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Choosing the right crib for your baby is both exciting and worrying. It has to combine safety with comfort and design. At Coco Village, we've got you covered with a large selection of wood and metal cribs.
Montessori-inspired beds give your baby space for movement. They encourage his independence. Allow him to make choices, and boost his creative skills. Buy one of our beautiful wood beds and start designing a perfect Montessori bedroom for your kid today!
Bunk beds and loft beds are practical and help you gain space when adapted to your children and their room. Siblings sharing a bedroom need double and bunk beds. Choose the one that'll fit your kids at Coco Village.
A changing table is an unmissable piece of furniture in every nursery. It has to fit the decor but, above all, to keep your baby comfortable during a diaper change. We accomplish both of these missions with our line of steady wooden changing tables.
A good mattress guarantees quality sleep, which is intrinsic to your child's well-being. We have double/full and twin-sized mattresses of different thicknesses for cribs and beds.
Climbing empowers kids. It gives them perspective on their environment, builds their strength and confidence. So, we designed Montessori-inspired learning towers that are safe and fun to climb up and down.
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As children, we built tents and forts out of sheets. Children from 18 months to 5 years can enjoy our teepees and tents inspired by those childhood memories. Your child needs nothing more than simple designs and ease of use to spend unforgettable times.
Da Vinci said simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Your baby's first toys should reflect this. Learn more about our collection of tender, hypoallergenic baby toys that let your baby grow closer to nature and discover the world of fun safely.
Nothing compares to your baby's first doll, especially one made from organic materials by Coco Village. Your child will love our beautifully sewn natural cotton dolls.
Our little knitted animals are so cute you'll want to adopt them into your child's bedroom on the spot. Soft, completely organic, and gender-neutral, our plush toys and dolls will be your kid's perfect buddies during the daytime and help them sleep at night.
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When has your baby done a wooden puzzle by himself for the first time? Today's the day with Coco Village. Our wooden puzzles are large and pleasant to the touch, perfect for your baby's first milestones.
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Whether you need a gift idea or want to buy a ready-to-use playset for your little one and save some money on the way, our bundle offers composed of wooden playsets, and warm playmats are perfect for that.
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Crafted in organic fabrics and packaged in eco-friendly materials, discover our charming and gender-neutral selection of tops.
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Our swimwear collection will let your little duck splash through the summer!
Don't forget your accessories! As pretty as they are practical, they are must-haves for all your summer outings!
Kids go to school, so pack their backpacks! Check out our fun backpack range with a stylish design and a comfortable structure to fit kids' morphology and needs. From fossil to animals, Coco Village has something for everyone.
When it comes to cooking for our children, we each cook differently, but we all do it with love. And we want them to bite into fresh sandwiches, crisp salads, and firm fruit. Our insulated lunch boxes and bags protect what's precious.
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Agostino Veneziano, Madonna Adored by Saints of the Dominican Order, c. 1516—1540s. Engraving, printed à la poupée in red and black ink. Smart Art Museums/Tagg Museum, Anonymous Fund for the Acquisition of Prints Older than 150 Years, 2007.32.
Francesca Stoppard, the Darvin B. Xander Associate Curator of Prints in the Division of European and American Art, will give today's gallery talk. Every month this spring, she will offer a talk focused on prints in the permanent collections.
Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.
One never injured multi-marathoner's stride was so smooth, she ran like an insect over water. Weight was not a factor, with heavy runners among the light-footed and lighter runners among the stompers.
Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.
Gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they focus on aspects of the installation process, exploring both intellectual and more practical considerations. Museums staff will, for example, tease out arguments at play in the galleries, discuss conservation treatments, look closely at specific collections, or draw connections between works of art throughout the museums.


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These disks have twice the surface area of the electric coil type of ranges, which makes them considerably more efficient than most other types of ranges. These types of ranges are also safer because they reduce the power automatically to prevent the heating component from overheating. Conversely, because the disks that are made of iron are larger in size than the coils or iron, they heat up and cool down more slowly. These disks don't glow a bright orange color if they are hot, unlike the coils made of iron, so you have to be even more vigilant not to touch them. Be sure to clean and remove any food spills as quickly as you can to prevent your electric range from getting dirty. Never use abrasives to clean the range because you risk damaging the surface of the range. If you normally put bowls beneath the heating components, be sure you regularly clean them and don't cover them with aluminum foil. Some ranges have the ability to discharge the steam or smell outside. 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Which of the following techniques can be used to practice "active listening"?
Nodding one's head and maintaining an open posture
Carefully observing the speaker's body language
Periodically summarizing the speaker's statements
All of the above
You see someone you know while watching a movie at a movie theater. Which of the following greetings would be most acceptable in this situation?
Saying, "Hi! How's it going?"
Making eye contact with the person and smiling
Sending the person a text message
Walking over and sitting down
You get a call from a friend in the middle of the night asking for help. You should...
Ask them if it can wait until the morning
Help them immediately, since it must be important
Consult a parent or teacher for advice
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Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0
In order to assist folks upgrading, we maintain a document
describing information critical to existing Apache users. These
are intended to be brief notes, and you should be able to find
more information in either the New Features document, or in
the src/CHANGES
system for configuring the build processes.
Using this system is similar to, but not the same as, using
the APACI system in Apache 1.3.prefork
MPM. Other MPMs
will have different directives to control process creation and request
block rather than a
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after the true filename) has changed for some modules. Modules
that were previously implemented as a handler but are now
implemented as a filter may no longer accept requests with
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of the core handler, and therefore reject requests with
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and thereby restore the ability to use PATH_INFO
server-side includes.CacheNegotiatedDocs
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directive no longer uses a quote at the beginning of the
argument to indicate a text message. Instead, you should
enclose the message in double quotes. For example, existing
instances of
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directives no longer exist.
Existing instances of these directives can be replaced with
the Include
directive which has equivalent functionality. If you were
making use of the default values of these directives without
including them in the configuration files, you may need to
add Include conf/access.conf
and Include
to your httpd.conf
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assure that Apache reads the configuration files in the same order
as was implied by the older directives, the Include
directives should be placed at the end
of httpd.conf
, with the one for srm.conf
preceding the one for access.conf
and Port
directives no longer exist. Equivalent functionality is
provided with the more flexible
directive in Apache-1.3 was setting the port number to be used
in self-referential URL's. The Apache-2.0 equivalent is
the new ServerName
syntax: it has been changed to allow specifying both the
hostname and the port number for self-referential URL's
in one directive.ServerType
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selection of MPM. There is currently no MPM designed to be
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modules to explicitly specify their ordering, eliminating the
need for these directives.FancyIndexing
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Sarasvati Puja worship of the goddess Sarasvati (not generally observed by Vaisnavas).
Sarasvati Puja worship of the goddess Sarasvati (not generally observed by Vaisnavas).
Face the fact: (Source Global Huger Index 2017)
India is world's second largest food producer yet it is home to world second biggest undernourished population. Source FAO 2015
25 % of all hungry people worldwide live in India.
44% of Indian Children below the age of 5 are underweight.
Out of Worst hunger struck 119 countries India is at 100
What does a healthy human being need?
A balanced diet is one that helps a person maintain or improve health. It includes carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, proteins, roughage, water, and minerals. The amount of these nutrients varies with gender, age, occupation, climate and region. However, at ISKCON Punjabi Bagh, we understand that a complete meal is not just numbers and formulae. It is not just chopped-up vegetables and boiled grains. It is love that is the primary constituent of a healthy meal. The same love that a mother pours while she is at work in the kitchen, the same love that a father ploughs when he is toiling in the office, and the same love that siblings share when they fight.
How does ISKCON Punjabi Bagh satisfy this hunger?
We, at ISKCON Punjabi Bagh, understand that apart from a person's body craving for satisfaction of the stomach, the satisfaction of the person occupying that body is also of primary importance. We solve this eternal craving of the soul through World's Largest vegetarian Non-Profit Food Relief program called the Hare Krishna Food-for-Life.
Each meal is not only delicious but is also prepared with full attention to personnel & infrastructure hygiene. The food so prepared is first offered to the almighty Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna, therefore, although its quantity remains unchanged but qualitatively it is transformed from meal to Prasadam. Such sanctified meals on the one hand fulfil the basic necessity of the body and on the other purify the consciousness of a person. The fortunate people who receive Prasadam meals develop all good human qualities such as kindness, truthfulness, cleanliness, and gain immense control over the agitations of mind. No other food item in the world can offer such spiritual benefits.
Is it really World's Largest?
Yes, ISKCON volunteers provide up to 2,000,000 (Two Million) free meals every day. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of ISKCON, instructed his disciples that no one should sleep hungry within a 10 mile radius of a Hare Krishna centre. Keeping true to His Divine Grace's instructions, every centre based on the available resources tries to serve nutritious meals free of cost to every person who gives the temple an opportunity to serve. This includes visitors, pilgrims, and residents of neighbouring areas. In fact, monthly processions are also accompanied by free distribution of food. Apart from this, special relief packages are designed and dispatched to areas affected by natural calamities.
Can non-ISKCON people contribute?
We are all children of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This makes us God-brothers & God-sisters. Therefore, we encourage the more fortunate brothers and sisters to come forward and help the less fortunate ones. This can be achieved by sponsoring meals for the homeless, disadvantaged children, pilgrims and slum dwellers. We have created this web-page specifically for reaching out to people who have a big heart and a little time, energy and resources to spare. Your small contribution here can make 2 square meals possible for unprivileged brethren.
Where will my money go?
As every ISKCON temple is completely financially independent of the other, all money donated to ISKCON Punjabi Bagh temple is utilized locally within New Delhi. At times, we also travel the Indian sub-continent and distribute free Prasadam across the length and breadth of India.
No money from your donation is transferred outside the country without explicitly mentioning it. ISKCON centres worldwide manage their funds locally for the benefit of that region's local population.
Because of this reason,currently, ISKCON Punjabi Bagh also does not accept any donations from foreign countries for the Food for Life program. In case, you are eager to contribute we suggest getting in touch with an ISKCON centre in your neighbouring area. The complete list of ISKCON centres world wide can be found here: http://centers.iskcondesiretree.com/ Hopefully, at a later time, when people all over the world have transcended the boundaries of nationality, colour, language, ethnicity and politics, we might be able to extend ourselves to help all children of God irrespective of geographical location.
I am still not sure if I want to contribute!
No Problem, we thank you for taking out time to read about the Hare Krishna Food for Life program. we suggest that you scroll through the rest of the website. It is highly probable that you will find another social cause that is worth investing your time and resources in such as education, organic farming, sustainable living and much more.
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MonoQ provided by the Millipore-machines is deionized, charcoal treated and ultrafiltrated. The ultrafilter removes not only bacteria (including Mycoplasma) but also Endotoxins. Thus, it is perfectly suited for most applications in our labs.
In accordance with the Scientific Reps the following changes will take place immediately:
- In the future, the MediaLab is providing autoclaved MonoQ water only by online order in 250ml bottles. This water is the same as "Sterile, Nuclease Free Water, non-DEPC-treated" sold by e.g. Thermo Fisher for >80€/500ml.
- Large quantities (2 liter bottles) of MonoQ-Water can also be ordered online from the Media Lab. However, this water will not be autoclaved, unless you can provide a valid justification.
Please find here a summary, detailing which water should be suitable for your application, if you are uncertain, please ask your experienced colleagues:
Water | Source | Recommended applications |
Deionized (Reverse Osmosis) water | Tabs at sinks in the labs | Filling water baths, destaining gels, electrophoresis and SDS-PAGE buffers … |
Ultrapure MilliQ water | Millipore systems on each floor | Biochemical reactions, assay buffers for e.g. protein chemistry, in vitro enzymatic reactions, CO2 incubators, … |
Sterile MonoQ water | MediaLab | PCR, RNA or DNA isolation, tissue culture buffers, … |
Other sources of high quality water
Ultrapure Water:
The MilliQ-systems on the floors provide ultrapure water; in fact, the same quality as the water from the MediaLab. These machines are regularly serviced (maintenance contract with Millipore, yearly maintenance), the cartridges are exchanged at least yearly or when they are exhausted. They are equipped with an ultrafilter, that retains Bacteria, Endotoxins and Nucleases. This filter is exchanged every 3 months by the FM.
Please make yourself familiar with the display of the QPod dispenser (page 51 of the manual and in the attachment). In case you notice warnings, please contact the facility management immediately! They have spare cartridges for immediate exchange. You can find the manual for the MilliQ-Systems here: https://biocenterat.sharepoint.com/sites/managementscientificservices/General%20Research/Documents/Manuals/Millipore%20Milli-Q/Milli-Q-Advantage%20A10%20User%20Manual.pdf
For IMBA, we will install three additional machines on the Plaza, first and second floor to satisfy your needs.
Recommendation: (Non-autoclaved) MonoQ water is typically used for biochemical reactions or making assay buffers (for e.g. Akta, protein chemistry, in vitro enzymatic reactions), or TC-CO2-incubators.
Deionized water:
In the labs, you can find outlets for reverse osmosis water (aka deionized water). The piping is laid out as a circulation system, thus after discarding the first few hundreds of milliliters, the quality is sufficiently good for many tasks.
Recommendation: This water is absolutely adequate for filling water baths, destaining gels and even for making electrophoresis and SDS-PAGE buffers.
New Product of the Molecular Biology Service
Dear colleagues,
Molecular Biology Service is proud to offer a cost efficient replacement for Qiagen's MiniPrep, Gel extraction and PCR purification kits.
Our kit contains all buffers to do 250 of either of the applications mentioned above for just 130 Euro instead of a minimum of more than 300 Euro for the Qiagen kit.
From now on (July 2015), the kit will be available from the General Store (in the section containing nucleic acid purification systems).
New Gibson Mastermix, protocol and technical notes
The Gibson Assembly Master Mix we provided so far had the limitation of only 5 μl of flexible volume for the fragments. In quite some cases people had to concentrate their fragments because of this fact. Therefore we changed the formulation of the master mix to a 2x mix and thereby increased the flexible volume to 10 μl.
You will find the new protocol and additional information at our fridge in R5.55.
If you have additional information do not hesitate to ask.
- Hazard Labels
To improve the compliance with Austrian and European legislation, new labels with hazard notes are introduced. In addition to these hazard notes, you will find the production date and a QR-code linking to the manufacturing SOPs. All bottles that are heat sterilized will carry autoclave tape.
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Who's up for a snowball fight?
Grilling. I'm talking about grilling.
When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.
"The penish mightier!"
A most "probing" pictorial. You guys really "stick it" to those bakers.
Amazing how many members were in this cake club!
The bat (?) on the Red Sox cake made me choke on my coffee this morning. Good God, what was the decorator thinking????
Honey, can you say....FIXATION? How does this happen so frequently? Pro bakers must not get home much.
WV: HYSTSWAR. "Those two middle age ladies got into a regular HYSTSWAR."
These cakes would be a perfect hybrid of the games 'Pictionary' and 'Dirty Minds'. And I would completely fail.
Today's Miss Manners is perfect for this post!
Dear Miss Manners:
My husband is putting on a birthday party for me. I will be turning 57.
His sister has taken up the art of hand-sculpting huge birthday cakes. She has been mastering the art of making huge, three-foot-tall penises. She recently presented one to her mother-in-law for her birthday.
Needless to say, it didn't go over very well. She is very proud of herself and takes this cake-making business seriously.
I have just found out that my husband has ordered a cake from her for my birthday.
I think she is grotesque, rude and out of line with these cakes. I am mortified that she might make the same cake for me.
How should I react? With disgust and asking her to leave? Or thanking her and putting a large garbage bag over it and offering it to her to take home?
I have told my husband I would be totally offended if I was presented with a cake like that as a surprise. He says not to worry about it, that he's sure she won't do it. But I know she will. Please tell me what to say.
Say "Thank you," whisk it into the kitchen, slice it in small pieces and serve it on a platter. Just please don't describe the slicing to Miss Manners.
Master Baster! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I can't imagine those weren't intentional...or maybe Freud could explain it.
But the snowballs seemed ok to me. I didn't notice anything wrong about them until I read your comment and even then I had to look very closely to see a remote resemblance to a finger.
And the baseball hat was so good!
Master baster! (I laughed so hard I scared the dog.)
Great post! I am so with you on feeling like God has bigger things to worry about than my problems. I feel selfish asking him to bless me with a friend that I can really connect with because I feel so lonely sometimes. I think to myself that if I could pour myself into a deeper relationship with him that I wouldn't feel so lonely and that maybe that is why he hasn't sent me such a friend. It's hard to do this walk alone, though, and my husband is not a believer. Please pray with me that he would open his heart to our great Lord.
Wow. Why pink for the bat? And since the hat and baseball were so great, why not quit while you're ahead?
what a bunch of cake cock-ups :P
I don't even understand what the last one is supposed to be!
The snowball guys are too funny, but you totally missed the poo-bears just next to them... what gives?!? As always, you start my day with a laugh!!
I loved these. They gave me a good chuckle.
Anyone who complains today about vulgarity should be directed to Disney's website for more family friendly fun.
PS. I ADORE the new CakeWrecks sign at the top. Very cool.
That "baseball bat" is unbelievably terrible! I might've screamed when I saw it.
I may be scarred for life from the he vibrator/light saber one. *horrified expression*
I guess that answers the question of whether Brian is a pitcher or a catcher.
The one in the fifth photo is just so PINK. Ugh. Bakers shouldn't use colors that could be someone's skin tone!
A pink baseball bat? Do the Sox know about this?
But now that I've read the caption, I'm snickering at the snowmen because it looks like they're ALL giving the one-digit salute.
Well, this doesn't make me want to put those in my mouth at all.
WOW and not one of 'em for a wedding shower....
what are those first things? Cat in the Hat hats by Dr. Seuss? *feigns innocence*
aw, happy little three-fingered snowmen...
lumpy pink oversized "bowling pin" (gee, how into bowling IS she?) doesn't the baker know that pins are WHITE? balls are pink! and that "pin" looks a little bruised where the icing is thin over the chocolate cupcakes. coverage, people!
(btw, I wonder if her name is misspelled (Caitlyn?) Hard to say these days with "creative" names.)
love the paintbrush/rocketship woody. some paint pots might have been helpful here.
the hat actually looks pretty good, seams, button, vent holes, B. Then the bat is just so short and FLESH-COLORED.
love the "toasting" of those boney marshmallow chicken legs on the wonky CCC basketball. yowza.
wv: verin. if these ugly cakes don't get eaten and get put out, they may attract verin.
Amy, if someone gave me that rude, crude and socially unacceptable cake, I would rush out of the kitchen with a cleaver and maniacally hack it to bits, shrieking "muwahahahahahaha!!!" Then look around the room at all the men, nod my head, and say "yeah."
Don't think she'd try it on me again.
Today's cakes would make a good quiz: We know what they LOOK like, but what were they intended to represent?
The last one gives it away with a label that says "BBQ Grill." But if that's a grill, why is somebody cooking ... uh ... ??
Moving right along, why are all those well-endowed snowmen giving me the finger?
Oh...... my.......
Great puns, as always, Jen!!
#4: Use the Schwartz!
WV: eingra--as in "don't make Dark Helmet eingra or he'll come after you..."
You know, that Boston cap is really nice! Whoever did that and the ball did an amazing job.
Which leads me to wonder... what the hell happened with that bat?! I mean, the colors on the other objects are perfect, so instead we get a flesh colored bat? I seriously had to do at least a double take, if not more, when I saw that cake. All of these are awesome, but that one really knocked it out of the park.
Poor Brian, as if he needed any further reminders of his botched vasectomy.....
1. Those cakes, really just no words...
2. I really need to stop looking at your blog when I'm hungry, I am jonesing for some cake... Not so good when I'm trying to eat healthier...
And, the bowling balls are BLUE!
Oh my that was funny! Thanks for sharing! hehehe....
the snowman pix wouldn't load on this post...but I was able to click on it and see the pix (to know it was snowmen!)
I'm with Jenniffer - the brown poo-guys were awesome and those fried egg hats were to die for...what, exactly, WERE they?!
I, too, adored the Boston Red Sox hat (as I adore the Boston Red Sox), but that "bat" is just a tragedy. Maybe it was a team effort, and separate bakers made the hat & bat? I can only hope...
Oh wow. Now I almost wish the site *wasn't* working correctly.
... nah, it's still funny. Although I might have lost my appetite.
Dirty minded girl-lolol
Love the "cockets",and the bat,well...uh,you know.
Great LOL's today!Thank You!!
HAHAHAHAH!!! "The penish mightier" HAHAHAH!!! Thanks Mr. Connery!
The cake wrecker managed to make a really good cap and a penis. How?
Is that an official icing color: "Penis Pink?"
Definitely baked and decorated by master bakers.....
the eternal question has now been answered....
Snowmen DO have balls.
The first one probably means to show test tubes (upside down) rather than "crotch rockets." I suspect that the light saber is supposed to be a Harry Potter-style broomstick, which would be fine if not for that dent near the end.
Are you sure those aren't snow-women from the chest up?
*wipes tears from eyes*
Just classic.
Who needs third base...master basters..... *GUFFAW*
@ Gary "The last one gives it away with a label that says "BBQ Grill." But if that's a grill, why is somebody cooking ... uh ... ??"
Maybe this is the Bobbit household...full of angry women.
"Bibbity, BOBBITY food!"
yuck. I just grossed myself out. Never to look at a wiener on the grill the same way again.
wv: ovencen. In the religion against baking immoral cakes, these violations are an examplve of ovencen.
A baseball cap, a ball and a fake ding-a-ling -- that is an unusual combination. I think I received almost that exact model as a gag gift at my wedding shower, but I never thought of hitting baseballs with it.
wv: snicate definition to snicker and eat at the same time. That pale pink cake made me snicate
Yay, thanks Jen, I needed a laugh today, and I made sure to put down the soda first before reading your post!
My WV: golest. You could subtitle today's post: Nothing to see, golest ye be offended.
Oh, dear.
Oh...oh, dear.
Pass the brain bleach, will you?
WV: Pantsi. Nope, not touching THAT one.
I see someone beat me to it. May the Schwartz be with you!
Those are hilariously wrong! LOL!
Great narration, Jen!
The worst part about the baseball cake for Brian is that the hat and ball are awesome.. *sigh*
And that lightsaber? What the frick? I didn't know that they made.. *ahem* 'personal massager' cake pans. My sister's getting married in October, I'll have to see if I can find one of those for her bachelorette party ;)
the first one...
"its a rocket ship!"
(where is smoochy the rhino when you need him?)
OK, the totally crappy ones I understand. But how is it that someone who did such a decent job on a baseball hat & ball mangled the bat so badly? I swear it had to be on purpose.
Oh, yeah...he's flipping you off.
That "grill" thing? They're calling it a "15CT BBQ GRILL CUPCAKE PULLAPART." And it's only $12.99, which means that each cupcake is less than $1!!! They're not even charging extra for the dildos! How can you go wrong with a deal like that. Unless there are more than three *hungry* guests, and they end up fighting with (over?) that talented chef.
Now, I think that whoever ordered Josh's cake must have been pretty hard up not to be able to buy a better cake. And what are the gray blocks for? What was their angle here? Also, it's really hard to tell from the picture how many people could be served a piece, with nothing to compare it to. Or measure it against...
And how do you equal such a post? With the comments of course!!!
Y'all are hysterical.
The last one was obviously made for a BBQ hosted by a woman whose husband just cheated on her. He hasn't been seen since and the meat she is serving is a little suspicious.
Does the innapropriate-ness make anyone else want to eat them that much more? No? I am just sick then.
Are those for snowballs, or is it possible they were snow ladies who for some reason have arms that sit where their ears should be?
Today's post should have an extra warning about laughing so hard you can't breathe (esp if the laughter has to be silent b/c you're at work!).
@Anonymous at 12:51-- "Bibbity, Bobbity Boo"? for the grill cake. that was priceless!!!!
Josh's cake... it could be a screwdriver, too. Which would be even more appropriate ;)
Snowmen... is this what Calvin does now that he's all grown up?
Brian's cake... Perhaps they realized the hat and ball wouldn't serve enough people and the newbie excitedly offered to pitch in and make that bat?
WV "anedi". After laughing over today's cakes, Jen's bon mots, and all the comments, anedi a few moments to catch my breath
"In the Spring a young baker's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."
I can't believe that Jen missed the obvious pun on the first.
Those are legitimate scientific paraphernalia. Haven't you ever heard of Testes Tubes?
OMG I haven't laughed so hard in ages!
Oh. My. Lord.
That's it. I got nuthin' else...
omg, your last comment had me busting a gut.
and on Josh's cake, it took me a minute to see the "light saber." I saw an artist's paintbrush with...two big, blue erasers? two, blue butter dishes? not sure.
from joules:
I also read Miss Manners' column today, and thought to myself: If I were that letter writer, anticipating the embarrassing 3-foot-tall phallic cake from my dear sister-in-law, I would do two things. The second thing is I'd make sure I had my camera ready so I could send the pictures to Cake Wrecks. The FIRST thing I would do is call my S-I-L and say, "I know my husband has asked you to bake one of your special cakes for my birthday. I am so touched by your act of kindness. I just hope he remembered to tell you that my favorite cake is chocolate with chocolate frosting." Then, if she really did bake me a chocolate schlong, I would be *in* on the joke instead of being the "butt" (sorry) of the joke. If she baked me a boring sheetcake, I would be happy because it would be my favorite flavor.
WV: branis My branis melting with horror at the wrecks on your site. Thanks for the daily LOLs, Jen!
Wait... those bony things on the "grill" are chicken legs??? I thought they were... um... nope...I got nuthin'.
It's time for a Jen-cation!
Holla, that "bat" doesn't look like a bat. But it does remind me to get vaccinated. Or at least wash my hands. ew.
And I thought some of the cakes that came out of the pastry program were, well, interesting ...
sendingtheclowns said...
"... it's only $12.99, which means that each cupcake is less than $1!"
I prefer to think of it as $4.33 per toasted dildo.
I just realized that the cake wrecks logo at the top got changed...nice. Very nice.
Awesome post!
Hey Jen, I just wanted to mention, regarding to your post asking us to report wonkyness; all posts read in the Yahoo! RSS reader show the captions that belong below the images to the right of the images.
So hilarious. Each cake was better than the next!
Is that a lightsaber in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
I think Josh's lightsaber cake is probably supposed to look like a Jedi's "secret weapon" as a joke. I can't imagine anyone making something that was that obvious by accident.
WV: laundr. I need to laundr my brain after seeing these wrecks.
Gary said...
"I prefer to think of it as $4.33 per toasted dildo."
That, too is a bargain, now that you munch on it--I mean, MENTION it.
To each/eats his or her own; after all, "different strokes," etc.
I saw the BBQ one and thought "weiner roast".
Thank you. I just inhaled a mouthful of mexican food. I now have acid burned sinuses & esophagus. That first picture made me gasp in horror, right after I put a mouthful of refried beans covered in chipotle tabasco into my mouth.
Well it could just be me (but I highly doubt it) but I am seeing a lot of male anatomy on these cakes lol. The cupcakes that bowling cake.. I could go on and on.. wow to the wreckerators for these cakes. They could make wonderful bridal shower cakes lol.
I feel I really ought to point everyone who found this funny to another blog: http://accidentaldong.blogspot.com/
Which is exactly what you think it is. Perfectly clean...if your mind is.
wow! I had a mouth full of coffee when I first loaded the page... Very nearly spit it out! There's no way these people don't know what they are doing with this stuff. Bahahaha!
(Also... you wanted us to report issues? I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but the comment section is now a dark greyish blue on the blue background and is very hard to read without highlighting the text first. Using Firefox 3.0.15 in Windows XP.)
hi ummmmmmmmmmmm.... i think the title screeeeen thingy has changed... is this intentional??
I have been having a crappy weekend/week so far, and thought I would get a dose of CW to cheer me up! Now aside from making more work for my self, by now having to clean off my computer screen of coffee (Um really, you truly think that looks like a base ball bat???), I DO FEEL BETTER!!! Thanks for always givng me a laugh! Come to Toronto for your next tour- I will bake you a cake!
As a male, the weiner roast one makes me wince.
But it could have been worse. At least the wreckinator didn't try to show buns toasting on the grill as well. 'Cause we all know that would look like something out of a gay pride post-parade bbq picnic.
What a shame, the hat and baseball were done really well and the wreckerator just had to add the "bat" XD
Nice Thomas Dolby reference! I expect you to rush to the nearest supermarket and yell 'SCIENCE' into the tannoy at the earliest opportunity :)
WV-aneda, as in 'Aneda bottle of mind bleach after those wrecks'
After seeing that lightsaber, the first thing that came to mind was, "I see your Schwartz is just as big as mine."
LMFAO..... R they serious with these? I mean you can not look at them and not see what I'm sure we all see in these!
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So Wednesday was my birthday so i felt this the most appropriate day to post this on. I started following CW a few weeks ago and really love it. But today a friend i hadn't seen in a while who DIDN'T know I follow cake wrecks posted the Baby Jockey Carrot Cake on my wall, telling me that she thought CW was the perfect website for me. I had a total freak out!
Aww...that lightsaber is actually quite well done if only it wasn't for the unfortunate crease...and the coloring. My kids are Star Wars fanatics, and I can tell you lightsabers can be red, green, and blue, but never a purplish gray.
THANK YOU for posting festive funny male genitalia cakes on my birthday!
I doubt the decoration on Josh's cake is supposed to be a light saber. It looks more like a sonic screwdriver to me.
Freud would have a field day with those!
1. What was the last one supposed to be?
2. I wonder if they all had cream filling.
Sorry if anyone had the same comments; I didn't have time to read all the comments.
Get me a Depends....I am laughing so hard I am peeing in my pants!
Love this site for the best 'pickup' of the day!!!
I love the science cupcakes. I've never felt so strangely drawn towards a graduated cylinder before....
Only wreckerators could make test tubes (science cupcakes, also saw atoms on others), a girl's dress (Kaitlyn's cake, I think that was what the big pink thing really was), a light saber and a baseball bat look phallic!
The light saber would have been great if only the wreckerator had done a straight cylindrical handle. Also, if the bat had been piped in tan or yellow (to represent wood, not a woodie), and made the body longer and thinner, and round end a little less pronounced, the baseball cake would have worked. (Was this cake a lingering effect of the Curse of the Bambino? After all, that was a Red Sox cake wreck.)
speaking of LOLs lol
I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. OMG so funny. Shannon
Is it just me, or is the 'lightsaber' supposed to be a bastardized stunstick from Half-Life 2?
The Red Sox hat and ball were great, if only they had left the "bat" off of it.
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What is Club Jade?
Club Jade is a mailing list and community started in 1995 for discussion of Star Wars novels. Although originally discussion of Timothy Zahn's novels and the character of Mara Jade were the group's main focus, CJ has expanded to include all of Star Wars and recently, to become a more general list related to the sci-fi/fantasy genre as a whole. Over the years, CJ members have formed close friendships both online and in real life.
So, no, Club Jade is not just a blog. We started the blog in 2004 as a way of both coming out of our shell and informing ourselves and the fandom. It just kind of snowballed from there.
What is your official position on [insert issue here]?
CJ doesn't really have any kind of 'official position' on such things, because opinions within the group on these issues are varied. Although we do share a common thread of being (or having been) Expanded Universe fans, CJ is not hostile to varying opinions, as long as they are expressed with mutual respect.
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How do you know when Episode VII news is for real?
Our policy on news about the new movies is that it's only confirmed once Lucasfilm (or Disney) says it is. Almost everything else is a rumor, and remains a rumor, until that point.
Please note that 'unconfirmed' does not mean a report is untrue. It simply means that it's not yet official. It's fairly common in Hollywood that news slips out – or is leaked – when one of the parties involved is sure that a deal is in place. This is what happened with J.J. Abrams, for instance. But Lucasfilm will not confirm a report on StarWars.com until everything is for sure – when everything is squared away and the contracts are signed. Until that point, there's still a chance that things could fall apart, and thus, we refuse to consider something confirmed until they say so.
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So what's canon now? Are there going to be any books set after Fate of the Jedi and Crucible?
With the April 25, 2014 announcement, we now know that Lucasfilm is only treating the Star Wars films and The Clone Wars as "immovable objects of Star Wars history, the characters and events to which all other tales must align." Rebels, the new films, the novels released after this announcement and the comic Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir (based on unproduced scripts from The Clone Wars) will all take a place in this new canon as well.
The previous Expanded Universe, aka nearly every single novel, comic and game released in the past 30 years, are now deemed 'Legends.' Parts of them may indeed be brought into the new canon, but there are no guarantees:
In order to give maximum creative freedom to the filmmakers and also preserve an element of surprise and discovery for the audience, Star Wars Episodes VII-IX will not tell the same story told in the post-Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe. While the universe that readers knew is changing, it is not being discarded. Creators of new Star Wars entertainment have full access to the rich content of the Expanded Universe. For example, elements of the EU are included in Star Wars Rebels. The Inquisitor, the Imperial Security Bureau, and Sienar Fleet Systems are story elements in the new animated series, and all these ideas find their origins in roleplaying game material published in the 1980s.
The novels are being kept in print. The future of the comics is a little more unclear, but mainly due to the license change from Dark Horse to Marvel in 2014.
Although Lucasfilm has not said firmly one way or another if they're going to continue the Legends universe, it looks like, for now, that Fate of the Jedi and Crucible (and the Legacy comics) are indeed the end of the line.
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Books are almost always released on Tuesdays, and comics on Wednesday or occasionally Thursday due to holidays. Exceptions (like Harry Potter's Saturday releases) are few and far between. Del Rey almost always has strict street dates on Star Wars novels, so don't count on finding them on the shelves before their official date. (It happens, yes. But not often.)
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Why don't you cover much gaming/merchandise/etc?
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Why don't you update the fanfic archive anymore??
Club Jade's interest in fanfic – Star Wars fanfic anyway – has waned quite a bit over the years. Fan fiction is no longer a main focus or group activity.
Will you put my fanfic on your site?
We are no longer accepting submissions. We leave the fanfic up as a memorial of sorts – it may very well be the oldest existing Star Wars archive online, but it's no longer an active archive.
I just found a great fanfic in your archive, but it's not finished. Where can I find the rest?
For a long time we accepted fanfic submissions, and it was up to the authors to provide us with new chapters. If they never finished the story or sent it to us, there's really not much we can do. We hope that the author contact information is up to date on all stories, but there's only so much we can do.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans and Democrats hit an impasse Sunday over spending in their last-ditch struggle to avoid an economy-jarring default in just four days and end a partial government shutdown that's entering its third week.
After inconclusive talks between President Barack Obama and House Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., took charge in trying to end the crises, although a conversation Sunday afternoon failed to break the stalemate.
"I'm optimistic about the prospects for a positive conclusion to the issues before this country today," Reid said as the Senate wrapped up a rare Sunday session.
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McConnell insisted a solution was readily available in the proposal from a bipartisan group of 12 senators, led by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., that would re-open the government and fund it at current levels for six months while raising the debt limit through Jan. 31.
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Many parks and monuments remain closed, drawing a protest at the National World War II Memorial on Sunday that included tea party-backed lawmakers who had unsuccessfully demanded defunding of President Barack Obama's 3-year-old health care law in exchange for keeping the government open.
Unnerving to world economies is the prospect of the United States defaulting on its financial obligations on Thursday if Congress fails to raise the borrowing authority above the $16.7 trillion debt limit.
Christine Lagarde, the International Monetary Fund's managing director, spoke fearfully about the disruption and uncertainty, warning of a "risk of tipping, yet again, into recession" after the fitful recovery from 2008. The reaction of world financial markets and the Dow Jones on Monday will influence any congressional talks.
Congress is racing the clock to get a deal done, faced with time-consuming Senate procedures that could slow legislation, likely opposition from tea partyers and certain resistance in the Republican-led House before a bill gets to Obama.
Politically, Republicans are reeling, bearing a substantial amount of the blame for the government shutdown and stalemate.
"We're in a free-fall as Republicans, but Democrats are not far behind," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in warning Democrats about seizing on the GOP's bruised brand as leverage to extract more concessions.
McConnell and Republicans want to continue current spending at $986.7 billion and leave untouched the new round of cuts in January, commonly known as sequester, that would reduce the amount to $967 billion. Democrats want to figure out a way to undo the reductions, plus a long-term extension of the debt limit increase and a short-term spending bill to reopen the government.
"Republicans want to do it with entitlement cuts," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. "Democrats want to do it with a mix of mandatory cuts, some entitlements and revenues. And so how do you overcome that dilemma? We're not going to overcome it in the next day or two."
He suggested keeping the government running through mid-January.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, told reporters the two sides are roughly $70 billion apart, the difference between the $1.058 trillion Senate budget amount and the $988 billion envisioned by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
"We haven't picked a number, but clearly we need to negotiate between those two," Durbin said.
Republicans dismiss the latest request as Reid moving the goalposts in negotiations as they were getting closer to resolving the stalemate that has paralyzed Washington. They also argue that it is disingenuous for Democrats to resist any changes in the 3-year-old health care law while trying to undo the 2011 budget law that put the cuts on track.
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Graham and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said they would not support any deal that upends the spending limits imposed by the 2011 law, and predicted that their Senate GOP colleagues would oppose it as well.
Out of play, for now, was the Republican-led House, where Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told GOP lawmakers early Saturday that his talks with the president had ground to a halt. Obama telephoned House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Sunday, focusing on the need for any increase in the debt limit without concessions.
Also sidelined, at least for now, was the plan forged by Collins and a bipartisan coalition to briefly fund the government and extend the $16.7 trillion debt limit, in exchange for steps like temporarily delaying the medical device tax that helps fund the health care law.
Democrats said Collins' plan curbed spending too tightly, and Reid announced Saturday it was going nowhere.
Collins said Sunday that both Democrats and Republicans continue to offer ideas and say they want to be part of the group working to reopen the government and address the debt ceiling before Thursday's deadline.
"We're going to keep working, offering our suggestions to the leadership on both sides of the aisle in an attempt to be constructive and bring this impasse to an end. Surely we owe that to the American people," Collins said.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., a participant in Collins' talks, said Reid wouldn't accept everything in the Collins proposal, but he "knows there are some positive things in that plan," such as opening the government in a "smart timeframe," not defaulting on debt and doing something in the long term on the budget.
Klobuchar and Collins were on CNN's "State of the Union." Graham appeared on ABC's "This Week," Corker was interviewed on "Fox News Sunday," Schumer spoke on CBS' "Face the Nation" and Lagarde was on NBC's "Meet the Press."