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The secret to successful baking? It’s all in the chemistry. And here’s the scientific lowdown on how each basic baking ingredient functions in the kitchen.

Essential ingredients for baking, clockwise from top left: eggs, butter, milk, vegetable oil, baking powder, baking soda, salt, sugar, yeast, and flour.

Flour

the protein in flour lends structure to baked goods

selecting the right flour for the job isn’t as easy as it seems

Leavening agents

yeast literally brings bread to life

Baking powder and baking soda, meanwhile, release carbon dioxide that “only enlarges bubbles that are already in the batter

Eggs

help bind things together

work as leavening agents

lend richness and moisture to baked goods

Fats

incredible tenderizers

Sugar and milk

helps keep baked goods moist

promote browning

Salt

helps conceal bitter tastes

also plays a key role in gluten formation

helps to balance sweetness and enhance other flavors during baking

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Tags: food, cooking, baking, ingredients, science, chemistry

A little fun from ProofreadNow.com: Know these words?

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:47:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "I feel bad, not badly (unless your fingers are damaged) - blonde is a noun for females, but blond is a noun for males. It's also an adjective for males and females"

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straitjacket, not straightjacket.

subjunctive mood, not mode. Example: If I were a rich man, I wouldn't have to work so hard.

blonde is a noun for females, but blond is a noun for males. It's also an adjective for males and females.

Josef Stalin, not Joseph.

Adolf Hitler, not Adolph

bail, bale. You bail out a boat by scooping buckets of water, and you do so with a bail; you bail out of a plane in a parachute; you bail someone out of jail. You bale hay; you load a bale of paper into a printer.

gibe, jibe. To gibe means to taunt or sneer. Jibe means to agree. Dead wrong: Your story does not jive. Correct: Your story does not jibe with the facts.

A dilemma is a choice between two unattractive alternatives, not simply a problem.

Btu for British thermal unit, not BTU.

I feel bad, not badly (unless your fingers are damaged).

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Athiest Cat [pic]

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:55:15 GMT

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Sarah Palin Meet Caitlin Upton

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:51:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Take the gloves off and let the chips fall where they may.

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A Fearful Price

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:07:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The reason it is so easy for the U.S. to declare wars, and to continue fighting year after year after year, is because so few Americans feel the actual pain of those wars. We’ve been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan longer than we fought in World Wars I and II combined.

I don’t think our current way of waging war, which is pretty easy-breezy for most citizens, is what the architects of America had in mind. Here’s George Washington’s view, for example: “It must be laid down as a primary position and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal service to the defense of it.”

What we are doing is indefensible and will ultimately exact a fearful price, and there will be absolutely no way for the U.S. to avoid paying it".

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The idea that fewer than 1 percent of Americans are being called on to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq and that we’re sending them into combat again and again and again — for three tours, four tours, five tours, six tours — is obscene. All decent people should object.

The air is filled with obsessive self-satisfied rhetoric about supporting the troops, giving them everything they need and not letting them down. But that rhetoric is as hollow as a jazzman’s drum because the overwhelming majority of Americans have no desire at all to share in the sacrifices that the service members and their families are making. Most Americans do not want to serve in the wars, do not want to give up their precious time to do volunteer work that would aid the nation’s warriors and their families, do not even want to fork over the taxes that are needed to pay for the wars.

How Coca-Cola Like Bubbles are Destroying Our Oceans

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:07:43 GMT

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A Sea Change is about ocean acidification. What is it?

It’s a fairly straightforward phenomena. It occurs when carbon dioxide (mostly manmade) from the atmosphere combines with saltwater to form carbonic acid, which is essentially the bubbles you see in Coca-Cola. In the ocean, the carbonic acid makes it difficult for calcium carbonate to form, and calcium carbonate is essential for shellfish to form their shells. We looked at ptrepods, snail-like creatures at the bottom of the food web that are extremely vulnerable to not being able to form a shell. It’s the primary food source for juvenile salmon and many other fish. This threatens the entire food chain.

Too Big To Punish? Really?

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:57:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: But you, mere citizen, spread 'em!

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WASHINGTON — Forget too big to fail. In the eyes of federal regulators, many Wall Street firms are too big to punish.

During the past three years, some of the nation's largest financial firms have been accused by the government of cheating or misleading clients and ripping off tens of thousands of consumers of their investments.

Despite these findings, these financial giants got, sometimes repeatedly, special exemptions from the Securities and Exchange Commission that have saved them from a regulatory death penalty that could have decimated their lucrative mutual fund businesses.

SEC rules permit corporate lawbreakers to apply for what are known as Section 9(c) waivers from one of the agency's harshest penalties — effectively shuttering the violator's mutual fund operations — but regulators never rejected any of these firms' applications. While the firms were punished in other ways, they were spared from what some claimed would be "severe and irreparable hardships."

Martha's Vineyard rich liberals: "No wind turbines, they spoil my ocean view"

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:09:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The hypocrisy of the wealthy celebrity warmists whose lifestyle makes a daily carbon footprint as large as one of China’s coal-fired plants is astounding.

They reject a wind farm in Nantucket bay because it will spoil their view. I could care less that Al Gore has made a bigger mess of the environment with his nine concerts than years of single toilet paper use by the entire population could compensate for.

I am tired of hearing that it’s my responsibility to reduce this myth of global warming. I’m tired of being told I’m “addicted to oil,” when the country’s entire infrastructure is built on the automobile. These people are idiots. I'd like to throw them all into Nantucket Bay where they'll be Aquaman's problem instead.

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OUTRAGE: Chilmark resident Andy Goldman and his wife, Susan Heilbron, are opposed to Gov. Deval Patrick’s plan to build 166 450-foot turbines between Gay Head cliffs and Cuttyhunk Island.

Blazing a trail for renewable energy, Gov. Deval Patrick is alienating Martha’s Vineyard’s liberal rich and famous by pushing a plan to lease state waters for 166 450-foot-high wind turbines between the pristine vacation spots of Gay Head cliffs and Cuttyhunk Island.

“I plead guilty to thinking global warming is a real problem, but that doesn’t mean everybody who has a plan with the word ‘green’ has to be supported,” Goldman said.

James Feiner, a Vineyard real estate broker, claims he lost a $2 million-plus home sale on Gay Head this fall when his client - an environmentalist, no less - got wind of Patrick’s plan and bolted.

A mortified Feiner wasn’t even aware it was being discussed.

“For them to run a band (of turbines) from Cuttyhunk to Nomans Land is idiotic,” Feiner said.

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We already have rationed, socialized healthcare

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:08:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's rationed by ability to pay - not need - and socialized by overcharging insured patients enough to cover costs for the un-insured. "We are ... the only advanced democracy on Earth -- the only wealthy nation -- that allows (health care) hardship for millions of its people."

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Health care is already rationed and socialized

Rationing does not apply to emergency care

The patient who presents for planned, scheduled health care gets a different reception. Those needing elective heart surgery, or joint repair, for example, are filtered carefully. Care is rationed by ability to pay.

What is certain is that the hospital bill for the well-insured will be sufficiently high to cover expenses generated by poorly insured or uinsured patients.

This explains a $15 aspirin, $10,000 to $15,000 antibiotic bills, and bills for heart surgery of $250,000 or more.

We resist "socialized medicine" from the federal government while oblivious that we have embraced socialized medicine delivered -after profits - by the insurance industry.

Rationing of medical care in a non-profit system should be based on society defining what services should be provided, not on restricting care on the basis of income, as in a profit based system.

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Obama ends Bush-era National Prayer Day service at White House

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:49:33 GMT

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Non-believers took heart at Obama's decision but urged him to go further.

"It's not his job to tell people to pray," David Silverman, national spokesman for the organization American Atheists, told CNN. "We are very happy he did away with the George W. Bush-era celebrations and party, but we wish he wouldn't do it at all."

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May 7, 2009

For years, it's been a staple of the White House calendar.

On the first Thursday of May, dedicated as the National Day of Prayer, President George W. Bush hosted an ecumenical service in the East Room, a big public endorsement of evangelical Christians. (This event is different from the National Prayer Breakfast, held outside the White House gates every year on the first Thursday of February.)

President Obama opted not to have a service in the White House this year.

"Prayer is something that the president does every day," explained White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, adding that Obama will sign a proclamation to recognize the day. "I think the president understands, in his own life and in his family's life, the role that prayer plays."

President Truman signed the first National Prayer Day proclamation, and President Reagan made it a permanent occasion. Under Bush, the day was a political event, confirming a conviction that religion was a core tenet of Republican politics.

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Tags: freedom from religion, separation of church and state, barack orbama

Handy Latin Phrases

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:24:32 GMT

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Handy Latin Phrases

Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.
It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.

Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!
God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!

Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?

Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.
The designated hitter rule has got to go.

Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.

Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
If Caesar were alive, you’d be chained to an oar.

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

(At a barbeque)
Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?
Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?

Sona si Latine loqueris.
Honk if you speak Latin.

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Researchers can't find men for porn-free control group

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:38:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "On average, single men watch pornography three times a week for 40 minutes. Those who are in committed relationships watch it on average 1.7 times a week for 20 minutes."

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Montreal, December 1, 2009 – A Université de Montréal researcher, funded by the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Family Violence and Violence Against Women, has launched a new study to examine the effects of pornography on men. "We started our research seeking men in their twenties who had never consumed pornography. We couldn't find any," says Simon Louis Lajeunesse, a postdoctoral student and professor at the School of Social Work.

The research concluded that 90 percent of pornography is consumed on the Internet, while 10 percent comes from video stores. On average, single men watch pornography three times a week for 40 minutes. Those who are in committed relationships watch it on average 1.7 times a week for 20 minutes.

"Pornography hasn't changed their perception of women or their relationship

Those who could not live out their fantasy in real life with their partner simply set aside the fantasy

and men don't want their partner to look like a porn star," says Lajeunesse

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Men shouldn"t give advice

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:11:23 GMT

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There's No Way Like The American Way

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:11:33 GMT

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Tags: propaganda, usa, capitalism