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Dubai is full of ways to have fun when the sun goes down, from the largest and latest clubs through to intimate lounges, bars and cafes. In Dubai, outdoor and beach clubs are popular too, and some of the best known Dubai clubs and bars are in the leading hotels. There are popular clubs all over Dubai, with the biggest concentration in the beach hotels and on Sheikh Zayed Road.
The Dubai club and bar scene effortlessly incorporates just about anyone, and age is no barrier providing you are over 21. Bear in mind that dress codes are generally applied fairly rigidly at all venues bar a few outdoor ones.
Chart music is always popular, but many Dubai clubs and bars host live bands and theme nights. The trick is to be in the right place on the right night. There are local listings available through Timeout and Mumtazz. Be aware that most Dubai clubs don't generally get going until at least 23:00 and then close at around 03:00.
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Zuma, the popular Japanese restaurant which opened in London in 2002, launched in Dubai in September 2008
A regular institution, The Irish Village is much loved, and features big name live entertainment
A Japenese styled venue, rated by some as one of the world's great bars
A lounge bar with a view of the Burj Khalifa and a selection of classic drinks and hors d'oevres give this venue the 'wow' factor
Enjoy signature cocktails to the backdrop of the world's tallest skyscraper and the famous Dubai Fountain
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text: Unearthed: November 2011 Publication | November 2011 Click on image to download .A newsletter for clients and contacts in the global mining industry EventsRecent dealsIn profileLegal updates and articlesEventsUpcoming eventsInvesting in African Mining Indaba- Cape Town, 6-9 February 2012Indaba is the world's largest gathering of mining's most influential stakeholders and decision-makers in African mining. Norton Rose South Africa and a contingent of partners from Norton Rose Group offices around the globe will host the event at Indaba.Recent eventsOil, Gas and Minerals: International Arbitration and Advocacy Skills- London, 5-9 September 2011Steve Abraham, Norton Rose LLP, presented on risks in and disputes that arise in international mining investments at this five day conference on international arbitration in the oil, gas and minerals industry run by the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy.Papua New Guinea Prime Minister lunch – Brisbane, 9 September 2011Norton Rose Australia, with Kramer Ausenco, hosted a lunch in Brisbane with the Honourable Peter O'Neill, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. The lunch was attended by representatives of major mining, energy and infrastructure companies. The Prime Minister provided comments on his Government's initiatives in relation to the mining and petroleum industry.Mining in Difficult Jurisdictions, Focus on Africa: seminar and drinks reception: – Toronto, 13 September 2011Norton Rose Group's global mining experts Dawn Whittaker, Martin McCann, Poupak Bahamin, Pierre Dagenais, Steve Tenai and Michael Torrance discussed due diligence, risks and structuring issues in this presentation focusing on investment in Africa.Norton Rose's Associate Office Susandarini & Partners Celebrates New office– Jakarta, 15 September 2011In May 2011, Norton Rose's associate office Susandarini & Partners, relocated to new office premises in Jakarta and on 15 September 2011, colleagues and clients celebrated the opening. Susandarini & Partners has a broad-based corporate and commercial practice, representing banks, insurance companies, corporates and other financial institutions while also having significant experience advising on energy, infrastructure, oil and gas, mining and transport projects and transactions.Breakfast briefing series: Listing resource companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange – London, 28 September 2011Held at our London offices, Julie Shin (Director of Listed Issuer Services, TSX) and Orlee Wertheim (Head of Business Development Global Mining, TSX) presented on listing qualifications, the listing process and the rules and regulations governing the Toronto Stock Exchange and Toronto Venture Exchange, using practical examples of companies that have already listed and the long-term trends in the Toronto market.View the presentation.Transparency International lecture and drinks reception: Corruption in Russia – London, 5 October 2011Held at our London offices, guest speaker Elena A. 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Political and legal considerations for foreign investment in CanadaCanada's law governing foreign investment, the Investment Canada Act has come under increased scrutiny since the government's review of BHP Billiton's proposed acquisition of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan in late 2010. For the second time in two years, the Canadian government blocked an acquisition by a foreign investor, using a law that had never before in its 25 year history been used for that purpose. 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As we swing out the year today, it's time for another installment of Mindblowers. For those new to JazzWax, at the end of each quarter I provide a roundup of my favorite quotes from interviews I conducted with legends over the past three months. For the other 11 volumes in this quarterly series dating back to 2007, scroll down the right-hand side to "Mindblowers," where you'll find links to each one. For my full interviews, scroll down to "JazzWax Interviews." Happy New Year!
Trumpeter Clark Terry on the first time he recorded on flugelhorn in November 1957. "The horn came in a box to my hotel in Chicago. I was in Duke's band at the time and we had a day off, so I was recording with Billy Taylor [Taylor Made Jazz]. When the package arrived at the hotel, my roommate thought it was something I would want right away. So he came down to the place where we were recording and brought it into the studio. When I opened the package, the horn looked great. It was a beautiful, gold-plated instrument. I tried it right there on the spot and loved it so much I decided to use it on the date."
Clark Terry on Miles Davis. "When he was a kid, Miles followed us around East St. Louis a lot. He had a lot of respect for me and for Dizzy [Gillespie]. Miles wouldn't change anything he was doing unless 'Clark or Dizzy told me to' [laughs]."
Saxophonist Hal McKusick on Clark Terry. "As a player, Clark doesn't move much. Like Billie Holiday, Clark doesn't have to gyrate to get the sound he wants or to swing and express himself. It all comes out of his horn."
Dionne Warwick on English pop singers who rerecorded her Burt Bacharach hits. "Lifting what I was doing was the way of the world over there. I guess they all hoped it would be their ticket to hitting it big in the States. Interpretations are one thing. Copying a version closely, with my phrasing and delivery, is a challenge."
Dionne Warwick on Bacharach's songs. "They were all difficult, musically. Burt's complex melodies and shifting time signatures within the song were tough. You had to be able to read music to keep up."
Drummer Louis Hayes on playing with Horace Silver in the late '50s. "No sheet music. I learned the music in my head. I knew how the tune went, every inch of it. Only then can you create. I have the ability to listen and know instinctively what to play. I've had drummers ask me, 'How did you play The Outlaw?' See, to me, it was just a thing. I had a format in my head and had worked it out. You have to know songs cold so you can make something out of them and do things that aren't there."
Louis Hayes on the Horace Silver Quintet. "I didn't really try to accompany anyone. They have to follow me. You have two choices on any tune. You can accompany whoever is soloing or you can take charge and have them feed off of what you're doing."
Rock 'n' roll legend Fats Domino while signing autographs for dozens of grade-school children in New Orleans. "You gotta make kids happy."
Author Will Friedwald on shifting tastes in pop music in the early 1960s. "After the Beatles and Bob Dylan, the idea of singing a song that you didn't write yourself seemed hopelessly bourgeois, passé and 'establishment.' Yet from that moment on, with the strong exception of a few upper-bracket types such as Dylan, Lennon and McCartney, pop music was both compromised and downsized."
Producer Phil Ramone on The Girl From Ipanema in 1963, on which he was the engineer. "Quincy Jones wanted Sarah Vaughan to record the song, so Creed Taylor decided to make a demo of it in English. Astrud Gilberto, who had come to the date with her then husband, guitarist Joao Gilberto, volunteered, saying she could sing in English. Astrud went into the studio and did it. But when Sarah heard the demo, she decided at first not to record it. The Girl From Ipanema sat on a shelf on Sarah's end waiting for her decision. Many months later, Creed finally released the single, with Stan Getz's Blowin' in the Wind on the B side. It was a charming little recording. When the single became a hit, it drove the Getz/Gilberto album and took the bossa nova to a new level in the U.S."
Phil Ramone on what he did to get the drums on Dionne Warwick's Burt Bacharach hits to sound clear but hushed. "I'll tell you what I did differently there. I put the drums on a two-foot riser and stuffed fiberglass under the riser. The drums were alive above the two-foot area, but you didn't get bottom-heavy reverberation. When the musicians on the sessions played in the room, they could see and feel the drums everywhere but the drums never drowned them out."
Phil Ramone on the big English beat of the mid-'60s. "I remember going into studios in London and seeing groups like the Rolling Stones and the Animals. I remember seeing Keith Moon, The Who's drummer [pictured]. When I heard him, I said, 'There's a drum sound we had better look out for.' Back in the State, I'd tell people, 'Are you aware of the sound coming out of England? It's way beyond just the Beatles.' "
Documentarian Albert Maysles on filming Gimme Shelter in 1969. "My brother David and I didn't view ourselves as flies on the wall—to fade back and just take it all in. There's no poetry in transparency. We wanted the Stones and others to know we were there, and for them to wrestle with that mild tension."
Albert Maysles on Michael Wadleigh's film Woodstock. "My brother David and I walked out of the film. Too many [talking-heads] interviews. It felt staged and the interviews disrupted the natural course of events happening in the film."
Pianist Dave Brubeck on Take Five, credited to bandmate Paul Desmond. "Actually, the song was a collaboration. I had asked Paul to improvise a melody with a 5/4 tempo, but he couldn't come up with anything. Instead, he had two themes, and I found that by putting them together and repeating the first theme, we could form a song."
Arranger Don Sebesky on recording Wes Montgomery for A&M Records in the '60s. "Wes couldn't read music. The whole point of my approach to record Wes and the rhythm section first and then arrange the orchestra was to give Wes free reign and then capture the rise and fall of his emotional content with the orchestra. When one of the guys in the rhythm section would create something inventive, I had a reference, a catalyst that I could use to bounce off of for the orchestral arrangement."
Don Sebesky on the one time he played with pianist Bill Evans. "We played on a jingle together for an Esso TV ad, before the oil company became known as Exxon. Bill Russo wrote the arrangement and Bill played piano. It was in '60 or '61."
Don Sebesky on jazz-rock fusion, a movement he embraced. "Looking back, I think many jazz musicians lost track of their roots. The rock-pop trend was a wave that swept through the jazz world. It was an experiment. The bossa nova was probably the demarcation line—where jazz-pop ended and jazz-rock began—since the Brazilian form was so musical."
Jazz critic Nat Hentoff on the late pianist Billy Taylor. "He wasn't a pyrotechnician, but he was always telling his story on the keyboard and finding new ways to be himself."
World musician David Amram, 80, on his tireless schedule and whether he ever gets to rest. "Everyone asks me that. Here's what I tell them: 'Yeah, most of the time. I took a nap in 1957 and it gave me a headache [laughs].' "


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|Observatory Hill, Charlottesville, VA 1997
There's this guy in his forties and his wife gets pregnant with twins and he builds an addition on their house but before he's done his wife has the babies and then he has to stay home and take care of the kids and finish the house and do a bunch of other stuff too. Also there's a really big dog with emotional problems.
Friday, March 25, 2011
SCAR, volume one, issue one
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U know what u are doing to yourself.. U have validation all over this post... Don't sabotage yourself by pre-race jitters... U don't get the jitters taking care of your girls, do u? some men would freak, think of whatever race u r in as the same as taking care of your girls... Don't let the fear take over... man up ok? u will ace any bike race ( or at least come in second? think positive)ReplyDelete
That's a badass picture, man. But that's why I ride a motorcycle, so that when I fall off it, it will look even cooler. If I don't die.ReplyDelete
How much do you ride to train for this stuff?
Haha awesome series! Even cooler because at first I thought this was going to be stories from your teenage years, but then (going by your picture) this is something that happened later on.ReplyDelete
It goes with the territory BD,ride a bike and you fall off and get some serious gravel rash.ReplyDelete
I used to do a lot of very serious cycling in my salad days (not quite Bradley Wiggins/Mark Cavendish but pretty reasonable) and I have 2 major injuries to report.
1st one was getting on my bike to do a little warm up before starting a TT.Looked down because I couldn't get one of my shoes into the pedal properly and promptly rode straight into the back of a parked car.4 chipped teeth.
The 2nd one is a 3 inch scar on my left leg which comes from not concentrating properly when I was shaving my legs (I know,I know.I had delusions of grandeur.I was the man to knock Miguel Indurain off his perch....)
Nice mess you made of yourself though BD.Plus you finished.
That was a long way to go to show a pic of yourself flexing.ReplyDelete
Good read.
Your story telling abilities are fantastic. I cringed when you are tossed off the bike, even though I kind of knew it was coming.ReplyDelete
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Ahh mountain-biking, completely pointless and fun. Actually it's ideal for injuries and broken bikes. Ha! (I actually enjoy it, sin racing)ReplyDelete
Hey, you should throw in more of you humor and cynical eye on this puppy (you are an expert at that). You could have done as least a paragraph or two on porta-johns alone.
The he-man pose was funny, but I wasn't sure if I was supposed to laugh or not. ("By the power of grayskull!!!)
@KBF-That's all good advice. Of course I haven't been in a race in over ten years. That was the best way to avoid the pre-race jitters!ReplyDelete
@Frank--Even cooler? C'mon! There's no way. Unless you were motorcycling in Lycra.
@Out of Sync--The injuries I got in high school might actually be to stupid to talk about, even in this forum!
@Jack--Chipped teeth? Ouch. Razor accident. Hahahahahaa...
@H-Man--Beefcake. BEEEEFCAAAAAKE!!!
@David--I could have a whole series on port-a-johns, after all my years on construction sites.
@David--Oh yeah. The kissing-the-biceps was my ironic signature move. But the wounded animal look in my eyes works at cross purposes with the whole gesture.ReplyDelete
I have several friends who are cyclists and I still maintain: you guys are crazy! so crazy.ReplyDelete
but, I have to say, that picture is HOT!
You have to follow up with the story of the bike ride with Greta where you ran out of sunlight. I've told that one so many times I feel like it happened to me....ReplyDelete
I'm glad you didn't get too friendly with your bike post. I was worried for a second there.ReplyDelete
@Andygirl--I wasn't even one of the crazy ones when I was racing. I knew a guy who had to be choppered straight from a race to the OR. BTW, of COURSE that pic is hot. 3rd sexiest daddyblogger. Holla.ReplyDelete
@Andrew--I mentioned the Greta mt bike debacle in my tear-jerky ode to her, but I could probably spin it into a novella a la Old Man and the Sea. Hey--I owe you a photo credit on this, don't I?
Cool! Love it!ReplyDelete
I LOVE Biking. Distance, mountain, touring, exercise, it doesn't matter.ReplyDelete
Ever figure out what cause the wreck? A rut?
That's so badass compared to my bike injury story, which is that I sprained my ankle trying out bikes, and the day I was finally able to ride my new bike, it was stolen. The end. No ground beef.ReplyDelete
Hey man, take care! Family is most important!ReplyDelete
There's a lot of testosterone in this post.ReplyDelete
DAMN, Betadad. I'm with andygirl. I do like a muscled man in bike gear covered in blood. That's probably why I married my husband. :DReplyDelete
And then made him buy a really good accidental death/injury insurance policy.
My husband used to do some trail racing before we got together. He did, however, take me out on my very own trail bike and teach me how not to look at the trees so as to not hit them.ReplyDelete
What you described is like my own personal trail hell. I was never more scared than on a crappy little trail around a lake. 25mph downhill on my thigh would have sent me to the psych ward.
Rock on with your bad self.
I too have a number of biking scars, but no stories as good as yours. My best scar, cooler than tattoos,came not from any kind of race, but from my driveway at home when I decided that I needed to learn how to use my new clip-in shoes--on your old bike!ReplyDelete
If you get the chance I think you might enjoy seeing a production of "Gruesome Playground Injuries." It was just at Second Stage in NYC. Might give you a sense of where you could go with this if you got really really twisted.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2013 at 1:33 PM
Just read this after reading your pizza F-bomb story. I instantly smiled at seeing O-Hill in the title. I'm typing this 1.5 miles away from where the accident happened and on the same road I ran up this morning. It's much more fun to descend O-Hill that it is to climb it for sure. In case your still wondering, the O-Hill Meltdown is still going strong. The sad thing is that, in 2013 I still have the same fork on my bike that you do in that picture from 1997. Keep up the good work, I like your blog.ReplyDeleteReplies
Don't feel bad--I've still got that bike! Thanks for reading.Delete


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On Suffering and Futility: Dorothy Day's Words on a Revolution of the Heart
"One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside the proximity of the suffering poor is their sense of futility. Young people say, 'What good can one person do? What is the sense of our small effort?' They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the action of the present moment but we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize and transform all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and multiply them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes.
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? When we begin to take the lowest place, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion, which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun.'"
—Dorothy Day, from Loaves and Fishes
While looking for an image to lead our episode with Paul Elie, I happened upon this lovely illustration in Malissa Winkowski's thoughtful post on digitizing Ms. Day's work for The Catholic Worker. The takeaway: live "your love out loud even when it seems you have nothing to offer." So lovely.


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I find it amazing that after many years of listeng to McCartney there's always a song that when the album originally was relesed that I didn't pay much attention to. here's a few that i am really enjoying right now.
Move over Busker - this song just rocks and lyrically its just fun
Mistress and maid - I think I've played this 10 times in the last 2 days
C'Mon people - great stadium anthem sing a long
How many people - the simple sentiment of the song strikes a chord today
Not Such a Bad Boy - would love to hear it live!
Treat her Gently - Must be cause I"m getting old
Love to know what "lesser knowns" you enjoy.


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Undercover Investigator Unveils New Turkey Investigation
We have a brand-new investigation of a turkey factory farm, and we wanted to let the investigator introduce it to you himself. See what he has to say, then please check out the video.
The alarm clock on my cell blares out at 1 a.m. I twist in pain. It can't be time to get up yet. I hit the snooze button twice. Finally I roll over and rub my face with my hands, feeling the calloused-over blisters scratching my cheeks. The insides of my eyes and nose hurt from the dust that I could not wash out from the hours I worked yesterday in the barns where turkeys spend their entire lives.
They are crammed into pens, sometimes 600 or 800 to a pen. There are almost 8,000 turkeys in one barn. Each of these turkey farms has two or three barns. The dust inside the barns is sickening. I can't even go in without a respirator mask. I cough and choke from not being able to breathe. I see the turkeys panting much of the time. I think about grabbing one of them and carrying her outside and putting her in the grass where she could breathe and walk freely. It is so sad that they are reduced to this miserable existence just to make some profit.
There are times when I have to hold back the tears. To see the workers torture these animals is infuriating. Today we are loading a truck with male turkeys who have been bred to weigh 80-plus pounds—the same weight as my 10-year-old cousin. I will spend the next four hours watching men slam them into cages on the back of a semi truck in temperatures near 20°F. I have seen these guys stomp turkeys' heads on the concrete. The sound of cracking beaks and breaking bones makes me cringe, but I can show no emotion. I am forced to watch in silent pain as these innocent lives are being destroyed.
Turkey factory farms endorse suffering. They sell death. They make money on abuse. They do not want to show people what happens here. Everyone should know what happens here. I have spent two and a half months in hell so that people will know what it means to have a turkey on the table. Watch the video, and show people the truth. Make this world a better place by reducing pain and suffering. And please do not eat turkey this Thanksgiving.
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So I guess i should give my opinion here. Obviously the people who would stomp on turkeys do weird things to them etc. are not healthy or just have undeveloped childrens' brains. That is a fact of life. Obviously this violence and all other forms of it would not be present in a perfect society. On the topic of veganism in general. I have to say that we are the fortunate ones. We have the option to not eat animal products and still have good foods to eat that taste good. Telling people to live off of celery and broccali will never work by the way. I eat meatless ground tofu peanuts fruits vegetables etc. and i am happy. Think about those who came before us though….they had to do what they had to but there were no factory farms. I guarantee that animal abuse went on though. If it came down to a person starving to death or eating an animal I would have to say eat the animal. I guess I consider humans more important though. That doesn't mean that people in developed countries like America should eat meat we have a choice and its important to make the right decision. Factory farms though should not exist what a fat stupid country we have become…..fast food junkies…
I am so saddened and angry at this footage. What saddens me most though is that these alleged "humans" don't even seem to think anything is wrong with what they were repeatedly doing. It takes a human to be that inhumane. Have they no empathy or compassion..no mercy? Aren't we better then that? I guess some aren't. Simply Repulsive. I think the punishment should fit the crime. Perhaps a neck twisting or a good stomping would get the message across to these violators. Maybe a broomstick shoved down their throats. They behave in such a base and savage way maybe thats all that they could understand. Laws that provide a slap on the wrist or a nominal fine just don't seem to be doing the job. Perhaps harsher penalties are required for humans that seem to have developed contrary to cognitive evolution. I only hope that they don't have children to perpetuate this behaviour.
I feel sick i know this happens but when i see it i feel helpless. We must be able to do more! Has this farm been prosecuted? Why can't we broadcast these cruelty videos on live tv?
WHY AREN'T THESE HORRIBLE PEOPLE BEHIND BARS??? I am so sick and tired of men getting away with such disgusting animal abuse!! We need to form a group and go and find these sick nonhumans and torture them just like they do to these innocent animals! Anyone wanna join???? These gross people deserve pain and torture why is there NOTHING being done? I am sick of it STILL going on!!! These tools are serial killers in the making think about it theses sickos who rapetorturekill animals are WALKING THE STREETS YOU LIVE ON! Lets get them and put them all on an island and set it on fire!!!
You can go right to their website and do a "contact us" and send all your comments about this horrific treatment
Honestly what is WRONG with these "men" who are stomping on the tiny heads of these adorable birds. I literally cringed felt like vomiting and crying and have not watched the rest yet. It blows my mind. That is like stomping on a kitten's head just unfathomable.
Back in the early 80's I managed a corporate turkey farm in WadesboroNorth Carolina owned by Cuddy Farms of Canada. Everything you see in these video clips is dead on accurate.
God…I am 12 years old and i have been a vegetarian for one and a half years!!If I can do it i don't see y people that eat meat can't!!!!I want to stamp the heads of those people torturing those poor turkeys…
Somewhere 0n another planet far far away intelligent turkys are wathing this video and will come to earth to take those turkeys torturers away to the same kind of fate. We can only hope.
TO PETE FAITH RIGHT ON…you TELL cmm whoever heshe IS but I know one thing FOR SURE a complete hypocrite FOOL! Sits up here watching all the abuses and horror professes concern for the treatment of the animals tells us it's OK to eat meat because the bible says so even Christ ate it LOL yet continues to contribute to the horrors! See why it's SO hard to try and convince these buttheads the only way to end the massacre on animals is to QUIT eating them and PETA stands for just THAT yet heshe was dumbfounded when I informed her of that and probably is STILL in the dark for the reason PETA exists. LOL! DUMB as a BOX O' ROCKS!! Peace
Right on Shari! If no one speaks up they will never hear us. We need to be in their faces cmm and the millions behind himher? We need to be a constant reminder to let who ever know that behind every mouthful was a cruel keeper. cmm there are so many alternatives other than eating meat. Take a Veg. cooking course and you will see how much better it is for you in body spirit and mind. Yes your meat is killing you. That woman who represented the farm understands full well that the image is a powerful tool for change. Yes I want to be in their faces everyday we need to be in their faces everyday to remind them of their disgusting habit of eating meat. Thank you Peta! Thank you Shari!
It makes me so sad. My inlaws ask us to go to Thanksgiving at their house every year. I told them there is nothing thankful about sitting at a table with a dead bird and them eating it. I am going to try and send them the video so they can try to understand how gross it is to me and my family to be at a table with a dead bird that was tortured.
ONCE AGAIN TO cmm who just DOESN'T get it And if you opened a bible Shari it would say things like do not judge others lest you be judged….but that doesn't mean a thing to you does it? You spout and spout but where is YOUR respect for others? Judging???? I'm stating FACT here cmm NO force plain FACT. Unless just MAYBE you are interpreting it TO BE force via your subconscience ya think? God DOES work in MYSTERIOUS ways ' You got THAT RIGHT cmm YES I WILL demean HYPOCRITS as I do NOT respect meat addicts who TRY to condone their NASTY habit via DEMANDING better treatment in a world BASED on CORPORATISM GREED LOL! Where is your decency? You find a need to dig and bash other's beliefs….cuz it doesn't match yours. I can't say MUCH for YOU but MY decency is MY knowledge and MY voice for the voiceless TO BE HEARD and yeah a LOUD one at THAT ' plus the FACT I DON'T contribute to my convictions contributing to your convictions is PURE insanity! It's either FIGHT or FLIGHT and I chose FIGHT the meat addicts choose FLIGHT and FLIGHT does NOT describe TRUE activism! cmm you are SO RIGHT yes I WILL continue to dig bash when it comes to COMPLETE ignorance especially when it's right THERE in front of your face though has NO affect WHATSOEVER because of your beliefs???! LOL Just WHAT WHOSE beliefs consist of eating meat?? Eating meat is for people who are LAZY and LACK imagination as to possibly CREATE ideas ON THEIR OWN for more healthier and compassionate choices for means to survive. LOL The meat addicts usually scream out in a panic WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO EAT! NO eating meat is a CONVENIENT choice and definitely NOT a belief of ANY sort you REALLY SO portray yourself to be a COMPLETE idiot first by making an ATTEMPT to quote the bible THEN by refusing to STOP contributing yet COMPLAIN about the treatment of the victims who you SAY have NO souls. You are CONSISTENTLY contradicting yourself do you not HEAR it or are you REALLY TRULY this dizzy? Did I ever make fun of you? No. Did I ever put you down? No I gave an opinion about how your emails were looking angry and stated my opinion on the subject at hand. I have a right to an opinion though it may not be JUST LIKE YOURS Where is your sense of debate and nonhatred?….I feel bad for you. LOL Make fun?? You seem VERY young via your defenses but HEY what do I EXPECT from a HYPOCRITE! Hey I'm NOT up here looking to make friends cmm I'm here to make a statement my intentions ARE to WAKE the ignorant up WITH PURE fact and YOU are the ONLY one complaining I'm being too mean making fun waaa waaa waaa you seem to be a VERY sheltered whiner who is OUT of touch with reality. I am respected by MANY readers and posters up here and USUALLY get compliments from the 'intelligent' readers because BASICALLY it's all COMMON SENSE I write I get the point across with FACTUAL detail FACTUAL because I've been a VEGAN activist for OVER 30 years I witnessed Corporatism SLITHER its way into this country along WITH the FAST upheaval of 'hidden from the public' factory farms and I fought HARD to stop it and STILL do ' and the SAD fact IS the ONLY way to END the suffering is to STOP contributing otherwise it continues on whether you CHOOSE to believe it or NOT! THAT cmm is MY decency What I FIGHT for I STAND for NO flip flopping here. I have NO respect for hypocrisy in ANY way shape OR form I DESPISE it WITH a DRIVING passion…THAT is MY belief! Respect gets you far not force. Have a nice life and I wish you nothing but the best… I will pray for you and hope that you can calm down. cmm I HAVE an EXCELLENT life therefore you NEED to project your deeply concerned wishes and prayers onto the ones who TRULY need it LOL your IMMENSELY SUFFERING victims you USE for the PLEASING of your pallet ' Oh FORGOT we MUST hold on to those TOXIC beliefs RIGHT? LOL! I sympathize for you cmm because you are a LOST soul in a world of MASS confusion and the ONLY way to survive in a land of confusion is to SEEK out the truth and THEN accept it for WHAT it is as TRUTH will ALWAYS set you free ' P.S. Please DON'T let my capitals INTIMIDATE you they're merely attention getters ' GOD BLESS THE BEASTS PEACE!


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Fredonia cable access TV will air a new episode of Dialogues with SUNY Fredonia President Virginia Horvath as its guest. The show will air tonight and Thursday at 7 p.m.
Laona Vacation Bible School set Aug. 5-9
"Cruisin' the Amazing Amazon" is the Vacation Bible School program being held at the Laona United Methodist Church on Wil-son Road Aug. 5-9 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday thru Friday.
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Topic: modeling of a login system
I am newbee in ruby on rails.I have my task to generate a login system.But i dont know how to model the system.please help me.
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I am newbee in ruby on rails.I have my task to generate a login system.But i dont know how to model the system.please help me.
Hey talhait07,
More details about what you're wanting to do would help a ton. No one can help you if you don't explain what you're trying to do.
I suggest you start out with Ryan Bate's episode on "Authentication from Scratch". It a video that takes you through building an authentication(login) system from start to finish and I used it when I was first learning, not only to learn about authentication, but to learn many of the basic concepts you need to know when working with rails. http://railscasts.com/episodes?utf8=%E2 om+scratch
If you signup for a subscription at railscasts for $9 a month, you can access the pro and revised episodes as well. I'm not part of railscasts or anything, they're just that good.
Also, after you go through that lesson, I suggest you go with an authentication gem for a production project, at least until you're better at development. I use Devise and it does everything I need and more. https://github.com/plataformatec/devise
basically, you can use a gems named "devise"
it helps you generate login system, but you can customize it on your own way by overriding its methods.
My vote is for Devise as well.
I currently use Omniauth-identity (along with several other Omniauth strategies), not because I have anything against Devise, I just haven't used it. Authlogic used to be a good option, but it seems to have fallen out of development. At any rate, the first response is correct, unless you are really wanting to dig into login functionality. Spend your time on what is going to make your app unique and useful otherwise. The developers behind Devise and Omniauth, etc. have put a lot of energy into their work. Enjoy it.
Can someone provides code on how to overriding for generating login system?
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"Chondria what? What did you say?" I can literally hear you saying! "All I had always heard was about hypochondria!".
This week Washington Post staff writer – Carolyn Butler – posted an interesting article titled "A glut of Google can give you a virtual fever" (registration may be required to read) in which I for the first time came across this term – cyberchondria. Yes, I somehow had missed on that! Wikipedia defines cyberchondria as –
"Excessive preoccupation or worry about having a particular disease based on medical information gleaned from the Internet"
Seems like this word (derived from the word hypochondria) was keyed around at the start of this decade but got into prominence after two Microsoft Researchers – Eric Horvitz and Ryen White – released this study titled – "Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search" and New York Times carried a follow-up article about the same. This paper from Microsoft Research studied various patterns of web searches associated with healthcare information and found that people's medical concerns got escalated because of the kind of results shown by the web search engines. These researchers concluded this when they saw that the online healthcare information searchers started searching for and reviewing content on serious and more rare conditions that were linked with their symptoms in the same web surfing session. The paper is an interesting read and I would recommend you all to read it. I am also capturing some of my learnings from the paper below –
- Majority of us tend to miss out on checking key quality indicators for any online health information – As I had mentioned in my presentation about Healthcare from Consumer Perspective too, this paper also confirms that substantial number (more than 70%) of internet users search for healthcare related information on the web. However more than 75% of these searchers also fail to check for the key quality indicators such as validity and creation date of such information. (Some additional studies have pointed out that more than 70% of the healthcare content on the internet may not be of appropriate quality)
- Online search results tend to over-exaggerate possible causes based on symptoms – The probability of a cause for a particular symptom based on what seems to be implied from web-based search results and the probability of occurrence of the same cause in real world seem to be differing dramatically. Sounds slightly confusing? Let me simplify it. For example – as the paper points out – for a symptom such as headache if you were to search it through a search engine – you might feel that there is a 3% probability of you having a brain tumor. Whereas the actual occurrence rate for brain tumor is possibly less than 0.001%. This over-exaggeration due to coarse linkages done by the present-day search engines between the symptoms and the content tends to increase unwarranted anxiety among the web searchers.
- Cyberchondriat's trust in Doctors is minimalistic – Studies have shown that Cyberchondriats – assuming that they suffer from hypercondria – typically tend to express doubt and disbelief in their physician's diagnosis and typically are not easily satisfied by their doctor's reassurances.
- Mapping a disease online based on symptoms is inherently flawed – Having hung around a family of doctors and seen them practicing – I personally had always been skeptical (and thought it was risky too) about the increasing number of healthcare websites which have mushroomed on the "you tell us your symptoms" and "we will tell you what you suffer from" information model. Diagnosing (will be blogging more on this in future blogs) as done by doctors requires intricate probing and building an hypothesis around the subtleties of the symptoms and various findings – along with giving enough consideration to characteristics of the patient (typically done face-to-face). This is not feasible with the web-based search. Well, atleast the ones which are available today! Almost all of the search engine or querying mechanism today are not designed to perform coherent diagnostic or probabilistic reasoning (a key tool for medical diagnosis). Cyberchondriates need to be aware of this.
- Individuals themselves have core biases while pursuing for online medical diagnosis – The authors of the paper point to studies in Cognitive Psychology wherein they had presented evidences that humans tend to employ heuristics or speculative approaches in determining likelihood of a particular theory when presented with large amount of possibilities. Authors believe that this tendency of human beings plays a big role in cyberchondria too. Because of this habit – human beings tend to be biased towards certain medical content – which in turn drives their assumptions of what they suffer from.
- Lastly, there seems to be more online information on Rare Diseases than to Common ones – The authors believe that for the sake of garnering more attention (nothing wrong in that though), there is a lots of literature and online discussions devoted to rare disorders than to common ones. However, the flip side of this is that this abundance of information may lead to biasing the search engines and ultimately the online searchers towards the possibility of they getting diagnosed with a more critical or serious disease.
Personally, I have always been vary of the potential use of the abundant healthcare related information which is available freely and easily on the internet today. My challenge is not against the content part – but on the context part! How does that content or the information apply to the individual himself/herself? This article clearly alludes to my fears – that increasing amount of healthcare information on the internet while needed can also bring in side-effects too.
Thoughts and/or comments are most welcome!


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by peeker643 » Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:08 pm
by peeker643 » Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:41 pm
by 4thQtrGlory » Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:51 pm
by peeker643 » Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:06 am
4thQtrGlory wrote:thanks peek, another good show
by gridlock » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:49 am
by peeker643 » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:46 am
gridlock wrote:Would anyone who bought one of those Jet Ski's last year like to sell it now ?? I'll give you .45 cents on the dollar...free up some much-needed cash for you kool aid drinkers.
by gridlock » Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:23 pm
by peeker643 » Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:56 pm
gridlock wrote:This is like watching CNN after a debate.... a lil' slanted.I hear ya Peekachu...I hear ya..."look over the long haul".......I just think it wouldn't kill anyone to eat a slice of humble pie either....or just change the drum beat slightly ? I get your "Pipe = cyclical Market"...long term always goes up... comparison. Totally irrelevant to the point at hand...since no one's denying past performances, and I'm only talking current slump.......But since you're comparing The Economy and Pipe...Gridlock. None of us heard from you over the past couple years. Not til the road got bumpy over a 6 week period. No comments on the ridculous past couple years. Those results were acceptable, right? I mean, from a credibilty standpoint might you better off acknowledging that before lamenting the rought times? Just sayin'...Similarly....$700billion Bailout = Pipes MLB III bailout. (FINISH the game man !!)Conversely... like ExxonMobil making record profits during this same slump....there ARE some fella's out there hitting 7 nails on the head out of 10....rather than 3. You wouldn't have any links or documentation would ya? Because a lot of us would love to get down with that guy. Including me and Lead and anyone who follows the show and his picks. But somehow I'm thinking we're not gonna get a name or actual documentation. For whatever reason.Can't you bring THEM off the bench ?? Even Tressel will sit a 5th yr proven senior for a hot true freshman....no? Yes. Again, I will call them myself and get them on the show too. I just need those names. All in good fun Peek...just addressing the white elephant in the room.I dig it man. You're right. Just saying you shouldn't be afraid to drop in and drop a note when things are good. And don't look now sir, but I see Kansas and OK State are already on the good side of the line today. Good luck sir. If nothing else, the host of that show has a voice you could listen to for days.
by pup » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:04 pm
Good luck sir. If nothing else, the host of that show has a voice you could listen to for days.
by peeker643 » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:32 pm
Pup wrote:Good luck sir. If nothing else, the host of that show has a voice you could listen to for days.And the perfect face for radio
by gridlock » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:39 pm
by peeker643 » Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:58 am
gridlock wrote:A year and a half ??? Peekachu...come up for air man.I got my ass handed to me in MLB II (the last one Pipe played all the way through)Not my place to call out names.....but look through MLB 3....and JP's Survivor...and Pick 17....(which Pipe avoided like the plague)......there are 2-3 guys that make Pipe look like little red riding hood...lost in the woods.There have been posters calling for these guys to take over the airwaves.And AGAIN....I give Pipe all the props in the world...he's had an unbelievable 3 year run from what I can see in your archives.......NO ONE is denying that...I'm just saying....as a relative newcomer to this County.....I think there are a couple new sherriffs in town.Ok...gotta go watch Pavlick dominate.I hope Pipe picked Hopkins !! (all in FUN peekachu...go take a pill)
by Action Boy » Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:42 am
by peeker643 » Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:08 am
Action Boy wrote:Peeker,In reading the posts, I noticed the comment about the Survivor game being run J.P. I for one think the pool has some value ($50 entry fee) considering the winner take all pot is $4,500. Not to mention as the defending champion of Survivor the pot of $6,000 last year wasn't too bad either.
by Action Boy » Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:23 pm
Peeker643 wrote:Action Boy wrote:Peeker,In reading the posts, I noticed the comment about the Survivor game being run J.P. I for one think the pool has some value ($50 entry fee) considering the winner take all pot is $4,500. Not to mention as the defending champion of Survivor the pot of $6,000 last year wasn't too bad either.They all have value AB. But guys who just knock down 70% like they're falling off a chair are wasting themselves at that money. They should own hotels and empires in Vegas and Macau. Not cocking around with us low rollers.Shit, If I'm guaranteed 70% like GridLock is saying why woulld you go to work every day? I gotta believe there's either a wee bit-a-bullshittin' going on or the biggest waste of talent since Len Bias.Jst sayin'.
by gridlock » Sun Oct 19, 2008 4:05 pm
by peeker643 » Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:04 pm
gridlock wrote:PEEK:I bet and lost a gently-used Jet Ski on Kelly last night.....lolI'm rubber, your glue !! .....lol 1).....you yourself said you haven't heard from me in years......so am I MIA ? or am I busy "cocking around with you lowrollers" ? Which is it ? I can give you a hint if you need one.2)....no one GUARANTEED anyone hitting 70% Dr. Spin....I was just pointing out that some poster's are having much better 2008's than this Pipe fella....across the boards. Pipe's Town Criers are much louder than anyone else's by the way. Look closer to home for people broadcasting guarantees Peek. 3) Pipe must be cocking around with HUGE rollers....if taking $5000 worth of candy from us Pavlik fan babies isn't even worth a try ?? Wow. etc etc...yadda yadda...Time to go see which Browns show up.
gridlock wrote:Conversely... like ExxonMobil making record profits during this same slump....there ARE some fella's out there hitting 7 nails on the head out of 10....rather than 3.
by gridlock » Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:44 pm
by peeker643 » Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:10 pm
by Action Boy » Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:16 pm
Peeker643 wrote:Quoting that last post would be pointless. I'm one of three people in the thread and I'm not sure I know where it's taking me. I like the palm leaves and donkey idea though. It's got some pop, some sizzle. I'm completely lost on the Bunker Hill reference and I would sincerely congratulate you on the MLB Pick30 2nd place thing but it appears your previous post was pretty much entirely devoted to that end. I'm sure you're a straight-up dude because Rich typically surrounds himself with those types of folks, but you'll forgive me looking for a bit more regarding the tout services and picks. As you may be aware, those fellas tend to be a bit manipulative with the info they provide. There is that history in the industry. I'm not saying you're that guy. I'm just saying it's caveat emptor with anyone in that line of work/pleasure.Other than that though GL, I'm not sure what else to tell ya. Are ya asking if Pipe's picks are down from the pace of the past few years? Yeah, they are.Are ya asking for the ridiculous nature of the articles and the show to be toned down as a result? Not gonna happen. It's kind of the point of both exercises. But I do appreciate you keeping it civil. Hopefully you're of the opinion that worked both ways.Action Boy- I hear ya. I get the competitive thing and you're right. It's still about wins and losses and being better than the other guy and it always will be. Doesn't matter whether its playing ball, poker or putting money down based on your time and research. Best of luck to you both at it too. Anybody but the house (unless you're the house).
by leadpipe » Mon Oct 20, 2008 2:11 am
by gridlock » Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:34 am
by fundamentals » Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:56 pm
by leadpipe » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:22 pm
Big Lu wrote:gridlock wrote:Similarly....$700billion Bailout = Pipes MLB III bailout. (FINISH the game man !!)Didn't enter MLB III because I smartly didn't want to lose money again. But I did monitor the league and gotta say that Lead Pipe did bail out. He may see it as not having enough time because he just has too many irons in the fire, so much so, that he didn't even get to the point of looking at the value of those contests. Oh please, picking a team is not rocket science.How much time do you need to pick a team even if you just threw out a haphazard guess for the remainder of the teams you had left to FINISH the 30 game contest? I see it as a sore loser.Sorry that's my take.
gridlock wrote:Similarly....$700billion Bailout = Pipes MLB III bailout. (FINISH the game man !!)
he just has too many irons in the fire, so much so, that he didn't even get to the point of looking at the value of those contests.
by Nicastro13 » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:11 am
by peeker643 » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:19 am
Nicastro13 wrote:Some of you people need to chill out, the man offers picks, if you don't like em don't use them. So you lost some money maybe, are those the only picks you made? can you not come up with anything of your own. I myself look over Leads picks as well as a few others, and use the information to make my own decisions, I've won alot of money with lead over the past few years, but the man isnt the savior, he's just a guy with good knowledge who isn't afraid to put his picks online, sure he talks himself up in his articles, its hysterical I think. You people need to grow up its all about entertainment it makes for a good read, Even with losing weeks I'm still making money on Leads picks, if he loses the first couple I'll load up on the rest. Get a strategy, a game plan.
by gridlock » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:09 pm
by peeker643 » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:25 pm
gridlock wrote:4517x 5 (ave) = 22,585 minutes /60 =376.41 hours /24 = 15.68 days.Holy Moly.
by gridlock » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:34 pm
by swerb » Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:08 am
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May 17, 2013, 02:21:10 AM »
50 pounds of flour
4 cups of sugar 28oz
1 cup of salt 7 oz
2 cups of oil 16oz
4 oz of yeast
14 quarts of water
I dump flower in mixer, add sugar and salt in a bucket, add water to bucket, stir bucket while adding yeast. I pour bucket into the mixer while the mixer is on. I let mix for 20-25 minutes. I temp the dough and stop it when it gets 83-85 degrees, this usually takes from 20-25 minutes. i immediately weigh dough to 24oz, ball and put in totes. This is where the operation varries. A lot of times i immediately stomp the dough and put it in the walk in refridgerator. The dough starts to settle before i stomp because it takes awhile to ball and weigh that much dough. Other times i put the dough in the walk in after balling and wheighing without stomping. We use the dough the same day it is made. We sell from 50 to 100 pizzas a night andthere is not enough room to make a few days worth of dough.
The problem is some nights the dough will not rise and cooks like rubber. Other nights it blows up way to thick. Ney york style is the goal. Id say most nights it comes out great. Why would the dough not rise some nights? I can deal with dough that is blown up, dealing with dough that wont rise and feels ;like rubber is difficult. Multiple peopl make the dough so the operation might not always be exactly the same. It should be the same but you know how things get when multiple people start doing things. The water temp varries. mostly luke warm water though.
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Lets take a look at a couple of things, Why would the crust be tough and rubbery? Ans: Either too much protein in the flour you are using or insufficient fermentation for the type of flour that you're using. For your process I would say that a flour with not more than 12% protein content should be sufficient. You might even be able to drop down into the 11% protein range. Examples of this type of flour are; 12% protein: General Mills Washburn's, Full Strength or Superlative. 11% protein: H&R Bread & Pizza, King Wheat, Doughbuilder, and GM-44. By using one of these lower protein content flours your should be able to use your short fermentation time without creating a tough, chewy finished crust. As for the failure of the crust to rise during baking, this can be partially related to an overly strong dough that resists expansion/oven spring during baking, again, going to a lower protein flour should help. The fact that you are blending the salt and sugar together might also impair the yeasts ability to function in a normal manner, so I would suggest adding the yeast separately. If it is IDY or compressed yeast it does NOT need to be suspended in water before addition. For your operation I think a better dough management process would be to mix the dough to a fixed time (say 15-minutes in low speed) as it is not recommended that you mix a dough to temperature as you will never know what the level of dough development is. Adjust the water temperature to give you the finished dough temperature you are targeting (*I'm thinking 70F water should be about right), then after scaling and balling, allow the dough balls to set out at room temperature for 30-minutes before taking them to the cooler. For a dough of your size, it should not take more than about 15 to 20-minutes to completely scale and ball. For a one day dough such as you are using times and temperatures are more critical than they are with a dough that will reside in the cooler for 24-hours or more.
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Out of curiosity, are the oz measurements you recited volume measurements rather than weight? And what kind of yeast and what kind of oil are you using?
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Peter, I gave volume measurements and weight measurements, the oz's are weight. I am using a canola/ olive oil blend. The yeast I use is a compressed yeast.
The dough doctor, changing the flour is not really an option. I am just the cook, the owner has been using the same ingredients forever and is rather attached to them. Should I add the yeast to the flour instead of the water/salt/sugar/oil? If not at what point should I add the yeast. Remember this recipe has been used in this restaurant for 30 years and is gold most of the time. only a small percentage of the time do we get bad dough.Thank you for your response. I found that adjusting water temp instead of mix time was very helpful. We have had many changes in the kitchen staff so a bit of knowledge was lost there. We only started adjusting mix times to combat our dough problem.
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May 20, 2013, 02:04:32 PM »
The yeast should never be allowed to come into direct contact with the salt, and when you have combined the salt and sugar, even in a slurry, you are leaving the door open to inconsistent yeast performance. Compressed yeast can be added directly to the flour without the need to suspend it first. I would still go to a fixed mixing time, if for no other reason, for consistency. Adjust the water temperature if necessary to achieve your targeted finished dough temperature. I would also suggest mixing the dough for about 2-minutes, or just until you don't see anymore dry flour in the bottom of the bowl and then add the oil and continue mixing as normal. This will give you a much more consistently hydrated dough. As for cutting, balling, and getting the dough into the cooler, you should strive to accomplish this within 20-minutes of completion of mixing. Consistency in times and temperatures will make your dough management much more effective. Remember that old adage regarding quality: GIGO, or in this case, inconsistency in, inconsistency out. I wrote an article in my In Lehmann's Terms column in PMQ Magazine on Effective Dough Management that addresses all the steps needed to be taken to develop an effective dough management program leading to consistent/predictable dough performance and improved consistency with regard to finished pizza quality attributes. If you would like some help on this, please feel free to give me a call at 800-633-5137 (ext. 165) and I'll be glad to discuss it whit you.
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