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AFTER running up and down to clear the Radio and Weasel show, KIBO Media the promoters of the Amaaso Concert have been cleared by Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA).
The promoters were given two hours to clear in order to be given a permit for their Hotel Africana concert slated for tonight.
The promoter held a closed meeting with KCCA in which they agreed to clear the requirements they had not fulfilled.
The KCCA Public Health team backed by the enforcement team inspected the site to ensure that the show requirements which include sanitation facilities, parking space and kitchen were in good condition.
However during inspection two Vision Group photographers were thrown out by KCCA officers and were almost detained by hotel management.
The KCCA spokesperson Peter Kaujju confirmed that the after inspection the show was allowed to take place after the requirements were met.
The promoters had not submitted their traffic follow management plan, parking space, sanitation requirements and toilet facilities.
The celebrated musical duo, were set to treat their fans to a two-in-one album launch dubbed 'Amaaso-Ntunga Concert' in Kampala.
KCCA's intervention would have been a huge blow for Radio and Weasel and its huge fan base.
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Cop and civilian 'saved' stab victim's life
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- January 29, 2014
MAN in his 20s has been stabbed in Alice Springs, suffering heavy blood loss.
The victim was stabbed in the leg on Bath St, next to the Yeperenye Shopping Centre, just before 8pm yesterday.
A witness said dozens of police raced from the nearby station, 200m away, to assist.
Territory Duty Superintendent Helen Braam said police were looking for a person of interest.
Duty Superintendent Braam said the victim was transported to Alice Springs Hospital in a stable condition.
A witness told the NT News that police and a female passerby saved the man's life.
"The first cop on scene was bloody remarkable in her efforts... if he has survived it's is because of her and the quick action of the young woman."
This is the second stabbing in only a few days in the Red Centre.
A 20-year-old man has been charged with murder over the alleged stabbing of a 29-year-old man who was found dead at Lyndavale Drive, in Larapinta, on Sunday.


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The Hamilton and Holland Christian boys basketball teams lost Friday.
The Hamilton and Holland Christian boys basketball teams lost Friday.
Wayland 55, Hamilton 48
Trenton Haverdink scored 14 points and Nick Kronemeyer added 11 in the non-league loss for the Hawkeyes.
Hamilton led 27-22 at halftime, before Wayland rattled off 33 second-half points.
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The Maroons trailed by six with three minutes to go but were forced to foul late in the game and Grand Rapids Christian hit its free throws down the stretch.
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On the design of clone-based haplotyping
1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
2 Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
3 Department of Genetics, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
4 Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
5 The Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
6 Present address: Expression Analysis, A Quintiles Company, Durham, NC 27713, USA
Genome Biology 2013, 14:R100 doi:10.1186/gb-2013-14-9-r100Published: 12 September 2013
Haplotypes are important for assessing genealogy and disease susceptibility of individual genomes, but are difficult to obtain with routine sequencing approaches. Experimental haplotype reconstruction based on assembling fragments of individual chromosomes is promising, but with variable yields due to incompletely understood parameter choices.
We parameterize the clone-based haplotyping problem in order to provide theoretical and empirical assessments of the impact of different parameters on haplotype assembly. We confirm the intuition that long clones help link together heterozygous variants and thus improve haplotype length. Furthermore, given the length of the clones, we address how to choose the other parameters, including number of pools, clone coverage and sequencing coverage, so as to maximize haplotype length. We model the problem theoretically and show empirically the benefits of using larger clones with moderate number of pools and sequencing coverage. In particular, using 140 kb BAC clones, we construct haplotypes for a personal genome and assemble haplotypes with N50 values greater than 2.6 Mb. These assembled haplotypes are longer and at least as accurate as haplotypes of existing clone-based strategies, whether in vivo or in vitro.
Our results provide practical guidelines for the development and design of clone-based methods to achieve long range, high-resolution and accurate haplotypes.


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2015 Estimation of Fracture Stiffness, In Situ Stresses, and Elastic Parameters of Naturally Fractured Geothermal Reservoirs
2015 Exploratory Review of Sintered Lunar Soil Based on the Results of the Thermal Analysis of a Lunar Soil Simulant
2015 Optical Waveguide Solar Power System for Material Processing in Space
2015 Thermal Analysis of a Novel Integrated Air Conditioning System with Geothermal Energy
2015 Thermomechanical Effects Induced by Energy Piles Operation in a Small Piled Raft
2014 Enhancement of Thermal Energy Storage Using Phase-Change Material under Jordanian Climate
2014 Exergy Management between a Building and Its Environment for Residential HVAC
2014 Experimental Characterization of Energy Output from a Model Geothermal Pile
2014 Numerical Simulation of a Shallow Geothermal Heating/Cooling System
2014 Thermo-TDR Probe for Measurement of Soil Moisture, Density, and Thermal Properties
2013 Competition of Thermal Electricity Generators with Coupled Transmission and Emission Constraints
2013 Coupled Hydro-Mechanical Modelling of Deep Geothermal Heat Production
2013 Implications of Hyporheic Flow on Temperature-Based Estimates of Groundwater/Surface Water Interactions
2013 SolverSIN: A Practical Model for Large Hydrothermal System Analysis
2012 Efficiency of a Community-Scale Borehole Thermal Energy Storage Technique for Solar Thermal Energy
2012 Energy Harvesting from Water Distribution Systems
2012 Energy Piles: Using Deep Foundations as Heat Exchangers
2012 Exploring the Water-Thermoelectric Power Nexus
2012 Long-Term Performance and Sustainable Operation of Energy Piles
2012 Optimization of Large-Scale Hydrothermal System Operation
2012 Review of Water Use in U.S. Thermoelectric Power Plants
2011 Design and Operational Considerations of Geothermal Energy Piles
2011 Energy Foundations—Potential for Ireland
2011 Geothermal Energy in a Central European Perspective—Challenges and Opportunities
2011 Geothermal Energy: Sustainability, Climate Change, and State of the Practice in the United States
2011 Planning Operation of Large-Scale Hydrothermal System
2011 Preliminary Observations from Laboratory Scale Model Geothermal Pile Subjected to Thermal-Mechanical Loading
2011 Study of Thermal Properties of a Basaltic Clay
2011 Thermal Conductivity Evaluation of a Pile Group Using Geothermal Energy Piles
2011 Velocity and Temperature in Buoyant Surface Jet
2010 Application of Geoexchange Experience to Geothermal Foundations
2010 Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy Sources: Willingness to Pay for Geothermal Energy in Yozgat Province, Turkey
2010 Field Test of a Geothermal System in Hafen City, Hamburg
2010 Independence from Fossil Fuel Usages in Northeastern United States: Important Tasks for a Sustainable Geothermal Pilot Well Project
2009 New German Natural Draft Cooling Towers for High-Efficient Power Generation
2008 AHP-TOPSIS-Based Stock of the Electric Power Materials and Research of Optimized Storage Management
2008 Current and Sediment Numerical Model Applied in the Project of Campha Thermal Power Plant
2008 Desalination Using Low-Grade Heat Sources
2008 Environmental Perspectives of Microwave Applications as Remedial Alternatives: Review
2008 NewsBriefs: Volcanic Geothermal Energy Explored
2008 Solar Thermal Electric Panel (STEP): Performance Analysis
2008 Solar Thermal Power for Lunar Materials Processing
2008 Special Climate around a Commercial Solar Chimney Power Plant
2007 Burner Performance Evaluation Using Test Code
2007 Dispersion Modeling of Leachates from Thermal Power Plants
2007 Geothermal Heat Pumps
2007 Hydrothermal Modeling Studies of Cooling Tower Alternatives
2007 NewsBriefs: Report Sees Hope for Geothermal Power Despite Funding Cuts (The Christian Science Monitor)
2007 Potential of Renewable Energies in Turkey
2006 Case Study: Sediment Control at Water Intake for Large Thermal-Power Station on a Small River
2006 Double-Pass Photovoltaic-Thermal Solar Air Collector with Comopund Parabolic Concentrator and Fins
2006 Hydrogen Production by Plasma Electrolysis
2005 Development of Energy-Efficient Concrete Buildings using Recycled Plastic Aggregates
2005 Heat Generation in Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
2004 Application of FBG Sensors to Ground Heat Pump System
2004 Design of School Building HVAC Retrofit with Hybrid Geothermal Heat-Pump System
2003 Sustainability Indices of Thermal Electrical Power Production in Greece
2002 Economic Analysis of Thermal Energy Storage Systems
2002 Variations of Thermal Conductivity of Insulation Materials under Different Operating Temperatures: Impact on Envelope-Induced Cooling Load
2001 Basic Model Investigations are Advantageous
2001 Structures: System Would Use Chain of Spheres to Absorb Impact on Structures
2000 Development of a Compact Intake Chamber for Vertical Tubular Pumps
2000 Hydraulic Impacts on the Impeller of Vertical Axial Pumps Installed in Selected Intake Structures
2000 Implementation of Vertical Acceleration and Dispersion Terms in an Otherwise Hydrostatically Approximated Three-Dimensional Model
2000 Thermal Balance of On-Stream Storm-Water Management Pond
2000 Water Intake Sediment Problems in Thermal Power Plants
1998 Control of Zebra Mussels with Ultraviolet Radiation
1998 Prospects for Cool Thermal Storage in Competitive Electric Power Industry
1998 Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Thermal Stratification in Cooling Ponds
1997 Chilled Water Thermal Energy Storage without Electric Rate Incentives or Rebates
1997 Geothermal Resource Assessment Using Self-Optimized Layered Neural Network
1997 The Heat Is On
1996 Composite Holds Back Seawater at 13 Fathoms
1996 Preliminary Studies of a Karst Warm Spring in Mt. Kräuterin, Austria
1996 Project Blue Revolution
1995 An Evaluation of Injection Well Plugging From a Ground-Water Heat Pump System in Southeastern North Dakota
1995 The Integral Project: Overview
1995 Movable-Bed Scale Model for the Nile River at El-Kureimat
1995 Numeric Simulation for Temperature Field of Water Intake and Discharge in Plateau Areas
1994 Conjunctive Operation of Hydroelectric and Thermal Power Plants
1994 Evaluation of the Pagosa Springs Geothermal Reservoir and Implications of Potential Additional Reservoir Development
1994 Field-Test Results of Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage at St. Paul, Minnesota
1994 Structure of River Turbulence Behind Warm Water Discharge
1994 Valuation Analysis for Independent Power Project
1993 Application of Environmental Regulations on Design of Hydraulic Structures for Open Cooling Water System
1993 Geothermal and Hydropower Production in Iceland
1993 Information Management Power Station Construction at Stanwell
1993 A Marine Resource Mitigation Program for the Impacts of a Coastal Nuclear Power Plant
1993 Optimization of Operations—The Manitoba Hydro Experience
1993 Reservoir Management and Thermal Power Generation
1992 Behavior of Thermal Wedges in Oscillating Reservoir Flow: A Case Investigation
1992 Closed Cycle Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
1992 Economic factors of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC)
1992 Facilitating Technology for Fuel Production and Energy-Enhanced Products
1992 New Technology Applicable to Tidal Power
1992 Ocean Energy Recovery, the State of the Art
1992 Optimization of Real-Time Hydrothermal System Operation
1992 Reservoir Management and Thermal Power Generation
1992 State of the Art in Open-Cycle Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
1991 Estuary Geometry as a Function of Tidal Range


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So I read an article other day by one of the European trainers (can't remember the name, sorry!). He does english (hm, of course ) and he states that every horse should go on trail ride at least 1-2/week to keep it "in healthy mind".
While I completely agree that trail riding teaches the horse lots of things (desensitizing to the scary objects, for example), I'd like to hear opinions on that. Also some horses just don't like trail riding at all (not a matter of being scared, just boring I guess?). So would you still force them to trail riding "to keep healthy mind"?


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- Game library I'm an RPG gamer and the PSP has a very vast collection of RPGs to play from.
- Graphics Even today it has good graphics. The beautiful big screen helps that as well. Resolution is pretty bad for today's standards though.
- Battery life It's not great nor is it bad. For what the PSP can do, it's alright.
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The Next Biotech Harvest
Now poised to move from labs to fields; genetically altered plants that could yield not only better foods but also fabrics, plastics and pharmaceuticals.
At first glance, an aging industrial section of Cambridge, Mass., seems an odd place to look for the future of agriculture. The only plants are weeds along the railroad tracks and well-tended shrubs and trees dotting the entrances to the high-tech businesses that are rejuvenating the area. The agricultural heartland of the United States is a thousand miles away.
And you won't find any greenhouses or pots of experimental plants inside Cereon Genomics. It looks like any other molecular genetics lab. Technicians prepare bar-coded samples; nearby, rows of sophisticated instruments that were originally developed for sequencing human genes form a high-speed manufacturing line. The difference is that the raw materials for this gene factory are often snippets of plants, and the product is information on the plant's DNA-their genetic blueprints.
From his corner office, Roger Wiegand raises his eyebrows toward the automated equipment in back of him. Wiegand is Cereon's director of genomics technology-the science of identifying genes and their functions. There may not be any greenery around, but for a longtime molecular biologist, Wiegand says, running Cereon's lab is "like being a kid in a candy factory."
The excitement is based on the conviction that the gene information being harvested at Cereon-and at other plant genomics labs sprouting up around the world-will help seed a biotech transformation of agriculture. Monsanto, the St. Louis-based agricultural and pharmaceutical giant, late last year committed to spend over $200 million to create Cereon, a wholly owned subsidiary it formed in an alliance with gene hunter Millennium Pharmaceuticals. The deal is one of the boldest moves in Monsanto's makeover into a "life sciences" company. (In June, Monsanto announced plans to merge with American Home Products.) And it reflects the former chemical company's deep-pockets belief that it can leverage the growing knowledge of genes into big business-and in so doing change how farmers and consumers think about plants.
Other companies share this vision. Several other chemical and drug giants, notably DuPont and Novartis (the Swiss company resulting from the 1996 merger of Ciba and Sandoz), have plowed billions into the dream. If these companies are right, within five years farmers will be planting cotton that is naturally colored to reduce the need for dyeing, as well as crops that harbor plastic. Growers will be armed with higher-yielding, bug-resistant crops. Consumers will pick up from supermarket shelves healthier and more nutritious foods that come from genetically modified plants. Further in the future, children will get vaccines through bananas or other foods, avoiding the terror of needles (see "Making Needles Needless,").


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Obama to kick off White House economic offensive
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Starting Wednesday, President Obama will make a series of speeches on the economy. He's trying to set the stage for this fall.
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Obama's economic offensive. What is the Hyperloop? And, when it comes to per capita income level, which country is most like China?
McDonald's earnings: So goes the cheeseburger, so goes the economy?
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McDonald's has released its latest business results, and the numbers are a few Happy Meals short of expectations.
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Google will make mandatory a plan forcing customers to buy advertising across all platforms.
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The Preliminary Seedings for the WYSL's Fall 2014 season are complete. We want to thank all Club Officials, Team Coaches and Managers who diligently filled out the On-line Application and Seedings Request Forms. The accuracy of our work is dependent on the input we receive. If you did not fill out a form, our information is incomplete and is more likely to result in an error in seeding your team.
We spent a lot of time on this process, but could not satisfy all requests or desires. The process is imprecise and many judgment calls are required to best balance the division pairings. We try to reward teams which do well in a division. We try to divide the teams in each age group into divisions of even numbers of teams in order to avoid having weekly "byes" and "make-ups" which complicate the schedule. We have a couple of 5 team divisions with cross-over games to fill out the schedule while minimizing mismatched games. And where possible we take account of the travel distances between teams – in one case splitting one large division geographically.
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Fire Destroys North Kitsap Home
POULSBO - Firefighters from two departments needed about 15 minutes to knock back a fire in a double-wide mobile home near the corner of Widme and Lincoln roads Tuesday morning.
Firefighters responded to the fire at about 10:30 a.m. and mostly contained the blaze to the living room, but extensive smoke and heat damage was reported in the rest of the structure, according to a Poulsbo Fire Department news release. Firefighters from North Kitsap Fire and Rescue also helped.
The 62-year-old woman who lives in the home told firefighters she had plugged in a carpet cleaner before taking a shower, and came out to find the living room on fire. The Kitsap County Fire Marshal confirmed that the fire was caused by an overloaded circuit.
No one was injured in the fire. The womn had insurance and is being helped by the Red Cross.
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Saturday, November 11, 2006
Rice Cooker, Out-of-the-Box
It was my Dad who first showed me how to use it to boil corn. A tad unconventional, but then again, why not? It's just a big pot with an electric coil, right? So you should be able to use it like any old pot.
Pretty quick, too. Yummy, golden boiled Valencia corn from the ACSAT farm in under 15 minutes.
Today, I used it to cook spaghetti noodles. Quite handy it was, and very neat, too. I don't think I've had as little trouble making spaghetti as today. A 100g pack cooked in under 10 minutes. Getting the water to boil took a bit longer.
You know what they say: a watched pot never boils.
Next time I'll boil water in the water heater first.
Any other unconventional rice cooker suggestions out there?
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- AnonymousNovember 12, 2006 6:30 AM
Not really rice cooker suggestion, but boiled rice companion.ReplyDelete
When you're feeling lazy to cook a good meal, boiled rice always goes well with coco jam--we call it santan here--in my case.
When I was away studying, I had my mom prepare me a garapon, which lasted for half of the term--roughly 1 month give or take a few days.
Would you believe we don't hava rice cooker? :)ReplyDelete
I often tell Marilyn that we have no rice in the U.S. She is quite fond of rice, though I think I have eaten it 6 times in my life. Most Americans just don't incorporate it into our daily meals. It may not be as abundant as in the Philippines, but is still readily available here. Marilyn knows I am joking when I say we have no rice.ReplyDelete
Hi, Willy: mmm, sounds like something to pick up when I do go visit Naga :-)ReplyDelete
Hi, Chaz: in Australia? or in Dumaguete?
Hi, Corey: I used to buy mine at Food Lion and Krogers. And that reminds me of another story....
Good thing LA is rice country or I would not survive. I can not eat rice regularly but I must have it around. Since Asian and Mexican food is abundant in LA, there's no problem finding a resto with rice.ReplyDelete
Back when I was dorming in Manila, not knowing how to cook and being lazy meant doing unconventional things. I have tried cooking tocino using a rice cooker more than once and it also meant changing my rice cooker more than once, as apparently, oil destroys the rice cooker.
Hey Doms, we don't have a rice cooker in Australia now. I know we should but we've been using a microwaveable rice cooker for so long now and it just works for us just as well.ReplyDelete
Ahh, yes, Food Lion and Kroger. In fact, I have the latter about 2 minutes down the road. We also have a brand new Wal-Mart across the street from my apartment. Between the two of them I would imagine I could find anything. However, despite the convenience of these places, I still depend on McDonald's and Taco Bell and other unhealthy fast food places for my meals :(ReplyDelete
Marilyn needs to help me learn to cook :)
Hi, Amee: thanks for the tip. I'll try to remember not to cook tocino on the rice cooker ;-)ReplyDelete
Hi, Chaz: microwaveable rice cooker? That's new to me.
Hi, Corey: gah! lay off the fast foods, that's what almost ruined my health.
Re microwaveable rice cooker, I have that too. You just put rice and water (Rice packages come with instructions as to how much, in RP I always got the ratio wrong.) and press rice on the microwave and it estimates how long to cook it, usually 20 mins. I bought mine for around $10 from Target.ReplyDelete


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One of the most popular lands and the one located just off The Hub to the right, Tomorrowland is home to several of Magic Kingdom's most popular attractions, including the venerable Space Mountain and Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin. Several anytime attractions are also situated here, including the Carousel of Progress, Tomorrowland PeopleMover, and Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor.
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West Seattle real-estate specialist Dan DeSantis: New WSB sponsorAugust 8, 2012 at 6:17 pm | In West Seattle housing, West Seattle news | 5 Comments
We're welcoming a new WSB sponsor, Dan DeSantis, who is the agent for 4325 1/2 Thistle, a home in south West Seattle which he calls an in-city retreat. The home features unbroken mountain and Puget Sound views, as it is perched above the tree line, so you are looking over treetops instead of roofs. The home features a newly remodeled kitchen with stainless-steel appliances, two separate view living areas, wood fireplaces on both levels, and a bed/bath on each level.There's a wrap-around deck and garden patio that includes a hot tub. It's located near the Morgan Junction business district as well as Westwood Village. Lincoln Park and Lowman Beach are nearby as well; nearby schools include Gatewood Elementary as well as the Denny-Sealth campus. See photos of this home at thistletreehouse.info.
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Dan, is the best at what he does! He can also ride/ cycle too!
Very Generous of you! thanks Dan!
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Sheriff Fontoura said that Hall, then age 19, was struck by gunfire from a passing vehicle as he stood on the sidewalk at 413 South 19th Street at approximately 7:30 p.m. on March 11, 2012. At the time of the shooting, Hall was conversing with his mother who sat in her parked car. The victim's mother was also struck by the gunfire.
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"..at a certain point your hands start shaking and your motor skills go out the window ... think "polar bear" swim but rather than having a warm blanket and hot chocolate after, you need to start a fire.Its a real eye opener"I am sure it is. After teaching myself to start a fire without matches, lighter, fire steel, etc, I can imagine just how difficult it would be in anything other than optimal conditions. I needed optimal conditions and 40 or so hours.
I was raised on deep glacial fed mountain lakes andccold salt water. Everyone should try a safe dunking in cold water to get an inkling of the effects. You never understand the shock to your system until you try it. Basically it sucks!
The only downside is that they are hard to light. They won't light with a spark. Once they get burning they are great because they will dry out pencil-size fuel. Even without building a fire they can warm you up but you need to be careful not to breathe the fumes. Ditto with Trioxane bars.When you are really cold, things don't work the same. It can be really hard to strike a match or work the wheel on a lighter. Fire-steel requires some manual dexterity that just might not be available. That's why I like tinder that will light with a spark.I get kinda opinionated about fire-starting technique in the PNW in winter because I've been hypothermic once. No fun. A lot stuff that works fine in dry climates doesn't work at all in the misty, cold, and wet. Most of what I learned as a scout in cold, dry Montana doesn't work out here in Coastal NW Oregon. I've accumulated some tricks that work for me, and I've played around with getting a fire going just for practice. So yeah, I can really get behind the idea of a mini road flare.I think this is a great thread on a super important subject.
"..at a certain point your hands start shaking and your motor skills go out the window ... think "polar bear" swim but rather than having a warm blanket and hot chocolate after, you need to start a fire.Its a real eye opener"Been there, done that. In Oregon, in the rain, 40* temps. In those conditions, with hypothermia, you do not want to depend on a bow drill to start a fire! At the time, I was saved when I remembered I had a Svea 123 in my pack. Took long enough to remember that! I think the mini-flare is a great emergency idea. Thanks for sharing it!
just saw a survivorman episode where he attempted to use a flare that was packed away in an emergency kit, and the flare was expired by a couple years and did not light. so checking if you carry one of these you should check it every year or so.i fell though the ice on a pond once as a kid. maybe the scariest thing ever. you INSTANTLY go to the bottom. there is no slow sink that you see in the movies. good idea to do a "safe" controlled cold water plunge. i've been wanting to do that for a few winters now but MANNNNNNNN it looks so cold!
Nice choice Dale. A few years back I went the DIY route. The large signal flares were on sale at Kmart really cheap, inventory closeout type of sale...couldn't resist :-)I cut the flare short enough to use electrical tape to seal the joint where the 2 plastic edges met. I also sealed the stricker cap with electrical tape also. I have the flare in my emergency grab-n-run kit.I was hypothermic once at home. Long story made short....Experienced the uncontrollable shivering and motor skills of my hands and other parts. While in bed trying to warm up and recoupe, my wife was doing all she could to help me along. I layed in bed thinking of the firemaking skills that had learned over the years and info on hypothermia. I knew at that point how difficult it would be to survive while being in the shivering state of hypothermia. I was home at the time, temperature in house 60 degrees? I had been laying on the living room floor waiting for the next dash to the toilet when the shivering/chills started. Be prepared in any situation that can lead to hypothermia. Get that flare out of it's protective package. I read on the internet of an individual who died of hypothermia in cabin, out in the woods. He must have entered the cabin in the advance stages of hypothermia. There was plenty of fire wood, matches and a woodburning stove in the cabin. They said there was no indication that he tried to start a fire. I read that many years ago when doing research. I tried to find the site but could not...sorry.edit to add link:http://www.bplite.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=216&hilit=signal+flare
Edited by zelph on 12/18/2013 10:08:04 MST.
Shelf life is important to consider with many emergency supplies: matches, first aid items, batteries, etc. that is why I used the Seal-a-meal to package the flares, reducing air and moisture exposure as well as general wear and tear of packing. I imagine you could break open a flare and use a firesteel to set off the innards if the striker fails.I replace my matches each Spring. That's one thing I like about firesteels: they are very stable. I rely on a mini Bic for general fire lighting. I carry a Bison Designs spy capsule jammed full of Tinder Quick tabs on my "survival" keychain along with a firesteel, AA LED flashlight, whistle and Leatherman Style CS tool. That is always in my pocket. In my other pocket is a K&M match case full of REI/UCO storm matches and strikers. I also carry a folding knife with a locking blade or fixed blade knife like a Mora.For day hiking I have my poncho for general rain gear and emergency shelter plus an AMK space blanket bivy. My first aid kit, a few Micro Pur tablets, an extra insulation layer, compass and maps, and spare food completes my essentials list.
Edited by dwambaugh on 12/18/2013 10:40:17 MST.
>"At the time, I was saved when I remembered I had a Svea 123 in my pack. "We were sea kayaking out of Seward, Alaska and I went in first. I just got lucky - it wasn't skill - and came in right between smaller waves, scrambled out the boat and dragged it up the beach just in time. I tried to wave Kristin off, but she was already following me in and wasn't so lucky. A 6-foot breaker dumped over her as she sat low on the beach. I dragged her and her boat up the beach and decided, "This doesn't need to be pretty, it needs to be fast." and started the single-burner propane stove (upright on a 1-pound propane bottle) mostly buried it in the pebbly beach, and piled driftwood on top. When the driftwood was going nicely, I reached under and pulled the stove out.
Great and timely thread. I have done the "jump in the cold lake, wade to shore, then start a fire with the tools in your pockets" drill and like Eric said it is instructive.The forecast last weekend was calling for steady rain and highs around 38-40 degF so I took the opportunity to enjoy some "good living" on a local trail system. I brought a small flat tarp, and hiked in the gentle rain. I got to a nice spot next to a lake and set up the tarp just as the harder rain came. The wind was shifty and kept the rain moving at various angles.It occurred to me that:- Had I been hypothermic it would have been quite challenging to deal with it from scratch. Being proactive pays. Prevention really is better than a cure.- I was really loving my Patagonia R3 hiloft jacket.- I was strongly motivated to simply hide under the tarp in my synthetic clothes, and had I been overnighting I would have been very glad to have a synthetic bad instead of down. I know, some of you guys are masters at keeping your down dry but I don't need any further burdens.Kevin said:"We were stuck in a 10 hour rain shower a couple weeks ago and manage to get a nice fire going."How did you protect the fire from the ongoing rain? I'm pretty experienced at starting a fire when the forest is wet, using split squaw wood, fuzz sticks, pine pitch etc etc but not so much when the rain is actually pelting down.I would love to hear some BPLers' strategies for keeping a fire going in steady rain when you do NOT have a fixed shelter (AT shelter, cave, overhanging cliff, etc). How do you keep the fire protected and also keep yourself out of the rain? It seems too dangerous to have a fire just under the edge of a silnylon or cuben tarp.I have been toying with the idea of carrying a "sacrificial" fire tarp cut from 3-mil poly sheet but I haven't tried anything with it yet. And it's a chunk of extra weight to tote.
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>"I would love to hear some BPLers' strategies for keeping a fire going in steady rain "Basically, piling the wood higher on the fire and staging wood next to the fire so it is getting some heat drying off a little bit. Building a rock wall for the far side of the fire reflects a little more heat back at you. More importantly, it reflects heat back at the wood drying it out, and it lets you pile the wood higher.I find each time I get lazy and think, "I'll let the fire burn this branch/log in half", it takes WAY too long and I can stack the wood as tightly as if I'd sawed it in half or skipped using it.
I've read threads on BPL of people using flares to scare off bears (Bob perhaps) so there's a potential third use for this item.
"I would love to hear some BPLers' strategies for keeping a fire going in steady rain"First thing is to place it under the densest tree canopy you can find, this will do a lot for keeping the rain off your fire.Next thing is to make it BIG. Get big logs burning. You want a coal base that you could forge a greatsword with. Make it big because when it's big with a hot coal base it will take a lot more rain to put it out.If you are going to use wet wood, you need to get the wet wood drying out as soon as possible. What I usually do is put a big log on the opposite side of the fire parallel to the fire and my shelter. Then I start leaning pieces of wood against this big log so they are propped up above the fire. This allows them to dry out and at the same time I'm basically creating a lean-to over the fire which helps protect it.I have kept a fire going all night to keep warm in light to moderate rain a few times.Keep some dry kindling with you under your shelter and stuff some hot coals into your cook pot. In the morning you will have an easy time restarting the fire to warm up or cook.
David and Ian have it right: in the rain, the fire needs to be big, and you need to put put more wet wood behind and beside the fire to start drying early. "Behind" is as much for reflecting as drying. A rock wall can make a great reflector if it isn't channeling run-off into the fire.This is NOT a LNT technique!David, great fast fire technique there! I have a friend who says the best way to start an emergency fire when you're wet and cold is with a pint of gasoline! Good point, but a bit uncontrollable, especially when hypothermic. But fast beats slow and complicated in those conditions!
>"the best way to start an emergency fire when you're wet and cold is with a pint of gasoline "Stephen, If that's all you've got, and you don't really need your eyebrows for the next month, it works. But gasoline is so volatile, much of it flashes to vapor and burns in the air above the wood. Add any fuel low so its flames heat the wood. Diesel is a better choice per ounce because it is longer burning and not nearly do dangerous to light.Synthetic fibers are good fire starters in pinch. Don't burn your clothes - it's better to wear those, but 550 cord and such add wind-proof BTUs once lit.Whenever I've taken a wrap, sandwich or crackers out on a trip in a zip-lock bag, I end up carrying the zip-lock bag for the rest of the trip. One is fine because it makes a nice, sealable trash bag, but one than one is a pain. Wrapping the first few days of food (which for me is often normal, around-town food) in waxed paper makes disposal of the wrapper very easy. And wax paper is a wonderful and safe fire starter.
> "I would love to hear some BPLers' strategies for keeping a fire going in steady rain"Yes, I can light a fire under bad conditions; I just don't bother. We get the tent up, get inside it, strip off, dry ourselves and get into dry warm clothing. Then I start the stove. Hot soup. Beats pfaffing around in the rain (snow) trying to light a fire EVERY time.Cheers
"Synthetic fibers are good fire starters in pinch."I was considering what to sacrifice when my buddy discovered the cooking oil.He had tried white gas, which I kept telling him wouldn't work. A pint later and no fire...
>" We get the tent up"+1Standing around a campfire in the rain gets one side of you (at most) warm. While the other three sides get cold and wet.Another alternative to setting up the tent is to just keep hiking. If you've got clothes that dry as you wear them (non-down, non-cotton), I'll often hike when the weather is worst because I don't want to stop and cool down. Then when the rain lessens, I ventilate more and start looking for a protected camping spot.
"pfaffing" ?What is that?--B.G.--
Once the fire is well established and hot, I always have at least two good sized logs in the fire with a space between, creating a hot spot that keeps both logs burning. I start with a tipi of small dry branches with tinder inside and a space for sliding my starter tinder bundle into. Having a good supply of wood at hand is part of the deal. There's nothing worse than getting the fire going and leaving the warmth and light to stumble around in the dark trying to find more suitable wood. The first place I look is for low dead and dry branches that can be broken off, which is intermediate fuel that can be broken or shaved down for lighter tinder. If camping by a fast moving river, you can usually find wood in the rocky banks that was left at higher water. I've found wood quite a ways back from the main channel in flatter flood areas. I don't normally have a fire unless I'm in a campground and I've brought a supply of firewood. As much as I like the romance and warmth of a campfire, it just creates too much damage to the environment and my equipment. I do count fire making as a necessary skill for backcountry travel.
"Having a good supply of wood at hand is part of the deal. There's nothing worse than getting the fire going and leaving the warmth and light to stumble around in the dark trying to find more suitable wood."That brings up the old story of the difference between the red man and the white man. The red man gets caught in a storm, so he gathers a small amount of wood, builds a small fire, stays very close to it, and he stays warm all night long.The white man gathers a large amount of wood and builds a large fire. The fire burns down and he stays warm all night long by running to find more wood.--B.G.--
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On Location of Saath Nibhana Saathiya
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lovely video..Giaa n Vishal seem to have a good rapport,i wish Aham was there for us to see these two characters having a good conversation with each other.i find it difficult to understand Aham's hatred for Gopi.i am just looking forward to the day when these two would fall in love..Kokila is a great actor..i love her both as kokila and Rupal..
Giaa and Visual so cute as always, the interview and seeing their off screen interaction, has put a big smile in my face!!
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text: 10 Dec. 45 Army and Navy were actually preparing war plans against the United States. Furthermore, we have a document that shows the Nazis knew at least a part of what those war plans were. I now refer again to Document Number 1538-PS, which has been offered in evidence as Exhibit USA-154, the secret telegram from the German Military Attach& in Tokyo, dated 24 May 1941. He talks about the conferences he has had regarding Japan's entry in the war in the event Germany should become involved in war with the United States. In the paragraph numbered 1 this sentence also appears-I quote the last sentence in numbered Paragraph Number 1, "Preparations for attack on Singapore and Manila stand." May I at this point review the Nazi position with regard to the United States at this time, the spring of 1941. In view of their pressing commitments elsewhere and their aggressive plans against the U.S.S.R. set for execution in June of 1941, their temporary strategy was naturally a preference that the United States not be involved in the war at that time. Nevertheless, they had been considering their own preliminary plan against the United States, as seen in the Atlantic island document which I offered. They were repeatedly urging the Japanese to aggression against the British Commonwealth just as they would urge them to attack the U.S.S.R. soon after the launching of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. They were aware that the course along which they were pushing the Japanese in the Far East would probably lead to involvement of the United States. Indeed, the Japanese Foreign Minister had told Hitler this in so many words, and their own military men had fully realized the implications of the move against Singapore. They also knew that the Japanese Army and Navy were preparing operation plans against the U.S. They knew at least part of those plans. The Nazi conspirators not only knew all these things; they accepted the risk of the aggressive course they were urging on the Japanese and pushed their eastern allies still further along that course. In April 1941 Hitler told the Japanese Foreign Minister that in the event Japan would have become involved in the war with the United States, Germany would immediately take the consequences and strike without delay. I refer to our Document 1881-PS, the notes of the Hitler - Matsuoka conference in Berlin on 4 April 1941, which has already been introduced as Exhibit Number USA-33. I refer particularly to the first four paragraphs on Page 2 of the English translation. I think that has been read to you at least twice, and I perhaps need not repeat it.


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UNI PRSSA will host a fundraising event at Ginger's Pub. Doors open at 8 p.m.; the first band begins at 9 p.m. Admission is $3 for age 21 and older; $5 for age 18-20 with a student ID.
Learn about China's First Emperor. This event ispresented by the UNI Chinese Language and Culture Association.
Celebrate the seasons with Campus Activities Board (CAB). There will be food, activities, games, prizes as well live entertainment by electro hip hop violinist, Svet, as seen on NBC's hit TV show America's Got Talent.
BASIC is a college-aged worship community. Free meal beforehand at Nazareth Lutheran Church at 6:30 p.m.
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BASIC is a college-age worship community, and we are celebrating Christmas with worship. Free meal before at Nazareth Lutheran Church at 6 p.m.
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'Maple Vector #1' by Stoney Lamar, 1998, maple, 11 by 12 by 12 inches. Courtesy of Mint Museum of Craft + Design. Gift of Jane and Arthur Mason.
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Saluda-based sculptor William Stoney Lamar has contributed his exceptional skills to the world of wood turning for more than 25 years.
But he took a number of turns of his own along the way to his career as an artist.
In his youth a near-delinquent, a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War and an aspiring furniture maker, it was not until the 1980s that Lamar began to work on a lathe, his signature tool. ...


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Last week, you may recall that Ask got a rave review from the Wall Street Journal. Robert Scoble saw that, then did an ego search for himself and decided Ask doesn't measure up based on that. Fair criticism? Sure, to some degree. But then again, it's easy to take a single search for anything and show that any of the "leaders" in search have problems, as well.
In Search Of The Relevancy Figure from me back in 2002 goes through the various ways that search engines are measured up. Ego Search is a long-standing one, as I described:
"Ego Search" is another style that can be bad, and one that I still see journalists and others often perform. In an ego search, you look for your name. If you fail to come up tops for it, you conclude the search engine's relevancy is poor.
In some cases, perhaps this is true. If I search for "bill gates," it's reasonable to expect to find the official web site for Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. But what if you aren't as well known as Bill Gates or have a popular name? What if you've built a web site in some free hosting service that is shared by spammers? These might be issues that push you down, and for good reason. Moreover, are you're going to condemn an entire search engine as bad, based on one search? Well, I've seen it happen.
So is Ask bad because it didn't find Robert Scoble's current blog. Yes, for a variety of reasons:
- The new blog's been out
there enough that I would expect it to be listed in the top results
- Others can get to it via his old blog,
which is listed in the top results, but it would be better not to make that
- It matters to Robert
The last point is probably the most important. While ego searches can be bad, they remain one of the main ways anyone will test their favorite search engine. You've got to get them as right as possible, and that's not happening with Robert.
For the record, in my searching today, Google and Yahoo list both the old and new blog (in that order), while MSN gets the new one first, then the old one further down (though it's the opposite if you search for robert scoble rather than scoble)
Also for the record, Robert himself makes the job tough for any search engine. He does no redirection from his old to new site, which pretty much makes it impossible to do the very best thing, list only the new blog.
Think about it. If you search for Robert, why send you to his old blog, just to make you detour? I'm not saying pages from his own blog shouldn't come up for relevant specific queries. But in a search for him by name, you'd really only want to point people to his current blog.
On the flip side, as I wrote on Dave Naylor's blog recently, keeping both blogs going with no redirection is also smart marketing that ensures you dominate the results for your name :)
Back to the search, I also tried using his first and last name. Ask deserves some kudos on that, as robert scoble puts a picture of Robert at the top of the page, based on pulling material from Wikipedia. Nice! Sure, his new blog still isn't listed, but that doesn't mean some other features aren't helpful.
Earlier I said Ask is bad for failing the ego search test for Robert. But bad as in bad on that specific query, rather than bad overall. Condemning an entire search engine based on it going overboard, as Robert does when he says:
But, Walt, this doesn't portend good things for Ask.com. To be included in the top three you've gotta be as good as Google. Ask isn't even in the same neighborhood yet.
Wow. So all I've got to do is find a query where Ask succeeds and the others fail, and then Ask's in the neighborhood. Well, John Battelle helps out here. The Last Name Test post he just put up shows how he can easily find himself on Ask for his own name, just as he's found on Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Then again, that search also points out an Ask Jeeves failure. I remarked about this on our Daily SearchCast show when talking about Ask's rave review by the Wall Street Journal. Ask was having issues with not consolidating web sites correctly.
In particular, the day of our show, I'd done a search at Ask to find one of my articles. I queried invisible tabs, and I got this:
Searching With Invisible Tabs. By Danny Sullivan, Editor December 2, 2003...searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3115131
Searching With Invisible Tabs. By Danny Sullivan, Editor-In-Chief December 2, 2003...www.searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3115131
That's the same page, listed twice. Ask is having a canonical issue, not realizing that the www URL leads to the same page without the www prefix (and this despite us doing redirection).
You can see the same issue with John's search for battelle:
John Battelle's Searchblog Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Search and Newsletterbattellemedia.com/About John Battelle. Federated Media. UC Berkeley. Columns. That Book I Hear He Wrote. Consulting. Contact...www.battellemedia.com/
All those listings are from the first page of Ask's results. The first and third listing are the same page, just one is shown with the www prefix.
So now we can say that Ask is clearly not in the same neighborhood as Google, Yahoo and MSN! Hold on there.
Let's go to MSN and look for invisible tabs. I'm not saying that my article should be the only thing listed, but look at the result at the bottom from MSN:
invisible girl
ABchao Brad Bubs Connie Daynah Dodo Dodo's Tabs Heather Jen Jessie Kristin Leah Leigh Sanne Sarah Shiny Shiny Shopgirls! TechLog Meta </a> .org - asm > Valid XHTML XFN WordPress
In this case, I'm getting a page that has nothing to do with invisible tabs of any type other than they simply having both of those words on the page somewhere. But over at Ask, every listing in the first results is related in some way, either to my article, or to how they apply to a programming issue, or to the idea of guitar tabs you use to play the song Invisible. By this measure, MSN isn't in the neighborhood of Ask.
As for domain issues, MSN's fixed the embarrassing issue it had with every cars.com subdomain dominating (shall I say domainating) a search for cars, but then when I search for movies today, I get all these from the go.com domain:
- movies.go.com
- casanova.movies.go.com
- video.movies.go.com/sincity
None of these are "indented" results, either, so it doesn't feel like the subdomain issue is completely solved. I'm guessing MSN fixed it to check back three levels but not four.
Let's swing back to Yahoo. MSN's domain issues could be excused in part because as a search engine technology, they're still an infant. But here's scoble over at Yahoo showing these domains (numbers show the listing order):
2) scobleizer.wordpress.com
3) www.kunal.org/scoble
5) www.kunal.org/scoble/archives/
6) radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/02/
8) radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/01/
9) scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/02/
OK, it's not unusual for search engines to show up to two pages from the same domain in the first page of results. Google's popularized this concept through its indented results. I'm not even saying that Yahoo should be indenting results. But if you're going to show more than one page per web site, at least get coordinated enough to put then next to each other. If I just saw a scobleizer.wordpress.com page at the top of my result, I don't want to see another page from that domain at the bottom.
How about the widely acknowledged leader in search, Google? Let's do scoble over there. Down at number six is this:
That's a link-only URL, a page Google only knows about through links pointing at it, rather than having visited the page. What happens if I try to visit it? 404 Page Not Found. Heck, I don't even get that. I get a complete non-resolution to the site, a time-out. It doesn't look to exist any more. So why's this making it at number six for that search? Why isn't Google smart enough to drop this entirely useless listing?
To sum up, ego searches will remain a powerful way anyone measures the relevancy of a search engine personally. However, they also remain a dangerous way to assess the overall health and quality of a service. Ultimately, to measure the quality of a service, you remaining wanting an entire battery of different tests run, measuring relevancy and usability.


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Sources say LAMAR ODOM and KHLOE KARDASHIAN have been spending a lot more time together lately, and things are going pretty well.
Lamar was even at KRIS JENNER'S birthday party Tuesday and a witness says they were, "getting on very well and were couple-y together."
Meanwhile, Khloe is denying new reports that she and Lamar are selling their house.
She Tweeted, "If you want to make up stories that I'm selling my home at least use images AFTER I renovated it. LOL I can't stand those horrendous old images."
On the other hand, The paparazzi caught up to Lamar and asked him how things are going with Khloe, and he didn't answer. He just kind of grinned, which some people are taking as a bad sign. Hit the link below for a video.
(TMZ - Full Story and Video)


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Whose recipes do you use or follow the most? Many cooks including myself rely on cookbooks now and again, or go search for recipes online. But when comes to home cooking, you simply can't go past a good ole mum's recipe. After cooking two rounds of momofuku bo ssam (you probably so sick of me keep talking about it already) for the sydney food bloggers and the orphan's Christmas parties, it is done and dusted. The cookbook is back in the bookshelf and it's time to switch back to my own recipe of traditional Chinese crispy pork belly for one last group feasting at Richard's on Boxing Day.
Read on and find out how I turned a nice piece of pork belly, from this ↑ into this ↓
Chinese crispy roast pork belly, commonly known as Siew Yuk (烧肉) or Siao Bak (in Hokkien), literally means "burn the meat", indeed a mesmerising sight of the spit roast that's how it gained its name. The Chinese roast pork belly is a little bit different from the western version. I may be bias, but the Chinese roast pork belly is all about the crispy skin, if not crunchy. That golden blistered pork skin with the most amazing earth shattering crunch is typically how we judge a good crispy roast pork belly.
To achieve such crunchiness is not rocket science really, it is a lot easier than you'd imagined. You just have to keep an eye on the oven and don't let the skin burned into charcoal. Apart from the crunchy skin crackles, the marinade for the pork is just as important. There are many different versions on how to make that perfect crispy pork belly, you can read all about it here, here, here and here. Of course, I have my own 'secret' recipe, that's all I can say. 😛
But like I said, to impress the guests with the most amazing cracklings at your next dinner party is easy. I'll show you how. I bought a 3 kilo pork belly at the local butcher shop and asked them kindly to de-bone it. They offered me to score the skin, but I prefer to do it myself. For the skin, try to avoid the diamond shape scoring as you'd usually do with a roast pork. It's best to just score it in vertical lines about 2 to 3 cm apart as they will become the guidelines where to chop the meat once cooked.
Another important step for that crunchiness is to make sure the skin is as bone dry. The dryer it is, the crunchier it gets. First you will need to blanch (and cook a little) the skin with hot water then pat dry with paper towel. Some will go to the length of sun drying the piece of meat, but I found just pat dry and let it marinade overnight in the fridge is sufficient. When ready to put in the oven, just use paper towel to pat on the skin to get rid of any moisture if necessary.
And final tip is salt. Salt is commonly used to achieve that bubbles blistering skin. However, the excessive use of salt can be harmful for those who is suffering hypertension like me. Instead of rubbing table salt or any ground salt into the skin, use rock salt and sprinkle on top of the skin sparingly. The rock salt will still help to increase the temperature on the skin for that crunchy result and it also doesn't melt as much like ground salt into the skin. Hence, you can simply just brush off the rock salt once is ready, and it wont add another layer of saltiness to the pork belly.
If there is any area on the skin that still look tender and unblistered, simply poke it with a sharp knife a few times and let the oil escape. Put it back in the oven and continue cooking until the whole skin evenly roasted.
I served the crispy roast pork belly with some hoisin sauce at the party, but traditionally a chopped bird's eye chillies dipping soy sauce will have me devour the whole plate of crispy pork belly in no time.
Chinese crispy roast Pork Belly - Siew Yuk (烧肉)
3 kg pork belly (with skin on)
1 bag rock salt
1. Clean the pork belly, scrape the skin with a knife to get rid of any hair then pat dry all over with kitchen towel.
2. Score the skin in vertical lines about 2-3cm apart. Boil some hot water in kettle, pour the hot water over the skin and let it blanch and cook a little.
3. Pat dry the pork again and this time make sure it is completely dry especially the scored lines on the skin.
4. Rub whichever marinade you are using evenly into the meat. DO NOT rub on the skin. If any marinade get on the skin, clean it with a paper towel.
5. Put the pork belly in baking tray, wrap with cling foil and leave it in the fridge to marinade at least 2 hours or overnight.
6. Preheat the oven at 220C, and pat the skin dry again once is out of the fridge to get rid of any moisture. Roast the pork belly for 30 minutes until the skin turns brown.
7. Remove from oven, sprinkle rock salt all over the skin and try rub some into the scored lines. (Don't worry the amount of salt used here, it can be brushed off later)
8. Put it back in the oven and roast for another 30 minutes. At this point, the skin will be crispy and with very small bubbles blistering the skin.
9. Turn the oven up to 250C, and move the pork belly to the highest tray in the oven, as close to the top heat element as possible. "Grill" it for another 20-30 minutes at every 10 minutes interval. Keep checking it until the skin is evenly blistered and make sure it is not burned and blackened.
10. Remove from the oven and let it rest for 15-20 minutes before chopping it up with cleaver.


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Hippies need Zoo York clothing just like fish needs water to survive, drifters need cars to drift in Tokyo, X-men need super power to be fantastic, and aliens need Alien Workshop clothing to drive UFO. OMG! We're talking crappy stuff right at the beginning.
No way! That's the core of everything, of how influential Zoo York is. Wake up man, you forget you need high IQ to read 1 T-shirts World. Oops, may be you're the incarnation of the great Albert Einstein, but it's just that your mind has been decaying due to the effect from Beautiful Decay clothing that stunned you previously.
By the way, why ZY becomes the hippest word in subway tunnel?