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Has anybody got experience with using rosemary in place of hops in beer?
Planning to make a batch using some fresh rosemary that a friend gave us, and was wondering how much to use for a 5 gallon batch of pale ale.
Google has been less than informative.
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There's a guy also using bay leafs in a beer, which is another one of those great herbs, that I wouldn't begin to know how to use. But surprisingly other folks on here have;http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/smok...light=rosemaryhttp://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/whos...light=rosemaryhttp://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/rose...light=rosemaryhttp://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/rose...light=rosemary
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Let us know how this turns out! I just recently had the Saison Du Buff by The collaboration of DogFishHead, Victory and Stone. It had rosemary, thyme, sage and parsley...you could smell all of of them... but could only really taste one...cant remember which. It was surprisingly refreshing
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Sho nuff.http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f36/rose...t-mash-204170/
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Saison du buff is great! I've had the batches brewed at stone and dogfish, still waiting to try the victory batch.
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SENECA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, the late former first lady Betty Ford and Title IX advocate Bernice Sandler were among the nine women inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame Saturday.
The ceremony, attended by about 700 people, was held in Seneca Falls, the western New York village where the first known women's rights convention was held in 1848.
"Our mission is to share the stories of these women with the general population and to inspire future generations to their own greatness," the hall's deputy director, Amanda Bishop, said after the ceremony.
Also honored Saturday was "Sexual Politics" author Kate Millett; horse racing's most successful female jockey, Julie Krone; Ina May Gaskin, who is known as the "mother of authentic midwifery"; and monetary scholar Anna Jacobson Schwartz, who collaborated with Nobel laureate Milton Friedman on "A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960," published in 1963. She died last year.
The inductees also include the late Mother Mary Joseph Rogers, who in 1912 founded Maryknoll Sisters, the first U.S.-based Catholic missionary congregation of religious women, and 19th-century educator Emma Hart Willard, who advocated for equal education for women in higher education in the early 1800s.
Pelosi called for more equal pay, health coverage, affordable child care and paid family leave in her address after receiving the ceremonial medallion.
"We think that will unleash the power of women," she said, according to the Democrat and Chronicle.
Pelosi, from California, was recognized for more than 25 years in politics and as the nation's first female House speaker and first woman to lead a major U.S. political party. This year she launched a women-based agenda on the 165th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention, advocating for equal pay for women, paid family leave and affordable child care, which she said is the biggest missing piece to the fulfillment of women's potential.
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Comment: Re:It's OK, every civilization collapses (Score 1) 110
Feeding the hungry sounds great, the hungry will multiply until you can't feed them all.
Comment: Re:Actually - This Perfect Day (Score 1) 532
Comment: Re:Time for men's liberation (Score 1) 369
I'd have an easier time finding a unicorn in this culture than a woman who will truly commit to creating a family
Go overseas! The problem is lately people aren't going for foreign women, creating this artificial scarcity of women. A well-to-do 1st-world man can pretty much eat the lunch of the men in any smaller pond in the world. In many cases you can go take one home with you. With the add in benefit that you have good connections in case you need a cheap place to retire.
Comment: Re:Bollocks. (Score 4, Insightful) 138
Chalk this decision from nVidia as a few assholes ruining it for the rest of us.
Comment: Re:What happened? (Score 1) 422
The frame lag apologists argue that even something like 100ms delay won't make a difference because the difference it tiny and human eye can't detect time resolution that small. This is incorrect because
A. You're measuring the frame only, not the sequence
B. The sequence is competing against the opponent IN PARALLEL
Let us say two skilled players playing against each other and both a hand-eye reaction time of exactly 250ms, and their displays have a frame lag of 60 ms. They see each other at the same exact time.
Player1: Render--60ms---stimulus---250ms---Mouse1
Player2: Render--60ms---stimulus---250ms---Mouse1
So they are equally matched, and basically the randomizer that simulates bullet spread will decide the player who dies. 50/50.
Now lets put Player2 on a display with a propagation delay of 59ms.
Player1: Render--60ms---stimulus---250ms---Mouse1
Player2: Render--59ms--stimulus---250ms---Mouse1
Boom. Player2 is the first to fire, meaning his shots are always counted first. If this is a sniper battle that means Player2 wins EVERY time in this scenario. Add bullet spread, and still Player2 wins most of the time.
You might say this is only meaningful in the case of two very closely matched opponents, but this is actually pretty common because the more skilled you get, the closer you are to the human maximum hand-eye response time, therefore the more similar players get as skill increases.
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Comment: Re:Except inflation (Score 1) 226
Our universe was birthed as an explosion, and particles expand outward. Yet even if they approach an infinite amount of space between each there will remain an gravitational attraction between all particles that will bring them back together given enough time, and will return to the original configuration before the explosion.
At that point the explosion will recur.
You could plot the progress of those universes superimposed on one another and call it parallel. Which goes well with a mathematical model since the expansion and contraction is inherently and pervasively sinusoidal.
However that isn't a great approach as far as trying to navigate between them. You can't exactly "go back" like you would expect two independent functions, so the idea of what we could accomplish is more nuanced.
You could however consider that such a configuration doesn't result in "infinite" possibilities per se. The particles emerging from the big bang have certain properties, they combine in a certain way, and the major elements of the process are measurable and repeatable to some extent.
So instead if we were to plot it out each successive universe there would be a certain "wobble". Each iteration of the universe would be slightly different. If you know enough about the characteristic frequency of the wobble you could even move "back" and forth, although instead of going "back" you'd simply enter another iteration of the universe that is identical to a historical target.
Really this is the only way time travel is possible. You would have to position yourself to arrive at November 5, 1955 in a future universe identical to the current iteration.
Not exactly what you think of as time travel, but the only possible way it could work. And no, time paradoxes are silly and don't exist in this. If you "go back in time" and kill your grandfather you're only adding an additional harmonic to the characteristic frequency of the wobble of the universal life cycle. Instead of a progression of:
[exist in this universe], [exist in this universe]
You have:
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And each interaction (or communication) adds an order of magnitude of complication of this harmonic. So the more interuniversal communication happens the harder it gets each time to calculate that "identical universe". In fact we could probably mathematically prove that it impossible to obtain such an identical universe after a certain amount of communication occurs for some meaningless constant which has likely already been surpassed by an infinite amount.
The reason that the communication is important is because if it didn't occur then we would be basically be trapped in a Star Trek-like where time simply loops, and we repeat the same actions over and over again for infinity. The communication/cross-contamination/what have you gives us the ability to pass on progress forward and have a evolving paradigm.
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1. Drive to Baltimore
2. Whip out my camera on the doughnut brigade
3. Take my beating
4. Collect $7 million
That's a hell of a bargain. Take 1 beating, then don't have to work for the rest of my life!
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And for political posturing reasons, the US will continue to fill up with morons with no skills or social graces (who would leave their family, really?) which makes the US moron footprint on the internet even more over-represented.
The funny part is that anyone smart is really planning a exit strategy long-term, if they haven't left already. The US economy is like emptying a bath with the faucet of petrodollars left on. You could optimistically call the vortex above the drain a "whirlwind of activity"...but no, thats the sucking sound that happens at the end, and after sufficient time, the petrodollar will cease to exist and the bath will drain really quickly >:O
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Basically what was removed is this:
1. You add <bogus political app>
2. <bogus political app> sends me an invite automagically, with your name on it
3. I get annoyed and delete it
Now what happens:
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3. Fin
Bravo Facebook. If you're one of those annoying fuckers who installed that spammy ass Obama 2012 app, eat my shorts. And Zuckerburg's shorts too.
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It took me 3 attempts to pass that exam and now there are 5 year olds who can pass it?
Hey, buying a recent brain dump and using it to cheat on a cert is a great job skill FYI. There is no way a 5 year old actually passed legitimately, he's just being taught by pops how to win at the corporate game
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Greedy politicians and big conglomerate executives (no difference nowadays) are dying to screw the poor with higher prices and higher taxes, and lower wages from cheap immigrant labor. What great lengths have been taken to justify that end with seemingly agreeable ideas...
-Let's bring in millions of undocumented immigrants and make them legal. That group will join the poor, and the new poor population as a whole will pay more taxes than the smaller, current crop of poor people, even if they individually make less money. Win for gov't for the tax proceeds, win for big conglomerates for dirt cheap labor.
-Fossil fuel tax. Make it uneconomical for the poor to own a car. Force them to live in local ghettos rather than commute. Bonus since the rich don't have to deal with their traffic.
-Carbon tax. Make it uneconomical for the poor to use electricity and natural gas. Make their home environments too miserable for their children to succeed academically.
-ACA. Tax the poor if they can't afford health care.
-Conservation. Seize land in the name of nature, forcing land prices up, property tax higher, forcing poor and subsistence farmers to sell their land and enter the job market with no skills.
-Cigarette tax. The poor are much more likely to smoke than the rich. Poor tax.
I mean, none of those things really disturb me that much, since I'm not poor and I can handle price increases by leveraging a raise. I'd especially love not having to spend an hour commute with every idiot loser and his brother who thinks they just *have* to own a car and drive it every morning. BUT...once the majority of the country is good and screwed, and there is no hope to be had, and no more can be squeezed out of the poor...who or what is next? Just think about that for a minute.
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-Confidence is more important than critical thinking, critical thinking is for low-wage cogs
-Marriage sets back your career. Children bring it to a screeching halt. Just don't.
-Don't get fat or they won't hire you
-Go for loafers that way you don't need to bend over and rip your pants to tie your shoes on the way to the interview
-Smile a lot so your coworkers feel bad when they backstab
-Live like a poor now so you don't have to change your habits later
-Retirement funds are not an actual benefit. They only exist to make save businesses from pensions and make bankers money. You're just keeping up with inflation. 35 years from now a roll of toilet paper will cost a $1,000 dollars. Not that it matters, getting fired and spending the rest of your 50's eating ramen and hot dogs will kill you long before you can collect
-Most of the jobs left are in big cities with insane costs of living. No, you'll probably never pay off that student loan early like you thought you would.
-Getting out of school is like getting out of prison. Life becomes just an aimless, pointless expanse, and acquiring useless shiny things to impress an insane whore to procure snot-nosed children seems like a good idea at the time
-Working with passive-aggressive adult children means you get to eat a lot of crap.
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It still remains one of the best ways to explore your surroundings and the latest version of Google Maps has added a redesigned screen to make it easier to hunt out a destination, higher resolution maps for devices like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus and the Asus Transformer Prime plus improved responsiveness for panning and zooming around your location.
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The retro camera app phenomenon recently snapped up by Facebook, now supports Android 4.0-packing devices like the HTC One X while providing better support for tablets. Expect the usual array of custom filters and borders with the ability to now view your vintage-looking pictures in the Gallery app.
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Whether you are planning to jot down your weekly shopping list on an Android 4.0 tablet or smartphone, the note-taking app sports a Ice Cream Sandwich-matching holo theme and the ability to back all your content in the cloud. Syncing with an existing Google account, you can move notes across different lists and password lock individual notes if you are worried about your secret plans being uncovered.
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It's been a long time coming, but Google has finally completed the chain by launching a version of Chrome for Android smartphones. The Beta, which is only for Android Ice Cream Sandwich phones and tablets brings improved tabs, which can be flicked through like a deck of cards, and instant syncing with your desktop browser, meaning if you have to step away from your screen, the pages will be open and ready for you to use.
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The holiday shopping surge continues right up until the holiday and beyond, so keep working to make sure you're offering the right promotions to consumers that will make an impact on the bottom line.
Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday have passed, it's time to take a moment to evaluate whether you need to make website changes to meet and exceed your goals.
To do this effectively you must focus on analytics to get a read on performance as it relates to your marketing acquisition budget, and merchandising plans to see what products are having the greatest impact. In only four days you now have some of the most valuable data on your customers that you'll get all year.
Not to worry if you aren't meeting all your goals. There are in-season changes you can make to drive additional revenues. But to make adjustments and reallocate resources in time to make an impact during the final holiday push, you need to act fast.
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During your evaluation of products that are selling well, you should also be mindful of the items that are being underexposed. A key decision that you'll have to make is whether or not to make a concerted effort to mitigate these underexposed products by driving sales of items that haven't moved.
When it comes to your recommendation messages, for example, it's critical to figure out the right mix of merchandising best sellers vs. additional items that haven't achieved the same high volume of sales. Although recommendations are mostly done by automated processes on the website, keep in mind that algorithms don't take into account real-world concerns such as overstocked products. Instead, supplement your merchandising algorithms with your team's knowledge of offline business pain points and opportunities.
One way to do this is through your holiday email marketing. In email messages, highlight top-performing products based on automated recommendations and incorporate manual recommendations to make sure you also represent underperforming products that you want to move.
Evaluate how much you're spending across marketing channels to determine if you can be budgeting your marketing dollars more wisely. If a channel is not performing up to par, adapt and move dollars to the channels that are performing better, for instance, shuffling some of the display advertising money to email.
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The next step is to make sure you're in position to make the most of the last few weeks of the peak holiday season.
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Opportunities like these will exist until the last minute if you put in the effort in to make sure you're constantly refining your plan based on data. There are always ways to win over new customers - and delight the ones you have - whether it's with a last-minute gift card or by encouraging them to come to the store.
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