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POPSAdvanced-level tips for the best ever no-knead bread More: The crust…is where the no-knead method kicks unequivocal butt for the home baker. Artisanal loaves have a thin, crisp crust that is difficult to duplicate in a home oven. Home “sandwich loaves” and the like will turn brown on top, but the crust is just a lifeless dry area at the edge of the loaf… In a commercial oven, the necessary moisture comes from injectors that flood the oven with steam when the loaves are put in…The Sullivan/Bittman no-knead recipe, however, uses the genius innovation of baking the bread in a pre-heated Dutch oven (a heavy, oven-safe, lidded pot). The lid is placed on the pot for the first 30 minutes of baking, so steam from the wet dough is trapped in close proximity to the surface. The result is perfect gelation and a very professional-looking crust. Definitely going to try this tip the next time I make a batch of bread . Speaking of which...
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POPSA clock with no hands makes a pretty awesome clock! Some of the things people come up with these days is just amazing and this is definitely one of those things. It's so simple yet so genius! In case you can't see them, the hands are projected using LED's around the perimeter of the face of the clock.
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POPSSavant who inspired Rain Man dies 'Share him with the world' Hoffman met Kim Peek while playing the role of Rain Man and was impressed by his ability to remember everything that was said to him. Hoffman advised Fran Peek, then his son's sole caregiver, not to hide his son away. "Dustin Hoffman said to me, you have to promise me one thing about this guy, share him with the world," Fran Peek recalled. Kim Peek eventually went on tour, demonstrating his abilities to dispel misconceptions about mental disability.
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POPSMozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 - Andante A child’s violin played by Mozart when he was 6 years old resonated with music for the first time in Japan on Friday during a special concert held at the National Art Center in Minato Ward, Tokyo.
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POPS Anatomy of a Shakedown by Charles Krauthammer But such dreams never die. The raid on the Western treasuries is on again, but today with a new rationale to fit current ideological fashion. With socialism dead, the gigantic heist is now proposed as a sacred service of the newest religion: environmentalism. One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World to save the planet by, for example, planting green industries in the tristes tropiques . Politically it's an idea of genius, engaging at once every left-wing erogenous zone: rich man's guilt, post-colonial guilt, environmental guilt. But the idea of shaking down the industrial democracies in the name of the environment thrives not just in the refined internationalist precincts of Copenhagen. It thrives on the national scale too.
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POPSThe EPA is the new IRS Krauthammer hits the nail on the head once more. Our struggling leaders of industry are going to bear the brunt - or crumble in the attempt - of "saving the world" (or lining pockets of government hacks and the new scientific elite). The richest citizens in the world will soon be huddling masses under blankets because the EPA will make the cost of heating our homes and offices a "luxury". What a step forward. Plus, NONE of this stolen money will help the Third World citizens - only their corrupt leaders and the U.N.
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POPSWatch Surrogates Online for Free Watch Surrogates Movie. Watch Surrogates Movie Online. Watch Surrogates Without Download. Watch Surrogates for Free. The filmmaking trio behind the hit sci-fi sequel Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines re-team to explore a future in which humans live in isolation while only communicating with their fellow man through robots that serve as social surrogates and are better-looking versions of their human counterparts. Bruce Willis stars as an FBI agent who enlists the aid of his own surrogate to investigate the murder of the genius college student who invented the surrogates.
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POPSRoyal Society Puts Rare Scientific Manuscripts Online Newton?s theory on light and colours in the 1600s, that continues to provide the basis for theoretical physics, will be published along with a gruesome account of a 17th-century blood transfusion. A paper by Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, will also be released on an experiment to fly his kite in a storm to prove that lightning is electricity rather than a supernatural force.
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POPS10 extraordinary children i could only clip part of #1............wow- these stories are something- was just thinking maybe this Kim guy could solve that 150 year old math problem...........
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POPSWatch Mystery Team Online Movie Mystery Team is mixture of comedy, drama, it’s a story of group of children who are solving mysteries but their skills were not enough to solve the mystery of a young girl’s parent’s murder. You can watch Mystery Team movie free of cost.
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POPSPalin vs Obama: The approval gap silently shrinks to a few points An interesting article. Nothing like living within an Obama America to wake a person up to the frightening free-fall of our economy and status around the world. And when SNL does a vulgar skit about the media-loved US President and a Chinese leader......well, things are really going bad.
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POPSBehind Closed Doors: Stalin, Nazis and the West The quintessential bloodthirsty tyrant and evil genius, Joseph Stalin, massacred millions of Soviet subjects during three decades as dictator, yet played a critical role in manipulating his Western allies and German enemies during the 1940s. Film maker Laurence Rees based this impressive series on Stalin’s actual conversations with Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Nazi fuhrer Adolf Hitler, and their far-reaching consequences.
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POPSThe Jazz Baroness the love story of Nica Rothschild and Thelonious Monk Among the most compelling segments is the story of how Nica and Monk met. Then married, Nica was introduced by a friend to Monk?s “?Round Midnight,” which would become one of the most recorded jazz standards of all time. “I couldn't believe my ears,” she recalled. “I'd never heard anything remotely like it.” Nica set out to find Monk, finally meeting him two years later. Interestingly, for all the mutual love and devotion that developed between them, some speculate that their relationship was essentially platonic. Monk remained married to his wife, Nellie, who seemed to embrace the unusual love triangle.
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POPSRussia prove to the world they are "humane" Now all condemned prisoners + those waiting for sentence will be sent to the Stalags and Medvedev told Amnesty International how humane Russia now is, here his comments in perfect Russian translated by multi-lingual genius, Jaggedone! "NYET, ve have sent our condemned criminals to Siberia, they receive one bottle of Vodka, two parsnips, some cabbage, vill have no heating and at minus 50 degrees centigrade vill freeeze their bollocks off and die vithin two weeks, humane DA (yes)?!! "Russia saves elctricity, gets rid of its scum humanely and the vorld is happy, DA (yes)!" "Please European Brothers send your scum to Russia, no problem, NYET!"
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