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TRICARE Management Activity is awarding the TRICARE Dental Program (TDP) T-3 contract to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Inc. The contract provides for worldwide, comprehensive dental care coverage to enrollees including family members of Uniformed Service active duty personnel and to members of the Selected Reserve
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Although the wars are drawing down, the deployment schedules for our men and women in uniform aren't easing up. Troops continue to meet multiple operational needs, such as theater security exercises with partner nations, Navy ship cruises and other training requirements. Many military pet parents struggle with what
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Evacuating troops critically injured overseas and providing them with acute care may be first things that come to mind when aeromedical evacuation missions are mentioned. But, AE missions don't end when patients are taken out of harm's way. In fact, some may consider what comes next
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BITE RESTAURANT at Hotel Murano 1320 Broadway Plaza #4 Tacoma, WA 98402 (253) 591-4151 VALENTINE'S DAY MENU starters (select one) kumamoto oysters 6 on the ½ shell, yuzu mignonette, lemon sorbet charcuterie and cheese board salumi salami cured meats and artisan cheeses dungeness crab crème fraiche, orange and chive oil ____________________ shared salad arugula, baked goat cheese, pomegranate vinaigrette or classic caesar, shaved parmigiano reggiano, rosemary croutons ____________________ entrée filet
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BABBLIN' BABS BISTRO 2724 N. Proctor, Tacoma 253.761.9099 MY IRISH VALENTINE DINNER Tuesday, Feb. 14, 4-7 p.m. By reservation only A fund raising dinner to send the Mueller's daughter, Savannah, to Scotland/Ireland for gymnastic competition Guinness Fondue with Shrimp-Large succulent shrimp wrapped in pancetta and roasted, button mushrooms, and homemade soda bread. Then a combination of Guinness
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If your 2012 New Year's resolution included taking better care of yourself, one of the easiest steps you can take to achieve that goal is to protect yourself against the flu. Everyone 6 months and older should be immunized annually, especially those at high risk, including young children,
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Roger Ebert’s review of Funny People ran in the print version of the Weekly Volcano. Ebert’s peeps will now allow us to run the review online. To read his review online, visit Ebert’s Web site. Funny People Score: Three and a half out of four stars Stars: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie
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500 DAYS OF SUMMER: Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) had Summer (Zooey Deschanel) in his life for 500 days and can’t accept that they were numbered. She had absolutely no interest in getting married. A delightful comedy of bittersweet romance, stylishly inventive, charmingly acted, that tries everything from a musical number to
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Look, not everywhere can be Hell’s Kitchen. Not every music venue in town can draw the biggest names, and not everywhere can have the perfect sound system. In a music scene that’s growing and getting better by the day, there’s room for more than places like Hell’s Kitchen on the
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - Sgt. 1st Class Shvoda Gregory remembers a time in the Army when new sergeants coming up in the world learned to care for their soldiers the hard way - by making mistakes."The term we used for it was ‘baptism by fire,'" said Gregory, motor sergeant
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Oh man. It’s like Iron Chef, only with metal. Iron Iron? Nope. Iron Artists. At Tollefson Plaza no less. This Friday, artists from around the Puget Sound will don their armor, arm themselves with tools of creation rather than destruction, and put on their most viscous looking face paint before
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As Craig Finn of the Hold Steady once said, “Everyone’s a critic and most people are DJs.” Truer words have rarely been spoken. As someone who spends more than enough time fighting with friends for dibs on the next song selection, I can tell you unequivocally that it’s
