Jewish Apple Cake

Jewish Apple Cake  
 
Ingredients:
 
5 large crisp apples (granny smith work well), peeled, cored and sliced.
4 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups white sugar
1 cup vegetable oil 
          (notice: 5,4,3,2,1.)

1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup orange juice
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
5 teaspoons white sugar
  

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour one 10 inch bunt pan. 
(bunt pans work in this recipe because the resulting cake is very moist, and if it's in a high square pan, the middle doesn't get cooked well)
 
2) Combine the ground cinnamon and 5 teaspoons of the sugar and set aside.

3) In a large mixing bowl, combine the dry ingredients: flour, salt, baking powder and the sugar. 
 
4) Stir in the wet ingredients: vegetable oil, beaten eggs, orange juice and vanilla. Mix well.

5) Pour 1/3 of the batter into the prepared pan. Top with 1/3 of the sliced apples, and sprinkle with 1/3 of the cinnamon sugar mixture.

    Pour most of the remaining batter over the top and layer with 1/3 sliced apples, then top with remaining batter.

    Arrange apples on top (see picture) and sprinkle with remaining cinnamon and sugar.

6) Bake at 350 degrees F for 70 to 90 minutes.


 

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Pakistan completes demolition of bin Laden compound

 
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE81P0MT20120226?irpc=932




"Well, ummm... yeah, he was hiding in our country under our noses, but there's nothing to see now. Move along, move along."

Lines from The Princess Bride that Double as Comments on Freshman Composition Papers.

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/lines-from-the-princess-bride-that-double-as-comments-on-freshman-composition-papers

How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effec

On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future.

Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google's other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more.

If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future.

Here's how you can do that:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect

How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effec

On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future.

Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google's other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more.

If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future.

Here's how you can do that:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect

Born on this day (February 22, 1732): His Excellency General George Washington.

"  For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support. "

       - George Washington's Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island (1790)

Let Schrodinger's cat answer all your questions

 
Bringing Schrodinger's cat thought experiment to real life would get you put on PETA's naughty list. Avoid that complication with the Schrodinger's Cat Executive Decision Maker.

No actual cats were harmed in the creation of ThinkGeek's $30 decision maker. What you do get is a plastic device with a sliding door. Ask a yes-or-no question, open the door, and watch as the cat goes into flux. A dead cat means "no." A live cat means "yes."

ThinkGeek may be playing a little fast and loose with the concept. You're not really supposed to be able to observe the flux state, right? But let's not split cat hairs about the accuracy.

A little paradox can go a long way. The Schrodinger's Cat Executive Decision Maker should help ThinkGeek corner the market on gag gifts for quantum physicists.

Some ThinkGeek commenters have noted that you could flip a coin and get the same sort of response. However, I would argue that it's much more dramatic to hand your important life decisions over to a flailing plastic cat in a box.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57382175-1/let-schrodingers-cat-answer-all-your-questions/

Terry Pratchet quotes

Terry Pratchet's best known for his "Diskworld" series, which now contains 36 books. They're funny fantasy (Diskworld is a flat world supported on the back of 4 elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle), and parody a broad range of topics, including other sci-fi and fantasy writers.

 

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This was turning out to be the longest winter in living memory, so long, in fact, that living memory itself was being shortened as some of the older citizens succumbed. 
 
Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go. 
 
Quimby was eventually killed by a disgruntled poet during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb "The pen is mightier than the sword," and in his memory it was amended to include the phrase, "only if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
 
Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc. 
 
With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D and you still have the frog you started with. 
 
Magicians and scientists are, on the face of it, poles apart. Certainly, a group of people who often dress strangely, live in a world of their own, speak a specialized language and frequently make statements that appear to be in flagrant breach of common sense have nothing in common with a group of people who often dress strangely, speak a specialized language, live in ... er ... 

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Let's hear it for The Dark Ages!

Researchers attending one of the world's major academic conferences 'are scared to death of the anti-science lobby' 

http://guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/19/science-scepticism-usdomesticpolicy

by Irving Berlin

 

a Quiz

Starry Dynamo in the Machinery of Night. Carpe Diem's Old School. Devils and Fairies Flesh for Fantasy. Protocol's Veni Vidi Vici. Bedlam's Changing Times.

Westminster Champion or Line From Ginsberg's "Howl"?

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/low_concept/2012/02/westminster_dog_show_quiz_championship_dog_name_or_line_from_allen_ginsberg_s_howl_.html

Harsher Punishment for Parole Violators, Stan… and

The Case of the Contraband Corned Beef Sandwich : Discovery News

As entertainingly chronicled in a paper publishedin the journal Endeavour, the first manned Gemini mission (Gemini III on March 23, 1965) will forever be known as the flight that carried orbital contraband: a corned beef sandwich.



http://news.discovery.com/space/the-case-of-the-contraband-corned-beef-sandwich.html

Too true.