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If you came looking for a rich, decadent chocolate cake with Ermine frosting, you've come to the right place! Grab your apron and come in to my kitchen!
Lately, I've had the feeling that life is slipping through my fingers without so much as a "HEY DOOFUS! Wake up and enjoy me before I'm gone!" Just this week alone, two of my scheduled 4-hour shifts at work have become 10-hour shifts. I totally need the money, so I'm not upset about that end of the deal, but I am a bit bummed about the fact that I've missed out on some quality time with all of my fans on the Cooking with Chef Bec Facebook page and more importantly, the love of my life, Brian. It's difficult to call it a relationship when relations are slim to none…know what I mean?
One event that we did participate in together this past week was celebrating Brian's 55th birthday. I asked him what he wanted for his special birthday dinner and his response was, "I'd like to cook up hamburgers and brats on the grill." I stood there perplexed for a moment, trying not to let drool drip from my chin as my jaw dropped to the floor.
Does he want ME, the worst grill master on the planet, to cook
burn his dinner outside?! I decided right then and there that a serving of insanity must hit everyone square in the face on their big double nickel birthday. If it's true, I'm completely screwed when I get to that age, because I'm already one crayon short of a box.
I should have known better. All IS right with the world because Brian earned a new title on his birthday. He will hereinafter be referred to as Mr. Wonderful because the man didn't want me to man the grill for him…He thought it would be great fun to cook up his own dinner. Good grief, I love him! I took great measures to be sure that those burgers were AMAZING, though. I added some Feiny's Steak Rub to the ground sirloin. Aye carumba, that seasoning blend is yummi! It has a great smoky taste, but there's a slight sweetness in there, too. I'm thinking it might be oregano. It was just the perfect amount of flavor for the beef and so good that I didn't even use condiments on my burger. Now coming from the mustard queen, that is saying a LOT! They were juicy, flavorful, and all around perfect.
I can't say enough good things about Chef Adam Feinberg, either. He's a down-to-earth Colorado guy whose talent for creating flavor is off the charts. His customer service skills are exceptional, too. He went above and beyond my expectations by sending me samples of all five of his spice blends so that I could try them out. The rubs available for sale right now are the Steak rub, BBQ, citrus BBQ, Chesapeake Bay, and the Goes With Everything rub. I've had such great results with them! The first thing I made were these boneless pork ribs.
Talk about easy and painless cooking! I bought 2 pounds of country ribs, rubbed them with 1/4 cup of Feiny's BBQ rub, placed them into a large (6-quart) slow cooker, added 1/4 cup of water and let them cook on low heat for 6 hours. I served them up with BBQ baked beans (THIS is my favorite recipe) and a nice garden salad.
However, to save face, this chef DID contribute to the birthday meal a little bit. I baked Brian's cake. From scratch. Rest assured that no box mixes were harmed in the creation of this yummi dessert…
Brian is a chocolate lover (as if I needed another reason to adore him) so I baked up a milk chocolate butter cake and topped it with silky, creamy, dreamy, not-too-sweet chocolate ermine frosting. If you're scratching your head wondering what the heck ermine frosting is, you're not alone. Until this week, I called it "the world's best cupcake frosting and filling" because I didn't know there was any official name for it. The method for making it is as fun and non-traditional as a group of Boy Scouts selling boxes of Thin Mint cookies. For real…you know you want to try this.
Chocolate Cake with Ermine Frosting
Chocolate Cake with the "World's Best" Ermine Frosting
Rich chocolate cake, covered with a light and fluffy chocolate ermine frosting. This cake is the stuff that dessert dreams are made of!
- 4 ounces (120 grams) unsweetened chocolate, chopped
- 1/3 cup (30 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 cup (240 ml) boiling water
- 2 1/4 cups (295 grams) all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks / 226 grams) butter, softened
- 2 cups (400 grams) granulated white sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup (240 ml) whole milk (I used 1% and it worked fine)
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 2 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 cup sugar
- sea salt, to taste
- 2 sticks cool, unsalted butter
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and place rack in center of oven. grease two - 9 x 2 inch (23 x 5 cm) round baking pans. Line the bottom of the pans with parchment or wax paper.
- In a heatproof bowl place the chopped unsweetened chocolate and cocoa powder. Pour the boiling water over the chocolate and cocoa powder and stir until they have melted. Set aside to cool while you make the batter.
- In a separate bowl, whisk or sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- In the bowl of your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the butter until smooth and creamy. Gradually add the sugar and continue beating until the mixture is fluffy (this will take about 3 minutes). Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. Add the vanilla extract and melted chocolate mixture and beat to combine.
- Add the flour (in three additions) and milk (in two additions), beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Beat only until the ingredients are mixed together. Divide the batter evenly between the two prepared pans and smooth the tops. Bake for about 35 - 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center just comes out clean and the tops spring back when lightly pressed. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool for about 10 minutes. Then remove the cakes from their pans and cool completely on a greased wire rack before frosting.
- In a medium saucepan, whisk the flour and cocoa powder together with a small amount of your milk to form a paste.
- Add the rest of the milk and the sugar to the pot and whisk over medium heat.
- Add a heavy pinch of salt and taste. Adjust if necessary.
- Bring the milk mixture to a boil, whisking constantly. Whisk for another 30 seconds to a minute and then remove from the heat.
- Pour into a metal bowl to cool. Whisk occasionally until the mixture reaches room temperature. You can speed this up by refrigerating the mixture.
- Fit your mixer with the whip attachment. Whip the butter until light and fluffy.
- Add the chocolate mixture, a couple of tablespoons at a time, making sure each addition is incorporated before adding the next and scraping the bowl as necessary.
Recipe Notes
Frosting recipe from b][Pastry Chef Online [/b]
|Nutrition Facts
|Serving Size
|Amount Per Serving
|As Served
|Calories 8kcal Calories from fat 4
|% Daily Value
|Total Fat 0g
|Saturated Fat 0g
|Transfat 0g
|Cholesterol 2mg
|Sodium 3mg
|Carbohydrate 1g
|Dietary Fiber 0g
|Sugars 1g
|Protein 0g
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs:
|Total Fat
|Less than
|Sat Fat
|Less than
|Less than
|Less than
|Total Carbohydrate
|Dietary Fiber
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Six months after scientific societies and publishers won a hard-fought battle with the U.S. government to edit and publish manuscripts from countries under a U.S. trade embargo, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has decided to bar such submissions from its journals and conferences. The institute says the ban, which falls hardest on scientists from Iran, is necessary to protect national security. But other scientific associations say the decision is wrong-headed and could actually limit U.S. access to scientific developments in the four embargoed countries: Iran, Cuba, North Korea, and Sudan.
The policy, adopted last month, states that the institute, "consistent with U.S. laws and policies, shall not knowingly provide products or services to, or engage in formal, technical information exchange with individuals or entities residing in embargoed nations." As a result, AIAA pulled 24 Iranian-authored submissions from its seven journals and cancelled presentations by Iranian researchers scheduled to attend an AIAA-sponsored fluid dynamics conference in Toronto. The conference, held 6 to 9 June, was subsequently exempted from the ban after protests by Iranian attendees who had already finalized their travel plans.
AIAA's position that the ban is "consistent with U.S. laws" is factually incorrect, says Marc Brodsky, executive director of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), which has pushed hard to assure open communication with scientists in the embargoed countries. "There is no law or regulation I know of that requires AIAA to take the actions it has announced," he says.
AIAA Executive Director Robert Dickman said in a statement that the institute's board "is balancing our responsibilities as a professional society to foster open exchange in scholarly, scientific, and engineering information with our social responsibility to avoid assisting a nation such as North Korea in its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and the capability to deliver them."
One of the first victims of that policy was Masoud Darbandi, an aerospace engineer at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, who received a note from Dickman on 26 May that AIAA had withdrawn his paper on high-temperature irradiance from a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer. "It was a basic science paper, and I am not involved with any military projects," he says. "If the paper had been about a military application, the U.S. would actually benefit from its publication; what better way to get inside information about Iran's military?"
The policy has triggered internal dissent, according to some AIAA staff members who requested anonymity. "We're hopeful that it will be reversed," says one.
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JERUSALEM (May. 26)
Col. George A. Flint, United Nations chairman of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, was killed by Jordanian rifle fire this afternoon when he attempted to rescue six Israeli policemen wounded in a surprise attack by Jordan forces in the Mt. Scopus demilitarized zone. Four of the policemen subsequently died of their wounds after having lain unattended, under Arab fire, for hours.
The 47-year-old Canadian officer, carrying a white flag, braved the Arab barrage in a heroic effort to reach the wounded Israelis after the Jordanians, entrenched at the Arab village of Issawia, had rejected pleas of United Nations officials for a cease-fire to permit evacuation of four Jewish policemen who lay wounded in the Israeli-held enclave. Col. Flint was hit about 3. 45 p. m. as he attempted to make his way to the wounded men and died of his wounds as continuous Arab fire prevented aid from reaching him and the wounded Israelis.
(At United Nations headquarters in New York, Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold issued a statement expressing sorrow over the "tragic loss" of Col. Flint whose death was caused, he reported, by a head injury. He promised a full report as soon as it was received. He warned that "the sacrifices of this day should be a reminder of the vital necessity for a radical change of the attitudes which have led up to the latest tragic events and which must be overcome if peaceful conditions are to be restored in the area."
A spokesman for the Canadian Foreign Office at Ottawa was reported to have said it had been notified that Col. Flint had been shot while accompanying a Jordan patrol searching for Israeli snipers. At Washington, State Department sources said the American envoys in the Middle East had been requested to send a full report on the Mt. Scopus affray. In London, it was expected that Israel Ambassador Eliahu Flath would call at the British Foreign Office tomorrow morning to discuss the Mt. Scopus attack.)
Col. Flint, a resident of Outremont, suburb of Montreal, and a veteran of the Korean war, was badly wounded 22 months ago by a mine explosion on Mt. Scopus. He had only recently signed for his third year with the U.N. truce mission here.
According to the Israeli military spokesman, a police patrol of the regular Mt. Scopus garrison came under heavy Jordanian fire directed from the woods adjoining the demilitarized zone as the patrol passed through the Botanical Gardens area. The exchange of fire continued for two hours during which two of the policemen were wounded.
At least four more policemen were wounded in attempts by a rescuing force to evacuate them from the line of fire but the rescue attempt failed as Jordanians garrisoned in the Augusta Victoria Hospital joined in the shooting.
A U.N. call for a cease-fire at 3.30 p.m., local time, was spurned by the Jordanians. It was then that Col. Flint made his gallant, single-handed attempt to reach the wounded man.
The United Nations truce authorities finally succeeded in getting Jordanian agreement to a cease-fire some six hours after the first men were wounded. Ambulances were in readiness at the Mandelbaum Gate to receive the wounded men and rush them to hospital as soon as they were evacuated from the mountain top.
The Arab village of Issawia, where the trouble started today, is located in the Arab demilitarized sector of Mt. Scopus but the Jordanians have long maintained military units there. several incidents have occurred in the past involving Issawia either when its residents attempted to work in fields in the Israel sector or when snipers based there opened fire on Israel patrols across the demarcation line.
Israeli sources described today's incident as one of the most serious involving Mt. Scopus since the War of Liberation. They regarded with utmost seriousness the unprecedented fact that the Arabs maintained their fire for six hours, preventing removal of the wounded, even though they knew that one of the wounded men was a United Nations official and that his life and that of the wounded Israeli policemen depended on their receiving prompt medical aid, for lack of which they died.


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Property Location A stay at Hotel Residence Torino Centro places you in the heart of Turin, walking distance from Pietro Micca Museum and Casa Fenoglio-Lafleur. This hotel is within close proximity of Piazza Statuto and Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 45 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and LCD televisions. Your memory foam bed comes with down comforters and Frette Italian sheets. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and bidets.Amenities Make use of convenient amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and babysitting/childcare. Additional features include wedding services and a television in a common area. Guests can catch a ride to nearby destinations on the area shuttle (surcharge).Dining Satisfy your appetite at the hotel's restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch, and brunch. Dining is also available at a coffee shop/café, and room service (during limited hours) is provided. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, express check-in, and express check-out. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available on request), and self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
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Former MP, Hythe
My Department is always prepared to co-operate in air-raid precautions schemes in joint hirings, provided that it is satisfied with the structural security proposed, but the scheme suggested by the Gresham House Air-Raid Precautions Committee did not fulfil that proviso. A further alternative proposal is being made to the committee.
We said that we could not co-operate on the scheme of strutting, and we have now put forward an alternative.
I would refer to the answer which I gave to the hon. and gallant Member for Abingdon (Sir R. Glyn) on 26th July, 1937, in which I stated that His Majesty's Government had decided that their contribution to the memorial should take the form, not of a cash grant, but of a free gift of all the State property within the area at Abingdon Street selected by the Lord Mayor's Committee, and added...
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Dutch climate case: a call for action to all governments
A landmark climate change lawsuit will be heard in a court in The Hague today, as an action brought by campaigners comes before three district judges. This is the first time in Europe that citizens have attempted to hold a state responsible for its inaction to tackle climate change. The 900 plus co-plaintiffs argue that by failing to enact sufficient measures to address greenhouse gas emissions, the Dutch government has contributed to dangerous climate change. It is also believed to be the first case in the world in which human rights are being used as a legal basis to protect citizens from climate change, and commentators believe they "will undoubtedly be put to the test in other countries before too long". Dutch-NGO Urgenda, which is behind the action, started proceedings in 2012 with the support of climate scientist James Hansen, accusing the government of implementing weak clean energy targets. The case comes to court just weeks after a panel of eminent international judges and legal experts from countries including India, Brazil, the US and China released the Oslo Principles, holding that governments have an obligation to avert dangerous global warming, regardless of the existence of international agreements, based on existing international human rights law, environmental law and tort law. Urgenda's goal is for the court to declare that a warming of more than 2DegC will lead to a violation of human rights worldwide and to order the Dutch State to cut emissions by up to 40 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020.
MT @Sustainable2050 Why @Urgenda can win its climate case, in court today: Examples of litigation for future generations
- Infographic to share: Why won't somebody to something?
- Hashtag to use: #klimaatzaak
- Cartoon to share: Things you can do about climate change
Key Points
- The Dutch climate case is the first of its kind, but it won't be the last. In a landmark lawsuit to be heard in The Hague today, Dutch-NGO Urgenda is using human rights as a legal basis to sue the Dutch government for knowingly endangering its citizens by failing to address rising greenhouse gas emissions. Lawyers around the world will be watching this week's proceedings closely, and a win would set a precedent which "will undoubtedly be put to the test in other countries before too long".
- All governments have a duty to act on climate change. The Dutch climate case comes just weeks after a panel of eminent jurists released the Oslo Principles, which – based on existing international human rights, environmental and tort laws – hold that all governments have an obligation to avert dangerous global warming, irrespective of the existence of international agreements. As countries from around the world prepare their 2030 climate action plans ahead of the UN climate talks in Paris this December, all eyes will be on how governments turn this obligation into real action.
- Around the world, citizens are demanding that their governments listen. The Dutch climate case is the first time European citizens are attempting to legally hold a state responsible for its inaction. A similar attempt has also begun in Belgium, while in Oregon, US two teenagers filed a lawsuit against their state government for failing to keep their pledge to reduce emissions. Such cases offer yet more strength to the growing movement of citizens holding their governments to account. In the latest mass demonstration this weekend, over 25,000 Canadian took to the streets to demand climate action.
- Dutch government facing legal action over failure to reduce carbon emissions (Guardian)
- Dutch government heads to court on climate change charges (RTCC)
- Landmark Dutch lawsuit puts governments around the world on notice (Huffington Post)
- Urgenda challenges Dutch state to climate change (EenVandaag) (in Dutch)
- Video: How EU action could save Earth from climate disaster (TEDxFlanders)
- Graphic: Bernice Notenboom (Urgenda)
- Graphic: Reiner Van Den Berg (Urgenda)
- Graphic: Gregor Salto (Urgenda)
Tools & Resources
- Webpage: The Dutch Climate Case (Urgenda)
- Briefing: The Oslo Principle on Global Climate Change Obligations
- Blog: Climate change: at last a breakthrough to our catastrophic political impasse? (Guardian)
- Blog: It is time for the judiciary to step in and avert climate catastrophe (Guardian)
- Blog: Dutch state responsible for the consequences of climate disaster (Joop) (in Dutch)
- Blog: Landmark Dutch Lawsuit Puts Governments Around the World on Notice (Huffington Post)
Key Quotes
- "This climate case is the first court case in the world in which a state is held accountable in this way. When we win, we can finally put aside the political squabbling about whether we'll do what is necessary to safeguard current and future generations from an overheating planet, and finally move on to the question how we'll get there. Of course no single country can prevent climate change, but we claim that this does not relieve the state of its individual legal responsibility for its own emissions that contribute to climate change. There is enormous interest in our approach. On December 1, 2014, a climate case was initiated in Belgium following the example of our case." – Marjan Minnesma, Urgenda director
- "In this landmark case, Urgenda argues that the Dutch target is not adequate to prevent dangerous climate change and, as a result, poses a threat to the human rights of people and communities in the Netherlands. Specifically, Urgenda claims that the Dutch government's failure to take ambitious action threatens the rights to life and to private and family life, as established under international human rights law and applied by statute under Dutch law. This argument is well supported by law and science. The international community has recognized that climate change is one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time, yet the individual and collective actions taken by countries such as the Netherlands do not reflect the sense of urgency that science dictates. This is a critical moment–the Netherlands and countries around the world must be held to account to protect the right to a safe climate in the name of youth and future generations." – Alyssa Johl, Senior Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law
- "Courts can force countries to adopt effective climate policies. Court cases are perhaps the only way to break through the political apathy about climate change[…] it is just a matter of applying existing law, although undoubtedly not all judges will be open to this. Judges with the courage to give a ruling on this will one day be applauded, whereas those who don't will eventually be tarred and feathered." – Jaap Spier, Advocate-General to the Dutch Supreme Court
More Tweets
- MT @DennisvBerkel 'Dutch government facing legal action over failure to reduce carbon emissions' http://t.co/xRx6wMwjts
- MT @EurEnvlLaw Today in The Hague, the @urgenda case in court: should Dutch state do more against #climatechange? http://bit.ly/1zce7BH
- MT @MighaelV Thanks @urgenda for fighting the climate case in court and keeping the Dutch government responsible. #klimaatzaak
- MT @svenjense In The Hague for #klimaatzaak – Is NL government neglecting our basic rights & future generations? @urgenda
Tags: Climate Law, Dutch Government, Human Rights, Lawsuit, the Netherlands
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text: n 2006 Emily and Tony Hughes and their little boy Oliver are on holiday at Chalons Du Bois in France. Tony and his son visit a bar to watch television but when Tony turns round Oliver has gone. Tony contacts the local police, led by English-speaking Laurence Relaud and she brings in Parisian detective Julien Baptiste who issues an abduction alert. Emily's parents Penny and Robert turn up, Robert suggesting that Oliver has been kidnapped out of revenge. Also on the scene are journalist Malik Suri and the English police liaison officer Mark Walsh with his young son. Eight years later Emily has moved on and is now living with Mark. Tony however has never stopped trying to find Oliver and, accompanied by Julien, who is now retired, visits a house in the village where there is evidence that Oliver may have stayed. He rings Emily, who in turn contacts Malik, who has written a book about the disappearance.Résumé de IMDb.com


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Internet Protector Removal Process (remove InternetProtector)March 1, 2012
Internet Protector is supposed to be a program that removes malware from a PC. In reality, Internet Protector is nothing more than a rogue anti-spyware app designed with the intention of tricking PC users out of money. Internet Protector was designed for the faint at heart where expert PC users may identify Internet Protector's misleading methods of convincing PC users that it will remove malware after purchasing a full edition of Internet Protector. It is in the best interest to remove Internet Protector with a trusted spyware removal app instead of wasting money buying the fake security program Internet Protector.
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Delete all of the following files that are associated with Internet Protector from your computer.%AppData%\Internet Protector\internet protector.exe%AppData%\Internet Protector\icohelp.ico%AppData%\Internet Protector\icoactivate.ico%AppData%\Internet Protector\icouninstall.ico%AppData%\Internet Protector\securityhelper.exe%AppData%\Internet Protector\securitymanager.exe%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Internet Protector.lnk%Programs%\Internet Protector.lnk%Programs%\Internet Protector\Internet Protector.lnk%Programs%\Internet Protector\help Antivirus Protection.lnk%Programs%\Internet Protector\how to activate Internet Protector.lnk
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Restart your computer. You do not need to boot into safe mode at this point. You should have removed Internet Protector completely from your computer. If you find that Internet Protector is still on your computer, you can repeat the steps again or go to the automatic Internet Protector removal process.


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Published: 2012-10-02, by Manu Galvez.
Shooting Warriors are expanding their empire by conquering new lands. However, now they've arrived to a dangerous island which is full of enemies with settled castles. The purpose is to defeat them and destroy their castles in order to take control of the land and keep expanding.
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Consumers React to Recent J&J Baby Powder Verdict
Consumer fears are realized after jury verdict directs Johnson & Johnson to pay $72 million in a lawsuit connecting the company's talcum-based baby powder to ovarian cancer.
Consumers Denounce Talcum Powder Follwoing Verdict
The family of Jacqueline Fox sued Johnson & Johnson as they declared that the talcum powder (talc) in the corporation's baby powder had led to her ovarian cancer and death.
While the company maintained that the cosmetic talc is safe to use, late Monday night, St. Louis jurors awarded the family $72 million in damages.
When the news broke, there was a visible decline in public sentiment regarding the company as many consumers used social media to disavow the talc baby powder.
How Big is the Risk?
While investors remain unruffled, shares went down 37 cents and public opinion was negative with many expressing fear as they questioned the danger of using talc as a main ingredient. Company spokeswoman, Carol Goodrich, addressed the public on Tuesday as she stated that the company strongly felt that the safety of the talc used was supported by decades of scientific evidence.
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I got it done! Finally! After many setbacks, my first record review column for The Bloodsprayer. I missed most of the release dates on these (Most came out in September, but it's not like release dates matter that much anymore.) but at least they are current. Since this isn't a "music oriented webzine" I'm not writing a catch all review column, preferring to concentrate on releases that I would recommend to someone based on their taste for the macabre, ridiculous, or dark. I listen to ALOT of dark music (metal and otherwise, but mostly metal, i.e. the ridiculous. Often the twain shall meet.) Here are some of the best releases I have heard in the past month, replete with little pictures to hold your interest.
Midnight – Satanic Royalty (Hell's Headbangers)
I've been a "believer" in Midnight for a long time. I say believer because I haven't listened to their records very often, but I've seen them live several times and they always KILL the competition. I wonder if the humor is lost on these guys that they sit in my iTunes neatly between Micheal Schenker's "Assault Attack" and Midnight Star's "No Parking On The Dance Floor." Lord Athenar is a masterful front man and an ace songwriter. Even when he is saddled with his Fender P Bass and wearing a black hood, he still picks the audience up and drops them on their heads every time I have seen them live. The sum total of their laundry list of splits, EP's and singles are catagorically good, fun stuff, but for the most part, it was schlocky Venom/Bathory/Motorhead worship and little else. Midnight were always very competent at conjuring the image of sex addicted, satanic rock and rollers while writing simple, catchy and infinitely rocking 4 chord Venom-worship tunes that were nothing if not fun to rock out to or howl along to one of their ridiculous choruses. 8 years into their career and their (VERY long awaited) actual debut full length "Satanic Royalty" advances the formula a bit, without making it seem like they are TRYING to stretch the formula too far. Midnight slow the Motörspeedworship just slightly to allow for some more… thoughtful(?) songwriting. "Thoughtful" in the sense that they forgot the scented massage oils, but at least this time they spit on it first. The aperture has widened to take in a bit more of the NWOBHM than just Venom and Motörhead. This is metal of the ancient form at it's hairiest, hoariest and sleaziest.
Atriarch – Forever The End (Seventh Rule Recordings)
Ex members of hip doom, hardcore and indie bands come together around the mantra of deathrock influenced heaviness without musical boundaries. Atriarch pretty much succeed with adding a slight twist on the "business-as-usual" avant-garde doom field. So does it live up to the "Deathrock" tag that the press release bandies about in such a manner that critics are bound to keep flipping the tape in search of? Sure, I'll bite. I'm a huge Christian Death/SamHain fan, and though I don't hear much direct reference in the sound, there is a certain atmosphere that Atriarch are going for and I think they are hitting their mark. I don't think it's anything that hasn't been tried already by Neurosis, Burning Witch or maybe early My Dying Bride, it just hasn't been given the direct "Deathrock" tag. Atriarch filth it up considerably with a crust punk influence and the occasional distant moaning goth vocal. The Doom metal delivery isn't so much "crushing" as it is oppressive, but the total sum of Atriarch's parts can't be labelled neatly by sub-genre tagging. This is a VERY formidable first effort and one of the more compelling releases of the year.
Abhor – Ab Luna Lucenti, Ab Noctua Protecti (Moribund)
Abhor's 5th full length delivers spacious and desolate black metal with a conservative and tasteful use of keyboards. Usually it's just a reverbed out piano sound, or in many cases, some inspired mini-Moog tones straight out of a Goblin or Kenneth Anger soundtrack. The "spaciousness" has more to do with the median pace of most tracks and the room given in the mix between the guitars and the keyboards. Rather than a wall of symphonics and the rest of the sonic spectrum mortared with blastbeats and huge guitars, Abhor opt for a production that leaves more to the imagination rather than giving you the money shot. How the instruments are used and mixed creates an altogether bleaker atmosphere. In the 90's, this would have been more in keeping with the grand Greek black metal tradition of mid-paced, epic songwriting like Necromantia or early Rotting Christ. I've recently discovered a fondness for greek black metal, and therefore, Abhor certainly strikes my fancy, although they don't hold my attention for very long.
Hexentanz – Nekrokrafte (Agonia Records)
If anyone ever wondered what was going on next door in "Rosemary's Baby," it probably sounded a bit like this. Hexentanz has little to do with performing traditional drums/guitar/bass/vocals music so much as texture and atmosphere… really disturbing atmosphere. The members of Hexentanz painstakingly research medeival styles of music for other projects they are involved in. Hexentanz (literally, "The Witches Dance") is a distillation of their collective interest in the occult. These performances are based on medeival necromancy and black magic rituals performed on archaic instruments (or very close "synthetic" recreations) and things like human bones. Nekrocrafte was initially recorded and released in 2004. Agonia has unearthed the recording and reissued it on vinyl and CD. It's some seriously creepy Temple Of Doom/Elder god swamp cult worship sounds that goes beyond the usual "Anton LaVey reads from the Satanic Bible" hammer horror/hippie cult schlock and it leaves you wondering, "How serious are these guys?" It reminds me at times of early 80's avante garde industrial, maybe Laibach's Nova Akropola or earlier SPK with added howling, distant vocals, detuned skreaky violins and ritual drumming. I understand where they are going with it and I support it. There needs to be more ACTUAL scary music happening. No matter how much face paint or weird clothes they wear, metal bands like Behemoth are just NOT scary anymore and Hexentanz would benefit from crafting what they do into a more "portable" style and taking it on the road to more receptive audiences, say opening for hard-touring fellow occult creepers like Watain or The Devil's Blood.
Fyrnask – Buostar (Temple Of Torturous)
Buostar wins the "album cover of the month" button. I have long wondered what it would look like if Abe Vigoda was to vomit hair out of his eye sockets and now I can be satisfied. No seriously, 'Buostar' goes to show what advancements have been made in the "One Man Black Metal" band since the original Burzum records dropped in 1992. For better or for worse, Xasthur(worse) and Leviathan(better) expanded the scope considerably of what one person could accomplish, giving rise to a bumper crop of bedroom players and lending some credence to USBM in the "naughty 'aughties." Where "One Man Black Metal" used to mean thin production and poorly executed playing on at least one, if not all instruments, now, with a Macintosh, some time and a good set of ears, it can be almost as slick as any label-backed production. Sole member Fyrnd performs all vocals and instruments with an efficacy befitting any world class quintet of seasoned players. There are a few dark ambient tracks scattered through the album that act as spacers between the lengthier (like 9 minute) more standard black metal workouts. Unlike some records where the "interludes" only serve to slow the pace of the record, or jar it to a complete stop, 'Buostar' actually benefits from them, where they are used to string the whole album together with a definited ebb and flow. Fyrnask, though from Germany, aren't too far off from the northwestern US "Cascadian" black metal sound that is all the rage right now, but while the "Cascadian" sound is a low, dampening, rolling mist that gently soaks the roots of the forest floor and clings to the needles of the evergreens, Fyrnask is the frosty moonlight in the crisp air above the treetops.
An Autumn For Crippled Children – Everything (ATMF)
I want to hate that band name. I hate "half a sentence" bands, but this record is really good. Easily one of the best examples of the "black-gaze" or the "post black metal" sound that hipster opinion toilets like Pitchfork Media and Aquarius records has been on about for about the past decade. Of course, mixing black metal with shoegaze/new wave influences like Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine and The Cure is not a new sound. Hell, you can draw a very short straight line right from Burzum's mercurial black metal albums of the early 90's to Brad Laner's noise guitar pop experiments in Medicine (probably one of my favorite bands of all time.) Any of the early 2nd wave black metal albums could have been krautrock on 78. Hell, even the intro to Mayhem's "Deathcrush" was composed by Conrad Schnitzler of Tangerine Dream. The very concept of being lulled into a trance by rasping vocals, incessant, rhythmic blast beats and dense tremolo picked melodies is the exclusive rights of early Mayhem and Emperor. In the right mind, any one of those grim and frostbitten kingdoms becomes a cough syrup snow cone when you add a little more haze and delay on the guitars and some clean vocals. Cassette-only Swiss weirdo Paysage d'Hiver really perfected the formula in the late 90's, creating crystalline landscapes congruent to the cover image for his 1999 "Die Festung" demo. AAFCC may not be as perfected and fully cooked as Alcest's 2010 masterpiece, "Écailles De Lune," but they are certainly a sympathetic vibration thereof. Because of the hazed out emulsion atmosphere of "Everything," themes and melodies are able to drift in and out, allowing for a depth and layering of songwriting that black metal has always been good for, but the bands haven't always been good at delivering. AA4CC (yeah, I went there… NKOTB, 90210, OU812, NAACP, AA4CC) grab the style and bend it to their will with an adeptness so far shown only by Alcest and very few others.
Amebix – Sonic Mass (Easy Action Records)
This might be on my top ten for the year, and therefore, main (and windiest) review. It's not often that a legend like Amebix can resurrect themselves after 25 years and come out swinging with the best album of their career. A band with a history like Amebix (that actually, very few people have actually heard, though if they are a metal or punk fan, have most certainly felt their influence) deserves a little extra contextual setup than the usual paragraph or two. Anyone paying attention in class in the early 90's may or may not have noticed bands like Sepultura (whose most popular album is named "Arise" un-coincidentally) and Neurosis waving the "No Gods/No Masters" flag. Of course, that was what made me sit up and take notice as a budding metalhead. Alternative Tentacles has been pretty staunch in keeping Amebix's debut "Arise" in print for decades so it was never difficult to get ahold of. When I first heard it, I was totally overhyped for it and wound up underwhelmed since it lacked the dense production, thrashy 2 beat drums or growled vocals of all my favorites. It may have been because I was not listening to it in 1986 or something, or I was just too young. I'll be the first to admit that I didn't "get it" initially, but I totally appreciated what they were trying to do and I recognized their influence in all the bands that I loved. I've pretty much held since then that Amebix is one of those bands like Velvet Underground. If a band claimed Amebix as an influence, I was probably going to be into them, but I was never so much into Amebix, though I kept a copy of Arise around for cool points. Within the last 3 years, I started digging into alot of the early "crust metal" bands like Axegrinder, Misery, and (probably my favorite) Sacrilege. I decided to check Amebix out again and see if my opinion had changed. Long story short, things had changed and the music finally spoke to me. There was a darkness and almost gothic nature to the music that I probably didn't recognize as a kid, or just didn't care for cuz I hadn't hit my mid-adolescent suicidal misery phase yet. Amebix had as much in common tonally with bands like early Cult and Killing Joke as they did with Motorhead and Discharge and at the time, they made for pretty strange bedfellows. Even after Amebix jammed it all together, it was still an uneasy marriage, but at least the dialog was started and the first charges were being led to breaking down conventional divisions between punk, industrial and metal. Amebix, inadvertently, made it cool for punks to listen to metal, but still dress punk. In the US, they were pretty much universally ignored by anyone other than the squatter punk scene, a pretty thin sliver of the overall punk scene at that.
2 years ago, I would have given more of a shit about an Amebix reunion album than say, a Boyz II Men reunion album, but more out of curiosity than anything. Even with my newfound appreciation of Amebix, I was more skeptical about the announcement of a reunion album than excited. Few bands can return to their former glories after a 25 year break. Most of the time, they can't even fit into the pants they were wearing in their favorite press photo, let alone attain the glories of their long revered catalog, preserved in the memories of the fans like bronzed baby shoes. Amebix DID have an exceptionally potent initial run of it, amassing a worldwide cult following that kept their name alive. I may have found what they did a bit on the uninteresting side, but some VERY important tastemaking names over the years have kept the fires stoked and the Amebix name relevant.
I didn't really start getting excited until I got goosebumps upon hearing a youtube clip of the first single, album closer "Knights Of The Black Sun" released sometime last year as a teaser. Maybe it was 30-odd years of nascency? Maybe it was a round-robin of influences of hundreds of bands reinterpreting the Amebix sound and style? More likely the band just got better at getting their point across to snots like me. "Sonic Mass" is a very logical extension of the original sound of Amebix. Very little has changed really. The recording is a little slicker, there is still that same insistent SWANS-ish pounding and offsides Killing Joke clatter mixed into a familiar Joy Division meets Motorhead mixture. In the past, the sound was informed by metal. Metal was like a bag of tea that was sunk into their overall molten slurry of a tone, then yanked out when it had steeped just long enough. Upon their return, the Amebix sound is very insistently METAL when it decides to be, which is easily over 2/3rd of the album. Not a bad thing and nothing that should scare off the classic "Amebix" listener. It's that same oddball style of metal that kept those early 90's Prong albums coolly afloat above the trashy groove (read: Nü) metal morass that they could have easily descended into. It's the ritualistic tribal pounding that Sepultura referenced to make Chaos A.D. really sound like no other album that came out at the time. Couple that with an updated and improved method of writing a chorus that soars like anything off the last Killing Joke album (or really, "Axeman" off of Arise or "Sanctuary" off of their 1984 "No Sanctuary" 12″) Amebix are clearly pulling cues from their own weird mess of influences AS WELL AS looking to how their music has been used and hammered into shape by everyone OTHER than themselves over the past couple of decades. Really, can you blame them? It's sorta theirs to do with as they please and I don't think any of their neophytes and groundling followers would do anything but bow in honor. "Sonic Mass" is absolutely brutal, tuneful and powerful in a way the band has never been able to muster completely into one release. Describing their sound has always been difficult because you can't just say "crust punk" and successfully conjure a different image than a thousand scabby, scurvy motorspeedclones that sleep in abandoned buildings and travel from city to city illegally in freight cars. Anything could be further from the truth. Many have copped the Amebix style and iconography, but few have successfully copped a direct musical reference without being called on it. The Kings have returned to assume their throne and hopefully, they keep it for a good long while. I missed the reunion tour, but there is really no reason why they couldn't stage another one to shop this record a bit before (hopefully) blessing us with another in the next few years.
Been Listening To (and you should to):
Roky Erickson & The Aliens – The Evil One
SubRosa – No Help For The Mighty Ones
In Slaughter Natives – Enter Now The World
Absu – Abzu
Arizmenda – Without Circumference Nor Center
Stoked about:
Leviathan – True Traitor, True Whore
The Devil's Blood – The Thousandfold Epicenter
Krisiun – The Great Excecution
Antediluvian – Through The Cervix Of Hawwah
Death – Individual Thought Patterns reissue
Tags: Abhor, All My Sabbaths Are Black, Amebix, An Autumn For Crippled Children, Atriarch, Fyrnask, Hexentanz, Midnight, Satanic Royalty


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Cunnamulla Fella Festival set for bumper year
Organisers of the Cunnamulla Fella Festival in south-west Queensland say the excellent season this year should mean more community support.
The festival gets underway tonight with a poetry event.
Coordinator Liz Land says graziers are reporting the best season since the 1950s so morale is high.
"I'm hoping everyone will have such a spring in their step because they've been so good through the years that have been bad for them," she said.
"Now that we've had rain and everyone is a bit happier and we're up to our belly in grass, I just think it will be great.
"People can come in and have a good time without having to know they've got to go home and feed some starving animal the next day."
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A lopsided fight between coal and renewable energy in Poland
CZERNIEWICE, Poland -- Rows of polished black solar panels stand at attention in a former wheat field in this rural village outside of Warsaw. When they are connected to the grid next year, these 800 megawatts of power will double the country's installed solar capacity. But first the lights must go on in the minds of legislators in Warsaw. The operators say that in the absence of a strong renewable energy law, they expect to lose money on their $1.3 million investment.


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I had the exact opposite reaction to UCSB when I drove up there with my mom: we were supposed to take a walking tour, but I didn't even want to get out of the car, and luckily for me, neither did she. She can't stand cold rainy weather, which is how it was there at the time, so nobody would be surprised by that, but I think everyone I told was surprised that I of all people didn't feel happy someplace that was right up on the edge of the ocean, while the clouds loomed full of water overhead. People often point to my zodiac sign (Pisces) when commenting about how I love all of those things, at least in theory - not so into getting randomly soaked and chilled, lol! Anyway, I never agree with people when they say gray skies make things "ugly," and generally find every landscape improved by the soft light, so I don't think that contributed much to what I felt. It was like I was being driven into a trap that had some plywood set pieces in it to prevent me from figuring it out. I love quiet, isolated places, but I seem to be a city/large campus girl through-and-through. It's like I have to have the world at my fingertips so I can avoid it at my leisure.
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About the Movie
Acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth) brings out the big guns in this sci-fi action epic about a ragtag band of humans that band together in the year 2025 to fight legions of monstrous creatures rising from the sea. Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors (including Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, and Rinko Kikuchi) take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes—a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee—who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.
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Fresh: Monsters, robots, grand heroism and a few clever jokes: Sounds like a perfect Saturday afternoon to me.
Rotten: It is possible to applaud Pacific Rim for the efficacy of its business model while deploring the tale that has been engendered -- long, loud, dark, and very wet. You might as well watch the birth of an elephant.
Fresh: That humanistic touch is pure del Toro, and it makes all the difference in Pacific Rim, whose own whirring, glowing heart doesn't belong to any machine but to the director himself.
Fresh: Del Toro is reveling in blockbuster cliches at the same time he's pounding them into the pavement, and somehow that self-consciousness lets us all in on the joke.
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"Pacific Rim," the latest jaw-dropping, action-fueled blockbuster from Guillermo del Toro ("Hellboy," "Pan's Labyrinth"), contains some of the wildest and giddiest sights of any movie this summer - skyscraper-sized robots fighting enormous creatures from beneath the sea to the death (their brawls sometimes demolishing entire cities. This combination of Godzilla-style kaiju (giant monster flicks) and mecha animes (cartoons that feature piloted robots) is unlike anything you've seen before. It's a kind of wish-fulfillment fantasy for anyone who shares del Toro's love for genre fantasy and sci-fi spectacle. In other words, basically, it's the cinematic equivalent of a kid playing with his toys and smashing action figures together, except del Toro does it with more grace and imagination than most. Of course, the film does fare less well when it focuses on humans, as the script relies on a lot of hokey clichés to define each character, but thanks to its breathtaking special effects and heart-pounding action sequences, the whole thing is just a terrific blast to watch from start to finish.
Set seven years into our war against the monsters, this movie focuses on Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam), a retired pilot who quit after seeing his brother die from a kaiju attack but has now been reluctantly pulled right back into duty. Mako (Rinko Kikuchi) is his co-pilot (each robot requires two people to operate), still traumatized by an encounter with one of the massive creatures when she was a little girl. Idris Elba stars as Pentecost, their commanding officer, a no-nonsense marshal who constantly refuses to give up on what increasingly seems like a losing battle. Meanwhile, Charlie Day plays a neurotic, bumbling scientist and Ron Perlman shows up as a comical black market organ dealer. Other from that, it's all about the giant robots-vs.-monsters action, which definitely pays off in the end.
Archetypes can sometimes work very well in the context of a gigantic summer blockbuster that has so much deep, mythological ground to cover, it's fairly easy to look over just how two-dimensional the characters are. But that's not the case with this flick, whose central premise basically demands that we stay emotionally invested in the people inside those giant iron warriors. Del Toro usually excels at this (he even managed to really make us care about the menagerie of oddball creatures featured in both "Hellboy" films), and he genuinely tries to emphasize the primary human element in the flick by requiring each team of pilots to mind-meld before operating the robots, so they actually share each other's emotions and pain. But for all his efforts, the characters here mostly remain uninteresting stock types - the gutsy, daredevil hero, his jealous rival, the stoic captain, the vulnerable heroine, you get the idea. Fortunately, the movie spends most of its time with its astonishing battle scenes than it does with people standing around talking. Every new monster is different and bigger than the last, and del Toro holds on his incredible creations in long shots that allow you to take in the action clearly, instead of the incomprehensible whirl and noise of the "Transformers" movies. As mankind's robot army quickly dwindles and the stakes are raised, we're left wondering how, exactly, the good guys will possibly win the day. Of course, we obviously know that they will, but it's the suspense that lingers in each scene that consistently keeps us on the edge of our seats. And even though this plot is paper-thin, that's the last thing on our minds as we sit back, popcorn in hand, and simply enjoy some of the best monster-fighting mayhem displayed in any flick in recent years.
"Pacific Rim" is by turns utterly silly, continually thrilling, and gratifyingly mindless, and it's probably a half-hour too long (after a while, the battles do become a bit too repetitive and exhausting), but every time you feel like you're about to check out of the film, something cool happens that pulls you right back in, like a Jaeger plucking a freight ship from the ocean and using it like a crowbar to bash his gnarly enemy in the face. It's this kind of fun action that keeps us distracted from the movie's more glaring flaws, such as its lack of proper character development and narrative cohesion. But at the end of the day, del Toro has delivered what us action-fantasy fanatics crave: a full-on creature feature with enough brilliant, exciting visuals and affectionate nods to classic monster flicks to make it a rollicking good time. If you love style-heavy blockbusters, this fun film is definitely for you!
Monsters Fighting Robots! What More Could You Want?
Of all the massive big-budget blockbusters to come out this summer, "Pacific Rim" managed to stand out the most for me, not because of its brilliant special effects or adrenaline-pumped action sequences, but because it gave me a powerful feeling of nostalgia I hadn't felt in a long time. I grew up watching a lot of classic monster movies like "Godzilla" and "King Kong," so seeing director/co-writer Guillermo del Toro (who's most notable for the "Hellboy" films and "Pan's Labyrinth") bring not only kaiju, but massive, human-operated robots to the big screen and having them fight to the death was like watching my inner 10-year-old's hyperactive imagination come to life. With every gripping oceanic battle scene, del Toro packs in as much visual style and visceral thrills into each frame as possible, always keeping the tension irresistibly palpable while giving us a delirious head rush of pure excitement. Even more impressive is the way del Toro completely embraces the movie's deliberately corny tone without having it come across as too ridiculous, once again proving this filmmaker's talent at delivering intense techno action that's surprisingly smarter than it looks (basically, it's everything Michael Bay's "Transformers" movies tried to be, but never were). As for the cast, it isn't anything particularly special (although the actors del Toro has assembled are solid picks). Charlie Hunnam plays the hotshot hero quite well in his first major film role, while Rinko Kikuchi holds her own as a memorable supporting character with a traumatizing past. And (as you'd probably guess) both Charlie Day and Ron Perlman are used as the flick's big source of comic relief, a job they're more than capable of handling. But the real star of the show here is Idris Elba, whose performance as a hardened commanding officer is as starkly intimidating as it is continually engaging to watch. And though the acting may not quite make up for the story's lack of strong characterization, what ultimately matters here is the larger-than-life entertainment this fun action romp brings to the table. It serves as both a wonderful homage to creature features of the past and a massively enjoyable, effects-heavy joy ride that benefits from its fantastic, high-octane visuals and energetic pacing. Sure, it's a little clichéd, but this exceptionally fun feast for the eyes and ears is worth any sci-fi fan's time. At the very least, I highly recommend renting this grand adventure. Trust me. Once you see "Pacific Rim," you won't get enough of it.
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Pacific Rim's greatness comes from the fact that it doesn't try to be something its not. It isn't a deep mind bending movie, and its not a completely new story either. But it is an engaging, visually amazing, fun epic movie. Entertainment is at its best here.
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Prepare To Fall In Love: 10 Amazing Darren Criss Videos In Honor Of His 26th Birthday
Darren Criss first stole our hearts in 2009 when his wizarding parody A Very Potter Musical went viral on YouTube. Since then, he made an adorable cameo in Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night" music video, debuted on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, starred as Blaine Anderson on Glee, and co-starred with Kristen Wiig in the upcoming movie Girl Most Likely,– which is set for release this summer.
Darren Criss got his start by being adorable and talented in YouTube videos, and he never really stopped doing that. With his great sense of humor and natural musical talent he has left behind a trail of candid performances and interviews on YouTube that are too endearing for words.
In celebration of his 26th birthday, we've compiled some of the highlights below. But watch out! The Darren Criss part of YouTube can be almost as addicting as the funny cat part, the sneezing baby part and the '90s music video part.
With no further ado, let's begin!
Darren Covers "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast
This video is from forever ago, remember that fro? He performs an awesome acoustic arrangement of "Belle" and betrays himself as a Disney freak. From one Disney freak to another, so much love!
Darren's Answers Questions for a Rolling Stone Interview
Darren answers all the interview questions in song. Brb, currently trying to hire Darren to narrate my life with his gorgeous singing voice. Does anyone know how to contact him. Linkedin perhaps?
Darren Sings an Impromptu Song for Ellen DeGeneres
Darren wrote a song for Ellen backstage. It's about Finding Nemo 2 and it has cute rhymes. Ellen looks like she's going to burst from happiness. Hey, I would too if Darren wrote a song for me. (Darren, are you reading this? Please write a song for me.)
Darren Sings Behind the Scenes of Darren's GQ Interview
Darren sings acoustic snippets of pop songs, including one funny improvised song about getting fitted for his photo shoot.
Darren Shares the First Time He Knew He Wanted To Be An Actor
Darren talks about his career as an actor as part of a Uniqlo ad campaign. Turns out he knew he wanted to act after seeing Aladdin in theaters for the first time. So does this mean he's going to star in Aladdin the Musical when it comes to Broadway? Fingers crossed.
Darren performs "Teenage Dream" with Katy Perry
After his Glee cover of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" hit number one on iTunes, Darren performed the song with Katy Perry herself at Trevor Live, a benefit for The Trevor Project.
Darren stars in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying on Broadway
Darren Criss made his Broadway debut when he took over for Daniel Radcliffe in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying for three weeks in January of last year. Let's hope this is only the beginning of Darren's career on Broadway. After all, he is a triple threat.
Darren raves about Coachella while at Coachella
Darren raves about how awesome Coachella was while covered in body paint. He was there supporting his brother Chuck Criss's awesome band Freelance Whales.
Darren Goofs Off With Susan Blackwell
After hosting the Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards (and winning one himself), Darren jokes around with Susan Blackwell and also licks her face. Yes, you read that correctly. Face licking.
Darren Performs at Obama's Second Inauguration
With a little help from the Soul Children of Chicago, Darren performs his hopeful ballad "Not Alone" (which you can find on his album "Human – EP") at the Kids' Inaugural Concert. Inspiring.


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Jobs of the Week
Posted by Will Vanlue (Contributor) on December 30th, 2011 at 8:28 am
We've had three fantastic job opportunities posted this week. Start the new year with a new job in our local bike industry! Check out the details in the job listings below…
- Women's Cycling Dept. Manager — Bike N Hike
- Shipping and Logistics Manager — Velotech, Inc.
- Front End Manager — The Vanilla Workshop
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So guys do you know any girl names from Colonial Time?
Thanks in advance!
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So guys do you know any girl names from Colonial Time?
Thanks in advance!
If I remember correctly, Puritan and Biblical (especially Old Testament) names were popular during that time period, so virtue names of all sorts and classic/old fashion names would have been the norm.
I love a lot of Colonial names(biased, I know). Primrose was on my short list.
I also like Prudence nn Pru, as in Charmed and Patience. I think Remember is usable too but think about the conversation: "Hey, what's your name?" "Remember". Sounds funny, like she wants everybody not to forget her name but actually that's not a huge problem. You can always use it in the middle name slot.
And from virtue names I also like Constance and Vera(faith).
I think you could reasonably use Prudence or Patience nowadays. I would definitely avoid Desire and Deliverance. There are cute nn possibilities, but I would avoid Remember, too, sorry. Maybe Rememberance? I mean for an actual human. How about Amity, Mercy, Felicity, Noble, Merry, Temperance, Solace, Sojourner, Clemency, Verity, Liberty, or even Redeemed? My favorites are Hopestill and Makepeace, though I don't know that I would use them. Possibly as middle names?
I really like Temperance,Redeemed and Hopestill!
Do you consider Temperance as a old ladies name?
Also do you know any cute nn ?
What do you think of Silence?


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This is the second ruling from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on the government's decision to approve the railroad project.
The expansion would let DM&E rail cars haul coal from Wyoming to the Mississippi River through South Dakota and southern Minnesota. The railroad will use mile-long trains that travel 40 miles-per-hour. Up to 37 trains could run each day. DM&E railroad president Kevin Schieffer sees the ruling as a victory.
"It would have been a surprise if it had gone the other way, frankly," Schieffer says. "But not because we argued a better case, but because the facts were on our side. We feel very good about the decision and we're looking forward to developing a truly first class railroad in the United States."
The Surface Transportation Board or STB approved the expansion project in 2002, and immediately the Rochester Coalition, along with the Sierra Club, appealed. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Rochester and asked the STB to reconsider environmental and safety concerns. The agency did so. When it re-approved the project in 2005 Rochester appealed again.
But this time the court sided with the STB. It said the STB had answered all of Rochester's environmental and safety concerns.
The Rochester Coalition refused to comment on this latest appeals court ruling, but it issued a written statement. The coalition, which includes Mayo Clinic, says it will evaluate additional legal options. Coalition members continue to believe the expansion is a serious and real threat to Rochester and the Mayo Clinic. They say more trains through city could increase the chances of a derailment. Another concern is the noise.
Associate General Counsel for the STB Evelyn Kitay says the agency is pleased with the decision. She says the challenges by the Rochester Coalition forced the agency to be more thorough and more explicit in its decision making process.
"We did a lot more environmental review of this case than we've ever done for any prior rail construction case in recent memory or forever," Kitay says. "I think originally there were multiple challenges on both environmental and transportation grounds."
In this case Rochester argued the railroad should pay for noise mitigation. Coalition members also pushed for the STB to consider a bypass around Rochester. And the Sierra Club said pollution concerns weren't adequately addressed.
Kitay says all of that's been considered.
Rochester could choose to further appeal the decision to the full 8th Circuit Court of Appeals or the U.S. Supreme Court. But Kitay says if the coalition doesn't appeal, the court's ruling stands as the final federal approval for the project.
"As far as the Board's concerned DM & E has the authority to construct this line," Kitay says.
Authority and ability are two separate matters when it comes to the railroad. While the DM&E project has the green light, the Federal Railroad Administration hasn't decided whether to grant the railroad a $2.3 billion loan. That agency or the U.S. Congress could place restrictions or stipulations on the loan if it's approved. All of that could be further delayed by another court challenge.


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Real Name: Dana Fowler-Satterfield
Nicknames: No known nicknames
Location: Roebuck, South Carolina
Date: July 31, 1995
Details: On July 31, 1995, at around 6:30pm, 27-year-old beauty salon owner Dana Satterfield bought a bottle of cleaning fluid from a door-to-door saleswoman named Shirley, who, about an hour later, arrived back at Dana's salon, saw her cleaning up, and went to two other stores. At 8:30pm, she returned to wait for her ride home when she heard strange noises coming from inside. She then saw the lights turn out, heard a very loud sound, saw a man jump out of one of the windows, and ran for a liquor store to call the police. She ran into the man, and then toward the street to get a motorist to call the police. A deputy sheriff arrived and found Dana's beaten, raped, and strangled body in the closet. Authorities believe that the man was a predator, a possible serial killer who may have stalked her. Another witness, Ken Smith, later came forward and reported that as he was driving by at the time of the murder, he saw a man nearby standing next to his car that he believed was the killer. Despite the witnesses, no one was ever arrested in her murder. A $50,000 reward was being offered for information in the case.
Suspects: Police first suspected that Dana's estranged husband, Mike, was the killer, or that he had hired someone to murder her. However, he did not fit the description of the suspect, and he said that their break up was amicable. He is no longer considered a suspect because the brutal way she was killed did not match a professional hit. A composite was made of the killer, who was 18 to 25 years old, 5'6" to 5'9" tall, 145-170 pounds, and with blond or light brown hair. They believe that he was a repeat offender with a blue Ford Bronco and out of state license plates.
Extra Notes: This case first aired on the May 16, 1997 episode.
This case was also profiled on various media, including Forensic Files, On the Case with Paula Zahn, and The Perfect Murder. Dana's murder was also referenced on Disappeared when it profiled the disappearance of Michele Whitaker.
Results: Solved. In 2005 a local man named Jonathan Christian Vick was subsequently implicated in Dana's murder through DNA testing and after a witness came forward claiming that he was going to meet with her on the night of her death. The witness told police that Vick had threatened to kill him if he told anyone about the murder, but he was overcome with remorse years later, after meeting Dana's daughter. Vick was charged with murder, kidnapping and criminal sexual conduct and was given a life sentence. Interestingly, he was a suspect in the 2002 disappearance of Michele Whitaker, until she was found alive and well in 2008. He is also a suspect in the disappearance of his girlfriend, Heather Sellars.
- TV crew filming Paula Zahn show on murder of Roebuck's Dana Satterfield
- Dana Satterfield at Find a Grave


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To Lettera G, design is the heart and the pursuit of beauty.
Lettera G evolves the technical and functional aspect of design to create atmosphere, fascination and a touch of dissonance.
To Lettera G design is beauty to the eye and to the touch. It is the poetry and the art of creating objects, redesigning and reinventing our daily lives.


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It's time once again for our Friday comic book cosplay feature, spotlighting the best superhero (and villain) related costuming from the cosplay community. We're casting the spotlight onto those cosplayers who we think deserve special recognition for coming up with the best costumes, whatever the budget, and the photographers who capture them for posterity.
Gamma Squad is committed to giving a voice to the cosplay community that thrives in groups like our friends at TheSuperheroCostumingForum.com. Each week we spotlight our favorite costumes and each month we host a cosplay contest. We'll be picking a theme for each month and inviting cosplayers, costumers and photographers to submit related pictures of their work to our Flickr group to be considered. We'll then pick our top choices and post them on Gamma Squad for the adoration of all.
The theme for the upcoming month is:
- Super Villains and Diabolical Foes
For now, enjoy this week's selection!
Starfire cosplay by Rosanna Rocha at Amazing Arizona Comic Con 2012. Photo by Grant Brummett. Source: Flickr
Another fantastic Starfire costume – this time from Rosanna Rocha, who certainly cuts an eyecatching figure.
Iron Man and War Machine cosplay at StarCon. Photo by Magolobo. Source: Deviantart
Incredible fan-made reconstructions of the Iron Man and War Machine costumes here, improved even further by a stunning photograph.
Wonder Woman cosplay at San Diego Comic Con 2011. Photo by Joits. Source: Flickr
This cosplayer presents a welcome twist on the standard Wonder Woman costume.
Quicksilver cosplay at Amazing Arizona Comic Con 2012. Photo by DTJAAAAM. Source: Flickr
Despite being a high-profile Avenger for years, Quicksilver doesn't usually get the love from cosplayers. It's nice to see that's not always the case.
Dee Dee cosplay by Enasni-V and danipuffins. Photo by johnsonsan. Source: Deviantart
Cartoon, rather than comic characters. But in the case of this kick ass cosplay, exceptions can be made.
Death cosplay by Rossassen. Source: Deviantart
Neil Gaiman's Death is often a popular choice with more gothicly inclined cosplayers and here's another great take on the character.
The Joker cosplay at San Diego Comic-Con 2011. Photo by San Diego Shooter. Source: Flickr
A colorful cosplay of Batman's arch-nemesis, enhanced by some fantastic props.
Invisible Woman cosplay by Plu-Moon. Photo by hugodeathy. Source: Deviantart
A twist on Sue Richard's most recognizable costume, but a welcome one as this cosplayer puts her own mark on the character.
Kid Flash cosplay at Youmacon 2011. Photo by Elemental-Sight. Cosplay by TobieJade. Source: Deviantart
Again, we're stretching the rules to include this version of Kid Flash – lifted from the Young Justice cartoon. But it's such a great costume, who could resist?
Black Cat cosplay by El Paso Cosplay Girls of The Supehero Costuming Forum. Source: The SCF
And wrapping up this week, a gorgeous version of the fan-favorite Spider-man character from our friends at the SCF.


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Word to the Wise: Don't Be Doubting This Thomas - Part II
Part II: Bucks veteran became member of exclusive group
By Truman Reed
|Thomas became only the third player in NCAA Division I history to lead the nation in scoring and rebounding. Photo: Gary Dineen/NBAE
There are 450 players on National Basketball Association rosters.
For every one of them who has achieved something outstanding in the game, there is generally another who has been there and done that.
There is one NBA veteran, though, who has accomplished something so rare that, among his current contemporaries, he is in a class by himself. He works in Milwaukee. And his name is Kurt Thomas.
During his senior season at Texas Christian University in 1994-95, Thomas became only the third player in NCAA Division I history to lead the nation in scoring and rebounding, following in the footsteps of Xavier McDaniel, who was the first to achieve the feat in 1984-85 while playing for Wichita State University, and the late Hank Gathers, who became the second in 1988-89 while competing for Loyola Marymount University.
McDaniel , who put up 27.4 points and 15 rebounds during his senior collegiate season, went on to score 13,606 points over a 12-year NBA career. Gathers, who averaged 32.7 points and 13.7 rebounds as a junior, collapsed and died of a heart condition during a game in his senior campaign.
Thomas' national-best numbers -- 28.9 ppg and 14.6 rpg - compare favorably to those of his elite predecessors. He has gone on to collect 8,505 points and 6,750 rebounds over a 15-year NBA career, and his 85 (and counting) career NBA playoff games exceed the equivalent of another entire season.
At the age of 37, Thomas ranks as the third-oldest active player in the NBA. He has carved out his niche as a pro's pro with toughness, strength, a blue-collar, team-first approach to his work and an on-court scowl that was deemed one of the league's fiercest by NBA analyst Doug Collins.
Underneath the imposing exterior, though, is a devoted father of four, a humble, caring man with a big heart who has become one of the league's most renowned givers out of gratitude for for the blessings God has directed his way.
One would be hard-pressed to find anyone who has better embodied the name of Texas Christian.
Thomas breaks into a broad grin when asked to retrace his steps into the elite basketball fraternity to which he belongs.
"I never thought that I would put up those types of numbers," Thomas said. "It never crossed my mind. I won't try to fool anyone into thinking I knew I could do that. If it wasn't for that system, if it wasn't for my teammates and my coaching staff and everyone who believed in me, and the fact that the Lord had blessed me with the ability to be able to go out and do what I did, none of it could have happened."
The story of how it happened is probably even more amazing than the fact that it did happen.
When Thomas was chosen 10th in the 1995 NBA Draft, his draft class included no less than 10 former McDonald's All-Americans, such heralded one-time prep luminaries as Kevin Garnett, Rasheed Wallace, Ed O'Bannon, Alan Henderson and current Bucks teammate Jerry Stackhouse.
During his prep career, Thomas' only connection to McDonald's was as a customer at its franchises in his hometown of Dallas, Texas. And apparently he could have used a few more Big Macs back then.
"I was a real skinny kid," Thomas said. "I broke my ankle in my senior year of high school and only played half of a season. I was only 170 pounds when I came out of high school. A lot of people didn't really think I had the ability to play."
Thomas remembers what it felt like to be on the outside looking in, but he was able to capitalize on that experience.
"I had a lot of high school friends I grew up with who were really shocked that I got a scholarship," he said. "When I was growing up and would go to the gym, there were so many talented guys in Dallas. I wasn't the first one picked, I wasn't the second and I wasn't the third. I was like, the last or second-last guy picked.
"Sometimes I had to sit out a lot and watch the other guys play. So I sat around and watched the other guys, and when I got the opportunity to play, I knew what they could do and what they couldn't do and I would use that to my advantage."
Nearby TCU gave Thomas an opportunity -- one for which he remains extremely grateful.
"My main objective was to get a scholarship to college, get an education and help myself get a job," Thomas said. "That's all it was about for me. College was the best thing that ever happened to me. The NBA's been great, but my college experience was second-to-none."
Thomas was no overnight sensation as a college basketball player, though.
"I remember back in my freshman year of college, I couldn't even bench press 135 pounds," he said. "I was 17 years old when I graduated from high school. In my freshman year, I didn't play much. As my body started to mature and I got stronger, though, my game improved each and every year."
Opportunity began knocking on Thomas' door more often as his college career unfolded, but he wasn't always able to answer.
"In my sophomore year, I finally got to play, but I got injured," he said. "I basically played half my sophomore year. Then in my junior year, I got injured again and ended up redshirting a year."
Thomas persevered, though, and credits those close to him for their encouragement.
"Believing in the Lord and believing that he blessed me with a gift, and having my family around me and being supportive of me were so key," Thomas said. "I didn't go far from home, from Dallas, for college. TCU's just down the road in Fort Worth. I always had that family connection right there with me, which was very important."
"Then, in my junior year, which really was my senior year because I went to college for five years, I was finally able to play. I averaged about 20 points and about 9.7 rebounds."
Thomas' junior season opened a few eyes, including his own.
"After my junior year, when I was finally able to start putting up some decent numbers, I asked one of my college teammates who had played in the NBA, Reggie Smith, if he thought I had a chance to play in the NBA," Thomas recalled. "He said, 'Yeah.'
"A couple of other friends I grew up with in Dallas who had played professional ball really started working on my game and teaching me the little dos and don'ts of the game and I said, 'Hey, we'll give it a try.'"
A major transition that took place before Thomas' senior season figured prominently in the breakout year he would enjoy.
Billy Tubbs, who had built the University of Oklahoma basketball program into a national powerhouse, was hired as the Horned Frogs' head coach.
"Coming in with a new coach (Billy Tubbs), I knew he liked a really up-and-down style of basketball, but I didn't really know if that was going to jell well with my game," Thomas said. "When he came in, it just really clicked. The guys could see that I could really put the ball in the hole, and I always considered myself a pretty good rebounder.
"When it first started, I don't think anyone was really keeping an eye on me. They noticed the numbers, but they didn't make it a big deal about them. But after about three quarters of the way through the season, then people started to pay attention."
Thomas' soaring numbers weren't met with a great deal of fanfare because TCU's program was not in the public eye.
"We didn't have any national TV games," Thomas said. "People started paying more attention to TCU about halfway through my senior season. It was just about timing. We were not a very dominant team. I think we were basically a .500 team.
"But I was able to put the ball in the hole, we had a great coaching staff and I had teammates who really believed in me. We had a lot of fun that year."
Looking back, Thomas can't thank his teammates enough for his prosperity. He knows he never would have joined the exclusive group that McDaniel and Gathers had started without them.
And he was no out-of-control gunner, either. He made 54.8 percent of his field-goal attempts as a senior.
"The main thing was my teammates," he said. "Without my teammates, there's no way I would have been able to accomplish what I did. It really wasn't a goal at first.
"When the opportunity was there, people wanted to know if I could actually do it. My teammates were pulling for me each and every night to go out and put numbers up. Without them and the coaches, I wouldn't have been able to do it."
Thomas was more humbled than anything when his senior season ended and he was atop the national scoring and rebounding charts. He was well aware of what an elite club he had joined.
"I definitely knew about 'The X-man' (McDaniel)," he said. "And you had to know about Hank Gathers and Loyola-Marymount and the numbers they put up. They had a great team. They were winning and going deep into the NCAA Tournament. I was definitely watching Hank until that tragic incident."
National TV audiences didn't get to see Thomas' amazing ascent to stardom, but NBA scouts did. Fifteen pro seasons later, Thomas was asked how often he pauses to count his blessings. "Every day, man," he replied. "Every day."


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The image shows Curiosity surrounded by the tracks of its wheels, with the 3-mile-high (5 kilometers) Mount Sharp rising into the sky in the distance. The prominent Mount Sharp is the central peak of Curiosity's vast Gale Crater landing site. Another mountain in the image, on the rover's left, makes up the northern wall of the expansive crater.
To create the eye-popping Mars photo, Curiosity used its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), a powerful camera mounted at the end of the rover's robotic arm. Curiosity turned the camera on itself much like a human tourist might when traveling alone, snapping a series of photos that rover team members then stitched together into a high-definition composite view.
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I.M.P. and Steez Promo are known for hosting some of the largest shows at Washington, D.C.'s largest indoor club, Echostage. Both promoters double teamed to bring Big Gigantic to the venue for a night of bangers. Fueled by the venues superb sound system along with openers Mija and Louis the Child, Big Gigantic surprisingly packed out this 5,000 capacity venue bringing out such great energy.
Photos shot by Jake Lahah.
This article was first published on Your EDM.
Source: Big Gigantic at Echostage in Washington, D.C. [Photos]


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Very useful, thank Steve
Explaining InDesign's Printing and Exporting Page Number Confusion
It used to be so much easier in InDesign to print or export pages. The most complicated thing to figure out was how to print out pages with sections. Now, we also have to figure out how to print out documents with different page sizes. And what about Alternate Layouts? How do we print or export pages from multiple layouts?
Printing/Exporting from Sectioned Documents
There can be many styles of page numbering depending on the kind of publication. Books traditionally use Roman numerals (i, ii, iii) for front matter, and Arabic numbering for the rest of the book. Some documents precede a page number with a section number (A-1, A-2, A-3). This can make knowing how to print or export page numbers confusing. Here's a simple example of a sectioned document.
You can create a new section by selecting a page in the Pages panel, and choosing Layout > Numbering & Section Options (or choosing this from the Pages panel menu). You have a variety of numbering styles to select from, and you can include a prefix when numbering the pages, as this example does.
There are two ways to print or export sectioned pages: You can enter a range of section numbers, or you can enter absolute numbers.
Using the section numbers and this example, I could print page A-2, page B-4, and page C-9 by entering the range A-2,B-4,C-9 in the Print or Export dialog box. I could print pages A-3 through C-10 by entering A-2-C-10 in the dialog box.
If you have simple section numbers like B or Sec5 you can also use these methods of entering page ranges:
- If you have a section labelled B, you could enter the range B:7- to print the page numbered 7 in that section to the end of the section
- If you have a section labelled Sec5 and one called Sec6, you could enter the range Sec5:7-Sec6 to print the page numbered 7 in Sec5 to the end of Sec6
But it's often easier to print or export with absolute numbers. I could print A-2, B-4 and C-9 by entering +2,+4,+9 in the Print/Export dialog box. The + preceding the numbers indicates an absolute number, disregarding the section numbering. To export pages A-3 through C-10, I could enter +3-+10 in the dialog box.
For absolute numbers, you can also use the syntax of placing a hyphen before or after the range. For example: -+3 would print from the beginning of the document to the absolute third page. Or, +7- prints from absolute page 7 to the end of the file.
Alternate Layouts
InDesign CS6 introduced the Alternate Layout feature to include multiple layouts within the same InDesign document. Primarily designed for the layout of pages for tablet apps, which can have multiple sizes and orientations, it can be used for other uses as well. Here is an example with three alternate layouts:
The key to understanding how to print or export alternate layouts is to realize that they are just a special cases of sectioned document. You just need to enter the full name of the layout, followed by a colon, followed by page number(s).
In this example, there are three layouts—iPad V, iPad H, and Android 10″ V. If I wanted to print out pages 3-5 of the vertical iPad layout, I could use this range: iPad V:3-5. I could also print from more than one layout. If I wanted pages 3-4 of the iPad V layout and pages 2-3 of the iPad H layout, I could enter: iPad V:3-4,iPad H:2-3.
The good news is the absolute number method also works. In the last example (printing two pages from each of two layouts), I could also have entered +3-+4,+6-+7.
Printing Multiple Page Sizes
The third case, printing multiple page sizes, only works in the Print dialog. This is because printers typically can only print to one size paper at a time. You need a method of only choosing pages of the same size when printing. (This is not necessary with exporting PDF, since PDF pages can be a mixture of any size and orientation.) In this example, we have both tall and wide pages mixed in an InDesign document:
When the Page tool was introduced with InDesign CS5, a subtle change was made to the Print dialog, adding the ability to only select a single page size. Here's how to use it:
- Choose File > Print. On the General panel, select or deselect Spreads to determine whether single pages or spreads will be printed. (If there are mixed sizes on a spread, the largest width/height determines the spread size.)
- Use the Range field to enter the page number of the first sized page you want to print (e.g., page 1 for the tall blue pages).
- Click the Pages icon above the range (with the tooltip above). All the pages of that size are now selected.
- Print those pages.
- Repeat for other page sizes.
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I'm muddling my way through InDesign 5.5 to make a book for my granddaughter. Everything is fine except I'm having a little trouble with the page numbers. They seem to be formatted correctly, even when I look at it presentation view, but when I export it to a pdf, it shows two page numbers (One normal size and one much smaller just below it.) I'll be sending it to Createspace to get a print copy and I know they use my pdf for the interior. Is there a way to remove the second, smaller page number? Thanks for your help.
Thank you! I got my first mixed page orientation InDesign file to print.