Historically, it Spicy Vegetables is likely that the first oven baked upside down cakes were made with canned pineapple, records date back to the early 1900’s sometime after the opening of the first pineapple canning factory in the US. While other upside down cakes featured as early as the Middle Ages, they were cooked in a frying pan as opposed to an oven baked cake.

My mother Instant Noodles in law has a lovely recipe for a variation with walnuts and my own repertoire includes blueberry, banana, apple and of course the ubiquitous pineapple. While I prefer to use fresh pineapple, for years the very sweet canned pineapple version has graced many an afternoon tea or supper.

The Packaging Machine story of the evolution of how it progressed from a single theoretical paper to a broad field that has redefined our world is a fascinating one. It provides the opportunity to study the social, political, and technological interactions that have helped guide its development and define its trajectory, and gives us insight into how a new field evolves.

In the Peanuts beginning of his paper Shannon acknowledges the work done before him, by such pioneers as Harry Nyquist and RVL. Hartley at Bell Labs in the 1920s. Though their influence was profound, the work of those early pioneers was limited and focussed on their own particular applications.

It was ginger the result of crucial contributions made by many distinct individuals, from a variety of backgrounds, who took his ideas and expanded upon them. Indeed the diversity and directions of their perspectives and interests shaped the direction of Information Theory.

Basic garlic knowledge in computer, fluent oral English and an amicable personality are some of the qualities we desire. Volunteers shall be available for at least 3 days without absence during the conference.If you are interested and willing to have a whole new experience in this semester, please do not hesitate to send your resume to before Jan. 20th. Your applications are welcome.

 

I haven’t Frozen Beans yet even told you about the great book I am reading at the moment edited by Mark Kurlansky. During the Great Depression, to keep writers employed they were taken on by the Federal Writers Project and one of the things they did was to record what Americans were eating. It is a fascinating read and also has some recipes I am tempted to try.

The only Frozen Vegetables other problem I encounter is that sometimes the recipes have ingredients just listed as poultry seasoning or amounts given as one stick of butter or a sachet of yeast rather than the amount in grams. I spent three weeks in a small town in South Carolina having delicious frozen foods dishes like shrimp and grits. I’ve been reading some great books from the library on American food and there are some fantastic traditions and recipes. Now I just want to learn more.

The best macaroni cheese recipe I have is from an African American recipe book and I’ve also made the spoon bread and a sweet potato dish from this book too. Karl made a fantastic Jambalaya for Sunday night dinner. And we are merely scratching the surface of great recipes to try.

We love Dehydrated Vegetables visiting the supermarkets to marvel at the rows of sweet breakfast cereals, the enormous muffins caked in frosting and the butter flavoured sprinkles. I’ve read “The Omnivores Dilemma” and been glad I live in New Zealand. I’ve watched “Supersize Me” and I’ve marveled at just what you can put high fructose corn syrup into. We’ve bought back peanut butter chocolate easter eggs and have made it a challenge among our friends to eat a whole one.

It took Kidney Beans ages (probably four hours) but we were nervous of burning it so we had it on a pretty low heat. Once it had reached a rich red colour and we had tested a small blob to make sure it was going to set hard, we turned it out into a pan and left it to dry in the oven overnight. The oven was turned off, but we left the fan running. Once it was set we could cut it up into little slabs, ready to go onto a cheese board. We ended up with 1.5 kilos of the stuff!

Sweetener could be popular used While most fruits or nuts can be used on their own or combined the general idea is that brown sugar and butter form the important caramel that coats the topping and gives the cake its sheen and ultimate appeal. Visual appeal rates highly with upside down cakes so when you are arranging your food ingredients fruit or nuts in the base of the pan remember that they are eventually the star of the show and organise them accordingly.

 

Once Dehydrated Mushrooms upon a time coffee was either white or black, filter or instant. Sure it tasted bloody horrible, but at least there was little room for pretensions and misguided dietary convictions on the part of the punter. Nowadays New Zealand has one of the world’s Canned Fruits more sophisticated coffee cultures, and our roasters and baristas conspire to produce some pretty extraordinary cups. However, as with any movement in fashion, there are myriad posers.

Spend Canned Vegetables half an hour in any city cafe and you will observe an endless stream of sad buggers seemingly vying for the title of World’s Stupidest Coffee Order, from the mildly irritating trim cappuccino to the supremely dumb de-cafe trim soy macchiato. This clan is fearfully image conscious and the ladies like to outdo each other when it comes to ordering caffeine, fat and fun-free coffee.

Maybe Plant Extracts it’s bad for the Botox and collagen, I don’t know about. The ultimate stupidity in ordering such butchered beverages is that they are frequently accompanied with a fat and carb-laden lump of stodge, such as the ubiquitous and tedious muffin (does anyone actually like these, really?). The amount of fat in a regular flat white is far, far lower than such associated baked goods.

based food flavour largely on half-remembered alarmist articles I’ve read, but more importantly based on my wondering how much sugar people are having in their coffee that they need to worry? Unless you’re diabetic, suck it up Sugar! At any rate, I’ve always felt people who sweeten their coffee were a bit soft; coffee should be bitter and nasty. If you can’t handle that, order a cocoa and have a nice sit-down.

Everyone Seasonings who is anyone is lactose intolerant and probably gluten intolerant too. Rather than finding these types admirable and sympathetic I find them deeply irritating. I take every opportunity to sneak vast quantities of lactose and gluten into whatever I’m serving such fraudsters.

I know, Dried Beans just a bit of frothed milk. But what you are doing right there is initiating a child into coffee drinking- a decidedly grown-up pursuit. Just because they want to feel like a ‘big person’ by joining you in a cuppa, doesn’t mean you have to humour them. What’s wrong with a glass of apple juice?

Stargate Atlantis needs our help! Sign the petition!

I’m such a fan of Stargate Atlantis. I watch it religiously and I know all the scenes! It’s in my system and I just can’t imagine life without this show on TV. Have you heard? MGM has already announced that they are going to end the show after their 5th season. Why? It’s probably the best sci-fi show on TV to date! Why cancel a show that has a very solid audience that watches it religiously the same as I do?

Obviously, the producers know how popular Stargate Atlantis is and thought that it’s just too good for TV and should be made into a movie. Great! Who wouldn’t want to watch a movie version of their favorite sci-fi TV series? But why would they cancel the show just to pave the way for its movie series? There’s too much here and the purpose is not to benefit the fans but so they could fatten their pockets even more! Come on now! Why hurt us after we supported your show? It is just not fair!

I am so happy to see many fans who decided to start a petition. It’s a great idea! It’s time for us to save our favorite TV show. Let us save Atlantis! It’s our time to be a part of the show’s story. Now is our time to save Atlantis, Of course it’s not like we have to pack our bags and train to be one of these futuristic scientists but it’s time for us to unite and save the show! These petitions are calling for all the Stargate Atlantis fans and supporters to sign their names so our voices would be heard by SGA’s executive producers. It’s not fair! We have to show them that what they plan on doing is really not fair!

Friday nights would no longer be fun. I usually prepare myself after dinner and find a comfortable place in front of the TV in anticipation of this show. I look forward to Friday nights all the time! Without SGA, what’s there to look forward to? It’s sad… tragic! Looking forward for the next movie is like waiting for your birthday each year!

I’m just one of the many disappointed fans of SGA. These executive producers should reconsider. Should we boycott and show them our disappointment? But then we’d be missing more of their awesome shows. We should all support the circulating of the online petition asking for these executive producers to change their mind and start thinking about the 6th season. The 5th season of Stargate Atlantis is a lot better than the previous seasons and we are expecting for the 6th. It can’t just end here. It’s just too good to end.

SciFi will have nothing to boast about after their station won’t have Stargate Atlantis for their audience. Come on now, what’s left to watch in that channel after SGA?

Would it have been different if they have used a different channel to show Stargate Atlantis? SG1 was a great show and it was canceled prematurely as well. I was a die-hard fanatic of SG1 also and I was so disappointed when they announced that my favorite show on TV was about to say it’s goodbye. I was sad but I thank God for Stargate Atlantis. At least, SG1 had 10 seasons so I was able to enjoy watching it for years! Stargate Atlantis only had 5 episodes and it’s even better than SG1 but why only 5 episodes? Can the executive producers answer this question for us?

Why the sudden death for our favorite sci-fi shows? They can cancel all those other boring shows on Sci-Fi if they want to, but why cancel the most popular one? It doesn’t really make sense to me. I will miss the characters whom I already grown to love. What will happen to them after this? Will they be on the movie version of Stargate Atlantis? I hope so. But, still that’s just not right. They deserve to be on Air every Friday! I am not saying that they don’t deserve to be on the silver screen. Heck, I’d die to watch the movie version of SGA but I just can’t stand the fact that they are canceling the show.

I’m sure many would agree that there’s not much on TV right now that is worth watching. I don’t watch TV on most days except for the news and some sports shows but that’s just about it. No new shows interest me that much anymore except for Stargate Atlantis. I’m a sucker for sci-fi shows but I am very choosy as well. Sci-fi shows can be really boring when the storyline is boring. SGA has an awesome storyline that caught me right from the first time I watched it. I even have DVDs of the shows so I could watch them over and over again. I’m a die hard fan and I am here, asking all of you die hard SGA fans out there, to support the online petition. Please, please, let’s support our favorite show.

I’m done voicing out my opinion but I’m still not through with my disappointment and I will continue to fight for my favorite show. Its one great show that we just have to keep on air. Whether or not we’d be successful, at least we can say that we did our part in keeping it on air. If the executive producers won’t listen to our plight, I bet it’s time for us to start looking for other shows that may interest us and just wait for the movie series then. It’s unfair and disappointing but I will never say never. I will sign as many online petitions and start a petition asking my fellow fans to support our loved team of scientists led by Major John Sheppard.

You gave us a great show SCI-Fi, please don’t just take it away from us. It will break many hearts and will disappoint even more. Hope you’ll make the right decision and keep the show on air!

And no, it is not fake, the the making of will attest:

 

The official site is http://walkmanproject.com/ which has the add and the making of (if they dissappear from youtube). Interestingly, the official website is also encouraging everyone to contribute their own tracks, mix up other people's tracks and rate other people's mixes...

From The Guardian, UK:

Walter Lewin is not your average Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. He teaches introductory physics with a difference: electric charge is demonstrated by beating a student with cat fur, he rides a fire-extinguisher propelled tricycle across the lecture hall to show how a rocket lifts off. ....

....Each lecture, complete with stunts (others have included making himself into a pendulum and firing golf balls at a stuffed monkey in a bulletproof vest) takes about 25 hours to prepare....

The lecture videos can be downloaded! Check them out at the MIT site.

 

... that makes them so incredibly cool?

 

A few days ago, a dolphin helped rescue two stranded whales in NZ. Check out the BBC report.

I think my favourite dolphin story is still this one. Trippy!

 

One morning, while driving past Kaikoura, NZ, some years ago, i had the good fortune of seeing a huge number of  dolphins out for a breakfast hunt. There must have been more than a hundred out there. It remains one of the coolest things i've ever seen.....

 

For a long time, I thought that Stevie Wonder was a pretty good musician........

.......silly silly me...... the Man is a Golden God!

First time i saw this video, I was completely stunned. I didnt even know he could play the drums. He does some things in this vid that I think would make many a musician cry, and he doesnt even look like he's breaking a sweat!

This video actually made me go out and get a hold of his music and have a proper listen. I am now convinced that Stevie Wonder is one of those rare musicians whose genius is unclassifiable, trancending instruments and genres. Maybe I'll check out his latest album sometime soon....

Ok, it was about a month ago, but in case you missed it...

YouTube recently had an interesting collaboration with CBS for the Grammys. They put out an open call for string and brass musicians to audition by posting YouTube videos. The top 15 performed on stage with the Foo Fighters on their song 'Pretender'.

What I found most interesting was that even a month later, YouTube did not have the actual performance avilable to view. It felt like watching the teaser of a great movie that was never released. Googling any term including 'mygrammymoment' was hopeless - you only got the 'official' YouTube site (bear in mind YouTube is now owned by Google). I finaly figured out by Googling 'grammy awards 2008 foo fighters' I could find the actual performance from a less official source.

I'm not entirely sure what I feel about all of this. Its an interesting concept, combining the music, broadcast, and internet industries, but I felt the performance only used the winners fo about the last minute of the song as a flashy finale - it didn't quite do them justice. But I guess that is what the YouTube component was for. 

Just saw the movie 'Genesis', and was throughly impressed. Its a French film (with English subtitles), taking an artistic view of creation and what it means to be human. But as another reviewer said, don't be mistaken for thinking it is another Discovery Channel show. The visuals are captivating, and perfectly reinforce the 'story', often in very innovative ways. A couple of facinating ideas discussed:

We are all products of the cosmos - literally made from atoms that were once stars, nebulae, and then rivers, trees, volcanoes. Once we pass on, our atoms will once again become those wonderful works of nature.

We are not made of atoms. Atoms flow through us like water in a river, but our life is more like the river - directing the flow of matter. Defying the laws of entropy that pull us towards decay. This refers to the fact that much of the tissues in our body is replaced every few days/months/years. So we are in fact a different 'person' to ourselves even just a few years ago.

IMDB Details and a good, short review here.
A more detailed review here.