Each has its own personality, of course. Some are very friendly, some have been mistreated to the point that they distrust all humans. But with work...
My dog had been taken in by a summer intern who was leaving at the end of the season, and she wouldn't let anyone else come near her.
It's much easier to befriend a semi-wild dog than a feral cat. BTW, I looked up, there are quite a few feral cats in Anchorage, but no wild domestic dogs.
My dad went twice a day for a week and fed her tinned cat food (I'm not sure why he chose that) from a distance, getting slowly closer until she let him feed her by hand.
There was a small problem when some other dogs moved in next door a couple years later, and she decided they were her pack instead of us, but it was just a matter of recognising the problem and re-establishing dominance.
Mostly just by spending more time with her and limiting her time with the other dogs.
Boonie dogs tend to value having a family; they aren't loners.
And they're usually house-trained, or very near it, which is convenient.
Once you clear up whatever infestations they picked up on the street, their baseline health is sturdier than many pure breeds, partly because they have more diverse genetics and partly because the weak ones probably already died (aw).
Some boonie dogs refuse to become indoor dogs, which is understandable, but that isn't symptomatic of any underlying personality problem.
I just had the weirdest thing. I'd been away from the computer for a while, I came back, popped in here but the connection was acting weird and was super slow. So I closed this browser, leaving another to close, I was going to reboot. On the other browser was some kind porn video chat trying to get my attention. That's what was making my 'puter run so slow.
Hello! Hello, anyone there? I'd love to chat! Hello? Weird. Where did THAT come from?
Weird, cause the last thing I was looking at before I took a nap was stuff about Stephen Hawking! Ya can't get much further removed from porn than that!
What Adblock does is block domains and certain types of code; the domains and probably part of the code are determined by which filter you use, basically a long list of domains. Easylist is the biggest filter.
I used a TBS scooper, making perfect little round balls, then put them in the oven like that. I flattened them when I rotated the pan for the first time instead of flattening them cold. It worked better.
Plus, I made all of the little balls as soon as the dough was done, and put it in the fridge. That way it wasn't too big of a pain in the ass to only cook one pan at a time. Two pans, even with rotating, had evenness issues.
It's too hard cold. You have to form the cookie dough while it's warm, but it will separate if left in the pan between batches. And since I was only baking one sheet ban at a time, it worked better to put the little balls in the fridge.
It was such an aha thing (I did one batch like the recipe says, the second batch doing my method) that I'm going to email ATK to let them know :)
When the first perfect pan came out of the oven, I did a little dance in my kitchen!
Weird thing was that the recipe calls for 350F. That burned the cookies even before I first checked them. There is a picture up a ways. They actually did well at 290F for only 13 minutes.
Their schtick is that they test and tweak recipes over and over until they're foolproof. They have a couple of shows on PBS and are extremely well regarded.
Especially since they didn't specify a particular brand of marmalade, so I would expect as much variance in marmalade as between marmalade and peach preserves.
It's weird. And the cookies didn't just burn a little at 350, they nearly combusted! Did you see the picture of that? I'll post it again if you'd rather not look for it.
Eventually I'll try it again with marmalade, just to see, but as you say, I can't see that as being the issue between 15-17 min at 350 and 13 min at 290.
Plus, it's only 1/4 cup of marmalade to 2 cups of almonds and 1/2 cup of sugar.
Mien and Gigili both say they're going to try it, so I'll be interested to hear how it goes for them.
It's a fun recipe, but one of the pickiest things I have ever made. Getting them to bake evenly was quite the challenge. I had to rotate the pan three or four times every batch, and as I said, definitely only 1 pan at a time.
I usually let it go halfway through the expected time before I open the oven (I'll look through the window), but these cookies had me opening the door every 3 minutes.
I also hate when you have baked something for the prescribed time, but it doesn't look nearly done. Should you add more time? Or will it be fine after cooling down?
I've just begun making no-knead bread for the first time. I'm doing an experiment, so I need two loaves with identical ingredients, I'm timing the addition of the wet to the dry so that they are 2 hours apart. That should work for the baking. I want one to be done NOW Parmesan, olive and rosemary sounds good.
I didn't feel like finely chopping the rosemary and I had already used a food processor for the olives, so I processed the rosemary. Did you know that finely processed rosemary smells like pot?
As a matter of fact, if you were to Google my full name and the city and which I live you'd get about 20 hits related to pot. Weird, since I very rarely partake. :)
It was fully legal for a couple of decades starting in the early 70s. Then the legislature restricted as much as it could, but, possession in your home is still legal. Full legalization will be on the ballot again in November, and everyone agrees that it will pass.
They do it to expedite gelatinizing the surface during the early bake, allowing for better oven spring. It also helps with browning due to the gelatinization.
It only matters during the first few minutes of baking.
What is the other purpose that a dutch oven can serve?
Hint: what are the heat transfer modes of an oven, and how will they be affected by the pot?
Instinctively it seems right that the Dutch oven should be preheated, which is why I didn't take the ATK revision at face value. So, that should make the experiment more interesting. I'll compare results of the two methods in about 20 hours. It's nice that I've got two methods completely written done both ways.
In both cases the lid is removed after 30 minutes.
Well, I just made dough number 2. I'll do the non-preheated first, then the heated (for obvious reasons). We'll see. I have been very careful to make two identical doughs. Honestly, I'm hoping that the pre-heated is superior, 'cause that's my instinct says.
But under no circumstances whatsoever should you download the internet version, print it on a high quality color printer and frame it without sending Lindy some money!
@derobert I have learned to use #^#^#$@! Sql Developer. It is much less like being in hell than SQLPLUS. But for some reason, none of the drill downs work in our enviornment. It won't show me tables or views or any other object. I have to just write raw SQL in a query builder window.
@jolenealaska don't download the Internet version, if you want one let me know and I will send you a high res version. Any copy shop should be able to print you something good enough to put on the wall
But they still paid other taxes, and the amount they paid was still more than what the actual poor paid; one of the issues was, however, that they were perceives to be paying less than the rich bourgeoisie.
@SAJ14SAJ Let's say the bottom 1 % and the top 1 %.
I think the bottom 1 % pay very little or no taxes in most places?
@Cerberus Well, some places have had per capita (each person pays $x) taxes... Though possibly they only included landowners, so maybe the poor were excluded.
@derobert It seems extremely likely that there was in history at least 1 poor person who paid more taxes than some rich person. But there were always many, many different taxes on many things...
Many of the taxes imposed on the nobility were formally requests, not taxes.
@SAJ14SAJ No, more like, I need to go to war against England, please give me lots of money. If you don't, I will screw you in some way, which we both know but don't officially mention. Same for taxing rich cities.
@derobert I think it depends on many other factors? Here food is taxed at a much lower rate, and poor people will spend comparatively more on food, for example.
But 2% on food and spending 30% of your income on food v. 5% on everything and putting 90% of your income in savings, well, you still get the poor paying a higher % of income
Of course, there are good reasons to argue that you should compare (and tax) consumption, not income, in which case sales taxes are much less regressive.
@derobert But is it really a fact that the poorest, say, 10 % spend more on sales tax as a percentage of their income than the richest 10 %? Is it perhaps because the very rich save/invest most of their money, rather than spending it on things you pay sales tax on? And how about when you buy a house: that is not called sales tax here, and the percentage is much lower than on, say, a video game, so that should work in the same direction.
@derobert How do you mean?
@SAJ14SAJ Yeah, other kinds of taxes are mostly paid by the rich...
