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Ultimate chocolate cake
By Angela Nilsen
Cooking time
Prep: 30 mins - 40 mins Cook: 1 hr - 1 hr, 30 mins Plus baking and cooling timeSkill level
Cuts into 14 slicesIndulge yourself with Angela Nilsen's heavenly moist and fudgy chocolate cake - perfect for celebrations - birthdays, weddings, christenings - any excuse!
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Without icing
- kcalories
- 541
- protein
- 6g
- carbs
- 55g
- fat
- 35g
- saturates
- 20g
- fibre
- 2g
- sugar
- 40g
- salt
- 0.51g
- 200g good quality dark chocolate, about 60% cocoa solids
- 200g butter
- 1 tbsp instant coffee granules
- 85g self-raising flour
- 85g plain flour
- ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 200g light muscovado sugar
- 200g golden caster sugar
- 25g cocoa powder
- 3 medium eggs
- 75ml buttermilk (5 tbsp)
- grated chocolate or curls, to decorate
For the ganache
- 200g good quality dark chocolate, as above
- 284ml carton double cream (pouring type)
- 2 tbsp golden caster sugar
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- Butter a 20cm round cake tin (7.5cm deep) and line the base. Preheat the oven to fan 140C/conventional 160C/ gas 3. Break 200g good quality dark chocolate in pieces into a medium, heavy-based pan. Cut 200g butter into pieces and tip in with the chocolate, then mix 1 tbsp instant coffee granules into 125ml cold water and pour into the pan. Warm through over a low heat just until everything is melted – don't overheat. Or melt in the microwave on Medium for about 5 minutes, stirring half way through.
- While the chocolate is melting, mix 85g self-raising flour, 85g plain flour, ¼ bicarbonate of soda, 200g light muscovado sugar, 200g golden caster sugar and 25g cocoa powder in a big bowl, mixing with your hands to get rid of any lumps. Beat 3 medium eggs in a bowl and stir in 75ml (5 tbsp) buttermilk.
- Now pour the melted chocolate mixture and the egg mixture into the flour mixture, stirring just until everything is well blended and you have a smooth, quite runny consistency. Pour this into the tin and bake for 1 hour 25- 1 hour 30 minutes – if you push a skewer in the centre it should come out clean and the top should feel firm (don't worry if it cracks a bit). Leave to cool in the tin (don't worry if it dips slightly), then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- When the cake is cold, cut it horizontally into three. Make the ganache: chop 200g good quality dark chocolate into small pieces and tip into a bowl. Pour a 284ml carton of double cream into a pan, add 2 tbsp golden caster sugar, and heat until it is about to boil. Take off the heat and pour it over the chocolate. Stir until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth.
- Sandwich the layers together with just a little of the ganache. Pour the rest over the cake letting it fall down the sides and smoothing to cover with a palette knife. Decorate with grated chocolate or a pile of chocolate curls. The cake keeps moist and gooey for 3-4 days.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2004
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Comments, questions and tips
I was a bit nervous about this recipe when I saw the very negative comments because I'm not a very competent baker but I read the recipe and the advice in the comments carefully and the cake turned out really well - truely delicious. I have made it twice - for a Macmillan coffee morning and for my daughter's birthday and both times have had very positive feedback: it was a huge hit with my daughter's flatmates. These are the amendments I made to the recipe:
1. I made the cake with 50:50 milk chocolate and 70% dark chocolate because I thought 100% dark chocolate might be too intense.2. I added 1 tsp instead of 1tbsp instant coffee because I thought the coffee flavour might be too strong.
3. I didn't have any buttermilk so made buttermilk substitute by adding 5ml lemon juice to 70ml milk
4. I didn't want to risk cutting the cake horizontally into layers so I divided the mixture over two tins and baked for half the time. I tested them after 45 minutes in the oven and they were fine.
5. It is REALLY important to let the cake (s) cool completely before you try to take the grease proof lining off or take them out of the baking tin(s). They are really crumbly when just out of the oven. Best to make the cake the day before you want to serve it.
6. You need to put the ganache in the fridge for 2-3 hours to thicken before coating the cake, otherwise it will be too runny and won't adhere.
I would definitely make this cake again - it's yummy.
I was a bit nervous about this recipe as there seem to be a wide range of opinions about it. I am a fair cook, but not regular cake maker. However, I "made" it in my head, and it seemed it would work, so I went ahead. The only change I made to the cake was to use all plain flour and more baking soda - that's because we can't buy self raising flour here, and I cut the sugar down to 300g of plain white as I can't get the fancy stuff. Also cut the coffee to a teaspoon. I used Belizean organic dark chocolate, my own free range eggs, and a knob of butter in the gannache, as well as a Tbsp of rum. I cut it in two, and sandwiched it with home made mango jam.
I cooked it for an hour and 30 minutes, in a loose bottomed tin lined with baking parchment. The cake rose a little and cracked slightly, but that was no bother as it a) made it look home made and b) was covered with ganache anyway. I left it overnight to cool, and cut it in half with a very sharpknife, it was easy to do.
The ganache, I made and left to cool and them beat it to thicken it. It went on without a single drip, although it wasn't a smooth glossy finish. I decorated the cake with tropical flowers from the garden - hibiscus, yesterday today and tomorrow and the like. It looked stunning, wish \i had taken a pic!
I believe the problems people have had with this cake are that it is very fudgy, not really a light sponge at all. Also, if you make it with good dark chocolate, it is very intense - which is just what I like. I guess people who think Herschey is chocolate might be expecting a different taste. I can imagine making this with a good dairy milk chocolate, in which case I might cut back on the sugar still more.
Everyone adored it, and I would absolutely make it again, but, if you want something for kids, or something light, it might be a bit too much chocolate.
this article describes best how to make chocolate cake, i also used tips and recipe from: http://www.howtomakechocolatecake.org/make-chocolate-cake/
I am not a chocolate person so I can't rate it myself but the people I made it for loved it.
I used 72% dark chocolate. I think the cake on it's own without the icing taste good and the icing is not necessary BUT my issue with the cake is that the top rose above the edges and cracked. I pressed it back down before icing it. So I wouldn't be able to serve it without icing it.
I also had issues cutting the cake in half. The top was very fragile and part of it broke off but I was able to put it back together before icing it and the icing made it less noticeable. She should have given us tips on how to cut the cake in two without the top falling apart. If I had cut it in 3 as she suggested it would have been a mess. Then again I used a slightly bigger tin.
IFYOU ARE USING A SILICONE TIN CHECK THE CAKE AFTER 50 MINS. I am lucky in that I checked the cake after 1 hour. I think if it had cooked anymore it would have burned. So be careful with silicone tins.
And YES you should put the cake in the fridge after you ice it for the icing to set.
I live in a tropical country so this is a MUST. But I think you should anyway.Serve it with vanilla icecream. That way if people are not dark chocolate lovers they can make it more sweet.
Next time I will try to make it without the icing. I might have to take it out the oven earlier to prevent the top cracking
Quite simply the worst cake I have made or tasted, I should have read the reviews before I started. In a nutshell, the cake took 40 minutes more than the 1hr 30 before the skewer poked clean, impossible to cut in to 2 let alone 3, the ganache is bitter and so is the cake, I made it look pretty by sticking cigarillos around the edge and filling the top with raspberries but the cake was a stodgy mess, those who ate it referred to as "dense". Half the cake was left and that was only after I forced a couple of friends to take some home, I am using the left over half for a rather attractive door stop!
This recipe needs significant changes if you are going to get a successful result - I suggest reducing the coffee to a teaspoon and reducing the sugar to half as much - ensure you use good quality chocolate and divide into 2-3 tins so it cooks through properly. It is more like a brownie mix so needs to have well lined tins so it can be removed once cooled - however does taste good.
I agree Wendy. I haven't reduced the sugar as yet - but I do increase both flour to 100g and I HAD to reduce coffee (in my case to half a teaspoon) as the first time it was overwhelming.
I divide the mixture veteran three tins and cook for 40 minutes. To my friends and family I call it my 'chocolate brownie cake' as it is very much like a brownie when finished.I use milk chocolate or a mix of dark and light depending on what is in the cupboard- all dark was again overwhelming.
Delicious cake- my husband loves it and he not into chocolate.
Made with my 14 year old and wasn't that hard, just lots of different things to put in.
Edges were a bit cracked but didn't turn out of tin for about half hour after taking out of the oven and once it was cooler, wrapped it snugly in baking parchment, then foil, and by the next day it had stuck back together.Changed the recipe a little - we only used a teaspoon of coffee in the 125ml of water, used 400g of golden caster sugar (none of the other sugar in) and used 1 tbsp milk with 4 tbsp natural yogurt.
Didn't bother with the ganache topping - used melted chocolate instead with pieces of curly wurly and crushed oreos.
This cake was moist and rich but not sickly and a great celebration recipe. Will definitely make again.
The best chocolate cake I have made so far. I am so happy that I have found the most fool proof recipe for a classic chocolate cake for any occasion.
As has already been told in the previous comments, I reduced the amount of sugar to a total of 320 grams. I did not have light muscovado sugar or golden caster sugar. Instead I used normal granulated sugar and caster sugar. It was a really really yummy cake. Doubled the quantity and made two batches. It went down like a storm. Made it for a lunch party at a friend's place and it was a super hit.


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This is the lipstick brush I have been searching for! I tend to use lip brushes only for applying dark colors so I need a very precise line. The bristles are stiff enough that you can get precise application and soft enough to easily fill in the rest of the lip. It is retractable which makes it very portable and easy to keep clean. I also love that it's red and looks very chic. Highly recommended!
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I love my Smashbox lip brush #18 even though I don't use it for a lip brush. I like my lip brushes to have a smaller handle and to be sort of a rounded-square shaped. This is a great brush for applying and smudging eye shadow under my lower eye lashes. It is also handy for concealing small blemishes or in my case the little bit of redness that shows up around my nose. All in all this is a very handy brush to have around and even though it was wrong for me as a lip brush I still use it every day.
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I love Smashbox brushes but was very disappointed with this lip brush. At $22, it is a llittle expensive although it is pretty in its sleek red case! The lip is very pointed and thin and I prefer a wider lip brush. I think this makes a better spot concealing brush than lip brush because the tip is just too fine for me. Its a little stiff too! I wouldnt recommend this lip brush!
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Reigning champions Juventus hold a firm upper hand in the Serie A when action resumes at the weekend after a two-week winter break.
Juve's closest chasers Lazio lie eight points behind going into the 19th round that marks the half-way mark of the season. Fiorentina and Inter Milan trail by another point.
As most commentators agree that Juve are headed for their 29th title, goalkeeping captain Gianluigi Buffon looked back with relish at 2012.
The 2006 world champion recalled on Facebook "again winning a scudetto (his third) with Juventus, a beautiful European (championship) adventure with the national team (losing in the final to holders Spain) and a truly superlative start to the current season."
After 18 games, Juve's good form has brought them six more points than last year, and they also won their Champions League group.
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Looking ahead to a Champions League knock-out phase starting in mid-February - a duty they missed last season - the Bianconeri have already moved on the January transfer market by signing Federico Peluso from Atalanta.
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Serie A action on Sunday poses little threat for Juve as they welcome struggling Sampdoria a day after Lazio host troubled Cagliari.
Fiorentina on Sunday are at home to lowly Pescara, and Inter face a difficult trip to Udinese.
The year gone by seems to have had little effect on Inter's Argentine captain Javier Zanetti, a 39-year-old living legend quoted this week as saying that "If I feel like I do now, I could play one more season."
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The High Cost of College
Posted: January 24, 2014 Filed under: College Students, Education, High School Students, Infographic, Student Loans | Tags: college, college debt, college education, cost of college, High School Students, student debt, students, university Comments OffHow to decide whether a four-year degree is right for you.
In a post from May last year we pondered the question, should everyone go to college? And what might still be surprising to some, the answer was a resounding no. As eNotes editor and college professor Jamie described it then,
I believe anyone who wants an education should pursue one. But I also see many incredibly gifted students who have skills that they are actively discouraged from mastering because they are supposed to have a Bachelor's degree. I see young people who have no real interest or desire to stay in school another four years who are miserable and many who are racking up debt when they could be doing something they enjoy, avoiding debt, and making money.
The prevailing opinion in America is that every student must go to college; if they don't, they've somehow failed, or been failed by the system. Yet the cost of an American college education is among the highest in the world. So, if that college degree does you no favors in the job force, or if you drop out before completing your four years, you're burdened with a mass of student debt to shoulder for the next twenty years.
That's why it's important to look at the costs of a college education, weighing out the pros and cons of each side and determining what's right for you. If you plan to spend your life in academia, of course a university education is a necessity. But if you'd be better suited to a skilled trade, would the debt and time spent out of the workforce pay off? Here's an excellent infographic from affordable-online-colleges.net to help you weigh your options. You might be surprised by what you find, like the high success rates of those who choose a two-year college over pursuing a Bachelor's degree.
Read on and let us know your thoughts and questions!
Happy Birthday, PBS!
Posted: November 5, 2013 Filed under: Books, Education, Infographic, Infographics | Tags: downton abbey, masterpiece theatre, pbs, sesame street, upstairs downstairs 1 CommentOn Sunday, November 3, PBS turned forty-four years old. Wow. That's a lot of numbers. I'd have to count with this vintage piece from Sesame Street a bunch of times to count THAT high!
PBS's mission, from the beginning, has been to "inform and inspire the diversity reflected in the American audience." Astonishingly, even with the plethora of choices in broadcasting today, 90% of households watch PBS annually.
There are many reasons to continue to love and support your local PBS station. Its news programming has "been named the most trustworthy institution among nationally known organizations, for ten consecutive years."
How about Masterpiece Theater, which just celebrated its fortieth birthday and is enjoying wild success with its hit show Downton Abbey? Here's a preview of Season 4, which premieres on December 17, 2013…
Should Everyone Go to College? New Studies Suggest the Answer is… Probably Not
Posted: May 8, 2013 Filed under: College Students, Infographic, Infographics | Tags: brookings institute, college degrees, college entrance, college majors, college readiness, cost of college, diane rehm show, NPR, trades, tuition 1 CommentI was listening to The Diane Rehm Show on my commute to go teach my classes this morning. Diane's guests were Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institue, Nina Marks of Collegiate Directions Inc, and Robert Lerman, professor of economics at American University.
I wasn't surprised that the answer to the question, "Should everyone go to college?" seemed to be a qualified no. I have been a community college professor for more than a decade. Please don't misunderstand. I believe anyone who wants an education should pursue one. But I also see many incredibly gifted students who have skills that they are actively discouraged from mastering because they are supposed to have a Bachelor's degree. I see young people who have no real interest or desire to stay in school another four years who are miserable and many who are racking up debt when they could be doing something they enjoy, avoiding debt, and making money.
The reasons many students embark on a college career is that society expects them to do so. High schools now are heavily invested in Advanced Placement classes; this push to be "college ready" actually begins in middle school, where Pre-AP classes are not the exception, but the rule. Gone, for the most part, are offerings that used to be alternatives in high school electives, like shop classes. One of Diane's guests remarked that kids go to college because they have no idea what else to do. They know simply having a high school diploma is not enough so they enroll in community colleges or universities, with no clear idea why or what they truly want to do with their lives.
Of course, not being sure about one's career path in their late teens or early 20s is not unusual, but some students never settle on a true choice and a fair percentage drop out by their junior year. Now they have little to show for their efforts ("some college" doesn't say much to a potential employer) and most have debt to boot. Ironically, trades in this country, like welders, mechanics, and plumbers, are sorely lacking skilled people yet we continue to insist that everyone go to college.
So why do so many still go? Statistics like this are indeed compelling:
Well, because most kids haven't taken statistics yet, they are blinded by that number at the end. But what they miss is that key, determining word… "AVERAGE." Many of us, (and I have far more than a BA), earn FAR LESS. Three factors, studies show, greatly affect on what end of that average you will be: school selectivity, college major, and graduation rate.
If you do decide to go to college, considering what to major in ought to be a part of your process. For me, I love literature and writing and I wholeheartedly pursued advanced degrees in those fields. But now… well, I do not regret for a minute what I learned BUT I do wish I had pursued something with higher earnings potential that would allow me more free time to indulge my passion rather than being dependent on it. Ya feel me?
So take a look at this, The Cold Hard Facts.
I wonder if it's too late for me to become a plumber. I've got the perfect pair of pants…
That'll Be a Gazillion Dollars, Plus Tax: The High Cost of Textbooks
Posted: January 9, 2013 Filed under: College Students, Education, Infographic, Infographics | Tags: college bookstores, college costs, course materials, course packets, kevin carey, slate, Textbooks, the atlantic Comments OffI remember the first time I had to buy books as an undergraduate. I took my schedule and dutifully pulled book after book off the shelves for my courses and tried not to hyperventilate as I mentally tallied the increasing tab. Since I was a literature major, I was relatively lucky. My trade paper readings were typically between $20 and $40 dollars, but there were usually three or four required books per class. In addition to the required books, there was frequently a required "course packet," a collection of copywritten essays the professor had had copied and bound. These course packets could vary widely in price, but I do not recall any being less than fifty dollars. With a six course load, books fees were hundreds of dollars every single semester.
Yet, looking at the science major's cart beside me, I knew I was getting off easy. Just one of their hefty, hardcover textbooks was $200 or more. We all stood in line and wondered just how long a person could survive on Ramen noodles…
Now, I graduated (static…crackling…mumbling) years ago. Okay… ten years ago…with my Master's degree. Since then, there have been incredible technological advances: no one knew a "Nook" or a "Kindle" or an "iPad" could even be a thing in the world in 2003. If we had known such innovations were coming, I'm certain most of us would have guessed ebooks would have made textbooks and other materials far cheaper for students.
Let me say that louder.
In fact, textbooks have gone up EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWELVE PERCENT since 1978! Look!
Ummm, what? And why?
Both The Atlantic and Slate have recently written about this issue. In Slate, Kevin Carey puts some of the blame on professors who order up their "wish list" of course materials for their classes with little regard to how necessary the book is to their class. (I cannot say that this has been my experience as a professor, but perhaps that is because I teach in a relatively low-income district. We are all hyper aware of how much our students have to shell out for required materials and make every effort to minimize those costs.)
Carey also identifies another reason for the elevation of textbook costs: bundling. Publishers include things like software or handbooks that you may not want or need, either as a student or a professor, but you have no choice in the matter; you have to buy the bundle.
Still, the move to digital textbooks is increasing and this astronomical rise in prices is likely a last-ditch effort for the textbook publishing mob…errr.. business…to collect all the money possible while they can.
I wonder what's going to happen to the price of Ramen noodles in ten years?
The Truth About Youth and Books
Posted: November 9, 2012 Filed under: Books, College Students, Education, Infographic | Tags: books, infographic, Kindle, literature, reading habits, tablet, technology, young americans, young people, youth Comments OffYoung people today just don't read enough, right?
If you're under the age of 30, you've probably been accused of this at some point in your life. In fact, it seems that every upcoming generation is stereotyped as lazier than the one that came before it. We've all overheard the same complaints: "always up to no good with their fancy devices," "always at their computers or watching too much TV." "Why, back in my day…" You know the drill. In the end both sides come to believe that kids in the old days were both more capable of entertaining themselves and walked uphill both ways while they did it.
But what if the public perception of youth culture is just a little bit wrong? What if young people actually turned out to be the age group that reads the most, and frequents the library the most? Could that be? A survey conducted by Pew Research Center aimed to find out the truth about youth and books. Their results show that not only do 18-24 year-olds read more than any other age group, but that many are more open to it because of the availability of e-readers and e-books. So before you curse the decline of print publishing, think of how it might serve the next generation of iPad, Kindle, and Nook readers, and read on to find out more about the Pew Center's findings.


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Earlier today, deadmau5 pulled no punches when he went at Wildstylez for what he said was Wildstylez jacking "Some Chords" for his song "Straightforward." Before hitting his website to go on a live stream, deadmau5 left the following tweet:
in the studio on http://t.co/0YuJ4SG8Sz lets make a hardstyle track YAY! should only take about an hour.
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Uh oh. So off to live.deadmau5.com he went… and ended up not being able to master the signature hardstyle kicks:
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If you roll in that exercise, plus the other tweets that deadmau5 lobbed at hardstyle favorite Wildstylez and sort of lobbed at the hardstyle scene, you end up with a bunch of angered hardstyle fans. These things happen. As you can see up above, fans and foes alike had their words for deadmau5, so much so that he ended up having to leave the following Facebook post:
And maybe that's the problem. Maybe instead of throwing shots at the hardstyle scene, he should've just kept things about his disgust over Wildstylez and not gone in on that sound. DAD's all about producers standing for what they believe in, especially when it comes to their intellectual property and the perceived infringements on it, but maybe going in on the "hardstyle family" was a bit much. Unless, of course, deadmau5 a) DGAFOS or b) meant it when he went at them. Fair play to him if that's the case.


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Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 15-05-2008 15:25:02 +0200, Markus Duft wrote: > >>> Thanks for the in depth explanation. I'd not be surprised if Solaris >>> actually has the same problem. >>> >> If solaris supports ssp, yes, i think so too. >> > > I think it does support stack smashing protector stuff ;) > > >>> I've no idea of it in the main tree, but since it doesn't even compile >>> on Linux, I'd say, keep it masked. >>> >> Yeah, but maybe disabling the ssp for configure is the right way to >> go, since ssp is explicitly disabled when building gcc. I don't think >> that it will help sitting it out. >> > > gentoo-x86 has to figure this out for sure. SSP is a security thing, > and you don't *ever* want it to be disabled on a thing like SSH if you > enabled it for GCC (like hardened profiles do). > > (Replying to a oldish thread) I've looked a bit more into this, but still not sure what the best/cleanest solution is. Mainline Gentoo has this figured out - the recent glibc packages provide the SSP support. On my gentoo-x86 machine: $ readelf -s /lib/libc.so.6 | grep stack_chk 458: 000d4bd0 67 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 11 __stack_chk_fail@@GLIBC_2.4 There are some functions in toolchain.eclass that test glibc for SSP support, and if it finds the right symbols, configures GCC with "--disable-libssp". However, I don't think these tests work quite right for Prefix. My Debian Etch installs where I have Prefix, don't have a glibc with SSP symbols: $ readelf -s /lib/libc.so.6 | grep stack_chk (returns nothing) Yet toolchain.eclass will still configure GCC with "--disable-libssp" there (and again on OpenSolaris, where the system libc doesn't have SSP afaik). With only "--disable-libssp", GCC still accepts the "-fstack-protector" and "-fstack-protector-all arguments", since it only disables the building of the stack smashing protection *libraries*, not SSP itself. Programs will of course fail to link properly if either of these arguments is used. This affects OpenSSH 5.0, because the test code its configure uses to test "-fstack-protector", is too simple to trigger any SSP functionality. For example: simple.c (similar to the configure check) ---- #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char** argv) { return 0; } ---- $ gcc -fstack-protector -S -o simple.S simple.c $ cat simple.S | grep stack_chk (returns nothing) ssp.c (some unsafe code) ---- #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { char buffer[25]; strcpy(buffer, argv[1]); printf("%s\n", buffer); return 0; } ---- $ gcc -fstack-protector -S -o ssp.S ssp.c $ cat ssp.S | grep stack_chk call __stack_chk_fail So, IMO, the best option would be to modify toolchain.eclass to do a better check for SSP support on the host platform somehow, and --enable-libssp in more situations. If that is too difficult, maybe OpenSSH's -fstack-protector check could be patched so it tries to compile code which will actually force the use of the stack protector. (I've just noticed that OpenSSH 5.1 is out, but I haven't looked at it yet) Matt.
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Attending the convention were Floyd Kemper, Arlene Amaral, Mike McCoy, Elizabeth Kemper and Colleen Watkins.
The Yolo Club received first place awards in the following categories: All Sports (fundraising for cancer related organizations); Civic Affairs (providing service hours and donations to other local nonprofit organizations); and, publicity (distributing information through many avenues to the public and members through all forms of media).
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I don't understand why mattress lines are not regulated in any way. It seems
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at different prices. Can you tell me if the S&F Mandy mattress is the same as the
S&F Blisswood mattress?I am a 41 year old with lower back issues and the two
models that have felt best to me thus far are the S&F Mandy Plush Firm and the
Simmons Beautyrest Black Dafne Plush Firm. I am just now replacing a pillow top
model I got suckered into 8 years ago. I'm hoping my back problems may improve
as a result of this upgrade. Thank you!
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The name game is to protect the prices of the retailers...the manufacturer's customers.
The S&F line is in transition...changing from the current line to the new line. "Mandy" is a model name from the new line. I know this, because I have all of the names from the old line and that isn't one of them.
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If you can get me the specs for the Mandy, I can tell you which of ours is the same.
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I need an opinion on disconnecting my car battery when I will be gone from home for an extended time. I have a 1985 Mazda 626 that I leave in Florida. It will sit without being run for 2-3 months at a time. Someone recommended I disconnect the battery, so that when we return to Florida and reconnect the battery the car should start without having to be charged.
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Depending on how old this battery is...I'd think that if it is four years or more, I would just replace it... Otherwise, I would run a trickle charger, and it is probably better to disconnect the battery... |
absolutely yank the cable on the battery, the two minutes restting your favorite rap stations and time display are well worth the effort. |
If the battery is in good condition and fully charged, it should be ok if the storage period is no longer than 2 months. If you disconnect the battery, you may not only loose your radio and clock settings, but also the adjustments on the transmission shifting. After a battery disconnect, the transmission will revert to default shift timing and relearn these settings on subsequent shifts. The main reason for disconnecting the battery is to preserve the battery by avoiding a dischagred condition. In northern climes, this is a factor since a discharged battery can freeze. This should not be a factor in Florida. Also, fully discharing a battery may reduce its cranking capacity, e.g., it may not return to the same capacity on recharging. Unless you have an unusual drain on your battery, it should hold for 2 months. The drains that I know of are clock, keeping alive the radio settings, keep alive transmission settings, anti-theft system, and key-fob lock/unlock funcions. Of these, the anti-theft and key-fob systems are probably the largest drains. However, if you wish to maintain as much charge as possible in the battery, disconnect the hot lead. |
If it sits outside, I'd put a 2 or 3 watt solar cell charger/maintainer doohickey on the dash that plugs into the cigar lighter - unless its real exposed to vandal types who's temptation may be to bust a window to get at it. If it sits in a garage I'd buy it a little BatteryMinder float charger/maintainer that plugs into the wall power. I've had a riding mower on one of those for close to six years. Make sure the battery has a proper level of distilled water in it before you leave, just to be sure it doesn't die of thirst. |
If it isn't drawing any current, which it won't be unless you have a short, there is no reason to disconnect it. |
Batteries self discharge and car computer and usually a radio clock timer are ticking away something like a max of 25 milliamps an hour is the utoh point ... thats 18 amps per month, of a 100 amp battery that can only afford to loose 30 amps max otherwise its not got enuff oomph so it potentially looses half of its useable capacity per month ,,, while doing nuffin. |
Mikie: Convert your calculations to watt-hours, then compare. Amperes is a measure of current flow, not energy. (Watts x Time) is energy. A lead-acid car battery self discharges 8 to 10 percent per month. Thus in a 2 month period, it will retain approximately 0.9 x 0.9 = 0.81, or 81% of the original charge (or loose 19%). To this drain, add other the other loads to estimate the loss of stored energy in the battery. |
I dunno,, maybe I'm thinking wrong... 25 milliamp load. Auto Batteries are rated in Amp Hours capacity. Waste about 30 of them in a typical mid size car battery and its considered dead. |
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Neoconservatism has failed. How liberal internationalism can triumph in its place.
Maligned by all, deserted even by many of his closest associates, George W. Bush is actually a visionary. He is one of the few Americans and global leaders who "possessed the wit to see the future" after September 11 and "summoned up the courage to begin crossing over into it." That is the world according to Norman Podhoretz in his new book, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism.
Podhoretz is nothing if not tendentious; he is supremely sure of himself and speaks in absolutes–much like George W. Bush. The result is a lively but often infuriating book that will tempt many readers to counterpunch at every turn against its intemperate excess. Journalists may take offense at his insistence that coverage of the Iraq war demonstrates how "the Vietnam syndrome–the 'loss of self-confidence and the concomitant spread of neo-isolationist and pacifist sentiment'" across America–is "still alive and well." Historians may wonder at his certainty that the Vietnam War was popularly supported and all but won, had defeatist elites not lost their nerve. Academics may bridle, as did this reviewer, at his characterization of professors as "guerrillas-with-tenure" who forced students displaying American flags after 9/11 to take them down.
Resist this temptation. It is better to read the book as the purest possible statement of the Bush Doctrine, untainted by any compromise with practical politics. Podhoretz is a neo-con's neo-con–one of the very few, by his own account, left standing amid the wreckage of Iraq. Read this way, World War IV offers a valuable synopsis of the basic assumptions behind the Bush foreign policy revolution at a time when liberal internationalists, realists, and various hybrids (ethical realists, pragmatic idealists) are all jockeying to be its successor.
In the wake of the Iraq debacle, foreign policy thinkers on the left like Tony Smith and David Rieff have already charged many of their fellow liberals with enabling the Bush doctrine. In this view, the Clintonite embrace of democracy, combined with the development, after Rwanda and Kosovo, of the "responsibility to protect," paved the way for the neocon policy of imposing democracy through the unilateral use of force. After Bush, if the neocons are dead and liberal internationalists, now increasingly referred to as liberal interventionists, are tainted by association, then realists could again rule the day, embracing order and stability over ideology and values. That is why today it is vital for liberal internationalists–self-styled neo-Wilsonians–to take up the challenge of defining the precise line between their creed and that of neo-conservatives like Podhoretz. World War IV crystallizes those differences.
The cornerstone of Podhoretz's manifesto, as its title suggests, is that America is at war. Readers may be surprised to learn, however, that the U.S. government is actually involved in two wars: an international war against global Islamofascism and a domestic war against the "antiwar movement"–"a war so ferocious that some of us have not hesitated to describe it as nothing less than a kind of civil war." A civil war? Podhoretz's apocalyptic views of our domestic debates suggest that his diagnoses of international conflicts should be taken with more than a pinch of salt.
But let us begin with the international war: World War IV. Podhoretz insists on the numbering because he believes it is impossible to understand the current war against Islamofascism unless we understand how and why the Cold War was really World War III. It was not, in his reading, a long stand-off between the United States and the Soviet Union, but, as Eliot Cohen put it, "a mixture of violent and nonviolent efforts" over a long period, all with "ideological roots." The Korean War, the Vietnam War, and countless interventions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Central and South America were thus not discrete foreign policy events but all battles in a global conflict.
This analytical framework allows Podhoretz to link together 40 years of attacks by a wildly disparate group of actors as skirmishes and battles in World War IV. He includes Black September attacks on American and Israeli diplomats in the 1970s, the Iranian hostage crisis, the 1983 Hezbollah bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks, the PLO's hijacking of the Achille Lauro, the Lockerbie bombing by Libya, and unspecified Islamic terrorist operations in various countries that were not aimed at the United States but nevertheless killed Americans.
By doing so, Podhoretz buttresses his two central arguments. First, that all of these groups (and states, in the case of Libya and Iran) are different manifestations of the hydra-headed enemy Islamofascism, the successor to Nazism and communism. And second, that Islamofascists were emboldened by the failures of the Carter Administration, the Reagan Administration (at least after the Beirut barracks bombing), and above all the Clinton Administration to respond forcefully to their attacks. It is these "twin understandings" of the past that give rise to the twin pillars of the Bush Doctrine. The first pillar is "the new military strategy of preemption"; the second is the "new political strategy of democratization." Taken together, they provide an offense-based alternative to the Truman Doctrine's strategy of containment. During World War III, it was possible to hold off the Soviet Union both directly and indirectly by supporting their adversaries around the world. But in World War IV, it is necessary to take the war directly to the enemy. Containment and deterrence can't work, Podhoretz argues, because we are fighting nonstate actors, on the one hand, and "unbalanced dictators" who can't be trusted not to use their nuclear weapons on the other. Preemption is the answer–hitting our enemies before they can hit us and settling in to liberate "another group of countries from another species of totalitarian tyranny." The more accurate historical analogy, which Podhoretz resists, is not the Truman Doctrine, but rather "rollback"–the far more aggressive doctrine of liberating communist countries espoused by John Foster Dulles and Douglas MacArthur.
An attractive corollary to the Islamofascist worldview, from Podhoretz's perspective, is that America is not fighting Israel's war. On the contrary, Israel is fighting America's war. In a world war between Islamofascists and America, 60 years of repeated Arab attacks on Israel are only the opening volleys. According to Podhoretz, Clinton's attempts to make peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians were "obsessive" and "futile"–futile because the Palestinians cannot be dealt with as discrete actors, but only as part of a larger pan-Arab movement. Bush, on the other hand, has finally understood the nature of the corrupt and brutal governments surrounding Israel, meaning that Israel need not make peace until those governments become the kinds of democracies that it can trust.
Notwithstanding the sweep and ambition of this worldview, it is actually the domestic war that takes up the bulk of World War IV. A major advantage of characterizing the fight against global terrorist networks as a world war is that it enables Podhoretz to characterize any opposition to the Administration's foreign policy as an "antiwar movement." For him, the antiwar movement today comprises, in large part, the twenty-first-century successors to the "jackal bins" of the 1960s and 1970s. (Podhoretz uses the term "jackal bins" repeatedly, taking it from a mangling of the term "Jacobins" by columnist Jimmy Breslin. Its simultaneous connotations of feral scavengers and garbage containers apparently appeal to him.) This time around, as Podhoretz documents in chapter after chapter, the antiwar movement includes the mainstream media, isolationists right and left (including a group of right-wingers he calls "paleoconservatives"), liberal internationalists, realists, radical democrats, and right-wing defeatists (neocons who have lost their nerve). This litany does not leave many standing–really only Podhoretz himself, and George W. Bush.
Podhoretz's obsession with domestic political battles is revealing. The vehemence of his denunciations of his political opponents suggests a man beset with enemies at every turn. I am reminded of Alastair Moody in the Harry Potter books, with his eye swiveling about in every direction and his continual injunctions of "constant vigilance!" Like Moody, Podhoretz is right to point to dark forces in the world and even at home, but his own life experience has rather warped his perspective. More generally, Podhoretz's repeated denunciations of the members of "our domestic insurgency" remind us that the neocons still reserve their greatest wrath for their former bedfellows on the left.
Suppose that early 2009 brings a Clinton Doctrine, an Obama Doctrine, or an Edwards Doctrine, one that could very well be implemented by a Secretary of State Biden, Holbrooke, or Richardson. Suppose further that such a doctrine seeks to recover the Democrats' traditional liberal internationalist roots, reuniting support for democracy and multilateral institutions. That was the hallmark of Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Carter, and Bill Clinton. What might such a doctrine look like? Where, if at all, would it intersect with Podhoretz's description of the Bush Doctrine, and where would it differ?
A doctrine is a response to a threat, or threats; thus the first step is to diagnose the ills besetting the United States. For a Democratic president, the threat would not be "terror" per se, as in the war against terror. As General Anthony Zinni, among others, has pointed out, that is a war on a tactic, not an enemy. Neither would it be the constructed ideology of Islamofascism. (The fascists, Nazis, and communists of the twentieth century declared their ideologies themselves. They did not need us to fill in the blanks.) Instead of a hydra of different Islamic terrorist groups determined to bring America down, the great danger of the twenty-first century is a cluster of threats that would fundamentally alter life not only in the United States, but across the planet. These would include a terrorist strike with a nuclear or biological weapon; a nuclear arms race among multiple countries resulting in a nuclear war; the catastrophic rise of sea levels, wiping out cities and creating massive conflict; a global pandemic killing millions of people; or a war over dwindling supplies of energy.
Note that this list does not have nearly the alluring simplicity and fairy-tale, good-versus-evil quality of Podhoretz's narrative. But search the pages of World War IV in vain for a discussion of any of these threats. Podhoretz is so focused on the Islamic nature of the danger that he draws no distinction between the kidnapping of an American official and the possibility, which should be any president's nightmare, of the intersection between a terrorist group and a nuclear weapon. Yet if any of these horrific possibilities came to pass, the world as we know it would change terribly–even if we "win" World War IV.
The true liberal internationalist response, perhaps the true Trumanesque response, would be to develop a positive strategy, adding a vision of a better world to a policy of protecting against terrorist attacks and hunting down actual terrorists wherever we can find them. That vision would build not on the narrow Bush definition of freedom as elections and free speech, but rather on Roosevelt's four freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Where Podhoretz advocates preemption, a realistic and effective long-term strategy would call for patience and persistence to build the social, economic, and political foundations necessary for these freedoms to flourish. That was the wisdom of the Marshall Plan, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade–all designed in the wake of World War II to provide the economic assistance and the guarantee of financial and political stability necessary to allow shattered societies to rebuild from the ground up.
That strategy would also call for using all the dimensions of American power, rejecting the Bush Administration's love affair with force. It would revive the value of statecraft, the kind of vigorous and forceful diplomacy that Richard Holbrooke practiced in the Balkans and James Baker and Brent Scowcroft deployed in bringing about the peaceful reunification of Germany. And it would practice what former National Security Council staffers Nina Hachigian and Mona Sutphen, in their new book The Next American Century, call "strategic collaboration" with both allies and occasionally adversaries, spreading burdens, building institutions to lock in cooperation and tackle collective problems, strengthening relations, and ensuring that all countries have good reason to at least hedge their bets and not ally against us. This strategy would recognize that America is not the only protagonist in a war of ideas; it would also recognize that the war of ideas between violent fundamentalist jihadists and moderate Muslims must be ultimately be waged within Islam as much as within the West.
Finally, the core of this liberal internationalist strategy would not be democratization, but rather supporting democrats. Rarely has so much depended on a suffix. Democratization, or even democracy promotion, is something imposed or achieved from outside. Indeed, Podhoretz falls into the now-standard misquotation of Wilson's great address to Congress on our entry into World War I, where he supposedly, in Podhoretz's words, "promised to 'make the world safe for democracy.' " But as historian and Wilson expert John Milton Cooper points out, Wilson actually said, "The world must be made safe for democracy." Cooper argues that Wilson was a strict grammarian who would never have used the passive voice unintentionally. Instead, in Cooper's view, Wilson "meant that democracy must be defended where it existed, and if America could aid others in advancing democracy, so much the better."
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As much as I like being called "my lord," I equally dislike calling a waitress "wench." And yet those are the rules at Medieval Times in Schaumburg.
My family of four visited the castle perched beside Interstate 90 last week. The replica fortress is an impressive site. We were part of a group of 17 parents and children, all of us making our inaugural trip to the king's court.
Tickets aren't cheap: $59.95 for adults and $35.95 for children 12 and younger. That doesn't include tax, gratuity or a $4 online processing fee. We took advantage of a buy-one, get-one spring break deal. Still, the cost to walk into the castle was $140.
Upon arrival, the adults flocked to the bar. The kids then attempted to pull us into the gift shop. There's a full assortment of light-up swords, princess headdresses, wooden shields and dragon tchotchkes to entice the little lords and ladies.
My 6-year-old son sat and stared at an armory of steel broadswords, spears and axes for sale. Bubba merely adored the pricey blades, until spotting a small dagger (about the size of a letter opener) for $11. The rest of the evening he lobbied for this tiny sword as though he'd found the key to the gates of heaven.
We were eventually seated in the red and yellow knight's cheering section. The arena that debuted in 1991 is divided into various sections, each rooting for a warrior wearing a different color. Our knight looked like he was draped in the German flag — appropriate for the Ludwig party.
Our waitress introduced herself as "your serving wench, Meg." She was young and had a bright smile.
Still, I felt bad. The waitresses are made to wear low-cut outfits. They carry huge trays of food and serve an audience of half-buzzed parents and adrenalized children. Their reward is being referred to as "wenches."
"Can I get a fork?" one member of our party asked, mocking Medieval Times' no-silverware policy.
"Did you just say the 'F' word?" Meg replied, clearly prepared for the gag.
When it was time for drinks, she carried a total of six pitchers on her tiny tray. Then our wench poured cups of Pepsi, lemonade and water in the dark without spilling a drop. I was impressed; particularly considering a tip wasn't included for our party of 17.
The kids were impressed with the sword fights and jousting. The balsa wood lances explode upon impact. And the swords spark as the knights clash them together. Our knight proved to be quite the competitor, though he lost the final battle of the choreographed tournament.
I was thoroughly entertained for the evening. We were sending our defeated knight back to his dressing room with a final hoorah when Meg made her last pass.
She placed a small tray beside each adult, reminding everyone that a tip would be appreciated. I gave her $12.
"Thank you, my lord," she replied.
Had I known she was going to say that I'd have left a twenty.
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