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3: autographs [clear filter]
Ticket Draw for autograph sessions at the Fox Booth (# 4229)
The line will form once the doors open to allow Attendees into the building
Thursday July 18, 2013 6:30am - 11:00am PDT
3: Autographs, Limited Signing
Tags Held in: AA05
Line Tickets (with times) to buy items at the Graphitti Designs booth (#2315)
Line Tickets (with times) to buy items at the Hasbro Booth (#3329)
WB Ticket Draw
Ticket Draw for autograph sessions at the WB Booth (# 4545)
Summit Entertainment is excited to announce a special autograph signing by Veronica Roth, Neil Burger, Shailene Woodley, and Theo James for their upcoming release DIVERGENT. Please visit http://www.comic-con.org/cci/autograph-area or the Autograph Area Information Booth for details on how to participate in a Limited Signing Drawing.
Limited Signing - Drawing for Line Tickets to be held Thursday at 9:00 am in the Autograph Area
Tags Held in: Ticket Drawing
Ender's Game (Signing #1)
Summit Entertainment is excited to announce a special autograph signing by Bob Orci, Gavin Hood, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, and Abigail Breslin for their upcoming release ENDER'S GAME. Please visit http://www.comic-con.org/cci/autograph-area or the Autograph Area Information Booth for details on how to participate in a Limited Signing Drawing.
Robert Kirkman, writer (The Walking Dead)
Limited Signing - Drawing for Line Tickets to be held Saturday at 9:00 am in the Autograph Area
Limited Signing - Drawing for Line Tickets to be held Sunday at 9:00 am in the Autograph Area
Talent from Intelligence
Rene Echevarria, Michael Seitzman, Marg Helgenberger, Meghan Ory, Josh Holloway, Alex Mogil, Tripp Vinson
Thursday July 18, 2013 10:45am - 12:00pm PDT
Tags Held in: Corral C
Mondo Signing
Mondo (Booth 934) is coordinating this autograph session, please check at the Mondo booth for specifics.
Thursday July 18, 2013 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Psych's Guide to Crime Fighting
James Roday, Dule Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson, Kirsten Nelson, Corbin Bernsen
Books available for purchase at signing
Talent from Beauty and the Beast
Jay Ryan, Kristin Kreuk, Megan Rugani
Thursday July 18, 2013 12:30pm - 2:00pm PDT
[adult swim] Robot Chicken
[adult swim] Robot Chicken (Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, Tom Root, Zeb Wells)
[adult swim] Venture Bros.
[adult swim] Venture Bros. (Jackson Publick,Doc Hammer, Patrick Warburton)
Talent from Workaholics
Talent For Divergent (Signing #2)
Ansel Elgort, Ben Lloyd Hughes, Miles Teller, Maggie Q, Mekhi Pheifer, Christina Madsen, Ben Lamb, and Amy Newbold
Friday July 19, 2013 6:30am - 11:00am PDT
Showrunners
Panel to be held Friday from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm at the Lyceum Theater, 79 Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA
Limited Signing - Drawing for Panel Entry Tickets to be held Friday at 9:00 am in the Autograph Area
(each winner receives entry for two into the Lyceum; there is limited handicap access seating) There will be drawing for standby tickets to immediately follow
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Screen Gems is excited to announce a special autograph signing for their upcoming release The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones with Harald Zwart, Robert Sheehan, Cassandra Clare, Godfrey Gao, Lily Collins, Kevin Zegers, and Jamie Campbell Bower. Please visit http://www.comic-con.org/cci/autograph-area or the Autograph Area Information Booth for details on how to participate in a Limited Signing Drawing.
Limited Signing - Drawing for Line Tickets to be held Friday at 9:00 am in the Autograph Area
Friday July 19, 2013 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
The MythBusters
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman
Friday July 19, 2013 12:30pm - 2:00pm PDT
Saturday July 20, 2013 6:30am - 11:00am PDT
Panel to be held Saturday from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm at the Lyceum Theater, 79 Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA
Limited Signing - Drawing for Panel Entry Tickets to be held Saturday at 9:00 am in the Autograph Area
George R. R. Martin, author (A Game of Thrones, A Dance with Dragons) Limited Signing - Drawing for Line Tickets to be held Saturday at 9:00 am in the Autograph Area
Saturday July 20, 2013 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Saturday July 20, 2013 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
[adult swim] NTSF
[adult swim] NTSF (Paul Scheer, Jonathan Stern, Brandon Johnson, June Diane Raphael, Martin Starr)
Saturday July 20, 2013 12:00pm - 1:00pm PDT
Talent from Ender's Game (signing #2)
Talent from Enders Game (signing 2)
(Aramis Knight, Suraj Parthasarathy, Jimmy Pinchak, Conor Carrol, Cameron Gaskins)
[adult swim] Aqua Teen / Squidbillies
[adult swim] Aqua Teen / Squidbillies (Dave Willis, Ned Hastings, Craig Hartin)
Saturday July 20, 2013 1:30pm - 2:30pm PDT
Sherrilyn Kenyon, author (Dark Hunter series, The League, Chronicles of Nick)
[adult swim] China, IL / Superjail
[adult swim] China, IL / Superjail (Brad Neely, Daniel Weidenfeld, Christy Karacas, Steve Warbrick)
Anne Rice, author (Interview With the Vampire, The Wolves of Midwinter) Limited Signing - Drawing for Line Tickets to be held Saturday at 9:00 am in the Autograph Area
Adventure Time Encyclopaedia
Martin Olson, voice actor (Adventure Time), Olivia Olson, voice actor (Adventure Time)
Sunday July 21, 2013 6:30am - 10:30am PDT
Sony Pictures Television is excited to announce a special autograph signing by Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Jim Rash, Ken Jeong, Dan Harmon (EP), Chris McKenna (EP) in support of the upcoming fifth season and the syndication launch of the NBC sitcom COMMUNITY. Please visit http://www.comic-con.org/cci/autograph-area or the Autograph Area Information Booth for details on how to participate in a Limited Signing Drawing.
BBC AMERICA is excited to announce a special autograph signing for Doctor Who. Please visit http://www.comic-con.org/cci/autograph-area or the Autograph Area Information Booth for details on how to participate in a Limited Signing Drawing.
Sunday July 21, 2013 11:30am - 1:00pm PDT
Brian K. Vaughan, Neal Baer, Rachelle Lefevre, Mike Vogel, Dean Norris, Kyle Pleva
Sunday July 21, 2013 2:45pm - 4:15pm PDT
Jennifer Redelle Carey

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1936 2/6 Deep Brown and £1 Pink "Cowan" paper and 1944 10/- Pale Carmine-Lake "Wiggins Teape" paper Arms Postal Fiscal O/P Cook Islands with Single NZ Star Wmk and 1943-46 2/6 Dull Brown and 5/- Green "Wiggins Teape" paper Arms Postal Fiscal O/P Cook Islands with Multiple NZ Star Wmk MVLH. Also Samoa 1932 £1 Pink "Cowan" paper Arms Postal Fiscal O/P Samoa, with Single NZ Star Wmk MVLH and well centered. Sg 118, 121, 123a, 131, 132 and 174. Catalogue Value £484.00.
Largely complete MUH collection from 1971 to 2004, including many sets and miniature sheets. Odd duplicate. Face Value $564.00.
Dealers stock of mostly MUH stamps from French Polynesia, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna Islands, mostly different, but with the odd duplicate on Hagner sheets. Catalogue Value £1,210.00.
Fiji largely complete from 1953 Coronation to 2001 Air Pacific set, Pitcairn Islands largely complete from 1981 Scenic Views set to 2001 Cowrie Shells set and Samoa complete from 1962 Independence set to 2001 Butterflies set, mainly on Seven Seas Hingeless pages in 5 binders. Majority MUH with some early issues MLH or FU. Face value of mint Decimal issues $1,762.95. Also Cook Islands largely complete mint collection from 1967 Anniversary set to 1982 Norman Rokwell set, all MUH from 1975 onwards.


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In a variable list (either in the Variable Search tab or the Review Selected Variables tab), you can move your mouse pointer to hover over the RNUM or question name of a variable. The codebook page will then show in a small pop-up window named the "Codebook Preview" (as shown below for an NLSY97 variable that describes highest grade completed).
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We strive to provide an educational and entertaining symposium for Sugar Beets, Malt Barley, Precision Agriculture, Soil Health, and a plethora of other topics. This will be your best opportunity to visit with top producers and industry experts from across the region in 2019.
Our program will run from 8 a.m to 5:30p.m on January 8th and 9th 2019. Posted below is the itinerary for the 2019 Malt Barley and Sugar Beet symposium.


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Q: How do I make non-continuous colorbar in matplotlib? Using matplotlib, I want to make a colorbar like the one pictured here:

I want my colorbar to basically jump from 0 to 65/-65, then go linearly up to 100/-100. In other words, I want 65/-65 to be the dimmest colors (red/blue using seismic colormap) on the colorbar, 0 to be white, and 100/-100 to be the darkest colors.

A: Here is an attempt to use the SymLogNorm. It doesn't completely work out as it should; especially the tick locations seem to be a bit off. Maybe it can serve as a start for further experimentation.
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.colors import SymLogNorm
from matplotlib.cm import ScalarMappable
from matplotlib.ticker import ScalarFormatter
import numpy as np

norm = SymLogNorm(linthresh=60, linscale=0.05, vmin=-100, vmax=100)
xs = np.linspace(-100, 100, 1000)
plt.figure(figsize=(15, 5))
plt.plot(xs, norm(xs))
x = np.linspace(-100, 100, 21)
plt.scatter(x, norm(x), c=x, norm=norm, cmap='seismic', s=200, edgecolor='black')
cbar = plt.colorbar(ScalarMappable(cmap='seismic', norm=norm), pad=0.02)
cbar.ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(ScalarFormatter())
cbar.ax.yaxis.set_ticks([-100, -90, -80, -70, -60, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100])
plt.xlabel('input value')
plt.ylabel('normalized value')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Here is a test with a BoundaryNorm using many subdivisions to counter its stepwise nature.
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.colors import BoundaryNorm
from matplotlib.cm import ScalarMappable
from matplotlib.ticker import ScalarFormatter
import numpy as np

ticks = [-100, -90, -80, -70, -60, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100]
bounds = np.r_[np.arange(-100, -59), np.linspace(-50, 50, 11), np.arange(60, 101)]
norm = BoundaryNorm(bounds, 256)
xs = np.linspace(-100, 100, 1000)
plt.figure(figsize=(15, 5))
plt.plot(xs, norm(xs))
x = np.linspace(-100, 100, 21)
plt.scatter(x, norm(x), c=x, norm=norm, cmap='seismic', s=200, edgecolor='black')
cbar = plt.colorbar(ScalarMappable(cmap='seismic', norm=norm), pad=0.02, ticks=ticks)
plt.xlabel('input value')
plt.ylabel('normalized value')
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

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Gov. Kelly tells supporters "we'll celebrate tomorrow" after too close to call election
The Governor's watch party kicked off right after polls closed at 7pm, at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center.(Rick Felsburg)
By Victoria Cassell
Published: Nov. 9, 2022 at 2:47 AM CST
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Governor's watch party kicked off right after polls closed at 7pm, at the Ramada Hotel and Convention Center.
In attendance was John Naves, Sen. Tom Holland, Sen. Dinah Sykes, and Mayor Mike Padilla.
"I really hope that everybody will give her that opportunity to continue her work and not be regretful or resentful if they didn't win. Because the fact that we participate freely in an election is the win," said Mayor Padilla.
Democrat supporters watched as the race ended up being too close to call.
Lieutenant Gov. David Toland made a quick appearance half way through the night to uplift supporters.
"The polls have been neck and neck since the very beginning. We know that tonight is going to be close, but it is the work that you all put in that has allowed us to have the opportunity to keep Governor Kelly in office," Toland said.
Republicans came out on top in several races securing State Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner positions, to name a few.
At 12am with votes still unaccounted for, the Governor stepped in, thanking supporters.
"Working together is the only formula that works. It's the only formula that works. So let me tell you I'm optimistic about tonight's results but even more so for the future of Kansas. I want to thank you all so very much for your support. I'm sorry that we don't have the final results tonight but go home and get some rest and we will celebrate tomorrow," Gov. Kelly said.
She also introduced the newest member of her family.
"She's called Rory but her name is Laura and she is my first and only grandchild," Gov. Kelly said.
Copyright 2022 WIBW. All rights reserved.
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Father, daughter get near identical sentences in Medicaid fraud scheme
Kansas offers $1,000 to help students recover from COVID-19 pandemic
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Officials investigate after 20-year-old man found dead on side of Salina road


In anticipation of the upcoming release of Suffragette, and today being Women's Equality Day I wanted my good friend Gretchen to offer her insight on how she feels about what the Suffrage movement did for women and how the fight isn't over.
I was so excited when I turned 18, because that meant I got to vote. I had heard my parents talking about who they were going to vote for and I couldn't wait for my turn to cast my ballot. I knew that women had to "fight" for the right to vote, but I never truly understood what that meant until I took Women's Studies in college. They mostly glossed over it in grade school, skipping over the arrests and the forced feedings. Once I learned about what our foremothers really went through, I had an even greater respect for that right they fought so hard for us to have.
It pains me to this day when I hear women, especially young women, say they "forgot" to vote or who don't really know who the candidates are. The sacrifices the suffragists made so that future generations of women would have a voice deserve respect and participation in that right. And it's not just the Presidential elections that matter. The local elections sometimes affect our everyday lives even more than who will be our Commander-in-Chief.
One of my favorite quotes is "Well behaved women seldom make history". Those who stood up and fought for our right to vote were not "well behaved", and bless them for it. We might not have ever won the vote had it not been for those who called out the sexism that kept that right from women. I can't wait to see the movie "Suffragette"! It's another chance for the world to see just how strong women are and how important our right to use our voice really is. Women's Equality Day is today.
August 26, 2015, marks the 95th anniversary of the admission of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the victory the Woman Suffrage Movement had worked so hard for. After 72 years of countless suffrage protests, petitions, speeches, pamphlets, and nights spent in jail, on August 26, 1920, women had won the right to vote and the Suffrage movement had finally accomplished its goal.
Celebrate Women's Equality Day by wearing the colors of Suffrage, purple – for dignity and ability, green for hope and white for purity. Don't stop there, encourage young women to exercise their right to vote.
Academy Award nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, lead the cast of a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain. The stirring story centers on Maud (played by Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing Suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life. When increasingly aggressive police action forces Maud and her dedicated fellow Suffragettes underground, they engage in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the authorities, who are shocked as the women's civil disobedience escalates and sparks debate across the nation. Inspired by true events, "Suffragette" is a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women's right to vote – their jobs, their homes, their children, and even their lives. The film also stars Ben Whishaw, Anne-Marie Duff, Brendan Gleeson, Romola Garai, and Natalie Press. "Suffragette" is directed by BAFTA Award winner Sarah Gavron from an original screenplay by Abi Morgan.
More about Suffragette can be found here >>>>>>.
OPENS October 23rd in NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES. Expanding across the country in the following weeks.
Gretchen is a mom of two little boys trying to raise them to be good men. She enjoys analyzing stereotypes and gender roles and working toward gender equality and fighting oppression in all its forms. You can find Gretchen's musings over on her personal blog GrrrlwithBoys.com and on Twitter @GrrrlWithBoys.


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Claudia Torrens
Updated: March 17, 2021, 8:32 PM
Tags: Joaquin Guzman Loera, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, Juan Orlando Hernandez
US wants life in prison for brother of Honduras president
Published: March 17, 2021, 2:48 PM Updated: March 17, 2021, 8:32 PM
FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks to reporters as he leaves a meeting at the Organization of American States, in Washington. U.S. Federal prosecutors in New York said on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, that an accountant witnessed meetings between Hernndez and a drug trafficker in which they planned the trafficking of cocaine to the U.S. Hernndez has previously denied any involvement with drug traffickers and has not been charged. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
NEW YORK – A brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández should be sentenced to life in prison for running a "state-sponsored drug trafficking conspiracy" with the nation's current leader, U.S. federal prosecutors say in documents filed ahead of a sentencing hearing scheduled next week.
Juan Antonio "Tony" Hernández, a former Honduran congressman, was convicted in October 2019 of participating in a conspiracy to traffic cocaine to the United States that involved use of machine guns.
His sentencing, which has been delayed multiple times, is scheduled for Tuesday in New York.
Documents filed by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York late Tuesday, lay out Tony Hernández's criminal history, as well as the points where it overlapped with his brother, who served as the leader of Honduras' congress before assuming the presidency in January 2014.
"The defendant was a Honduran congressman who, along with his brother Juan Orlando Hernández, played a leadership role in a violent, state sponsored drug trafficking conspiracy," prosecutors wrote.
The U.S. government wants Tony Hernández to give up $138.5 million in "blood money" from his drug trafficking and pay an additional $10 million fine.
"Over a fifteen-year period, the defendant corrupted the democratic institutions of Honduras to enrich himself by transporting at least 185,000 kilograms of cocaine — a staggering amount of poison that he helped import into the United States," prosecutors wrote. They say he also sold weapons to drug traffickers, some of which came from Honduras' military, and controlled drug laboratories in Colombia and Honduras.
"Between 2004 and 2019, the defendant secured and distributed millions of dollars in drug-derived bribes to Juan Orlando Hernandez, former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa and other politicians associated with Honduras's National Party," prosecutors said.
They allege that among those bribes was $1 million from notorious Mexican capo Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to Juan Orlando Hernández.
President Hernández has repeatedly denied any ties to drug traffickers, as has Lobo, whose son is currently serving a 24-year drug trafficking sentence in the U.S.
Juan Orlando Hernández again on Wednesday pointed to his record of lowering drug traffic through Honduras to challenge any suggestion he has collaborated with drug traffickers.
"Official data from the USA allow the instant refutation of the false narrative," the president wrote on Twitter, referring to the U.S. State Department's annual International Control Strategy Reports, which showed a dramatic drop in the estimated portion of U.S.-bound cocaine passing through Honduras during Hernández's presidency.
Neither president has been charged.
Judge Kevin Castel, who will sentence Tony Hernández, is currently presiding the trial of Geovanny Fuentes, a Honduran accused of drug trafficking. President Hernández's name has come up repeatedly in the trial as U.S. prosecutors continue to argue that his political rise was fueled by drug traffickers.
A Honduran accountant testified Tuesday in the trial that he fled Honduras because he felt his life was in danger after allegedly witnessing two meetings in which Fuentes paid bribes to now-President Hernández in 2013.
In both meetings, the subject was "protection and receiving drugs," said José Sánchez, a pseudonym prosecutors used for his protection. At one Hernández was given $10,000 and at another the amount was $15,000, the accountant said.
On Wednesday, Sánchez said he arrived to the United States in June 2015 with his family and overstayed his visa. He approached prosecutors in Chicago to tell them about the two alleged meetings he witnessed but prosecutors told him that it was his word "against the president's," he said.
He was told to go back to Honduras for evidence, he said, but when he was about to do so, he received a call from a former coworker warning him about Fuentes looking for him to kill him, he said.
The 45-year-old man had been accountant for 15 years for rice company Graneros Nacionales. He said the meetings with Hernández were recorded by security cameras inside the company's offices. He made copies of the recordings, he said, and gave one to a Honduran prosecutor who was later killed. He gave another copy to a Honduran called Cristian Ayala who was also later killed, he said.
He is now a struggling carpenter in the United States trying to make rent each month and is applying for asylum, he said.
On Wednesday afternoon U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Sandalio González testified that Fuentes looked for the Presidential Palace location on the Waze application of his phone at least two times in May and June 2019, which is when accusations by U.S. prosecutors against president Hernández were first made public.
González arrested Fuentes in March 2020 and excerpts of his post-arrest interview were shown in the courtroom on Wednesday. In those, Fuentes admitted knowing drug traffickers but denied having paid any money to president Hernández.
Associated Press writer Christopher Sherman in Mexico City contributed to this report.


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Der Mercedes-Benz W 165 ist ein Rennwagen von Mercedes-Benz aus dem Jahr 1939. Er wurde speziell für den Großen Preis von Tripolis am 7. Mai 1939 entwickelt.

Technik
Der W 165 entsprach dem Reglement der sogenannten Voiturette-Klasse (nach dem 1947–1953 die Rennen der Formel 1 ausgerichtet wurden und später die der Formel 2), das eine Begrenzung des Hubraums auf 1,5 Liter vorsah. Der von Albert Heeß konstruierte V8-Motor mit einem Zylinderbankwinkel von 90°, zwei obenliegenden Nockenwellen je Zylinderreihe und 4 Ventilen pro Zylinder leistet maximal  bei 8250/min aus 1492 cm³. Mit einer durch zweistufige Kompressoraufladung und einer brisanten Kraftstoffmischung (86,0 % Methylalkohol, 8,8 % Azeton, 4,4 % Benzin und 0,8 % Diethylether, damals auch "Schwefeläther" genannt) erreichten Literleistung von  setzte er damals Maßstäbe. Er verbraucht 137 l Kraftstoff pro 100 km.

Der Motorblock des Typs M 165 war eine Stahl-Schweißkonstruktion, bei der jede Zylinderbank sowohl mit dem umgebenden Kühlwassermantel als auch mit dem Zylinderkopf verschweißt war. Er wog 195 kg. Die Kurbelwelle drehte sich in Rollenlagern. Die jeweils zwei Nockenwellen pro Zylinderbank wurden über Zahnräder angetrieben, die in V-Form im Zylinderkopf hängenden Ventile über Schlepphebel betätigt. Durch die Hochspannungsmagnetzündung konnte auf einen Generator und eine Batterie verzichtet werden.

Über eine Kardanwelle wurde die Kraft zum Fünfgang-Schaltgetriebe an der Hinterachse übertragen (Transaxle).

Gran Premio di Tripoli 1939
Nach Bekanntwerden der Regeländerungen für das prestigeträchtige Rennen auf dem Autodromo della Mellaha in Tripolis, bei dem nur Fahrzeuge der Voiturette-Klasse eingesetzt werden durften, entwickelte Mercedes-Benz zwischen September 1938 und Mai 1939 in nur acht Monaten den völlig neuen Wagen, um den damaligen Konkurrenten Maserati und Alfa Romeo Paroli zu bieten, denen die neue Hubraumklasse entgegenkommen sollte. Anfang April 1939 wurden erste Testfahrten auf dem Hockenheimring unternommen, und am 7. Mai erzielte Mercedes-Benz beim 13. Gran Premio di Tripoli mit dem neuen W 165 einen Doppelsieg. Hermann Lang gewann das knapp zweistündige Rennen (394,2 km, 30 Runden à 13,14 km), zu dem rund 30 Wagen gestartet waren, mit einem Durchschnitt von 197,79 km/h vor seinem Teamkollegen Rudolf Caracciola, gefolgt von Emilio Villoresi (Alfa Romeo) und Piero Taruffi (Maserati).

Eine weitergehende Erfolgsserie des W 165 wurde durch den Zweiten Weltkrieg verhindert. Nach dem Krieg wäre der W 165 zwar in der Formel 1 startberechtigt gewesen, aber Mercedes-Benz verzichtete auf einen Einsatz.

Technische Daten

* Edler/Roediger geben in "Die deutschen Rennfahrzeuge" eine Leistung von 270 PS bei 7800/min an, Halwart Schrader nennt in "Silberpfeile – Die legendären Rennwagen 1934 bis 1955" eine Leistung von 356 PS, die jedoch unwahrscheinlich ist.

Siehe auch
 Silberpfeil

Literatur
 Halwart Schrader: Silberpfeile – Die legendären Rennwagen 1934 bis 1955, HEEL Verlag GmbH, Königswinter 1995, ISBN 3-89365-428-3.
 Karl Heinz Edler/Wolfgang Roediger: Die deutschen Rennfahrzeuge, Fachbuchverlag Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-343-00435-9.

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

165
Rennwagen
Monoposto
Historischer Rennwagen

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After a very extensive preamble, here is my revised version of Nigella's Nutella Cake. The ingredients are the same but I've added more detail to the directions after I encountered difficulties.
Yum! Just check out all that Nutella and melted chocolate.
To be perfectly honest with you, this cake is NOT easy to make. You have to separate eggs and whisking the egg whites by hand, is open to disaster and exhaustion and after two attempts, we're still fine tuning the cooking time. It also generates a lot of washing up.
However, there's something about this cake that encourages me to persevere. It definitely improves after a night to set in the fridge and I love it served with fresh raspberries and cream and I needed a good coverage of roasted hazelnuts on top to break up the richness of the cake. They also provided that much sought after "crunch".
So, I would consider this a special occasion cake for adults.While my kids do have a very sensitive palate and don't like dark chocolate, they found the cake "too bitter" and really didn't like it.
As I found Nigella's icing too runny after two attempts, I have included an alternative recipe for dark chocolate ganache, which has worked for me in the past.
Sifted icing sugar to taste.
Melt chocolate in the microwave, following packet instructions. Put aside to cool slightly.
In a large bowl 1: whisk the egg whites and salt by hand until stiff but not dry. This means soft peaks but not until the foam starts to ball up. Put aside but you need to move quickly or the foam will liquefy.
In Mix Master bowl 2: Beat the butter and Nutella together, and then add the Frangelico (or whatever you're using), egg yolks and ground hazelnuts.
Into Bowl 2: Fold in cooled, melted chocolate, then lighten the mixture with a large dollop of egg white, which you can beat in as roughly as you want.
Bowl 2: Fold in remaining egg white a third at a time.
Pour into a 23cm/9 inch round greased and lined springform tin and cook for 40 minutes or until the cake's beginning to come away at the sides, then let cool on a rack. The cake will still be moist and wet inside, so do not overcook.
Hazlenuts: Toast the hazelnuts either in a moderate oven or in a dry frying pan until the aroma wafts upwards and the nuts are golden-brown in parts: keep shaking the pan so that they don't burn on one side and stay too pallid on others. Transfer to a plate and let cool. It's imperative that they're cold they go on the ganache while If your hazelnuts have skins on then after toasting in the frying pan transfer them to a slightly dampened tea towel and rub them while they are still warm to remove the skins.
Unmould the cooled cake carefully, leaving it on the base as it will be too difficult to get such a damp cake off in one piece.
Ice the top of the cake with ganache, and cover with whole, toasted hazelnuts.
Slice cake into small portions, as it is quite rich and plate up with a generous scoop of raspberry cream.
Enjoy and if you do make the cake, please let me know how it goes. I'm rather curious.
This entry was posted in Recipes and tagged baking, cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, company, dessert, hazelnuts, Nigella, Nigella Lawson, Nutella, raspberries on June 16, 2016 by Rowena.
Once upon a time, Nigella Lawson published her hit cookbook: How To Be A Domestic Goddess. The book included her famous Nutella Cake, which I have subsequently tested, crashed and tasted.
Basking in the media spotlight, however, Nigella was oblivious to the troubles brewing on distant shores. That while there was the beauty, there would also be the beast. That her once elegant creation, would erupt with a dangerous avalanche of chocolate ganache and roasted hazelnuts all over a fancy plate. Moreover, that this mighty beast, which should only ever been known as "The Avalanche", would masquerade around the World Wide Web as Nigella's Nutella Cake…the very one, yet nothing like the same.
I'm sure she's not amused!
If anyone was within their rights to sue, Nigella has a very, very strong case.
Looks like I'd better watch out!
Please forgive me, Nigella. I have sinned!
Of course, once you publish anything, you have to let your "baby" go. Leave it, for better or worse, in your reader's hands. That's the risk you take. Otherwise, all of us writers would simply leave all of our babies locked away in the bottom drawer.
However, when you're a famous chef or cook and your baby is a recipe book, the risks intensify. Not only will your readers inevitably criticise your work, they could well screw up your recipes and post photographic evidence on every social media platform on the planet. This, of course, is an absolute public relations disaster! Your reputation, your precious reputation is hanging round your ankles along with those wretched undies with the broken elastic, and it's not your fault!
No doubt, that's too much for even a Domestic Goddess to bear!
Dip your finger in! Can't you just taste the Nutella's magic?
After all, is it her fault that they can't follow a simple recipe? That they don't understand that "whisk the meringue" doesn't mean beat the living daylights out of it, sending it past the Emergency Department and straight to City Morgue. It's not HER fault that the meringue's gone flat because you forgot to prepare your ingredients beforehand (a process known as mise en place among chefs) and had to send your nearest and dearest off to the shops to replace the chocolate someone else has thieved from the pantry. AND, it isn't Nigella's fault they have a temperamental oven, whose temperatures yoyo up and down like it has a weird tropical fever.
However, when her challenged followers show off their flops, Nigella gets the blame.
That is, as long as they don' claim "it was an act of God".
Anyway, after seeing Nigella on Australian Masterchef recently, I was inspired to bake her Nutella Cake. Although I've had a few baking disasters in the past, I was quietly confident. The recipe says it's easy peasy and how could a cake made with a jar of Nutella, possibly go wrong?
My son adding extra Nutella to his cake. He doesn't like dark chocolate and found the cake "bitter".
Or, on the other hand, maybe not!
Indeed, even for me, this cake was a disaster and I'm actually struggling to find anything I did right.
It all began with beating the egg whites. Or, should I say "whisking" the egg whites. I forgot that I wasn't making my pavlova. That "whisk" really means is "hand whisk" using one of those big balloon-shaped contraptions you see on Masterchef.
Then, there were the cooking times. We had a lot of trouble trying to work out when the cake was ready. Unfortunately, this was compounded the fact I had to go out while the cake was still in the oven and left its future in my husband's usually very capable hands. He did what you usually do. Stuck a skewer in the cake until it came out clean. That was until the top started "caramelizing" and he realized he'd missed the moment. However, overcooking it meant I could cut the cake in half to fill it with whipped cream and fresh raspberries. Well, that was until the top layer broke into several pieces which I patched up again with my sloppy ooze of milk chocolate ganache. Yes, despite beating and adding icing sugar and butter, the icing never resembled a spreadable consistency.
Time to take a swig of the Frangelico. By the way, Nigella recommends serving a glass of Frangelico with the cake.
I should mention that I used milk chocolate for the ganache as my kids don't like dark chocolate. They have sensitive taste buds and I suspect they could be supertasters. Supertasters have extra tastebuds on the tongue. That must be it. Surely, it's not my cooking?!!
As if The Avalanche hadn't already been through enough, it's troubles weren't over yet.
The following day, Geoff found our dog, Lady, her royal scruffiness, with paws up on the table, tail wagging and half the cake missing.
Not good for the cake…or the dog! Chocolate can kill a dog. Thank goodness I didn't go with the dark chocolate for the ganache! Why can't that dog tell that eating chocolate is a health hazard? Can't she read the packaging? What's wrong with the mutt?!!
So, after all of these compounding mistakes, I was starting to think this cake was just doomed and that Nigella and I were like oil and water. We simply didn't mix. I was never ever going to be a domestic goddess!
However, my husband had other ideas and said it was worth: "another go".
This leads me to Round Two, which was certainly a vast improvement but still wasn't trouble-free thanks to the oven and the fridge.
Have you made any of NIgella's recipes? I must confess that I've never even seen a copy of How To Be A Domestic Goddess and found the recipe online.
This entry was posted in Baking, Recipes and tagged authors, books, chocolate, chocolate cake, domestic goddess, hazelnuts, home, Nigella, Nigella Lawson, Nutella, publishing, raspberries, writing on June 14, 2016 by Rowena.
Nigella Lawson is a legend in the kitchen…the original "Domestic Goddess".
Sadly, we mere mortals can only dream of finding a magic wand to convert our TV dinners, burnt offerings and tinned spaghetti on toast, into something out of the pages of her cookbooks.
Actually, I'm not a bad cook. Indeed, I am renowned for my pavlova, pancakes, Chocolate Chip Cookies and roast dinners. I've even successfully tackled Jamie Oliver's Lasagna. Moreover, I've also been teaching my kids to cook and I must admit, they've also been teaching me. I'm not that arrogant to believe that this teaching the kids stuff is a one-way street. I learn a lot too.
Nigella'a Nutella Cake with Rowena's Raspberry Cream.
However, my trouble is with consistency, which more and more, I'm also attributing to NOT being in the Masterchef kitchen. I know you're probably thinking that only a bad cook blames their appliances but you just tell me the last time you saw frozen eggs appear in the Masterchef kitchen? That's right…NEVER!!!
Indeed, I had NEVER EVER seen frozen eggs before either. By the way, when I say frozen eggs, I'm not talking about the ingredients of an IVF stew. Rather, I'm taking about raw hen's eggs. I store our eggs in the fridge and somehow the temperature control had been moved and we had frozen eggs. Not all of them, just a few. When I cracked them open, they'd turned into sloppy ice cubes and couldn't be used..especially for Nigella's cake, which was built on fluffy egg white. After all, I could hardly separate the yolk from the white when they were fused together in an amorphous blog of ice. Moreover, freezing destroyed the cell membranes. So, even once the eggs finally defrosted, they were completely useless and looked in need of Viagra. I'll say no more.
So, when I blame my cooking disasters on my appliances, I'm not just making excuses. It's true!
"The Avalanche"…My first Attempt at Nigella"s Nutella Cake with Milk Chocolate Ganache.
Indeed, I think there's some kind of appliance mutiny or rebellion going on in my kitchen and it's spreading beyond the fridge. In what might seem an unlikely union of forces, the fridge is in cahoots with the oven.
You see, our oven has a faulty fan. That same fan makes your oven "fan-forced", which makes quite a difference to the temperature of your oven and cooking times. Moreover, when the fan isn't working, it also means that your food doesn't cook evenly and horror of horrors, you might need to open the oven door and turn things around. If you know anything at all about baking cakes, especially sponges, you'll know that opening the oven door is the kiss of death, which deflates your lofty sponge faster than a speeding bullet.
Just to complicate things further, our oven fan sometimes works and sometimes doesn't and turns itself on and off during a bake.
Clearly, that oven is not my friend.
So, with a faulty oven and frozen eggs, for a second time I set out to replicate Nigella's Nutella Cake. I don't know whether you'd say I was brave or crazy because even before I'd melted the chocolate or whipped up the egg whites, there was trouble. While all those motivation types would tell me: "Never give up" BUT haven't they heard of what's meant to be? Or, more pertinently, that something "wasn't meant to be".
Quite frankly, I don't think it's being a a quitter or a loser when you decide to stop banging your head against a brick wall and try something else. Use a lateral approach. Everybody's different. We're not all meant to fit into the one, same pair of shoes.
Our son smothered his slice with Nutella. Found the cake too bitter. That was without the icing. Neither of our kids like dark chocolate.
The other problem I had with Nigella's Nutella Cake is that my kids didn't like it. My son slathered his slice in Nutella to mask the "bitter" taste and my daughter didn't eat it. Even though the cake does have Nutella in it, which my kids absolutely adore, it also has dark chocolate which they can't stand. Based on their comments, I'd say it's more of an adult cake and even then, you only need small portions. It's quite rich. I also felt it I needed raspberries and cream in addition to the generous covering of whole roasted hazlenuts found in Nigella's original. She also recommends eating it with a glass of Frangelico and perhaps I should have tried that, but it was a busy night.
I hope half of this is still in the fridge. I'm feeling sick just looking at all that Nutella….even though I really love it!
So, at this stage, I don't know whether I will make Nigella's Nutella Cake again…even with my modifications. Most of my cooking is for our family and I can't see the point of going to so much trouble to make a cake my kids don't like when there are other cakes and desserts we all enjoy such as Apple Crumble with fresh custard.
Although the recipe says it's easy, you're separating eggs, whisking egg whites by hand, melting chocolate, using two separate bowls…that's a lot of fiddling around and cleaning up for one cake, which I still haven't been able to perfect on my second attempt. This time, the cake was good but the icing was still runny.
Still, my husband and I enjoyed it.
On a more positive note, I've just returned for a second piece 24 hours later and really loved the cake…with or without the cream and will be making it again. The cake much much more moist. The icing had set and it was a great flourless hazlenut chocolate cake. Something I really would be proud to serve for guests. With Masterchef gracing the airwaves, that's quite an endorsement.
Perhaps, I am a Domestic Goddess after all and my spirit is soaring… on chocolate wings!
My baking no longer human. It's divine.
PS I will be posting the recipe in my next post.
This entry was posted in cooking, Humour, Kids learn to Cook, Photography, Recipes and tagged afternoon tea, baking, cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, dessert, food, hazlenuts, Nigella, Nigella Lawson on June 13, 2016 by Rowena.
Therapeutic Indulgence: A Rendez-vous with Laksa and a Saucy Chocolate Cake.
In my last post, I confessed to running away from home for the weekend for some seriously self-indulgent R & R after a rough week of medical tests for our daughter .
While Saturday saw me catching the ferry to Palm Beach and time traveling back into my early 20s, on Sunday I caught a lift to nearby Avalon for a seriously indulgent feast. That's right…food glorious food! So you can go stick your green smoothies and assorted super foods where the sun don't shine. I've now subscribed to the pleasure principle and I'm in hot pursuit of some seriously indulgent foodie treats!!
Yoda has been relocated to Sydney's Avalon Beach.
My first stop was lunch at Yoda. Yoda is the sort of place you'd expect to find tucked away in an alleyway in South-East Asia. Yet, it has somehow astro-traveled to beach-side Sydney via the Millennium Falcon so now I can safely enjoy those authentic Asian flavours without catching some ghastly, turbo-charged, gastro bug. I'm not always an adventurous restaurant eater and often stick with what I've had before and really enjoyed. I don't get to eat out all that often and so I don't like taking chances. The food not only has to be good, it has to be something I love. L-O-V-E LOVE!! It also has to be better or different to what I cook at home and I'm a good cook. When we go to Yoda for dinner, I tend to order the Tea smoked duck with freshly spiced orange sauce & coriander salad or the Vietnamese chicken cabbage salad with peanuts, roast garlic & house dressing. These are both fabulous, authentic dishes. However, I thought I'd try something different and chose Laksa lemak which is a coconut soup with chicken, prawn, fishcake, noodles & cucumber/coriander salad. This was such a treat and I felt like I was casting a fishing line into the richly fragrant soup. Hey presto! I caught some octopus, fish cake and then a few prawns. It was such a treat and much more productive than any of our fishing expeditions where we've only caught fingerlings we had to throw back.The seafood was really well cooked and tender and the Laksa soup with it's rich, aromatic flavours, was just divine.
However, the food wasn't all I experienced at Yoda. As I shared in my previous post covering the ferry and bus ride over, when you travel alone you met such a smorgasbord of interesting characters.
Sitting at Yoda, the gentleman next to me struck up a conversation. I'm not saying he was trying to pick me up or anything like that. It's just what Avalon is like…so community oriented and friendly that you don't think twice about talking with total strangers. Anyway, my new-found friend is "batching" while his wife's away for an extended time looking after her sick mum. This has left him in a bit of a spot. Should he spend month after month staying home in front of the box by himself or get out there and keep living? It's a hard call. He kept saying: "you only come this way once", which is so true. Nobody wants to waste whatever precious time they have left. From what I understand this means going out to see a few bands. Eating out. We all want to carpe diem seize the day but when you're married and your partner is out of action for whatever reason, what are you supposed to do? Stop breathing? I don't know. As an extrovert myself, I could sympathise. We all have to get out, although that said, there are certain activities which should be curtailed.He told me his wife had called saying she'd heard he was at Palm Beach with a blond and he replied: "At my age, what did you expect me to have? A bucket & spade?" No to be fair, mentioning a blond conjures up all sorts of connotations where as if she'd been hanging out with a woman with glasses, for example, would it be so evocative? Anyway, he had a fine wit and certainly had me in stitches and I suspect he's been up to no more mischief than wishing he was 21 again!
After indulging at Yoda, I headed across the road to Bookacino, a landmark Indy bookshop with a cafe out the back. For a die-hard bibliophile, Bookacino reminds me of exploring your grandparents' home with all its nooks and crannies. Exploring row after row of titles, you never know what you might find and the new worlds those pages will open. Being an insatiable sticky beak, I just love it.
Of course, despite our cascading columns of books and claustrophobically packed bookshelves, I can't go into Bookacino without taking new "friends" home. After all, how could I ever leave a great book homeless and alone? Oh no! It needs love, family, a place to call home! This might sound like very faulty logic. After all, how could a book living in a crowded bookshop with thousands of friends, or possibly rivals, ever be considered homeless or even alone? However, the heart tells a very different story. I hear its cries!!
This time, I walked out with The Art of Belonging by Australian social commentator, Hugh Mackay and a colouring-in book: The Impressionists. for our daughter.
Next stop was Cafe Ibiza. To be perfectly honest, I must confess that I wasn't going there for health food. Rather, I was looking for the most indulgent, decadent chocolatey chocolate thingy that I could find. Something so evil it would smash the evil calorie counter. What I found, even exceeded all of my superlatively luscious, chocolate fantasies. A simple chocolate cake warmed and smothered in chocolate sauce and as I ate the cake, the chocolate sauce became a sumptuous soup. I dove deep into its incredible depths and didn't even rise to draw breath. Oooh! Death by chocolate never tasted so good!
After such indulgence, I'm of a view that "when you're on a good thing, stick to it" and I'd much rather stick to an endless supply of chocolate sauce than a can of Mortein insect spray.
So now I'm on the search for the ultimate chocolate sauce recipe to hold me over until my return. It's a matter of life and death!!
After such therapeutic indulgence over the weekend, I've decided that I need to throw caution to the wind closer to home and break out more often. After all, we only live once!
This entry was posted in Australia, Baking, Health, Humour, Love and tagged aging, Asian, Asian food, Australia, Australian, Avalon Beach, bibliophile, book, books, carpe diem, chocolate, chocolate cake, commitment, cooking, diet, eating out, extrovert, fishing, green smoothies, Hugh Mackay, introvert, Laksa, marriage, Palm Beach, Pittwater, relationships, restaurants, retirement, Sandra Boynton, seafood, super foods, Sydney, therapeutic, therapy, travel, traveling, Yoda on March 18, 2015 by Rowena.
Laugh or Cry: Overcoming Birthday Caketastrophes!
Tomorrow, is our son's 11th Birthday and of course, it's going to be bigger than Ben Hur.
Surprise! Surprise! I decided to bake a Chocolate Cake and I'm jazzing it up with a caramel and whipped cream filling and smothering the lot with lashings of Milk Chocolate Ganache and a sprinkling of M & Ms. I know that sounds really indulgent,even decadent, but you only have a birthday once a year!
Chocolate cake…You can't go wrong with chocolate cake.
The meaning of life can be found in Mummy's bowl.
However, you obviously haven't heard about my luck with making birthday cakes. It's so bad that I've dubbed it: "The Great Birthday Cake Curse"!! For some strange reason, every single birthday cake I've ever made has been cursed, doomed, even double-doomed, as all sorts of dreadful complications set in.
Yet, with the precision of a surgeon, I painstakingly restore the cake and save the day.
Hey, who am I kidding?
There's nothing precise about me in the kitchen. Rather, I'm very "slap dash", whacking on the icing to camouflage near-fatal, structural craters, which are so deep that you could hide a semi-trailer inside…even an entire road train!!
Yet, despite these devastating catastrophes, I overcame the hurdles and had that cake out on the plate, candles alight with everybody singing "Happy Birthday".
My husband's uncle, who was a builder, always used to say that the difference between an amateur and a professional is being able to cover up their mistakes. Looking at how I've patched up my cakes, I can't help wondering how many houses down in NE Tasmania are being held together by lumps of icing? It's one of the world's greatest gap fillers!!
Despite my birthday caketastrophes, I'm renowned for my scrumptious pavlovas and choc-chip cookies. Indeed, when I took my choc chip cookies to scouts recently, I was quite the pied piper attracting throngs of little admirers. Indeed, after seeing the cookies in action, I decided to throw out my copy of How To Win Friends & Influence People and simply hand out cookies instead.
This only compounds my confusion. What's the deal with the birthday cakes? Why do I have so much trouble? Who knows? It remains one of life's great mysteries!
No doubt being more practical than yours truly, I can hear you wondering why I don't just buy a cake instead? Why do I keep torturing myself birthday cake after agonising birthday cake? Talk about a masochist!
Well, if you have ever made a birthday cake for someone you love, you'll know precisely why I have to make these @#$% birthday cakes myself. That's right. I add that magic ingredient…my love. You can't buy, manufacture or even fake that and it's not something you can buy off the supermarket shelf!
So here I am the night before Mister's big 11th birthday expecting a tribe of friends at his party. The cakes have been baked without incident. Everything is proceeding exceptionally well.
That was until it came to whipping the cream . A relatively simple task but that's what turned the tide. Actually, make that whipping the low-fat lactose-free cream. Mister and other family members are lactose intolerant. I was concerned that being low-fat might be a problem but I'm ever the optimist.
I'd been beating the absolute crap out of the cream and it was still sploshing around like milk in the bowl when it should have been resembling butter, if not cheese. It had also splattered absolutely all over the bench, anything parked on it and all down my shirt. That was when I dug out my magnifying glass and had a closer look at the label. My eyesight isn't what it used to be. Oh my goodness! There it was. "Not suitable for whipping". The cake was doomed. The party was doomed.Disaster!!!
It was 11.00PM. The shops were shut and I had two cakes which desperately needed to be sandwiched together. In my desperation, I thought the caramel might just be enough. Being my usual Einstein self, I thought that if I scooped the thicker layer of cream off the "milk" and mixed it with the caramel, to put it good old colloquial Australian lingo: "she'll be right, mate".
Instead of bulking up the caramel, the cream almost turned it liquid. My only hope was that it would fill up the bubbles in the cake before it ran off the edge and onto the plate. Taking a chance, I hoisted up the second layer of cake and prayed it would stay put, despite slipping and sliding around on roller skates. My only hope now was that the chocolate ganache would hold the cake together against all odds.
Not to be deterred by my humble prayers, catastrophe followed catastrophe and if I hadn't developed resilience from all my previous birthday cake disasters, there would have been tears, loud wailing and unceasing sobs as I cried and cried and cried….the world's biggest loser of a Mum!
It might not be my party, but I'll cry if I want to!! You would cry too if this had happened to you!
I'm not the only one who gets stressed out by birthday parties!
Then and I guess you can see it coming, the @#$% cream stuffed up the ganache, which was sploshing like a chocolate milkshake. Desperate, I added cup after cup of icing sugar, trying to thicken it up. I'd poured in half the bag and it was still looking sloppy but at least, it was holding some shape. I poured the "ganache" over the cake and I looking like a human pretzel, I crossed everything I had to boost my luck.
But no! The ganache flowed over the top of the cake and kept going creating a moat around the poor, drowning cake. The river was so deep, you could literally kayak through it. Definitely not the look I was looking for so I started bailing the ganache out with a ladle and not unsurprisingly, it sploshed all over the bench and that's when I found the dog not unsurprisingly underfoot.
This is where the birthday cake curse worked in my favour. Not being my first salvage operation, I had a few tricks up my sleeve. In this instance, the answer had to be M & Ms. They cover up a multitude of sin. Although thanks to that wretched low fat lactose free "cream", even they mucked up and were sliding down the cake. @#$%!!!
However, just when you think you've hit rock bottom, there's salvation.
I've never been so thrilled. The chocolate ganache monster had a name and it was good.
Guess, it goes to show that you can't go wrong with a chocolate cake after all!
Do you have any funny birthday stories to share? I'd love to hear them!!
This entry was posted in Australia, Baking, Humour, Love, Parenting, Recipes, Uncategorized and tagged Australia, Australian, baking, birthday, birthday cake, birthday party, birthdays, boy, cake, caramel, catastrophe, chef, child, children, chocolate, chocolate cake, chocolate mouse, cook, depression, food, ganache, Happy Birthday, healing, icing, kids, lactose free, M & Ms, masterchef, mom, Mommy, mother & son, mum, Mummy, party, party food, perfectioism, perfectionist, persistence, recovery, scouts, son, zyomil on March 10, 2015 by Rowena.


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The fruit is carefully selected from accredited growers, while the traditional recipes are based on recognized know-how. This, along with the personal commitment of Yves Ponthier and his team during tasting tests, is what awakens the sense and makes the difference. Today, the Ponthier range is popular with all chefs worldwide who are concerned about authenticity and champion traditional regional food.
República del Cacao's mission is to harvest the best local varieties of Fine Aroma Cocoa and produce the best premium chocolates in Latin America.
Our goal is to become one of the best chocolatiers in the world, competing head on, with the most important traditional chocolate experts in France, Belgium and Europe; exposing the Latin American talent as well as its fine cocoa.
The chocolate we produce is sourced from 100% pure Latin American cocoa, harvested in its birthplace: the small farms in the Andes, the high Amazon planes, Central America and the Caribbean Islands.
We are creating the first truly Latin American high quality chocolate production. Cocoa was born in our continent and here is where chocolate should be at its best. We take pride in our local staff, their efforts and the place we have chosen to open our new factory, Quito-Ecuador, just a few miles away from the ancient birthplace of cocoa.
Savor a taste of Italy with Pernigotti Gelato ingredients. As one of Italy's oldest and largest producers of gelato products, Pernigotti provides delicious bases, pastes, ripples, fruits, and decorations – everything you need – to create this tempting treat, and combine with your pastry, cake and semifreddo recipes.
Anna Shea Chocolates was founded in 2004 with the aspiration to bring never before seen quality and beauty to the world of artisanal chocolate. With a background in traditional European training and in arts growing up, Anna Shea has an innovative combination of excellence in both knowledge and technique as well as the passion of an artist.
Each jewel-like piece of chocolate is meticulously handcrafted and designed to represent the inspiration behind each flavor. The velvety smooth ganache is balanced in flavor and texture, leaving the different notes of cacao and other ingredients slow dancing on your tongue.
Anna Shea Chocolates uses only the freshest and finest ingredients, never artificial flavorings or preservatives, which is why they are at their best if consumed within a week from purchase.
Anna Shea Chocolates are an indulgence not to be forgotten. Their unique designs and flavor combinations will transport you to places no ordinary chocolate has ever taken you before.
Massimo Bottura has applied his creative skills to the production of Villa Manodori extra virgin olive oil, Villa Manodori Essenziale, a collection of oils made from 100% natural plant oils combined with extra virgin olive oil, and an assortment of authentically-crafted balsamic vinegars. Made in the artisanal style and produced in limited quantities, these versatile condiments are enjoyed throughout the world.
Tea Forté is the global luxury tea Brand identified around the world as the ultimate tea experience. Known for the variety and unparalleled quality of handcrafted teas, design-driven accessories, exquisite packaging and opulent approach, Tea Forté re-imagines and redefines the contemporary tea experience by delivering a delighting and luxuriant encounter. It is this intersection of extraordinary teas and unparalleled presentation that creates Tea Forté's exceptional experience.
Enjoyed in over 35 countries, Tea Forté is presented at leading hotels, restaurants, prestige resorts and luxury retailers. Tea Forté is proud to be selected as the exclusive House Purveyor of premium teas for the renowned James Beard Foundation.
Croc'In is a specialty foods manufacturer of nougatine and premium pastry shells for food professionals, with an offer of gourmet products in more than 20 countries worldwide. Manufactured in a manner that reflects Croc'In's values, products meet and exceed the expectations of the most demanding professionals in terms of quality.
Croc'In's products are nutritionally balanced and their artisanal production methods guarantee taste and exemplary quality. Whether they are talking about their nougatine, made with real almonds, their savory pastry shells, their POP range with all natural colorants for multiple uses, all their pastry shells combine their value for quality with the needs of food professionals (guaranteed shelf-life, multiple uses, and quality ingredients).
Croc'In's bakers and pastry chefs come from top professional training institutions and take pride in proposing innovative products such as their Goldies in crispy puff pastry or their range of premium pastry shells made with real Charente Poitou butter, a high quality butter made using traditional methods in the French Loire and Poitou districts.
Beautiful, handmade tart shells by La Rose Noire allow you to create stunning dessert pieces or hors d'oeuvres, without the added labor of baking and preparation.
La Rose Noire is a prestigious Hong Kong specialty boulangerie, pâtisserie and confectioner that provides fresh and frozen-made products to professional kitchens, hotels, cake shops and other fine establishments. It was founded and is operated by Swiss pastry chef Gérard Dubois, who has won numerous gold medals at culinary competitions throughout the world and is regularly invited to sit on judging panels at renowned international competitions.
The company's continuing goal is to produce and serve high quality products that meet customers' needs. Its HACCP Certified state-of-the-art production center has the capacity and capabilities to service any corner of the globe.
Norman Love® blends a master's appreciation of the sensuous with the art of the chef to create handcrafted chocolates…exquisite, silky, rich chocolates…reserved for those who expect nothing less than perfection. Norman Love Confections® has been satisfying connoisseurs of fine chocolates since 2001, when the chocolatier first introduced the masterpieces he produces at his facility in Fort Myers, Fla.
In 1879, Rudolf Darbo had just opened his "fruit steam works" in Görz, Austria, setting the foundation for the company that today is one of the most successful food companies in the country. As a family-owned business, Darbo focused on providing the highest quality fruit products to the catering and food service industry, and through the years expanded to the retail market. In Austria, Darbo is a clear market leader, holding 59% of the market share in preserves and 42% in honey.
Darbo products include fine all-natural preserves, bakery marmalades, that have become a staple in the world's most refined establishments. Their success is a result of selecting only the best fruit from different regions of Europe (for example, Black Cherries from Switzerland and Rose Apricots from Eastern Europe) and employing careful methods of preparation.
Created from an old family recipe, Darbo All-Natural Preserves are prepared without boiling, but carefully warmed to maintain all the nutrients and full fruit flavors. Their attractive 1 oz. glass jars provide great presentation for fine dining tables. Half-ounce plastic portions are also available and are a great solution for the breakfast buffet. Darbo Marmalades are free of artificial colors or flavorings, and made exclusively of fresh fruit and sugar – another high quality product for the kitchen.
MENÚ has obtained UNI EN ISO 9002 certification for the quality of its production process. The research and development department creates and tries new ideas, always on the basis of market requests while keeping in mind the possibility of industrial scale production. The production of most of MENÚ's products follows the seasonal campaigns. The chefs, coordinated by a food sciences expert, are always at work to design and test new combinations to launch on the market. It is no surprise that the production department is just an enormous kitchen!
The Medolla plant fully reflects the evolution of MENÚ. Departments and divisions have the same goal in common to seek quality, from the raw material to the finished product, obtained by means of the latest technology, but never forgetting the craftsman's hand.
Solia puts first and foremost all of its care into innovation in the field of food packaging whether it is plastic packaging, cardboard packaging or disposable bio-tableware. We offer more than 500 items, including 50 Solia innovations to offer you design and luxury packaging. You will also find cheap and economical packaging solutions, as well as eye-catching food packaging for your products.
Starting from Vignola cherry, which was put in alcohol in 1945, Toschi was able to widen significantly the range of its products. Today their supply ranges from the different types of fruit in alcohol to the fruit liqueurs.
As a matter of fact Fragolì and Mirtillì are the special liqueurs containing whole fruits, which have been joined by Lemoncello, Verdemela and Sambuca.Nocino Toschi is one of the company long-standing products. This typical Modena liqueur is made by following an ancient Toschi family's recipe and the production rules of "Tradizione e sapori di Modena" (Tradition and flavors of Modena).
On the other hand, Nocino with mint, the classic cupule infusion enriched by ice mint, is a product, which managed to combine tradition and innovation. In order to meet the needs of the mixability world, Toschi also offers a wide range of products such as Acrobatic Fruit, Syrups for professional use (bar) or for domestic use and Cocktail cherries.
Endowed with a successful industrial facilities, it knew how to protect the know-how of the craftsman mustard maker; the grinding of seeds in the stony grindstone which protects all the gustative qualities of the dough. Particular attention is brought to the conservation and to the environmental protection: sorting and valuation of our waste, treatments of our effluents.
Marc Désarménien, the grandson of Edmond Fallot, is at present in charge of the company. About twenty employees contribute to the quality of the production. The company enriched its range of products over the years with aromatics mustards, vinegars, and others condiments; with a manufacturing process answering a quality approach in which La Moutarderie Fallot made a commitment.
To value its traditional know-how, La Moutarderie Fallot opened its doors to the public with two museographic tours successively in 2003 and 2009. And since 2012, you can discover a free space totally dedicated to the mustard.
*All-natural Gels contain no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives.
a beautiful shine while sealing in freshness.
*Fruit fillings offering a high percentage of fruit pieces.
De Buyer, located in the Vosges, France, is a company created in 1830. It designs and manufactures cooking and pastry utensils for catering professionals and top-of-the range gastronomy. Thanks to its more than 180- year experience in working metal, today, the company offers more than 2500 products and exports to more than 95 countries around the world. De Buyer is recognized as a leading brand in the creation of new products and submits dozens of patents every year.
also thanks to an extensive distribution network.


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Never Felt
"This is a childhood dream. This is something I would have died to have seen on TV when I was a young member of the LGBT community who never felt represented on TV and felt alone and different."
—Actress Ruby Rose on being cast as Batwoman for Greg Berlanti's series of Arrowverse shows on the CW, on Instagram last month.
Nico Santos
Downplay My Queerness
"I always thought that when I got into this business that I was going to have to downplay my Asianness and downplay my queerness, which is not an easy thing for me to do… But now, I feel really honored that I get to play these characters."
—Crazy Rich Asians actor Nico Santos in an interview with The Advocate.
Define Your Life
"I dealt with a lot of repressive attitudes growing up Southern Black and Catholic, and I wrote this book because I want anyone who needs to hear it to know that what you are told early in your life does not have to define your life."
—Michael Arceneaux in an interview with NewNowNext about his debut memoir I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé.
Chloë Grace Moret
Gay Things
"I have two gay brothers in my family and we love being surrounded by gay people and gay things."
—Actress Chloë Grace Moret (The Miseducation Of Cameron Post) in an interview last month with Porter.
Never Come Back
"To the woman in our audience who felt it was appropriate to yell, 'You're not welcome here!' at Kate Bornstein, our beloved friend, co-worker, and now family member… feel free never to come back."
—Armie Hammer in a tweet to an audience member who verbally attacked fellow cast member and trans performer Kate Bornstein during a performance of Straight White Men on Broadway, last month.
Quentin Lee, with son Casper
Hollywood Assistant
"Having a kid really makes you put his life ahead of yours. You have to provide for him, and you have to be on alert 24/7. It's like a Hollywood assistant on call."
—Amazon's Gay Hollywood Dad documentary creator Quentin Lee, in an interview with Queerty.
Ibrahim Eren
Mentality Here
"There is some kind of confusion of mentality here… once this is corrected we will return to Eurovision."
—Turkish Radio and Television Corporation's Ibrahim Eren, ruling out a return to the Eurovision Song Contest until the show bans LGBTQ contestants, in an interview with The New Arab.
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Nisa Islam Muhammad, Staff Writer
Get involved! Rebuild Hope Now
The Unmasking of New Orleans (Final Call Documentary)
(FinalCall.com) – One year after hurricanes Katrina and Rita introduced themselves to the Gulf Coast with death and destruction, many victim's lives are still not much better.
This is what the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation's (NCBCP) Black Women's Roundtable (BWR) program found on their seven-day Listening Sessions Tour August 23-29, entitled "Hear Me Now! Reflections One Year After Katrina-Rita," commemorating the one-year anniversary of the disaster.
"Women, the Black community's traditional caregivers, experienced untold devastation and family disruption following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Women are traditionally the last to ask for help for themselves, as they tend to their families and communities. A year later, their cries for help, for the most part, have gone unanswered," explained Melanie Campbell, executive director and CEO of the coalition of 80 organizations.
"The common thread we saw in each city we visited was that they need a coordinated rebuilding effort. That's not there," she told The Final Call. "Affordable housing is now missing. A two-bedroom apartment in Gulfport, Miss., has gone from $400 to $1,200. The people can't afford it."
She continued, "Rent and the cost of buying a home has gone way up, but these people's income has not. The stress involved in dealing with this situation is killing them. The feelings of isolation and abandonment continue."
The two-to three-hour listening sessions and whistle stop tours of rural and urban areas affected by Katrina-Rita visited Mobile, Ala.; Gulfport, Moss Point, Pass Christian, Bay Saint Louis and Jackson, Miss.; and New Orleans, Lafayette and Baton Rouge, La.
For Bishop Diana Taara Williams, of the African American Catholic Congregation Imani Temple No. 49 in Lafayette, Miss., the pain and misery continue after they lost their church in New Orleans.
"Here in Lafayette, we went from a city of 70,000 to 140,000 in less than 48 hours. Our church immediately became a restoration center because nothing else was open," she recalled. "We are our brother's keeper. We couldn't wait for someone else to do for us what we needed to do for ourselves."
From the first days of the crisis, Imani Temple No. 49 became a food and clothing center for countless victims of the crisis. They posted white flags off Interstate 10 so people walking or riding would know where to come.
"Many are still in the same condition they were two days after the hurricanes. Ten thousand people didn't get registered with FEMA or the Red Cross," Bishop Williams added. "They were the third generation living in the same home. Many backed away from getting help because the people who came to help didn't look like them. They didn't speak to them with dignity and respect. So the church became their first resource."
She stressed the church's need for financial resources because it has continued to serve 100 people each week.
The problems women are facing include the lack of employment similar to the jobs they held in New Orleans. Many were employed in the service industry and have moved to more industrial areas.
At each listening session, 20-30 Katrina survivors were present. NCBCP had on hand local service providers, health and wellness professionals, financial advisers, emergency preparedness experts, along with representatives from the its state and local affiliates to serve as resources.
The NCBCP will also assist the women to become civically engaged in the communities where they have been displaced or help them reconnect to their home communities through voter registration information and how to protect their right to vote in the 2006 mid-term election cycle.
"Thousands of displaced Gulf South residents were denied their right to vote after the hurricanes. While we cannot control the weather and prevent natural disasters, we can ensure that every citizen has the right to vote and have a voice in rebuilding their communities," Ms. Campbell stated.
Stella Keasley is a good example of the women affected by Katrina. She is a senior citizen trying to rebuild her life due to lack of flood insurance. "I lost everything. My children are scattered around the county. I have two in Texas, one in Georgia, one in Baton Rouge and one that returned to New Orleans," she lamented. "I owned my home and now I have to pay rent."
Her husband is retired and her income has not increased.
"I've never been on welfare or food stamps," she shares, "but now I'm in line with the rest of them."
She informs that she is writing a book about her experiences, to be entitled, "A New Beginning."
"One year later, my life has not improved. Things are no better for me. I still haven't been able to find my house. My community in New Orleans still has no lights, gas, water or telephone service. I found one shoe and a broken chandelier," she said. "They're not trying to help us. I'm used to not asking people for anything."
Ms. Campbell summed up the feeling of the women. "This is a catastrophe. We have to come back and help them. They still need so much. Seniors are dying of broken hearts. The anniversary is an awakening of the hurt and pain they've experienced. Many are still disconnected from their family," she observed.
"We are in a crisis situation. People live in small trailers and are isolated from even getting a job. We have to get involved. We have to rebuild hope now," she stressed. "We also have to urge the government to do its job. The money isn't trickling down."
(For more information on how to get involved with Rebuild Hope Now, call (202) 659-4929 or visit their website at www.ncbcp.org.)


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on the way across da ranch to safety da' herd!
On the way over town on the way back to the airport, Pagosa Springs, Colorado. U.S.A.
…….. have a splendid week everyone! ……..
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These goatZ hang out on cliffs edge on da' way! !
Thinkin More Bout ETernity etc etc etc etc..an well.when dat a happenz, one seems to find out that there is more to life than sittin' in front of ur computer screen….sumtimez when one reaches out etc etc…an gets into action one feels like they can touch infinity…no matta' what is going on in his er her life!.
Believe it er not !
aka mikey frum wolf creek!
Dis' one is fer U!
keep da' sunny side up!
to infinity an beyond another thing to fix!
Broken since 2001 projekt of the day now!
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Q: Pulseaudio/X permission other user/SSH My user user1 is running a graphical X session with pulse configured per-user.
I need to run a graphical program that uses audio with user2.

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*If I do su user2; program program doesn't start and I get no audio neither video

*If I do gksu -u user2 program the video is working, but I get no audio.
Why there are these problems? What is the right way to start a pulse application that outputs sound on the pulse of my user? What the right way to start an X/audio application from another session(for example an SSH shell)?

A: As 'user2'
echo "default-server = unix:/tmp/pulse-socket" >> ~user2/.config/pulse/client.conf

As 'user1'
echo "load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 socket=/tmp/pulse-socket" >> ~user1/.config/pulse/default.pa

then restart the server:
pulseaudio --kill
pulseaudio --start

Works great with 'su' (or 'su -l'). I haven't tried with 'ssh' but it should work the same.
You can also limit the access by using options with module-native-protocol-unix, as in:
load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-group=othergroup socket=/tmp/pulse-socket

Source:
See the Arch Wiki paragraph
Allowing multiple users to use PulseAudio at the same time


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NOS Communications
This nationwide MDL action on behalf of consumers alleges that NOS deceives customers through its complicated and misleading tariff.
NOS provides telecommunications services in 48 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The company conducts business under various names including:
Horizon One
Quantum Link
International Plus
Ivantage Network Solutions
Cierracom Systems
Internet Business Association (INETBA)
Plaintiff's complaint asserts that the charges assessed by NOS and its related companies are improper. NOS utilized a contradictory and confusing "Call Unit" billing scheme that deceives consumers. Under the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. § 203, long-distance carriers are required to file and maintain a tariff with the Federal Communications Commission "(FCC") setting forth the rates, charges, classifications, regulations, and practices governing their services. The bills NOS sends to customers do not show the duration of the billed calls in minutes or seconds. Instead, the bills state the measurement of each call in "Total Call Units" or TCU's.
The complaint in this action seeks a finding that NOS violated the Communications Act by charging rates that are not set forth in a lawful tariff. On October 2, 2003, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Nevada denied NOS's motion to compel arbitration. The Court found in particular that the arbitration clause contained extremely vague language that would not support a conclusion that any consumer agreed to arbitrate claims.
If you have experienced this problem, or would like more information about the lawsuit, click here.