Q.
A. Meat: IBP Brand Loin Baby Back Ribs. 13/4 - 2 lb. Size. Membrane on the inner (Stomach) side removed. All excess fat trimmed.
Dry Rub: Mix all ingredients thoroughly and store unused in moisture proof container
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Non-Iodized Table Salt
½ Cup Brown Sugar (Dried out lightly by exposing on cookie sheet room temp. several hours, or slightly warmed
5 Tablespoons + 1 Teaspoons Chili Powder
2 Tablespoons + 2 Teaspoons Ground Cumin
4 Teaspoons MSG (Accent)
4 Teaspoons Cayenne Pepper
4 Teaspoons Black Pepper freshly ground (important)
4 Teaspoons Garlic Powder
4 Teaspoons Onion Powder
Sprinkle Meat 2 hours before cooking with rub and allow meat to come to room temperature. Do not over-season. A good overall dusting of the spices is all that's needed. The spices will become a nice red liquid coating after sitting for about an hour, if you used the proper amount.
Basic Cooking procedure: Smoke ribs in a "Water Pan" smoker i.e. Brinkman, or Weber "Smoky Mountain Cooker" (the best) Start Charcoal (7-10lbs.) and 4 chunks of White Oak and 2 chunks of Cherry wood (about the size of a tennis ball) at least 1 hour before cooking meat. All fuel should be started in a chimney style starter, no starter fluid and all the charcoal must be gray/white hot. Remove all bark from wood chunks, do not soak. Very little smoke will be visible. Don't worry about that you'll get the flavor. Use straight water in the water pan and keep it full during the entire cooking process. Control oven temperature of cooker by regulating the bottom vents only. Never, ever, completely close the top vent! If you don't have one, put a thermometer on your cooker. Cook ribs for 3 hours fairly cool at 225 degrees on rib racks. After 3 hours lift the lid for the first time, flip the slabs end for end, and upside down, and open all the vents on the smoker wide open. Temperature of the cooker should rise into the 250 to 275 degree range. Peek every ½ hour to monitor doneness. Ribs will be finished when fairly brown in color, and the meat has pulled down on the long bones at least ¾ of an inch. (usually another 1 or 2 hours) Remove from cooker and sauce both sides before cutting individual ribs. I like K. C. Masterpiece BBQ sauce sweetened even more. ( 5 parts sauce, 1 part Honey), and so do the Judges! This basic cooking procedure is probably the most important of all, and works very well with other meats as well. Forget about how much smoke is coming out of the cooker, if you've got the wood you like in there burning up cleanly, the flavor will be in the meat. Smoke is nothing more that a smoke screen, and any coming out of the top of the cooker is flavor lost!
Note from Ray Basso.
I LIKE BBQ RIBS THAT ARE SMOKED FOR 12 GHOURS ON VERY LOW HEAT MMM OPEN PIT
Dry Rub: Mix all ingredients thoroughly and store unused in moisture proof container
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Non-Iodized Table Salt
½ Cup Brown Sugar (Dried out lightly by exposing on cookie sheet room temp. several hours, or slightly warmed
5 Tablespoons + 1 Teaspoons Chili Powder
2 Tablespoons + 2 Teaspoons Ground Cumin
4 Teaspoons MSG (Accent)
4 Teaspoons Cayenne Pepper
4 Teaspoons Black Pepper freshly ground (important)
4 Teaspoons Garlic Powder
4 Teaspoons Onion Powder
Sprinkle Meat 2 hours before cooking with rub and allow meat to come to room temperature. Do not over-season. A good overall dusting of the spices is all that's needed. The spices will become a nice red liquid coating after sitting for about an hour, if you used the proper amount.
Basic Cooking procedure: Smoke ribs in a "Water Pan" smoker i.e. Brinkman, or Weber "Smoky Mountain Cooker" (the best) Start Charcoal (7-10lbs.) and 4 chunks of White Oak and 2 chunks of Cherry wood (about the size of a tennis ball) at least 1 hour before cooking meat. All fuel should be started in a chimney style starter, no starter fluid and all the charcoal must be gray/white hot. Remove all bark from wood chunks, do not soak. Very little smoke will be visible. Don't worry about that you'll get the flavor. Use straight water in the water pan and keep it full during the entire cooking process. Control oven temperature of cooker by regulating the bottom vents only. Never, ever, completely close the top vent! If you don't have one, put a thermometer on your cooker. Cook ribs for 3 hours fairly cool at 225 degrees on rib racks. After 3 hours lift the lid for the first time, flip the slabs end for end, and upside down, and open all the vents on the smoker wide open. Temperature of the cooker should rise into the 250 to 275 degree range. Peek every ½ hour to monitor doneness. Ribs will be finished when fairly brown in color, and the meat has pulled down on the long bones at least ¾ of an inch. (usually another 1 or 2 hours) Remove from cooker and sauce both sides before cutting individual ribs. I like K. C. Masterpiece BBQ sauce sweetened even more. ( 5 parts sauce, 1 part Honey), and so do the Judges! This basic cooking procedure is probably the most important of all, and works very well with other meats as well. Forget about how much smoke is coming out of the cooker, if you've got the wood you like in there burning up cleanly, the flavor will be in the meat. Smoke is nothing more that a smoke screen, and any coming out of the top of the cooker is flavor lost!
Note from Ray Basso.
I LIKE BBQ RIBS THAT ARE SMOKED FOR 12 GHOURS ON VERY LOW HEAT MMM OPEN PIT
Advice on a Graphics card?
Q. OK, so get ready for a mouthful: i have a windows 7 Toshiba P505 laptop with core i7 processor. i baby this computer as its 18.4 inch screen and fast processor make it a great desktop replacement computer. But it has a wimpy Intel graphics media accelerator integrated graphics unit. and because of this it's impossible to upgrade it without serious tinkering that would void my warranty. So i found a external graphics unit that allows you to put any graphics card with no external power requirement into it and plug it in to my computers expressport and wala. instant great graphics. But im having a hard time finding a good graphics card that doesn't require a external power source. the best one i could find so far is the ATI 5670. Can anyone direct me to a good card? THZ
PS: the external graphics unit is the Vidock2
PS: the external graphics unit is the Vidock2
A. Firstly, I doubt you would void your warranty by just removing the cover, which is all you need to do to install a graphics card.
Anyway, the HD5670 is currently the best graphics card out there without an external power requirement but it's still seriously underpowered compared to your i7 processor.
I'd recommend you to check with your dealer on the warranty issue as there is absolutely NO tinkering involved in installing a graphics card. It's easy as plugging in a monitor or a printer or an external graphics unit for that matter, only inside the case. And not to mention the inherent lag of an external graphics unit since there is no direct communication between the motherboard and the graphics card.
Anyway, the HD5670 is currently the best graphics card out there without an external power requirement but it's still seriously underpowered compared to your i7 processor.
I'd recommend you to check with your dealer on the warranty issue as there is absolutely NO tinkering involved in installing a graphics card. It's easy as plugging in a monitor or a printer or an external graphics unit for that matter, only inside the case. And not to mention the inherent lag of an external graphics unit since there is no direct communication between the motherboard and the graphics card.
16 , first baby , scared , 3weeks left labour WTF ?
Q. just want to noe labour stories fully detailed and no holding back. from start till when the baby was born please i dont want to go there lost.
A. so the morning i went into labor was just a typical morning.. i was making a 5 a/m pee run to the potty.when i had layed back down.. i felt really crampy- almost period crampy or something. wasn't excruiating pain or anything-.... just annoying like.eventually i noticed that the pain would start up and stop again by it's self.. and i noticed it was kinda consistant (like ever 15 minutes or so). And i thought to my self.. HOLY CRAP THIS MUST BE A FRICKIN CONTRATCION!...... it got to the point where it evenutally became really uncomfortable so i called up the hospital and told the nurse told me to come on in another hour.. i'm
Didn't bring a bag or nothing because i thought that i'd be sent back home for over exaggerating my pain or something... we got there about 9:30 a/m-...and was put on the monitor thing where they listen to the baby's heartbeat, and watch ur contractions on the screen to see where i was. When i went in I was dialated at a 3. and 80% effaced.
A little while later, The contractions were getting SO BAD that i started crying--- and the uncomfroatble bed i was laying on was making my back hurt- so it wasn't helping much either. --- Nurse came in and checked me around 1 and said i was dialated to 4 and still 80% effaced
a little while later, and more crying- plus a lot of walkin up and down the hallways I started to loose my moucous plug But was dialated to a 5..so got moved to labor room, Took a Jacuzzi (which i recommend..... it helps with the pain so much!)Then... I really needed medicine by then... I was desperate... So.. the nurse came in to give me an I.V..... She picked and poked, but couldn't locate a vein...... So a second nurse came in.... again......she picked and poked but couldn't locate a vein....... so they had to call EMS in ... She Picked, and Poked and got it in... *Getting poked like that, (Especially with an I.V) WHILE your in the middle of a contraction..... doesn't feel to hott*... So The I.V. was in... I thought the drip bag that was going into me was medicine.. NOT....it was the sugar water stuff so i dint get dehydreated... I found out i had to wait for the doc to come in and check me before i could get meds...so... FINALLY he came in..Checked me.. and I was dialated to a 6.... Said he'd ring up anestesialogist to get me an epidural. . . and they'd be up as soon as they could.... So I was just sitting there throuh contractions in AGONY WAITING!..Anyway-... Then i felt the urge that I needed to PUSH.... and i told the nurse.. i'm like.. NURSE I GOTA PUSH.. and she's like.. you can't your only at a 6! and i said.. no honestly.. and then it's like my body just took over and pushed.. i didn't do nothing (kinda like when u have to puke.. your body just does it*... anyway.. so she checked me and was like HOLY CRAP you just dialated from a 6 to a 9 in like 5 minutes! and she's like okay go head and push.. so i started.. and they paged Dr. Jentoft as soon as he got there.. i was at a full blown 10. so Pretty much-.... i dialated so fastly, that they couldn't give me any medicine..So I pushed for about 15 minutes and had him.I had to get a episomisty or something done *where they cut you*...7 lbs, 14.2 oz'.20 inches long.
below is the link for the MGH baby page to view Matthew's little picture!!
http://www2.mgh.org/MISC/babydev.nsf/ec343236996f5e1685256bff0065d4b6/02a943474af9bab68525735d00520d83?OpenDocument
Didn't bring a bag or nothing because i thought that i'd be sent back home for over exaggerating my pain or something... we got there about 9:30 a/m-...and was put on the monitor thing where they listen to the baby's heartbeat, and watch ur contractions on the screen to see where i was. When i went in I was dialated at a 3. and 80% effaced.
A little while later, The contractions were getting SO BAD that i started crying--- and the uncomfroatble bed i was laying on was making my back hurt- so it wasn't helping much either. --- Nurse came in and checked me around 1 and said i was dialated to 4 and still 80% effaced
a little while later, and more crying- plus a lot of walkin up and down the hallways I started to loose my moucous plug But was dialated to a 5..so got moved to labor room, Took a Jacuzzi (which i recommend..... it helps with the pain so much!)Then... I really needed medicine by then... I was desperate... So.. the nurse came in to give me an I.V..... She picked and poked, but couldn't locate a vein...... So a second nurse came in.... again......she picked and poked but couldn't locate a vein....... so they had to call EMS in ... She Picked, and Poked and got it in... *Getting poked like that, (Especially with an I.V) WHILE your in the middle of a contraction..... doesn't feel to hott*... So The I.V. was in... I thought the drip bag that was going into me was medicine.. NOT....it was the sugar water stuff so i dint get dehydreated... I found out i had to wait for the doc to come in and check me before i could get meds...so... FINALLY he came in..Checked me.. and I was dialated to a 6.... Said he'd ring up anestesialogist to get me an epidural. . . and they'd be up as soon as they could.... So I was just sitting there throuh contractions in AGONY WAITING!..Anyway-... Then i felt the urge that I needed to PUSH.... and i told the nurse.. i'm like.. NURSE I GOTA PUSH.. and she's like.. you can't your only at a 6! and i said.. no honestly.. and then it's like my body just took over and pushed.. i didn't do nothing (kinda like when u have to puke.. your body just does it*... anyway.. so she checked me and was like HOLY CRAP you just dialated from a 6 to a 9 in like 5 minutes! and she's like okay go head and push.. so i started.. and they paged Dr. Jentoft as soon as he got there.. i was at a full blown 10. so Pretty much-.... i dialated so fastly, that they couldn't give me any medicine..So I pushed for about 15 minutes and had him.I had to get a episomisty or something done *where they cut you*...7 lbs, 14.2 oz'.20 inches long.
below is the link for the MGH baby page to view Matthew's little picture!!
http://www2.mgh.org/MISC/babydev.nsf/ec343236996f5e1685256bff0065d4b6/02a943474af9bab68525735d00520d83?OpenDocument
Does this look like a good camera from these specifications?
Q. Metrics
Dimensions (WxHxD): 119.1mm x 76.5mm x79.8mm / 4.69"x3.02"x3.14"
Weight: Approximately 390 grams without battery and SD memory card (0.86 pounds) / approximately 499 grams with battery and SD memory card (1.10 pounds)
Optics
Camera effective pixels: 16.1 megapixels
Sensor size/total pixels/filter: 1/2.33-inch CCD sensor/16.4 total megapixels/primary-color filter
Aperture: F3.1�5.8 / two-step (F3.1/F8.9(W) / F5.8/F16.7 (T))
Optical Zoom: 21x
Focal Length: f=4.5�94.5mm (25�525mm in 35mm equivalent) / (27�567mm in 35mm equivalent in video recording)
Extra optical zoom (EZ): 26.5x (4:3/10M), 37.8x (4:3/5M), 48.5x (4:3/under 3M)
Lens: 12 elements in nine groups/(three aspherical lenses/five aspherical surfaces)
Optical image stabilizer: O.I.S. (on/off)
Digital zoom: 4x
Focusing area: Normal: Wide 30 centimeters�infinity/tele 200 centimeters�infinity/AF macro/intelligent auto/motion picture wide 2 centimeters�infinity /tele 60 centimeters�infinity
AF assist lamp: Yes (on/off)
Focus: Normal, AF macro, macro zoom/continuous AF (only for motion picture)/AF tracking
AF metering: Face/AF tracking/one area/nine area/spot
Shutter speed: Approximately 15�1/2000 seconds
Recording
File Format: Still image: JPEG(DCF/Exif2.3)/motion picture: quick time motion JPEG
Mode dial/mode button: Intelligent auto, P, M, SCN, motion picture, portrait, scenery, sports
Still-image scene mode: Panorama shot, night portrait, night scenery, food, baby (birthday only), sunset, high sensitivity
Continuous-shooting mode: Full-resolution image, 1.2 frames/second
Motion-picture recording (*2): [HD video] / 1280x720 pixels, 30 frames per second (HD/motion JPEG) / [STD video] / 640x480 pixels, 30 frames per second (VGA/motion JPEG) / 320x240 pixels, 30 frames per second (QVGA/motion JPEG)
Exposure: Program AE, manual
Exposure compensation: 1/3 EV step, +/-3 EV
Auto (AE) bracketing: 1/3 - 3 EV step, Max.+/-3EV, three frames
Light metering: Multiple
ISO sensitivity: Auto/100/200/400/800/1600 high-sensitivity mode (ISO 1600�6400)
Still-picture recording: [1:1] / 3456x3456 (12M) / [4:3] / 4608x3456 (16M) / 3648x2736 (10M EZ) / 2560x1920 (5M EZ) / 2048x1536 (3M EZ) / 640x480 (0.3M EZ) / [3:2] / 4608x3072 (14M) / [16:9] / 4608x2592 (12M)
Image quality: Fine/standard
White balance: Auto/daylight/cloudy/shade/incandescent/white set
Color mode/color effect/my color: color mode: standard, vivid �normal only), black and white, sepia
Digital redeye correction: Yes
Self Timer: 2 seconds/10 seconds
Playback
Playback mode: Normal playback, slideshow, category, calendar playback
Thumbnails/zoomed playback: 12, 30 thumbnails/yes
Calendar display/dual-image playback: Yes/no
Set favorites/rotate image: No/no
Show histogram: Yes
DPOF print setting/set protection: No/yes
Resize/cropping/aspect conv./leveling: Yes/yes/no/no
Copy/title edit/text stamp: Yes/no/no
Cut animation: No
Video divide: No
PictBridge support: Single/multi/all
Setup
OSD Language: English, Spanish
Others
LDC monitor: 3.0"(7.5cm) TFT screen LCD display (460K dots) / field of view : approximately 100% / off, power-LCD mode, auto power-LCD mode, high-angle mode
Built-in flash: Auto, auto/redeye reduction, forced on, slow sync/redeye reduction, forced off, / 0.6�6.8m (wide/ISO auto), 0.6�3.6m (tele/ISO auto)
Recording media: Built-in memory, SD memory card, SDHC memory card, SDXC memory card
Built-in memory: Approximately 109MB
Microphone/speaker: Mono/mono
Interface: AV output (NTSC), USB multi
Power: AA battery/Ni-MH battery x 4
Battery life: 380 pictures (AA battery)(CIPA standard)
Included software: Photo fun studio 8.2 LE / Adobe Reader
Standard accessories: Four alkaline AA batteries, AV cable, USB cable, shoulder strap, CD-ROM, lens cap, lens-cap string
It's the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ20K
Dimensions (WxHxD): 119.1mm x 76.5mm x79.8mm / 4.69"x3.02"x3.14"
Weight: Approximately 390 grams without battery and SD memory card (0.86 pounds) / approximately 499 grams with battery and SD memory card (1.10 pounds)
Optics
Camera effective pixels: 16.1 megapixels
Sensor size/total pixels/filter: 1/2.33-inch CCD sensor/16.4 total megapixels/primary-color filter
Aperture: F3.1�5.8 / two-step (F3.1/F8.9(W) / F5.8/F16.7 (T))
Optical Zoom: 21x
Focal Length: f=4.5�94.5mm (25�525mm in 35mm equivalent) / (27�567mm in 35mm equivalent in video recording)
Extra optical zoom (EZ): 26.5x (4:3/10M), 37.8x (4:3/5M), 48.5x (4:3/under 3M)
Lens: 12 elements in nine groups/(three aspherical lenses/five aspherical surfaces)
Optical image stabilizer: O.I.S. (on/off)
Digital zoom: 4x
Focusing area: Normal: Wide 30 centimeters�infinity/tele 200 centimeters�infinity/AF macro/intelligent auto/motion picture wide 2 centimeters�infinity /tele 60 centimeters�infinity
AF assist lamp: Yes (on/off)
Focus: Normal, AF macro, macro zoom/continuous AF (only for motion picture)/AF tracking
AF metering: Face/AF tracking/one area/nine area/spot
Shutter speed: Approximately 15�1/2000 seconds
Recording
File Format: Still image: JPEG(DCF/Exif2.3)/motion picture: quick time motion JPEG
Mode dial/mode button: Intelligent auto, P, M, SCN, motion picture, portrait, scenery, sports
Still-image scene mode: Panorama shot, night portrait, night scenery, food, baby (birthday only), sunset, high sensitivity
Continuous-shooting mode: Full-resolution image, 1.2 frames/second
Motion-picture recording (*2): [HD video] / 1280x720 pixels, 30 frames per second (HD/motion JPEG) / [STD video] / 640x480 pixels, 30 frames per second (VGA/motion JPEG) / 320x240 pixels, 30 frames per second (QVGA/motion JPEG)
Exposure: Program AE, manual
Exposure compensation: 1/3 EV step, +/-3 EV
Auto (AE) bracketing: 1/3 - 3 EV step, Max.+/-3EV, three frames
Light metering: Multiple
ISO sensitivity: Auto/100/200/400/800/1600 high-sensitivity mode (ISO 1600�6400)
Still-picture recording: [1:1] / 3456x3456 (12M) / [4:3] / 4608x3456 (16M) / 3648x2736 (10M EZ) / 2560x1920 (5M EZ) / 2048x1536 (3M EZ) / 640x480 (0.3M EZ) / [3:2] / 4608x3072 (14M) / [16:9] / 4608x2592 (12M)
Image quality: Fine/standard
White balance: Auto/daylight/cloudy/shade/incandescent/white set
Color mode/color effect/my color: color mode: standard, vivid �normal only), black and white, sepia
Digital redeye correction: Yes
Self Timer: 2 seconds/10 seconds
Playback
Playback mode: Normal playback, slideshow, category, calendar playback
Thumbnails/zoomed playback: 12, 30 thumbnails/yes
Calendar display/dual-image playback: Yes/no
Set favorites/rotate image: No/no
Show histogram: Yes
DPOF print setting/set protection: No/yes
Resize/cropping/aspect conv./leveling: Yes/yes/no/no
Copy/title edit/text stamp: Yes/no/no
Cut animation: No
Video divide: No
PictBridge support: Single/multi/all
Setup
OSD Language: English, Spanish
Others
LDC monitor: 3.0"(7.5cm) TFT screen LCD display (460K dots) / field of view : approximately 100% / off, power-LCD mode, auto power-LCD mode, high-angle mode
Built-in flash: Auto, auto/redeye reduction, forced on, slow sync/redeye reduction, forced off, / 0.6�6.8m (wide/ISO auto), 0.6�3.6m (tele/ISO auto)
Recording media: Built-in memory, SD memory card, SDHC memory card, SDXC memory card
Built-in memory: Approximately 109MB
Microphone/speaker: Mono/mono
Interface: AV output (NTSC), USB multi
Power: AA battery/Ni-MH battery x 4
Battery life: 380 pictures (AA battery)(CIPA standard)
Included software: Photo fun studio 8.2 LE / Adobe Reader
Standard accessories: Four alkaline AA batteries, AV cable, USB cable, shoulder strap, CD-ROM, lens cap, lens-cap string
It's the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ20K
A. Sounds rather bad to me.
Here are the pieces of information that turn me off:
"Camera effective pixels: 16.1 megapixels"
Too many MP. That causes needlessly much image noise in low light situations. MP are NOT a measure of image quality!
"Optical Zoom: 21x
Focal Length: f=4.5�94.5mm (25�525mm in 35mm equivalent) / (27�567mm in 35mm equivalent in video recording)"
Such excessive optical zoon is detrimental to image quality.
"Aperture: F3.1�5.8 / two-step (F3.1/F8.9(W) / F5.8/F16.7 (T))"
These maximum aperture figures are rather poor. This further excarbates any problems in low light situations or to sustain sufficient shutter speeds at extreme zoom.
Low numbers are better here.
Then again, these specs may perhaps be reasonable for a superzoom camera - but that type of camera usually sacrifices image quality for convenience. These cameras offer the worse image quality compared to other point and shoot cameras at the same price figure.
Here are the pieces of information that turn me off:
"Camera effective pixels: 16.1 megapixels"
Too many MP. That causes needlessly much image noise in low light situations. MP are NOT a measure of image quality!
"Optical Zoom: 21x
Focal Length: f=4.5�94.5mm (25�525mm in 35mm equivalent) / (27�567mm in 35mm equivalent in video recording)"
Such excessive optical zoon is detrimental to image quality.
"Aperture: F3.1�5.8 / two-step (F3.1/F8.9(W) / F5.8/F16.7 (T))"
These maximum aperture figures are rather poor. This further excarbates any problems in low light situations or to sustain sufficient shutter speeds at extreme zoom.
Low numbers are better here.
Then again, these specs may perhaps be reasonable for a superzoom camera - but that type of camera usually sacrifices image quality for convenience. These cameras offer the worse image quality compared to other point and shoot cameras at the same price figure.
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