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Again, after a delay brought on by a bout Real Life (tm), we return to bring you updates on the state of Konsole, KDE's UNIX terminal program. Konsole has been a staple of KDE since KDE 1.0, as has been showing signs of a little bit of clutter and wear. So, Robert Knight has stepped in to clean up the program's code, and more than anything else, fix a cluttered and difficult interface. Read on for the details.
The goal of Konsole itself is pretty simple: provide a window to run a command prompt and command-line applications from. In fact, it has evolved from the very simple 'kvt' terminal program in the pre-KDE 1.0 days. An older KDE 1.x version of Konsole is pictured below:
Image courtesy of a (very old) book about Linux at linuxbook.orbdesigns.com licensed under the (also very old) Open Content License v1.
The version of Konsole from that era was very simple, but it wouldn't stay that way, as more and more features were added. Konsole users wanted transparency (shiny!), support for more text encoding schemes, ways to control every feature possible: Konsole ballooned into a monster. By KDE 3.x, it can best described as a highly-functional mess.
As an example of just how bad Konsole had become for KDE 3.x, I present the following screenshots, the first showing a normal Konsole window from KDE 3.5.6:
Possibly the worst settings menu of any KDE application in KDE 3.5.6 follows:
And if that isn't enough, actually going to the settings dialog makes the situation even worse.
If this isn't the most user-friendly theme dialog you've ever seen, then demand a refund. (I joke! It's actually terrible for many reasons, but the seemingly random nature of it is probably the best reason to dislike it).
The worst offenders are the settings menus, as you can see. An overly complex settings menu leads itself to an ugly settings dialog.
When the KDE 4 development series commenced, Robert Knight took over maintainership of Konsole. He decided that he would focus on bug reports and feature requests filed via the KDE Bugtracker, bugs.kde.org. Ever aware of the fact that users can be pretty picky about what features an application like Konsole needs to have, he created a few online surveys to help with the determination of the most common as well as fringe use cases. This feedback has driven much of the work.
The end result is a Konsole for KDE 4 that is visually very similar, functionally improved and with a settings system you can actually stomach. The screenshot below shows that the main window has not changed too much. The tabs are shown at the top in this screenshot, however Robert tells me that they have been defaulted to the bottom of the window as this article went to press. Additionally, you'll notice that the text on the tabs contains more helpful information. This is configurable is a friendly manner - see three shots down.
The once-intimidating settings menu now becomes very simple. It may look like the configuration options are gone, but they are still all available in a sanely organized fashion.
As you see below, the settings menu leads to a Profile selector, under which all the settings are kept separated. They are much more organized now, rather than an odd collection of random check boxes.
And lastly, the appearance people will appreciate this dialog: its implementation is effective and its use becomes obvious. Additionally, Robert has implemented style previews in an intuitive manner. As you mouse over the style, the Konsole window in the background automatically applies that style in an active preview. So you can very rapidly look through and appreciate the styles just by hovering over the list.
Side-by-side comparisons aside, Konsole also offers a number of other improvements. Among them, split-view mode, faster scrolling (thanks to a smarter line redrawing scheme), hotkeys and more.
Much of the inspiration for these improvements comes from analysing other programs. For example, the split-view mode, pictured below, is inspired by GNU Screen. It is a console output cloning tool so that you can see two views of the same scroll buffer. For example, if you are a developer, and you need to compile something really big (like say, KDE), then you can read through the scroll at your own pace on one side, while still monitor the output progress simultaneously. This is not a multi-panel model like Konqueror, so much as it is a cloning mode that lets you see more than one thing at a time within the same buffer. In this shot, the two sides are displaying the same output, just scrolled to different points.
There is friendly interaction between Konsole and some of its biggest users. In particular, Yakuake just recently implemented a Split View mode like the one listed above. When I asked Eike Hein about the relationship between the two projects, he said "I think Yakuake is beneficial to Konsole in KDE 4 in so much as Yakuake is a more demanding user of the Konsole KPart than most applications, so developing Yakuake has resulted in finding out a few things about how the KPart's interface can be improved :)"
Konsole has benefited from a few features that were requested by the Yakuake users. For example, there is a new hotkey that pops the terminal up and down quickly. This was in response to requests from the Yakuake users when Robert did his interface survey. Of course, like all things KDE, it is configurable. With Robert at the helm, it is even more user-friendly to configure it.
Future plans for Konsole include, among other things, ideas such as: tear off tabs, a commandline configuration interface, and making tea. I asked Robert if it would one day make coffee, but he's British and much prefers it to make tea it seems. Perhaps when it obtains beverage-making abilities, this argument will resurface once again. :)
On a side note, this is the first time I have attempted to write my article from within KDE 4 itself. While a few applications were not stable enough to use, including Kicker (which is dying anyway), the experience was good enough that I will probably do the same henceforth. Now that the libraries have mostly settled down (with a few exceptions), the changes are becoming more apparent in the applications. I'll be keeping an eye out for more things to feature in this series, but the next topic should be the KWin window manager, barring any major problems. Cheers.
I was so going to write a flame about the placement of the tabs after looking at those screenshots, but I am much happier now that I've read the full article.
Nice work again, Troy, thanks! :)
I was so happy to see the tabs to be moved by default to a sensible position, but after reading the full article I have to write a flame. Why is KDE keeping this utterly nonsense setting as a default? Almost every other app (including Konq!) have the tabs on top, and users have come to expect the tabs being on top. Having them below the thing they are switching is confusing to a new user of the application.
Well, one reason for doing so could be Fitt's Law, which has things to say (amongst other things) about why pixels closer to the screen's edge are easier to hit with the mouse. Since Konsole has no status bar, the bottom edge of the window lacks anything to click, and as such it might as well be used for switching between views. This is just me hypothesising, of course, i have not spoken with anyone about it.
I do not know where the tabs should be. But on the bottom, it makes sense for terminals. In a terminal, most of the time, you are working right at the bottom, since this is where you type new commands and where the commands outputs arise.
The tabs are located where your eyes are monitoring. :-)
+1, right on spot.
I use Konsole a lot, and everything that happens is at the bottom of it: the last line you type in the terminal, and switching tabs. I seldom use the menu, and everything which is located at the top of the terminal window is stuff I typed some time ago (ie: my history), which I also seldom want to access.
So by having the tabs at the bottom, all the action in a terminal is happening in the bottom part of the window, and the rarely used stuff is "stored" in the top part of the window.
In Konqueror, the tabs are in the top part because the stuff you do with it involve: using the menu (more often than in a terminal), typing something in the adress bar, clicking on an icon in your toolbar, or a link in your bookmarks toolbar, which are all elements located at the top of the window. So this is where the tabs should go as well.
Even though my eyes might be on the bottom, my mouse is on top of the window, where it mostly is. I am used to go to the top to scroll tabs, like in Konqueror, so I prefer it the same in Konsole. But hey, it's configurable, I don't really care for the default in this case as I think neither one is really worse.
you use a mouse for changing tabs?
I just set konsole to use ctrl-, and ctrl-. like all my other tabbed programs.
btw, konsole has default shortcuts shift+cursor keys to cycle through tabs (and shift+ctrl+cursor keys to move them).
I totally agree with you on this one! It absolutely makes sence to have it at the bottom(for me at least), your eyes will be there when you're working and so it's easier to switch them.
Good reason. Aesthetically I like them on the bottom to balance out the menu. Having both at the top leaves the window looking top heavy, with the bottom looking somehow bare. Of course, all the action happening at the bottom is a better reason ;)
Note that by this logic, tabs should be also at the bottom for web browsers: usually you change tab when you're finished reading a webpage..
Bah, it doesn't really matter as it's easy to change..
> Having them below the thing they are switching is confusing
> to a new user of the application.
Most of the time when working in the terminal, your eyes are at the bottom of the screen reading the most recent output. It therefore makes sense to place the tabs there as well so that it isn't necessary to shift your gaze up and down the screen continually. The same logic applies to Kopete where new messages appear at the bottom of the window.
A web page however is different since the most interesting content, which means new articles, news, product information etc. appears at the top of the screen. Power users will have their bookmarks there as well. In that case it makes sense to put the tabs at the top, as Konqueror/Firefox/Internet Explorer do.
I can understand why it might seem conceptually better to have every application's tabs work the same way, but it doesn't take into account differences in how users work with those applications.
Agreed, coherency is *good*.
It depends
I think Konsole is a thing where you have your eyes usually on the last lines of the output and the very last line very you enter your command (Unlike a Web-Browser, etc..). So basically having the tabs near that area makes sense to me and i like it that way.
Totally agree.
Man, all this talk about *where* the tabs are is good for one thing...
proving that the ability to change settings is a good thing. I use the keys to navigate through tabs as well but if I don't like where they are located, I just *change* their position. I mean the author *did* spend a lot of time asking us where to put them *and* how the settings and configuration screens should work!
I say "STOP CRYING AND USE THE TOOLS KONSOLE GIVES YOU... PUT THEM WHERE YOU LIKE"!
It looks just awesome! :)
Really looking forward for the first Beta release.
Once again, great job Troy!
Could you please fix the first and third screenshot? The first one says "The requested URL /dannya/vol14_1x_konsole.png was not found on this server." when clicked, and the third one links to the second one (vol14_356_konsole.png).
I did the survey even if I'm not an active Konsole user - I prefer more 'lightweighted' terminals (I do use Yakuake for irssi though). But it's always fun when you can make your voice heard and help supporting KDE.
I have to say that the improvements look very nice, specially the new interface. This was not mentioned (I think) in the article, but true transparency is something I look forward to see (Yakuake + true transparency = love)
True transparency for 4.0 has been coded, however it is currently disabled by default as it breaks on machines that do not have proper composite support. This seems to be an issue encountered by quite a number of programs, with each program having to independently implement tests for composite support. Perhaps something should get factored into a library so that this problem goes away.
About the broken links - Danny will probably have to fix them as I do not have editor access to dot content. I'm just submitting my articles using the contribute link on the side.
Found the reason for one of the broken links: it needs a .jpg extension instead of dot .png. Still not certain of the other one.
> with each program having to independently implement tests
> for composite support
bool KWindowSystem::compositingActive();
so that excuse is gone =)
Could you communicate this directly to Troy in case he doesn't read these comments again? [/irony for using the comments to make this request]
Fortunately I do read these comments, and if Robert hasn't already made the change by the time I'm home from the uni, then I'll do it myself :)
KDE 3 + compiz = Yakuake + true transparency ;).
You can have it right here right now! (I also love the effect, especially cool with a video window in the background :)) Would love to see the compiz coolness reimplemented in a compositing version of KWin :).
You have your wish. This is already implemented in KWin for KDE 4. I have an article in progress on this topic.
Mistake: in the title blurb, it should read KDE 1.0, not 2.0. I have it correct in the body. This should probably be corrected before other sites start to pick up the header. My fault, sorry.
Please, could you check and fix the links (on the images). Some are not working (404) and some leads to the wrong pictures :( .
Well, at last something interesting for real
users in KDE4 instead of useless eyecandy :P
Thanks Robert :)
So... Solid, Phonon, Akonadi and Nepomuk are now classed as eyecandy, and even the useless sort... *giggles* i must say i find this an intriguing concept ;)
And just to clarify the importance of these to your "real users": All of these make it considerably simpler and more consistent to handle hardware, multimedia, PIM and data respectively. So, it is all stuff that works behind the scenes, but that does not mean it's not good for "real users".
I am waiting to see some USEFUL eyecandy being implemented, for the benefit of real users :P. Per-window settable transparency, compizey Alt+Tab switcher, and MacOS-Expose-alike feature - those are things I would like to see in compositing KWin!
Your wish is, uhm... well, not my command... But it seems Lubos' ;) http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2787
... is already available in KDE 3.5.6, and has been for several microversions at least. Admittedly, the UI could be made rather more intuitive, but it works, at least for those using a good composite-active xorg and xorg graphics driver.
1. Make sure your xorg graphics driver has composite support and that you have composite turned on in your xorg.conf.
2. In the kcontrol Window behavior applet, on the Translucency tab, activate the Use translucency and shadows checkbox and OK thru the warning if you get one. On the Opacity sub-tab, set your system-wide translucency default levels for the various window types (Active, Inactive, Moving, Dock, and the "keep above" as active checkbox). OK out and restart KDE if necessary (from my experience, it appears if it starts with translucency enabled you can turn it on and off as desired, but if it starts off, you have to restart KDE to turn it on).
That activates it in general. To change specific types of windows (window classes) from the defaults:
3. In the Window specific settings applet (reachable from the control panel, the setting menu, or the the window menu for a specific window), create a new config for your specific window type as necessary. Then on the Preferences tab, set the Active and Inactive opacity as desired. (There's no window class default for moving windows, that's a system-wide default only, AFAIK.)
That sets the general defaults for specific classes/categories of windows, and/or specific apps, depending on how strictly you set the matching for the specific window settings. For individual windows:
4. In the window menu for each window, there's an Opacity option. If you want a specific window set to something other than the system or window class defaults, set this. Since this is for a specific window, unlike the general system-wide and window class defaults, it applies only as long as the window exists. It also appears to apply to the /active/ state only, since the window is by definition activated (at least with the settings I have here) when you activate its menu, so it's the active window settings that apply and are adjusted. Unfortunately, I know of no way to set inactive window transparency for a specific window, only at the system and window class levels. Still, the window class settings are likely to suffice in most cases.
BTW, there are still occasional bugs where KWin apparently gets mixed up and forgets to set a specific window to its usual state. I most often see this when a window says at "inactive" transparency even after it has been activated. Opening the window menu and clicking on the button under Opacity returns it to the usual defaults, thus fixing the transparency issue for that window temporarily. I don't have to do this often, but it does happen occasionally.
So yes, there's definitely per-window transparency available in current KDE, with active/moving/inactive defaults configurable at the system level, active/inactive defaults for specific window classes configurable as exceptions, and individual active window settings configurable as exceptions to the class or system defaults.
FWIW, I'm using an ATI Radeon 9200, as it's one of the last cards ATI actually cooperated with the X community on, releasing specs and even sponsoring some open development. Naturally, I'm running the native freedomware xorg driver, with exa rendering (MUCH more CPU efficient than xaa), and yes, it supports composite quite well. =8^)
It's getting a bit dated now, but I've a screenshot of my dual monitor desktop, taken back when I was running KDE 3.5.1 and xorg 7.0, with composite and transparency enabled. (You can see in the screenshot how much CPU it was chewing, far left sysguard graph, 100%. Things are far better now, with it generally using ~10% of a single CPU, same Opteron 242s.)
Yeah, I know about all this. The problem is, I want to simply change the transparency at will, without going thorugh 10 dialogs... In compiz (default config) you simply move the cursor over the window, and use Alt-Mousewheel...
In Kwin for KDE 4, if you right click on the titlebar, there is an opacity option in the menu that lets you quickly select some of the more common values very rapidly. Alt+Mousewheel makes sense though, since the window manager already captures most ALT+MouseKey type actions for resize, move, etc...
> compizey Alt+Tab switcher, and MacOS-Expose-alike feature
This isn't useful, but eyecandy.
I think Exposé is one of those eyecandy things that can also be classified as rather useful ;)
You obviously didn't use them, otherwise you would know how wrong you are :). Both make finding the right window you want to switch to MUCH faster. Suppose you have four Konsoles open, one of them make'ing some app. Suppose you want to Alt-Tab switch to it. What is faster, finding the item with the right text on the list, or simply choosing that item which has constantly scrolling output in the live thumbnail? :)
I know it's in there now, but it's "fake" transparency. It just shows the background, no matter what. It also repaints a bit slow when moving the konsole window.
Real transparency is available in Konsole for KDE 4.0, it will require a desktop which supports transparency ( eg. Compiz or KDE 4's KWin ). Currently disabled until I fix some problems on desktops which don't support it.
KDE 3's fake transparency and image backgrounds are not included.
Additionally proper transparency is available in KDE 3.5.7 via a command-line argument ( --real-tranparency ) when starting Konsole, though that again causes glitches if enabled on desktops that don't support transparency.
> KDE 3's fake transparency and image backgrounds are not included.
Does this mean I can't use my favorite paper background ?
I wonder if it would be possible to implement (an optional) support for commandline use of kioslaves before implementing the tea feature?
In the sense that there would be on option: "Turn on transparent kio-slave interpretation" (or something) and then on the command line one could type something like "cat http://www.kde.org/" and konsole would use http-kioslave to retrieve the file and then feed it to bash (or whatever) as cat's parameter...
Oh well, down to submit a bug report :-)
kioexec cat http://www.kde.org
It'll even offer to upload back to the server if you modify the file. (works with fish, sftp, ftp, webdav, etc.)
How about integration by konsole sniffing for addresses from shell prompt and redirecting them transparenntly to kioexec?
After all, konsole is the layer between user and the shell... ;-)
how should this handle "wget http:\\dot.kde.org" ?
However, why is this still in kdenonbeta? Why isn't it in, for example, extragear?
Hmm, doesn't work properly:
fuse_kio /home/user/test fish://user@fishsomewhere
fuse_kio: fuse_opt.c:67: fuse_opt_insert_arg: Assertion `pos <= args->argc' failed.
Will everything still be configurable in the popup menu when the menu bar is hidden? I find it useful.
I don't think it is a good idea to put Encoding setting in some configuration dialog. I use it frequently and it is also in the menu in Kate and katepart based applications.
It's still there, under the View menu I believe. It's been reorganized to be sane as well. :)


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Never mind that man or woman sitting in the dark deciphering the pictures that reveal the inner workings of your body.
It's common knowledge in medicine that many radiologists pick the lucrative specialty ( averaging about $315,000 in pay a year) because the hours are fairly predictable and the typical work doesn't require dealing with patients.
But radiology has an image problem with patients, it seems. Many of them don't know who the doctors are or what they do.
Only about half of patients surveyed when receiving a CT scan thought radiologists were physicians, according to results presented this week at the Radiological Society of North America's annual meeting in Chicago.
Why would it be any different? Radiologists, like pathologists, work in the background giving information to other doctors who diagnose and treat patients.
Patients meet the techs who put them in MRI and CT scanners or lay them down on an X-ray table. And maybe at the end of it all, patients get a disk with the pictures and a jargon-filled report of what the radiologists found.
There are exceptions, of course. Take interventional radiologists, who very definitely get to know you as they snake catheters throughout your body. And radiologists who specialize in breast imaging often work directly with patients.
Still, the radiologists from Indiana University who conducted the survey of more than 300 patients scanned at an affiliated hospital say their findings suggest patients would like to know more.
The vast majority — about 83 percent — were interested or very interested in getting a copy of their radiology reports. Nearly two-thirds would like to be able to find out more about the radiologists from website bios.
What about laying eyes on them? "We didn't answer the question, 'Do they want to meet us face to face,' " Dr. Peter Miller, a radiology resident who worked on the study, tells Shots. "But they do want to know more about us."
Miller says he and his colleagues "think ideally that radiologists do need to step out of the reading room...." It may be "economically impractical" for radiologists racing to interpret lots of images in a hurry to do much of that, he concedes. But, Miller says, "we need to find practical solutions to address the desires of patients."
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Just Watch Out for the Buttercream Boulder
Sunday, November 30, 2008
And here's the money shot [smirk]:
Now how cool is that: Lori over at Clever Cake Studio lives up to the name by providing a little marzipan bag for the famous switch! Really, I think more cakes out there should encourage us to recreate famous movie scenes before eating them.
Thanks to Pip and the rest of y'all who shared the link with me.
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- K.Lee said...
That is AWESOME!!!! OMG.
- November 30, 2008 at 9:28 AM
- November 30, 2008 at 9:29 AM
- Unknown said...
SHe even mentions keeping her cakes off Cakewrecks a post or so down. At least she made the SUnday Sweets. The cakes I saw, like four or so pictures are really good.
- November 30, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- Boozy Tooth said...
Way cool - in an overgrown viney ancient Mayan temple kind of way. But where are the cobras?
Alixandra Hice
http://casahice.blogspot.com - November 30, 2008 at 9:41 AM
- Angie McCullagh said...
But I wonder how it tastes...
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com) - November 30, 2008 at 9:50 AM
- www.AForestFrolic.typepad.com said...
Ha, pretty neat!
- November 30, 2008 at 9:57 AM
- Laura said...
When you order this cake, is it delivered by Harrison Ford???
- November 30, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Looks very cool! Although I am not sure I would have painted the vines on as this would be the place for some piping...
And Alix, as a HUGE fan of this film, there were no snakes in this part of the film. Just tarantulas earlier on. It could be nice to place one or two around for some extra decor! - November 30, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Is it just me, or do those vines look like mold spreading out over the cake?
- November 30, 2008 at 10:39 AM
- An Apron Straitjacket said...
The little money bag is the best.
- November 30, 2008 at 10:52 AM
- Unknown said...
When you switch the marzipan bag does a boulder-shaped cake come falling down and roll towards you?
- November 30, 2008 at 10:59 AM
A for concept
A for design
A+ for sand bag accessory
B- on those vines... perhaps a little dimension would help - November 30, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- testing thing said...
So cool! I'm glad this one made the cut. I love your buttercream and money shot jokes. You are great at this, plus I love cheap puns.
Keep up the good work! - November 30, 2008 at 11:14 AM
Now that is fantastic!!
- November 30, 2008 at 12:09 PM
I didn't realize this was a Sunday Sweet and was repulsed by the "mold" that is all over this cake. My stomach still hasn't recovered...
- November 30, 2008 at 12:41 PM
jodith, i see the mold, too...
but i really like the money bag ^^ - November 30, 2008 at 1:04 PM
I don't really like it. At first glance, it made me think back to those really old display cakes. Maybe it's the color or the vines, but something got me where I probably wouldn't eat it, lol. But it's still a great idea and talented piece.
- November 30, 2008 at 1:35 PM
- Amy Ellen said...
Oh I like this. I do like the movie and game theme cakes, as long as they are well done of course.
Amy - November 30, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Sorry, but it does look like mold.. I thought that it was blue cheese frosting at first.. :)
Cute concept though, especially with the bag switch. Didn't he just fill the bag with dirt, though? - November 30, 2008 at 1:47 PM
- RainGirlLori said...
I was woken up this morning by a text message telling me to look at Cake Wrecks. This is rather awesome. Thanks! Also, good point on the vines. They don't look quite as bad in person, but yeah, next time, piping. :)
- November 30, 2008 at 2:18 PM
The bag o' dirt is my favorite also. We need more action cakes!
And thanks Jen for the heads-up on GWS. This was worth a repeat, but the warning helped avoid pouting.
Alex - November 30, 2008 at 2:56 PM
how is this a wreck? it's an amazing cake, it doesn't belong on this blog.
- November 30, 2008 at 3:17 PM
That is incredible, I love it!
- November 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Sorry. It looks WAAAAAY too much like mold.
- November 30, 2008 at 4:29 PM
- Latitude said...
I, too, did not realize this was Sunday, and thought it was a mold covered cake. I was thinking maybe another display cake that had outlived it's welcome. It must look better in person! :)
- November 30, 2008 at 5:00 PM
I agree, flat vines = mold, but everything else is top-notch! And you had a terrific idea: Great Cake Movie Moments. My short list would include the Marilyn/subway scene (perfect for a sheet cake) the Thelma & Lousie cliffhanger (definitely multi-tiered) and something based on Invasion of the Body-Snatchers (cupcake pods?).
- November 30, 2008 at 5:05 PM
- Mari said...
Looks cool, I obviously need to see the movie again so I understand why it looks that way!
- November 30, 2008 at 5:11 PM
- Debbi said...
Hey Anonymous ~ Sundays are the day Jen sets aside for the awesome cakes! Definitely not the "wrecks" ... these are the good ones!
- November 30, 2008 at 5:39 PM
Ew. fermented bleu cheese sculpture.
NO THANKS! - November 30, 2008 at 6:57 PM
- Wendy said...
Very cute idea! The vines need to be re-thought. Like some other viewers, I also thought it was another moldy cake at first glance. But what a creative idea...and the sand bag--genius! Can't wait to see the new and improved version!
- November 30, 2008 at 8:23 PM
How in God's name did she do those vines? That is an AWESOME cake and I'm not even a rabid ROTLA fan! I don't think the coloring is offputting at all, although I'd hate to cut into a cake that lovely I'd definitely eat it!
PS. PEOPLE. READ. Sundays are reserved for Sunday Sweets which are cakes exquisitely and artistically done. The opposite of cake wrecks. - November 30, 2008 at 8:39 PM
Nice! I'm all about 80's movie cakes. I'd pay big money for a St. Elmo's fire cake!
http://robotballoon2.wordpress.com/ - November 30, 2008 at 8:54 PM
- Hyena Overlord said...
That cake is so wonderful. Her site has some more really cute ones. I like the dead cow.
I could eat the whole ROTLA cake and any buttercream boulders that happen by.
wvotd undan...."if I divorced would I have to perform an "undan"? " His name is Dan*LOL* - November 30, 2008 at 8:56 PM
- sweettc said...
i happen to like this cake. I like how on her blog she learns from her mistakes. She said in her blog that is gonna start taking a pipping class. she never once calls her self a pro. I happen to think she did a good job.
- November 30, 2008 at 9:25 PM
- Marissa said...
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- Jen Vesper said...
Very fun idea. Love the money bag! I wish I would have looked at this a few days ago before I did mine!
- December 1, 2008 at 12:39 AM
- Eva Smith said...
I agree with the mold people! It's gross.
- December 1, 2008 at 2:31 AM
- Christina said...
This belongs in a museum!
- December 1, 2008 at 4:27 AM
I agree with many previous commenters--the cake is clearly well-executed, and the bag-switch is a clever idea, but the vines give it an unappetizing look.
- December 1, 2008 at 4:49 AM
- Boozy Tooth said...
Gosh, I just LOVE coming to Cake Wrecks to find my comments critiqued and criticized (wink), because God knows I don't get enough of that from my teenagers. No worries fellow Cake Wreck fans; I humbly risk my dignity for the privilege of being among you.
Word verification: "bringus" as in bring it! - December 1, 2008 at 9:25 AM
Hey, I'm all for recreating famous movie scenes in cake. So, what's next on the list: George Romero, or early Peter Jackson? (I'd gleefully pay good money for a Meet The Feebles cake, just to watch the expressions of my guests when I served it at a birthday party.)
- December 1, 2008 at 10:11 AM
- Unknown said...
to be fair, the post does not indicate "sunday sweets" in the title, which it usually does, so i can understand the confusion.
also, thumbs down on the vines, but the idea and everything else look great! - December 1, 2008 at 1:36 PM
- Unknown said...
Too cool!
- December 2, 2008 at 12:28 AM
I agree with the mold comments! Great idea but at first i thought it was a wreck, not a Sunday sweet!
- December 2, 2008 at 12:34 AM
- The Zebra said...
IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL. - December 2, 2008 at 5:39 AM
Whoa! I don't want to eat that. I want to either take a picha of it or put it in a museum.
- December 2, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Mmm, moldy fondant.
- December 3, 2008 at 8:25 PM
- badfae said...
I LOVE it!
- January 27, 2009 at 4:54 AM
- PrincessGreen17 said...
That is adorable!!
- July 21, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Cupcakes Lady said...
If delivered by Harrison Ford, I would definitely buy this cake ;) xx
- October 13, 2010 at 7:05 AM
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Oven Baked Scrambled Eggs - Outdoor Wednesday
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I lay no claim to loaves and fishes, but eggs for the multitude is another story. While I do eggs of all types, including Benedict and Florentine, once there are more than six people at the breakfast table, my unembarrassed version of the Marquess of Queensberry rules of the kitchen kick in. Those rules allow you to have scrambled eggs anyway you like them. My friend Louie got the recipe for me from a fire-breathing chef that only he could charm. The recipe defines simplicity, so I thought I could take a little time and share some egg trivia with you before we get to it. Did you know that weight determines how eggs are classified and sized? Small eggs weigh 12-ounces per dozen. The scale then climbs with weight per dozen being 15-ounces (medium), 18-ounces (large), 21-ounces (extra-large) and 24-ounces (jumbo). One large egg is about a 1/4 cup. While that's not important to many, size does matter, especially to bakers. If you try to bake a cake or souffle with jumbo eggs, you're in trouble before you start. The way around this, of course, is using equivalent measures. The color of a shell or the color of a yolk is no guarantee of quality. Eggs are like apples and color means little. Everyone knows that cracked eggs should be thrown away. Did you know that clean eggs can be kept at room temperature for several days? I'm not recommending that as a storage technique. I'm a bit of a traditionalist and prefer to keep mine in the refrigerator where they can be safely stored for up to six weeks. Eggs should be brought to room temperature before starting to work with them. It takes about 30 minutes to bring an egg to room temperature, so plan accordingly. Today's recipe can truly feed the multitudes. The recipe can be doubled or tripled as long as you have no more than 24 eggs in one 9 x 13-inch pan. Here's how it's done.
Oven Baked Scrambled Eggs...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
Ingredients for 6 or 12:
3 to 6 tablespoons melted butter
12 to 24 large eggs
1 to 2-1/4 teaspoons salt
1/4 to 1/2 cup sour cream
1 to 2 cups milk
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray an 8 x 11-inch glass pan with cooking spray if using 12 eggs. Spray a 9 x 13-inch glass pan if using 24 eggs. Pour butter into baking dish.
2) Beat eggs, salt sour cream and milk in a large bowl. When completely blended, pour egg mixture into pan.
3) Bake uncovered for 10 minutes. Stir well, folding sides and bottom toward center and top of pan. Bake for an additional 10 to 15 minutes, or until eggs are set but still soft. Fluff with fork to form curds. Serve immediately. Yield: 6 to 12 servings.
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41 comments :
- Light and Voices said...
Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks for the recipe. I will use it when there are more than six at a table for breakfast at our house.
Joyce M - November 25, 2009 at 1:06 AM
- Patricia @ ButterYum said...
Great post Mary. Because of the way eggs are now being weighed (per carton rather than individually), it's very possible for a carton to contain eggs that are vastly different in size. All the more reason to weigh them, especially when baking!
Also, egg yolks have been shrinking in recent years. Yet again, all the more reason to weigh them.
A quick way to bring eggs to room temp, place them into a bowl of warm water. They will be ready to use in just a few minutes. - November 25, 2009 at 2:22 AM
- Patricia @ ButterYum said...
PS - can't wait to try your oven method!
Happy Thanksgiving!
ButterYum - November 25, 2009 at 2:24 AM
- Maia T said...
What a great post and so many useful info. Your eggs look delicious.
Thanks for sharing the recipe. - November 25, 2009 at 2:27 AM
- KathyB. said...
What an excellent recipe for a family ( us ) who has a lot of chickens producing a lot of eggs,and this weekend, a LOT of people here for breakfast.
This would be nice accompanied by your maple butter on homemade biscuits! - November 25, 2009 at 3:02 AM
- RA said...
Yummy, yummy! Thanks for sharing the recipe. Have a wonderful week and holiday :)
- November 25, 2009 at 3:48 AM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
Such a great way to fix eggs for a crowd--they look wonderful.
- November 25, 2009 at 4:26 AM
- Unknown said...
your serving of scrambled eggs makes me hungry! thanks for the recipe--will do it this weekend.:p
- November 25, 2009 at 4:33 AM
- P. said...
I never ate oven kaked eggs but it looks so good I will try it.
ALfazema - November 25, 2009 at 4:51 AM
- Maggie said...
I was intrigued to see how scrambled eggs could feature in an Outdoor Wednesday post but you got me straight away with the roosters!
Thanks for making me smile today. - November 25, 2009 at 5:27 AM
- My Little Space said...
So lovely! I'm sure you're getting busy busy busy with all the preparation for this coming thanksgiving. However, Happy Thanksgiving to you & your family. Have a great time. Cheers.
- November 25, 2009 at 5:43 AM
- Kat said...
The same rule applies at our house, but I use the rule of 4. Small kitchen, cantankerous stove! Thanks for the recipe, I had no idea you could scramble eggs in the oven. Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Kathy
- November 25, 2009 at 8:26 AM
- bj said...
Wow...baked scrambled eggs! How can one live as long as I have and never heard of these?? Sounds so nice and easy for a crowd. Thanks much for the recipe.
Happy Thanksgiving... - November 25, 2009 at 8:32 AM
- Inspired by eRecipeCards said...
A timely recipe, bet a lot of folks will be cooking breakfast in the morning when we really want everyone out of our kitchen... one dish feed em and make em watch the parade... And I love the idea of the sour cream
Happy Thanksgiving - November 25, 2009 at 8:37 AM
- George Gaston said...
Mary, this is a wonderful recipe to have with the holidays upon us. I love a big family breakfast, put it is so hard to have everything on the table at once. But this recipe does the work, so the cook can concentrate on other things.
Many thanks and I hope you & your family have a terrific blessed Thanksgiving Day. - November 25, 2009 at 8:48 AM
- Cathy said...
Happy Thanksgiving, Mary. What a great way to prepare scrambled eggs for a group. They're always a favorite.
- November 25, 2009 at 8:58 AM
- storyteller said...
Sounds delicious and practical too! Love the speckled hens ;-)
I'm celebrating my 1st Blogoversary at Happily Retired Gal and sharing photos of Molly at Dog Beach at Small Reflections. Happy Thanksgiving!
Hugs and blessings, - November 25, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- Lori said...
I did not know that about eggs- good info. And this is a great idea for a lot of breakfast eaters.
- November 25, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- LV said...
Guess I will pass on this breakfast as I am not a big egg eater. Wish I was having lunch with you Thursday. I know it ill be a meal fit for a king. Blessings always.
- November 25, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- annies home said...
wow I was very impressed never knew you could do scrambled eggs in the oven
- November 25, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- Lea Ann said...
mmmmm this looks good. I've never baked eggs. Can't wait to give it a try. Happy Thanksgiving
- November 25, 2009 at 10:14 AM
- Debbie said...
I'm an egg person and never knew some of the tips you wrote about eggs. Thanks Mary, your blog is so informative...I love the way the scrambled eggs look and the recipe sounds great. Have a nice Thanksgiving!
- November 25, 2009 at 11:03 AM
- The Blonde Duck said...
Those sound like proper scrambled eggs. I hate runny or squishy ones--these look soft and tasty!
Happy Thanksgiving! - November 25, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Yum! I DO LOVE scrambled eggs. :)
- November 25, 2009 at 1:39 PM
- The Quintessential Magpie said...
Mary, I'm really glad to have this recipe. We eat eggs ALL the time, and these sound wonderful. This is one thing I'm really good at fixing. I guess my dab of French ancestry kicks in or something. ;-)
I'm also glad to know the difference in the size of eggs. That really does make a difference in cooking. If you are in a bind and there is only one choice of egg, is it better to err to the larger egg or the smaller one? I would tend to go larger. I have a thing for eggs. ;-)
Thanks for the recipe. I'm copying this one for Christmas entertaining.
Sheila :-) - November 25, 2009 at 2:37 PM
- Mollye said...
Hi Mary I was thinking of you and wanted to stop in and wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. I can only imagine the wonderful aroma in your home today! Bon appetit', Mollye
- November 25, 2009 at 3:03 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Sheila, if I can't for whatever reason get large eggs, I'd opt for the next larger size. I would then beat the egg and measure, skimming off any excess over 1/4 cup.
- November 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Pam said...
I've never baked scrambled eggs before - they look perfectly done.
I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving Mary - see you next week. - November 25, 2009 at 3:11 PM
- Maria said...
The eggs look perfect. Happy Thanksgiving Mary!
- November 25, 2009 at 3:24 PM
- Sam Hoffer / My Carolina Kitchen said...
I've never baked scrambled eggs in the oven before but it sounds like a terrific idea. I don't like them overcooked (as I did as a child).
Happy Thanksgiving Mary.
Sam - November 25, 2009 at 5:18 PM
- Sara's Sweet Surprise said...
Mary~ I'm strolling in to catch up and especially to wish you and your loved ones a Happy Thanksgiving!
It's such a wonderful time to stop and reflect on all those we cherish and are truly grateful for.
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to visit and leave feeling inspired!
Even though our Thanksgiving is very small in number, with hubby and son (we don't count the cat cause she doesn't like turkey). We don't scrimp on the menu...from appetizers to desserts with several carb loaded dishes in between! We will be enjoying tryptophan playoffs too!
Sweet Holiday wishes,
Sara - November 25, 2009 at 8:21 PM
- Claudia said...
I do love this - I use sour cream and chives all summer ... when I ... errr. .. have chives! Yes, Eggs benedict gets tricky when there's a lot at your table. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
- November 25, 2009 at 9:43 PM
- eileeninmd said...
Happy Thanksgiving! I would have never thought about baking scambled eggs. Yum sounds good.
- November 26, 2009 at 5:45 AM
- Ms.Daisy said...
This recipe for eggs is one I'm definitely going to try - and it sounds so easy! Happy Thanksgiving!
~Jean - November 26, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- Jamie said...
This is really a terrific recipe! Now I should plan a brunch!
- November 26, 2009 at 12:40 PM
- pigpigscorner said...
wow I've never baked scrambled eggs before. Have to give this a go soon!
- November 26, 2009 at 2:47 PM
- Ms.Daisy said...
I love this recipe for baked eggs...I'm going to try this very soon! Wishing you and yours a very Happy Thanksgiving!
~Jean - November 27, 2009 at 11:34 AM
- Katy ~ said...
What a hoot! Sour cream? Gotta try this one. Love my scrambled eggs so this looks appealing.
- November 28, 2009 at 11:57 AM
- free online adventure games said...
Wow ok, reading your story just made me realise how little I know about handling eggs. I generally just take the eggs out of the fridge and use them straightaway. But this is definitely an interesting recipe. I've never thought to use the oven to cook scrambled eggs.
- November 29, 2009 at 10:05 PM
I can't wait to try this. I have 10 children & making eggs for them all takes forever on my little frying pan in small quantities. This will speed things up for sure! Thanks!
- June 22, 2012 at 12:37 PM
- Shella said...
Love scrambled egg anytime, n this is a great recipe. Love the idea of adding sour cream. Can just imagine the taste
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Since the Super Bowl is the most watched television broadcast each year, it would make sense that their commercials warrant nearly as many viewers as the game itself (roughly 100+ million a year). Companies go all out with their commercials for the big game to help push a product they sell that will last in the viewers' memories as they venture out into our consumer-based world. Since so many commercials take the over-the top route with the Super Bowl, every company tries to top their contemporaries to the point where a multitude of people tune into the game simply for the commercials themselves. We hope you're ready for beer, yogurt, girls and cars, because Morpheus, puppies, supervillains, Arnold and a whole mess of other amazing things are included with the 10 Best Super Bowl Commercials of 2014.
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"Time Machine"
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Dannon OikosThis Greek yogurt commercial for the Super Bowl features an actual Greek actor, John Stamos. What's great about this commercial is that it reunites Uncle Jesse with Dave Coulier and Bob Saget as the fathers of the hit 90s show "Full House". The TV show's best friend trio of Uncle Jesse, Uncle Joey and Danny Tanner used to live together to help Danny raise his three young daughters after Danny's wife was killed in a car accident a few years prior (but we mainly remember the show for its hilarious comedy). In the commercial, Stamos (who was a 90s heartthrob), is eating Dannon Oikos yogurt in front of a seductive woman. John spills some yogurt down his chin and the lady kisses it off of his face. In the absolute greatest move ever done in the history of flirting, Uncle Jesse purposely spills the yogurt on his lap. But to his surprise, his friends have been watching and the commercial ends with full intervention.
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"Slow Bark"
CarMaxBefore you watch "Slow Bark" and shrug, simply dismissing it as only cute, watch CarMax's original commercial, "Slow Clap" first. "Slow Clap" is a mundane, but funny, commercial of a man buying a used car from a CarMax lot. As he leaves the dealer, he starts to receive a slow clap from everyone that he passes (much like what happens in Sports / Drama films). "Slow Bark" is the same exact commercial, but simply done with puppies instead of people. Since puppies can't really clap on their own, they all bark in their squeaky, newborn voices.
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"British Villains Rendezvous"
JaguarIn Jaguar's "British Villains Rendezvous", Sir Ben Kingley makes an excellent point. And this commercial simply echoes Kingley's claim that Hollywood films always use British actors to portray their villains. What better actors could Jaguar have used but Ben Kingley, Tom Hiddleston and Mark Strong to help remind us that British supervillains are awesome. The Mandarin, Loki and Sinestro prove that British villains bring about a sense of class and tend to be Machiavellian masterminds. To that degree, they deserve the most stylish and up-to-date vehicles - Jaguars.
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"The Truth"
KiaMorpheus is back! In Kia's Matrix-inspired commercial, "The Truth", a couple go to a valet booth to try and retrieve their parked car. To their surprise, the man with the keys is Morpheus (played by a returning Laurence Fishburne). Fishburne continues to do an excellent rendition of his famous pieces of dialogue from "The Matrix" that help bridge the gap in the layman's mind between Kia and luxury. And if you thought that fighting in the Matrix was amazing, wait until you hear the singing.
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"Puppy Love"
BudweiserWe're only halfway through the 10 Best Super Bowl Commercials of 2014 and we've already encountered Morpheus, supervillains, the dads from "Full House", puppies acting like people and a grizzly bear eating yogurt. And with "Puppy Love" by Budweiser, we have an even cuter puppy commercial. Building on last year's Clydesdale horse commercial by Budweiser, a Golden Retriever has recently given birth to puppies, and its owner wants to give them up for adoption. Unfortunately, one of the pups has found a true friend at the farm next door, and trying to separate them only leads to one of the most adorable, heartwarming things we have ever seen.
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"What Can Tim Tebow Do with No Contract?"
T-MobileOh Tim Tebow, how we tried to forget your run with the Patriots. Nevertheless, we miss your signature pose and your overall great attitude towards life. That's why in T-Mobile's "What Can Tim Tebow Do with No Contract?" commercial, we're glad to see Tebow living up to the potential we originally had for him. Tim can be seen delivering a baby like he was doing a football snap, saving puppies from a burning building, putting a stunt car in the air and even tackling Bigfoot. The only reason why this commercial didn't score higher on the list was because Tim didn't do his signature knee-drop during the ad. And only two people in the world are famous for knee-drops, Ric Flair and Tim Tebow.
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"The Phone Call"
RadioShackThere's one big reason why we loved RadioShack's Super Bowl commercial: nostalgia. Dozens of our favorite faces from 1980s pop culture have returned to help take down RadioShack's walls as they prepare to modernize itself and change with the market of electronic products. Chucky from the 'Child's Play' series, Ponch from 'CHiPs', Cliff from 'Cheers', Sgt. Slaughter, Hulk Hogan, Dee Snider from Twisted Sister, Slim Goodbody and 'Alf' the alien are just some of the awesome names that appear to help get rid of the RadioShack shops of old. To top it all off, there was even a DeLorean that sped away with all of RadioShack's old stuff! Unfortunately, there were no 'Gremlins' in the commercial.
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"Ian Up For Whatever"
Bud LightThis Bud Light commercial is the quintessential Super Bowl ad. It's got everything you want - Arnold, Don Cheadle with a llama, Minka Kelly, Reggie Watts and even a surprise concert. "Ian Up For Whatever" depicts the adventures of Ian, a simple guy who was just sitting at a bar by himself. A beautiful girl named Kelly handed him a Bud Light, asked if he was willing to do anything that would happen next, and Ian said he was simply down for whatever. What happens afterwards, is without a doubt, the greatest night on the town that any person can ever have.
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"The Mega Huge Football Game Ad Newcastle Could Have Made"
NewcastleBefore you watch the video for our top spot of the 10 Best Super Bowl commercial of 2014, we hope that you take the time to read exactly why we chose Newcastle without simply skipping to the video itself. In order to appreciate how funny Anna Kendrick's Behind the Scenes comments on Newcastle's failed ad campaign was, you should watch the other videos of Newcastle's failed ad campaign (click here to see the rest of the campaign). The campaign starts off with a concept sketch depicting the most ridiculous and expensive commercial to ever be made (featuring a non-CGI, skyscraper-size robot) and Keyshawn Johnson as a skateboarding cat. Watching Keyshawn Johnson's comments to him being a cat, the focus group's response to the commercial and Anna Kendrick commenting at how much Newcastle failed had us cracking up the whole time. Newcastle's purposely-failed campaign parodies everything we love about Super Bowl commercials and Anna Kendrick's final comments left us in gut-busting laughter after watching the entire campaign.


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The Entry into Jerusalem.* 1a When they drew near Jerusalem and came to Bethphage* on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2saying to them, "Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass tethered, and a colt with her.* Untie them and bring them here to me. 3And if anyone should say anything to you, reply, 'The master has need of them.' Then he will send them at once." 4* This happened so that what had been spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:
5b "Say to daughter Zion,
'Behold, your king comes to you,
meek and riding on an ass,
and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.'"
6The disciples went and did as Jesus had ordered them. 7* They brought the ass and the colt and laid their cloaks over them, and he sat upon them. 8* c The very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and strewed them on the road. 9d The crowds preceding him and those following kept crying out and saying:
"Hosanna* to the Son of David;
blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord;
hosanna in the highest."
10And when he entered Jerusalem the whole city was shaken* and asked, "Who is this?" 11And the crowds replied, "This is Jesus the prophet,* from Nazareth in Galilee."
The Cleansing of the Temple.* 12e Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those engaged in selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.* f 13g And he said to them, "It is written:
'My house shall be a house of prayer,'*
but you are making it a den of thieves."
14h The blind and the lame* approached him in the temple area, and he cured them. 15When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wondrous things* he was doing, and the children crying out in the temple area, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they were indignant 16* i and said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?" Jesus said to them, "Yes; and have you never read the text, 'Out of the mouths of infants and nurslings you have brought forth praise'?" 17And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany, and there he spent the night.
The Cursing of the Fig Tree.* 18j When he was going back to the city in the morning, he was hungry. 19k Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went over to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. And he said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again." And immediately the fig tree withered. 20When the disciples saw this, they were amazed and said, "How was it that the fig tree withered immediately?" 21* l Jesus said to them in reply, "Amen, I say to you, if you have faith and do not waver, not only will you do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' it will be done. 22m Whatever you ask for in prayer with faith, you will receive."
The Authority of Jesus Questioned.* 23n When he had come into the temple area, the chief priests and the elders of the people approached him as he was teaching and said, "By what authority are you doing these things?* And who gave you this authority?"o 24Jesus said to them in reply, "I shall ask you one question,* and if you answer it for me, then I shall tell you by what authority I do these things. 25Where was John's baptism from? Was it of heavenly or of human origin?" They discussed this among themselves and said, "If we say 'Of heavenly origin,' he will say to us, 'Then why did you not believe him?' 26* p But if we say, 'Of human origin,' we fear the crowd, for they all regard John as a prophet." 27So they said to Jesus in reply, "We do not know." He himself said to them, "Neither shall I tell you by what authority I do these things.*
The Parable of the Two Sons.* 28"What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He came to the first and said, 'Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.' 29He said in reply, 'I will not,' but afterwards he changed his mind and went. 30The man came to the other son and gave the same order. He said in reply, 'Yes, sir,' but did not go. 31* Which of the two did his father's will?" They answered, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you. 32* q When John came to you in the way of righteousness, you did not believe him; but tax collectors and prostitutes did. Yet even when you saw that, you did not later change your minds and believe him.
The Parable of the Tenants.* 33r "Hear another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard,* put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey.s 34When vintage time drew near, he sent his servants* to the tenants to obtain his produce. 35But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, another they killed, and a third they stoned. 36Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones, but they treated them in the same way. 37Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, 'They will respect my son.' 38* But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.' 39* t They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?" 41They answered* him, "He will put those wretched men to a wretched death and lease his vineyard to other tenants who will give him the produce at the proper times." 42* u Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the scriptures:
'The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
by the Lord has this been done,
and it is wonderful in our eyes'?
43* Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit. 44[* The one who falls on this stone will be dashed to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.]" 45When the chief priests and the Pharisees* heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them. 46And although they were attempting to arrest him, they feared the crowds, for they regarded him as a prophet.
* [21:1–11] Jesus' coming to Jerusalem is in accordance with the divine will that he must go there (cf. Mt 16:21) to suffer, die, and be raised. He prepares for his entry into the city in such a way as to make it a fulfillment of the prophecy of Zec 9:9 (Mt 21:2) that emphasizes the humility of the king who comes (Mt 21:5). That prophecy, absent from the Marcan parallel account (Mk 11:1–11) although found also in the Johannine account of the entry (Jn 12:15), is the center of the Matthean story. During the procession from Bethphage to Jerusalem, Jesus is acclaimed as the Davidic messianic king by the crowds who accompany him (Mt 21:9). On his arrival the whole city was shaken, and to the inquiry of the amazed populace about Jesus' identity the crowds with him reply that he is the prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee (Mt 21:10, 11).
* [21:1] Bethphage: a village that can no longer be certainly identified. Mark mentions it before Bethany (Mk 11:1), which suggests that it lay to the east of the latter. The Mount of Olives: the hill east of Jerusalem that is spoken of in Zec 14:4 as the place where the Lord will come to rescue Jerusalem from the enemy nations.
* [21:2] An ass tethered, and a colt with her: instead of the one animal of Mk 11:2, Matthew has two, as demanded by his understanding of Zec 9:9.
* [21:4–5] The prophet: this fulfillment citation is actually composed of two distinct Old Testament texts, Is 62:11 (Say to daughter Zion) and Zec 9:9. The ass and the colt are the same animal in the prophecy, mentioned twice in different ways, the common Hebrew literary device of poetic parallelism. That Matthew takes them as two is one of the reasons why some scholars think that he was a Gentile rather than a Jewish Christian who would presumably not make that mistake (see Introduction).
* [21:7] Upon them: upon the two animals; an awkward picture resulting from Matthew's misunderstanding of the prophecy.
* [21:8] Spread…on the road: cf. 2 Kgs 9:13. There is a similarity between the cutting and strewing of the branches and the festivities of Tabernacles (Lv 23:39–40); see also 2 Mc 10:5–8 where the celebration of the rededication of the temple is compared to that of Tabernacles.
* [21:9] Hosanna: the Hebrew means "(O Lord) grant salvation"; see Ps 118:25, but that invocation had become an acclamation of jubilation and welcome. Blessed is he…in the name of the Lord: see Ps 118:26 and the note on Jn 12:13. In the highest: probably only an intensification of the acclamation, although Hosanna in the highest could be taken as a prayer, "May God save (him)."
* [21:10] Was shaken: in the gospels this verb is peculiar to Matthew where it is used also of the earthquake at the time of the crucifixion (Mt 27:51) and of the terror of the guards of Jesus' tomb at the appearance of the angel (Mt 28:4). For Matthew's use of the cognate noun, see note on Mt 8:24.
* [21:11] The prophet: see Mt 16:14 ("one of the prophets") and 21:46.
* [21:12–17] Matthew changes the order of (Mk 11:11, 12, 15) and places the cleansing of the temple on the same day as the entry into Jerusalem, immediately after it. The activities going on in the temple area were not secular but connected with the temple worship. Thus Jesus' attack on those so engaged and his charge that they were making God's house of prayer a den of thieves (Mt 21:12–13) constituted a claim to authority over the religious practices of Israel and were a challenge to the priestly authorities. Mt 21:14–17 are peculiar to Matthew. Jesus' healings and his countenancing the children's cries of praise rouse the indignation of the chief priests and the scribes (Mt 21:15). These two groups appear in the infancy narrative (Mt 2:4) and have been mentioned in the first and third passion predictions (Mt 16:21; 20:18). Now, as the passion approaches, they come on the scene again, exhibiting their hostility to Jesus.
* [21:12] These activities were carried on in the court of the Gentiles, the outermost court of the temple area. Animals for sacrifice were sold; the doves were for those who could not afford a more expensive offering; see Lv 5:7. Tables of the money changers: only the coinage of Tyre could be used for the purchases; other money had to be exchanged for that.
* [21:13] 'My house…prayer': cf. Is 56:7. Matthew omits the final words of the quotation, "for all peoples" ("all nations"), possibly because for him the worship of the God of Israel by all nations belongs to the time after the resurrection; see Mt 28:19. A den of thieves: the phrase is taken from Jer 7:11.
* [21:14] The blind and the lame: according to 2 Sm 5:8 LXX the blind and the lame were forbidden to enter "the house of the Lord," the temple. These are the last of Jesus' healings in Matthew.
* [21:15] The wondrous things: the healings.
* [21:16] 'Out of the mouths…praise': cf. Ps 8:3 LXX.
* [21:18–22] In Mark the effect of Jesus' cursing the fig tree is not immediate; see Mk 11:14, 20. By making it so, Matthew has heightened the miracle. Jesus' act seems arbitrary and ill-tempered, but it is a prophetic action similar to those of Old Testament prophets that vividly symbolize some part of their preaching; see, e.g., Ez 12:1–20. It is a sign of the judgment that is to come upon the Israel that with all its apparent piety lacks the fruit of good deeds (Mt 3:10) and will soon bear the punishment of its fruitlessness (Mt 21:43). Some scholars propose that this story is the development in tradition of a parable of Jesus about the destiny of a fruitless tree, such as Lk 13:6–9. Jesus' answer to the question of the amazed disciples (Mt 21:20) makes the miracle an example of the power of prayer made with unwavering faith (Mt 21:21–22).
* [21:23–27] Cf. Mk 11:27–33. This is the first of five controversies between Jesus and the religious authorities of Judaism in Mt 21:23–22:46, presented in the form of questions and answers.
* [21:23] These things: probably his entry into the city, his cleansing of the temple, and his healings there.
* [21:24] To reply by counterquestion was common in rabbinical debate.
* [21:26] We fear…as a prophet: cf. Mt 14:5.
* [21:27] Since through embarrassment on the one hand and fear on the other the religious authorities claim ignorance of the origin of John's baptism, they show themselves incapable of speaking with authority; hence Jesus refuses to discuss with them the grounds of his authority.
* [21:28–32] The series of controversies is interrupted by three parables on the judgment of Israel (Mt 21:28–22:14) of which this, peculiar to Matthew, is the first. The second (Mt 21:33–46) comes from Mark (12:1–12), and the third (Mt 22:1–14) from Q; see Lk 14:15–24. This interruption of the controversies is similar to that in Mark, although Mark has only one parable between the first and second controversy. As regards Matthew's first parable, Mt 21:28–30 if taken by themselves could point simply to the difference between saying and doing, a theme of much importance in this gospel (cf. Mt 7:21; 12:50); that may have been the parable's original reference. However, it is given a more specific application by the addition of Mt 21:31–32. The two sons represent, respectively, the religious leaders and the religious outcasts who followed John's call to repentance. By the answer they give to Jesus' question (Mt 21:31) the leaders condemn themselves. There is much confusion in the textual tradition of the parable. Of the three different forms of the text given by important textual witnesses, one has the leaders answer that the son who agreed to go but did not was the one who did the father's will. Although some scholars accept that as the original reading, their arguments in favor of it seem unconvincing. The choice probably lies only between a reading that puts the son who agrees and then disobeys before the son who at first refuses and then obeys, and the reading followed in the present translation. The witnesses to the latter reading are slightly better than those that support the other.
* [21:31] Entering…before you: this probably means "they enter; you do not."
* [21:32] Cf. Lk 7:29–30. Although the thought is similar to that of the Lucan text, the formulation is so different that it is improbable that the saying comes from Q. Came to you…way of righteousness: several meanings are possible: that John himself was righteous, that he taught righteousness to others, or that he had an important place in God's plan of salvation. For the last, see note on Mt 3:14–15.
* [21:33–46] Cf. Mk 12:1–12. In this parable there is a close correspondence between most of the details of the story and the situation that it illustrates, the dealings of God with his people. Because of that heavy allegorizing, some scholars think that it does not in any way go back to Jesus, but represents the theology of the later church. That judgment applies to the Marcan parallel as well, although the allegorizing has gone farther in Matthew. There are others who believe that while many of the allegorical elements are due to church sources, they have been added to a basic parable spoken by Jesus. This view is now supported by the Gospel of Thomas 65, where a less allegorized and probably more primitive form of the parable is found.
* [21:33] Planted a vineyard…a tower: cf. Is 5:1–2. The vineyard is defined in Is 5:7 as "the house of Israel."
* [21:34–35] His servants: Matthew has two sendings of servants as against Mark's three sendings of a single servant (Mk 12:2–5a) followed by a statement about the sending of "many others" (Mk 12:2, 5b). That these servants stand for the prophets sent by God to Israel is clearly implied but not made explicit here, but see Mt 23:37. His produce: cf. Mk 12:2 "some of the produce." The produce is the good works demanded by God, and his claim to them is total.
* [21:38] Acquire his inheritance: if a Jewish proselyte died without heir, the tenants of his land would have final claim on it.
* [21:39] Threw him out…and killed him: the change in the Marcan order where the son is killed and his corpse then thrown out (Mk 12:8) was probably made because of the tradition that Jesus died outside the city of Jerusalem; see Jn 19:17; Heb 13:12.
* [21:41] They answered: in Mk 12:9 the question is answered by Jesus himself; here the leaders answer and so condemn themselves; cf. Mt 21:31. Matthew adds that the new tenants to whom the vineyard will be transferred will give the owner the produce at the proper times.
* [21:42] Cf. Ps 118:22–23. The psalm was used in the early church as a prophecy of Jesus' resurrection; see Acts 4:11; 1 Pt 2:7. If, as some think, the original parable ended at Mt 21:39 it was thought necessary to complete it by a reference to Jesus' vindication by God.
* [21:43] Peculiar to Matthew. Kingdom of God: see note on Mt 19:23–24. Its presence here instead of Matthew's usual "kingdom of heaven" may indicate that the saying came from Matthew's own traditional material. A people that will produce its fruit: believing Israelites and Gentiles, the church of Jesus.
* [21:44] The majority of textual witnesses omit this verse. It is probably an early addition to Matthew from Lk 20:18 with which it is practically identical.
* [21:45] The Pharisees: Matthew inserts into the group of Jewish leaders (Mt 21:23) those who represented the Judaism of his own time.
a. [21:1–11] Mk 11:1–11; Lk 19:28–38; Jn 12:12–15.
c. [21:8] 2 Kgs 9:13.
e. [21:12–17] Mk 11:15–19; Lk 19:45–48; Jn 2:14–22.
i. [21:16] Ps 8:2 LXX; Wis 10:21.
j. [21:18–22] Mk 11:12–14, 20–24.
k. [21:19] Jer 8:13; Lk 13:6–9.
n. [21:23–27] Mk 11:27–33; Lk 20:1–8.
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- George Mandel-Mantello (1903-1992), born Gyorgy Mandl, served as First Secretary of the El Salvadoran consulate in Geneva and used his position to issue thousands of Salvadoran citizenship papers to Jewish refugees in Nazi occupied Europe between 1942 and 1944 and initiate a publicity campaign to inform the world about the deportation of Hungarian Jews and the mass murder taking place at Auschwitz. He was the son of a well-to-do orthodox Jewish family from the town of Bistrita in Transylvania. After World War I, when Transylvania was annexed by Romania, he moved to Cluj and later to Budapest. Mandel was a successful manufacturer and financier, and in the 1930s met the Salvadoran diplomat, Col. Jose Arturo Castellanos. Castellanos provided him with a Salvadoran passport and appointed him in 1939 as honorary consul of the El Salvadoran Republic for Romania, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Despite his diplomatic immunity, Mandel-Mantello was arrested by the Nazis in Belgrade in 1942. Soon afterwards, Castellanos, who had moved to Switzerland to become the Salvadoran Consul, created the post of First Secretary expressly for Mantello. On August 25, 1942, with the support and acquiesence of Col. Castellanos, Mandel-Mantello began issuing Salvadoran citizenship papers to Jewish refugees. Despite their questionable legality, the Nazis felt compelled to recognize these citizenship papers for fear of endangering German nationals living in Latin America. In response to the deluge of requests Mandel-Mantello received from desperate Jews throughout Europe, he expanded his operation, opening a separate office with his assistant, Mathieu Muller of the Agudat Israel, and a team of Swiss students. He worked with several Jewish organizations, which provided photos and personal information for the citizenship papers. Each certificate was copied and notarized. The notarized Photostats were then delivered to the occupied countries by Jewish couriers, Swiss mail and diplomats from neutral states. (The original certificates remained in Switzerland, and in 2009 Mantello's son Enrico donated over 1000 certificates to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.) Mandel-Mantello financed the operation himself and did not charge any processing fees. The certificates were sent to Jews in almost every country under Nazi occupation, and their efficacy varied country by country. Some Dutch Jews were sent to a special section of Bergen-Belsen rather than to Auschwitz or Sobibor by virtue of their certificates, and one Belgium Jew testified after the war that holders of these certificates were shielded from deportation. In other countries the certificates had little to no benefit, and frequently they arrived too late to be of use. The Salvadoran papers had their greatest impact in Hungary. On October 30, 1944, when the fascist Szalasi government recognized the Swiss legation as the official representative of the interests of El Salvador in Hungary, Mandel-Mantello sent hundreds of his blank citizenship papers to Swiss Consul Charles Lutz in Budapest, who, in turn, distributed them to Budapest Jews who were threatened with deportation. These papers were among the most prized of the protective documents being distributed by the neutral legations.
In December 1943, Mandel-Mantello succeeded in bringing his son Enrico (originally Imre) to Switzerland. His wife Iren survived the war in Budapest under the protection of Carl Lutz. In May 1944 the anti-Fascist Romanian diplomat Florian Manoliu traveled to Bistrita to hand-deliver Salvadoran certificates to Mantello's own parents and extended family. Tragically Manoliu arrived only a few days after the town's Jewish population and most of Mantello's extended family had been deported to Auschwitz.
In addition to issuing citizenship papers, Mandel-Mantello went to great lengths to publicize reports about the mass murder of European Jewry after receiving a copy of the "Auschwitz Protocols" from the head of the Palestine Office in Budapest in early June 1944 -- these were detailed reports about mass killings at Auschwitz that were based on information provided by escapees from the camp in the spring of 1944, and reports about the deportation of Hungarian Jewry. Though copies of the Protocols had been previously leaked to individuals in the West to little effect, Mandel-Mantello immediately hired students to translate and recopy the reports and then distributed copies to church leaders, diplomats, journalists and government officials. With the backing of prominent Protestant theologians like Karl Barth, Emil Brunner and Paul Vogt, he launched a press campaign which for the first time broke through Swiss censorship regulations that prohibited the dissemination of reports of Nazi atrocities unless they were first published in another neutral country. During the early summer of 1944, more than 400 articles appeared in the Swiss press condemning German atrocities and Hungarian complicity. The press campaign generated protests by the Pope, President Roosevelt, British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, the King of Sweden and the International Red Cross, all of whom demanded that the Hungarian regent, Admiral Horthy, stop the deportations of Hungarian Jews.
In May 2010, Yad Vashem honored Col. Castellanos as Righteous Among the Nations.
[Sources: interviews with Enrico Mandel-Manteelo; Saul, Eric, "Visas for Life" exhibition, February 2000; Schneider, Alan, "B'nai B'rith World Center Marks Holocaust Memorial Day with Lecture on Little-known Rescue Effort," www.bnaibrith.org/worldcenter/news/yomhashoah050500.html]; Kranzler, David, The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz, Syracuse University Press: Syracuse, 2000.]
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Start the synchronization now. You can select the data to be synchronized before starting. If you are transferring only contact, choose to transfer contacts only. However if you want to use PhoneCopy as a backup platform and you have made the corresponding settings, choose Calendar, Tasks and Notes as well.
After your phone is synchronized, go back to your PhoneCopy online profile (probably you will have it still open in the browser since you activated your account) and accept the assignment of your phone to the account. If you do it within the hour after the synchronization, the phone will be assigned automatically and you will only need to confirm the process. If the delay is greater than one hour, you will be asked by the server for the cellphone's identification number, called IMEI. This number can be easily found under the battery of the cellphone, or you can type in the symbols *#06# and the IMEI will appear on the display.
Now you have all your contacts backed up on PhoneCopy and you can edit all your contacts in your online account. If you lose your phone or the stored data, or if you just run out of battery, you can see your contacts online.
Some additional tips:
You can easily remove duplicate items among your contact list or SMS messages. Just go to the Contacts (or SMS) section and choose More Actions -> Search for duplicates. Detailed wizard will help you to solve this kind of problem easily.