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Lecture #1214 on Energy and Environment
October 10, 2012
October 10, 2012 | Lecture on Energy and Environment
Liberty is our nation's central organizing principle, and environmental policies must therefore be consistent with this principle. Policies that emanate from liberty are consistent with holding human well-being as the most important measure of environmental policy. Freedom fosters scientific inquiry, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, rapid information exchange, accuracy, and flexibility. Additionally, there is a strong, statistically demonstrable correlation between economic freedom and environmental performance. What is needed is a set of principles to guide environmental thinking in a way that is consistent with our commitment to individual liberty, limited government, and free markets. These principles are embodied in the American Conservation Ethic.
Working in the environmental realm, we are deluged with bad news. We are told that:
This sounds ominous. I have asked other friendly audiences, "What do these ideas have in common?" I have gotten many different answers, but the most common by far was that these ideas are used to support command-and-control policies.
That is definitely true. Ideas like these have shaped the spines and ribs of much environmental thinking and, consequently, relevant institutions, laws, and policies:
These ideas really began to take hold four decades ago in the Nixon era of wage and price controls, a command and control–friendly time frame. But while the command-and-control answer is true, the answer I was seeking was simpler, and it is this: While there are instances, events, and examples that those who believe these ideas can point to in defense of their worldview, the reality is that, in general, these ideas are wrong. They are wrong, and wrongheaded ideas have consequences.
Up to this point, we have raised issues like these, pointed out things that were stupid or wrong, and opposed bad policies. However, those in the political realm who are sympathetic to us have generally had few choices as to where they could make their stand.
Those with constituencies who understand these issues, who know the dishonesty of the environmental establishment—typically these are rural and, consequently, declining constituencies—could be firm in their opposition to wrongheaded green policies. They could afford to "just say no." Others, however, while they might be sympathetic, are daunted by the greens. Often, such officials take the position that they will only do some of what the greens want. This is not a compromise—it is just slow capitulation.
For our allies, what is needed are principles to guide their environmental thinking—their positions—in a way that is consistent with the rest of their worldview, with their commitments to and championing of individual liberty, limited government, and free markets.
With ideas that are consistent with one's overall worldview, you can argue with more passion and confidence and therefore are more persuasive. With such ideas, one has a firm footing, which is essential as none of us can master the facts for every single issue. And with principles, we can seek to engage in debates on ground of our choosing.
The principles we think should provide such a foundation are not of my own making. Becky Norton Dunlop, George Dunlop, Kathleen White, Alan Moghissi, Jim Streeter, and Lisa Jaeger contributed to these ideas. And we did not just conceive of them. These are ideas that have been tested and honed for years. They are almost an antithesis of the ominous worldview I presented up front.
However, compared to the worldview—the voodoo—of the environmental establishment, these ideas are shiny new: vibrant, crisp, and clean. And most important, these principles are grounded in reality. These are ideas ready to ascend as the flaws within the obsolescent thinking of Nixon-era policies become increasingly evident.
These principles, all eight, are covered in more depth in the publication provided to you[1] but I will touch upon them briefly now. They are:
Principle #1: People are the most important, unique, and precious resource. This is both a value statement and a recognition of the power of human creativity. We believe that the inherent value of each individual is greater than the inherent value of any other resource. Accordingly, human well-being, which incorporates such measures as health and safety, is the foremost measure of the quality of the environment. Simply put, a policy cannot be good for the environment if it is bad for people. Moreover, this principle recognizes that human intellect and accumulated knowledge are the only means by which the environment can be willfully improved or modified.
The power of human creativity was most famously demonstrated by a bet between Julian Simon and Paul Ehrlich. Simon, a great free-market thinker, believed that human creativity was the ultimate resource. Ehrlich, who constantly sells catastrophe, sees us as a plague. He even devised an equation: I = P x A x T, in which "I" (negative environmental impact) equals "P" (people) times "A" (affluence) times "T" (technology). We are reduced to nothing more than a negative variable, and the renascence—progress itself—is illusory.
Many years ago, Simon bet Ehrlich that any basket of resources Ehrlich picked would go down in price over time. Ehrlich was sure that he would win because as population increases, demand increases, reducing supply. This would be especially so for finite materials. If present trends continue, prices should go up. Ehrlich picked a group of metals: What could be more finite?
Simon won. When the wager was up, every single metal Ehrlich had picked went down in price—several even without accounting for inflation. They went down because present trends don't continue. They don't continue because the ultimate resource—human creativity—changes things. The ultimate resource resulted in things like the discovery of new supplies, more efficient mining techniques, or the development of substitutes.
Principle #2: Renewable natural resources are resilient and dynamic and respond positively to wise management. These resources—trees, plants, soil, air, water, fish, and wildlife—are the resources upon which we depend for food, clothing, medicine, shelter, and innumerable other human needs. Such resources are regenerated through growth, reproduction, or other naturally occurring processes that cleanse, cycle, or otherwise create them anew. These characteristics make it possible to use renewable resources now while ensuring that they are conserved for future generations.
Principle #3: Private property protections and free markets provide the most promising new opportunities for environmental improvements. The reality is that ownership inspires stewardship. Whether for economic, recreational, or aesthetic benefit, private property owners have the incentive both to enhance their resources and to protect them. Polluting another's property is to trespass or to cause injury. Polluters, not those who are most vulnerable in the political process, should pay for damages done to others. The guarantee that people can reap the fruits of their own labor inspires the investments of time, money, and effort necessary to expand upon centuries of accumulated wisdom.
Principle #4: Efforts to reduce, control, and remediate pollution should achieve real environmental benefits. Science provides invaluable tools to do just that. One is risk assessment, through which we may rationally weigh risks to human health or assess and measure other environmental impacts. Another is cost and benefit analysis, through which we may measure actions designed to reduce, control, and remediate pollution or other environmental impacts so that we can have a cleaner, healthier, and safer environment. Tools such as these, not the "precautionary principle," are mostly likely to help us achieve real environmental benefits.
Principle #5: As we accumulate scientific, technological, and artistic knowledge, we learn how to get more from less. The reality is that technology promotes efficiency, and through efficiency we substitute information for other resources, resulting in more output from less input. Technological advancement confers environmental benefits like more miles per gallon, more board-feet per acre of timber, a higher agricultural yield per cultivated acre, and more GDP per unit of energy. As the economics writer Warren Brookes used to say, "the learning curve is green."
Principle #6: Management of natural resources should be conducted on a site- and situation-specific basis. Resource management should take into account that environmental conditions will vary from location to location and from time to time. A site- and situation-specific approach takes advantage of the fact that those who are closest to a resource are also those who are best able to manage it. A site- and situation-specific approach avoids the institutional power and ideological concerns that dominate politicized central planning. Where laws and regulations to achieve environmental goals must be set, we should ensure that they are meaningful, measurable, and objective and contain bright legal lines—rather than bureaucratic requirements—as to how such standards are to be met.
Principle #7: Science should be employed as a tool to guide public policy. Science should inform societal decisions, but ultimately, such decisions should be based on ethics, beliefs, consensus, and other processes. A law is a determination to force compliance with a code of conduct. Laws go beyond that which can be established with scientific certainty; indeed, laws are based on normative values and beliefs and are a commitment to use force.
Principle #8: The most successful environmental policies emanate from liberty. Americans have chosen liberty as the central organizing principle of our great nation. Consequently, environmental policies must be consistent with this most cherished principle. Choosing policies that emanate from liberty is consistent with holding human well-being as the most important measure of environmental policies. Freedom unleashes the forces most needed to improve our environment. It fosters scientific inquiry, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, rapid information exchange, accuracy, and flexibility. The reality is that there is a strong and statistically demonstrable positive correlation between economic freedom and environmental performance.
Briefly, those are the principles of the American Conservation Ethic. In a nutshell, we recognize that:
Applying this knowledge improves our ability to use our natural resources wisely and conserve them for the benefit of current and future generations.
All Americans aspire to improve upon our tradition of wisely using and conserving the world around us for generations to come. We believe the American Conservation Ethic embodied in these eight principles is the way to fulfill these aspirations.
While we may not have all the expertise gathered here to answer each and every environmental question, we—not being planners for the state—should not expect to. What we recognize is that somewhere out there, among the greatest resources—humans, human intellect, human creativity—there is an answer and that having principles such as these can help us identify it.
—Robert Gordon is Senior Adviser for Strategic Outreach in the External Relations Department at The Heritage Foundation. He delivered these remarks at a meeting held in conjunction with publication of a new Heritage Foundation study, Environmental Conservation: Eight Principles of the American Conservation Ethic, in Washington, D.C.
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SUBJECT: Water Intoxication
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Seeing a model posing for "G" a.k.a. eco-jeans or walking the runway for Ethical Fashion Show is admirable and sexy, but Summer Rayne Oakes is more than just a pretty face making commendable fashion statements. She's a smart beauty who has figured out how to combine her image with her real interests and has become an earnest activist and entrepreneur. Heading up SRO (after her initials), a consulting company focused on sustainable business strategies, Oakes is using her background in science and her cause related modeling, and now travels the world helping companies tie in style with sustainability.
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On occasion, when approached by an interviewer who brings up topics that she isn't 100% versed in, she is very down to earth and honest about both needing and wanting to find out more.
Like many people nowadays, Oakes also has a blog that has her coming off as even more down-to-earth and approachable, even though some of the video displayed pertains to very important events she has recently been involved in.
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Today Secretary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met with their Australian counterparts to further the United States-Australia alliance and to discuss global and regional security issues. The talks marked the 24th anniversary of the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) and 58 years of strategic partnership under the ANZUS alliance. Secretary Clinton said:"Today, it's been a great pleasure to host not only my colleague, Secretary Gates, but also Foreign Minister Smith and Defense Minister Fitzgibbon for this year's Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations. As President Obama said a few weeks ago when he met with Prime Minister Rudd, there are few countries that have been closer than the United States and Australia. And I think holding this AUSMIN meeting during the Obama Administration's first 100 days underscores the importance we attach to our alliance and our belief in the strength of our partnership to meet bilateral, regional, and global challenges.
We had a far-reaching discussion that was indicative of the shared values and common approaches we take on many issues. We talked about our cooperation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, how we will intensify our efforts to defeat extremism, strengthen the rule of law, and promote economic development. We look forward to discussing these issues with the international community at the April 17th Pakistan donors conference in Tokyo.
We also discussed Iran and the ongoing efforts of the international community to ensure that Iran's nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes. We discussed the important goal of nonproliferation and a world without nuclear weapons, and how we will work together to strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty regime.
And of course, we talked a lot about Asia. The United States is back engaged more fully in Asia. We need to expand our partnerships in the Asia Pacific region to address a wide range of concerns, from security issues to the economic crisis to climate change. We appreciate the constructive advice of our friends, and we are listening. Our commitment to a more rigorous, persistent engagement with the countries of Asia goes hand in hand with the work we do together with Australia. And our conversation underscored what a valuable partner Australia is in this endeavor, how we can use smart power to achieve shared security and shared prosperity.
The AUSMIN communiqué, which has been agreed upon and distributed, highlights several other outcomes of the meeting today. But let me just conclude by saying what a pleasure it was for me personally to host this important meeting, how very pleased I am with the discussions we had, and how much I'm looking forward to building on our valuable and enduring friendship."
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How wonderful it is to listen to serious and smart people engaging in the challenges of our time.
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Secretary Clinton said that the entire world community needs to come together to stamp out piracy.
Well, if I may focus on just Somali Piracy, all it would take to end that would be a 5-year, $1 Billion campaign to strengthen governance in Puntland. If they had a functioning Coast Guards force and State Police force, they could fix this on their own.
Instead, we will spend several $ Billion this year alone to parade warships up and down their coast, huffing and puffing and watching these skinny guys with spears and machetes continue to flaunt us.
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Hello, My dear friends. :)
It's good to hear our friends, the Australians will be working closely with us on Afghanistan, and other important problems going on in the world. I thought it was nice of them to invite Secretary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to visit them in Australia anytime . I also liked what Hillary said about building on a valuable and enduring friendship with Australia . That's a good sign that their meetings went well.
I hope everyone has a good weekend ....Cya.. :)


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The problem of retrieval of visual information in large collections of images and video in digital form is basically that one of pattern recognition. In case of video documents the term "Indexing" is of primarily interest, as it means that a specific pattern is present in the spatio-temporal document at a given moment of time.
The recognition of concepts, such as an action of a person, an object of a predefined category, . in a video document can be considered as a search of a concept in a collection of images in an image database. The efficiency of the search is very much dependent on the completeness of content description and on the discriminative power of classifiers in the proposed description space. As show recent research in concept detection, the increase of such efficiency is possible when multiple cues of content are considered. In video, the challenging task of concept retrieval can be addressed by using all modalities for content description: spatial (key-framing), temporal( motion features) and audio( audio-features).
In this talk we are interested in the problem of recognition of Activities of Daily Living in specific video streams coming from video cameras weared by patients with dementia. This concept of egocentric motion has recently got the growing popularity and various research has been done in order to recognize scene elements and actions in such streams. In our solution we develop Hierarchical Markov models to represent a document and proposed a rich description space. Various combinations of description spaces and sub-spaces in an early - , intermediate and late fusion manner are studied yielding to promising results. At present, this research is fulfilled in the framework of EU-funded Integrated Project Dem@care. A summary of it will also be given.
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Host: Alexander Hauptmann
Prof. Benois-Pineau is a distinguished professor (classe exceptionnelle) of Computer Science at the University Bordeaux 1 and chair of the Video Analysis and Indexing research group in the Image and Sound Department of LABRI UMR 58000 UniversitéBordeaux1/Bordeaux2/CNRS/ENSEIRB. She is also a deputy scientific director of theme B of French national research unit GDR CNRS ISIS, and director of Computer Science Department of the faculty of Mathematics and Computer science at the University Bordeaux.
She obtained her PhD degree in Signals and Systems in Moscow and her Habilitation à Diriger la Recherche in Computer Science and Image Processing from University of Nantes, France.
Her topics of interest include image and video analysis and indexing, motion analysis and content description for content-based multimedia retrieval and mining. Recently she has been interested in the application of video analysis and pattern recognition to the healthcare.


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Welp, my baptism date has finally been set. I will be received into the Church, via Baptism, on 2 DEC of this year. Of special significance to me, two days later is 4 DEC, the feat of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple, which is the day I was made a catechumen last year.
Thank God he said I was a politician because Aristotle defined the human person as 'Animal politicus.' So at least I am a human person.
the best way of conveying God's love to people is through your own presence and deeds.
If you spend long enough on this forum, you'll come away with all sorts of weird, untrue ideas of Orthodox Christianity.
I would suggest most persons in general avoid any question beginning with why.
Mazel tov!
Many years!Btw, Western or Eastern parish? Not that it really mattered anything but I recall reading that you attended WR parish.
The Episcopallian road is easy and wide, for many go through it to find destruction. lol sorry channeling Isa.
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The Reds get Mat Latos for Volquez and two of their top prospects, 1B Yonder Alonso (who, I believe, some people wanted the Indians to target) and catching prospect Yasmani Grandal, along with a RP prospect. Both Alonso and Grandal were blocked by superior players/prospects (Votto and another catching prospect, Devin Mesoraco).
I see this as a comparable haul to what the Indians gave up for Ubaldo. Both he and Latos are top-flight pitchers; Jimenez with the higher ceiling and Latos being more consistent but has had shoulder problems. Latos is younger but deserves a long-term contract that will buy out a few arbitration years and there's a good chance would be more expensive than Jimenez's very favorable contract.
For San Diego, kind of puzzling since they already have 1B Anthony Rizzo but they certainly got value for Latos and could be looking to further move Alonso, in which case I would still be interested for the Indians.


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If you are preparing for a career as a Game Design Engineer, then this in-depth article in Game Industry about mobile gaming trends will give you some food for thought.
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On February 5, Secretary Clinton spoke about the situation in Northern Ireland. The Secretary said:
"Today is a very positive day for Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland has taken another important step toward a full and lasting peace. Its political leaders have agreed on a roadmap and timeline for the devolution of policing and justice powers, and they've taken other productive steps as well. The accord they announced today will help consolidate the hard-won gains of the past decade.
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Michael Vick and what a few local boys didn't learnPosted Sunday, October 21, 2007, at 9:20 PM
Corey Noles photo Not much need for a caption here.
Writing as a journalist I can't insert my opinions or share my thoughts as I see things, so that's what I'm going to do here tonight.
When I went to bed Saturday night, after the Annual Bess Truman dinner that I had covered earlier, I knew I would be back at work before dawn but I didn't know the specifics.
At about 1 a.m. Sunday I pulled up to the home where Jamie Sifford lived and ran his "operation". Numerous law enforcement officials and the Humane Society Animal Rescue crew filled the yard and walked the road searching for more dogs.
I've seen footage of dog fights on HBO Undercover and some other shows, but I've never witnessed what happens afterwards.
As I walked up to one of the three Humane Society vans I came to a pair of small Pit Bulls chained to posts. My first reaction was to jump because they had startled me, but they weren't what I had expected.
When I think of dog fighting, what comes to mind are snarling beasts that remind me of The Hounds of Hell from the 80's horror flick The Lost Boys.
The first dog, a young red Pit Bull that scared me initially, slowly walked over towards me with his head tucked down to the ground. Reluctantly, I reached out to pet him and he stretched his neck and licked my hand. I guess I had gone out there with the idea that these dogs would treat people the way they have been trained to treat other animals.
As I was petting this young pup, we were standing not five feet from one of the guys soon to be charged in this fiasco.
Next, I was shown the barn where the fights had taken place. At first glance, it looked like any other barn. But, a single stall right between four horses told a much different story.
Lining the bottom of this stall where I imagine several dogs have met their end, was a mess of old carpet and a plastic poster. All stained with the blood and urine of the dogs scattered about the property.
Across the barn from that stall was a utility type room where a Pit Bull mother and five VERY young pups laid feeding.
All of this just made it so much more clear who the real monsters were here and it wasn't the dogs.
A clearing back in the woods about a half-mile from the house and barn is where the majority of the dogs were found.
Each hooked to about 10-feet of chain and many with bandaged wounds, they all looked so pitiful (as is clear from the photos) and were just as friendly and starved for attention as the first I came across.
Some of the dogs had fresh bandages, assumed to be treating wounds from Thursday night's fights. It's amazing that after the way these people treat the dogs, they also treat their wounds. I guess that's because there's no money to be made from dead dogs.
The careful attention given by the Humane Society workers and all of the law enforcement agencies should be commended. This group of individuals worked over night and through Sunday making sure everything was in order and taken care of.
I don't really know where I'm going with this, I suppose because this is the first minute I've had to sit and reflect on the whole incident.
I just felt like it was important to share not only my story, but my emotions.
I just finished writing the story that will post Monday and it relayed the events, but not the story as it was felt. Trying to tell a story like this without emotion simply won't do it justice.
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You've done an outstanding job of portraying the scene and your emotions as well. I commend you for your expertise at keeping the emotional side in check while the journalist must persist in getting the story out. One can only hope that this barbaric crime will be aptly punished. Such a sad commentary on our society. So interesting, as you cited, that the parties would tend to the wounds, but then you are so right in stating that there is no profit in dead dogs. Tending to the wounds is likely the only humane element of their operation.
-- Posted by bringwine on Sun, Oct 21, 2007, at 10:17 PM
Corey Noles' response:Corey, this is Madeline. Hope you don't mind if I respond to this issue. Sasha and I attended the Animal Welfare class conducted at the Justice Center in Bloomfield Thursday night. No one could have imagined that a dog fight was scheduled that very night! Kyle Held and Christina Portman of the Humane Society of Missouri briefed the Stoddard County lawmen on so many issues of animal abuse - but the one that I, as a retired teacher, was most impressed by was the effect that animal cruelty has on our children. When they grow up de-sensitized to animal cruelty, they so often turn out to be insensitive to ALL life, whether animal or human. A "worthless" puppy becomes a "worthless" human.
I am so impressed that Sheriff Carl Hefner invited the Humane Society down to Stoddard County to offer this course for his people! The horrifying news of the weekend just makes the course all the more relevant. I just wish some caring individual had notified the Sheriff that the fight was going to happen that night!
Corey, I saw the KFVS footage last night and this morning. Can you believe how grateful those dogs were to be rescued? They were wagging their tails!
Sadly, there may be view options for the dogs, once they aren't "evidence" anymore. I've heard that the Humane Society of Missouri, the very agency which helped rescue them, is NOT accepting pit bulls anymore - because they're so hard to adopt out. Many communities have anti-pitbull ordinances. In fact, doesn't Dexter have one?
-- Posted by goat lady on Mon, Oct 22, 2007, at 7:23 AM
Corey Noles' response:Yes, Dexter does. As a matter of fact it was a big issue very recently. Several of my stories on the subject are on the website here.
Can you imagine what this does to kids minds if they are raised up with this mess?
If I was the perps,I'd worry I was turning my kids into serial killers and they might just whack me in my sleep,to see what humans (?) did when they die.
I wonder how tough these freaks are in jail, how they rank on the food chain, etc.
What is the possible sentence that they could receive? (IF a deal isn't cut)
Now,can everybody get behind my campaign to bring chain gangs to Stoddard County?
I'd like to see these bums with a load of gravel in July on these mosquito infested gravel roads!
-- Posted by CharlesSmith01 on Mon, Oct 22, 2007, at 11:06 AM
Corey Noles' response:On its own, dog fighting is only about four years in prison. However, it will also depend on the individual cases. Sifford, for example, is already on probation with a three-year suspended sentence. That means that he will serve that three years and chances are anything else would be tacked on top of that. As for the other guys, I haven't heard much about them, but that's what I'm looking into today.
Good job Corey. So sorry you had to witness it, but if you hadn't been there we might not have heard the whole thing. How terribly sad for the dogs. They won't have a chance for a good life with kind (normal) people. I like CharlesSmith01's idea of putting the perps on a chain gang - with only about 10 feet of chain like they put on the dogs. It would be nice to know how they'll fair in the prison population. I hope they're treated about as badly as those who abuse children.
Keep the story and the aftermath in the public eye and don't let anyone forget! Assuming they are convicted and go to jail, I'd like to see some follow up stories about how they're doing a few months, six months and a year from the arrest date. Then compare that with how the dogs are doing at the same time.
-- Posted by Ducky on Mon, Oct 22, 2007, at 12:51 PM
I looked it up in the Missouri Statutes: Dog fighting is a Class D felony, which is punishable for not more than four years, and the place of confinement is determined by the court.
Anybody here think that four years is enough?
-- Posted by goat lady on Mon, Oct 22, 2007, at 3:46 PM
Corey, I empathize w/ you on having to see a horrible scene like that. Being an animal lover, I don't think I would have had the stomach for it. You should also be commended. If you go look at the comments on the stories themselves, you will see that there is even a person defending Jamie. Which is hard to stomach. But I hope you will do extensive follow-up on this story...especially on the dogs. They looked SO sweet. Pit bulls really aren't a bad breed...it's the people like Jamie and the other two that make them seem so bad.
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Mon, Oct 22, 2007, at 9:00 PM
Corey Noles' response:Thanks for your kind words. I assure you I plan to keep up on the case. I'll be in court when these guys are. I' also planning a couple follow-ups on the dogs. I will be in St. Louis visiting family in a couple of weeks and have plans to stop in and check on them.
It was a hard deal to stomach just as it would have been for anyone. However, it's the once in a lifetime opportunity to be involved with exposing something like this that is why I love my job.
I'm curious to see who else is arrested in connection with this.
Good point dude-Jamie & his crew aren't exactly high rollers (Diamond Jim trailor trash) that could be all of this operation.
I hope that EVERYONE who helped,betted or watched this mess gets a visit from the po-po!
It's disgusting to think some have gotten so trashy we have this in our county now.
People used to let druggies buy all they needed to make meth-it's none of my business mentality-until it was a crisis in the county. Once Johnny Law cracked down on "precursors" and the ability to get them cold tablets,it started to turn around. Maybe if Mr.Welborn cuts a deal with one of them,they'll start talking. I hope you get a good picture of the ankle chains when they perp walk to court-it's a start!
-- Posted by CharlesSmith01 on Tue, Oct 23, 2007, at 8:55 AM
I think that this is a terrible thing...BUT, I am much more concerned over all these Mothers killing their babies. People get on issues that are not as important as other things. Why do people care more for dogs than humans. Lets take all the tax payers money to be spent on these and other things and SAVE OUR CHILDREN.............
-- Posted by mgulmer on Tue, Oct 23, 2007, at 9:08 AM
Corey Noles' response:I understand your point and I think you're right. For instance why is this case receiving more widespread attention than the Owen Welty case? My honest guess, and I'm reasonably sure someone will be offended by this, is that I like animals more than I like most people. They're loyal, friendly, they're always happy to see you and shut up and listen when you've had a lousy day. How many people fit all of those categories?
I know you're talking about abortion and that's a different subject than what I'm referring to when I say people. Children are the exception. However, we hear about abortion in the news every single day. We hear about murder every single day. Dog fighting is new and it's a fresh topic. That's why people are taking such an interest right now.
mgulmer-You are right to express your opinion,but remember it is yours alone. No one can change it or take it away from you,and they will try for sure.
I may even agree with you,murder is wrong,but that isn't the topic being discussed today.God gave us all the beasts it's true,but it doesn't say to gamble and encourage their violent deaths for your own sick amusement.
You don't have to be a Christian to know this mess is perverted and wrong.
-- Posted by CharlesSmith01 on Tue, Oct 23, 2007, at 9:46 AM
I'm with you Corey. I like most animals more than I like most people.
Animals have no voice with which to cry out against their oppressors.
Animals have no standing in a court of law - they can't sue on their own behalf. They can't demand protection. If they fight back in their own defense they're killed. They can only sit at the end of a 10 foot chain and suffer abuse in silence.
-- Posted by Ducky on Tue, Oct 23, 2007, at 12:39 PM
Who says that we have to choose between children and animals? We can support both. In fact, they actually fit quite well together. Love is love. We don't have a limited supply, so that we have to ration it out, like we're dishing out ice cream.
Love is never-ending. The more you give, the more there is - and you can spread it around a very, very large area. In fact, you can spread it around the entire world!
-- Posted by goat lady on Tue, Oct 23, 2007, at 2:19 PM
The people conducting dog fights are entrepreneurs filling a market need. As long as the demand exists, it will be filled. The only possible hope of curbing it is to make being a customer very costly. Prosecute the customers for conspiracy in the promotion of dog fighting and you might put a dent in the practice. Otherwise it will go on with a different cast of characters providing the entertainment the customers want. The only way to go after the customers is with the cooperation of the operators. And it is likely that the only way that is going to happen is to give them immunity from prosecution.
But don't hold your breath for the prosecutor to do that, because he knows that respected members of the community could well be involved as customers -- and a criminal conviction would end their careers.
-- Posted by FJGuy on Tue, Oct 23, 2007, at 2:58 PM
I am not talking abortion I am talking of breathing living children Thank you
-- Posted by mgulmer on Tue, Oct 23, 2007, at 8:02 PM
Every time there's a publicized cruelty case, someone has to come along and say that we should be focusing on children instead of animals. What you're not realizing, mgulmer, is that violence begets violence, whether it's directed at an animal or a human. Animal suffering and human suffering are intertwined. All abuse starts with a desensitization to the suffering of other living beings--a lack of empathy. Most abusers start by abusing small animals before moving on to abuse the animals with whom more people sympathize, such as cats and dogs. If the abuser isn't taught that it's wrong to torture the mouse or beat the puppy, he or she may not see (later in life) that it's wrong to beat his or her child. The step between animal and child not a very big one in most abuser's minds.
We have to instill in the human race (especially children) a compassion and empathy for ALL living beings, otherwise the cycle of suffering will never end.
-- Posted by Youngest Child on Wed, Oct 24, 2007, at 9:29 AM
Corey Noles' response:You hit the nail on the head with that one.
Well put, Youngest Child. That says it in a nutshell.
-- Posted by Ducky on Wed, Oct 24, 2007, at 1:32 PM
What in the world? This makes no sense. Cruelty to animals has nothing to do with what a person would do to a human. I grew up with a weapon in my hand on most days of my life for hunting. Do you think that means I would be de-sensitized as you call it and not understand the difference between an animal and a human life? What I might have done or not done to a mouse has nothing to do with how I feel about humans.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Wed, Oct 24, 2007, at 11:13 PM
Corey Noles' response:I don't think "hunting" and what's being referred to as cruelty are at all the same thing. Everyone in this area hunts so by that standard we'd have ore serial killers than squirrels.
The FBI uses animal abuse as a way of profiling violent criminals. Every famous serial killer abused animals as a child. Of course every child who grows up harming animals isn't going to become the next serial killer, and I'm not saying abusers don't understand the difference between an animal and a human life, but if a person isn't made to understand that it's wrong to maliciously inflict pain on others, the abuses can escalate.
Also, many people (even those opposed to hunting) can easily designate a difference between hunting and malicious torture.
-- Posted by Youngest Child on Wed, Oct 24, 2007, at 11:25 PM
Thanks Corey-
I have never even thought about dogfighting,or any animal fighting,but you better believe I'll be in the deer woods every year I'm able.
I don't know why any one thinks one has something to do with the other,because I haven't read where they eat the dogs they fight.
Please don't start with hunters are the same as people who even watch dogfighting-them's fighting words.
You couldn't live in Missouri if there weren't deer hunters,they would destroy all the fields,yards and start entering buildings-it would be unreal.
Let's stay on topic and don't put us hunters in the same breath as these punks.
-- Posted by CharlesSmith01 on Thu, Oct 25, 2007, at 8:32 AM
There is a HUGE difference b/t hunting and animal cruelty. Hunting is a way of survival for some, and conservation for others. And although you see many people in the court news for taking wildlife unlawfully, most hunters in this area do it legally, to keep deer and squirrels and turkey from invading every inch of the country. You eat turkey on Thanksgiving right? So are you saying that the store bought turkey you eat to give thanks is killed in a cruel fashion for the mere pleasure of the ones processing it? I am unsure how hunting and animal cruelty have anything to do w/ each other...could you please enlighten me.
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Thu, Oct 25, 2007, at 8:53 AM
To be clear, I never brought up hunting. I wrote of animal abuse, and laws specifically exempt hunting from the definition of abuse. I.B. LeTruth was the first one to bring up hunting, so he'd have to answer as to why he's comparing hunting with torture.
And no, I don't eat turkey on Thanksgiving. I'm vegetarian.
-- Posted by Youngest Child on Thu, Oct 25, 2007, at 1:19 PM
I absolutely approve of hunting for food, but if you kill an animal purely to mount the head on a wall as a trophy, which is what a lot of people do then it becomes something different. How about the highly promoted fishing practice of catch and release? Now what is that all about?
What I am saying I think is that if you abuse animals you will become desensitized to harming humans probably isn't an accurate assumption. I have met some people who wouldn't hesitate to take a human life, but would never harm an animal.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Thu, Oct 25, 2007, at 8:30 PM
Hello out there...We need to ban pit bulls. They are dangerous and they are bred to be killers. Their jaws lock when they bite and you must have a crow bar to pry open their mouths. I would like to know why the humane society won't take pit-bull dogs anymore. What are we supposed to do with them??????? Is it against the law to shoot them?????
-- Posted by mgulmer on Thu, Oct 25, 2007, at 9:53 PM
O.K. I am so upset with all of you over this issue. When I wrote in about what was really important in this is our living breathing kids. I am not talking abortion. I feel there is way too much attention given to this DOG issue. # 1 Pitbulls are banned in many areas where the community leaders have the sense enough to protect their citizens. Everynite that this dog issue has been on the news it seems someone has either put a baby in the microwave or in a diaper box in the attic or a child is molested. SO I DONT THINK DOGS ARE MORE IMPORTANT... IF THESE PEOPLE GO TO JAIL FOR ONE MINUTE FOR THIS I THINK IT IS A CRIME. We need to fill our prisons with people who molest children and the eldery not dog fighters. Ban pitbulls and get rid of them. That will correct the problem. Let us all focus on our children especially our kids that are dog fighting in another country.
-- Posted by mgulmer on Thu, Oct 25, 2007, at 10:13 PM
Sorry, but your solutions are naive and simplistic. If you researched into the story about the man who put his baby in the microwave, you'd probably find that he started in his demented thinking much, much earlier in his life. Chances are VERY good that he started out by torturing animals - then, as he got older and more bold, we can see where he ended up. If his cruel tendancies had been treated when he was young, a tragedy could have been avoided in the future.
Numerous people on these blogs have posted intelligent, insightful answers to your rantings about animals, but you prefer to ignore them and continue in your hateful postings. Your solution is to shout.
Judging from your extreme attitude, it's probably a good idea that you don't know where any of us live.
So much for love and compassion.
-- Posted by goat lady on Fri, Oct 26, 2007, at 7:37 AM
I posted part of my 2 cents worth on Sacha's blog already so I won't repeat it.
Right on goat lady!
-- Posted by Lady on Fri, Oct 26, 2007, at 10:47 AM
The Bible says so many wonderful things like "not casting pearls before swine".
You can't change mgulmers mind,they are either trying to flame this blog or have a hidden agenda to distract us from the topic (for whatever personal reason).
If you can't have a civil debate or even rational conversation,maybe if we all just quit responding to "mgulmer" they will get bored and leave-worth a try?
-- Posted by CharlesSmith01 on Fri, Oct 26, 2007, at 10:50 AM
Right on Goat Lady. For the most part the comments on the blogs have been thoughtful and insightful. I enjoy a well written comment even if I don't agree with it.
Corey, is there any new information to be had that's not on the home page?
-- Posted by Ducky on Fri, Oct 26, 2007, at 3:50 PM
Corey Noles' response:The most recent news should be posted on the main page now. My interview with the Humane Society in St. Louis yesterday and the information in regards to the truckload of new charges.
I do, however have names for almost all of the dogs, but I don't have time to post it right now. Sometime over the weekend I'll try to do that. The cute little white one that looks like Spuds McKenzie is named Bandit. That I know for sure, but I'll list them all later. I got a paper today that gives names and written descriptions of each dog.
They were apparently charged for each individual dog. Eighteen dog fighting charges for one person is a bunch.
Yes, that's my next strategy. I almost did it when she started shouting on Sasha's blog, but when I saw it on Corey's, too, I felt that someone needed to make one final statement - then silence. We've done it before; we can do it again, when things get ugly.
I was glad to read Sasha's statement this evening. She's a responsible blogger, and she takes a stand when someone is out of control on her blog (as does Corey).
I have been so pleased with the rational way in which everyone discusses issues on these blogs. I would hate to see us lose them (if that's possible), because some people can't behave.
Actually, I think it's possible to ban someone from the blogs. Seems to me that I read that somewhere when we first started.
-- Posted by goat lady on Fri, Oct 26, 2007, at 3:53 PM
That picture absolutely breaks my heart. No living creature should be subjected to this. I hope that our prosecutor will keep this in mind and these people will be punished to the fullest extent of the law!
-- Posted by luckyone on Fri, Oct 26, 2007, at 9:29 PM
Corey, how do you feel about sanctioned human boxing matches that are placed on pay per and the people that pay to watch and legally bet millions of dollars on?
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Fri, Oct 26, 2007, at 9:41 PM
Corey Noles' response:I have mixed feelings on that. I don't have much interest in it, however, there's a major difference that and dog fighting: choice. If two grown men willingly decide to beat the life out of each other I say more power to them. I call it population control. Dog fights are different.
I would be against putting humans in collars and dragging them in to a ring to fight, too. Ever seen The Running Man?
I also look at cage fighting and toughman competitions different from both of them. Once again, population control, but brutal enough that I don't think young children should watch it.
In reading this I feel like it sounds a little bit rude and that's not my intention at all.
What's your opinion on this?
I feel a little guilty when I think about myself watching two humans try to knock each other out for my entertainment. Haven't done it for several years now.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Fri, Oct 26, 2007, at 11:02 PM
Seems to me that all the money and fame which Ali received in his boxing career isn't worth the physical and mental condition he's in today.
-- Posted by goat lady on Sat, Oct 27, 2007, at 8:34 AM
Corey Noles' response:That's very true GL. I'm not anti boxing, I just don't enjoy watching it. In my opinion, anyone who does that type of organized fighting has to be a few eggs short of a dozen to begin with. Wrestling (like H.S., not the televised crap) and martial arts tournaments are operated differently however. There are more breaks and the goal is not to physically injure your opponent, but to score more points. I have no desire to watch any of these "sports".
As for Ali, he had to have known that one can only take so many whacks in the head before the number of healthy brain cells matches the number of fingers.
Very true and we all gathered around the TV to watch him do it and I don't feel very good about that...
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Sat, Oct 27, 2007, at 9:35 AM
I have defended Jamie because I cannot and will not believe he is guilty of having dog fights for profit or for fun but if i am wrong then it wont be a first but does not the bible say 'do not judge, lest thou be judged'? Let the jury sort this mess out and all of you hipocrits sit down and watch some revival on t.v.
-- Posted by denene on Mon, Nov 5, 2007, at 1:44 PM
I am not sure we are all hypocrits. I don't think we have found them guilty or pronounced them innocent. I think we are probably more accurately discussing dog fighting and animal abuse. That is what I am concerned about anyway.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Mon, Nov 5, 2007, at 10:29 PM
I realize what you are talking about but i do know for a fact that Jamie was not having dog fights with large crowds of spectators as my family lives across the road from him and at no time have I or any of my family ever seen any large amounts of vehicles at his home, in the wooded area behind his home or on any of the property surrounding his home. To be honest, He never stayed at his home as he always spent his nights with his oldest daughter at his parents home. I just wish I could prove to everyone that what they are calling a big dog fighting ring is not as it may seem. Have any of you ever had a dog and cat and playing around said 'SIC' to the dog to get it to chase the cat? Then if so that makes you as guilty of animal cruelty as anyone else in my eyes.
-- Posted by denene on Tue, Nov 6, 2007, at 12:47 PM
That has never entered into my mind to do such a thing.Why would you ever encourage a dog to hurt a cat?
-- Posted by CharlesSmith01 on Tue, Nov 6, 2007, at 2:17 PM
I hate dog fighting, I have known some scumbags involved in dog fighting and these people are convinced that the dogs love to fight. The real problem with dogfighting is that most of the dogs that were confiscated will have to be put down. These dogs are no real danger to people, but rather they are a danger to other dogs. It is a very long, hard procedure to eliminate the fighting behavior in a dog. The Humane Society does not have the time or man-power to help these poor animals. I love pitbulls, these are loving and very loyal dogs who have a bad reputation because idiots like to watch dogs fight to the death. Remember no dog is born mean or vicious, it is how they are raised.
-- Posted by michaelc76 on Wed, Nov 7, 2007, at 9:23 AM
Well, some breeds of dogs have diffferent traits or breeding to do different things. If this wasn't so they would all be excellent bird dogs. There are some natural instinct in these dogs that allow them to be used for specific things and the natural aggression in Pit Bulls is what makes them succeptible to being used for fighting. Many bird dogs will point on a bird with no training at all and many Pit Bulls are naturally aggressive.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Wed, Nov 7, 2007, at 6:37 PM
15. Men and Women the average child molester in the USA gets 18 months in jail that is if they get caught. Children are more valuable than animals and yes that includes dogs. Mike Vick made a serious mistake and lost all of his endorsements, 2 full NFL Seasons and he is serving time in a Federal Prison. The true fact is 1/5 of all NFL players have been charged-arrested for a serious felony so Vick is one of many players that have made bad decisions. We live in a country that gives second chances and after Mr. Vick serves his sentence he should be allowed to pursue an NFL Career. Whats sad is here in America Senator Teddy Kennedy clearly got a free pass with the young lady his secretary??? that drown in a vehicle that he left her in and there was not 1/1000 of the outrage that there has been to crucify Vick. PS For you Females Peyton Manning in the past couple years settled out of court for CASH with a female athletic trainer that he supposedly exposed his self to at the University of Tennessee. Had Manning who was an 18 kid that did one silly thing been black he would have never been drafted in the NFL. What Vick did is horrible and he is being punished please let the young man move forward and get a life. ITs sad that in 2008 that race is still an issue on how we few things in America. God This was posted on aol thought I would share it
-- Posted by mgulmer on Sun, Jan 6, 2008, at 4:24 PM
You left out the part about Teddy's secretary being pregnant. Oh, and bank robbers and murderers don't get jail time if they don't get caught.
I think the statement about race is wrong. The difference was with the Manning case is his celebrity, not really the color of his skin. If I had done what he done I may still be in jail.
This article you posted is kind of twisting things.
Do you think the democratic party election going on right now is a referendum on the approval or preference of black men or white women. Is that what it is?
How do you make those statements when a black man is the current leader in votes for the democratic party?
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Sun, Jan 6, 2008, at 4:40 PM
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To a certain generation, Henry Winkler will always be The Fonz. But in the decades since Happy Days ended, the 67-year-old actor has added a long list of roles to his r�sum�: director, producer, children�s book author, activist, fly fisherman.�But the role he�s most eager to speak about today is not any of these�it�s the role he played as caregiver to his mom in the �90s, as she recovered from a major stroke. For several years he has served as a spokesperson for Allergan, the manufacturer of Botox, which is now approved to treat a stroke side effect known as upper limb spasticity. �We spoke to Winkler about the challenges of caregiving, how dyslexia affected his career and acting with inanimate objects on Arrested Development. RELATED: Bouncing Back from Stroke Spry: Why did you want to get involved in stroke awareness? Henry Winkler:� My mom had a stroke in 1989 and died in 1998, and she had upper limb spasticity. So when I heard about this campaign, I thought it would be a good thing to chat about to people, because this new therapeutic use of Botox for upper limb spasticity has been amazing. About a million people have a stroke a year, and about 7 percent of them have upper limb spasticity about 3 months after a stroke. The secondary muscles in the arms take over for the weakened and damaged muscles�the main muscles�and freeze the arm into position. The wrist is bent; the fingers sometimes gnarl in a ball, now the fingernails still grow so they are growing into the palm. And a lot of times the arm is frozen out to the side, against the chest. There are therapies you can take by mouth, but they affect the brain and other muscles in the body. So now you got a relaxed upper limb, but your brain is weary. The other muscles are limp. But what I�ve seen with the therapeutic use of Botox, is that only the targeted area affected. Upper limb spasticity is painful, unsightly, embarrassing, and it�s difficult for the caregiver to even do something as simple as dress their patient. With the use of Botox you don�t get the use of your arm back but you�re now open to therapies that you wouldn�t normally be able to participate in. Spry: What were some of the particular challenges your mom faced in recovering from her stroke? HW: Well, she did her therapy. Then the therapy was over, and it wasn�t as effective as she wanted it to be. I�ve wondered what would have happened if this use of Botox had been available to her. Because what I saw was that when things aren�t working, you start giving up. Your joy drips out of your body. She wouldn�t even leave the house in her wheelchair, because it was so embarrassing. She didn�t even want to go for a push. And I wonder how her perception of life would have changed if this tool had been in the toolbox. Spry: The experience you went through caring for your mom is something many of our readers are going through now. HW: Let me just say this: My hat is off to caregivers. My respect is at full tilt for caregivers. I witnessed a single mom whose arm was frozen out to her side and her two daughters who I think were 12 and 15�they gave up their entire lives except for going to school to care for their mom. The dedication, the patience, just the wear of it all to consistently take care of somebody else�that�s a hero. Spry: What would you say was the hardest part about being a caregiver for your mom? HW: One is, I was in California being professional, and my sister was in New York [with my mom]. �So it was tough to share responsibility with her, and when I couldn�t, I felt guilty. I was so appreciative for my sister, being there when I couldn�t be. [caption id="attachment_97267" align="alignnone" width="344"] Henry Winkler with his mom[/caption] Spry: That�s so common. 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I shouldn�t be thinking about me.� It�s OK to allow yourself to be honest about what you�re doing, because holding it in � eventually you explode like a teapot or a pressure cooker. So I think that simple thought is to me very important. Spry: Was your mom�s stroke a wake-up call in any way about your own health? HW: This is a very good question, because I think about the enormous amount of cheese that I eat�especially if it�s French, stinky and runny. I keep thinking I have got to get on some type of healthy regime. But my car will not drive down a block with a gym on it, no matter how hard I turn that wheel. (laughs) I haven�t made a lot of changes but just the thought alone has worked off so many calories. Nobody can be thinking about it harder than I can. (laughs) Spry: You�ve written a series of 17 children�s books about Hank Zipzer, a boy who is dyslexic, based on your own experience with the learning disability. We have some fans in our office! HW: Hank is a very funny guy because we use humor first. Some of the greatest compliments I get are children who write and say, �How did you know me so well?� I wrote the only truth I knew�which was me. But when I speak to kids, I want them to know, �I am no different from you, and if I can live my dream, so can you.� It�s a matter of tenacity, your own will, knowing what you want, and gratitude. Spry: It must be tough because the age when it manifests is just when kids are figuring out who they are. HW: Oh my gosh, it�s heartbreaking. The earlier it�s diagnosed, the better it is of course. Now you also have teachers who are overwhelmed because they have to teach the same amount of material to the fastest students and the slowest students, in the same amount of time. You have parents who won�t admit their child is dyslexic, or are embarrassed that they are the gift giver, because it�s hereditary. I met a mom whose 10-year-old was just diagnosed, and she was completely distraught that her son is now not going to the school that she wanted him to go to. The kid was crying because he had no idea what this meant for the rest of his life. I just took the child aside, gave him a hug and said, �I�m telling you that how you learn has nothing to do with how brilliant you are.� Spry: Did your dyslexia ever present a challenge while you were learning lines? HW: You know, reading is still impossible for me, and spelling is out of the question. But I was able to memorize if it was written well almost instantaneously. When I first found out at age 31 that I was dyslexic, I was unbelievably angry. Because all of that yelling and all of that grounding for naught. Now I realize that I maybe would not be on the phone talking to you if it wasn�t for not being dyslexic, because it pushed me. Spry: What was it like returning to Arrested Development? HW: It was magnificent, fantastic! We were shooting for several months, but [creator] Mitch Hurwitz didn�t have all his actors all the time, all together. One was doing a series, one was doing movies, and everybody was doing something. So he shot on an availability basis. In the episode where I went to the maritime board in my sailor outfit, I actually was on a green screen talking to two light stands, and they put [the actors playing] George and Lucille in afterwards so it was like we were all in the same room together. Spry: Was that a challenge�to try to act with light stands instead of people? HW: You know, as an actor your job is to act as if�as if I was an ambulance chaser, as if I was a lawyer who has no idea about the law, as if I�m in a room with people who don�t exist. Brought to you by: Spry Living


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Bob,That is okay you didnt make it out to the Klausies pizza truck. I have tried par-baking different times on other Sicilian threads.I dont know if I am keeping things as simple as they could be. Norma
Norma,That was an interesting experiment .For your information, when you added the 43 grams of extra flour, the dough formulation you used changed as follows:Occident Flour (100%):Water (74.2135%):IDY (0.6995%):Salt (1.5288%):Total (176.4418%):338.82 g | 11.95 oz | 0.75 lbs251.45 g | 8.87 oz | 0.55 lbs2.37 g | 0.08 oz | 0.01 lbs | 0.79 tsp | 0.26 tbsp5.18 g | 0.18 oz | 0.01 lbs | 0.93 tsp | 0.31 tbsp597.82 g | 21.09 oz | 1.32 lbs | TF = N/AAs you can see, you ended up with a hydration of about 74.2%, which is about what you have been using recently. That might help explain why the crumb looked similar, at least to me, to the crumb structure of your most recent efforts using 75% hydration. You will also note that the baker's percents for the salt and IDY also changed (decreased) because the total flour weight went up when you added the 43 grams of flour to the original amount. The dough balls you ended up with had the set of baker's percents noted above. I hadn't thought much how you would actually knead the dough. I assumed that you might use the mixing/kneading regimen that was described in the article at https://sites.google.com/site/hollosyt/quickrusticciabattapizza but with a rest period inserted in the middle of the knead and maybe a bit longer total knead time to account for the fact that your dough ball weight (about 555 grams initially) was more than the weight of the dough (about 490 grams) described in the article. I am also not sure about using cold water. In my experience, using cold water does make it difficult to form the dough. This is something that I learned when I tried to make dough that was to be frozen as soon as it was done mixing. Everything that I had read about how frozen dough balls are made commercially said to keep the dough as cold as possible at every stage. With respect to your question about whether it is possible to knead the dough too much, maybe even to the point of rendering the dough unusable, the answer is yes. Some time ago I ran a test in which I intentionally tried to destroy a dough by overkneading. In my case, I used my food processor because of its high operating speed. You can read about that experiment at Reply 14 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,1187.msg10649/topicseen.html#msg10649 and at Reply 4 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,2964.msg25401/topicseen.html#msg25401.Peter
Steve,Those pizzas are quite amazing. I think if you let them dry a bit you can use them as decorative sofa pillows .Peter
I agree! But realistically, The crumb was so light that it would not really support the sauce, much less any significant toppings. Perhaps a par-baked version would fare better in that regard.
I'd be happy to, should Norma offer up anymore leftover dough!
So you're totally dependent on Norma... :^)Gene
Norma,Your Detroit style dessert pizza does look quite tasty. Did you actually use cheese on that pizza?Peter


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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: Great race - every yearDate of review: March 24, 2014
In short: Classic race!In full: Dreary estates, dodging the traffic, muddy farm tracks, the magnificent Woodbank Stadium and hot pot-ready Clubhouse. This race has got it all. But done with such good spirit. A classic race!Date of review: December 9, 2013
In short: Nice place for a race but shambolic organisationIn full: It would be clear to any runner that holding 5k and 10k races simultaneously over the same route won't work. On a twisting course you need signs and marshals in hi-viz. If your route crosses tramlines you need to arrange to stop the trams. The organisers should go to a parkrun to see how to set up and manage a finish funnel. We were made to wait 2 hours for prizes which turned out to be just a bottle of wine - for 4th place in a race with 3000 entries! This race could be great if it was organised by a local club rather than the useless Sports Tours IntDate of review: September 9, 2013
In short: Best race in Stockport!In full: Long hills, dreary estates, main road traffic but it is really quite a laugh and a fine race that somehow rises far above the sum of its parts.Date of review: December 10, 2012
In short: Great race, well organised, not as flat as I thought it might be but nice course.Date of review: November 5, 2012
In short: Well organised as ever, friendly atmosphere, excellent value and I really enjoyed an exciting race.Date of review: October 9, 2012
In short: A nice race that will hopefully grow into a bigger event for StockportDate of review: September 24, 2012
In short: Always well organised and a great race in the windy conditions this year.In full: Always well organised and a great race in the windy conditions this year. The start wasn't bad considering the restrictions they have to deal with.My only suggestion is to hold the presentations much earlier say 1pm latest. Date of review: January 27, 2012
In short: Well organised friendly race over entertaining course mixing quiet rural lanes with muddy footpaths.In full: It was clear that a lot off effort had gone into the organisation and it all paid off. Tea and cakes at the finish and stuff that you could eat in the goody bag too. As someone else said a basic bag store (just label bags with race number) would be good. The radio thing was fun and I can only imagine it being even more popular next year.There were an amazing number of marshals out on the course and plenty of well placed signs. I noticed that you'd even fixed the bridge over into the Total Fitness field which was previously down to a single plank.In road shoes some of the muddy paths were a bit hairy but that is the joy of MT and worked to my advantage. I enjoyed the race and was pleased to finish a distant 2nd. Has anyone seen any results or photos online?The race entry was expensive for a local race with no prizes which is fair enough given the fund raising aims. I think that it is important in this case to clearly report the money raised for the charity, if possible showing a breakdown of where the collected money goes either in total or as a pie chart of entry fee.Date of review: September 13, 2010
In short: Not scenic but good race with track stadium start and finish on closed roads.In full: Course much improved over the years. For the first time it wasn't long and none of the previous problems lapping back markers. They do need to provide enough toilets and improve race information.Date of review: July 5, 2010
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