| Chocolate-Espresso Pudding Cake
To prepare the batter, combine the flour, brown sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Stir in the milk, melted butter and vanilla until blended. Spoon the batter into a 4-quart slow cooker. To prepare the topping, combine the granulated sugar and cocoa in a small bowl. Sprinkle evenly over the batter. Combine the hot water and espresso powder in a liquid measure. Carefully pour over the cocoa-sugar mixture. DO NOT STIR. Cover and cook until a toothpick inserted in the center of the pudding comes out clean 1 3/4 -2 hours on high. Serve warm. .
Anita Creamer: He's in an uphill swim to help UNICEF
Even in environmentally conscious California, we waste more clean water in our morning shower than many of the world's people will see in a week. And all we have to do is turn on the tap. As a grass-roots volunteer for UNICEF, Louis Bickle wants you to think about that. And he wants you to pay $1 per glass of tap water at local restaurants from March 16 to 22 as part of UNICEF's Tap Project. .
Dozens feared dead in PNG floods
DOZENS are feared dead in widespread flooding in Papua New Guinea's Oro Province after a week of heavy rains. The death toll has been put at 17 by disaster officials, but at least 19 people were also reported missing. The toll could rise as police and government officials make contact with remote and cut-off areas to determine casualties and damage. Many thousands of villagers were forced from their homes by rising waters and around 450 houses were reported washed away, officials said. The flooding followed days of heavy rains associated with tropical cyclone Guba as it moved slowly across the Coral Sea. Key bridges along with roads and food gardens were washed away as the rains swamped Oro Province. Provincial Police Commander Buafe Hugo said police were being helicoptered to affected districts today.
New Study Paves Way For Using Nanofluids In Cameras, Microdevices And ...
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have demonstrated that liquids embedded with nanoparticles show enhanced performance and stability when exposed to electric fields. The finding could lead to new types of miniature camera lenses, cell phone displays, and other microscale fluidic devices.
"This study may open up a new vista for using nanofluids in microscale and nanoscale actuator device applications," said Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc, a professor of mechanical engineering at Rensselaer, who led the research project.
The manipulation of small volumes of liquid is critical for fluidic digital display devices, optical devices, and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) such as lab-on-chip analysis systems. Most research into such systems has been conducted with regular liquids, but not nanofluids, which are liquids embedded with different nanoparticles.
Frustrated indies seek web distrib'n
Of the 100-some features questing for a distributor at January's Sundance Film Festival, only a handful found the holy grail: worldwide theatrical distribution with an advance minimum guarantee and back-end participation. With an unforgiving and glutted marketplace for indie films, where the cost of prints and ads to keep a movie in theaters is punitive for everyone, there's no appetite for risk-taking. The key question is, when will an alternative distribution outlet for indie films emerge -- an outlet that can interest enough viewers to bring in meaningful returns? The film industry is rife with eager alternative distributors pitching their wares -- but making money isn't usually part of the equation. "The long-range outlook for specialty film is to move more to home markets.
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