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The Mood Hack
Sometime yesterday (ok, really the day before that now) Ken Arnold started in on his Hack. You see, at MacHack, the highlight event is on Friday night where people present the stuff they've been working on through the conference. If it's a proper hack—something cool, yet useless—you get wild applause from the crowd. If not, well, tirades such as "marketing!" and "useful!" are hurled around.
So Ken's hack was a Jini based mood ring. The goal was to have as many people as possible use the application and register their mood. The display would average out everyone's mood and give a group reading. And it was coming together nicely until today when the network issues here got in the way. And then there was an issue with firewalls. And then... And then it worked! Happy happy. Time to package things up and get them out and get ready to demo it for the crowd.
Except, well... The distribution method we picked (Daniel and I were helping Ken here and there with things) was Java Web Start. We packaged things up, put them on a server, and tried to run. And tried. And tried. And tried. After debugging several issues, we got things to work—sorta. But the app was crashy. It would freeze after just a few uses. Not good. We were is despair. We almost gave up. We then packaged it up as a double-clickable Mac OS X .app bundle. And it worked just fine. For some reason the same code worked better when packaged up in an application format than when it was distributed through the supposedly easy to use Java Web Start infrastructure. Who knows why... Maybe there was just too much caffeine in everyone's system. Maybe Java Web Start and Jini don't get along. Those are questions for another day. The hack must go on!
With the working application, we got on stage (at 3AM in the morning by the way) and demoed it. And then we had everyone download and run the application on their machines over the wireless network and join in the fun. Luckily, Ken's server stayed up and the demo survived the onslaught. Whoo!
As I write this, it's a bit after 4AM in Detroit and the hacks are still going on. It's just that kind of conference. Unmistakable. Incredible. So many conferences could learn a few things from this one. I'll be back. But first, I'm going to sleep.
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I want to convince you that you are much more than your limited body, ego, and personality. In reality, the field of human life is open and unbounded. At its deepest level, your body is ageless, your mind is timeless. Once you identify with that reality, which is consistent with the quantum worldview, aging will fundamentally change.
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I would like you to join me on a journey of discovery. We will explore a place where the rules of everyday existence do not apply. These rules explicitly state that to grow old, become frail, and die is the ultimate destiny of all. And so it has been for century after century. However, I want you to suspend your assumptions about what we call reality so that we can become pioneers in a land where youthful vigor, renewal, creativity, joy, fulfillment, and timelessness are the common experience of everyday life, where old age, senility, infirmity, and death do not exist and are not even entertained as a possibility.
Only our conditioning, our current collective worldview that we were taught by our parents, teachers, and society is preventing us from going there.
This way of seeing things–the old paradigm–has aptly been called "the hypnosis of social conditioning," an induced fiction in which we have collectively agreed to participate.
Your body is aging beyond your control because it has been programmed to live out the rules of that collective conditioning. In order to create the experience of ageless body and timeless mind, which is the promise of this book, you must discard ten assumptions about who you are and what the true nature of the mind and body is. These assumptions form the bedrock of our shared worldview.
They are:
1. There is an objective world independent of the observer, and our bodies are an aspect of this objective world.
2. The body is composed of clumps of matter separated from one another in time and space.
3. Mind and body are separate and independent from each other.
4. Materialism is primary, consciousness is secondary. In other words, we are physical machines that have learned to think.
5. Human awareness can be completely explained as the product of biochemistry.
6. As individuals, we are disconnected, self-contained entities.
7. Our perception of the world is automatic and gives us an accurate picture of how things really are.
8. Time exists as an absolute, and we are captives of that absolute. No one escapes the ravages of time.
9. Our true nature is totally defined by the body, ego, and personality. We are wisps of memories and desires enclosed in packages of flesh and bones.
10. Suffering is necessary–it is part of reality. We are inevitable victims of sickness, aging, and death.
These assumptions reach far beyond aging to define a world of separation, decay, and death. Time is seen as a prison that no one escapes; our bodies are
biochemical machines that, like all machines, must run down. This position, the hard line of materialistic science, overlooks much about human nature. We are the only creatures on earth who can change our biology by what we think and feel. We possess the only nervous system that is aware of the phenomenon of aging. And because we are aware, our mental state influences what we are aware of.
Each assumption of the old paradigm can be replaced with a more complete and expanded version of the truth. These new assumptions are also just ideas created by the human mind, but they allow us much more freedom and power. They give us the ability to rewrite the program of aging that now directs our cells.
The ten new assumptions are:
1. The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
2. In their essential state, our bodies are composed of energy and information, not solid matter. This energy and information is an outcropping of infinite fields of energy and information spanning the universe.
3. The mind and body are inseparably one. The unity that is "me" separates into two streams of experience. I experience the subjective stream as thoughts, feelings, and desires. I experience the objective stream as my body. At a deeper level, however, the two streams meet at a single creative source. It is from this source that we are meant to live.
4. The biochemistry of the body is a product of awareness. Beliefs, thoughts, and emotions create the chemical reactions that uphold life in every cell. An aging cell is the end product of awareness that has forgotten how to remain new.
5. Perception appears to be automatic, but in fact it is a learned phenomenon. The world you live in, including the experience of your body, is completely dictated by how you learned to perceive it. If you change your perception, you change the experience of your body and your world.
6. Impulses of intelligence create your body in new forms every second. What you are is the sum total of these impulses, and by changing their patterns, you will change.
7. Although each person seems separate and independent, all of us are connected to patterns of intelligence that govern the whole cosmos. Our bodies are part of a universal body, our minds an aspect of a universal mind.
8. Time does not exist as an absolute, but only eternity. What we call linear time is a reflection of how we perceive change. If we could perceive the changeless, time would cease to exist as we know it. We can learn to start metabolizing non-change, eternity, the absolute. By doing that, we will be ready to create the physiology of immortality.
9. Each of us inhabits a reality lying beyond all change. Deep inside us, unknown to the five senses, is an innermost core of being, a field of non-change that creates personality, ego, and body. This being is our essential state–it is who we really are.
10. We are not victims of aging, sickness, and death. These are part of the scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
These are vast assumptions, the makings of a new reality, yet all are grounded in the discoveries of quantum physics made almost a hundred years ago. The seeds of this new paradigm were planted by Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and the other pioneers of quantum physics, who realized that the accepted way of viewing
the physical world was false. Although things "out there" appear to be real, there is no proof of reality apart from the observer. Every worldview creates its own world.
I want to convince you that you are much more than your limited body, ego, and personality. In reality, the field of human life is open and unbounded. At its deepest level, your body is ageless, your mind is timeless. Once you identify with that reality, which is consistent with the quantum worldview, aging will fundamentally change.
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Siri Bows to Chinese Censors
Today in international tech news: Apple's Siri voice assistant now speaks Mandarin, but don't expect her to banter about -- or even give directions to -- Tiananmen Square. Also: A Chinese man's incarceration and fine set off a debate about the nation's pornography policies; Japan may have made watching YouTube illegal; and Samsung addresses that exploding phone.
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In a nod to Chinese consumers, Apple announced earlier this year that its Siri voice assistant will speak Mandarin and Contonese.
But in a nod to Chinese authorities, Siri apparently has no interest in bantering about Tiananmen Square.
Siri has linguistics limitations when it comes to certain phrases, such as Tiananmen and "6-4," a reference to June 4, the climax of the Chinese army's crackdown during the 1989 protests, according to reports in WantChinaTimes.com and The Wall Street Journal.
Siri, which is generally eager to dish out directions, apparently won't even tell people how to get to Tiananmen Square, located in Beijing.
The original, English-language Siri also has some taboo topics. Last December, for instance, it was noted that Siri was apparently unwilling to entertain certain questions about abortion, including how to get to an abortion clinic.
The root of Siri's unwillingness to discuss Tiananmen is unclear, according to the reports. While the Mandarin-speaking Siri may indeed have been programmed to stonewall questions about Tiananmen, it's also possible that the service -- which retrieves information from the Internet -- is simply running up against the Great Firewall of China when it searches for an answer.
Chinese Man Set Off 'Porn Firestorm'
A Chinese man who was sentenced to jail for possessing pornography on his computer has cast a spotlight on China's strict porn policies, according to Bloomberg.
The story, as Bloomberg tell it, is pretty bizarre: The man in question, known as "Mr. Gu," accidentally posted to an Internet message board a picture of a man seated atop a police car, wielding a machete. Police were curious about the origins of the picture, so they detained Gu and his computer.
Upon inspecting Gu's computer, authorities came across pornographic images. Chinese law on pornography states that anyone "who produces, transports, duplicated, sells or lends pornographic materials" will be jailed for no less than 10 days and fined 3,000 yuan, or about US$470.
The law is meant to be clear-cut, but Gu's case introduced a twist: He hadn't, in fact, distributed any pornographic materials. They were, Gu argued, for personal use.
All the same, he was sentenced to 15 days in jail and fined the 3,000 yuan.
Gu petitioned the local government after being released but got nowhere, so he started a blog chronicling his experiences. And the blog blew up. It trended on Sina Weibo -- which is similar to Twitter -- and was covered by some of China's eminent newspapers.
Earlier this week, the uproar prompted authorities to refund Gu's fine. They also gave him money for his trouble -- apparently to the tune of thousands of yuan.
The article did not say what happened to Gu's computer.
Japanese Copyright Revision Complicates YouTube
The Japanese House of Representative revised the country's copyright law this week in a way that could drastically limit citizens' access to YouTube, according to Mashable.com, which cited a Japanese-language report.
The revision, which also affects the Japanese YouTube equivalent Nico Nico Douga, makes illegally downloading copyrighted videos publishable by up to two years in prison or a fine of up to 2 million Yen (roughly $25,000 dollars). The country revised its copyright laws in 2010 to make downloading pirated content illegal, but penalties had not been stipulated until now.
This affects YouTube because, according to Mashable, every time a user watches a video on YouTube, their "computer stores a temporary download file in the browser cache" on the hard drive. This technical intricacy could make countless people subject to the prosecution under the new law, according to Mashable.
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GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) -- Dozens of West Michigan volunteers have already gone to the East Coast as part of the Red Cross' response efforts to Hurricane sandy. Now the organization is preparing a new group of disaster workers.
The organization held orientation for other interested volunteers Monday night at seven Red Cross offices around West Michigan.
The training gives volunteers an overview of the organization's procedures in different disaster situations and helps them decide if they are a good fit for the program.
"Every disaster has its own distinct challenges," says Chip Kragt with the American Red Cross of Greater Grand Rapids. "What we do is we work with our volunteers to find what their strengths are, what their capabilities are and what physical ailments they may have so that we don't put a volunteer into a situation where they're not going to be able to be of help to other people."
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Ecto88: Ernie Cline's ultimate Eighties geekmobile
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It's a question as old as time: "What if Doctor Emmett Brown and Dr. Buckaroo Banzai collaborated with Knight Industries to create a unique inter-dimensional time vehicle for the Ghostbusters?" What, indeed: Ghostbusting with a wisecracking car sidekick though time and space? A potent notion, and one that Ernie Cline set out to address last spring.
It says author and screenwriter on Ernie's resume, but across his heart is tattooed "Geek" in 8-bit letters. His childhood was in the Seventies but his adolescence was the Eighties, and to a certain extent, that's where he stayed. So when Ernie sold his book Ready Player One, he realized he could achieve a goal he'd held since he saw a car in a museum in Columbus, Ohio, in 1982: to buy a De Lorean.
But it wouldn't be "just" a De Lorean, or even one of a thousand Back to the Future replicas. The book is a great paean to the Eighties and his protagonist has one, so Ernie's car could be a part of that. "I was fascinated by the De Lorean being the definitive car of the decade," he said, but that doesn't make it the definitive cultural icon. No, if Ecto88 was going to represent both the book and Ernie's unusual proclivities, it was going to be, as he called it, "a Time Traveling Dimension Hopping Knight Riding Ectomobile."
He bought the car in March, and promptly installed a (blue) K.I.T.T. scanner, then he started shopping for oscillation overthrusters, and assembled a bunch of ghostbusting equipment. Yes, it has the de rigueur flux capacitor wired in, but his Fanboys production designer is putting together a gimballed mount for the overthruster.
Inside it's become a bit of a rolling Eighties pop culture museum, outfitted with an onboard Eighties digital music and video library, proton packs, PKE meter and other bustin' equipment. He's looking into doing an Ecto-1 lightbar for the roof, and while jet power may not be on the menu, the car is currently at DMC in Texas getting their Stage II engine upgrade. "It's my duty to soup up the car," he said. "Everybody in a fast car assumes it hauls ass," and he's tired of being passed. "It's an affront to the De Lorean." Once that's completed, it will be fit to have Jet Car trim applied.
"I never had a car before that wasn't a piece of crap," he said. "And now I'm getting to add elements of the Jet Car to my personal car! Even if I just take it to the grocery store, there's a crowd around it. Every kid wants to see a flux capacitor."
If your kid wants to see one but hasn't had the chance, keep the faith: Ernie has spent the last six months adapting RPOne for Warner Brothers, and they're not thinking "quirky niche film"; rather, this is summer blockbuster territory. That's right, sometime in the next couple of years, the De Lorean may fly again. I asked him what that might mean for Ecto88 – will it be time to fold in Mark McCormick's Coyote? "I was never a Hardcastle and McCormick fan," he said. "That was my dad's show."
Auction Pulse: New K.I.T.T. and De Lorean Time Machine Star Cararama!
Hollywood memorabilia auction house Profiles in History has scored two hero cars for their November 6 auction. It's a charity benefit for the Michael J. Fox Foundation Team Fox, and he has many friends, some of whom have come through with the goods. One of those is Back to the Future creator Bob Gale, who has donated items from his personal collection to the auction, taking place during a week-long We're Going Back 25th anniversary.
Main attraction is a Back to the Future De Lorean, and, to be clear, this is not the car used in filming. There are many replicas out there, but what's interesting about this one is that not only was it built by the original production building team, but they used props and parts identical to those in the movie hero car:
Many of the parts on this car are not only the same vintage components as used on the screen-used cars, but literally sister parts from the same exact source. The car incorporates an original vintage TRW keypad (exactly like the one Doc punched in the destination date on in the screen-used car), the ultra-rare military Cannon connector elbows; five size 20, and three size 32 (the only three that have ever been found), the Janitrol aircraft fuel heater tank that is now found on the outside of the Time Machine's bulkhead behind the driver's seat, the Mole Richardson 100 amp connectors and 3/4-inch electrical cable that runs down both sides of the car, as well as the rare Hydraflow hoses.
A whole mess of other BttF props are also being sold, some of which are darn cool, like the Outatime plate and McFly's self-lacing Nike Mags – too bad they're about a size four.
The other hero car is a real hero car, the Cinema Vehicle Services-built K.I.T.T. from the 2008-'09 iteration of Knight Rider. Regardless of your interest in the show, the car, with a whole raft of GT500KR parts, is slick, and unless you turn on the KITT scanner in the intakes, no one will know what it is. But imagine how much fun that would be to do, coming up behind someone on the highway at night. KITT carries a $25,000-35,000 estimate, the De Lorean a big $80,000-125,000.


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The Republican National Committee voted Friday to place the Palmetto State ahead of all other states in the southeast in the calendar.
The primary will be held in February.
The RNC also said that only Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina can have primaries in February. States that try to go before those states would face severe penalties.
In 2012, Florida tried to jump ahead in the primary order, leading to all of those states pushing back their primaries into January.


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San Francisco, Calif. - August 14, 2014 - Glu Mobile Inc. GLUU, +4.56% a leading global developer and publisher of free-to-play games for smartphone and tablet devices, today announced the availability of Tap Sports Baseball on the App Store and Google Play. Players assemble and manage their own roster of players, make game-time decisions, and play against Game Center and Facebook friends. Glu has partnered with the Major League Baseball Players Association to include the names and numbers of real-world baseball stars, adding to the realism of the game.
"We are excited to enter the sports genre with an easy to play, highly social experience in Tap Sports Baseball," said Niccolo de Masi, Glu CEO. "Tap Sports Baseball delivers an authentic major league experience through one-touch tap controls, exciting offense-centric gameplay, and through Glu's agreement with the MLBPA, many of today's star players."
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Tap Sports Baseball is an exciting baseball game for casual and hardcore players alike. Incorporating real baseball strategy and outcomes, the gameplay features: bunts, steals, double plays, pinch hitters, lefty/righty matchups, and more. Turn-based gameplay and one-touch controls allow for quick sessions anytime, anywhere. Boasting a robust social component, players can invite friends via Facebook, e-mail, or nickname to play, or they can choose a random opponent. The chat feature allows for friendly trash talk amongst opponents. Through an agreement with the MLBPA, Tap Sports Baseball incorporates the names and numbers of current baseball players, giving players the feeling of being in the dugout!
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I'd done a lot of trips on my "Sun Speedster†over a few years…. And for touring it's a great bike
Here she is…
But was it the "best touring bike�?
Well there were a few things could be better…
It's a bit twitchy at low speed…
With a big load it gets hard in very steep mountains…
Be nice if it had some sort of spring under the seat or suspension…
Be nice if it could fold for overseas trips
Then I came up with an idea that it [the perfect touring bike] could be ridden in both the up and down positions
So around to see my mate Bob
Yes he thought we could do it
So "The Updown Bike†was born
I've now done quite a few trips on her [must be getting up to near10,000ks}
And she's near to been "The Perfect Touring Bikeâ€
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Yes was in Australian Cyclist magazine...
the write up was just as I finished it and these been quite a few changes since then... and lots of long tours
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Peep Science
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There is a long and glorious tradition of torturing leftover Easter candy. But many of the more sophisticated experiments involving Marshmallow Peeps can probably not be done at home. While you can replicate the vacuum experiment on done in the lab by chemistry teacher Edward Kent using an ordinary kitchen vacuum packer (as shown by Steve Spangler), the explosive liquid oxygen video should be only be done under laboratory conditions.
However, a few years ago the kids and I decided to throw caution to the winds and try out an experiment inspired by the site Peep Research, which measured the fear response of a Peep through exposure to heat in a microwave. This is what we did:
- Separate a Marshmallow Peep from the pack.
- Place on a microwave-proof fireproof plate.
- Insert plate into microwave.
- Set on low-medium for 20 seconds.
- Watch the transformation.
- Enjoy the results.
Note: Longer times or higher temperatures may result in a "carmelization" of the peep, which can be difficult to clean off the microwave interior. (Unfortunately, ours didn't reach that stage.)
(It's a little hard to see what's happening through the microwave oven door, but I love my kids' reaction…)
You can find more Peepy links at Peep-O-Rama, including Martha Stewart's recipe for fresh, homemade Peeps (sort of an oxymoron). There are also solubility tests by a stuffed chemistry mascot mole. And there's an explanation of the science of microwaving Peeps at the Exploratorium's Science of Cooking website.
(A version of this post originally appeared on my blog Home Chemistry.)
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If a big, dumb action movie knows it�s a big, dumb action movie and revels in that fact, is that preferable to a big, dumb action movie making the mistake of thinking it�s significant, relevant art?
That�s the question to ponder � if you can think straight and your ears aren�t ringing too badly � during �G.I. Joe: Retaliation.� (2 stars out of 4; rated PG-13) This sequel of sorts to the 2009 blockbuster �G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra� seems to have some cheeky fun with itself, from Bruce Willis cheerily revealing the arsenal he�s hiding in his quiet suburban home to RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan essentially showing up and playing himself. A major city is obliterated with the touch of a button and several others are in peril as the world hinges on nuclear destruction in what amounts to a hammy game of chicken.
Nothing matters really. This is a movie based on a Hasbro toy, after all � it�s all spectacle and bombast. But at least �G.I. Joe� is aware of its vapidity compared to, say, last week�s �Olympus Has Fallen,� in which North Korean terrorists took over the White House in self-serious fashion but our secret-service-agent hero found time to make wedged-in, smart-alecky quips on the way to saving the day.
That�s not to say that this �G.I. Joe� is good, aside from a couple of dazzling action set pieces, but at least it�s efficient in its muscular mindlessness.
The elite military team of Joes, now led by Duke (Channing Tatum, returning from the first film), is sent to Pakistan to recover some nuclear weapons. But they find themselves double-crossed by their own government, led by an imposter president, and lose many among their ranks in a massive ambush. The survivors � Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson, reliable as ever), Flint (D.J. Cotrona, who�s given no personality) and Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki, in full makeup for covert ops) � must find out who�s running the country and get to the bottom of this villain�s dastardly plan.
Turns out it�s master of disguise Zartan, part of the enemy group Cobra, who�s posing as the president while the real commander in chief is locked up in a bomb shelter. (Jonathan Pryce plays both roles; he�s far too qualified for even one of them.) The three Joes realize they need help to bring him down, so they round up the far-flung Snake Eyes (Ray Park), the petite warrior Jinx (Elodie Yung, whose character trains with the Blind Master, RZA) and the reluctant Storm Shadow (Korean superstar Byung-hun Lee, an athletic and elegant specimen).
They also need some firepower, so they track down Willis� Original Joe, Gen. Colton, who provides his own personal gun show. (You�d never know there�s a gun control debate in this country from watching this movie; it�s all very macho and rah-rah. The flip side is, none of the casualties from all this sophisticated weaponry results in any blood. This is an astonishingly violent PG-13 movie.)
�Retaliation� initially was scheduled to come out last summer, but the studio pulled it and delayed its release to convert the movie to 3-D. With a director like Jon M. Chu, who�s shown a flair for integrating 3-D with the dance extravaganza �Step Up 3D� and the concert film �Justin Bieber: Never Say Never,� why not just shoot it that way in the first place? As it stands now, the extra dimension doesn�t add much, and often is used in that simplistic, tried-and-true way of flinging things at us from the screen: bullets, throwing stars, etc.
There is one absolutely astounding extended sequence about halfway through, in which two teams of ninjas face off in a battle on the sheer cliff faces of the Himalayas. Using cables and zip lines, it�s as if they�re running, leaping and practically dancing on walls in the sky � a breathtaking piece of choreography in its own right, regardless of the dimension through which it�s viewed.


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|The Gray Singing Finch is one of those nondescript-appearing little finches that most people will never look at twice. This is their loss, however, for hidden in this drab, mottled gray plumage is a heart and song as big as all outdoors. This little finch has the sweetest singing voice that I have ever heard in any finch species. You may also see this species called the Gray Canary, and most field guides and ornithological references call this species the White-rumped Serin or the White-rumped Seedeater. This conspicuous white rump is the most colorful part of the bird, unfortunately, and it is not widely popular as an avicultural subject because of this total lack of color.
The scientific and ornithological name of this species was assigned by Carl Sundevall in 1850 in Öfversigt af Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademien Förhandlingar, the journal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, volume 7, on page 127, as Crithagra leucopyga. Further study of the various species of finches in the 1800s placed this species in the genus Serinus, and the scientific name was changed to Serinus leucopygius, and that remains the current scientific name for this species.
The Gray Singing Finch is native to Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Its range extends from Senegal east to the Sudan, and it is found around farms, villages, and gardens. This species is also common in the dry, brushy areas. Ornithologists recognize three subspecies of the Gray Singing Finch. The nominate subspecies is Serinus leucopygius leucopygius, and it is found from the Sudan and Ethiopia south to Uganda. Serinus leucopygius pallens is found from Niger to northern Nigeria, and Serinus leucopygius riggenbachi is found from Senegal to western Sudan.
This is one of the few finches that we maintain in aviculture that was not placed in the traditional family Estrildidae. Like the canaries, buntings, bullfinches and siskins, the Gray Singing Finch was classified in the traditional family Fringillidae. However, the work of Charles G. Sibley, Burt L. Monroe, Jr., and Jon E. Ahlquist in the 1970s and 1980s in protein electrophoresis and DNA analysis made major changes in the taxonomic structure of the finch families. This research has resulted in the redistribution of the various traditional families of finches into only two new passerine families: Fringillidae, and Passeridae. In the reorganized Sibley-Monroe checklist of the birds of the world, the Gray Singing Finches have been placed in the vastly expanded family Fringillidae.
Sexing these tiny finches is very difficult, as there are no obvious differences between the cock and the hen. Most works on ornithology and aviculture say the sexes are identical, but only the male will sing. Marking the birds so that you can sex them accurately when you catch the male signing is usually the easiest way of sexing them. Many breeders, dating as far back as the 1800s, have noted that the males seem to have a white patch under the break that is totally lacking in the hen. This white patch is much more noticeable when the cock swells his throat for singing. If you maintain proven pairs of this species, check them closely to see if this difference holds true in your own birds. Sexing of this species will be made far easier for the future if this apparent sex difference can be confirmed beyond doubt.
Like its close relative, the Green Singing Finch, the male Gray Singing Finch can be extremely aggressive to others of its own kind and to closely related species. Though most members of this species will be compatible with other finches of a different genus or family, some will extend their hostility to all other small birds. Be aware of this possibility before you place your Gray Singing Finches with other small birds.
Any diet that is adequate for keeping canaries healthy and breeding will also be a good diet for the Gray Singing Finches, since they are closely related, with both classified in the genus Serinus. My own basic daily diet for them is white proso millet, canary seed, hard-boiled and mashed egg, crushed eggshell, and some greens each day. They are particularly fond of dark greens such as kale, rape, collards, and broccoli leaves. Rapeseed grows beautiful blue-green leaves that any birds in this family dearly love. Everyone who raises any of the serins should have a small plot of rapeseed planted, so that you can give each bird one small, tender leaf of these greens every day.
I have always used mashed, hard-boiled eggs as a high-protein food for the Gray Singing Finches, and for all other finches. Eggs are cheap, highly nutritious, available anywhere, and they are easy to prepare. Also, eggs contain a nearly perfect balance of vitamins, minerals, and fats. Once any bird learns that this is a food item, the bird will eat it regularly and willingly. In order to prepare this egg mixture, simply boil an egg for about ten minutes (a couple of minutes longer for extra large eggs). Cool the eggs in cold water, and then peel the shell off. Youll find that the shell peels off very easily, because the egg absorbs the water as it cools, and this additional water keeps the shell membrane from sticking to the shell and makes the egg much easier to shell. Once the shell is off, dry the egg gently in a paper towel to remove the excess moisture.
Once the egg is reasonably dry, mash it thoroughly with a fork to mix the white and the yolk uniformly. The resulting mix will be an appetizing, uniform, light yellow color. If the color is leaning towards olive, you have boiled the eggs too long. Longer boiling begins to tie up the free sulfur in the egg, which then forms these dirty green compounds, making the egg mix appear rather unappetizing. You can add a slightly heaping teaspoon of any commercial powdered vitamin-mineral supplement to the egg for even better nutritional results. I have always used and recommended Vionate( for this purpose. If you can find soy protein isolate, a teaspoon of that added to the mix and blended thoroughly will increase the protein content of the egg greatly. When mixed with these dry supplements, the egg will not spoil during the day unless it gets wet. Mashed, hard-boiled egg prepared in this manner will dry out and harden in the feeding dishes if the birds dont consume all of it. These birds will not touch anything that is wet and mushy, and an egg mix that is too wet will be spoiled and rotten within a matter of hours. Any food that is this ideal for birds is also an ideal food for bacteria and other microorganisms. Also, remember that it is the white of the egg that is the protein, not the yolk! The yolk contains all of the other vital nutrients that a growing bird needs. Crush the leftover eggshell and feed it separately as an excellent and free calcium source for your finches.
All finches and other birds in my experience will eat this egg mix daily and eagerly, once they become accustomed to it, and it will supply all of the complete protein necessary for raising any of the finches, doves, quail and small psittacines. If you dont need the entire egg for one feeding, it is safe to refrigerate the remainder for a few days. For longer periods, you can divide the finished mix into daily portions, wrap each portion in any clear freezer wrap, and freeze enough for each days feeding in a separate package. Thaw one of these each morning for use in your days feeding. Freezing results in very little nutrient destruction, and this method works very well when a friend is caring for your birds during trips and vacations. Freezing does change the texture of the mix, however, so it is always better to feed the mix fresh if you can.
All small birds love the crushed eggshells, and they will not cause any bird to start eating its own eggs. An available calcium source is always necessary for the Gray Singing finches, because most plant foods are very high in phosphorus, while the birds body needs a much higher proportion of calcium. This additional calcium available constantly is crucially important to enable the birds to balance the calcium/ phosphorus ratio in their diets and in their bodies. They will eat this calcium supplement instinctively whenever they feel the need to balance their intake of calcium and phosphorus.
Introducing them to the large, shelled sunflower seeds is a trick, since they may not recognize these large seeds as a food item. If you will simply chop up a few of these seeds for them, they are sure to try the small pieces and will love them after that. They soon realize that the large seeds are the same as these tasty little chunks, and they will take bite-sized chunks out of the whole seeds on their own from then on. This is also an excellent way to introduce this nutritious food item to all other finches. Niger or flax may be substituted for the sunflower seeds, of course, or given as extra additions to the diet, but they are not essential for the health of Gray Singing Finches, and they are usually much more expensive than sunflower seeds.
Breeding the Gray Singing Finches is not too difficult, but you must keep in mind that they come from equatorial areas, and their normal breeding season begins during our autumn months here in the Northern Hemisphere. You can expect this species to come into breeding condition beginning in September, and they will continue to breed during our fall and winter months in North America.
The male will inform you that the breeding season has arrived when his soft, beautiful song becomes louder and more insistent. The male will pursue the hen as the canary male does, and if you keep two or more males in different enclosures, they will try to outdo each other in singing to stake out their territory and their claim to any hen within sight or hearing.
Though they may breed successfully in either a cage or an aviary, you should keep only one pair per enclosure. This species is very demanding when it comes to territory for a pair, particularly during the breeding season. They will tolerate no other birds of their own species in their enclosure, no matter how big it is. If you try to place more than one pair in a cage or aviary during the breeding season, they will spend all of their time fighting and will never breed.
Gray Singing Finches need a somewhat hidden nesting site to give them a sense of security as they prepare to raise their young ones. In a flight cage, this can take the form of a clump of artificial greenery fastened up in one corner of the cage. As a nesting receptacle, a regular tea strainer fastened securely in this hidden corner is ideal for the Gray Singers. Many breeders have also had them accept a half-open nestbox or other covered nesting receptacle. One of the woven, covered, wicker, nesting receptacles is often accepted, for it is reasonably open, while still giving them the privacy and sense of security that they need.
Gray Singing Finches build a very small, extremely neat little nest, much like that of the Green Singing Finch. When the nest is completed, the hen will lay a small clutch of tiny, mottled eggs, usually only two or three eggs per clutch when breeding in captivity. As is true with the domesticated canaries in the same family and genus, the hen does most of the work, including all of the incubation and most of the early feeding of the young. The male will at least feed her on the nest and as the babies grow after they hatch, he assumes a greater part of their feeding.
Once the young hatch, they grow very rapidly and usually leave the nest before they are three weeks of age. Any canary breeder will be familiar with the actions of the parent birds as they feed, and of the nestlings and fledglings as they are fed. There are no more heartwarming sights in the avicultural world than these.
Most of the Gray Singing Finches now available are imported birds, and the biggest problem you are likely to have in breeding them is to have the pair toss the babies out of the nest and abandon them as soon as they hatch. This happens frequently with imported finches when the adult birds are unable to find the termites and other live insect foods that they are used to feeding their babies in the wild. Sensing a famine with insufficient food for raising the young, the adult birds instinctively terminate the breeding cycle at this point.
Though they may not recognize egg mix or the commercial crumbles as ideal foods for feeding their babies, the Gray Singers will probably accept small mealworms, especially newly molted ones that are soft and lighter in color. If you can get a culture of Lesser Mealworms, Alphitobius diaperinus, started and available before the babies hatch, the adult Gray Singing Finches are almost certain to accept these as a food for their nestlings. Lesser Mealworms are cultured in the same manner as the larger mealworms, Tenebrio molitor, only they are much smaller. The worms are only one-half inch long when mature, and the beetles are not much more than 3/8 of an inch long. Lesser mealworms are native to North America, and you can find them anywhere that grain products are exposed to the outdoors, as in the litter at an egg farm.
Once the young ones have been raised under your own conditions and have been eating your high-protein foods all of their lives, they will be much more likely to feed these foods to their own young ones when they begin to breed on their own. These first generation birds raised under your own conditions are your most valuable, as they can be the start of a dependable breeding strain of these finches. Sooner or later, all importation is going to cease, and only the established breeding strains of the Gray Singing Finches will be available to supply any of these birds to the aviculturists of the future.
If you are a new finch fancier looking for a species that is easy to maintain, hardy, and has the noteworthy advantage of a beautiful song, or if you are an experienced breeder just looking for something a little different, the Gray Singing Finch is a good choice. What it lacks in color, it more than compensates for in its beautiful song. You will hear this song mostly in the early morning and in the late afternoon, a series of gentle chirps and trills which is like a soft canary song, yet which is different. This finch can teach us much about humanity, for it proves that in the most drab of physical bodies may reside the most beautiful of singing spirits!
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KINGFISHER — Every day when 10-year-old Cameron Peters got home from school, it was time for homework and a ham sandwich.
Hoop Dreams: Cameron Peters will make his mother's wish come true
No matter how sick Darlecia Peters got, or how much pain she was in after chemotherapy treatments, she always had the strength for her son's homework and ham sandwich.
Those moments are the memories that stick with Cameron six years after his mother's death from breast cancer.
Ham sandwiches and homework. Or mom's amazing spaghetti. Or how she always called him her "sweet boy."
"Those are the things I'll always remember," Cameron said.
Add one more thing to the list — her constant reminder that Cameron will go to college.
Not maybe. Not hopefully. He will go to college.
When Cameron was playing youth basketball, Darlecia always pushed him to get better. The only area where she pushed harder was in academics.
Now, as a 6-foot-5 junior for the Piedmont basketball team, Cameron might have found an avenue to bring the two together.
Strong and athletic, he's a force as a scorer, rebounder and defender.
He already has a scholarship offer from South Dakota, and he is hearing from a variety of programs, such as Oklahoma, Tulsa and Oral Roberts, to Alaska, Drexel, Cornell and others.
"Her biggest thing was that Cameron go to college," said Cameron's father, James Peters. "Now I feel like that has become my No. 1 priority, my No. 1 goal — to make sure he goes to college, whether it's on a basketball scholarship or not."
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NEW DELHI: The Congress core group on Tuesday reviewed the situation in the Capital in the wake of protests over the gang-rape incident emphasising that police should deal with the matter with sensitivity while there should be no room for violence.
The two-and-a-half hour long meeting at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence was attended by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, defence minister A K Antony, finance minister P Chidambaram and Gandhi's political secretary Ahmed Patel. Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde and parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath were special invitees.
The meeting noted that there was calm in the streets of Delhi. Sources said the meeting was apprised of the fact that the government has requested the protesting student organisations and other groups to send their suggestions to the J S Verma Committee set up to rewrite the rape laws.
Sources said that the home minister gave a detailed briefing of the steps being taken by the government to enhance security in the city after the incident as well as the action taken so far in the gangrape case.
The meeting comes in the backdrop of BJP's demand for a special session of Parliament to discuss the gang rape issue.
Top sources in Congress, however, said that it was not discussed in the core group meeting.
BJP parliamentary party chief L K Advani led a seven- member delegation to President Pranab Mukherjee over the demand for a special session of Parliament.
Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj,however, said that she had received a call from Shinde just before the delegation met Mukherjee and that the "the home minister said he does not feel the need for a special session of Parliament or for calling an all-party meeting".
The Congress group meeting comes on a day when restrictions on traffic movement have been by and large lifted. A constable succumbed to his injuries sustained during Sunday's violent protests.
Constable Subhash Tomar (47), who was wounded during Sunday's protests, succumbed to his injuries at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and was cremated today in the presence of chief minister Shiela Dikshit, civil aviation minister Ajit Singh and others.
The meeting comes three days before an all party meeting on Telangana issue is scheduled on December 28. The sources, however, said that the issue did not came up in the core group meeting.
"It was a general review of the situation," party sources said but refused to go into the details of what transpired at the meeting.
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Notebook: Leslie Frazier calls for rookie QB to 'keep his head up'
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Leslie Frazier was on his way home from Sunday's game when he decided it might be best to check on Christian Ponder.
The rookie had thrown three interceptions in a 27-21 loss to the Oakland Raiders and the Minnesota Vikings coach wanted to make sure his quarterback wasn't taking it too hard.
"Sunday immediately after the game it was a tough time for him and he was really down," Frazier said Wednesday. "I called him on my way home just to encourage him to keep his head up. He's going to win a lot of games for our football team and our organization in the years to come.
"Moments like these for a young quarterback, whether you're Peyton Manning or Eli Manning or Tom Brady, whoever it is, that's not unusual. It's how you respond to that adversity that will determine his long-term success. He's done a good job so far this week, and I think he'll do a good job on Sunday."
Ponder, who was making only his fourth start for the 2-8 Vikings, is 1-3 since taking over for Donovan McNabb. The three picks were the most Ponder has thrown in a game and in the past two games his passer ratings have been 52.3 in a loss at Green Bay and 59.0 on Sunday.
Ponder's struggles shouldn't be unexpected given that the Vikings simply aren't that good of team and all young quarterbacks go through rough times.
"I'm pretty hard on myself," said Ponder, who will get the start Sunday against Atlanta at the Georgia Dome. "I get pretty upset at myself, especially when it's a mental error that was easily avoided. Some of those turnovers, it was pretty easy to avoid. Just don't make a bad decision.
"At the same time, I know that there's a lot for me to learn and to grow and these are the things I learn from. But I think I'm my biggest critic for sure."
As for the call from Frazier, Ponder said: "He was just making sure I was OK. Making sure that I wasn't too hard on myself and said that these are the learning situations we'll go through, but we'll get a lot of wins together. So, it's just the start of something."
Surprise, surprise
Ponder was limited in practice Wednesday because of a knee injury suffered Sunday.
The injury was not disclosed until the report came out after practice, so Frazier and Ponder weren't available to comment.
An NFL source said Ponder's knee issue is not a concern and that he will be fine to play Sunday at Atlanta.
Last week, Ponder was listed on the injury report because of an issue with his non-throwing hand but he did not miss any time.
A zone team
Ponder said he expects to see a lot of zone defense from the Falcons and not as much man coverage as the Vikings had to go against the past two games.
"They're just not a man (coverage) team," Ponder said. "I expect them to bring a lot of pressure, which they've shown on film. But they still play a lot of zone behind it. We'll see. They might play some man, but we expect zone."
Ponder certainly has seen some big-time pressure the past two weeks, being sacked eight times total. The Raiders got to him five times on Sunday. Ponder has been sacked 14 times overall this season.
Despite the struggles by the offense, Ponder is attempting to remain optimistic.
"There's a lot of things that we can do better, especially me personally," he said. "I've got a lot of room to grow and I've learned a lot from the first few games that I've played. I need to show improvement and I will show improvement. I think it's important for us to close out with some positives and I think we can do that. ... There's a lot for us to still accomplish."
He knows their secrets
Bill Musgrave became the Vikings offensive coordinator last offseason after spending five seasons as the quarterbacks coach for the Falcons. Musgrave also served as the assistant head coach to Mike Smith last year.
This means Musgrave has extensive knowledge of the Falcons offense and can share plenty of information with Vikings defensive coordinator Fred Pagac.
"I know he and Fred have talked about what Atlanta does, why they do some of the things that they do and just trying to get inside of their offensive philosophy," Frazier said. "So we'll lean on him quite a bit as we put together a defensive game plan."
Musgrave was hired in large part because Frazier and the Vikings liked how the Falcons offense worked so this goes both ways. Atlanta should know much of what's coming from the Vikings.
"There are a lot of similarities, they'll understand a little bit of what we're doing and then it will come back to how well either team executes," Frazier said. "Who can out-execute whom on Sunday."
Familiar face
Wide receiver Michael Jenkins was taken 29th overall in the 2004 draft out of Ohio State by Atlanta and caught 276 passes for 3,512 yards and 20 touchdowns in 103 games with the franchise.
The Falcons let Jenkins go after the NFL lockout ended in late July in a salary-cap related move and the Vikings quickly signed him to a three-year contract.
"It'll be different," Jenkins said of returning to the Georgia Dome. "First time on the visitor's side. But I'm excited to get down there and get a win. That'll be the best feeling to have, going down there and leaving out of there with a win."
Jenkins, who is second on the Vikings with 36 catches for 441 yards and has a team-leading three touchdown receptions, doesn't know what type of response he will get from the fans.
"I tried to play hard and do everything I can and always make plays when the ball came my way," he said. "So, maybe get some boos, maybe get some cheers. I don't know."
Positive review
Cornerback Benny Sapp saw time in the nickel defense Sunday against Oakland, his first game back after rejoining the Vikings last week. Sapp was traded by the Vikings to Miami during the 2010 training camp for wide receiver Greg Camarillo.
"Benny did a good job for us considering the amount of time he's been away from our team," Frazier said, "to go in there and play the number of snaps that he did and be as effective as he was. It was really encouraging.
"The team we're playing plays some multiple wide receiver sets as well, so we expect his numbers to be up there. But his competitive nature, his competitive quickness and his athletic ability showed up on Sunday and we think he's going to be a good addition to what we're trying to do."
Ready for Ray
Defensive end Ray Edwards spent his first five seasons with the Vikings before signing a five-year, $30 million free-agent deal with Atlanta after the lockout. The contract reportedly guarantees Edwards $11 million.
The interest level in Edwards was surprisingly low considering he had 16.5 sacks with the Vikings playing opposite Jared Allen over his final two seasons in Minnesota.
Part of the reason why some teams passed on Edwards might have been because it turned out he underwent offseason knee surgery that limited him in the preseason. So far this season, he has only two sacks in 10 games.
It will be primarily the responsibility of Vikings right tackle Phil Loadholt to keep it that way Sunday.
"We practiced against each other every day for the past two years," Loadholt said. "So, I think it's definitely an advantage to the point where I've seen him day in and day out my first couple years in this league."
Quick hits
• With tight ends Visanthe Shiancoe (hamstring) and Kyle Rudolph (quadriceps) both missing practice Wednesday, Frazier said there is discussion of promoting Allen Reisner from the practice squad. "We're talking about that," Frazier said. "We'll see if either Kyle or Visanthe gets better as the week goes on. But Allen is definitely part of the conversation."
• The Vikings will have a brief practice on Thanksgiving Day because Frazier wants players to be able to spend time with their families. That is no different from past years when Brad Childress also brought his players in for a quick practice on the holiday.
• The Falcons had six players who did not take part in Wednesday's practice, including defensive end John Abraham (not injury related), tight end Tony Gonzalez (not injury related), cornerbacks Brent Grimes (knee) and Kelvin Hayden (toe), wide receiver Julio Jones (hamstring) and center Todd McClure (not injury related). Tackle Sam Baker (back), guard Justin Blalock (ankle), linebacker Curtis Lofton (ankle), safety William Moore (quadriceps) and defensive tackle Corey Peters (knee) were limited for the Falcons.
Tom Pelissero contributed


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Santouka Ramen
Santouka Ramen is yet more proof that the Toronto ramen craze is at a steady boil. A Japanese original dating back to 1988 with many international outposts, Santouka is happily profiting from the Toronto hype-machine that has hungry trend-seekers waiting in the cold for hours to sample their famed recipes.
Never a supporter of a line myself, I opted against the wait on my first two attempts to dine there. But on our third try, my friend and I scored a table after a 20-minute wait. Note: by the time our order had arrived there were eager diners stretching the length of the large front window, peering inside and Instagramming in an attempt to quell their lust.
The staff were friendly and the manager, Hatsuki, thanked us for waiting patiently. At least good customer service didn't come with a delay. Their Toroniku Ramen (pork jowl ramen, starting at $15.90) is the specialty of the house--served with jelly ear mushrooms, bamboo shoots, green onion and their signature pork jowl (cheek) as a side to the rich, creamy tonkotsu broth and bouncy ramen noodles.
We opted for a couple of their combination sets which include a scaled-down bowl of either Shio (salt), Shoyu (soy sauce), Miso or Kara Miso (spicy miso) ramen, as well as a rice bowl and sides. As an addition, we made sure to sample the renowned Toroniku ($6.90) separately.
Simply fanned out with a hefty pile of shaved green onion, the Toroniku was a serious hit. They wouldn't give up the specific secrets behind their preparation of the dish, but they use only the "rarest of pork cheek" comprising only 200-300g of meat on each pig. The meat is simmered over many hours so that it melts on the tongue, and yields its array of deep, sweet flavours.
My personal combination was comprised of Kara Miso ramen, Ikura Gohan (salmon roe on rice), and a small side of half a soft-boiled egg and a few strands of Shibazuke (Japanese style pickle, $16.90). Of course, the focus is on the soup itself. The spiciness of the broth is a nice change from the typical sweet and salty that comes along with most other tonkotsu preparations, and the soup is velvety nonetheless.
The noodles are crinkly and hold the flavour of the broth nicely. The jelly ear mushrooms are cut to precisely 3mm thick (according to the Santouka website), and the bamboo shoots add texture and freshness to the abundance of salt and spice.
My side of Ikura was delicate and delicious. The light, juicy fish roe was fresh and as pleasing to the eye as it was to the palate. The only disappointment in the combo was the soft-boiled egg. Though well-seasoned and marinated, it was overcooked and more akin to something you'd grab out of the fridge at the grocery store than order for an additional $1.60 at a restaurant.
My friend's combo featured the much lighter Shio Ramen, Negi Meshi (rice topped with dried bonito, green onions, and soy sauce) and the same small side dish ($14.50). For those who don't like the oil content or fattiness of a miso or shoyu, this is likely the best option. Also, included only in the shio ramen, is Santouka's signature topping--pickled plum--which offers a sour taste and somewhat crunchy texture. I don't care much for bonito, but if that's your thing, then the fishy flakes are nicely done and pair well with the green onion and seasonings.
So, between the buzz, the somewhat ridiculous lineup, and the potentially impending blizzard season, is it worth it? Well, it's pretty damn delicious--I can't argue with that. But with all the other equally satisfying options around the city, I'll be flocking towards what's convenient and quick until the steam subsides and everyone is seeing a bit more clearly.
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Wait times aside, I would go back.
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At first glance Vietnamese Pho appears to be very similar to Ramen, except if you've ever looked up a recipe it involves stewing a lot of various bones that can't be picked up at your local grocery store...So why is it that it costs half as much as most Ramen places? Unless these Ramen places are making homemade soy bean paste, their using the stuff from the tubs that we can all get at any Asian supermarket...Or you can just buy a $0.99 pack of instant noodles.
Santouka is quite well known across Asian countries, I guess that's the reason why you see so many Asians dining at this place.
For people complaining about saltiness, Authentic Japanese ramen are much saltier than the ones you can get in Kinton or Kenzo. I believe most restaurants do change the taste to fit in Canadians' preferences. The good side is it's healthier, bad side can be the sometimes blend broth you get. (Kinton)
Noodle wise most ramen restaurants in JP let you decide if you prefer soft or tougher noodles. I think it'll be a great improvement if any ramen restaurants consider to bring this feature to TO.
I am Asian.
If the noodles are homemade, then I see some value...But paying upwards of $12 for something that's essentially a package of $0.99 instant noodles seems ridiculous to me, especially when you can get Pho, for half the price, and the broth is much more difficult to make (at home) than pouring in a powder seasoning and instant noodles. I still have yet to hear of any Ramen restaurant in Toronto making the broth or noodles from scratch.
Also, please spare me the lesson about how Pho is widely eaten in Vietnam and Thailand. Your point about Asians eating Ramen all over the world doesn't do anything to prove that there's value in paying $12+ for $0.99 instant noodles, not to mention having to wait in line.
That being said, ramen is NOT instant noodles. If you think that's all there is to Japanese ramen, then you are seriously misinformed. In Japan, a very well prepared bowl of ramen (my favourite being Hakata-style from Fukuoka) starts at ¥1000 (about $13CDN), more if you want extra noodles, meat, toppings, etc. A ramen set with a small bowl of fried rice could cost you about ¥1500 (about $18 CDN).
Instant noodles, which also originated from Japan, come in many different ramen flavours -- the main reason why people think they're one and the same. Trust me, they are NOT.
Some of them are freeze-dried noodles and powdered soup base, which is (hate to break it to ya) the same as instant noodles.
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CHinese people love Japanese food. Wow Chinese people die for Japanese food. All Japanese food is full with Chinese die hards
Yes, there are some ramen restaurants in Japan that uses powder instead of making broth/noodles from scratch, but that doesn't mean ALL ramen restaurants are like that.
I will go back
These prices are too high, they must be turning such a profit
really they are changing the idea of ramen as a cheap meal
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second, yes I emphatically agree that these restaurants really do not care. I mean a waitress must be trained, smile, have customer care is mission #1 and have a cute outfit with cleavage or legs or the like to attract customers.
If I understand the hospitality industry it is about what the customer wants not what the customer can get in his own kitchen
There are lines between 11:00 am and 4:00 pm on weekends.
Read the rest of my review at: http://stenoodie.com/2014/10/16/santouka/