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Gulltaggen focuses on innovation within the digital industry. We aim to bring inspiration from markets outside Norway. We strive to find extraordinary contributions based on teams, markets, or individual persons that can highlight our way towards the future.
On Day One (April 8th) we focus on innovation in the context of Technology & Creativity. We will present cases and persons from the advertising industry, and we will present new technology and ways to apply them and thoughts about how the future will adapt to these new possibilities.
On Day Two (April 9th) we focus on innovation in the context of Business Strategy and Leadership. We will present persons that represent outstanding environments and companies in the forefront. What are you to expect from the future? How should you position your company and how can you lead and motivate in this very rapidly changing business world?
The agenda is subject to change
Gulltaggen Awards is held on April 9th. The celebration consists of Gulltaggen Award Show, Gala Dinner and the After Dark Party. Gulltaggen Awards aims to inspire the industry to create digital solutions that solve communication tasks in an innovative way – a way that create results and pride, nationally as well as internationally. The Award Show is conducted in Norwegian.
Gulltaggen takes great pride in having a very high standard of international speakers. Previous conferences have included names like:
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Barcelona captain Andres Iniesta revealed he did not want to leave his hometown to join the Spanish giants as a youngster.
Spain international Iniesta, 32, was 12 when he uprooted himself from Fuentealbilla in Albacete for Barcelona after making trips with his family to meet club officials.
Reflecting on his early career, Iniesta said he needed a lot of convincing to leave his family behind at such a young age.
"The first response was that I did not want to come because I put my family bond before going to a place so far away and without them," Iniesta told beIN Sports.
"The passage of the weeks and talk with my father made me see it as a challenge.
"With my father I have a lot of confidence, a lot of affinity and I know that when he tells me things, he usually succeeds.
"I respect my father and I knew I had to take the plunge. After that, it was the worst months of my life as a person, but with the help of everyone, day by day, it was much better."
Iniesta has since gone on to win eight La Liga titles, four Champions League crowns and numerous other trophies.
The veteran midfielder has made 26 appearances in all competitions this season as Barca bid to retain their LaLiga title and win the Champions League.
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Friday 30 August 1985
It was Friday, under the sign of Virgo. The US president was Ronald Reagan (Republican).
Famous people born on this day include Eva Risztov and Eamon Sullivan.
In that special week of August people in US were listening to Power Of Love by Huey Lewis & The News.
In UK Into The Groove by Madonna was in the top 5 hits.
Better Off Dead..., directed by Savage Steve Holland, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1985
while Skeleton Crew by Stephen King was one of the best selling books.
On TV people were watching Vid Kids.
If you liked videogames you were probably playing Lot Lot or Psi 5 Trading Company.
But much more happened that day: find out below..
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- International Day of the Disappeared
- Turkey - Victory Day (to commemorate the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922)
- Peru - Saint Rose of Lima's Day
Famous Birthdays:
- Eva Risztov: Hungarian swimmer.
- Eamon Sullivan: Australian sprint swimmer who became the fastest swimmer in history in 2008.
- Richard Duffy: Welsh footballer.
- Joe Inoue: American singer-songwriter.
- Leisel Jones: Australian swimmer.
- Éva Risztov: Hungarian swimmer
- Steven Smith: Scottish footballer
- Anna Ushenina: Ukrainian chess player
- Holly Weston: English actress
Famous Deaths:
- Taylor Caldwell: American best-selling writer who began to write and illustrate from age 10.
Music Charts
Which were the top hits in that special week of August 1985 ?
Top #10 songs in the USA
- Huey Lewis & The News - Power Of Love
- John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)
- Aretha Franklin - Freeway Of Love
- Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero
- Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69
- Tears For Fears - Shout
- Corey Hart - Never Surrender
- Kool & The Gang - Cherish
- Billy Joel - You're Only Human (Second Wind)
- Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
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- Time: TIME Magazine Cover: American Food -- Aug. 26, 1985
- SportsIllustrated: Sports Illustrated: no.8971
- Time: Inset: South African violence by Selwyn Tait.
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Additional InformationThe stylish JBL® Jembe™ two-piece entertainment loudspeaker system includes a built-in power amplifier and a Slipstream port that creates rich bass with low distortion from a 2.0 computer system. To let you listen to music, movies or games without disturbing others, a 1/8-inch (3.5-millimeter) headphone jack connects easily to your PC, laptop or portable MP3 music device. The Jembe loudspeakers fit unobtrusively on any desk or bookshelf, and can elevate a multimedia experience with the realistic sound quality that you've come to enjoy from all JBL products. The unit's sleek black finish, matching metal grille and small form factor add enhanced user appeal that compliments any room. A large, top-mounted volume control simplifies sound-level adjustment.Request an Exchange
The stylish JBL® Jembe™ two-piece entertainment loudspeaker system includes a built-in power amplifier and a Slipstream port that creates rich bass with low distortion from a 2.0 computer system. The 1/8-inch (3.5-millimeter) headphone jack connects easily to your PC, laptop or portable MP3 music device. The Jembe loudspeakers fit unobtrusively on any desk or bookshelf, and can elevate a multimedia experience with the realistic sound quality that you have come to enjoy from all JBL products.
At a Glance:
Slipstream port technologies
Built-in power amplifier
1/8" (3.5mm) headphone jack for personal audio devices
Stylish JBL Weave design
Compact and portable
What's in the box:
2 Jembe computer speakers
Quick-start guide
Product Features:
- Slipstream port technologies
- The Jembe loudspeaker system's JBL Slipstream port technologies ensure powerful, smooth-sounding bass with low distortion. And that's what virtually every listener wants.
- Built-in power amplifier
- The Jembe system's built-in amplifier provides sufficient power and high-quality audio for rock music and high-action movies. The result sounds as if you're sitting in a concert or at the movie theater listening in 2.0 mode, with an enhanced acoustic experience that adds depth and space.
- 1/8" (3.5mm) headphone jack for personal audio devices
- To secure an intimate sonic experience, JBL engineers have designed the Jembe system's integral 1/8-inch (3.5-millimeter) headphone jack to work with all personal headphones. So go ahead: let the Jembe system give you a private concert.
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- The Jembe system looks sharp and stylish in any room. The speakers' JBL Weave design represents a perfect convergence of form and function.
- Compact and portable
- The Jembe system will not clutter your desk or home. Because the loudspeakers are small enough to pack easily into a bag, you can take great sound wherever you go.
Plug-and-PlayEasy to install, requires virtually no setup. Just connect and play.
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Auxiliary-input (aux in) connector allows you to plug into practically any audio device.
Sleek, Stylish DesignHigh-gloss finish that compliments any room in your home.
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- FCC/CE Approved
- Yes
- Amplifier Power
- 6 watts per satellite at 1% THD
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- Computer Speakers
- Power Requirement
- Power Consumption
- 0.5W (standby); 20W (maximum)
Audio Specifications:
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio
- >80dB
- Frequency Response
- 80Hz-20kHz
Speaker Specifications:
- Satellite Height (in)
- 5-5/16
- Satellite Depth (mm)
- 106
- Satellite Depth (in)
- 4-3/16
- Satellite Width (in)
- 4-3/16
- Satellite Width (mm)
- 106
- Satellite Height (mm)
- 135
Satellite Speaker Specifications:
- Satellite Height (in)
- 5-5/16
- Satellite Depth (mm)
- 106
- Satellite Depth (in)
- 4-3/16
- Satellite Width (in)
- 4-3/16
- Satellite Width (mm)
- 106
- Satellite Height (mm)
- 135
Control and Connection Specifications:
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Jembe is rated out of 5 by 144.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Kwame360 from GREAT SET OF SPEAKERS!. THE AUTO OFF FEATURE WORKS Purchased these speakers black Friday, and I truly wished I picked up 2 of them for the price I got it for!($20). These speakers are connected to my PC, and the AUTO OFF FEATURE WORKS great!. This is the main reason I am leaving my review as I do not usually review products I purchase. My PC picks up when sound is playing and turns them off when it isn't. I see many reviews of how annoying this feature is. However, I have yet to encounter them to turn off while sound is playing. I game on my PC a lot and there are times where what ever I am playing is low in sound but never does the speakers turn off. I highly recommend this speakers, and will be keeping an eye out for these to go down again so I can pick up another pair!.
Date published: 2016-12-26
Rated 5 out of 5 by ericrk from Fabulous Computer speaks for the Buck! I bought mine about 3 months ago, used them for hooking up to my laptop to play music.--more than fabulous! Hooking up to laptop for movies, great for personal, not home theatre--but for $16?!! Sounds are rich, not staticky, I don't know all of the "technical" sound bass/treble verbage, but I can tell you that it sounds fabulous. I've used other speakers, and most of them are garbage. But if JBL puts their name on something, it better be good, or it shouldn't be on the market. For about $16, it's a deal that you won't regret.
Date published: 2016-11-30
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jambi from Tremendous sound and value for your dollar Wow, a tremendous pair of computer speakers that are well built, sound great and carry the JBL name. I listen to live concerts on these, video blogs and radio stations. At the very high volumes, low background levels or anything in-between, these speakers always sound great, well balanced, cohesive and composed. These speakers are very transparent and they simply get out of the way when listening to music. They simply leave you with just the artist and you in the room. You completely forget you are listening to a $50 pair of speakers. It's amazing that you can get such awesome sound for so little money.
Date published: 2013-09-12
Rated 5 out of 5 by Neon Noire from LOVE These Speakers I'm not sure why some people are having issues - my speakers don't turn off unless there's no sound or the Master volume on my computer is set extremely low, like on 1. The trick is to keep your PC's Master volume turned up. Speakers are very reliable at turning off when I'm not using them and turning on when I do use them. Very pleased with their function. And as always, they have that great JBL sound. . . . HK's customer service needs a LOT of work.
Date published: 2015-10-15
Rated 5 out of 5 by Ted_ from great sounding speakers... I bought these speakers in December 2015. I have been extremely impressed with the sound quality, especially given what these speakers are (i.e. small speakers meant for computers). Their tonal quality and imaging is highly notable... Previous computer speakers I have owned don't begin to compare to the sound quality of these Jembe speakers.
Date published: 2016-01-24
Rated 1 out of 5 by bfridley from Auto Power Off - Annoying - If no fix, I'm returni I love the speakers... when they actually are working. But the speakers have an 'auto-off'/power save mode that kicks in apparently at random. If the speakers detect there's no sound coming from them, they go into power save. Unfortunately, they do this even when there is actually sound playing. This makes the product very irritating and essentially useless. Hopefully JBL is monitoring these reviews and can provide a fix. If I can't get this fixed soon, I'm returning and spending my money somewhere else.
Date published: 2014-01-03
Rated 5 out of 5 by Ashish0322 from Awesome product from JBL, it produces amazing bass I bought this product a week ago and I am completely satisfied by the sound it produces for a small room. Amazing bass quality. I bought this product on a deal for $ 18 so I am quite happy on my investment.
Date published: 2016-09-24
Rated 5 out of 5 by Sledgeham2787 from Great quality I can't really complain. I got a great deal. But I was expecting wireless because I bought wireless, but they sent me wires:(. I like them though.
Date published: 2016-10-28
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Finding her path through painting
Nelson has a habit of drawing people to its shores. American artist Barbara Franklet was not immune. Anna Pearson reports:
"In hindsight I would say it was an OE," says Barbara Franklet, sitting in the spring sun outside her studio on Nile St.
A long OE.
Franklet and her family moved to Nelson from the United States in 2008 and have been here ever since.
"At the time it was just this idea of living in a different country. We sold our house; we didn't have a concrete plan."
There was no agenda, only adventure.
"We'd never been to Nelson. We'd never been to New Zealand. My running joke was that we'd seen the Lord of the Rings and that's why we were going to go to New Zealand," she says.
An eight-day whirlwind tour started in Auckland and wound its way down the country.
"When we landed in Nelson, it felt right."
Franklet has been a fulltime artist for 15 years, after tragedy left her with a gift.
Her mother died when she was 29 and her father died about five years later, when she had a 1-year-old son.
She inherited some money and it was enough to quit her day job as a teacher. All of a sudden she had a financial cushion, which allowed her to re-invent her life.
"I said, 'OK, fine. I am going to try and be an artist', and honestly . . . it worked out."
Franklet hit the US art fair scene, travelling from state to state with her work.
Sometimes her husband and children joined her, other times she went alone.
"I was a carnie. It was a super fun life."
The year Franklet left the US she was the featured artist in one of the fairs, "which was always a big coup".
After she moved to New Zealand, she got accepted for one of the "most prestigious" art shows in the US - after applying, and getting rejected, for 10 years.
"It's called Cherry Creek. Every artist who does the US art fair circuit wants to get into Cherry Creek.
Franklet spent the next six months creating work and flew back to the US to exhibit. When she returned, her husband asked her if she would be interested in running a room as a studio.
The first Mockingbird Studio was set-up in Nelson's now-closed Independent Theatre.
"Through serendipity once again, this space avails itself and I say, 'OK, I'll open a studio'. How does one make a living as an artist in Nelson? In New Zealand? That's a hard nut to crack."
So is it working?
"Yeah. It's going alright, and every year is better."
The Mockingbird Studio is now on Nile St West, featuring an array of colourful, playful and whimsical artworks.
The name is a "tip of the hat" to Franklet's home, as the mocking bird is the state bird of Texas. And also, "I do lots of birds. I think they're beautiful graphic elements".
Franklet's artworks are full of "characters" - people in boats, riding unicycles, juggling, playing instruments.
"I mostly work in oil pastels. Oil pastels are like expensive crayons. I began my career as a print-maker and only as my kids distracted me from the press did I do oil pastels. You can walk away from oil pastels, but you can't really walk away from print-making," she says.
"I have always liked the narrative end of picture making. I don't have an art degree. I started to get an art degree and it was more of the fine art mentality, which is fine. I have nothing against it, but I was not the 'bleed all over the canvas' type of artist."
Franklet sold 29 pieces at this year's New Zealand Art Show in Wellington, and also took part in the "brilliant" inaugural Art Expo Nelson. She'll sign up for both again next year, but other than that she doesn't know what else the future holds. Will she stay, or go?
"That's the million dollar question. If I have learnt anything from Kiwis, it's just to be open. I don't know if I'm staying or going, but I'm in the present right now. I'm here right now. It's beautiful."
Mockingbird Studio is at 6 West Nile St, Nelson, or see Barbara Franklet's works at bfranklet.com.


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Flat-bottomed Potjie No: 3
Serves: 6
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
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6 bananas
50 ml cream
30 ml honey
5 ml ground cinnamon
Pull a small piece of peel off the banana without taking it off altogether.
Spoon a little cream and honey into each banana and sprinkle with cinnamon.
Place bananas open side up on the bottom of greased potjie.
Heat slowly and bake bananas for 15-20 minutes or until soft.
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571 pages, 109 colour & 13 b/w illustrations, 20 colour tables
Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival.
Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods and nutrition to human communities, and are important indicators of environmental change. Yet the population trends of several arthropods species show them to be in decline. Arthropods constitute a dominant group with 1.2 million species influencing earth's biodiversity. Among arthropods, insects are predominant, with ca. 1 million species and having evolved some 350 million years ago. Arthropods are closely associated with living and non-living entities alike, making the ecosystem services they provide crucially important. In order to be effective, plans for the conservation of arthropods and ecosystems should include a mixture of strategies like protecting key habitats and genomic studies to formulate relevant policies for in situ and ex situ conservation.
This book focuses on capturing the essentials of arthropod inventories, biology, and conservation. Further, it seeks to identify the mechanisms by which arthropod populations can be sustained in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and by means of which certain problematic species be managed without producing harmful environmental side-effects.
This edited compilation includes chapters contributed by over 80 biologists on a wide range of topics embracing the diversity, distribution, utility and conservation of arthropods and select groups of insect taxa. More importantly, it describes in detail the mechanisms of sustaining arthropod ecosystems, services and populations. It addresses the contribution of modern biological tools such as molecular and genetic techniques regulating gene expression, as well as conventional, indigenous practices in arthropod conservation. The contributors reiterate the importance of documenting and understanding the biology of arthropods from a holistic perspective before addressing conservation issues at large. Arthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-Tropics offers a valuable resource for all zoologists, entomologists, ecologists, conservation biologists, policy makers, teachers and students interested in the conservation of biological resources.
1. Impact of Climate Change on Arthropod Diversity N. R. Prasannakumar and K. P. Kumar
2. Bioprospecting Arthropod Biomolecules: Amalgamation of novel compounds with new approaches Anudita, V. Varunrajan and B. M. Deepa
3. Conservation of Arthropod parasites: Restoring Crucial Ecological Linkages M. Jayashankar, S. R. Amulya Prasad and Subhash B. Kandakoor
4. Diversity and Ecology of Scorpions: Evolutionary success through venoms! Shakunthala Sridhara, A.K. Chakravarthy , V. Kalarani and D. Chandrasekhar Reddy
5. An Overview of Crustacean Diversity In Mangrove Ecosystem S. Murugan and D. Usha Anandhi
6. Phylogenetic Status, Diversity, Economic and Medicinal Importance of Crabs V. Kalarani, V. Sumathi, V. Sridevi and D.C. Reddy
7. Millipedes: Diversity, Distribution and Ecology Periasamy Alagesan
8. Spiders: Diversity, Distribution and Conservation Ganesh Wankhede, Priyanka Hadole and A. K. Chakravarthy
9. Brown Mite Fluctuation, Bryobia rubrioculus (Scheuten) (Acari: Tetranychidae) in Cherry Orchards in Hamedan, Western Iran Mohammad Khanjani
10. Coconut water as a promising culture media for Hirsutella thompsonii Fisher, a pathogen of coconut mite Chandrika Mohan, M. K. Radhika, A. Josephrajkumar, and P. Rajan
11. Cladocerans: Diversity, Distribution, Ecological Significance M. Karuthapandi and D. V. Rao
12. Diversity and Distribution of Sphecoid Wasps in Kerala, India: Bio-indicators of Habitat Quality Baaby Job and J. L. Olakkengils
13. Diversity and Distribution of Chalcid wasps in Kerala: Key Biological control agents in Cultivated Ecosystems N. Preethi and P. Lakshmi Devi Menon
14. Diversity of Economically Important Indian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with New Records from India Ankita Gupta
15. A Study on the Diversity and Distribution of genus Camponotus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Kerala: Ecologically Significant Agents in Ecosystem Functioning Presty John and K. A. Karmaly
16. Diversity of Tephritid Flies in Sub-Himalayan Region of West Bengal: Baseline Data for developing rational Management Practices Nripendra Laskar, Dipak Kumar Sinha, Tapan Kumar Hath and Hirak Chatterjee
17. Diversity of Soft Scale Insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea) in Sri Lanka U. G. A. I. Sirisena, G. W. Watson, K. S. Hemachandra and H. N. P. Wijayagunasekara
18. Insect Conservation: A Synthetsis of management approaches RiteshInamke, Deepak Panpatte, Noushad Parvez, Leena Pathak, Ankit Patel, Kuldeep Khatri and Janardan Jani
19. Gaint moths and their conservation P. P. Mary, Vasudev Kammar, A. T. Rani and K. R. Yathish
20. Biological characteristics of Arrhenotokous and Thelytokous Trichogramma Riley: enhancing efficiency of Parasitization T. Prabhulinga, S. K. Jalali, Kumar K. P. and B. Doddabasappa
21. Faunal Composition of Scarab Beetles and their Hosts in Assam Mrinmoy Das, Badal Bhattacharya, D. Pujari and G Handique
22. Honey Bees and Beekeeping: the Global scenario D. P. Abrol, Uma Shankar, K. S. Nitin and G. Basana Gowda
23. Nominating the Bee Trees of Nandagudi / Ramagovindapura as a World Heritage Site Stephen Petersen and Muniswamyreddy Shankar Reddy
24. Requirements for Sustainable Management of Apis dorsata Fab. with Rafter Method Stephen Petersen and Muniswamyreddy Shankar Reddy
25. RNA interference: History, Mechanisms and Applications in Pest Management Subba Palli Reddy
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Throughout our journey from being a small post-war rehabilitation operation to becoming the world's largest development NGO serving 135 million people in 11 countries, BRAC has always championed innovation with an ambitious vision of scaling up to have a big impact. One aspect that has often been attributed to BRAC's success in its various programs – including microfinance, education, healthcare, agriculture, and community empowerment – is its practice of a simple mantra: "pilot, perfect, scale up". (Full disclosure: The authors are employed at BRAC).
BRAC's work with bKash, the largest mobile money provider in Bangladesh, began with a similar small microfinance pilot. It eventually transitioned 100 percent of the enterprise loan installment collection in a few locations from cash to cashless payments. Back in 2011, mobile money was still an unfamiliar concept in Bangladesh. bKash had just started its operations and the few incumbent mobile financial service providers in the market were still testing the waters to understand how it could be used. Clients had difficulty grasping how money can be transferred to any location through mobile phones in a matter of seconds.
Fast forward to 2014. In less than three years, the mobile money landscape in Bangladesh has drastically transformed. With nearly 14 million registered users, Bangladesh now boasts the fastest growing mobile money market in the world. In urban and rural locations alike, mobile money has a near-ubiquitous presence, with agents numbering close to 200,000. Given the developments in the mobile money market, BRAC saw a tremendous opportunity to utilize this technology in improving its product and service delivery, as well as operations. In addition to the earlier loan installment collection and savings pilots, Education Programme also recently started disbursing its student scholarships via bKash. We started to ask ourselves: Is there more that we can do?
With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BRAC's Social Innovation Lab launched the Innovation fund for mobile money in March to explore new possibilities and create the necessary space for innovations using mobile money within BRAC in Bangladesh. Recognizing that successful innovations often require risk and experimentation, the fund intends to support projects that work with mobile money. To scope out the best ideas for BRAC to consider and implement, an online idea challenge was introduced where anyone could submit an idea, comment or vote on ideas. The goal was to spark conversations within the BRAC community around how mobile money can be used by BRAC to innovate, improve service delivery, and gain efficiency. Through promotional activities that ranged from engaging mobile money experts from around the world to performing the first ever flash mob at BRAC to making mobile money a major theme at the second annual Frugal Innovation Forum, the challenge drew an enthusiastic response from people, receiving 100 wide-ranging ideas in just five weeks. Following a rigorous selection process, seven ideas (see below) that showed the most potential were chosen for implementation.
(Photo credit: BRAC/Shehzad Noorani).
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(nearly) Cashless branch: This pilot undertaken by the Integrated Development Programme is a move towards creating cashless branches in the remote char areas (riverine islands created and destroyed by floods and erosion). Given the transportation challenges and limited access to financial services in these areas, mobile money will make it easier for both BRAC clients and staff.
Mobile micro-insurance: Most of BRAC's clients lack access to traditional forms of insurance. Through a joint collaboration, the Microfinance Programme and outsider partners will offer micro-insurance with low, flexible premiums using mobile technology for poor households. It will offer protection for incidents like accidents and illnesses.
Flexible school fee payments for secondary schools: Paying school fees can be a challenge for low-income parents. To address this, the BRAC University Institute of Educational Development will introduce a flexible payment scheme using bKash at the SSCOPE low-cost secondary schools. Parents can pay without needing to come to the school premises each time.
Adolescent savings: To encourage savings behaviour among adolescent girls and provide easy access to safe savings, the Education Programme will work with their adolescent clubs to encourage the habit of mobile savings among its youth club members. Adoption of technology is higher among youth, so this can drive adoption and create a lifetime savings habit.
Mobile payments for community health workers: This initiative by Health, Nutrition and Population Programme will look to improve operational efficiency, transparency and security by integrating mobile money instead of cash to disburse honorariums and incentives to thousands of workers.
Mobile disaster relief funds: For disasters like evictions, garment factory fires, and floods it is difficult to mobilize funds quickly, even though many would like to donate. The Disaster Environment and Climate Change programme will set up a simple donation platform that enables them to send money via their mobile phones. This idea originated from a university student in Chittagong.
We hope that these projects will inform and encourage similar initiatives in the future, both within and outside of BRAC, and mark the beginning of a digital revolution for the organization.
This article was originally posted here: http://www.nextbillion.net/blogpost.aspx?blogid=3910
So We've Scaled Up, Now What?
Panel on organizing communities. From left: Arbind Singh (Nidan), Shandana Khan (Rural Support Programmes Network), Syed Hashemi (BRAC Development Institute), Gum Sha Aung (Metta Myanmar), and Kishore Singh (Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction).
Late last month, a group of South Asian leaders gathered in Dhaka for the first Frugal Innovation Forum: Scaling Simple Solutions. Nowhere is the importance of innovation more apparent than in quickly-changing contexts such as Bangladesh: Many villagers are migrating to cities and abroad; women are increasingly entering the workforce; there is a youth bulge; and with increases in life expectancy, the fastest growing demographic is senior citizens. Given the complexity and interrelatedness of these challenges, tackling them requires more than just new strategies; it requires new paradigms of understanding, holistic thinking, and above all, flexible models that can evolve. The event was powerful, and laid out some important issues.
South Asians, perhaps due to the unique environmental factors of the region, seem to have an innate predisposition to what we might call the jugaad, or "frugal innovation," mentality. This was one of the core beliefs that led us to organize the forum in the first place: A unique type of innovation was springing up across South Asia that would lend itself to further scale and adaption around the region. Jaideep Prabhu, co-author of Jugaad Innovation, spoke about the importance of this in his opening remarks at the forum. Perhaps another unique trait of South Asian innovation is that scale is such an assumed part of design. Where the rest of the world talks in the thousands or tens of thousands, South Asians speak of lakhs (hundreds of thousands) or crores (tens of millions). BRAC's mantra, "small is beautiful, but big is a necessity" is nothing new to practitioners in Pakistan (population 176 million) and India (population 1.2 billion!). People in this region casually talk about magnitude of coverage and reach in a way that many countries' presidents would—justifiably—have trouble fathoming.
Mahabub Hossain (BRAC) and Jaideep Prabhu (Judge School of Business, University of Cambridge).
It's easy to pay lip service to the need to learn from one other, but we don't entirely understand actually how to do it. Rarely can we simply drop a ready-made model into a new place. Even the process of creation is hugely important in developing a sophisticated understanding—not just what works, but why it works. "Everyone needs to reinvent the wheel," wrote Madhav Chavan, founder of Pratham, an incredible Indian organization transforming education nationally. "It's important because all of us need our own kind of wheel."
Jothimani Sennimalai (Political activitist from India) and Sir Fazle Hasan Abed (BRAC).
We kicked off the event with three key questions: Do we need more social innovation, or is the big challenge these days just to scale up what we know? Is scale always a good thing? And, is frugal always the best way? We started by looking at these themes across these broad sectors: developing human capital, mobilizing communities, and fostering civic engagement. The growing divides within countries—urban to rural, connected to offline, young and old, arose as issues with which many are wrestling. There's a huge need for platforms to connect people—either in old fashioned, U-shaped meetings, or on flashy websites such as I Paid a Bribe—but it's crucial to find the hook. For vocational schools, that means successfully reading the market demand to essentially guarantee job placement to its students for groups of street vendors, it's knowing to let go and let them lead, even if it means excluding "others," such as waste pickers, and supporting them to create a society that represents their distinct needs. For many, technology is still a nice idea. However, despite the fast-growing numbers of cell phones, they are still out of reach for many, particularly rural women. Finding ways to build the urgently needed infrastructure and create pressure on the government is important, regardless of the ultimate goal. Shandana Khan of Pakistan's Rural Support Programmes Network spoke about mobilizing communities to persuade the government to support community groups. Once the organization created the political commitment for resources, they were able to scale massively, from just 5 million members to more than 30 million. We see that the reshaping of the rules of the game has huge benefits and creates a strong foundation for growth.
Arbind Singh of Nidan, who spoke at the Frugal Innovation Forum and was recognized as a Skoll Entrepreneur in 2012, is bringing some of our discussions to the Skoll World Forum this week. A few worth noting are:
Process innovations are often underappreciated but critical. The biggest and most successful organizations rarely owe their success to a product, but rather to their activities and capabilities.
"Big impact" mentality is a must. In his closing remarks, BRAC's founder and chairperson Sir Fazle Abed told participants: "Many organizations are happy with results on a small scale. We need to be more ambitious." There are plenty of challenges on the path to scale—don't let your mindset be one of them!
To go fast (and burn out quickly), go alone. To go far, go with others, and forge a better path. The days of operating in a green field with no regulation or government engagement are gone. Increasingly, the challenge in development is building capacity for effective, independent action—of communities, of organizations, and of policy-markets. Nurturing inclusive ecosystems that embrace innovation and value development is the only way to sustainably tackle poverty.
Asif Saleh is the senior director of BRAC Strategy, Communications, and Capacity.
Maria A. May is the programme manager of BRAC's Social Innovation Lab.
The Hidden Dimensions of Scale
Recently we researched four programs that scaled up in South Asia to gain a deeper understanding of what successful support strategies might include. All of the programs shared a vision of large-scale and sustained change; worked with and through a variety of stakeholders; and, interestingly, were motivated by feeling as if they were part of something "bigger than themselves." Linking local efforts to a broader national or global goal was inspiring and attracted more attention from policymakers and donors. We developed a case study for each program to capture the organization's experience and insight from its leadership.
One case study examines BRAC's Educational Support Program. Instead of focusing on BRAC's own schools, which have graduated more than 5 million poor children in Bangladesh, we looked at how, via external partnerships, BRAC enables other local partners to implement its effective, non-formal school model in 4,700 schools. Independent organizations that otherwise might lack the know-how or resources for management capacity, monitoring, training, and other types of support benefit from BRAC's infrastructure, and gain inspiration and visibility from association with a well-known, respected organization.
Another describes how BRAC's Targeting the Ultra Poor model, proven to "graduate" people out of extreme poverty, was replicated in 10 new locations, via a learning consortium. The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and the Ford Foundation connected participating organizations with donors and prestigious researchers such as Esther Duflo. With many organizations sharing a common mission, it was easier to attract the attention of policymakers, media, and academics.
The third case study describes Pakistan's Rural Support Program Network (RSPN), formed to address the need for centralized functions, such as government relations. RSPN was created by geographically dispersed organizations known as Rural Support Programs (RSPs) implementing the same rural social mobilization model, as no one organization had the time or access to mobilize resources to scale.
Urban Partnership for Poverty Reduction Program (UPPRP), a UN initiative focused on helping slum dwellers in Bangladesh organize for better living conditions, is the focus of our fourth case study. Reeling from the devastation of communities in slums during evictions, UPPRP reformulated its approach with intensive work on national urban policy development and deeper relationships with local governments.
Emerging themes
Certain elements of program or organization design can facilitate potential for scale—for example, maintaining low costs or adopting a network approach. However, our research detected a clear set of "implementation plus" or intermediation activities in these scaling success stories—enacted by a third party or by the implementers themselves.
While we saw diversity in strategy, we noticed that a few recurring types of activities were not directly related to implementation (see the types of intermediation activities chart below).
Capacity, access, and organization benefits occurred in every case, while visibility and sponsorship occurred only in some. Some of the best benefits that intermediaries imparted were not intentional. The value of each benefit clearly depends on context—capacity and organization are more focused on changing the groups that are implementing activities, whereas the other three benefits focus more on the dynamics between the ecosystem and the implementers.
While useful, there are clear limitations to historical analyses of scale-up experiences. To explore these themes more deeply, we are currently working with six South Asian organizations, including BRAC, to follow individual projects through a year of scale-up efforts. Through this project, we hope to develop frameworks and tools to inform and guide future development efforts.
This post was written by Maria A. May and Amanda J. Misiti, on behalf of BRAC's Doing while learning project team.
Maria A. May (@mariamayhem523) is the program manager for BRAC's Social Innovation Lab and its Microfinance Research & Development Unit, both based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is a co-author of Making Tuberculosis History: Community-based Solutions for Millions and several teaching cases on global health delivery published by Harvard Business Publishing.
Amanda J. Misiti (@ajoymisiti) is a Knowledge Management and Communications Officer with BRAC's Social Innovation Lab in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She previously worked with the Beacon Communities, an initiative of the US Department of Health and Human Services, and served as a health education specialist with the US Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa.


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Today Senator John Kerry held a hearing to examine the impact of employers who fail to abide by lawful hiring practices and hear what steps Massachusetts has taken to address the underground economy. When employees are paid off the books or misclassified as a "contract employee," companies are able to avoid paying certain employment taxes and benefits. As small businesses and labor leaders testified, this puts firms that play by the rules at a competitive disadvantage and results in tens of millions of dollars in unpaid income taxes and worker benefits in Massachusetts.
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"Cheaters and unscrupulous employers have created an underground economy as big as $1 trillion. Worse, workers right here in Massachusetts are being taken advantage of and not getting the benefits and protections they deserve," said Senator Kerry, Chairman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. "When some employers misclassify workers or go off the books, it hurts all workers and businesses who play by the rules. We've got to level the playing field, enforce the laws, and ensure everyone who works an honest day gets a fair pay, Social Security, unemployment benefits, and other protections they're entitled to."
Congressman Tierney, a member of the House Committee on Education and Labor, recently co-authored the Taxpayer Responsibility, Accountability and Consistency (TRAC) Act, which seeks to prevent the improper classification of employees as independent contractors.
"The Senator's leadership on this important issue for our economy is greatly appreciated. This hearing further highlighted how employee misclassification hurts workers, honest businesses and tax-payers. As the co-author of legislation that seeks to remedy this harmful practice, I believe that ensuring millions of workers are appropriately classified is a matter of fundamental fairness and good governance. I look forward to working with Senator Kerry on this matter," said Congressman Tierney.
Scott Morrisey, a small business owner from Leominster, provides his workers with health, disability, and vacation benefits which puts him at a 20-25 percent disadvantage with competitors. He testified that an "underground" labor force is not necessary to get work done but that good management and oversight is being supplanted by a lower skilled, less productive, higher volume workforce. Saugus small business owner Sara Stafford submitted testimony detailing how a competitor underbid her by 15 percent for a construction project because the competitor used undocumented workers, misclassified employees in order to pay lower wages, and failed to pay benefits to workers in cash as the company reported in forms.
Frank Callahan, President of the Massachusetts Building Trades Council, spoke in favor of legislation sponsored by Representatives Tierney and Richard A. Neal (D-Springfield) that addresses the issue of misclassifying workers as independent contractors. Mark Erlich, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters testified that the practice of classifying workers as independent contractors is not only having a negative effect on the ability of contractors to compete fairly, but also on the safety and health of workers.
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Galatasaray coach Eric Gerets wants Rangers midfielder Thomas Buffel.Galatasaray coach Eric Gerets wants Rangers midfielder Thomas Buffel.
The 23-year-old only moved to Rangers in January but new Gala boss Gerets has told his board he wants to have him in his squad.
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Decorating By Kerry_Kake Updated 15 May 2010 , 2:28am by iamcakin
Hi everyone, I have this wedding cake for tomorrow and an extra 6" cake that I am doing seperate and boxing it for their anniversary cake. They will be serving the top tier for extra servings so that's why I suggested to do a seperate cake. Anyway, I was wondering do I just put the cake in the box as is and they freeze it or should I wrap it with plastic wrap then box it?
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You may use mild or spicy Italian sausages, plan ahead the patties must be chilled for a minimum of 8 hours or 24 hours before grilling, chili sauce can be found next to the ketchup in any major grocery store, I use Heinz brand for this --- these burgers will remain red while grilling so for proper cooking time it is best to use an instant-read thermometor
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- 1 1⁄2 lbs ground beef
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The Greens party says they are concerned the Federal Government's new welfare quarantining legislation has gone under the public radar.
The plan expands a system introduced during the intervention in Northern Territory Indigenous communities.
The Federal Government introduced its proposed reforms during the final week of parliamentary sittings last year.
If passed into law, welfare recipients across the country could have half of their payments quarantined for essential items such as food and clothing.
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert says she referred the Bill to a Senate inquiry because it presents profound changes to how society's most disadvantaged are supported.
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The Shiites also said that Buhari was not following the rule of law by keeping Zakzaky locked up.
Shiite Muslims in Nigeria have criticized President Muhammadu Buhari over the continued detention of the sect's leader, SheikhIbrahim El Zakzaky.
The Shiites also said that Buhari was not following the rule of law by keeping Zakzaky locked up.
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The 400 relay of Lara Ketonen, Abbey Stechler, Paulina Galchenko and Lauren Sapochetti took first place in a school record-setting time of 3:57.32.
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Other firsts for the Greenmen were: John Bender in 200 freestyle (2:09.99), Ketonen in 50 free (25.09) and 100 free (56.1), Drew Albrecht in diving (207.22 points) and Whitney Lieberth in 100 breaststroke (1:15.18).
Taking seconds for the locals were: Galchenko in 200 free (2:15.77), Nicholas Belofsky in 50 free (25.63), Kylie Palian in diving (151.73), Sapochetti in 100 butterfly (1:08.54), Tyler Hayes in 100 breaststroke (1:14.25) and the girls 200 free relay of Marissa Henderson, Madeline Schmitt, Julia Brezovec and Galchenko (1:53.69).
Capturing thirds werer: Schmitt in 100 backstroke (1:13.76), the girls 200 medley relay of Ketonen, Lieberth, Sapochetti and Stechler (2:02.99), the boys 200 medley relay of Alex Bailey, Hayes, Gunnar Meyer and Belofsky (2:03.29) and the boys 400 free relay of Bailey, Bender, Meyer and Belofsky (4:01.85).
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I have just fallen apart and my head is about to explode, please can someone get me back on track.
I'm doing my 1st wedding cake next week, due Fri 26th. I'm also a guest at this wedding I was doing fine feeling confident until tonight and I feel so overwhelmed all of a sudden I think I might cry.
So here's my dilemma, I had planned on doing 16, 12 and 9 rounds for approx 180 ( 200 invited but some not replied some not able to attend, friend still pinpointing exact numbers) but we pretty much agreed upon 180 servings. I have seen numerous sizing charts and now I have no idea if I actually have enough cake, now I'm thinking of adding a 6" to it to make it 4 tier and then if we use the 6" thats fine if not we can wrap it and save for anniversary (not originally planning on doing this) Do I need the 6" or is my original design of 16 12 and 9 enough?
2nd dilemma is I'm using pastry pride, I've only used it a few times but am confident enough to know I can ice a cake quite quickly with, I'm not doing any design work its going to be plain with a few sunflowers on the side and a ribbon wrapped, now can I ice it on Thursday night and it be ok for Friday as I have heard it forms a skin like crust as it dries out.
I think I have my planning planned out ok
Saturday start making gumpaste sunflowers and leaves
Monday start baking 9"
Tuesday bake 12"
Wednesday bake 16"
Thursday Fill Stack and crumb
Friday lunchtime ice the cakes
2.30- 3pm deliver set up, home by 4.30pm to get ready for 6.30pm wedding
I can move some stuff around and start baking sunday if I can ice on Thursday and move everything ahead one day.
Am I making sense or just rambling now, my head is spinning, I should go to bed a think again tomorrow with a clear head.
TIA for any help, guidance, smacks around the head to get me back in check
Personally, I think it would look better with the 6" on it, whether you need it or not. 9" seems really big for a top tier. I've never used Pastry Pride, so no help there, but I sure hope you can ice on Thursday. That would be a lot easier! Good luck!
Don't fret Dutchy. You sound like you have a good handle on things and know exactly what you need to do - you're just freaking yourself out right now.
If you go by the Wilton wedding cake servings chart, a 16-12-9 round 3 tier cake would serve 188. If 200 is the number of people invited, there will probably be a lot that don't come, and some that don't show. (eeek, one week before the wedding and no final head count?? That must be one lenient caterer) Of those that do come, some won't eat cake, some will leave before the cake is served, etc... I would just be sure to include a cake cutting guide so the person cutting/serving the cake knows that these are 1"x2"x4" serving sizes.
My only question is your timeline for preparing the cake. Gumpaste prep sounds good, as long as there is enough time to complete them all and allow for enough drying time. The baking seems like it's over the course of too many days though. I wouldn't personally bake one cake per day over the course of a week for a Friday wedding, but then again, I don't work outside the home so I can find the time to do more all at one time - I don't know what your situation is. Where do you plan to store the cakes for the week? Will they still be fresh/moist, etc... by Friday?
Pastry pride does tend to get funky after a short period of time. I'm not sure if it would do it as quickly as over night though.
Does ribbon bleed when placed directly on Pastry Pride? Just wondering.
I'm sorry but are you keeping the cake refrigerated? I don't think Pastry Pride will hold at all for that long. Unless of course its refrigerated.
I agree on adding a 6 in, it looks much better than a 9 in for top tier! Good Luck!
I've never used PP, but have used Bettercreme which I've heard is similar. I've made cakes the day before, boxed, and then put them in the fridge with no problems.
Aren't you worried your cake will dry out since you are baking on Monday?
If time is an issue have you ever thought of just baking everything on the weekend and then freezing until Thursday? You would save so much time and cleanup if you bake it all in one day.
Are you against freezing your cakes. I always do this and they are always moist. I bake all of my cakes1- 2 weeks ahead of time. Then I take my cakes out of the freezer on wednesday night before I go to bed. In the morning I level, fill and stack the cakes and crumb coat. I let the cakes sit, and settle, that way I don't get any bump on the sides. And then on friday I do the final coat of icing and decorate. There is so much less stress for me to do it this way, that way i'm not doing too many things at once. Not sure about baking the cakes so far ahead of time without freezing, so not sure about that, I have never done it that way so maybe someone else could tell you if they would be fresh enough. I have only ever used pasty pride for fillings, so not sure about that either.
Try not to stress too much, you'll be fine, that is another reason I like to bake ahead of time and freeze, i'm a planner and don't want anything unexpected to happen, so its comforting to me to know the cakes are baked double wrapped in plastic wrap and then in foil and frozen. Make sure you post your pictures, can't wait to see them.
I agree with the stuff that saffronica and dreamincakes11 have said..9" topper is too large...a 6" would look much better on top of the 9".
Secondly, baking cakes over 3 days is a bit long... however, if u still want to do it that way, I suggest you bake the biggest cake first...16" on Monday, 12"inch on Tuesday and 9" on Wednesday....smaller cakes dry out faster...also, larger cakes are the ones that need to be baked a day or two in advance so that they cool and set properly and do not crumble/fall apart when you fill them and move them around.
Hope this helps.
can you all hear the sigh of relief i just let out lol
Thank you thank you thank you for all your advise
I think the 6" will look better too, so thats sold me on that one
I do work full time, thats why I was going to do a bit each night. I've never frozen a cake before, I was taught that if each layer is wrapped correctly while still slightly warm refrigerating them for up to 5 days is ok, so far never had a problem with drying out. I usually wrap 4 times, twice in each direction so no little gaps.
So maybe I will bake all day Sunday and freeze them all that gives me the week to chill out a bit I guess.
The gumpaste flowers i'm doing are sunflowers, I've already practised a bit with them, I'm using the XL and the XXL PME cutters, for a total of 9 flowers maybe a few smaller ones now i'm adding a 6".
The Ribbon is being backed with a white ribbon so it shouldn't bleed through, but a test will be done ahead of time.
Now back to freezing. how long after coming out the oven should I wrap them and get them into the freezer? I read somewhere that its quite soon and that they haven't cooled down too much.
Thanks again for all the answers, feeling much clearer now
If someone has the answer to the PP question that would be great.
I have baked my cakes on Tuesday for a Saturday event, and not frozen them. I have baked on Tuesday, leveled, torted, and iced on Wed., Fondant on Thursday and Friday, deliver on Saturday. I have always had raves about how moist my cakes are. Now, I have frozen them also, I just don't have a big freezer to work with, so I usually go the other way. Definitely not againt baking in advance and freezing, if you can do it that way, great!!!!
I've been told cakes need to be COMPLETELY cooled before wrapping and freezing. Hmmm......
I would have thought the same dreamincake,if it's too warm surely the saran wrap would melt a little???
maybe someone can clarify for me before I ruin a whole batch of cakes lol
I freeze my cakes as well & once they come out of the oven I let it cool for about 10mins or so then I tightly wrap them & to the freezer they go.
My cakes are still a litle warm before I wrap & freeze them... Never had a problem with it...
thanks for the reply, is that 10mins on the rack or 10mins in the pan or a combo, then wrap?
Saran Wrap will not melt if you put it on a warm cake. I've frozen warm cakes and I've frozen cool cakes and never noticed a difference. I DO know that you'll be a very happy camper if you have all those cakes in the freezer a week in advance! On a simple cake like that you describe, the baking will be the most time-consuming part of the venture. Good luck! Sounds very pretty!
well I guess I have a busy weekend of baking ahead of me then lol
knowing that I can freeze like that makes me a very happy camper and ALOT less stressed.
I shall post pictures when it's done.
I should say thanks to cathy24 as it's her cake design that my friend fell in love with when we were looking at sunflower cakes online, hopefully mine turns out as nice as hers.
Thanks again to everyone, you really have made me much calmer.
.........keep....cake refrigerated?...don't think Pastry Pride will hold at all for that long..............
PP should keep at room temp for 3 days unless the company has changed their instructions from some yrs ago when I used it. SD is a cool area - not much heat but maybe humidity so room temp should be fine. I personally don't care for the mouth feel of PP if it sits overnight (on a cake). It gets funny - sort of marshmallow-ey & greasy.....
You should be able to bake the two 9"ers and 6"ers in the same batch unless you have a super small oven. If a 16 round fits, it should hold a 9 & 6 on one rack.
That's one day less of baking
Fzing: cool maybe 10 minutes in pan; turn out & cool just until you can hahdle it to wrap. The longer it cools the more it is drying out.
The ribbon will stick to the PP - come off on the ribbon when it is removed
Thanks for the info Kakeladi! Good to know!
thanks for the info there kakeladi I'm going to take the risk of icing it thursday night and boxing it.
I just enrolled my sister to come help me bake on Sunday so that will be a big help.
Will let you all know how it turns out next week, fingers crossed no more mini meltdowns haha
You guys are all life savers. this place is such an overwhelming pot of knowledge, you're all amazing.
I might be back in a bit I'm about to attempt to decorate a 9" into a coach purse for tomorrow for my best friends b-day. I'm sure I'll be hitting the wine before the nights end ( sometimes tea just doesn't cut it)
Thank you all again sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much
if I could hug you all I would
Information on pastry pride hope this helps , not something I would use on a wedding cake if left out it will crack.
Pastry Pride or Frostin' Pride is a non-dairy commercial product that comes in 1 quart and 1 gallon cartons.
2. Pastry Pride comes frozen and should be thawed in the refrigerator overnight. However, if you are desperate, you can thaw it for 1 minute in the microwave, shake, and then repeat for 1 more minute, then shake, and repeat for 30 seconds to 1 minute. It should still have some ice crystals inside. Another method of speedy thawing is to immerse the carton in large bowl of warm water. It will thaw in 1 - 2 hours this way.
3. Once thawed, un-whipped Pastry Pride will last 2 - 3 weeks in the refrigerator. After it is whipped, it will last 1 - 2 weeks in the refrigerator. Sometimes, if you have under-whipped it, as it sits, liquid will gather in the bottom. You can still use the Pastry Pride, you just need to re-whip it. Always use a WHIP, not a paddle on your mixer.
4. One quart of Pastry Pride is enough to ice and decorate an 8 inch round cake.
One quart of Pastry Pride is enough to ice and decorate a 1/4 sheet (8x12 or 9x13) cake.
One quart of Pastry Pride is enough to ice and border a 1/2 sheet cake.
One quart of Pastry Pride is barely enough to ice a full-sheet cake.
5. When working with Pastry or Frostin' Pride, you want to keep it cold. If you are spending a lot of time on the decoration; put the whipped Pastry Pride back in the refrigerator while you're working to keep it cold. It will breakdown and get mushy if you leave it out at room temperature for too long.
6. You can decorate and make roses with Pastry Pride, but you must work quickly - within 15 minutes.
7. You can also color Pastry Pride, but only light to medium colors - Americolor colors work the best. If you try to make very dark colors, they will bleed onto your cake and stain the teeth of the people eating the cake!
8. Pastry Pride/Frostin' Pride will form a "skin" after sitting out for a while. This is very difficult to smooth, but can be done carefully with the use of water for softening. Also, if you are putting an edible picture on your cake, you want to do it after the "skin" forms.
9. When you whip Pastry Pride, you can add flavoring, such as Creme Bouquet. Add NO flavoring to Frostin' Pride.
10. Pastry Pride takes 5 - 15 minutes to whip, per quart. This will vary depending on the type of mixer you have, and how cold the Pastry Pride is. The colder it is, the longer it will take to whip. However, if it is too warm, it will never whip. When it reaches room temperature (like if you leave it out on accident), it is usually runied.
11. I have found that if you ice a cake with Pastry Pride and let it sit for several hours before decorating it; piping gel or other brightly colored icing does not seem to bleed.
12. You can leave a cake iced with Pastry Pride out of the refrigerator for at least 24 hours. Just remember, the longer it stays out the drier it becomes. Sometimes tiny cracks will also develop on the skin.
Thanks cakesondemand! I'm def. adding all of your info to my cake folder of knowledge. =)


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