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About this Vendor
Creating delicious memories since 1959!
Featured on The Food Network, TLC, and more, Freed's Bakery's talented bakers and cake designers create the most unique and beautiful wedding cakes in Las Vegas. Freed's offers a large variety of wedding and specialty cakes, pastries, desserts, cookie trays, and fresh baked goods.
$$ – Affordable
Cake Accessories, Cake Delivery + Setup, Groom's Cakes, Cakes + Desserts
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Delicious!Reviewed on 5/27/2014 Keegan J
As a destination bride traveling from Missouri for my Las Vegas wedding, I had to rely on reviews from other helpful brides for many of my vendors. Of all the vendors I reached out to for wedding cakes, Freed's responded first and was able to provide loads of information to... Read More me. I had so many questions, and they were responsive to each and every one of them. I ordered a three tier cake and each had different flavors. With zero opportunity to taste the cakes ahead of time, I was basically going in blindly. Jamie B. contacted me the day before the wedding to confirm delivery, and the colors of the flowers for the cake. Upon arrival to the reception space I went straight to the cake and it was BEAUTIFUL! I could not wait to dig in. When the cake course came along I chose the tier with white cake and raspberry puree filling...it was the best wedding cake I've ever tasted! Soft, moist cake with sweet butter creme icing and fruity filling - so good (even the next day)! Sadly, our top tier did not travel well to keep for the one year anniversary. But the next time we're in Las Vegas we will be visiting Freed's to reenact the best way we can!
Yum!Reviewed on 5/07/2014 Christy H
Our wedding cake was beautiful and tasted even better. The prices are fair and Nancy helped me decide on flavors as well as the cake size. The delivery was prompt. My only tiny complaint is the cake board was larger than it should have been for my size cake so I had overhang... Read More on the cake stand. If I would've thought to ask about this before hand I could have ensured my cake stand was the right size. I'm fairly certain I am the only one who noticed however. My favorite was the lemon layer with raspberry mousse.
So Good!Reviewed on 5/06/2014 DAWN
I had a 3 layer cake from Freed's with lemon, red velvet, and chocolate as my flavors. OMG it was so good and moist and the butter cream frosting was great! I loved my cake. It looked great too. They did a wonderful job.
Although I couldn't do a tasting before the wedding, I felt confident ordering from Freed's, based on all the reviews here. The consultant was very helpful on the phone and made sure we were talking about the same elements to get everything coordinated with my colors. The cake... Read More was beautiful but more importantly, tasted absolutely delicious. We did the Bride on a Budget Rose Cascade, with a bit different ribbons to match, with the top and middle layer the chocolate with raspberry puree and the bottom layer vanilla with Bavarian cream. Unfortunately, our wait-staff hadn't been told in advance they were cutting and serving the cake and cut way too small slices (and not properly) and the middle, chocolate layer never got served. Everyone gorged on it the next couple of days in our suite, though, and it was amazing! I definitely recommend them!
Exactly what we wantedReviewed on 10/14/2014 Rachel H
We ordered our wedding cake along with cookies for our cookie bar from Freed's, and we were not disappointed! We were unable to do a tasting because we live out of state, so we put our trust in other positive reviews. Our cake was lemon flavored with Bavarian cream filling and... Read More buttercream frosting, it was delicious! Our guests loved it. Our cookies were hit, everyone enjoyed them. Freed's sells cookies based on weight, and because I asked for a specific number of cookies rather than a specific weight of cookies, we had to estimate the cost beforehand. Janie contacted me afterward to notify me that she would refund us the difference because our cookies ended up being less expensive than anticipated. Great customer service, great baked goods!
DeliciousReviewed on 7/20/2014 Caprice B
My cake was absolutely delicious, i had a three tier cake and did a different flavor for each tier/
Delicious cake!Reviewed on 5/05/2014 Carolyn W
The cake was not only beautiful but delicious! We did a 50/50 frosting and the center was raspberry Bavarian filled. I highly recommend Freed's for any occasion which requires a cake or baked goods!
Perfect!Reviewed on 4/27/2014 Rita-Rae' C
I was attracted to Freed's because the offered a "Bride's on a Budget" menu. I live on the east coast and was planning my Las Vegas wedding from there. After several phone calls back and forth because of my indecisiveness I finally picked a cake and paid. My wedding guest loved... Read More the cake my husband and myself didn't have any but we plan on visiting Freed's when we return.
Beautiful, Delicious & AffordableReviewed on 4/10/2014 Maria R
They have a great variety of options. All are delicious, so much so that I had each tier done in a different flavor. We felt that the price was more than reasonable for the style, size and selection. It was a hassle-free decision. We told them what we wanted, they delivered, and... Read More we ate. Couldn't ask for anything more.
Shockingly StunningReviewed on 4/01/2014 Susan O
Freed's provided my wedding cake.. With the Las Vegas as a destination wedding for our 80 guests, we chose the Viva Las Vegas cake. Now, I assumed it would just be a cute cake fitting the theme but I clearly underestimated Freed's. The picture did not do it justice.. sure, the... Read More cake was cute but it was also BEAUTIFUL.. It somehow sparkled and was absolutely stunning! Matched to its beauty was the taste.. I'm glad I ordered larger than I needed because my guests were requested seconds and thirds of the cake even though there were other desserts served at the reception. I'm so thrilled! My favorite comment on the cake came from my brother.. I had asked him if he liked my cake.. he said he didn't see it.. I pointed it out and he said "Oh wow..I thought that was a beautifully wrapped present" and then he questioned me that it was really a cake..So cute!
Delicious!!Reviewed on 3/27/2014 Catherine A
My cake was beautiful. Exactly as we had planned together. Everyone loved it!! We got so many compliments!!
Classy CakeReviewed on 3/23/2014 Renee W
I ordered a red velvet 6 inch cake with their 50/50 frosting. It was delicious. I ordered over the phone (I live in Colorado) and described my simple design request and they did it perfectly. It looked amazing and tasted even better. Yum! Their Napoleans are also incredible!
Excellent Price, Excellent QualityReviewed on 3/20/2014 Casey C
We opted for a 2 tier cake in their bride on a budget category to feed about 20 people. It came with 2 flavors and fillings and was decorated perfectly! The taste was amazing and you couldn't beat the price. Well done Freed's!
Not what I expected...Reviewed on 2/15/2014 Crystal W
I went to Freed's to order a groom's cake because I had seen some of the awesome cakes they did while visiting the bakery. When I sat down with the consultant, I showed her the exact cake I wanted. She then spent the next ten minutes searching for a similar cake they had... Read More already done, insisting on selling me that one. When I decided on the design, I had to ask if I could taste the flavors. It felt awkward as the consultant just sat there looking at stuff on her computer like I was inconveniencing her. Then she seemed surprised that I actually wanted to order the cake. It's like she was just waiting for me to leave. Along with the cake, I ordered an additional two fondant pieces at $25 each to place on my wedding cake that was being made somewhere else. A few days after I ordered the cake, I decided that instead of having the baker hand paint/frost the cake, I would have them print a photo instead. I thought this would be easier/less time consuming. When I went to make my final payment, only then was I informed there would be an extra charge. On the day of the wedding, I sent a friend of mine to pick up the cake and fondant pieces. When we all arrived at the venue, I saw that the bakery had shorted me one of my fondant pieces. They counted the one that had had already been included in the price of the groom's cake as one of the two extras that I ordered. So I was out $25 and the embellishment I had wanted for my wedding cake. The cake itself looked good and tasted good. But the customer service left something to be desired. I always anticipated the cake tasting/ordering to be one of the more fun aspects of wedding planning, but this put it towards the bottom of my list.
The Copper Affair!Reviewed on 12/02/2013 Linda K
It was simply gorgeous! Having a very naturalistic theme to our Italianate Wedding, it just looked lovely--so many compliments from our guests!
Best. Cake. Ever.Reviewed on 11/13/2013 Stephanie N
We originally wanted to go with Retro Bakery for our October 12, 2013 wedding, but when I emailed them about a month and a half out they said they were all booked up for that day. They suggested we look into Gimme Some Sugar or Freed's Bakery. Based on reviews from TK... Read More (especially vegasgroom) we went with Freed's. Rather than have the cupcakes at the restaurant since desert was included we had it at our suite after the dinner. We had a cupcake tower with a 6 inch cake for cutting. I'll try and add a picture of it; it came out perfectly and was just like the pictures I saw online. For the cake top we had white cake with Bavarian cream and raspberry filling and vanilla buttercream icing. We had assorted cupcakes; a mix of chocolate, vanilla, red velvet and carrot. The cake and cupcakes were the absolute BEST I have ever tasted in my life. Everyone raved about it. Not only did it look beautiful, but it also tasted divine! We got it delivered and while it was almost late, it did arrive on time. I requested delivery between 12noon and 2 pm, and around 1:20 the driver called and asked if it would be okay to come at 2:20pm. I told him that wouldn't work because we were getting picked up to go to the chapel around that time. The driver said he would be there by 2:00 and he was. He set up the tower and was quite professional. One of the most heartbreaking parts about the trip was when we left and had to leave behind some cupcakes. I can't say enough good about them; I'm sure I'll be dreaming about the cake for months and months. Highly recommend!
WOW!!Reviewed on 10/03/2013 Melissa B
1 word... WOW. We contacted Freed's because they were on the preferred vendors list at Maggianos (where we were having our reception). I found a cake I loved from their website and contacted them. They were very friendly and professional from the first second and we were able to... Read More do everything over the phone and through email because I was planning my reception from San Antonio, Texas. Now, because I was planning this from another state and had never even tried Freed's, so I was VERY nervous. All I had to go on were reviews. They delivered our cake to Maggianos ahead of the reception and so it was all set up when we got there. WOW!! It was AMAZING!!! So much better than the pictures. As a matter of fact I posted a pic on twitter and a friend said it looked like a masterpiece. As awesome as the cake was, it tasted even better! I've never had a moist wedding cake before and it was so yummy. Our guests are STILL talking about how awesome the cake was. The hubby and I don't like fondant but because of the design of the cake, we had to do fondant. Freed's assured me that theirs was different. She was right. It was soft, creamy and not like any other fondant I have had. Thanks Freed's for a PERFECT cake. Would TOTALLY recommend!
Beautiful yet simpleReviewed on 9/17/2013 Tara D
The cake was exactly what we had asked for and tasted so yummy! It was very simple but had just the right amount of bling!
My fairytale weddingReviewed on 5/12/2013 Julie D
Our cake was beautiful, I had a picture of a design I wanted and they were able to take the picture and make even better. They provided a very pretty stand too. The cake was moist and delicious.
DELICIOUS and BEAUTIFUL cake!Reviewed on 5/01/2013 Amy F
Our cake turned out so beautiful, and it tasted even better. We got a 3-layer cake, and every layer was a different flavor with a different filling. I highly recommend the almond cake with Amaretto non-dairy mousse! Our consultant was very helpful and helped us through the... Read More process. They dropped our cake off at our reception site for us.
Wonderful and fun wedding cake!Reviewed on 4/16/2013 Larisa H
Freed's Bakery is outstanding! From their unique, fun, beautiful, and wonderful tasting cakes, to their customer service and timeliness, I had a great experience overall! I received so many wonderful compliments on our Las Vegas wedding cake, and still have people raving over... Read More the photos of the cake!
Nice cakeReviewed on 4/14/2013 Lauren W
Cake was nice, but kind of expensive for what it was. I got the chocolate Bavarian and it was a bit dry.
Loved our CakeReviewed on 4/03/2013 Alysha T
Our cake was beautiful and tasted delicious!! We even brought our top layer home with us :)
Short noticeReviewed on 3/30/2013 christine d
I really was on short time when I ordered/booked my cake. I am from out of town and really wanted to taste the flavors before committing. Soooo the first stop when we arrived in Las Vegas was Freed's bakery. I already researched their website and knew I was going to get my... Read More cake from there, but really, they made it happen for me when I ordered the cake 4 days before my wedding (for about 65 guests). I am so grateful they have the ability to accommodate last minute brides like myself. Thanks!!!
Amazing CakeReviewed on 2/25/2013 Jacqueline M
I have read nothing but great review about Freeds that I had to give it a try. So I ordered my cake over the phone and it was a breeze. I went with their bride on a budget cakes so I picked the golden wedding cake and they customized it to our wedding colors of silver, black,... Read More red and white. I picked chocolate, white and marble cakes with bavarian cream filling and white frosting. I had them deliver the cake to my reception site. Everything was wonderful all the cake flavors were great (I had to take a bite of them all). I didn't want the fondant frosting since I don't like the taste. That's why I picked the white frosting and it was just what I wanted for flavor. We had more than enough cake for 30 people with 4, 6, and 8 inch round cake. Don't let the word budget fool you this cake looked and tasted amazing and was in my budget.


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This column really is about what could happen to gold prices in the near future, but it's going to take us a bit to get there, so hang with me. First I need to talk about cash.
There is a huge amount of cash sloshing around in the global financial system. Investors in places like Greece, acting in their own rational interest, have been looking around trying to find a safe place to put their cash. A lot of it winds up as foreign currency in banks in other countries.
That outflow of cash makes the government of Greece unhappy as it causes liquidity issues at home and, perhaps less intuitively, it makes the receiving country unhappy because it makes their currency more expensive. The process of moving one's money to a safer country with more stable currency is one example of something called "capital flight".
Now one of those countries, Switzerland, is very close to a deal to send cash from Greek investors back to Greek banks. These are very same Greek banks teetering on the edge of the financial abyss. If you're a Greek investor trying to protect your assets, how are you going to react to that? If you guessed they'll be bugging like their hair is on fire, that's probably a pretty conservative description.
It gets better. If one country does that, there's a really good chance more will follow. That domino-like game of global hot cash potato will not be an orderly process. Think of it like a parking lot full of 500 people involved in a giant drug deal where cash changes hands several times. All the people involved want their money and they all have guns. All it would take is one of those people in our hypothetical drug deal to start shooting to turn the whole thing into a giant blood bath.
What European commission has done, on an economic parallel, is to cock their gun and point it at Switzerland, telling them to give Greece their money back. The move by the EC has set everyone else on edge. Whether the shooting starts or calmer heads prevail remains to be seen.
What if the economic shooting does start? What if more countries play the repatriation card and start clawing back foreign investments? That actually brings us around to gold. A lot of that repatriated money will go into gold. Gold prices won't just spike, they'll go orbital. That could trigger some countries to ban gold sales or gold ownership.
How it all shakes out, I have no idea. It's like trying to pick a winner at the OK Corral before the shooting starts. I'm confident to say if the situation deteriorates, it will be good for gold prices.


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An Ode to Jesse Holley
It's been real. It's been fun. But it hasn't been ... has it?
In a word: Seeyalater.
I get lots of emails and/or phone calls urging me to root for reality-show winner Jesse Holley to make the Dallas Cowboys' roster. In the name of Rudy, Rocky and Vince Paple, don't I believe in feel-good, underdog miracles?!
In the movies, absolutely. In the NFL, um, notsamuch.
My suggestion to you skewed-reality dreamers is to TiVo tomorrow night's Cowboys-Vikings' pre-season finale. With the starters safely in bubble-wrap, it'll be the Rudy Carpenter-to-Holley show. Enjoy.
Nothing against Holley-Wood personally. He's a nice, polite kid with some talent. But those, frankly, are a dime a million in the NFL.
He hasn't been an embarrassment since winning Michael Irvin's 4th & Long. Likewise, he hasn't shown anything - 1 catch (which he bobbled off his facemask) for 9 yards - special to prompt Dallas to consider him for the final 53-man roster. Practice squad? Maybe, but he's no Kevin Ogletree, that much is clear.
In the end, as most of us suspected, Holley isn't a professional football player. He only played one on TV.
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One advantage about AutoCAD dimension is that we can put in a cheat value or sometimes we just put "NTS" for Not To Scale measurement. So how do Revit handles this then?
From Revit 2009 onwards, you can actually do that though not exactly the same. Revit 2009 allows to manually overwrite the automatic dimension value with another, descriptive text.
When you double-click on the dimension text, the "Dimension text" dialog is displayed. There you can enter the overrides - the text, prefix, postfix, etc.:
Revit will warn you if you try to overwrite the measured value with numeric value - only texts are allowed.
If you really want to enter a "fake" value, you may enclose it with parentheses or prefix it with dashes.
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Overriding dimension text in Revit
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- Murilo Andrade said...
There is a way to cheat it.
I'm using Stylus BT font, never tried another.
Go to Replace With Text, insert the value you want, then select all, and then press Alt+0133 - The numbers must be typed in the numeric keyboard.
Works fine for me.
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Cosplay by Indie (me) as Hope, Denika Kiomi as Serah, Kaori as Lightnin, Veliya as Yeul. Photo by Akami.
Fantastic work, all of you! - We'll Done!
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Coach U17 Orange
2012 Positive Coaching Alliance Award Recipient
Women's Frosh/Soph, DVHS 2012-2013 Season Record: 6/3/1
Women's Frosh/Soph, DVHS 2011-2012 Season Record: 9/2/1
Record for most wins in a season at DVHS (Womens soph/frosh teams)
Most goals made in a season, 30+
Fewest goals allowed in a season >7
With Pleasanton Rage Soccer Program Improved:
o 116 spots for a National ranking of 442
o 39 spots for Region 4 ranking of 159
o 9 spots for California North ranking of 57
o 1st Place, Barcelona NorCal Copa DE Las Sierras U14 Tournament Champion's
o 2nd Place, Pleasanton Rage Soccer City Warm Up
o 2nd Place in group, NorCal State Cup, U14
o 2013 U-14 NorCal State Cup Quarter Finals.
Coaching Experience:
2013-2014 U15 Orange D1, Pleasanton Rage
2013 96's NorCal ODP, Regional Camp Coach, Region IV
2013 U14 White, Interim Coach, State Cup, Pleasanton Rage
2012-2013 U14 Orange D1, Pleasanton Rage
2012 U14 & U15 ECNL Spring Season, Pleasanton Rage
2011-2012 U16 Copper Division, Al Caffodio League, San Ramon
2010-2011 U15 Copper Division, Al Caffodio League, San Ramon
2009-2010 U14 Girls, Walnut Creek House Leagu
2008-2009 U12 Girls, Walnut Creek House League
2007-2008 U11 Girls, Walnut Creek House league
2004 U8 Girls, Assistant Coach, San Mateo Soccer Club
2003 U7 Girls, Assistant Coach, San Mateo Soccer Club
High School, San Ramon
2011-Present Women's Frosh/Soph Head Coach, Dougherty Valley High School, San Ramon
2011-Present Women's Varsity Assistant Coach, Dougherty Valley High School, San Ramon
2010-2011 Women's Frosh/Soph Assistant Coach, Dougherty Valley High School, San Ramon
Licenses:Positive Coaching Alliance: Double-Goal Coach Certification
CPR/First Aid certified
NFHS Fundamentals of Coaching Soccer
NFHS course completion of "Concussion in Sports What You Need To Know".
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Injury Updates
Update on Luis Heredia's Shoulder
Injury Updates
Yesterday, Luis Heredia left his scheduled start after throwing one pitch, leaving with what was described as right shoulder discomfort. Today, Tom Bragg of the Charleston Daily Mail reports that Heredia's shoulder isn't major.
Shoulder soreness is always cause for concern, especially when a pitcher has to leave a start after just one pitch. This is good news on Heredia, but it will be better news if he's able to make his next start....
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such a delicate shot. nice pic
Great shot!
love it
I like the color and the textures, the concept of it, is lovely... "where to go?" always to the front, to live today and be happy today
This is beatiful - two wishes. One just needs to pick them up and press them tightly to his heart.
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does this fixture attach to the painting frame or the wallA. The House of Troy AG attaches to a picture frame.
does this fixture attach to the wall or the painting frame???A. The House of Troy AG is installed on the wall.
Can you tell me how the ag-52 lights hang??A. The House of Troy AG come with a transformer that plugs directly into outlet. You mount the lights with the two 19" rods.
How is the AG fixture mounted, to the wall or the picture frame??A. The House of Troy AG light can be attached either to the wall or to the frame of the painting depending on your preference. If you have any other questions I would be happy to help.
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|Sofia, 21, hobby photographer and dreamer. welcome~
Flabnbone's Photography Feature Week 69# Hello EveryoneFlabnbone's Photography Feature Week 69# by FlabnBone
This week I went to a formal. I didn't really want to go because dressing up is just not my style. I much prefer jeans and hi-top sneakers. I guess the night was alright. Lots of people, lots of food and lots of dancing. But again, not my thing ><'' Aside from the formal, the busy weeks are looming!! 3 in-class tests, a handful of online tests and a major essay all due in the next 2 weeks ><
In more exciting news, my graduation is coming. It's a bit odd how I've started Masters but I still haven't had my graduation ceremony for my Bachelor course. Next month is my graduation and I am a little bit excited. I can't wait to visit my old university. As I typed that, I realise I go there at least twice a week to the gym - but still, can't wait to be back LOL The new university whe
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- Sierra LeoneRetailFunding via Association for Rural Development (ARD)
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Update on MichaelMichael, 32, is married and has a four-year-old child. He has one additional dependent who lives with him. In 2007 Michael opened his food and drink shop. Previously, he was working at the front desk in one of the hotels in town. Because of the poor pay, he decided to set up his own business with his savings. Working seven days a week and fourteen hours a day, he earns about 1,200,000 SLL every month.
Michael is requesting a loan of Le 6,000,000. He has already successfully repaid his previous loan, and now he needs a new loan. He will use it to buy a brand new freezer and some crates of soft drinks. This loan will enable him to increase his monthly profits by approximately 1,000,000 SLL. Michael is still striving hard to construct a house, in future. He thanks you for your support.
Previous Loan DetailsMichael, 31, is married and has a three-year-old child. He has one additional dependent who lives with him. In 2007 Michael opened his food and drink shop. Previously he was working at the front desk in one of the hotels in town. Because of the poor pay, he decided to set up his own business wi... More from Michael's previous loan »
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About the Association or Rural DevelopmentThe Association for Rural Development (ARD) is one of the leading microfinance institutions in Sierra Leone. Established in 1989, ARD has offered individual and group loans to support small-scale businesses across the country for two decades. You can learn more about ARD on its partner profile page, support the organization and its staff by joining the ARD lending team, or lend to another one of its borrowers currently raising funds on Kiva.
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First. heres the bud ill be using some pretty shitty headies but it will do for now
start by breaking up the bud i use fingers you can use a grinder or whatever else.
once the bud is broken up you can then open the dutch and lick the outter leaf. then by the mouthpiece peel a small piece of the leaf off and the rest should unravel pretty easily.
once the leaf is off peel the cancer paper off
next find the gum piece that goes down the middle or where the inner dutch overwraps and use your fingers or a knife to split it along that line
next peel that extra piece of gum stip off
then you can put the broken up weed inside the palam spread in the shape you want. for this i will be making a spliff
now this is where alot of people have trouble. what you want to do or the way i do it is i pretty much have the weed in the middle and i use my fingers to roll the wrap back and forth until the weed is in the shape i want . then i will likc the bottom of the inner wrap or the part thats closet to the weed and i will roll up slowly starting at the end of the mouth piece moving all the way to where you spark it
then lick the end about a few cm of the rest and with your tounge or lip go along the outter edge getting it a lil wet not to wet. this will keep the palma stuck and ready to put the leaf on. heres a pic of it before i put the leaf on
the way to put the leaf on is the same way it came off. when you do it this way it will keep the blunt from canooeing and it will burn a little slower from my personal experience.
start by lick the edge of the leaf
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Courtney, you appear to have an obsession with bodily functions. You want to know if fish fart and why they poop as well as what color raccoon poop is and why your cat's poop smells. Does your mom know you're spending so much valuable time on the computer? :-)
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Ha ha!! Im have 2 ponds with fish so I try to keep up with the latest. They do get "gassy" but that normally is seen in the stool like bubbles between the more solid waste and the stool is more likely to float. It is a sign that something is amiss if you see it often. I don't know about just passing gas--you stumped me and my fish won't talk about it!
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Well, Jessica proved this question isn't just a lot of hot air! Can you tell we've been pranked before on here by our reactions? I imagine they'll even find a military use before long. I do know they have studied and fish feel pain, so all you fisherpeople who throw your catch back after ripping out their eyes and mouths with your hooks. Stop it!
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Of course! It's called spa day in the bowl! Good Godwhat will they think of next? Yes fishworms shit too!
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What an odd question, look for little bubbles coming from the tail area. Good Luck, that should fill some of your time
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Eventhough I don't think this is a serious question, I found this source:
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BOSTON -- The 76ers have a quiet confidence as they prepare for the pressure-packed deciding Game 7 in tonight's Eastern Conference semifinal against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden.
If the Sixers are as poised with their play as they were dealing with the media after today's shootaround, the results could be favorable.
The players and coach Doug Collins were asked repeatedly how the Sixers could overcome the vaunted Boston Celtics, with the likes of Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett, not to mention the raucous crowd.
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Struggling Sears Holdings has made many retail headlines in the past few years.
The company announced the closure of two massive stores in Orange County. However, it's also opened a local store, albeit a small one. The company known as one of the largest U.S. appliance sellers recently opened a specialty appliance store in Rancho Santa Margarita. And in a creative move, it leased 43,000 square feet of its South Coast Plaza store to Forever 21, a clothing chain quickly gobbling up retail space in Orange County and elsewhere.
But companywide, Sears-owned stores are not doing well.
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For the fiscal first quarter ended April 30, sales at domestic stores opened at least a year fell 5.2 percent for Sears and 1.6 percent for Kmart, which is a subsidiary of Sears Holdings. Sales at stores opened at least a year, or same-store sales, are considered a key gauge of a retailer's health. Companywide same-store sales for domestic locations fell for each fiscal year from 2006 to 2010. They ranged from an annual drop of 1.6 to 8 percent for that period.
"Despite its size - more than 4,000 total stores across the North American market - and a history that dates back more than a century, Sears Holdings has not produced top-line growth for six consecutive years after merging with Kmart in 2005," according to a an analyst report released last month by Morningstar. (Top line is a term used by the industry to refer to revenue.)
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Open Letter to Google's Eric Schmidt Requesting HTTPS
Google Mail, Calendar and Docs could be vulnerable. That's the argument an open letter to Google's CEO Eric Schmidt makes, thereby asking him to adopt the HTTPS standard for data transfers for these applications.
The recent new Wireshark traffic sniffer release could have been the catalyst. Now Google's Schmidt has a letter in hand that 38 researchers and academics in the information security and privacy law fields sent him June 16. Their concern is that Google users were unnecessarily vulnerable to theft and snooping and that Google should reconsider its data protection policy.
The open letter specifically targets Google Mail, Docs and Calendar, its popular data transport applications. Technically it's about the use (or, rather, lack of it) of HTTPS, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure encryption standard. Unlike Google Voice, Health, AdSend and AdWords, Google does not protect Docs, Calendar or Gmail user sessions with HTTPS encryption. That could be bad when users connect via open wireless networks in schools, libraries and coffee shops. Packet sniffers such as Wireshark can help attackers, even unsophisticated ones, capture entire data traffic and passwords, thus private information.
HTTPS was developed specifically to protect against this, but Google has disabled it by default for the aforementioned applications. Many users are unaware of the "Settings/General/Browser Connection/Always use HTTPS" option (last of thirteen) in Gmail, not understanding the difference between the usual HTTP and the more secure HTTPS. Moreover, many users may not notice when their HTTPS transactions fall back to HTTP during a session. Nor does Google do as good a job as it could of informing users of the risks involved, with a warning currently buried layers deep in the help. Moreover, Docs and Calendar are missing encryption settings entirely.
The letter's recommendation comes down to strongly urging Google to "follow the lead of the financial industry and enable HTTP encryption by default" for its applications. Rather than have users "opt in," they should give them the choice to "opt out." The letter appeals to Google in its prominent role in cloud services to set the industry standard.
Google was quick to respond. In a GoogleOnLineSecurity blog, they restate the company's commitment to security and that it is looking seriously into the HTTPS-by-default option. They want to do a trial in Gmail by moving some users to HTTPS "to see what their experience is" and check any performance issues.
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And "my little pony" was an 80's show, too, no?
Sadly, that helicopter will crash before the cake gets delivered.
Launchpad is the kind of duck who would love ponies. Awesome drawing; so sweet as a birthday gift!
Great work here.
CRASH So much for the library
launchpad: happy birthday, after ward, he has crashed launchpad: a pefect crash landing
COOL!!!We need MOAR of these!!!
Adorable work
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Love it, now I just have to write a DT and My Little Pony crossover. Amazing work!
Lol, ye olde Launchpad McQuack.
Awesome work! <3
Hehe, I love this pic : )
He wasn't supposed to show up, but Launchpad decided to crash the party!
flagada jones & Mlp ?
+1 !!
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I wish a duck in an aviator suit gave me cake for my birthday :<
Happy Birthday
Seeing Launchpad just totally made my day. This is awesome. ^^
Holy crap, your style is amazing.
Nice job dude. Very nice.
LaunchPAAAAAD MY NOSTALGIA IS OVERLOADING
nice picture mr. mc-D
Friendship is Magic has officially become a spinoff of "Ducktales," just as its predecessor "Darkwing Duck."
MOTHER FUDGING LANCHPAD MCQUACK!? Holy hell! The Epic Container can't contain all this epic!
CLEAR! *le zap*
hi sibsy and happy bday! <3
The cake is filled with so many wonders.
launchpad? O.o.....what? .....does not compute.... *head asplodes*
This is [rpbably just me being weird but he was totally my favorite duck.
the style is mixed amazingly well, great job
awesome! Sibsy should see this!
Oh, I remember that guy whose name I cannot remember right now from Ducktales.


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From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinityby Leo Braudy
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Manliness has always been linked to physical prowess and to war; indeed the warrior has been the archetypal man across countless cultures throughout time. In this magisterial excursion through literature, history, warfare, and sociology, one of our most prominent scholars tracks the complex relationship between the changing methods and goals of warfare and shifting… See more details below
Manliness has always been linked to physical prowess and to war; indeed the warrior has been the archetypal man across countless cultures throughout time. In this magisterial excursion through literature, history, warfare, and sociology, one of our most prominent scholars tracks the complex relationship between the changing methods and goals of warfare and shifting models of manhood. This journey takes us from the citizen soldiers of ancient Greece to the medieval knights to the misogynistic terrorists of Al Qaeda.
As he chronicles these transformations, Leo Braudy weighs the significance of everything from weapon technology to the hairstyles favored during different eras. He offers fresh insights on codes of war and codes of racial purity, and on cultural and historical figures from Socrates to Don Quixote to Napoleon to Custer to Rambo. Epic in scope and free of academic jargon, From Chivalry to Terrorism is a masterwork of scholarship that is both accessible and breathtakingly ambitious.
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Editorial Reviews
"History at its most powerful. It is impossible to do justice to the range of fascinating material in this book." –Los Angeles Times Book Review
"The reader is left marveling. . . . An expansive, ambitious project." –San Francisco Chronicle
"A terrific topic . . . The book displays Braudy's loving immersion in his subject, fine grasp of historical complexity, and aversion for glib or dogmatic judgments." –The New York Times Book Review
"A vivid, hugely ambitious book . . . Likely to be widely read." –The New York Review of Books
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Like the elephant sought by the six blind men, or the electron that changes position depending on when it is observed, masculinity must be mapped rather than merely discovered. Not only is it elusive, but there are also those with vested interests in keeping it mono-lithic and mysterious. Is masculinity, for example, entirely identifiable with patriarchy? That is, does masculinity in any age refer primarily to the power over groups considered to be weaker and more marginal to society-groups usually composed of women but also of men considered to be at best incomplete or imperfect, and at worst barely human? Certainly there have been many men, both in and out of public power, who believed and still believe this. But how was their own masculinity learned? Did it come directly from the experience of having the particular kind of male body their culture approved? Or are there a whole variety of preliminary and partial models, each with its own divergence from the grand norm and each with its contradiction of it?
One clue might be in the language of masculinity. Where do the words designating the male come from? What do they mean? In the West at least, this language has been heavily influenced by both the language of wartime masculinity (or fashioned in contrast to the language used to describe, say, the saint or the sage) and the language of social class. Man existed long before "masculine," a word that first appears in English in the Middle Ages as a French import used to designate not specific masculine characteristics so much as the general difference between male and female, whether in plants, animals, or human beings. Then, with the Norman conquest and the adoption of Norman-French as the standard for all educated discourse, "masculine" became a more frequent usage.*
"Man," as the older term, has a more tangled history. It goes back to an Indo-European root meaning "earth" that descends equally into "human" and "humus." There are two Latin words for man: vir and homo. Homo, related to the Greek word for "one" or "single," is the more general term-man in the abstract. It descends into the Romance languages fairly directly: uomo (Italian), homme (French), hombre (Spanish), and the impersonal pronoun in French, on. Vir in contrast refers to a man as defined by specific male qualities, and is the root of "virile" as well as "virtue," an association that prompted Plutarch in his biography of Coriolanus to complain that the Romans so valued military prowess that they made it stand for all human virtues, even though it refers to only one of them. Arma virumque cano, says Virgil at the beginning of the Aeneid, his epic poem of the founding of Rome: "I sing of arms and the man."
Unlike "masculine" and "feminine," which come from Latin, the immediate origin of "man" in English is Germanic. Like "masculine," "man" exists not as a concept in itself but amid an array of other possibilities: man as distinguished from boy, man as distinguished from woman, man as distinguished from beast, man as distinguished from demon, man as distinguished from gods and God. And perhaps the English embrace of the German man owes something to its similarity to the Latin manus, commonly "hand" but also a Roman legal term for the authority that a husband has over his wife.†
Much of human ritual and social organization, from the earliest tribes to contemporary societies, is preoccupied with reaffirming these distinctions-perhaps suggesting a deep-rooted human (or masculine) fear that they are arbitrary enough to be constantly in danger of erosion or forfeit. Like all distinctions, they are especially clouded in times like war, when events have pushed people, families, tribes, kingdoms, and nations to the edge. In this sense, much social ritual-initiation, marriage, preparation for war-is exorcism: the casting out of what is feared and the affirmation of what is desired. At these moments, the normal fuzziness and uncertainty of boundaries, the lack of sharp differences between aspects of human nature, have to be policed and polarized for fear that otherwise they will collapse entirely.
* "Masculine" comes from the Latin masculinus, which is itself a diminutive form of the adjective mas, meaning "male."
† To this list might be added man as distinguished from eunuch, to account for the Romanian word for man, barbat (bearded).
Contrary to the argument that patriarchal society consistently values the masculine in any polarized distinction, "man" is not always the superior term in all groups. Latin writers often used homo to refer to a man who is somehow not free, whether socially subordinate or otherwise dependent-a meaning retained in the modern use of "homage," which originally referred to the feudal ceremony of allegiance of a vassal to his lord. Similarly, one of the earliest uses of man in Old English was to designate a subordinate, a vassal, even a servant, as in the phrase "my man," and the early frequency of a phrase like "free man" implies that perhaps men in general were not free. It took some time before all men were said to be created equal, and it is not until the eighteenth century that "man" was used to refer to some abstract idea of human nature in general. Until then, the positive connotations of "man" referred almost exclusively to the behavior (often military) of a man of rank, an aristocrat, as in the suggestive relation in German between heer (army) and the honorific herr (lord, master).
It may seem to be an occasion for obvious Freudian mockery that a frequent Anglo-Saxon word for male human beings as well as animals is wæpned (weaponed). But even though wæpen could also mean "penis," we should remember that only a particular class of men had the wealth and the social sanction to carry weapons, and so the interplay between the words for "man," the words for "man of high rank," and the words for "warrior" has a long history. Thus in the eighth-century heroic poem Beowulf, written in Anglo-Saxon but telling the story of a sixth-century hero of the Danes, man appears in such compounds as feond mancynnes (enemy of mankind), while what translators usually call "manly behavior" or "heroic prowess" is referred to as eorlic ellen (the power of an earl, or noble) while "manly deeds" are eorlscipe efnde (the doings of earlship). Similarly, in The Song of Roland, an eleventh-century poem written about events of the eighth century, when a knight of Charlemagne's host fights with particular bravery, he is described as being en guise de baron, a phrase usually translated as "valiantly" or "heroically," but which literally means "in the manner of a baron." Some centuries before, baron had been the French word that generally distinguished the male from the female. By the eleventh century, in a process similar to that undergone by the words for "knight," baron appears as an actual social title for those high-ranking warriors who (as in The Song of Roland) support a higher-ranking lord or king. The title, of course, still remains in English, long since divested of its exclusively warlike implications. In Spanish it has gone back down the social scale to survive as varón-a man in general.*
Apart from the words themselves, much of the talk about what is "true" masculinity has also historically been tinged with, even steeped in, nostalgia for a lost masculinity. Gilgamesh begins by describing buildings of the past, "which no latter-day king, no man alive can equal." Even within the story of the Iliad itself, Nestor, the oldest of the Achaeans, frequently refers to the much greater warriors who walked the earth when he was younger, and he tries to instruct his not-so-heroic present-day comrades (heroic enough to Homer's audience and to us) in the fundamentals of battle tactics. With a similar longing after past greatness, Chaucer's Knight in The Canterbury Tales, who has come so quickly to the pilgrimage from war that his clothes are still smeared with the rust of his chain mail, tells a tale set in ancient Athens, when truly heroic knights fought for honor and the love of women.
One important component of masculinity thus embodies a myth of historical connection with past models and exemplars, while another looks to a future that will be different. As the Greek hero had to die young in the midst of battle in order to be considered a hero in song and legend, so one powerful form of masculinity is perpetually nostalgic in its judgments and standards. All the good men are already dead. That's how we know they're good. They may be dead, but their names and the masculinity they embodied live on to inspire future generations, and to ensure that other young, unmarried boys, who are not yet part of the settled social order, will go to war in the effort to be real men.
To a certain extent this is not entirely propaganda. From the impoverished medieval knight going to war to win estates and possessions by capturing enemy nobles for ransom, to the immigrant and ghetto-raised young men whose time in the army enables them to get an education and status that could almost never have been achieved outside, the military and especially wartime situations-with their immediate rewards for battlefield heroics and cunning tactics-have facilitated class change. In both hierarchic and democratic societies, the melting pot of war, defined by its total difference from peacetime stasis, has offered an outlet for otherwise stifled ambition. Periods of war thus often give rise to eras of social movement and change, and war's crucible of possibility has often engendered different ways of being a man, on and off the battlefield, even while it seeks to confirm the values of the past.
* As baron goes up the scale of social and cultural value, another early word for "man," the Old Norse karl (Old English ceorl) goes down, to become "churl" by Shakespeare's time. Compare the change from "villein" (a peasant serf) to "villain."
As the prime way of being a man, military masculinity thereby can assume the double aspect of both future goal and lost ideal, both for critics who are nostalgic for the past and for those who reject it entirely. Already in the late third century b.c. the Roman playwright Plautus, drawing on Aristophanes, had defined the stock type of the miles gloriosus, the blowhard old soldier constantly living in a fantasy of his past exploits. Shakespeare in his Henry plays splits such a character in two-the hot-blooded chivalric knight Harry Hotspur and the rollicking old campaigner Sir John Falstaff, both styles of military masculinity that are finally superseded, for better or worse, by the hard-edged pragmatism of Prince Hal, the future Henry V.
Whether as criticism or idealization, the presence of prior types of military masculinity in art and literature also implies a sense of generational change, especially when the wars in question are civil wars that divide families. The prewar and the postwar define a chasm that lasts long after the generations who actually participated are dead and gone. In the second half of the seventeenth century, both the French and the English looked back over the divide of their civil wars at the earlier part of the century as if it were an entirely different world.
A psychoanalytic perspective might call this conflict of male generations oedipal, and thereby a "natural" part of the male character. But such oedipal periods in culture are often brought into being by the experience of war. During war, personal honor comes at the expense of the enemy, but in times of peace it is the previous generation that often must pay. In the third of Shakespeare's Henry VI plays, which deal with the civil and foreign wars of fifteenth-century England, he dramatizes the inhumanity of the conflict specifically through an image of the clash of generations. In the midst of battle, Henry VI sits despairingly on a molehill and observes first, as the stage directions say, "a Son who hath Killed his father" and then "a Father that hath killed his son." Both enter bearing the bodies of people they thought were their enemies and then discover to be their kin. With less straightforward symbolism, the heroic plays of both England and France in the later seventeenth century, in the wake of the Thirty Years' War and the English Civil Wars, often feature conflicts between energetic sons and repressive fathers over questions of honor and duty. Likewise, after World War II, American westerns are shot through with conflicts between fathers and sons (and occasionally fathers and daughters). Red River (made in 1946-47 but not released until 1948), directed by Howard Hawks, for example, explicitly presents the conflict between father John Wayne and his adopted son Montgomery Clift as mediated by Clift's Civil War experience. Both are good with their guns, but Wayne's more brutal pioneering traits must be softened by war and history into Clift's more vulnerable, sympathetic-and successful-ones. Just as Hotspur in Henry V embodies an apolitical aggressiveness that must be superseded by Henry's new version of the warrior king, so in Red River, Wayne's outmoded, domineering, but still nostalgically treasured masculinity finally has to reach some accommodation with the ways of the new generation embodied by Clift.
(What do you see when you turn out the light?)
I can't tell you, but I know it's mine.
-John Lennon and Paul McCartney,
"I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends"
The prime reason many might think it unlikely that masculinity has changed over time is the seemingly irreducible fact of the male body. Until new weaponry and social change brought women into military ranks, war was generally fought by men, whose physical nature seemed especially suitable for its hardships. Male bodies are generally taller and more robust than female, with longer, thicker muscles, and larger lungs, heart, and limb-to-body ratios, as well as the inability to become pregnant and thereby sacrifice valuable fighting time. In a common metaphor of male-female difference, men are hard and women are soft: "matter too soft a lasting mark to bear," wrote Alexander Pope in "To a Lady," his poem on the characters of women. Pope himself was about four-foot-six and suffered for most of his life from numerous ailments, including tuberculosis of the spine. So the seemingly absolute distinction between male and female in his hands carries an ironic charge: being soft, women were changeable and malleable, but also complex, while the hard, distinct male remained inflexibly the same.
But in less self-aware contexts this robust male hardness and imperviousness to change is itself unchangingly symbolized by the upright sword, the obelisk, and the column-all too easily accepted as figures for the aggressive and ever-ready penis, the most immediately obvious physiological difference between male and female, the most basic "fact" of all. In the imagery of the absolute biological distinction between male and female, affirmed by the popular use of Freudian formulas, the ritual phallus, the phallic symbol, and the actual penis are one and the same.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Meet the Author
Leo Braudy is University Professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He previously taught at Yale, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a Senior Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, as well as a writer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. His book, Jean Renoir: The World of His Films, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Another of his books, The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Harper's. Mr. Braudy lives with his wife in Los Angeles.
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July 29, 2011
The road to becoming human was sometimes a dangerous one, and survival required sophisticated weapons. Here at Olorgesailie, the BOK-2 team has uncovered one of the first kinds of such weapons—the MSA point.
The MSA, or Middle Stone Age, is the more recent of the two stone technologies we have a record of here at Olorgesailie. In our digs, the MSA is represented in a younger formation called the Oltulelei Formation, which lies on top of the older Olorgesailie Formation. This time period is the expertise of Alison and John.
The MSA is an intriguing time in prehistory characterized by the rise of much more complicated tool kit and ways of manufacturing tools (i.e., stone technologies). Flake blades and smaller, more sophisticated prepared cores begin to appear, but the most unique tool type of the MSA is called 'the point'.
A point is a particularly sharp and tapered stone tool. After a complicated manufacturing process, the point was then hafted, or bound, to a wooden shaft. Hafting represents the first technology combining two different materials together, quite a step! It gave early humans a major advantage in hunting, enabling them to take down larger prey and strike from greater distances. So, how did early humans create such a valuable tool?
There are two different ways to manufacture a point. One way is to prepare a core in such a way that the flakes that are knapped from it are already pointed. This is called a Levallois point. Levallois prepared-cores were first discovered by construction workers while digging a subway station in Paris more than 100 year ago. It is also associated with the Neanderthals, which was the first indication that Levallois technology existed a long time ago!
The second way is to remove a flake from a core, and then ever-so-carefully strike the edge of the flake to make it pointed. This modification is called retouch. Retouch involves striking off tiny flakes until the resulting edge is somewhat jagged. Retouch actually dates back to the late Acheulean handaxes and scrapers, but the retouch needed to make an MSA point is unique—it is very flat and invasive, resulting in a point so thin and sharp it can do serious harm to an enemy. In fact the retouch is so fine that it could not have been achieved with another stone. The manufacturer would have had to use something softer like bone or a wooden rod to achieve the sharp edge.
Finding these points at BOK-2 has been very exciting. It shows that early humans were well on their way to having the technological abilities of later prehistoric members of our own species, Homo sapiens.