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- Adaptation with the INRECA - System (1999)
- INRECA offers tools and methods for developing, validating, and maintaining classification, diagnosis and decision support systems. INRECA's basic technologies are inductive and case-based reasoning [9]. INRECA fully integrates [2] both techniques within one environment and uses the respective advantages of both technologies. Its object-oriented representation language CASUEL [10, 3] allows the definition of complex case structures, relations, similarity measures, as well as background knowledge to be used for adaptation. The objectoriented representation language makes INRECA a domain independent tool for its destined kind of tasks. When problems are solved via case-based reasoning, the primary kind of knowledge that is used during problem solving is the very specific knowledge contained in the cases. However, in many situations this specific knowledge by itself is not sufficient or appropriate to cope with all requirements of an application. Very often, background knowledge is available and/or necessary to better explore and interpret the available cases [1]. Such general knowledge may state dependencies between certain case features and can be used to infer additional, previously unknown features from the known ones.
- Building and Refining Abstract Planning Cases by Change of Representation Language (1999)
- Abstraction is one of the most promising approaches to improve the performance of problem solvers. In several domains abstraction by dropping sentences of a domain description - as used in most hierarchical planners - has proven useful. In this paper we present examples which illustrate significant drawbacks of abstraction by dropping sentences. To overcome these drawbacks, we propose a more general view of abstraction involving the change of representation language. We have developed a new abstraction methodology and a related sound and complete learning algorithm that allows the complete change of representation language of planning cases from concrete to abstract. However, to achieve a powerful change of the representation language, the abstract language itself as well as rules which describe admissible ways of abstracting states must be provided in the domain model. This new abstraction approach is the core of PARIS (Plan Abstraction and Refinement in an Integrated System), a system in which abstract planning cases are automatically learned from given concrete cases. An empirical study in the domain of process planning in mechanical engineering shows significant advantages of the proposed reasoning from abstract cases over classical hierarchical planning.^
- Methodology for Building CBR Applications (1998)
- As the previous chapters of this book have shown, case-based reasoning is a technology that has been successfully applied to a large range of different tasks. Through all the different CBR projects, both basic research projects as well as industrial development projects, lots of knowledge and experience about how to build a CBR application has been collected. Today, there is already an increasing number of successful companies developing industrial CBR applications. In former days, these companies could develop their early pioneering CBR applications in an ad-hoc manner. The highly-skilled CBR expert of the company was able to manage these projects and to provide the developers with the required expertise.
- Explanation-based Similarity: A Unifying Approach for Integrating Domain Knowledge into Case-based Reasoning for Diagnosis and Planning Tasks (1993)
- Case-based problem solving can be significantly improved by applying domain knowledge (in opposition to problem solving knowledge), which can be acquired with reasonable effort, to derive explanations of the correctness of a case. Such explanations, constructed on several levels of abstraction, can be employed as the basis for similarity assessment as well as for adaptation by solution refinement. The general approach for explanation-based similarity can be applied to different real world problem solving tasks such as diagnosis and planning in technical areas. This paper presents the general idea as well as the two specific, completely implemented realizations for a diagnosis and a planning task.
- On the Role of Abstraction in Case-Based Reasoning (1996)
- This paper addresses the role of abstraction in case-based reasoning. We develop a general framework for reusing cases at several levels of abstraction, which is particularly suited for describing and analyzing existing and designing new approaches of this kind. We show that in synthetic tasks (e.g. configuration, design, and planning), abstraction can be successfully used to improve the efficiency of similarity assessment, retrieval, and adaptation. Furthermore, a case-based planning system, called Paris, is described and analyzed in detail using this framework. An empirical study done with Paris demonstrates significant advantages concerning retrieval and adaptation efficiency as well as flexibility of adaptation. Finally, we show how other approaches from the literature can be classified according to the developed framework.
- Considering Decision Cost During Learning of Feature Weights (1996)
- This paper is to present a new algorithm, called KNNcost, for learning feature weights for CBR systems used for classification. Unlike algorithms known so far, KNNcost considers the profits of a correct and the cost of a wrong decision. The need for this algorithm is motivated from two real-world applications, where cost and profits of decisions play a major role. We introduce a representation of accuracy, cost and profits of decisions and define the decision cost of a classification system. To compare accuracy optimization with cost optimization, we tested KNNacc against KNNcost. The first one optimizes classification accuracy with a conjugate gradient algorithm. The second one optimizes the decision cost of the CBR system, respecting cost and profits of the classifications. We present experiments with these two algorithms in a real application to demonstrate the usefulness of our approach.
- Collecting Experience on the Systematic Development of CBR Applications using the INRECA Methodology (1999)
- This paper presents an overview of the INRECA methodology for building and maintaining CBR applications. This methodology supports the collection and reuse of experience on the systematic development of CBR applications. It is based on the experience factory and the software process modeling approach from software engineering. CBR development experience is documented using software process models and stored in different levels of generality in a three-layered experience base. Up to now, experience from 9 industrial projects enacted by all INRECA II partners has been collected.
- Similarity Measures for Object-Oriented Case Representations (1998)
- Object-oriented case representations require approaches for similarity assessment that allow to compare two differently structured objects, in particular, objects belonging to different object classes. Currently, such similarity measures are developed more or less in an ad-hoc fashion. It is mostly unclear, how the structure of an object-oriented case model, e.g., the class hierarchy, influences similarity assessment. Intuitively, it is obvious that the class hierarchy contains knowledge about the similarity of the objects. However, how this knowledge relates to the knowledge that could be represented in similarity measures is not obvious at all. This paper analyzes several situations in which class hierarchies are used in different ways for case modeling and proposes a systematic way of specifying similarity measures for comparing arbitrary objects from the hierarchy. The proposed similarity measures have a clear semantics and are computationally inexpensive to compute at run-time.
- Integrating General Knowledge with Object-Oriented Case Representation and Reasoning (1996)
- When problems are solved through reasoning from cases, the primary kind of knowledge is contained in the specific cases which are stored in the case base. However, in many situations additional background-knowledge is required to cope with the requirements of an application. We describe an approach to integrate such general knowledge into the reasoning process in a way that it complements the knowledge contained in the cases. This general knowledge itself is not sufficient to perform any kind of model-based problem solving, but it is required to interpret the available cases appropriately. Background knowledge is expressed by two different kinds of rules that both must be formalized by the knowledge engineer: Completion rules describe how to infer additional features out of known features of an old case or the current query case. Adaptation rules describe how an old case can be adapted to fit the current query. This paper shows how these kinds of rules can be integrated into an object-oriented case representation.
- The INRECA-II Methodology for Building and Maintaining CBR Applications (1998)
- This paper presents a brief overview of the INRECA-II methodology for building and maintaining CBR applications. It is based on the experience factory and the software process modeling approach from software engineering. CBR development and maintenance experience is documented using software process models and stored in a three-layered experience packet.


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True, Azodin has very good customer service. My son has a Kaos Pump and it was malfunctioning. Called Azodin, spoke with Sergio in technical services. He had me send it in, they fixed it and sent it back, all we paid was shipping to Azodin. Again, very good service!
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Did you ever try wine in a crust before?
After reading all of your options for making the crust taste better, I really dont know what to try with this ultra-thin par-baked skin. I will have to think over all the options and read more about them. If you have any thoughts about the best approach for another attempt, let me know.
Thanks for referencing the Food Network Food Detective segment with Ted Allen and how the test showed residual alcohol. Just since you mentioned the alcohol in cooking and baking yesterday, it made me think more about it, because I always thought all the alcohol was cooked or baked off.
Hello fellas! That includes Norma even though you are a woman, you are just one of the guys or fellas! I have not posted in a long time but I love super thin pizza. I love NYC pie because it's thin and got addicted to it and kept on trying to push the envelope. I have not posted in awhile but I can say is that I thought I'd post to this thread. I read many of the post but not all since it's so long.Well I have been making some super thin pizzas of late. Not sure if the are 1/16 though. I have to admit that I have cheated because I used store bought dough. I make my own but sometimes just use store bought. Bought some at Fresh & Easy. Theirs has malt barley in it kinda like Sabarro's would. With this dough I'm able to stretch it out paper thin to the point that you see through it when you hold it to the light or put it on a chopping board that has wood grain and pattern you can see through it. It looks as thin as the one JackieTran was pictured with it and you can see his shirt through the dough. But man it taste great super thin. I know, I know it's cheating to use store bought pizza dough but I love it.Pictures to follow one day.
Hi Norma,I'm not sure if it was mentioned anywhere on this thread, but a while ago on the "best thing I ever ate" pizza edition on The Food Network, one place that made ultra thin pizza ran the dough through a pasta roller to get it started.Matt
PizzaEater101,I havent tried the kinds of pies I posted on this thread for awhile, but I did try a V&N clone a few times. I dont know if you are interested in seeing a V&N clone, but the TF is close to the 1/16" and the pizza was very good the few times I made it. If you want to see where I posted about the V&N clone and where others also tried out the clone, my one Reply 140 is at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,6368.msg117383.html#msg117383This is where Peter (Pete-zza) revised the formula if you want to try this thin type of pie at Reply 285 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,6368.msg117734.html#msg117734I am not sure what formula Chau used for his very thin pizza. Maybe he will see this and also post.I do like to be called one of the guys. Hope to see your pictures sometime. Norma
Norma, in the pics you posted off the rainbows did it stop raining completely or was there a mist in the air? If it stopped completely I have to say you have a possible orb in your pics. In one pic and maybe another, I have to go back and look but in at least one pic you have an orb. That is if it was not misting or raining. If it's an orb you have a ghost near you.
Norma,You might try looking at youtube at the ways bakers handle dough to make strudel. There are several videos of how it is stretched out. It is pretty amazing to see. I don't know if pizza dough can be modified to behave in the same way, but you will find it interesting to watch. In fact it might be interesting to make a pizza strudel with pizza ingredients instead of apples and sugar. Cranky
PizzaEater101,It wasn't raining or misting when I took those pictures of the rainbow. I will have to see if I deleted those pictures on my computer and maybe blow them up to see what that is. Whatever it was, it now is a mystery to me. I am not afraid of ghosts, but never saw one. I do know people that had strange things happen in their homes. Whether they had ghosts or not, I don't know. I don't live too far from the Gettysburg Battlefield and many people have reported they have seen ghosts there.Norma
Hey Norma, oh yeah I heard about Gettysburg and the ghost and apparitions. People have taken a lot of pics of ghosts there. I hear it's severely haunted. I know some people believe in ghost and some don't but let's assume there are ghosts. I'd have to say the Northeast has tons of them, actually the Southeast also as well as the midwest. Any area of the country or world can be haunted but my point is either more haunted activity is reported from those regions or there is just more. If I watch a program on haunting especially from the NW I always scratch my head when someone or family moves into a really creepy old home from like 150 years ago or more and they are surprised it's haunted. I mean it's the NW and the home is older than pizza and people wonder how they ended up in a haunted house. I guess the NW is a lot older than it is out west and like I say hauntings can be anywhere but they seem to be more in the NW than anywhere in the US followed by the South and the Midwest. Just my take on it.
Hi my friend Cranky, Haven't seen you around for awhile. Hope everything is going well for you. What does strudel have to do with this thread. And what is strudel? I really have no idea what that is, except to put on apple pie. I want to try a new kind of pizza dough I have my eye on and it is thinner than the Ultra-thin dough. Might give it a try in a few weeks. Do you know what I would type in for the Youtube video you are talking about? I would be interested in watching the video if I can find it. Norma


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Originally intended to be a "surprise" costume for MegaCon 2014. Due to a mishap with USPS, I was not able to finish on time. Since Star Wars Weekends this year (or the foreseeable future) will not allow much EU to march, I have no real "big" event to debut, therefore I am now disclosing this project openly.
I started early October/November 2013. This is based on the Open Season comic style. There was much analysis involved into making decisions to transition from comic to real world. The 501st regs state that artistic EU must translate into their movie counterparts, however, while the majority of the pieces of the suit (the actual chest armor, jetpack, boots) are based 100% on the movie designs (with the exception of the paint job), the only issue was the helmet, as the comic style is clearly much different. This was cleared up by the former LMO stating that should I stick to my build plan as outlined, I should not have issues getting 501st approved for this character. This has also been evaluated for Mando Merc approval as well.
I have every piece on order that I cannot do myself, such as a cold-cast Jetpack kit from NME Props, custom flak vest from Denise Ladyghost Cowles, the custom blaster was built by none-other than Chuck Bowman.
The Jetpack harness was created by BiggerKidBiggerToys (BKBT- Vince)
WizardOfFlight (Alan) created custom sized Jango fett armor templates as well to help me with the build. The helmet is a cold cast BKBT/Cruzer Jango kit. Will be using my Kenneth Coles for the boots.
The flight suit is still being put together as well. The last few things I need to worry about is finishing the chest armor (molding and cold-casting), adding the skull/belt buckle to the leathers, and creating the cape.
Everything after that is strictly painting and assembly. Since I am no longer on a time crunch, I wish to get this done somewhere before July if possible. Still gonna be lax on posting for this though, but I don't want to wait a year to debut this suit!
I won't post all of my WIP pics but I'll post the hightlights that I have taken over the course of the build as of now.
First and foremost, this image right here is telling as to why I chose to do this. Montross is a large man, much like myself. Those who know me can tell you that being at 6'7" and 340lbs is quite large. Granted, I am needing to drop fat.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (593 votes).
In short: My favourite event of the year.In full: Leave your watch at home, leave your best kit at home, prepare to get muddier than a naturally muddy thing having an extra muddy day in mudsville. Great fun, the best reason for being a runner.Date of review: November 17, 2005
In short: Has anyone seen my trainer? !In full: My first cross country race - it was fab. Lots of fun, mud, water and cow poo. Looking forward to next year already!Date of review: November 16, 2005
In short: Fancy a dirty weekend ? A stonker of a race, but best leave the stopwatch at home..In full: Britton RR - you should be very, very proudDate of review: November 16, 2005
In short: what a hoot!In full: never an easy race, but loads of smiles as you plunge through mud, water and cowsh*t and up and down hills.Date of review: November 16, 2005
In short: My trainers are still not talking to me, I told them we wouldn't do it next year, I liedDate of review: November 16, 2005
In short: Definitely an experience to be done at least once!In full: Hilarious and hard in equal measures! Enjoyed the atmosphere and the glorious views and even waiting at the ditch meant there was time to chat to others around you! Want to be a better runner before attempting this again!Date of review: November 14, 2005
In short: Great race good atmosphere have done it for a number of year's.Shame about the ditch caused problem's last year! seemed worst this.Date of review: November 14, 2005
In short: A glorious romp in the mudIn full: First time at Sodbury and what a slog! There seemed to be a new twist to get you round every corner from ankle deep slurry, to knee deep muddy channels, hay bales to clamber over, steep banks up and down, boggy undulations, steep steps up an underpass. What fun on a glorious day. Congratulations to all!Date of review: November 14, 2005
In short: lots of mudIn full: my first time and i enjoyed every mile.the socks went striaght in the rubbish bin.i would have liked a medal more than the t shirt.i will be back next year Date of review: November 14, 2005
In short: hilarious,most fun we,ve had for agesIn full: we absolutely loved this race,it was such good fun and we had some really hilarious moments,sliding down mudbanks on our bottoms etc.the only tiny complaint would be the half hour logjam at the stile.everybody was so friendly there was a much better atmosphere than at the half marathons and other races we have competed in,we will be back thank you so much bitton road runners i am going to look for more offroad races,they are harder but in a different way i prefer them i have decidedtDate of review: November 14, 2005
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Red Sparowes -- Los Angeles, CA -- March 24th, 2007
Last night I had the privileage of finally watching the Red Sparowes live (I had wanted to see them 2 previous time since their release of Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Sun but I wasnt able to).
I got to the Troubador just in time to see the band Big Business. I had no idea what they were about but I was thoroughly impressed as soon as the first song started. They started out their set as a two piece, just the bassist and the drummer, and it was awesome to hear how loud they could get with just 2 instruments. The bassist is really good and he sings with a nice growl but the star of this band is the drummer. He is IN-FUCKING-SANE!!! He's got a small kit but he plays it with so much energy, vigor and creativity that I have to already mark him as one of the best drummers I have ever seen live. This was one of the best individual performance I have ever seen. Eventually they added a guitarist for the last few songs and I think that killed the vibe of the band just a tad because with the extra sound both the bass and the drums got buried in the mix.
Red Sparowes eventually got up the stage and like ADD said in his review, they had a projector in the background that would show images of China, the US, Germany, a bombed Paris (?), etc. For the majority of the show I would just stare transfixed at these images listening to the performance and I was just captivated by it all. This really was one of the best shows I have ever seen! The highlight of the show for me was "Alone and Unaware...", I was completely excited when they started playing the beginning melodies of this awesome epic.
I am not entirely sure of the exact setlist order but these are the songs they played (#1, 2, 6 and #7 are in the correct order):
1.Buildings Began To Stretch Wide Across The Sky, And The Air Filled With A Reddish Glow
2.A Message Of Avarice Rained Down And Carried Us Away Into False Dreams Of Endless Riches.
3.We Stood Transfixed In Blank Devotion As Our Leader Spoke To Us, Looking Down On Our Mute Faces With A Great, Raging, And Unseeing Eye.
4.The Great Leap Forward Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like A Mighty Storm, Suddenly And Furiously Blinding Our Senses.
5.Like The Howling Glory Of The Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous And The Words Holy, Tangling Their Way Around Our Hearts And Clutching Our Innocent Awe.
6.Alone and Unaware, the Landscape was transformed in Front of Our Eyes
7.The Sixth Extinction Crept Up Slowly, Like The Sunlight Through The Shutters, As We Looked Back In Regret
Looking back now that setlist looks about right, good work I wish we had gotten Big Business instead of William Elliot Whitmore, how did you like Saviours?
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Heyer, David, 1979- (University of Oregon, December , 2011)[more][less]Heyer, David, 1979- 2012-04-18T01:18:00Z 2012-04-18T01:18:00Z 2011-12 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12152 xxv, 492 p. : music This study applies Schenkerian theory to Chet Baker's jazz improvisations in order to uncover the melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal hallmarks of his style. Analyses of short excerpts taken from multiple recorded improvisations reveal Baker's improvisational vocabulary, which includes recurring underlying structures that Baker embellishes in a wide variety of ways and places in a wide variety of harmonic contexts. These analyses also explore other traits (rhythmic, timbral, etc.) that appear in Baker's improvisations throughout his career. The dissertation culminates in three illustrative analyses that demonstrate the ways in which Baker constructs single, unified improvisations by masterfully controlling the long-range voice-leading tendencies of his improvised lines. As he weaves his vocabulary into these lines, he creates improvisations that unfold in a way that is logical, satisfying in the fulfillment of expectations, and motivically cohesive on multiple levels of structure. Committee in charge: Steve Larson, Co-Chair; Jack Boss, Co-Chair; Stephen Rodgers, Member Anne Dhu McLucas Member; George Rowe, Outside Member; Timothy Clarke, External Contributing Member en_US University of Oregon University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Music and Dance, Ph. D., 2011; rights_reserved Music Communication and the arts Baker, Chet Jazz analysis Jazz improvisation Jazz vocabulary Motivic coherence Schenkerian theory Vocabulary, Voice Leading, and Motivic Coherence in Chet Baker's Jazz Improvisations Thesis
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My name is Bradford Paulson. I am a member of the Utica and Mohawk Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society as well as a member of the Adirondack Railroad Preservation Society and soon to be a member of the New York Central Historical Society. I feel the Adirondack Scenic Railroad is worth saving. It is viable source of transportation in our area, and tearing up the tracks from Old Forge to Lake Placid would hurt the railroad and the towns it is serving and planning to serve.
I am for seeing it go all the way to Lake Placid, and the help of Iowa Pacific adding its Pullman cars to the line will make it very profitable. I am looking forward to seeing the day that the Adirondack Scenic Railroad rolls all the way to Lake Placid from Utica's Union Station. I know I have read a lot of things against the railroad by quite a few individuals who want to see half of the line torn up, but that is not going to be the case. I am sure our illustrious Governor Andrew Cuomo will be riding on the train that will go all the way to Lake Placid when the entire line is restored from Big Moose to Saranac Lake.
I will be happy to share my views with almost anybody about the Adirondack Scenic Railroad because it is a moneymaker for our region. It brings tourists who want to ride to the Adirondack Mountains, especially this time of year.
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I was lucky enough to attend PyCon-AU recently and one talk in particular highlighted the process of web server optimisation.
Graham Dumpleton's add-in talk Web Server Bottlenecks And Performance Tuning available on YouTube (with the majority of PyCon-AU talks)
The first big note at the beginning is that the majority of the delay in user's perception of a website is caused by the browser rendering the page. Though not covered in the talk for those that haven't used the tool YSlow (for Firefox and Chrome) or Google's Developer Tools (ctrl-alt-I in Chrome), both tools will give you pretty much identical recommendations as to how to configure the application page generated and server caching /compression settings to maximise the ease at which a web browser will render the page. These recommendations also will also minimise the second most dominate effect in web pages displayed, network latency and bandwidth. Once you have completed this the process of making web pages faster on the web server begins to take a measurable effect to the end user.
The majority of the talk however continues talking about web server configuration. The issues you will find at the web server are the memory, CPU and I/O are the constraints that you may hit depending on your application.
Measuring memory usage by considering an applications use of memory multiplies by how many concurrently running processes will give you an idea of how much memory is needed. Remember always that spare memory is disk cache for Linux based systems and this is significant in reducing I/O read time for things like static content serving. Memory reduction can be helped by front-end proxying as described by the question at offset 19:40 and relating it to the earlier description of threads and processes. In short the buffering provided by Nginx in a single process on the input ensures that the application code isn't running until a large amount of input is ready and that output is buffered in Nginx such that the process can end quicker while Nginx trickles the web page out to the client depending on the network speed. This reduction in the running time of the application enables the server to support better concurrency and hence better memory usage. This is why we at Open Query like to Nginx as the web server for the larger websites of our clients.
Database is effectively an I/O constraint from the web server perspective as it should be on a different server if you run something more than a simple blog or an application where database utilisation is very low. A database query that requires input from the web request that takes a long time to run will add to the time taken in rendering the page in fairly significant terms. Taking note of which queries are slow, like enabling the slow query log is the first step to identifying problem. Significant gains can usually be made by using indexes and using the database rather than the application to do joins, iterations and sorting. Of course much more optimisation of server and queries is possible and Open Query is happy to help.
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Sometimes I see raw honey that has a creamy white appearance, how do you get your honey to look like this?
Sometimes I see raw honey that has a creamy white appearance, how do you get your honey to look like this?
its creamed honey, get some creamed honey as a starter, a drill and a creaming screw, mix a small amount of starter in with honey and run the Creaming Screw two to three times a day for 2 to 3 days to insure equal distribution for each batch you cream. This screw is 24" long so you can actually do the creaming in a honey tank. This Creaming Screw mixes your honey without mixing in any air
If it's creamed honey, it isn't RAW. RAW honey is unheated. Creamed honey is made by heating a batch of honey to a temp which clears all possible crystals and then is seeded w/ some previously creamed starter when the honey is at about 100 degrees.
If RAW Honey appears white, it probably isn't very soft or smooth. It just turns out that color.
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Heat honey to 140deg F cool to room temp add 1:9 cream honey to liquid honey mix as stated above. Package and store at 55deg F for a week or two.
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you do not need to heat honey unless it is crystalized already. If you dont see any just use creaming screw as directed. As honey will crystalize on its own over time with no help
>If it's creamed honey, it isn't RAW. RAW honey is unheated. Creamed honey is made by heating a batch of honey to a temp which clears all possible crystals and then is seeded w/ some previously creamed starter when the honey is at about 100 degrees.
Mine isn't. I never heat my creamed honey. I just add some fine starter and keep it in the 57 F area of temperature. I NEVER heat it and I don't recommend heating it as you'll ruin the flavor.
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I second what MB says. I add my seed honey to buckets of RAW honey right out of the extractor. It is never heated and I find that it sets in less time as well.
yes the best way is right out of the extractor. but if it sets to long it can start to crystallize. some say a commercial sead is better than its own or something you have started. because its been perfected and you can make a batch without worry of quality. so if there crystals in it you can heat to kill it and start of with a commercial sead
...we sell honey from Kirk Webster...most think it is creamed or whipped....but that is just how this honey sets up on its own. One customer looked.at.under huh magnification...microscope. he said that the crystals were all diiferent sizes (all small....a.creamy texture) , but that creamed honey has more uniform size crystals.
We sell all.of our honey naturally crystallized....kirks is unique in its fine texture.
For the uninitiated reading these posts. The seed is mixed in tanks or buckets, but don't get the impression that you let it set up in those large containers! Have the intended containers in hand. Deli containers from Sams are cheap for example. Once upon a time I thought to hasten the process while I ordered containers by making a bucket full. I had the messy job of gouging the congealed mess out of the bucket and mixing in some liquid honey to get it in my containers. It sold but it did not have a nice appealing smooth surface but looked lumpy and I hade to explain why a hundred times.
You do not only ruin the flavor of raw honey when you heat it, but you also destroy many of its healing nutrients during the heating process.


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Posted on 09/24/2012 11:52:02 AM PDT by arthurus
Americans are experiencing sticker shock and it is about to get a whole lot worse thanks to Obama. Between gas and groceries, our household is sinking fast. My husband works about 35 miles from here, so gas is an issue. For a household of three, where two drive for work, our gas bill this month will be close to $900. Groceries will come in at a modest $1000 since we have cut back. And folks, we live in a state that has reasonable pricing. Inflation is just clearing her throat and getting ready to sing, so this is going to get very, very disturbing.
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I'm sympathetic, but spending $1000 a month on food for a family of three is unnecessary. And I say that as one living in one of the most expensive areas in the US.
That said our food bill for four is way up over last year.
Forward her my tagline. $279/mo should be more than enough.
agree on the gas. 1k for food, though? I was mad when my family went above 500 a month. I mean, i don't know your menu but that seems a bit much.
Agreed. We couldn't spend that much on food if we tried. Maybe they are eating out ALOT or having $20 restaurant lunches?
She probably isn't separating food from all the other things one buys at the grocery store; soap, tooth paste, etc.
Just came back from a typical shopping trip with 4 days worth of food for me alone...$16 & change...living as frugal as I can
They're called WICs certificates that 'moms' use to buy bread, milk, butter and eggs for their chilren. Only I don't see much of that in the WallyMart nowdays.
They're called Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) - the new Welfare, now with NO work requirement per Obama's redefinition of what real work is.
They're called Section 8. You get your crib for 25% of your "spendable" income with the income part not including assistance dollars credited to your ubiquitous EBT account.
They're called SSI and SSDI for those unluckies who've had more than 99 weeks of bad luck finding ANY job (at least one that they'd deign to take)
They're called EITC -----"EARNED" (an insult to taxpayers) Income Tax Credit ---- money you get back you never paid in. THOUSANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They're called Advanced EITC.....you can make your employer give you the prorated amount you'd receive from the above..he's responsible for the "float" until he files his taxes.
They're called Church Food Banks. Here in Georgia the Methodists are the most gullible....you can go there after you've pissed away your EBT cash on whatever, used your WICs and all the rest and you really need some food...they're good for a hit weekly....
Half our country have been hooked on this crap...they're becoming accustomed to sloth, laziness, leeching and getting more defiant about how they deserve a free load......
We cannot survive this.
And about 90% of the comments here are scoffing at the woman's poor shopping habits.
It's a little bit like saying, "'Course you got raped honey -- look at what you're wearing!"
My focus is on the damage being done by Obama. Criticizing someone's grocery bill is not on my radar.
Food stamps are the modern bread line.
There are nearly 50 million in that line.
Let me ask you though -
would you think someone would spend more or less money on any budget item, in this case, groceries, if someone else were paying for it?
A fair comment. Government intervention is to "help people" and in my experience it primarily "helps" people to make bad decisions.
Well, you're right. And she does not live in a mansion—it's just a modest little rancher on a cul-de-sac without much room for a serious garden, much less room for chickens, goats, fruit trees, and other things that cut the food bill. Inflation is a serious problem, and I'd be in real trouble if my son couldn't go out and hunt his own game.
Just a simple "Sowellist profundity"...
It's not her shopping habits that are the issue. It's her disconnect. Trying to demonstrate hardship while spending, after cutting back, $12000 a year on food doesn't help her point. In fact, it decries her point.
The real problem is that people do not know how to handle the money in their pocket. As Bill Clinton said, the government could give you more, but "you'd probably waste it". No, the solution is for government to have more say in how money is spent. Specifically on food. Government control would cut our grocery bills, and help us to be healthier and less obese. Yay!
That's the ticket. Let's keep the focus on the silly consumer who spends too much!! Bad consumer! Bad! Bad! Bad!
She could have made this whole point without ever bringing up her grocery bill and we all would have said, "She's right. Obama is killing the U.S."
Yesterday was my birthday. My birthday present was a ribeye steak. No, I'm not kidding.
I spend about 660.00 a month for a family of 4, and we have a bunch of those food wholesale type grocery stores... Winco, FoodMax, Foods Co, it makes alot of difference. Granted a portion of this amount goes towards vitamins and alternative "medicine".
I spend about 660.00 a month for a family of 4, and we have a bunch of those food wholesale type grocery stores... Winco, FoodMax, Foods Co, it makes a big difference. Granted a portion of this amount goes towards vitamins and alternative "medicine".
Wow... you could probably teach me a thing or two.
So she asked me what expensive present I wanted for my Birthday and I told her, "How about a bag of groceries?" She didn't laugh. See I've been showing her what's coming down the pike as far as food and gas prices go. The clincher was when I had her watch "End of the Road".
Not much stuff is box stuff, lots of stuff cooked from scratch.
0bama's policies ARE a serious problem. But you are not going to get much sympathy that someone has "cut back" to spending $1,000 per month at the grocery store for a family of 3, even if it includes all of the non-food incidentals. Using this example takes any credibility away from the point of the article.
We have 3 adults in our household, rarely eat out even lunches, and we do not spend more than $500 in a bad month at the grocery store. IMHO it is not a good article to condemn 0bama's policies and the inflation, which is very REAL, that we are enduring.
During the middle ages, meat was generally reserved for feast days and Sunday. It looks like we're headed back to that mode.
A friend called me this morning to report he'd gone grocery shopping with his son in Manhattan. He was shocked that chicken was $7.95 a lb for the store brand, and $12.99 a lb. for "all natural".
Poor shopping habits are usually indicative of other problems that end up snowballing into one big problem.
It's a little bit like saying, "'Course you got raped honey -- look at what you're wearing!"
You forgot the Nazi references.
My focus is on the damage being done by Obama. Criticizing someone's grocery bill is not on my radar.
Obama is exacerbating damage that is mostly self-inflicted.
Obama didn't create the mortgage crisis. He is merely encouraging victimhood. Those people who bought houses they could afford, made their payments on time and paid them off are the ones who look like chumps now.
Obama didn't create the credit card crisis either. He is merely capitilizing on the crisis by calling people who overspent the good guys, and those people are all too happy to agree with him. The folks who don't ever pay interest because they pay off all of their bills on time are the ones who are called deadbeats.
Obama didn't create the student loan crisis. He is just telling the people who paid a lot of money for the privelege of ending up with no marketable skills what they want to hear. The folks who worked their way through college or paid off their loans are quickly becoming an oddity and will be considered stupid for not cashing in on their victimhood.
Now people who scrape, save and cut corners to feed their families on a modest budget are being compared to heartless people blaming rape victims for somehow bring the rape upon themselves. Do you see any sort of a pattern here?
We all live on a budget. Yeah I used to eat more steak and fresh seafood and eat out more often. So now I have scaled back, in other words not living as well as I used to.
The point here is not that she has not adapted to the increase in food prices but that she has to adapt to higher prices.
Want to know what the real tragedy is? When I go to the market and I see an old person or a homemaker with a couple of kids in tow with just a couple of store brand items in their cart pick a piece of fruit or a tomato look at the price and put it back.
No one is starving, pasta and Velveeta will fill you up but it's not what I call living.
People like to brag about being thrifty but methinks that the puffery will change into a whine as more get pushed to the margin
I just came back from the grocery store. Paid $7 and change for a jar of Jif peanut butter and $2.19 for a can - one can, regular size, not large - of Campbell's vegetable soup. A 2-pound bag of frozen mixed vegetables was $4.99. (!!) With these prices, I could see how a family of 3 could spend $1000/month on groceries.
I love Ramen noodles, even though I can afford a lot better...but there was a time.
Maybe she should try what we just got back from doing. That is going to Ingles for all the 2 for 1 sales then swinging past Kroger for all the 10 for $10 and using our $55.
Fettucine Alfredo...
Nutrition Grade: D+
450 Calories
I did get some Ramen noodles, but some other stuff too...eating a ham sandwich right now
Even if I was rich, a big bowl of Ramen with red peppers & parmesan...Yum
There's the difference between us, I suppose. It would not so much as cross my mind to buy a can of Campbell's vegetable soup, especially not at $2.19. Or a jar of Jif peanut butter.
The significance is not in her level of spending for food. it is in the increase of spending for the diet to which she is accustomed. That translates to my food bill inexorably rising with smaller numbers but it is significant to everyone.
"That said our food bill for four is way up over last year."
If you think it's high now, just hold on to your hat... Ranchers are culling their herds due to feed costs. You will pay more for all meats in the very near future....
So the meat supply dwindles, while fuel increases to bring it to market = increased prices.
An impending economic specter looms on the horizon.
I agree wholeheartedly!
Oh my God...I grew up poor and I know I now have cooking skills and grocery buying instincts that I never would have had otherwise.
Jif is not food. When you buy stuff at the grocery you have to look at the ingredients first and know what is in there that your body might react to negatively. Like soy oil or sugar. Look at the labels before you buy cheap food, please.
I'm sorry I'm not trying to be judgemental, just saying that you could buy Adams peanut butter and it would be real. It would cost more than fake Jif but you might want to invest in other organic foods as well which our government hasn't yet made poison...but Jif is poison, pure and simple.
So there is a difference in your budget if you want to stuff supposedly edible foods in your body for cheap cheap cheap or if you want to feed it properly, which will cost a bit more.
BUT you can learn to make foods which are nutritious and will last a long time. If you want to invest a bit of time and learning and extra money in your future.
Research nourishing food if you're interested and if you plan enough you can create many meals with your bucks which will nourish your body more than the peanut butter you are now espousing as food.
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"I have such a hard time flying commercial. I always want to—it's cheaper, it's easier—but there can be 300 perfectly lovely people at the gate and one crazy person who ruins it for everyone, so flying private is great because I don't have to worry. "
The Lease Alternative
An airplane seller who was acting as his own broker told me that he'd been abandoned at the sales altar on three recent occasions, each time because of issues with buyer financing. "Welcome to the club," I thought. "If selling airplanes were easy, everyone would be doing it." Indeed, many deals fall apart due to a lack of funding options, creditworthiness issues, cold feet or some other impediment. That's been particularly true in the last few years. Even the deals that are getting done seem to be taking an inordinate amount of time.
Meanwhile, I'm hearing more queries about lease options today than at any other point in the last 20 years. Most owners remain uninterested in subleasing their jets, but exceptions do exist: Among the nearly 2,600 business aircraft now on the market, 45 are available only for lease while the owners of another 50 or so would consider a lease or sale. Lease options include older, small-cabin aircraft like a Lear 35A; long-range, large-cabin models like the Gulfstream GV and Global Express; and practically everything in between.
The lease option is just another arrow in the quiver of owners who may not be in a position to sell for a host of reasons. For example, they may be upside down in the aircraft financially, which would make a lease attractive because it would allow them to avoid the lump-sum seller payout that would be incurred in an outright sale. Some may also view a lease as a way to ride out the storm that has hit aircraft values and tread water until a recovery happens.
Leasing terms and conditions vary widely. Some owners offer short-term arrangements; others prefer long term. Some don't allow the aircraft to be chartered and many, if not most, have monthly or annual flight-hour restrictions, or have built-in price premiums if maximum allowable hours are exceeded. [For more on leasing, see "The Changing Face of Aircraft Lending" on page 26. –Ed.]
Buyers and sellers need to weigh such variables carefully, but they shouldn't ignore the lease option. In a down market, it can offer a noteworthy alternative in the preowned arena.
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Topic: Design decision - handling multiple models in an admin section
I have a part of a site that has categories and the categories have one or more resources. I have a model for categories and resources.
Should I have a single admin controller for creating both categories and resources or should I create two controllers one for categories and another for resources and then reference the resource controller from the category one?
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We live in a world that is increasingly connected, with services that offer a degree of "personalisation" based on assumptions of our needs created on an extrapolation of our previous actions. As our digital footprints become larger and more connected, we are offered the potential to move to a new level of services that place us, rather than the services we consume firmly at the centre, a web that is ultimately formed around the individual rather than the other way around.
Today, personalisation is an incredibly blunt tool. The services we use, the content we consume, the adverts we see are all provided based on the basis of some prediction as to what we might be trying to achieve based on our past behaviours. However, it is not just that this prediction is currently extremely basic, it also does not yet fully take into account the rich, broad context that accompanies us wherever we are, whatever we are doing, a context that holds the key to creating services and experiences that offer us not just a precise reflection of the services we need but also positions us to make discoveries of incredible new content, products and truly human experiences.
As individuals, our actions are guided by a complex range of signals which we intuitively use both explicitly and implicitly. These signals form the basis for the services and content we choose to consume and influence the decisions and discoveries we make in everything we do. The You Centric Web is a place that is not just aware of this context, but brings it together and makes sense of it, delivering an overall experience that is truly reflective of us as unique individuals.
This context exists across four key dimensions that are real time, living states that change and shift as we go about our everyday lives. The four dimensions that influence our behaviour are:
Emotional – my emotional state. My current emotional level will influence the decisions I make and the services I'm looking for. For example the music I select when I'm happy may be different from that which I select when I'm less so.
Social – who is with me physically and my virtual social connections. Watching a sports game or a movie with friends is a different experience to watching it alone or connected to others remotely for a shared viewing experience. Equally, the context of what my friends do is also a powerful signal that provides a trusted source of influence that may be incorporated to help me make my decision.
Environmental – where I am, the device I'm using, the time of day, the temperature, my location, my direction of travel, the current weather and so on. Each of these factors plays a role in influencing both my decision and equally inferring the intent of my actions. Searching for "sushi" on my mobile device at lunchtime while walking down a street in the centre of town will likely be for a different purpose than if I were to search for it sat at home in the evening on my main home computer.
External – This represents a broad range of external factors that offer further contextual signals that may influence my actions and decisions. For example, a significant societal issue (like the recession) or a nationwide campaign on childhood poverty (or global warming etc) may make me consider different choices about the activity, actions and content I pursue.
These four domains are joined together and under-pinned by a rich pool of historical evidence about previous actions which can serve to highlight a likely (but not certain) outcome for any given decision or choice.
The connection of these different dimensions of context has been impossible in the past as not only did we lack the ability to accurately capture and interpret our current state in real time, we also lacked the ability to join them all together and analyse them as a collective. In a world of socially connected experiences, big data, cloud computing and natural user interfaces this really starts to change.
Using natural interface technologies like Kinect, we are finally able to start to capture and use much richer information about the emotional, social and (some of) the environmental factors that will influence my activities. As they continue to evolve, devices like Kinect will help understand our emotional state, the environment we're sitting in and who is with us. Early examples of this have already been shown, but we know it is still early days and the technology still has much further to go before this is pervasive and usable across a variety of services.
In addition to the technological developments described above, the increasing capability to connect and analyse vast, disparate data sources starts to provide the opportunity to take a broader "systemic" view and a deeper level of insight that can be used to infer further elements of the context surrounding an individual. In this area, the brave new world of "Big Data" and the cloud becomes an immensely powerful capability that offers the potential to provide incredible new context and insight that can be used to shape experiences even further. My favourite example of this was some recent research done in the US that analysed cellphone usage data from 50,000 individuals and was able to accurately predict the _future_ location of any given individual with 93% confidence. (And there I was thinking I was in control. )
By joining up and effectively understanding this broad, rich context, it becomes clear to see how basic today's world of personalised services is and just how far we've yet to go. Being told that "people who have bought product A also bought product b" is no longer going to feel useful or even relevant.
However, beyond the further technological innovation that will be required to make this a reality, there are also several advances in how we as a modern society think about, use and trust the services that will be required if we are to get to a point where we can really maximise the potential of this world that is moulded around the individual. In particular, there is a growing trend of a fear of "over personalisation", a world full of filters and "popular content" which is devoid of discovery and one in which the power (and importance of) serendipity becomes increasingly hard to come by.
The common mistake being made that drives this fear is to think that personalisation by default excludes discovery, or that perfect personalisation means ultimate precision. This is a world where I am precluded from finding new things which I am unaware of or from uncovering new items which may not be considered relevant to my interests. In many ways, the You Centric Web must represent the slightly random, uncontrolled nature of our human world, injecting random and unrelated content in order to broaden and extend the overall experience and introduce new direction and insight. In some ways, this is no different to the role a good news editor plays in ensuring that the audience receives a broad range of content that is of interest to the majority along with an essential range of content that is intended to interrupt and disrupt your established areas of interest – a process that not only broadens the mind, but equally expands the potential for new discovery and conclusions (and the adjacent possible).
In a world drowning in data and information, personalisation provides the only way for an individual to not just find, but most importantly, to trust the information and services being provided. Trust is key here, not only does the consumer need to trust the services, they increasingly need to be able to trust the service provider, to know that their data and information about themselves is respected, kept private unless the consumer has indicated otherwise.
We need to recognise that our society continues along a long established journey about privacy that is not new in the information age, it has in fact been an issue for discussion and debate for hundreds of years. The information age accelerates the pace of change, but the basic principles remain the same for the individual. I need control, I need transparency and increasingly, I need a tangible value proposition (i.e. what do I get in return).
These principles, offer us a way forward. By putting the individual in control of their data, being transparent about how the data is being used and crucially being really explicit about the value that will be provided we can turn around some of the "trust issues" that we read about so frequently today.
The You Centric Web offers an inversion of today's web, placing the user at the centre and in full control of the overall experience. It promotes discovery, celebrates serendipity and offers a personalised path through the oceans of data, content and experiences that the modern digital society has to offer. The technology required to deliver the You Centric Web is beginning to appear now, but we have further to travel before it can reach its full potential. As a society, we will have to shift our expectations of how the digital world can augment the physical world and service and content providers will need to plan for and deliver on the potential of this connected, intensely personalised world as well as work hard to win the trust of consumers by placing them at the centre and protecting and respecting their rights. The You Centric Web is an inevitable part of our technological evolution; it is now down to all of us to ensure we are able to take up the promise of everything it has to offer.


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I was going to mention it but I did not want to admit I had a case of peel envy. Mine is not as long as yours... Although I do hang mine out for all to see also.
The Bonta pizza sauce with basil was close to the consistency of tomato paste. Very thick! So thick that you'd have to add water to get the right consistency. I mixed it 50:50 with 7/11 sauce and it was still too thick. The Bonta pizza sauce, while good, was not as flavorful as their 6-in-1 product. It must be due to the thickness (i.e., cooked down). It did have a nice fresh basil flavor. I need to experiment more with this sauce. I can't wait to try the Bonta tomato puree and the Bonta concentrated crushed tomatoes.


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one more question, what scale do you use? Ive always used cups and spoons to measurewill it be easy for me to use a scale? any recomondations on what kind to get?
When I came to measure the corn oil I discovered that 79.24 grams is nowhere near 5.87 tablespoons.
vonBanditos,When BoyHitsCar (Mike) and I designed the deep-dish dough calculating tool, we relied a lot on the nutrition data given at nutritiondata.com on the different types of oil. Generally speaking, one teaspoon of corn oil, canola oil, olive oil, and vegetable oil all weigh about the same, about 0.16 ounce. Measuring out oil by using measuring spoons can be a bit tricky because some of the oil sticks to the measuring spoon and it is hard to see the meniscus as you are measuring out the oil. However, tonight I measured out 5.87 tablespoons (about 17.5 teaspoons) of corn oil in a a half-cup measuring cup (tared out) and the weight was close to 79 grams, just as specified in the dough formulation you used. It is hard to imagine that any brand of corn oil would require 12 tablespoons (36 teaspoons) to get 79 grams. You might want to repeat your measurement of the corn oil to see if you can confirm the results of your last test. I frequently use large amounts of oil for certain doughs and my finished dough weights are always in line with my calculated quantities as derived from using the dough calculating tools. That leads me to believe that the oil weight and volume data built into the deep-dish dough calculating tool are correct and accurate. Peter
I tested it with a quarter and it correctly identified my reference weight to be 5 grams (its maximum precision is in grams).
Pete-zza,This has me baffled!
vonBanditos,I always weigh the finished dough and compare it with the number given in the dough calculating tool. That is where I am likely to detect that I did something wrong from a measurement standpoint. You might try that method next time and see what you get. Peter
I only measured the second, non-oily-mess pizza. I assume that the weight was so low because I used so much less oil than called for (by weight), but I will be careful next time! I am measuring by zero-ing out my scale with a bowl or plate on it and then slowly adding the measured ingredient until I get the desired weight.
When you use pepperoni, remember to first "nuke" it in the microwave on a paper towel for 30 seconds or so to "degrease" it. That's what many of the veteran pizza makers on this website do to prevent a lot of grease that always comes from pepperoni.


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Peppery Pork Roast
- 2 medium onions, sliced
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 4 pounds pork loin roast
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 5 cloves
- 2 sticks cinnamon
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 (12-ounce) can peppery soda (recommended: Dr Pepper)
- 1 1/2 cups dried apricot halves
- 1 1/2 cups pitted prunes
Slice onions and place in slow cooker.
In a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Season pork roast with salt and pepper, then brown on all sides. Place browned roast in slow cooker on top of sliced onions. Add cloves, cinnamon stick, and bay leaf to cooker. Pour can of cola over roast and top with dried fruit. Cover and cook 3 to 4 hours on High setting or 8 to 9 hours on Low, or until thermometer inserted into center of roast registers 160 degrees F on an instant-read thermometer. Remove roast from slow cooker and let rest 5 to 10 minutes. Meanwhile, using a slotted spoon, remove onion, fruit and spices. Discard whole spices. Skim grease from sauce. Slice roast and serve topped with onions and fruit and a little sauce.
Serving Ideas: Delicious over garlic mashed potatoes.
Recipe courtesy of Sandra Lee
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Hey all, I started off on a good path to learning rails a few months ago - got a book or two did a couple of hours in the evening & Saturday mornings just learning by doing. I was starting to get somewhere when my wife had a baby and all was put on hold for a while.
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A new low in liberal tactics.
A new low in liberal tactics.
Bob Gutermuth
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Murtha is political scum and has already proven he hates our military.
Anti-intellectualism and fascism go together like bacon and eggs.
Here is a listing of Murtha's activities.
You may want to start with the Defamation suit brought on by a Marine against Murtha.
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Anti-intellectualism and fascism go together like bacon and eggs.
Murtha likes the money he can funnel to his family members through defense contracts, who really knows what he thinks of the military.
Remember he is the unindicted co-conspirator.
Murtha is a scumbag and the embodiment of the term corrupt politician.
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Article [II.]
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Anyone see the ABC/NBC/whoever story on the Murtha airport? Wow! I'll see if I can find a link and post it...
I agree. Scumbag. And Lush, there are lots of people who are/were military officers who are/were scumbags... Just because you weren't one, doesn't mean you can become one.
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So, I guess it is possible to move further away from god, penitence and redemption as one grows older,(matures) heh, RK?
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Can we put this POS back into the Marine corps and have him courtmartialed ? or should we just have him tried in the courts for giving aid and comfort to the enemy?
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I can't stand football. Don't care for basketball either but the Barclays center is literally a 10 minute train ride from my house so I'll go to a game here and there.
I can't stand football. Don't care for basketball either but the Barclays center is literally a 10 minute train ride from my house so I'll go to a game here and there.
"It's not enough that I succeed, others should fail."
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Ugh...I hate football. That's what makes the offseason so painful.
How can you guys hate football?
The Jets had their run in 2010 and 2011, they couldn't get over the top and it's been downhill ever since.
They are having a hard time today with a team that is worse than them offensively and lost 7 in a row.
Sanchez sucks and it's time to find another QB not named Tebow.
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Even the 300-400 level seats are not bad when it comes to view..
I haven't been yet but i will probably go at some point, i love the renovations they have done with MSG though so far.
Can't wait for the bridge over the court and ice...
"It's not enough that I succeed, others should fail."
I guess it would mean more to me if i was a Nets fan but I am not...
I've been to every other new stadium around NY and NJ (even the Prudential Center which even though i hate the Devils with a passion i have to admit it's nice)
Too bad about the Islanders and Nassau Coliseum but i guess that's politics.
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Pretty fun game. The first half was just painful, but I really woke up once McElroy put his helmet on. I don't think I've heard a louder cheer for someone just because he's replacing someone else.
Overall, I had a lot of fun. Don't think I'll be going to naother one anytime soon. Now I just need to see the Knicks and the Rangers. It's looking like the Ranger game iwll have to wait, though :cry:
Two inept offensive teams that were incredibly hard to watch. Sanchez blows and i would give McElroy the start without question next week.
No Sanchez, No Tebow, just give McElroy a chance.
The Jets still need to look into drafting a starting QB...
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Topic: ActiveRecord Question
Here is how I am currently solving my problem:
@purchased_items = Customer.find_by_email(params[:email]).purchased_items
for item in @purchased_items
item["store_entry"] = StoreEntry.find(item.store_entry_id)
Basically, for every purchased item, I'd like to be able to access the actual item. So each PurchasedItem has a field called store_entry_id, and I'd like to be able to get the entry from StoreEntry using that ID.
Is there a way to specify this in the model?
I tried putting has_one :store_entry in PurchasedItem but it looks for a PurchasedItem in StoreEntry.
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