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Big Tuna Grill
128th Street & Coastal Highway• 410-250-1001 • www.bigtunaOC.com
A locals' and vacationers' favorite alike. Experience culinary delights as well as a visual excursion, dining among authentic nautical artifacts of old ships. Choose an array of entrees from fresh seafood to char-grilled steaks. Enjoy some drinks on our 50 ft. bar while watching our plasma TVs.
Billy's Sub Shop
120th Street, Bayside (Food Lion Shopping Center) • 410-250-1776
Between 139th & 140th Streets, Oceanside • 410-250-1778
Now the best just got better because they deliver fresh dough pizza, subs and shakes to your door and have two locations to serve you better. Washington Magazine wasn't lying when it said Billy's had the best milkshakes and fresh ground beef hamburgers at the beach, and they don't stop there. Fresh dough pizza, cones, shakes, sundaes and more. More cheesesteaks sold than anyone else in Maryland. Also Billy's now accepts MC/Visa.
Breakfast at the Crabcake Factory
120th Street/Beachside, (Serene Hotel) • 410-250-4900
Most people don't know the Crabcake Factory started out as a Breakfast House in 1996 and still serves one of the best and most creative breakfast menus in Ocean City. Try Eastern Shore favorites prepared daily by Chef-Owner John Brooks including Creamed Chipped Beef, Skillets, Omelets and their famous lump crab creations. The World Famous Crabcakes are served all day starting at 8 a.m. and you can have some packed on ice for you while you are eating breakfast. Try Sue's Spicy Bloody Marys to start the day with a kick. Full breakfast menu available for carry-out. Check us out online at www.Crabcake-FactoryUSA.com. See our other listing (Crabcake Factory USA) or our ad in The Dispatch for more info. Open year-round. Call for hours.
Catch 54 Fish House
Rt. 54 Femwick Island, De. 19975 • 302-436-8600
Catch 54 is Fenwick Island's newest premier restaurant! Enjoy the best waterfront views in Southern Delaware while dining on classic beach food. The highly anticipated Catch 54 Restaurant is open for lunch and dinner. Enjoy a beverage at our expansive main bar or our dockside deck bar. Happy Hour served daily from 4 to 6 p.m. featuring drink specials. Dine inside or dockside on some of the freshest seafood, steaks, pastas and other specialities created by chef/owner Matt Healey. Great kid's menu available. Tons of free parking. No reservations. www.catch54.com
138th Street, Bayside Plaza • 410-250-5696
It's a family-owned specialty shop using only the freshest ingredients and offering a huge list of menu selections. A must for lunch and dinner, featuring salads, wonderful sandwiches including the house specialty panini, traditional Italian favorites with their own twists, and imported Italian cheeses, meats, olives and oils. Some of the house favorites include the Italian cold cut, the Chicken Italiano and the meatball sandwich. If you can't find it on the menu, select your favorite Italian meats and cheeses, and they will make it for you on the spot.
Crabcake Factory USA
120th Street & Coastal Highway • 410-250-4900
Voted "Best Crabcakes in Maryland, DC and Virginia," by The Washington Post (July 2004). Full service family restaurant, carry-out and sports bar. Outside seating is available. Open daily at 8 a.m. Other menu selections include prime rib, chicken chesapeake, steamed shrimp, beer battered fish, real philly cheesesteaks, burgers, kids menu and much more. Shipping crabcakes online year-round at www.Crabcake-Factory USA.com or www.GotLump.com. Homemade soups served daily. See other listing (Breakfast House at Crabcake Factory USA) for breakfast specials. Casual dress, full liquor bar, no reservations, year-round.
Greene Turtle-North
116th Street & Coastal Highway • 410-723-2120
Maryland's Favorite Restaurant & Sports Bar! Every seat is great spot to watch your favorite sport with 34 high Definition Plasma & Flat Screen TVs throughout the up & downstairs. Join them weekdays for $4.95 lunch specials or happy hour. Menu includes Kids' meals, raw bar, delicious crab cakes, salads, Certified Angus Beef & more. Popular features: large gameroom, big gift shoppe, nightly drink specials, entertainment with dance floor area. Open 11 a.m.-2 a.m., year-round.
Horizons Ocean Front Restaurant
10100 Coastal Hwy.. in the Clarion Resort Fontainebleau Hotel • 410-524-3535
Romantic Oceanfront dining featuring American and Continental Cuisine. Breakfast is served from 7 a.m – Noon, Lunch 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. and Dinner 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. Horizons is home of the Famous All-You-Can-Eat Prime Rib, Crab Legs and Seafood Buffet and our equally famous All-You-Can-Eat Deluxe Sunday Breakfast Buffet served each Sunday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lenny's Beach Bar & Grill is open daily at 11:30 a.m. Dance to top 40 bands in our Ocean Club Nightclub, open year round. It's the place where the big kids play. Reservations are highly recommended.
House of Welsh, The
1106 Coastal Hwy., Fenwick Island • 1-888-666-0728
Celebrating 107 years of service, The House of Welsh has great food and great prices. Offering a variety of fresh aged steaks, seafood and the best cream of crab soup and crabcakes on the beach! Up to 30% off adults dinner entrees 7 days a week.10 dinner items under $12. Choice chuck hamburgers served with home-made French fries. $3.75, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 7 days a week. Happy hour in the bar all day and all night.
Island Cafe
Bayside Plaza, 138th Street • 410-250-2939
A Florida-style bar and restaurant. Tile, palm trees and tropical birds set the mood. Happy, friendly customers are the atmosphere, particularly at the full-length bar. A great place for lunch, a special place for dinner. Evening menu features 13 of your favorite entrees. Happy hour specials on the bar side. Wide selection of appetizers including delicious, spicy vegetable shrimp soup. House Specialties: lobster tails, stuffed shrimp, crab cakes.
Jimmy's Kitchen
Ocean Bay Plaza, Bayside in Fenwick Island • 302-537-2423
The house of chipped beef serving the best breakfast at the beach. Try our homemade creamed chipped beef prepared fresh daily or sample our other great selections such as French toast, omelettes, or the healthy choice. Come visit our sunny and clean atmosphere located in Fenwick Island. DE. House specialties creamed chipped beef, eggs made to order, French toast, omelettes.
138th Street & Coastal Highway • 410-250-1867
You take the elevator 80 feet skyward and emerge into one of Ocean City's most impressive skyline views and, incidentally, one of the resort's finest restaurants. Breakfast, lunch and dinner menus delightfully ambitious. Prices unexpectedly moderate. Food and view make this a must visit. Adjoining cocktail lounge is inviting and comfortable. Live entertainment. Children's menu. House Specialties: lobster, fresh fish, prime rib.
Fenwick Island • 302-537-4224
A delightful jewel of an Italian restaurant. Atmosphere is brick-classy and the perfect setting for superior Italian dining. You're going to like it here. Servings from appetizer to entree can only be described as robust. Pizzas are heavenly, baked in a wood-fired brick over. You must order Cappellini Ai Gamberi or Linguine Posillipo. Don't ask, just order it. Prices are surprisingly moderate. Wine list more than adequate. Drink a toast to Gabby. House Specialties: frutti di mare, crabmeat bruschetta, shrimp and pesto brick oven pizza.
Rte. 1, Fenwick Island • 302-539-2607
Wow! It's all newly decorated with the same outstanding food, great staff and wonderful atmosphere. You'll be pleasantly surprised by what one of the coast's finest dining establishments has in store for guests. Everything here is a house specialty. There's the memorable steaks, fresh seafood, the famous quahog chowder and the chef's daily specials just to name a few.
Philly's Finest
(Rte. 54 In The Happy Harry's Shopping Center) 5799 Lighthouse Cove, Fenwick Island, DE 19944 • (302) 537-6971
Straight out of Philadelphia, Fenwick Island introduces you to only the finest in steaks, hoagies, sandwiches, burgers, crab cake sandwich, crab critters, cold cuts and much more. With over 20 years of experience, Philly's Finest gives you the Philadelphia taste you have been waiting for. All are welcome to eat-in, take-out, swing by for a menu, or stop in for a chat. We do accept Mastercard and Visa. Whiz on by!!
Tequila Mockingbird
Montego Bay Shopping Center • 410-250-4424
This distinctly Mexican bar and grill is the locals' hangout with excellent food all year-round. The menu suggests anything from quesadillas, burritos, enchiladas to chimichanga, flautas, tacos and fajitas. Daily lunch specials are available, as well as dinner specials for the heartiest of eaters. The suggestion here is their famous fajitas. Happy hour is a treat with reduced prices. House Specialties: seafood enchiladas, Tijuana triple, tuna tacos.
Whiskers Pub
O.C. Square, 120th Street • 410-524-2609
A great saloon restaurant, famous for food and atmosphere. Dining wall is lined with color action photos of the Baltimore Colts. Paneled walls, Victorian lighting, tin ceiling and ceiling fans add to the atmosphere. Bar is complete with tile floor, brass rail and video monitors for your enjoyment. Your kind of place. Lunch/dinner menu beautiful and to the point. Seven dinner entrees nightly. House Specialties: burgers, prime rib, chicken sandwiches.


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Missouri Office of Primary Care and Rural Health
and Missouri Association of Rural Health Clinics proudly present the
5th Annual 2012 Rural Health Conference
May 2, 2012
Holiday Inn Executive Center
2200 I-70 Drive, Southwest
Columbia, Missouri
The Missouri Office of Primary Care and Rural Health is excited to partner with the Missouri Association of Rural Health Clinics to expand the annual Rural Hospitals conference to include Rural Health Clinics!!! This year's Rural Health Conference includes two tracks, one for hospitals and one for clinic management. The theme of the conference is Improving for the Future. The focus of the conference is on improving clinical and financial management; at the forefront of healthcare.
The Conference is going "Green" this year!
Check back periodically as presentations will be uploaded as they become available to the Department of Health and Senior Services.
To learn more about the workshops sessions; Click here for the agenda!
No registration fee to attend; Click here to register and complete confidential Pre-Conference Questionnaire!
Make your own lodging reservations for night of May 1, 2012! (one person per facility stays free on May 1, 2012) Click here to access the Holiday Inn Executive Center, Columbia MO!!!
Please check the website prior to the conference to print information to take to the conference. Information Contacts:
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Lemke Presenation 340B Basics
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RHC Handout
Rural Health Annual Evaluation Report
Growing Our Own
Recruitment – Marcia Dial
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Improving Financial & Operational Outcomes
RHC General Overview 2012
NHSC Presentation
USDA Rural Health
Brock Slabach Legislative Presentation
MO SORH Presentation
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Collaborative Tools in Libraries
From Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
Major Collaborative Tools
- Peer-to-Peer Networks
Success Stories
- Jumpstarting a Project Through Internal Collaboration: Improving Access to Library Collections Presentation by Holly Mercer and Sarah Goodwin Thiel about their experience with successful internal collaboration between disparate departments at the University of Kansas. By assembling a team whose members effectively worked together, the Digital Initiatives program successfully completed a project, integrated it into the existing organizational structure, and helped create an ongoing program. Presented at EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional 2007 Conference in Austin, TX.
- Change at the University of Kansas: Process, Experimentation, and Collaboration (PDF) Research bulletin by Marilu Goodyear, Keith Russell and Kathleen Ames-Oliver. It discusses how leaders at the University of Kansas merged the Libraries and Information Technology into an Information Services department using well-documented strategies for enabling collaboration, group decision making, and mentoring of new leaders. It describes the challenges—and successes—related to making rapid changes in organizational structure, staffing, and services while remaining engaged with users and delivering technology services that were not necessarily tied to organizational boundaries.
Examples and Information
- Bardnard Ref Desk Blogspot blog by and for Barnard Library staff to post about reference desk goings on.
- Memphis Public Library Business and Science Rolodex Wordpress site created for use by the staff of the Business & Sciences Department of the Memphis Public Library & Information Center.
- Reference at Newman Library Wordpress news and tips site by and for staff providing reference services at the Newman Library at Baruch College.
- General Discussion of Internal Communications Wikis/Blogs on the Library 2.0 Ning network
- Another Blog Beast By Kathryn Greenhill at Librarians Matter blog, Nov 2006. Greenhill blogs about why, how and what tools she uses to start an internal library blog.
- Wikis, Blogs and Other Collaborative Tools in Library Services: A Workbook and Reference. Provides information on and examples of collaborative tools
- Corporate Culture, Not Technology, Drives Online Collaboration by Will Kelly GigaOM blog post October 2009
- Study Quantifying Improved Performance From Advanced Collaboration sponsored by Verizon and Cisco
Specific Blog Posts, Articles, and Presentations on Collaborative Tools
- Social Machines by Wade Roush in Technology Review August 2005
- 5 More Notable Social Networking Sites by Robert J. Lackie at the Library Garden blog September 2006
- Wiking the Blog and Walking the Dog: Social Software, Virtual Reality, and Authority Everywhere
- Intranets, Wikis, Blikis, and Collaborative Working
- Collaborative Librarianship blog Web 2.0 category Blog contains posts relating to collaborative tools
- Web 2.0 Collaboration Tools and Libraries Presentation by Lori Reed and Brenda Hough
- Collaborative Tools for Libraries Presentation by Meredith Farkas
Online Surveys
- Creating online surveys: Tips and general how-to information for creating an online survey.
- Step by step guide to making your first online survey using SurveyMonkey (PDF version) or (PPT Version) by Cindy Boeke
- FLICC-FEDLINK Surveys: Analysis and documentation of an online user feedback survey for the Library of Congress's FLICC-FEDLINK division, containing 484 responses. The wiki includes findings, documentation, survey data, and other information, including a 50-page report (PDF) and "Collaborative Surveys - Using Feedback from Stakeholders to Build New Services"(PPT) by Cindy Boeke and others.
- Cii Wiki: An online wiki directory of survey software and survey hosting services
- Instant Instruction Feedback Forms: Instant Instruction Feedback Forms are web-based surveys that are designed to offer librarians a simple way to evaluate their information literacy/bibliographic instruction sessions. These forms are open source software and are available for free download under the GNU General Public License.
Specific Projects using Collaborative Tools
- ANTS: ANimated Tutorial Sharing project by COPPUL This project was designed to enable librarians to share in the development of point-of-need animated tutorials for a multitude of e-products. The project makes use of new Collaborative Information Technology (CIT) via an Open Source Institutional Repository (DSpace), a Wiki, RSS Feeds and Web Pages. This enables participants to (1) identify tutorials for development and (2) keep others up to date on their work. Initially only COPPUL librarians could add content to the Repository; but as of October 2006, any librarian can add content as well as download open source tutorials. It should also be noted that as its list of e-resources for tutorial development is on a Wiki, the list is considered to be a starting point for development. Anyone can add new e-products to the list of tutorials for development. Similarly, other types of library tutorials are welcome. One need only indicate that it exsists on the wiki and ensure that the source code for the tutorial is uploaded into DSpace.
- FOREASt: The Internet East Asian Library This project aims at facilitating the discovery and use of free and open access resources in the field of East Asian studies with web 2.0 technologies. The main site is built on WordPress.com, which includes a blog, static web pages, and RSS feeds, while all the relevant resources are also bookmarked and shared on del.icio.us. The user comments feature in WordPress is facilitating the participation of East Asian studies librarians across North America, especially in terms of suggesting new resources and identifying issues with existing resources. Because FOREASt is hosted and branded in an independent and neutral fashion, librarians have showed more willingness to advertise it on their own institutions' web pages, which is another level of collaboration that helps FOREASt to reach end users.


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Millennials feel less financially independent today than they did two years ago, according to a survey released Thursday by PNC Financial Services. Just 17% of 20-somethings with at least some college education said they feel completely independent financially, down from 23% in 2011.
Furthermore, nearly 60% said they are behind where they thought they'd be.
"Many of my peers suffer from a failure-to-launch syndrome directly related to the surge in unemployment during the Great Recession and slow pace of recovery," Mekael Teshome, economist at The PNC Financial Services Group, said in a statement. "It is not a lack of ambition we are seeing in these data. It is more about a lack of opportunity that has hindered many young adults' progress against their professional and financial objectives."
Despite feeling more dependent on their families, optimism is still high, the survey found, with 60% of less independent respondents saying they'll stand on their own soon. The survey identified a turning point in optimism though, around age 25, when many respondents started to feel the effects of having to pay off debt, start a career and plan their financial future.
As for what defines financial independence, for 78% of respondents being able to pay the bills is the biggest milestone, although just 60% of older millennials (those between 25 and 29) said they've achieved it.


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Look at that packaging, you would almost think this crate contained a special wine but inside were cradled four canned of tomatoes.
Only a small number of these Halley Thirty-One Fifty-Five Tomatoes were grown. This varietal is very prized for its flavor. Then they were hand harvested & canned. Well, we want to share our bounty with you. Leave a comment on this post telling us what you've make with these tomatoes & your email. On Monday the 21st we'll randomly pick a winner. That person will receive a can of the 2008 Reserve & a can of the Fire Roasted Tomatoes plus recipe cards with ideas on how to use them. We can only ship to winners in the US & Canada, sorry.
On to Menu Planning Monday...
We don't have plans to do much of anything new this week. We have friends visiting from San Francisco & want to spend our time visiting with them so we are going for the tried & true.
Pork Souvlaki - A favorite of ours from Kalofagas
Peanut Turkey Burgers with a Broccoli Sesame Salad
Rotisserie Chicken with Grilled Asparagus & Roasted Potatoes
Brats - We picked up three flavors of brats at the Kingfield Farmers Market
Grilled Pizza Party
Chicken Fajitas
What we will have for you during this week are lots of cheese recipes. We hosted Cooking Minnesota at our house this past Saturday & taught everyone how to make mozzarella & ricotta. I made a few appetizers & desserts with the ricotta so I'll be sharing those with you as well as a great fresh chive cheese.
© 2007-2009 Kathy Lewinski


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In the 20th century, Western intellectuals' two most dominant explanations of disparities in economic, educational and other achievements were innate racial differences in ability (in the early decades) and racial discrimination (in the later decades).
In neither era were the intelligentsia receptive to other explanations. In each era, they were convinced that they had the answer — and dismissed and disparaged those who offered other answers.
Differences in mental test scores among different racial and ethnic groups were taken as proof of genetic differences in innate mental ability during the Progressive era in the early 20th century. Progressives regarded the fact that the average IQ test score among whites was higher than the average among blacks as conclusive proof of genetic determinism.
A closer look at mental test data, however, shows that there were not only individual blacks with higher IQs than most whites, but also whole categories of whites who scored at or below the mental test scores of blacks.
Among American soldiers given mental tests during the First World War, for example, white soldiers from Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi scored lower on mental tests than black soldiers from Ohio, Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania.
Among other groups of whites, those with average mental test scores no higher than the average mental test scores among blacks included those in various isolated mountain communities in the United States, those living in the Hebrides Islands off Scotland and those in isolated canal boat communities in Britain.
Looking at achievements in general, people living in geographically isolated environments around the world have long lagged behind the progress of people with a wider cultural universe, regardless of the race of the people in these isolated places. When the Spaniards discovered the Canary Islands in the 15th century, they found people of a Caucasian race living at a stone age level.
Many mountain communities around the world have also been isolated, especially during the centuries before modern transportation and communications.
These mountain communities were often not only isolated from the outside world but also from each other, even when they were not very far apart as the crow flies, but were separated by rugged mountain terrain.
As distinguished French historian Fernand Braudel put it, "Mountain life persistently lagged behind the plain." A pattern of poverty and backwardness could be found from the Appalachian Mountains in the United States to the Rif Mountains of Morocco, the Pindus Mountains of Greece and the mountains and uplands of Ceylon, Taiwan, Albania and Scotland.
Cultural isolation due to geographic factors afflicts not only peoples isolated in mountains or on islands far from the nearest mainland, but also peoples isolated by deserts or in places isolated by a lack of navigable waterways — or even by a lack of animal transport, as was the situation in the Western Hemisphere when Europeans arrived and brought horses that were unknown to the indigenous peoples.
Cultural isolation can also be due to government decisions, as when the governments of 15th century China and 17th century Japan deliberately isolated their peoples from the outside world. At that time, China was the leading nation in the world. But it lost that lead during centuries of isolation.
Sometimes isolation is due to a culture that resists learning from other cultures. The Arab Middle East was once more advanced than Europe but, while Europe learned much from the Middle East, the Arab Middle East has not translated as many books from other languages into Arabic in a thousand years as Spain alone translates into Spanish annually.
Against this background, racial and ethnic leaders around the world who promote a separate cultural "identity" are inflicting a handicap on their own people. Isolation has held back many peoples in many lands, for centuries. But such social and cultural isolation serves the interests of today's ethnic leaders.
They have every incentive to promote a breast-beating isolation. It is a sweet-tasting poison.


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Today's Names to Know: Donovan McNabb, Brett Favre, Norv Turner, Tony Romo, Larry Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Calvin Johnson, Earnest Graham, Vince Young, Tim Tebow, Angels and Indians, Colorado Rockies, Jamie Mottram and More!
UPDATE: New Deadspin CFB column up.I suppose in a season where there is such clarity at the top – the Pats are the league's best and no one else is even close right now – that it makes sense that the rest of the league would be so utterly confusing:
What McNabb controversy? In a classic "STFU" performance and Sunday's top NFL story, McNabb led the Eagles to more than a half-century's worth of points, including 4 TDs, 381 yards and 0 INTs. Given the circumstances, it just might have been the best performance of McNabb's career.
The Packers are 3-0...: And if this is Brett Favre's swan song, it's already a hell of a ride. (And I say that as a constant naysayer for the past few seasons.) Next week: All-time career TD record.
...And the Chargers are 1-2: Wow, this is disappointing. Is it Norv Turner's fault? All I know is that I'm pretty sure that I could be the head coach of this much talent and come up with more inspired performances. I know their early schedule has been tough, but still...
Sunday Night Beat-Down: Cowboys throttle Bears in
The hapless Chiefs beat the Vikings: And that was basically without any production from Larry Johnson, who has been a complete bust this season. Karmic payback from his holdout? Meanwhile, why was Adrian Peterson on the sidelines for the Vikings' final chance to tie or win the game? (He can't block? So what? Give him the freaking ball!)
The Jags beat the Broncos in
Very simple question: How do the Redskins not score from "First and Goal on the 1?"
Fantasy: Earnest Graham, "Add" superstar. I'm quite sure no one saw this coming. Nor did you probably expect Kevin Curtis to be fantasy's leading WR this weekend. (Injuries: How bad is Calvin Johnson's bruised lower back? How bad is Hines Ward's "bone bruise" in his leg?)
MNF Tonight: Saints/Titans. It doesn't lack for "young" star power, featuring Vince Young and Reggie Bush. Could be a showcase game for either/both. I'm betting, like the 2006 Rose Bowl before it, VY comes up bigger in tonight's game.
CFB Weekend Wrap:
MLB Playoff Races: AL. The foursome is all but a done deal: Red Sox, Indians, Angels, Yankees. All that's left to be decided is who has the best record in the league and home-field advantages.
The Angels clinched the AL West on Sunday, their third AL-W title in the last four years. It's going to get even more interesting when they import Alex Rodriguez this winter.
UPDATE: Will Leitch has a must-read story about A-Rod for New York magazine, which suggests not only that the Cubs have the inside track, but that there's a chance his deal could include the chance to buy an ownership stake, which would be HUGE. Here's the link.
The Indians clinched the AL Central on Sunday, too, their first division title since 2001 and one that feels a long time coming, given how close they've come the last few seasons. I think
MLB Playoff Races: NL. From most fans' perspective (and certainly the league's), the only thing that matters is that the Cubs make the playoffs and – hopefully – advance to the World Series. They won't, of course. Even with only a half-dozen or so games to play, the division races are tight enough to pay attention, and the Wild Card remains up in the air -- and hopefully down to the wire.
(You know who's intriguing?
Varsity Dad: If your last name was "Fields," would you name your kid "Wrigley?"
Bonds Watch: Where will Bonds play next year? Any contender – particularly in the
Online Media Inside Baseball: Jamie Mottram joins Yahoo! Sports. Yahoo has made some aggressive hires in the past 12-18 months, but none are as big or important as this one, announced Friday, securing the talents of one of the smartest (not to mention one of the nicest and most-admired) people in the sports-blog universe. For gosh sakes, he was the architect of the Fanhouse, arguably the most successful mainstream online-sports editorial concept of all time. (And second-cleverest... cough!) Jamie will be running Yahoo Sports' blogs and community efforts, and if his impact on things at AOL is any indication, Yahoo Sports will add to its already sizeable momentum. Congrats to "Mr. Irrelevant," and kudos to Yahoo.


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News Flash: Bill Gross thinks baseball players are lazy and fat, and he likes to eat Cracker Jack (which he insists should be written in the plural as "Jacks") for an afternoon snack.
Just one day after Bloomberg reported that Gross lost 14% over four months in the world's largest mutual fund, the tarnished bond investment star meandered his way through an investment outlook disguised as a boys-of-summer baseball essay, which only in the 12th of 13 long paragraphs advises worried fixed-income market players to invest in front-end yields and longer-dated TIPS.
Gross (left), the founder, managing director and co-CIO of PIMCO, wasted no time discussing the performance of his PIMCO Total Return Fund (PTTRX), and instead crafted an essay that used baseball as an extended metaphor to describe capitalism's failure to create credit in the five years since Lehman Brothers crashed.
Morningstar estimates that net outflow for the PIMCO Total Return Fund for August was $7.7 billion, or 2.9% of the $262 billion in assets it held at the end of July, with estimated year-to-date outflows of $23.3 billion, or 8.2% of year-end 2012 assets. Bloomberg puts investment losses suffered by the fund at 14% in just the past four months. During that time, investors redeemed $26.4 billion.
Yet in "Seventh Inning Stretch," Gross spends several paragraphs warming up with thoughts about Cracker Jack as an afternoon snack and modern-day relief pitchers' "pot bellies that would make a sumo wrestler proud." When he finally takes a swing at his true subject, it's not so much an apology for PTTRX's disappointing four months as an explanation of the disease of capitalistic excess, by way of an examination of the historical work of economist Hyman Minsky.
"During a crisis, Minsky's solution was for Big Government to generate substantial fiscal deficits which in turn would stabilize corporate profits, financial asset prices and ultimately the real economy," Gross writes. "In turn, and concurrently, he advocated the growth of Big Bank, by which he meant the ability of a central bank to lower interest rates and reserve requirements in order to stimulate private lending via the monetary channel. In combination, and if large enough, the two could stabilize asset prices and eventually produce an 'old normal' 3%–4% real growth rate in developed and presumably developing economies too."
The problem now, Gross says, is that Minsky couldn't have conceived of the point at which debt, deficits and interest rates would go to such extremes that the creation of credit itself, "which was and remains the heart of capitalism," would be threatened. (And so, too, are credit-dependent funds such as PTTRX threatened by such excess.)
"No longer might the seventh inning stretch lead to a Coke, some Cracker Jacks and the resumption of the old ballgame," Gross writes. "Instead, zero-bound interest rates and debt/GDP ratios in a majority of capitalistic economies would begin to threaten, not heal, the nature of finance and investment in the real economy."


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You'll have to excuse me if I don't think that Brady Quinn was such a terrific acquisition for
If he's such a gamer, Quinn should have been tough enough to take the scrutiny in the green room, rather than scurrying for the Commissioner's secret sobbing room as he slid down the board.
After all, Quinn was more than happy to take advantage of the original NYC invitation to goose his marketability. However, his fragility in the face of Saturday's pressure is ominous foreshadowing for his NFL career.
(The money question: Is Quinn better than the player the Browns would get with their No. 1 overall pick next year, which could be as high as Top 5? The Cowboys will get to find out.)
However, I WILL join in the chorus that recognizes that the Pats acquiring Randy Moss is the most monumental NFL acquisition of the year – and probably the decade (eclipsing T.O. to the Eagles or Cowboys).
As I heard from several emailers on Sunday: The only question for the upcoming NFL season is which NFC team will be losing to the Patriots in the Super Bowl next February. Totally agreed. (And I'm no Pats fan.)
Early pick for NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year: Adrian Peterson. (Runners-up, in order: Calvin Johnson, Ted Ginn, Anthony Gonzalez)
Early pick for NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year: Reggie Nelson. (Runners-up, in order: Jamaal Anderson, Darrelle Revis, Marcus Thomas)
Heat swept out of playoffs by Bulls: There will be no "Re-Heat." Ah, well. Can't pick 'em all correctly. Miami looks like a one-hit wonder; Chicago looks like a power for years.
Warriors go up 3-1 on Mavericks: This is the greatest thing that could ever happen to the NBA this season. It's not just an 8-seed on the cusp of beating a 1-seed in a 7-game playoff format for the first time in NBA history; it's that THIS particular 8-seed is so fun to watch, along with such a bunch of crazy-ass backstories.
By the way, the Warriors' celebrity fan is Jessica Alba, trumping any other team's celebrity fan-hottie. Alba makes Eva Longoria look fugly.
(My picking the Heat to repeat as champs – d'oh! – is mitigated by my pick of the Warriors to beat the Mavericks. Go
The Lakers are finished: Down 3-1 heading back to
Jeter defends Torre, even after the Yankees dropped to 9-14 this spring after yesterday's 7-4 loss to the Red Sox (NY's 5th loss to
But should the Boss fire Torre? This start isn't Torre's fault, and I'm not sure if firing the manager won't do more harm than good in this particular case. I wouldn't do it. Yet. If the Boss does fire Torre, I fully expect to see him on ESPN for the rest of the season before taking over Terry Francona's job in Boston on December 1.
(By the way: I'm no Red Sox fan, but I love the new "This is SportsCenter" ad with David Ortiz wearing the Yankees cap. Whoever plays the Red Sox mascot gets an "A" for comedic timing.)
MLB Stud:
Early contender for Sportsman of the Year, if you define it as the most defining person in sports of the year: Kirk Radomski. (What: You thought I'd say "Brady Quinn?")
Final NFL Draft note:
(Apparently, the Ravens were hot for the slip-sliding Quinn, but couldn't out-maneuver the Browns for him. Instead, they can enjoy the player who beat out Quinn for the Heisman AND keep their 1st-round pick in '08.)
As for the player most often paired with Troy Smith, BCS MVP and Florida QB Chris Leak went undrafted and signed with the Bears, where he will compete behind Florida QB Rex Grossman.
(By the way, Florida led the draft with the most picks: 9. Any guess as to the team that came in second to the Gators? If you said "Ohio State," you get it. If you said "Ohio State...again," you REALLY get it.)
Mr. Irrelevant? Ranzee Robinson, a CB from
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - It took 150 years, but a Pennsylvania newspaper said Thursday it should have recognized the greatness of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at the time it was delivered.
The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, about 35 miles northeast of Gettysburg, retracted a dismissive editorial penned by its Civil War-era predecessor, The Harrisburg Patriot & Union.
The president's speech is now considered a triumph of American oratory.
The retraction, which echoes Lincoln's now-familiar language, said the newspaper's November 1863 coverage was wrong when it described the speech as "silly remarks" that deserved a "veil of oblivion."
The paper now says it regrets the error of not seeing its "momentous importance, timeless eloquence and lasting significance."
"By today's words alone, we cannot exalt, we cannot hallow, we cannot venerate this sacred text, for a grateful nation long ago came to view those words with reverence, without guidance from this chagrined member of the mainstream media," the paper wrote, echoing the words of the address.
Separately, the paper also recounted how it covered the dedication of the national cemetery (http://bit.ly/1aVGGLS ), nearly five months after the pivotal battle in which federal forces repelled a Confederate Army advance from Virginia into Pennsylvania. More than 3,500 Union soldiers killed in the battle are buried there.
During the Civil War, the Patriot & Union was a Democratic newspaper that was staunchly opposed to Lincoln.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
This One's for the Girls
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Alright ladies, it's OUR turn.
That's right: it's time to turn the tables on all those chauvinistic guys who order the boob or butt cakes, rendering the female form as nothing more than an object - and an edible one at that! It's time to ogle the MALE form in cake for once, and show them how it feels! You heard me, gentlemen: prepare... to be objectified!! [rubbing hands together] Heheheh. This is gonna be awesome.
Ok, let's start the show!
First up, ladies, check out this sexy little...
["Urp"ing noise]
Sorry, sorry. Uh, yeah, Julie B.? This one's really not doing anything for me. In fact, the neck hump area is kind of grossing me out.
Not to worry, though; there's more where that came from. Next!
Um, Donna B., not that I don't appreciate the liberal use of painted-on under-arm hair (and other hair which I was kind enough to cover - you're welcome) and the whole "good luck on your wedding night" sentiment, but again, this is really having more of the opposite effect on me. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it looks like the chest of a pasty-white prepubescent.
Ohhhkay. Now I just creeped myself out, looking at this. [averting eyes] Next! NEXT!!
Whoa! I think we just went to the other extreme; this guys looks to be about 70. And is it just me, or does he have a bunch of raisins on his chest? That, or his chest hair has gone all matted and clumpy. [gagging] Rapidly. Losing. Appetite.
By the way, Amanda E., not that I'm complaining, but I don't think he has any nipples. Again, NOT complaining. Really. Put those raisins down, woman!
Oh, look: Tam & Annabel found Mr. Heard-it-through-the-grapevine's bottom half, and it begs the question...
Is acupuncture ever a good package deal? Just wondering.
Ok, this is ridiculous. I don't feel like we've objectified any guys at all with these cakes! Sarah W., you're our last hope. Bring it, sistah.
What this headless, neckless, armless, and legless torso lacks in limbs it certainly makes up for with day-glo orange streakiness. Not to mention that it exudes a kind of sinister intelligence: I swear it's looking at me.
In fact, here's a hypothetical for y'all: You get up in the middle of the night, and turn suddenly to find this cake hopping along behind you. Do you:
a) scream b) laugh c) grab a fork or d) all of the above?
[sigh] Well, ladies, I'm sorry: our quest to objectify men using cakes has failed. But on the bright side, we'll always have Tom Selleck - right?
142 comments | Post a Comment
- Miranda said...
O vile. O vile. O vile.
My partner will be very angry with Cake Wrecks now because my sexual motivation has entirely vanished!
Bring back the boobies; I like em better! - March 5, 2009 at 9:32 AM
That last one looks like E.T.
- March 5, 2009 at 9:32 AM
It's the 8 (only 8??) candles on the yellow pants that are worrying me!
I'm not sure which is the best wreck, they're all, um, unappetising. Good for a giggle though, which is pretty much all the male form is good for generally ;) Oh wait.... I have 3 kids! - March 5, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Oh god, these a kind of terrifying! But where are those quintessential bachelorette party cakes?!
And I thought I should warn you... you put "your welcome" instead of "you're welcome". I hate to sound picky, but you know how it goes for grammar on this site.... - March 5, 2009 at 9:36 AM
- Ace said...
Ew. I have no other words.
Except for the last cake, I'd have to say the answer is definitely d. - March 5, 2009 at 9:37 AM
- Morgan said...
good god, make it stop.
I think this says something about the difference between hot guys and hot girls. Hot girl = Boobs? Check. Butt? Check. Done.
Hot guy = so many things. Underdefined muscles? Eurgh. Overdefined muscles? Disgusting. Broad shoulders, great; broad neck gross. Men are a lot harder to get right.
That's my excuse, anyway. - March 5, 2009 at 9:38 AM
*gag* Truly horrific. Tom's definitely the best of the bunch!
(btw, it's "you're welcome", and in that case, it's "effect", not "affect"...just FYI). - March 5, 2009 at 9:38 AM
- HorribleLicensePlates said...
Was that bulge in the yellow shorts necessary? I just puked a little (this was between laughing fits, however)
- March 5, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- Baking and Mistaking said...
Oh my god.
How could anyone ever eat one of those?? - March 5, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- Jen said...
The nipples on that last cake are beyond disturbing. Do you think the decorator thought it looked good? Like, did they look at it and think "Yeah, those nipples don't look at all the rivets on 501 jeans!"
- March 5, 2009 at 9:41 AM
I wouldn't have even known what number three was if it hadn't been in this post of "manly" torsos and nether regions.
EW. Yuck.
Bring back the boobies. - March 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM
I wouldn't/couldn't eat those if you paid me. Oh gross!
- March 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- A.M.Bush said...
omg gross, these are like silent hill
- March 5, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Kara said...
The first one just looks like multiple breasts shoved together like biscuits being baked in a sheet pan.
- March 5, 2009 at 9:49 AM
I'm thinking that after getting his cake, Levon, might actually get back in the closet.
w/v mings - manly things, "who in God's name baked those mings?" - March 5, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Tabitha (From Single to Married) said...
oh my goodness! Those are awesome! So funny, if not a little bit disgusting (and thanks for covering up the hairy parts - I don't think I could have handled it first thing in the morning).
- March 5, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Gives a whole new meaning to the expression "Eat my shorts". Um, isn't "Eamon" a boy's name? And I always thought "Levon" was a boyish name as well. Hmmm.
Hard to believe anyone thought ANY of these cakes was a good idea, either as a concept or in actuality. Body hair (even fake) on a cake.....eeeeeeeeeeeewww. - March 5, 2009 at 9:53 AM
- Unknown said...
Um - #3 - is it channeling Ricardo Montalban as 'Khan' in Trek II?
eew - these are all splendiforously bad. - March 5, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Word verification=sancati.
I think they violated the sancati of the male form for me. - March 5, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- Vanessa said...
Are the nipples on the torso cake made out of pickles?????
Eeewww...... - March 5, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- Cindy in GA said...
EW! Ew! EEEWWWWW!!!! These are so darn gross. I'm thinking they just need to stop trying so hard and just have a nice piece of (NORMAL-looking) cake if they want it and fuhgeddabout the whole Make-it-look-human aspect. Besides, all cake should be chocolate, anyway, right? :o)
- March 5, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- Sylvia said...
Oh my word. I am speechless. Best Cakewrecks EVER. Or worst, iyswim.
I can't stop laughing. - March 5, 2009 at 10:05 AM
I want a nipple piece! I want a nipple piece!
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com) - March 5, 2009 at 10:07 AM
- Nat said...
I thought men had heads....??
- March 5, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- Elena said...
Wedding night nipples are pennies?????
- March 5, 2009 at 10:14 AM
- JAMIE'S CREW said...
People really paid money for these? Yuck. #3 looks more like a geographical map to me.
- March 5, 2009 at 10:15 AM
The thing is that the nipples always look wrong but if you leave them off it looks worse. The solution to that of course is to not make a cake of a torso. And if that last one came after me, I'd scream and grab a fork to stab its eyes (or nipples) out.
- March 5, 2009 at 10:19 AM
- Rosemary said...
When the third one scrolled into view, "gravesite" flashed through my mind. *Doubly* unappealing now.
As for the wedding night cake...like a Ken doll, it appears NOT to be anatomically correct, since there's nothing under that zipper. Which--given the bumpy one below it--is fine by me, thanks. - March 5, 2009 at 10:20 AM
- ilovebabyquilts said...
Ok, that last one is a dahlek.
These are the most horrifying of all of the cakes I've seen here so far. - March 5, 2009 at 10:21 AM
- katie@tulsadetails said...
I am not sure if I have ever seen anything quite as inedible as these!!!
- March 5, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Wow..just..um...wow. I'm a little nauseous. The men lounging on questionable polar bear rugs was much better. This post was truly urp-tastic.
- March 5, 2009 at 10:22 AM
- kerry said...
oh, i have such a stomach ache now. i'm not sure if it's from laughing so hard or from the complete grotesqueness of the cakes.
- March 5, 2009 at 10:24 AM
- BellaLovesPink said...
Laugh out loud FUNNY! My sides hurt.
- March 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM
thanks, sandy, that was also bugging me.
also, i really think the second one needs the little white box replaced, because i imagine it's pretty hilarious. - March 5, 2009 at 10:30 AM
The last cake looks like it went for the ol' QT sunless tanner . . .
- March 5, 2009 at 10:33 AM
- amyd said...
So disturbing. What on earth could be considered sexy about a torso without a head?
- March 5, 2009 at 10:34 AM
the one with the bulge in the boxer shorts...
isn't eamon a boy's name? and count the candles, he's 8! - March 5, 2009 at 10:34 AM
- Amy Ellen said...
My gosh those are awful. I have never liked the stupid woman cakes, although yes I was coerced into making one, but these are just scary. ewwwwwwwwww
- March 5, 2009 at 10:36 AM
- kikibibi said...
why does that last one have olives for nipples?
eww, can't believe i just typed olives and nipples in the same sentence. twice. - March 5, 2009 at 10:40 AM
Oh noes! Cadaver cakes! I really hope this doesn't turn into some kinda "cakes for teh ladies" trend at any bakery near me.
Ick!!! - March 5, 2009 at 10:47 AM
- Unknown said...
Is it just me or does cake number three look like a rotting corpse?
- March 5, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- Ginger said...
I'm not gonna lie, the shorts cake made laugh.
- March 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM
- D.B. Echo said...
Well, at least they're not feet!
- March 5, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- Sarah Glova said...
awful. just awful. why are there only 8 candles on the yellow pants cake... not good, not good.
- March 5, 2009 at 10:56 AM
- Unknown said...
GAG. ME. OUT. I have to say I agree with you, my appetite just kind of flew out the window- those were so creepy!!! ALL OF THEM!
- March 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM
WOW! These are ALL a whole lotta nasty. Body hair, or any hair for that matter, on a cake is just plain gross. Being a fan of CSI type shows, torsos (whether they're cake or otherwise) are just not something I wanna eat! The "nipples" are just plain disturbing. And the last one should be the poster child for anti-self tanners! EWWWWW...
- March 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM
- Etiquette Bitch said...
ugh, ugh, ugh. gross and hilarious at the same time.
regarding Eamon's cake, I can't help but wonder if the cake is supposed to be a, uh, *rendition* of Eamon? - March 5, 2009 at 11:02 AM
- Camille said...
Oh my gosh! I love this post the most.
- March 5, 2009 at 11:08 AM
- Robin said...
I'm most disturbed by what appears to be a melenoma on the left hand side of the bunch of grapes/hairy chest/old man/so many men ... cake.
It's nice to know that those with skin diseases aren't discriminated against in the world of dismembered torso cakes. - March 5, 2009 at 11:10 AM
I feel SO traumatized!
- March 5, 2009 at 11:11 AM
- Winona said...
This reminds me of the Naughty Baker in Madison, Wisconsin - definitely not wrecky and definitely tongue-in-cheek...
- March 5, 2009 at 11:17 AM
- Amy Lee said...
2 words
eye bleach - March 5, 2009 at 11:27 AM
I... erm... um... *urp*
- March 5, 2009 at 11:27 AM
- Dani said...
I think the guy who was the moddel for the yellow shorts danced at my friends bachlorette (sp?) party and let me tell ya cutting off his face is a good thing. Cutting off his whole torso seems a bit much though.
- March 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- Marie said...
B-day cakes for cannibals?
- March 5, 2009 at 11:54 AM
- Unknown said...
My question is... why is Eamon getting an acupuncture penis cake? (Of course, Eamon is the name of my cousin's 2 yr old son... so I'm picturing little mischievious Eamon diving into that cake... it's a bit disturbing)
- March 5, 2009 at 11:57 AM
- Galadriel said...
#3 looks like (a scaled down version of) a BMX bike track near me. I really can't see anything else in that photo. It's a couple of dirt dunes and other terrain. Yup.
- March 5, 2009 at 11:58 AM
- Viewtiful_Justin said...
Amazing and wonderful. I laughed so hard I shot milk out my nose. And...the last time I drank milk was 6 last night.
- March 5, 2009 at 12:03 PM
- Unknown said...
Okay, I'm so very, very disturbed...and confused with the shorts cake. Is Eamon a BOY??
- March 5, 2009 at 12:08 PM
- Unknown said...
UM....well, the acupuncture "package" is of questionable origin. I think it's wearing a codpiece. LOL
And the armless, legless torso? Looks to be taken off a package of underwear.
~AmyB - March 5, 2009 at 12:10 PM
- Lisa Chin said...
Ugh, I'm feeling sick. The last cake looks like ET's cousin!
- March 5, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- Christa said...
I was reading and then I looked at the next picture and I said " Oh my God are those freakin raisin?!" How freakin gross...raisins on a cake?! as chest hair?! Oh and thank you very very much for covering those extra curly painted on hairs...I'm half way laughing and crying because I don't know what to say! It's just so WRONG!!! - March 5, 2009 at 12:15 PM
- Rachel said...
Clearly cake #2 was made for a Twilight fan. I mean, the extreme paleness and complete lack of muscles??? Who else could it be but Edward Cullen?
- March 5, 2009 at 12:16 PM
- Onyx said...
I just want to thank you for providing a funny in my day! I teach junuior high and at lunch everyday I come here for smile!
- March 5, 2009 at 12:20 PM
I was laughing and gagging at the same time with these cakes. So wrong...
I have to wonder, who gets the bulge on the yellow cake? - March 5, 2009 at 12:28 PM
- The Ferber Family said...
you know... with the right kind of airbrushing (yes, i said it) you could almost make that first one into a passable Plo Kloon cake... google it ladies.
- March 5, 2009 at 12:31 PM
- Robert said...
* sigh * I had such hope for this posting, but these are so much worse than even the Tom Selleck cakes!
It kinda makes me wonder how these would have turned out if they were made as cupcake cakes... - March 5, 2009 at 12:36 PM
i honestly believe that those are the creepiest cakes i've ever seen on this site.
- March 5, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Sister Pottymouth said...
Bwaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha! You made my whole morning. I'll be laughing all day. (And using eye bleach.)
- March 5, 2009 at 12:44 PM
- Ashley said...
Ahahaha! I love the last one. And yes...yes it does appear to be staring at me. But I would totally grab a fork and chow down on it if it appeared in my house. Looks like a lot of icing. Gotta love that icing.
- March 5, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Thank Jen, now I'm going to have nightmares about a headless cake hobbling after me down dark corridors.
- March 5, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- Debbi said...
Nope. No words. I am rendered speechless. And that has *NEVER* happened before.
- March 5, 2009 at 12:54 PM
- sidewalk driver said...
What is it called when the kitchen trashcan is filled with 30 plates of untouched pieces of one of these cakes? A crime scene?
Word verification is "excreime"--these are excreimely horrible? These made me excreime? Argh! I think I'm going to excreime!! - March 5, 2009 at 1:00 PM
I think Eamon is really 9. If you look closely, (I know, I know), there is what looks like a candle divot on the "cupcake". Maybe it marks 9 years since Eamon came out of the closet?
- March 5, 2009 at 1:02 PM
- VembaTsith said...
OMG! the first cake is clearly Weight Watcher's Hungry, shaved.
- March 5, 2009 at 1:02 PM
Thank you for editing!!! No one really wanted to see the extra hair.
- March 5, 2009 at 1:04 PM
Pubic hair (real or decorative of any variety) is simply unacceptable on ANY cake! But it made me spit out my coffee laughing about it! BUWHAHAHA!!1
- March 5, 2009 at 1:07 PM
ooh, i'll take a piece with armpit hair! *grabs dental floss in preparation*
- March 5, 2009 at 1:09 PM
#3 is clearly a topography map of the beautiful foothills of North Carolina... really.
WF- rechi
"Excuse me while I rechi from looking at these cakes" - March 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM
- Andrew said...
This just proves again that our bodies are hideous. Even in their "idealized" forms, we just don't look like something people want to ogle.
- March 5, 2009 at 1:22 PM
Oh. My. I've seen crime scene photographs that look distressingly like these cakes...Jeffery Dahmer is coming to mind right now. I know I want my cake to make me think of cannibalistic serial killers...yummy maimed torso.
- March 5, 2009 at 1:44 PM
- the ginabean said...
the nipples--oh! the nipples!
ick, ick, ICK!
these cakes make you appreciate the REAL male figure, hey?
there. men have been objectified in my mind...in SPITE of these cakes.
oh, and the boxer briefs/acupuncture one? NAST!
i just threw up in my mouth. a little bit more with each cake. lunch is SO over - March 5, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Cake #3 - remember those little black scarabs in The Mummy -- Aaaugh! 'Death is only the beginning...'
WV: Muslyzat -- Muslyzat is deeesgusting! - March 5, 2009 at 1:48 PM
- Jen said...
The 'Eamon' cake was for an Australian Olympic swimmer, guys, so yep, he's a boy! He was declared the "face" of some underwear brand, so at a store opening the company had this cake made.
Obviously, none of that makes it any less hilarious.
Oh, and @Viewtiful Justin: you gave me a literal LOL with your comment - thanks.
I'm also laughing at all you WOMEN telling me to bring the boobies back. You just stay tuned, ladies... - March 5, 2009 at 1:48 PM
- ErinGoBarnCurlies said...
That last one kinda reminds me of that old joke..
What do you call a man with no arms, no legs, no head and no torso?
Dick. - March 5, 2009 at 1:50 PM
- Jenn said...
Why no arms anywhere?
- March 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- Mella said...
The one pale body cake looks really dead
- March 5, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Gag!!!!!!!!!! :O
See, women's bodies in cake are just sooo much easier - slap some icing on a 1/2 round cake out of a soccer ball mold & wala! boobies and/or butt! LOL. Men's bodies, it seems, are made from those cupcake cake molds you get at Wal-Mart. :P
Oh, and thanks so much for the "cake torso sneaking up on you in the dark" imagery, Jen. No, really. - March 5, 2009 at 2:17 PM
- WM said...
GACK!!!UCK, UCK, UCK (Kitty upchucking noises)
- March 5, 2009 at 2:57 PM
- Spinner said...
This is hands down the worst assemblage of Wrecks ever. I applaud your hardiness in being able to hold off upchucking long enough to actually post the damned things.
- March 5, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Oh, dear sweet baby Jesus in the manger! There are no words! Now, pardon me while I go pluck out my eyes with a pickle fork. Thanks for the memories, Cake Wrecks!
- March 5, 2009 at 3:57 PM
- Angela at Box of Unicorns said...
Oh... oh my word. I can honestly say none of the other cakes I've seen on this blog have grossed me out to the extent that these did. What the hell?
- March 5, 2009 at 4:01 PM
After looking at it twice, you know what I think the last one looks like? n angry giant squid in a red miniskirt. Can anyone else see this?
- March 5, 2009 at 4:07 PM
Ow! Ow! Ow! My poor eyes. I'll start reading your blog again when I get out of all the therapy I'm going to need after seeing these wrecks. Good thing men don't actually "look" like that... although if they did, it would probably solve some of the global over-population problems. Yikes!
- March 5, 2009 at 4:11 PM
- AnnaSpringer said...
More torso jokes:
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in a swimming pool?
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in a hole?
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs next to a hole?
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs hanging on a wall?
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs and no tongue hanging on a wall?
Tasteless Art.
HEEHEEHEE. - March 5, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Regarding that yellow-shorts cake: How many people, upon seeing it, caught themselves saying, "I'd like a piece of THAT!"
Yeah. Didn't think so.
I mean really... How *does* one go about cutting that particular bulge? - March 5, 2009 at 4:49 PM
- ksaldria said...
Oh good gods. o.o I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. I'll take the Tom Selleck cake over this crap any day.
- March 5, 2009 at 4:55 PM
so the bulge in the yellow pants reminds me of dodgeball when ben stiller's character pumps himself up for his wife's character to come in the room.. and then deflats it when she leaves...
- March 5, 2009 at 5:03 PM
Wow - hard to believe these were done by pros. Makes the one torso cake I was forced to decorate several years ago look attractive by comparison, and I'm just a home baker.
The torso cake I was asked for was Stone Cold Steve Austin -- http://www.slycreations.com/cakes/41ab.jpg
Stick not worth objectifying, but better than the flaming orange headless torso! - March 5, 2009 at 5:20 PM
- Scritzy said...
Oh dear heaven.
I seriously will not be able to scrape those images off my brain.
And are all those names on the, um, corpse cake supposed to be Levon's boyfriends? All the guys I've loved before?
Gad. Poor Levon. With friends like those ... - March 5, 2009 at 5:48 PM
- Pie said...
The last cake looks like it would hop after me claiming "It's merely a flesh wound!"
- March 5, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Even more torso jokes:
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in the leaves?
What do you call 2 men with no arms and no legs on either side of a window?
Curt and Rod
What do you call a man with no arms and no legs in from of the door?
Matt - March 5, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Oh good Lord, I don't think I could ever eat a cake with nipples. What would you do if you got a nip piece? Scrape it off? Eat it? It makes me a little queasy just thinking about it.
Steph in CA - March 5, 2009 at 6:14 PM
- punxxi said...
what i find veryyy interesting is tha mr yellow boxers( next to last)
is for eamon, another guy! - March 5, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Er...are those four sparklers on Eamon's cake? Maybe those stand for decades, and the candles for years--in which case Eamon is 48. Which is a lot better than 8.
(Or maybe the sparklers are there to set off fire alarms so that no one has to see the actual cake at the party...)
And I think that first one is a loaf pan cake...similar to a CCC, only...er...bigger. - March 5, 2009 at 7:32 PM
- Coco Cake Land said...
DEEPLY DEEPLY DISTURBING!!! i was asked recently to make cupcakes of the male sexual organ kind. i had to say "no... but i can make some rated G pretty little cupcakes!"
- March 5, 2009 at 7:48 PM
- amanda said...
at first I read left to right instead of pec to pec and was puzzled over "so so many little men time"
- March 5, 2009 at 7:52 PM
- Unknown said...
My daughter thought the first one looked like a spider!!!!
- March 5, 2009 at 7:57 PM
- ♥ Angela said...
After seeing that, I don't mind so much being objectified by a cake anymore.
- March 5, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Ok, I see naked bodies every day at work. And NONE of them have ever looked as bad as these cakes.
- March 5, 2009 at 9:49 PM
- Rozi said...
I was in the middle of having breakfast when I was looking at this posting, and it literally lost my appetite. Well, that's a good way for diet control.
- March 5, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Are you sure the third cake is a torso? Because I'm pretty sure it's balls.
Just sayin'. - March 5, 2009 at 10:54 PM
- R2P2 said...
WHY would anyone want a cake of body parts?! I can kind of understand a goofy bachelorette cake MAYBE, but ultimately they're all just CREEPY!!!
it almost scares me how you never run out of material for this blog! haha But ultimately, it really just makes me happy. - March 5, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Was that a twinkie in the yellow shorts
- March 5, 2009 at 11:51 PM
- Epiphany said...
Hehe...my 2 year old insisted on seeing the cakes & exclaimed..."eyes! eyes!" when he saw the torsos.
Not sure if he meant: "Argh! My eyes!" or "Oh my - those cakes are so wrecktastic that the mishappen nipples look like eyes!" but either way I think he was right. - March 6, 2009 at 12:05 AM
I guess the only thing worse would be to have a male torso made out of the dreaded cupcake cake design... can't get any lumpier then that!
- March 6, 2009 at 12:11 AM
- Teri said...
Hahahahahahahahah, hahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahah, hahahahahahahahahahahah. Whew. Ha,Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah. Hum. What a hilarious delivery in whipping us through those cakes. Priceless. Thank you!
- March 6, 2009 at 2:52 AM
- Kei said...
LOL! My 4-year-old just looked over my shoulder at the third one and said "is that an elephant, Mummy?" I said yes! :-D
Kei - March 6, 2009 at 7:21 AM
- bigSIS said...
I was laughing so hard that my son thought there was something wrong. I have to share this one! - March 6, 2009 at 8:11 AM
- FreedomFirst said...
You forgot to include (d)Bash it into a squashed mess with the nearest heavy object, and get out the Shop Vac.
- March 6, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Those are all. so. gross.
About the last wreck, my 3-yo son saw it and cracked up, saying "It's an alien apple!" - March 6, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Scream & grab the fork, the better to defend myself. Somewhere there's a really evil baker who knows where I live; I will need all the cutlery I can get my hands on! And possibly a flame thrower. & A change of address.
- March 6, 2009 at 10:11 AM
i want to be invited to these male-torso-cake birthdays/bachelorette parties/whatever. just to see what happens when it's time for someone to eat a piece with a nipple on it...or hair...or crotch bulge.
would they pick the nipple off, or eat it? oh man, inquiring minds want to know - March 6, 2009 at 12:08 PM
We've always known that porn is more of a dude turn-on than a gal thing.
Now we have conclusive proof that the same holds true for cakewrecks. I might even be able to stick to a diet if confronted by these disasterpieces.
Science takes another great leap forward! - March 6, 2009 at 12:39 PM
hahaha! reminds me of the family guy episode where peter went to pick out a cake for stewie's birthday and said something about an Al Roker cake with Hershey Kiss nipples....hahaha
- March 6, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- Tatersmama said...
For my 50th, a friends mother made me a real MAN cake. Gorgeous guy, with a fig leaf covered in fruit and when the leaf and fruit were removed.... OH MY! Real anatomically correct man-bits.
Unfortunately, it was Tom Cruise when I had requested Tom Selleck... and the manly bits were dark chocolate.
I should have asked for Seal I think.
Or a frilly toilet paper doll cake. - March 6, 2009 at 6:37 PM
- Unknown said...
What's under the cake shorts. You don't want to know. You complain about lack of realism, but be careful about what you wish for.
see Bachelorette cupcakes at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/debbiedoescakesnet/2900411468/ - March 6, 2009 at 7:05 PM
- Unknown said...
Do you really want to know what is under those shorts? Do you really want better realism in these cakes?
Be careful what you ask for.
See Bachelorette cupcakes at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/debbiedoescakesnet/2900411468/ - March 6, 2009 at 7:06 PM
It weirds me out that the arms are as wide as the chest on the first one.
- March 6, 2009 at 7:35 PM
- NancyDaQ said...
Another great post! I laugh at your posts every day.
I've nominated you for an award on my blog. - March 6, 2009 at 9:06 PM
- Euan said...
That last torso with the crazy nipples... it reminds me of Terry Gilliam's bizarre animated characters on Monty Python. I'd almost say it's a tribute!
-Euan - March 7, 2009 at 11:30 AM
- IrreverendAmy said...
Jen, I think you've shocked a couple of your readers with this incontrovertible evidence that some men like to look at naked male torsos.* Innocence lost, all due to Cake Wrecks.
BTW, my word verification is mitypit. Hail the mitypit! Let's portray it on a cake, with its mity mitypit hair!
And even better: I used an unacceptable HTML tag, so had to remove it and enter another WV, and it was angsts! That one is WAY too easy to use in a Cake Wrecks-related sentence!
*Or used to. These cakes qualify as aversion therapy. - March 7, 2009 at 12:53 PM
- Twocans said...
Ok, these did abolutely NOTHING for me!! lol
- March 7, 2009 at 4:45 PM
- Shannon said...
Well, crap. That last one was freaky. Screw the fork, I'd tear it up with my bare hands!!!
- March 9, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Your writing style is HILARIOUS!! As if the cakes weren't funny enough!
- March 12, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- craftywitch said...
Thought this site might cheer you up LOL..... look at the cakes down the left side, you'll see ONE, yes, just ONE of a decent man cake. :) http://www.partypop.com/Vendors/4131577.htm
- March 12, 2009 at 4:53 PM
- Nicholas Piasecki said...
Ha! I work for the company that the last cake was at. (We're an underwear company, Skiviez, and it was the boss's birthday.) He seemed to really like the cake.
I think the instructions were "underwear cake," so I was a bit surprised/appalled that the baker elected to make it, um, so vertical.
Trust me, an even more horrifying sight was coming in the Monday after the party and seeing that someone had left this half hacked-into torso sitting on the warehouse sorting table! - March 15, 2009 at 1:30 AM
You know what's possibly the craziest part? The 'Happy Birthday Eamon' cake looks like it was the birthday cake for Eamon Sullivan (Australian Olympic gold medallist swimmer). He's the face of Davenport along with Stephanie Rice, and those daks sure do appear to say 'Davenport' on the waistband...
You'd think that being all rich and famous and shit, that they'd probably think to give him a cake less wrecky!! - March 16, 2009 at 5:29 AM
Seriously, this post should probably have been called "This One's For the Boys." I'd guess the minority of those cakes were made for women.
- February 19, 2010 at 9:51 AM
Oh, my... does the last one have life savers for nipples?
- May 2, 2010 at 11:49 AM
- glenricksphotography said...
Do any of you guys every watch cake boss. They make some amazing cakes on that show. Absolutely amazing
- September 7, 2010 at 12:39 PM
[SCREAMS!] Eeeeewwwww!
- September 10, 2010 at 11:23 AM
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Late Monday evening in Toronto, two people were killed and at least 19 others wounded in a shooting that "Police Chief Bill Blair called the worst in the city's history," The Globe and Mail writes. It adds that:
"About 200 people were gathered at a house near Morningside and Lawrence avenues for a neighbourhood block party on Monday night when shots rang out around 10:40 p.m., police said."
According to the newspaper, "one individual who police called a 'person of interest' was injured in the gunfire and is now in custody, Chief Blair said, adding that members of the police department's homicide and guns and gangs units were both on the scene."
To the south in Tuscaloosa, Ala., "at least 16 people were confirmed wounded, four critically, when a gunman opened fire in Temerson Square early Tuesday," theTuscaloosa News says. The shooting took place at the Copper Top bar.
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It's rare these days, but it happens: a (what I think) is a completely new UI element (or 'widget', in proper parlance).
In my quest for an Android Twitter client that doesn't suck, I stumbled upon Tweedle, a no-frills, properly designed Twitter client for Android that, as far as I can tell after a few days, does not suck. It integrates properly with Android and has an actual Android user interface – unlike other Android Twitter clients, it doesn't shove any non-standard UI crap in my face. Really, the complicated, overdesigned user interfaces many Android developers come up with just to show several snippets of text in a scrollable list (that's all Twitter is, folks) is remarkable. Let's save that rant for another day, however.
What I find most intriguing about Tweedle is that it includes a UI widget I've never seen before. Instead of a regular scrollbar, Tweedle has a vertical line that increases in length as you scroll down in your timeline, and decreases in length as you scroll upwards. If you reach the newest tweet, the bar disappears. It's a different take on the traditional scrollbar, but to me, it feels like a better fit for a timeline than a traditional scrollbar.
If you scroll far enough down, the line will reach all the way to the bottom. If you keep scrolling beyond that point, the line just stays there. A traditional scrollbar, like in, say, Tweetbot 3 for iOS 7, acts differently. Once the scrollblob hits the bottom of the screen, a new set of tweets loads, and the blob erratically jumps upwards, which is just plain weird when you think about it.
The traditional scrollbar – even a proportional one – does its job best when used with finite scrollable areas. Timelines on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and so on, however, are essentially infinite lists, which causes traditional scrollbars to jump around whenever you reach the 'bottom' of your timeline and new content is loaded. The line in Tweedle does not have this issue, but it does introduce a new one – once the line fills up and hits the bottom, but you keep on scrolling – it stops conveying any new information.
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In 2000, the company started Internet sales and in cooperation with television transmitter NBC founded RL Media, which was responsible for online sales and the website polo.com. In 2007, Polo Ralph Lauren was among the largest retailers in the US with a turnover of 4.2 billion.
In the late 70's, the company consisted of the Polo by Ralph Lauren men's collection in the mid-price segment. In 1971, the product range was extended by the first women's collection under the name Ralph Lauren. In 1987, the collection was again expanded by a Polo Golf collection for men, and in 1990 for women. Three years later, the highly-priced RRL collection followed with Western fashion for men, since 2010 also available for women. In 1993, Ralph Lauren launched the Polo Sport line for men, and in 1996 the female counterpart. Both lines were discontinued in 1996.
In 1998, the Polo RLX collection for professional athletes was launched, and further sports collections for men and women followed. In 1996, the denim collection launched, which is today known as Denim & Supply. This was then followed by the Blue Label collection for women, and the Black Label collection for men. Moreover, Polo Ralph Lauren is known for its business men's collection, and additional collections have been produced but were discontinued after a few years.
Polo Ralph Lauren is sporty fashion with a luxurious character. Sports elements are combined with sophisticated style, as well as high quality materials which guarantee a perfect fit. The range of the typical polo shirt is complemented by comfortable chinos, elegant casual shirts and noble sneakers. The brand Polo Ralph Lauren offers a lifestyle for stylish and fashion-conscious women, men and children. The garments are the ideal companion during sport and leisure.
Simple designs in an American style for a special lifestyle.