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It doesn't seem to matter whether it is a group of chief executives or third-graders, my heart accelerates to the same hyper-beat and my voice cracks out of fear.
Yet, these harrowing incidents regularly seemed to spring themselves on me in my job and cause me great duress.
That is until I got smart.
I finally figured out that what people want to hear are personal stories that relate to the topic at hand. Figure out your message, delve into your past to find stories that illustrate that and simply tell those stories to others.
This makes easy work of being smart.
Probably the first time I learned this is when I was asked to talk about the job interview. I thought long and hard about it, prepared my list of tips for how to prepare for the interview and then scrapped it all the morning of my speech.
Instead, I talked about things that had happened to me on job interviews.
I remember telling some human resources executives about the time I interviewed with an editor who was a weightlifter. In the middle of my job interview, he began squeezing a small rubber ball in his right hand and each time he made a fist, his right biceps would bulge from beneath his short-sleeved shirt.
I got distracted by this and lost my concentration. The interview was a total loss.
I did my homework on my next job interview and learned that the editor I was going to meet with was aloof and uncomfortable meeting new people. I was also warned that he had a dead-fish handshake.
The morning I arrived, the editor presented his hand and, sure enough, it was cold, clammy and seemed to have no bones in it. Fortunately, I was prepared for this and took it in stride. That interview went much better than the one with the weightlifter.
The point of these stories was not that some managers have odd personal characteristics, but that you need to know as much about your interviewer as possible before the interview so you don't get knocked off your game.
Annette Simmons, author of the book "Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins" believes that using personal stories is one of the most powerful and effective forms of communication.
Not only do you grab people's attention, but you strengthen your message by transporting listeners to different points of view, giving them a chance to connect with your stories and find their own meaning in them. They bond with you, even though these are your stories, not theirs.
"The problems is that you haven't realized how much your stories matter," says Simmons. "When you turn your attention to these stories you can be more intentional in creating the kind of perceptions that achieve goals rather than reinforce problems."
Simmons understands that people love stories. They are easy to remember so the message isn't lost in a series of bullet points. They are effective because they draw humanity into the equation of communication, making it more meaningful for both parties.
And, in the end, stories can make a lasting point.
The day I figured this out, I simply thought about the message I wanted to leave with my audience. I thought about my own experiences and how they could show that and then I relayed those stories to others.
I saw attentive eyes, heads bobbing and, when I finished, there was plenty of applause. And, then there were the questions.
I knew my "speech" had connected by all the questions the audience members raised.
And, I never fear about speeches anymore.


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The day of Jumu'ah is the best day of the week. Allah has chosen this nation (the Muslims) to be guided to recognize its blessings after other nations had failed to identify it. There are lots of ahadeeth relating to its merit. Among these are:
1- The Prophet's ﷺ statement: "The best of days on which the sun rises is Jumu'ah; on it Adam was created, on it he was taken to Paradise, and on it he was removed from it (the Paradise)." [ Source: Muslim.]
2- On the authority of Abu Hurairah t,, the Prophet ﷺ said: "Whoever performs the spiritual bath, then attends Jumu'ah, then observes what has been willed for him (supererogatory Salat), after which he keeps quiet until the imam finishes his sermon, then prays with the imam, he will be forgiven all the sins between then and the previous Jumu'ah, and three additional days." [ Source: Muslim.]
3- On the authority of Abu Hurairah, who said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The five daily Salat, one Jumu'ah to the next, and one Ramadan to the next are expiators of sins committed in between them, when the great sins are avoided." [ Source: Muslim.]
4- On the authority of Hudhyfah Ibn Al-Yaman who reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: "It was Friday from which Allah diverted those who were before us. For the Jews (the day set aside for prayer) was Sabt (Saturday), and for the Christians it was Sunday. And Allah turned towards us and guided us to Friday (as the day of prayer) for us. In fact, He (Allah) made Friday, Saturday and Sunday (as days of prayer). In this order would they (Jews and Christians) come after us on the Day of Resurrection. We are the last of (the Ummahs) among the people in this world and the first among the created to be judged on the Day of Resurrection." [ Source: Muslim.]
5- Abu Huraira reported that the Prophet said: The best day the sun has ever risen on is Friday; on it was the creation of Adam, on it was his descension, on it he was granted repentance, on it he passed away, and on it the hour will be established. There is not an animal, but it listens attentively on Friday, from the time the morning enters until the sun has risen, fearing the onset of the hour; except the jinn and mankind. In it is an hour which no Muslim slave spends praying asking God for a need, except that he is given it." Ka'b asked: "Is this day once every year?" I (Abu Huraira) said: "Nay, on every Friday." Ka'b recited the Torah and said: "God and the Prophet (peace be upon him) have spoken the truth." Abu Hurayrah said: "Then I met with 'Abdullah ibn Salaam and spoke to him about my sitting (talk) with Ka'b." 'Abdullah ibn Salaam said: "Surely I know which hour it is." Abu Huraira said: "I said to him: 'Then tell me when it is.'" 'Abdullah bin Salam said: "The last hour of the day of Friday." I said: "How is it the last hour of Friday when the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: "…(it is an hour which) no Muslim slave spends praying asking God for a need, except …" and that time is not a time of Salah?" 'Abdullah ibn Salaam said: "Did the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) not say that whosoever sits waiting for the prayer is in prayer?" He said: "So I said, 'Yes,' and he replied, 'This is it (i.e. what is meant).'" [ Source: Abu Dawud.]
6- The Prophet said: "Indeed from the best of your days is Al-Jumu'ah, therefore send many prayers upon me; for indeed your prayers are displayed to me." They said: "How would our prayers be displayed to you when you have decayed?" He said: "Surely Allah has prohibited the earth from eating the bodies of the Prophets." [ Source: Abu Dawud.]
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Haha I know, that was amazing. What is Ramiz doing?
Haha I know, that was amazing. What is Ramiz doing?
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
Well just watched the video again and was surprised to see pawars reaction to the whole thing, it didnt seem to affect him.Originally Posted by Turbinator
Well thats really surprising, if someone disrespects u in such a way then u should take some sort of stand.Originally Posted by Langeveldt
I think he was following Ramiz Raja's advice to stay kool!Originally Posted by godofcricket
Forget the shamless behaviour from the aussies
Their media has gone one step ahead
Read the paragraph below Bush's Picture
The champions return: Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting and some of his players arrived back in Sydney with the ICC Champions Trophy today after their success in Italy. On the other side of the country, Damien Martyn landed in Perth and launched a verbal broadside at bowling legend Dennis Lillee. Picture: Phil Hillyard
The Aussies really look like a bunch of immature kids after looking at the YouTube clip, but Pawar was rather clueless as well. Whatever.
It was originally "jesushatesyou"Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero
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Wow, I looked at video and kinda shocked to see what spoilt brats Ricky and his team were doing on the stage. Imagine the hysteria in the Aussie media if Sourav had done the same thing.
Kudos to Pawar for handling it so well.
Sorry I disagree with your assessment. Media is definately blowing it out of proportion and giving it more attention that it deserves but they way Ponting/Martyn pushed Pawar, it didn't seem funny at all and I totally agree with Tendulkar's assessment of the situation. Although he didn't actually see the incident, I think he knew exactly what happened.Originally Posted by Slow Love
Also, how do you think Aussie media (and Messrs Ponting/Waugh) would have reacted If Sourav Ganguly had done the same thing to Alan Border at some award ceremony?
To be honest, I know I wouldn't care if Saurav punched AB.
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Haha yeah it'd be "Cocky Ganguly disrespecting a great Aussie... at least Border could play the short ball "Originally Posted by Sanz
Then we'd have the showdown of Ganguly vs. Border in beach cricket. Would be massive.
Well, they were laughing, and he appeared to take it in good humor.Originally Posted by Sanz
Reversing the situation is kinda pointless, given that this is obviously something of a cultural difference (and I'm being a bit generous with that assessment, 'cause obviously there are Indians not offended by it at all). I imagined the situation reversed initially when I viewed the footage, and I couldn't see any difference, to be honest. The only exception I could think of would be if it involved somebody already intensely disliked in Australia, where the media would be looking to beat it up and make a bigger deal of it than it was. But that would still be the media's issue, rather than that of the people on stage. If it could have happened to our PM, it would have been perfect, but I would have found it funny if it had happened to someone like Richie Benaud too.
"Youre known for having a liking for men who look like women."
- Linda
"FFS I'm sick and tired of having to see a bloke bend over to pick something up or lean over and see their arse crack. For christ's sake pull your pants up or buy some underpants you bogan because nobody want's to see it. And this is a boat building shed (well one of them) not a porn studio."
- Craig
I can guarantee you that many others would.Originally Posted by dontcloseyoureyes
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The Pulsational Behavior of the High Amplitude d Scuti Star RS Gruis
Jaime Rubén García
Instituto Copérnico, Gutiérrez 4500, 5603 Rama Caída, Mendoza, Argentina
Presented at the 100th Spring Meeting of the AAVSO, May 21, 2011; received November 22, 2011; revised May 15, 2012; accepted May 15, 2012
RS Gruis is a high–amplitude delta Scuti–type variable star with a mean amplitude of almost half a magnitude in V and a period of almost 3.5 hours. The most recent study of this star by Derekas et al. (2009) suggests the presence of a low–mass dwarf star companion close to the variable star with a period of 11.5 days. Rodriguez et al. (1995) have also shown a decreasing rate of the period of dP/Pdt = –10.6 × 10–8 / y. Using an extended dataset comprising BVIc CCD observations acquired at the Astronomical Observatory of the Instituto Copérnico, data from ASAS and HIPPARCOS, and the existing CCD observations in the AAVSO International Database, we have performed an extensive periodgram and times of maximum analysis looking for long term variations. As a preliminary result, we confirmed that the period varies, but, since 1995, instead of decreasing, it has increased. We also found a small peak in the power spectrum in good agreement with the period suggested for the binary companion.


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Born to run: genetic test can reveal those best able to run marathons – "[T]o run a marathon in a good time requires the right combination of genes and that nearly a fifth of the population lack this special mix. For runners with the right genes, it means their bodies can quickly adapt to carry large amounts of oxygen to their muscles, allowing them to run faster and for longer. Those who lack these genes, however, will never improve, no matter how much they train, and their performance may even get worse the harder they push themselves."
Scientists Breed Exercise-Crazy Rats – "While a wide biological gap exists between humans and rats, the researchers do propose that some people could be genetically predisposed against exercising."
Genetic discovery found to influence obesity in people of African ancestry
New Studies Shake Up Human Family Tree – "[I]n a spate of new studies, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, of the University of the Witwatersrand, and a team of collaborators have put forward a controversial claim that another hominin — *Australopithecus sediba* — might be even closer to the origin of our lineage [than *australopithecus afarensis,* the most famous example being "lucy"]…." — see also: Special Collection – Australopithecus sediba @science.
Fish Fossil Shows Why Humans Have Two Arms, Legs
Castaways – "We may have yet another story of long-distance prehistoric contact. A new paper in PLOS genetics suggests that people from the Jomon culture in Japan may have reached northwestern South America." – from greg cochran. also from south america: Southern Native American Y-DNA: no correlation with language – @for what they were…we are.
Fluctuation of Fertility with Number in a Real Insect Population and a Virtual Population – "Real fruit fly fertility increases with average consanguinity thus decreasing with population size in a pattern that is modelled successfully with a virtual population. This invites the deliberate manipulation of wild insect populations for the control of vectors of human disease." – from our very own linton herbert! yay! (^_^)
Do drugs for bipolar disorder 'normalize' brain gene function? U-M study suggests so – "Brain tissue study shows gene expression in patients treated with antipsychotics is similar to expression in non-bipolar brains."
Serenity – "If the realities of human nature render your hope on how to make a better world impossible, merely wishing it were not so is not going to help your cause. But instead, better results can be attained to by working *with* what we learn about human nature." – from jayman. hear, hear!
HVGIQ: Dominican Republic – from jason malloy.
Napoleon Chagnon's "Noble Savages" – The Life of an Anthropological Heretic – "Napoleon Chagnon's 'Noble Savages' is a must read." – from helian unbound.
Frequent texters more shallow, racist, study finds – w.e.i.r.d. students. (psychology students, no less! (~_^) ) also: Texting, social networking and other media use linked to poor academic performance.
Study: we assume people stare at us – "People often think that other people are staring at them even when they aren't, vision scientists have found. In a new article in Current Biology, researchers at The Vision Centre reveal that, when in doubt, the human brain is more likely to tell its owner that they're under the gaze of another person."
Political organization in a hunter-gatherer tribe – @mangan's.
First Encounters of the Close Kind: John Derbyshire's Address To The 2013 American Renaissance Conference – from john derbyshire.
Jared Taylor Remembers Philippe Rushton and Arthur Jensen
Our Inconsistent Ethical Instincts – read also: The Pro-Death Movement from jim goad – "[T]here's an almost universal human definition of good and evil: If it enhances my survival, it's good. If it harms it, it's evil." – yup.
Individual Donation Amounts Drop When Givers Are in Groups, Says MU Researcher – "Numerous studies have provided evidence that people are less likely to help when in groups, a phenomenon known as the 'bystander effect.'" – see also this old post from steve sailer: Chinese kindness.
The Fraud Of America's "Rape Culture" – from anatoly. see also his earlier post Much Ado About Rape: Quantifying A Big Taboo – "[I]t is ironic that the public panic over rape and sexual assault has risen to fever pitch at precisely the moment in history when the real lifetime risk of becoming a victim of rape has never been lower."
Monkey chatter smacks of human speech, researcher says
How Parents Around the World Describe Their Children, in Charts – "A fascinating new study reveals that Americans are more likely to call their children 'intelligent,' while European parents focus on happiness and balance."
DNA Shows It: Birds Are Promiscuous – "Here's the warm and fuzzy part of this column: most birds really do mate for life. But here's the cold side: They mess around. And here's the switch: Blame the ladies."
How to blackmail your parents for food – "Fledglings extort food by putting themselves in danger."
When Animals Mourn: Seeing That Grief Is Not Uniquely Human – cr*p. i hate sad animal stories. *sniff*
Hawking: Humans Will Not Survive Another 1,000 Years 'Without Escaping' Earth – manifest destiny!
In Defence of Pseudonyms in Science: Defending the Right to Write
bonus: read this!>> Sam Parnia – the man who could bring you back from the dead – "This British doctor specialises in resurrection and insists outdated resuscitation techniques are squandering lives that could be saved."
bonus bonus: James Lovelock: A man for all seasons – lovelock thinks there are too many people on the planet.
bonus bonus bonus: and this week's "bras in the news" stories >> Bras Make Breasts "Saggier", 15-year French [of course! – h.chick] Study Reveals and How your under-wired bra could kill you… if you're a keen walker – "Metal in under-wired bras can cause compasses to be reversed because of the magnetic effect". (sorry, no naked boobies at either of those pages.)
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Everette Cadden: "I'm reading 20th Century speeches and the Bible, a thousand words everyone should know. Knowledge is power."
Scott Keech: "Nothing. I have to work all the time."
Cindy Stratton: "I just finished a wonderful book called I Wish I Had a Red Dress, an escape novel about a young African American woman and her relationships with her family and coworkers."


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Gorilla Gone
As Ken Mandel wrote in his notes on this website today, the Phillies got a "gorilla" off their backs by winning game one yesterday in dramatic fashion, Bobby Abreu's walk-off, three-run homer in the last of the ninth.
A four-game losing streak isn't a pleasant thing anytime, but in the middle of June, it is a blip. When it happens to start the season, it gets magnified.
Fortunately, the poorest start ever for the Phillies is still safe. That record is 0-8 in 1883, the first year for the Phillies franchise. The 1883 club and 1934 edition share the club record by starting out 0-5 at home.
Jimmy Rollins collected a hit in each game yesterday, giving him a streak of 41 of his last 42 games. You can imagine the excitement that would be going on now if the consecutive streak had reached 42.
Other numbers from yesterday:
**The twinbill was a Sunday first at Citizens Bank Park. When I was a kid, Sundays were always doubleheaders. Mondays were days off.
**The walk-up crowd of 8,300 was the largest since Citizens Bank Park opened two years ago. I remember games at Connie Mack Stadium when attendance didn't reach 8,300.
**Over 52,500 hot dogs were sold on Hatfield Phillies Franks Dollar Dog Day. My dollar is among that number.
The new left field wall got its first test during the homestand. Three balls that would have been homers the first two years were turned into doubles. For those of you who are not aware, the left field wall was moved back five feet and raised from 8' to 10'6". The left field foul pole is still 329'. The wall angles five feet back from there, then across to section 146. The 369' sign last year is now 374'.
One thing that was missing during the first homestand was Paul Richardson. The Phillies organist since 1970 is battling cancer. He informed the Phillies this winter that he would be unable to perform. It was the first time Richardson has missed opening day.
Paul is more than a musician. He's an entertainer and a character and often a bearer of bad jokes. It was an empty feeling not seeing him opening day.
Richardson is the answer to a tricky trivia question: Who is the only person to play at Connie Mack Stadium, Veterans Stadium and Citizens Bank Park?
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When do we start to think about firing the manager.
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My paternal great-grandaunt, Ida Laura WEHRLY, was married on this date in 1903 to Edward SCHOLER. Ida was the daughter of William P. and Olive Jane (SMITH) WEHRLY, and the younger sister of my Barbara Isabel WEHRLY. Ida was born February 13, 1883 in Madison Township, Jay County, Indiana. I do not have the dates of birth or parentage of Edward. They had one child who was stillborn. Ida died December 15, 1963.
My paternal 6th-great grandfather, Samuel JEWETT, was born on this date in 1725 in Bradford, Massachusetts. Samuel was the son of Samuel and Ruth (HARDY) JEWETT. Samuel married Ruth (________) before 1749. They lived in Hollis, New Hampshire. I do not have the dates of birth or parentage of Ruth. Samuel died December 20, 1791 in Hollis, New Hampshire.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Family Milestones: December 30th
at Wednesday, December 30, 2009 Posted by Travis LeMaster
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Hey, we're related!
Have you seen the picture of the Jewett farm?
We have a fair amount of Jewett history, including a book from the Civil War and the lawsuit for the replacement of a lost bag at the Beacon Hill battle. You can find quit a bit in the DAR site.
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Kim Kardashian's Revealing Sheer Outfit at Bonnaroo [PHOTO]by Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Kim Kardashian West accompanied her new husband, Kanye West, to the Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee yesterday where he performed in front of a crowd of screaming fans. And while the crowd got an earful from Kanye, they unexpectedly got an eyeful of Kim as well.
As you can see in this photo that Kim posted on Instagram, she left nothing to the imagination as she posed on stage in a revealing sheer outfit. Kim is pictured wearing an olive green jacket was a see through white top and white pants.
The caption on her photo reads, "Oh hey 100,000 people! #Bonnaroo"
She also posted a second photo featuring Kanye, with the caption, "#YASSSSSS just rocked Bonnaroo"
According to the New York Daily News, the couple arrived in Tennessee after spending some time in Mexico. Tomorrow, June 15, the couple will be celebrating the first birthday of their daughter North West.
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By Steve Conover and Brian Takita
Peer-to-Patent, one of Pivotal Labs' clients, got Slashdotted last week, and we had no trouble handling the load. The site was just as responsive as it always is, and we didn't come close to having a scale problem.
Moral of the story: the technology for serving static web pages is old, boring, and extremely scalable. If you have the type of site that can be page-cached, do so aggressively, starting with the front page and any pages likely to be linked to. We got a huge payoff for the engineering time that we invested in our page-caching strategy.
- We moved away from Rails page-caching and developed our own "holeless cache", which uses a symlink trick (see below) to instantly and "holelessly" switch to a new version of a cached page. (The cache "hole" is the time between the expiration or purge of a cached page and the time when it's regenerated. The danger is that in that time your Mongrels can be saturated with requests – something we proved to ourselves could easily happen.)
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- Have index.html point to index.html.current
- If (index.html.current is >= 20 minutes old)
- Copy index.html.current to index.html.old
- Point index.html to index.html.old
- Rewrite index.html.current by asking Rails for the page (using the process method)
- Repoint index.html back at index.html.current
- Repeat step 2 every minute using a cron job.
- For cache expiration that's model-based, we make a call from the model observer class to our holeless cache routine, instead of using Rails cache sweepers. So, instead of just deleting the cached page we regenerate it in place.
- It was important to write tests that proved that the HTML we generated for cached pages looked exactly the same in different "modes" (user logged in vs not, for example). This forced us to push modal decision logic out of Markaby templates and into JavaScript, meaning that view-oriented Rspec tests asserting modal differences became useless. We rewrote them as Selenium tests.
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"The Bachelorette" Season Finale is tonight (8:00. - 10:00)
Followed by "After the Final Rose" at 10:00 on
ABC Television Network.
How unexpected was Brooks last minute break up with Desiree compared to other Bachelor moments.
CH: I absolutely understand that perspective especially considering what we all just saw and what we've
seen in the last couple of weeks. So I get that, but the fact that you know there are these two other guys
here that A have no idea and B they're head over heels in love with her and I guess if there's a C to this it's
that Des needs to figure out what this means where she is and where she wants to go from here.
If she just wants to pack up her bags and be done with this or if she's going to continue on.
But I fully understand everyone's perspective, but you also have to kind of watch the rest to see how it unfolds.
Q: Obviously by this point you must be feeling very close to Des and quite protective of her, were you upset with
Chris Harrison: No, I wasn't before I talked to him you know I usually probably could have been.
But after I talked to him he's not a bad guy you know he didn't do this with you know malice or ill intent.
He didn't come on here to you know screw her over and be the bad guy. He was very sincere and very
sweet and when I talked to him you could tell that he was torn about this. And he had really done his you
know due diligence and he had thought this out talked to his family. And just made sure that you know this
wasn't right for him. I would have been disappointed and more upset with him if he had gone through with all
of this and then she picked him. And he has this fake proposal and they just kind of go out for a few weeks
and it doesn't mean anything and he breaks up.
Like I would have been disappointed with that guy, you know it kind of takes me back to (Brad Womack) when
people were so upset with him for turning down both girls. You know it was Deanna and I forget her name who's the other girl, I want to say Kelly but that's not it. Anyway when Brad turned down both girls at the end you know everybody was outraged.
Then I thought you know why is there such a bad thing if he's not in love what would be what would people be
happier with a fake proposal. So I thought he did the right thing, so I thought Brooks did the right thing
it just sucks to have to do that on national television.
Yes that makes sense. And also next week we'll see you speaking with Des about her feelings.
How did you approach that conversation were you trying to persuade her to stay?
Chris Harrison: So you know the great thing about my job especially now how it's evolved is you know I
am not necessarily the impartial judge or referee or even a host, I just went in honestly as a friend. And you
know the cameras were rolling and I knew they were there but I really just went in. Because she needed to
talk to somebody and just listened to her and that was a lot of what I did was just sit and listen. Kind of like what
I did with Brooks and let her tell me where she was. And then you know I asked a few questions and kind of
let her guide me through what she wanted to do.
CH: But it was really just an empathetic figure that was kind of there for her.
And that kind of the beauty of my job is you know I can be that I don't have to be impartial I can care about
Her and care about how everybody is doing.
Q: Was their a fear on your part and the producers part that she would actually walk out and leave the show?
Chris Harrison: Oh absolutely I mean I knew after I left Brooks obviously that what we was going to do.
And you know the first thing I said you know to the producers when I walked out of his I said you know w
e might be done, you know we might not have anything to show in the final episode.
Other than the fact that you know we have to play this out. And you know there are still a lot of questions out
there and it still may not be much of anything next week other than her saying goodbye and having to talk to the
other two guys. But that was definitely a fear but you know that's what? It's part of the beauty of our show is
and part of the scariest thing of our show as far as the producer goes is at the end we have kind of have to take
our hands off the wheel. And it's really after all this work all this preparation it's really up to free will and it's up
to a woman or a guy making a choice.
And that's a scary thing as a producer no matter you know what show whether it's you know Idol or Survivor or
whatever those were kind of game shows they have a beginning and an end. Our show really at the end is pretty wide open.
Q: And what can you tell me about Desiree's state of mind right now you know two months after
Brooks walked out.
Chris Harrison: I mean the last time I saw her it was at the "Tell All" a couple of weeks ago. And you
know she's good. The great thing about Des and I am assuming this comes from her background and the
way she grew up. Is that she's a survivor and she's strong. When we started this thing she said look I am going
to allow myself to be very vulnerable. And I said you know there's a good chance you could get hurt like that.
She says I know but that's the only way you can do this. And I was proud of the fact that that's how she went
through it the entire time of just really put herself out there. And unfortunately you know she did get hurt and she
got hurt bad but she has incredible resolve and she's a strong woman. So you know she's bounced back and she seemed happy.
Q: You are a friend, but also the host and can you talk about how it was for you? did you feel torn between
What worked for Des and what worked for the show?
Chris Harrison: If I guess you know yes and no you know when I heard about it. I think y my first thought I
think this was for as Des's friend and I thought this was going to suck and this was going to be brutal. Because
at this point you know ratings wise and drama wise you know usually we're done. And we're really just trying to
set up this really great happy ending and hopefully what would be a magic proposal and that's going to be good
enough. You know a great proposal and ending you know like Catherine and Shaun that will give us great
This, this was a little bit of a curve ball that was more of of a hindrance and more of a pain for us as producers
than the thought of this is going to be great drama. Just because we were kind of in that home stretch and
thought you know we this was going to be a great season with a great ending and we're home free. And then
the entire show was kind of dumped upside down you know in the final two weeks of shooting.
Q: Going back to the point where you know Des tells Brooks that she loves him and he said
why didn't you tell me this earlier? And she says I can't can you talk about that a bit because the whole,
the whole goal is for the bachelorette to find love. But at the same time she's encouraged not to say
her feelings or she's not allowed to say her feelings.
Chris Harrison: I guess a little bit of both you know. But I think that was a little bit of a defense mechanism
for Brooks and a little bit of a cop out if you will. You know I think anybody could have seen that Des was falling
for this guy and you know Brooks had been around her enough to know unless he completely misread every
signal she had ever put out. It was pretty simple to see she was falling for him, they even made up those silly
whatever verbs they thought they were adjectives they were really verbs. That described their love. she said I am running and I am close to the finish line or whatever.
So I think again that was Brooks wanted to come off as a good guy in front of everybody during the breakup.
I really don't think it would have made any difference whatsoever if she had been on one knee begging for his
hand in marriage three weeks ago.
Q: how did you feel when Des told you that she loved Brooks pretty early on in this season. I am wondering
if that's kind of common for the contestant to reveal so early on in the game and you guys let that appear
on camera too. Did you think that would bode well that she was already admitting love.
Chris Harrison: You know it's funny too though you know we did do that early but you know in the next
sentence she also said she loves Chris. And then in the next sentence you know I don't think she used, she
actually used the L word with Drew but she said she was like falling for him or falling in love or whatever.
But it is funny how everyone really picked up the Brooks thing and then they kind of just forgot about Chris
and then forgot about Drew. But you know I guess it was just the way she spoke about it or maybe the fact
that he was first.
Chris Harrison: But it was at the time I think it was in Munich when we showed that when we were in
Germany the next day I was a bit surprised that people forgot about the next three sentences she said
about the other guys and everyone just kind of forgot about that. we, you know we knew what had had
happened too and we kind of knew this was coming. And so that way we kind of needed to set up the fact
that's how she felt about Brooks before we got to this point. if there was really no context once we got to this
point you really wouldn't understand why she was so upset.
Q: what doyou attribute his decision to call everything off to? is it perhaps the pressure of having to propose
at the end of the show is that too much for some guys?
Chris Harrison: I don't, you know I don't know I mean I think it was two separate questions there. I am not
sure what Brook's issues were or are. They could be as simple as Des isn't the one or the fact that I think he
has a history of not quite being able to commit. I am not sure where that stems from whether his childhood or
what's happened in his life, but I can't, I don't know I really couldn't pinpoint that and he had a really tough time
articulating to me what he was thinking and what he wanted to do and I found that very peculiar.
You know I kept almost having to treat him like a hostile witness on the stand.
Chris Harrison: I didn't mean to beat him up, but I honestly for the life of me I could not understand
what the heck he was trying to say to me and I thought my God if he's going to act like this with me how bad
is he going to be with Des?
Chris Harrison: And so and I really thought maybe he didn't want to leave maybe he just needs more time.
And the pressure of proposing or whatever. I wanted to make it clear that there is no pressure and if he needs
more time if we need to extend this or they want to whatever. There's a ton of options beyond hey there' s a
proposal next week. So if that's the problem let's work on that if you really care about her and there's still a shot.
if we want to play psychiatrist it probably goes to a deeper issue somewhere.
Chris Harrison: Because he also had that same problem with Des I mean honestly for the first 10 minutes
of that talk with Des If you had stopped I think Des would have thought he might be about to propose to me,
that's how odd that breakup was. He spent 10 minutes telling her how much he loved her and how great she
was and oh by the way I am breaking up with you and so I just found it all a little peculiar.
Q: I am a dead inside jaded journalist and it was brutal to watch her on Monday night. How long did that kind of
crime don't come near me cameras from afar episode go?
Chris Harrison: after, so Brooks and her set up there for quite some time and talked and then they walked off. We were obviously on the beach kind of tucked away. And then she you know afterwards kind of walked out there to kind of have alone time. And we let her sit for I mean I am guessing probably a good 10 minutes, 10, 15 minutes to kind of just sit out there and be alone. And then I did go out there and I talked to her but you know we were going to show that but we, you know we stopped this episode there. I think where we'll pick up though is where you'll see Des and I speaking you back at her house, because we had another chat.
she just needed time to decompress and figure out what just happened and figure out where she is.
Give her a little time to pull herself back together and then we had a chat back at her, back at her place.
Where we had to kind of decide where we go from here and what we want to do and oh by the way there's Chris
and Drew what do we do with them? They know nothing about this and how should they find out and so there
we were you know a lot of questions that we kind of needed to deal with, but that wasn't the time or place
to hammer her with all of that after what had just happened.
Q: The guys in the house talked about how differently she acted around Drew and knew she had feelings for him
That she didn't have for the other bachelors.
Chris Harrison: I knew there were red flags, warning signs that you know something was amiss and
something was a little off when I would talk to her. I am trying to think wait if I even brought it up in Munich or
probably in Barcelona I was trying to think there like Chris and Drew and Zach professed their love,
but at some point all of the final four had professed their love and then I said well what about Brooks and she
said no he didn't. I just kind of kept bringing that up and she kept really reassuring me that he had
affirmed his feelings in other ways non-verbally and she just felt sure about him.
while I knew there were red flags and there were warning signs in no way did I think this was going to happen.
I don't think anybody saw this coming. I kind of took her word for it that she was pretty sure about him and as
you know nothing led us or I think any other producers to think that this guy was you know going to really just do
a 180 and bolt, but there were definitely signs along the way that she was much further along than he was,
and much easier at expressing her feelings than he was. I mean we even showed it in our last episode
when they were making up thoseverbs that he said jogging at the same time she said running.
Just the fact that by the way they needed that kind of silly game to even express their feelings at this point in
their life is a red flag to me. I mean as a grown adult if you can't say can't look a woman or look a man in the eye
and say I have serious feelings for you. Then instead you need to say do you like me check yes or no like
we're in grade school. That to me is a red flag of immaturity as far as a relationship goes When you look at
Brooks is really struggling with that and again I don't know if it's because he has deeper issues, but there's
definitely issues there to be shared.
Q: how normal is it for these guys at this point to go back to their family? We don't usually see that.
Chris Harrison: What happened was so this you know after the hometown dates the guys are still in their
Hometowns and the hometown dates are spread out over the week obviously, because you know Des has
to fly into different cities. Then the guys will stay where they are for just a little bit longer until it's time to fly in to
the next city here it was Antigua or wherever our exotic dates are. So we don't all travel at the same time and
so a couple of the guys were already in Antigua and they were having their dates, but Brooks was still home
and so it really just lent itself to the fact that he was already there and our cameras were still there that's why we
were able to capture that and set that up.
And the other thing is typically the guys know how they feel at this point. They've just seen their families and
they've just had that talk some of it's off camera and some of it's on, but o they were at the hometown and they
get some time to speak to their families and so they're pretty sure about how, how they feel and what they're
going to do. It was just Brooks who was really confused and he asked to kind of go back and speak to his
family. We really wanted to facilitate that thinking really it was only going to lead to a positive end and
we didn't think he was really looking for that reassurance to leave.
Lori Peters: Hi Chris how are you?
Chris Harrison: I am good Lori how're you're doing?
Lori Peters: Good so I was wondering if some of Des's reaction was more of a shock. That she just found out
that he wasn't interested so that that may have made her more interested and at that time she felt like he was
the only one.
Chris Harrison: Yes I mean look I am the last person that's going to tell you I figured out women or
one's emotional state at this point, but you know I do think that to a certain degree Brooks was someone
she had to chase a little bit and that definitely made him more intriguing, he wasn't. It definitely wasn't the bad
boy syndrome where you're trying to change or fix the bad boy. But there was a certain I think degree of fixing
him ,chasing him a guy that she knew has trouble committing and a guy that never really gave her everything
verbally and emotionally that she wanted. Whereas Drew and Chris were all over that,
CH: and again why women wouldn't go straight to a guy that's giving them everything they want I will never know.
But maybe you can answer that in your column someday.
But with Brooks there was definitely a little bit of that I really think so and the more time he was breaking up with
her the more she tried to profess her love and I think that is a very interesting dynamic. Again one of the things
that makes this show so beautiful is we all saw that. We all saw the warning signs ahead of time. I don't think
any of us could say we were that blown away that Brooks pulled this considering the way he acted all along.
It was a little bit of a curveball but not the biggest surprise in the world and it's just one of those things why
would, why do women or why do men for that matter chase after something that is not perfect and not there,
when you have two relationships that are.
Lori Peters: Right, right maybe there's some of that Grouch Marx saying " I don't want to belong to any
club that will accept me as a member."
Chris Harrison: (laughs) Exactly that's why they have the velvet rope up and that's why they have a line
When nobody's inside.
Q: I just had one question and I want to know how this affects Brooks chance of becoming the next Bachelor.
Chris Harrison: Well I mean you definitely have to wait and see what happens next week to be sure, but
one way is that obviously he has trouble committing to a relationship that would be a red flag for sure and although I think he was sincere in coming on the show he definitely has that trouble when push comes to shove of expressing himself and really
letting himself be vulnerable. That's something that Shaun did really, really well and something that Des did
really well is they allowed themselves to really be out there and be open and it's a weird process that if you
go through it guarded and you're thinking about what's America's going to think about who is going to judge me
what should I do? what's the cool thing to do on camera it's going to be a colossal failure.
the reason these last two seasons have been so good is just because of our bachelor and bachelorette.
That have really allowed themselves to be so open and I just don't I don't know if Brooks has that in him.
Q: When do you think that Brooks truly made up his mind that he needed to go home?
Chris Harrison: I think before he went and saw his parents. I hadn't heard that until I saw the episode
the cut, because the way it works for me is I was home when he was on the hometown and I was already flying
to Antigua and I had gotten wind from one of the producers that they were going to go back and talk to his
parents again By the time I landed in Antigua a day later I heard that it had not gone very well that I was going
to have to go talk to him when he got to Antigua in another couple of days. And so I thought well this that's not
very good. I'm just finding out watching on TV now that he was set in his mind that he was going to leave
walking in there and he just needed that reassurance.
Q: you said in the promo in Monday night's episode where will Des
go from here? Is there any other teaser you can kind of give us info on?
Chris Harrison: Well I mean obviously the other big issue is you know where do we go from here what does she want to do you know are we going to pack up our bags and be done. Or does she want to continue on but the main thing is you know where does that leave her. You know with her relationships with (Drew) and Chris who absolutely know nothing about what just happened. And you know I know she's hurting but she also owes it to these two guys to let them in on what's going on. And you know and do we and again you know the main thing is do we call it quits and how do these guys play into that. So those are the main, you know those are the main questions that we kind of have to answer and deal with immediately.
Q: Good before Monday night's episode aired as US Weekly reported that Brooks chose to quit the show. But felt so strongly for Des that he regretted his decision quote almost immediately unquote. I guess could you confirm whether that was the case and if so how clear did you make that afterwards. And how would you guys have handled it if he suddenly wanted to change his mind and come back.
Chris Harrison: I think he did have regrets you know I think that you could definitely see. You know and again that's the interesting thing about Brooks is even when I was talking to him and you know I think his mind was kind of made up when he talked to his parents. And then the more I talked to him you know that's why I had such a difficult time getting him to articulate his feelings and tell me what he was thinking. Because I he was almost looking for a way out he was almost looking for a way to stay in. And so I don't know if he was a 100 percent. And then once you know Des started professing her love and telling him how she felt, you could see how broken up he was.
And he was emotionally crushed and so you know as Wishy Washy as he is you know I think there is, there is definitely regrets from here. And he said as much to us you know after he left. So you know there's definitely that element that he probably did regret you know saying what he said and doing what he did, so you know that's definitely open as well as we head into next week.
Chris Harrison: Yes I mean it's really funny, heading into every season you know I always joke with the producers. I said you know somethings, something will happen this season that we've never faced before. And you know you laugh I mean we've done this so long we've done what 28 something seasons in 11 years. Surely you've kind of seen everything but inevitably there's a moment on the show where you run into this situation that you've just never faced. And you know in this time it was you know this deal with Brooks. And it just led to a finale you know a final two weeks that as producers we kind of weren't prepared to face you know we all were kind of scrambling and trying to figure this out. And one thing I love is that that episode you saw last Monday was so different than anything we've ever had before.
I was watching it thinking is this even a bachelor episode it was so organic and raw. And we just really let you see everything and I love that you know I love that our viewers and the fans of our show kind of demand that now. Of seeing behind the curtain and seeing you know really everything awards and all where even. To the point where you know they're walking through the Jungle and there's bad lighting and there's bad lighting and you can't really see them well and our cameras are scrambling and having to run around. And even when Des walked back on the dock you know we weren't really ready for that either. And you know one of our camera guys is literally waiting out 400 yards into the water waist deep, holding a camera over his head to try and get a shot. Because you know we're not set up for that and we just really let things go now whereas maybe in the past you know early, early on we would have said OK stop let's get the camera set.
And you know it looks a little bit more produced and it looks prettier but now we kind of just show you everything that's happening. Because that's really where the show is now and that's where our fans are.
Q: say hypothetically if Brooks because he was super wishy washy and I agree with that assessment. So hypothetically he decides oh wait I screwed up I didn't want to go home I do love her now I know she loves me oh wait I am going to make, I am going to make this right. Do you think it's even possible hypothetically for him to re-correct and come back into the game or do you think that like she's like in no way, shape or form willing to accept that.
Chris Harrison: I mean of course I think I think it's absolutely possible for him to come back in the game. You know she cared about him she you know she loved him she said as much and you know you saw you know him in tears you saw his look. So absolutely you know that's a possibility just because of where they both were. And you know we've had a situation before on a much lesser degree where I don't know if you remember Jillian Season where Reid Rosenthal came back and professed his love. But you know Jillian wasn't really having that and she was kind of set on where she was going. In this situation you know you know our bachelorette was there and was prepared for that.
And so you know she may be open to it or maybe she learnt her lesson and you know knows that he's not the guy for her anymore. But you know I could, you know they wouldn't, it wouldn't shock me at all you know for a guy like that to come back.
Q: Des brother for instance was such a he was such good TV. And we already found for a pop up at this point and normally in the process this is when you guys call in you know the bachelor and bachelorettes family to meet people and stuff like that. So was her family already there will we see her family and their reaction to what happened or.
Chris Harrison: The family had, her family had not arrived yet. Because you know that, that was kind of a separate week they would come in you know the following week. Because we were still essentially on the exotic date while we stayed in Antigua it was really a separate week where you know we would. Because those exotic dates they do they take a full week and then the next week you know we have. You know typically you would have those last dates and then the family and all that stuff. So no her family was not in yet by the time that you know Brooks had talked to her. Because she was that was supposed to be her last overnight date.
Chris Harrison: Well maybe it's too bad that you know she told her brother you know that she didn't need his help this time, and maybe if he had met everybody. Then he would have saved her the trouble of this one as well.
Q: And then do you think that this goes down in sort of bachelor history as you know because we always talk about wrong reasons right.
Chris Harrison: Yes.
Or the right reasons. do you think that the people will look back on Brooks in the way that they looked back on Brad, the you know oh I can't believe he walked out on her and blah, blah, blah. Or do you think people will respect this as just sort of natural process that for whatever reason you know he was there for the right reasons but it didn't pan out.
Chris Harrison: I don't know I hate to date ourselves but you know when (Brad) did what he did there really wasn't any social media. So you didn't get that instant response, the response kind of came after you know the tabloids and the magazines. And that you know it filters us out in the different way back then whereas now you know you get that immediate reaction. And I, I don't know maybe I am wrong but I haven't seen a lot of anger towards Brooks. I don't know maybe you have but I haven't really felt that and when was there I wasn't mad at them.
I didn't think God what a jerk so I don't know you know my opinion I just have my own and part of it was being there and then part of it's you know watching Twitter and everything else. But I think people were disappointed and people were upset for Des but I don't think that he really came off as a bad guy, maybe a guy that can't articulate his feelings very well. And you know makes a two minute breakup last over two hours. But other than that I don't think he's a bad guy.
Q: OK and then finally the Juan Pablo train seems to have left the station.
Chris Harrison: It has left Venezuela.
Q: Right with our, with our readers there's definitely a ground swell for him to be the bachelor. Is it something you guys are thinking about I know.
Chris Harrison: Sure yes I mean he's you couldn't help. But here again you know I go back to social media and it's you know what a great thing to have now where we get that instant feedback. But you also kind of get that it's funny every you know Tuesday morning whoever leaves you know says Zach. When Zach left you know the next morning I was inundated with Zach has to be the next bachelor you know he's so sweet da, da, da. And then you know after the tell all it was you know Juan Pablo he's the greatest and so you get a lot of that. So you have to be careful not to have this knee jerk reaction which is why we, we're really careful about not making it a decision like that and make it right away.
The good news is we don't really have to because the show doesn't start production for quite some time you know after the show is done filming. So obviously Juan Pablo is a candidate Zach's probably in the mix and again I am saying this because this is well above my pay grade. But you know they we take our cues from our fans and definitely because we want to give people the show that they want to see. And we want to give them a leading man or a leading woman that they want to follow, so he's definitely up there. And there was a strong reaction to him to share.
Chris Harrison: But there's also three other guys in the mix now you know and Brooks, Drew and Chris that you know may you know depending on how this thing falls out you never know how the audience is going to react to them either. So you know right now it's kind of strong but you know things could definitely change in the next four to five days.
What do you think Des will do tonight? Do you think she will just leave or wait and
see if Drew or Chris propose to her?
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Classic Winter Classic
Happy New Year!
May 2012 be filled with good health, happiness and prosperity. Another World Championship would also be welcomed.
It was pretty cool watching the NHL Winter Classic on TV. Cooler being there, I suppose. Citizens Bank Park has had some classic games in its eight-year history, including this one.
Congratulations to all who made the Classic happen. It was a real boom for the city and region. Great national TV coverage.
Unfortunately, the home team offense fell one short. Seemed to have seen that before.
Loved the Brightstone commercial and seeing Dick Vitale speechless. For a second, I thought the TV control was on mute. Dick didn't say a word (for a change) and I'm sure he got pretty good change for being in the TV spot. Probably a lifetime supply of tires.
Two more hockey games, a college game on Wednesday and then a minor league game on Friday night, the Phantoms against the Hershey Bears in an American Hockey League game.
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Last but not least, however, for those who had violated the posting rules and thus got their comments deleted or even banned, yet my sincere apologies too nevertheless but I think I had stated my requirements clearly on Day One. In fact, I do have very high tolerance than most of the other webmasters, I believe, as this Blog is meant to be free and there is no commercial or money interest of any here and on my side. I bet that you are not going to find more of any other websites over the Internet for such pure hobby and non-money related nature like mine but still with such a high popularity! After all, mine is just the rare species, brand and hobby regardless! :-D
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Supreme Court Summaries
Opinion filed July 11, 2011
Wirtz v. Quinn, 2011 IL 111903
Appellate citation: 407 Ill. App. 3d 776.
JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.
Chief Justice Kilbride and Justices Freeman, Thomas, Garman, Karmeier, and Theis concur in the judgment and opinion.
On July 13, 2009, a legislative capital projects plan with numerous provisions created the Video Gaming Act and was signed into law by Governor Patrick Quinn. It consists of three substantive bills and one appropriation bill. Under the main bill, Public Act 96–34, video gaming is allowed at certain licensed establishments and a tax is imposed thereon. The lottery law is amended. The sales tax rate is increased on candy, soft drinks, grooming and hygiene products, manufacturers and distributors of beer, wine and spirits face higher taxes, and motor vehicle fees are increased. Although the appropriation authority at issue has now lapsed, other provisions continue to be employed by the General Assembly in current budget legislation.
Within weeks of the effective date of this legislation, W. Rockwell Wirtz and Wirtz Beverage Illinois, LLC, filed a taxpayer action, on August 25, 2009, seeking to restrain and enjoin the disbursement of public funds under the new enactment. Violation of the single subject clause of the Illinois Constitution was alleged, as well as other constitutional defects. The circuit court of Cook County, however, denied the plaintiffs leave to file their complaint and refused to allow the matter to go forward. The plaintiffs appealed and obtained a reversal from the appellate court on January 26, 2011. An appeal from this decision was allowed by the Illinois Supreme Court. In this decision, the supreme court upheld the legislation against the various challenges made and found it valid.
The appellate court, in voiding the legislation, found that the provisions of Public Act 96–34 were not all related to the single subject of "revenue" contained in the official title and that the remaining three public acts (Nos. 96–35, 96–37 and 96–38) were invalid based on language making them contingent on Public Act 96–34. However, the supreme court held that it was not limited to the title in applying the single subject rule and evaluated the legislation as a "capital projects" plan, which it found to be a legitimate single subject. The supreme court held that all the various provisions have a natural and logical connection to that subject, establishing revenue sources to be deposited in the Capital Projects Fund. Those provisions that do not directly raise revenue implement those which do and, thus, are related to the overall subject. Other constitutional challenges were also rejected.
Rather than remand to the appellate court, the supreme court addressed all of the claims raised in the plaintiffs' complaint, even those not addressed by the appellate court. The circuit court judgment was affirmed.


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My partner's birthday is one week from tomorrow. Her favorite cake to devour on her birthday is a german chocolate cake, and it's been her one request for several years now. So it's become a tradition… a home-cooked meal, and a german chocolate cake. Except that I've always cheated and bought the cake from a bakery. I always made excuses for why I was never able to bake her a cake… no time, had to work, her friends were not going to eat what I bake. Those were the most common excuses. I'm sure there were many more. But in actuality, I was and still am intimidated by baking. It's too precise for me. I like cooking savory dishes so much more because a little dash of this, and a little dash of that, and voila!… a tasty meal. No measurements, no thing. Just pure intuition.
I'm a horrible baker. The last time I attempted to bake was fifteen years ago. I was trying to bake chocolate chip cookies from store bought ready-made cookie dough. The cookies looked nothing like the picture. They were flat, and dry. Ugh. I mean, how can you mess up ready-made cookie dough?! They are made to be fail proof. You just drop dough onto a buttered cookie sheet, and wait 8 to 10 minutes for cookies! Not me. The cookies ended up in the garbage. From then on, I swore to myself that I would never try to bake anything sweet ever again. Ever. Until this year.
I promised her a homemade german chocolate cake. We were celebrating my partner's birthday a little early this year with a group of friends, so today was the day. The day to bake. The day that I've avoided for a very long time. It took me three hours to make, bake and assemble. I don't think it should have taken this long. I also had many other revelations along the way of making this cake. Firstly, I can't believe that of all cakes I tried to bake, this was the one. This was a very involved recipe! Secondly, I had many horrible mishaps along the way of baking. I think it was a sign that I was not meant to be a baker. Lastly, I realized how important it is to have at least a hand-held electric mixer. I hand-mixed and hand beat EVERYTHING in the recipe below. My forearms were very sore by the end of the process. And my eggs white didn't quite have "stiff peaks," but it worked out. Why didn't I just buy the hand-held electric mixer today when I was getting some accessories at Sur La Table?! But with that being said, the mini cakes turned out very tasty.
I also had an epiphany after assembling the cakes… I'm not a baker. I just don't have the patience. I plan on buying boxed cake mix, and will make the coconut filling from scratch. It'll be a hybrid homemade cake 🙂
Mini German Chocolate Cakes (adapted from Bakers Royale)
For the cake:
2 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
6 tablespoons water
8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 ¼ cup + ¼ cup sugar
4 large eggs, separated
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter two 9-inch cake pans.
Melt both chocolates together with the 6 tablespoons of water. Use either a double-boiler or a microwave. Stir until smooth, then set aside until room temperature.
In the bowl with an electric mixer, beat the butter and 1 ¼ cup of the sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in the melted chocolate, then the egg yolks, one at a time.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
Mix in half of the dry ingredients into the creamed butter mixture, then the buttermilk and the vanilla extract, then the rest of the dry ingredients.
In a separate metal or glass bowl, beat the egg whites until they hold soft, droopy peaks. Beat in the ¼ cup of sugar until stiff.
Fold about one-third of the egg whites into the cake batter to lighten it, then fold in the remaining egg whites just until there's no trace of egg white visible.
Divide the batter into the 2 prepared cake pans, smooth the tops, and bake for about 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Cool cake layers completely. (This was a really important part of making this cake. I think this steps allows for the cakes to be handled with more ease. I made the mistake of handling the cake layers while they were still warm, and the cakes seemed to crumble a lot easier. Things to learn along the way, I suppose 🙂 )
While the cakes are baking and cooling, make the filling, syrup, and icing.
For the filling:
1 cup heavy cream
3/4 cup sugar
3 large egg yolks
3 ounces (6 tablespoons) butter, cut into small pieces
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup pecans, toasted and finely chopped
1 1/3 cups sweetened coconut, toasted
Mix the cream, sugar, and egg yolks in a medium saucepan. Put the butter, salt, toasted coconut, and pecan pieces in a large bowl.
Heat the cream mixture and cook, stirring constantly (scraping the bottom as you stir) until the mixture begins to thicken and coats the spoon (an instant-read thermometer will read 170°.)
3. Pour the hot custard immediately into the pecan-coconut mixture and stir until the butter is melted. Cool completely to room temperature. The mixture will thicken as it cools.
For the syrup:
1 cup water
¾ cup sugar
2 tablespoons dark rum
In a small saucepan, heat the sugar and water until the sugar has melted. Remove from heat and stir in the dark rum.
For the chocolate ganache:
9 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1 cup heavy cream
Place the chocolate into a medium bowl.
Heat the cream in a small sauce pan over medium heat. Bring just to a boil, watching very carefully because if it boils for a few seconds, it will boil out of the pot. When the cream has come to a boil, pour over the chopped chocolate, and whisk until smooth.
Allow the ganache to cool slightly before pouring over a cake. Start at the center of the cake and work outward.
To assemble cakes:
Requires a 2.5 inch cake ring
Using a serrated knife, cut the two cakes in half leaving you four large, round disks. Using the cake ring, cut as many 2.5 inch diameter cakes from the four round cakes. Brush each layer with the sugar-rum syrup. Spread one teaspoonful of filling on the top of the bottom layer, then repeating with one more layer, until layer is filled except the top. Pour chocolate top, and top off with a little sprinkle of shredded coconut and a pecan to finish it.
Makes 14 individual cakes.


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