the stomach, liver, testicles and even the pygostyle (the fatty "tail" of the chicken where the tail feathers attach).

The Roman author Columella gives advice on chicken breeding in his eighth book of his treatise on agriculture. He identifies Tanagrian, Rhodic, Chalkidic and Median (commonly misidentified as Melian) breeds, which have an impressive appearance, a quarrelsome nature and were used for ****fighting by the Greeks. For farming, native (Roman) chickens are to be preferred, or a cross between native hens and Greek ****s. Dwarf chickens are nice to watch because of their size but have no other advantages.

Per Columella, the ideal flock consists of 200 birds, which can be supervised by one person if someone is watching for stray animals. White chickens should be avoided as they are not very fertile and are easily caught by eagles or goshawks. One **** should be kept for five hens. In the case of Rhodian and Median ****s that are very heavy and therefore not much inclined to sex, only three hens are kept per ****. The hens of heavy fowls are not much inclined to brood; therefore their eggs are best hatched by normal hens. A hen can hatch no more than 15-23 eggs, depending on the time of year, and supervise no more than 30 hatchlings. Eggs that are long and pointed give more male, rounded eggs mainly female hatchlings.

Per Columella, Chicken coops should face southeast and lie adjacent to the kitchen, as smoke is beneficial for the animals. Coops should consist of three rooms and possess a hearth. Dry dust or ash should be provided for dust-baths.

According to Columella, chicken should be fed on barley groats, small chick-peas, millet and wheat bran, if they are cheap. Wheat itself should be avoided as it is harmful to the birds. Boiled ryegrass (Lollium sp.) and the leaves and seeds of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) can be used as well. Grape marc can be used, but only when the hens stop laying eggs, that is, about the middle of November; otherwise eggs are small and few. When feeding grape marc, it should be supplemented with some bran. Hens start to lay eggs after the winter solstice, in warm places around the first of January, in colder areas in the middle of February. Parboiled barley increases their fertility; this should be mixed with alfalfa leaves and seeds, or vetches or millet if alfalfa is not at hand. Free-ranging chickens should receive two cups of barley daily.

Columella advises farmers to slaughter hens that are older than three years, because they no longer produce sufficient eggs.

Capons were produced by burning out their spurs with a hot iron. The wound was treated with potter's chalk.


 

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I need the bibliography for that post.

Very least a link.


Questions for you married fellas..

 

The fiance has been bugging me about wedding favors. You guys use anything different? Or something people would actually use?

 

For everyone, or just the wedding party ?

 

What are you looking at now ?

 

For everyone...

Don't buy cameras.

Don't buy frames.

 

What is your price point ?

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Thing about kale for me is that I simply can't get past the taste. It's just terrible. I eat most leafy greens, and veggies in general. Kale just leaves this terrible aftertaste.

 

Perhaps, I will try it as Jumbo suggested.

 

 

no no no---you already give me enough **** :lol: , and yes, the taste is stronger, and it doesn't blend nearly as well as spinach  ^_^

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I need the bibliography for that post.

Very least a link.

 

For everyone, or just the wedding party ?

 

What are you looking at now ?

 

For everyone...

Don't buy cameras.

Don't buy frames.

 

What is your price point ?

 

Everyone.

 

And idk. We have been looking everywhere from beer bottle/can Koozies, to M&Ms, to doing $1 lotto tickets for everyone. We are going to be having like 180 at the wedding so something around $1-1.75 per person.

 

Trying to save so money on this. haha 

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Everyone.

And idk. We have been looking everywhere from beer bottle/can Koozies, to M&Ms, to doing $1 lotto tickets for everyone. We are going to be having like 180 at the wedding so something around $1-1.75 per person.

Trying to save so money on this. haha

Go classic...Jordan almonds in a decorative box. That's what we did. The bridesmaids did the boxes together with my wife while I played on the PS4.

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Everyone.

 

And idk. We have been looking everywhere from beer bottle/can Koozies, to M&Ms, to doing $1 lotto tickets for everyone. We are going to be having like 180 at the wedding so something around $1-1.75 per person.

 

Trying to save so money on this. haha 

 

Was at a wedding earlier this year.  It was themed though, German/Oktoberfest.  They made some small wooden signs, with cord and painted them to say different drinking phrases in German.  Everyone wore them and kept them afterwards, was pretty creative.  

 

If it's themed, go with something like that that fits. 

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