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(With apologies to Nat King Cole.)
Could also be so...
Thanks to Christin S., Amanda C., Rachael H., Jessi T., Chelsea W., Chase C., Amy S., Angela I., & Susan C. for scaring all the brides-to-be out there.
When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.
The fifth one. Ew! I enlarged it to reassure my self that someone had not actually put live snails on the cake, but I'm still not sure. Why would you want rocks and snails on your cake? Any cake? Is this an indication of a slow moving relationship already on the rocks?
On #5 it looks like they're sinking into the cake... very slowly sinking into the cake...
The Ghost of Cakes Past
sends a message. A soggy
oozing bon-bon message.
wv: genol
The genol idea was good even if the specific execution was wrecky.
I cleaned out my fridge this weekend and, as usual, there was that one hidden piece of tupperware stuck waaaayy in the back that had clearly been there a while. Its contents were EXACTLY the same colors as that first cake, which I'm now calling the "Forgotten Tupperware Surprise" cake. I think the 3rd and 4th would be great at a zombie wedding -- especially the 4th, which appears to have an exit wound.
Bon Appetit!
What is UP with the cake topper on #5? Are the bride and groom in Lamaze class?
The red scribble on #4 reminds me of the Doctor Who episode "Fear Her". The scribble is alive and attacking the cake! Run!
These wedding cakes always make me soooo sad (well, after I stop laughing, snorting, choking, whatever.) How must the brides feel when they first see these things? I guess some bride must have chosen that unusual cake topper (the groom trying to revive the bride after she faints upon seeing her cake?)
But the other brides must be so upset.
WV: borde- The cake decorator was bordes, so she just tossed some Cool Whip and Hershey's Syrup on the cake and called it a day.
Love the post, regrets to all those brides.
WOW! those were...wow
My two year old daughter said of the third one: "Uh oh! Dirty!" lol
Well...we all know what dripping brown frosting means...but the real interesting cakes here are the ones here that contain hidden in-jokes by the bakers, sometimes known as Decorator's Revenge: see how the the 6th cake and the last one bulge a little? This is a subtle reference to the bride being "in a family way," if you know what I mean.... And the 7th cake -- heard the expression "shotgun wedding"? See the little silver shotgun pellets shot into the cake.... A tip o' the toque to you, decorators!
wv-playd: "Been playd, brides..."
Is #8 suppose to be a giant bee hive above a flower garden?
That's too bad. I can see the potential for about half of those to be lovely if executed properly.
Brilliant parody, loved it.
(Allow me to preface that I am sick)
1) How on earth do you forget the base layer of icing??
2)Perhaps if there were some really wrecky leaves, those things would look like flowers and not used toilet paper.
3) Why you don't put the chocolate fountain IN the cake
4) Ok, THIS one looks like those skinless people turning up in the museums nowadays!
5) I can't even...
6) Did they think the fake ice on the bottom would help?
7) I live in a small town in NC... so I've seen this in person.
8) This is the reason why there is the sign in the bathroom that says: Employees must wash hands before returning to work.
9) All I see are the perfect little boobies on the bottom.
ok... I'm gonna go look for more medication now.
The first one would actually look OK if it didn't look so... stale.
People PAID for those?! O_o
*infinity*=number of people researching the song after they read the post. Seriously. You guys should just knock us dead with your fab. singing skills and use that nifty recorder thing like you did on the Nightmare before Christmas post. REALLY it would make everything much more shiny. :D Thanks for another hilarious post!
Wow. Eww. Ugh.
wv: truro: So truro your wuv...
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Have you the wing?
aaaaaannnnddddddd....this is why I am doing cup cakes (noooo NOT a cupcakecake! Ptooie!) for my wedding! Praying I don't have to submit a picture to Jen for any other day but a Sunday post!
Maybe I stand alone, but I thought cake #1 was nicely done. Yes, the colors were dark and earthy (not my first choice for a wedding cake), but I liked the sueded texture and the bow is well made. Hopefully, that's what the baker was going for. All of the others are true wrecks, though. And I think those are nuts (chestnuts?) on #5.
That red scribbly thing is making me itchy.
ya know , just leveling the cakes before stacking, putting a board between the cakes and some dowels would have saved some of these.
Oh how special that you showed wedding cake wrecks on my 2-year wedding anniversary!! Luckily for me, it did NOT bring back sad memories, as our cake was genuinely beautiful and delicious. One could be picky and point out that the little craft birds on the top looked sort of pissed, but you know, planning a wedding is very stressful!
Thank you so much and please keep the laughs coming!
OMG someone unraveled Elmo all over that cake!
Wait...I think I'm okay with that.
#1 I first thought this wasn't too bad. Then I made the mistake of looking again. How is the Abandoned Bakery able to do deliveries?
#2 'Learn by doing' is not always the best way.
#3 "Yeah, we had a little fire at the bakery -- how did you know?"
#4 I would bet the bride was 'seeing red' in another sense when this showed up.
#5 I'd have to agree with @Tracy W. on the 'rocks and snails', but I was distracted by the topper. I couldn't pose that way if my life depended on it, and what is going on with the bride? People don't bend that way.
#6 & 7 represent the awful gap that can develop between concept and execution. 'Execution' must have been what the brides were thinking as well.
#8 A beehive? Really? At least it passes the 'what is it' test, which is more than can be said for the bottom tier.
#9 Baker's note to self: "Must get new shocks on delivery van. Must also remember to frost tops of cakes."
Pretty it is Guylian Chocolate Seashells on #5 although that is no excuse! Oddly, my mum once put a random snail shell from the garden on my birthday cake (since I study snails), she does swear she washed it first!
Good choice of accompanying song! I'm hoping it does NOT turn into an earworm though
#1: not my choice of colour for a wedding cake (Sharyn's description made me giggle!), but given how well the colour layer was done, this cake could have been gorgeous if only they'd remembered the icing. (how could they not have noticed?!)
#2: If they had left out that lumpy white icing, it would've been a mere wreck, and not horrible
#3: The white icing's a mess but the rest is chocolate, so forgivable. Yes, you can ALWAYS distract me with truffles ;)
#4. The baker over-reached. You have to be fabulous decorator to pull this kind of design off. If the decorator had stuck with something more conventional, it would not have made it to CW (on any day), and the bride would have been satisfied.
#5: ?! @Tracy W's comment, "is this an indication of a slow moving relationship already on the rocks" is absolutely brilliant! I knew people who gave those chocolate rocks as favours (with a tag saying something along the lines of "this relationship rocks!"), and that was cute, but it does NOT suit a cake. However, that topper would suit my sweetie and I perfectly-- I've been leaning on him like that since our teens (when I used to call him a "public leaning post"!).
#6 could have been nice if had been supported properly, and matched the greens. I notice they used the same topper as #7!
#7 if this was a cake made with love by a family member/friend who can bake but lacks decorating expertise, then it would be just fine. But for a pro, it's inadequate.
#8 the bottom cake falls into the same category as #7, and the top one-- a bee hive? as a wedding cake? That badly done, it's like #4
#9 is bad enough that I'm not willing to be charitable and say it's like #7. If you're incapable of assembling & decorating, don't try to do a wedding cake. Even if you're family!
WV 'supees'. I think these unfortunate brides got a nasty supees when they learned their baker's vision did not match their skill level.
OMG! I made the groom's cakes for the wedding where they served cake #7. I made 2, 3-D life sized Cowboys helmets and I made sure to tell my friend, who was a bridesmaid to let everyone know that I DID NOT MAKE THAT WEDDING CAKE!!!!!
you guys are being waaay too harsh!
First of all, for a SpongeBob themed wedding, that first cake is perfect! even classy, if you think about it.
And as for Cake #7, for a contempo-chrome-pearl-studded-violet-line-drawing-of-Machu-Picchu cake, it works!
The things on #5 are those Belgian chocolate seashells, like Guylian makes. They're actually really tasty.
wv: squillyn. I don't know what it means, but it sounds like some sort of ocean creature to me.
#1 Spongebob gets the pox!
I was kind of wondering if #1 was a really accurate replica of a pre-fab styrofoam cake, because, while disturbing as all get-out, that would actually be pretty impressive.
Cake #3 looks like it just spent yesterday here in the hottest spot in the nation at 112 degrees! Poor thing is melting everywhere!
These cakes look home made, not professional. I think some of these brides tried to "cut" expenses. Perhaps some had and Aunt, or BFF who said, "Hey, a wedding cake? I can do that!" If any of these were my wedding cake, I would do the cake cutting first thing to destroy the evidence!
How upset those brides must have been :(
I showed these to a friend of mine who is getting married in two months. Her reply:
"Hooo....some of these look like Dr. Seuss after some bad acid..."
You guys got me! What's wrong with #1?
The red one makes my eyes bleed. Don't people look at their work and go "Nah, I can't send this out." ?? I guess not but I'm betting most of these are friends or relatives doing the cake, if these are "Pros" they need to find another line of work.
Philly Paul
my 7 year old was looking at today's post with me and started laughing uncontrollably "Those are crap!" was all she could get out....I thought you'd like to know you're reaching the next generation already hahaha
I laughed so hard at that unexpected punchline--thank you! Bravo!
Aw, they seemed to really try in the first one. The bow doesn't look too terrible. :P
Best entry ever!
can't decide which is worse... the first one (which I'm assuming was meant to resemble moldy swiss cheese)... or the bleeding red silly string cake... or the fifth - where the groom is having to pick up his drunk bride off their collapsing disaster?
the song? that made up for at least one of the cakes :)
I think #5 is supposed to be a beach scene - upon zooming in, it looks like there is some brown stuff scattered on the top that is supposed to be sand and the happy couple is reclining/slumping/comatose on the beach. I had to zoom in about 4 levels before I figured out that those were chocolate shells and not dates on the bottom layer.
adune: let's rent adune buggy after the ceremony!
Compared to the rest of them the first one is not terrible, it's simply ugly. Which is about as damned with faint praise as it's possible to get, I suspect.
WV - Rehorked: Do I really need to explain this one?
Are you sure about cake #1? Looking at the skill used to create the bow on top, I find it hard to believe the baker "forgot" to frost the cake. Perhaps this is how it was ordered? Maybe a misguided attempt to cut calories?
Oh, and the color is horrible.
Cake #5- It looks like a couple, overdressed at lamaze class. Sadly, this is too often a reality. Can anyone say "shotgun wedding"? You bring the shotgun, we'll fix the cake! ~Jenn~
#4 looks like a crime scene minus the body.. Yikes!!
that just hurts my eyes...
umm.... the bon-bon/chocolate drizzle cake looks yum to me. so, umm, i dunno
I read all the posts so far to see if anyone mentioned 'mold' referring to cake #1. Mixing such a specific color could have been difficult!
I saw these this am when there were only 5 comments and I really wanted to comment then. But my company has new filters that block me from being able to.
These have got to be some of the worst cakes I have ever seen. OMG I was breathless as I scrolled thru.
I too was stopped cold to see what looks like snails on a cake. I almost barfed in my mouth.
Remember that the decorator doesn't get to choose the colors! #1 is well executed but the colors... ick. The rest MUST be done by a "friend." I would choke someone if I paid for that mess.
That beach "cake" topper looks like the groom is coaching the bride in Lamaze.
Not to mention ... and rather regrettable too.
Wow, I am truly shocked by these, that are made by professionals! People paid for these cakes! Good grief, I feel really bad for the brides and grooms facing these monstrosities--forever immortalized in photos too!
Lesley B.
I love the choice of song, I actually heard Nat King Cole in my head. He really kept it together (the professional that he is) but there was only so much he could do to hide his displeasure.
Gosh I hope those people got refunds!
The topper on #5 probably didn't look so strange from a different angle. I think this is it: http://www.a1weddinginvitations.net/images/Cake%20Topper%20Wedding%20Couple%20Beach%20Figurine%208653.jpg
I know I'm past the comment period, but I can't figure out how the bee hive is floating over the bottom cake - let alone why. Is there some kind of clear platform that I can't see. And why is the bee hive floating over the bottom cake. All these cakes appear homemade to me. Remember the great post where the bride's mother made the cake as it melted before her eyes.
Cake 3 = Fire Swamp Terror #2
#Just sayin' ...
As the Submitter of #3, I can tell you that it's definitely a professional--it was on their website as a display of the "awesome" things they've done.
I can only hope that the bride and groom were fans of Jackson Pollock. That would explain a lot. But then I hope the baker didn't use some of his more, uh, controversial materials in the cake.
Arghhhhhhhhhhhh these are just beyond words. Especially the donut and melting poop frosting one.. gross and scary. The one cake with the red on one side looks like the red is trying to jump off and escape the cake lol. Why did they do this to the poor brides? Were they on Bridezillas??
Are those snails on cake #5? I mean, why did it take so long for cake bakers to figure out the romantic meaning of snails?
Say, is it possible to vet the ads that you have on this site? I was exceedingly annoyed by seeing one of those ridiculous "you are the Xth visitor! Congratulations, you won! Click here!" ads bopping and shuddering in down the side of the screen while trying to read your post.
Those ads always feel like they're trying to take advantage of idiots. Probably because they're trying to take advantage of idiots. And they are so Web 1.0.
This site is better than that. Or, at least, it should be. If you can get rid of them, please do so.
Good detective work, @Rachel. Now the topper on #5 makes sense, and the 'beach theme' decodes the 'snails'. Are we to infer that there is a simple and believable explanation for the other entries?
I think Genesis said it best: "It must be some misunderstanding, it must be some kind of a cake..."
BTW, I first thought #1 was sponges. Then I went to 'sponge cake'. Then I thought the off-green spots looked moldy, which is when I decided it must have come from the Abandoned Bakery.
I have to say, today I was more excited to read what you had written than to look at the cakes. You make me laugh every time! Can you guys please make a youtube channel of #1 signing all the song spoofs? Pretty please!
#3 might not look neat or smooth but it looks very tasty!
I actually think #1 could be quite adorable if only the colours were different.
As it is, it looks like someone found a mouldy old cake in the back of the fridge.
wv: dorstish
Sounds like the way the inside of my mouth might feel after eating from cake #1.
I didn't know about them but those ads tick me off too. And I hope you're right that we're better than that. I'm going to go yell at someone now and get them taken down but if you see them again, please let me know.
Our wedding is less than a month away and I have no fears about the cake..if it's horrible then I'll probably laugh my butt off and say "WE MADE CAKEWRECKS" I'll only be sad if it's bad but not bad enough to make the cut
You're not joking about scaring the brides. After reading this blog for the past two years, I was a total bridezilla about my wedding cake last June. When the bakery missed their delivery slot and I realized I wouldn't even be able to preview the cake before the reception began, I nearly had a panic attack. I was sure it was a wreck. Thank goodness it turned out just fine. But, I'm really very happy that I didn't see this post beforehand: )
The baker of the first one might have some potential. If they can learn to not combine colors and textures like that. o_O It looks like a combination of faded old play-doh with something I left in the back of my fridge too long. In B&W, it wouldn't look so bad, though.
The one with the messy chocolate drizzles looks tasty, but not pretty. The others... X_x
wv: testr
A person who does quality assurance on spellcheck products.
I honestly want to understand who on earth tells these people that they ought to go into cake decorating. It's just unbelievable.
the sand wedding cake i submitted should be here. it was awesomely horrible.
I ended up decorating most of my brother's wedding cake since my mom (a former decorator) couldn't say no to him but couldn't do it due to arthritis. Now I don't feel so bad about how it turned out.
p.s. getting the icing smooth is HARD!!
I have to stop visiting this site at work. I cannot control the laughing and the streaming tears!
Ya, know, that first one MIGHT have been nicer if they went with better colors.
It's a SIN, I tell you, that what could have been lovely cakes are destroyed by inept bakers.
John (tHoJ), thank you! I loathe those ads too, so I definitely appreciate your trying to keep them off the site. :)
Just a note: on my last comment, I clicked the "name/URL" option but the box to put my name in didn't pop up. Weird.
Anyway, thanks again for doing your best to keep those annoying ads out. The site is more than worth the occasional irksome ad, but I still hate them. :s
At first I thought the picture of the last one was taken at a deliberately wonky angle - then I saw the upside-down dessert plate stuck under the base of the cake...yes, folks, it is even more wrecky than the picture makes it appear!
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Frank Curreri examines ACL tears and the new science that is allowing athletes to return to previous form after surgery.
(Insert name of pro athlete ) Tears ACL, Out For Season.
How many times a year do you come across that headline? It seems to be one of the most common headlines in sports, year after year.
We immediately empathize with the limping wounded, of course. The uncertainty that races through their mind jumps to ours as well. You ask - we all instinctively ask - the most obvious question: Will he ever be the same again?
We wondered that when UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre blew out his knee last year. We speculated again when bantamweight kingpin Dominick Cruz ruptured an ACL during a training session in May. And we've thought about former light heavyweight champ Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, who has endured and defiantly bounced back from three ACL tears, and battles Sweden's Alexander Gustafsson = in the co-main event on Saturday's UFC on FOX 5 card.
In the case of Cruz, most unfortunately, his return to championship form was recently interrupted after another gut-wrenching setback. The 27-year-old San Diegan had hoped to battle interim champ Renan Barao early next year. Last Thursday, however, Cruz underwent his second ACL surgery in 8 months (on the same knee). A rough timetable for his recovery has been set at six to nine months, standard within the industry.
"He's over the shock part," Cruz's head trainer, Eric DelFierro, said Tuesday. "He had an MRI recently and it revealed the ligament was basically detached. His body rejected the cadaver. It just didn't take the way it should. From what the doctor said, the cadaver has a 20 percent failure rate in an athlete. Better to get it done now and just get over with."
Cruz said on UFC Tonight (FUEL TV) Tuesday night that he reinjured the knee during light shadow boxing sessions with a teammate. He pivoted, mildly he thought, and heard a pop.
Far worse than the physical pain has been the emotional toll.
"It is like you get dumped by a girl that you love very much or you lost a family member," Cruz said on the show.
Cruz choked up during the broadcast while recalling the outpouring of support from fans on his Twitter account @TheDomin8r.
"If the fans out there could know how much that helps me," Cruz said. "Thank you guys so much."
It will come as no comfort to Cruz, one of the sport's most mentally stout and sincere figures, that his extended misery is not the norm. When the three most dreaded letters in sports strike again – sidelining an astonishing 100,000 or more American athletes each year – the popular knee-jerk reaction of "Will he ever be the same again?" assumes that full recovery boils down to a coin toss of sorts. But where ACLs are concerned, it is well past the time for popular perception to catch up with reality. And the present reality is this: An ACL reconstruction today is usually not career-threatening or career-altering to a pro athlete. In fact, over the past seven years or so the odds of a full recovery have heavily shifted in the athletes' favor.
World renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. Tarek Souryal, head team physician for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, spelled out that overwhelmingly positive trend during an interview with ESPN's "Training Room."
"It used to end athletic participation both on the professional and recreational level," Souryal said of ACL tears. "Now with arthroscopic surgery and proper strengthening and rehabilitation techniques, the future is much brighter. National results show a 96 to 98 percent return to sport."
Yet the doomsday stereotype among fans, largely unjustified by present-day statistics, continues to cast a large shadow because the sports landscape HAD BEEN littered with some very high-profile ACL horror stories dating to more than a decade ago. Men of a certain age remember a time when a violent buckling of the ACL derailed the career of Terrell Davis, culminating in his retirement at just 29 years old (yeah, the military-saluting Terrell Davis who was once voted MVP of the NFL, rushed for 2,000 yards in a season and led the Denver Broncos to two Super Bowl titles). We remember when Jamal Anderson of the Atlanta Falcons was never quite the same after ACL surgery. We remember when Ki-Jana Carter of Penn State University was drafted No. 1 in the NFL, tore his ACL in a preseason game and totaled less than 1,200 yards rushing over a seven-year career.
A prominent study by Dr. James Carey and University of Pennsylvania (Department of Orthopedic Surgery) studied NFL players who tore their ACLs from 1998 to 2002; one out of five of those players never returned to the NFL, the study found, and a sizable number of players who returned to the field saw a decline in production.
A decade later, a pro like Dominick Cruz, still grinding away in rehabilitation and deprived of what he most enjoys, will nevertheless be inspired by the large number of professional peers who have returned to their domains and dominated.
Evidence of this encouraging trend:
Exhibit A – The Beast who is turning everyone's head and blowing everyone's mind and whose sheer awesomeness is having the greatest universal impact to make everybody rethink ACL tears, Mr. Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings. Before wrecking his knee near the end of 2011, Peterson was widely regarded as the NFL's best running back. A mere eight months after rising off the surgical table, the human freight train returned to the gridiron and has averaged a whopping 5.8 yards per game to lead the league in rushing. To which I declare, "Are you kidding me!!!??" Best believe that thousands of Fantasy Football players out there deeply regret passing on Adrian Peterson early in round one of their league drafts. I should know; I'm one of 'em.
Exhibit B – Georges St-Pierre, UFC welterweight champion. What I witnessed Nov. 17 was truly eye-opening and the absolute motivation for this column. Think about it: If GSP had lost to No. 1 contender Carlos Condit, what would the storylines have been? GSP's knee! His knee! His knee! Without a doubt, that's all we would have heard about, not how dangerous and talented Condit is. The backup alibi would have been "ring rust!" … ring rust! … ring rust … referencing, of course, the Canadian superstar's 19 months away from the octagon.
In the interest of full disclosure, I didn't expect to see such a rejuvenated, well-conditioned and supremely confident GSP at UFC 154. Only 10 months removed from major surgery, I expected there to be some psychological compromise, some doubt in the recesses of GSP's mind as to how his knee would hold up in a live fight. Some hesitation and huffing and puffing in round five seemed natural for the 31-year-old. After all, potentially career-threatening, right?
Let me tell you what – that might have been the best GSP I've seen yet. It certainly shed the most light on the strength of his character. Considering how deep GSP had to dig within himself, how he needed to pick himself off the canvas in the third round; it was definitely his finest performance, and it came when he needed it most and against the most dangerous opponent he's ever faced. Whatever GSP may have lacked in timing while in the Octagon a few weeks ago, he compensated for with the most palpable fire to win we've ever seen from him. Prior to that night, even some of the champ's most loyal supporters were left with the feeling that he was holding a lot back inside the cage and had much more to give. Certain comments seemed to shadow GSP even as he racked up wins. Rather than fighting to win, he seemed to be fighting not to lose. Fans still adored and admired the welterweight prince, but many couldn't resist thinking, "His fights are boring …. He fights too conservative … But he doesn't finish fights … But he doesn't like to get hit."
A blood-soaked, 25-minute scrap against Condit quashed all of those criticisms. We saw GSP in a dogfight, his face as marked up as we've ever seen afterward, and saw how badly he wanted to win. Unlike other recent title bouts, GSP laid everything on the line against Condit and made good on his pre-fight promise: "All those who doubted me will have a reality check, because I'm better than ever."
Exhibit C: Jamaal Charles, Kansas City Chiefs. One of the NFL's premier speedsters, Charles tore his ACL last September. Thus far in 2012, the University of Texas alum ranks eighth in rushing and is on pace for a very commendable 1,350 yards.
Exhibit D: New England Patriots QB Tom Brady. In the 2008 season-opener, the NFL's then-reigning MVP went down with ACL and MCL tears. A year later, the game's most famed sixth-round-pick-turned-superstar posted his second-best season as a pro up until that point and again made the Pro Bowl. Good as new. Like nothing ever happened.
Exhibit E: Tiger Woods. The greatest golfer of my generation underwent ACL reconstruction in mid-2008. The Stanford grad rebounded nicely and was ranked No.1 in the world through late 2010. Despite some other well-publicized hurdles, Tiger remains one of the top three golfers in the world.
An interesting aside: Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the Los Angeles-based orthopedic surgeon who performed surgery on Brady, also repaired GSP's ACL.
More outstanding recoveries that signal the "New Norm" for ACL outcomes:
• The case of New England Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker. Tore his ACL in Jan. 2010. Eight months later started first game of the season and scored two touchdowns. The reception machine made the Pro Bowl that season and again in 2011.
• The resurgences of NFL running backs such as Frank Gore, Jamal Lewis, Willis McGahee and Edgerrin James, who each became very successful NFL running backs despite ACL tears in the early 2000s. These guys were actually pioneers who started to change perceptions, enlightening doctors and ACL-injured athletes about the possibilities for recovery.
Yet, for the most part, UFC fighters have rebounded well from ACL surgery and registered some of their best performances after having that all-important ligament stabilizer reconstructed. Some prominent cases stand out, including:
• "Shogun" Rua was out 16 months after back-to-back ACL tears in 2007. Though three major knee surgeries have limited the Brazilian dynamo to just nine fights in the past five years, Rua has knocked out Lyoto Machida (to win the UFC belt), Chuck Liddell, Forrest Griffin and Brandon Vera in recent years. And Rua's dramatic five-round clash with Dan Henderson at UFC 139 is widely considered one of the most exciting contests in UFC history.
• Joe Lauzon, who tore his ACL against Jeremy Stephens during a February 2009 bout, returned 11 months later. The aggressive Bostonian has since fashioned a 4-2 record with signature wins over Melvin Guillard and former World Extreme Cagefighting champ Jamie Varner.
• Former WEC champ and UFC fighter Miguel Torres shredded his knee in mid-2002. The mullet-haired bantamweight returned over a year later, winning 17 of his next 18 fights to earn mention as one of the sport's top pound-for-pound fighters.
• Like Rua, UFC vet Javier Vazquez suffered multiple ACL tears (famously rupturing his ACL while throwing a punch in the early seconds of a 2003 fight against Alberto Crane and amazingly fighting until the end to lose via decision). After a few years away from the cage, the Gracie Jiu-Jitsu black belt returned and scoring memorable victories over Jens Pulver and Joe "Daddy" Stevenson.
• Kurt Pellegrino, now retired, is another ACL success story. The scrappy New Jerseyian tore his ACL in the first round of a July 2010 match against George Sotiropolous, yet showed great determination to still finish the bout (losing a unanimous decision to the Aussie). Pellegrino returned to the Octagon just eight and a half months later, giving the immovable object known as Gleison Tibau all he could handle but still losing a split decision.
• UFC veteran Alessio Sakara, who fought in Montreal last month, tore his ACL in late July 2011 and returned to the cage eight and a half months later.
• Welterweight Duane Ludwig is presently recovering from a torn ACL he suffered in an October fight with Che Mills.
Other Noteworthy Points of Emphasis About ACL Tears
• Roughly 70 percent of all ACL tears are non-contact injuries that occur when an athlete pivots, cuts or plants sharply, or lands awkwardly on their knee
• Females are two to four times more likely than males to tear an ACL. This is due to many of them having a narrow channel where their ACL resides, and possibly hormone changes that can increase chance for a rupture during certain parts of their menstruation cycle (Source: Dr. J. Martin Leland, assistant professor of surgery at University of Chicago Medicine, quoted in "Science Life" interview for University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences) http://sciencelife.uchospitals.edu/2012/05/01/qa-dr-martin-leland-on-acl-injuries/
• Fascinating: There are two common ways for orthopedic surgeons to repair an ACL – via an autograft (using part of a patellar, hamstring or Achilles tendon from the injured patient's own body) or an allograft (donated, frozen tendons from someone else's body). Several studies have found that ACL surgeries using the allograft or "cadaver" grafts – the same method used to repair Cruz's ACL the first time -- carries a much higher risk for athletes 40 years old and under.
"The allograft is still a good option for many people and probably works fine for people who have moderate activity and are really not stressing their knee, particularly in the first year or two after surgery, but physicians should be aware that it has a very high failure rate for young patients," Dr. James C. Tucker told the Arkansas Medical News during a 2008 interview.
The Arkansas Medical News article referenced two studies, one from researchers at the University of Kentucky in 2007 and another Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center study (2008). The Kentucky study found that with cadaver ACL reconstructions "37.7 percent (of patients) required repeat surgery (and) the failure and repeat surgery rate for patients under 25 was 55 percent."
The Mississippi study chronicled 64 patients and found that 23.4 percent experienced failed cadaver graft surgery. Their findings were presented to the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine.
"The allograft (cadaver) failure rate in this young active population is exceedingly high when compared to the 2.6 percent failure rate in our previous study of patients older than 40 years old," said Dr. Gene R. Barrett, a senior author of the study, told the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Now website. http://arkansasmedicalnews.com/popular-cadaver-grafts-dangerous-for-young-acl-patients-cms-675
"From what the doctor told us, the cadaver has a 20 percent failure rate in an athlete," Del Fierro said.
Cruz's second surgery was not from a cadaver. Rather, it involved "a patellar tendon from Dominick," DelFierro said. GSP's ACL reconstruction was also repaired using a patellar tendon from his own body.
"I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy," Cruz said a few weeks ago of the ACL recovery process.
Cruz is one of the most determined athletes in the world's hardest sport. It would unwise to bet against such a driven workaholic who has already defied almost everyone's expectations by becoming world champ in the first place (almost no one saw that coming five years ago). Most pro athletes recover well from ACL tears. You have to expect that Dominick Cruz, when it's all said and done, will come back better than ever. Just as GSP did.
"Just want to say thanx to all my supporters through this humbling time," Cruz posted on Twitter Tuesday evening: "I WILL b back 100% this will only be a stepping stone in my life after I push through."
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This is one of those fun-to-think-about questions. A brain isn't much to look at, after all. It's about the size of your two fists put together, three pounds to hold, but oh my, what it can do.
With our brains, we can think backwards, imagine forwards, conjure, create things that don't exist, leap vast distances. For example, suppose I say to you, close your eyes and imagine this:
...let's you and I rocket off the Earth and keep going, out past Neptune, then past the nearest star, then on and on across a patch of cold empty space until we reach an interstellar gas cloud glowing pale blue, and when we get there, let's fly to the top, hover near a small baby star softly glowing, and move in closer to see it peeking out from the top of the cloud...
Can you see this with me? I bet you can. You can fly with me across vast distances, go to impossibly faraway places because you have the tool that lets you — that hunk of flesh in your head.
"Our creatures are our thoughts," said the poet John Donne way back in the 1620s, and our thoughts "reach from east to west, from earth to heaven; that do not only bestride all the sea and land, but span the sun and firmament at once; my thoughts reach all, comprehend all."
If a brain can make crazy leaps across the cosmos and bring extra passengers along (like you when you listen to me), then in a metaphorical way, the brain is bigger than what's around it, wrote 19th century poet Emily Dickinson.
The brain is wider than the sky,
For, put them side by side,
The one the other will include
With ease, and you beside.
I like her confidence. The brain reaches where it pleases "with ease," so she figures it's bigger than everything. It can do things the physical universe can't, like go backwards. ("Let me tell you what happened to me yesterday...") And while I agree with Dickinson, the brain is formidable — does it get the crown?
Well, let's hear from the Universe; As critic Kathryn Schulz wrote recently, if you think of the cosmos the easy way, as a giant expanse with stars, planets and gas clouds, then yes, a mind can imagine all that ("and you beside"). But what if we make it a little harder, and consider the mysteries of dark energy, the space/time continuum, Higgs fields, teeny bits of energy popping up out of nowhere and then vanishing into the smallest imaginable spaces? What if I tell you that the faster you go, the bigger you get, until at the speed of light, your mass increases enormously?
That's Silly
"Many people think that this is silly," wrote astronomer Carl Sagan, "and every week or two I get a letter from someone who complains to me about it," but no matter how strange it seems, this happens to be true, experimentally, verifiably true. But truths like these aren't easy to take in. Our minds boggle.
"The universe is not only queerer than we suppose," said the biologist J.B.S. Haldane, "but queerer than we can suppose." In Haldane's view, the universe is bigger than the brain. There are things we just can't know, or even conjure with the brains we've got.
There are philosophers and scientists who say we will never understand the universe, we can't fathom the endless details or make good sense of the whole. We can try, but the universe is too big. The writer John Updike once explained the argument this way to reporter Jim Holt:
"It's beyond our intellectual limits as a species. Put yourself into the position of a dog. A dog is responsive, shows intuition, looks at us with eyes behind which there is intelligence of a sort, and yet a dog must not understand most of the things it sees people doing. It must have no idea how they invented, say, the internal combustion engine. So maybe what we need to do is imagine that we're dogs and that there are realms that go beyond our understanding."
Our brains are magnificent compared to other creatures here on Earth, but up against the universe, we are pitiful. That's the argument, anyway. So does the universe get the crown?
I don't know. Carl Sagan thought that we humans are good at finding patterns in nature, and if we know the rules, we can skip the details and understand the outline, the essence. It's not necessary for us to know everything. The problem is we don't know how many rules the cosmos has. How many rules does it take to explain the mystery of non-life becoming life, the finite becoming infinite, matter becoming mind, nothing becoming something? A few? Millions? We don't know.
Yet the brain has its champions. "Consider the human brain," says physicist Sir Roger Penrose. "If you look at the entire physical cosmos, our brains are a tiny, tiny part of it. But they're the most perfectly organized part. Compared to the complexity of a brain, a galaxy is just an inert lump." Yes, it's small, but the human brain has a power that nothing we know of in all the galaxies can match.
So which, then? Brain? Universe? Curiosity versus mystery, which is bigger?
Go Universe!
Speaking personally, I'm rooting for the universe. I don't need, don't want, don't like the idea of one day knowing all there is to know. I don't think we can. I think about Job, the bible's just and honest man, being lifted up high into the heavens so he can see all of God's creation and shrinking painfully away from the sight of "Things too wonderful for me."
I'm not saying we shouldn't try. And even if we amplify our brains with powerful computers, my hunch is the universe will still outwit us, will still be "too wonderful" to be decoded, because we are, in the end, so much smaller than it is. And that's not a bad thing. To my mind, it's the search that matters, that sharpens us, gives us something noble to do.
As the physicist Steven Weinberg famously said, "The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."
We live to wonder, to ask, to appreciate. Without wonder, why are we here?
I blame Kathryn Schulz for getting me thinking about all this. She wrote a brilliant, provocative review of Jim Holt's new book Why Does the World Exist? that is so much fun to read, you should run, not walk, to find it here. And then, because the review leaves you no option, you will, zombie-like, find yourself compelled to pick up Jim Holt's book (I'm halfway through and loving every page) which visits with a bunch of very smart scientists, novelists and philosophers and asks them why the universe came to be. They all have answers, but Jim knows — and they know — that nobody really knows. The conversations are sharp and fun and Jim writes well enough that I never felt too stupid to turn the page. That's rare.
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On the final weekend of the campaign, Nicolas Sarkozy comes up with a last-minute surprise. Will his call to reform the European Central Bank inspire disenchanted voters? François Picard's panel weighs up a high-stakes, low enthusiasm French election campaign.
- Aude BARON. Chief Editor, 'Le Plus' of Nouvel Observateur;
- Jacqueline HÉNARD. Journalist and writer;
- Thomas HOUDAILLE. Secretary General, Europanova;
- Guntram B. WOLFF. Deputy Director, Bruegel (from Brussels).
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By Bob Greene
(CNN) — The point is no longer whether or not Black Friday tarnishes the holidays.
The point is that Black Friday has become a holiday of its own.
It will arrive again this week, even as Americans are still sitting at their Thanksgiving dinner tables. Black Friday — with its door-buster sales, hordes of frenzied shoppers shoving for position, employees nervously waiting for the onslaught — has shrugged off the confines of its name and has now established squatters' rights on Thursday.
Target stores will open at 9 p.m. Thanksgiving night, three hours earlier than the stores' midnight opening in 2011. Wal-Mart will begin its Black Friday sales at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Toys R Us will match that 8 p.m. opening, as will Sears. Best Buy, which will wait until midnight to open its doors, seems almost like a dowdy throwback.
The store employees around the country who are upset that the schedules will deprive them of a big part of their holiday Thursday (many of them will have to arrive hours before the customers) and the citizens who fret that the lure of the deeply discounted sales will empty out their home-for-the-holidays family gatherings are probably fighting a losing battle. Black Friday appears to be triumphant, and it has taken on the characteristics of the holidays it mimics.
Like real holidays, it occurs on a predesignated day each year. People anticipate it and mark the date. Across the breadth of the nation they are absent from work to observe it. And when the day arrives, they congregate like. . .well, like congregations.
Established religious holidays, such as Christmas and Hanukkah, have long been occasions for gift-giving; some holidays — Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day — have eagerly been embraced by merchants as a way to move their products.
Black Friday does away with the middleman — in the universe of holidays, it is the only one that exists solely to sell merchandise. It celebrates nothing; it commemorates only itself. It is an annual festival of the cash register.
The derivation of the term "Black Friday" is open to dispute, but it has come to refer to the theory that merchants go into the black — into the profit side of the ledger — during the holiday shopping season, which traditionally commences the day after Thanksgiving.
Certainly, and especially in this economy, anything that brings people into the stores is welcome. Brick-and-mortar stores can use the foot traffic as shopping goes increasingly online. And digital doors are open 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
But there is something about Black Friday — in the pandemonium of its execution — that is unsettling and cynical. The Wal-Mart employee who was trampled to death on Long Island in 2008 as shoppers knocked the doors from their hinges and stepped on him in their rush to the stacks of sales items, the woman in California last year who unleashed pepper spray on fellow shoppers vying for Xbox video game consoles, those kinds of scenes are becoming the iconic images of the long night.
Of course, the new holiday would not have taken hold if people weren't embracing it.
But you have to ask yourself: When people, as they grow older, remember the best holidays of their lives, is it some discounted gift that they recall with warmth and fondness? Some deal that they found? Or is it the family members and loved ones with whom they spent the holiday time.
Breaking up the flow of a real holiday so you can make it on time to the beginning of the Black Friday holiday seems a little misguided. It is one thing during the holiday season to be touched by the poignancy of long lines at soup kitchens and food pantries; it is quite another to witness throngs in the darkness bearing credit cards, waiting to stampede through stores in desperate and hungry-eyed pursuit of flat-screen TVs and Blu-Ray players.
At least earnest groups of neighborhood vocalists are not — yet — going door-to-door singing Black Friday carols.
But just give them time.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene.
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for the dark chocolate pudding filling:
1 egg yolk
1 1/2 oz 73% dark chocolate bar, finely chopped
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon Dutch process cocoa powder
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla paste
for the cupcakes:
2 eggs, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups flour
2/3 cup Dutch process cocoa
1/2 cup boiling water
1/2 cup milk, at room temperature
1/4 cup sour cream, at room temperature
5 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla paste
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
3 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
1/4 cup cocoa
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 tablespoon corn syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla paste
For the pudding filling:
Note: Make the pudding first because although it takes less than 5 minutes to make, it needs time to chill. If you can, make it the day before you plan to bake.
Place all of the pudding ingredients in a heavy saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring continuously until mixture comes to a boil and begins to thicken, about 3 minutes. If it seems lumpy, strain before pouring it into a bowl. Refrigerate covered, until throughly chilled.
For the cupcake:
Preheat oven to 350. Line or grease 12 wells in a cupcake pan. Mix cocoa with boiling water in small bowl, stirring until smooth. Set aside to cool. Cream together butter, vanilla paste and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each one. Add the hydrated cocoa, mixing thoroughly. In another bowl, whisk together remaining dry ingredients. In a measuring cup or small bowl, combine the milk and sour cream. Add the flour mixture and the milk/sour cream mixture alternating between the two, thoroughly mixing between each addition. Fill the wells about 2/3 of the way.
If you really scrape the bowl, you might be able to eke out one or two extra cupcakes. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center cupcake comes out clean. Cool completely.
For the frosting:
Beat together all of the ingredients of the frosting until smooth.
Make sure the cupcakes are completely cool. Set aside one cupcake. Give the pudding a good stir so it isn't so solid it won't easily pipe. Fill using filling/decorating tools or by removing a small amount of cupcake from the center (using a small corer works well) and carefully spooning in some pudding. I used the tools that came with this and decorating equipment from cupcake kit.
If you've never filled a cupcake before, you might want to check out this guide to filling cupcakes that I wrote for Bakespace. Ice with a fairly modest amount of frosting on each cupcake. Smooth the icing so there is a bit of a flat top. Crumple the leftover cupcake to make crumbs.
Sprinkle the the crumbs over the iced cupcakes. Voilà!
Yield: about a dozen cupcakes
Note: You will probably end up with at least some pudding leftover. I really couldn't scale the recipe down any further than I did.
My thoughts:
Today is our fourth anniversary. We debated about staying home and making something special but the lure of neither of us having to cook was strong so we struck a compromise, we'd go out to dinner but I'd make dessert. I decided to go ahead with a cupcake idea I've had for years.
Brooklyn Blackout Cake is a NYC classic originally hailing from long defunct Ebinger's Bakery. It consists of 3 layers of dark chocolate cake with dark chocolate pudding between the layers, topped with chocolate icing and sprinkled with chocolate cake crumbs. This cupcake version is inspired by both the original cake and the Brooklyn Blackout Cupcakes we used to get at Two Little Red Hens in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The owners of the bakery have since parted ways and the location we once dined at is now called the Ladybird Bakery. I haven't been there since the schism so I can't say for sure that the Brooklyn Blackout is the same or still on the menu.
Anyway, since we live in Baltimore and can't pop out for a Brooklyn Blackout cake or cupcake as they are virtually unknown locally, I set out to reproduce it in my own kitchen. Taking inspiration from the bakery examples I've had, I created recipes for a dark chocolate pudding-like filling, a moist sour cream/devil's food cake and a glossy chocolate frosting. Of course I have no idea what the original Ebinger's or Two Little Red Hens' recipes are but I think I did a pretty good job. Unlike bakery (cup)cakes these aren't over the top in size but they make up for it in flavor.
You need to be a true chocolate lover to truly enjoy the Brooklyn Blackout. All of the individual parts of the cupcake are a rich, moist, dark chocolate. Perfect for a special occasion but easy enough for everyday.


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You have to be a little stubborn to be a professional fighter. Okay, very stubborn. So when word traveled through the grapevine to UFC featherweight Rony Jason that the only chance he had of winning his fight with American knockout artist Sam Sicilia was to use his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and take the fight to the mat, he got a bit insulted.
"There were journalists saying I didn't have a shot against him in the standup," said Jason through manager / translator Matheus Aquino. "It hurt us, and a person that says that never sees us training here at Team Nogueira or is someone who never got to take a punch in his life to disregard me and my team like that. I was called the underdog and the way it was said hurt us."
You can probably figure out what happened next. Jason went back to the gym determined to put a dent in the critics' predictions. And at Team Nogueira, there were plenty of willing participants for the Ceara native's "Project KO."
"Before the fight people said I had no chance in the standup, that my only way to victory would be to take it to the ground," he said. "That didn't sit well with me and I ended up training more standup with boxing coach Edelson, Muay Thai coach Kob, and Jonas Bilharinho, the Pitbull brothers, and Matheus Mattos. Although I come from Jiu-Jitsu, I also train a lot of standup and thank God I'm having a good evolution on this part (of MMA). Today the athlete has to be complete and I'm searching to be the closest to perfection as possible. Perfection doesn't exist, but I'm always aiming for it."
On that night in Rio de Janeiro, the result was as close to perfect as you can get, as Jason and Sicilia slugged out to the delight of the fans in attendance before Jason capped things off with a Knockout of the Night finish at 4:16 of the second round. It was the kind of ending former winners of The Ultimate Fighter hope to kick the next phase of their career off with, but that's not always the case. Thankfully for Jason, winner of TUF Brazil 1, that burden is now off his shoulders, though he does continue to feel a responsibility to deliver not just for himself, but for his fellow TUF competitors.
"I always believed that I had the level to be in the UFC, and I put it in my mind that every time I go into a fight I have to represent well the guys who also signed for TUF," he said. "I joke that it (the TUF title) is kind of an interim belt, a responsibility belt, and I always try to focus on what I want. I like to joke and everything, but when the responsibility arrives I stand up to it. Sam was a tough fight. He was a guy coming from lightweight and was a very difficult test. I'm happy to have won and to be slowly creating my place in the UFC."
On Saturday, the 29-year-old Jason will attempt to entrench himself even deeper as a featherweight to be watched when he meets a TUF Smashes competitor from the UK, Mike Wilkinson.
"Mike Wilkinson is a stone in my way," said Jason. "I try to see it as a next step to go further on my way to the belt. He starts slow but accelerates through the fight, he has heart, and he likes to fight. I'll try to break it from him and the fight will start as soon as the referee announces it. He stays calm at the start but I'll bring the fight from the get go and expect to surprise him there. The difficulty lies in this different way he fights. With more clinches, it makes you expend more energy, and with his heart, it grows each round and not many fighters do that."
Just two fights into his UFC career, Jason has the confidence, but not cockiness, of a young man who has seen a lot and figured out even more in his first year in the UFC. Ask him if it's been all he expected it to be, and he laughs.
"I think I expected less. Being a UFC fighter and winner of the first TUF in Brazil gave me much more than I expected. To this day I get astonished when someone asks me for a picture or autograph. I think it's a joke; I didn't imagine it would be so much."
He's handled it well though, which wasn't exactly the case when he made his Octagon debut in the TUF Brazil final against Godofredo Pepey in June of 2012. But on the night of the fight, his coach reminded him why he was fighting and why he had bounced back from a rough 5-3 start to reel off five straight wins on the lead-up to TUF.
"I was able to relax more," Jason said of his recent success. "Although fighting is very serious and it's my job, sometimes when you take it very seriously you end up forgetting why you started training. I started training because I loved the sport, although I think of it as a martial art, and back then (when he was 5-3) I started forgetting why I had began. I was kind of neurotic that I could never lose a practice, that I had to go with lucky underwear to the fight, and things like that. Now I got rid of that. There are guys that if they don't come out with their song they don't perform well, and that's not normal. You aren't hearing your song before every practice and you do it well. But it's funny, when they told me to take off the Jason mask before my TUF final fight I thought about not fighting. My coach Everaldo Penco told me that Jason was inside of me, not on the mask and I carry it to this day. When I was younger I used to want a lot from myself and the defeats were always more hurtful. We come to win, but winning or losing is a consequence of the fight; it doesn't mean that whoever loses is worse than the guy who won. If my best is enough to win the fight it will work out; if not, congratulations to the other guy."
Now unbeaten in his last eight bouts, Jason has the mental game down pat, his physical game is growing with each fight, and with a year in the UFC under his belt he has seen his life change significantly.
"The recognition of my job and myself improved a lot," he said. "My financial situation and my training as well, so I perform better. Everything is changing for the best and I'm able now to help my family a little bit."
All that's left is winning, but Jason isn't content with just that. He's stubborn that way.
"I'm a more focused guy, a guy who's going after the belt."


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Dear Lifehacker,
I recently had my bag stolen, with my laptop and smartphone inside. I haven't installed any anti-theft software on it. Is there any way I can track it anyway? I'm desperate here!
Lost Laptop
Dear Lost,
The short answer: it's unlikely you'll ever get your stuff back. Even with anti-theft software, there's no guarantee, but we constantly recommend installing software like Prey for this very purpose. If you don't have tracking software installed, it's obviously much harder to track your stuff. And if your thief is even the slightest bit intelligent, he or she would wipe your device as soon as they got it and you'd have no way of tracking it at all.
That said, you do have a last-ditch effort or two up your sleeve. Here are two things you might try.
Track Your Device's IP Address with Gmail or Dropbox
If your laptop or smartphone was stolen, you can use a service like Gmail or Dropbox to find the IP address of your thief. When you log into those services from any computer, it logs the IP address used, and displays your last used IP in your account. In Gmail, it's in the bottom right-hand corner under "Details," and in Dropbox, it's in Settings > Security under the details of each individual computer. If the thief used your computer, the last logged IP address may be theirs instead of yours. Again, though, if they're smart, they didn't use your computer and this trick won't work.
Of course, knowing their IP only gets you so far. You'd still have to file a police report, send a subpoena to that IP addresse's internet provider, and find out where they're located, which could take a long time (one reader told us it took him a month to go through the process). We've had readers email us with success stories using this method, but they are few and far between. Whatever you do, don't try to track the thief down yourself and get your gear back. That could lead to all sorts of trouble.
Track Your Android Phone with Plan B
If you have an Android phone running 2.3 or lower, previously mentioned Plan B is a pretty cool option. You can install it remotely from the Google Play web interface, after which it will start tracking your phone. However, if your thief has turned off the device, turned off internet connectivity, or wiped your phone, you're completely out of luck, and have no way of tracking it.
Sadly, there is no equivalent for the iPhone, since you can't remotely install apps on iOS.
Whatever You Do, There Are No Guarantees
In the end, there's a good chance you'll never see your stuff again, even if you did install tracking software beforehand (though there are quite a few success stories out there). If the above tricks don't work, you can file a police report and give them your serial number, but there's not much you can do beyond that.
We can't stress this enough: the best way to avoid this situation is to take precautions ahead of time: install software like Prey, LoJack for Laptops, or Find My iPhone. Keep your gear with you at all times. Make sure your doors are locked. The best way to keep your laptop in your hands is to prevent it from falling into others' in the first place. After someone steals it, you're riding on luck.
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200 gram of bread flour
20 gram sugar
½ tsp salt
1 tsp dry yeast
140 ml milk
20 gm butter
Some sugar
1. Put all the dry ingredients like flour, sugar, salt and yeast in the mixing bowl. Mix until combined.
2. Turn on the mixer attached with dough hook. Turn on the mixer and slowly drizzle in the milk. Knead until dough comes together and add in the butter. Continue kneading until the dough is smooth (if the dough is too soft add a bit more flour)
3. Cover and let the dough rest until double in size. Roll out the dough to about ¼" thick and cut into desire shapes. Cover the cut donuts and let it rest again until double in size.
4. Heat up the oil for deep frying. Fry the donuts over medium heat until golden brown on both sides. Remove and drain oil on paper towel.
5. Let it cool down and coat it with sugar.
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Review: Meridian Sooloos Media Core 200 and DSP3200
Wikipedia says minimalism "describes movements in various forms of art and design . . . where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features." At Sound+Vision, we generally preach the exact opposite: a "go big or go home" view toward TVs, speakers, and subwoofers. Why settle for 5.1 and a 42-inch screen when 9.2 and a 100-inch screen would be so much better?
But sometimes a minimal approach can be the best solution, especially when it is done well. After several weeks of living with the Meridian Sooloos Media Core 200 Digital Media System connected to the company's new DSP3200 Digital Active Loudspeakers, I had that exact thought.
Experiencing high-quality audio often requires multiple components: CD transport, preamplifi er, amplifier, and speakers. This configuration has certainly provided a terrific solution for many years, but several technological advancements have recently combined to produce alternatives like this Meridian Sooloos system. The MC200/DSP3200 combo is perhaps the ultimate minimalist high-end music-listening rig: With just these two components, an iPad, and the Internet, you'll have all the tools needed to enjoy amazing sound and a virtually unlimited music library. And the system's networking capability means you can expand it to serve other rooms in your home.
For all intents, this is a third-generation Sooloos system. Like other evolving technology, the actual product has gotten smaller, more streamlined, and more affordable. Whereas the original Sooloos system ($11,600) was made up of three components, the MC200 costs $4,000 and consists of a single, dictionary-size component. At roughly half the price of the company's Control 15 system (read the review here) and resembling a NAS drive, the MC200 is essentially a "headless" Sooloos piece. It offers no onboard controls or CD ripping, but includes 500 gigs of internal storage to hold approximately 1,000 lossless-quality FLAC albums.
The MC200's analog and coaxial digital outputs make it compatible with any audio system. However, when used in an existing Meridian system or with Meridian digital speakers, these outputs are eschewed in favor of the company's proprietary SpeakerLink connection. A LAN port connects the MC200 to your home network. Two USB ports, labeled "Expansion," can be used for connecting a Wi-Fi receiver or a Microsoft Media Center-compatible IR receiver for use with the company's MSR+ controller. (Though I can't imagine what use an IR receiver would be with no video display.)
To eliminate noise in the listening environment, the MC200 incorporates a fanless design, using convection cooling to remain within safe operating temperatures. Because of this, it installs vertically, which certainly adds to the NAS drive appearance. The MC200 can also assimilate itself into an existing Meridian Sooloos system, sharing any other music libraries found on the same network.
As I unboxed the DSP3200 speakers, their quality was apparent before I'd fully removed them. They exude high-end. The DSP3200s weigh 20 pounds each and definitely feel solid. Not only are they packed well for transport, but as soon as you pull back the protective cloth surrounding them, their high-polish fit and finish is immediately noticeable. The cabinet features the classic tapered/pyramid Meridian profile and has a very clean aesthetic that's entirely devoid of connections or seams. While I received the gloss black models, I've seen the gloss white finish in person and can say they are also awfully sexy.


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It's what the customer wants that counts, follow your gut first, markets are conversations, customers don't know what they really want, it's about telling stories, be your own client, etc, etc…
If I grabbed 10 books off of my shelf I could find researched theses on each of the concepts listed above and many more.
At some point, everything old is new again.
I find myself wondering if the "new era" of marketing is quickly becoming the cluttered noise that it is hoping to rise above. The latest fad based on a few case-studies where a different approach proved successful.
It reminds me of similar cycles in food and fashion: carbs are good, carbs are bad, protein only, protein only is bad or ties are wide, ties are narrow, no ties, ties are back, etc…
Is marketing evolving or is it merely moving in a fad like cycle in the same way diets and fashions move in and out of style?
Fad Marketing = Fad Diets = Fashion Trends
Advertising is not [email protected] dead as some would think, word of mouth is not the singular answer and blogs are not the only way to go forward.
For all the new ideas being presented in order to find the front edge of the envelope, it is worth noting that the timeless wisdom of the likes of Peter Drucker, Napoleon Hill and Nelson Rockefeller remain highly effective. Follow the teachings of any of these authors today and you will still find success.
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Chapter 2
The Creation is completed—God rests on the seventh day—The prior spirit creation is explained—Adam and Eve are placed in the Garden of Eden—They are forbidden to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil—Adam names every living creature—Adam and Eve are married by the Lord.
1 Thus the heavens and the aearth were finished, and all the bhost of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had amade; and he brested on the seventh day from all his cwork which he had made.
3 And God blessed the aseventh day, and bsanctified it: because that in it he had crested from all his work which God dcreated and made.
4 ¶ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were acreated, in the day that the bLord God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every aplant of the field bbefore it was in the cearth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a dman to till the eground.
6 But there went up a amist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the Lord God aformed bman of the cdust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the dbreath of life; and eman became a living fsoul.
8 ¶ And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in aEden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the asight, and good for bfood; the ctree of dlife also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of eknowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of aEden to water the garden; and from thence it was bparted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which acompasseth the whole land of bHavilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and athe onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that acompasseth the whole land of bEthiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the agarden of bEden cto dress it and to dkeep it.
16 And the Lord God acommanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest bfreely eat:
17 But of the atree of the bknowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the cday that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely ddie.
18 ¶ And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be aalone; I will make him ban help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto aAdam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the bname thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a awoman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and aflesh of my flesh: she shall be called bWoman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a aman leave his bfather and his mother, and shall ccleave unto his dwife: and they shall be eone flesh.
25 And they were both anaked, the man and his wife, and were not bashamed.


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It's essential to make sure kids have a chance to enjoy physical activities as a way of tackling childhood obesity.
Completing The DailyMile is really an extra pursuit that isn't done in the compulsory PE program. This plan is focused on boosting the emotional and physical health of pupils in schools.
This is becoming incredibly successful and due to the the simplicity of the scheme. It will require roughly under 15 minutes of time to complete the full distance. Being active in an outside space also offers good benefits for kids.
There is no need for children to believe they are limited because everybody who takes part will be inspired to do well.
If you would like to find out more information about this programme and how you can get one for your school, send an enquiry to our local team by completing the form on our website.
The Daily Mile Track is a fairly new project which has been introduced to schools as a way for their pupils to improve and enhance their physical and emotional wellbeing.
It is recommended for pupils to walk or run 1mile per day within their school day. Studies have shown that not only does it improve their physical strength but it also means that when they go back into lessons, they are able to concentrate for longer.
There is no set Daily Mile Track cost because it depends on the area size which you want for a track, the type of surfacing you choose and the preparation work which is required.
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We recommend rubber mulch tracks when the area is currently grass because it is a more cost effective option because we might be able to install it straight over the existing grass.
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As the schools Golden Mile surface has been put in place, research has shown that pupils now have better levels of concentration and behaviour, together with improved physical fitness.
Due to the better levels of concentration during school, children can take in information more productively which makes them far more likely to succeed. It's not just schools that can take part in The Daily Mile, nurseries, pre schools and kindergartens could also join in.
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There are so many benefits of these tracks near me and part of this is because there is absolutely no competition or test related to walking the activity.
It's physical activity intended to boost children's wellbeing and psychological health. Through motivating the youngsters to become physically active, it will bring about much better health advantages.
Simply because of the advanced concentration levels, pupils are better equipped to understand and take notice in educational lessons.
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Think Tank Gallery 's show Dude, Monsters!, a group exhibition curated and arranged by Luke Pelletier and co-curated by Think Tank gallerist Jacob Patterson opened July 12th to a packed crowd of skateboarders, art enthusiasts, and art buyers. We headed down with one of the artist in the show visiting from Perth, Australia Sean Morris for opening night.
Dude, Monsters! was a group show organized by the talented 19 year old dude Luke Pelletier and the guys at Think Tank. They both did a great job.
Large Michael Jackson American Flag by Jacob Patterson.
Young bloods and one dust collector --- Alex Legolvan, Luke Pelletier, Miles Jackson, Bryan Petersen, Sean Morris, and old man Mike Hsiung.


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We'd would love to bring back some culinary souvenirs for one of you but first you'll have to guess where we are. Here's a couple of hints...
The restaurant Matt chose for his birthday is Luke.
Our hotel is named after a president & is on Baronne St.
We'll be toasting our birthdays with martinis at the Bombay Club
This trip will not require a passport.
We'll chose one winner from the comments to this post that contain the name of the correct city & send that person a selection of food gifts from our trip. Please make sure if you are entering this contest to leave your email address in your comment or a way to get it.


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Onto today's quick and easy Christmas Card using Cricut Winter Frolics Shapes Cartridge
1) Cut an 8-1/2" x 11" piece of kraft cardstock in half lengthwise to make cardbase. Use one of the halves and fold that in half.
2) Adhere 4" x 5-1/4" white piece of cardstock to inside.
3) Cut a square of 3" x 3" red cardstock. Cuttlebug a square of 2-3/4" x 2-3/4" of white cardstock using the Snowflake folder and then adhere to red. Add strips of torn white glitter paper for snow to bottom of white section as shown.
4) Cut mouse from Cricut Winter Frolics Shapes Cartridge
at 1-3/4", all layers, as shown and adhere together. Add gems as desired for nose and eye.
5) Adhere mouse to red and white square. Pop dot onto front of card.
6) Stamp sentiment from My Creative Time's Mixed Holiday Sentiments set onto white cardstock using red ink. Back with piece of red cardstock cut at 1" x 3". Add red brads.
Supplies: Cricut Winter Frolics Shapes Cartridge
; red, kraft, pink, brown, patterned pink, green and white cardstock; white glitter cardstock; pink gems; red brads; My Creative Time's Mixed Holiday Sentiments; pop dots.
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Why Support Geothermal reviews the advantages of geothermal power and reasons why it is important to invest in this valuable energy resource including:
·Geothermal power can be produced as a baseload renewable energy resource, meaning it operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week regardless of changing weather, providing a uniquely reliable and continuous source of clean energy. As a baseload power source, geothermal is well suited as a substitute for coal in our utility system.
·Geothermal supports local economic development.
·Geothermal energy is widely available.
·Geothermal energy promotes national security.
The Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo converging in Long Beach bears significance. California was the first U.S. state to build a commercial geothermal site, and the state continues to lead the way for the U.S. geothermal industry. In 2010, geothermal provided 42 percent of California's commercial, in-state renewable electricity generation, and if the Golden State were its own country, it would lead the world in geothermal power production with over 2,500 MW of installed capacity.
The Renewable Energy World Conference & Expo runs through February 16 at the Long Beach Convention Center. On the Expo floor, GEA's booth will provide information on the basics of geothermal energy, current projects, industry challenges and GEA membership and upcoming events. Visitors can take a GEA "passport" to other geothermal booths for a chance to win an Amazon Kindle Fire.
The Expo will also include a Geothermal Track on February 15 and 16. The first day will feature papers and presentations on innovative geothermal power plant systems and technology that increase resource efficiency and offer more dynamic load support to utilities. Presenters include Halley Dickey, TAS Energy; Josh Nordquist, Ormat Technologies; Harvey Wen, Bechtel Power Corp.; Gary Zyhowski, Honeywell; and Mike Ronzello, Pratt & Whitney Power Systems. A second session will highlight geothermal policy and economics, exploring the role of federal and state governments and what industry needs in order to accelerate growth. Speakers include Karl Gawell, Geothermal Energy Association; John McIlveen, Jacob Securities Inc.; and Halley Dickey, TAS Energy.
On Thursday, February 16, a paper-and-presentation session will feature how geothermal energy developers increasingly use waste heat recovery and the Organic Rankine Cycle for increased efficiency. Speakers featured include A. Scott Weber, University of Buffalo; Bruno Vanslambrouck, HOWEST, University College of West Flanders; Joe Lillard, Atlas Copco Mafi-Trench; and Kelsey Walker, TAS Energy.
The Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) is a trade association composed of U.S. companies who support the expanded use of geothermal energy and are developing geothermal resources worldwide for electrical power generation and direct-heat uses. GEA advocates for public policies that will promote the development and utilization of geothermal resources, provides a forum for the industry to discuss issues and problems, encourages research and development to improve geothermal technologies, presents industry views to governmental organizations, provides assistance for the export of geothermal goods and services, compiles statistical data about the geothermal industry, and conducts education and outreach projects.