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China Rings in New Year, Rings Out
Hemorrhoid Ads (Reuters)

China Rings in New Year, Rings Out
Hemorrhoid Ads (Reuters) 12/31/2003 10:48 AM
Reuters - China is ringing in the New Year by banning television advertising for sanitary towels, hemorrhoid ointments and other items deemed unappetizing during meal times, the China Daily said on Wednesday.

Rings!

Rings! 07/09/2004 01:26 PM
If you haven’t been following the Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission, in particular the pictures, you’re missing a heck of a show. I grabbed a couple, just for a teaser...

"Lord of the Rings"

"Lord of the Rings" 12/17/2003 03:46 PM

Rings of suburbia

Rings of suburbia 06/22/2005 02:34 AM

« Pineapple upside-down cake »

Nothing like having the flu off-and-on all week and, when feeling a bit better, enjoying a pint or two after work with a few colleagues from work only to have the flu return. At least Jarkko has it now so we can be achy and miserable together when Otava takes us out for a walk/drag.

The 'let's see if they'll eat it' experiment last week was a pineapple upside-down cake since pineapple is a frequent addition to food here and it seems to be very popular in desserts, perhaps a bit too much so. Pineapple< /a>, like banana and other tropical fruits, was an expensive exotic food that didn't make its way into the average home until the advent of canning and refrigerated shipping/storage in the early part of the 20th century. One curious factoid about pineapple is that the original native word is 'anana' which explains the taxonomic name as well as the Finnish 'ananas'. [Which makes you wonder if 'banana' was ok then why did the fools change anana to pineapple.]

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON PINEAPPLE

Pineapple is one of the world's favorite tropical fruits. First called "anana", a Caribbean word for "excellent fruit", the name "pineapple" came from European explorers who thought the fruit looked like a pinecone with flesh like an apple.

Christopher Columbus was the first person to introduce pineapples to Europe. In 1493 he was exploring the Caribbean islands and found pineapples growing on the island of Guadalupe. He brought some of these pineapples back for Queen Isabella of Spain who loved the sweet tropical fruit. So did other Europeans. In fact, Europeans loved the taste of pineapple so much they tried to grow them in Europe, but the tropical plants did not fare well in Europe's cool climate.

THE HISTORY OF CANNED PINEAPPLE

Canned pineapple was first made in the 1901 but wasn't widely available until engineer Henry Ginaca invented a machine in 1911 that could remove the outer shell, inner core and both ends of 100 pineapples in less than a minute! If you've ever tried to peel a pineapple, you'll know how amazing this is. This machine, known as the "Ginaca machine" is still used in pineapple canneries today.

James Dole began marketing canned pineapple by placing ads with recipes in women's magazines in 1907, possibly the first of its kind, a technique that remains popular even now. In 1925 the company ran ads requesting new recipes using their pineapple. A recipe for upside-down cake was in the book of winners but apparently there were 2,500 or so upside-down cake recipes submitted which would give the impression that the cake was not unknown to homemakers at the time.

The pineapple upside-down cake has its roots in skillet cakes which were, and possibly still are, very popular in the Southern US. The availability of canned pineapple made an exotic fruit into a suburban novelty. The most recognizable form of the upside-down cake has pineapple rings dotted with toxic red maraschino cherries which evoke a 1950s modern suburban dream, but the cake has been around for much longer. Both pineapple and the strange red cherries were popular in the 1920s and, in spite of not being able to find a citation for who put them together on a cake, it's likely safe to assume they collided on the cake around that time. The cake has remained an icon of American cooking kitsch, though somewhat shunned and relegated to a 1970s Betty Crockers' Men's Favorites recipe card.

I looked at quite a few different recipes, including one Dole upside-down cake recipe, and most of them are quite similar. Cook's Illustrated featured a recipe in the September 2004 issue which I tried first, but found the batter too thick to spread evenly in the pan and it didn't have the right texture when it was done. I was rather surprised as I'm so rarely disappointed by CI's recipes but I won't make that recipe again. This didn't keep Jarkko from eating a few too many pieces of it though. :)

I found another recipe that Cook's Illustrated had in one of the first cookbooks they printed a few years ago as a master recipe for a fruit upside-down cake. This cake, given the fluffy egg whites and the cornmeal, has a much nicer crumb and overall texture as well as a fluid enough batter to spread easily over the caramel and fruit. The basic idea is to make the caramel, place the fruit in it, pour the batter on top and bake. The other CI recipe called for using fresh pineapple and reducing it by cooking it in with the caramel and draining it before placing it into the pan. I thought this made the fruit come out a bit rubbery and difficult to slice though it does make for a pretty top after baking. Also, it's good to make the caramel first and allow it to set with the fruit a bit before pouring the cake batter over it to avoid the fruit shifting around too much. Unless, of course, you have the Nordicware pineapple upside-down cake pan. It is very delicious when served with a bit of vanilla ice cream and a glass of milk. :)

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake

Serves: 8-12
Time: 25 min prep + 1hr bake time
Source: CI

Topping

• sliced pineapple, drained (or peaches, plums, nectarines, mangoes, apples)
• maraschino or candied cherries / dried cranberries (optional)
• 1 cup or 2,5 dl light brown sugar, packed
• 3 tablespoons or 42g butter

Cake

• 1.5 cups or 3,5 dl all-purpose flour
• 1.5 teaspoons baking powder
• 3 tablespoons cornmeal
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 8 tablespoons or 113g unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup or 2,5dl plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 4 large eggs, separated, room temperature
• 1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2/3 cup or 1,5dl milk

1. For the topping: Butter bottom and sides of round 9x3 (23cm x 8cm) cake pan. Melt 3 tablespoons of butter in a medium sauce pan over medium heat; add brown sugar and cook, stirring occasionally, until mixture is foamy and pale, 3 to 4 minutes. Pour mixture into prepared cake pan; swirl pan to distribute evenly. Arrange fruit slices over topping; set aside.
2. For the cake: Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 350F/176C degrees. Whisk flour, baking powder, cornmeal and salt together in medium bowl; set aside. Cream butter in large bowl with electric mixer at medium speed. Gradually add 1 cup sugar; continue beating until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in yolks and vanilla (scraping sides of bowl with rubber spatula if necessary); reduce speed to low and add dry mixture and milk, alternately in three or four batches, beginning and ending with dry ingredients, until batter is just smooth.
3. Beat egg whites in large bowl at low speed until frothy. Increase speed to medium-high; beat to soft peaks. Gradually add 2 tablespoons sugar; continue to beat to stiff peaks. Fold one-quarter of beaten whites into batter with large rubber spatula to lighten. Fold in remaining whites until no white streaks remain. Gently pour batter into pan and spread evenly on top of fruit, being careful not to disperse fruit. Bake until top is golden and toothpick inserted into cake center (not fruit, which remains gooey) comes out clean, 60 to 65 minutes.
4. Rest cake on rack for 2 minutes. Slide a paring knife around the edge of the cake to loosen it from the pan. Place a serving platter over the pan and hold tightly. Invert the cake onto the platter. Carefully remove the cake pan. If any fruit sticks to pan bottom, remove and position on top of cake.

O2 rings up first profit

O2 rings up first profit 05/18/2004 05:53 AM
Jolly good...

Rings and Crowns

Rings and Crowns 08/27/2004 01:42 PM

« Tommi and Adele in an engagement photo I took for them back in June on Suomenlinna. They got married over the weekend in LA. Congratulations to them both! :) »

If ever there was proof that there is no such thing as a kind and benevolent creator, teeth would be the prime example. Anyone who scoffs at this hasn't ever had an abcessed tooth or possibly finds pleasure in such horrific pain. I once had a tooth go south on me late one night when I was working in the herbarium looking up different specimens and chowing down a pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream with nuts and chocolate. My tooth hit a nut and I hit the ceiling. I spent the rest of the night in some tragicomic attempts, like trying to bathe the tooth in Anbesol by standing on my head only to nearly swallow it and suffocate, to quell the excrutiating pain until morning arrived when I could call my dentist. In the morning, I looked like a chipmunk who stuffed a large golfball into my cheek when I went into work. I got a quick appointment with the endodontist, a.k.a. Dr. Root Canal, and I don't think I've ever before been so happy to see a needle and a drill in the vicinity of my oral cavity in my life.

Over the past week or so I've had similar twinges of pain in another tooth that have been giving me chronic headaches. Of course, being a stranger in a strange land it makes me even less enthused than usual to go visit doctors of any kind, especially the kind that have implements of torture. I haven't been to see a doctor of any kind in 3 or more years and I suppose it is from growing up in a medical household where you had to be coughing up a lung to miss school much less get real medical attention. The cobblers children have no shoes as the old saying goes, but not having the first clue about how to get an appointment or where to go is a real deterrent, not that I went much when I did know who to call. So, Jarkko made a surprise dental appointment this morning that gave me 90 minutes to get there which is likely the only kind I wouldn't wuss out on going to because I didn't have enough time to rationalise an excuse and, after a good poking about and an x-ray, it turned out to be nothing. I'm not sure which is worse; going to the dentist and finding out that you're about to buy him a new Jaguar with the goldmine of cavities he found in your mouth or going to the dentist only to be told that your pain is a mystery. I was happy to skip on out of there in a short time but teeth have a way of getting their revenge come hell or high water. Damn teeth.

Lawyer of the Rings

Lawyer of the Rings 12/22/2003 11:24 AM
If you're going to make a deal with Sauron, consult your lawyer first.

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings 12/18/2003 01:06 AM
The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring .. §¨§¨ „‚‡ ‡§ .. totally shitty web sites .. Assista o trailler .. John Rhys-Davies .. o novo trailer

lordoftherings.net
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Page 2 - Don't hand out the rings just
yet

Page 2 - Don't hand out the rings just
yet 02/18/2004 08:13 PM
Page 2 - Don't hand out the rings just yet .. Red Sox Fan Number One has comments .. the Boston Sports Guy's say .. Bill Simmons .. 33 reasons

sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/040217
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O2 rings up more phones for Asia

O2 rings up more phones for Asia 09/24/2004 03:45 AM
CNET Asia Sep 24 2004 8:33AM GMT

Other News: Spammer Rings

Other News: Spammer Rings 02/19/2004 11:22 AM
AOL and Earthlink sue spammer rings, and court documents detail some of the spammers' conversation.

Hong Kong rings in 3G era

Hong Kong rings in 3G era 01/27/2004 04:06 PM
Bangkok Post Jan 27 2004 7:30PM GMT

Saturn's Rings Up Close

Saturn's Rings Up Close 07/02/2004 10:51 PM
“As Cassini passed directly through a gap in Saturn’s rings, it got the closest view any spacecraft has ever had of the Ringed Planet. This image was taken after the spacecraft had passed the ring plane, and was seeing it lit by the Sun. Cassini was only 195,000 kilometres (121,000 miles) above the rings when this picture was taken. One interesting feature is the wavy edge of the inner ring; this is caused by interactions with Saturn’s moon Pan, which orbits in the middle of this gap.”

Motorola rings up results

Motorola rings up results 04/21/2004 06:13 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 21 2004 10:37AM GMT

Talk America Rings Up the FCC

Talk America Rings Up the FCC 05/28/2004 12:38 PM
SBC plays hardball in negotiating, so Talk America calls in the feds.

The Lord Of The Rings Movie - Available
Now!

The Lord Of The Rings Movie - Available
Now! 07/27/2004 07:36 AM
Warner Bros. present: The Lord of the RingsStarring:Humphrey Bogartand Marlene Dietrich .. an amusing link to an old-school version of Lord of the Rings .. Here's where you can find the movie .. the Howard Hawks movie version .. Humphrey Bogart version

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rings ray tracer beta1_01

rings ray tracer beta1_01 06/21/2004 06:44 PM
A ray tracing engine.

Saturn 's Rings Get UV Treatment

Saturn 's Rings Get UV Treatment 07/08/2004 10:42 AM
CBS News Jul 8 2004 2:08PM GMT

Sprint Rings Up UMG, WMG (Reuters)

Sprint Rings Up UMG, WMG (Reuters) 01/18/2004 10:21 AM
Reuters - Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group are the latest players in Sprint PCS Vision's blossoming Music Tones business.

iTunes: Lord of the Rings CD-Rs

iTunes: Lord of the Rings CD-Rs 12/16/2003 12:26 PM
As reported by the LA Times, Apple and Time Warner have started offering specially designed Lord of the Rings CD-Rs. These limited edition blank CD...

Pretec USB Ear Rings: Getting Closer

Pretec USB Ear Rings: Getting Closer 06/06/2005 12:08 AM

You know, with just a little tweaking (like taking off their branding and making the cases something other than plastic), Pretec could be onto something with these jewelry versions of their i-Disk Tiny flash drives. Not the necklaces, so much—they look too much like dog tags—but the ear rings could work, if the other side was copper or something instead of pink plastic. Try it one more time, Pretec, or send us a bucketful of i-Disks and we'll hand them out to all the boutique jewelry makers in New York. (Thanks, James!)

PRETEC Brings Technology to Fashion [Pretec]

With the Yankees Watching, the Red Sox
Get Their Rings

With the Yankees Watching, the Red Sox
Get Their Rings 04/11/2005 05:29 PM
On a crisp day when they could have been in their clubhouse, the Yankees saw no shame in witnessing the celebration of a rival.

Transforming Clicks Into Rings

Transforming Clicks Into Rings 06/07/2004 01:08 AM
New York Times Jun 7 2004 5:57AM GMT

One-Man Lord of The Rings Comes to
Chicago

One-Man Lord of The Rings Comes to
Chicago 12/29/2004 08:09 PM

New Year rings in more worms

New Year rings in more worms 01/02/2004 09:30 AM
ZDNet UK Jan 2 2004 8:52AM ET

"The NitPicker's Guide to the Lord of
the Rings"

"The NitPicker's Guide to the Lord of
the Rings" 12/27/2004 06:03 PM

Novell rings up Linux for retailers

Novell rings up Linux for retailers 04/11/2005 05:47 PM
ZDNet Apr 11 2005 9:01PM GMT

Will Apple Market Mood Rings?

Will Apple Market Mood Rings? 08/19/2004 12:57 PM
The computer maker files a patent application for a "chameleon computing device."

Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King

Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King 08/08/2004 10:57 PM
Even if you're too cool for the Dungeons and Dragons or hobbit rigmarole, Return of the King's fast-and-furious combat, gorgeous eye candy and immersive sound make for some truly enjoyable aracde-style action. By John Lee, MacAddict (via MyAppleMenu)

"Rings" director wants to film "Hobbit"

"Rings" director wants to film "Hobbit" 12/09/2003 07:21 AM
Peter Jackson wants to make prequel .. reportedly

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Plymouth, MA Survey Rings True

Plymouth, MA Survey Rings True 04/16/2005 05:05 AM
Business customers dial in their telephone preferences. [PRWEB Apr 16, 2005]

Microsoft Rings Up Spammer for $4
Million

Microsoft Rings Up Spammer for $4
Million 07/16/2004 03:29 PM
WebProNews Jul 16 2004 7:57PM GMT

China rings up with its first 3G mobile
phone

China rings up with its first 3G mobile
phone 11/04/2003 08:19 PM
China Daily Nov 4 2003 6:37PM ET

Cassini returns images of rings

Cassini returns images of rings 07/01/2004 08:37 AM
The international mission to Saturn - Cassini-Huygens - has returned the first close-up images of Saturn's rings.

The NitPicker's Guide to the Lord of the
Rings

The NitPicker's Guide to the Lord of the
Rings 12/27/2004 05:26 PM
The NitPicker's Guide to the Lord of the Rings .. Just what every LOTR fan needs

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Virus alert rings out over mobiles

Virus alert rings out over mobiles 07/05/2004 06:19 AM
vnunet.com Jul 5 2004 10:09AM GMT

Oxygen Bursts in Saturn's Rings

Oxygen Bursts in Saturn's Rings 07/03/2004 05:40 AM
Something's going on in Saturn's outermost rings, where oxygen levels jump explosively then diminish over a month. One theory is crashing moonlets. Amit Asaravala reports from Pasadena, California.

Saturn's Rings Seen Close Up by Cassini
(AP)

Saturn's Rings Seen Close Up by Cassini
(AP) 07/02/2004 05:10 AM
AP - When the astonishingly clear and detailed pictures of Saturn and its rings came beaming in from the Cassini spacecraft to the video monitors at the mission's control center, Carolyn Porco could not believe her eyes.

Producer sues for Rings profits

Producer sues for Rings profits 08/20/2004 04:23 AM
Hollywood producer Saul Zaentz sues the producers of The Lord of the Rings for $20m in royalties.
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