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BookKeeper targets the logging problem. More specifically, the distributed logging problem where high-availability is important and where many distributed clients are interested in reading the logs.
Most current applications log to the local disk, but this constitutes a single point of failure (SPOF) and betrays high-availability. A hasty remedy is to write to an NFS partition to store log files remotely. But now the NFS server becomes the SPOF. (We can of course replicate the NSF server, but the performance would suffer.) Another solution is to use NetApp filers that implement RAID. This costs money, and still does not completely solve SPOF.
BookKeeper provides a no-SPOF efficient data store for serving a large number of concurrent single-writer, multiple-reader logs. It stripes log entries across servers, leading to higher throughput. BookKeeper is opensource and is used in production systems.
BookKeeper presents two case studies: Hedwig and HDFS Namenode. Hedwig is a scalable topic-based publish-subscribe system. To guarantee the delivery of messages despite partitions and server failures, Hedwig uses logging to persist published messages, which is implemented with BookKeeper. Hedwig is in production use and serves push notifications for Yahoo! properties (e.g., notifications for mobile devices).
The other use case concerns replicating the HDFS Namenode, the component of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) that manages the file system metadata. On each update, the Namenode writes synchronously to a journal to guarantee that the update is durable. But unfortunately the Namenode is a SPOF. To enable efficient journaling and strong durability through replication, BookKeeper is used for implementing a journal manager for HDFS. The implementation is currently part of the HDFS codebase.
BookKeeper design and architectureBookKeeper has 3 main components:
- A bookie is a BookKeeper storage server, and each bookie stores ledger fragments. A ledger is written across f+1 bookies for fault-tolerance and striping.
- BookKeeper client is used for interacting with bookies.
- Ledger abstracts a log file. It is a sequence of entries identified by a sequence number (id).
BookKeeper assumes that there is only a single client writing to a ledger (clients can employ ZooKeeper coordination for this), and in return it guarantees that, once a ledger is closed, all other clients that read from it read the same sequence of entries.
Here is the happy path for BookKeeper. An application using BookKeeper initially designates a ledger writer. This ledger writer creates a ledger and appends data to the ledger; only the ledger writer is able to append entries to the ledger. Eventually, after appending an arbitrary number of entries to the ledger, the ledger writer closes it. Once the ledger is closed, its content is immutable. Clients can open closed ledgers for reading and any individual ledger can have multiple readers over time, and even concurrent readers.
The main calls in the API enable applications to:
- Create a ledger;
- Add entries to a ledger;
- Open a ledger for reading;
- Read entries from a ledger;
- Close a ledger to prevent further writes;
- Delete a ledger.
All these calls have both a synchronous and an asynchronous version.
When a client creates a ledger, it selects a set of bookies to form an ensemble for the ledger and stores the ensemble information as part of the ledger metadata on ZooKeeper. For each entry the ledger writer adds to the ledger, it replicates the entry across f+1 bookies. A request to add an entry e completes successfully if e has been successfully replicated across f+1 bookies. If a bookie crashes, then the client replaces that bookie. BookKeeper uses ZooKeeper to keep track of configuration changes for a ledger.
Closing a ledger.
When closing a ledger, the ledger writer writes to ZooKeeper the last entry that has been written successfully, as part of the ledger metadata. If a ledger writer crashes prematurely, before it closes its open ledger, a ledger reader would need to do ledger recovery.
Ledger recovery.
When a ledger reader opens a ledger for reading, it first obtains the ledger metadata. If it finds that it has not been closed by checking the state of the ledger, the ledger reader triggers a recovery procedure. The first step of recovery for a given ledger consists of having the reader client asking each bookie in the ensemble for the last add confirmed (LAC) field in the last entry that the bookie has processed for the ledger. Since reads are based on entry id, the recovery process can start reading from the highest LAC it receives, and thus it is not necessary to read the entire ledger.
Reading from an open ledger.
BookKeeper also enables clients to read from open ledgers. When clients need to read from an open ledger, they invoke a call to open the ledger that does not try to recover it if it is not closed. To avoid reading partially replicated entries from the ledger, which may not be in the ledger once it is closed, the client asks bookies for their LAC values. Reading entry i ≤ LAC is safe, since the ledger writer has marked it as successfully replicated.
Dealing with multiple ledgers
The ledger device stores ledger entries along with an index for each ledger. Bookie has a single file, called entry log, and interleaves entries of different ledgers by appending entries of all ledgers. For each ledger, Bookie also keeps in-memory an index mapping the entry identifier to its position in the entry log.
This design targets workloads dominated by writes, while not neglecting the performance of reads. Requests to add an entry to a ledger return as soon as the entry is flushed to the journal of a bookie, and writes to the ledger device are asynchronous and mostly sequential to enable the writes to this device to keep up with the writes to the journal device. To serve a read request, it is necessary to obtain the position of the entry in the entry log. If the index page is cached, then the read requires one disk seek.
BookKeeper stores metadata on ZooKeeper.
The ledger metadata includes the ensemble composition of ledgers, write quorum size, ledger status, the last entry successfully written to a closed ledger. For the metadata store, BookKeeper uses ZooKeeper. "A different, more scalable data store becomes necessary when the number of active ledgers is of the order of tens to hundreds of millions." For the availability of bookies, BookKeeper relies upon ZooKeeper because it provides ephemeral znodes and watches.
EvaluationExperiments are conducted using a cluster of identical machines: 2 Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.5Ghz, 16GB of RAM, one 1 Gbit/s network interface, and four SATA drives of 1TB and rotational speed of 7200 RPM. Each machine in the cluster mounts an enterprise class filer via NFS (NetApp FAS3050). This hardware gives a raw performance of 1.2 milliseconds for the latency of add operations and 22.5k adds/sec for 1 kbyte entries when writing to a single bookie. nE-qQ denotes a ledger configuration with ensemble size n and write quorum q.
DiscussionBookKeeper resembles chain replication a little. The chain replication approach is to export consensus to Paxos, and only store data providing high throughput. BookKeeper also does that, but chain replication is not referred to in the paper at all. Of course, chain replication lacks striping, and does not by default provide disjoint read replicas (in addition to write replicas) to improve read throughput.
The Tango paper mentions BookKeeper and states that it has an implementation of BookKeeper in 300 lines. How would you implement BookKeeper in Tango? What can you speculate about the performance of BookKeeper versus TangoBookKeeper? Could you implement Tango using BookKeeper? How about transactions?
After reading the paper, I was kept with this question. What happens if the bookie writes the entry to its journal and acknowledges it, but dies before asynchronously writing this entry to its ledger? Does this cause any problems?
Final remarks
The paper does not talk about consistency of logging, because every consistency concern is exported to the ZooKeeper. I guess we can chalk this up as success points for ZooKeeper. BookKeeper's bottleneck for WAN deployment is ZooKeeper. If ZooKeeper is consulted infrequently things are OK. But if ZooKeeper is consulted frequently for LAC information in order to read from open ledgers, performance suffers.
Related links:
Flavio's blog post on BookKeeper
Flavio's presentation on BookKeeper


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Letter to S H Nasr on his silence on Laleh Bakhtiar's Translation of the Holy Qur'an
To: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor, The George Washington University email@example.com
From: Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Subject: Your silence when Laleh Bakhtiar is selling her ignorant translation of the Holy Qur'an by drawing association to your name is silent endorsement
Date: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:20 AM
Dear Dr. Nasr,
Assalaam Alekum,
The following letter was sent to Kazi Publications in Chicago, the distributors of Laleh Bakhtiar's translation of the Holy Qur'an titled The Sublime Quran. As you can glean in the letter, your evaluation of the translation is nowhere to be found. Your silence, and absence of challenge to the translation, is an endorsement by default in the mind of many people.
Therefore, I would like to request your public comment on her translation. As just an ordinary human being who has looked at the translation and found it not only wanting in fidelity to the original, but its author seemingly pursuing an agenda which by her own admission is to "bring reform to Islam", what worldly considerations hold an expert back when the word of God perfected by the statement 5:3 of the Holy Qur'an and revered by 1.6 Billion Muslims, is targeted for "reform"? As you are well aware, that agenda is shared by Daniel Pipes, Bernard Lewis, and the late Samuel Huntington et. al., all circus clowns beating the Hegelian Dialectic "militant Islam" vs. "moderate Islam" to "bring reform to Islam". The import of this shared message is deconstructed in my article: Hijacking the word 'Islam' for Mantra Creation.
Please review the following correspondence with Kazi Publishers and you will realize why your silence must be broken. When scholars of Islam remain silent, us poor plebeians have to take up their slack with limited or zero impact. As you are well aware, the world today bows before "experts" – even when they spew garbage. The Muslim condition today is the most deplorable of any time in history – our pulpits are today almost universally occupied by such "experts". In that milieu, when genuine knowledgeable experts speak, their opinion carries far for people pay attention – just as they pay attention to useful idiots and mercenaries. When a genuine expert's name is used to draw associations and credibility to oneself, the expert's silence is aiding and abetting those who do so. And when such scholars also remain silent when the religion is being abused, they condemn themselves by their silence. The test of integrity is daily, constant, and al Furqan invites us to this test daily, constantly, by [inter alia] nahin anil munkar and amar bil maroof.
Most Sincerely,
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Enclosure: Letter to the Distributor of Laleh Bakhtiar's Translation of the Holy Qur'an By Zahir Ebrahim
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PASADENA >> After just about seven hours of deliberation, a jury Monday found Pasadena murder suspect Rashad McCoy not guilty of killing 23-year-old Joseph Jones.
As soon as the verdict was read, emotions burst out from both sides of the courtroom, where the families of Jones and McCoy had watched anxiously throughout the two-week trial.
Both families said they plan to file lawsuits over the result.
Jones' mother Faavaoa Jones began to cry loudly and screamed at the jury, yelling, "My son is gone."
"It's not fair," she wailed at the 12-person jury, a few of whom were also wiping away tears.
Jones' father David Jones yelled at the jurors as deputies escorted him, his wife and son Jessie Jones out of the courtroom.
"You're stupid, and it's not over," David Jones said in a raised voice.
McCoy's mother Keppie Moore sobbed along with the rest of McCoy's friends and family once the verdict was read. Moore muttered "Thank you, Jesus" over and over. McCoy cried silently with his face buried in his palms.
"I feel great. I got this pressure that has been on me for the last two years and all of a sudden it just left," Moore said. "I hope the Jones family gets some type of relief form this horrible pain, that the true killer is found. It's up to the police to find the real killer. If it was my child I'd want the same done."
McCoy, 25, was arrested in November 2012 and charged with murder for the September 2012 slaying. However, his attorney Cris Contreras argued that McCoy's arrest was a case of mistaken identity.
Jones was shot following an attempted robbery and a foot chase through the dark streets of northwest Pasadena.
Witnesses Juan Mendoza and Jose Magana testified that Pasadena detectives William Broghamer and Cuong Pham had pressured them to identify McCoy as the shooter. Contreras introduced to the jury a tape from a witness interview in which Broghamer is heard saying he would "just pin it on anybody" to a colleague.
Moore said she plans to file a lawsuit against the department and Broghamer for falsely arresting her son. She said she hopes the case gets Police Chief Phillip Sanchez's attention and can prevent other innocent people from going to jail.
"There are hundreds of people in jail just like my son was. Enough is enough," Moore said. "They aren't going to get away with it. We are suing them big time. … They convicted my son before he was even tried."
City Manager Michael Beck and Sanchez did not respond to requests for comment late Monday.
Deputy District Attorney Stefan Mrakich also declined to comment on the verdict.
In addition to clearing McCoy of the murder charge, the jury also found McCoy not guilty of charges of attempted, willful, deliberate and premeditated murder of Jones' brother Jessie Jones, with special allegations of intentionally discharging a firearm. The jury also found McCoy not guilty of lesser manslaughter charges in the case.
"It feels good for Rashad and his family. They've been waiting a long time for this," Contreras said.
He added, "It still feels horrible for the Jones family. Their son was shot and killed that night and now we don't really know who did it. … I felt like they trusted the police had the right person and this was a way to get past this, but there wasn't any actual evidence that it was."
During the trial, Jones' two brothers Christian and Jessie, who were there with him the night he was shot, identified McCoy as the shooter, while two other witnesses failed to identify McCoy in court. Even after the verdict, Jones' father said he was certain McCoy was the person who killed his son and said he plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit against McCoy.
"I'm 100 percent positive it was him," Jones said. "I was upset because I was thinking that those people had enough intelligence to take and see the evidence that was there."
Jones predicted that McCoy would meet a violent end once he was released from jail.
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When cars start to slip on icy winter roadways, many drivers will get a little help maintaining control, thanks to the electronic stability control (ESC), a standard feature in all vehicles under 10,000 pounds since 2012. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that ESC can significantly reduce one-vehicle crashes for cars and SUVs.
How ESC works
ESC works in tandem with your vehicle's other safety features, including the anti-lock braking system and traction control. Using sensors and a microcomputer, the ESC monitors the direction the vehicle is headed and its steering wheel position. When the two do not match up, the ESC works to correct under-and over-steering by applying the brakes to one or more of the wheels and, in some cases, reducing the engine throttle to adjust the direction the vehicle is heading.
The new standard
Though ESC technology has been around since 1995, it has only more recently become common, and finally a standard feature. By 2010, 88 percent of car models and 100 percent of SUVs came equipped with ESC. Not sure if your pre-2012 vehicle is equipped? The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety lists pre-2012 vehicles equipped with ESC on its website.
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Colorado arts nonprofits get $2.6 million in latest round of NEA funding
The National Endowment for the Arts announced grants totaling $2.63 million for Colorado arts nonprofits this week as part of the Washington, D.C.-based organization's second round of 2014 funding.
Colorado's share, which amounted to about 4 percent of the overall $74 million the NEA doled out, will go mostly to the state's Creative Industries Division (formerly the Colorado Council on the Arts) and the Western States Arts Federation, both of which distribute money to smaller organizations. They received $689,200 and $1.65 million, respectively.
Other nonprofits that received grants ranging from $50,000 to $10,000 include Boulder Community Media, Art Students League of Denver, Central City Opera and Curious Theatre Company.
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As my kitchen slowly but surely comes together I have been thinking that I cannot just clutter it up with all my old, crusty kitchen accessories! Heavens, no! It would be offensive to all the money and time we've spent planning, designing and crafting this new beauty, right? Not that I have any money left to buy fun new kitchen items, but if I could these would be on my list:
1. I have knives from my wedding registry, and they are still great but this block from West Elm would be SO pretty on my counter!
2. Considering how many striped shirts I have, you can see why I was drawn to this pitcher– perfect for ice water, lemonade or sangria!
3. My favorite soap for the sink.
4. A new whistling tea kettle to brew while I prepare to watch my new addiction, Downton Abbey!
5. Canisters for flour, sugar and Splenda (because we buy that stuff by the case!)
6. Some new monogrammed kitchen towels- proper and crisp, not from a discount store.
7. New cooking tools– I have black plastic ones and they depress me.
8. I DIE DIE DIE for this matte gold flatware for my new dining table (coming in two weeks!)
9. My mom has her mother's seasoned cast iron skillets and I tell you- cooking with those puts all other pans to shame. This one is not seasoned with decades of cooking, but it would do.
10. I still need a couple of these bottle stoppers– they are just SO GOOD.
11. A pretty walnut cutting board that would look nice with my new floor color!
12. A simple, but pretty, paper towel holder.
13. I never ever need kitchen string, but this little thing would just be too cute on the shelf!
14. Gorgeous champagne glasses to toast our new kitchen with!!!!
15. I know the VItamix is best, but I cannot fathom spending $600 on a blender. I just can't. I like my Breville juicer a lot, so I think they probably make a good blender too. :)
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Waltham, MA--Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by the death of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord that control muscle movements from walking and swallowing to breathing. In a groundbreaking study this week in PLoS Biology, Brandeis and Harvard Medical School scientists report key findings about the cause and occurrence of the familial form of ALS.
For the past three years, Brandeis chemist Jeff Agar and his colleagues have studied the rare, familial form of ALS (fALS) as a window into the sporadic form of ALS, which accounts for 90 percent of all cases. Scientists discovered fifteen years ago that mutations in the gene that makes the protein, superoxide dismutase, are responsible for inherited ALS, but how these mutations cause ALS remain a mystery. Researchers believe deciphering the mechanisms at work in inherited ALS will clear the way to understanding and treating sporadic ALS, in large part because clinical symptoms are identical in both forms of the disease.
Agar's research demonstrated that fALS is caused by two synergistic properties of the protein superoxide dismutase, creating toxic levels of the protein in motor neurons. "We discovered that increased protein unfolding and the propensity of the proteins to aggregate, (to clump together) are the major factors in the familial form of ALS," explained Agar.
This propensity of proteins to unfold and clump together amounts to what scientists call a 'toxic gain of function.' Many diseases are caused by a loss of protein function, but some, like ALS, are linked to a gain of function in which a protein takes on a new role, unrelated to the one it is supposed to perform in healthy cells.
"The protein superoxide dismutase, normally a useful antioxidant, goes from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde when it clumps up," said Agar. This research indicates that protein aggregation is toxic in ALS, something that has not been proven for other neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, though researchers worldwide are studying the role of protein clumps in these conditions, as well.
Still, scientists disagree on the nature of the toxic gain of function because not all clumps are toxic, nor are they all the same size in patients with neurodegenerative disease, or healthy people, for that matter. But Agar says that large clumps cause cell death, literally exploding the thread-like axons on nerve cells that transmit impulses from the cell.
"Most people are familiar with the process of aggregation, which is what happens when you cook an egg. A fluid (the egg white) is full of proteins that are free to move about. Upon cooking, these proteins unfold and clump together. When this happens inside a cell, especially inside the long, narrow, tubes that connect neurons (axons), the cells essentially choke because they can't move proteins and nutrients to where they are needed. The loss of motor neurons then results in the death of ALS patients."
The next step, said Agar, is to develop drugs that target key proteins and prevent them from clumping together. "Our study used data from innumerous ALS researchers, and the field has been working toward this discovery for some time. My hope is that if our findings are validated by other research groups, molecules that prevent aggregation will be developed and used to treat ALS. We hope to contribute to this process and have initiated the lengthy process of developing such molecules in collaboration with the laboratories of Greg Pestko and Dagmar Ringe here at Brandeis."


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Thrown in some pumpkin, and we can have a pie!
Our artist friend Debbie Adams painted a picture of a very happy Fraz rejoicing in the fact it's Saturday and there's no school. You can see the original post of Happy Fraz on Debbie's art blog.


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The Library supports the Gardens' staff and students but is also an oasis of information and ideas for keen gardeners. A recent specialisation is alpine horticulture but resources also include sections on general gardening; garden design; techniques; pests and diseases; garden history; in-depth monographs on specific types of plants; floras of specific countries; a good reference section; a selection of journals.
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A slideshow featuring a selection of photographs taken in 2012 by London Wedding Photographers, Rosko & Wallis. Venues include Norton Park Hotel in Hampshire and Nettlestead Place in Kent.


text: If you have been to the beach or out on a boat recently you have probably encountered a jelly or two, perhaps even more. This is the time of year that jellies are most prevalent in the mid-atlantic region. So why do we see so many of them during the summer?? Jellies are found in most bodies of water, including the Atlantic Ocean, the Chesapeake Bay, and even in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. In fact, some Aquarium employees saw a bunch of comb jellies in the harbor earlier this morning. In this region, most jellies are seasonal. The greatest variety of jellies are found in the lower bay, in the coastal bays and, offshore in the Atlantic Ocean were salinities are higher. Some of the more common species include: Moon Jellies, (pictured to the right) found in the Lower Bay and Atlantic Ocean. In the summer months the remains of moon jellies can often be found washed up on the beaches, but they rarely sting people. Atlantic Sea Nettles, found in the middle and lower bay and seen in late spring, summer and early fall and the most likely to sting you. They sting thousands of beach-goers each season! Comb Jellies, found throughout the bay and ocean year-round but most commonly seen in the warmer months. Comb jellies do not have the ability to sting. Lion's Mane Jellies, found in the bay from late November through May, also known as the winter jelly and also deliver a powerful sting. Local jelly populations fluctuate greatly from year to year, but species like the Atlantic sea nettle are naturally very abundant by mid-summer in the Chesapeake Bay. Long-term increases in local jelly populations or a lengthening of the jelly season could be the result of environmental degradation caused by human activities. As our exhibit points out, jellies are survivors. Jellies have survived for over 500 million years. They have survived environmental changes that have negatively affected other forms of sea life. The key to this survival is their ability to adapt and thrive to changes in the environment. Jellies appear to be better able to survive in polluted water than other forms of aquatic life. Polluted runoff from the land makes life impossible for many aquatic species, except for jellies. Fertilizer, manure, and sewage runoff into streams and the ocean decreases oxygen levels, leaving water hypoxic and unable to support many forms of aquatic life. When water conditions are poor, fish find it hard to breathe so they go elsewhere or die in large fish kills. But jellies have very low oxygen requirements and are able to survive, and even thrive, in these human created conditions. In addition, many seasonal jellies appear and reproduce when the ocean warms up. Global warming is making the ocean temperature warmer thus extending the growing, feeding, and breeding season of several jelly species. Some jellies also appear to be adapting and expanding their ranges due to this warming climate. Warmer water also speeds up the jellies' metabolism, causing them to consume more food, grow, and reproduce faster. So next time you are in the water a spot a jelly, think about how human actions on land may be helping jellies multiple, and increasing your chances of receiving an annoying summer time sting! Tags: atlantic-ocean, chesapeake-bay, global-warming, inner-harbor, jellies, jellyfish, jellyfish-stings Categories: Animals, News Previous Post Next Post


text: A robust body of literature details reproductive effects in fish, amphibians, and reptiles related to exposure to endocrine disruptors. Evidence of these effects has also been seen in wild mammals such as polar bears and seals. Environmental exposure assessments and wildlife, laboratory and epidemiologic studies show exposure to low-level environmental contaminants, such as pesticides and other chemicals, subtly undermines the ability to reproduce. The study of endocrine disruption is revealing mechanisms that show how specific environmental contaminants can alter fertility. Laboratory animal experiments have confirmed these wildlife findings.


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"A cheering reminder of the life-changing work doctors can do." Read on for the verdict on last night's TV.
The Baby with a New Face: Extraordinary People, Channel 5
"You watch it – say it's somebody else trying to comfort their postoperative toddler. You summon up all that they are going through, the suffering and impotence and desperation. Then bosh, credits roll; it's not your kid, it's their kid. Phew. Anyone fancy some Doritos?"
Zoe Williams, The Guardian
"While traumatic, the story was a cheering reminder of the life-changing work doctors can and do undertake in modern times."
Virginia Blackburn, The Express
Kitchen Wars, Channel 5
"It doesn't function as a competition because there is no constant: they all serve different food to different people. The only still point is Marco, and the only reliable element of his personality is this vaudeville cantankerousness."
Zoe Williams, The Guardian
Country House Rescue, Channel 4
"If we want the beautiful estates in this country and our near neighbour overseas to remain intact, and many of us do, then we have to sympathise with the Shelswell-Whites, not least because they're preserving their heritage for everyone, not just their family."
Virginia Blackburn, The Express
"Like all episodes of this series it delivered the ignoble but reliable pleasure of finding out that what looks like a dream may actually be a daily nightmare."
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent
Who Betrayed the Bomber Boys, BBC2
"Alex Beetham's well-meaning film was not well enough resourced or written to give an equivalent TV memorial, but it did, in a meandering way, answer the question in the title."
Andrew Billen, The Times
The Men Who Made Us Fat, BBC2
"Disappointingly on its final outing it stopped naming names."
Andrew Billen, The Times
Coming Here Soon: Greece, Bust and Broken, BBC3
"For the kind of viewer who wouldn't dream of watching a Paul Mason report on the consequences of the Greek debt crisis it was probably reasonably informative."Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent


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Most leaders are attracted to the guy or woman who seems confident and outgoing, unafraid in any situation or facing any challenge. They expect an extrovert to infuse any team with energy, to push ahead on projects and to motivate colleagues to do their best work. Meantime they have low expectations of anyone who appears neurotic, who seems withdrawn and too anxious to live up to their potential. Leaders expect neurotic employees to contribute little and t
o drag down colleagues' morale. Not true, says a new study by Corinne Bendersky, an associate professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. In a paper called "The Downfall of Extraverts and Rise of Neurotics: The Dynamic Process of Status Allocation in Task Groups," Bendersky and co-author Neha Parikh Shah, an assistant professor at Rutgers Business School, explodes stereotypes about how extroverts and neurotics perform on teams. It turns out that extroverts contribute less than team members expect and the contributions they do make are not valued highly over time. Neurotics, by contrast, are motivated to work hard on behalf of their teams, who wind up appreciating their efforts, in part because they exceed everyone's expectations. In the end, extroverts decline in the teams' esteem while neurotics rise in status. The Secret Power Of Introverts Jenna Goudreau Forbes Staff Move Over Extroverts, Here Come the Ambiverts David DiSalvo Contributor Introverts in the Office: How to Work Well in an Extrovert's World Daily Muse Contributor To reach these counter-intuitive conclusions, Bendersky and Shah ran two experiments. In the first one, they broke 229 MBA students into study groups of five people and surveyed their personalities. To determine whether students were extroverted, they asked them if they agreed with statements like, "I like to have a lot of people around me," "I really enjoy talking to people," and "I like to be where the action is." To identify neurotics, they used lines like, "I often feel tense and guilty," "Sometimes I feel completely worthless," and "When I'm under a great deal of stress sometimes I feel like I'm going to pieces." After the personality assessments, they had the students predict how they thought their team members would influence their groups and how team members' status would play out in the process. The more extroverted the student, the higher their peers rated their expected influence and status. The neurotics got much lower ratings. Then Bendersky and Shah waited for the ten-week academic quarter to pass and went back to the students to ask them how their team members had done. It turns out the extroverts disappointed their peers and lost status in the group as a result. The neurotics, by contrast, exceeded expectations and contributed more generously to the group than anyone had expected, driving their status up over time. In the second experiment, Bendersky and Shah set up an online study with 300 people who were told they needed to make an urgent request for help preparing a work presentation from a colleague named John, who they didn't know well. The survey described John as either extroverted, introverted, neurotic or emotionally stable. The survey then reported that John answered the request, either saying he was too busy to help much or that, even though he was busy, he would help as much as needed. After the response from John, the survey asked about the respondents' perception of John. As with the first experiment, respondents expected a lot from the extroverts and evaluated them quite critically if they gave an ungenerous response. By contrast they expected little of the neurotics. The ungenerous neurotics didn't change much in the eyes of the respondents while the generous ones leapt in status. "The neurotics are rated as being more generous and exceeding expectations for the exact same response," explains Bendersky. UCLA's Corinne Bendersky. What does this mean for team leaders? Bendersky says they should rethink their assumptions about how extroverts and neurotics will perform. "The extroverts are probably going to contribute less to the team and the contributions they make will be undervalued by the team," she says. "They will do less and what they do will be under-appreciated." By contract, neurotics are motivated by their anxiety and feelings of inadequacy to work hard on behalf of the group. Meantime the group appreciates neurotics' contributions because they exceed people's low expectations. The lesson of the study: Bendersky says team leaders should be wary of extroverts. "The core of an extroverted personality is to be attention-seeking," she observes. "It turns out they just keep talking, they don't listen very well and they're not very receptive to other people's input. They don't contribute as much as people think they will." If she were putting together a team, says Bendersky,"I would staff it with more neurotics and fewer extroverts than my initial instinct would lead me to do." The paper will be published in the April issue of the Academy of Management Journal.


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Here's Icelandic novelist Hallgrímur Helgason discussing his latest novel, on The Reykjavík Grapevine:
It's about Herra Björnsson, an eighty-year-old Icelandic woman, who was the granddaughter of the first president of Iceland. She was born in 1929 and grew up on the Breiðafjörður islands. Her father was among the few Icelanders who fought on Hitler's side in WW2. Her life was very much affected by this fact, and during the war she was left alone, a young girl roaming around Germany. You can say she never recovered from this experience.
After the war she goes from here to there, has many husbands and lives all over the place. She then ends up bedridden, in a garage in Reykjavík, where she spends her last years living alone with a laptop and an old German hand grenade, her sole souvenir from a turbulent life. The book plays out in the present, with her in the garage, doing her tricks on Facebook and such, but also in the past, as she looks back on her eventful life. The novel is very much Herra's life story, peppered with some eighty years of North European and Icelandic history. It's very tragic at times, but funny as well, I hope.
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For the good of me, why a Hindu is better explaining the nature of Judea, Christianity or Islam. then Jews, christian or muslims.?
As for those "Abrahamic" bagabu claimed by Muslims - in addition to manfred's input. Muhammad knew well his historical position as the 3rd in line to other 2 religions (600 & 1500 years). In order to legitimize himself as "prophet", and render Islam "ancient" as Judea, he had to do something. The only way this con man could do it, was dupe those backwards Arabs and link himself to those biblical figures.
He used another trick. To convince others to follow him, he incorporated not only the pagan practices in and wound Ka'aba and Mekkkah - Also from Judea, Christianity & Hindu. The very reason many Islamic practices mirror of those practiced from these religions. His entire take on creation, prophecies, prayers facing ones holy sites - all were borrowed or plagiarized from other religions. Anyone who questioned him was killed. Some prophet!!!
No man in history instilled so much fear on so many people for so long


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Heavenly Body full back Nose art.
Heavenly body is one of better known nose arts. There is B-29 called "Heavenly Body", as well as B-25 "Mitchell" and B-17, also found at least 2 original WWII era A2 jackets. Each one of them had a different variation of layout and pin-up girl.
This one on our jacket is true to the B-17 Nose art as well as to an original full back A2 painting. The B-17 was part of the 612 BS of the 401 BG. For information and History of the 401 Bombardment Group visit here


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COLUMBIA, Mo. — The national beef industry has enlisted college students across the country in its public relations fight for America's hearts, minds and stomachs.
The Masters of Beef Advocacy program also recruits farmers, ranchers, high-end chefs and school dietitians to spread the gospel of red meat consumption. But the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, which started the outreach effort two years ago, has placed a strong emphasis on the Twitter generation. At least 20 percent of the nearly 2,200 program graduates are age 21 or younger.
The online program — called MBA in a nod to the more commonly known graduate business degree — is available in 47 states and particularly popular at public land-grant universities with strong agricultural schools, such as the University of Missouri, Iowa State, Kansas State and Western Kentucky.
"We know what the science is," said Dennis Fennewald, a fifth-generation farmer, former bull semen salesman and beef production instructor at Missouri. "The emotional part, that really is being controlled by people who don't know or understand our science."
Fennewald and professors at other schools typically offer the six-hour course as extra credit rather than a required assignment. Students who finish it are expected to speak to school groups and civic clubs or build online buzz through social media.
Missouri senior Erin Mohler and other members of the school's Collegiate Cattlewomen's club spent a recent afternoon sharing their "Meet Your Meat" message with passing students on a busy pedestrian mall.
Volunteers sold rib-eye steak sandwiches from a portable food trailer while a 1,600-pound Simmental beef cow named Summer grazed nearby in a temporary enclosed pen.
Students passed out recipes for Moroccan-style beef kabobs and tenderloin salad with cranberries and pears, while other brochures touted beef's high content of zinc, iron, protein and other essential minerals and vitamins.
Mohler, a senior animal sciences major whose parents live in Maryland and own 40 cattle on a north Missouri "hobby farm," said her perspective isn't always embraced on campus. Yet she remains undeterred.
"A lot of people have a hard time grasping why I would promote the cattle industry," she said. "More people need to understand where their food comes from. You eat three times a day."
The reactions to Summer and her handlers were decidedly mixed. Last year, the "Meet Your Meat" mavens convinced several passers-by to renounce their vegetarian ways, group member Kaitlyn Lee said.
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Freshman David Adams had a different reaction, calling the display "kind of gross."
"I don't want to see an animal and then go buy a sandwich made from its relative," he said. "I guess I'd like to remain oblivious."
The grassroots campaign is just one part of the beef industry's effort to reverse a five-decade slide in meat consumption by Americans. Seed money came from the $1 per head of domestic and imported live cattle that producers pay under a 1985 federal law. Fifty cents of each $1 goes to the national cattle group's Beef Promotion and Research Board.
Pork producers use their $1 surcharge to operate a similar program called "Operation Main Street."
Focusing the outreach on college campuses — usually considered friendlier terrain for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and like-minded groups — is an obvious and needed approach, said Daren Williams, executive communications director for the Denver-based National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
"There's a political, social and economic discussion going on about food production," he said. "(Beef producers) have felt left out of the discussion."
At Western Kentucky University, animal sciences professor Nevil Speer offers the Masters of Beef Advocacy curriculum as an extra-credit assignment for the mostly freshmen and sophomores in his introductory-level classes. The units cover beef safety, production techniques, animal care, environmental stewardship, nutrition and the national program that provides marketing and research money.
"It's not a coercive type of thing," Speer said. "It's an external and an objective voice about the food system ... It's not set up as propaganda."
Nathan Runkle disagrees. The executive director of Chicago-based Mercy for Animals, which promotes a vegetarian diet, said that "a more accurate title for this offensive program would be the Master of BS."
"Centers for higher learning should not become dumping grounds for propaganda programs that push increased profits for an industry that subjects animals to extreme cruelty and exploitation," he said. "Cruelty and violence has no place in the classroom."
Speer said he doesn't expect all of his students to embrace the beef industry's viewpoint. Like any good college class, the program ultimately forces students with entrenched views to consider other perspectives, even if they don't agree with them, he said.
"You have all kinds of students going through this program, and all of the sudden they're talking to each other," he said. "As long as we have dialogue going, that's a good thing."
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Home Page Chess Life Online 2009 December Gelfand Captures World Cup
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It came down to the wire in the World Cup Gelfand-Ponomariov final.
After four drawn regular games, and split rapid games, Gelfand finally
prevailed in the second set of blitz games. With this win, Gelfand earns a spot in the 2011 Candidates Match along with the loser of Topalov/Anand, Kamsky, top two in 2008/09 Grand Prix, two by rating, and an organizer's choice. See more details here (pdf). Gelfand also picked up $120,000 (net $96,000 due to a 20% payment to FIDE) for his victory while Ponomariov's takehome was $80,000, net $64,000.
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Kase Wolverine Filter Kits for landscape photography are a must have for landscape photographers that want to get great results. The Wolverine series is designed for the discerning photographer that wants glass filters with a very low colour cast. Kase Filters come with the added benefits, they are proved scratch resistant and also, in drop tests they prove that Wolverine filters are almost unbreakable.
The moto I put to you is to put quality glass in front of your quality glass. By this, I mean that putting Kase Wolverine Filters in front of your lens that you may have invested £1000+ ensures that you have quality glass all the way through from filter to sensor. The result is photographs that you can be extremely proud of.
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Jose Bautista's 2-run HR in 8th helps Blue Jays extend streak
TORONTO -- Jose Bautista came up with the perfect response to Darren O'Day's taunting: a tiebreaking home run.
Bautista hit a two-run shot in the eighth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays won their 10th consecutive game Saturday, beating the Baltimore Orioles 4-2.
Maicer Izturis hit a solo homer in the fifth for Toronto, on its longest winning streak since a 10-game run late in 2008. The Blue Jays, 14-4 this month, are one victory from matching the franchise record. Toronto had 11-game winning streaks in 1987 and 1998.
"It's been a great run and hopefully we can continue," Bautista said.
The Blue Jays (37-36) are above .500 for the first time since last July 29, when they were 51-50.
Bautista traded angry words with O'Day after striking out to end the seventh inning Friday, stranding a runner at second base.
On Saturday, the Blue Jays slugger renewed the argument, yelling at O'Day while rounding the bases after his pivotal home run.
"I told him just to keep talking like he was yesterday because he kind of ran his mouth a little bit after he struck me out," Bautista said. "I don't know where that came from but I didn't appreciate it. I let him know that yesterday and that's a little reminder today."
O'Day declined to talk about his spat with Bautista, while Orioles manager Buck Showalter chalked it up to a clash of competitive personalities.
"Darren is a competitor, he likes to compete in those situations," Showalter said. "Sometimes he wins, sometimes Bautista wins. You've got two great, talented athletes competing out there and they both take it personally."
The Blue Jays led 2-1 heading into the eighth but Taylor Teagarden tied it with a homer off reliever Darren Oliver.
Orioles starter Miguel Gonzalez left after Munenori Kawasaki hit a one-out single in the bottom half. O'Day came on and got Rajai Davis to ground into a fielder's choice, but Bautista followed with a two-out homer just inside the left-field foul pole on a 3-2 pitch.
"I made a terrible pitch," O'Day said. "If I make a good pitch, he's probably out."
Bautista, who homered for the 16th time this season, said he wasn't sure his drive was going to stay fair.
"I had no idea it was going to go out, either," Bautista said. "I knew I hit it well but I didn't know if it had enough."
The homer was the first allowed by O'Day since May 22, when Yankees infielder David Adams took him deep.
Oliver (3-1) worked one inning and Casey Janssen finished for his 17th save in 18 chances.
Gonzalez (5-3) allowed three runs and three hits in 7 1/3 innings. The right-hander, who won his previous three starts, lost for the first time since May 3 at the Los Angeles Angels.
"He was outstanding today," Showalter said. "He pitched really well. I was really proud of him."
It's been a busy week for Gonzalez, who left the team Monday for the birth of his first child, a daughter, and was activated off the paternity list Friday.
"I was supposed to throw a bullpen three days ago but it didn't happen," Gonzalez said. "I was back home with the family."
The Blue Jays opened the scoring in the first when Melky Cabrera drew a leadoff walk, advanced to third on Adam Lind's two-out single and scored on a wild pitch.
The Orioles tied it in the fifth after Chris Davis reached on second baseman Emilio Bonifacio's error. He went to second on a grounder and scored on Travis Ishikawa's single.
Izturis put the Blue Jays back in front by homering on the first pitch of the fifth.
Baltimore left the potential tying run stranded at third base in the seventh but knotted it at 2 in the eighth on Teagarden's one-out homer.
Blue Jays starter Chien-Ming Wang left to a standing ovation after giving up one run and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. The right-hander, who walked none and struck out two, has a 2.61 ERA in three starts with Toronto.
"That's three really good ones," manager John Gibbons said. "He shut down a good hitting team. I know he feels good, he's a part of it now. He's given us a big boost, that's for sure."
Game notes
Bautista is one home run away from 200 for his career. ... Blue Jays RHP Kyle Drabek (elbow surgery) is set to begin a minor league rehabilitation assignment with Class-A Dunedin on Saturday. ... Orioles C Matt Wieters got the day off, while Chris Davis started at DH. He doubled and scored a run, but struck out to end the game. ... Baltimore RHP Freddy Garcia is expected to start Sunday's series finale against RHP Josh Johnson, meaning LHP Zach Britton will start for the Orioles against Cleveland on Monday.
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I love Christmas? Did you know? How could you possibly tell??
But this year I'm not counting down. I refuse to. Friends have countdown calendars. The kids are reminded daily in school of how many more days are left until Santa comes. Shoppers are told how many shopping days are left(which, incidentally, is now the same as the # of days till Christmas since we no longer have closed stores any day of the week). And all of it~ just makes me feel sad. I'm sad that everyone is counting down and focused on THAT day and not enjoying THIS day. There is so much to pack into this season. It is a season. And that's why I wrote about the ones who hate Christmas. All of this counting down is making us feel rushed and hurried and bothered and flustered. So, I'm not counting down. I have no desire to care or know how many more days there are until the 25th of the month, because, well, there's a 25th in every month and it takes roughly the same amount of time to get there as it did last month.
In the hopes of redeeming these days, I instead focus on making a new corner of my home more festive. More cozy. More like a place I want to be. So, I'm going to take you on a tour. I admit I am not done. I never really get done. Christmas decorations often get tweaked and moved and adjusted in my house. I'm still working on a couple of key areas that never really had the proper attention given to them.
Today, I will show you a peek at our master bedroom. It's been a neglected corner of our house since we moved in August. A dumping ground for random bathroom items that don't fit in either upstairs bathroom, a mis-match of tacky 1960s rattan wallpaper and my desire to make it soothing and peaceful. So, this is what I did….
Tomorrow I will post my living room ~I'm still working on it so I need the day to get it done!
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|The Bismarck Daily Tribune, November 23, 1897
"The Villers Case
The prisoner M. J. Villers was arraigned in justice court at Jamestown yesterday charged with murder of August Tromer. The prisoner is said to have been unaffected by the reading of the charge against him and stated to the spectators in the court that he would be a free man after the trial of the case at the January term of court. Villers had no attorney and the hearing was continued until Nov 29, when it will be again taken up. In the meantime Villers is confined in the county jail in Stutsman county.
The removal of the man from the pen here was an extraordinary proceeding, and before Warden Boucher would consent to surrender the man he (wired) for the opinion of a majority of the board of trustees. Three of them agreed to (allow) the man to go upon the authority of the governor's decision and the request of Judge (Glaspell). The removal of the man may open up a legal controversy if Villers should be acquitted, or indeed even if he should be (convicted) the former attorneys who have considered the case (said) that there may be a question as to what authority there will be for his return to the penitentiary, after he has been released."
So he had no attorney? He refused an attorney? That just sounds awful (and odd). Anyway, this case was a landmark case for the state of North Dakota in the sense that they were unsure of what to do with a man that was already incarcerated. How could you release him to be tried for another crime? I know. Today we don't think of it as a big issue, but it apparently was a first in the state. I've got court documents that I'll be posting once I get through the newspaper articles. Some of those documents...WOW! Hard to read! But we'll get there.
Now I'm tired so it's off to bed! I had wanted to do my Advent of Christmas Memories post on ornaments, but my brain is tired and my Christmas ornaments (for the tree) aren't out yet. So I'll have to write that one later and find a way to fit it in! Night all!


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What more can you ask for than to be in beautiful Malibu on a Saturday afternoon?! Asphalt Yacht Club recently launched its hot Fall 2013 Collection at The Malibu Inn.
Sponsored by Sprite and Voli Vodka, this launch party was anything but ordinary. Fashionistas were joined by celebrities such as: Scott Disick, Chord Overstreet, John Stamos, Ryan Phillipe, Stacy Keibler, Audrina Patridge, Lydia Hearst, Sky Blu of LMFAO, French Montana, Asphalt Yacht Club Founder Stevie Williams, Stefan Janoski, Nyjah Houston, Riley Hawk, Justin "Figgy" Figueroa, Derrick Wilson, Ben Nordberg, and more.
Attendees were able to munch on delicious tacos as well as sip on refreshing beverages by Voli Vodka while dancing to the performance put on by none other than 'French Montana'. Asphalt Yacht Club is a clothing line that was founded by Stevie Williams and Stefan Jonoski, Nyjah Huston, and Justin 'Figgy' Figueroa. Being all pro-skateboards reflect in this clothing line, as it screams skate, contemporary fashion, as well as individuality. A clothing line full of diversity, Asphalt Yacht Club, showcased designs that are versatile and is definitely something for everyone.
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UK.gov signals weary welcome to Brussels' web cookies law
Browser buddies with GSOH sought by communications minister
A European Union directive on web cookies that comes into force next month was today endorsed by the UK government, with some caveats attached.
Communications minister Ed Vaizey said the UK.gov had no plans to "gold-plate" the EU regulations by bringing in additional measures.
However, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has concerns about what it described as "a one size fits all solution".
The department said a second working group would be formed so the government could speak with industry players about how they can complement delayed guidance from the Information Commissioner's Office.
As The Register has previously reported, the UK government will not have its regulatory house in order by 25 May when a new EU law on cookies comes into force, because the ICO's guidance won't be published by that date.
Under the European Privacy and Electronic Communications directive, UK-based businesses and other organisations running websites that track their users' cookies will be required by law to obtain "explicit consent" from visitors to their sites.
But because the ICO has failed to divvy up guidelines, no "enforcement action" will be taken by the regulator in the short term against businesses or organisations that fail to adhere to the new EU directive.
"The government recognises the internet would be severely restricted without cookies and concerns were raised during the consultation that changes to the use of cookies could have serious impacts on the web," said the DCMS today.
"To address these concerns the government will work with browser manufacturers to see if browser settings can be enhanced to meet the requirements of the revised directive.
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Additionally, UK.gov threw its weight behind "cross-industry work on third party cookies in behavioural advertising".
Just yesterday, the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) issued guidelines on web-tracking software used by advertisers.
It said the self-regulatory framework backed by the likes of Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! "outlines good practice aimed at enhancing transparency and consumer control". The IAB added that an icon would appear in or around display adverts to give netizens the option to stop advertisers from tracking their moves online.
However, it only covers the "activities of website operators that are limited to their own sites or sites controlled by them and "contextual advertising, which is advertising based on the content of the web page being visited, a consumer's current visit to a web page, or a search query."
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Washington Digest: Senate approves LGBT workplace protections
The Senate last week passed a bill to ban workplace discrimination against gay and transgender employees.
WASHINGTON — The Senate last week passed a bill to ban workplace discrimination against gay and transgender employees.
Senators voted 64-32 for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a civil rights bill that has been on and off the radar for Congress since 1974.
The bill faces an uncertain future as House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the House would not act on it.
The measure extends workplace protections to gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender individuals, covering most businesses with 15 or more employees.
It already is illegal to discriminate against workers based on age, race, gender, ethnicity, religion and disability.
"Every American deserves the freedom to work free of discrimination," said Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., who is openly gay.
The Williams Institute, a think tank associated with the UCLA School of Law, estimates 7 million private sector workers are LGBT, with another 1 million working for state and local governments and about 200,000 for the federal government.
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Make this daring dragon cake for your skateboarding daredevils. The colors can be tailored to their favorites, and a message can be added to the fondant skateboard. This dragon cake is inspired by the dragon cake in Debbie Brown's 50 Easy Party Cakes.
Take a 12″ cake drum and place a dollop of buttercream in the center (spread with angled spatula) and then cover with colored rolled fondant. I prefer Massa fondant from Switerland, It comes in a big tub, but homemade, Wilton, or Duff's Charm City Fondant will work just fine too.
After the drum is covered, take a sharp knife and trim the excess fondant. Next, neatly shape the edge with your fingers or a fondant smoother.
I ended up baking two cake halves in pyrex bowls because I need a larger cake to feed 24 kids. For a slightly smaller cake use our 6″ ball pan.
Next, cool the two halves overnight and then level them with a cake leveler as needed.
Pipe an icing dam around the edge of the bottom half and add a filling of your choice. Place the second cake half on top and press down to make sure it is settled. Now crumb coat with buttercream icing using a spatula.
Make sure to mold the head at least 2 days ahead of time. While drying set on parchment or a silpat and support with tissue papper. Attached the ears by applying a tiny bit of water with a decorator's brush.
Sculpt the tail and neck piece 2 days ahead of time also. As the fondant sets up add the nostril holes with the opposite end of the decorator's brush.
Add a spot of royal or buttercream icing to the fondant covered cake drum before placing the cake.
Place the cake as shown and add the neck piece and tail.
Take a string and measure the circumference of your dragon cake. Roll out a fondant circle that has a diameter equal to the measurement you just took. Roll out (with cornstarch) so that it is 1/4 in thick.
Roll the fondant onto your 21 in rolling pin and then drape over the cake supporting the fondant as you cover it.
Form the body around the cake using fondant smoothers and your fingers.
Cut the mouth into the dried head with a sharp knife and add the eyes (colored fondant).
Now add a skateboard or other prop. This was made of fondant (colored with gel paste, like all my fondant) and dried for 2 days. I thought about piping happy birthday on it, but ran out of time.
I had my husband sculpt all these fondant rocks. He came up with a method of twisting two colors of fondant together, forming a ball, and then tapping them with a butter knife and crumpled tin foil.
The last thing to do is add the wings. Again, make these ahead of time so they can dry thoroughly. Attach the wings with a little water.
Here is the back view of the finished cake.
A Skateboarding Dragon Cake Just in Time for Shelby's 10th Birthday Party!


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