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The biggest key to the Stanley Cup Playoff series between the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers could be which team plays better on the road.
In four regular-season games this season, the home team won each time. The Flyers have won three in a row against the Rangers at Wells Fargo Center, and the Rangers have won eight in a row against the Flyers at Madison Square Garden.
"Home-ice advantage is always better. MSG will be rocking," Rangers forward Rick Nash said. "It's a huge rivalry. It's going to be a fun one to play in. You play in the regular-season games [against Philadelphia] and they're that much more intense than the regular ones. So the playoffs are going to be much more exciting."
The Rangers were the better road team this season, with their 25 wins on opposing ice the most of any team in the Eastern Conference. Philadelphia won 18 times on the road but their 110 goals away from home was one fewer than the Rangers, and the Flyers had the League's best road power play.The Rangers scored four goals in two games in Philadelphia and the Flyers totaled six, including four on 31 shots against Henrik Lundqvist on March 1.
In the games in New York, the momentum shifted completely to the Rangers. In two games in New York, Philadelphia scored two goals, and their power play combined to go 1-for-5. New York had seven goals; three on 29 shots against Steve Mason on March 26, and four on 35 shots against backup Ray Emery on Jan. 12.
The Flyers have won the previous three times they've faced the Rangers in the postseason, but to win this year would require them to win at least once in New York, something they haven't done since Feb. 20, 2011.
"We are due in Madison Square Garden," Flyers forward Jakub Voracek said. "I don't think we won there in three years. Since I've been here, we haven't won there.
"It's a tough building to play in ... we are due to win some game there. You hope this is right timing."
In the first month of the season, Rangers forwards looked like a discombobulated bunch. But as they adjusted to the system implemented by new coach Alain Vigneault, they morphed into one of the League's deepest and most efficient groups.
As the season moved along the Rangers developed impressive chemistry up front. It added up to a balanced offensive attack featuring nine players with at least 14 goals, the most of any NHL team.
The big names up front are hard to miss, starting with Nash, Brad Richards and Martin St. Louis. After years as an elite goal scorer, Nash's numbers weren't overwhelming this season. He struggled with an injury early on and adjusted his game as the season progressed, deferring to linemates and spending more time on the penalty kill.
The top-two lines consist of some big names, and in some cases some very big paychecks. All that talent among the top six forwards is buoyed by a third line of Derick Brassard, Mats Zuccarello and Benoit Pouliot that undoubtedly was the Rangers' most consistent.
New York's depth up front doesn't end there. The rotation between Brian Boyle, Dominic Moore, Derek Dorsett and Daniel Carcillo made for a feisty fourth line that shut down opposing defenses. Boyle and Moore also are the Rangers' two best faceoff men.
Added together, it makes for a group with very few glaring flaws.
The Flyers have one of the deepest groups of forwards in the League, and if Vincent Lecavalier stays at center on the fourth line they'll have at least one 20-goal scorer on every line.
Coach Craig Berube liberally juggled his bottom three lines, but the trio of Claude Giroux between Scott Hartnell and Jakub Voracek remained intact for the majority of the season and provided the most consistent production. Giroux, after needing 15 games to score his first goal, piled up the points to finish third in League scoring. Giroux plays in all situations for the Flyers and takes every important faceoff.
The second line likely will feature Brayden Schenn and Wayne Simmonds. Simmonds had a breakout season and is one of the team's most relentless forecheckers. His net-front presence makes the Flyers one of the League's best on the power play.
Sean Couturier centers a checking line that includes Matt Read. Berube has rotated the third forward on that line from a group that includes Steve Downie, Michael Raffl and Zac Rinaldo. Berube believed Rinaldo blossomed in that role prior to a four-game suspension for an illegal check to the head.
Since his shift to the fourth line Lecavalier has played some of his best hockey. Adam Hall will play on the fourth line and is a top penalty killer and faceoff man.
The Rangers defense begins and ends with the top pairing of Ryan McDonagh and Dan Girardi. The duo has been tasked all season with shadowing the opponent's top forward lines. McDonagh and Girardi ranked first and second, respectively, among Rangers players in average ice time per game, earning major minutes in every situation. Though Girardi continued to provide a bruising defensive presence and booming shot, McDonagh blossomed into one of the League's top defensemen, leading all Rangers defenders in goals, points, power-play points and plus/minus.
Defensive responsibilities became more evenly distributed once Marc Staal returned to full health. Paired most of the season with Anton Stralman, Staal found his form and played some of his best hockey in years. His ferociousness in the defensive zone returned, and over time he began making plays in the offensive end.
New York solidified its defense corps with two trades, acquiring stay-at-home veteran Kevin Klein from the Nashville Predators and fleet-footed Raphael Diaz from the Vancouver Canucks. Diaz provided a much-needed right-handed shot on the power play, and Klein served as a mentor for 23-year-old John Moore.
Moore's time with Klein certainly paid off; when McDonagh missed time with a shoulder injury, Moore was well-prepared to play on the top pairing with Girardi.
Other than McDonagh, the Rangers blue line doesn't pose much of a scoring threat, but it's a deep unit with plenty of veteran savvy.
Kimmo Timonen and Braydon Coburn will see the majority of the minutes at even strength and as the top defense pair on the penalty kill. It's a strong blend of Timonen's veteran savvy and Coburn's skating, strength and long reach. Timonen plays the point on the top power-play unit.
The second pair of Mark Streit and Nicklas Grossmann features the Flyers' best offensive defenseman and its top shot-blocker. Streit arguably has the hardest shot on the team and is at his best in transition. He is the main triggerman on the second power-play unit. Grossmann is big, strong and a physical presence in the defensive zone. He sees a great deal of time on the penalty kill.
The third pair of Andrew MacDonald and Luke Schenn sees less 5-on-5 time but plays a large role on special teams. Schenn leads Philadelphia's defensemen in hits and isn't afraid to get in front of a shot. Schenn is one of the top penalty killers, and MacDonald, since his arrival from the New York Islanders, has joined Streit, his former Islanders teammate, at the point on the second power play. MacDonald is among the League leaders in blocked shots.
The Flyers have solid depth with Erik Gustafsson, who plays a similar style as Timonen. And though Hal Gill hasn't played much, he's a smart veteran who knows what it takes to win a Stanley Cup.
Henrik Lundqvist once again is the foundation for much of the Rangers' success.
Lundqvist struggled through a difficult opening month, including a low point when he was pulled less than halfway through an 8-1 loss Oct. 8 against the San Jose Sharks after allowing four goals on 26 shots.
Six months later, Lundqvist has returned to the form that won him the 2012 Vezina Trophy. As Cam Talbot established himself as a solid backup, Lundqvist continued to improve his play and give Vigneault no choice but to start him almost every game.
Lundqvist flourished under his increasing workload. During a crucial January stretch in which the Rangers looked to make a move in the Metropolitan Division standings, Lundqvist easily could have been distracted by the upcoming 2014 Sochi Olympics. Instead he played his best hockey of the season, allowing two or fewer goals 10 times in 11 starts while going 9-2-0. And he won a silver medal in Sochi with Sweden.
Now the Rangers' all-time leader in regular season wins and shutouts, Lundqvist appears locked in for another deep playoff run. He'll start the postseason 11 wins shy of Mike Richter's Rangers record for wins, so if he breaks the record, the Rangers will be on their way to their first Stanley Cup Final in 20 years.
After four long seasons, Steve Mason has re-emerged as a legitimate No. 1 goaltender. He's won 30 games for the first time since his breakout rookie season, and has the full faith of his teammates and coaching staff. Mason will turn 26 in May and said he finally feels mature enough to handle the rigors of being a starting NHL goaltender.
Mason was forced out of the Flyers' second-to-last game of the regular season with an upper-body injury, but coach Craig Berube said he expects Mason to be in goal for Game 1.
In the event Mason can't go, the Flyers are in good hands with backup Ray Emery. The 31-year-old has provided solid play when Mason has needed time off. He has playoff experience, helping the Ottawa Senators to the Stanley Cup Final in 2007 and was the backup to Corey Crawford when the Chicago Blackhawks won the Cup last spring.
There's no disputing that John Tortorella's slow, grinding approach was successful in New York. But the Rangers decided it was time for a change when New York was eliminated by the Boston Bruins in five games in the second round of the 2013 playoffs.
They may have found the perfect replacement in Vigneault. The former Vancouver Canucks coach brought a drastically different game plan to Madison Square Garden and enjoyed success. After the early hiccups, Vigneault managed to implement his free-wheeling system, utilizing New York's speed and turning the Rangers into an exciting, up-and-down team the opposition had trouble keeping up with.
Vigneault's calm, collected approach to his players has been a change of pace, and his prior experience with Vancouver in the playoffs could be a major asset for New York.
Berube was in his seventh season as an NHL assistant coach when he was promoted to replace Peter Laviolette three games into this season. He quickly put his stamp on the Flyers by demanding the players get into better shape by stressing up-tempo skating drills in practice. He instituted a defense-first game plan while stressing an aggressive forecheck.
He is respected for his honesty, with many saying his best attribute is his ability to criticize without embarrassing.
Berube showed a great touch with his roster. He shifted Raffl up and down the lineup, showed confidence in Mason early and never wavered, and shifted Lecavalier, a 400-goal scorer, to the fourth line without disrupting chemistry. The players respect Berube and they respond to him.
With some of the League's top playmakers on the roster, the Rangers were expected to shine on the power play; especially under Vigneault, who led a Canucks power play that consistently was among the League's best. But New York struggled through occasional droughts with the man-advantage, although it had occasional scoring outbursts. It was an improvement from the unit that finished 23rd last season.
New York's true strength on special teams turned out to be its penalty kill, which was among the most effective in the NHL. For years the Rangers penalty kill was an asset under Tortorella, and it didn't skip a beat with Vigneault in charge.
Moore complemented a unit already led by a strong defense down low, Carl Hagelin's speed and Boyle's reach. Even Nash became an important part of the unit after killing penalties for Canada at the Olympics.
Everything runs through Giroux at the left halfwall on the Flyers' top power-play unit. He has the option to shoot, send it to Timonen at the point or whip a cross-ice pass to Voracek for a one-timer. Simmonds and Hartnell provide strong net-front presence.
The second unit is keyed by Lecavalier's one-timer from the right circle, and Streit can hammer the puck from the point.
One area of concern is the power play's home/road split. Philadelphia had one of the worst success rates with the extra man at home but the best in the League on the road.
The penalty kill has been one of the most consistent areas all season despite Philadelphia being one of the most penalized teams in the League. That unit has been at its best since the Olympic break and was a major reason the Flyers were able to solidify a playoff spot.
Henrik Lundqvist -- One Rangers player is capable of winning a series by himself, and it's the man in the mask. Throughout his career, Lundqvist has stifled and frustrated opposing offenses on the biggest stage. He's given every indication he can do it again. Playing behind arguably the deepest defense corps he's had in years, Lundqvist will be relied on to bring the Stanley Cup back to New York.
The hope is that Richards and St. Louis can come together like they did when they won the Stanley Cup in 2004 with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Despite their depth and scoring power, the Rangers will only go as far as their goaltender can take them.
Mark Streit -- With the Flyers' deep group of forwards, the team doesn't have to worry too much about getting offense from its defense. However, they do rely on strong transition play, which starts with the defenders getting the puck out of the defensive zone with smart passes or by skating it out. Streit is the best on the team at the latter. He's skilled enough to make a clean breakout pass or to lead the rush. He's also smart enough to know when to jump into a play to create an odd-man situation. Streit is the one game-breaker the Flyers have on the back end and can be a smart secret weapon.
Rangers will win if ... They maintain the balance and chemistry that has led them all season. Vigneault intends on rolling four forward lines and three defense pairs, so everyone will be counted on to fulfill their specific role and stick to the game plan. McDonagh also must demonstrate the confidence and playmaking ability he showed before getting hurt. Providing that supplemental offense is a key to the Rangers' attack.
Flyers will win if ... They play smart but physical hockey. Philadelphia was one of the most aggressive teams in the League, and their big, strong forwards are tasked with getting pucks deep and being physical on opposing defensemen. It created offense but also led to them become one of the most penalized teams in the League. Strong penalty killing helped offset all the penalties, but spending too much time shorthanded is a recipe for an early exit. Berube has stressed smart, physical play, and if his players respond they should advance.


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Darwinia is populated by a sentient evolving life form called "Darwinians." They are the product of a decade's worth of research into genetic algorithms.
Unfortunately, the systems of Darwinia have been overrun by an evil red Viral Infection. This Virus has multiplied out of control and must be stopped.
Your task is to destroy the Viral Infection and save the Darwinians from extinction.
Nearly three years after taking the underground gaming scene by storm with Uplink, Introversion and Ambrosia Software have teamed up again to release Darwinia. Combining fast-paced action with strategic battle planning, Darwinia is a real-time strategy game like no other.
Darwinia combines state of the art fractal generated landscapes with iconic arcade sprites, an intuitive control mechanism, and a story concerning a tribe of video game sprites trapped in a modern 3D game world.
One of the things that really caught me was the speed of play. With nothing to clutter the interface and fast movement you can get straight to playing without any control familiarization. Not having to save was also a plus, as I'm usually prone to dropping out of a game only to realize my progress was just lost. There really isn't any downside to how Introversion pulled off their innovative RTS. Darwinia is just different enough and designed well enough to rock. You'll probably like it if you're into RTSs, action games, or just wish someone would release a game as innovative as the best titles of the Commodore 64's heyday.
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In small rooms it just makes sense to "go up" and optimize your vertical space. Faced with the challenge of making better use of a tiny bedroom (7' x 12') in Manhattan, architect Benjamin Marcus conceived a lofted bed structure with stairs and desk and storage below.
Benjamin tells us more about this project:
The room has two points of entry on opposite long walls, making it a very tight space. To make room for a full-sized loft-bed, desk and storage where before there was only a twin-sized, we removed a shallow closet which provided an extra 6 inches for the steps.
Above, we moved the ceiling-mounted light away from the center, added an L-shaped wall-mounted shelf - and reused existing crown molding to wrap the edge to better integrate it. We added a new wall-mounted light, and provided a new, frameless mirror over the bureau, and repainted with bold colors, breaking up the wall with bands of color, to emphasize the horizontal. The desk-top has a duplex outlet beneath one shelf. And the bed-frame has a removable corner to allow for easier tucking-in of sheets.
The construction was done by S.M. Construction Inc., New York.
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Sheriff David V. Cole reacts to the new changes in the SAFE Act
Sections of the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act regarding the sale of ammunitions are now officially in effect as of Wednesday.
The SAFE Act was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Jan 15, 2013.
One year later, criticism of the SAFE Act and these particular provisions is still high and voiced by several law enforcement agencies, including Steuben County Sheriff David V. Cole.
"This law is unconstitutional," said Cole. "All this law and these provisions do is attack law abiding citizens."
Despite Cole's criticisms, he emphasized that everyone needed to be aware of the following changes in the law.
The first provision of the law requires that all sellers of ammunition must register with New York State Police. If an individual who sells ammunition has already received a Federal Firearms License (FFL), then they are exempt from this provision. This provision is an attempt to ensure that individuals convicted of a felony or who are mentally ill will not be able to sell ammunition.
The background checks required to sell ammunition will be done by the New York State Police, except the State Police are not yet ready to begin this process. Costing nearly $70 million dollars, the program has fallen behind schedule according to Cole, but he assures that it will be up and running as soon as possible.
"The State Police are still working on the database," said Cole. "It is a lengthy, $70 million dollar process, and we will give notice as soon as it is ready to be put into action."
The second provision requires that all ammunition transfers take place in person, including internet sales, and must be facilitated by a registered New York State ammunition dealer.
According to Cole, this process becomes particularly problematic for shooting ranges, hunting clubs and youth and safety education programs as they generally receive direct shipments of ammunition, not face to face purchases. These clubs and ranges are exempt from this provision so long as they fill in the proper registration forms at nysafeact.com.
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"The SAFE Act is classifying assault rifles based solely on attachments to the weapons," said Cole. "Many hunting rifles are outlawed simply because of a feature on the gun. It has nothing to do with how quickly or how many rounds a gun can fire."
Cole wants gun and ammunition dealers to be aware of these new provisions so that unnecessary "attacks on law abiding citizens" can be avoided.
"Everyone needs to be aware of these provisions," said Cole. "The stated aim of those provisions is to protect the public by keeping ammunition out of the hands of those prohibited from possessing it under federal and state law."


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A person was seriously injured in a shooting during a home invasion Saturday. Police are looking for four suspects.
The incident was reported around 4 p.m. in the 2600 block of Westchester Drive south of Burton Avenue.
The unidentified victim was shot in the back and eventually taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The victim's injuries are serious but not life-threatening.
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I guess there are mostly 3 ways for people to reach apple's OS X downloads page, Apple's homepage, Google, and the link in the apple menu of the OS ( which I never noticed btw )
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Joe Weider
November 29, 1919 - March 23, 2013
Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California
Joe Weider
Body Builder and Fitness Magazine Publisher
Birth: Nov. 29, 1919
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Death: Mar. 23, 2013
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Bodybuilder, Health and Fitness Entrepreneur. He was the co-founder of the International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) along with brother Ben Weider and creator of the Mr. Olympia, the Ms. Olympia and the Masters Olympia bodybuilding contests. He was the publisher of several bodybuilding and fitness-related magazines, most notably Muscle & Fitness, Flex, Men's Fitness and Shape, and the manufacturer of a line of fitness equipment and fitness supplements. In 1995, he appeared in the Charlton Heston and Peter Graves film, America: A Call to Greatness, directed by Warren Chaney. He was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Poland. He published the first issue of Your Physique magazine in 1936 when he was 14 years old, and built a set of barbells out of car wheels and axles the same year. He designed numerous training courses beginning in the 1950s, including the Weider System of Bodybuilding. In the 1950s he met Betty Brosmer, who was then the highest paid pin-up girl in the U.S. Betty was herself a leading pioneer in womens health and fitness. In 1961 Joe and Betty married, and she began working alongside him as Betty Weider. Betty and Joe together authored books on bodybuilding. Joe, Betty and Ben together were the co-founders of the International Federation of BodyBuilders. In 1953, Your Physique was renamed Muscle Builder magazine. The name changed again to Muscle & Fitness in 1980. Other magazines published by Weider's publishing empire include "Mr. America", "Muscle Power", Shape magazine, Fit Pregnancy, Men's Fitness, Living Fit, Prime Health and Fitness, Cooks, Senior Golfer, and Flex, in addition to the more risque Jem_Magazine and Monsieur. The last two publications caused at least two clashes with obscenity laws. Weider has written numerous books, including The Weider System of Bodybuilding (1981), and co-wrote the 2006 biography Brothers Of Iron with Ben Weider. In 1983, Weider was named "Publisher of the Year" by The Periodical and Book Association. In 2003, his publication company, Weider Publications, was sold to American Media. He created Weider Nutrition in 1940, considered the first sports nutrition company. Now called Schiff Nutrition International, they were the creators of Tiger's Milk nutrition bars and related products, one of the earliest lines of sports foods. In 1972, Weider and his brother Ben found themselves a target of an investigation led by U.S. Postal Inspectors. The investigation involved the claims regarding their nutritional supplement Weider Formula No. 7. The product was a weight-gainer that featured a young Arnold Schwarzenegger on the label. The actual claim centered on consumers being able to "gain a pound per day" in mass. Following an appeal wherein Schwarzenegger testified, Weider was forced to alter his marketing and claims. Also in 1972, Weider encountered legal problems for claims made in his booklet Be a Destructive Self-Defense Fighter in Just 12 Short Lessons. Weider was ordered to offer a refund to 100,000 customers of a "five-minute body shaper" that was claimed to offer significant weight loss after just minutes a day of use. The claims, along with misleading "before and after" photographs, were deemed false advertising by a Superior Court Judge in 1976. In the 1980s, Weider found himself answering charges levied by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 1984, the FTC charged that ads for Weider's Anabolic Mega-Pak (containing amino acids, minerals, vitamins, and herbs) and Dynamic Life Essence (an amino acid product) had been misleading. The FTC complaint was settled in 1985 when Weider and his company agreed not to falsely claim that the products could help build muscles or be effective substitutes for anabolic steroids. They also agreed to pay a minimum of $400,000 in refunds or, if refunds did not reach this figure, to fund research on the relationship of nutrition to muscle development. In 2000, Weider Nutritional International settled another FTC complaint involving false claims made for alleged weight loss products. The settlement agreement called for $400,000 to be paid to the FTC and for a ban on making any unsubstantiated claims for any food, drug, dietary supplement, or program. On Labor Day 2006, California governor and seven times Mr. Olympia winner Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Weider protégé, presented him with the Venice Muscle Beach Hall of Fame's Lifetime Achievement award. Schwarzenegger credited Weider with inspiring him to enter bodybuilding and to come to the United States. (bio courtesy of: Wikipedia)
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Longer Anthracycline Therapy Reduces Heart Failure In Adult Cancer Patients
Stretching out a dose of chemotherapy over six or more hours may reduce the risk of heart problems caused by certain commonly used cancer drugs, according to a new review of recent research.
Anthracycline drugs like daunorubicin and doxorubicin are used to treat many types of solid tumors and blood cancers such as leukemias in adults and children.
Anthracycline therapy can be very successful at controlling cancer, but heart damage caused by anthracycline treatment "is a considerable and serious problem," said Dr. Elvira van Dalen of the Emma Children's Hospital in the Netherlands.
She and her colleagues found that the rates of heart failure among adult patients receiving anthracycline therapy were significantly lower when the patients had an infusion of the drug that lasted six or more hours, compared to shorter infusions times.
In five studies involving 557 patients, the longer treatment cut the risk of heart failure by nearly 75 percent compared to the risk in patients who received the short treatment.
van Dalen said the prolonged dose of six hours or more "might be justified" if a patient is at high risk of heart damage or needs a high cumulative dose of the chemotherapy.
The review appears in the latest issue of The Cochrane Library, a publication of The Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Systematic reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice after considering both the content and quality of existing medical trials on a topic.
In some of the studies, the prolonged dose also reduced the risk of less severe problems such as weakened heart function. Patients had the same chance of survival and tumor shrinkage whether they received the long or short therapies, the Cochrane researchers found.
"It should be emphasized that the majority of the patients included in these studies were adults with advanced solid tumors," van Dalen and colleagues said, noting that there are few good studies about the length of anthracycline treatment in children.
Among the children in the study, there was no difference in heart damage between the long and short treatments "and no information on survival and tumor shrinkage was available," van Dalen said.
Recent studies have shown that the toxic heart effects of anthracycline therapy can have lasting effects on children's health. Dr. Stephen Lipshulz, a pediatric cancer specialist at the University of Miami, said childhood cancer survivors "may be at significant risk of serious cardiovascular problems at a much younger age," than researchers believed a few years ago.
Lipshulz's work suggests many childhood cancer survivors suffer from enlarged hearts and prematurely hardened arteries, due at least in part from their chemotherapy. "It's alarming that we have


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Species: Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
Status: Endangered (EN)
Interesting Fact: The Atlantic bluefin tuna can swim at speeds of up to 72 kilometres per hour when pursuing its prey.
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I'm in love with Mushi-Pan right now and I also tried my own one some days ago! I also made some Matcha-butter-cream and Sesame-peanut-cream as a topping. It was delicious, but I want to try more flavors.
Do you have any tips for me how to variate the Mushi-Pan-dough a little bit?
What is your favorite-Mushi-Pan ingredient? (for example, chocolate, fruits or any other cream as a topping...?)
Thx for all your help! =D
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Mushi pan is very close in texture and spirit to British steamed puddings, so you can look up recipes for those and get a lot of ideas. E.g. any kind of dried fruits, preserved ginger (with the syrup as topping!), lemon and sugar, marmelade, jam, etc...
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Ah, in that case I can give some suggestions - steamed pudding is something I used to make often when my son was small.
From memory, these were good:
Vanilla essence mixed in, golden syrup on top
Ginger mixed in (powdered or crystallised or both), golden syrup on top
Cocoa mixed in, chocolate sauce poured over (this would be chocolate custard with a steamed pudding)
Sultanas mixed in
Sultanas and cinnamon and nutmeg mixed in
Dates, either mixed in or on top
Dried apricots mixed in, apricot jam on top
Apricot jam mixed in, but you need to use less baking powder and add a little baking soda because of the acidity of the jam.
Note that a steamed pudding is turned upside down to serve, so where I say "on top" I actually mean put on the bottom of the bowl/dish and cooked underneath the mixture. Then when you turn it over it's on top and all soaked in (except dates, which obviously won't soak), but you don't have to turn it over if you don't want to.
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Thank you token!
Your thread has led me to discover home made mushi-pan for myself
Hi guys! :D Thank you so much for your ideas - I'll defenitely have to try all of them :D And thx maki for the advice about the British steamed pudding. Never heard of it - I'll have to google for it now!
@ Loretta: you're welcome! ^_^
I made Maki's recipe twice (with half the ingredients) and it turned out better the second time with a nice thin layer of muslin.
However, my right wrist/hand doesn't work too well right now and I don't own an electric whisk so the egg beating had to be done with man-in-the-house power.
As he's not around today I looked for another recipe and found this one which has a yogurt tang to it
It's in Japanese but by running it through the Excite translation tool and halving the amounts (I'm only interested in cooking what will fit in my rice cooker) I came up with this
1 egg
50grams yogurt (use mascarpone cheese if you don't want a yogurt taste)
two teaspoons of oil (I used canola/rapeseed)
25grams of caster sugar
a drop of vanilla essence (half a teaspoon should do)
75grams of cake flour
1 teaspoon of baking powder
The instructions weren't that clear to me but I just blended the egg and yogurt, added the oil, added the sugar and vanilla essence.
I sifted together the flour and baking powder in another bowl and then loosely folded the flour into the egg/yogurt/sugar mixture being careful not to over mix the batter (there were a few lumps of flour - it didn't seem to matter)
Next I spooned the amount into 5 silicone cup cake holders (the sort for making cup cakes or muffins) but I only half filled them and put these on the steaming tray in my rice cooker over a couple of centimeters of water. I pressed the 'steam' button and left them there for 20 minutes - I figured it would take 5 minutes for the steam to form which would give around 15 minutes cooking time.
The cakes were really pretty and had puffed up beautifully. The lasting aftertaste is definitely that of yogurt. I'll add a spoon of lemon curd instead of the vanilla next time and some grated lemon rind. I think I might do the same with orange marmalade and orange rind and add some grated carrot in there too (there was a comment from someone who had made the recipe on the original Japanese site saying she'd added grated carrot). If I do add curd or marmalade I'll take into account Bronwyn's advice about counteracting the acidity of these ingredients.
But for today, I've enjoyed these plain versions best with a bit of blackcurant jam.
Just to add that I've made the lemon versions of the yogurt mushipan - so good I made them twice (we really, really love these!)
1 egg - beaten
50gms yogurt
2 teaspoons lemon curd (lemoncurd is mostly butter/fat so you won't need the oil in the original recipe)
grated zest of 1/4 lemon
20gms sugar
- blend these together and add
75gms cake flour and
3/4 teaspoon of baking powder and
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
which has been sifted together.
-Fold this in loosely without overmixing.
-Immediately drop the mixture into 5 or 6 silicone cup cake cups or ramekins.
-add half a teaspoon of lemon curd to each portion ans smear it over the top with the back of a spoon.
Steam for 20 minutes
Next time I'll try using coconut yogurt and replacing the vanilla (or lemon curd) flavouring with a couple of spoons of coconut cream. A little dessicated coconut should be nice in there too - a lemon curd topping could be nice, pineapple or mango seem appetising also. I suspect any flavours that work with yogurt would work with this recipe.
Hi Loretta,
oh thx for your great recipe! :D
I tried something similar to that recipe some time ago.
It was not with yogurt, but with cream-cheese/farmer cheese, sake and lemon-juice. So it has no aftertaste of yogurt.
Here is the original Recipe (German with Englisch Translation)
And here is what I did (German but with Google-Translate-Function) :)
I steamed it in the microwave btw! It works fantastic and I love the peanut-cream, too ^_^
Many thx for the idea with the carrots. Have to try this the next time :)
oh dear, mushipan has become a little bit of an obsession. I'm blaming you, token!
I couldn't wait until I got the coconut so I used the basic yogurt mushipan recipe, substituted the yogurt for soft cheese (kept the vanilla essence) and added a tablespoon of powdered green tea/matcha to the flour and baking powder. The twist is that I smeared the tops of each portion with blackcurrant jam (Not so long ago, Starbucks in Japan topped their matcha frappucinos with blackcurrant - this was the inspiration). If I ever feel really indulgent I'll fold in some white chocolate chips to the matcha batter. The amazing thing for me is that they don't need it - each mini matcha-blackurrant mushipan has less than a teaspoon of sugar and a light smudge of jam and yet they're as sweet as they need to be. Lovely with a cup of tea!
I do miss that ever so slightly sweet treat to go with tea from Europe, your mention of this may inspire some weekend baking so I can have something to have with my tea. Thank you.
my computer was down, so i couldn't try making mushipan today- no recipe! however, i had one for lemon curd lying around, so i made my first batch of that instead.. there's nothing comparable in germany. i liked the result very much, tomorrow will be lemon mushipan time. matcha and black currant sounds delicious, too..
Anything would be nice with lemon curd. There's a boutique ice-cream company I pass on my way home from work, and a wee while ago they started making lemon curd ice-cream. Heaven.
But I still think the best thing to do with it is put it on big thick slabs of fresh crusty white bread and butter.
oh, whow, i'm so full!
i just made loretta's recipe with yesterday's lemon curd and ate 5 of them! gooooooood. thank you, thank you, thank you! my stomach is very happy now.
those "teaspoons" are 5 ml? i did it that way and it turned out fine. is a tablespoon 15 ml in your kitchen?
matcha/raspberry is next (still got some raspberries in the freezer). i don't have any green tea because i'm an earl grey tea drinker. if i want to get green tea for flavouring desserts, what kind am i looking for? i've seen something like that mentioned somewhere 'round here but can't remember where..
I'm so glad you liked them!
(It was my birthday on Sunday and the lemon curd ones were my 'cake', I ate four - I grudgingly gave away two otherwise I would easily have eaten them all!)
Yes - I consider 1 teaspoon to be about 5 mls and a tablespoon to be about 15mls. I realised that the half teaspoon of lemoncurd I smear over the top is usually about a third of a teaspoon - a little lemon curd goes a long way in this recipe. Also, whether the curd stays near the top of sinks to the bottom (to me it doesn't matter as the mushipan taste just as good upside down) seems to depend on how thick the yogurt and hence the batter is.
You could get away with not doing any weighing if you use (for the original vanilla yogurt recipe)
5 level teaspoons of sugar (4 for the lemon recipe)
2 bulging tablespoons yogurt
2 HEAPED tablespoons flour - and I do mean heaped!
The best green tea to use is matcha. It's a very special tea made from the best tea leaves which have been ground into a powder. The downside to buying matcha is that the price reflects the quality (it's expensive!) and it goes stale quite quickly, even in the fridge. token had already made mushipan with matcha butter which is why I suggested putting matcha powder into a mushipan batter made with soft cream cheese (mascarpone really is ideal for this).
I personally don't use matcha enough or frequently enough to justify buying it on a regular basis. However, I do always have good quality sencha so my budget cheat is to grind up sencha in a pestle and mortar in order to make matcha for cooking with (after grinding I sift the powder through a fine tea strainer and discard any brown bits). You need a bit more powdered sencha than you would true matcha and the flavour isn't quite as 'pure' or intense but it does taste good. I wouldn't recommend buying sencha especially for this purpose though, and if you did want to try matcha, I'd recommend holding off until the weather gets warmer (you can dissolve the matcha to flavour vanilla ice cream and make green tea ice cream or milkshakes with it - much easier to use up the powder before it gets stale this way!)
I bought a pack of solid coconut cream today (the kind found in Asian and Caribbean shops, it costs the equivalent of 50 US cents). I'm going to be trying that today by grating it into the batter. Coconut and raspberry tend to go very well together so I'll report back.
I still think that there is a way to tailor the yogurt recipe to make a delicious coconut version, but just adding grated cheap creamed coconut isn't really the way. The result is edible but doesn't touch on the lemon curd version. I think my initial thought of using a coconut yogurt would work but it really does need a better quality coconut cream as well as this... and I think the dessicated coconut is almost essential. One day, when my wrist is all better, I'll try this again but with grated real coconut and from hand massaged coconut cream, I haven't given up on the idea of coconut mushipan just yet. Next attempt will be the carrot and orange.
What do you reckon about matcha in the freezer? I bought some a while ago and it turned out to be a lot more than I was imagining so I stuck most of it in the freezer. Have you ever tried that?
A language question for Maki or Loretta (or anyone who knows the answer): Was "pan" borrowed from the French? Or is it just coincidentally nearly the same as "pain"?
As good matcha is made from the most tender, most fragrant leaves in their first flush, tea tips that have been painstakingly sheltered from the rays of the sun before being picked and dried and ground and packed, submitting matcha to the frost of a freezer seems rather brutal to me (not that mushipan or ice cream is any less indignant an end to this fine tea!).
This is probably a kneejerk emotional reaction to storing matcha and freezing is probably fine for matcha one intends to cook with. However, something is screaming inside at me that matcha meant to be drunk hot in the proper way is probably not supposed to be frozen.
I should be seeing a matcha authority quite soon and I'll get a definitive answer from her.
As for pan
I'd always thought it was from the Portoguese 'pao' and I've seen a few other instances where only the first syllable or two of a foreign loan word gets adopted into Japanese (i.e. terebi - television, biru - building, depaato - department store - this phenomenon happens in other countries too, think how many US immigrants had their ancestral names castrated at the Ellis Island registry office and there's a great parody of the British tendency to cut names here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGmD4fOqWgo).
Naturally, I'm delighted that the 'pan' in panko or mushipan means bread as it's the same word in Spanish.
the french, portugese and spanish word for bread are all derived from latin "panis", as in "panis et vinum" or "panem et circenses", so they're all similar.
somehow, it wouldn't feel right to me to use a product like matcha in baking- there's all that knowledge, love and care spent to make a fine, traditional product, i can't just go ahead and bake it into sweets! it seems disrespectful. like using the best bottle in the cellar for making red wine cake..
i'll have a go with powdered sencha and see how it works out.
hm, mascarpone, the world's fattiest cream cheese! good idea.
somehow, it wouldn't feel right to me to use a product like matcha in baking- there's all that knowledge, love and care spent to make a fine, traditional product, i can't just go ahead and bake it into sweets! it seems disrespectful. like using the best bottle in the cellar for making red wine cake..
Wonderfully put! That's why I bake with the crappiest stuff that doesn't deserve to be called matcha. ^^
I suppose it would be worth the cost if a similar amount of knowledge, love, and care is put into the baking...but I seldom go to that much trouble with my pastries.
However, something is screaming inside at me that matcha meant to be drunk hot in the proper way is probably not supposed to be frozen.
I should be seeing a matcha authority quite soon and I'll get a definitive answer from her.
Turns out that I'm far too precious (who'd have guessed?) as matcha doesn't suffer that much in the freezer. Sure, it's better to consume it when it's fresh, but it's much better to freeze it than allow it to go stale.
What will ruin matcha is condensation. So the tip when storing matcha in a refrigerator or freezer is to put it in an air tight container and, when you remove the container from the cold, let it reach room temperature before you open it. This helps keep the contents safe from the perils of condensation.
Thanks Loretta. I had taken a punt and put it in the freezer anyway, but it's good to know it won't come to harm in there.
orange flower honey and rose water in the dough, double the amount of sugar, no topping 'cause i ate them warm..
I've never made mushipan but I'm planning on trying the recipe rehfilet gave me in the Bento For Life thread. However I am wondering - can you make it in silicone baking cups? I have been coveting a set but couldn't bring myself to buy them. However, if I can use them to make these, I would get some! So can you use the silicone baking cup for mushipan? I'll probably try some of the suggestions in here too if it works :3
i use the silicone kind all the time, it works fine!
about that recipe, you might want to add a little sugar or honey or such, the vanilla shake stuff i use is very sweet in itself.
My mother got me a set of silicon cups and I'm ambivalent about baking with them. They are perfect for steaming mushipan with, and these are what I've been using for all my attempts.
If I use the silicone cups for mushipan, would I still need the cloth as described in Maki's instructions? http://www.justhungry.com/2004/03/mushipan_steame.html
No. That's the equivalent of the old pudding cloth that traditional English Christmas puddings are made in. Except they're boiled. Just put your muffin cups in the steamer as is.
Thank you! I did as you said and they worked perfectly. I was very nervous because it was my first time using both the rice cooker as steamer and the silicone cups for cooking (I usually use them for bento separators). I tried the normal recipe that Maki posted, and my husband says he'd rather have it a bit sweeter. I'm thinking of putting maple syrup in the batter before steaming.
Any ideas on how to make mushipan sweeter before putting toppings?
i put a little extra sugar in mine, too.. about 2-3 spoons, i think.
Thanks for the suggestion! This is what I did and it turned out noticeably sweeter. I liked it, and so did my daughter! My husband has a fierce sweet tooth though so I'll probably have to add even more.
A quick question for people in terms of matcha: I love matcha tea, and I love everything about drinking it the traditional way. And because it's so expensive, I can see not wanting to use good matcha in baking or ice cream. But I also love matcha in things other than tea; green tea ice cream is my favorite flavor, green tea lattes, matcha smoothies, etc. Some coffee shops sell latte grade matcha. Do you think that would be okay to use in baking or other sweets? I mean it was just going to be made into a latte....
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TOWNSEND -- Selectmen in Townsend voted unanimously Wednesday to not allow Kinder Morgan Energy Partners to survey town-owned land for a proposed natural-gas pipeline that would stretch across Northern Massachusetts.
Selectmen Chairwoman Sue Lisio said the move was a largely symbolic gesture signifying the town's opposition to the project, which would run through town-owned conservation land if it continues along the proposed route.
The move came after two-and-a-half hour meeting with representatives from Kinder Morgan. About 400 residents attended the meeting, and many voiced concerns about safety, the prospect of diminishing property values and the environmental impacts of transferring gas that was extracted through hydraulic fracturing.
Lisio said she was most concerned with the potential for destruction of protected conservation land.
"The kinds of things that we try to protect and hold dear, once damaged are damaged. It's not a question of restoring that, it's a question of it's gone forever," Lisio said.
Selectman Carolyn Smart said after the meeting that she was concerned about the consequences for property owners along the pipeline route, as well as the environmental impacts.
"I'm opposed to the project and we've heard from a number of taxpayers that they're opposed to the project as well, and I'm here to represent them. I'm very concerned about the conservation land and the route, but more important is looking out for the best interests of the taxpayers," Smart said.
If Kinder Morgan chooses to pursue the project and receives approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the company could gain access to both town and privately owned land through eminent domain, even if the landowners deny permission. Property owners would be given monetary compensation for an easement on their land.
Kinder Morgan representative Allen Fore stressed that the project was still preliminary, and would only be pursued if contracts could be secured with local energy companies.
"It's not an 'if you build it they will come project.' It has to be secure financially and supported by market needs," Fore said.
He said that the route of the pipeline had not been finalized yet but that the company was trying to take landowner, environmental and cultural issues into account.
"We're trying to construct a project that we believe is needed in the region from an energy perspective and is the least impactful," he said.
Meeting local need through New England energy companies would be the "anchor" of the project, Fore said.
"As one of the major providers of natural gas to the region currently, we're responding to what we believe is a need for increased natural gas infrastructure," he said.
When asked why the new line couldn't be installed alongside an existing Kinder Morgan pipeline that runs through the southern part of the state, Fore said that development that had sprung up around the pipeline would make it very difficult to build there.
Town positions on the project would be considered as the routing process was finalized, Fore said.
"We'll be taking that into account as we finalize our route. It doesn't mean we will not be in Townsend, but we will certainly take into account the position of the Board of Selectmen," Fore said.
He said the project would bring construction jobs to the state and provide millions in tax revenue for both the state and town governments.
During a question-and-answer period of more than an hour, residents raised concerns about the possibility of gas leaks, diminished property values, higher insurance rates and impact on the water supply.
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Hem one side of your long piece of fabric. This is by far the best hem work I have ever done. Usually my hems are beyond terrible, but I had an easier time keeping things straight using the stripes as a guide.
tutorial: easy DIY bed skirt
Hem one side of your long piece of fabric. This is by far the best hem work I have ever done. Usually my hems are beyond terrible, but I had an easier time keeping things straight using the stripes as a guide.
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I love the stripes! The bed skirt looks perfect with your duvet, I seriously want your whole bed! I like brass too :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Good to know I am not alone in my love of brass :)Delete
Oooh, I love it! I really need to make a bed skirt, too . . . this is the simplest one I've seen, so I think I'm gonna go for it. I've avoided making one because most tutorials seem like WAY too much work for something that's just meant to hide the crap under my bed. This is perfect!ReplyDelete
Wowza! That looks so good! I love it! And that duvet cover- please tell - where did you snag that beauty?!ReplyDelete
It is from Urban Outfitters - it's called the Romantic Floral Scarf duvet.Delete
I love the floral-stripe combo so much! Great job, your bedroom looks dreamy...ReplyDelete
What a great idea! Your bedskirt looks fantastic.ReplyDelete
It turned out fantastic! I Love it! Your Duvet is beautiful and the black and white stripes make it pop!ReplyDelete
That is really nice! I love the way it hangs so straight and square around the bed.ReplyDelete
You did a great job! I really like how it hangs so straight. DanaReplyDelete
It looks great with your floral bedding. I like the brass lamps in your room! We do have 'ugly' brass in our house. It is that super shiny, fake gold looking brass. The worn brass is not so bad, but that super shiny brass is terrible - all of my door handles, hinges, knobs, pulls, and some of the light fixtures and ceiling fans are/were that shiny brass. I am sure in about 10 years, I will be wondering what I was thinking replacing everything with oil rubbed bronze! ;)ReplyDelete
Simple and effective. Thanks for sharing this.ReplyDelete
I found this at Thirty Handmade Days link party and I am SOOO glad I did! This is just what I needed for my spare bedroom! I am now a follower of your blog. Hope you can follow me too at www.woodsfamilyofthree.blogspot.com. You may just see this project on mine in a few months ;)ReplyDelete
I too am making a bedskirt for my daughter's bed and would be doing it exactly this way even without finding your post!!! I had a smile on my face as I read this. I am equally impatient, want things done as soon as I get the idea and go like crazy til it's done. If I can't see it - it doesn't matter!! I love the stripes and flowers!ReplyDelete
Love the idea and I'm totally doing this!! I bought the materials today for my diy head board...I can't wait to get started, I'm insanely impatient as well! =))ReplyDelete
What a great idea. It looks so good. I have a link party on Wednesdays, and I would love it if you would link this and any other posts. It is called Wednesdays Adorned From Above Link Party. It runs from Wednesday to Sundays.ReplyDelete
I hope to see you there. I am your newest follower, and I would love for your to follow me also. Have a great Day.
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You did find the perfect fabric - it's beautiful! I have this linked to my bed skirts post as well today, you've done a lovely job!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for this idea. My Bed in a Bag came with a bed skirt and I took it off the bed because it moved almost every night - how does that happen? Grrr. Now I will pin it to the bed and see if that works. Why didn't I think of that....ReplyDelete
I followed your fantastic tutorial 2 months ago- it worked out beautifully! I was dressing a massive new king bed with an odd size drop. Your method made it look so polished. And so easy!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for all the work you put into sharing this- your great photos and clear instructions are very appreciated.
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I would get a little more of the striped fabric and make a non-ruffled, flat valance or upholstered pelmet for the top of the window. I would use white sheers and some kind of curtain with it. I would pull a color out of the duvet, probably light blue and paint the walls in that. I would paint the baseboards, trim and furniture in white. For the headboard, I would hang black wrought iron on the wall, possibly a few pieces from Old Time Pottery hung close together. I would try to find a throw rug in another color from the duvet to put by the bed. Maybe light green and tan to tie the beige carpet in. I would probably paint some striped lampshades to use on the lamps. You could even paint the lamps in an enamel paint if you wanted to. I would use alternating black (or other duvet color) and white tassels or strings of beads as fringe on the lampshades. I would definitely have some flowers similar to those on the duvet if possible, in a vase somewhere.ReplyDelete
You are truly brilliantReplyDelete
Here's how I did mine. Measured the length from floor to about 4 inches inside of the box springs. Cut the sheet and used the end that was already hemmed. Stapled the raw edges onto the box springs. Then set my mattress back on top. Wall llaa !!!!ReplyDelete
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Traditional Balinese Buffalo Racing.
3 o'clock in the morning, me and my friends getting into the city named the Negara in Bali. It takes at least 3 hours from Denpasar to reach the location of buffaloes racing game, known here as Makepung. The flurry of buffaloes racing unique traditional performances typical of this country town, has been seen since 6 am. Located in an area with paddy fields, this Makepung was held.
At around 7 am, the race began. Previously a lot of preparation done by the participants. Beginning of the ceremony according to local belief, respectively, with a unique dressing buffaloes, and check all the other preparations.
The background of this race is a time of joy after the harvest. Its history is held by two blocks of the local village sides. A participant using two buffaloes to pull carts behind them, driven by a jockey in the cart behind. The winner is determined by way ahead of the opponent in front of it which is about 10 meters, or if it is able to shorten the distance, but not beyond it. Otherwise the series (draw) if they stay the same distance to the end of the finish line.
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text: So I have done some research and read the forums to try and figure out the best cause of action to my BFing whoa's! My son is 5 1/2 months old and has been bfed from birth. All has been wonderful, till now. He has become very fussy on the breast often crying, pulling on my nipple and un latching over and over. He will drain them(3-5minutes on each breast) and continue to scream like he is starving. He also gets frustrated with my let down not being instant anymore. I started taking fenugreek last weekend to try and increase my supply. I drink tons of water and I try and eat a serving of oatmeal a day( I don't care for it). I was bfing and then pumping to try and increase supply, no luck. I work one day a week for just a few hours and only have to pump once in that time so for the most part I am home with him and am able and willing to nurse my brains out! What do I do now?


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RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Hanford cleanup workers found three broken pieces of uranium fuel rods in the sludge of storage basin.
The highly radioactive scraps are about an inch in size. They were spotted by an underwater camera in the K West Basin.
The basin held nuclear weapon ingredients that were unprocessed at the end of the Cold War. The Tri-City Herald reports the last of the fuel was removed last May. Workers were recently measuring the sludge when they spotted the broken scraps.
They've been placed in a canister in the basin where any more scraps will be stored as the sludge is removed.
The Energy Department project director for K Basins Closure, Tom Teynor, says care is being taken to protect cleanup workers from exposure to the high-dose fuel.
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Compile a uBoot Kernel
This is a tutorial of how to compile a 2.6.21+ kernel from vanilla gentoo-sources or from kernel.org sources to suit UBoot bootloader
While this article was originally written for Gentoo users, it is basically the same for Debian or others distros. Note that this article is valid for the KuroBox, LS1, LS-HG, KuroHG and the LS-HS.
Prepare the build environment and tools
emerge -av dtc
Note: you may already have a version at /boot/dtc. However emerging explicitly puts dtc in the path and gives you the latest version.
apt-get install build-essential uboot-mkimage module-init-tools device-tree-compiler
Get the sources
Get the latest stable kernel sources
# emerge -ua gentoo-sources
make a link to the kernel sources
# cd /usr/src # ln -sfn linux-2.6.* linux
Debian and other
cd /usr/src wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.*.tar.bz2 *(check for latest version) tar xjvf linux-* ln -sfn linux-* linux
Edit your kernel config
Clean up before you begin:
# cd /usr/src/linux # make mrproper
Use the default KuroBox config:
# cp arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig .config
Make sure the config is sane:
# make ARCH=powerpc menuconfig
The default config is minimal. You'll have to enable support for any non-standard things you may be using. I use reiserfs and netatalk, so I enabled support for that filesystem and also for appletalk. Also, with recent filesystem developments, you may wish to consider ext4 or others.
For troubleshooting ease, it is a good idea to enable Netconsole kernel access. Enable Device drivers -> Networking device support -> Network console logging support (EXPERIMENTAL)
Compile your kernel
# make uImage && make modules && make modules_install
Sit back and listen to music. Go to the store. Wash the dog.
Backup your old kernel and dtb file
# cp /boot/uImage /boot/uImage.bak # cp /boot/kuroboxHG.dtb /boot/kuroboxHG.dtb.bak
If you have a LS1/HD, then change your .dtb filename as necessary.
Compile the dtb file
# cp kuroboxHG.dtb /tmp/ # cd /usr/src/linux/arch/powerpc/boot/dts # dtc -I dts -O dtb -V 16 -o /tmp/kuroboxHG.dtb kuroboxHG.dts # cp /tmp/kuroboxHG.dtb /boot/kuroboxHG.dtb
Install the kernel & enable modules
# cp /usr/src/linux/arch/powerpc/boot/uImage /boot/uImage # cd /lib/modules/2.6.2x.x/ # depmod
Note: If your using the Gentoo 2007 Image, check that your Kernel Image name matches. Your kernel image may be called vmlinux.UBoot instead of uImage
Note: if your using Dave's lenny tarball you may need to check that the uImage symlink is pointing to your new kernel.
# reboot
With any luck, you'll be booting your new kernel.
Watch your netconsole window for information that may prove helpful in case of a problem.
Give your box time to come up, it may take a while to boot after the upgrade.
If something goes wrong, simply boot in EM mode and copy your old kernel back.
# cp /boot/uImage.bak /boot/uImage # cp /boot/kuroboxHG.dtb.bak /boot/kuroboxHG.dtb # echo -n "OKOK" > /dev/fl3


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At Oklahoma Christian, community is important in every dimension. It provides the support needed to thrive during challenging course work and challenging lives. It is the basis of lifelong friendships and networks that support each of us. Community is what gives us the confidence to move forward boldly and live intentionally, knowing we are not alone.
We want students to develop a quality peer group to challenge themselves and help guide decision-making processes. That community will equip our students to live the "OC Experience."
Unapologetically, the OC Experience involves greater expectations than some universities. It is in place to prepare students for a world that also has expectations. The discipline that students learn at OC serves them for years to come. The student getting the greatest experience will strive to have fewer discipline needs. Instead, they will develop mentoring relationships and opportunities. It is not what you can't do; it is what you can do.
• What excites you most about being an OC student?
• What is something you would like to try outside the classroom and how do you think it will benefit you academically?
• Get to know people living around you. If you are off campus, hang out in the dorms.
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Oh the joys of going to the cinema – especially when driven by our loyalty to PDP! We thought we were attending a foodlover's premier of a promising-looking film about cooking and cookbooks. The good reviews of the filmic biography of Julia Child, starring Meryl Streep, sucked us in.
What we ended up experiencing was a special foodies night for a sweetly entertaining flick that was indeed about Mrs Child, the author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, but also – its contemporary theme – about food blogging! Co-starring the very perky Amy Adams: Julie and Julia, the film by Nora Ephron pressed more buttons than we had anticipated…
Apparently the Dendy assumes foodies are easily stimulated. It wasn't a premiere, so what did we get for our extra ten bucks?
There were "free" tiny tipple cocktails (Bernini'd champagne) and on each seat a show bag of three samples including ten sea salted half macadamias, a teaspoon of lime and white pepper gianduja chocolate, half a teaspoon of vanilla salt, some Canberra Centre propaganda, and then three quarters of an hour of slightly naff food and cocktail demos. Naff though it was, it did feature Emmanuel the slowest "cocktail barista" ever to grace the stage, plus a non-committal but cliché-ridden master-sommelier-in-training. Nevertheless they did treat us to a very yummy soup-son the size of a twenty cent piece made from the vanilla salt cured salmon on a bed of mascapone cheese with horseradish. Soup-son? All the sophisticated French words were anglicized or malapropped by the Executive Chef, Neil Abrahams (vinegar-ette, acicity) throughout the event.
The film starts with a lot of 1940s car sex. We were transfixed by the art director's perfect reconstruction of late 1940s Paris, as the bored but larger-than-life (and seemingly always inebriated) Julia Child squeezed her way through narrow streets in a monstrous Buick Woody Wagon, and through classic French street markets with her engaging and endlessly diplomatic husband, Paul (Stanley Tucci). Then we were fast-forwarded to a flat in Queens in 2002, to meet an equally bored 29-year-old Julie Powell, a frustrated would-be novelist stuck in a dead-end job taking sympathy calls post 9/11. While she's much sharper than her yuppy friends, she doesn't know what to do with her itchy mind.
The one thing they both love is food. Julie remembers her mother's first Julia Child boeuf bourguignon, while Julia overcomes the barriers of gender and gaucherie to become a Cordon Bleu chef. The French, she discovers, "eat French food everyday: Heaven!" As we follow Julia passionately demystifying French recipes, we watch Julie discovering her own foodie passions via a self-imposed blog challenge ("I could write a blog. I have thoughts!"). She sets out to blog her way through every recipe in Julia's book in a year, 536 recipes in 365 days. Time and space are nicely compressed as Julie becomes Julia. Almost.
Between postings in Paris and Marseilles, then somewhere in Germany, and then somewhere in Norway, and ultimately back "home" in the USA, there were lots of "yum" food pix and sequences. Julia discovered a correspondence between "hot cock" and cannelloni, while Julia (stuck in Queens) discovered that the poached egg was "like melted cheese". Hmmm. Both husbands survived the "you can't have too much butter" mantra.
But it was cute. Julie found the courage to boil live lobsters; discovered she had fans who actually read her daily purge; finally mastered the art of deboning a chook; saved her marriage from her own obsessive egotism; got an interview in the NYT and subsequently got flooded with publishing offers. All of this inspired by the spirit of Julia. Apart from a slightly sooky offering-in-homage of a half-pound of butter in a Julia Childs memorial in the Smithsonian at the end of the film, this is a delightful tale of food and love and blogging. A combination made in heaven.


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Phil Holt: For me, I think if I'm constantly studying and constantly trying to make things, then when the time comes where it's like "Ooh, I need to say this," I already have the formulas to say that. I've been practicing those words enough that I can articulate the whole sentence. But if you don't ever practice those words you never get a chance to get into the conversation.
But then a lot of times what you're saying is really only important to you. There are a lot of paintings that I could show you that I've done that you're going to look at and be like, "eh, just looks like a study," but to me it's huge.
Matt Shamah: Right.
So then what happens is, if I gave it to you, you might not even get it. And I might not want to explain to you what it means. Do you know what I mean?
I actually do. I struggled with that today on the last tattoo I did. For me it was actually something and then, for the guy, he was looking at his tattoo like, "What the fuck is that?" You know? But I was like, "Well, I'm happy with it. See you later."
So can we backtrack a little bit? Go into some old stuff?
Yeah, sure.
So I sort of felt like, when you came to New School…you were there before I was, although I was guest-spotting at the same time. I would see your stuff, and that was kind of how I met you…
Back when I was in Chicago, and you were at Corey's?
Yeah. So I would see your tattoos and I hadn't seen Tim's tattoos at that point in my life…
Yeah. But later when I saw them I thought that maybe there was some influence that maybe he had on your work. Do you feel like he was a pretty big influence?
(From the full article as seen in Tattoo Artist Magazine #24)
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Koribo Wireless Keyboard Roundup Review
If you've never heard of Koribo before, you're not alone. Koribo is an Israeli-based company that designs electronic and computer input peripherals. They are not much known outside of the Middle East and currently have no American distributors. Koribo's current product lineup consists of one Media Center / Home Theater PC remote, and four wireless MC/HTPC keyboards, three of which I will be looking at: the Leira, Vivar, and Mini.
Koribo says that its products offer a uniqueness over the competition - they are both stylish and practical; they offer form without sacrificing function. Koribo says that this is essential to increasing the "wife acceptance factor". The WAF, as the Wikipedia page that Koribo links directly to on their website says, is '...the chance that a wife will approve the purchase of expensive consumer electronics...' Thus, this concerns purchases of computers, and by extension, Koribo's keyboards. The Wikipedia entry goes on to further explain that the WAF increases, for the most part, as the stylishness and compactness of the product increases.
Well, let's take a look at the keyboards.
Closer Look:
First up, the Leira. I like the look of this keyboard immediately. It's pleasantly rectangular and has a touch-pad. The touch-pad alone makes me giddy with anticipation to start using this! Hopefully its functionality backs that feeling up. As can be plainly seen, the Leira is a multimedia media center keyboard and features a variety of function and shortcut keys to make access to multimedia material and high-use folders as easy as possible. Marketing is briefly mentioned out front.
- 2.4GHz Wireless
- 10m
- Multimedia
- Compatible with Windows 7
Very standard stuff here. The only thing that's worth clarifying and noting is the 10 meters, which refers to the usable wireless range between the keyboard and receiver. 10m is a bit over 30', and, although that's a rather large distance to be from a computer to still use it, it's definitely worth checking out. On the reverse side are explanations to the points mentioned out front, as well as some other highlights.
- Scroll wheel & mouse buttons
- Multi-touch keypad & mouse buttons
- Media control hotkeys
- Media center & internet hot-keys
- Low battery indication & automatic sleep mechanism
What's this 'automatic sleep mechanism'? Will the Leira force put me to sleep on the spot if I don't get off my ass after a Lord of the Rings marathon? Is there an air mattress hidden inside? That aside, everything's fairly standard with one exception - the touchpad functionality. Not only does the Leira have a touchpad with its own mouse buttons, there are an extra pair of buttons on the opposite side of the keyboard. To top it off, the touchpad has multi-touch capability. What this means is that the touchpad can register at least three separate inputs. Obviously, using one finger acts to move the cursor around, however, the other two functions are quite clever.
- Two fingers: Middle button click
- Three fingers: Right click
Those should prove to be very useful, and indeed, with its combined keyboard and mouse abilities, the Leira is looking to be an excellent keyboard.
Next, the Vivar. Just about the same thing, but in a different shape. A rather curious shape; a stretched oval, or perhaps more like an egg nearing the event horizon of a black hole. Yes, that's exactly what it looks like... There aren't quite so many buttons as with the Leira, but, it certainly looks functional enough. Aside from the shape, the most obvious difference is the use of a trackball instead of a touchpad. Having never used a trackball before, I am rather anxious to try this out. Marketing follows the same scheme as the preceding.
- 2.4GHz Wireless
- 10m
- Multimedia
- Rechargeable batteries
- Compatible with Windows 7
Exactly the same as the Leira with one addition: rechargeable batteries. Presumably, making that a selling point means that the Leira does not come with rechargeable batteries. Everything else aside, that could make the Vivar a more economical purchase. Same scheme again out back.
- Scroll wheel and mouse buttons
- 1000 PDI optical trackball & mouse buttons
- Non-skid surface & rubber pads
- Media center & internet hotkeys
- Low battery indication & automatic sleep mechanism
The list isn't particularly remarkable; however, it does provide some clarifications and insight as to what's inside. Not visible from a top-down photograph like the one out front are a scroll wheel and mouse button on the front side of the keyboard. The trackball is reasonably sensitive, which might mean something for gaming, but, this is a multimedia keyboard, so, I'm not quite sure why this is mentioned. Again, there's mention of this 'automatic sleep mechanism' with no explanation. Maybe after so many minutes of inactivity the keyboard will power down to prevent draining the batteries? I suppose I'll have to find out.
And finally, the Mini, which shall remain shrouded in mystery for the time being.


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Solomon: Texans should re-sign Mario at all costs
Aggressive and smart beats passive and slow in virtually every sport known to man. On the fields, courts and in front offices.
The Texans were aggressive and smart last offseason.
What will their approach be this offseason following the franchise's first division championship, first postseason appearance and first playoff victory?
They need to be aggressive and smart. Again.
The Texans should attack free agency just like they did last year. Intent on signing a difference-maker. That player just happens to have been on the roster for the past six years.
NFL free agency begins Tuesday. The Texans are fooling themselves if they believe they can lose linebacker/defensive end Mario Williams to the highest bidder and have a better team next season.
How real was their claim that signing Williams this offseason is a priority?
Andrew Brandt, who spent 10 years as vice president of the Green Bay Packers managing the salary cap and handling contract negotiations, says the free-agency period likely will be hectic for a couple of days.
"I think the market will be like it always is," Brandt said. "In the first hours or days, we'll see a pot of gold for the chosen few."
Williams is among the chosen ones. He could fetch a contract to make him the highest-paid defender in the league.
When the NFL finally got around to free agency last summer, the Texans were desperate. They had a new defense to equip, a secondary to rebuild and a head coach facing a "win or else" mantra from the owner.
Bob McNair handed general manager Rick Smith the checkbook with authorization to spend money to get help.
Smith proved how aggressive and smart he can be by first going after Nnamdi Asomugha, the best cornerback available.
When a deal couldn't be worked out, the GM quickly redirected his efforts and nabbed Johnathan Joseph, the second-best free agent at the position, and then snatched up Danieal Manning, one of the top safeties on the market and a perfect addition to the secondary.
Yes, it took Smith's smarts, but don't underestimate McNair's loosening of the purse strings.
Williams is worth it
Because teams have a stranglehold on salary-cap discussions, fans and media often confuse budget constraints with salary-cap restraints.
If McNair is willing to write the check, Williams will re-sign with the Texans. Before you ask about Williams giving the Texans a hometown discount, ask yourself why professional owners never seem to offer a hometown bonus.
Signing Williams could be done without the Texans having to cut valuable players or lose other free agents. (The Texans can't allow center Chris Myers, whose value has been understated, get away either.)
To get it done, McNair likely would have to go over his budget this season, something he hasn't been willing to do in years past, and offer Williams more guaranteed money later in the deal.
Not that going over budget is always the smartest thing.
"I think the best-managed teams seem to have cap room every year," said Brandt, a writer for the National Football Post and NFL business analyst for ESPN. "They pay as you go and don't have a lot of unamortized signing bonuses."
Spending to the cap and not above it is indeed prudent thinking, but is that the best thing for the Texans in their situation?
This is a team that is primed to win now. The Texans wouldn't be trying to buy a championship a la the Dallas Cowboys in the last decade or the Washington Redskins throughout Daniel Snyder's tenure as owner.
The Texans wouldn't be loading up on high-priced free agents hoping they might mesh into a winner. This simply would be holding on to one of their best players.
Can you put a price tag on "short-term pain for long-term gain," as Brandt described it? Do the Texans want to go to a Super Bowl or save money?
Last year was nice, but if a team isn't getting better, it is getting worse. The AFC South should be easy, but the Texans should be thinking bigger.
The significant jump in salary cap in a couple of years is even more reason the Texans shouldn't be so cautious with the owner's money. They already have displayed some faintheartedness in not boldly going after Peyton Manning.
No guarantees
Don't tell me that Brooks Reed, the rookie outside linebacker who solidly subbed for an injured Williams last season, will be much improved next year. Remember how much better Brian Cushing was supposed to be in his second season? Remember how much better Connor Barwin was supposed to be in his second season?
And don't assume the Texans will be stingier defensively in their second year under Wade Phillips. In Phillips' last five stops as defensive coordinator, his first team made the playoffs after not making it the season before. None of the teams fared as well the next season, with only one even making the playoffs.
There simply are no guarantees.
If the Texans plan on being better next season, re-signing Williams would be a good start.


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It may be a long way from first place in API mindshare, but web mapping pioneer MapQuest has been making major upgrades to its Flash and JavaScript APIs (our MapQuest API profile).
Can you believe the MapQuest JavaScript API is in its sixth version? MapQuest claims the code base received a "complete overhaul" to make the platform easier to use. Even with those mostly invisible changes, the company found time to add draggable routes, to the API. Now a mainstay of both Google and MapQuest's main sites, this feature allows users to alter part of the directions, something that has never been available in API form.
A focus on directions makes sense for MapQuest, which has been famous for its routing since the early days of the web. Its site still focuses on directions, as opposed the do-anything, local search approach taken by competitors Google and Yahoo.
The Flash API has a preview release available of its sixth version, which contains a number of new features. Most notable is a scalable, color-customizable marker icon (the famous MapQuest star).
MapQuest's main site has been neck and neck with Google Maps, according to Hitwise, after leading for a long time. Without the power of Google's search engine to send users, MapQuest gets most of its traffic from type-ins. Direct traffic suggests a powerful brand, but so far the API hasn't lived up to the brand's potential.
Recently MapQuest seems to be making a push to be the leader it once was. It has the only free routing web service. And the announcements from its developer blog are regular enough to suggest it has a number of employees with noses down on the API grindstone.
Are you a mapping developer? Which provider do you use? And what would MapQuest need to offer to make you switch?


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While an ultrasound can identify fetal movement as early as 7 to 8 weeks of pregnancy, women generally don't begin to feel the baby move until sometime between 16 and 22 weeks or later, particularly if it's the woman's first pregnancy.
The initial sensations you'll notice aren't real kicks, either. Instead, some women describe the feeling as being like popcorn popping or butterflies in the stomach. If you don't feel any activity by 22 weeks, ask your doctor or midwife about it.
After a while, you'll begin to discern a pattern to your baby's movement and you'll know if something's amiss. If he's not moving as often as he usually does, your baby may be in distress. Ask your practitioner when and how to count your baby's kicks.


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