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Fleetwood High School Senior Students Of The Month for October
The Fleetwood Area High School would like to announce their senior students of the month for October.
Lenhartsville couple celebrates 40 years of marriage
Gene and Diane (Siegfried) Schuler of Lenhartsville celebrated 40 years of marriage on Oct. 12. The couple was married in 1974 in Alburtis. In honor of this milestone, Gene and Diane's children and siblings threw them a surprise party with 100 of their closest family and friends at the Virginville Grange.
Lancaster native Michelle Kemper Brownlow signs debut romance series in Elverson
Best selling author Michelle Kemper Brownlow will be signing her debut romance novel, "In Too Deep," as well as the next two books in the series, "On Solid Ground" and "Above the Noise," on Saturday, Nov.
Photos: Oley's 2014 Halloween Parade
The Oley Valley held it's annual Halloween Parade on Saturday, Oct. 18.
Twin Valley Elementary Center Student Awarded 1st Place in Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Contest
Nicholas Bertz, a first grader at Twin Valley Elementary Center was awarded 1st Place in the state of Pennsylvania for a multi-media art piece he created in art class. First Lady Susan Corbett launched the statewide art contest, titled, "Art: The Universal Language".
A final walk through the haunts of Hamburg with Charles J. Adams III
If Friday, Oct. 10, had rained according to the predictions the weatherman called for, this story would have started out with, 'It was a dark and stormy night,' but instead it turned out to be a chilly autumn evening as a group of 20 people followed a man in a black cape.
Scott and Barbara Snyder celebrate 30 years of marriage
Scott A. Snyder and Barbara J. (Levan) Snyder of Kutztown celebrated 30 years of marriage on Sept. 1. The couple enjoyed their anniversary by taking a scenic drive in their Mustang convertible down the East Coast, visiting many landmarks along the way: the Biltmore Estate in the Blue Mountains of North Carolina, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Charlottesville and Colonial Williamsburg.
Bernville teen follows passion for wildlife, completes Wildlife Leadership Academy field school
Since she was young, Bernville resident Hannah Krause has had a love of animals and interest in wildlife. That passion is leading her toward becoming a conservation biologist. To reach that goal, she is jumping at every opportunity that comes her way to further her knowledge and become as well-rounded in the field of wildlife as she can.
Kutztown High School Student Council hosts 5th Quarter free concert for students
Last Friday, October 17, Kutztown Area High School Student Council hosted the "5th Quarter" after their home football game. This free event was created in order to allow kids to hang out after the game in a safe and fun environment.
Berks County Dairy Princess named Pennsylvania Dairy Princess
Ashley Mohn, of Womelsdorf, was crowned as the Pennsylvania 2014-2015 Dairy Princess Sept. 20 after a three-day competition with 26 county dairy princesses.
Fall into a dairy recipe with Pumpkin Ice Cream Pie
Rustling of the leaves, becoming darker earlier, sweater weather, and hot apple cider are all signs fall is among us. Fall is a season where many athletes are back in season. A great after game or practice drink is chocolate milk.
Spicing up the fall with Hay Creek Apple Festival
The weekend of Saturday, Oct. 11 and Sunday, Oct. 12, the historical Joanna Furnace was home to the Hay Creek Valley Historical Association's Apple Festival.
Pottstown Zoning Board OKs continued operation of iCreate Cafe
A popular vegetarian cafe and computer training center on King Street will be allowed to continue operating as it already does thanks to a unanimous ruling by the zoning hearing board Wednesday night.
Phillie Phanatic asks Northeast Chamber of Commerce members to become Phanatics
The high energy of the Phillie Phanatic bounded into Berkleigh County Club in Kutztown for a lunch with the Northeast Berks Chamber of Commerce Oct. 17.
Moms Club of New Hanover Township holds open house at Wilcox Farms
Throughout the area, local moms are supporting local moms.
Fire Prevention: Eastern Berks Fire Company visits St. Francis Academy, Bally
Eastern Berks Fire Company visited St. Francis Academy on Friday, Oct. 10. as part of Fire Prevention Week. First graders learned about the different trucks and got a chance to climb in the rescue truck as fireman Jesse Cook explained the different tools first responders use.
Boyertown's Turning Leaf Fall Festival sees Sunday sunshine
For this year's Turning Leaf Fall Festival it was a year of firsts.
'A Day in the Life Of...' shares Lenhartsville author's hysterical life misadventures
Lenhartsville author Dodie Sable announces the nationwide release of her new book, "A Day in the Life of ... ," where she tells her funny and interesting adventures with her various pets.
Daisy Troop 1956 host fall sale, recruit scouts
Fleetwood Girl Scout Daisy Troop 1956 was recently at a community gathering and set up a table for the Fall Product Sale for Girl Scouts of Eastern PA. The girls also tried to recruit new girls to join the wonderful world of Girl Scouting in their local communities! The Fall Product Sale allows the girls to earn income to start their Girl Scout year.
Alexandra Diamond of Elverson earns Venturing Silver
Alexandra Diamond, Elverson, of Venturing Crew 23 in Chester County Council has earned the Venturing Silver Award.
Big Shot: Vicki Eastridge, lead housekeeper at Hickory House, recognized by Life Care Centers of America's Northeast Division
Vicki Eastridge, lead housekeeper at Hickory House Nursing Home in Honey Brook, received Life Care Centers of America's Northeast Division Whatever It Takes And Then Some Award on Sept. 24 for her dedication to customer service.
Morgantown American Legion Post 537 honors boy, 11, for work with veterans
The Morgantown American Legion Post 537 hosted honored an 11-year-old boy, who received a U.S. Congressional Citation for his work with veterans.
St. Joseph Regional Health Network entry screening helps determine if infection control precautions are warranted due to suspected Ebola
St. Joseph Regional Health Network, Reading, has extensive Centers for Disease Control-compliant Infection Control precautions in place normally, and those precautions are equally applicable to any patient who, on the slim chance, presents with Ebola virus symptoms at a St.
Alexandra Diamond of Elverson earns Venturing Silver
Alexandra Diamond, Elverson, of Venturing Crew 23 in Chester County Council has earned the Venturing Silver Award.
Conestoga Christian School: New members inducted into the National Honor Society
Ten new members joined the Conestoga Christian School chapter of the National Honor Society on Sept. 23.
PHOTOS: NCPD's Fallen Heroes Auto Show a hit despite date change
The North Coventry Police Department took a chance with an October date for their third annual Fallen Heroes Auto Show and despite having to opt for a rain date, everything came together in the end.
Kutztown teen Emma Ketterer, 12, creates Art of Insomnia, finds silver lining in diagnosis of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
Kutztown >> Out of insomnia comes art.
Felicia Fisher's Slice of Life: No-Nonsense Bran Muffins
Consuming grass has never appealed to me. When the juice bar craze arrived in New York City I often started my workday with a combination of beet and carrot but I always cringed at the thought of trying wheatgrass.
Military Dad surprises preschooler: Erik Sperber, Maxatawny, returned home after five months deployed in S. Korea
A Maxatawny Township preschooler received a big surprise at her school, a visit from her father who has been away on deployment.
Hamburg Forest Fire Crew member honored in Delaware for selfless efforts and contributions
In recognition of "Wildland Firefighter Day" in Delaware, Jack A. Markell, Governor of the State of Delaware, Matthew Denn, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of Agriculture Ed Kee, Senators and Representatives honored the Delaware Forest Service Initial Attack Crews.
Grace Carpenter celebrates 100th birthday
Grace Carpenter celebrated her 100th birthday a little early last week with a party on Tuesday, Oct. 7. Pictured are Grace and her daughter as well as her cake for the festivities.
Hamburg residents embrace fall at State Street Pumpkin Patch
Nestled between Dietrich's Men's Shop and Hop Po on State Street in Hamburg, was the second State Street Pumpkin Patch on Friday, Oct. 10 and Saturday, Oct. 11. Sponsored by Dietrich's Men's Shop and Willow Tree Primitives and Antiques Country Store, the patch helped residents prepare for the fall season with plenty of decorations and Hawks' clothing and blankets to keep warm as temperatures begin to drop.
Bernville doctor warns community on decorative contact lenses
Stores that sell contact lenses without a prescription is illegal. Those who purchase decorative contact lenses as an accessory for a Halloween costume can put their eyes at risk, warns Dr. Brendon J.
Downtown windows painted in Pottstown to raise donations for parade
By Berks-Mont News staff The MOMS Club of Pottsgrove/Pottstown, a national group of stay at home Moms, under the umbrella group POST - Pottstown Organizations Serving Together, organized Halloween Window Painting to help raise money for the Pottstown Halloween Parade.
Miller family of Boyertown awarded in the Fresh Air Fund's annual photo contest
Boyertown residents, the Miller family, celebrated the pure joys of summer with The Fresh Air Fund and were among the winners of The Fresh Air Fund's 2014 Photo Contest! All winners were selected from the hundreds of pictures sent in by volunteer host families across 13 states from Virginia to Maine and Canada, reflecting the memorable experiences they shared with their New York City visitors this past summer.
Brandywine Heights Key Club wants Halloween Parade "changed," collects for UNICEF
The Brandywine Heights High School Key Club is once again asking the community to bring spare change to the Topton Halloween Parade Oct. 11.
David Updike shares stories of father's past
Through a journey of personal photographs and insight, David Updike, son of Pulitzer Prize winning author and Shillington native John Updike, spoke about his father's childhood Oct. 2.
Draggin Wagons Car Club Show rolls into Honey Brook
The 5th annual Draggin Wagons Car Club Fall Car, Truck & Bike Show in Honey Brook Sept. 28.
Elmcroft resident takes a drive to her past
Some of the most memorable moments of Luella Unger's life have revolved around transportation. It has been wheels that keep her going year to year, from traveling the country with her husband, Lester, to driving students to school and home.
Class of 1948 gathers for 66th reunion at Orioles
The graduating class of 1948 Boyertown High School held their 66th reunion on Wednesday, Oct. 1, at the Boyertown Orioles at 4th and Washington Street.
Country Thrifty open in Elverson; Two best friends take on new venture
A five-year vacancy in Elverson's Darby Square Plaza has been filled by Country Thrifty, the first-time business venture of two best friends, Tamra Mock and Wanda Spatz.
Ozgood's in Kutztown hosts concert & buffet benefit for Fleetwood mother
Ozgood's Grill & Bar in Kutztown hosts a Buffet Benefit & Concert to support a Fleetwood wife and mother of two and recent grandmother in her fight against cancer.
The Heritage of Green Hills Golf Tournament raises more than $8,000 for benefit fund
The Heritage of Green Hills in Shillington held its second annual golf outing to raise money for the Heritage Benefit Fund this summer at Flying Hills Golf Club. The event raised more than $8,000 for the fund, which is used to assist residents who may need financial assistance for a variety of reasons such as emergency medical expenses not covered by insurance or expenses related to a family emergency.
Shillington recycling seniors host Recycled Fashion Show
When the residents of The Heritage of Green Hills, a healthy living community in Shillington, decided to learn more about recycling, they went all out.
Barking for life at the Oley fairgrounds
Community members and their canines traveled to the Oley Valley on Sunday, Oct. 5, for the Boyertown/Oley Bark For Life.
Hamburg Area High School class of 1956 celebrates 58th anniversary
The Hamburg High School class of 1956 held their 58th anniversary reunion at Blue Mountain restaurant in Shartlesville on Sept. 18.
Fiber Artist and Kutztown student Kim Tanzos to be Artist in Residence at Clay on Main
Clay on Main is pleased to present fiber artist Kimberly Tanzos as a this year's selected Artist in Residence from Sunday, Oct. 19 to Wednesday, Oct. 22. Tanzos is a graduate of Kutztown University, where she earned a Bachelor's of Science in Art Education with a minor in Crafts.
Twin Valley Elementary Center donates via ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Twin Valley Elementary Center recently held a fundraiser at The Mill in Morgantown.
Second Annual Barctoberfest Brings Dogs and Dog Owners Together at Community Park
On Saturday, Sept. 27, BARCO hosted the second annual Barcoberfest in Boyertown Community Park where hundreds (of dogs and people) gathered to celebrate everything about dogs!
Boyertown native Naelee Rae continues to inspire with musical gift
In 2012, Naelee Rae, a musician and Boyertown native, was a 15-year-old pursuing her life-long goal of inspiring people with her passion for music. Two years later, Naelee is still at it, plugging away at music festivals, recording in Nashville and sharing her passion with a growing audience.


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The simple family farmer in the folk song "Old McDonald's Farm" tended alone to his animals; he didn't hire any farmworkers. Much has changed since the era of Old McDonald, yet today's farming corporations often claim they don't "employ" any of the workers on their farms or ranches.
Similarly, the McDonald's Corporation, which started in a single store in 1948, claims it doesn't employ any of the workers in its franchised restaurants. By denying employer status companies seek to avoid responsibility for ensuring that workers receive the minimum wage, Social Security coverage and other worker benefits and protections, and for negotiating with unions.
Today about 2.5 million people labor on farms and ranches in the United States. They cultivate and harvest fruits, vegetables and other crops and they raise and care for dairy cows, chickens, sheep and other livestock. Most of them work on larger farms that use from several dozen to a few thousand farmworkers each year. A large percentage of these farmworkers are recruited, hired and employed through farm labor contractors, "crewleaders," labor leasing firms or other intermediaries. The farm operator often contends that it does not "employ" any farmworkers. Rather, it claims that the labor contractor is the sole "employer" and therefore is solely responsible for complying with the minimum wage, workers' compensation, Social Security contributions and immigration laws.
About 1.5 million people work at tens of thousands of McDonald's fast food franchises around the world, whom McDonald's claims that it does not employ. It contends that the franchisee is the only employer and is solely responsible for setting job terms and complying with labor and immigration laws.
These efforts to escape status and responsibility as an employer have dire consequences for many workers. The farm operators and McDonald's possess economic power to dictate how the farm labor contractors operate and how the McDonald's franchisees carry out their functions. They take advantage of that power for their own benefit, leaving few resources for the worker to gain from the labor contractor or franchisee.
Farmworkers often do not receive the promised, or even legally-required, job terms from their labor contractor. If they dare to sue the labor contractor, most have a hard time collecting what is owed. With a majority of the farm labor force lacking authorized immigration status, few farmworkers feel protected to file lawsuits or join a labor union.
The McDonald's Corporation's success is built largely on its ability to control the consistency of the customer experience at its company-owned and franchised restaurants throughout the world. For workers who wish to reform the way they are treated, many franchise owners will not and cannot adopt major changes unless McDonald's revises its approach.
One of the solutions is to reject the companies' claims that they are not "employers," instead making the farm operator and McDonald's "joint employers."
Farmworkers have sued growers and their labor contractors as joint employers with some success, and fast food workers are also now making efforts to hold McDonald's responsible as an employer of the workers in its franchised restaurants in the U.S. Recently, the chief attorney at the National Labor Relations Board announced plans to bring a case to hold McDonald's responsible as an employer under the National Labor Relations Act. The NLRA (which excludes agricultural workers and employers) protects most workers' right to organize free from retaliation and requires employers to bargain collectively in good faith with certified labor unions.
The response from business has been predictably fierce. Both McDonald's and farm operators want to exercise the right to control their franchises and labor contractors, respectively, to assure their profit, which has substantial consequences for the people who actually perform the work.
Long ago, Old McDonald's Farm stopped being the predominant model for agriculture, and McDonald's ceased to be an owner-operated hamburger joint. The courts should make clear that fast food chains and farm operators are jointly responsible as employers of the workers who labor in restaurants and farms.
Goldstein is president of Farmworker Justice, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization in Washington, D.C. that works to improve living and working conditions for migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
By Bruce Goldstein
The head of a national farmworker rights group defends the U.S. Department of Labor's actions in the case involving three Oregon blueberry growers.
How about a little bit of objectivity when it comes to farm operators that deprive hard-working farmworkers of the minimum wage? Your editorial, "It's time for DOL to pay up" (Sept. 25), shows no sympathy for farmworkers who are just scraping by on meager wages and are ripped off by their employers.
You also misrepresent what happened by calling it "extortion." These employers were told by the Department of Labor that it found violations of workers' rights. The department can take several actions and employers can contest those actions. The department is permitted to go to federal court and ask a federal judge to issue an injunction to temporarily hold up the sale or shipment of goods that were produced in violation of the law. The farm operators can have their day in court.
In these cases, there was no "extortion." The growers decided to settle the controversy by paying tens of thousands of dollars to numerous underpaid farmworkers. Much later, the growers decided they wished they had not settled. So they asked the court to be allowed to renege on the settlement and re-open the case so that it could be litigated.
Meanwhile, some of the workers were reimbursed for their losses, as they should have been under the settlement, while others undoubtedly have moved on and may never be found to be given their lost earnings. So now the growers will have their day in court for a judge or jury to decide whether the farmworkers were underpaid. Stop misrepresenting what happened to attack the Department of Labor's efforts to enforce the few employment laws that protect farmworkers.
Bruce Goldstein, President
Farmworker Justice
Farmworker Justice is deeply disappointed in President Obama's delay of anticipated administrative relief to fix our broken immigration system. In June, after the House of Representative's failure to pass needed immigration legislation, the President had announced that he would take executive action by the end of the summer. Although the White House had not yet indicated what the administrative action would entail, it is expected to include granting administrative relief against deportation and work authorization to millions of undocumented immigrants with strong ties to the U.S. protection.
"This delay in fixing the broken immigration system will inflict unconscionable harm on the millions of hard-working aspiring Americans, including the many farmworkers who labor on farms and lack authorized immigration status," said Farmworker Justice President Bruce Goldstein. "The entire food system is undermined by the failure of the political leadership in this country to address this crisis responsibly. Farmworker Justice will continue to press the Administration and Congress for immigration reform," said Goldstein.
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As we approach the midterm elections, pieces of information are surfacing in the press about President Obama's plans for executive action. According to recent news, President Obama has not yet made a decision on what form administrative immigration relief will take. According to Buzzfeed, the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security are expected to pass along their recommendations to the White House in the next two weeks for the President's review and decision-making. The administrative relief is expected to include some kind of deferred action or parole program that would provide protection from deportation and work authorization for a defined group of undocumented immigrants.
Many immigration advocates are disappointed by rumors that the recommendations may provide for potential administrative relief to only a limited number of individuals. The recommendations will likely include factors such as length of residence in the United States and family relationships with others in the country. For example, if the President only offers relief for undocumented immigrants who have been in the US for 10 years and have US citizen children, an estimated 3 million individuals would be eligible, as opposed to other proposals that could cover up to 5 million individuals. The Senate immigration bill, on the other hand, would have offered permanent relief for up to 8 million individuals, including separate farmworker and DREAMer provisions. Many advocates have been urging the President to be bold in his actions, pointing out that he will face Republican criticism for any administrative relief action, no matter the size. Advocates are concerned that the President may choose a smaller option. DREAMer groups are particularly disappointment that the parents of DACA-recipients could be excluded from relief.
A program that only covers individuals who have been in the U.S. for 10 years and have U.S. citizen children would be very challenging for farmworkers and others in the informal economy. Many farmworkers would have difficulty proving residency in the United States for 10 years if they are paid in cash and don't have bank accounts; live in employer-provided housing or shared housing; or otherwise lack documentation such as utility bills in their own name. Farmworker Justice and allies continue to raise issues such as these with the Administration to ensure that any administrative relief program is as inclusive as possible and takes into consideration the unique challenges faced by farmworkers.
Farmworker Justice believes President Obama must act boldly to provide broad affirmative administrative relief to address the millions of undocumented people who contribute to our economy and society but suffer due to our broken immigration system. The Administration must take action because the House of Representatives has refused to address the urgent need for comprehensive immigration reform. Any action President Obama takes must be inclusive of farmworkers, the majority of whom are undocumented. Broad, bold administrative relief would help farmworkers, their families and their communities, and would help stabilize the farm labor force and ensure a prosperous agricultural sector.
Members of Congress continue to express their support for the President taking executive action on immigration. Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) co-authored an op-ed in Univision.com Thursday, expressing confidence that President Obama will announce an affirmative relief program and outlining his legal authority to do so. The Members of Congress mention that among Obama's options for affirmative relief, he could "recognize that it is 'essential for agriculture' that farmworkers who toil in our fields do so without fear."
Regarding timing for the President's announcement, the only timeframe given so far has been the President's assertion that he would take action by the end of the year. Some are predicting that the announcement may not come until December due to a possible run-off election for the Louisiana Senate seat and the interest in completing the appropriations process prior to the announcement. The current continuing resolution will expire on December 11 and if the President makes his announcement before the government is funded, the House may attempt to limit the President's action through the appropriations bill as it tried to in the summer when it voted to defund DACA. Some individuals have also expressed concern that if there is a runoff election in the Georgia Senate race which would take place January 6th, the President may delay his announcement yet again. The runoff could create pressure for the President to delay by Democrats who believe that the executive action would motivate Republicans to turn out for the runoff, hurting the Democratic candidate Michelle Nunn's chances of winning. If the Democrats need Nunn to win to maintain control of the Senate, the pressure on the President will be more intense. However, the President and his staff have repeatedly promised that he will announce executive action by the end of the year and another delay would produce much anger from immigrant communities and reflect poorly on the President's willingness to keep his promises.
H-2A Program Increases Show the Program Working Well for Employers
Data on the H-2A program for Fiscal Year 2014 released last week by the Department of Labor show that the H-2A program is far from "broken," as growers continue to claim. From FY 2013 to FY 2014, the number of H-2A worker positions certified increased by 18%. The number of applications from FY2013 to FY2014 also increased by 13%.1 North Carolina remains the number one user of the H-2A program, bringing in up to14,502 H-2A workers in FY2014, a 17% increase from last year. Several states had significantly large increases in the number of H-2A workers certified, including a 45% increase in Washington, 44% in California and 35% in Florida.
The increase in H-2A program usage has not been limited to this past year. The program has more than doubled in size in recent years: from about 48,000 worker positions certified in FY 2005 to about 117,000 worker positions certified in FY 2014—an increase of 141%.
Complaints by growers that the H-2A program is "broken" are thinly-veiled attempts to get a new guestworker program with lower wages and fewer worker protections. But the H-2A program wages and worker protections are greatly needed. Despite the current H-2A program's modest protections aimed at reducing exploitation of guestworkers and protecting the jobs, wages and other labor standards of U.S. farmworkers; the program is rife with abuse. H-2A workers typically arrive indebted and fearful, are tied to their employer for the length of their visa, and must leave the country when the job ends, factors which make workers extremely dependent on their employers and vulnerable to abuse. No matter how many years H-2A workers spend in the U.S., they never earn the opportunity to become an immigrant or citizen.
With comprehensive immigration reform unlikely next year, some growers may push for a new agricultural guestworker program with reduced government oversight, low worker wages and reduced protections; with no legalization program for current experienced undocumented farmworkers. Farmworker Justice will continue to educate policymakers and the public about such harmful proposals.
Happy Halloween and don't forget to vote next week!
1 Note that the number of workers certified is not an accurate reflection of the number of H-2A workers who entered the US in FY 2014 as growers may not bring in the total number of workers listed on their certification.
Stay in the know by reading our briefs on the latest happenings in immigration reform and the impacts on farmworkers.
Immigration reform updates
10/31/2014 Farmworker Justice Immigration Update
10/17/2014 Farmworker Justice Immigration Update
Immigration is a critically important issue for farmworkers. Learn about current legislation proposals impacting farmworkers.
Learn about the history of guestworker programs, H-2A program for temporary agricultural work, and the H-2B visa program.


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Antiques Roadshow expert Geoffrey Munn leads a tour of Tate Britain's BP Walk Through British Art, looking at jewellery and floral decoration from the Renaissance to the 19th century.
Geoffrey has organised many specialist exhibitions, including the 2002 Tiaras exhibition at the V&A in London, and has a particular interest in 19th-century jewellery and metalwork.
This after-hours tour is a unique opportunity to view the Tate collection in a new and exciting way. It is the first of a series of tours led by a diverse range of respected figures from different aspects of British life, opening up discussions around art and life through the permanent collection.
Forthcoming tour leaders include gardener, writer and broadcaster Alys Fowler and human rights activist Peter Tatchell.
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It's more an omen than deja vu to me... Lifshitz.
I've never bring myself confident enough to deploy the remote control feature in sysaid, now with mobile capability, I grew even pessimistic I'd ever use it. But you're right... I don't think it's a choice anymore.
So help me :
Please add "providing high quality security and high availability features/controls" into those objectives.
If you will not do it yourself don't pick a partner to do it... design the product to play with ANY solutions in those areas out there.
Even with IPv6 and cloud computing we are still stuggling with those two quite fiercely and lose (judging from the lulz we're having the past months).
Malware is now targeting not only non-windows products but thanks to convergence technology they find their ways to infrastructure like voice and scada devices as well, something once pretty shut-off in closed network.
SysAid is not like any other information system. It is the information system for infrastructure. The crucial importance of those two sectors can not be over stressed. Innovations on those two areas will not only determine if sysaid is in it's own class or it's just "another IT solution" but more importantly will show how much illient values the customers which already a trademark.....
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"I am excited to ride this wave with you and realize the benefits of the mobile revolution together."
- Israel Lifshitz, SysAid CEO & Founder, in his personal letter to all SysAiders
I think we may have to paddle a bit harder to catch the wave.
The concept of the SysAid mobile app is good, but I would like to see some improvements to make it more user friendly.
Ability to filter to see only unassigned incidents. Can only select administrators at present. Have to hunt for unassigned through all New incidents.
search facility for assets. Filtering not always helpful.
remote control connection can be difficult to obtain. HSPA/3G (flaky reception fluctuates between the 2) to ADSL 2+ and can't connect at all. Have connected on ipad with wi-fi (ADSL2+ to ADSL2+), but it dropped out. (Usual laptop VPN on this same connection is stable)
Incident list lost if device screen save kicks in while viewing. Can only retrieve if move to assets tab then back again, but any filtering that was in place is not applied. (Android app)
Overall heading in the right direction, but needs to be more reliable.
Also agree with Obelix that security on these mobile devices could be an issue - but that is more than just a SysAid problem.
Keep up the good work - looking forward to future developments of the mobile app. I think it will be ideal for ipads (and similar tablet devices) because of the extra screen size, but phones are handy in an emergency.
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Great Tip for Your Thanksgiving Pies!
Nov 19, 2006 | From the kitchen of Rose
Protecting the Pie Crust Borders from Over-browning
In the Pie and Pastry BIble I suggested making a foil band and setting it on top of the crust after it starts browning. I've since discovered that it is easier and better to apply the band at the beginning of baking. The crust will brown perfectly under the foil.
For those of you who don't have the book, to make the foil band, cut out a large circle of heavy duty foil and then cut a smaller circle in the middle to expose the top of the pie and cover only the decorative border. Bend the foil band at the edges to curve down over the sides.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hello people, it is Thanksgiving Day! I'm enjoying my extra day off, and I am planning to doing something fun that'll probably involve a bike ride and seeing something new in Plymouth I haven't seen yet.
You write new post at Thanksgiving?
Rozanne, NOT true! I'm a leftie who doesn't fit the description although I do have problems with my cup-cake liners. But I'm letting Bill solve the problem then he can share the solution - I rest my case!
Apparently left handed people posess the same qualities as you. Not sure how far it is true:)
Got it. silicone pan on a rack, rack on a sheet. Thanks so much. Next time I bake cupcakes, I'll give it a whirl! It's cheese cake tonight for my friend Helen from San Diego (she arrives tomorrow)- Cheese cake is her favorite.
don't forget the rack or they won't bake evenly
Bill, get yourself a 1/4 sheet pan or two. You can find them at the usual kitchen/restaurant supply places. One should easily be able to accommodate a 6-muffin silicone pan.
Thanks. I haven't bought them yet, so I'll know what to look for. My oven is the small Viking (24") so a sheet pan only fits at the top and bottom positions(the convection fan gets in the way and the oven door won't close when you try to put it in the middle). I don't want to bake cup cakes at the top or bottom of the oven...asking for disaster. A cookie sheet fits, though. I have those double insulated cookie sheets...can I put the silicone muffin pans on that..or should I get a regular cookie sheet that isn't insulated?
bill, the trouble with giving partial info is that it is...well...partial! here i am, about to go to sleep exhausted when suddenly i remember what i wrote about silicone muffin pans: only get the kind that have two rows as the three rows have a middle row that bakes slower than the outer rows. also you need to set the silicone muffin pan on a ss rack or the cupcakes won't bake evenly as there won't be even heat distrubution. i set the rack on a sheet pan to make it easier to get it in and out of the oven. that's the whole story!
I'm not left handed...but I'm interested in the connection. Are obsessive, neuortic, computer-inept, perfectionists in general - left handed? Or is handed-ness somehow related to ones ability to keep cupcake liners in place? AHHHHH!
Bill, are you by any chance left-handed?
that was three times--i already deleted one. please be careful...
oops. Sorry. didn't mean to post twice
use them for when you want to give cupcakes away--then they keep them fresher.
I love you. And thanks. At least the silicone pans can be folded up and don't take a lot of space. But what to do with the beautiful, natural, unbleached, earthy crunchy looking cupcake liners I bought last night at 10:55 PM as the Food Emporium was closing and my oven was preheating? (By the way, this last batch...not so bad. Didn't care for the crumb, but they didn't shrink and they tasted good)
absolutely right buteryum!
bill--i'm taking pity on you and giving you a tip: i find the best shape come when using silicone muffin pans (without liners of course).
Obsessive compulsive? Me? Don't be silly. I'm still on the quest for the perfect cupcake, one that is even with the top of the cupcake liner, slightly domed, perfectly symmetrical, without the papers peeling away as the cupcake shrinks and cools, and still tastes delicious with a pleasing texture. I've started to try to formulate my own recipe. Stated with Rose's Sour Cream butter cake (which I find incredibly yummy) and have altered it and tweaked it based on things I've seen in "cup cake" recipies to try to get them to not shrink out of the paper and to dome a little. So far I have baked way into the wee hours of the morning, many times these past few weeks...and what have I come up with? Cupcakes that look great but have no taste, and terrible crumb, Cup cakes that Taste great but shrink out of the papers, cupcakes that look and taste great, but fall to crumbs when I tried to peel the paper off, Cup cakes that shrunk up from the bottom, leaving this strange space between the bottom of the cup cake and the paper liner, as if it's pants didn't fit right. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I'm not obsessive.
Don't the best bakers all have a touch of Baking OCD? :)
Bill, do you have obsessive compulsive disorder?
Thank you, Matthew!
Thank you Maureen! For the cherry pie, I followed Rose's recipe in the P&PB, so I didn't need to moisture proof the crust. I have done it for other pies/tarts though, where the crust is prebaked. Egg white works well, chocolate (including white), works the best, but must be compatible with the filling.
I'm not sure how that would work with a lattice however, since it takes a full bake to get the lattice to brown (and even then it needs to be brushed with egg yolk and cream). I am afraid you would over bake the bottom crust. I haven't made anything like what you are doing, but jam has less moisture than pie filling, so I wouldn't think it would make the crust soggy, as long as you don't make it too far ahead--just a guess though.
Matthew, your pictures are amazing. I'm wondering: for your cherry lattice pie, did you take any special precautions to ensure the bottom crust wouldn't get soggy? Can you prebake the bottom crust with a glaze to protect it, then add the filling and the lattice -- or will that not work?
You're a true artist, Matthew. Bravo. The design work on the fillo is also gorgeous.
Thank you all for the kind comments. Since these are Rose's recipes, I guess I didn't think to mention that they were also delicious--it almost goes without saying! Suffice to say, everything tasted even better than it looked!
Matthew...These are absolutely beautiful. Amazing job!
Matthew, these are glorious!! You have a wonderful talent for turning out beautiful pies, and I bet they tasted as good as they look. Thanks so much for sharing, very inspiring!
it would also make great end paper for a book!
Gasp - that montage would make a fantastic poster! What wonderful art!!!
Great pictures Matthew! The pies look awesome. You are one talented baker!!!
Sales of the book are likely to go way up when people see these pictures! Excellent!
matthew, I am so proud of you! Mr Pie!
Shall PPB need to be translated or republished, YOU should do the new photos. Your pies and everything I've seen from you is very accurate to what is in the book!
either you are a food stylist or should open a bakery--perfection!
It has been a while since I've shared pictures, so I thought I would post a few pictures of some pies I have made since June. All of these are from the Pie and Pastry Bible (with the exception of the cheesecake ice cream and pumpkin cheesecake).
From top to bottom, left to right:
Plum Flame Tart
Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake (adapted from Rose's Pure Pumpkin Cheesecake)
Kiwi Tart with Lime Curd
Gascon Apple Pie (Pastis Gascon)
Cherry Lattice Pie
The Best All-American Apple Pie with Triple Vanilla Ice Cream
Open-Faced Fresh Blueberry Pie with Cheesecake Ice Cream
Coconut Ice Cream Pie
Concord Grape Lattice Pie
Thanks Hector. Maybe I'll buy some.
Rozanne, in Hawaii what is called apple bananas are like regular chiquita bananas (yellow skin, white flesh), just as thick but shorter. The only difference is that apple bananas are super tasty and sweet, and if bought fresh or home harvested you can leave them out until the skin turns near black and thin, and the flesh is still good (not as firm, a bit mushy, but great flavor).
Hector, we do have pasteurized cream (as opposed to ultra-pasteurized) here in Canada, but we do not have unpasteurized cream. I am so glad we do b/c as you said pastry cream and creme fraiche taste so much better. By the way what do apple bananas taste like? I remember seeing a posting from you about it.
I have not seen unpasturized dairy products...but we do have milk and cream that are pasturized...but not ultrapasturized. The dairy company is called Ronnybrook Farms...and they are quite pricy. I'm sure that the unpasturized products...if available...are to be found somewhere in NYC.
Bill, your Napoleons could not sound any more delicious, thanks for sharing.
Can you find unpasteurized milk/cream in your area? You must try it for any pastry creams confections. I've read you can find some from Canada.
Your cupcakes must be perfect by now, from all that experience you have been sharing.
Glad you all could eat from my Thanksgiving meal thru the computer! I need not post a picture of my full freezer now!
Rose, I've just received your cookie book as a present, the first thing I've pointed was the cathedral. I do want to make it, but thanks for the advice, it must be a team effort. Will look for an opportunity in the future.
My thanksgiving Baking was a success. I made Napoleons for the first time. The were inhaled by my sister's guests (why waste all that time chewing?). I had prepared all of the components of napoleons for other recipies...but combined the pastry cream, quick puff pastry, and fondant together for the first time. I had been using Julia Child's puff pastry recipe for years...and always felt like it was a cop-out...sort of cheating. Rose, i was so happy to see the recipe in the pie and pastry bible and to see your note that sometimes it can work even better than classic puff pastry (depending on what you are using it for). I also prepared a coconut cake and chocolate fudge cupcakes with mousseline buttercream (all my cupcakes were perfectly uniform thanks to a pastry bag and scale. YEAH!
Bravo! Everything looks delicious
the turkey looks so perfect and 'whole'--wish i had been there--all my favorite food (haha!) and so expertly prepared.
Dear bloggers, hope you all enjoyed a great THANKSGIVING, or heard about it (for the countries that don't celebrate).
My 6 dinner guests thanked all evening long to Rose's recipes. Everything was good, and the baking and cooking techniques learned were great to practice! I do recommend not 1 but 2 sous chefs.
Please click on the link below and scroll down, the final pictures are posted. My favorite part was the stuffing. I will offer to make the stuffing all the years to come, it is so tasty and a show stopper when baked inside the turkey after such neat surgery. I may improve and work a little on the food styling of the stuffing, make it more decorative than just a pile of brown picks and bits.
Enjoy, will be posting my Saturday Thanksgiving a bit later.
P.S. But above the stuffing, was THE PIE!
Let me shoot the first product of my Thanksgiving table. I tried to post last night after my wonderful 6 guest left w/o first helping me wash all dishes, but I felt sleep on my computer, which is rare!
THE PIE. Following Rose's recipe for pecan pie(tart). Pre-baked shell. The chocolate lace is not just beautiful but compliments the taste. I think this pie & lace is on the cover of a food magazine, I've spotted last week. Bitter chocolate lace, thin profile pie as a tart on a flaky cream cheese unsweetened non-cookie crust, are like putting each of your feet on a separate scale and register the same weight: perfect balance. The pie was served with a dab of extremely lightly sweetened bourbon whipped cream. One of my guests, the one who can't cook, gave compliments! The lack of sugar on the whipped cream enhanced the flavor of dairy, and the touch of alcohol made this flavor very palatable (try drinking heavy cream straight from the box, and you will know what I mean). Rose: thank you for doing the research for us on how to assemble the best pecan pie! I hope the pictures give credit to this incredible composition of flavors, texture, and color.
the beautiful pink reminds me of the background color of the new forum!
Back to gobbling a la Rose's Celebrations.
November 19th, I assembled the Graavlax with everything I can find locally. I used 1 lb each of 3 different fish, instead of only 3 lbs of salmon. Fresh island Mahi Mahi, flown in Atlantic Salmon, and fresh island grade #1 Ahi (red tuna sashimi). It was very inexpensive, except for the Ahi: you do find Ahi inexpensive in Hawaii and indeed excellent freshness and taste, but my fish monger tempted me with the grade #1 which is not even red (but pink due to the high fat content and lack of cartilage).
Photo here, pay attention to the colors, the photo captured the true colors pretty accurately!
and click on any picture to take you the full progress page.
Matthew, very easy to do, the difficult part is making the raspberry sauce, but if you this stocked ahead of time since it freezes/re-refreezes well, then it is a blitz.
I would suggest you simmer the cranberries for shorter than the recipe's 10 minutes, if you want to keep the sauce more whole. Cranberries turn into puree soon after they pop, one of those fruits that seem hard and tough when raw, but turn softy when lightly cooked.
And most definitely make it ahead of time, weeks ahead. Basically this is a conserve which I believe improves in taste when aged.
I made my batch yesterday. I did find it a bit bitter, perhaps due to too much lemon grind. Lets see how the flavors merge in a month.
I am hoping my guests will be impressed that one can make their own cranberry sauce. It is an iconic U.S. fruit, hope Luca's parents enjoy it! (they are flying back with us on 11/17).
Hey, try the Rick Rodgers turkey breast roll breast, it is super easy, and there is just no better way to make a breast roll than filled with prosciutto and covered with panceta! It just can't get dry this way.
I'm going to try that cranberry sauce this year. Let me know how it turns out.
Thanksgiving brings friends and a lot of pies together: Great Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Chiffon Pie, and Low-Profile Pecan Pie.
I will pie my life away this year with the book Rose's Celebrations. Please enjoy the daily progress:
Elicia, the cream cheese does not impart any noticeable flavor to the crust! Neither the vinegar!
Not sure which one is flakier, the cream cheese one or the cheddar one. I am sure Matthew would know!
Hi Hector, M very tempted to try the cream cheese crust but worried it will be a tad less crispy and maybe not suited for savoury tarts. So, to have a cheese flavour, the cheddar one seems to be the only option! Looks like I can prebake a few days ahead - will do a trial batch and report back.
Thks Patrincia for clearing the air! I just want to make sure I'm making a proper quiche for the party!
Hi Elicia - I'd say pie pastry is the most popular crust for quiche in the US, but anything goes - even no pastry at all: Italians call it Fritata (although I do prefer it with crust).
Elicia, I am very happy with the Cream Cheese Flaky Pie Crust. It is plenty flaky!
Re: blind baking ahead and storing airtight. I have stored tartlets crusts for 8 weeks! In a vacuum jar, refrigerated. If you don't have a vacuum jar, I would store at room temperature, and perhaps for only 1 week.
Thks Patrincia & Matthew, I've blind baked pate sucre and packaged frozen shortcrust pastry and stored airtight for several days and it was ok. Just worried abt flaky pie crust though as I've never done it and it is humid here!
In fact, I've not done quiche before, and have always thought that it was done with puff pastry and not flaky pie pastry! The ones I've tasted from french bakeries seemed puffy, crisp and flaky like puff pastry, unlike fruit pies! Am I mistaken?
Nice to note that the filling mellows after a day. However a very crisp and flaky crust is a must! Thot of attempting the cheddar crust as I cannot use the lard crust (the requirement is for 'meat-free'). Any good advice?
I think you will be fine to bake the crust a couple of days ahead of time and keep it at room temperature. I can only think of one time that didn't work for me, and like I said, it was unusually humid so it lost some of its crunch. My experience with quiche is that somehow the filing can taste even better the next day, but the crust isn't as good after refrigeration. Of course, if you have time, a small test batch is great to see how it will work where you are.
Thks Matthew! I will definitely shape and line the tartlet pans ahead, but am worried I won't have time to do the baking of the crust in the morning - its for a brunch and I have tons to do! I figure I will have to bake 3 batches(blind baking) as I wld only fit one tier into the oven at a time - that wld take an hour blindbaking and an extra hour to bake the filling! Maybe when I bake the filling, the crust will re-crisp!
Elicia - Rose does mention on page 436 that the quiche can be covered and refrigerated for up to 2 days, then reheat in a 350F oven for 15 minutes.
Do you have time to experiment a little? I don't see why you couldn't make the pastry shells through the prebake step listed on pg 346, cool completely, and then freeze them in an airtight container until you are ready to proceed. Isn't that what the premade frozen pastry cup people do?
If possible, I would bake the crust the day of the event. You can make the dough a few days ahead and refrigerate it, or even freeze it, already shaped. If that is not an option, then I would store the baked crust air tight at room temperature. Definitely avoid refrigerating the baked crust as it will loose its crispness. Humidity and moisture are the enemies of baked crust, so if it is humid where you are, you may have trouble storing it already baked.
Hi baking buddies, Need some advice in the pastry dept! Am doing some party bites for a friend's small marriage registration reception, and mushroom quiche is on the menu. Since I have to prepare several types of food, am now planning on whatever I can make in advance!
Will be making the morel mushroom quiche in PPB in individual 4" portions (replacing morel with shitake of course, as we do not have morel here!) Was wondering if I can prebake the crust 1-2 days in advance? If possible, shld I store it at room temperature airtight, or in the fridge? I've prebaked shortcrust pastry, but have never made flaky pie crusts! Any expert advice?
Wow, top 100 list. I hope you'll share your list sometime Rose.
thank you Rose! will do.
Luca asked if I could find Torta Linz in your bibles to make the world a better place . . . he is very Northern Italian!
I will use a 9" tart pan, instead of a 10" as your recipe lists. (don't have one that size, and I to buy silicone next). I think the 1" less will be perfect, I will have extra dough for future use, plus I will need less conserve. I've just opened my third jar and that should suffice the linzertorte. I don't want to open my last jar of Cordon Rose Raspberry Conserve, which is HEAVEN IN A JAR, this last jar is saved for you know what . . .
p.s. i don't like supersweet things which is why i make my own less sweet conserve as i know you will do. but for anyone who has any doubts as to whether this recipe is worth trying know that it is one of my 100 top favorites!
my 'educated'guess is yes. it's a cookie dough. i don't see why more preserves would seep in before baking than during baking.
Rose, quick question. Baking Linzertorte. Can I assemble it (crust, conserve, lattice, etc), and then bake it 2 days later? Normally for flaky pie crust it would be ok, but not sure about this almond crust, plus I do notice that conserves soften the crust!
great report! some of these little gadgets really are amazing additions to technique!
Thanks for the advice. I got a rolling pin sleeve (what an excellent trick!) and kept the flour in the freezer. I was not so deft in the "working fast" department, but the quiches turned out to be wonderful and the crusts were delicious.
the best pastries and sauces I ever made were in this horrible unheated kitchen in Bradford, West Yorkshire I rented as a student. It was so cold, esp. in winter, that the pastries came out ultra light and flaky. Custards were great as well, because the stove was very underheated, and the ambient temperature was very low, so it took ages to cook, never curdling. An incredible texture.
On the down side, all the labels used to come off the cans and bottles, due to the dampness (don't let's talk about the walls).
the only pitfall is august in MN, i.e. heat and humidity--the enemies of pie crust. so keep everything cold--freeze the flour, use a pastry cloth and sleeve, and work quickly.
so nice to hear from you marie!
I'm planning to bake a few quiches for my book club next week. Of course, I've read through the quiche recipes in The Pie and Pastry Bible, and I bought some lard--the first time I've ever tried baking with it. Do you have any hints or thoughts about what pitfalls I might encounter?
Marie Wolf
since this question comes up often, i have listed it in the FAQ's. here's what i wrote:
on page 455 of the cake bible is a chart listing the volume of most cake pans. of course if you have an odd-shaped pan you will need to measure the volume yourself by pouring water into it. if it's a two-piece pan first line it with a clean garbage bag.
compare the size and volume of the pans specified in the recipe to the one which you want to use and then either increase or decrease it proportionately.
molly, please understand that i have tested each and every size of each and every cake listed in the book as a wedding cake. if you use another recipe there is no predicting accurately what will happen as not all cakes expand well. but at least you have the quide of comparable size cakes so you can do ratio's of how much flour to baking powder in the original recipe and how much i have decreased it proportionately etc.
but you must do at least one dry run to see if further adjustments need to be made.
Rose, I have aquaired a reputation within my small social group for being "the best" at baking cakes, (due to use of your BIBLE and recipes). Several young women are insisting I bake their wedding cakes next summer. The wedding cake calculations in your book would be helpful, but one of them wants square layers in carrot cake. Another wants me to use BAKER'S brand German Sweet Chocolate Cake recipe and make layers that are Hexigone shaped. Each has offered to buy her own pans but I do not know how to calculate the baking power / soda needed for the larger pan sizes when multiplying the recipe. Do 12" round, Hexigone, and square pans all hold the same amount of batter (I would think not)? Can you please explain how I can determine calculating to multiply the recipes and adjustment of levening for recipes not in your book such as the BAKER'S recipe?
Deepest thanks, and your book is a treasure.
brian, you sound like a born baker! i like your observations.
I made your pumpkin pie (2 of them) for Thanksgiving, and what a hit! It really has a fantastic texture from the food processor, and your level of spices were just right for my taste. Also, it was my first experience with your dough which was also great to work with and came out nice and flaky. (It was interesting because I tasted some of the uncooked dough after I rolled it out and you could taste the cider vinegar - it was almost a bit sour). But after the dough cooked, any trace of the vinegar was gone and it had a great flavor.
if you make your own pie shield out of foil it won't dent the fluting. i'm assuming you're using a commercial pie shield right?
Hi Rose, I use a pie shield and find that it squashes the pie crust just a tad when I put it on at the beginning of baking -- so I wait until it's firmed up a bit before I put it on. Or does this just depend on what type of pie crust is used (I use a half-shortening half-butter pie crust recipe)? Or maybe it's the way we flute?
yes--pale yellow is perfect. and it should shimmy slightly when moved until chilled.but with the cornstarch it probably won't shimmy at all!
thank you! i love the grand marnier cake so much i've worked it out as a wedding cake for my upcoming book.
Hi Rose,
Many thanks for your advice. I'll try again next weekend. Also, please
let me know if the top of the cake and the sides are supposed to be a
pale yellow color when the cake is finished baking?
I love all the recipes that I've tried so far in the Cake Bible
especially the Grand Marnier cake.
the cornstarch will definitely make it more firmer. a small amount simply keeps it from watering out but the more you add the firmer it will get. most cheesecake recipes have flour or cornstarch. the reason mine doesn't is bc i like it to be very creamy. but if your family wants it to be more firm that's the solution.
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i don't bake on the floor of the gaggenau bc it's not totally flat-at last my model isn't--it's the really wide one. i use a baking stone and convection lowering the heat 25 degrees. if it's burning it means your thermostat is off so just lower the temperature some more and call in the service guy after the holidays to adjust the thermostat! using other ppl's ovens is always a risk bc one isn't familiar with how they bake.
patricia brogan wrote:
Thanks! Since the ovens have a built in thermometer, it never occurred to me they could be off--but experimenting w/them suggests they are both calibrated about 40 degrees too hot. The thermometer must be tied to the thermostat. You saved my pie! The pear almond tart was delicious.
Hi Rose,
I love your Cordon Rose Cheesecake recipe. However, some family members prefer it to be more firm and dense. I've tried the 6 egg yolks (no cornstarch) and it did not seem to make it firmer than when using 3 whole eggs. If I use a higher oven temp would that make the cake more firm? Thanks for your advice.
i've never made them in that size but i would use the same temperature. for the estimated time, compare a layer cake timing to a sheet cake timing and that will give you an idea what to expect. keep your eye on it toward the end and it should be just fine.
Hi Rose, I am reading your Cake Bible book and would like to make a Classic Genoise - but in 12x16 sheet pan. After baking, I will cut into 3 pieces and use those as layers. What would be the temperature and timing?
Thank you!
i don't bake on the floor of the gaggenau bc it's not totally flat-at last my model isn't--it's the really wide one. i use a baking stone and convection lowering the heat 25 degrees. if it's burning it means your thermostat is off so just lower the temperature some more and call in the service guy after the holidays to adjust the thermostat! using other ppl's ovens is always a risk bc one isn't familiar with how they bake.
Dear Rose,
I have Gaggen-woes . . .
I'm using my mother's small Gaggenau oven for thanksgiving pie baking. I've now burnt both the flaky cream cheese crust and the sweet nut tart crust, both in the prebaking stage. For the former I used the top and bottom heat setting and placed the crust on the floor of the oven. For the latter, I switched to convection, reduced the temperature 25 degrees, and cooked it the shorter amount of time. I noticed in the P&PB that you use a large Gaggenau and like it . . . any suggestions?
Thanks for your help and Happy Thanksgiving!
i would put it in a cool area of the house, covered tightly and then "wake it up" in a 350 oven for 10 minutes before serving. freezing isn't great for the crust.
I made a cherry pie for Thanksgiving on Tuesday night. I think I goofed cuz I meant to freeze the pie and bake it Thursday so it would be fresh. Can I freeze a baked pie? Or, will it be okay for two days? Should I refrigerate it?
Thanks! Great website.
thank you ari and krystal. very kind!
I love this site. Its helped me with alot of my recipes.
I haven't tried it out yet, but I figured the same thing myself after trying to get a shield around a hot quiche half-way through baking last week. Ouch! :)
ps. Looooove your blog!


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I'm sad for TZ and her current state, I hope she'll get better soon. Her weird pose is what I sometimes do when feeling unhappy, except my legs are much shorter and thicker, heh.
Finally some finished art, huff, it's such a relief for me! Photoshop for a change and forced myself to do at least some super shitty background.
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Those Magical and Mysterious Learning Moments
I've been reading some old issues of The Teaching Professor newsletter and ran across a lovely piece by William Reinsmith on learning moments. He's writing about those times when students get it, when something turns the lights on and they glow with understanding. It may be a moment when they finally figure out how to do so something—a long elusive skill or a solution to a problem. Other times it's a moment of insight, often a possibility or explanation that had never crossed their minds, or a set of ideas that come together and create a new perspective on a familiar issue.
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What's the Story on Learning Styles?
We have this tendency in higher education to throw babies out with bath water. It derives from dualistic thinking. Either something is right or wrong, it's in or out, up or down. As mature thinkers, we disavow these dichotomous perspectives, but then find their simplicity hard to resist. They make complicated things easy.
What's Your Learning Philosophy?
I love it when something in the blog leads us to new ideas and insights. Neil Haave, who teaches on the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta, submitted an article on learning philosophies. (You can find the article in the April issue of The Teaching Professor newsletter) His thinking about learning philosophies was stimulated by his experience evaluating e-portfolios, which were being piloted on his campus, and by a couple of posts on this blog (November 13, 2013 and January 22, 2014). He was struck by how few insights the seniors preparing these portfolios had about themselves as learners and came to the conclusion that they should start writing about how they learn long before the end of their academic careers.
Show the Learner Visible Signs of Their Learning
One of the strengths of gamification is that it provides visible milestones of the student's mastery of content in real time (when it is well designed). Too often in an instructional setting, the learner doesn't know whether or not he or she really understands or can apply the knowledge they are learning. There is often no visible sign of mastery of the content or application of the content.
Four Student Misconceptions about Learning
"Efficient and effective learning starts with a proper mindset," Stephen Chew writes in his short, readable, and very useful chapter, "Helping Students to Get the Most Out of Studying." Chew continues, pointing out what most of us know firsthand, students harbor some fairly serious misconceptions that undermine their efforts to learn. He identifies four of them.
Two Activities that Influence the Climate for Learning
My colleague Chuck Walker, a psychology professor at St. Bonaventure University (NY), shared a collection of instructional strategies that illustrate how the principles of positive psychology might be applied in the classroom. (For examples see: http://wellbeingincollege.org/faculty-resources) I especially like this one.
Avoiding Information Overload: Remembering Course Goals
In more than 20 years of teaching, I have learned that too much information frustrates rather than inspires students. Today, however, with a few clicks of the computer mouse, any teacher can retrieve an overabundance of information. What is more, courseware makes distributing this information to students amazingly easy. As a result, teachers risk (unintentionally) giving students much more information than they can reasonably digest, including electronic texts, supplementary texts, and background information. The key to avoiding information overload is remembering course goals.
New Evidence on Cooperative Learning
The body of evidence documenting the effectiveness of cooperative learning is already impressive. The large and regularly cited meta-analysis of Johnson and Johnson published in 1987 reviews 378 studies that explore the use of cooperative learning groups in a wide range of settings. More than half of the studies reviewed favored cooperation in groups compared with only 10 percent favoring individual effort.
Fostering the Reciprocity of Learning
In the July 10, 2013 post, I shared some ideas about learning with students precipitated by an article that made an interesting distinction between "doing for" students and "learning with" students. The post generated some good responses and prompted Aron Reppmann, a philosophy professor at Trinity Christian College in Illinois, to send me an email. "I think you have your finger on something that's often missed in debates about professors' posture toward students: namely that to say that we learn with and from our students is not necessarily to say that we are always learning in the same way as our students."


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The Duel
It's done! I'm finished. And I'm very proud to present to you all my LD27 entry …
Play it online now. | View the entry.
The Duel is a game of quick actions and even quicker reflexes. I suggest you read the training manual before you begin – without it I guarantee you won't last 10 seconds.
The game is short, but difficult to master. I'd very much appreciate your feedback!
Good Luck.
Controls : Left/Right/Up Arrow Keys
Uses WebGL, I recommend Google Chrome.
Home Stretch
Aside from being incomprehensible to the beginner, the gameplay is coming together quite nicely for my game The Duel. You can attack, defend, and see how many of your precious 10 seconds are left. I realise I forgot a couple of critical animations, so those are next on the list, followed perhaps by a background. Or maybe a win/lose screen.
Bonus points to anyone who can figure out how to play just from watching this video!
It works. But it's not a game. Yet.
The Duel now has working gameplay, to some degree. The beginning works, and the middle works. There's no end per se, but you can play the same 10 seconds over and over if you want.
The problem is that it's 2am and it will probably take another 6 hours to finish the game to a reasonable standard. I could submit to LD as-is, but it's barely playable. I've only spent 10 – 12 hours working on the game due to other commitments and being in an awkward time zone. So I'm going to polish it up tomorrow and submit it to the catch-all that seems to be the jam. I think I'll feel happier releasing a more finished product. Although it's a shame to delay it, because it'll be compared to games by larger teams and games with much more work put into them. Maybe one year I'll manage to do LD without interruption.
Anyway, progress pictures:
Three Hours
My game idea is becoming more solid, but unfortunately time is slipping away faster than I'm going to be able to finish. I'm still clinging onto hope though and pushing onwards! At the moment I'm hoping to get the swordfighting mini-game running, and hopefully that'll suffice for LD. Here's a sneak preview of the first attack/dodge animation. I probably should have chosen tools I was more familiar with.
Aimless Content
I'm still tossing around ideas as to how the 10 second combat will work in my mini RPG. Behind the scenes things have been very slow going, but on the up side I now have animated and textured models importing correctly into the game. I don't really have much else, but it's a start. The next step I think is to get basic movement working for the main character and some enemies.
Speaking of enemies, I don't think this is going to be one. But it might be.
Time for some more planning perhaps.
Ten Second RPG
So this is a classic case of biting off more than you can chew. My take on the ten second theme is that each RPG mission takes no longer than 10 seconds to complete – enemies will be fought with snap-decision QTEs and obviously there can't be many of them. I'm not quite sure how the details will work, but that's what's exciting about LD.
I've never made an RPG before.
Nor have I used 3D much, or in fact any of the technologies I'm going to use.
On the other hand, I have a main character and he's warming up ready to go!
The Approximately 8 Hour Dragon
I really liked the idea behind the 8 hour Mini-Ld that was run last weekend, being much easier to set aside time in a busy schedule. Having read the post an hour after the official start I even started frantically programming my own concept. However even 8 hours proved too tempting for real life which gleefully jumped in my way halfway through. Combined with my use of photos that I'd taken earlier, my entry didn't fall under the LD rules any more and I didn't bother posting up anything.
But the idea lingered in my mind all week, and I had some time today to finish things up. I spent another 4 hours working on the project, and upon discovering it didn't work on any computer except my own, another hour fixing that. I'm pretty happy with the result, and I think I'll take the project further if there's enough interest in this sort of thing.
So without further ado, I'm proud to present The 8 Hour Dragon!
Unfortunately it only works in Web-kit browsers. On the other hand I made a timelapse while developing it, so when I next get a chance I might upload that too.
If you do play it, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
My screenshot capture program decided to scramble 90% of the images it took, so my timelapse is rather jumpy and fairly short. Just like my game.
I started mid-afternoon, and stopped only briefly for dinner. Even though I was badly stretched for time, you can see how much I wasted by playing other peoples entries and reading blog posts when the site wasn't down.
Watch in your browser (firefox/opera). Or download the file.
Don't forget that The Sky Is Falling and you should escape by downloading my game. It's more fun than watching this timelapse, I promise.
The Sky Is Falling
After 10 hours, 53 minutes and 20 seconds of frantic coding due to a very late start, the Sky Fell.
Download the 1.8Mb zip file for Windows.
The servers also fell, and while I got my entry in successfully last night, I left this final post for today. My entry this time around is the most playable and complete game I've developed for LudumDare. I'm very pleased with how it turned out – especially seeing I started very late and didn't put much time into it. The game looks lovely in motion, and unfortunately the grey screenshots don't do it justice. Saying that, here's a grey screenshot :
I'm not entirely satisfied with the game. I had to manually program all of the particle effects, something that my previous games never needed because I had tool-set already developed for that. The graphics turned out OK due to an amazing fluke. I bought a new camera, and played with it all the way to work and back on Saturday. When I started my LudumDare entry, I had a huge stash of photos taken during the competition period – just sitting waiting to be used. With a bit of colour correction they turned out ok, but trying to modify anything made me miss my old Wacom Tablet. Hopefully next LD I'll be back up and running as an artist.
The game takes some practice, but it is possible to win! Good luck in your Escape …
Surveying the Damage
Sitting in a quiet room, with the rain pattering outside and a clock ticking loudly in the corner, it's hard to feel the type of catastrophe that my game is trying to convey. Likewise, when my character – pieced together from the photos I took earlier in the day – looks sanguine, it's not ideal.
However, it's a character, and it's animated, and it will suffice.
Next, I'm adding some effects – hopefully no longer than half an hour. Then I'll try and get a start and an end. And tweak the camera, and think of a name, and submit before the server crashes.
Flying Roof Tiles
I'm tired, hungry, and satisfied that my game is now actually a game. There's still no beginning, and no end, but you can jump between platforms and avoid flying pieces of debris. My To:Do list gets ever longer, and time gets ever shorter. I've now got less than 5 hours remaining.
Although the player is now blue, it's not a huge improvement over red. I want to get a player graphic into the game as quickly as possible. I also need to fix the camera following the player, add some effects to give the player some impetus to get moving, and probably a lot of other details too.
A start. And an end. And a name. And sound effects and music.
Got to run. Got to escape!
Falling to my Death
Five hours into my LudumDare entry, with less than 8 hours until the end, I finally have something playable. There's still no beginning, not much middle, and no end. But the red square you see in the image below is a fully interactive character.
Oh, and there's a background image. Yay.
My next step is to start spawning platforms as you run along, and add some obstacles to be avoided. Also some code re-factoring so that I can change the parallax of the background and get things looking a bit less flat.
Also I'm going out to a concert for 3 hours, so I'm going to be happy if manage to have more than 10 seconds of gameplay!


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( 1947-), British novelist, born in India; full name Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie. His work, chiefly associated with magic realism, includes Midnight's Children (1981) and The Satanic Verses (1988). The latter, regarded by Muslims as blasphemous, caused Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa in 1989 that condemned Rushdie to death.
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Mi cara de no querer ir a alemán hoy >:C #keinelust #ichbinmüde #apartetengounchingodecalor
Le hice una pequeña visita sorpresa a alguien :) #dog #lamascotademisprimos #Hund #
Al primer intento. For someone. #heart #led #electronics
The finished version of my painting. Started yesterday, completed a couple of minutes ago. "A Sky Full of Stars". #Coldplay #askyfullofstars #painting #ghoststories
First part of my "A Sky Full of Stars" painting for my gf #Coldplay #askyfullofstars #painting #acrylics
After a launch a little earlier from the newest album of Daft Punk "Random Access Memories", I bring this mix with all the songs on the album that was released today after the leak on the internet.
For those who followed in recent months saw Daft Punk is coming this year 2013…
Gorgeous woman.
Don't you ever feel like you've been destined
for something bigger than your skin?
While these albums may differ greatly, they're both brilliant as far as I'm concerned. Thomas Dutton has created two truly memorable works of art, and I'm greatly appreciative of his efforts. 'Wonderland' was written, recorded, and released when Forgive Durden was still a full band. To me, it's both lyrically clever and instrumentally thrilling. Even more specifically, I'd describe it as unique, vibrant, and brash. I believe all of these things apply to Razia's Shadow as well, but when you mold those qualities into a concept album turned live play, you have an entirely different beast. Razia's Shadow also has a healthy mixture of delicacy and sweetness to it; the kind that so perfectly compliments the darkness and chaos with which it's linked. Clearly, these are two passion-evoking albums. I hope that other Forgive Durden fans will use this post to attest to how these incredible musical endeavors have struck a chord with them as much as they have with me.
I made another.
This happens so much, I mean. Can't they clearly see the medic is dead and waiting to respawn.
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In 1992, The Lawnmower Man was hailed as a CGI (computer-generated image) breakthrough. It's fascinating to consider it in a historical context, knowing it came just a year after Terminator 2: Judgment Day and was followed by Jurassic Park a year later. Written and directed by Brett Leonard, The Lawnmower Man focuses on a scientist (Pierce Brosnan) trying to utilize technology for governmental gain. As with all top-secret government projects in the movies, it goes horribly wrong. Forced to progress from a chimp to a human subject, Brosnan secretly recruits local backwards boy and lawnmower pusher Jobe (Jeff Fahey). The increases in intelligence are alarming. He learns Latin in two hours, becomes an object of sexual desire (apparently all it takes is cowboy boots), and then develops telepathic and telekinetic abilities. What the film ought to be remembered and appreciated for are the visuals, which undoubtedly advanced the arcade and home computer game industry. --Paul Tonks
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Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat who will turn her office over to a newly-elected Republican Jan. 10, told the Hamilton County Board of Elections they have one week to resolve 849 disputed provisional ballots that could change the results in the Hamilton County Juvenile Court race.
The board is under a federal court order to review 849 previously-rejected provisional ballots and count those that involved poll worker error. That could change the result of the official count in the juvenile court race, which had Republican John Williams leading Democrat Tracie Hunter by only 23 votes.
In a directive issued to the board of elections Monday, Brunner ordered the board to finish the process by Dec. 28 and accused Republicans on the board of stalling the court-ordered review of the previously-rejected ballots until a new Republican secretary of state, Jon Husted, takes office Jan. 10.
"Using the process to affect outcome based on matters external to the election involved (change of state administrations) shakes the confidence of voters in a free, fair, open and honest election process," Brunner told the board.
She took issue with a statement by board chairman Alex Triantafilouat a Dec. 9 meeting. The board had tied along party lines on how to proceed with the examination. Brunner, as chief elections officer, breaks tie votes of the board. Triantafilou pointed out that the law allows each side 14 days to submit arguments to the secretary of state. "I think it would be partisan of us to decide to move this along because the secretary of state might be of one part or another," Triantafilou said.
Brunner wrote that while Triantafilou "believes that expediting the submission of the tie votes to the secretary of state would amount to partisanship, so does the metaphorical dragging of feet to resolve this matter."
For the past week, the board has been holding long sessions interviewing hundreds of election day poll workers to see if they erred in not redirecting voters who were in the right voting location but at the wrong precinct table. Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Dlott ordered the board to count the rejected provisional ballots that involved poll worker error.
The board is scheduled to meet at 8 a.m. this morning to discuss Brunner's directive.
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Dilbert - The Knack (by sillytoy)
I met with these guys a few months ago. They have a cool robot you build yourself. If you have kids, you might think about contributing to their dragon campaign.
Giants take BP before the game here at the Marlins' stadium
Heading in to Tropicana Field for the first game in our Florida bball trip
Gentle Giant is arguably the most challenging, schizophrenic, and technically gifted band in the history of progressive rock. Across 11 studio albums in the 1970s, the British act mixed symphonic atmospheres with Baroque formality, medieval arrangements, Zappa-esque absurdity, and dazzling rock riffs. They were never as popular as prog's big guns (Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer), nor were they as influential. But their music is just as rewarding: All these decades later, no band has struck up such a unique (and polarizing) blend of sonic textures.
[An hour of classic Gentle Giant! Video of this amazing band is hard to come by. This is the best I've seen.]
(via Hidden Track » The Chop House: Gentle Giant's Explosive Sight & Sound Concert)
[ one of my very favorite bands from back in the day. Extremely talented musicians playing super complex songs. One guy plays keyboards, cello, guitar, xylophone, and sings backup vocals ]
Mickey Mouse in Gasp!, An Animation by Disney Shorts
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Rolling Stones: Doom and Gloom @ Oakland 2013
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Finding Shelter is not a shelter dog project—it is a people project. And just like all of Jesse Freidin's dog portraiture, at its core, is simply about relationships.READ MORE
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The biggest dog show in the world, Crufts, has just kicked off today in Birmingham. Show Dogs: The Road to Crufts documents the lives of several dogs and their owners in the weeks leading up to the event.READ MORE
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Portuguese photographer Fábio M. Roque finds beauty in dark, desolate places. Roque's new series, Shelter, is set at a no-kill dog rescue near Lisbon.READ MORE
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Yun-Fei Tou's photographs show a great deal of respect and empathy for its subject matter. They offer us the opportunity to enter into the lives of dogs about to be euthanised and feel the dignity and the importance of their existence.READ MORE
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There is no need to drive your friends crazy anymore. New social media site Pack will change the way you post pictures of your pets.
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The ultimate betrayal of man's best friend is playing out in Thailand: dogs stolen from their home and smuggled into the dog-meat trade. A new documentary, Shadow Trade, hopes to put the barbarians out of business.READ MORE
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When photographer Tania Coates left London in a camper van headed for Spain, she never could have anticipated this journey would change both her life and the lives of over four hundred stray dogs.READ MORE
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Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue is all about "Saving Badass Dogs from Idiot Humans." Founder Sara Alize Cross has rescued 900 pups from shelters down south and found them new homes in New York City. And she's just getting started…READ MORE
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In an effort to understand her extreme fear of dogs, Amparo Garrido delved into the world of psychoanalysis. The photographer is now enlisting our help to publish a book exploring subjectivity and its impact on the human psyche.READ MORE
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The many aspects of collaboration
One way of thinking about collaboration, then, is to look at the three P's: Potential, Process, and Practice.
Potential, the first P, means that by working with other people and groups, something greater can happen than if the participants worked separately.
Process, the second P, is about the processes or patterns through which people work together.
Practice, the third P, is the human practices of collaboration. In order for people to work with other people, there needs to be a fundamental set of collaborative practices at play.
I said all three need to be in place. If not, here's what happens:
- Potential, Process, NO Practice - the people irritate each other and can't get anything done.
- Potential, NO Process, Practice - the people don't have a common way of working together.
- NO Potential, Process, Practice - the people are ready and able, but there's no reason for working with others. Doing so would waste organizational resources.
Do What You're Told Work…Each person has a specified job to complete…People work alone on their own task. A supervisor ensures compliance with the process definition, and can dish out punishments for non-compliance or rewards for super-productivity.
Cooperation…multiple people work together on the same component at the same time. They have to coordinate what they do
Delegated Collaboration…the same production line, except there is no separate process designer. The assembly line workers both plan how to do the work and carry out the plans together
Creative Collaboration…the same production line, except the definition of the products produced require interaction with the end customer, to understand their needs and goals, with prototypes developed and created by the production team to explore solution fit.
…the outcome is…not imposed, because the understanding of the outcome changes and morphs as the problem is explored.
Cooperation as drum circle, Collaboration as orchestra
Networks, Collaboration, Cooperation and silos
Its not the same thing – the 3 types of collaboration
Collaboration - Spoon, Fork, Knife
Habits and attitudes that impede collaboration
Some are uncomfortable about this collaboration thing
What does 'social collaboration' mean?
The difference between teams and collaboration
Collaboration (creating something new), Coordination (teamwork in implementation), Cooperation (support each others goals)