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Anuson "Knott" Poolsawat, owner of Knott's Take Out in North Pole, forded the swollen waters of Clear Creek to reach two customers stuck along the Richardson Highway, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (http://bit.ly/1yFoujf) Mike Laiti and Brandon Borgens were completing a multi-day drive Saturday night up the Alaska Highway when they called in their order to the restaurant, which was near closing.
As they approached Clear Creek, they learned a sinkhole had developed from heavy rain near the creek. The state Department of Transportation closed the bridge.
Laiti called Poolsawat to cancel their order at the restaurant more than 25 miles away in North Pole.
"I called him and said, 'Hey man, I can't make it,' and he said, 'Not a problem, I'll come cross the waters,'" Laiti said. "He called me and said, 'Should I bring a boat?'"
Poolsawat arrived with takeout boxes containing Thai barbecue ribs and Thai fried rice. Another box held a "dinosaur egg" — a hardboiled egg that's fried and covered in a sweet sesame sauce.
Poolsawat hiked up his shorts and waded through the creek, holding the takeout boxes over his head. The cold water was hip-deep.
Poolsawat had already done them a favor by staying open late, Laiti said. The delivery was beyond expectations.
"He'd help anybody out. He's just a really good positive attitude, just a good guy," said Laiti. "He's definitely a goofball character and the food he makes is great."

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I started reading the series in third grade, and the day the thirteenth book came out I stayed up til 4 AM reading it. Now I wish I had savored it since it was the last one, but I could not put it down. I have never been a Harry Potter person *shields self* but have been insanely obsessed with Lemony Snicket for a long time.The series is about three orphans-Sunny, Claus, and Violet Baudelaire. From The Bad Beginning to The End, Count Olaf, a distant relative, has tried to kidnap them to inherit their family fortune. Each book begins with a dedication to a Beatrice, and ends with a letter, a clue to the next book. In the last book you find out who Beatrice is (though if you're a nerd like me you bought The Beatrice Letters prior to the last book's release and found out early) and I must say the last is my favorite. Reading the books out of order spoils everything though.The author, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket is a fake name he gave out to a solicitor and decided to use it for his books) writes in a way that is mysterious yet sincere. The books are embellished with clever references to different languages, authors, movies, etc-among these being Ramona, and that is toooooootally okay with me.The most endearing thing about the Series of Unfortunate Events is how cleverly the books all weave into each other. The first book references the last, and the early characters that at first seem like their only role in the book is humor pop up for important reasons towards the last book.Violet is the oldest of the Baudelaire children. Though somewhat shy, she is very thoughtful, responsible, and brave. I chose to dress as Violet from the book-I didn't care for the movie, and her clothing in that would be too hard to recreate (Oscar nominee, holmes). Wise beyond her years, Violet always manages to get the three out of trouble. She has a ribbon with her at all times, and it has helped her escape the clutches of Count Olaf in many stances. EDIT: Whoops! It's not pink, my bad. I was looking at this picture.
Methinks this shall be my last post before my winter hiatus. I might post now and then out of boredom, but will continue to take outfit pictures to put in one big new year's post.
Hope everyone has a happy happy holiday. Eat lots of cookies!
Comme des Garcons x H&M jacket. childhood closet lace, tights, & ribbon. hand-me-down skirt. slow and steady wins the race shoes.


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2 tbsp olive oil
pinch of cayenne
*wrap very tightly in foil, bake at 350 for 35 minutes, let rest 10 more, and then fluff!
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Wow... time for Smell TV... you didn't mention the amount of olive oil in your ingredients... just a splash? Tks for sharing such a great side dish I will have to definitely try this and stop buying the Rice Pilaf packages that are very salty.
Thank you so much for the new video, Chef John! Do you think you could have a video for banoffee pie next? Would be nice to watch and learn! :)
This looks terrific Chef John! But please tell me, is there any benefit/disadvantages to toasting the rice in the hot melted butter before adding the stock? I ask because that's what I do when making plain rice (learned that from mom!).
it helps keep all the grains separate (and tastes good) ;)
My Rice Rocks? No, not quite! But yours does! Rock On John! Thanks for all the great recipes with videos! More!!!!!
Will this work for short grain rice as well?
I usually treat rice like pasta and boil it in salted water, adding the sauce from the protein I've cooked up.
You could probably adjust and it would work, but best with long grain.
Would this recipe be ok with basmati rice?
I can not afford Saffron. Can Turmeric be used instead? If so, how much would you suggest?
Just leave it out! I hate turmeric, so I'm not sure.
Chef, for nutritional reasons, I now use brown rice. Will this technique work with brown or, should I just test it and report back?
Belated birthday greetings.
Never tried with brown rice since it has to cook so much longer. Thanks!!
I rock the kitchen AND avoid rice at all costs!! thanks for the recipe.
Chef John,
I've made your 'Perfect White Rice' many times and it has indeed come out perfect every time. I do plan on trying this recipe out, as do most of what you have posted (your chicken & rice did save my life!).
I'm not sure how you feel about recipes from other sites, but this baked mushroom risotto is fantastic
If you need to delete this post, no worries. I will still feel that your videos are talking just to me when I watch them.
Nice fluffy rice!
By the way, maybe try The Billy Goat Tavern while your in and about Chicago.
I've heard from relatives (Evanston) that it's a fun place. I don't know tho.
Cheers and happy belated birthday!
I reside on the almost exact opposite side of the zodiac.
Chef John,
I love your blog!!
What measurement is 1/2 a yellow onion finely diced? At my grocery store the onions are HUGE and it looks like 1/2 of one of those onions would be a lot more than your video shows. Would you say 1/4 cup of finely chopped onion? 1/2 cup?
Thank you for much for your advise.
What's tiny, white, and crawls up your leg?
Uncle Ben's Perverted Rice.
Seriously, this looks great and I make halfway decent rice without too much effort -- start with about twice as much water as rice, a little butter, and a pinch or two of salt, cover, bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium until the water is gone, then reduce to either a simmer or just turn the heat off and let it coast. Easy.
What I'd like to learn to make is Persian rice. There used to be a little hole in the wall restaurant in La Jolla that made the most incredible aromatic rice. I kept asking the owner for his secret and all he'd ever tell me was practice, practice, practice.
Sadly, the restaurant has gone out of business and I never learned his secret.
This looks yum. That said, I watched your white rice recipe... man that is more complicated than it has to be. I pretty much only use basmati outside of risotto. The way I do it is simple, measure out half a cup per person, boil waiter (same 2 to 3 ratio) in a kettle or something. In the pot, heat a little olive oil and butter, once it is melted, throw in the rice and stir around a bit, then comes the water. I dont really measure any more at all. My pot has a glass lid which is useful later. Leave it covered and boil on high. Once it is going, turn down to a third of your heat and stir. Cover on this low temp and watch the water evaporate. Stir every now and then. Once the water is gone, you are done. If the rice is still crunchy, your temp was not low enough. You can add more water, but this will result in super sticky rice, good if you intend to eat with chopsticks, but otherwise, it is not nearly as nice. Oh, and one last thing, this is sort of important, rinse your rice. Basmati wants a rinsing and if you can, a soaking. I have never had any issues with this method... except if you do not pay attention the rice can and will burn to the bottom of the pot.
Turmeric would work here. 1/4 teaspoon should roughly be the equivalent amount. Perhaps a bit less.
I do a lot of rice with 2 cups of long-grain rice (jasmine, usually), 3 cups of chicken broth and 1/4 teaspoon of turmeric right in the rice cooker.
Chef...PLEASE answer this.
What measuring cups did you use: liquid or dry? I have always been afraid to ask this stupid question and I would love to hear your answer.
Thank you:)
I laughed at the subtle reference to Jim Crow. Very clever.
I used to live in Iran where I learned to make the Persian rice that Steve mentioned. It's idiot proof and I'll post the technique if you wish.
Bob, not sure ill film, but I'd love to see that technique. Thanks!
Not sure what you mean.
There's no such thing as liquid or dry measuimg cups. A cup is a measure of volume. A cup of any substance is a cup. Of course a cup of flour and a cup of lead don't weigh the same, but they are still both a cup.
Bob, thanks for noticing!
I learned to cook basic Persian rice (Chelo) when I lived in Iran and it's the only way I've cooked rice (except for risotto) for the past 40 years. It is quick, easy, and fool proof. Precision timing or measuring is not required.
Boil a couple of quarts of water in a big pot. Use WAY more water than normal, much like cooking pasta. Add roughly two cups of dry rice; I prefer Basmati but any long grain rice will work. Cook uncovered and start testing a grain or two after around 20 minutes or so. The rice should just be tender; i.e. slightly al dente and not mushy. The water will NOT be all absorbed; not even close.
Drain in a colander and wash with hot tap water until the water runs clear, or nearly clear if you want the rice retain a tiny bit of stickiness.
Dry the pot. Carefully spoon (don't dump) the rice into the pot to form a pointed, fluffy mound. Drizzle oil of your choice ( I use sunflower oil) in a thin stream starting at the top of the mound and spiral down the the mound in a circular motion. Use roughly a quarter of a cup of oil for two cups dry rice.
Cover the pot with a tea towel which has NOT been scented with a fabric softener. Put the lid on over the towel and fold the edges of the towel up over the the lid. The towel will absorb the steam and prevent the rice from getting mushy. Cook over very low heat for 10 minutes. Serve immediately for "normal", fool-proof, fluffy rice. However, you can hold this rice for an hour or more on low heat if you wish.
Over time the bottom will harden and eventually turn into a crusty golden brown layer called tahdig. This layer is considered a treat. Break the bottom crust into pieces and serve it on top of the rice if you want the rice dish to be more "Persian" or throw it away if you simply want fluffy rice when guests arrive late.
The quantity is limited only by the size of your pot. Just be sure to use plenty of water.
Thanks Bob! And everyone else chiming in with rice knowledge!
Hi Chef,
My lady-friend just poo-pooed any idea of cooking rice in the oven... as in "I ain't gonna heat up the whole house just for rice".
Should I perhaps consider getting a new girlfriend?
Thanks and greetings from Florida.
Chef John, can I use arborio rice in this recipe? I saw it on Top Chef and I really want to impress my friends.
Never tried, but don't think so. This recipe is for long grain.
Thanks for the Persian "fool proof" rice!
Of course, you don't know what a fool I can be. . .
This is one dish I never make successfully. Going to use your tips for sure! Thanks, Chef.
A neighbour just dropped by tonight with a brand new jar of saffron for me. Not really sure why, but I won't argue! (I mean, seriously. Who just drops over to give a neighbour a spare ounce of gold?) Looks like my rice is about to get fabulous. Thanks for the videos!
Chef John, I just did this and it absolutely ROCKED! Thank you!
Thank you so much for this recipe! I tried it earlier this week, and it turned out perfect!
We had it (shaped nicely thanks to your mold suggestion) next to your chicken piccata. Two winners that are going to be in the rotation from now on.
Alton Brown does a baked brown rice recipe. He baked it for an hour...although I'm not kitchen-savvy enough to say that this timing would work here. I did try his recipe and it was just ok. This loks much better! But my boyfriend prefers brown rice...although I've never gotten it right once. Help, Chef John!
(But you've made me fabulous enough with other dishes that I can just make my brown rice disasters fade into a distant memory by alluring his appetite with countles other culinary-genius approaches...)
This is the first recipe of yours that I have tried and it resulted in the best rice I have ever made -- significantly better than anything that came out of my rice cooker as well!
Trying this out with brown rice and veggie stock (since I'm vegetarian) and also added some garlic in with the onion. Cooking it at 375 for 1 hour. Hopefully it works!
Halved the recipe and turned out perfect!! Thank you so much...
Hi Chef
It seems you missed the "pinch of cayenne" in your written recipe. It really does add to the flavor. Great recipe!!
Absolutely fail proof! It turned out very nice. I've never been sucessful cooking long grain rice. Thanks and keep doing what you do.
Hi Chef John!
I love your blog! Every time I make something using your recipes my family loves it =)
Question about this recipe... what if I don't have cayenne? Will it taste the same without it, or can I replace it with something else?
It's just hot pepper, so use it or not, doesn't matter. Of course it tastes difference with (otherwise I wouldn't bother), but perfectly fine without!
I used to always cook 2 cups of rice, Why? because the liquid ratio is easy with 2 cups of rice. Then I decided to experiment. For my household, I use 1:1 rice to liquid ratio for "cooked" firm rice (great for fried rice) or 1:1.25 for softer rice. Always coat (sautee) the rice with ghee before adding liquid. I use foil WITH the pan lid making sure that no steam escapes.
Great recipe but isn't the proper ratio is 1 rice to 2 cups water?
So in this recipe Chef John used 2 cups rice which means 4 cups water/stock.
No!! That's too much water for this method!
With all due respect Chef John allow me to explain.
On sat on PBS if you know is the weekly show Simply Ming and the show was about rice pilaf baked in the oven as well and on the show he used 4 cups water. And I just used the same method before I saw your response and it came out fine.
But rather than put in the oven, after I sauteed everything with Ming's recipe which include shallots, garlic, ginger, bay leaf and tbls of gram Marsala I put it in my Yojirushi rice cooker because I wanted to take the easy route and it came out fine.
You asked about THIS recipe! This recipe is 1 1/2 to 1 ratio. Of course there are hundreds of rice recipes with all kinds of proportions. Not sure why you were even asking if you weren't using this one. But glad you liked it.
Hello Chef John!
I followed the recipe to the miligram, but the rice came out undercooked :( so I added 1 more cup of stock, back in the oven for 10 min, then 10 min rest and it was
Chef John you are hysterical ....the "word on the street is that you stink at making rice" comment..I was laughing so hard, that I missed some of your rice demo, had to replay, and it happened again....you really make me laugh with all you're side commentary...oh my GOSH...sooo funny.
I followed your recipe but used brown rice instead and precooked it for about 20 mins on the stove with a little chicken bouillon since brown rice takes longer to cook. I then added that to my sautéed golden onions cooked in coconut oil instead of butter or olive oil (a healthier version). The coconut flavor cooks out so what you're left with is a fleeting aroma of it.
Afterwards I added the other spices and fluffed it with a large serving fork. The key is to *fluff* really gently.
It turned out really well. My sixteen year old daughter called it **Spectacular**. That was quite a compliment since she has great culinary skills as well.
My family thanks you! :)
I just want to ask if there is a alternative for butter, which makes it more healthy to eat maybe? Im impressed by youre videos on youtube. Thumbs up!
You can use olive oil, but a little bit of butter is not unhealthy at all.
Thanks for the comment Chef John. Oke then, i will try to combine olive oil with a little bit of butter. I hope it works out!
You advise 1/2 yellow onion. What is the size of a yellow onion? Depending on the vendor and the season, yellow onions can greatly vary in size, at least. in my local grocery stores. I prefer precise measurements (i.e. cups and/or spoons) at least for my first initial attempt to emulate your recipes. I'll make my own adjustments later. This onion issue seems to pervade a large number of recipes I have seen in print or in video. Any solution aside from replying with a snide or wise-ass comment?
You may be over-thinking this. For this recipe at least, literally half of any yellow onion you'd find in the grocery store would work perfectly.
What about low fat version of this recipe, if all possible, because it's like you said, it's not fat free and high in salt/cholesterol. I stick to basic white rice cooked like over in Japan, all I eat when it comes to rice.
CHEF John, PLEASE HELP! I made this rice pilaf and it was delicious but I had to cook over an hour. I followed recipe and even went back to double check. I even used super thick tin foil made for grilling. Did not peek. When I opened there were puddles of chicken broth and the rice was hard. What could I be doing wrong? DO YOU USE SOME SPECIAL TYPE OF RICE? It was so good I want to make it again. All the rest of my dinner was ready based on projected time so not sure how to plan for next time if I don't know when it will be done. LOVE your recipes!!! Thank you for your helpful videos too.
Any suggestions on a good brand of rice? I had used Riceland© Rice.
Hey here's a fun tip: instead of saffron try using a small packet of Goya Sauzon. It's Latino comfort and cheap, too.
Made this twice now, full proof and excellent, Thanks Chef John
I just made this along with your salmon cakes recipe and topped it all off with sauteed mushrooms in a creme fraiche sauce(your recipe too!) And it was delicious!
Every grain was separated and evenly cooked and my mouth is watering now just typing about it!
One deviation I made was that once the oil/butter/onion mixture was done cooking g, I stirred the rice in the same skillet, then I scooped it all out into the baking dish. Still turned out great!


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If you're new to baking sandwich bread, you may want to try my popular Farmhouse White, an easy basic white sandwich bread recipe that's perfect for beginning bread bakers and can be adapted (and made healthier) in all sorts of ways. Another post you might find helpful is How To Shape Bread Dough into Sandwich Loaves and Some Simple Bread Baking Tips. Happy baking!
Freshly Baked Oatmeal Toasting Bread (this batch made with milk instead of water and baked in these awesome commercial pans)
Last night I decided that today was going to be the day I finally posted my Oatmeal Toasting Bread recipe. Hours later I found myself lying in bed in the dark, wondering if I'd ever gotten around to writing down the weights of the ingredients, and if not, if it would be ridiculous to weigh them all out but not actually bake bread because between writing up the post and dealing with the two coolers full of venison on the back porch that I've been ignoring—but that I have now decided I am actually 'aging,' which will make the meat taste even better—there certainly wouldn't be time.
Then this morning I awoke to discover I'd been publicly humiliated—as well as reminded of just how many times I've promised to share this recipe. Okay, I can take a bold-faced hint.
So here it is. I really don't know what the hold up has been, except for the fact that my life seems to be perpetually stuck in an irritating and mildly anxiety-producing catch up mode. In addition, my surroundings are perpetually stuck in a cluttered feng shui nightmare mode, which makes finding things a real pain sometimes, but that's a whole other subject. No wonder I drink all that Tension Tamer tea.
Anyway, if you've been looking for a new and interesting bread to try baking, this could be it. It's different, tasty, isn't difficult to make, freezes beautifully, and is slightly better for you than my popular Farmhouse White. It also makes quite possibly the best toast I've ever eaten.
This is one of my favorite breads. You can also use the dough to make scrumptious burger buns and dinner rolls (see photo below), which would be a wonderful addition to any Thanksgiving table. If you feel like really going all out, you could fill your bread basket with a mixture of Oatmeal Toasting Bread rolls and some of my festive carrot herb rolls (I love these). Just be sure to make enough for little leftover turkey sandwiches.
I've been baking variations of this bread for over ten years, experimenting until I came up with what I consider the perfect loaf. The recipe I originally started with came from a 1995 issue of Gourmet, but since I've ended up changing pretty much everything about it except for the basic ingredients, I claim this version as all mine.
Of course I've found that as soon as any bread recipe (or formula, as commercial bakers call them) is invited into a baker's kitchen, it immediately becomes their own, even if they're attempting to follow it to the letter. Because whether it's by chance or by choice, your bread will most likely end up looking and tasting different than mine. And while this may not be all that desirable when one is creating a cake, I believe it's one of the endearing qualities of handmade bread. No two loaves are ever completely alike.
That said, I invite you to take my recipe into your kitchen and share your results with the rest of us. For instance, when I first sent this recipe to my bread baking partner in crime, Beth (aka kitchenMage), she substituted wheat bran for the oat bran and created an entirely new loaf. She now makes a decadent Cinnamon Spice Pecan Swirl version—and tells me the dough makes awesome cinnamon rolls.
So bake this oatmeal bread and then leave us a comment describing your version. Did you halve the amount of yeast and double the rising time? Knead the dough with a standing mixer? Make it with milk instead of water? Use honey and natural margarine in place of the sugar and butter? Toss in some whole grain flour and a little cracked wheat? Add a few handfuls of raisins and a cup of homemade applesauce? Make your bread in the shape of a braid? If you write about it on your blog, you're welcome to include a link to the post in your comment.
One bread recipe is now in many hands. I'm so glad I finally got around to sharing it, and I can't wait to see what you come up with.
Farmgirl Susan's Oatmeal Toasting Bread Recipe
**Click here to print this recipe**
Makes three 8"x 4" loaves, approximately 24 ounces each, plus 10 ounces of dough to save as 'old dough' for your next batch.
This is the 'old dough' version - instructions are included below for how to make this bread without old dough
As always, I recommend using local and organic ingredients; they really do make a difference. Organic flours and grains are readily available and reasonably priced; look for them in the bulk section at natural food stores. Even organic sugar is becoming mainstream.
I buy one pound packages of instant yeast and keep it in a jar in the freezer, where it lasts for at least a year. I've never had good luck with those little envelopes of yeast, and even if you end up tossing half a pound of the bag out, the larger package is still a bargain.
An instant read thermometer is an inexpensive and indispensible tool; use it to check the temperature of your ingredients, your rising dough, even the air temperature by setting it in a glass of room temperature water.
A digital kitchen scale is another very worthwhile investment. I love my Oxo Good Grips 11-pound scale and often use it several times a day to weigh everything from recipe ingredients to freshly harvested kitchen garden bounty. It's also great for weighing postage. The pull-out display is awesome.
I can't say enough good things about these Chicago Metallic commercial loaf pans, pictured in the top photo above). I mostly use the one pound (approx. 8-inch) size in order to get taller loaves, but I also use the 1½ pound (approx. 10-inch) size, too. They're great for baking both yeast breads and quick breads.
4 cups (32 fluid oz) very hot water or organic (or raw) milk (Update: I always use milk now)
2½ cups (11 oz/311 g) organic old-fashioned oats
1/2 cup (2 oz/62g) organic oat bran
1/2 cup (3½ oz/96 g) packed golden brown sugar
1/4 cup (1/2 stick/2 oz) organic butter
1 Tablespoon (3/8 oz/11 g) instant yeast (slightly more if using active dry yeast)
6 to 7 cups organic bread flour (6 cups = 1 lb, 15 oz/871 g)
1 Tablespoon (5/8 oz/20 g) salt
10 ounces 'old' dough** (white/oatmeal/whatever will work; if frozen, defrost first at room temperature or overnight in refrigerator)
**If you don't have any old dough, simply follow these instructions, but ignore the part where it says to add the old dough, and do not take out 10 ounces of dough when shaping the loaves.
Straight Dough Method (when you have no old dough) that will make old dough for your next batch:
If you don't have any old dough, use the recipe above but use 4½ cups of water or milk instead of 4 and adjust the flour accordingly - you'll probably need less than 1 cup extra flour. Also, ignore the part where it says to add the old dough (because you don't have any yet).
Combine the oats, oat bran, brown sugar, and butter in a very large bowl. Add the hot water and stir until combined. Let the mixture sit until about 80°F, about 30 minutes.
Combine the yeast with 2 cups of the bread flour and stir into the oat mixture. Continue stirring in the flour one cup at a time until a soft dough forms. Transfer the dough to a well floured surface and knead for about 8 minutes.
Cover the dough with the bowl and let it rest for 20 minutes.
Knead in the salt & old dough for 5 minutes, or until they're completely mixed in. Sprinkle the flour in the dough bowl, place the dough in it, liberally dust it with flour, and cover it with a damp tea towel.
Update: While I still love using my wooden dough bowls, most of the time I now let my dough ferment (the first rise) in a straight-sided food grade plastic container with a snap-on lid, which makes it easy to see when the dough has doubled in size. There's no need to grease or flour the container.
Kneaded dough ready to rise
Ferment (first rise): Approximately 1½ hours if dough is at an optimal 70° to 75°F. When the dough is ready, you should be able to push your finger deep into it and leave an indentation that does not spring back.
Old dough ready for the freezer
Divide and shape into three loaves, after taking out about 10 ounces to make 'old dough' for your next batch of bread, if desired. (If not, your loaves will just be slightly larger.) 'Old dough' can be wrapped in plastic, put in a zipper bag, and frozen until you are ready to use it.
There are dozens of ways to shape your dough into loaves. I form mine into "logs," and the method I use comes straight from the pages of the wonderful book, Amy's Bread. Here it is, word for word, because if you're like me and have trouble thinking three-dimensionally, this isn't the kind of thing you want to try paraphrasing. (Thanks, Amy!)
"When shaping your loaves, the most important thing to remember is to be gentle with the dough. Your goal is to form an even loaf with a taut skin, while leaving some larger air holes inside.
Very lightly flour the work surface. Start by forming an envelope: Place the dough on the table. Press and flatten it gently with your fingertips to form a rectangle with a short side facing you, leaving a lot of air bubbles in the dough. Fold the top edge down over the middle of the rectangle, then fold the bottom edge up.
Give the dough a quarter turn and repeat the process, folding the top edge down and the bottom edge up again and overlapping the edges slightly in the middle so the dough looks like an envelope. Pat the seam to seal it. Now you have a smaller, tighter rectangle.
Form a cylinder: Starting from the top edge of the rectangle, fold the top third of the dough over itself with one hand. With the heel of your other hand, gently press the seam to seal it. Fold the dough one third of the way down again and work from one end to the other to seal the seam. Try to keep the skin of the dough smooth and tight but not so tight that the skin tears.
Repeat this process one or two more times, until the loaf is a nice round log. Seal the final seam completely with the heel of your hand. Ideally your seam should be straight and tight with no openings or flaps of dough hanging out; with patience, this will become natural. If any dough is protruding from the ends of the log, poke it back in with your finger.
The plain log shape can be placed in a loaf or left on a cloth for a free-form second rise. From the log shape, you can make other cylindrical shapes."
Or, if you want a heavy, even covering of oats on your loaves, you can brush them with water and then roll them gently in a plate of oats as shown in the above photos. Then place seam side down in greased loaf tins and cover with a damp tea towel.
Proof (second rise): Approximately 1 hour if dough is 70 to 75°F. The loaves are ready for baking when you make a slight indentation with your finger in the dough and it does not spring back. Note: this dough will not rise a whole lot while baking, so you want your loaves to be nearly finished size before you put them in the oven.
Bake at 375° for 35 minutes or until golden brown and bottoms sound hollow if tapped. Remove from pans and let cool on a wire rack. Try to wait at least 40 minutes before cutting into a loaf. Store at room temperature or freeze.
You can also use this bread dough to make scrumptious little rolls.
Note: This dough also makes fantastic dinner rolls and burger buns. Just shape into whatever size you like and reduce baking time accordingly. Rolls and buns can be formed into individual balls and spaced far enough apart on a baking sheet so they aren't touching, or you can place them close together in any size pan and make 'pull-apart rolls.'
A pie or cake pan will give you a nice circle of rolls that look lovely on the table—or presented as a host/hostess gift.
I highly recommend investing in a couple of heavy duty commercial rimmed baking sheets. At less than $14 each, they're one of the best kitchen deals around. Treat them well—I usually line mine with sheets of unbleached parchment paper, which is wonderful stuff—and they'll last for ages. I've been using the heck out of some of mine for 20 years for everything from baking cookies to roasting Brussels sprouts.
Got more flour left? Check out these other Farmgirl Fare bread recipes:
Beyond Easy Beer Bread (my most popular recipe)
Whole Wheat Beer Bread
Onion Rye Beer Bread
How To Make Your Own Pita Bread in About an Hour
Savory Feta Cheese & Scallion Scones
Cranberry Christmas Scones (tasty any time of year!)
Meyer Lemon (or Regular Lemon) Scones
White Whole Wheat Scones with Currants & Oats
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Fresh Tomato & Basil Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread
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Belleek is nestled in an area of breathtaking beauty known as the County Fermanagh. The tiny town is most famous, however, for the beauty of its porcelain which has been heralded as the finest, thinnest ever made. Today, collectors around the world, seek out pieces from this legendary pottery, though early wares have become increasingly difficult to find.
This legendary region had been blessed with both great natural resources and a small population whose skills as scholars and craftsmen had far outweighed their abilities as swordsmen for hundreds of years. Surprisingly, it was a devastating event, however, that led to the creation of something so beautiful, it rivaled even its spectacular surroundings.
In 1845, Ireland found itself in the grips of the Great Famine. By 1848, more than a million people had died, and many more fled for their lives. Belleek, like the rest of the country, was on the brink of ruin, its population decimated by starvation. Their salvation came in a most unlikely manner.
The town of Belleek was founded in 1610 by English nobles who later sold their estate to the Caldwell family. In 1849 John Caldwell Bloomfield inherited that estate, and upon arriving in Belleek was horrified at the suffering and devastation caused by the famine.
As fate would have it, Bloomfield was an amateur mineralogist with a particular interest in ceramics. Desperate to find a way to bring Belleek and its people back to prosperity, Bloomfield surveyed his land and found that it was rich in feldspar, kaolin, flint and waterpower...critical ingredients in the production of fine porcelain. Bloomfield vowed then to build a pottery that would employ his tenants and put Ireland on the map as a center of fine porcelain production.
Bloomfield faced two critical challenges, money and talent. His claim that his clay was the finest in the world was proven in 1853 at the Dublin International Exhibition, when the Worcester Porcelain Co. won highest honors for a dinner service made using Belleek clay. Fittingly enough, Bloomfield found his future partner Robert Armstrong at the Worcester factory who in turn introduced him to a financial banker, Dublitier, David McBirney. With money secured, and talent forthcoming, the pottery at Belleek was underway and by 1871, their earthenware and porcelain wares had already garnered medals and accolades at the Dublin Exhibition.
Queen Victoria was so taken by the ethereal beauty of this unique, and luminous porcelain, she commissioned many pieces for her private collection. The Prince of Wales and the English nobility predictably followed suit and the Belleek pottery soon found themselves fashionable the world over.
True to their vision, the founders poured money into the development of their unique brand of wares. Bloomfield had been correct in his assessment of the clay at Belleek. It was so pure and pliable, artisans were able to create the look of spun sugar, designs that seemed too fragile to touch. But, this impossibly thin porcelain with its trademark pearly iridescence was deceptively strong and proved ideal for creating pieces of incredible complexity and beauty.
The Pottery's efforts had paid off. Irish porcelain was famous and their books were filled with orders from around the world. The people of this tiny town were on their way to true prosperity.
The first of many tragedies struck in 1882 when McBirney died leaving his interests to a son who wanted no part of the business. Despite Armstrong's noble efforts to keep control of the factory, his untimely death in 1884 spelled the end for the original Belleek factory.
Today, the Belleek factory remains in operation, having changed hands several times over the years. Collectors around the world continue to be enamored by this lovely porcelain, though the works that heralded from the pottery's earliest days remain the most spectacular. Those early pieces bearing a "Black Mark" (of which there are three distinct periods) are most sought after by serious collectors, with fine examples becoming increasingly more scarce. Many later pieces can also be extremely rare and those exhibiting high-quality workmanship are also highly collectible.
Finally, a word about the incredible, world-famous baskets produced by the Belleek factory. Introduced in 1865 by William Henshall, whose name has been lent to these wonderful creations, the Belleek baskets became a symbol of the Pottery's commitment to excellence. Bordered with amazingly detailed flowers and vines, the Belleek basket is among the most difficult of all porcelain pieces to produce. And, because of their very nature, early Belleek baskets in excellent condition are indeed true rarities.


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Clapton + Winwood: Fan Reviews
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood have just completed a tour of Europe together, backed by an all-star band consisting of Willie Weeks, Steve Gadd, Chris Stainton, Michelle White, and Sharon John.
June 13 was the final show of the EC/SW European Tour in Istanbul. Check out the set list from Vienna
Fans have been treated to many rarities, including 'Midland Maniac' from Steve's 1977 solo debut album, and 'The Shape I'm In', a classic from The Band.
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An appellate court ruling overturning a rape conviction because the victim wasn't married prompted anger from women's groups and a state legislator who plans to introduce a bill that would close the legal loophole.
In its ruling, California's 2nd District Court of Appeal reluctantly concluded that Julio Morales hadn't raped an 18-year-old because a state law crafted in the 1870s says a person who gets consent for sex by pretending to be someone else is only guilty of rape if the victim is married and the perpetrator is pretending to be the spouse.
In this case, Morales apparently pretended to be the teen's boyfriend, and she didn't recognize otherwise until seeing him in the light.
The court urged the Legislature to update the law, and state Assemblyman Katcho Achadjian, R-San Luis Obispo, said Friday that he would introduce a bill.
"Californians are justifiably outraged by this court ruling, and it is important that the Legislature join together to close whatever loopholes may exist in the law and uphold justice for rape victims," Achadjian said.
Achadjian had a 2011 bill that would have expanded the rape law to include perpetrators who pose as live-in boyfriends or girlfriends and dupe their victims into sex. The bill was approved by the Assembly but stalled in the Senate Public Safety Committee because of its policy to hold any legislation that could add to the state's prison overcrowding problem.
Achadjian said that should no longer be a problem after voters in November approved Proposition 36, revising California's three-strikes law.
The earlier bill was prompted by a Santa Barbara County case in which a man broke into a woman's home while she slept.
The woman assumed the man was her live-in boyfriend and consented to sex. When she realised it wasn't her boyfriend, she resisted and the man fled.
Prosecutors couldn't pursue a felony rape charge because the woman wasn't married, she consented, and the man hadn't pretended to be her husband.
A similar law in Idaho prevented an unmarried woman from pressing rape charges three years ago after being tricked into sex with a stranger by her then-boyfriend. Idaho's law was amended to cover all women in 2011.
"It is imperative that we now change the law to prevent a grave injustice for future rape victims. All of us in public safety deeply appreciate the extraordinary efforts made on the part of Assemblyman Achadjian to seek this minor change in the law that will have a tremendous effect on future victims," Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley said.
The appellate court noted the law has been applied inconsistently over the years in California, a state that has been aggressive in broadening its rape laws. California has removed a requirement that a rape requires force to have been used, and it has classified various aggravations of sexual assault as rape.
Patty Bellasalma, president of the California National Organisation for Women, said it's incumbent upon legislators to ensure laws mesh with modern-day lifestyles.
"If unmarried women aren't included, that means the intent of the law is not about protecting women, it's about protecting something else," she said.
In the Morales case, the victim said her boyfriend was in the room when she fell asleep following a night of partying with Morales and others. They opted not to have sex that night because he didn't have a condom. After the boyfriend left, Morales entered her room and they began having sex.
It wasn't until a ray of light from outside the room illuminated Morales' face that the woman realized it wasn't her boyfriend, prosecutors said.
Defense attorneys argued Morales believed the sex was consensual because the victim responded to his kisses and caresses.
The appellate ruling said Morales gave conflicting testimony about whether he tried to identify himself. The court, which remanded the case back for retrial, noted prosecutors had argued two theories and it wasn't clear which the jury used for the conviction that led to a three-year prison sentence: that Morales "tricked, lied to, or concealed information" from the victim, or because he had sex with the woman while she slept. The latter is already defined as rape under state law.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris, whose prosecutors handled the appellate case, promised to work with legislators to amend the law.
"The evidence is clear that this case involved a nonconsensual assault that fits within the general understanding of what constitutes rape," Harris said in a statement. "This law is arcane and I will work with the Legislature to fix it."
Defense attorney Edward Schulman declined comment, only to say that "the decision speaks for itself."
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ForeScout and IBM Security Partner on Network Security Intelligence
Network access control provider ForeScout Technologies and IBM have teamed up to enhance network security, specifically for BYOD initiatives.
ForeScout announced it has been selected as part of IBM's Security Intelligence Partner Program (SIPP). This partnership will allow joint customers to benefit from real-time visibility, security intelligence and automated control while delivering real-time monitoring and enterprise risk assessment of non-compliant managed and unmanaged network devices, said the company.
The two technology companies will integrate ForeScout'a CounterACT Network Access Control (NAC) with the IBM QRadar Security Intelligence Platform. The joint solution will provide customers with a real-time view of enterprise-wide threats that can originate from non-compliant devices and rapid remediation of them to reduce overall business risk.
According to ForeScout, CounterACT identifies all network devices in real-time, assesses whether or not it is compliant, and if necessary blocks the device or redirects it to a secure guest access network, and attempts to remediate the issue. It is operated from a single management console.
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We also like the ghost gadget guys, who get unreasonably excited measuring things I've never heard of, and spend a lot of time trying to convince us that a bit of static contains some other-worldly message, like "monkey nuts."
Anyway, I got to thinking: what if these shows did a bakery edition? Eh?
"Our intrepid crew pays a visit to the most haunted bakery in the entire world. Has Jumpy Jen and her crew of ragtag Wrecktators bitten off more than they can chew? Or will they earn their just desserts in this poltergeist-packed patisserie?"
[squeaky voice] "Well, we definitely sense a presence in the walk-in fridge..."
"...and strange things happen to our cakes overnight."
"Plus, customers are always complaining that they feel like they're being watched."
Announcer: "Soon, the Wrecktators are making shocking discoveries of their own!"
Frat Boy: "Hey, ghosties! I bet you couldn't pipe your way out of a paper bag! Yeah, and your bakery is ugly, too! You call this a window display?"
"Why don't you do something scary for once? Huh? In fact, I'm not going anywhere until you PROVE to me that...uh...
"Dude, what was that?"
Romina B., Mimi P., Andrea, Tim E., Nicole M., Jennifer H., & Bea V., dudes, I think something just touched me.
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Nate Ross' Lady Panthers soccer team, which includes six Dolores students, emphasizes defense.
Montezuma-Cortez High School showed off some offensive fireworks Tuesday afternoon at Johnson Field.
Behind three goals from Allison Porter, the offense rolled and the defense was dominant in a 4-1 Lady Panthers win over 3A Telluride.
"We've got a good roster this year," coach Ross said. "Every girl on my roster is a soccer player. They're very coachable and that's what I love about these girls. They always want to learn and so we're just taking it one step at a time."
M-CHS (1-1-1) is literally a second away from being unbeaten. After a season opening 0-0 tie last Friday at Grand Junction Central, it appeared the Lady Panthers were heading to a 0-0 tie at Montrose last Saturday.
A last second shot on goal by Montrose was initially saved by Brianna Funk with one second remaining in double overtime.
However, after an official review, the referees decided the ball indeed crossed the goal line, giving Montrose the win.
"We're playing well. We've had a good preseason," Ross said. "We've been focusing on fitness quite a bit. The girls are fit. Defensively, we're playing well."
M-CHS continued its stout defense against Telluride (0-1). But it showed it can light up the scoreboard when the offense is clicking. Things really clicked in the Lady Panthers' home opener, especially for Porter.
"It's helps a lot to be on our home field," the senior said. "I think the confidence level is way up. Everyone is kind of settled because it's where we practice, where we're fit and we know the field."
Porter broke free on the right side in the 17th minute, split two defenders and launched a perfect kick 30-feet out that sailed over the Miners' goalkeeper's hands.
With M-CHS up 1-0, Telluride quickly responded.
A Miners striker found a loose ball on the left side and booted a shot over Danielle Waltman's reach to knot the game 1-1 in the 19th minute.
The teams played even for a while before the Lady Panthers started to attack.
M-CHS freshman Wesley Kirks penetrated the defense and was tripped up by a Telluride defender, setting up a penalty shot.
Cue Porter.
The team captain confidently kicked the ball over the Miners' defensive wall. The soaring shot fell in the top left corner of the net to give the Lady Panthers a 2-1 lead in the 33rd minute.
That's where the score stood at halftime.
"I think I've improved quite a bit," said Porter about her shots on goal. "Over the years, I always used to be the one that cranked it right in front of the goal and just shoot it over. After you settle and get into your zone, you kind of learn that it's easier."
Porter and M-CHS didn't letup after the break.
Senior Abby Engel broke free in the 41st minute and passed ahead to Porter. With only one girl to beat, Porter slipped the ball past the goalie on the right side to complete the hat-trick. M-CHS now had a 3-1 cushion.
Youngster Gabby Wolf put an exclamation point on the match, scoring a breakaway goal in the 56th minute for the final margin.
"I'm doing a lot of focusing offensively," Ross said. "(It's) being able to control tempo, being able to be patient in that final third, so that we're able to get high percentage shots as opposed to just shots on goal."
The Lady Panthers play today at Johnson Field, hosting 3A Bayfield (1-0) at 4 p.m.
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Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries — and that gathered data is destroyed every five years.
Last year, fewer than 300 phone numbers were checked against the database of millions of U.S. phone records gathered daily by the NSA in one of the programs, the intelligence officials said in arguing that the programs are far less sweeping than their detractors allege.
No other new details about the plots or the countries involved were part of the newly declassified information released to Congress on Saturday and made public by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Intelligence officials said they are working to declassify the dozens of plots NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander said were disrupted, to show Americans the value of the programs, but that they want to make sure they don't inadvertently reveal parts of the U.S. counterterrorism playbook in the process.
The release of information follows a bruising week for U.S. intelligence officials who testified on Capitol Hill, defending programs that were unknown to the public — and some lawmakers — until they were revealed by a series of media stories in The Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers, leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who remains in hiding in Hong Kong.
The disclosures have sparked debate and legal action against the Obama administration by privacy activists who say the data collection goes far beyond what was intended when expanded counterterrorism measures were authorized by Congress after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Intelligence officials said Saturday that both NSA programs are reviewed every 90 days by the secret court authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Under the program, the records, showing things like time and length of call, can only be examined for suspected connections to terrorism, they said.
The officials offered more detail on how the phone records program helped the NSA stop a 2009 al-Qaida plot to blow up New York City subways. They say the program helped them track a co-conspirator of al-Qaida operative Najibullah Zazi — though it's not clear why the FBI needed the NSA to investigate Zazi's phone records because the FBI would have had the authority to gather records of Zazi's phone calls after identifying him as a suspect, rather than relying on the sweeping collection program.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Crooks beware! Batkid is fighting crime Friday on the mean streets of San Francisco.
With the help of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the city, 5-year-old Miles Scott, aka Batkid, took off from Union Square in the morning in one of two Batmobiles — black Lamborghinis with Batman decals. Police escorted the Lamborghinis and closed off roads as they sped to their first caper: a damsel in distress on a cable car track.
By midday, the Batkid's adventure had become a sensation on Twitter, with even the White House chiming in with its support.
At the cable car rescue, hundreds of people jostled for space, as the boy dressed in a Batman costume and accompanied by an adult Batman impersonator emerged from the Lamborghini to rescue a woman. Miles is a leukemia patient who's now in remission.
Streets of San Francisco are PACKED for BatKid. Greates thing EVER. pic.twitter.com/HAZkaK1o3y
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) November 15, 2013
He looked overwhelmed and was bashful, though he was seen later in the day giving high-fives to onlookers. The damsel sat on the street in a dress and thigh-high black boots. She had a handkerchief around her mouth and her hands were bound behind her back. Batman and Batkid sprang into action, with the aid of a trampoline, as the crowd roared.
They rescued the woman and disabled a plastic replica bomb she was tied to.
The two masked superheroes then took off to nab the Riddler as he robbed a downtown bank.
A flash mob will summon Batkid later in the day for another crime — the diabolical kidnapping of the San Francisco Giants mascot — Lou Seal — by the Penguin. A grateful Mayor Ed Lee will give Miles a key to the city after the crooks are corralled.
"When you have an illness, it's very important to know you have a support system," said Gina Futrell, 51, who was going to take part in the flash mob. Futrell has multiple sclerosis. "I have an extremely strong support system, and I hope he does too. He's such a little hero."
Miles, who lives in Tulelake in far Northern California, didn't know what was in store for him and thought he was in San Francisco just to get a Batman costume so he could dress like his favorite superhero, KGO-TV reported.
He was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 18 months old and ended treatments in June.
His father, Nick Scott, thanked the Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation and the estimated 7,000 people who will help make his son's wish come true.
"All the doctors, nurses and all the other parents that have to deal with the same thing we're going through. I hope they get a conclusion to their illnesses like we're getting," Nick Scott told KGO-TV.
Make-A-Wish has fulfilled similar wishes across the country. In Anaheim, a child became Batman's sidekick, Robin; and in Seattle a child was a secret agent, said Jen Wilson, a spokeswoman for the local organization.
Watch a live feed of the action here.
See all the #batkid awesomeness: http://t.co/YRCT2Cyn8b Nice work, San Franciso and @MakeAWish pic.twitter.com/hsBpr5vAIZ
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) November 15, 2013
The San Francisco Chronicle, KGO-TV and thousands of volunteers were participating in the event. Miles was supposed to see a broadcast in the morning with Police Chief Greg Suhr calling for his help.
The Chronicle planned to distribute special-edition newspapers with the headline, "Batkid Saves City," in Union Square, where the flash mob was set to gather.
"This has turned into a full blown phenomenon," Suhr said Thursday.
Associated Press writers Channing Joseph and Sudhin Thanawala contributed to this report.
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text: TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Ratification of the Book of that are baptized, and come to 19 The Form of Solemnization of 20 The Order for the Visitation of the Sick. 4 The Order now the rest of the Ho- 5 Tables of Lessons of Holy Scrip- ture, to be read at Morning and Evening Prayer throughout toe 23 The Thanksgiving of Women af ter Child Birth, commonly called, 21 The Communion of the Sick. 7 Tables and Rules for the Moveable 24 Forms of Prayer to be used at and Immoveable Feasts, together Sea with the Days of Fasting and Ab-25 A Form of Prayer for the Visita- 26 A Form of Prayer and Thanks giving to Almighty God, for the Fruits of the Earth, and all the 1 Prayers and Thanksgivings upon 27 12 The Collects, Epistles, and Gos- pels, to be used throughout the 3 The Order for the Administration munion. The Ministration of Public Bap- 15 The Ministration of Private Eap- 16 The Ministration of Baptism to such as are of Riper Years, and able to answer for themselves. 17 A Catechism; that is to say, an Instruction to be learned by every Person before he be brought to be lo The Order of Confirmation, or Forms of Prayer to be used in Fa. Selections of Psalms to be used) at the Discretion of the Minister. 29 The Psalter, or Faalms of David 30 Articles of Religion, as establish. ed by the Bishops, the Clergy, and king, Ordaining, and Consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. 34 The Form of Consecration of a 35 An Office of Institution of Mina PREFACE. IT is a most invaluable part of that blessed liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, that in his worship, different forms and usages may without offence be allowed, provided the substance of the faith be kept entire; and that, in every Church, what cannot be clearly determined to belong to Doetrine must be referred to Discipline; and therefore, by common consent and authority, may be altered, abridged, enlarged, amended, or otherwise disposed of, as may seem most convenient for the edification of the people, according to the various exigencies of times and occasions." The Church of England, to which the Protestant Episcopal Church in these States is indebted, under GOD, for her first foundation and a long continuance of nursing care and protection, hath, in the Preface of her Book of Common Prayer, laid it down as a Rule, that "The Particular Forms of Divine Worship, and the Rites and Ceremonies appointed to be used therein, being things in their own nature indifferent and alterable, and so acknow. ledged, it is but reasonable that, upon weighty and important considerations, according to the various exigencies of times and occasions, such changes and alterations should be made therein, as to those who are in places of authority should, from time to time, seem either necesary or expedient." The same Church hath not only in her Preface, but likewise in her Articles and Homilies, declared the necessity and expediency of occasiona! alterations and amendments in her Forms of Public Worship; and we fin! accordingly, that, seeking to "keep the happy mean between too much stiffness in refusing, and too much ensiness in admitting variations in things once advisedly established, she hath, in the reign of several Princes, since the first compiling of her Liturgy in the time of Edward the Sixth, upon just and weighty considerations her thereunto moving, yielded to make suca alterations in some particulars, as in their respective times were thought convenient yet so as that the main body and essential parts of de saine (as well in the chiefest materials, as in the frame and order thereof) have still been continued firm and unshaken." Her general aim in these diferent Reviews and Alteratious hath been, as she further declares in her said Preface, to do that which, according to her best understanding might most tend to the preservation of peace and unity in the Church; the procuring of reverence, and the exciting of piety and devotion in the worship of God; and, finally, the cutting off occasion, from them that seek occasion, of cavil or quarrel against her Liturgy." Ana although, according to her judgment, there be not "any thing in it contrary to the Word of God, or to sound doctrine, or which a godly man may not with a good conscience use and submit unto, or which is not fairly defensible, If allowed such Just and favourable construction, as, in common equity, ought to be allowed to all human writings;" yet upon the principles already aid down, it cannot but be supposed, that further alteration would in time be found expedient. Accordingly, a commission for a review was issued in the year 1689: But this great and good work miscarried at that time; and the Civil Authority has not since thought proper to revive it by any new Commission. But when in the course of Divine Providence, these American States be came independent with respect to Civil Government, their Ecclesiastical Independence was necessarily included; and the different religious denotnina. tions of Christians in these States were left at full and equal liberty to model and organize their respective Churches, and forms of worship and discipuine, in such manner as they might judge most convenient for their future prosperity; consistently with the Constitution and Lawe of theis Country. The attention of this Church was, in the first place, drawn to those alte rations in the Liturgy which became necessary in the Prayers for our Civil Rulers, in consequence of the Revolution. And the principal care herein was to make them conformable to what ought to be the proper end of all such prayers, namely, that Rulers may have grace, wisdom, and understand. ing to execute justice, and to maintain truth;" and that the People" may lead quiet and peaceable lives, in all godliness and honesty." Put while these alterations were in review before the Convention, they could not but, with gratitude to God, embrace the happy occasion which was offered to them, (uninfluenced and unrestrained by any worldly authority whatsoever,) to take a further review of the Public Service, and to esta blish such other alterations and amendments therein as might be deemed expe-lient. It seems unnecessary to enumerate all the different alterations and amend. ments. They will appear, and it is to be hoped, the reasons of them also, upon a comparison of this with the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England. In which it will also appear, that this Church is far from intending to depart from the Church of England in any essential point of doctrine, discipline, or worship; or further than local circunstances re quire. And now, this important work being brought to a conclusion, it is hoped the whole will be received and examined by every true Member of our Church, and every sincere Christian, with a meek, candid, and charitable frame of mind without prejudice or prepossessions; seriously considering what Christianity is, and what the truths of the Gospel are; and earnestly beseeching Almighty God to accompany with his blessing every endeavour for promulgating them to mankind in the clearest, plainest, most affecting and majestic manner, for the sake of Jesus Christ, our bleased Lord and Baviour. (7) The ORDER how the PSALTER is appointed to be read. THE Psalter shall be read through once every Month, as it is there appointed, both for Morning and Evening Prayer. But in February shall be read only to the twenty-eighth or twenty-ninth Day of the Month. And whereas January, March, May, July, August, October, and Decem ber, have one-and-thirty days a-piece: it is ordered, that the same Psalms shall be read the last Day of the said Months which were read the Day before; so that the Psalter may begin again the first Day of the next Month ensuing. And whereas the 119th Psalm is divided into twenty-two Portions, and is over-long to be read at one time; it is so ordered, that at one time shall not be read above four or five of the said Portions. The Minister, instead of reading from the Psalter, as divided for Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, may read one of the Selections set out by this Church. And on Days of Fasting and Thanksgiving, appointed either by the Civil or by the Ecclesiastical Authority, the Minister may appoint such Palms as he shall think fit in his discretion, unless any shall have been appointed by the Ecclesiastical Authority, in a Service set out for the Occasion; which, in that case, shall be used, and no other. PROPER PSALMS ON CERTAIN DAYS, Christmas-Day, Ps. 19 P's. 89 Easter-Day, The Minister may use one of the Selections, instead of any one of the bove Portions, The ORDER how the rest of the HOLY SCRIPTURE is appointed to be read. THE Old Testament is appointed for the First Lessons at Morning and Evening Prayer; so that the most Part thereof will be read every Year ince, as in the Calendar is appointed. The New Testament is appointed for the Second Lessons at Morning and Evening Prayer. And to know what Lessons shall be read every Day, look for the Day of ine Month in the Calendar following, and there ye shall find the Chaptere that shall be read for the Lessons, both at Morning and Evening Prayer; except only the Moveable Feasts, which are not in the Calendar; and the Immoveable, where there is a blank left in the Column of Lessons; the proper Lessons for all which Days are to be found in the table of Proper Lessons. And, on Days of Fasting and Thanksgiving, the same rule is to obtain as In reading the Psalms. And the same discretion of choice is allowed on occasions of Ecclesiastica) Conventions, and those of Charitable Collections. And Note, That whensoever Proper Psalms or Lessons are appointed, then the Psalms and Lessons of ordinary course appointed in the Psalter and Calendar, if they be different, shall be omitted for that Time. Note, also, That the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel, appointed for the shall serve all the Week after, where it is not in this book otherwise ordered. day |


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Our editor-in-chief Nate Yapp is proud to have contributed to the new book Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks, edited by Aaron Christensen. Another contributors include Anthony Timpone, B.J. Colangelo, Dave Alexander, Classic-Horror.com's own Robert C. Ring and John W. Bowen. Pick up a copy today from Amazon.com!
Barbara Shelley
Actors, directors, makeup and effects artists, writers and studios who have significantly contributed to the annals of Horror Cinema are listed here as "The Masters." Filmographies, biographies, and photos accompany most if not all the entries. Striving to make Classic-Horror's The Masters list as comprehensive as possible, new entries are constantly added.


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Embedding Subcomponents
It is common for a component to display instances of other components while rendering itself. It does this by passing them into the #render:
method of WARenderCanvas
. For example, this #renderContentOn:
method simply renders a heading and then displays a counter component immediately below it:
renderContentOn: html
html heading level3; with: 'My Counter'.
html render: myCounter.
It's important that you use #render:
, rather than directly calling the #renderContentOn:
method of the subcomponent. The following is not a supported technique:
renderContentOn: html
html heading level3; with: 'My Counter'.
myCounter renderContentOn: html. "DON'T DO THIS".
These instances, or "subcomponents" are usually instance variables of the component that is "embedding" them. They are commonly created as part of the parent's #initialize
super initialize.
myCounter := WACounter new.
They may also be stored in a collection. One fairly common pattern is to keep a lazily initialized dictionary of subcomponents that match a collection of model items. For example, if you wanted a BudgetItemRow subcomponent for each member of budgetItems, you might do something like this:
super initialize.
budgetRows := Dictionary new.
rowForItem: anItem
^ budgetRows at: anItem ifAbsentPut: [BudgetItemRow item: anItem].
renderContentOn: html
self budgetItems
do: [:each | html render: (self rowForItem: each)]
separatedBy: [html horizontalRule].
Each parent component must implement a #children
method that returns a collection of all of the subcomponents that it might display on the next render. For the above two examples, #children
might look like this:
^ Array with: myCounter.
or this:
^ self budgetItems collect: [:each | self rowForItem: each].
If a subcomponent makes a #call:
to another component, that component will appear in place of the subcomponent. In the first example, if myCounter
made a #call:
to DateSelector, that DateSelector would appear in the context of the counter's parent, with the 'My Counter' heading above it.
Since a subcomponent has not been #call:
'd, in general #answer:
is a no-op. However, the parent may attach an #onAnswer:
block to the subcomponent to be notified if it sends #answer:
. This allows one component to be used both from #call:
and through embedding. For example:
super initialize.
dateSelector := WADateSelector new onAnswer: [:date | self dateChosen: date].


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Cavaliers meet with agent for James
By TOM WITHERS
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Four years after their messy breakup, the Cavaliers and LeBron James are at least talking about a reunion.
Cavs officials met with James' agent, Rich Paul, this week about the free-agent superstar's possible return. The sides visited as James continued his family vacation, a person with knowledge of the details told The Associated Press on Thursday night.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the talks.
It was not immediately clear if owner Dan Gilbert was at the meeting.
James recently opted out of the final two years of his contract in Miami. The two-time NBA champion has gone to four straight finals with the Heat. However, after the team was throttled by San Antonio in this year's finals, James said he would weigh his options this summer.
One of them could be re-signing with the Cavs, the team he spent seven seasons with before leaving in 2010 to join forces with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in South Florida. Wade and Bosh also opted out of their deals with Heat, raising speculation the "Big Three" could be headed in different directions.
James' decision to leave Cleveland - Thursday was the four-year anniversary of the team's last pitch to him - prompted Gilbert to condemn him in a scathing letter to Cavs fans. The owner also told The AP he felt James had quit during games in the playoffs.
ESPN has reported that Paul also met with representatives for the Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks. A photo of Mavericks owner Mark Cuban in Cleveland circulated on Twitter, though he said he was there for a commitment for his TV show, "Shark Tank."
While James has been out of the country with his wife, Savannah, and their two sons, Paul has been working on the four-time MVP's future. Unlike four years ago, when teams flocked to Cleveland to make presentations to woo James, the courtship of him this time has been low key and rather business-like.
The Cavs have waited patiently for their chance to try and convince the Akron, Ohio, native to come home. In the past few weeks, the Cavs have hired new coach David Blatt, selected Kansas swingman Andrew Wiggins with the No. 1 overall pick and gotten All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving to agree to a five-year, $90 million contract extension.
Now, they're working on bringing back James, who has never ruled out the possibility of a return.
Two years ago, James was asked if he could ever see himself playing for the Cavs again.
"I don't know. I think it would be great," he said. "It would be fun to play in front of these fans again. I had a lot fun times in my seven years here. You can't predict the future and hopefully I continue to stay healthy. I'm here as a Miami Heat player, and I'm happy where I am now, but I don't rule that out in no sense.
"And if I decide to come back, hopefully the fans will accept me."
Cleveland fans, most of them anyway, have gotten over James' infamous "Decision," when he announced he was leaving on a nationally televised special. He was booed mercilessly in his first games back with the Heat, but in recent years he has been received more favorably. Maybe that's because the Cavs haven't been to the playoffs since he left and Clevelanders know he might be the only chance they have to see a championship in their lifetimes.
Cleveland hasn't won a title in any of the major sports since 1964.
If he were to come back, James could repair the damage he did to his image when he left.
But that remains a big `if.'
In having Paul meet with other teams, James could simply be putting on pressure for the Heat to upgrade their roster. Miami has been pursuing free agents and Yahoo Sports reported team president Pat Riley and coach Erik Spoelstra met in Los Angeles with Lakers free agent Pau Gasol. The Heat could have trouble surrounding James with enough talent if the reports he will only accept a maximum contract are accurate.
James is scheduled to be in Las Vegas next week to host a basketball camp, and then is expected to attend the World Cup in Brazil.
In order for James to play again in Cleveland, he and Gilbert would have to have some sort of reconciliation. Gilbert's letter - famously typed in comic sans font - was a blistering attack on James, who had carried the Cavs to the NBA Finals in 2007 but failed to deliver on his promise of a championship. Gilbert had guaranteed the Cavs would win a title before James, but later regretted the prediction.
"Looking back now, that probably was not the most brilliant thing I've ever done in my life," Gilbert said.
He and James may get a second chance together.


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Dreams Come True
Terrible Records / Warp
Vocalist, producer, composer and Grizzly Bear multi-instrumentalist Chris Taylor is Cant. Releasing his first solo album under this moniker is a curious leap. After setting up Terrible Records in 2009, Taylor has continued to produce for a range of emerging indie bands including Blood Orange.
His first solo project is, without a doubt, captivating. Combining an array of sounds and moods, Dreams Come True is an album that will appeal from its first track, Too Late. Too Far. There's something particularly likable about Cant. It's not too fast, not too slow, but at the same time not middle of the road, so through gentle experimentation and a range of instruments Taylor's album has a particular draw.
The soundscape does not lend itself to easy comparisons, and not only that, each track has its own identity, although all 10 tracks do work together as a collective whole. In many ways because of its amorphous nature, it's a truly exciting album, but sometimes sounds slip into noise, making it a bit too experimental. www.terriblerecordsus.com
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- advent
- An alternative translation of the Greek parousia, otherwise rendered 'coming' in the English versions, with reference to the eschatological expectation of Christ's coming as Judge of the world at the End (Matt. 24:39). Later, the Church regarded the life of Jesus in the incarnation as the 'First Advent' and the 'Second Advent' was to be in the future. The Church season of Advent then developed (first with six Sundays, later with four) into a time of preparation for Christmas, and for the Last Judgement.
Dictionary of the Bible.


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5.1. Introduction
This chapter shows how to build a minimal Linux system. This system will contain just enough tools to start constructing the final LFS system in Chapter 6 and allow a working environment with more user convenience than a minimum environment would.
There are two steps in building this minimal system. The first step is to build a new and host-independent toolchain (compiler, assembler, linker, libraries, and a few useful utilities). The second step uses this toolchain to build the other essential tools.
The files compiled in this chapter will be installed under the
directory to keep them
separate from the files installed in the next chapter and the host
production directories. Since the packages compiled here are
temporary, we do not want them to pollute the soon-to-be LFS system.


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Jesus the Lord, by Roc O'Connor and the Saint Louis Jesuits
The song/video "Jesus the Lord," by Roc O'Connor and the Saint Louis Jesuits," available on YouTube (6:24) with lyrics, is best used on day 4.
Walk with Me
The song/video "Walk with Me," by Jesus Culture, available on YouTube (10:22) with lyrics, is simple and powerful. It is best used on day 3.
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
The song/video "Make Me a Channel of Your Peace," available on YouTube (3:39) with images, photos, and lyrics, is best used on day 3.
Let There Be Peace on Earth—Sing Along
The song/video "Let There Be Peace on Earth—Sing Along," available on YouTube (2:41) with photos and lyrics, is best used on day 2.
Open My Eyes
The song/video "Open My Eyes," by Jesse Manibusan, available on YouTube (2:54) with lyrics, is best used on day 1.
Take, Lord, Receive
The song/video "Take, Lord, Receive," by John Foley and the Saint Louis Jesuits, in Memory of Fr. Bob Bedard C.C., available on YouTube (4:27), is best used on day 1.
Be Not Afraid—St. Louis Jesuits & Bob Dufford, S.J.
The song/video "Be Not Afraid—St. Louis Jesuits & Bob Dufford, S.J.," available on YouTube (4:36), is best used on day 4.
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God—Haven of Rest Quartet (Acapella)
The song/video "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God—Haven of Rest Quartet (Acapella)," available on YouTube (2:46) with lyrics, is best used on day 2.
Palestrina—Sicut cervus
The song/video "Palestrina—Sicut cervus," performed by the Cambridge Singers, available on YouTube (3:17) with lyrics, is best used on day 1.
Gregorian Chant
The song/video "Gregorian Chant," performed by the Monastic Choir of the Abbey of St. Pierre de Solesmes, in 1930, is available on YouTube (45:19). The Abbey of Solesmes is a Benedictine monastery renowned for its teaching of chant. The first chant is the Sanctus (Holy, Holy, Holy) from the Mass. It ends at 2:19. This would be an appropriate opening prayer for day 1. An English translation should be provided to the students.
The Nicene Creed in Original Greek
The video "The Nicene Creed in Original Greek," proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI and the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, is available on YouTube (2:28) with excellent photos of the two prelates, art, and icons. It is best used on day 3 or day 4.
Christ Be Our Light
The song/video "Christ Be Our Light," by Bernadette Farrell, is available on YouTube (3:34) with lyrics and nature scenes. It is best on day 3 or day 4.
This Little Light of Mine
The song/video "This Little Light of Mine," by Harry Dixon Loes (University of New Hampshire), is available on YouTube (2:34). It is best used for closing prayer on day 1.
We Are the Light of the World
The song/video "We Are the Light of the World," by Jean A. Greif, available on YouTube (2:58) with lyrics, is the Beatitudes set to music. It is best used for opening prayer on day 1.
Love Knows No End
The song/video "Love Knows No End," by Hillsong Live, available on YouTube (5:24) with lyrics, is best used on day 4 as a closing prayer.
The song/video "Forgiveness," by Matthew West, available on YouTube (4:26) with lyrics, is best on day 3
Let It Go
The song/video "Let It Go," by Tenth Avenue North, available on YouTube (3:19) with lyrics, is best on day 2.
Sermon on the Mount: The Lord's Prayer
The video "Sermon on the Mount: The Lord's Prayer," by LearnAboutTheBible, available on YouTube (2:18), is the English of the King James version. It is best used on day 1.
The Lord's Prayer
The song/video "The Lord's Prayer," performed by Andrea Bocelli and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, available on YouTube (4:30), is an option for opening prayer on day 4.
Abba Father—Acoustic Cover
The song/video "Abba Father—Acoustic Cover," by Carey Landry, available on YouTube (3:30), is best for opening prayer on day 3.
Abba Father
The song/video "Abba Father," by Klaus Kuehn with Kari Jobe, available on YouTube (6:01), is best on day 3.
Come Worship the Lord
The song/video "Come Worship the Lord," by John Michael Talbot, is available on YouTube (7:58). Point out that this song is based on Psalm 95. Commentary includes an explanation of the liturgy as a dance, with gestures. You may want to try following the instructions for the gestures. It is best used on day 3.
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)
The song/video "10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)," by Matt Redman, available on YouTube (4:22), encompasses the entire day in worship. This song/video may be used as the hymn with Midday Prayer on day 3.
I Lift Up My Soul
The song/video "I Lift Up My Soul," by Tim Manion and the Saint Louis Jesuits, available on YouTube (3:00) with lyrics, shows views of Catholic liturgy and prayer as well as natural scenes. It is best used on days 1 or 2.


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Enhancing Dedalord's Skiing Fred for Tegra 4
Our ill-fated hero goes turbo-speed to escape the ever more tenacious Grimmy, slamming unfortunate bystanders in his way and making more unnecessary enemies in the process. Dedalord enhanced the game to take advantage of the power of Tegra 4. Mariano Merchante explains how they did it.
Hi! I'm Mariano Merchante, Technical Artist at Dedalord. When we had the opportunity to look at Tegra 4's graphics capabilities, we decided to explore its potential and take advantage of it in our latest Game, Skiing Fred. To upgrade Skiing Fred's graphics, we had to face some fun challenges involving shaders, lighting and effects inside Unity, which I'll further describe.
Some context first: our freckled main character Fred is constantly escaping Grimmy, his cute and deadly antagonist. Fred ends up stranded in the middle of snowy mountains and has to use any means to avoid meeting his demise such as an outhouse door that doubles as a snowboard, snowmobiles and even prehistoric birds.
The game starts with Fred making his way around a hazard ridden track, dodging deadly traps, explosive penguins and precipices while chased by Death itself!
-When we started upgrading the game's graphics for Tegra, we definitely wanted to give the characters a softer look. The previous shader was an unlit texture with color tinting, and because we decided to use Unity's lighting system, we had the opportunity to make it look good. With a little bit of research we decided to use a fake BRDF lookup table to fake the lighting of the character surface, a method used by a lot of other game developers, such as Madfinger. We decided to use the incidence of the camera (NdotE) instead of half direction (NdotH), so that we could focus on rim light instead of specularity. This later proved to be useful to highlight the snow track's turns and twists in the snow shader.
The game scenes are predominantly covered in snow. In real life, snow is not just full white: it has a lot of subtle tints that tend towards blue in shaded areas, ice crystals glitter under certain conditions, etc. However, simplified snow is portrayed with a white/bluish color, which became a problem at the moment of designing some effects (such as additive!).
But with Tegra 4 we could use more advanced shaders to give the snow a chilly feeling. We ended up reusing our character shader with a nice and "faked up" BRDF lookup texture but with a twist: a bump map that had high frequency noise to simulate flakes, mapped in worldspace coordinates to prevent some stretching from the race track uvs. To exaggerate the snow shader, our main directional light has a low angle of incidence with respect to the floor.
Thanks to a bug, we discovered that the shader with no texture assigned looked awesome! So we took advantage of that and implemented it as an additional effect to the blizzard weather event. It looks chillingly cold:
Since we decided to use Unity's lighting system, we really wanted to add dynamic lights to some of the events that occur in the game, such as the meteor shower and lightning storm. The only reasonable way to implement this was through vertex lights; we needed a lot of illumination sources and the performance would drop considerably otherwise.
However, we quickly hit a limitation: Unity supports up to 4 simultaneous vertex lights (at the moment of development). Fortunately for us, because our game is essentially a runner, we already knew the order in which lights appeared, so we used that information to cull lights and force Unity to activate the closest 4 lights to the player. We also added a intensity fade when enabling/disabling lights which gave it a nice, smooth transition.
As a secondary detail, we added a snowmobile spot light when the player is inside a cave, and because it is just one small light (and caves had less visible objects) we could afford using a pixel light with some culling options to just affect the snow track and some decorations.
Having more GPU power with Tegra 4 gave us a bigger particle budget, which we took advantage of by adding weather effects such as rain and fire embers, and more particle count in other effects in general. Taken together with the dynamic lights previously discussed, these details really added to the feeling of chaos and danger in the game.
One important feature we wanted to have was shadows for the main character, Fred. Fortunately, Unity had just implemented shadows for mobile, and by enabling it, it "just worked" with Tegra 4 in terms of performance. It needed some fine tuning and culling, mainly because there are a lot of objects in the scene and we only wanted to cast shadows on the snow track, but overall it was straightforward, and the framerate drop was small in comparison to other devices.
And that's it! We did a lot of tweaking and upgrading of other ingame effects and shaders mostly minor such as the snowboards' shader. We're amazed at the capabilities of Tegra 4, which enabled us to boost up visuals without needless hassle while maintaining a stable and smooth framerate at all times.


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This recipe requires that a couple of items be prepared in advance. That adds to the overall time of an otherwise very simple dish, but these steps are well worth the additional effort. One of those items is basil oil, and this is the same basil oil I posted about last October. It's a great use of abundant homegrown basil, and the oil can be kept refrigerated and used for 10 days. The other extra step is roasting cherry tomatoes, but if you know how delicious those are then you know this step is not only justified but necessary. So, once you have the basil oil and roasted cherry tomatoes, all you have to do is broil long, thin slices of eggplant and begin layering. The cooked eggplant pieces were used to line ramekins while partially overhanging the top edges. A few roasted cherry tomatoes were set on top of the eggplant in the ramekins, then a couple of basil leaves were placed on the tomatoes, then some goat cheese was pressed on the basil, more basil went on the cheese, and then the overhanging eggplant was folded in and pressed into place. The timbales could be prepared up to this point in advance. The ramekins were then placed under the broiler for a few minutes to heat through.
Thankfully, the timbales popped right out of the ramekins without any problems and were served with basil oil and some chopped basil leaves. It's a simple combination that could be put together a thousand other ways, but the compacted timbales had a nice, presentable look about them for the most part. Mine were somewhat short and squat and lacked complete eggplant coverage in some spots due to the size of eggplant I used. I'd like to make this again with full-sized specimens now that I know how simple it is. There are only a few ingredients used here, but they combine perfectly into tasty, little savory packages with the added boosts of flavor from the roasted tomatoes and basil oil. I always try to make good use of everything from our CSA, and I was happy with this result. Next, I'll be searching high and low through books and files for zucchini recipes for what's sure to be a deluge.


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Further V4L and DVB Links
Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Related Links
Many users seem to use their DVB cards for receiving data (internet by satellite), some also for watching and recording TV on their PC. Here are some links (send us more if you have):
Internet DVB by Andi Ahdin
Klaus Schmidinger's Digital VCR:
Ralph and Marcus Metzler provide alternative drivers and useful DVB applications on their
Satellite Software page by Jan Panteltje
- useful software for Linux DVB
- ppv - a still picture viewer for the Technotrend/Siemens/Hauppauge DVB-S PCI digital TV card
- viemu - a viaccess smart card emulator using a 'season' type interface
- satpos - a program to calculate the azimuth and elevation for geostationary satellites
- sdb - a signal strength indicator for the dvb server for the Technotrend DVB-s PCI card
- pscan - a scanning program for the dvb server for the Technotrend DVB-s PCI card
- subtitles - adding subtitles in Linux to DVB recordings, create DivX4-mp3 Joliet CD-Rs (Micro-DVDs) with an hour program and very good quality.
- Satellite Software page by Jan Panteltje
linuxdvb.tv is a collection of useful information, documentation and FAQs about operating a DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) PCI add-on card under Linux by Henning Holtschneider.
Dvbd information - describes the usage of dvbd2 and dvbd3 and collects all versions, revisions and patches. Thanks to Andrei Boros.
The Debian VDR and DVB Packaging Project maintains Debian packages related to DVB cards like drivers, dvb-utils, vdr and vdr-addons.
Andrei Darahshenka wrote a step-by-step installation HOWTO to set up the network interface using dvb-0.9 and linux-2.4.
Linux Set-Top Box page - DVBstream for streaming DVB over networks and some other useful tools for Linux Set-Top Boxes by Dave Chapman
DTV is a new client for controlling the DVBs cards from Technotrend/Hauppauge/Siemens which focuses on the correct interpretation of program information sent through the DVB-SI datastream. Thanks to Rolf Hakenes
Sat (Satellite Technology) HOWTO is an excellent HOWTO about setting up your Linux box to watch digital TV and use DVB data services. Thanks to Roberto Arcomano and Florindo Santoro.
HOWTO Create SVCDs from DVB Recordings - excellent pages by Peter Hofmann.
KVDR the KDE GUI for VDR - by Guido Fiala
Transcode is a linux text-console utility for video stream processing (MPEG, DV, DivX, MJPEG) developed by Thomas Östreich.
VCDImager -- The GNU VideoCD Image Maker
Europe Online (EON) Linux Masquerading FAQ Page - Franz Ackermann from Vienna wrote a very useful page about setting up a Linux router with EON internet by satellite.
How to cascade your Squid proxy with EON - speed up surfing and work around client authentication - by Lukas Loesche
North American MPEG-2 Information - good introduction to digital television in the USA.
The Linux HTPC Howto
CentOS 5 and Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T SE in the UK Howto
Video for Linux (V4L) Related Links
- Video for Linux resources -- Note - somewhat dated list
- ALSA wiki
General Links
- LinuxTV homepage -- has various information contained within the site
- BTTV Gallery -- pictures of TV cards with all chipsets
Wikipedia articles on television technologies


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Chapter 19
Isaiah speaks messianically—The people in darkness will see a great light—Unto us a child is born—He will be the Prince of Peace and will reign on David's throne—Compare Isaiah 9. About 559–545 B.C.
1 aNevertheless, the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at first he lightly afflicted the bland of cZebulun, and the land of dNaphtali, and afterwards did more grievously afflict by the way of the Red Sea beyond Jordan in Galilee of the nations.
2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and aincreased the joy—they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
4 For thou hast broken the yoke of ahis burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his boppressor.
5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but athis shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
6 For unto us a achild is born, unto us a son is given; and the bgovernment shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor, The cMighty God, The dEverlasting Father, The Prince of ePeace.
7 Of the increase of agovernment and peace bthere is no end, upon the throne of cDavid, and upon his kingdom to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this.
8 The Lord sent his word unto Jacob and it hath lighted upon Israel.
9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart:
10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn astones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into bcedars.
11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of aRezin against him, and join his enemies together;
12 The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; and they shall adevour Israel with open mouth. For all this his banger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
13 For the people turneth not unto ahim that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of Hosts.
14 Therefore will the Lord cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush ain one day.
15 The aancient, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.
16 For the aleaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are bled of them are destroyed.
17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have amercy on their fatherless and bwidows; for cevery one of them is a hypocrite and an devildoer, and every mouth speaketh efolly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his fhand is stretched out still.
18 For awickedness burneth as the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forests, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
19 Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts is the aland darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire; bno man shall spare his brother.
20 And he ashall snatch on the right hand and be hungry; and he shall beat on the left hand and they shall not be satisfied; they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm—
21 Manasseh, aEphraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; they together shall be against bJudah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.