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On April 12, 1961, humanity became a spacefaring species when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin blasted into orbit on a 108-minute flight high above Earth.
So Gagarin set the original record — first person in space. But over the past 50 years, people have notched many other records as our species has extended its toehold in the cold depths of space. [ Top Milestones of Human Spaceflight ]
Here's a look at some of these marks, from the oldest person in space to the most consecutive days spent away from terra firma.
Oldest person in space
U.S. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, was 77 when he flew on space shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission in October 1998. The mission marked Glenn's second spaceflight; he had become the first American to orbit the Earth back in February 1962.
So Glenn holds another record as well: the longest time between trips to space (36 years).
Youngest person in space
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov was a month shy of his 26th birthday when he launched into orbit aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 2 in August 1961. He was the second person to orbit the Earth, performing 17 loops around our planet during his 25-hour flight.
Titov was also the first person to sleep in space, and reportedly the first to suffer from "space sickness" (motion sickness in space).
Most consecutive days in space
Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spent nearly 438 consecutive days aboard the Mir space station, from January 1994 to March 1995. He therefore holds the record for longest single human spaceflight — and perhaps set another one for wobbliest legs when he finally touched down.
Shortest spaceflight mission
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space. He set another record on that flight, one that stands to this day: briefest human spaceflight mission.
Shepard's suborbital flight in NASA's Freedom 7 vehicle lasted just 15 minutes, carrying him to an altitude of 115 miles (185 km). He splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean just 302 miles (486 km) downrange of his Florida launch site.
Shepard would later get more than this tiny taste of space experience. In 1971, he went to the moon on NASA's Apollo 14 mission. During that flight, the 47-year-old astronaut set another record, becoming the oldest person to walk the surface of another world.
Farthest away
The record for the greatest distance from Earth has stood for more than four decades. In April 1970, the crew of NASA's Apollo 13 mission swung around the far side of the moon at an altitude of 158 miles (254 km), putting them 248,655 miles (400,171 km) away from Earth. It's the farthest our species has ever been from our home planet.
Most total time spent in space
Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev holds this record, with a little more than 803 days accrued over six spaceflights. That's more than two years and two months spent zipping around the Earth at about 17,500 mph (28,164 kph).
For women, the record is held by NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who spent more than 376 days in space.
Krikalev holds another title, this one less official: the last citizen of the Soviet Union. The cosmonaut was aboard the Mir space station when his country collapsed in December 1991. When Krikalev returned to Earth in March 1992, he came home to Russia rather than the U.S.S.R.
Longest continuously inhabited spacecraft
This record belongs to the International Space Station, and it grows every day. The $100 billion orbiting lab has been continuously occupied since Nov. 2, 2000. [ Infographic: The International Space Station – Inside and Out ]
This span of time — plus two days, since the first station crew launched Oct. 31, 2000 — also marks the longest period of continuous human presence in space.
Longest space shuttle mission
The space shuttle Columbia launched on its STS-80 mission on Nov. 19, 1996. It was originally slated to return to Earth that Dec. 5, but bad weather pushed the landing back two days. When Columbia finally came home, it had spent nearly 17 days and 16 hours in space — a record for a shuttle mission. [ Most Memorable Space Shuttle Missions ]
Most time on the moon
In December 1972, Harrison Schmidt and Eugene Cernan of NASA's Apollo 17 mission spent just under 75 hours — more than three days — poking around on the surface of the moon. They also performed three moonwalks that lasted a total of more than 22 hours.
Perhaps the astronauts lingered because they suspected humanity wouldn't be back for a while — Apollo 17 marked the last time people traveled to the moon, or even went beyond low-Earth orbit.
Fastest human spaceflight
The crew of NASA's Apollo 10 moon mission reached a top speed of 24,791 mph (39,897 kph) relative to Earth as they rocketed back to our planet on May 26, 1969. That's the fastest any human beings have ever traveled. [ Video: Apollo 10: Full Dress Moon Rehearsal ]
The Apollo 10 mission served as a dress rehearsal for NASA's first moon landing two months later, on July 20, 1969.
Apollo 10 astronauts Cernan, John Young and Tom Stafford orbited the moon in their command module Charlie Brown and Lunar Module Snoopy. Later, Cernan and Young took the Snoopy lunar lander down to within 50,000 feet (15,243 meters) of the moon's surface before returning to dock with the Charlie Brown module.
Most spaceflights by an astronaut
This one is shared by two NASA astronauts.
Franklin Chang-Diaz and Jerry Ross both went to space seven times aboard NASA's space shuttles. Chang-Diaz made his flights between 1986 and 2002, while Ross made his between 1985 and 2002.
Most spacewalks
Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev made 16 spacewalks over the course of five missions in the 1980s and 1990s.
Solovyev spent more than 82 hours outside his spacecraft on those excursions — another record. [ The Top 10 Soviet and Russian Science Missions ]
Longest single spacewalk
On March 11, 2001, NASA astronauts Jim Voss and Susan Helms spent 8 hours and 56 minutes outside the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station during the STS-102 mission, performing some maintenance work and preparing the orbiting lab for the arrival of another module.
It remains the longest spacewalk in history.
In August 2010, astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson spent 8 hours and 3 minutes outside the space station with no shuttle present during the outpost's Expedition 24 mission, setting a different record – the longest station spacewalk without a visiting shuttle.
Biggest space gathering
It may sound unlucky, but the record for the largest human gathering in space stands at 13 – which was set during NASA's STS-127 shuttle mission aboard Endeavour in 2009.
In July 2009, Endeavour docked with the International Space Station. The shuttle's seven-person crew then went aboard the orbiting lab, joining the six spaceflyers already there. The 13-person party was the largest-ever gathering of people in space at the same time.
While subsequent NASA shuttle and station crews matched the 13-person record, it has never been topped.
Most women in space at once
This record stands at four women in orbit at the same time.
In April 2010, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson traveled to the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz spaceship. She was soon joined on the orbiting lab by NASA astronauts Stephanie Wilson and Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger and Japan's Naoko Yamazaki, who made the trip aboard the space shuttle Discovery on its STS-131 mission.
Most expensive spaceship
Member nations began building the International Space Station — which is about as long as a football field and boasts as much living space as a five-bedroom house — back in 1998.
So far, the price tag for the orbiting lab stands at about $100 billion, and NASA estimates that American taxpayers have paid about half of that amount. That makes the station the single most expensive structure ever built. And the cost will continue to rise — the station is not scheduled to be completed until 2012.
Largest spaceship ever built
Once again, the International Space Station is the winner.
The orbiting lab is the product of five space agencies representing more than 15 countries. From one end of its backbone-like main truss to the other, it measures about 357.5 feet (109 meters) across. There are huge solar arrays at each end of the truss, and they have a wingspan of 239.4 feet (73 m).
Astronauts live inside a series of connected, pressurized modules that are attached to the main truss. These modules have a habitable space roughly equivalent to the interior cabin of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The station is currently staffed by six astronauts, but that population has jumped to between nine and 13 people when a visiting vehicle — like a Russian Soyuz or fully crewed NASA shuttle — is docked.
The space station is so large that it can easily be seen by the unaided eye from the ground if skywatchers have clear skies and know where to look. The station appears as a fast-moving bright light that can outshine the brightest star (Sirius) or Venus, depending on viewing conditions.
You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter:.Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitterand on.

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Take a deep breath, perhaps even a Darth Vader-size breath. Reports indicate that Disney chose "Star Trek" director J.J. Abrams to direct the upcoming "Star Wars: Episode VII" sci-fi epic due in 2015. Have a laugh at a few of the amusing tweets about the rumored news, which caused a level of excitement perhaps equivalent to the noise inside Obi-Wan's head after the destruction of Alderaan.
One Twitter user quipped about how ol' J.J. seems to have his hand in everything star-related.
Might as well give J.J. Abrams Dancing with the Stars, too. Relaunch Star Search. Stargate. Anything, everything with Star in it.— Adam Best (@adamcbest) January 24, 2013
Of course, one of the most-followed Darth Vader imitators in the Twitterverse had to chime in with his thoughts.
Rumour has it JJ Abrams will direct the new Star Wars movie. If he screws this one up, going to have to call him "Jar Jar" Abrams— Verified Darth (@SithSarcasm) January 24, 2013
Whenever things get wild, you can always count on the inebriated version of the Hulk to make you think.
RUMOR SAY J.J. ABRAMS DIRECT NEW STAR WARS MOVIE! MAKING YOUR PARENTS CONFUSE STAR WARS AND STAR TREK EVEN MORE!— DRUNK HULK (@DRUNKHULK) January 24, 2013
With a new "Star Wars" movie on deck, we may finally get an answer to one of the biggest mysteries of our time.
I'm happy for whoever directs the next Star Wars movie. As long as this one proves the Legend of Curly's Gold.— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) January 24, 2013
What do you think George Lucas is doing these days? After all, he scored a cool $4 billion from Disney for Lucasfilm and the "Star Wars" franchise. Maybe he could take over one of J.J.'s old flames...
Now that JJ is directing STAR WARS, it's only fair that George Lucas get to remake FELICITY— Dan Hall (@danieljohnhall) January 24, 2013
If you have a J.J. Abrams autograph, consider yourself very lucky.
Putting the Star Trek guy in charge of Star Wars means the lines for his autograph at conventions will extend beyond a galaxy far far away.— Dorothy Snarker (@dorothysnarker) January 24, 2013
The world learned of a Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker remake yesterday that contained outrageous amounts of post-processed bloom in the early previews. One Twitter user couldn't help but make a correlation to J.J.'s admiration for lens flares (watch the recent "Star Trek" reboot for many examples of this).
Between the Wind Waker remake & JJ Abrams' directing Star Wars VII, it's been a big week for adding useless lens flares to old franchises.— Patrick Bull (@SirPatrickJBull) January 24, 2013
The splendor of "Star Wars," old or new, can get a little spoiled when you grow up and watch it again through more jaded older eyes. There's a reason it never earned any nods from the Academy for best actor...
J.J. Abrams taking on Star Wars!! Lets hope he doesn't put crappy effects, bad writing and horrible actors in it... wait.— Lee Newton (@leenewtonsays) January 24, 2013
Jar Jar Binks, one of the biggest complaints of "Star Wars Episode 1: A Phantom Menance," got some harsh treatment from the official Conan O'Brien Twitter account.
JJ Abrams directing #StarWars is acceptable, IF it's an alternate timeline where Jar-Jar is incinerated 30 seconds into Phantom Menace.— Team Coco (@TeamCoco) January 24, 2013
The abundance of lens flare-related jokes seemed to outnumber any other genre of quip. Even the "official" public-relations department for the Death Star had this to say:
Now that J.J. Abrams is directing Star Wars, people will finally learn why Stormtroopers always miss: too much lens flare.— Death Star PR (@DeathStarPR) January 24, 2013


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Two medical ideas
Here is a fascinating article on the connection between the stomach and mental health. I was an anxious kid and gulped Rolaids by the dozen. Eventually, I developed an ulcer which, thanks to the then-recent introduction of ranitadine, healed within a year of diagnosis. From that point on, I have seldom had stomach problems, although I later fought a couple of month-long bouts of depression.
What I have always suspected is just what the article postulates: Stomach problems can create anxiety and mental stress, and not just the other way around. I have noticed when I have had temporary stomach upset due to illness or bad food that it immediately causes my mental state to tank. Getting the stomach in order can bring the mind around as well.
On the matter of heart disease, a world-renowned heart surgeon says in this article that the present cures are as bad as the disease. In particular, the excessive use of statins to lower cholesterol (he says 25% of the population is on them!) has done nothing to reduce heart disease.
Food for thought.


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Back in the mid Nineties, Tullycraft helped inaugurate a small revolution in American indie. Hailed as one of the progenitors of twee – a peculiar brand of guitar music defining itself against the machismo of rock'n'roll, with fey vocals, jangly guitars and lo-fi recording – they were lauded almost as much for their DIY, anti-corporate approach as their sparkly, cutesy songcraft.
In their wake came a deluge of ethically and stylistically similar bands, as well as fanzines, clubnights, popfests, websites – in short, a whole subculture. But while many of the twee bands that have existed since have justified the genre's existence with memorable, cult-classic records, too often they have also earned accusations that theirs is an inward-looking world, indulgently self-referential, even snobbishly self-contained. In some ways indie music has decisively moved on, while twee/indiepop bands, self-appointed keepers of the flame, remain unwilling or unable to move beyond the boundaries of their genre.
Against this backdrop, Tullycraft return with their sixth album – their first since 2007's Every Scene Needs A Center. The comeback of the Seattle quintet is a delightful surprise after the considerable hiatus, but there is a risk, almost a decade since their formation, that by now their brand of do-it-yourself guitar pop has become entirely irrelevant, perhaps even confirming twee and indiepop as tired anachronisms.
You wouldn't expect – or even want – Tullycraft to step outside the boundaries of a sound they partly own – why should they? – and inevitably Lost In Light Rotation is a collection of lively, bouncy indiepop tunes, and not at all adventurous. Somehow, though, they don't sound irrelevant, despite the ways in which indie has moved on and evolved away from indiepop. The fact is that, with their trademark hints of girl-group, punk and Sixties guitar bands like The Kinks, Tullycraft manage to sound timeless.
While Tullycraft did prod the boundaries a little with Disenchanted Hearts Unite, which administered light doses of synth-pop and electro, Lost In Light Rotation finds the band instead attempting to hone their craft to perfection. That they do. These are very well-made pop songs from an assiduous songwriter, and some of them, like the rushing title track, or the closer, 'Anacorters', are practically flawless. There're impeccable lead riffs, rousing climaxes, and then the vocals: the harmonies between Sean Tollefson and Jenny Mears are wonderfully balanced, deployed generously and with confidence. Their interplay is crucial to the album's success. For example, when Mears takes the lead vocal for the second verse of highlight 'Elks Lodge Riot', it's just lovely, and when she and Tollefson are reunited for the chorus, it makes the song.
Some of the 'seen-it-all' scenester themes are nagging, like the mention of "fake DIY traps", references to homemade t-shirts, and the plot of 'No Tic All Tac' (it's about some forgotten band who "never played a single show outside of Glasgow Green"). But in general, the reflections are quietly affecting. "A polished slogan reads that punk love is finally lost," Tollefson sings on 'Westchester Turnabouts', while his being "stuck on the day you left – t-t-too much to say" is first-world tragic. 'Dig Up The Graves' faces the fact of not being trouble-free kids anymore: 'A dozen things that you never told me…the days, the weeks, the months, they follow you home'. Despite the bright shiny pop-sheen, much of Lost In Light Rotation is sad and regretful, made all the more poignant by the idea that indiepop's glory days are past.
While wars, economic crashes, and the Decline of Everything have eaten away at the chirpy optimism that prevailed when they began in the Nineties, Tullycraft remain stubbornly, happily oblivious. Their latest record is a time capsule, a tiny fragment of utopia to be treasured in these ghastly End Times, and when homo sapiens' automated, inorganic descendants dig through the debris of our era in 10,000 years, maybe they'll stumble upon Lost In Light Rotation and see that there was one last bastion of hope and sweetness in this, the foul year of our Lord, 2013.
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Yes, this was the venue for the official book launch of Selina Lake's "Pretty Pastel Style" with most excitingly, its accompanying fair. The entrance foyer had been beautifully decorated.
Oooh and there was the bike, the promised raffle prize, adorned with stunning David Austin roses.
The fair and book signing was being held in the upper hall and the staircase led us enticingly upstairs.
I was delighted by the beautiful makes of Lucinda and her company Sesame and Lilly.
She has used pretty vintage fabrics and trims to super effect.
A lot of her work was beautifully detailed and you needed to look close to see all the dinky beads and stitches.
This contrasted with the goodies next door, lovely handmade items crafted from wood with painted details in pretty colours by Anna Wiscombe.
Peach Blossom has some very pretty paper products including those covetable stripey paper straws, glassine envelopes and doilies. I love a doily!
I was taken with these pretty painted egg cups on the stall of MiaFleur.
They also had some original vintage pieces, some of which had quirky touches added, like these lace-trimmed tea towels.
Next door, I was very pleased to see Nicky Grace and her gorgeous handmade items, as I loved the images of Nicky's home in the book.
Lovely cheery colours on a rather un-Springlike day.
I then found beautiful flowers and pretty objects, courtesy of Love Lane Vintage (I understand you can find these two sisters on Facebook and Twitter but I will leave that to you as I cannot find my way round those sites!)
I came home with a pretty posy like the one pictured, it smelled divine because of the petite paperwhites tucked within it. The ladies are running a country brocante in Sussex in April (I imagine you shall find details on Facebook).
At this time, I felt it was time to refuel so headed for ...
What delights awaited me. Again, I was impressed by all the effort the ladies had gone to to make it look so lovely. There were pretty tablecloths and more gorgeous roses on each table and piles of teetering vintage china. I even found a friend serving the teas!
Cakey Bakes had a fab display groaning with yummy things to eat and drink (I can vouch for the chocolate orange cupcake).
There was also an utterly amazing cakey display made specially for the event! Yes, those books are made of icing.
Ladies were sat with Yvonne of Yvestown learning to crochet and there was the opportunity to enter the draw to win that pretty bike.
Back in the main hall, there were a few stalls remaining over which to swoon.
I also chatted with the folks from Plastikote who had brought out a new range of very prettily coloured spray paints. Thank goodness, this feels like one product I've been waiting for.
The things they'd made and sprayed looked fab and thanks to them giving me some cans of paint to try, I shall get back to you and let you know how that goes. (I was told you can find Plastikote on Facebook and they will happily answer any of your queries there.)
I've saved one of my favourites until last.
You may recall that in my post the other day, I showed you an embroidery in a hoop that I had been working on. This was inspired by a photograph in Selina's book of a gorgeous original item made by Vicky Trainor whom I was lucky enough to meet today.
Vicky and her friend were delightfully chatty and the stand looked beautiful, both the handmade and vintage items. You can find Vicky at The Linen Garden and drool over all the beautiful things she makes there.
(To the lady who enquired following my post the other day, yes I started my piece with a bit of salvaged embroidered teacloth and then appliqued and embroidered onto that.)
So, all in all, a really lovely day. I just wished there were even more lovely stalls to prolong the experience! A huge amount of effort had obviously gone into decorating the venue and it was lovely for me to see so many makers who were new to me. Without a doubt, this fair had the friendliest stall holders, they really were a delight to chat with. I also bumped into some fellow Instagrammers and had a lovely natter with them, too.
I was tempted, of course, by many things but was fairly restrained (whoever organised three fairs in one week did not take into account my budget!)
I arrived home happy and tired, to find that a certain furry ginger striped somebody was in exactly the same spot as when I left him!
Who can blame him! Have a super weekend. X


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Interesting. I hope it was merely nerves on his part. -- Snape 03/07/2018 11:15AM
Yikes Settle posts lowest vertical and tied for lowest broad jump. -- uvabasher 03/04/2018 5:53PM
Bottom line, the combine hasn't boosted his draft status -- ShockWaveVT 03/05/2018 5:44PM
Question from someone who wasn't watching when Settles was up. -- Snape 03/05/2018 2:29PM
The combine.... -- 2hhoop3 03/05/2018 11:46AM
All he needs is one chance. Any draft pick or UDFA certainly does that. ** -- laphroaig 03/05/2018 1:21PM
Why would that be important for a DT is my question, his job in the nfl -- fordham 03/05/2018 10:11AM
When every other DL is better than him in any of these drills, -- reestuart 03/05/2018 10:29AM
Proxy for explosiveness... many of same muscles required -- ACC_Hoops 03/05/2018 10:17AM
The drill he did where fell and tripped over the bags was painful to watch -- 3TechFanz 03/05/2018 07:23AM
Should have stayed another year or 2. ** -- TboneParkerVT 03/05/2018 11:38AM
I think he'll make up for some of that at pro day and -- hokiepro 03/05/2018 10:21AM
So his combine was so bad, now he won't have anything to lose at pro day? -- laphroaig 03/05/2018 1:24PM
We seem to have an odd dual perspective on the value of the combine -- Baltimore Hokie 03/06/2018 4:08PM
Combine is the one opportunity to be seen by every team -- Hokie1992 03/06/2018 03:07AM
Kinda, plus DT is a bit more film related -- hokiepro 03/05/2018 1:40PM
THINK THAT IS A GREAT POINT --> DT REQUIRES FILM -- ACC_Hoops 03/05/2018 2:04PM
Is his film really any better than the other DTs? ** -- reestuart 03/05/2018 4:56PM
I have no idea... someone cant rem where said he had good film -- ACC_Hoops 03/06/2018 01:12AM
The results speak for themselves -- Hokie1992 03/06/2018 03:13AM
Good film depends on who it was against like you said. Understated too is -- uvabasher 03/06/2018 09:14AM
I just know that stat wise, he didn't stand out against our better -- reestuart 03/06/2018 02:26AM
LOL that was my reaction as well. ** -- NokieHokie 03/05/2018 1:33PM
I suspect he'll make up for it with other benchmarks. Is jumping important? ** -- jesuisvtguy 03/05/2018 02:00AM
Wait til they see him return punts. I think Tim will be fine. -- Fatman 03/05/2018 07:28AM
5.4 guys in the NFL don't even joke about returning punts ** -- ACC_Hoops 03/05/2018 09:52AM
Me thinks Fatman was making a joke of his own, WRT Settle punt returning.:) ** -- Atlee Hokie 03/05/2018 11:44AM
It is a measure of the players explosiveness. ** -- WhoopACC Hokie 03/05/2018 02:25AM
He'll be fine. He's a very big guy who moves -- AbsolutVT03 03/04/2018 8:08PM
I dunno, this site still has him projected as a starter in the NFL -- Casey 03/04/2018 7:55PM
Adds up to a late round pick -- Hokie1992 03/05/2018 05:42AM
Yeah, his spider chart isn't the best looking. -- Hokie Bird 94 03/05/2018 05:36AM
Of course LT3 is still in the league ** -- ACC_Hoops 03/05/2018 09:52AM
In a different position. :) ** -- NokieHokie 03/05/2018 10:21AM
How many times does this happen until kids get a clue? -- akaHokie 03/04/2018 7:07PM
Tim Settles is not a kid. He's what? 20 years old? -- Snape 03/05/2018 09:35AM
Yes but this plan for this draft was devised when he was a kid. ** -- laphroaig 03/06/2018 10:04PM
But he is an adult when he carried it out... ** -- NokieHokie 03/06/2018 10:54PM
A true adult would have realized the plan sucked???? Just asking to -- laphroaig 03/06/2018 11:11PM
Legally an adult, anyway. ** -- NokieHokie 03/06/2018 11:50PM
Settles, Settle, whatever. 20 is still young. ** -- 48zip 03/05/2018 11:05AM
Well, I thought you became a man when you are 40, I've been led astray ** -- hokieinking 03/05/2018 10:48AM
So you're saying if he stayed in school, he would improve his broad jump? ** -- KeithHokie89 03/05/2018 06:31AM
His broad jump has probably improved each year in the VT program -- ACC_Hoops 03/05/2018 10:14AM
Of course - everybody improves that with an extra year. -- akaHokie 03/05/2018 08:25AM
But it's not necessarily as black and white as you paint it. ** -- Hokie Bird 94 03/05/2018 05:40AM
The two Edmunds will be drafted high and will do well ** -- uvabasher 03/04/2018 10:55PM
You ever try to tell a teenager anything? Maybe if you were a peer, but -- UTPr0sim 03/04/2018 7:25PM
Yeah, I remember when my kids were teenagers -- akaHokie 03/05/2018 11:51AM
Well Tim Settle isn't a teenager, is he? ** -- NokieHokie 03/04/2018 8:11PM
We all knew he wasn't physically ready. -- Naelbis 03/04/2018 6:51PM
The combine is so overrated. If you pass on a good player based on his -- KeithHokie89 03/05/2018 06:33AM
It's a shame the NFL disagrees with you. ** -- Hokeedokee 03/05/2018 07:34AM
The shame isn't on the NFL. I'll let those experts run their own business. -- laphroaig 03/05/2018 08:39AM
You aren't even close to the point. If the NFL combine -- Hokeedokee 03/05/2018 11:27AM
Combine plays a big part in how high a player is drafted, whicch means $$$ -- Hokie1992 03/06/2018 03:26AM
I agree with you, just not as strongly as you believe I missed your point. -- laphroaig 03/05/2018 1:14PM
Well, the interviews with the teams at the Combine are even more -- OBX 03/05/2018 12:14PM
I know what u r saying about the rest of the combine -- Hokeedokee 03/05/2018 3:06PM
Like by at least a year? Then explain Tremaine at 19yo to us. -- laphroaig 03/04/2018 7:14PM
Some kids mature a little slower than others. Besides Tremaine is a freak. -- Atlee Hokie 03/05/2018 02:45AM
The post I responded to said TS had less time to train which is BS. He had -- laphroaig 03/05/2018 08:32AM
Not true lots of true juniors at the combine. -- VAVET 03/04/2018 6:54PM
With that performance, he probably falls down to where most thought... -- EDGEMAN 03/04/2018 6:48PM
Yeah after film review he'd moved up to fringe 1st round -- hokiepro 03/05/2018 10:24AM
Speculation, hype, disinformation & wishful thinking is not moving ** -- marcbvtgm 03/05/2018 8:18PM
It is when MOVED up people's draft boards ** -- hokiepro 03/05/2018 8:22PM
How does one fall to where everyone thought he would be? -- marcbvtgm 03/04/2018 11:57PM
He "moved up" based on optimistic projections by Internet media stories -- Hokie1992 03/05/2018 06:02AM
Nobody had to sell TS on the idea he'd be a first day pick for him -- laphroaig 03/05/2018 08:45AM
He's definitely a 'watch the tape' guy vs a combine warrior -- soflahokie 03/04/2018 6:36PM
I watched yesterday and the comment I heard was his "film" shows him -- two91hokies 03/05/2018 10:24AM
The combine track and field events are designed to mimic the real -- laphroaig 03/05/2018 09:12AM
"never takes plays off" really? ** -- Hokie1992 03/05/2018 06:05AM
Looks like he took some time off between declaring and the combine. ** -- laphroaig 03/05/2018 09:17AM
Problem with that is everybody has good film. ** -- reestuart 03/04/2018 6:38PM
Not sure thats truly the case, everyone has highlights but not consistency -- soflahokie 03/04/2018 6:45PM
I assume he knew what his numbers would be when he declared -- Bburg Native 03/04/2018 6:06PM
Bright side for him is that he get another chance to show scouts at pro day ** -- amp616 03/04/2018 8:22PM


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Lily pad is an experiment that explores paper folding inspired by the form of a lily pad floating on top of water.
A while back, I was looking at some pendant lamps and came across these really beautiful ones on Esty from Nellianna. I was really interested in the paper folded pattern from the shade and spent some time creating it from scratch. (As an aside, designer lamps are a great source of inspiration for algorithmic art forms)
I figured the flat facets of paper translated easily to the 3d world… or so I thought. I jumped directly to code, manipulating particles that represented each corner of the lamp. However, once a 3d mesh was skinned over the particles, the facets started misbehaving, randomly flipping for no reason whatsoever. Nothing worked even after countless hours of code debugging.
I took a step back and decided the only good way to understand how the facets worked was to create a tangible model. Using paper and some tape, I built each horizontal band of the lamp one at a time. Once the bands were taped together, it only dawned on me that the creases of the lower folds were from a completely different pattern than the repeating ones causing more confusion. With that out of the way, it was a simple manner of ignoring the lower band, unfolding the paper model to examine the crease lines and replicating those facets with code. I'm sure it can be optimized for better performance or clarity but it worked well enough for what I wanted it to do.
I finally created a usable pattern but didn't have an interesting enough shape to apply that pattern to. I started with my old standby, the cylinder/cone shape as a starting point which eventually evolved to the flattened look below.
Normally adding perlin noise gives it a natural feel but it proved to be trickier than I expected. When a 'wave' travels across the side of the shape, it abruptly ends, causing a very noticeable animation seam. Luckily I found this great tutorial here which uses 3d perlin noise to generate a seamless wrap around a cylinder. I plan on using this workaround on a few more experiments in the future.
When I normally create these code experiments, it would start of as a specific idea and evolve over time. The pattern itself was cool but it wasn't grounded to any particular concept. The name came much later on as I was randomizing a few parameters. The shape flattened into a pancake which poke through the ground creating what looked like a lilypad. Adding lighting and shadows gave it a sense of realism.
I recently started using github to create this experiment. Feel free to fork.
credits below
Three.js 3D framework.
Dat-gui gui framework.
jstween for animation.
@moebio for introducing me to paper folding.


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I adore these shabby chic Mason Jar Chandelier Lights and wanted to share some pictures and links...
|Etsy's BootsNGus
They are also available at Pottery Barn but the prices on Etsy seem better
and you get to support a small artisan.
They are even used in a fabulous display at Anthropologie!
|DIY with Design Sponge
I have heard some thoughts that the DIY can make issues with heat, so be careful!
I hope that you guys find them as beautiful as I do!


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Review: The Pork Place, IOI Boulevard Puchong
>> Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Overall comment: Those who love/fancy pork would feel at home at The Pork Place :P The meat is fresh, tasty & tender - yums.
Halal: No
The Pork Place is no stranger to those who live in Puchong as it's located at the IOI Boulevard, one of the more happening places in Pusat Bandar Puchong area. Parking is quite a nightmare here, but for pork-lovers, I doubt any of such concerns would be an obstacle - all for the love of pork!
The Pork Place is like a cafe featuring pork as its main meat that shares its cafe space with Sanbanto, the "pork specialist" that sells all cuts of fresh pork; the pigs are born & bred at a farm in Johor. (Sanbanto has another outlet in SS2, PJ)
The cafe's concept caters to customers from all walks of life & preferences. They have a comfortable dining area at the front, a more cosy setting for those who would like to enjoy their pork with liquor/drinks & also a mezzanine floor for groups who prefer to have their own space/for special occasions.
The Pork Place has 2 sets of menu i.e. their daily menu & a weekend special menu that features the "Hei Zhu"/Black Pig (Berkshire Pig) :D The "Hei Zhu" is more tender as it has more fats spread all over the meat (like marbling on beef), which also makes the meat more juicy & tasty. Oolala...
Let me share with you some of the dishes that we tasted that day:
If you're in Puchong or just feel like indulging in a pork-filled meal, you have a glaring option here :P
The Pork Place Cafe
31, IOI Boulevard
Jalan Kenari 7
Bandar Puchong Jaya
47100 Puchong Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Tel: (+603) 8076 9608
Business hours: Tue.-Sun. 11:30-15:00 (Lunch)/ Tue.-Sun. 18:00-22:00 (Dinner); Close on Mondays
URL: http://sanbanto.com.my/
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Technical Paper
Visualization of Direct-Injection Gasoline Spray and Wall-impingement Inside a Motoring Engine
Two-dimensional pulse-laser Mie scattering visualization of the direct-injection gasoline fuel sprays and wall impingement processes was carried out inside a single-cylinder optically accessible engine under motoring condition. The injectors have been first characterized inside a pressurized chamber using identical technique, as well as high-speed microscopic visualization and phase Doppler measurement techniques. The effects of injector cone angle, location, and injection timings on the wall impingement processes were investigated. It was found that the fuel vaporization is not complete at the constant engine speed tested. Fuel spray droplets were observed to disperse wider in the motored engine when compared with an isothermal quiescent ambient conditions. The extent of wall-impingement varies significantly with the injector mounting position and spray cone angle; however, its effect can be reduced to some extent by optimizing the injection timing.


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Florimon to gauge injured wrist during BP
KANSAS CITY -- Twins shortstop Pedro Florimon was held out of the lineup for a third straight game with inflammation in his left wrist on Monday against the Royals. Doug Bernier started in his place and batted ninth.
Florimon took infield before the game and said the plan is to take batting practice before Tuesday's game before being reevaluated to determine when he'll return.
"It feels better," said Florimon, who injured his wrist while taking batting practice before Saturday's game. "Today, I'm going to take some ground balls and tomorrow I'm going to batting practice and we'll see how it feels."
Twins assistant general manager Rob Antony added that he doesn't believe Florimon will need to be placed on the 15-day disabled list.
"It's better today," Antony said. "He's day to day. The doctor examined him and said it was just a little tendon irritation in his left wrist, but that he's ready to go in a day or two. It's up to him. Right now, he's not a DL candidate so we'll see how he responds."


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Archive for Do I have to be married to have sex?
TOUCHING is strange.
I run from being touched
Possibly afraid of
my own reaction
Possibly afraid that
it might feel too good
So his hands were gentle
his voice stroked the
side of my neck as
he bent over and whispered
something in my ear
I fought the feeling
and I was angry at
myself…for fighting it
for being committed
to MORAL VALUES
for being committed
to religious beliefs
I will not falter…
I will not fall.
i will not crawl
beneath the power
of the temptation
I will stand with
head held high
And later…I truly will
let out a deep, full sigh
For yes I was hurt by your blunt
display…I wanted a different,
much different way…
Yet deep within…there
was another spin
My heart said no….no….NO!
Songs of love, wedding bells,
engagment rings, buying a new house
the first baby….then the loss of my
And now this….ONE man now approaches and
he does not want to start a family,
he does not want to get married,
he does not want that first baby
he does not and will not buy me
and engagement ring.
He simply wants my
body….or what
he perceives is my body
from what he can see through
my clothes.
My feelings are hurt…my soul is burnt
my heart bleeds…for what I lost.
We, my husband and I would
have made love all night
and then the sun would catch
us laying in each others arms and
talking about the day and our lives together…
My husband would arise and shower.
I would lay and slumber longer
I would be rosed by bacon and eggs that
my husband would serve
me in bed
Now….our marriage, our
relationship is DEAD—
DEAD…due to catastrophic disease…
Lost is my lover, my best friend…my husband…
and NOw I ponder..
the value of my life…
under this new world order…
do I allow myself
to be short changed
and live life according to
limitations of feeling used,
and undervalued?
In my dreams…I experience
intimacy…but not hurt feelings
In my dreams… I remember my
true love…my lost love…My husband….now
that human touch, that slight embrace, around my
neck, that whisper….
has awoken a spirit of
yet i with draw and
remember you….


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Oakland, Berkeley, And East Bay News, Events, Restaurants, Music, & Arts
The notion that Wolf Creek is opening nationwide on Christmas Day brings to mind the scene from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, in which a young boy opens up his holiday gift and finds a severed head. The movie is about as diametrically opposed to the concept of "goodwill toward men" as movies get, made by a disciple of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre school of horrors. It plays like Alexandre Aja's High Tension without the lame twist that ruined that film. And if any of this news means anything to you, you know Wolf Creek is a must-see.
For everyone else, a strong caution is advised. This is a brutal tale, with no disposable characters or cartoonish boogeymen. The Joe Bob Briggs Rule -- anyone can die at any time -- is strictly adhered to. But the film's descent into hell is, as in life, a gradual one. Half an hour has elapsed before our main antagonist arrives, and another half-hour before he shows his true colors. By that time, our heroes are screwed, and you've been suckered into caring about them. Let the carnage begin.
Things begin rather unfortunately, with some boring, sub-MTV Spring Break scenes of partying and a shaved-headed, freshly tattooed fellow by the name of Ben (Nathan Phillips) renting a car with which to drive into the Australian outback. The car is a problem right from the start, but Ben doesn't think to take the extra insurance. His companions are two fine English lasses, Liz (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy (Kestie Morassi). Both think Ben is hot (despite his insistence on doing terrible impersonations of Darth Vader and Captain Kirk), but he claims to have a girlfriend waiting for him in Sydney. Nonetheless, Kristy graciously agrees to let Liz be the one to put the moves on him, if anyone's going to.
Their destination is Wolf Creek, where there don't seem to be any wolves, but there is a large crater, and, as Kristy eloquently puts it, "There's poo everywhere! Yay! We're on the poo planet!" (critics of Wolf Creek will pounce on lines such as those). In addition, the crater appears to generate electromagnetic pulses, so everybody's watches stop, and the car dies. And none of them has a cell phone, or even mentions one -- not that one would even work if they did. Nobody's around for miles. Oops.
Then, in the middle of the night, up drives Mick (Picnic at Hanging Rock's John Jarratt), a wisecracking type who seems as if he might be right at home assisting Steve Irwin in a crocodile wrestling match. (Ben hammers home this point with another of his "hilarious" impersonations, of "Crocodile Dundee" Paul Hogan.) Mick doesn't look threatening -- he even seems endearing -- so our three vacationers take him up on his offer for a tow and repair. Back at his place, they get to drinking and telling tales around the campfire. Then Liz wakes up to find herself bound, gagged, and locked in a shed. Things go way downhill from there.
Jarratt is excellent as Mick. Too many characters like him tend to be so obvious in their intentions that you'd wonder how anyone could be stupid enough to trust them (think R. Lee Ermey in the Texas Chainsaw remake). But Mick seems like a guy you'd want to have a beer with; heck, he could probably win elections. But when he turns torturer, you believe that too.
Shot on high-def, the movie looks fantastic -- a very auspicious debut for director of photography Will Gibson. Night actually looks like night, which is rare onscreen, and the Australian deserts look immense, beautiful, and intimidating. Editor Jason Ballantine needs some minor chastising, though: There's a chase sequence where it's not entirely clear if we're watching one vehicle or two, at least until the very end; some cleaner cutting could have helped. There's also a moment where a character discovers a videotape that would seem to implicate a conspirator of Mick's ... but then it doesn't, and it's dropped.
Writer-director Greg McLean, who has many shorts and commercials under his belt, makes a significant feature debut here, with unapologetic horror that doesn't compromise. Perhaps there ought to have been a more cathartic climax, but he's probably saving that for the sequel.
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Lawsuit could delay KC streetcar project
Business owner objects to taxes, special election
A downtown Kansas City business owner is going to court to block a proposed streetcar line between the River Market area and Union Station.
Voters approved a special tax district to help pay for the streetcars, but Sue Burke said she thinks she was taken for a ride.
"The whole project, when it started, seemed to be sneaky and behind closed doors," she said.
Boosters said the entire plan to install the line has been aboveboard. There's another public meeting planned next week at Union Station.
Burke runs an air filter company in the River Market neighborhood. She said the mail-in election last year should have been open to all Kansas Citians, not just a few hundred residents of the streetcar district. She also said it should have been on the ballot during the presidential election.
"So you can get a real feel for who is really behind this," she said.
Some testing along Main Street to determine where the streetcar's power poles should be has been postponed for next week. The Streetcar Authority said it's still working on a final design and it's still deciding on what type of streetcars to use.
Burke said the streetcar line is unnecessary. The route from the River Market to Union Station is already served by city buses.
Burke said she also doesn't like the fact that the $100 million project will be paid for, in part, through higher property and sales taxes for people living along the route.
"Pretty soon, I'm going to be at 13 or 14 percent sales tax," she said. "That doesn't make me competitive with businesses in Johnson County."
The city is trying to get Burke's lawsuit for the streetcar plan thrown out of court. A scheduling hearing for the case is scheduled for next week.


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Does a new R.E.M. album count as an event in queer music? I think so, and Fred Maus helps me understand why. As he points out, the obscurity and elision in Stipe's lyrics make them at once confessional and oblique, "intimate and distant." This I think is the case both before and after Stipe's public coming out.
The queerest thing about Collapse into Now isn't song titles like Mine Smell Like Honey, or lines like "You're going to sing the praises of your fruit." It might perhaps rather be collaborations with Berlin-based queer and punk collaborators Joel Gibb and Peaches. While a lot of reviews have pointed to the classic sound of a band content to deliver the goods to devoted fans, the "now" into which they are collapsing seems very much to be the queer, collaborative ferment of art and music in Berlin. At least the video for Mine Smell Like Honey has a very Berlin look and feel to it, from Stipe's bearded bear look to the improvisational dance up some grimy Kreuzberg-looking stairs. It captures the loose, collaborative feel of the city. Queer music may today increasingly be about such convivial ambience, following the template set by artists like Antony and the Johnsons.


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ALAMEDA — Call it the Colin Kaepernick Effect, due diligence or just plain curiosity, but the Raiders are going into the 2013 season with an open mind when it comes to Carson Palmer or Terrelle Pryor being their starting quarterback.
General manager Reggie McKenzie and coach Dennis Allen are steadfast in their stance that Palmer is the odds-on favorite to be the starter once again.
However, it sounds more and more as if Pryor at least will receive a much longer look than anyone likely envisioned as recently as two months ago.
"In visiting with Dennis and Reggie, I know Reggie's made the statement that there will always be competition," Raiders first-year offensive coordinator Greg Olson said Wednesday. "There has to be competition at every position.
"I don't ever think you hand anyone a position from season to season or year to year. … We'll go forward with the direction that the organization sees fit. If they want competition, we'll have competition."
Part of that open-mindedness owes to Pryor playing well enough in his one start last season. The other part comes as a result of Kaepernick, Robert Griffin III, Cam Newton and Russell Wilson taking the league by storm the past two seasons.
Of that quartet, Pryor seems most comparable to Kaepernick based on their builds, speed and skill set. Even so, Olson said he and the Raiders don't know enough about Pryor yet to know how good he can be.
"We'd like to find that out," Olson said. "What's different about Kaepernick is certainly that they feel great about him in all areas of the game. They feel great about him as a passer. So he's a guy that plays full time. It's not as if they bring him in for a package or a play or two."
Olson said it's incumbent upon he and the Raiders discovering whether Pryor can be more than a player that gets featured in a package of plays designed to take advantage of his running ability.
That means seeing if Pryor can flourish in all facets of the game and not just someone that catches defenses off guard in some sort of Wildcat package.
"That's we'll have to find out with Terrelle Pryor," Olson said. "We know what kind of an athlete he is. We need to find out what kind of decision maker he is. We need to find out if he's a guy that can also sit in the pocket and deliver the ball from point A to point B accurately and on time and making the right decisions. That above all else becomes most important."
Pryor started Oakland's final regular-season game last season and showed enough to warrant closer scrutiny during offseason mini camps, training camp and exhibition games.
Palmer, 33, passed for more than 4,000 yards last season before he suffered broken ribs and a bruised lung against the Carolina Panthers. He is under contract through 2016.
Third-year player Pryor has two more years left on his rookie contract. The Raiders don't have any other quarterbacks on their roster right now. Matt Leinart, the primary backup last season, is an unrestricted free agent.


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Hi everyone
I hope you are all well.
Today's little project is a faux encaustic tile Christmas decoration.
I like the green and greys tones and colours from winter landscapes and natural elements that are around this year.
Using a palette knife I coated a small wooden coaster with gesso and then with two shades of green paint.
I stamped my tree image using Grey Staz-On.
I then covered the whole surface with Versamark and embossed the surface using ultra thick clear embossing powder.
The embossing gives it a waxy chunky finish although the photo doesn't really show it.
I cut a small piece of fabric to size and dabbed onto it some white gesso and attached it with some gel medium (glue would work equally as well). I broke a wooden lollipop stick in half and rubbed a small amount of gesso on it, stamped the sentiment and embossed (just the stamped area) with clear embossing powder.
I then attached the lollipop stick piece to the fabric with gel medium (again, strong glue would work).
I stapled a piece of thin garden string to the back of the coaster for hanging purposes.
Crafty Individuals stamps used:
Trees Galore CI 429
Alternative stamp suggestion – Listen To The Trees CI 450
Words and Wishes CI 438
MDF Coasters CI crafty must haves
Thank you for looking
Happy Crafting
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Students from Kazakhstan arrested on visa violations
Two foreign students arrested Saturday in New Bedford for allegedly violating their student visas are from Kazakhstan and may have known the brothers accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, according to a statement from the nation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
FBI and Homeland Security agents wearing hazmat suits descended on the students' neighborhood on Monday and searched their apartment, according to media reports in New Bedford.
Kazakhstan's foreign ministry said US immigration officials discovered the students while investigating the Tsarnaev brothers' "possible links and contacts,'' particularly those who studied with them. The students – two men — are being held in Boston, according to the ministry and a US official.
"During the investigation, it was revealed that two students from Kazakhstan had violated the U.S. visa regime in the course of their studies. They were consequently arrested until the full clarification of the circumstances is achieved,'' the ministry said in a statement.
The New Bedford students are being held on civil immigration violations, not criminal charges, which is why federal officials have not disclosed their names to the public. US immigration officials usually withhold the names of immigrant detainees purportedly to protect their privacy, even though detainees are often held in the same jails as criminals.
Kazakhstan's consul is in Boston to work with the students, their families and US authorities, according to the ministry. The oil-producing nation of 17 million people was formerly a part of the Soviet Union. The United States was the first nation to recognize the nation's independence in 1991, federal records show.
On Monday, Kazakhstan officials assured the United States that they were willing to cooperate on issues of terrorism. "We would like to reaffirm our openness to cooperation with the United States on the issue and emphasize that Kazakhstan strongly condemns terrorism and acts of terrorism in any form,'' the embassy said.
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It's that time again!!! The Daring Bakers tackled a traditional, French Yule Log this month. And whew....WHAT a recipe! I was really worried at first...I mean, an 18 page recipe?!? But once you break the elements down and tackle each one separately, it isn't that bad at all.
I always really, really look forward to the Daring Bakers challenge every month. After not participating last month, I was particularly excited about December. I knew that December would bring a fabulous challenge for the holidays. I was thrilled when I read the news. Chocolate...check! More chocolate...check, check! :)
I was extremely happy with my results this month. The taste was AMAZING! All of the flavors blended together so well. It's extra yummy with a hot cup of coffee, too!
This month's challenge is brought to us by the adventurous Hilda from Saffron and Blueberry and Marion from Il en Faut Peu Pour Etre Heureux. They have chosen a French Yule Log by Flore from Florilege Gourmand.
The recipe is below...I've only included the flavors/recipes for the combinations that I chose to use, in order to keep the post from being 5 miles long..lol.
I broke this recipe out as follows:
Day 1: Dacquoise Biscuit + Praline Feuillete (Crisp) Insert
Day 2: Dark Chocolate Mousse + Dark Chocolate Ganache Insert + Cardamom Crème Brulée
Day 3: Dark Chocolate Icing
by Flore of Florilège Gourmand
Element #1 Dacquoise Biscuit (Almond Cake)
Preparation time: 10 mn + 15 mn for baking
Equipment: 2 mixing bowls, hand or stand mixer with whisk attachment, spatula, baking pan such as a 10"x15" jelly-roll pan, parchment paper
Note: You can use the Dacquoise for the bottom of your Yule Log only, or as bottom and top layers, or if using a Yule log mold (half-pipe) to line your entire mold with the biscuit. Take care to spread the Dacquoise accordingly. Try to bake the Dacquoise the same day you assemble the log to keep it as moist as possible.
2.8 oz (3/4cup + 1Tbsp / 80g) almond meal
1.75 oz (1/2 cup / 50g) confectioner's sugar
2 Tbsp (15g) all-purpose flour
3.5oz (100g / ~100ml) about 3 medium egg whites
1.75 oz (4 Tbsp / 50g) granulated sugar
1. Finely mix the almond meal and the confectioner's sugar. (If you have a mixer, you can use it by pulsing the ingredients together for no longer than 30 seconds).
2. Sift the flour into the mix.
3. Beat the eggs whites, gradually adding the granulated sugar until stiff.
4. Pour the almond meal mixture into the egg whites and blend delicately with a spatula.
5. Grease a piece of parchment paper and line your baking pan with it.
6. Spread the batter on a piece of parchment paper to an area slightly larger than your desired shape (circle, long strip etc...) and to a height of 1/3 inches (8mm).
7. Bake at 350°F (180°C) for approximately 15 minutes (depends on your oven), until golden. 8. Let cool and cut to the desired shape.
Element #2 Dark Chocolate Mousse
Preparation time: 20mn
Equipment: stand or hand mixer with whisk attachment, thermometer, double boiler or equivalent, spatula
Note: You will see that a Pate a Bombe is mentioned in this recipe. A Pate a Bombe is a term used for egg yolks beaten with a sugar syrup, then aerated. It is the base used for many mousse and buttercream recipes. It makes mousses and buttercreams more stable, particularly if they are to be frozen, so that they do not melt as quickly or collapse under the weight of heavier items such as the crème brulee insert. In the Vanilla Mousse variation, pastry cream is made to the same effect.In the Mango Mousse variation, Italian meringue is made to the same effect. Italian meringue is a simple syrup added to egg whites as they are beaten until stiff. It has the same consistency as Swiss meringue (thick and glossy) which we have used before in challenge recipes as a base for buttercream.The Whipped Cream option contains no gelatin, so beware of how fast it may melt.Gelatin is the gelifying agent in all of the following recipes, but if you would like to use agar-agar, here are the equivalencies: 8g powdered gelatin = 1 (0.25 oz) envelope powdered gelatin = 1 Tbsp powdered gelatin = 1 Tbsp Agar-Agar. 1 Tbsp. of agar-agar flakes is equal to 1 tsp. of agar-agar powder.
2.5 sheets gelatin or 5g / 1 + 1/4 tsp powdered gelatin
1.5 oz (3 Tbsp / 40g) granulated sugar
1 ½ tsp (10g) glucose or thick corn syrup
0.5 oz (15g) water
50g egg yolks (about 3 medium)
6.2 oz (175g) dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
1.5 cups (350g) heavy cream (35% fat content)
1. Soften the gelatin in cold water. (If using powdered gelatin, follow the directions on the package.) I used 1/4 cup cold water to soften the powdered gelatin. Heat the gelatin in the microwave for a few seconds to liquify it before mixing with the other ingredients.
2. Make a Pate a Bombe: Beat the egg yolks until very light in colour (approximately 5 minutes until almost white).
2a. Cook the sugar, glucose syrup and water on medium heat for approximately 3 minutes (if you have a candy thermometer, the mixture should reach 244°F (118°C). If you do not have a candy thermometer, test the sugar temperature by dipping the tip of a knife into the syrup then into a bowl of ice water, if it forms a soft ball in the water then you have reached the correct temperature.
2b. Add the sugar syrup to the beaten yolks carefully by pouring it into the mixture in a thin stream while continuing to beat the yolks. You can do this by hand but it's easier to do this with an electric mixer.
2c. Continue beating until cool (approximately 5 minutes). The batter should become thick and foamy.
3. In a double boiler or equivalent, heat 2 tablespoons (30g) of cream to boiling. Add the chopped chocolate and stir until melted and smooth.
4. Whip the remainder of the cream until stiff.
5. Pour the melted chocolate over the softened gelatin, mixing well. Let the gelatin and chocolate cool slightly and then stir in ½ cup (100g) of WHIPPED cream to temper. Add the Pate a Bombe.
6. Add in the rest of the WHIPPED cream (220g) mixing gently with a spatula.
Element #3 Dark Chocolate Ganache Insert
Preparation time: 10mn
Equipment: pan, whisk. If you have plunging mixer (a vertical hand mixer used to make soups and other liquids), it comes in handy.
Note: Because the ganache hardens as it cools, you should make it right before you intend to use it to facilitate piping it onto the log during assembly. Please be careful when caramelizing the sugar and then adding the cream. It may splatter and boil.
1.75 oz (4 Tbsp / 50g) granulated sugar
4.5oz (2/3 cup – 1 Tbsp/ 135g) heavy cream (35% fat content)
5 oz (135g) dark chocolate, finely chopped
3Tbsp + 1/2tsp (45g) unsalted butter softened
1. Make a caramel: Using the dry method, melt the sugar by spreading it in an even layer in a small saucepan with high sides. Heat over medium-high heat, watching it carefully as the sugar begins to melt. Never stir the mixture. As the sugar starts to melt, swirl the pan occasionally to allow the sugar to melt evenly. Cook to dark amber color (for most of you that means darker than last month's challenge).
2. While the sugar is melting, heat the cream until boiling. Pour cream into the caramel and stir thoroughly. Be very careful as it may splatter and boil.
3. Pour the hot caramel-milk mixture over the dark chocolate. Wait 30 seconds and stir until smooth.
4. Add the softened butter and whip hard and fast (if you have a plunging mixer use it). The chocolate should be smooth and shiny.
Element #4 Praline Feuillete (Crisp) Insert
Preparation time: 10 mn (+ optional 15mn if you make lace crepes)
Equipment: Small saucepan, baking sheet (if you make lace crepes).Double boiler (or one small saucepan in another), wax paper, rolling pin (or I use an empty bottle of olive oil).
Note: Feuillete means layered (as in with leaves) so a Praline Feuillete is a Praline version of a delicate crisp. There are non-praline variations below. The crunch in this crisp comes from an ingredient which is called gavottes in French. Gavottes are lace-thin crepes. To our knowledge they are not available outside of France, so you have the option of making your own using the recipe below or you can simply substitute rice krispies or corn flakes or Special K for them. Special note: If you use one of the substitutes for the gavottes, you should halve the quantity stated, as in use 1oz of any of these cereals instead of 2.1oz.
To make 2.1oz / 60g of gavottes (lace crepes - recipe by Ferich Mounia):
1/3 cup (80ml) whole milk
2/3 Tbsp (8g) unsalted butter
1/3 cup – 2tsp (35g) all-purpose flour
1 Tbsp / 0.5 oz (15g) beaten egg
1 tsp (3.5g) granulated sugar
½ tsp vegetable oil
1. Heat the milk and butter together until butter is completely melted. Remove from the heat.
2. Sift flour into milk-butter mixture while beating, add egg and granulated sugar. Make sure there are no lumps.
3. Grease a baking sheet and spread batter thinly over it.
4. Bake at 430°F (220°C) for a few minutes until the crepe is golden and crispy. Let cool.
Ingredients for the Praline Feuillete:
3.5 oz (100g) milk chocolate
1 2/3 Tbsp (25g) butter
2 Tbsp (1 oz / 30g) praline
2.1oz (60g) lace crepes(gavottes) or rice krispies or corn flakes or Special K (I used Rice Krispies)
1. Melt the chocolate and butter in a double boiler.
2. Add the praline and the coarsely crushed lace crepes. Mix quickly to thoroughly coat with the chocolate.
3. Spread between two sheets of wax paper to a size slightly larger than your desired shape. Refrigerate until hard.
Element #5 Vanilla Crème Brulée Insert
Preparation time: 15mn + 1h infusing + 1h baking
Equipment: Small saucepan, mixing bowl, baking mold, wax paper
Note: The vanilla crème brulée can be flavored differently by simply replacing the vanilla with something else e.g. cardamom, lavender, etc...I flavored mine with Cardamom!
1/2 cup (115g) heavy cream (35% fat content)
½ cup (115g) whole milk
4 medium-sized (72g) egg yolks
0.75 oz (2 Tbsp / 25g) granulated sugar
1 vanilla bean
1. Heat the milk, cream, and scraped vanilla bean to just boiling. Remove from the stove and let the vanilla infuse for about 1 hour.
2. Whisk together the sugar and egg yolks (but do not beat until white).
3. Pour the vanilla-infused milk over the sugar/yolk mixture. Mix well.
4. Wipe with a very wet cloth and then cover your baking mold (whatever shape is going to fit on the inside of your Yule log/cake) with parchment paper. Pour the cream into the mold and bake at 210°F (100°C) for about 1 hour or until firm on the edges and slightly wobbly in the center. (Many DBers noticed that their creme brulee would not set at 210...including me. I raised the temperature to about 325 after an hour and kept baking. It finally set and became a nice golden brown on top.)
Tartelette says: You can bake it without a water bath since it is going to go inside the log (the aesthetics of it won't matter as much since it will be covered with other things)....BUT I would recommend a water bath for the following reasons:
- you will get a much nicer mouth feel when it is done
- you will be able to control its baking point and desired consistency much better
- it bakes for such a long time that I fear it will get overdone without a water bath
Now...since it is baked in a pan and it is sometimes difficult to find another large pan to set it in for a water bath, even a small amount of water in your water bath will help the heat be distributed evenly in the baking process. Even as little as 1 inch will help.
5. Let cool and put in the freezer for at least 1 hour to firm up and facilitate the final assembly.
Here's the Yule Log before adding the icing...
Element #6 Dark Chocolate Icing
Preparation time: 25 minutes (10mn if you don't count softening the gelatin)
Equipment: Small bowl, small saucepan
Note: Because the icing gelifies quickly, you should make it at the last minute.For other gelatin equivalencies or gelatin to agar-agar equivalencies, look at the notes for the mousse component.
4g / ½ Tbsp powdered gelatin or 2 sheets gelatin
¼ cup (60g) heavy cream (35 % fat content)
2.1 oz (5 Tbsp / 60g) granulated sugar
¼ cup (50g) water
1/3 cup (30g) unsweetened cocoa powder
1. Soften the gelatin in cold water for 15 minutes. (Again, I used 1/4 cup water)
2. Boil the rest of the ingredients and cook an additional 3 minutes after boiling.
3. Add gelatin to the chocolate mixture. Mix well.
4. Let cool while checking the texture regularly. As soon as the mixture is smooth and coats a spoon well (it is starting to gelify), use immediately.
How To Assemble your French Yule Log
Depending on whether your mold is going to hold the assembly upside down until you unmold it or right side up, this order will be different. THIS IS FOR UNMOLDING FROM UPSIDE DOWN TO RIGHT SIDE UP. You will want to tap your mold gently on the countertop after each time you pipe mousse in to get rid of any air bubbles.
1) Line your mold or pan, whatever its shape, with rhodoid (clear hard plastic, I usually use transparencies cut to the desired shape, it's easier to find than cellulose acetate which is what rhodoid translates to in English) OR plastic film. Rhodoid will give you a smoother shape but you may have a hard time using it depending on the kind of mold you're using.You have two choices for Step 2, you can either have Dacquoise on the top and bottom of your log as in version A or you can have Dacquoise simply on the bottom of your log as in version B:
I used Version A:
2A) Cut the Dacquoise into a shape fitting your mold and set it in there. If you are using an actual Yule mold which is in the shape of a half-pipe, you want the Dacquoise to cover the entire half-pipe portion of the mold.
3A) Pipe one third of the Mousse component on the Dacquoise.
4A) Take the Creme Brulee Insert out of the freezer at the last minute and set on top of the mousse. Press down gently to slightly ensconce it in the mousse.
5A) Pipe second third of the Mousse component around and on top of the Creme Brulee Insert.
6A) Cut the Praline/Crisp Insert to a size slightly smaller than your mold so that it can be surrounded by mousse. Lay it on top of the mousse you just piped into the mold.
7A) Pipe the last third of the Mousse component on top of the Praline Insert.
7A) Pipe the last third of the Mousse component on top of the Praline Insert.
8A) Freeze for a few hours to set. Take out of the freezer.
9A) Pipe the Ganache Insert onto the frozen mousse leaving a slight eidge so that ganache doesn't seep out when you set the Dacquoise on top.
10A) Close with the last strip of Dacquoise.
Freeze until the next day.
If you are doing the assembly UPSIDE DOWN with TWO pieces of Dacquoise the order is:
1) Dacquoise
2) Mousse
3) Creme Brulee Insert
4) Mousse
5) Praline/Crisp Insert
6) Mousse
7) Ganache Insert
8) Dacquoise
7) Ganache Insert
8) Dacquoise
THE NEXT DAY...Unmold the cake/log/whatever and set on a wire rack over a shallow pan. Cover the cake with the icing. Let set. Return to the freezer. You may decorate your cake however you wish. The decorations can be set in the icing after it sets but before you return the cake to the freezer or you may attach them on top using extra ganache or leftover mousse, etc...Transfer to the refrigerator no longer than ½ hour before serving as it may start to melt quickly depending on the elements you chose.


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Golf is all about tradition, from its extensive rules of etiquette to its love of terrible hats and ridiculous
pants. It is, after all, a supremely old-school sport, dating all the way back to the 1500s. The only change golfers like to see is the kind that jingles around in their pockets while they sip a beer at the 19th hole.
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as much as they did Hot Shots Golf 3, which
in turn wasn't much different from
the Hot Shots Golf games that were
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Hot Shots Golf Fore utilizes the three-click swing mechanic
that has appeared in every version of the game, not to mention just about every
golf game made prior to about 2002. Press once to start the meter, press again
to set power, and press a third time to set accuracy. Then, you might as well
press the gas pedal on your DeLorean, go back in time to the mid-90s and buy
a ton of stock in Amazon or something, because this is about as dated as gameplay
gets. It still works well and those new to the whole concept will find it effective,
but vets of the series or of golf games in general have been here and done this
plenty of times already. Heck, this exact same formula was found in Golf for
the NES back in 1985. Not a spicy meat-a-ball.
However, a few minor tweaks have been added to give you more control. You can
now put both regular and super-spin on the ball to increase fades, draws, topspin
and backspin. You can also press a different button when you set accuracy to
take a little off the shot in case you went with too much power or to give
you a little extra if you under swung. The physics are dead-on, making the
experience better than most other arcade golf games, particularly when it comes
to the excellent putting grid. It's simple, effective and has just the right
learning curve.
Also new is the golfer/caddie loyalty feature. Using the same golfer or caddie will increase their loyalty, which in turn opens up new costumes and animations. It's not very interesting, but at least you're rewarded for repetition, I guess.
There are 15 new courses here and they meet with mixed success. Some are genuinely creative and fun, but by and large, the courses feel too tame for a game this amped-up. It's well past time for the Hot
Shots series to take some bigger chances, perhaps by embracing the concepts touched on by Mario
Golf and throwing in some more interesting obstacles.
Hot Shots once again plays it goofy with its large cast of incredibly irritating
characters. Sam the samurai, Tony the mafioso, Brad the surfer, Kamala the
Nubian queen " it's just a tragic assortment of stereotypes that are about as witty as a McDonald's ad campaign. Even the caddies are mildly offensive, particularly the overweight black maid clearly voiced by someone who is neither fat nor black, but tries hard to sound it. Sad.
Actually, the sound in general is more annoying than offensive. The gallery and caddie tend to jabber all at once, leading to an incomprehensible mishmash of meaningless phrases that at times are so out of left-field, you wonder if they were initially recorded for a different game. The music is typical Japanese midi stuff, the sole purpose of which is to help drown out the horrible voices.
The look of Hot Shots Golf Fore fares much, much better. The
game still enjoys lightning fast load times, bright, colorful graphics and some
nice effects. It isn't much of a leap from the last game, but that's not really a bad thing.
Where Hot
Shots really makes it mark is in its single-player RPG depth. You can
play in Tournaments to gain experience, open courses and earn points to spend
on new items, play a VS match to unlock characters, or hop into a game of Mini-Golf
for a break from the routine. The item list is nowhere near what you'll find
in the superior Tiger
Woods, but you'll find some added strategy in mixing and matching gear for your characters,
each of whom is ranked in four categories, with various clubs and balls. You
can't make your own golfer, but you can boost a power-hitter's spin stat, for
The result of this setup is an addictive game of golf. You'll keep hacking away just to open up another course or gain enough points to buy a new item, much like hacking away at monsters in a dungeon in order to afford a fancy new sword. There is some good fun here for those proud few interested in both role-playing and golf.
The biggest new change, however, has nothing to do with the single-player at
all. Hot Shots Golf Fore is the first in the series to support
online play, which works fine. You can play quick matches against other golfers
or set up a pretty large tournament. The whole online scheme is pretty bare
bones, but at least it's here and isn't broken.
And ultimately, that's probably the best way to describe Hot
Shots Golf Fore. It delivers exactly what it has for years now with
the added option to play online. For some of you, that's probably enough to warrant
a purchase. But in the grand scheme of things, this somewhat underwhelming series
is falling farther behind the game currently atop golf's leaderboard, Tiger
Woods, and doesn't look to be gaining any strokes.


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Recently, a California appellate reversed summary judgment in favor of a defendant jewelry store when the plaintiff established an inference that the business owner or its employees may have caused cleaning fluid to have been spilled on a backroom floor that was only accessible to plaintiff to the defendant store owner's employees. The appellate court found that when the employee can show sufficient facts to create a reasonable inference that the store owner or the store's employees caused the dangerous condition, notice of the condition is presumed, thereby preventing summary judgment.
The appellate court admitted that the facts were unusual in that the typical case, the customer has no idea who caused the spill and cannot prove that it is more reasonable to believe the store's employees, as opposed to another customer, caused the dangerous condition.
Why the case certainly does not mark the end of the defense of lack of notice, it does make defending premises liability claims more difficult where the plaintiff can show either that the store or a store employee caused the dangerous condition or can at least show that a reasonable inference could be drawn that a store employee, as opposed to a third party, caused the dangerous condition.
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Boone County Court Appointed Special Advocates mission is to provide specially trained community volunteers to advocate for the best interest of abused, neglected or dependent children in Boone County Family Court. Our ultimate goal is to assure that each child has a safe, permanent home.
CASA stands for Court Appointed Special Advocate. A CASA volunteer acts as an advocate for a dependent, abused, or neglected child. The volunteer is appointed by the Boone County Family Court Judge only after completing a 30–hour training program and observing in court for 4 hours.
The volunteer's responsibilities include assessing the circumstances surrounding the case, making an independent evaluation of what is in the child's best interest– both immediately and in the long run, attending the court hearings, and monitoring the case until a permanent plan is approved by the court.
CASA takes all cases of child abuse or neglect that go through the Juvenile Court. These children deserve to have an adult who is advocating for their best interest. Often these children become victims of a countryrsquo;s overburdened juvenile justice system. The CASA volunteer helps to assure that children don't get "lost in the system" and remain in foster care for many years. Volunteers can restore confidence that placements of children are truly in the best interest of each child.
Each CASA volunteer is assigned to an average of only 1–2 cases at one time, so they can do a thorough, in–depth assessment on each child's case. Because of their volunteer status, the volunteers are able to make completely independent recommendations and are able to concentrate solely on the needs of the child.


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