| Start: | Sep 25, '08 8:00p |
| Location: | Joint at Hard Rock, Las Vegas |
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Summer Squash Gets Some Respect : NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92739541&ps=bb1&sc=emaf
some yummy looking summer squash recipes
A lurking danger to your pets: Rawhide Chews
http://www.daneangelnetwork.org/rawhide.htm
By Dusti Summerbird-Lockey
I am an Oglala Lakota artist and craftsperson. I have been doing Traditional work such as making rawhide, tanning leather, beadwork and quillwork for over 30 years. It is because of my knowledge of making rawhide and my deep love for all four legged creatures, most especially my Great Danes, I felt compelled to write this article for you. Hopefully it will help save lives.
We see them in all the pet stores, the grocers, the feed stores. Everywhere. So we assume they are safe for our pets. They must be, they are sold everywhere. Right?
Think again.
Rawhide treats are a danger to your pets, and to your children if swallowed.
Rawhide is just exactly what it says, a raw dried out animal hide. This includes not only the rawhide bones & chews but also pig ears, pig snouts, bull tails, cow ears, lamb ears, choo-hooves, etc. The vast majority of rawhide pet treats are not made in the United States. But even those marked “Made in the U.S.” are a hazard.
A piece of rawhide purchased as a treat for your pet is a hide, usually bull, cow or horse obtained from slaughter houses, that has been scraped clean of all vestiges of meat, fat and hair. Rawhide, however, can be made from just about any animal. For Native Americans and early Europeans, it was the sheet metal, nails and binding material of the day. Rawhide was used to repair items such as horse gear and broken gunstocks. It was used in cabin construction as door hinges, windows and truss bindings and Mandan Indians used rawhide in the construction of their boats. As you can see, rawhide is a very strong, durable, heavy-duty item that does not easily break down
Still want to give it to your pets?
How is it made? Rawhide is made for commercial use from bull, cow and horsehides obtained from slaughterhouses as a byproduct of the meat industry. The flesh side is scraped clean of all remaining meat, membrane, fat, etc. Traditionally this is done by hand, using a drawknife and scraper. Modern day tanneries use a form of a band saw to speed the process up and make a nice clean piece of leather. Commercial manufacturers of rawhide products have machinery to do this. Once the flesh side is cleaned, the hair must be removed. There are two traditional ways of doing this. One is to “dry scrape” by hand. This is extremely time consuming, not to mention the amount of good ol’ fashioned elbow grease! Commercial makers of rawhide do not use this method.
The other method is to soak the fleshed hide in either an Ash-Lye solution or a Lime solution. The Ash-Lye involves covering or soaking the hide in a mixture of wood ash and water, which creates Lye. The hide soaks for approximately. 3 days in the Lye solution, then as much of the hair as possible is scraped off. The process is repeated until all hair is removed.
The Lime solution is the quickest and most often utilized by manufacturers. This utilizes ordinary builders powdered (hydrated) Lime. The hide soaks for 1-3 days and the hair is scraped off. This process is highly caustic but the most efficient for mass production.
To remove all traces of the Lime solution and to sanitize the rawhide product, commercial makers then rinse the hides in a bleach solution before creating whatever shape is to be used. The bone and other shapes used to attract you and your pet are created while the hide is still wet. The “treats” are then either dried or sent for “smoking” to further entice the unsuspecting owner and pet. A processed rawhide can shrink up to half its original size when dried.
If the chemicals used to make these “treats” haven’t convinced you to stop, please consider this:
When rawhide is again wetted, usually when your pet salivates over this chew you have provided, it will slowly regain its original size. When your pet tears off and swallows a piece, that piece then has the potential to swell inside your dog’s stomach. Your dog’s gastric juices WILL NOT break down the rawhide. Once swollen, the piece then has the potential to cause anything from mild to severe gastric upset, to death.
Been giving rawhide treats for years with no problems?
My friend, you have been extremely lucky. But your luck WILL run out one day.
Are you certain that you want to gamble with your beloved friend’s life?
Don’t believe me?
Take the rawhide challenge. Cut varying sizes from different rawhide products and set them in a bowl of water to soak before going to bed. In the morning you will see the sizes that they have grown to. They will vary, but the increase should be noticeable.
What should you give as a chew treat?
The following products are all digestible and safe for your pets.
Budda Chew Products- all digestible chew bones and treats
Muscle Chews- all digestible, contains no hide product.
Bull Pizzle Chews- all natural alternative to rawhide.
Healthy Edibles- all natural health chews, completely digestible and contain no sugars or fillers. Available at www.drsfostersmith.com (great site- I buy kittie stuff here)
Raw shank or knuckle bones- these should be given only under your supervision and with some knowledge of RAW or BARF feeding methods. Contact Jacque Jordan at 214 529 8355 for more info on RAW feeding or visit www.barfdiet.com to learn more.
Kong rubber products are great chew toys, which can keep dogs very busy, especially when a little peanut butter and dog biscuits are wedged inside for them to work out.
Distributed as a courtesy by Great Dane Angel Network Enterprises, Inc.
By Dusti Summerbird-Lockey
I am an Oglala Lakota artist and craftsperson. I have been doing Traditional work such as making rawhide, tanning leather, beadwork and quillwork for over 30 years. It is because of my knowledge of making rawhide and my deep love for all four legged creatures, most especially my Great Danes, I felt compelled to write this article for you. Hopefully it will help save lives.
We see them in all the pet stores, the grocers, the feed stores. Everywhere. So we assume they are safe for our pets. They must be, they are sold everywhere. Right?
Think again.
Rawhide treats are a danger to your pets, and to your children if swallowed.
Rawhide is just exactly what it says, a raw dried out animal hide. This includes not only the rawhide bones & chews but also pig ears, pig snouts, bull tails, cow ears, lamb ears, choo-hooves, etc. The vast majority of rawhide pet treats are not made in the United States. But even those marked “Made in the U.S.” are a hazard.
A piece of rawhide purchased as a treat for your pet is a hide, usually bull, cow or horse obtained from slaughter houses, that has been scraped clean of all vestiges of meat, fat and hair. Rawhide, however, can be made from just about any animal. For Native Americans and early Europeans, it was the sheet metal, nails and binding material of the day. Rawhide was used to repair items such as horse gear and broken gunstocks. It was used in cabin construction as door hinges, windows and truss bindings and Mandan Indians used rawhide in the construction of their boats. As you can see, rawhide is a very strong, durable, heavy-duty item that does not easily break down
Still want to give it to your pets?
How is it made? Rawhide is made for commercial use from bull, cow and horsehides obtained from slaughterhouses as a byproduct of the meat industry. The flesh side is scraped clean of all remaining meat, membrane, fat, etc. Traditionally this is done by hand, using a drawknife and scraper. Modern day tanneries use a form of a band saw to speed the process up and make a nice clean piece of leather. Commercial manufacturers of rawhide products have machinery to do this. Once the flesh side is cleaned, the hair must be removed. There are two traditional ways of doing this. One is to “dry scrape” by hand. This is extremely time consuming, not to mention the amount of good ol’ fashioned elbow grease! Commercial makers of rawhide do not use this method.
The other method is to soak the fleshed hide in either an Ash-Lye solution or a Lime solution. The Ash-Lye involves covering or soaking the hide in a mixture of wood ash and water, which creates Lye. The hide soaks for approximately. 3 days in the Lye solution, then as much of the hair as possible is scraped off. The process is repeated until all hair is removed.
The Lime solution is the quickest and most often utilized by manufacturers. This utilizes ordinary builders powdered (hydrated) Lime. The hide soaks for 1-3 days and the hair is scraped off. This process is highly caustic but the most efficient for mass production.
To remove all traces of the Lime solution and to sanitize the rawhide product, commercial makers then rinse the hides in a bleach solution before creating whatever shape is to be used. The bone and other shapes used to attract you and your pet are created while the hide is still wet. The “treats” are then either dried or sent for “smoking” to further entice the unsuspecting owner and pet. A processed rawhide can shrink up to half its original size when dried.
If the chemicals used to make these “treats” haven’t convinced you to stop, please consider this:
When rawhide is again wetted, usually when your pet salivates over this chew you have provided, it will slowly regain its original size. When your pet tears off and swallows a piece, that piece then has the potential to swell inside your dog’s stomach. Your dog’s gastric juices WILL NOT break down the rawhide. Once swollen, the piece then has the potential to cause anything from mild to severe gastric upset, to death.
Been giving rawhide treats for years with no problems?
My friend, you have been extremely lucky. But your luck WILL run out one day.
Are you certain that you want to gamble with your beloved friend’s life?
Don’t believe me?
Take the rawhide challenge. Cut varying sizes from different rawhide products and set them in a bowl of water to soak before going to bed. In the morning you will see the sizes that they have grown to. They will vary, but the increase should be noticeable.
What should you give as a chew treat?
The following products are all digestible and safe for your pets.
Budda Chew Products- all digestible chew bones and treats
Muscle Chews- all digestible, contains no hide product.
Bull Pizzle Chews- all natural alternative to rawhide.
Healthy Edibles- all natural health chews, completely digestible and contain no sugars or fillers. Available at www.drsfostersmith.com (great site- I buy kittie stuff here)
Raw shank or knuckle bones- these should be given only under your supervision and with some knowledge of RAW or BARF feeding methods. Contact Jacque Jordan at 214 529 8355 for more info on RAW feeding or visit www.barfdiet.com to learn more.
Kong rubber products are great chew toys, which can keep dogs very busy, especially when a little peanut butter and dog biscuits are wedged inside for them to work out.
Distributed as a courtesy by Great Dane Angel Network Enterprises, Inc.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Beverly Hills 90210 Pop Quiz -- Newsday.com
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/stv-90210-pop-quiz,0,2341061.triviaquiz
In preparation for the new 90210 on the CW (scary), Newsday has posted a quiz about the original. Fun for a Wednesday morning...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
PhotoFunia
http://photofunia.com/
Oh my goodness- my new favorite website. Let's you upoad photos for free and sets the pictures in different scenes of your choosing... very cool.
4 New Items on My Amazon Wish-list
(This blog entry was automatically generated by Multiply's Wish-list Cross-posting feature.)
Below are items recently added to my Amazon wish-list. If you are familiar with anything below and have any comments or alternate suggestions, please leave a reply.
Click here to see my full and current wish-list.
Below are items recently added to my Amazon wish-list. If you are familiar with anything below and have any comments or alternate suggestions, please leave a reply.
Click here to see my full and current wish-list.
 | Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook Manufacturer: Da Capo Press Price: $17.24 Learn More |
 | Skinny Bitch in the Kitch: Kick-Ass Recipes for Hungry Girls Who Want to Stop Cooking Crap (and Start Looking Hot!) Manufacturer: Running Press Price: $5.99 Learn More |
 | Vegan with a Vengeance : Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock Manufacturer: Da Capo Press Price: $9.00 Learn More |
 | The Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen Manufacturer: HP Trade Price: $9.99 Learn More |
Friday, July 18, 2008
What Would You Do For A Klondike Bar Video Contest
http://www.klondikecontest.com/
Remember the old commercials? Well I guess it was only a matter of time before the You Tube generation got in on this.
Klondike is holding a video contest called "What Would You Do For a Klondike Bar?" You can upload your own version of the old commercials for chances to win prizes.
22nd Annual California Avocado Festival
| Start: | Oct 3, '08 |
| End: | Oct 5, '08 |
| Location: | Carpinteria, CA |
http://www.avofest.com/
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Fridgewatcher
http://www.Fridgewatcher.com
In the spirit of 'Lyle's Lunch', I bring you Fridgewatcher.com.
"Fridgewatcher.com is a project where people open their fridges to others. Cause every fridge tells a story. We want to know yours. Send us a picture of your refridgerator."
:)
In the spirit of 'Lyle's Lunch', I bring you Fridgewatcher.com.
"Fridgewatcher.com is a project where people open their fridges to others. Cause every fridge tells a story. We want to know yours. Send us a picture of your refridgerator."
:)
Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog
http://www.drhorrible.com
If you love Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel Firefly) or Neil Patrick Harris or Nathan Fillion (Firefly), you must watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog. It's a web only series (3 part) written by Whedon and starring NPH and Fillion. It's hysterically awesome.
Act 1 was yesterday, Act 2 starts tomorrow and Act 3 debuts on Saturday.
If the above link doesn't work (because a zillion people are trying to watch it) try this one: http://www.whedon.info/If-DrHorrible-com-is-down-watch.html
If you love Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel Firefly) or Neil Patrick Harris or Nathan Fillion (Firefly), you must watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog. It's a web only series (3 part) written by Whedon and starring NPH and Fillion. It's hysterically awesome.
Act 1 was yesterday, Act 2 starts tomorrow and Act 3 debuts on Saturday.
If the above link doesn't work (because a zillion people are trying to watch it) try this one: http://www.whedon.info/If-DrHorrible-com-is-down-watch.html
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Harnessing the untapped power of breast motion - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2193827
a friend forwarded me this and it was too irresistible not to post!
a friend forwarded me this and it was too irresistible not to post!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
1 New Item on My Amazon Wish-list
(This blog entry was automatically generated by Multiply's Wish-list Cross-posting feature.)
Below are items recently added to my Amazon wish-list. If you are familiar with anything below and have any comments or alternate suggestions, please leave a reply.
Click here to see my full and current wish-list.
Below are items recently added to my Amazon wish-list. If you are familiar with anything below and have any comments or alternate suggestions, please leave a reply.
Click here to see my full and current wish-list.
 | Food for Life: How the New Four Food Groups Can Save Your Life Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press Price: $8.32 Learn More |
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