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History may show that Dawkins has done the church a favour, by waking it out of its complacency on the creation/evolution issue. By focusing the battle right at the foundations, and by putting all the evidence he can muster on display, he has provided a chance for Christians to see via this response that they do not have to keep retreating on this issue, for fear of being seen to contradict 'the facts of science'…
The Greatest Hoax on Earth? meets Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth head-on. Dr Sarfati firmly and comprehensively answers Dawkins' challenge, chapter after chapter, covering a vast range of disciplines in his trademark crisp, clear style. He convincingly shows, for those with ears to hear, that to believe the Bible's account of Creation/Fall/Redemption straightforwardly not only does not commit intellectual suicide, it is if anything the intellectually superior position.
In the process, he also ably exposes the types of deceitful tactics utilized in many anti-creation arguments. (Hence the 'hoax' in the Sarfati book's title; CMI of course does not claim that people teach and promote evolution while disbelieving it.)
To the Christian we say—if your creationist fare has been by people with questionable qualifications and a flair for self-promotion using dubious arguments, you will find this book in another league altogether. It is written by arguably the finest mind in creation/evolution and Bible-science apologetics today—backed by a superb team of qualified and experienced colleagues.
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In front of a packed crowd during his panel titled "My Two Years with Dawkins, Christ and a Small Crab Called Eric" at Comic-Con International in San Diego, artist, writer and indie filmmaker Dave McKean recounted two recent life events on radically opposite ends of the philosophical spectrum: an all-ages book he illustrated with scientist and Atheism proponent Richard Dawkins called "The Magic of Reality," and a film he shot starring Michael Sheen in Port Talbot, Wales called "The Gospel of Us," a modern day interpretation of "The Passion" story chronicling Jesus Christ's final days of life on Earth.
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Last weekend I noticed two religion blogs, one Jewish and one evangelical (though not fundamentalist) Christian, discussing the same passages in the Bible: the ones commanding the Israelites to fight, slaughter, enslave, and dispossess the Canaanite inhabitants of the Land of Israel. To commit genocide, in fact.
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A JOBS BILL ON THE AGENDA?.... Federal Reserve officials warned yesterday that unemployment will "likely will remain high for the next several years because the economic recovery won't be strong enough to spur robust hiring."
It's a problem that has prompted some congressional leaders to consider a new jobs bill.
Senate Democrats will take up a new job-creation bill in the wake of the 10.2 percent unemployment rate, Majority Leader Harry Reid told his colleagues Tuesday. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) told The Hill that Reid (D-Nev.) made the announcement about a new jobs bill at the Senate Democrats' weekly lunch. Reid said he was looking at an initiative focused on job creation "and that our caucus will take it up," Cardin said. Reid didn't specify what would be in the bill, but he said that it was going to be "one of the priorities" for the Senate, Cardin added.
Senate Democrats will take up a new job-creation bill in the wake of the 10.2 percent unemployment rate, Majority Leader Harry Reid told his colleagues Tuesday.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) told The Hill that Reid (D-Nev.) made the announcement about a new jobs bill at the Senate Democrats' weekly lunch.
Reid said he was looking at an initiative focused on job creation "and that our caucus will take it up," Cardin said.
Reid didn't specify what would be in the bill, but he said that it was going to be "one of the priorities" for the Senate, Cardin added.
Now, there's no indication of when we might see a jobs bill. Or what will be in it. Or what it would cost. Or what its legislative prospects might be.
For that matter, it's not clear how much Reid emphasized the idea yesterday -- The Hill ran a fairly lengthy report, but I haven't seen similar reporting from the other outlets. If there was a concerted push about a major new employment initiative, it seems likely there'd be more attention focused on this.
That said, I can only hope this talk continues. We'll no doubt hear talk of a "second" stimulus -- or "third," if you count Bush's useless package from early 2008 -- but the demand for a jobs bill should be obvious. The recovery efforts from earlier this year rescued the economy from a depression, and helped bring some stability to an economy on the brink. Given the severity of the economic downturn policymakers inherited, a bold, ambitious jobs bill can make a huge difference -- the stimulus got us out of the ditch, a new effort can get us going in the right direction again.
The politics, of course, will be painful. Center-right Democrats say they want a focus on the employment picture. Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) said last week, "Three things ought to be the top priority: jobs, jobs and jobs." Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) added, "[J]obs should be our top priority and we shouldn't do anything that detracts from that."
But what will they, and others like them, say if/when a new jobs bill (cue scary music) requires federal investment? Will conservatives, once again, say that deficit reduction should take precedence over additional economic recovery efforts?
for a real jobs bill we'll need a grayson-like commentator "bringing out the dead" in the media for awhile to get the clown car's attention...
Given that unemployment is running twice the official rate, this should be a no-brainer. However, given that Washington is all about deals and talking points, it will either not happen or only in some mutant form to enrich a few chosen donors.
Rethuglicans will certainly oppose any jobs bill because it would make their odds longer for any electoral gains, so expect more 'dire threats to liberty',and genuflecting to the fascist extreme. Since the dems will be looking to build a scam into any bill, nothing could happen before 2012.
Just exactly what kind of jobs bill are they talking about? We have already put Wall Street back to work. The stimulus package is putting every road worker in the country to work on over time. We are rebuilding Federal offices right and left. We are funding State government employment.
It would seem to me that the climate bill and green energy offer the greatest promise for new jobs. I would like to know just how and where the money will be spent.
If this "jobs bill" turns out to consist primarily of business tax breaks, then I'll make this guarantee right now -- it won't work.
Why not a WPA?
A jobs bill that would work to revamp our infrastructure to take advantage of green energy sources would, to my thinking, pay for itself over time.
The lack of a useful distributive structure is really the main reason we in the US have not exploited regional green sources, our mindset forced to exploit dirty coal and nuke plants for local power.
January 2008 and November 2009 issues of Scientific American.
I agree with Ron, as new job creation in green energy was part of Obama's talking points and promises. If we're going to spend, let's spend for long term job creation and not perhaps quick fixes. We can kill 2 birds with one stone and address climate change and jobs all at once, why fight twice? Unemployment remained at 10%+ for 10 months during the Raygun years.
They ought to cut the payroll tax. I know this is not necessarily the first choice of a lot of progressives -- and it wouldn't be my first choice if we're talking about the long term (I'd personally opt for massive investments in transit, HCR, and green energy technology). But we're not talking about the long term. We're talking about potentially catastrophic political losses in a little over eleven months.
A temporary, but fairly large cut in payroll taxes -- automatically phased out over, say, 2.5 years as the economy strengthens -- would increase hiring and decrease layoff at the margin.
I'd personally go pretty aggressive: about a 70% cut in the employer-paid portion starting ASAP (by January 1?) and gradually phasing out to zero by the middle of 2012. I've done the math -- we'd be looking at roughly a $300 billion shot in the arm -- a straightforward decrease in the cost of employing people -- most of it front loaded between now and the midterms.
We're actually not that far as it stands now from having net job creation -- job losses have decreased by something like 70% since Obama took office IIRC.
We just need to speed things up. A payroll tax is probably the easiest way to do this -- especially from an administrative stand point. And it can be up and running quickly.
And -- and this is key -- it doesn't have to be labeled as "spending" or "stimulus". Rather, we get to call it a freaking tax cut. And that makes it very hard for the GOP to oppose. And it also stops the cluck-clucking from the David Broders and David Brookses of the world (you know, the guys complaining about liberal overreach). And so it has the double benefit of favorably influencing the national media narrative.
A jobs program? It is to laugh.
Not in a country where 'jobs' is instantly going to be translated into 'giving my hard-earned tax dollars to Them, to stand around and do nothing." or, especially if it's slated for infrastructure jobs, "giving my hard-earned dollars to mobbed up, overpaid, union workers to stand around and do nothing."
The median voter would volunteer to bail out the banks again before he allowed that to happen. Maybe if U6 tops 35%, and even then it's no better than coin-toss odds.
We can kill 2 birds with one stone and address climate change and jobs all at once, why fight twice?
Because 40 percent of the Senate, about half the House, the major media and way too many Americans are dead set against anything that even implies that we might need to change our lifestyles ever so slightly. If you want a replay of healthcare, just try putting all our job-creation eggs in a green basket.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't keep pushing to do the right and sensible thing. It does mean that we'll need to also look at other job-creation bills that might actually pass.
Ugh, what am I saying? They'll vote against any job creation bill, anywhere, anytime.
Then let's not call it a green jobs creation bill. Let's call it "greening the government." Turn every federal office building as green as reasonably possible. New windows. New energy efficient electrical appliances, install solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal... whatever. Do it across the board. That will create jobs and certainly foster the green industries. At the same time, do more than offer rebates for energy efficient windows. Let's make solar panels and home wind turbines truly affordable. Offer huge incentives for private owners to green up their buildings, etc.
A jobs bill centered around yet more government spending (and borrowing) is nothing but robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Cut taxes on small to medium businesses, you know, the businesses that employ more Americans than any other kind.
So sorry to be late to the party- because this is an easy one to hit out of the park:
The military is critically undermanned in this Time of War.
A $50,000 signing bonus would create millions of new jobs- and the Republicans would vote for it. Remember 'Support the Troops'?
And then there is the trickle down effect on the economy- coffin makers, prosthetic devices and wheelchair sales, yellow ribbons; oh the list goes on and on. . .
Here's a fantastic talk on the need for stimulus "The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession", http://seekingalpha.com/article/172123-richard-koo-discusses-japan-s-lost-decade-and-the-u-s Some of our moron Representatives should take a look at this as well. Long but well worth the time.
I personally think predictions of impending doom for the Democrats are highly exaggerrated -- at least if they pass healthcare reform. HCR + a gradual strengthening of the economy in 2010 in my view give the Democrats a strong chance at a halfway decent outcome in November 2010 (in other words, normal, run-of the mill losses in Congress and at the state level as opposed to the 1994-style conservative tsunami Limbaugh and much of the MSM are salivating over).
Still, there are no guarantees, and we can't overlook the fact that, at the end of the day, the Democrats' strong showing in 2006 and 2008 means there are a lots of seats to defend in conservative parts of the country. And that makes the "big spending" and "socialist" labels more radioactive than usual.
Anyway, for better or worse, the administration failed to get its own people's recommendations written into law with respect to stimulus last winter, and now Democrats may well be forced to pay the price in lost congressional seats. So, given the difficulty of getting substantial new spending enacted to create jobs because of the aforementioned political situation, the way to go is temporary tax cuts tightly targeting job creation. In other words, enact a temporary cut in payroll taxes.
To put it another way, a temporary cut in payroll taxes will actually pass. Exactly how would Republicans oppose it?
This one is real simple folks. 1. PERMANANTLY change corporate tax rate to 10%. 2. Sign the pending free trade agreements 3. Enact a 20 year grace period of ZERO cap gains for VC funding on future energy development. 4. Utilize our own resources for current energy needs (natural gas). Presto, the jobs will come and whoa more tax revenues via people working! How about them apples y'all libs.
It's funny, I keep seeing mention of the 1994 election outcomes. Folks you have to back to the 70's to understand our current political situation. This is the Carter years all over again. My hunch is the majority of the Gen Y's making posts are quite lost as they never experienced that period. However, after they see the incumbent slaughter of 2010 they will start to understand.
Green jobs would be nice. Just about anything other than construction, which is about all I'm seeing in my city from the stimulus bill. I think construction workers are great, and some of the projects I've seen are needed, but surely there are other areas, like green technology or education, where money should be spent.
Are you kidding me. What was the 787 billion dollar bill for? You are almost as clueless as the people that wrote the first one
It's funny, I keep seeing mention of the 1994 election outcomes. Folks you have to back to the 70's to understand our current political situation. This is the Carter years all over again.
Nonsense. The underlying fundamentals far more closely resemble those of the early 1930s -- and to some degree the first half of Reagan's first term -- than they do the high inflation late 1970s when Jimmy Carter was president. And yes, I'm old enough to remember both Carter and Reagan.
Are you kidding me. What was the 787 billion dollar bill for?
It was to help keep the economy from descending into a horrendous deflation. And it largely worked. Job losses have fallen precipitously, and GDP is expanding again. Unfortunately it was about $400 billion too small, so it didn't work enough.
Presto, the jobs will come...
How's the weather in Guangdong, eric?
The job cuts keep coming... Sprint up to 2,500 EA 1,500 Pfizer 600 Novell 3% of staff + cuts benefits Royal Dutch Shell thinking about 10% staff reduction
* Hey on the bright side: Obama creates 640,329 jobs... at a average cost $323,739. (Funds paid out so far = $83.8 billion + $52.1 billion + $71.4 billion = $207.3 billion $207,300,000,000 / 640,329 = $323,739.83 per job created)
How is that hope and change thing going...
Quite well, thanks very much. Job losses were running about 700,000 a month, and the economy was shrinking, when Bush left office. With ten months of sane executive branch leadership behind us, job losses have decreased by about 70% and the economy is once again growing. And we're about to get healthcare reform enacted.
Lol, Jasper, keep drinking the cool aid my young gen-Y friend. He He He ....
Read Steven Pearlstein's article (http://tinyurl.com/yfy8vee) about how there is no quick fix and the economy needs some time to deleverage. The government can make it smoother, but massive spending or tax cuts will not fix the problem. That is not something any politician ever wants to say, but a little gridlock might not be the worst thing.
I will suggest again, listen to Koo's presentation available on Seeking Alpha (link above). Chief economist at Nomura, very enlightening. We need to spend, spend, spend becauuse NO ONE ELSE IS! This still holds- GDP = C + I + G + (Ex - Im)
where "C" equals spending by consumers, "I" equals investment by businesses, "G" equals government spending and "(Ex - Im)" equals net exports, that is, the value of exports minus imports. Net exports may be negative.
G is the only thing spending, without it we are taost.
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Speech scientist Rupal Patel customizes synthetic voices for people who can't speak. She tells Guy Raz of TED Radio Hour about helping people communicate in a voice that fits their personality.
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STEPEHN HAWKING: Here did we come from? Are we alone in the universe?
You may recognize this as the voice of Stephen Hawking, the physicist. It's actually the generic voice of men and women who use computers to speak for them. Synthetic speech though can be cold and impersonal, but a scientist in Boston wants to change that. Guy Raz of the TED RADIO HOUR has more.
GUY RAZ, BYLINE: Rupal Patel is a speech scientist and a professor at Northeastern University in Boston and she's figured out a way to create new voices, customized voices, for people who use synthetic speech; people who, for whatever reason - autism or cerebral palsy or stroke - cannot talk. Rupal explains from the Ted stage.
RUPAL PATEL: I'm going to play you now a sample of two people actually who have severe speech disorder.
PATEL: You probably didn't understand what they said, but I hope that you heard their unique vocal identities. I wanted to harness these residual vocal abilities and build voices that could be customized for them. So we decided to do exactly that.
RAZ: With a girl named Samantha, and Samantha has a very rare speech disorder which makes it impossible for her to speak. But she can make sounds.
SAMANTHA: Ahhhhhh.
PATEL: And from that we can gather the pitch of her voice, the quality of her voice. Is it raspy, is it breathy? And we take what we can from those vocalizations and use them in the process where we generate a voice for her that sounds like her.
So how do you go about building this voice? Well, you have to find someone who's willing to be a surrogate. For Samantha, her surrogate came from somewhere in the Midwest, a stranger who gave her the gift of voice.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Things happen in pairs. I love to sleep, the sky is blue...
SIMON: The idea is to cover all the different combinations of the sounds that occur in the language. Samantha's voice is like a concentrated sample of red food dye, which we can infuse into the recordings of her surrogate to get a pink voice.
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SAMANTHA: This voice sounds like the real me. I helped make my new voice. I can't wait to use my new voice with my friends.
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PATEL: When she heard her voice, there's this smile that spread across her face when she heard it for the first time. What I love about that is it's this sort of slow realization that this is who I am.
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16The Franconia Museum's History Day 2014 will be held on Sunday, November 16, at the Franconia Volunteer Department between the hours of noon and 4 p.m. Admission and parking is FREE. Park and enter from the rear lot and entrance. The program includes reminiscences from former volunteer and career firefighters and members of the ladies auxiliary. There will be an update on the continuation of the volunteer spirit at one of Fairfax County's oldest fire stations. The Museum will display some of its artifacts and will offer books and items at a deeply discounted one-day sale. Christian folk music will be featured along with a report on the recently restored Fairfax House overlooking Burgundy Village. Used books and DVDs will be on sale and concessions will be available to help finance the Museum in the coming year. If you have used paperbacks and/or hardcover books or DVDs you would like to donate, bring them to the firehouse starting at 10 a.m. on November 16. Or, drop them by the Museum any Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The Museum is located in the Franconia Government Center at 6121 Franconia Road.
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(Click for details)The Franconia Museum is engaged in a campaign to save Belvale, a 250-plus-year-old house at 7701 Telegraph Road in Fairfax County, Virginia by having it listed on the Virginia and National Register of Historic sites.
Belvale was the home of George Johnston, a neighbor and contemporary of George Wasington who also served in the Virginia House of Burgesses with George Mason and was involved with Patrick Henry in the protest against the Stamp Act. Johnston, a lawyer, also handled legal issues for Washington.
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ON JULY 3, 1863The Gerke family of Rose Hill has donated a panoramic framed map of the Gettysburg battlefield on July 3, 1863. All of the units on both sides are identified and placed in position on the map. The topography is authenticated by Union General George Gordon Meade. The picture is on display at the Museum. The Museum is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you have a relative who fought at Gettysburg, you will find the unit on this picture. Even if you don't have a personal interest, this view of the battle is a historic preservation of the situation 150 years ago as part of the Sesquicentennial in 2013.
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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson aren't the only couple who've become estranged as a result of her affair with Rupert Sanders. The director hasn't seen his wife, actress Liberty Ross, since the cheating scandal went public.
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Good evening all, First of all I want to say that this forum has been a hugely helpful resource to me Ive been brewing since this past 4th of July and I dont know where Id be without this place. A hearty THANK YOU! I have a curious problem going on whenever I brew a beer in a particular one of my fermenters. I was given some brewing equipment to start with in July one piece being a plastic 10-gallon capacity carboy with a lid that doesnt seal completely. Instead of an o-ring and an airlock, the lid just doesnt seal completely to the bucket. I dont know if my description makes sense or not, but basically CO2 can get out but bugs would have trouble getting in. Also, since then I've been upgrading equipment (what brewer doesn't buy new stuff every now & again?). I brewed my first batch in this fermenter a Two Hearted clone from Northern Brewer. My O.G. was 1.062 and final was 1.007 (I believe my F.G. measurement to be inaccurate, it was probably somewhat higher, but this is what I wrote down all those months ago). Unfortunately, there was a big acetaldehyde smell and taste serious green apples! My craft beer buddies and another home brewer friend of mine could pick it up when I pointed it out. I thought it was overpowering but I guess you are your own worst critic sometimes. For reference, the temp during fermentation was too high basement was ~69-70 over the 4th of July weekend and Im sure that didnt help. Im much more conscious of temp during fermenting now, not so much back then. In all honestly, I don't recall if I used 1 or 2 packs of SA05 dry yeast, but I know it was at least 1 entire pack of SA05 (I did not record this, but I really want to say that I used two, I just cannot be 100% sure on the number of packs but I am 110% sure it was SA05 since that is what the kit recipe called for). I chalked up the green apples to being a new brewer and bravely forged ahead. After this batch, I bought two 6.5 gallon plastic carboys - each with the o-ring lid seal and 3 pc airlock. I havent had a problem with acetaldehyde in these fermenters at all, at least not that I can tell with my taste buds and nose and neither can anyone else who drinks my beers (unless they're just not being forthcoming). Since the first apply IPA, I have brewed a Russian Imperial Stout, a nut brown, a double IPA, and an oatmeal nut brown all in those new carboys with the o-ring sealing lids. Then, at the onset of September, I brewed a Founders Porter clone in the old non-sealing carboy and guess what? Yup, green apples up the wa-zoo. So this fermenter is 0 for 2 at this juncture in my tale. The O.G. target was 1.067 and I hit 1.061 the F.G. target was 1.017 and I got to 1.015. To me, this seems pretty good, but Im still a rank amateur at this. Oh yea, did I mention the green apples? I should have left this alone for longer than 17 days in the primary, but I stupidly moved it into a secondary where it sat for two weeks before being bottled. Two solid weeks in the bottles and that darn taste was there yet. The other day, this is now 20 days after bottling, I popped another bottle and to my shock and surprise tasted pretty good, relatively speaking. Theres still a hint of apples, but I think the apple smell/taste is subsiding. My plan is to let these puppies sit for a few more weeks at ~66 and hope for the best. Im encouraged that the off-flavor taste seems to be fading; its a really good beer otherwise. So at this point, I thought that I might have an aeration problem. Its hard to aerate a beer in this fermenter in question since the lid doesnt seal all the way - Ive found that beer spills out of the top very easily when I shake it (gushes out is more like it). So, to combat this, I bought an aeration stone (2 micron) and hooked it up to an O2 tank and proceeded to brew an IPA somewhat similar to the Two Hearted clone (only different types of hops and liquid yeast). Here is my recipe, comments are welcome everyone, I literally threw this together on a whim at my LHBS: Wyeast 1056 smack pack into a 1 L starter 15 hours before brewing Wyeast nutrients 1tsp dumped into starter Diammonium phosphate 2 tsp dumped into start 6 gallons of store-bought spring water Caramel 20L 1 pound steeped for 20 min while water heated 9.15 lbs gold LME for full 60 min Columbus 1oz at 60 min Centennial 1.5 oz at 15 min Whirlfloc ½ tab at 15 min Citra 1.5 oz at 5 min Citra 1.5 oz dry hop (not there yet) I used a wort chiller to get from boiling to 70 degrees in ~30 min My measured O.G. was 1.0538 I did not measure pH - should I do so for extract? I did a full boil in my 10 gal kettle and used the aeration stone for 70 seconds before pitching This has been in my basement all week it is considerably cooler there now vs. the summer. Using a digital thermometer, Ive taken the temperature of a bucket of water sitting directly beside the fermenter twice each day. Once when I wake up and once when I get home from work. The temp has not been above 62 and has not fallen below 60. Tonight I moved the fermenter to a room in my basement which is a shade warmer presently its 66 - to finish its fermentation. I brewed this IPA on 10/14/12, this past Sunday. I couldnt resist, tonight I lifted that no-sealing lid and Ill be damned - theres green apple smell in there. Took a sample and my gravity is now 1.012, I think thats pretty much where it should be, maybe a bit lower but not much? I guess I have to buy BeerSmith to get a better idea. FYI there is still foam on the beer, and there was a much higher krausen as evidenced by the crud on the sides of the bucket - but thats all gone now, its just some ugly looking yellowy-brown foam. Interestingly, I tasted the sample and couldnt really smell the apple nor taste it in the small glass I poured it into after the gravity test so maybe its just when I have all 5+ gallons of it in my face that its so noticeable. In any case, I really want to know if this apple smell & taste is due to my process, if theres something wrong with the fermenter, or what. First, this beer is pretty young its technically not even 5 days away from being called wort. Perhaps this is going to turn out just fine, but I am growing impatient and becoming suspicious of my cleaning/sanitizing technique even though I think I'm being at least adequately good about killing germs, it's tough to tell when you're doing this all alone. Second, maybe there is just something about this fermenter that doesnt mix with my brewing style and I should toss it to the curb and move on. Maybe there's a scratch in the plastic that I can't see, can a fermenter just go "bad?" Well, I'm sure you've noticed that I'm a detail wonk, I like puzzles, and I want to get to the bottom of this. I am convinced that there is an explanation here and I would like to one day turn out a batch of some awesome beer from this bucket so I feel like I was able to overcome whatever was messing up the beer (even if its my own methods). I would appreciate any help / ideas / suggestions with this situation. Is it the fermentor, cleanliness, aeration, something else? Thanks in advance and please let me know if you have questions that I can answer. I eagerly await your responses. Dave
There's a couple reasons that this could be happening. The most likely culprit is stressed yeast. That can happen from not pitching enough yeast, pitching while the wort is still too warm, taking the beer away from the yeast too soon (sooner than 14 days), or not aerating enough (but I think you've covered the aeration thing). The only other thing that I can think of is that the previous owner brewed cider in it and the plastic got saturated with the taste and is leaching into your beer, but that's a long shot.
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Draw - Thanks for the reply, interesting thought on the cider. Next time I talk to the previous owner I'll inquire about that. I pitched the 1056 when the temp of the wort was 70, I tried to make sure it was cool enough not to shock the little suckers into submission. In retrospect, I should have just used two packs of SA05 just to be as certain as possible that there were no yeast problems, but I've been having a lot of fun with liquid yeast lately. Maybe I didn't get enough yeast like you suggest. I did 1L of water to start with. Added 1/2 cup DME, boiled for 10 min, put into (sanitized) flask, cold water bath to cool off, pitched the smack pack. Then I dumped in the nutrients and diammonium phosphate. I'll definitely be keeping tabs on this batch and let you know how it smells & tastes on day 14. Dave
Yeah, fermenters do go bad...especialy the plastic ones. But that's a whole other subject, just like sour beers (you'll need a whole other set of equipment for the cold side of brewing).


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This current thread Aircraft Buffs, Check This Out! made me think of this related question.
What interesting aircraft have you had some unusual personal experience with?
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1. B-52 When I was a kid, my neighbor invited me to the AF base and took me on an inside tour of one they were working on. Thanks for the thrill MSgt. (he died in a B-52 crash a few years later)
2. SR-71 Blackbird Up close look at one at a museum. Awesome
3. B-24 Paid for 45 minute group ride on one of the few that remains airworthy. I was expecting "John Wayne" to be our pilot, but when I finally finished crawling, bouncing, and being tossed at the flight deck, I looked up at the pilot and she looked much like my 30 year old daughter. I expected her to turn to me and say "hey Dad".
4. B-17 Paid for hour group ride which included about 10 minutes of flying time. Later, I happened to be in the bombadiers seat when the pilot "buzzed the field" to conclude our "mission", on landing I was lucky again to stand right behind the pilot looking over his shoulder as we landed. Fantastic experience.
My father was an aircraft mechanic for most of WWII and I grew up hearing his stories and experiences, so my interest has always been high on WWII planes. My limited experience with those two old bombers helped me understand a tiny bit of what he experienced.


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CORPUS CHRISTI - A 19-year-old man pleaded guilty on Monday to causing a fatal wreck the weekend of his high school graduation and has left his punishment up to a jury.
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