May
12

Edit Herczog

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Edit Herczog (born May 5, 1961 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Hungarian Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists. She is for software patents.


External links

  • http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/whos_mep.data?ipid=0&ilg=EN&iucd=28155&ipolgrp=.&ictry=HU&imode=&itempl=&ireturn=
  • http://index.hu/politika/kulfold/eu/software0706/
May
12

You Make Me Wanna

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For the Jadakiss featuring Mariah Carey song, see “U Make Me Wanna”.

“You Make Me Wanna” is a 1997 single from Usher’s 1997 album My Way. It became his first single to top the UK Singles Chart (albeit in 1998) and reach number 2 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.


Track listings

UK CD: 1

  1. “You Make Me Wanna…” (Album Version)
  2. “You Make Me Wanna…” (JD Remix)
  3. “You Make Me Wanna…” (Lil Jon’s Eastside Remix)
  4. “You Make Me Wanna…” (Timbaland Remix)
  5. “You Make Me Wanna…” (JD Remix Instrumental)
  6. “You Make Me Wanna…” (Lil Jon’s Eastside Remix Instrumental)

UK CD: 2

  1. “You Make Me Wanna…” (Album Version)
  2. “You Make Me Wanna…” (Tuff Jam Classic Garage Mix)
  3. “You Make Me Wanna…” (Tuff Jam Classic Garage Instrumental)
  4. “You Make Me Wanna…” (Tuff Jam UVM Dub Mix)
  5. “You Make Me Wanna…” (Instrumental Dub Mix)
May
12

Wormleybury

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Wormleybury is a landscape park of 57ha and house near Wormley in Hertfordshire, England.
It was developed in the 1770s.

In 1825 the parish records from the Parish Church of St. Laurence, Wormley were lodged with Sir Abraham Hume in Wormleybury.

The park is listed on the English Heritage Register ref: GD1165 Listed grade II.


External links

  • Website
May
12

Number-one albums of 1989 (U.S.)

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These are the Billboard magazine number one albums of 1989, per the Billboard 200.

Issue Date Album Artist
January 7 Giving You the Best That I Got Anita Baker
January 14 Giving You the Best That I Got Anita Baker
January 21 Don’t Be Cruel Bobby Brown
January 28 Don’t Be Cruel Bobby Brown
February 4 Don’t Be Cruel Bobby Brown
February 11 Appetite for Destruction Guns N’ Roses
February 18 Don’t Be Cruel Bobby Brown
February 25 Don’t Be Cruel Bobby Brown
March 4 Don’t Be Cruel Bobby Brown
March 11 Electric Youth Debbie Gibson
March 18 Electric Youth Debbie Gibson
March 25 Electric Youth Debbie Gibson
April 1 Electric Youth Debbie Gibson
April 8 Electric Youth Debbie Gibson
April 15 Loc’ed After Dark Tone Loc
April 22 Like a Prayer Madonna
April 29 Like a Prayer Madonna
May 6 Like a Prayer Madonna
May 13 Like a Prayer Madonna
May 20 Like a Prayer Madonna
May 27 Like a Prayer Madonna
June 3 The Raw & the Cooked Fine Young Cannibals
June 10 The Raw & the Cooked Fine Young Cannibals
June 17 The Raw & the Cooked Fine Young Cannibals
June 24 The Raw & the Cooked Fine Young Cannibals
July 1 The Raw & the Cooked Fine Young Cannibals
July 8 The Raw & the Cooked Fine Young Cannibals
July 15 The Raw & the Cooked Fine Young Cannibals
July 22 Batman Prince
July 29 Batman Prince
August 5 Batman Prince
August 12 Batman Prince
August 19 Batman Prince
August 26 Batman Prince
September 2 Repeat Offender Richard Marx
September 9 Hangin’ Tough New Kids on the Block
September 16 Hangin’ Tough New Kids on the Block
September 23 Girl You Know It’s True Milli Vanilli
September 30 Girl You Know It’s True Milli Vanilli
October 7 Forever Your Girl Paula Abdul
October 14 Dr. Feelgood Mötley Crüe
October 21 Dr. Feelgood Mötley Crüe
October 28 Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson
November 4 Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson
November 11 Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson
November 18 Rhythm Nation 1814 Janet Jackson
November 25 Girl You Know It’s True Milli Vanilli
December 2 Girl You Know It’s True Milli Vanilli
December 9 Girl You Know It’s True Milli Vanilli
December 16 Storm Front Billy Joel
December 23 Girl You Know It’s True Milli Vanilli
December 30 …But Seriously Phil Collins


See also

  • 1989 in music
  • List of number-one albums (United States)
May
12

Keening

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Keening is a form of vocal lament associated with mourning that is traditional in Scotland and Ireland.


Etymology

“Keen” as a noun or verb comes from the Irish term “caoineadh” (to cry) and references to it from the seventh, eighth and twelfth centuries are extant. The Scottish Gaelic term comes from the same origin, as the two languages are closely related.


History

Written sources that refer to the practice in Ireland reappear from the sixteenth century on. It should be noted however that the principle of improvised vocal lament is in no way reserved to Ireland (the term keen is also used with reference to Scottish tradition) and that laments are documented from various cultures around the world.

The Irish tradition of the keen must be considered in the context of the wake (funeral customs surrounding the “waking” of the dead, i.e. the practice of watching over the corpse the night before the burial), which entailed a series of rules to be observed in all that concerned the funeral rites. The “keen” itself is thought to have been constituted of stock poetic elements (the listing of the genealogy of the deceased, praise for the deceased, emphasis on the woeful condition of those left behind etc.) set to vocal lament. While generally carried out by one or several women, a chorus may have been intoned by all present. Physical movements involving rocking, kneeling or clapping accompanied the keening woman (”bean caoinadh”) who was often paid for her services.

After consistent opposition from the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland (Synods opposed the practice in 1631, 1748 and 1800) that went so far as to recommend excommunication for offenders, the practice became extinct; the Church’s position is however unlikely to have been the sole cause. Although some recordings have been made and the practice has been documented up to recent times, it is generally considered to be extinct or to have become extinct in our lifetime.

May
11

Rearrangement reaction

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A rearrangement reaction is a broad class of organic reactions where the carbon skeleton of a molecule is rearranged to give a structural isomer of the original molecule. Often a substituent moves from one atom to another atom in the same molecule. In the example below the substituent R moves from carbon atom C1 to C2.

RC1-C2-C3 → C1-RC2-C3

Intermolecular rearrangements also take place.

Rearrangement is not well represented by simple and discrete electron transfers (represented by curly arrows in organic chemistry texts). The actual mechanism of alkyl groups moving, as in Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement, probably involves transfer of the moving alkyl group fluidly along a bond, not ionic bond-breaking and forming. In pericyclic reactions, explanation by orbital interactions give a better picture than simple discrete electron transfers. It is, nevertheless, possible to draw the curly arrows for a sequence of discrete electron transfers that give the same result as a rearrangement reaction, although these are not necessarily realistic.

Some key rearrangement reactions:

  • 1,2-rearrangements
  • pericyclic reactions
  • olefin metathesis
May
11

Tentsuyu

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Tentsuyu (Japanese: てんつゆ/天汁) is Japanese tempura dipping sauce.

The recipe for tentsuyu depends on the seasons and on the ingredients for which tentsuyu is being prepared. A general, all-purpose, tentsuyu might consists of three parts dashi, one part mirin, and one part shoyu (Japanese soy sauce). For ingredients with strong odors or flavors, however, sake and sugar might be used instead of mirin, or more or less shoyu might be used.

Similar ingredients make up the simmering sauce for donburi and the broth for dishes like agedashi tofu (deep-fried tofu in broth) and soba (buckwheat noodles).

Tentsuyu in concentrated form is commonly sold in a small bottles in supermarkets and grocery stores throughout Japan—and also in Asian grocery stores in the US.

When used for tempura, tentsuyu is commonly served with grated daikon white radish.

May
11

Carole Cook

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Carole Cook (born Mildred Frances Cook in 1928 in Abilene, Texas, U.S.) is an American actress. She has appeared in many films and on television.

Carole Cook was a protege of Lucille Ball, she even gave her the stage name of “Carole”, after Carole Lombard. Carole appeared on two of her shows, The Lucy Show and Here’s Lucy. Ball was matron of honor at Cook’s wedding in 1964 to actor Tom Troupe.

Carole has starred in films such as Sixteen Candles, Summer Lovers, Grandview, U.S.A., and Strip Mall. Her first film was in 1963 movie Palm Springs Weekend.

She has made guest appearances on numerous TV shows ranging from The Lucy Show, Here’s Lucy, Knight Rider, Magnum, P.I., Murder, She Wrote and more recently, Grey’s Anatomy. In 1974 she appeared as a bullying nurse in an episode of Emergency! in which Johnny Gage is injured by a hit-and-run driver.


Selected filmography

  • Bentley and Max (2007)
  • Home on the Range (2004)
  • Lost & Found (1999)
  • Fast Money (1995)
  • Carly’s Web (1987) (TV)
  • Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
  • Sixteen Candles (1984)
  • Something So Right (1982) (TV)
  • Summer Lovers (1982)
  • The Zertigo Diamond Caper (1982) (TV)
  • American Gigolo (1980)
  • The Gauntlet (1977)
  • Palm Springs Weekend (1963)


External links

May
10

Rushlight

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A rushlight is a type of candle formed using the dried pith of the rush plant as its wick. The green epidermis or rind was peeled to reveal the inner pith, aside from a single strip left to provide support. It was then dipped in any household fat or grease that was available although beeswax or good tallow, especially mutton fat, improved the quality of the light. In particularly thrifty households two strips of epidermis would be left, reducing the light output but extending the life of the rushlight.

Long before electricity or even paraffin candles, a rushlight provided very economical lighting. A rushlight 2/3 of a metre long (about 2 feet) might burn for an hour and cost practically nothing to make.


See also

  • List of light sources

http://www.rushlightmagazine.com/

May
10

Acarina

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Acarina or Acari are a taxon of arachnids that contains mites and ticks. The diversity of the Acari is extraordinary and its fossil history goes back to the Devonian era. As a result, acarologists (the people who study mites and ticks) have proposed a complex set of taxonomic ranks to classify mites. In most modern treatments, the Acari is considered a subclass of Arachnida and is composed of 2-3 orders or superorders: Acariformes, Parasitiformes, and Opilioacariformes. The latter is often considered a subgroup within the Parasitiformes. The monophyly of the Acari is open to debate and the relationships of the acarine orders to other arachnids is not at all clear.

Most acarines are minute to small (e.g. 0.08–1.0 mm), but the largest Acari (some ticks and red velvet mites) may reach lengths of 10–20 mm. It is estimated that over 50,000 species have been described (as of 1999) and that a million or more species are currently living. The study of mites and ticks is called acarology (from the Greek: ἀκάρι, akari, a type of mite; and λόγος, logos, “knowledge”), and the leading scientific journals for acarology include Acarologia, Experimental and Applied Acarology and International Journal of Acarology.


Morphology

Mites are members of Arachnida and, as such, should have a segmented body with the segments organised into two tagmata: a prosoma (cephalothorax) and an opisthosoma (abdomen). However, only the faintest traces of primary segmentation remain in mites, the prosoma and opisthosoma are insensibly fused, and a region of flexible cuticle (the cirumcapitular furrow) separates the chelicerae and pedipalps from the rest of the body. This anterior body region is called the capitulum or gnathosoma and is also found in the Ricinulei. The remainder of the body is called the idiosoma and is unique to mites. Most adult mites have four pairs of legs, like other arachnids, but some have fewer. For example, gall mites like Phyllocoptes variabilis (superfamily Eriophyioidea) have a wormlike body with only two pairs of legs; some parasitic mites have only one or three pairs of legs in the adult stage. Larval and prelarval stages have a maximum of three pairs of legs; adult mites with only three pairs of legs may be called ‘larviform’.


Ontogeny

Acarine ontogeny consists of an egg, a prelarval stage (often absent), a larval stage (hexapod except in Eriophyoidea which have only two pairs of legs), and a series of nymphal stages. Any or all of these stages except the adult may be suppressed or occur only within the body of a previous stage. Larvae (and prelarvae) have a maximum of three pairs of legs (legs are often reduced to stubs or absent in prelarvae); legs IV are added at the first nymphal stage. Usually a maximum of three nymphal stages are present and they are referred to in sequence as protonymph, deutonymph, and tritonymph; however, some soft ticks have supernumary nymphal stages. If one or more nymphal stages are absent, then authors may disagree on which stage(s) is(are) present.


Diversity and lifestyles

Acarines are extremely diverse. They live in practically every habitat, and include aquatic (freshwater and sea water) and terrestrial species. They outnumber other arthropods in the soil organic matter and detritus. Many are parasitic, and they affect both vertebrates and invertebrates. Most parasitic forms are external parasites, while the free living forms are generally predatory and may even be used to control undesirable arthropods. Others are detritivores that help to break down forest litter and dead organic matter such as skin cells. Others still are plant feeders and may damage crops.


Economic importance

Damage to crops is perhaps the most costly economic effect of mites, especially by the spider mites and their relatives (Tetranychoidea), earth mites (Penthaleidae), thread-footed mites (Tarsonemidae) and the gall and rust mites (Eriophyoidea). Some parasitic forms affect humans and other mammals, causing damage by their feeding, and can even be vectors of diseases such as scrub typhus and rickettsial pox. A well known effect of mites on humans is their role as an allergen and the stimulation of asthma in people affected by the repiratory disease. The use of predatory mites (e.g. Phytoseiidae) in pest control and herbivorous mites that attack weeds are also of importance. An unquantified, but major positive contribution of the Acari is their normal functioning in ecosystems, especially their roles in the decomposer subsystem .


Taxonomy

The phylogeny of the Acari is still disputed and several taxonomic schemes have been proposed for its classification. Most workers agree that the Acari contains two separate lineages: the Acariformes (also Actinotrichida) and the Parasitiformes (also Anactinotrichida). However, some workers treat these groups as superorders and others as orders.

  • Acariformes is the most diverse order/superorder of mites.
Order/Suborder:

  • Trombidiformes - plant parasitic mites (spider mites, peacock mites, gall mites, red-legged earth mites, etc.), snout mites, chiggers, hair follicle mites, velvet mites, water mites, etc.
  • Sarcoptiformes - oribatid, endeostigmatan, and astigmatan mites
    • Endeostigmata - basal sarcoptiform lineages
    • Oribatida - oribatid mites, beetle mites, armored mites (also cryptostigmata)
    • Astigmata - stored product, fur, feather, dust, and human itch mites, etc.
  • Parasitiformes is the order/superorder that contains the ticks and a variety of mites.
Order/Suborder:

  • Mesostigmata - bird mites, phytoseiid mites, raubmilben
  • Ixodida - hard and soft ticks
  • Holothyrida - holothyrans
  • Opilioacariformes is a small order or suborder of parasitiform mites that are superficially similar to harvestmen (opiliones, hence their name).
Obsolete names:

  • Opilioacarida
  • Notostigmata


References


Further reading

  • Experimental and Applied Acarology, ISSN: 1572-9702 (electronic) 0168-8162 (paper), Springer


External links

May
09

Lady Evelyn Alternative School

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Introduction

Lady Evelyn is an Alternative JK-6 public school in the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.


History

Lady Evelyn Public School was first opened in 1905 to serve the children of Archville, also known as Ottawa East (and now as Ottawa). The original four-room school was 66 by 43 feet and was built with a budget of $10,000. The Governor General of Canada, Lord Grey, officiated at the opening on October 25th, 1905 and so the school was renamed after his daughter, Lady Evelyn Grey. Although the school has been rebuilt since then, the original corner stone with the name “Ottawa East Public School” still survives and is on display in the Foyer.

By the mid 1980s, the school population had shifted and Lady Evelyn Public School was in danger of being shut down. In response, some parents, educators and community leaders worked to set up an “Alternative” school with modern teaching concepts radically different from the typical school. And so was born Lady Evelyn Primary Alternative School (JK - Grade 3), the first “Alternative” school in Ottawa.

By 1991, the old building was showing its age and was no longer safe for students. The current building was built and opened in 1992 with an expanded playground, due to the acquisition of two adjacent properties, and added grades 4 through 6.


Program

Lady Evelyn operates as one of five JK-6 and one grade 7-8 Alternative Schools in Ottawa.


External links

  • School Web Page
  • School Council Web page
  • Alternative Schools Advisory Committee
May
09

National Consumers League

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The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. The National Consumers League is a private, nonprofit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues.

NCL provides government, businesses, and other organizations with the consumer’s perspective on concerns including child labor, privacy, food safety, and medication information. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.

Sally Greenberg, formerly a senior attorney at Consumers Union (CU), is the new executive director of the National Consumers League. Effective October 1, 2007, Greenberg succeeds Linda F. Golodner who will retire as president after 24 years of service. Greenberg has worked with members of Congress, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, other federal agencies, the media and consumer safety organizations to shape policy on such issues as product safety, auto safety, and legal and liability reform.

Current NCL educational campaigns include:

Choose To Lose, NCL’s brand new survey conducted by Harris Interactive finds that while many Americans think they’re “lighter” than they are, most are not being told by a doctor they need to lose weight. For more information, visit http://www.nclnet.org/obesity/.

NCL’s 2007 Five Worst Teen Jobs warns youth and parents about the dangers of some summer jobs. Over one million youth have been injured on the job since the release of the NIOSH Report on Deficiencies in Federal Child Labor Protections. For more information, visit http://www.nclnet.org/labor/childlabor/.

Live Well With Asthma, an educational campaign that includes survey findings on American Asthma sufferers. Materials are available in English and Spanish. For more information, visit http://www.nclnet.org/asthma/.

Second annual Corporate Social Responsibility survey conducted with Fleishman-Hillard Inc, examined the expectations that the public has of corporate America and the factors that drive those beliefs and attitudes. To learn more about the survey, visit http://www.csrresults.com/.

NCL programs include:

LifeSmarts (www.lifesmarts.org), the ultimate consumer challenge is an educational opportunity that develops the consumer and marketplace knowledge and skills of teenagers in a fun way and rewards them for this knowledge.

NCL’s Fraud Center’s (www.fraud.org) mission is to give consumers the information they need to avoid becoming victims of telemarketing and Internet fraud, and to help them get their complaints to law enforcement agencies quickly and easily.

The Child Labor Coalition (www.stopchildlabor.org) is an international organization committed to strengthening child labor protections both in the United States and abroad.

The SOS Rx Coalition (www.sosrx.org) is a partnership of more than 75 organizations working to make the outpatient use of medicines safer. Our voice is national and our actions evidence-based.


See also

  • Florence Kelley


External links

  • National Consumers League - official website
May
09

Out & Equal

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Out & Equal Workplace Advocates (commonly known as “Out & Equal”) is a United States non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Out & Equal educates and empowers organizations, human resources professionals, employee resource groups, and individual employees through programs and services that result in equal policies, opportunities, practices, and benefits in the workplace regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, expression or characteristics.

Out & Equal achieved 501(c)(3) status in 2004, after years as a program of the
United Way of the Bay Area. UWBA hired Selisse Berry (Out & Equal’s founding executive director) in December 1996 as director of the Building Bridges training program.

In 1998, three LGBT workplace organizations merged in an effort to effectively collaborate on their common mission of creating safe and affirming workplaces for LGBT individuals. The alliance was named The Pride Collaborative and it included: Building Bridges, formed in 1990 to offer lesbian and gay sensitivity training to United Way-funded agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area; AGOG (A Group of Groups), formed in 1994 by employees from a dozen San Francisco Bay Area companies to provide joint networking opportunities for members of their respective LGBT employee associations, also known as Employee Resource Groups (ERGs); and Progress, formed in 1995 to provide leadership development resources including national leadership summits for ERG leaders.

In 1999 The Pride Collaborative merged with COLLEAGUES, a national organization that sponsored the annual Out & Equal Summit aimed at human resource professionals and LGBT employees, to form Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, and the current organizational structure was born. That same year, Progress’s Leadership Summit and COLLEAGUES’ Out & Equal Conference combined resources to produce the annual Out & Equal Workplace Summit, one of the keystone programs of the organization.


External links

  • Out & Equal official site
May
09

Carbon burning process

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The carbon burning process is a nuclear fusion reaction that occurs in massive stars (at least 4 MSun at birth) that have used up the lighter elements in their cores. It requires high temperatures (6×108 K) and densities (about 2×108 kg/m3</sub>). The principal reactions are:

12C + 12C → 20Ne + 4He + 4.617 MeV
→
 23Na + 1H + 2.241 MeV
→ 23Mg + n - 2.599 MeV

Alternatively,

12C + 12C → 24Mg + γ
→ 16O + 24He (endothermic)

Carbon burning starts when helium burning ends. During helium burning, stars build up an inert core rich in carbon and oxygen. Once the helium density drops below a level at which He burning can be sustained, the core collapses due to gravitation. This decrease in volume raises temperature and density of the core up to the carbon ignition temperature. This will raise the star’s temperature around the core allowing it to burn helium in a shell around the core. The star increases in size and becomes a red supergiant.

As carbon burns, reaction products (O, Mg, Ne) accumulate in a new inert core. After some time (perhaps ~one thousand years) the carbon density will drop below a level at which C-burning can be sustained, and the core cools down again and contracts. This heats up the core up to the Neon ignition (see Neon burning process). Around the core carbon continues to burn in a shell, and continuing outwards there is a helium burning shell and a hydrogen burning shell.

At this point, stars with masses between 4 and 8 solar masses destabilize and eject the envelope in a massive stellar wind, leaving behind a O-Ne-Mg white dwarf core.

Stars with bigger masses proceed with the neon burning process, but the evolution from now on is so quick that the envelope usually can no longer respond.

May
07

Victory Soya Mills Silos

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Victory Soya Mills Silos in the east end of Toronto’s harbourfront is one of the two remaining silos from Toronto’s industrial port era. They were built by E.P. Taylor Victory Mills company in 1943 to house the soy beans used by a large plant that reprocessed the soy for a variety of purposes.

The abandoned silos have been a temporary home for the homeless and abandoned since the 1980s. Although a heritage site, there are no plans to renovate or reuse the building.


See also

  • Canada Malting Silos


References

  • Regeneration: Toronto’s Waterfront and the Sustainable City, Final Report, 1992
May
07

Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers

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The Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. The organisation, which engaged in not only tallow candle making but also in the trade of oils, received a Royal Charter in 1462. The Tallow Chandlers, were traditionally separate from Wax Chandlers; wax candles were customary in churches, while tallow (animal fat) candles were used in homes. As is the case with most other Livery Companies, the Tallow Chandlers are no longer a trade association of candle makers, its decline precipitated by the invention of light bulbs. Instead, it exists as a charitable institution, yet supporting education in oil-related fields.

The Tallow Chandlers’ Company ranks twenty-first in the order of precedence of Livery Companies, immediately below the Wax Chandlers. The Company’s motto is Ecce Agnus Dei Qui Tollit Peccata Mundi, Latin for Behold the Lamb of God, Who Takes Away the Sins of the World, a reference to Jesus.


External link

  • The Tallow Chandlers’ Company
May
07

Soy milk maker

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A soy milk maker is a small kitchen appliance which automatically cooks soy milk, a non-dairy beverage made from soy beans. Some soy milk makers can also be programmed to make almond milk and other vegetable-based beverages.

Home-made soy milk is usually at most one third as expensive as store bought soy milk—approximately $0.20 per quart. Additionally, it can be made to the drinkers’ tastes and nutritional requirements, providing added value. Soy pulp or okara, a healthy by-product of soy milk preparation, can be used as an ingredient in many recipes and food products.

Ordinary methods for making soy milk at home are often very labor-intensive (requiring beans to be soaked, ground in a blender, strained, and then cooked). Soy milk machines perform many of these steps automatically, greatly simplifying home-based soy milk production.


Standard operation

Soy milk makers work something like a combination between a home blender and an automatic coffee maker. Properly-soaked soy beans are placed into the filter cup, where the machine grinds them into a fine paste. The soy milk is then filtered (in a process similar to that of tea making) into water which is heated, fully cooking both the soy beans and the okara.

Most soy milk makers include a mechanism to stop the boiling soy milk from overflowing. The heater is turned off as the water level approaches the top of the chamber, and then turned back on as the soy milk returns to an acceptable level. This process is repeated for the length of the cooking period, which lasts for approximately fifteen minutes.

When the soy milk has fully cooked, the machine will automatically turn off, leaving the okara in the filter cup and the soy milk in the water chamber. Many machines will beep to inform the user of the soy milk’s completion.


External links

  • Step by step instructions on how to make soymilk using a soymilk maker
  • Review of soy milk makers
May
06