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Apple has passed Microsoft to become the largest tech company in terms of market capitalization. This is quite a remarkable feat considering that Apple commands about 6% of the operating system market compared to Microsoft's 90%. Besides the fact that both Microsoft and Apple produce operating systems, in reality, they are very different companies.
If one delves into the numbers, it becomes very clear that Apple has ridden to the top on success in the mobile space and media – in particular, the iPhone, iPod, and iTunes – not on traditional computers or operating systems. It's still too early to see what impact the iPad will have on their bottom line, but based on history, one can expect it to be substantial.
For most of their lives, Apple has primarily been a hardware manufacturer while Microsoft had been primarily a software manufacturer. Sure, Microsoft does manufacture hardware, but it's primarily to support the software side of the business and Apple does manufacture software as well, but it's primarily to support the hardware side of the businesses.
'"3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited)."
However, in the last few years, Apple has quietly crept into the software side of the equation with almost nobody noticing. No, they're not going head to head with Microsoft, rather, they have become a software pimp.
Things are changing in a big way for Apple.
A bit of advice to Steve Jobs and the Cupertino Kids – watch your back.
Since cooking is a passion of mine, I thought I would start a series of posts on what I believe are must have kitchen tools. Cooking, like any avocation one pursues seriously, requires the right tools for the job. This brings me to the subject of today's post: The Rice Cooker.
Besides the stove, this is probably the most used cooking device in my kitchen. A good rice cooker is indispensable for a number of reasons:
There are a couple of drawbacks to a rice cooker, especially the better ones:
Most of the better rice cookers come with retractable cords and a handle so they can be easily taken out of and stored in a cabinet, but when in use they still need a bit of counter space.
Depending on what you like to cook, you may not need all of the features on a given rice cooker. Being that I enjoy making Japanese food, a rice cooker with a sushi rice setting was a must have. While thinking about it, I figured I might as well get one that can do porridge and steel cut oats as well. And since I was going to be making breakfast foods with it, I might as well get one that has a timer so breakfast is ready when I wake up. Capacity is another consideration.
I am a huge fan of Zojirushi products. In my opinion they make the best rice cookers in the world. Being that I lived alone before I met my fiancé, I settled on a 3 cup capacity rice cooker – the Zojirushi NS-LAC05. It has settings for white rice, sushi rice, porridge, brown rice, and quick cooking. Typically, even when having company over for a meal or sushi, making 3 cups of rice is plenty for but all the largest dinner parties.
Another wonderful thing about this rice cooker is the timer. Before going to bed, you can set the timer to have oatmeal ready for you when you wake up. The timer does not function as you would expect a regular timer to work like – at least on Zojirushi cookers – it does not start cook at that time, rather, the food is done cooking at that time. Add the ingredients, set the timer, and at precisely at the time you set, whatever you are preparing will be done to perfection.
Add all the ingredients, set the timer, and wake up to the smell of a delicious breakfast.
In microwave safe bowl, add the chicken broth and saffron. Mix thoroughly. Heat in the microwave for 30 seconds.
Wash the rice 2 or 3 times with cold water. Put in the rice cooker. Add the salt, butter and chicken broth/saffron mix to the rice. Stir and hit start.
When done, let the rice rest 15 minutes before opening the rice cooker.
Serve and enjoy!
Char siu, oh how I love thee!
Over the last few years, I have become addicted to BBQed pork loin done char siu style. While there are many good recipes for the glaze out there, I have found that I really like the Noh brand char siu glaze. Sure, it's cheating a little to use a prepared mix, but the flavor is so good it's hard to argue against it.
I like to start with two loins and mix up two packages of the glaze using double the recommended amount of water. Next I place the loins and the glaze mix in a Foodsaver container and vacuum out all the air. Into the fridge they go for at least 24 hours – preferably for 48 hours. After they are done marinating, bring them out in the container and bring it up to room temperature. While they are warming up, mix up a fresh package of the glaze using 1.5 times as much water as recommended. Once the grill is heated up to between 350 and 375 degrees, place each loin over the charcoal directly and give it a good sear turning them every 2 minutes. Once you have a few blackened bits on them, move them away from the direct heat and brush them with the glaze. Allow the grill to cool down to between 300 and 350 degrees and put the cover on the grill. Turn them every 5 to 7 minutes and brush them with the glaze and re-cover the grill. Keep an eye on the heat, you want to keep the temperature between 300 and 350 degrees. It should take somewhere between 40 and 60 minutes for the internal temperature to reach 150 degrees depending on the size of the loins. DO NOT OVER COOK! After taking them off the grill, allow them to rest for at least 5 minutes.Being the simple man I am, I tend to serve the meat with white jasmine rice. The flavors compliment each other well and as an added bonus it's a very healthy meal.Enjoy!
What does one say on Memorial Day that does not sound clichéd or hollow?
How do you put into words the deep gratitude, sadness, and respect that one feels for all who have given and will give their lives in defense of freedom and liberty?
As I sit here thinking of all the fathers, sons, mothers and daughters who have given so much of themselves so that a silly man can sit in front of his computer and try to write something enlightened and profound, all I can muster is a humble thank you.
Thank you, each an every one of you. You are not forgotten.
Yes, I too have fallen for the Caturday meme. How can I resist such cuteness?
UPDATED 6 July 2010: WRGprettyPhoto 1.1 - contains minor bug fixes and reliability improvements - Download WRGprettyPhoto.1.1.zip – 3.72kb.
When I decided to adopt BlogEngine.NET as my primary website publishing platform, I knew there might be a few issues with the scripts I had been using on my old site. As I began testing, I discovered, much to my chagrin, that one of my favorite scripts – Lightbox 2 – did not work with BlogEngine.NET.
After a little research, I discovered that the incompatibility came down to a much used function in the JavaScript library for the blog sharing the same name as a function in the Scriptalicious library: function $(id) in the blog library and function $(element) in the Scriptalicious library.
I looked through both sets of code and decided that rewriting the code to use a different function name was just too much work and would complicate upgrading either set of scripts.
Deciding to find an alternative to Lighbox 2, I went to the extensions page on the BlogEngine.NET website and saw an extension named prettyPhoto. After visiting the author's page and checking out the prettyPhoto javascript library website, I installed the extension and support libraries.
For some reason, the extension failed to work for me. I am not sure why it did not work, but it just did not. By this point I was set on using prettyPhoto so I manually set it up and got it working. It was at this point that I sadly realized I would no longer be able to use Live Writer's built in Lightbox 2 editing support due to the different tag names used by prettyPhoto and the lack of the reference to the Lightbox 2 library on the site.
This got me thinking, why not write a prettyPhoto extension that not only "tricks" Live Writer into enabling support for Lightbox 2 but also works with that support in a smart way to enable prettyPhoto to use it. And while at at it, why not make it smart enough to only load the prettyPhoto library and the jQuery library only when needed?
After reading the BlogEngine.NET extension developer documentation, I jumped right in and after a few hours of learning, coding, and testing, I had my new extension completed: WRGprettyPhoto 1.0.
Download WRGprettyPhoto.1.1.zip – 3.72kb
If you enable Live Writer Lightbox 2 editing support for use with prettyPhoto you MUST complete setup step #3 and refresh your blog settings in Windows Live Writer. Once you do this you should see the following when you click the options button after inserting an image into your post: All you have to enter here is the gallery name for the photos you wish to display in prettyPhoto.
If you wish the have WRGprettyPhoto mange the loading of jQuery only when needed, you MUST complete setup step #4. The URL you enter must be a relative URL (eg: Scripts/jQuery.js) to the location where you have placed the jQuery library. A leading slash is not required.
The other options on the extensions page are pretty self explanatory.
Please send me any bugs or feature requests you may have ASAP. You may either use the contact form or the comments on this post.
This extension is not licensed in any way and is given away free for you to do with what you will. All I ask is please keep the comment header in the extension source code intact and link back here if you improve upon or use WRGprettyPhoto as a base for your own custom extension.
Happy blogging!
I have been blogging on and off since 1996. I have always used a CMS that I have written myself. About three years ago I had finally had enough with blogging and converted my website over to a simple page with some image galleries and my Twitter feed.
Fast-forward a few years and once again the blogging bug returns. This time however, I wanted to concentrate on writing words and not a brand new CMS.
So I began looking around the Internet for a suitable system that met three simple requirements:
I thought these requirements were going to be impossible to meet and I am happy to say I was wrong. So very wrong! There is BlogEngine.NET!
After spending a few weeks playing around with BlogEngine.NET and going through the code, I have to say I am very impressed. This is a remarkably robust and well written application. The user community is quite active and the development cycle is regular and ongoing. The data storage support is quite robust and supports everything from XML to SQLite. The application platform is highly extensible and remarkably easy to write for. All in all, I highly recommend BlogEngine.NET for all your blogging needs.
As you may have noticed (or not), this site has undergone a radical transformation. Yes, I have returned to blogging.
Beware, all topics are on the table here. If you don't like what I have to say then don't read this site. I don't hold back – won't hold back – and make no apologies for what I write here. We – at least for now – still have free speech on the Internet. .
Feel free to comment on anything posted here but realize that you are on my site, not yours. Freedom of speech only goes one way here – my way. On my site everyone has the right to my opinion, not yours. If I find comments offensive one of two things will happen:
Now I am not saying don't comment here, but rather, simply be substantive and polite. Consider this a blogging version of the Marquess of Queensberry rules.
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Nyctohylophobia Online Test
The purpose of this test is to give a quick indication of whether this fear of dark wooded areas is serious, to help you decide what action, if any, you should take.
You'd need to see your doctor for a formal diagnosis of Nyctohylophobia
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What is EcoWest?
EcoWest tracks, analyzes, and visualizes environmental trends in the American West.
Browse through any newspaper in the region and you'll see detailed dashboards depicting stock prices, batting averages, and high temperatures. But what about the state of the West itself? Is the environment improving or declining? Where is the region's population growing? What's happening with droughts, floods, and climate change? Which species are in trouble? Where are wildfires burning? What's happening to our snowpack?
We created EcoWest to answer these questions, and many others.
At the heart of EcoWest is a series of metrics that serve as barometers for Western conservation and proxies for ecosystem health. Examples of these indicators include water use, endangered species listings, conservation funding, and public opinion on environmental issues.
EcoWest collects, analyzes, visualizes, and freely shares critical data on the West's environment, primarily through PowerPoint slides, graphics, maps, videos, dashboards, and other online tools. Our mission is to inform and advance Western conservation by creatively communicating what the latest science, monitoring, polling, and research is telling us about how the West is changing.
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Green Tea Shows Body Weight and Fat Benefits
Obesity is a growing public health concern affecting millions of adults and children. In the last thirty years, the rate of obesity among adults has doubled and the obesity rate among children, aged 2 to 19, has tripled since 1980. Obesity is associated with chronic ailments such as heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, cancer and arthritis. It has impacted the nation as a whole leading to a less productive workforce and skyrocketing healthcare costs. 1-5
Because of the adverse impact of obesity on individuals and on the nation as a whole, in 2009, the US government declared obesity a national epidemic and in April 2002, the Internal Revenue Service classified it as a disease granting physician-prescribed weight loss programs a medical tax deduction. Many school districts have banned soft drinks and snacks in vending machines. Federal nutritional guidelines and the food pyramids continue to be regularly revised in an effort to bring down the obesity rate. But the percentage of Americans who are obese continues to increase with recent statistics showing that the number of obese now outnumbers those who are overweight. 6-7
With two-thirds (67 percent) of the American population either obese or overweight, more and more Americans are earnestly seeking weight loss products resulting in an escalating market for a wide range of weight loss aids.
Be Proactive in Providing Nutritional Solutions
Obesity is not just a problem in the United States. According to the World Health Organization, the overweight population across the globe will be more than 1.5 billion by 2015 with related health costs rising beyond $117 billion in the US alone. 8 The obesity crisis should prompt supplement companies to play a proactive role in providing a variety of nutritional solutions to help mitigate the problem. Although the weight loss industry is competitive, successfully designed entry-level products hold tremendous potential for growth. The industry is booming, and supplement companies that showcase a well-designed formula that is backed by science have a major advantage.
Green Tea- A Natural Fat Burner
Despite green tea being alien to our western culture, it has had phenomenal success as a powerful antioxidant and is a widely sought-after health ingredient in functional foods and beverages. Beyond the benefits of green tea supplements for fat oxidation, it is believed to play an effective role in promoting cardiovascular health, regulating healthy glucose levels, supporting oral health, offering protection against Alzheimer's and certain types of cancers. 9 With research supporting its fat-burning properties, green tea is now establishing itself as a proven and effective ingredient in the weight loss market. Its appeal lies in its natural ability to burn fat more quickly, thereby enhancing the weight loss results of any diet regimen.
How Green Tea Promotes Healthy Weight Loss
In contrast to black tea which is crushed and fermented, green tea is steamed or pan-fried and therefore, retains a large percentage of tea polyphenols known as catechins. The four main polyphenols contained in fresh tea leaves are epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), epigallocatechin, epicatechin gallate, and epicatechin. Of these, the polyphenol that plays the biggest role in promoting weight loss is epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) found in green tea.
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University studied the gamut of laboratory, epidemiological, and human intervention studies demonstrating the benefits of green tea weight loss and concluded that green tea may have great potential to prevent obesity. The consumption of 3 to 10 cups of green tea a day was seen to promote weight loss, maintain body weight following weight loss and may even help to prevent the development of diseases linked with obesity. 10
How does green tea work its weight loss magic? After reviewing the extensive research on green tea weight loss, scientists have proposed three mechanisms by which EGCG may produce weight loss results. 11
- EGCG may increase energy metabolism and fat oxidation.
- EGCG may also inhibit fat cell development, called apidogenesis.
- EGCG may help the body to excrete fat more efficiently by reducing lipid absorption during digestion.
Green tea contains about half the caffeine content of coffee. Scientists have observed that EGCG needs a stimulated nervous system, which caffeine provides, to produce its fat burning effects. A daily dose of 300 mg of EGCG was seen to increase fat oxidation by 33 percent. However, a combination of 300 mg of EGCG and 200 mg of caffeine increased fat oxidation by almost 50 percent! 12
More Exciting Benefits Associated With Green Tea Supplementation
Another exciting research study shows that green tea may promote weight loss in spite of a high fat diet! The study conducted on rats, showed that rats that were given an equivalent of 5 to 8 cups of tea a day showed a 5.6 percent decrease in body weight gain and a 17.8 percent reduction in fat accumulation compared to rats that were not given green tea. Both control groups were fed a high fat diet over the eight-week study. Researchers also noticed improvement in cardiovascular risk indicators and a low influence on dietary protein digestion. 13
A separate study, reported in the Nutrition Journal, shows that the benefits of green tea weight loss may include increased post-meal satiety. This study is the first to show that green tea not only promoted increased satiety increased, but subjects in the study reported feelings of fullness and having had enough to consume. 14
Popular Delivery Systems for Green Tea Weight Loss Supplements
Green tea weight loss supplements can be manufactured in several convenient delivery systems such as tea bags, liquid extracts and capsules. In addition, innovative delivery systems include chewing gum and candy.
A new delivery system for green tea is the nano-encapsulation of EGCG and its application in a variety of foods and beverages. Nano-encapsulation would allow EGCG particles to have good transparency and allow EGCG to be added to mineral water, and all types of beverages, including dairy and sports drinks. Frost & Sullivan report a booming market for green tea extract with a growth of 13 percent over the next 7 years. 15
High-quality Weight Loss Supplements Will Build Your Brand Reputation!
Why not meet the demands of your customers by starting your own line of green tea weight loss supplements? We can help you design well-formulated, science-substantiated green tea supplements for weight loss to help meet the weight loss needs of a growing community of weight watchers. Nutricap Labs' wide range of manufacturing solutions makes it easy for you to provide your customers with excellent, superior-quality green tea supplements for weight loss. And since all of our products are manufactured in a state-of-the-art, GMP certified facility, you can rest assured that the final product you receive from us contains the highest quality ingredients and meets the specifications mandated by the FDA.
For more information on our weight loss supplement manufacturing services, call (800) 494-6154 to speak to one of our knowledgeable Production Specialists. Or if you're ready with your requirements, you may submit a request to receive a free weight loss supplement manufacturing quote from us in 48 hours or less.
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3. "Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity among U.S. Children, Adolescents, and Adults, 1999-2002." Journal of the American Medical Association 291, no. 23 (2004):2847-2850.
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7. Obese Americans now Outweigh the Merely Overweight, Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/01/09/us-obesity-usa-idUSTRE50863H20090109
8. 10 Facts on Obesity, World Health Organization, http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/obesity/facts/en/index1.html
9. Green Tea, University of Maryland.
10. The Journal of Nutrition. First published ahead of print January 20, 2010 as doi: 10.3945/jn.109.115972. http://jn.nutrition.org/content/early/2010/01/20/jn.109.115972.full.pdf
11. Epigallocatechin-3-gallate and postprandial fat oxidation in overweight/obese male volunteers: a pilot study, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, published online ahead of print, doi: 10.1038/ejcn.2010.47
12. Epigallocatechin-3-gallate and postprandial fat oxidation in overweight/obese male volunteers: a pilot study, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Published online ahead of print, doi: 10.1038/ejcn.2010.47.
13. Nutrition Research, Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 157-164, "Green tea aqueous extract reduces visceral fat and decreases protein availability in rats fed with a high-fat diet."
14. Does green tea affect postprandial glucose, insulin and satiety in healthy subjects: a randomized controlled trial, Nutrition Journal, Volume 9, Issue 63, doi: 10.1186/1475-2891-9-63.
15. Nano-EGCG could take tea benefits into clear beverages, NutraIngredients, USA, http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Research/Nano-EGCG-could-take-tea-benefits-into-clear-beverages


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Ski Lodge Inks Record Deal, Releases "I Would Die to Be"
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Now it seems that Marr has made the Big Apple his permanent home and that move has done him some good. Ski Lodge has just inked a record deal with Dovecote Records, an indie New York-based label which has released records by such notables as the Futureheads, Hooray For Earth and Ed Harcourt. Marr tells us his has solidified his lineup and they have secured a 3-week residency at Lower East Side's café-cum-live-music- spot Cake Shop starting on September 9. Additionally the band is putting the finishing touches on a yet-to-be- titled four-song debut EP -- due out in September.
"I Would Die to Be," is our first preview of said EP. Following right behind Two Door Cinema Club's nimble guitar work and the Shins' bittersweet melodies, Marr delivers the song crafting goods here. Wearing his penchant for Brit-pop harmony on his sleeve, Marr's voice is pristine as a fresh blanket of snowflakes on a Rocky Mountain top. His lovelorn lyricism -- "I would die to be just someone that you love" - tears a page right from Morrissey's diary.
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