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Japanese GP 2008
Saturday Team Quotes
Kimi Raikkonen (2nd, 1:18.644): "I'm pleased to be back on the front row, even if I'm not totally happy as I always want to be the fastest. On top of that, I'm not completely satisfied with the handling of my car: all weekend we have worked very hard to find the best set-up but we did not get it a hundred percent right. All the same, we have improved our performance, especially with a heavy fuel load. This result means I'm in good shape for the race. Tomorrow, I will try to make the best of the situation. My aim is to finish this season in the best way possible and help the team to win both championships."
Felipe Massa (5th, 1:18.874): "A shame. Today I was the quickest man on track but at the wrong moment. In Q3, I never had the right amount of grip from both sets of tyres that I used. On my first run I was a bit cautious on my "out" lap and so suffered in the first sector, making a mistake at Turn 3. On the second run, I did the opposite and found myself without grip at the end of the lap. So, I've ended up fifth on the grid, which is definitely not an easy place to be. I will try and work my way up in the race to score big points for the championship. All the same, the set-up on the car is good and we should be competitive. The first corner? It's similar to the one at the Hungaroring, so I hope I can manage to repeat the good start I got there."
Stefano Domenicali, Team Principal: "Obviously, we were hoping for a different result, especially given our potential. It's a shame for Felipe who had been quickest in Q2 before suffering with a lack of grip from the tyres in Q3. Kimi did a good job and managed to get back onto the front row. Tomorrow, we can expect to have to fight our way up to the front, especially given the positions of our closest rivals. It will be a long race in which tyre performance, strategy and the overall team work will, as usual play a decisive role in terms of the final outcome as of course will the need for absolute reliability."
Luca Baldisserri, Head of Trackside Operations: "It was a somewhat contradictory session, both in terms of the final result and of the various performance levels through the field. In the first two sessions, Felipe had shown himself to be very quick and to have found the right balance on the car, while Kimi was struggling a bit. In Q3 the situation was pretty much reversed and specifically, Felipe found his sets of tyres producing inconsistent performance, offering less grip than previously. Hence his fifth place on a grid where the time differences are minimal. For his part, Kimi was more comfortable on the heavy fuel load and managed to do a great lap to get onto the front row. Tomorrow we will be up against very strong opposition and we will do our utmost to get both our cars ahead of them."
BMW Sauber
Robert Kubica (6th, 1:18.979): "Yesterday we were struggling with low grip, so the rain last night and this morning definitely didn't help us as it washed away the rubber. The balance of the car was fine, but it was just lacking grip. I tried everything I could, and this was the best I could manage. Sixth is not bad under the circumstances."
Nick Heidfeld (16th, 1:18.835): "Now we know it was the wrong decision to stay on the harder tyre compound for the second outing in Q1. After my initial run on the first set of those tyres, I knew I could improve on the Prime tyres, so we took the risk and put on another set. I actually did improve, I was about half a second quicker, but still it wasn't enough and I missed Q2 by one tenth of a second. Robert just made it. Of course from so far back on the grid it will be very difficult to do something in the race. But we have seen everything happen in Formula One and I shall never give up."
Dr. Mario Theissen, BMW Motorsport Director: "Qualifying didn't go as we hoped it would. The main reason was we estimated incorrectly how the track conditions would improve, and their influence on the tyres in Q1. We sent both drivers out twice on the harder compound, while others were already changing to the softer tyres. The unexpected big difference between both compounds left us in the situation where Robert just made it into Q2 and Nick didn't. In the remaining qualifying sessions Robert put in the performance we were expecting and was 6th."
Willy Rampf, Technical Director: "The most difficult part of today was the first session of qualifying, during which we planned to use the harder of the two tyre compounds. We wanted to have enough sets of the softer one for the remainder of qualifying and for the race. This decision cost Nick a place in Q2. It will be difficult to score points from 16th. Robert's performance was strong and he managed to clinch sixth. This was what we realistically expected."
Fernando Alonso (4th, 1:18.852): "We can be happy with fourth place, which is a good result and the work we did yesterday certainly paid us back today. We had a bit of trouble in Q2, but in Q3 with fuel on board the car felt good, which is encouraging for the race tomorrow and I think we can realistically aim for a top five finish."
Nelson Piquet (12th, 1:18.274): "I am very disappointed as I made a mistake in Q2 and I wasn't able to make it through to Q3. It's all the more frustrating because the car was really working well and I was feeling comfortable with it. I won't give up, but I know that the race tomorrow will be difficult and so I will do all that I can to try and fight through the field."
Pat Symonds, Executive Director of Engineering: "Fernando's position on the grid is as high as we could have hoped for and so we are satisfied with our afternoon and hopeful of a strong race tomorrow. Nelson has had an excellent weekend as he showed with his 7th position in Q1, but unfortunately in Q2 things did not really go as we would have wished. Nevertheless, he has been quick and we hope we can have a strong race with him as well tomorrow."
Denis Chevrier, Engine Operations Manager: "Once again, qualifying was very close and the competition to reach Q3 was extremely competitive. There are obviously still lots of unknowns at this stage of the weekend, but we have opted for an appropriate strategy and I think we can hope for a good result tomorrow with Fernando. For Nelson, we will think things over this evening and try and find a strategy that will allow him to do something in the race, but we know we must not underestimate our rivals in the fight for fourth in the championship."
Kazuki Nakajima (14th, 1:18.594): "After a strong run in the practice sessions that was a difficult qualifying, but we did do our best. I don't think that this afternoon's conditions suited the car that much and some traffic interrupted my last run, which didn't help me either. We now need to prepare a good strategy for tomorrow's race."
Nico Rosberg (15th, 1:18.672): "It wasn't very nice to qualify 15th today, especially having come from Singapore where I finished on the podium, but that's the reality. We've struggled a bit this weekend, but we were expecting to be less competitive here as we just seem to be missing something on these types of circuits. I'm keeping my expectations for the race in check, particularly if it stays dry, but we could have a better chance of doing well if it rains. I'm happy with my qualifying lap though, and Kazuki's been doing a really good job all weekend. He's been a little bit quicker than me and I'm pleased for him as he's in front of his home crowd. But this weekend isn't over yet; we'll see what tomorrow brings."
Sam Michael, Technical Director: "Obviously this isn't the best track for us. We took both cars through to Q2, but we weren't strong enough to get into Q3 here. Fuji delivered a very interesting race last year, so we'll now work towards the most advantageous strategies possible for our positions and see if we can't get something out of the race."
Red Bull-Renault
David Coulthard (11th, 1:18.187): "It was very close today. That was one of my better qualifying sessions, each of my laps were very tidy. On the last lap I was quicker going into the final corner, but I seemed to drag more speed going into the apex, which made me very slow down to the start/finish straight. I would love to have got through to Q3, as it would have meant more driving in the car on low fuel, but I don't think there was much more I could have got out of the car with the balance I had."
Mark Webber (13th, 1:18.354): "I wasn't quick enough today and when you don't get the times you don't go through. I didn't get it together in Q2 and you pay the price. There was more to get from the car, but I over drove on the last sector. It was a shame as I had had a good feeling for the car both yesterday and this morning, but qualifying didn't seem to work out for us today. It will be difficult from there tomorrow."
Christian Horner, Sporting Director: "While it's disappointing not to make it into Q3, David drove well in both sessions and was unlucky to miss the final cut by just 0.08secs, but 11th obviously leaves him free to pick his strategy for tomorrow. Mark didn't manage to string his best three sectors together, which leaves a lot of work for him from 13th on the grid tomorrow."
Fabrice Lom, Renault: "That was disappointing not to get into Q3. DC had a good session and was very, very close to getting through to Q3, I think he was just 0.08secs off. At least this is a track where you should be able to overtake and gain positions in the dry, so we'll have to make sure we're ready to make the most of anything that might happen ahead of us tomorrow."
Jarno Trulli (7th, 1:19.026): "We've done quite a good job overall this weekend preparing for qualifying and the race. I had to make some adjustments during the first part of qualifying but in the end fortunately I got the set-up right. That meant that I could find the right balance and get back on the pace. In Q2 I was 4th and Timo was 5th so it shows that the Toyotas are going well. Q3 was a bit of a mystery because as soon as we put the fuel on the car was rather unbalanced and we lost a lot of grip. So I wasn't so happy about the pace of Q3 but maybe it's down to the different fuel levels. Now we must go for a strong result for everyone here in front of our own fans and we must fight really hard until the end tomorrow."
Timo Glock (8th, 1:19.118): "We have to be happy with how qualifying went in the end. This morning's rain didn't really help us because we would have liked to have more rubber on the asphalt. Instead it was quite low grip but still Q1 was quite easy. I was quickest and I had a really good feeling. But after that we struggled to get the most out of the softer tyre on heavy fuel and we are slightly further back than we'd hoped. There are a couple of places where you can overtake here so let's see what happens tomorrow. What is great is the home support we've had here. There are so many Toyota fans and now we have both cars in the top ten we have a good chance to get both cars into the points."
Pascal Vasselon, Senior General Manager Chassis: "This was a clear improvement compared to last year when we failed to get our cars into Q3. Overall the qualifying sessions went very well. In both Q1 and Q2 both drivers were very quick, with Timo the fastest of all in Q1 and Jarno less than three tenths off in Q2. Given that, we are slightly disappointed by the positions we had in Q3, but as usual it's really a matter of where people will stop tomorrow. Considering the situation with tyres we feel that we have the ideal strategy for tomorrow. Both drivers did a good job and we are where we deserved to be. This morning we had the only wet conditions of the weekend - unlike last year - and we saw that even in the case of rain we are competitive. Now we must look to make the most of these positions in tomorrow's race in front of our home fans."
Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Sebastian Vettel (9th, 1:19.638): "At the start of qualifying the track was still quite green because of the rain, but we made it to Q3 again which is good. Then in the final part, I was struggling a bit with the heavier car, as it did not feel as good as before and I made a couple of small mistakes. But the gap to the next fastest was a bit too big. It will be a tough race on the cars and especially the tyres, so I think the key to success will be to keep the tyres in good shape. I hope our strategy turns out to be a good one."
Sebastien Bourdais (10th, 1:20.167): "It was a good qualifying and I'm happy to be close to Sebastian on a track with a lot of corner entries on the brakes which is where I usually struggle with the rear end of the car, so I had to hold back a bit. I think the car has improved a bit after the team found a couple of things on the aero side which has helped. I think we are in good shape for the race."
Laurent Mekies, Chief Engineer: "Having both cars in Q3 indicates that we put together a strong qualifying performance. Both drivers have done a very good job, closely matched throughout the weekend. Tomorrow, we will find out what our competitors have done in terms of fuel loads, but certainly, we are happy with our race trim and are looking to have a strong race."
Rubens Barrichello (17th, 1:18.882): "Although my second run today was actually a good qualifying lap, unfortunately we are at the back of the midfield group where just another three-tenths would have been enough to put me in P10. I was already right on the limit with my second run so we had to take a bit of a gamble with the final run and add a little more front wing. Unfortunately this led to the tyres graining by the second sector and I was not able to improve. It's a shame that we were unable to qualify better than this at our home race but we will do our best to make the most of any opportunities in the race tomorrow."
Jenson Button (18th, 1:19.100): "It has not been the best of days for us today but hopefully the race tomorrow will be better. I have been struggling with the car for the whole weekend and have found it difficult to achieve a good balance. The car was better in the wet this morning, however the bumps and corner apexes are unsettling the car in the dry and we have not been able to resolve this. I had too much understeer on my final run in qualifying today which made the car very twitchy and difficult to get round the corners and I was unable to improve my lap time. It's disappointing but we just have to do our best with the package that we have."
Steve Clark, Head of Race & Test Engineering: "Unfortunately we were well aware in advance of this weekend that Fuji was going to be a difficult track for us given our current package. That fact does not make today's result any less disappointing however. Obviously going into a dry qualifying after a wet morning was a little like venturing into the unknown as we were reliant upon the settings we made to the cars overnight. In actual fact, early in the qualifying session, the cars were working quite well, certainly for Rubens. At the end of our first set of option tyres, both cars were comfortably in a position to progress to Q2. We then switched to the second set of options and that's where it all went wrong for both drivers. The option tyres have more grip but are also more delicate and they grained on both cars."
Force India-Ferrari
Adrian Sutil (19th, 1:19.163): "It was very close again today. I'm quite happy with my performance as I did some really good laps and the last one was particularly on the edge. I don't think there was any more we could do. We were just one second from pole, which was very good and competitive but still not enough. Let's see what the race brings now, we are quick in a straight line and I think there is a chance to make up some places."
Giancarlo Fisichella (20th, 1:19.910): "I could improve my time quite a lot from the first run, but on my final run I hit some traffic on the out lap and couldn't warm up the tyres in the cool conditions. Unfortunately I locked up into turn one and lost a lot of time there, so even though the rest of the lap was OK it was never going to be quick. It's a shame but we are still very close to the fastest times. Tomorrow's race will be exciting - you never know what the weather will bring, so we'll look to have a good strategy and try to make up places when we can."
Mike Gascoyne, Chief Technical Officer: "It was again a very, very close qualifying with the whole field incredibly closely matched. Adrian being just one second off the pace is a very good result for us and just a couple of tenths would have moved both him and Giancarlo up a couple of places. We know we have a good race pace and set-up for tomorrow and have to look to put in a good performance."
Lewis Hamilton (1st, 1:18.404): "Usually, on a heavy fuel load, the car can be quite tough to drive on the limit, but I managed to pull all the sectors together and drove a pretty good lap. It wasn't perfect - I made a small mistake in the final corner, where I lost a tenth - but we had a good session. The team has done a phenomenal job all weekend, and Heikki's and my pace today really underlines that. We think we've got a good strategy for tomorrow and we want to finish at the front."
Heikki Kovalainen (3rd, 1:18.821): "A pretty good session for me - it took a little time to get up to speed in Q1, but I put two good laps together in the final session. We were very quick in Q2 as well - and, while third was really the best I could manage today, I'm still very pleased with the result. We're still targeting both world championships in these final few races so I'll be looking for the very best result for myself and the team tomorrow."
Ron Dennis, Team Principal: "First and third in qualifying is clearly a very satisfying result - and represents a very strong team performance. Lewis's pole lap was awesome in the proper sense of that often-abused adjective - in fact I'd go so far as to say that it was possibly the best lap of his career so far. Heikki's lap was also very impressive and extremely pleasing - because it showcases the strength and depth of our driver line-up and of our whole team. Having said all that, although we'll enjoy our qualifying success this evening, the race is what really matters and all I'll say about that is that we've sacrificed nothing in our efforts to achieve advantageous grid positions and are therefore looking forward to putting in a very competitive performance tomorrow."
Norbert Haug, Mercedes Motorsport Director: "A great lap from Lewis, a great lap from Heikki make pole position and position three for us. This is a perfect line-up for the start tomorrow, but we certainly will not make the mistake and under-estimate our competitors. We should be strong in the long runs of the race as shown on Friday during the practice sessions, but Ferrari will be very quick too, so there will be no room for errors tomorrow. For today, we are perfectly happy - thank you to the team and thanks to Lewis and Heikki. It would be great of course, if we could generate the same feeling inside the team at the same time tomorrow."


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City of Lincoln
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Mayor Coleen J. Seng today invited Lincoln area residents to observe the 17th anniversary of the Veterans Memorial Garden in Antelope Park at a ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 10. The event will beheld at the Antelope Park Bandshell.
"In the 17 years since the veterans created this garden, it has become a very beautiful and special place for veterans, their families and the entire community," said Mayor Seng. "We can take great pride in the fact that Lincoln has this memorial garden to honor veterans of every branch of military service who have given so much to our nation."
In addition to remarks from Mayor Seng, the ceremony will include an address from State Adjutant General Roger Lempke of the Nebraska National Guard; the ringing of the Nebraska Liberty Bell; music from singer Zuri and the Lincoln Fire and Rescue Pipe and Drum Corp; a recognition of Gold Star families; a 21-gun salute; and the dedication of 155 new memorial bricks.
In case of rain, the event will be held in the Auld Recreation Center at Antelope Park.
For more information on the event, contact Keith Fickenscher of the Mayor's Advisory Committee for the Veterans Memorial Garden at 420-2997.

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Today I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about a new initiative that the Africa Region and the Research Group at the World Bank are launching today. The idea here is that we don't know enough about how to effectively address the underlying causes of gender inequality. Let me start by explaining what I mean by underlying causes. Take the case of female farmers. There is a lot of literature out there which shows that women have lower agricultural yields than men. And some of it shows that this is because women have lower input use than men (you name it -- credit, fertilizer, labor, access to extension). But from a policy point of view, this literature doesn't get us the final mile -- why do they have lower use of these inputs (controlling for land, etc)? If you take the case of female entrepreneurs, you get a similar story -- although here the different sectors in which men and women operate clearly plays a role.
If we can get a handle on the why (which requires more inferential research (and even qualitative work) than impact evaluations), maybe we can come up with a bunch of policies that target the causes, rather than the symptoms (e.g. maybe deal with time and mobility constraints to provide women with more agricultural extension, rather than putting in place female extension agents; maybe come up with loan screening mechanisms that deal effectively with women's more limited collateral base). And the rigorous impact evaluations of these kind of interventions give us two things. First, they tell us what works and what does not to address these fundamental constraints (and whether this moves some metric of gender equality). Second, they tell us what the payoffs are (if any) to these kinds of investments.
We have a bunch of these projects under way - and I've blogged about some of them, particularly in my notes from the field and also how one of them has changed my mind. Most of the work focuses on the economic realm. Together with a wide range of collaborators, we are looking at the impact of land titling interventions in Rwanda, Benin, and Ghana. We are also looking at agriculture -- tackling things like agricultural extension in Ethiopia. And in the realm of firms looking at things like business registration, trying new types of business training and support services, and trying to build a market between small and large firms. Today we will launch a new phase (thanks to generous support from DFID and other donors). This phase will include more support for the design of innovative interventions that really go after what we think these underlying causes might be, trying to more effectively mix qualitative and quantitative work, and focusing more on getting whatever results we (and others) come up with used by policymakers.
Part of this new phase will include a call for projects that want to work with us on an impact evaluation -- if you, or someone you know is interested in this, please keep an eye on the Friday links where a link will be posted. And, if you'd like to see some of the launch event -- feel free to join in today online at 10am EST.
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Great points Ephrem! I agree,
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Am currently writing guidelines on impact evaluation and gender (for an Australian context) and am delighted to read a World Bank Senior Economist saying "we don't know". We need more people willing to do the same, Markus. Or we will just keep fiddling around with trying to get numbers of women involved, treating gender as a male/female binary, without actually looking at issues of power and context and gender as social construct.


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Hat tip to forum member TheLastProject who posted about a promotional video for a proof of concept research project called 'IllumiRoom'. The main game shown is Red Eclipse, but SuperTuxKart also briefly appears (implicitly as the game played by a girl!) around the 0:48-50 mark.
I doubt they were actually showing an Xbox as I'm unaware of either Red Eclipse or SuperTuxKart being able to run on one.
I find it fascinating that 2 FOSS games would appear this way. Either this is an indication of red tape avoidance (no permission required for GPL games) or a cultural shift within Microsoft - or perhaps I'm just reading too much into it.
It certainly adds some validation to the games themselves, indicating they are impressive enough to feature as part of a video by one of the world's foremost technology companies. So hats off to the developers of both projects and also the projects that enabled them (CubeSauerbraten, TuxKart) - I like it that both games are good examples of open source in action.


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New Songs on the Radio – May 2012
Forget the old saying "April showers bring May flowers." It's obvious that those gloomy spring downpours have a much brighter outcome — a flood of new songs on the radio for May 2012.
The long list of new tunes to hit the airwaves this month includes some of country music's biggest names, like Kenny Chesney, who just dropped a new single dubbed 'Come Over' to the airwaves. Nevermind the fact that his duet with Tim McGraw on 'Feel Like a Rock Star' is still on fire, Chesney is hoping to double-up with yet another hit.
Also new on the radio for May 2012 is a brand new tune from Blake Shelton, which he debuted live on 'The Voice.' 'Over,' the fourth single from 'Red River Blue,' is a love ballad which is sure to be a hit with fans and deejays alike.
Following in his footsteps, Lady Antebellum too debuted a new single on 'The Voice,' delivering a happy helping of 'Wanted You More' during the season finale. Also blasting out of your speakers just in time for summer is a new one from Lee Brice, Randy Travis' latest 'More Life' and Rodney Atkins' desire to party.
Check back to Taste of Country all month long as we bring you all of the the new songs on the radio for May 2012.
New Songs on the Radio for May 2012:
Big and Rich, 'That's Why I Pray'
Blake Shelton, 'Over'
Bri Bagwell, 'Whiskey'
Gwen Sebastian, 'Met Him in a Motel Room'
Hank Williams Jr., 'That Ain't Good'
Kenny Chesney, 'Come Over'
Lady Antebellum, 'Wanted You More'
Lee Brice, 'Hard to Love'
Randy Travis, 'More Life'
Rascal Flatts, 'Come Wake Me Up'
Rodney Atkins, 'Just Wanna Rock N' Roll'


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September 2007
Expanding sign-up periods
Parents may be provided with useful information about public school choice and SES, yet still not be empowered to exercise these options because the period for submitting applications or enrollment forms is too short. A sign-up window that, for instance, opens when parent notices go out and closes two weeks later is unlikely to give all parents of eligible students—whose individual circumstances may vary greatly—sufficient time to decide whether to pursue public school choice or SES for their child.
While a district may need to set a deadline by which parents must make choices, it should ensure that this deadline is reasonable and allows parents ample opportunity to choose a transfer school or SES provider.
Using multiple or rolling windows. A short sign-up period at or around the beginning of the school year may also exclude from participation parents of eligible students whose desire or need for public school choice or SES does not become apparent until later. To further ensure that families have real opportunities to make choices, many districts offer multiple application or enrollment windows throughout the school year. Alternatively, other districts use a rolling or continuous application or enrollment process, which allows parents of eligible students to choose a transfer school or SES provider at their convenience.
In some cases, district administrative needs may force a district to not offer rolling enrollment or to impose cut-off dates for receipt of forms earlier than might otherwise be preferred. In others, needs on the part of SES providers to reach a critical mass of students prior to starting services may require a district to take similar actions. In cases such as these, the district should work with both parents and providers to determine application and enrollment processes that are acceptable to all parties and that enable the district to meet its obligations under the law.
Making it work
In some instances, parents will wish to pursue SES for their child after attending parent-teacher conferences or upon receiving first progress reports or first-quarter or first-semester report cards from the school. A district should ensure that its SES enrollment process allows parents in these circumstances to enroll their child with an SES provider (although a district should also offer SES enrollment opportunities closer to the start of the school year). Indeed, some districts (and their schools) have held special enrollment periods or "pushes" that coincide with these events.


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The Gold American Buffalo, is a 24-karat bullion coin first offered for sale by the United States Mint on June 22, 2006. The coin follows the greatly admired design of the Indian Head nickel and has gained its nickname from the American Bison on the reverse side of the design. This was the first time ever that the United States Government has minted pure (.9999) 24-karat gold coins for the public. The coin has a legal tender (face) value of US$50. Due to a combination of the coin's popularity and the tremendous increase in the price of gold since its creation, the coin's value has increased considerably in a short time of just a few years.


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It's unfinished, just the ramp screen and it's glitchy and not yet playable, and may never be if I'm the only one who ever works on this. So I'll post source in case someone else wants to see what they can do with it.
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Still any interest in this? If we can get a ramps > elevators conversion playable, here's the 2nd piece of the puzzle: the rivets level (almost) hacked into the cement factory/conveyor level. It's playable, but there are some bugs and I've turned obstacle collisions off temporarily.
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1) You can wander off the screen. I wrote a routine to address this but it didn't work.
2) You can walk across the center gap. One way I can think of to deal with this is to somehow change the 3rd tub from the top (which isn't supposed to move anyway) to a stationary one that sits still above the furnace. But I couldn't make that work.
Not to take anything away from the fantastic DK projects out there...I just like the idea of good ol' classic Coleco 2600 DK with 4 levels.
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Sprinkler controllers/timers are an integral part of your automatic sprinkler system that determine watering start and stop times.
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Bruce first rode a bicycle across America 18 years ago and is setting out to do it all over again. Read his story here and follow his progress on the links inside the NYT article.
Godspeed Bruce!
Reading his story I remember when I also riding a bike when i was 10 years old. hahaha...
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Saw the bike in person- great rig.
I think that it is quite amazing that he is doing something like that. I couldn't make it. but I would like to know if he paid everything by himself or if he looked for sponsor like xl pharmacy


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LONDON—June 30, 2009 — Alfresco Software, Inc., today announced the winners of its Credit Crunch Innovation Awards, which recognizes companies for creative and innovative uses of Alfresco's open source enterprise and web content management, collaboration and document management tools to lower costs and deliver business efficiency in today's challenging market.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Before police say Jacob Tyler Roberts walked into a mall wearing a hockey-style mask, shooting numerous rounds that killed two and injured a teenage girl, he visited the brother of his roommate, hugged him and told him he was going "somewhere south, somewhere warm."
The roommate, 26-year-old Jaime Eheler, also said when Roberts left the house they shared, "he had a weird look on his face."
Hours later three people were dead, including Roberts, who shot himself after the Tuesday rampage.
Although officials have not yet revealed a motive, a clearer picture of Roberts is emerging. His mother died of cancer when he was young, he was thrown out of his aunt's house as a teenager and had lived with Eheler's family for a while, and he had told friends of plans to live in Hawaii for a year.
"I never saw this young man raise his voice," Eheler said, sobbing. "I've seen him sad, I've seen him hurt. I've never seen him mad."
The Clackamas County sheriff's office said Roberts had several fully loaded magazines when he arrived at the mall Tuesday as thousands did their Christmas shopping. Roberts parked his 1996 Volkswagen Jetta in front of the second-floor entrance to Macy's and walked through the store into the mall and began firing randomly in the food court, authorities said.
He fatally shot Steven Mathew Forsyth, 45, and Cindy Ann Yuille, 54, the sheriff said. Kristina Shevchenko, 15, was wounded and in serious condition Thursday.
Eheler said Roberts had recently quit his job at a gyro shop in Portland, sold all of his belongings, and put his car up for sale on Craigslist in advance of his planned move to Hawaii.
She said that his decision to move to the islands caught her by surprise, but only a little bit. She said he told her he planned to live off the interest of an inheritance that he had invested, and that he planned to return on Oct. 25, 2013.
"He's adventurous," she said. "That's who he is."
Roberts' ex-girlfriend, Hannah Patricia Sansburn, told ABC World News with Diane Sawyer that he was supposed to catch a flight Saturday, but told her he got drunk and had missed it.
The owner of Big Bertha's, where Roberts most recently worked, threw a going away party for him last week.
"His nickname there at the shop was 'The Kid,"' said Thomas Illk, father of Tommy Illk, who owns the shop. "Tommy is just devastated. He was like a little brother to him."
Police say Roberts had stolen an AR-15 rifle from someone he knew. Authorities said that after the shootings, Roberts fled along a mall corridor and into a back hallway, down stairs and into a corner where police found him dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.
The shooting confounds Eheler. She said she knew that Roberts had gone target practice shooting in the past, but she said there were no guns in her house, and she'd never seen him with one.
"I can't wrap my mind around it, I can't understand," she said. "I sit here and think, and I think, and I think, and I can't come up with one reason why he would do this."
Eheler said that she later learned that he had stopped at her brother Tyler's home on the way to the mall. Tyler Eheler and Roberts had been best friends since high school, she said.
"He came in and hung out for a minute and told him that he had to go and that he didn't want to," she said, and added that he gave her brother a bracelet that he always wore, and hugged him. "He told him he was just going somewhere south, somewhere warm and not to tell me or my boyfriend that he had left until the next day."
Eheler said her brother was devastated and was not granting interviews.
Another friend who said she had known Roberts since middle school, Shania Riley, described him as a "very compassionate and very caring person." Roberts could also be "mysterious" and "kind of a troublemaker."
"Like being young, skipping class, smoking pot out back -- teenager stuff," Riley said. Everything seemed fine when she saw him at a bar last week, she said.
The only odd moment Riley could recall came about six months ago when she and her boyfriend were at Roberts' apartment "and he was pulling out guns and showing them to us."
She recalled seeing two handguns and what might have been a .22-caliber rifle.
Still, Riley didn't find it alarming. Roberts said he used them for target practice out in the hills, she recalled.
Benjamin Eshbach said he used to play chess with Roberts when he was general manager of a music theater next door to the gyro shop.
"He was very good," Eshbach said, noting they played on the community chess board in the shop.
Eshbach said Roberts had bought a pistol about a year ago, and used to shoot it in the woods when he went camping.
"A lot of people are thinking he was fixated on things like that. That couldn't be further from the truth," Eshbach said.
Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Tim Fought, Jonathan J. Cooper, Nigel Duara, and Sarah Skidmore in Portland, and Jeff Barnard in Grants Pass, Ore., along with researcher Rhonda Shafner.
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Howard has long been popular with fans, but after a disastrous departure from Orlando and a miserable season with the Lakers, that goodwill has eroded. The NBA also changed its balloting procedures before last season, allowing three forwards to be chosen, instead of two forwards and a center. That hurt Howard's chances. He led the NBA in All-Star fan votes in 2009 (topping 3 million voted) and 2012, but received just 653,000 votes this year.
Love joins a frontcourt of Blake Griffin and Kevin Durant, who, along with first-time All-Star Stephen Curry, are marking a changing of the guard out West. Those four are all 25 years old or younger (Griffin is 24), and were drafted from 2007 on.
The dean of the West remains Kobe Bryant, voted in despite playing only six games because of an injury to his Achilles' tendon, followed by a knee injury. Bryant has said he won't play in the game, which means the league will eventually pick a replacement.
In the East, the leading vote-getter was, to no one's surprise, Heat star LeBron James, who led all players with 1.4 million. On his heels was Pacers forward Paul George, who logged 1.2 million votes, third behind James and Durant. A rather diminutive East forward group will be rounded out by Carmelo Anthony, giving the conference three small forwards up front.
Miami's Dwyane Wade and Cleveland's Kyrie Irving were voted in as East starters in the backcourt. Wade has had trouble with his knees and has missed 12 games this season, leaving open the possibility that he, too, won't play in the All-Star game.
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Video installations of Harun Farocki, German filmmaker and artist of Czech descent, seen in the Kunsthaus in Bregenz, Austria. The Kunsthaus Bregenz presents the artists works under the title 'Weiche Montagen/Soft Montages'. The show runs from 23 October 2010 to 09 January 2011. EPA/REGINA KUEHNE.
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Organized by the Kunsthaus Bregenz, this exhibition, which is the most comprehensive retrospective of his work in Austria to date, spans the period from 1968 to the present and for the first time in Europe shows three video installations that, with the support of the KUB, were created especially for this occasion and form part of the series Serious Games. For these new video installations, which each last eight minutes, Farocki shot footage in military facilities in the USA and combined these sequences with material from computer simulations. Reminiscent of computer games, these programs are used by soldiers to practice for real emergency situations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and potential crisis zones. A variation of this can be found in another film in the Serious Games series, Immersion, which deals with the reenactment of soldiers traumatic wartime experiences using the same kind of simulation technology, which in this case serves therapeutic purposes.
The relation between technology and war already played a decisive role in the artists earlier work. In the series Eye/Machine, 20012003, which consists of three separate installations and is being shown along with Serious Games on the first upper floor of the KUB, Farocki draws comparisons between surveillance mechanisms in belligerent conflicts and the use of cameras in civilian situations, e.g. to register motion in public places or to monitor operation sequences in high-tech industrial facilities.
Comparison Via a Third, 2007, calls for a careful examination, a visual and cognitive scanning, of the aesthetically striking images of three geographically distinct production sites. This 2-channel 16-mm film installation as well as the split-screen video installation Counter-Music, 2004, and a comprehensive film library of 25 works are on display on the second floor. Comparison Via a Third shows a double video projection of brickyards and fired blocks being used to construct buildings in Africa, India, and Europe. Shot in the objective manner of a film documentary, this work gets by without spoken commentary, its impact deriving solely from the suggestive atmosphere of what is being presented. However, by merely showing the seemingly archaic production conditions prevalent in Indian high-rises, the film makes the viewer aware of parallels between different stages of industrialization within a society and in this way underscores the dubiousness of the traditional notion of progress.
In Counter-Music Harun Farocki resorts almost exclusively to already existing material. This includes footage from sleep laboratories as well as surveillance and monitoring cameras that keep an eye on automobile, rail, and subway traffic as well as pedestrians. He compares images of the canal system and abstract display boards for the functioning of a place with living, organically pulsing bodies, and designs a portrait of the city in the tradition of films from the 1920s like The Man with the Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov or Berlin Symphony of a Great City by Walter Ruttmann. Excerpts from both films can be seen in Farockis installation.
Harun Farockis characteristic form of double projection is what enables him to produce both a regular succession of individual images and a simultaneity in their interrelationships. Despite the sometimes hard and unpredictable cuts, the jumping back and forth of images creates the soft montages that give the exhibition in Bregenz its title.
One of Farockis best-known and most-loved works is certainly the piece that caused such a stir at the last documenta, Deep Play, which is being presented on the third upper floor of KUB. Twelve projection surfaces confront the viewer with different views of the final of the World Cup in 2006. Among the footage is not only material that was available to the normal viewer but also computer-generated abstractions of the game, vector measurements of the players bodies, and close-ups of individual players. The final, which was followed worldwide by 1.5 billion viewers in the summer of 2006 and whose infamous headbutt by Zidane preoccupied soccer fans and laymen alike, is transformed into a metaphor of the complex relationship between entertainment, monitoring, battle, and the media.
Harun Farocki was born in 1944 in Nový Jičín in, a part of Czechoslovakia annexed by Germany at the time. He lives in Berlin. From 1966 to 1968 he studied at the German Film and Television Academy, Berlin (West). 19741984 author and editor of the journal Filmkritik, Munich. 19981999 Speaking about Godard, New York / Berlin (co-written by Kaja Silverman). 19931999 visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1966 more than 100 productions for television or cinema: childrens television, documentaries, essay films, story films. Since 1996 numerous group and solo exhibitions in museums and galleries. 2007 presentation of Deep Play at the documenta 12. Since 2004 visiting professor, since 2006 full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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The "loveliest variety theatre in Europe", a "variety gem", "probably the most beautiful auditorium in Berlin" – just some of the rave reviews given to the Wintergarten in Berlin. This charming music, variety and show theatre, which reopened in 2009 under the same name as its internationally acclaimed forebear, is continuing a tradition of great entertainment with a wonderful, diverse programme. This is where locals and visitors pass beneath the legendary star-studded canopy and enter into an atmospheric world of mirrors, wood and dark red velvet.
At the Wintergarten, the stage is set for the best that variety has to offer – from Meret Becker to the Tiger Lillies, from Max Raabe to Eckart von Hirschhausen, from new talents to international stars. It's all part of a great tradition dating back to 1887, when the original Wintergarten variety theatre wowed audiences on Friedrichstrasse, in the Berlin-Mitte quarter, until its demise in 1944.The theatre was relaunched on Potsdamer Strasse in 1992, but the curtain went up for the final time in January 2009, despite the venue's great popularity. By February 2010, however, this wonderful institution's name was once more up in lights, and the new Wintergarten opened its doors with a glittering premiere of the 'Great Variety Show', a homage to the genre's illustrious past. Since then, three lavish, inhouse variety shows have been playing to audiences all year round and the theatre has re-booted the classic dining theatre concept with its own contemporary take: Show and Dine. Whether you feel like a light bite or a three-course meal, a bottle of wine, glass of champagne or a cocktail, the Wintergarten will have just the thing to add some sparkle to your evening.
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from the no,-not-that-one deptNo, not that Anonymous Coward, but That Anonymous Coward is handling this week's favorites....
Everyone on board the short bus!
I'm your tour guide, That Anonymous Coward but you can call me TAC.
So I was as surprised as you now are, when Mike asked me to write the Favorites of the Week post, but like moss I grow on you, given a chance. Everyone buckle up and lets review the short week as we ride the short bus.
If you look to your left, you can see Facebook whining because someone made their button illegal in Germany. They seem to be bothered that it is no longer the awesome tracker (read: money machine) they intended it to be. Who cares about silly laws, this is Facebook we are talking about.
Coming up on the right, just past the smoke from the fire and brimstone burning in the moat, you can just catch sight of the MPAA offices. After getting a court to decide the length of the cable matters in determining infringement, they then decided to put out some more "unique" uses of math showing losses to "piracy". They really aren't trying very hard any more to look remotely serious in their statements.
Now we turn the corner and zut alors! - France has decided Copyright is more important than Human Rights. I guess when you're sleeping with a model/singer you get a little confused. Oh and if you can't get the people to lay down to accept you screwing their rights, just sneak it in. (And let us not forget that they violate copyright when its convenient for them.)
Hold tight as we speed up to get past the villagers getting their pitchforks and torches ready to pay a visit to the capitol... and on your left we have, no wait, look away.... nothing to see here.... just making sure there are no terrorists hiding inside that nice lady's vagina.
And now we come to the Copyright Troll Cul-de-sac, over there you can see the new house being built by lawyers representing a religious group. It seems they were upset over some former members saying unkind things online. They couldn't get their names as they forced material down, so they filed for a copyright and boom the doors opened wide. Copyright is a great tool for bypassing those silly freedoms people expect.
Oh there is a moving van over at the USCG McMansion. They are considering shopping for a court that will blindly rubber stamp their lawsuit so they can "settle" with alleged copyright infringers. Little known fact: one of their clients is Uwe Boll, voted the worst director in history. Even Uwe saw the benefit in turning one of his "fantastic" films into box office gold by scaring people into paying on fairly questionable evidence.
And Swatch, this odd little shack seems just jammed into the neighborhood. We record our announcements so we can claim copyright if you report too much. This makes only slightly more sense than getting arrested for filming cops in public.
This little burned out quonset hut is the EMI "ranch". It used to be nice, and there were hopes the new owners would fix the property up. Instead they have some lawyers chasing kids out of their yard.
Holy Hell!... A huge new section has been added to the Cul-de-sac, as if overnight it just sprung up before our eyes. It's as if someone waved a magic wand and made every copyright holder's wet dream come true. Those fires burning over there?... Oh those are just the things now made illegal by the public domain being gutted.
Because it's my tour, I want to give a shout out to Steele Hansmeier LLC and their little stick house. So what if its on Ars... its my tour and I'm driving. Why yes your honor, we lied when we said the IP address would let us name the infringer... now let me search all the computers in the house because he refuses to settle. We'll huff and we'll puff and we'll blow our own damn house down.
Oopsie the cul-de-sac's private security force, those nice officers from ICE, are taking aim at us, and so we drive on....
Hey is that a wrecking ball heading towards the Cul-de-sac? I think that is being driven by Judge Bernard Zimmerman. He seems to be heading towards one of the smaller houses.
Look over there, ohh sweet a double rainbow... what does it mean? Yeah, I don't understand, and neither does he.
Who here is from America, no hands... ummm I can tell some of you are pretending to be Canadian, I can understand why. When we aren't secretly forcing other countries to do things we can't do here, and shilling for Microsoft, we are getting the money flowing back here... for content holders...making laws up as we go along... just to support those who don't pay their fair share... and want everyone else to pay to protect their content.... Well, I dunno what to say about that, eh?
Oh crap, pretending to be Canadian won't cut it any more. What else can we pretend to be?
*bump bump*
Oops sorry folks, just a speed bump as we run over Ubisoft screwing their customers yet again and finding new ways to fail.
And that gleaming spire there on the horizon... that's the number of "Patriot Act Warrant Requests", I guess drugs are terrorists too.... It is ok give us unlimited powers with no oversight or responsibility... we won't misuse it... Trust Us.
Intellectual Property is our greatest asset, it is a great slogan on that billboard over there. The shame is, they seem to only want to apply that to some people's IP. When the people who actually make the new jobs, instead of cling to a crap business model, are against it, isn't it worthy of some debate? If you really wanted to fix the whole problem with Imagin... I mean Intellectual Property, shouldn't you keep people from having to find new way to do the same thing each time?
And here we are... safe and sound at home again. I hope you enjoyed the tour as much as I did giving it. Thank you Mike for the use of the bus, and letting me take your readers hosta... I mean for a ride. It shouldn't take much to get the steering column repaired from me hot-wiring it.
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Season opener of Showtime's "Polyamory: Married & Dating":
What happened.
The first new episode of Showtime's Polyamory reality series, which aired last night, had a lot of catching up to do from last season, and new groundwork to lay.
We meet a new family, seen in the video clip above. Chris is a beefy, chiseled mixed-martial-arts fight champion with, apparently, a kind and thoughtful heart. He now owns and runs the gym Legends, where he coaches up-and-coming MMA fighters. His wife Leigh Ann owns and runs a pole-dancing school, "making a better world one sexy woman at a time," she jokes. Their younger mutual girlfriend Megan owns and runs a business of her own, a fashion line. Three busy entrepreneurs, who for three years have lived and loved together — in Hollywood, in a gorgeous California home with a pool. Yeah, this is Showtime. They tell of their happy life and intertwined relationship, and explain how they discuss and negotiate through unexplored territory. "When you find out that this is what love is for you," says Chris, "you're kind of flying by the seat of your pants."
And we see that they're gorgeous with their clothes off. They narrate, over an extended threesome sex scene, how they enable the group lovemaking among them to work right for everyone. They are blissful and delighted with one another and know each other very well... it appears.
So then, where's the story? We know turmoil and drama must be coming. Indeed, we are set up with what to look for: Leigh Ann cooks while the other two walk the dog, and she frets how she seems to be getting left alone a lot these days. Megan frets about how much Leigh Ann has to travel for her business and leave her alone. Are they really all going to be the good relationship managers they appear to be?
Down the freeway in San Diego, the poly pod of Kamala, Michael, Jen, and Tahl have been living together for a year since we witnessed their move-in and tribulations last season. They seem stronger and happier together now, and if complex networked intimacy is their thing, they've got heaps of it. Tahl has happily come out as bisexual and seems to be loving it as he dates around. Jen, the most tentative, most giving-in of the four last year, seems to have gained new confidence and strength. She has a new boyfriend, Jesse, a kid really, who's 10 years her junior. And he's mono. Oops.
In real life, the pod and (I gather) their extended San Diego network follow a practice that each person be fluid-bonded — not using a condom or other fluid barrier — with no more than one other person, usually a spouse. The pod has regular Monday family meetings that they look forward to, and we see them sitting together holding hands and going over various matters. Jen says she has decided to fluid-bond with Jesse, and husband Tahl will be the one to use a condom with her. The others ask Tahl, with concern, how he feels about this change. He says he's actually sort of delighted and finds the idea of Jesse ejaculating unprotected to be pretty exciting. But he is having a different problem: the amount of time that Jen is spending away from him with Jesse these days. And also, the rules that mono-oriented Jesse puts on her, like no kissing any other man but Tahl on the lips; these seem potentially creepy. And there's Jesse's unwillingness to come to parties and be part of the extended community. Tahl says that he and Jen need to schedule a further talk about his own needs here.
Jen is not happy about this turn of events. And at their talk, which goes rather stressfully in a restaurant, Tahl asks that all three of them meet over lunch so that he and Jesse can get to know each other and work out their understandings and needs. Oh, and by the way, he wants more alone time scheduled for himself to date a new guy.
We see Jen and Jesse making love, real love — this is not a porn scene — and at greater length than the lovemaking scenes we saw last season. Young Jesse is truly head over heels for her. He is overjoyed not to be using a condom now; this new bonding means the world to him. To him, condoms and safer sex feel like relationship diminishment. Uh oh.
He is scared about getting more involved with the poly tribe, Tahl in particular. He is sweet and open and... has mono attitudes written all over his very body language. It surprised me how sensitive to seeing this I've become.
It's too bad that Showtime turned down the director's request for hour-long shows this season. Considering the depth, complexity, and unusualness of what we're seeing, the pacing is very fast and it ends awfully soon.
See the long, bedazzled review of Season 2 at Gawker.com.
Here's Mindchaotica's review and recap of this first episode.
Next week's episode is titled "Triggers." Description: "Chris tries to mend his relationship. Jen is caught between Tahl and Jesse." A pic:
Incidentally, amid the deepening drama, in Episode 2 we'll see what came of my signing a release letting Showtime display this website on the air. Apparently one of the families had Polyamory in the News open while cameras were rolling. Maybe I'll be famous.
Here's the upcoming schedule. Note that each episode of the seven-week season will air several times on subsequent nights each week (on the left at the link, click On TV > All Airings).
Episodes can also be watched on demand after the first time they air (click On Demand), and on a computer or device if you're a Showtime subscriber via Showtime Anytime.
For official news and publicity see Showtime's site for the series.
Here are all trailers and video clips for Season 2 so far.
Here are all the video clips for Season 1. If you didn't see it, they give a good idea of what it was about.
To keep up with doings of the San Diego family, see their Facebook Fanpage.
Here's my own stuff about Season 1, with plots, spoilers, commentary, and notices in other media.
And here's my stuff about Season 2.
Labels: Kamala Devi, polyamory, Polyamory: Married & Dating, Showtime Season 2


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For more than 25 years, Todd Mack has made a career as a musician, songwriter, and producer based upon his unwavering belief in the power of music to change the world.
"Wonderfully original and ever so eclectic" — Maverick
"Todd Mack performs folk music with the edge of sandpaper. Powerful strumming and rough-hewn vocals make him a must hear." — The Ithaca Journal
"From the cow punk of early Uncle Tupelo and Old 97s to the country-folk of Whiskeytown and Richard Buckner… New-England based singer-songwriter Todd Mack mixes the best of all these styles and more—think Canadian troubadour Fred Eaglesmith meets Tom Waits with a side order of Steve Earle." — IndieMusic.com
"A practitioner of long, picturesque songs with a strong acoustic guitar strumming pointedly in the wings. His lyrics are, for lack of a better term, Dylanesque, while his scruffy vocals bring to mind Gordon Lightfoot." — Creative Loafing, Atlanta
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Last month we started the monthly OWASP security blitz. We have a new month and a new topic. The blitz topic for May is Cross Site Scripting. There is also an OWASP wiki page were we're tracking the submitted stories, links, and more. The wiki page also has the topics for the next few months.
As a final note, I love one of the submissions from April on SQL injection - informative and funny!
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Cream Biscuits with Dill
2 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons minced fresh dill
1 1/4 cups heavy cream, plus additional for brushing biscuits
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Into a bowl, sift together the flour, the baking powder, and the salt. Add the dill and 1 1/4 cups of the cream. Stir the mixture until it forms dough. Gather into a ball. On a lightly floured surface knead the dough gently about 6 times and pat it out 1/2 inch thick. Cut out as many biscuits with a cutter dipped in flour and invert the rounds onto a lightly greased baking sheet. Repeat as necessary. Brush with cream and arrange on cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray. Bake until slightly brown, about 10 minutes.
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- AnonymousMay 20, 2008 12:16 PM
Thanx for the recipes!! I want to know if these bisquets are soft? Cause they do not have egg!ReplyDelete
Yes, they are soft. They are cream biscuits and cream biscuits do not contain eggs.ReplyDelete
Oh, looks yummy!ReplyDelete
Thanks for recipe - seems fairly simple so I shall definitely try it.
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