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Iyona Anderson knew one thing going into Tuesday's Say Yes to the Prom event at Discovery Communications – there was no way she was going to select a ball gown. The feisty 17-year-old had dubbed her style anti-princess and was on the hunt for a sleeker look.
Iyona Anderson knew one thing going into Tuesday's Say Yes to the Prom event at Discovery Communications – there was no way she was going to select a ball gown. The feisty 17-year-old had dubbed her style anti-princess and was on the hunt for a sleeker look.
Fast forward a couple of hours, and Anderson beamed as she twirled in a blue creation of sparkles and tulle that would do Cinderella proud. She gushed that she was never taking it off as she hurried off to find matching shoes and accessories.
"She definitely said yes to that dress," said Monte Durham, host of "Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta."
Durham had traveled to Silver Spring, Md., home of Discovery Communications' headquarters, to be a part of the special day that gave 40 local high school girls a chance to select prom attire from a donated collection. The pre-prom event was modeled after the popular TLC show "Say Yes to the Dress." Anderson was one of five KidsPeace foster teens from Maryland and Washington D.C. chosen to be part of the second annual event. Accompanying Anderson for the day of glamour were Christina Washington, 18, Annie Stitt-Johnson, 18, Sade' Padilla, 16, and Aunica Shebex, 18.
Each girl was paired with a Discovery employee who served as mentor for the day. More than 800 dresses were donated for the event, and Discovery Communications staff transformed part of their headquarters into prom central. Dresses were displayed on garment racks, and an entire room was turned into a beauty salon. In addition to choosing their perfect dresses, the teenagers got to pick shoes, jewelry and handbags, all of which are theirs to keep. Seamstresses were on site to perform alterations, and the young ladies were treated to hair styling, makeup application and manicures.
Durham provided style tips and instructed the girls on how to carry themselves. He talked about "building the look beyond the dress," and told the group that "accessories make or break the outfit." He told them fit is the most important element when choosing clothing, and said standing in third position, with the heel of one foot positioned near the arch of the other, will help them have good posture. The young ladies took his advice to heart, heads held high as they ended the day with a red carpet runway walk to show off their looks. They chose a variety of styles, but every one of them eagerly said yes to the dress.
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Apple needs more retail locations in Canada for this to be any kind of effective. They have them in major cities and that's it. In US, every city has an apple store almost.
iPhone 3G S (Finally!) Available via Apple Retail Canada
Up until now, the only places to get iPhone 3G in Canada were Rogers and their subsidiary Fido. Apple Retail Stores didn't carry them.
Friday, with the introduction of the iPhone 3G S, that changes. Per Apple mailing:
Available at the Apple Retail Store June 19th. Stores open at 8:00am.
Which may be up to 2 hours earlier than your local Rogers/Fido store to boot. You can also book a personal shopping appointment to help you get in and out faster if you so choose. (Though we can't imagine spaces will last long).
So, Canadians, who's going to Rogers/Fido, and who's going to Apple Retail?
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iPhone 3G S (Finally!) Available via Apple Retail Canada
32GB is gonna be $800 so.... I'm gonna say I won't be buying it anyway.
But I will be working full-time soon so I guess my financial situation is going to change drastically.. so hmm.. mebbeh!
Great! Maybe next year they will let us pre-order online with delivery, then instead of having to Square One this Friday I could be enjoying my two favourite activities: not moving and getting stuff.
I should be in line at the St. Catherine Street Apple Store if all goes well. Anyone else?
I called Apple at Eaton Centre and the rep said they will not be selling an non-subsidized version! Also Rogers and Fido have stripped away the info that DEVICE ONLY PRICING WILL BE AVAILABLE. BOO!
Just called the Apple Store Yorkdale, there seems to be some confusion about no-contract pricing. When I first asked if they were available no-contract the representative said no, upon pressing she stated that I could buy the device outright at $699/$799 but i would still have to use rogers. The point being, if you say "no-contract" they sometimes think "unlocked" just letting you know, Yorkdale WILL be selling unsubsidizaed phones. See you guys there at 7am :P
Also, i booked an 11am appointment, will they hold a phone for me, or should i go in the morning to be sure?
Sorry guys...I stand corrected! The Eaton's Apple Rep gave me incorrect info. Here's some big news for us early adopters of the 3G link...http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/18/canadianiphone3gsbuyersgetlatediscountapplestoreoption.html
Right on Reality Check - thanks very much for posting that link.
I've been hoping something like this would be happening - I want the new 3G S, and when I phoned the local dealer they were quite adamant that I would "have to wait a year" - phooey! Life is too short - I want my toys NOW! haha.... video, voice stuff, compass and more speed is going to be great! Yay! Now I just hope they don't sell out before I get to the dealer.
Alright, questions still havnt been answered yet.
Im planning on getting the iPhone 3G S this friday, but all my Roger and Fido stores are sold out. Now, if you know the answer, please reply, otherwise dont waste your time.

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CHARLESTON — Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced this week that 16 additional counties, including Boone County, will receive Individual Assistance as part of the federal disaster declaration granted in July. Last week, Gov. Tomblin requested FEMA amend the previously issued federal declaration to include individual assistance to help West Virginians recover from the June 29th storm.
"I'm happy West Virginians will soon be getting the help they need to recover from the destructive summer storm," Gov. Tomblin said. "I'm grateful FEMA amended the declaration— these federal funds will provide much needed help to West Virginians families and businesses in 16 additional counties. This assistance will go a long way in helping folks in these areas get back on their feet."
"We encourage anyone who was affected by the June 29 through July 8 storms to register online with FEMA at www.DisasterAssistance.gov or by phone at 800-621-3362 (800-621-FEMA), said Dolph Diemont, FEMA's Federal Coordinating Officer.
"We hope that every person in these additional counties who had losses in this disaster will contact FEMA before the application deadline of November 19," said Jimmy Gianato, West Virginia's State Coordinating Officer. "No one who qualifies for help should be left out because of a missed deadline."
Eligible homeowners and renters may receive funds for home repair, rental assistance, repair or replacement of uninsured personal property, and disaster-related medical, dental and funeral expenses. Other disaster related expenses and serious needs may also be considered.
Low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration are available to cover both residential and business losses not covered by insurance.
Individuals and businesses in Boone, Cabell, Clay, Greenbrier, Jackson, Lincoln, Mason, McDowell, Mercer, Mingo, Monroe, Pocahontas, Roane, Tyler, Webster and Wood counties are now eligible for individual assistance from FEMA.
Last month, FEMA granted individual assistance in Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas, and Raleigh counties after the governor made an appeal. This week's announcement brings the total number of counties receiving individual assistance to 20.
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Bushnell, Fla. – WKA National Road Racing Series title sponsor and Manufacturers Cup class sponsor TS Racing is offering an X30 lease / purchase program.
TS Racing, an IAME engine importer, has announced they are offering an X30 engine lease/purchase program for this coming season.
Starting with the WKA Manufacturers Cup event this December in Daytona Beach, TS Racing is making it easy and affordable for drivers to try the X30 TaG engine. The Parilla X30 by IAME is WKA approved for TaG Senior, TaG Masters, Parilla Senior and the new Parilla Junior classes.
The program is designed to give drivers a chance to race the most competitive engine in the class and apply the lease costs to the purchase. X30 engine leases are available for $400 per weekend. Drivers that would like to purchase their lease engine after the first weekend, the entire lease price of $400 will be applied to the used engine price of an X30. You can continue to lease an engine and apply $600 after the second rental or $750 after the third rental to the used engine price of an X30.
The TS Racing engine-leasing program was instituted at last year's Florida Winter Tour with great success. The new lease/purchase program will also apply to the 2014 FWT.
TS Racing will not only have lease engines available but a trained engine technician will attend the WKA Manufacturers Cup and Florida Winter Tour events to assist all IAME Parilla customers.
As the importer of the X30 engine, TS Racing is in a unique position to make this offer to the racers. In addition to the X30, TS Racing is a stocking distributor for Leopard engines and parts. They now can service dealers, engine builders as well as individual kart racers. For more information on the TS Racing, IAME dealer program or engine leasing, contact them at 352-793-9600.


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This letter is directed to the Waitsfield voters and the Mad River community.
Construction of a mediocre new building on a productive piece of farmland in the center of Waitsfield's National Historic Register District is a really bad idea...even with $750,000 from the state of Vermont to do it.
How did a project that was decidedly not supported by the Waitsfield voters end up getting state grant funding and thereby buying its way to a bond vote? The answer to that question is not because it has merit or community support. The answer lies in where and with whom the Farm Stand agenda remains and how this agenda has warped and compromised the process and project.
The current select board has been doing an admirable job in its attempts to govern by including and listening to the people. It is unfortunate that their varied and thoughtful alternate approaches on the town office issue have been thwarted. I appreciate their attempts and wish they had less pressure to act hastily and more support to take their time and build a project that has community support.
The process and product can be, and has been, manipulated and compromised in myriad ways. After 17 years in Waitsfield I am still surprised to learn of new ways and twists to gain support for a project that has very little. Shifting $750,000 of cost to the state and federal governments does not make a new building at the Farm Stand site any better or more deserving of your vote. Please join me, once again, in voting a big no on Waitsfield's planned July bond vote. We desire and deserve better than this, both on the process and project side of things. Give our current select board a chance to do what they wanted to do....listen to and lead the people. Voting no is the right thing to do and, in the end, is what needs to happen so that a community-supported town office project can develop.
Let your voice and your vote be heard and thank you for your consideration.
Kirsten Seibert
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- Hadronic observables from SIS to SPS energies: anything strange with strangeness? (2002)
- We calculate p, ±,K± and (+ 0) rapidity distributions and compare to experimental data from SIS to SPS energies within the UrQMD and HSD transport approaches that are both based on string, quark, diquark (q, ¯q, qq, ¯q ¯q) and hadronic degrees of freedom. The two transport models do not include any explicit phase transition to a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). It is found that both approaches agree rather well with each other and with the experimental rapidity distributions for protons, s, ± and K±. In- spite of this apparent agreement both transport models fail to reproduce the maximum in the excitation function for the ratio K+/ + found experimen- tally between 11 and 40 A·GeV. A comparison to the various experimental data shows that this failure is dominantly due to an insu cient description of pion rapidity distributions rather than missing strangeness . The modest di erences in the transport model results on the other hand can be attributed to di erent implementations of string formation and frag- mentation, that are not su ciently controlled by experimental data for the elementary reactions in vacuum.
- Open charm and charmonium production at RHIC (2003)
- We calculate open charm and charmonium production in Au + Au reac- tions at ps = 200 GeV within the hadron-string dynamics (HSD) transport approach employing open charm cross sections from pN and N reactions that are fitted to results from PYTHIA and scaled in magnitude to the available experimental data. Charmonium dissociation with nucleons and formed mesons to open charm (D + ¯D pairs) is included dynamically. The comover dissociation cross sections are described by a simple phase-space model including a single free parameter, i.e. an interaction strength M2 0 , that is fitted to the J/ suppression data for Pb + Pb collisions at SPS energies. As a novel feature we implement the backward channels for char- monium reproduction by D ¯D channels employing detailed balance. From our dynamical calculations we find that the charmonium recreation is com- parable to the dissociation by comoving mesons. This leads to the final result that the total J/ suppression at ps = 200 GeV as a function of centrality is slightly less than the suppression seen at SPS energies by the NA50 Collaboration, where the comover dissociation is substantial and the backward channels play no role. Furthermore, even in case that all di- rectly produced J/ mesons dissociate immediately (or are not formed as a mesonic state), a sizeable amount of charmonia is found asymptotically due to the D + ! J/ + meson channels in central collisions of Au + Au at ps = 200 GeV which, however, is lower than the J/ yield expected from f pp collis ns.


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Welcome back to the "Life's a Journey" series, where we revisit some of life's little moments worth remembering.
Last week we romped through your Teenage Crushes. Ouch. Embarrassing…… This week I'd like you to dig deep and share a post about your First Movie Memories (Linky below this post). Here's mine…….
Grease is the (rude) Word
Technically, this was not the first movie I ever saw. It was, however, the first movie I ever went to see without a parent in tow, in a 'grown-up' kind of way.
It was 1978. A long time ago. So long ago infact that the Cinema in which I saw this life-changing film has since been upgraded to a McDonald's (which was in itself something of a phenomenon for a UK town in that era).
I was 12 years old and I suspect my parents had no idea that the film was a bit 'racey' in parts. To be perfectly honest, the dodgy bits went entirely over my head, since I had no idea what most of the sexual inuendo was about. D'Oh!
My abiding memories are threefold:-
1. The size of the queue to get in. My best friend and I went outside the theatre and around the block to find the end of the snake. I had, and have never since, seen a queue for a movie to rival it.
2. It was the first time I ever saw an entire audience applaud at the start, middle and end of a film. The atmosphere was "electrifying" (pardon the pun, couldn't resist).
3. The gorgeousness of both Mr Travolta and Miss Newton-John. I wanted to be them, snog them, eat them, wear them, live them.
To be fair, I was an impressionable twelve year-old. I was easily pleased. But the intensity of emotion which this movie filled me with was/is unforgettable. It left its impression on me, like a dent in my consciousness, for weeks and weeks after the event.
Back then, of course, there was no Internet to use for drooling purposes during the post-movie 'come-down' stage. It was pure cold turkey, unless you bought one of the teen magazines which I wasn't allowed. Grrr. Instead, I contented myself with styling my hair in an 'up-gripped' Olivia 'do' and searching the local Woolworths for a white cotton button-through nightie a la "Hopelessy Devoted To You" scene.
It goes without saying that I still know all the words….. By the way, You're Most Welcome.
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Biggs 239
All ONU students and faculty are welcome!
Students and faculty have a chance to compete in the first KEEN Innovation Challenge on Tuesday, September 10 from 11:00 am-12:00 pm in Biggs 239.
Teams of three are required—each team must include at least one engineering student, and cannot be made up of students or faculty members from only one major. Participants can either form teams prior to the event, or just show up ten minutes early and the facilitator will match them up with others in need of additional teammates.
The goal of the challenge is for participants to exercise their minds and creativity, just as they would their bodies. Teams are given an impromptu challenge and will have one hour to complete the challenge. Whichever team best completes the challenge successfully first wins $300 ($100 per teammate).
The challenge events are sponsored by the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network and Ohio Northern University. For additional information: contact Dr. John-David Yoder at 419-772-2385 or email@example.com.


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A Clinical Trial of Nivolumab Alone or with Ipilimumab in Patients with Glioblastoma
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In addition to providing excellent care, physicians at the Brain Tumor Center are constantly working to improve treatment for brain tumors. An important part of this effort takes place in our clinical trials, which investigate a wide range of new approaches to diagnosis and treatment.
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Interesting Things
- Using 'require' explicitly interferes with class reloading in Rails
Frederick Cheung discusses this in more detail here. This might be related to the Selenium + class reloading issues some pivots have experienced in recent weeks. The alternative is to rely on Rails automagic loading or 'require_dependency'.
- acts_as_fu makes writing database independent tests for models is easier
Props to pivot Pat Nakajima for creating acts_as_fu.


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Here we have Gathorc, Dwarf Paladin from the Skullcrusher server (Gathorc gives a big shout-out to Guild Benevolent!). Sure, he's one of those annoying Alliance toons, but nevertheless to our eyes he's definitely got some bragging rights: getting exalted with Stormpike takes some serious grinding time, maxing out Herbalism is nothing to sniff at, and check out the list-o-purple, below!
If you have no idea what the previous paragraph is getting at, move along, nothing to see here. If you're proud of your World of Warcraft Toon and want to be able to show it off on the go, might we recommend our favorite of the iPhone WoW apps, Warcraft Characters (iTunes link, Free).
You can search by character name without having to specify your server, get full views of Basic info, Stats, Combat Stats, Gear, and Reputation, and of course save your favorites to more easily show them off.
Because, honestly, we know that you can't stop thinking about WoW and are going to bring it up the next time we're out -- you may as well have the ability to explain why in the name of the Earthmother you spec'd your Tauren Hunter Marksman instead of Beastmaster. Seriously, don't you read BigRedKitty?
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Quick App: Warcraft Characters
this is a nice App, to bad WoW sucks. It's a timesink addiction based formula only to pull in those who are weak of mind.
Remember folks. video games are meant to be fun. Not work.
that is all.
Hmmm. We have a WoW hater!
Remember folks. Not every WoW player plays all day every day. Most, in fact, actually have very successful "real lives" and have FUN playing when they do.
I wouldn't consider myself "weak of mind" being that I graduated with distinction with a math degree and got an awesome deal for grad school (tuition waver + stipend) while playing WoW at the same time.
Sorry for the rant. I hate stereotypes.
We heard BigRedKitty is just a loud-mouthed schnook who doesn't even have an iPhone. Totally!
I'm not a fan of this application though I'm a big fan of WoW.


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|Early Intervention Process (EIP) Student Data Reports
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Lights off, the gray, silent afternoon seeps in through the curtains allowing me just enough illumination to slice and chop apple, the slick flesh leaving a sticky glaze on my hands. As the fog settles onto the city's rooftops, enveloping the church towers in a soft blanket of mystery, graffiti in pink, blue and gold pressing forward in an endless effort to assert itself, I press my hands into the chilled pastry, brush off a cloud of wintry flour and prepare to assemble this year's Galette. The hours upon hours, weeks into years, I spent long ago watching a chef pound, roll, turn endless mounds, endless squares, endless layers of puff pastry come back to me, his hypnotic movements, the creamy dough against the silver shine of the worktop reminding me, urging me on. I try and imitate his actions, but lose myself in the sensual pleasure of my every gesture, the clean, bright scent of fresh dough, its smooth, cool softness, the delicate poof of powdery flour that rises around me, making me laugh. And I forget the haunting grayness of this bleak midwinter.
Galette des Rois – the traditional King's Cake for Epiphany, the 6th day of January – has become something of a tradition in our own home. Glass cases of every bakery and pastry shop fill with an endless display of golden puff pastry cakes as soon as Christmas is ended, a myriad of choice flavors tempt us from frangipane to apple, from chocolate to cherry. Excited like children, we make our choice, haggling, making deals, whose turn is it to choose? The warm galette is slipped into the slim white paper sack and we dash home hoping to be the one to find the fève, the tiny ceramic figurine, tucked inside our own slice. We lick the last of the sticky crumbs off of our fingers, pick up each last crumbly flake scattered on plates and laps and wonder how long we have to wait until we allow ourselves to purchase another one before the short season is over.
Although my experience watching Chef make one block of puff pastry after another, roll, fill, trim and bake one Galette des Rois after the next was repeated four years in a row over twenty years ago, I didn't gather the courage to make my own until quite recently. And I fell in love with the challenge, the sensuality, the soothing, mesmerizing rhythm of the work in progress. I don't make a batch of pâte feuilletée often, maybe only twice or thrice a year, but January rolls around and husband begins to hint just as the chimes hit midnight, the calendar flips over to the new year, the new month, a mere few days until Epiphany. Mine may not be as perfect or as elegant or even as flavorful as those bought in any number of local boulangeries or pâtisseries, but each galette I make is definitely made from the heart. An A for effort?
There is no religious symbolism in these galettes in our home, no religious affinity with the day. But there is something emblematic about having a galette or two to kick off the New Year, something comforting about eating warm, crispy, sweet galettes in the dead of winter. Husband waits expectantly, a yearly habit, an annual custom, biding his time with a bakery-bought galette, until I pull out the flours, the rectangles of butter, decide on a filling – or two – until he hears the familiar bang bang bang of the rolling pin on pastry, sees the two white powdery handprints on the back of my skirt where I inadvertently wiped them clean and knows that one of my homemade Galette des Rois is in the making. He finds the box where a dozen or so tiny ceramic figurines, lucky fêves of galettes past lie nestled in a happy heap, sifts through the collection and chooses one that I will push down into the frangipane or the fruit compote or the pastry cream before placing the second round of feuilletée atop and slide it into the oven.
More favorite recipes using puff pastry:
Roasted Cherry Tomato, Rocket & Feta Quiche
Nectarine Jalousie
Tarte Fine aux Pêches
Portuguese Cream Tartlets
Caramelized Onion and Tomato Tart
Puff Pastry (recipe follows) – Pâte Feuilletée
4 pie/tart or baking apples
¼ cup (50 g) granulated brown or white sugar
1 Tbs (15 g) butter
½ tsp ground cinnamon
Egg wash (1 egg yolk + 1 tsp cold water)
Powdered/confectioner's sugar for dusting
Prepare the Puff Pastry:
8.8 oz (250 g) cake flour
8.8 oz (250 g) bread flour (type 55)
2.5 oz (70 g) softened butter
2 tsps table salt
1 cup (250 ml) cold water
17.6 oz (500 g) cold unsalted butter (choose a butter with low water content)
The détrempe or the basic dough can easily be made in a food processor, but I did this by hand in a snap.
Blend the 2 flours and the salt in a large mixing bowl. Add the butter cut into cubes and rub into the dry ingredients until it has disappeared. Add the chilled water all at once and stir until all of the dry ingredients are moistened and the dough starts to pull together. Add a tablespoon or two more if needed. Scrape out onto a well-floured work surface and knead for just a few minutes until the dough is smooth and pliable.
Form the dough into a ball, wrap it in a damp towel and refrigerate for about 5 minutes.
Incorporating the Butter:
Place the butter between 2 sheets of plastic wrap and beat it with a rolling pin until it flattens into a square 1" thick. Take care that the butter remains cool and firm: if it has softened or becomes oily, chill it before continuing.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Working on a well-floured surface, roll out the dough into an approximately 10" square. Keep the top and bottom of the dough well floured to prevent sticking and lift the dough and move it around frequently. Starting from the center of the square, roll out over each corner to create a thick center pad with "ears," or flaps. Place the cold butter in the middle of the dough and fold the ears over the butter, stretching them as needed so that they overlap slightly and encase the butter completely. (If you have to stretch the dough, stretch it from all over; don't just pull the ends) you should now have a package that is 8" square. Make sure it stays cool at all times; if need be just pop the whole thing into the refrigerator regularly for a few minutes until it firms up again.
Making the Turns:
Gently but firmly press the rolling pin against the top and bottom edges of the square "package" to seal, thus ensuring the dough stays square. Keeping the work surface and the top of the dough well floured, roll the dough into a rectangle, perpendicular to your body, 3 times as long as wide (24" long, the width may vary between 8" and 9" but don't worry).
Brush off all excess flour from the dough and fold the bottom of the dough up (mark off 8" down from the top and align the edge of the folded dough to this). Again brush off excess flour from the folded up portion and bring down the top remaining third so the edge comes to the bottom edge (the dough is now folded into thirds, all edges even and no gaps). Pull gently on the corners if need be so there are no gaps. Gently but firmly press the rolling pin on the edges to "seal" so when rolling again the edges stay aligned.
Rotate the dough so that the closed fold is to your left like the spine of a book. Repeat the rolling (perpendicular to your body) and the folding process one more time (you'll now be rolling and folding the dough in the other direction). Once it is rolled out and folded again into thirds, you have just completed the second turn. If the dough is still cool and no butter is oozing out, you can give the dough another two turns now. If the condition of the dough is iffy and beginning to soften, wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate it for at least 30 minutes. Each time you refrigerate the dough, mark the number of turns you've completed by indenting the dough with your fingertips. It is best to refrigerate the dough for 30 to 60 minutes between each set of two turns. The total number of turns needed is six (or 3 x 2 rolls/folds). If you prefer, you can give the dough just four turns now, chill it overnight, and do the last two turns the next day. Puff pastry is extremely flexible in this regard. However, no matter how you arrange your schedule, you should plan to chill the dough for at least an hour before cutting or shaping it.
Prepare the Caramelized Apple Filling:
Prepare the filling after the last two turns of the dough have been completed and the dough is resting in the refrigerator.
Peel and core the apples. Chop into small cubes. Heat a large skillet and, over low heat, add the sugar and allow it to melt and begin to color. Add the butter and stir, allowing it to cook very briefly until a caramel. Add the cubes of apple and toss and stir quickly to coat with the caramel; if some of the caramel has solidified, simply continue to cook the apples, stirring often, and the caramel will melt and blend with the apples. Cook the apples for 10 or 15 minutes over low or medium-low heat, stirring often, until tender – more or less so as desired. Remove from the heat and stir in the ground cinnamon. Allow to cool to room temperature before assembling the Galette.
Assemble the Galette des Rois:
The block of Puff Pastry should make either one 8 ½-inch (21 cm) large – with puff pastry left over for another project or a second slightly smaller Galette – or 8 x 4 ½ inch (11 ½ cm) individual Galettes. This quantity apples will fill one large Galette or 8 small. For my four individual galettes, I used 600 grams dough (with some leftover) but 1 pound (500 grams) would work better, making slightly thinner galettes.
Roll out the puff pastry to a thickness of ¼ inch (1/2 cm), long and wide enough to cut out 8 or 16 rounds of 4 ½-inch diameter rounds – the dough my quadruple in thickness when baking so decide in advance whether you desire a thin galette or a thick galette. Using a template or metal ring molds – whatever is available - and using a very sharp knife, trace and cut out the discs. Place the discs carefully on parchment-lined baking sheets, cover with plastic wrap and let rest in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Stack remaining dough (don't mash together into a ball as you would other dough), wrap in plastic wrap and store in the fridge for another use.
Remove prepared rounds of puff pastry. Choose half to be the bottoms of the cakes and, leaving them on the parchment-lined baking sheets, gently press the edges out a bit with your fingers to enlarge the circles slightly. Mound 2 to 3 tablespoons of the cooled apple filling in the center of each bottom disc of dough, leaving about a ½ inch (1 cm) border of dough free around the edges. Press a fève, a ceramic charm of some sort, or even an old-fashioned dried bean or a coin into the filling, if desired.
Paint the outer edge of each dough disc around the filling lightly with the egg wash (too wet and the top disc may slide during baking). Gently place the second disc of dough on top of the filling placing the top and bottom discs' edge to edge (so the edges meet all the way around), gently stretching the top disc if needed so the edges line up. Press to seal tightly, pressing to have at least one finger width of pastry around all the edges well sealed.
Using a sharp knife held perpendicular to the table, cut into the side edges of the dough to create a scalloped edge all around to the cakes. Now carefully carve a design into the top of the cakes (not too deeply into the dough). Brush the top and sides of the dough lightly with egg wash. Place the tray of galettes in the refrigerator for the time the oven takes to preheat.
Preheat oven to 425°F (220°C).
Place in the hot oven and bake for 20 minutes until the pastry is puffed up and golden.
Reduce the oven temperature to 400°F (200°C) and continue baking for an additional 25 minutes (maybe a bit longer for a large Galette) until the sides of the pastry are also golden and crisp and the pastry is well risen. If you think the pastry is browning too quickly, simply lay a piece of foil over the top.
Remove the Galettes from the oven and move the rack up one notch. Generously dust the entire top surface of each Galette with powdered sugar (using a sieve or sifter) then place the pastry back in the oven.
Now bake for around 5 minutes until the sugar has turned to a golden and very shiny glaze. Stand next to your oven and watch because once you have the perfect glaze it can very quickly, in the flash of an eye, burn! You must watch so you can pull it out of the oven just as the last of the top turns a gorgeous shiny deep golden and not leave it one second longer.
Remove the Galettes from the oven and slide the parchment paper off onto a cooling rack. Allow the Galettes to cool before serving.
If serving a Galette des Rois with a fêve inside, make sure there is a child under the table while the host cuts the Galette and then passes each slice as the child calls out whom to serve. Have a paper crown ready to crown the King or Queen who finds the charm!
20 comments:
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Whar beautiful galettes! Ever so tempting. And that puff pastry is just pure perfection!
- January 7, 2013 at 2:07 AM
- Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella said...
I saw your pics of this on facebook and sighed with happiness. I was lucky enough to try one of these one year, bought by a French friend and it was sheer buttery, puffy heaven!
- January 7, 2013 at 4:47 AM
- Sally - My Custard Pie said...
Book marking this as have resolved to make more pastry in 2013 and puff pastry is the ultimate challenge as far as I'm concerned!
- January 7, 2013 at 5:16 AM
- Lisa said...
This was the look on my face when I saw this apple filled buttery puff ---> :>O. Not to mention..your photos are so beautiful..I can see every crystal of sugar on top of these beauties. I love making puff pastry too. Not only is the preparation therapeutic, but seeing the 'thousand layers' that YOU made, puff up beautifully, is so gratifying! Happy Epiphany!
- January 7, 2013 at 5:26 AM
- Sarah, Maison Cupcake said...
Lovely variation - puff pastry and apple fillings go so well together. I made mine from your recipe you published on Huff Post!
- January 7, 2013 at 5:32 AM
- Kate | Food Babbles said...
These little pastries look so flakey and inviting. Absolute perfection! I am definitely bookmarking these to make in the future. They look so lovely Jamie!
- January 7, 2013 at 7:15 AM
- Robin O said...
Pure admiration. The effort, the comfort of familial custom and the pride of success. All wrapped up in tempting galettes!
Oh how you made me laugh at the image of floury hand prints on your back side ;-) That could be me.
- January 7, 2013 at 7:34 AM
- Rossella said...
Marvellous. I'm scared in making my own puff pastry. You give me courage to try it one day.
- January 7, 2013 at 8:36 AM
- Paula @ Vintage Kitchen said...
I used to make puff pastry all the time, and sometimes there´s nothing like it. Certain recipes need it. Caramelized anything with puff pastry is amazing. This galette is perfect!
- January 7, 2013 at 8:54 AM
- Charlie said...
I love the brilliantly evocative image of the two flour handprints on your skirt - the universal image of the best, most heartfelt home cooking. And an A for effort? You must be joking. Take an A star! I love this post, Jamie and all the family traditions that go with it.
- January 7, 2013 at 10:54 AM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
I can't imagine finding anything in a pastry shop that would surpass these beautiful king's cakes.
- January 7, 2013 at 12:55 PM
- Amanda said...
Oh, my Jamie - your pastry looks so perfect! Puff pastry is in my "too hard" basket, but these images make me want to reconsider that decision, although it is high summer here & not at all conducive to pastry making.
- January 7, 2013 at 4:25 PM
- ilva said...
perfection, what else can I say?
- January 8, 2013 at 4:19 AM
- Terra said...
I love learning how special this galettes is, what a lovely treat to ring in the new year:-) It really looks so delicious, and a perfect treat on a chilly day:-) Hugs, Terra
- January 8, 2013 at 4:35 AM
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
Woooo way to sensual in that first paragraph. Makes me think I could do puff pastry and I know I can not.
These are absolutely glorious.
- January 8, 2013 at 11:58 AM
- WiseMóna said...
Really ... reading this does make me think I can make pastry like this and I KNOW I CAN'T.
Jamie ... I know I have said this before - your words transport me every time I pop in for a visit. It is like being on a mini-break having a read and a dream ... only this time when I snapped out of it is was mad there was nothing to have with my tea. I hope you can spend a few extra days in Ireland when you come in May and come to visit us xx
- January 8, 2013 at 2:02 PM
- Ivy said...
Happy New Year Jamie. Sorry I haven't been blog hopping lately but seems that I am not finding as much time as I would like to. I've always wanted to make a Galette des Rois but have never made it yet. Now I know I must definitely try it but may be with ready made puff pastry as I have not mastered the art of making my own yet :(
- January 9, 2013 at 9:54 AM
- Dewi said...
Made into perfection! This King's cake steal many hearts for sure.
- January 9, 2013 at 10:06 AM
- Sylvie @ Gourmande in the Kitchen said...
What are you talking about "not be as perfect or as elegant"? The first thing I thought to myself when I saw yours was "how does she make hers look so perfect?"!
- January 9, 2013 at 6:47 PM
- Deeba PAB said...
Only you could make something as perfect and pretty a this, elegant too. This is a Galette des Rois fir for a king. I LOVE that cross section...wow! This is so warming for this season...caramelised apples? YES PLEASE!
- January 10, 2013 at 6:59 AM


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September 20, 2012
Corrosion Issues and Test Methods
MWF Hot Topics: Microbicides
Jerry Byers, Cimcool Fluid Technology and STLE President
Dr. Fred Passman, BCA Inc.
Corrosion Issues and Test Methods – The presentation will cover test methods used to evaluate the corrosion of metals. The focus will be on using a specific corrosion test method to examine each of five metals commonly used in industry. Presented by Jerry Byers
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September 20, 2012
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Thursday, August 28, 2014
A 70-year-old Murrells Inlet woman was accused of "larceny of service" by her hairdresser.
A deputy met with a worker at Hair Trends on Mink Ave. Aug. 15.
The hairstylist said the woman came into the business on Aug. 9, asking that her hair be redone because her husband did not like the style they gave her two days prior.
The woman said she did not have any money at the time but would deliver a check on Aug. 13.
However, she never returned with the payment and did not answer calls made to her by the employee.
The deputy made contact with the accused and told her of the consequences she faces for non-payment.
The deputy was later notified that the woman and the owner had reached a compromise and no charges were filed.
A man from the 500 block of Key Largo Lane said his 30-year-old brother assaulted him Aug. 17.
He said he was outside smoking when his brother asked if he would share the cigarette.
He said he told his brother "no" and went back inside. He said his bother picked up a flower pot, followed him inside and threw it at him. He said the pot struck him on the back.
The man said his brother had been doing drugs and was aggressive throughout the day.
When the accused brother was questioned by a deputy, he became "very disorderly and uncooperative" so he was arrested.
Once in the patrol car, the man said he was having a panic attack and his chest was hurting. EMS responded and transported the man to Waccamaw Community Hospital where he was admitted because of the drugs he had taken.
The man was released the next day and was listed as the suspect on a second report.
His brother called 911 and said after the suspect returned from the hospital he started acting disorderly again by throwing food at him and scratching his back during an altercation.
He said he was asleep when his brother walked in his room and threw food all over his bed.
He said after that his brother broke the house phone and assaulted him causing a cut on his neck and shoulder.
The suspect was found in the Beaver Bar parking lot and was taken to jail.
Swindling salesman
A deputy was sent to Island Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram Aug. 13 and met with woman who said the suspect – a 26-year-old man – received $300 from a individual making it seem as if it was a down payment on a car.
But, the man — who is an employee — was not representing the dealership in this instance .
It was confirmed the business never received the money listed on the receipt.
The man was terminated and the dealership reimbursed the victim.
The case was presented to a magistrate for warrant consideration.
Someone's been here
A burglary was reported at a home in the 4800 block of South First Street.
The victim, who was away, said her sister-in-law stopped by to turn on the hot water heater and discovered wet towels and other items that made it appear someone had been there.
The owner said no one had permission to be staying in the house.
The woman said only a bag of jewelry, valued at $430, was missing.
She said she has caught her nephew at the house without permission in the past but unsure if he is responsible this time.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The Maritime Association of South Carolina celebrated 87 years of service to the ports with its 2013 annual meeting and gala on March 8 at the Charleston Marriott. More than 530 people packed the Crystal Ballroom as Kinder Morgan's Art Rudolph passed the chairman's gavel to Steve Kicklighter of McAllister Towing.
Legislator of the Year awards were given to Senator Hugh Leatherman and Representative Brian White for their crucial roles in appropriating $300 million for the deepening of Charleston Harbor. SPA President and CEO Jim Newsome introduced the two lawmakers and explained how this funding puts South Carolina at a huge advantage in the race to deepen our harbor for post-Panamax ships.
Jane Thornhill and Sue Hinkle received the Maritime Advocate and Beacon Awards respectively. Thornhill was recognized specifically for her vocal support of the maritime sector during the ongoing cruise debate; while Hinkle was acknowledged for her years on service on the waterfront – notably serving as director of the Charleston Port and Seafarers' Society that provides much needed services to the 65,000 mariners who call on Charleston's ports each year.
Art Rudolph recapped the year noting that MASC continues to grow and underwent a smooth transition with new staff taking over after 18 years of leadership from past-President John Hassell, whom was awarded an honorary membership to the association. Newly installed Chairman Steve Kicklighter ended the program by reminding everyone that the local and state economy is dependent on a vibrant port - and that all must continue working together to Git 'r dug!
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LAS VEGAS -- By now, Cain Velasquez has been asked about his "Brown Pride" tattoo so often, he's pretty much gotten used to it.
During a press conference at the MGM Grand promoting UFC 155, the former UFC heavyweight champion was once again asked about his tattoo, which he considers a representation of pride in his Mexican-American heritage. But this time, UFC president Dana White stepped in and left no doubt where he stands."That's definitely a question that everyone brings up," Velasquez said Thursday. "It's just like any other question you've answered other times. It's fine."
Velasquez, for his part, seems eager to put it all to rest."People that have a problem with the Brown Pride' tattoo are morons," he said. "It says Brown Pride.' Big deal; the guy is proud to be Mexican.
"I lived in Boston, every Italian was running around with something Italian on their body," White continued. "Every guy who was Irish had some Irish tattoo on him, and the list goes on and on. It's ridiculous."
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – New England Revolution midfielder Kelyn Rowe won Major League Soccer's AT&T Goal of the Week for Week 26, MLS announced today.
Rowe scored a pair of long-distance goals on Sunday against the Philadelphia Union, the second of which captured 41 percent of the fan voting through MLSsoccer.com in the four-day voting period between Monday and Thursday. Montreal Impact forward Marco Di Vaio's goal finished in second place with 21 percent of the vote.
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