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Recipe by PAT MYERS
"I make these the night before and bake them in the morning. My family and friends can't stay out of them. They are very moist and decadently rich."
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1 cup
1/2 cup
1 cup
1 tablespoon
active dry yeast
1 cup
white sugar
1 teaspoon
6 cups
all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons
ground cinnamon
2 cups
dark brown sugar
1/2 cup
butter, softened
2 cups
confectioners' sugar
1 (3 ounce) package
cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon
butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon
vanilla extract
3 tablespoons
Great recipe - even easier to pull off the second time around. A few lessons I discovered:
1) As others mention, use 8oz of cream cheese in frosting, not 3 oz as listed in recipe. Turns out perfect with 8 oz. Must be a typo.
2) I let mine rise for about 3 hours, they got much larger and fluffier that way - 1 hour wasn't enough. May be a result of the yeast I used?
3) The dental floss trick mentioned in other reviews worked great.
4) I have no idea how one is can roll out a rectangle! I just did a big circle and pulled out the corners by hand.
5) Leave the far side (the one you are rolling the "worm" of dough toward) clear of any butter or sugar mixture. It is easier to seal the seam if you have about 1/2" of clean dough to work with along that seam edge.
I am not really sure how to review this recipe since I did not follow it exactly. I have some experience with sweet breads and I was puzzled by a couple of things with this recipe. First of all, there is no step for yeast proofing, it does not instruct you to add the eggs called for in the ingrediants list nor does it call for a first rising of the dough before forming the rolls. So, here is what I did. I used the one cup of water called for (110-115 degrees) with 2 T. of sugar out of the 1 cup called for as the proofing. When the yeast was foamy after 10 minutes I added the milk, butter, sugar, salt, eggs (which should be at room temp). I also added about a teaspoon of vanilla and then I added first 2 cups of flour. After all the flour was added I used the dough hook on my stand mixer to beat the dough for about 5 minutes. The dough was sticky and shiny, not soft and smooth but sticky and shiny is what you should have with a sweet bread. Anyway, I scraped it into a buttered bowl and let it raise about 1 1/2 hours. Poured it out on a floured board and divided it in two pieces. Rolled into rectangle and added filling along with some extra cinnamon. Placed rolls in buttered dish and let them raise again for about 1 1/2 hours. Baked for 25 minutes. I used the frosting recipe but added a little more butter and powdered sugar so that I had enough to really slather the rolls. These were so good my husband almost swooned. I am giving the recipe as it is 3 stars but with
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This recipe is the best one I've ever tried for cinnamon rolls, and I'm really picky. I did, however, do a couple things differently: 1) let the stand mixer knead it, which transformed it from sticky to smooth dough in 10 min, eliminating the need for extra flour 2) let the dough rise after kneading for 2 HRS - this makes it pliable, silky, and very easy to roll out into rectangles (plus, much lighter), 3) after rolling and refrigerating overnight, let them rise for 2 more hours in the morning (I know, it's a lot of time, but it's soooo worth it!). The end results were rolls that were tender, fluffy, and soft even after they cooled off. The frosting was amazing too. Thanks for this recipe! It will definitely be a regular in my reportoire!
p.s. - for those who don't have a stand mixer, try letting the mixture rest for 10 minutes before kneading it (a French method known as autolyse). Flour needs time to absorb water, which will help with the sticky dough problem.
This recipe is easily halved :)
As for refrigerating the night before baking, I let the dough rise for an hour before I shape it into rolls. Then after shaped into rolls, I put in pan in fridge covered with plastic wrap. Then I turn the oven on in the morning and let them rise at room temperature/on top of oven for about 30 min-to an hour, until about doubled. Works wonderfully. And the frosting is sooooooo good!
very good recipe. One tip i would suggest is that after letting the milk mixture cool down some add the sugar and yeast first. also you want the liquid to be around 105 - 115 degrees F. if you add the salt at the same time as yeast it will cause the yeast not to activate and due to this you will have problems getting it to rise. the yeast feeds off of the sugar which causes it to activate and rise more quickly. adding salt before the yeast activates kills off some of the yeast. So once you add the sugar and yeast wait about 10 minutes or until some foam forms on the surface of the liquid before adding the rest of the ingredients.
Good recipe but as a professional baker I would suggest to put all dry ingredients in bowl ( I also added 2tbls of glueton to flour (found in grocery store with the flour) this gives it a lighter, fluffy texture and helps preserve longer. Sugar activates the yeast not the salt as a review mentioned. I also melted butter and spread on dough then the brown sugar and sprocket cinnamon with raisins. Put in refrigerator if u want to bake in A.M. One viewer said it took a long time to rise. If u have a bread proofing cycle on your range use it. Otherwise if you press 140-200 no hotter on your oven then shut off put rolls in this cut rising time in half without killing the yeast. If u don't want the work u can use a loaf of frozen bread dough put in microwave on defrost for 4-5 minutes should be soften to roll if not put back in for 1 more minute only then roll spread melted butter, cinnamon mix with white or brown sugar or half brown & half white sugar and raisins roll up and cut 9-11 slices. Put in greased Pan not touching allowing for doubling in size then repeat oven instructions for proofing when doubled bake 350 for 15 minutes
I made this recipe for my boyfriend and his co-workers, (they're firemen). They absolutely loved them. Now they all want the recipe so that they can have their wives/girlfriends make them at home. They especially loved the icing. I did need a little extra flour. Also I made up an extra batch of the cinnamon/brown sugar. I put it in a bowl with melted butter (just enought to make a slightly runny paste). Then I spread it over the tops of the cinnamon rolls right befor they go in the oven. It gives them just that much more yumminess. They especially loved the icing. These are now a favorite among my family, co-workers, and several local firehouses.
These were well worth the effort. As for making ahead of time, I wasn't sure at what point to stop, so I made the rolls and put them in the pan - then placed in fridge. Got up early to let them warm, then rise, and then baked. Delicious!
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"A Monster in Paris", concept art
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"A Monster in Paris", concept art
At this link you will find some concept images from the production we are currently working on.
It is Bibo Bergeron's "A Monster in Paris".
The link is in French though.
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This looks great, thank you! Looking forward to the movie.
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The trailer was shown at a press conference in Annecy last week.
We have almost finished our work.
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New trailers from the upcoming 'A Monster in Paris'...
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Another trailer for A Monster in Paris went online yesterday, this one in English.
What I like best about this movie so far, is that there's a monkey in the film named Charles. Hmmm...
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Thanks for posting. Looks amazing.
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There's an interview with the film's director Bibo Bergeron by Ramin Zahed published on Animation Magazine's website today.
DreamWorks veteran Bibo Bergeron goes back to his French roots with A Monster in Paris, an elegant CG-animated feature set in 1910.
French director Bibo Bergeron has directed two very different DreamWorks animated features (The Road to El Dorado and Shark Tale) and worked as character designer on the studio's Jerry Seinfeld vehicle, Bee Movie. However, although he had made Los Angeles his home, he still missed Paris. That's when he began dreaming of making an animated movie with a very distinct French flavor.
"I was in L.A. for years and a little homesick," Bergeron tells us. "I wanted to write something set in my home city, Paris. In addition to that, I've always loved the turn-of-the-20th century when arts, science, technology innovations were moving ahead at full speed. Altogether, I wanted to make a fun, romantic and musical movie."
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Animation Magazine reports...
'Monster In Paris' to Open N.Y. Family Film Fest
Ramin Zahed
February 2, 2012
If you've been dying to see some fantastic animated features and shorts from all over the world, you'll just need to book that flight to the Big Apple this spring. The New York Family Film Festival has announced a very impressive line-up for this year's edition, which takes place March 2-27 at the Asia Society, Cantor Film Center, DGA Theater, IFC Theater, Scholastic and Symphony Space.
The festival's opening night movie is Bibo Bergeron's well-received 3-D feature A Monster in Paris, a romantic comedy about a misunderstood monster set in 1910-era Paris.
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Quality is a great business plan. -John Lasseter
Let's make some funny pictures. -Tex Avery
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When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. -Chuck Jones
And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? -Jesus
A man should never neglect his family for business. -Walt Disney
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. -Ralph Bakshi
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Designing characters for a diverse global audience?
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Designing characters for a diverse global audience?
I'm in the process of designing two contrasting "host" characters for a series of animated educational lessons aimed at the (mostly female) third-world native teacher base in countries such as Africa and India. Our goal is to create a series that teaches teachers how to teach children---basically, a free animated teacher's college for these native teachers who may have a 4th grade education themselves (which is a very common issue.)
Outside of a BA at a liberal arts college and following animation avidly for 20 years, I am pretty darn new to this process. I've tried to read up as much as I can, and there is a plethora of info on developing characters aimed at a modern "first world" 12-16 year old audience, but
A) Does anyone have tips to keep in mind when designing characters aimed a diverse, multicultural global audience?
B) Are there a few common core rules to keep and mind no matter what kind of character you're designing?
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My approach to designing characters as well as that of most professional character designers is...
1. Employ fundamental artistic skills in the design and development of the characters.
2. Keep in mind that your characters are going to be animated and as such, an element of engineering is involved in their design to make sure they animate properly considering the medium.
3. Utilize design principles that enhance the visual appeal of the character.
4. Keep in mind the character of the character. What is the character about? How does the character behave? What motivates the character? What are his or her or its personality traits? etc...
5. Character Design is a fine art. It is also an ancient art that goes far back into history.
6. Be mindful that characters build empires. Look at what Mickey Mouse did for Disney, what Bugs Bunny did for Warner Bros, what Homer Simpson did for Rupert Murdoch and FOX. Characters can be big business.
5. Have fun and enjoy the creative process involved in designing and developing characters.
Daily Z
Re: Designing characters for a diverse global audience?
Thanks for the tips, Charles. I really appreciate the help!
I think my main struggle lies in direction. I can't actually get feedback from anyone to see if any of the characters I've made could possibly be a legitimate solution. My boss is afraid to give me feedback, not only because he fears he'll stunt my creativity but also because he admits that he knows nothing about character design/animation. Basically, he feels he can only say whether or not my rough sketches have "the magic", which could mean anything from a 75 year old man who doesn't watch cartoons. He won't let me show my work to anyone except him, since "his is the only opinion that matters" so I feel like I'm shooting bats in the dark.
As of right now, this is the information I've been given:
- Gender neutral/ "female in essence" (a committee decision to keep character PC and avoid stereotypes.)
- Exudes wisdom but not a dusty oracle
- Think of an experienced 50-something school teacher
- Lovable, like someone's grandma
- Still spry and interesting
- Must be contrasting with secondary [pencil/bookworm] character, who is a novice teacher (preferably gender neutral/male.)
As a creative director/instructor, do you feel there is non-variable information about the character that is imperative to give to a character artist before she starts developing?
I'm strongly against a "gender-neutral" character for many technical reasons. I know that the more human characteristics we give a character, the more relatable they will be, so wouldn't eliminating a clear gender hurt the humanity and relatability of that character in the long run? (It's certainly makes creating a personality and backstory difficult anyway.)
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Welcome to the world of professional character design.
That goes with the territory. Neutralizing your characters and finding that 'safe' area that clients sometimes look for. This is part of what you do and it does take skill. It may not be fun, but it is still a challenge.
I can't tell you how many times I've presented really unique and appealing designs only to have them watered down by the opinion of a single individual or a committee of people who were marginally qualified at best.
Back in the day when I presented my portfolio for work, the images consisted mostly of designs I had done on my own. Much of what I did professionally was unusable. It's ironic, as the art that got me the job was work from personal projects along with the choicest stuff that came from studio gigs, and a lot of that consisted of development art and rejected designs. Then once I got the gig, it became a process of neutralizing characters. Not always but more than I care to remember.
The key to succeeding in these situations...
1. Emotionally detach yourself from the project.
2. If you really need to do the project, then do your best to give the client what they're looking for. Even if it means compromising on principles that you know will make the character/s more appealing.
3. Try as best as you can to educate the client as what makes a good design, and why giving a character an edge, even if it is a subtle one, will enhance and strengthen the character and create more appeal.
4. If this doesn't work, keep your mind on the financial compensation you're getting.
5. If that doesn't work, be sincere and excuse yourself from the project. Tell the client this isn't the kind of project you're suitable for, and vice versa. I don't recommend taking this approach, but sometimes it's the only alternative if you can't get your heart and mind into it. Unless you need the cash and the work experience, you may be better off walking away from projects that you're not able to get into with enthusiasm. You want to give the client everything you've got to offer. If you're not able to do that, maybe the client can find an artist better suited for the job and you can find a project that will bring the best out of your art and encourage your creative and artistic growth.
I suggest sticking with it and doing the best you can with what you've got to work with.
It's not as bad as you may think it is. Be sure to draw plenty of your own designs on the side. It'll help to keep you sharp.
Good luck!
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Engineers continue working trade-offs with launching the rocket either with the glider still in tow, or following release from the tow aircraft. Either way, after the rocket has launched, the glider will return independently of the tow aircraft to its base to be used again.
Gerald Budd, a NASA Dryden business development and towed glider project manager, displayed a 24-foot wingspan, twin fuselage proof-of-concept model of the glider that was constructed in NASA Dryden's model shop during a presentation at the Academy of Model Aeronautics' 15th Annual Expo in Ontario, Calif., in mid-January. The model will fly later this year, towed aloft by one of Dryden's small DROID – for Dryden Remotely Operated Integrated Drone – unmanned aircraft.
Recent feasibility analyses done by independent contractors indicate that a performance gain of up to 40 percent may be realized by use of Budd's towed-glider technique over vertical launch of a similar-sized rocket from the ground.
Additionally, air launch of rockets has the potential to lower the cost of placing payloads to orbit through operational efficiencies that are simply not available through vertical ground launch, Budd explained. Cost savings may be as much as 25 percent, based on recent Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency studies.
Historically, air-launched rockets have been carried and dropped from underneath modified, existing aircraft, such as Orbital Sciences' Pegasus rockets that are launched from the firm's modified L-1011 "Stargazer" launch aircraft. Currently, a huge new custom-built carrier aircraft is under construction by Stratolaunch Systems, Inc.
Budd maintains the Towed Glider Air Launch Concept has the potential to realize the operational flexibility of a custom airplane, but without the price tag.
"It's a real-estate problem," said Budd. "You're limited in what you can fit underneath an existing aircraft. Launching off the top of a carrier aircraft is problematic from a safety perspective. Our approach allows for significant payloads to be carried aloft and launched from a purpose-built custom aircraft that is less expensive because of the simplicity of the airframe, having no propulsion system (engines, fuel, etc.), on board," Budd said.
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The apparel manufacturer is stepping up its digital marketing in hopes of connecting with a younger audience.
J.C. Penney catalogs: Rest in peace
Penney killed off its remaining catalogs, a harbinger of more obituaries to come.
The other day J.C. Penney officially killed off its remaining catalogs, a harbinger, I think, of other funerals to follow.
Just 10 months after axing its twice-yearly Big Book, J.C. Penney Co. is now getting out of the catalog business altogether.
In 2011, J.C. Penney will cease publishing about 25 other specialty catalogs, says a spokeswoman. Instead, J.C. Penney, No. 16 in the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, will publish more direct marketing pieces such as its 43-page "Little Red Book" and "Matter of Style" publications that showcase current merchandise such as men's and women's fashions available in the chain's 1,107 department stores in the U.S. and Puerto Rico and online at JCP.com.
"We will no longer be publishing our specialty catalogs which were being used as 'look books' by our customers to see what was new in the stores or online," the spokeswoman says. "We have always served our customers by how they want to shop and now and in the future that's online and in stores."
The fact that J.C. Penney built a $1.5 billion e-commerce operation using its catalog and direct market business speaks volume about how valuable catalogs were to J.C. Penney in the past.
But going forward, J.C. Penney, which didn't say how much money it would save annually by ceasing to publish catalogs, will use its print publications as targeted direct marketing pieces to reach specific groups of customers, the spokeswoman says. "We will use print materials to drive web and store traffic," she says.
As the web continues to escalate even more as the retailing industry's growth engine, I predict other retailers will kill off their print catalog—or at least scale back on the size and frequency of their publications.
Today, most shoppers don't pick up the phone to place a catalog order or clip out the order form, fill it out and mail it along with a check to the retailer. If they browse a catalog at all, they mark the page and then jump on their computers—or smartphones—to place their orders.
These days a lot of direct marketers should think of how to use their catalogs to drive sales to the web rather than as a channel unto itself. J.C. Penney, which earlier this summer announced plans to rebuild its e-commerce platform and achieve $1 billion in new web sales over the next four to five years, will now use the web to drive e-commerce revenue among younger buyers aged 25 to 34. "We knew we had to transition out of the catalog business to much more of a digital format," CEO Myron Ullman told attendees last week at the Goldman Sachs Retail Conference in New York. "As we transition out of the catalog business it's not that we are getting out of print. We are transitioning from the catalog as essentially a static vehicle to really what we call 'find more,' which is print material that takes the consumer to the Internet or to the store."
I think what Ullman says is the way of the future for how smart retailers should use their print resources. Are catalogs dead? Not necessarily if marketers rethink how they plan and print catalogs in order to support e-commerce.
If, in the age of mobile commerce and social media, your organization is still all-consumed with printing and mailing catalogs, your book probably isn't dead. But it's likely to be on life support very soon.


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Doug and Michele Thatcher of Creston announce the engagement of their daughter Jaime Michele Cox to Jordan Michael Nelson, son of Michelle Stone of Orient and Mike Nelson of Shannon City.
Cox is a 2008 Creston High School graduate. She attended Southwestern Community College, where she received her LPN in 2010, associate of arts degree in 2011 and RN degree in 2012. She is employed as an RN charge nurse at Creston Nursing and Rehab.
Nelson is a 2011 graduate of Orient Macksburg High School. He is currently studying emergency medicine at Southwestern Community College. He is employed as a lawn care specialist at Green Valley Pest Control & Lawn Care and as a volunteer firefighter at Creston Fire Department.
A June 14 wedding is planned. The couple currently reside in Creston.


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President Obama told ABC News Monday that he does not regret touting the solar company Solyndra as a model of his jobs program, or loaning $535 million in taxpayer money to the company before it declared bankruptcy.
"Hindsight is always 20/20," Obama told "Good Morning America" anchor George Stephanopoulos in an interview broadcast online Monday. "It went through the regular review process and people felt that it was a good bet." The interview was the first under a new alliance between ABC News and Yahoo News.
ABC News asked the president about the Solyndra loan as Congress released White House emails that show a top donor to Obama was in direct contact with one of the president's closest advisers about the federal energy loan program. Steve Westly, a California venture capitalist who raised more than $500,000 for Obama's campaign, exchanged emails with Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama's closest advisers, to warn her about political fallout that could ensue if the president visited the factory being built by Solyndra.
"Could you perhaps check with [the Energy Department] to make sure they're comfortable with the company? I just want to help protect the president from anything that could result in negative or unfair press," Westly said. "If it's too late to change/postpone the meeting, the president should be careful about unrealistic/optimistic forecasts that could haunt him in the next 18 months if Solyndra hits the wall, files for bankruptcy."
In May 2010, White House officials began to organize a trip for President Obama to visit the Solyndra factory that ultimately occurred on May 25, 2010.
The emails were released by Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee Monday to emphasize that no government decisions relating to Solyndra were influenced by considerations relating to campaign donations. However, the emails also show for the first time that a major donor had access to top presidential advisers on matters concerning the loan program.
"The Democrats deny that any political influence was involved, yet in their own memo they highlight the role of Obama fundraiser Steve Westly in the discussions," said Rep. Cliff Stearns, R.-Fla., who chairs the Energy and Commerce subcommittee that has been investigating the Solyndra loan.
The emails also show deep reservations from analysts at the Office of Management and Budget about the decision to loan $535 million to Solyndra -- reservations that have since been justified. Last month, the California solar power company filed for bankruptcy, and their offices were raided by the FBI. The new documents also show there was vigorous debate inside the White House about the wisdom of making risky investments in clean energy with taxpayer dollars.
The most pointed example of that came during an email exchange between top White House economic advisor Larry Summers and Solyndra investor Brad Jones, of Redpoint Ventures. In December 2009, Summers sought advice from Jones about the administration's economic policy.
Jones reply included a harsh assessment of the Energy Department's loan program.
"The allocation of spending to clean energy is haphazard," he wrote. "The government is just not well equipped to decide which companies should get the money and how much. … One of our solar companies with revenues of less than $100 million (and not yet profitable) received a government loan of $580 million; while that is good for us, I can't imagine it's a good way for the government to use taxpayer money."
Summers accepted the critique, saying, "I relate well to your view that [government] is a crappy vc [venture capitalist]…"


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Newbie on here and I hope to learn much from the experts. I gave up on designing and welding up my first project..a welding cart. See I took a beginner's welding class 3 years ago and just this past summer purchased a Miller 180 mig machine. I kept reading on the forums here that the best first project would be a welding cart. Well friend of mine said he'd come over and help me get my feet wet again as I'd pretty much forgotten all that I learned. I gave up waiting and went out and bought a welding cart, so now I want to try this again.
I've changed out the wheels and tires on my '23 T-bucket and need to build a tire rack. Any help or assistance in designing this "simple" project would be greatly appreciated.
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Anyone have plans for a rack for full sized tires?
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Sounds like you need to practice welding coupons.
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Thanks for the reply and the Google sites for racks. There are some great ideas on there. I realize it's not a requirement to be a rocket scientist to build a tire rack, but it helps to have additional ideas on the size and style of rack. I have two tires that are 15.5" wide and these are "narrow" by t-bucket standards. Just need to have some place to store them up and out of the way.
I'll post my rack once I cash in some of my "welding coupons." LOL!!
Thank you once again Chuck.


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Touchdown on Mars
Date: 20 Jul 1976
The image above is the first photograph ever taken from the surface of Mars. It was taken by the Viking 1 lander shortly after it touched down on Mars on 20 July 1976.
Part of footpad #2 can be seen in the lower right corner, with sand and dust in the center of it, probably deposited during landing.
The primary objectives of the Viking missions, each of which was composed of two spacecraft, were to obtain high-resolution images of the Martian surface, characterize the structure and composition of the atmosphere and surface, and search for evidence of life on Mars.
What Scientists/Engineers Say About This Image:
"There was something about that moment that really furthered my romance with the planets, because once you are there on the surface of another planet, or have a machine there photographing landscapes, it makes it much easier to imagine yourself looking across the Martian landscape with the dust swirling around your ankles. There was just something very evocative about that moment that I will never forget it."
--David Grinspoon: Curator of Astrobiology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
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"The first Viking lander had been programmed to take an image of one of its own landing pads immediately upon touchdown, and a group of us were standing around a monitor waiting for that image to come down. The image finally began to appear on the screen, slowly and line by line in real-time as each line exposure was taken. First a grayish blur, and then a very clear beginning of the edge of the landing pad sitting on the soil, later building to show the whole pad and leg sitting on Mars. By today's standards, this is pretty routine stuff, but at the time it represented a very major accomplishment and something that had to have had a high likelihood of not working."
--Robert Mitchell: Program Manager, Cassini Mission to Saturn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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"1976: It was so exciting waiting for the twin Viking landers to touch down on the surface of Mars.
I remember sitting at home in late July watching Carl Sagan narrating on TV, while slowly the strips of the first image from Viking 1 came across. It was the image of the landing pad on Mars. It was so thrilling to have that 'other world' revealed for the first time. This moment was so moving, and symbolic of my generation's perspective on planetary exploration."
--Robert Pappalardo: Senior Research Scientist, Jet propulsion Laboratory
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_2099916.htmlFrom the moment Mitt Romney stepped off stage Tuesday night, having just delivered a brief concession speech he wrote only that evening, the massive infrastructure surrounding his campaign quickly began to disassemble itself.
Aides taking cabs home late that night got rude awakenings when they found the credit cards linked to the campaign no longer worked.
Classy Mitt. Does anyone still wonder why the majority of the American people didn't trust this guy...?


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I know our organization is a mystery and a puzzel at times, but this is funny.....think your going for camo look, but I keep seeing Jigsaw puzzle....not a bad attempt.Originally Posted by Theanswer385
I know our organization is a mystery and a puzzel at times, but this is funny.....think your going for camo look, but I keep seeing Jigsaw puzzle....not a bad attempt.Originally Posted by Theanswer385
"To me, there are three things we all should do every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And Number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy.
"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."
- Jimmy V. (Mar '93)
I like how it morphs as cross between Football and Dolphin, very neat idea.....need to see it larger to getter better view. Add the FH tatoo and its right up there.Originally Posted by awing_pilot
That one has my vote (if we're actually voting)Originally Posted by darkmistress
Once the official logo is selected since it is limited to 4 colors I will convert it to embroidery format and glady proved you Admins with staff shirts of some sort.
For a small donation to finheaven and the cost of the shirt/string I will gladly embrioder the logo for all finheaven members. As long as its ok with the artist and AJ.
My wife spent a FORTUNE (were talking near 5 digits) on an embriodery machine. I even embrioder my own dolphins gear too :p So at least i can put her to work!!!
You have to admit though ... forget about how much they cost ... those are cool machines. If anyone hasnt seen one or the work they do, it is SWEET.Originally Posted by awing_pilot
DMs secondone reminds me of something off pokemon or something like that
Thanks DM for the phin city sig!!
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I really shouldn't keep pushing my luck. :nono:
"I think we all feel that way about our mothers, and we all have legs."
Oh jease i almost forgot the fact that its in vector format makes it like 6 billion times easier for me to convert to embriodery designs. I will PM the mods once decision is made with soem shirt ideas and they can pick for themselves and which designs available for members
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As I mentioned a couple posts ago about my L.O.V.E dream message and my subsequent commitment to creating a New Age Anti-Terror Agenda, I'm excited this weekend it begins in earnest with an event hosted by the guru of love herself, Marianne Williamson. And I don't even have to break my Boycott of the criminal TSA to do it!
A prolific speaker, activist and author of A Return to Love, Enchanted Love, Healing the Soul of America, among others, Marianne has also founded The Peace Alliance, "a grass roots campaign supporting legislation currently before Congress to establish a United States Department of Peace."
I can't imagine a better teacher to usher me into the galaxy of potential that John Lennon helped us imagine nearly half a century ago!
I've already done the research, going on a decade of it now, that has forced the reality on me that something must be done. With the help of two other teachers, Claire Zammit and Katherine Woodward Thomas, and an entire community of women in Feminine Power, I'm now certain the Dalai Lama was talking about ME when he so famously said: "The World will be saved by the Western Woman."
Of course he was talking about me! Along with every other woman in the brigade of fairy godmothers whose presence I will enjoy this weekend virtually at the Sister Giant event "New Consciousness-New Politics."
My world lights up when I hear the truth in Marianne's message: "What we don't engage we can't transform." The spiritual and political spheres belong together–not as in the unholy marriage of church and state–in the very holistic truth that these are the two most powerful forces shaping our culture and therefore our world. And they have both been corrupted, soon to be absolutely.
This is why a new age of feminine leadership is essential if we are to survive!
Peace and sovereignty. The New World Order is managing to convince the mainstream that these two things can't go together. "Collectivism" is their very green buzzword. It's meant to make it appear that individualism is evil and nationalism just another version of tribalism. It's meant to make it appear that Leadership is naturally achieved by force, fear, control, coercion and manipulation.
To the collectivist, and unfortunately many of them are misguided women, I have the only one necessary question to consider: Who is Leading US in this New World Order?
America, you think? The United States?
In less than a decade there will be no United States, per se. We will by then have merged with Canada and South America. We are being collectivized, They admit it openly now. We will be One World and They will be running it all openly. Think we have election problems now? Imagine when we are all ONE under the supreme Dictatorship.
Oh, you thought the One World would be a Democracy? Yeah, so did I, once.
Once upon a time I bought into the propaganda too-NAFTA, EURO, UN, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg, all of them, I really thought They had Democracy and our best interest on their agenda.
And then I connected the dots.
If that's true, then why have they amended the constitution and continue to amend it, in our country and those few others who aren't already Dictatorships, in order to reflect the collectivist values many of y'all are still voting for? I know that's only because you're still inside their Grand Delusion.
This is where the spiritual component becomes essential. Because you will never see IT if you are too afraid to see IT, and most people without any god will be too afraid. In collectivist societies God is the State and supremacy lies with IT. IT then grants you, if IT chooses, the rights of citizenship. There is no such thing as habeous corpus, no such thing as free press, no inalienable rights, no private ownership of anything, all belongs to the State. YOU belong to the State.
I too was once very naïve. It took me many years and many direct experiences to lift the veil. Its taken the help of community and a new spiritual commitment to discard it and hold the power to voice what I know.
Here's more of what I know. The style of the man as lone wolf rising to the top to join his elite ranks is toppling first. We've seen too often what happens with these power thieves as they get ever more paranoid and insulated the more power they hold. Yes, power will be held collectively, but that is not Collectivism!
The style of women in leadership is what's replacing this Old World Order. It's happening much more organically, from the bottom-up, from the inside-out. It's essential collective nature is easy to explain, because it's just how we prefer to use the facilities in public establishments, when possible–always in pairs and groups! This is reflected in all the best leadership I see around me today–these women are partnered and teamed to the hilt. And when we all come, we come with the whole kit and caboodle. Our buzz word is Transparency. Imagine!
Our true natures as women, when we're in our truth, is to empower others. We have eons of direct development in this department–from our children to our families to our communities–all those "women's" issues. When we hold power like this, as a woman would choose in a woman's world, we tend to dish it out liberally. This is happening right now, and has been happening by the droplet for a very long time. Now we are positioned to rebalance the scales and the Dalai Lama sees that very clearly. So does the NWO, and they're cracking down!
The question is, will we have the numbers to reach the tipping point before it's too late? And also, what does too late look like?
The end of the world as we know it? Universal Dictatorship? What happens in the meantime, continued and escalating Chaos?
Lots of people avoid chaos through control, or at least the illusion of it. This is how the New World Order pretends to "save us" –to bring order from chaos, they say–at our weakest moment, when we're begging for it or very distracted, the way they forced the Patriot Act on us, and NDAA, DHS, Citizens United. Don't take my word for it, read all about Disaster Capitalism.
Control comes in many forms. But it will never come sustainably from the top-down. Nor does it come from controlling our own emotions and behavior, as the male paradigm of leadership would have us believe in their "do as I say, not as I do" style of leadership. Feminine Leadership comes from constant realignment based on the signals our emotions and environment play in our behavior and in others', in our state of Being, individually and collectively. It's highly intuitive, requires deep sensitivity and awareness that can be achieved through a spiritual practice and connection, because in this space we are the receptive perpetual beginner. It's based in Flow, not Control. It's completely antithetical to our current political system.
Collectivism is about control. Too many well-intentioned green thinkers equate it with Freedom and Democracy-as if in a collective world everyone will have an equal say. They believe that if they can only regulate industry enough, or create the right laws, or the right educational system or the right economy then everyone can be free and flourishing. Most of them truly mean well. But . . .
This is the Collectivist Fallacy! There is no erasing the fact that we are a world of different cultures with a world of different ideals and religions and ways of life and thinking and that this is actually valuable and necessary in natural systems. No amount of top-down, one-size-fits-all global re-education is going to "fix that".
Collectivism is not about diversity, this is where They are deliberating misleading us!
This is where the feminine style of leadership cannot be led astray. A woman does not lead from her heart, nor should she. She leads from her soul, where resides the universal heart. That's the only place any authentic leader could ever get any traction, in a balanced and just world. So it's taken us a bit longer, because we've had to navigate our way to leadership in a terribly unjust one.
So, as before any conference or important event I will set my intentions for Sister Giant: I'm going to grab as many women as I possibly can and run to that toilet we call a government, and together we will create a wave of synchronistic flushes powerful enough to cause an unprecedented monumental and global flood.
And I'm going to do some serious cyber-networking. Because when they create this long over-due US Department of Peace, I'm going to make sure they'll sign on to my by-then-brilliantly-crafted NAATA!
If you still don't believe in the Global Terror Agenda of the New World Order, force yourself to watch this comprehensive, but very disturbing documentary, to the very end.
After you've gone through the various stages of denial, apathy, rage, disempowerment , and please, make them as quick as possible, then, give Peace a chance. Or, maybe L.O.V.E.
Let's join in the true spirit of collectivity, where we are all honored first and foremost as sovereign individuals uniquely guided to achieve harmony by our very life force. Let's get the 1% out of the way of our evolutionary path!


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Call it the BRAC factor paying off.
Several Maryland military bases have made substantial job gains in the past year, according to a new state list. Officials say they are pleased with how the Pentagon's base realignment and closure program has progressed in the past seven years, although the number of private-sector job gains has fallen thousands short of what was projected.
"We've met our BRAC deadlines," said retired Marine Brig. Gen. J. Michael Hayes, program director of the Office of Military and Federal Affairs at the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. "The construction around the bases has mostly been done ahead of schedule."
A list of major employers — excluding state and local government agencies — compiled recently by DBED shows Fort Meade in Central Maryland with the most employees in the state by far with 56,700, more than 12,000 more than a year ago. That figure could include embedded contractors, as a firm job figure for the Anne Arundel County base is hard to obtain, Hayes said.
"It will always be an estimate. The reporting is not pure," he said.
The changes in job figures also could stem from differences in methodology on how employers count workers from year to year, DBED officials say.
In 2005, federal officials approved the BRAC plan and projected about 27,000 direct job gains to Maryland by late 2011 from the BRAC process, with 12,000 at Fort Meade alone. As many as 30,000 other contracting and support jobs were forecast.
The direct jobs projections are close at Aberdeen Proving Ground, according to Harford County figures. Aberdeen, where weapons are tested, was expected to gain about 8,800 direct jobs through such additions as the Army's Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance operation that moved from Fort Monmouth, N.J.
Aberdeen's BRAC-related job increase has been closer to 8,500, only about 300 less than projected, according to Harford County figures. But the private contracting and support positions have reached only 6,000 there, short of the 7,500 to 10,000 projected there, Hayes said.
The Great Recession was a key factor behind the lower-than-projected private contractor figures, he said.
"It's not the way we originally modeled it, but it's still a good story," Hayes said.
Baltimore developer St. John Properties is overseeing the Government and Technology Enterprise office and technology park at Aberdeen and has more than 600,000 square feet leased out there. Among the tenants are Falls Church, Va., information technology contractor Computer Sciences Corp., Chicago aerospace giant Boeing and McLean, Va., military contractor Science Applications International Corp.
The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development operates a website with resources for those moving to the state due to BRAC changes at mdhousing.org/Website/BRAC. There have been far more commuters involved with the moves at Fort Meade than those at Aberdeen, Hayes said.
Fort Meade job projections not yet met
At Fort Meade, which is welcoming the headquarters of the Defense Information Systems Agency from Northern Virginia, the direct job growth is about 6,000, according to Anne Arundel County figures. That direct growth is about half of what was originally projected, but officials expect agencies to add more jobs in coming years.
More than two dozen new military contractors have established offices at the Odenton base, and many more expanded. More than 1.4 million square feet of office space and laboratories has been built at Fort Meade, with some 5.4 million more square feet of office space in the works, according to the county.
In addition, the National Security Agency is expanding in that area, with the first 1.8 million-square-foot phase that will add a total of 6,500 employees expected to be completed by 2015.
The Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility in Camp Springs, which was projected for 3,000 direct job gains, added more than 5,000 employees in the past year, though some of those are likely embedded contractors, according to DBED.
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, projected to add 2,400 jobs, added about 700 more in the past year, to go with a 2,900-job gain the previous year, according to DBED.
Other significant job gains by employers in Maryland in the past year include the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which has its headquarters in Silver Spring, up 2,720; Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System in Baltimore, up 1,520; and MedStar Health in Columbia, up 920.
Among the employers that saw jobs decline in the state were the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, down 1,140; Bethesda military and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, down 1,000; and Arlington, Va., military and aerospace giant Northrop Grumman, which has several locations in Maryland, down 720.


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Help me find the following Chinese Dishes in the DC Area.
I just got back from an incredibly sinful weekend of eating in San Diego and the San Gabriel Valley. Can anyone tell me where I can find these dishes:
Cong You Niu Rou Juan (Beef Rolls with Scallion Pancakes)
Shang Hai Chao Nian Gao (New Years Rice Cake)
Shui Zi Tou (Lion's Head Meatballs)
Yiao Long Bao (Soup Dumplings)
Northern Chinese Breakfast
Crispy Catfish and Mango Salad
BBQ Catfish
I'll post my pictures later.
Only place I've found Lion's Head Meatballs in the area is Bob's 88 Shabu Shabu in Rockville, but they're amazing and worth the trip. I've found good soup dumplings at Chinatown Express on 6th St. in Chinatown in DC (though the quality varies wildly), and at Shanghai Cafe on Travilah Rd in Potomac.
China Star: Lion's Head Meatballs
A&J: Northern Chinese Breakfast, soup dumplings (though they tend not to actually be very soupy)
Oriental Regency: Northern Chinese Breakfast
I don't think I've seen the other dishes at any restaurants around here. I do know that I've seen nian gao/rice cake on a couple of menus around here but they might be prepared differently than that particular dish.
You may also want to pay a visit to Peking Village in Merrifield. I've only been there once, so I'm not terribly familiar with their menu, but it might have some things you're looking for.
re: FoodieGrrl
Peking Village serves Northern Chinese breakfast. However, when I went, this was on the Chinese menu (as in Chinese only, no translations). It was very good. I was with Chinese friends who did all the ordering; I'm not sure how easy it is to get help with the Chinese menu if you need it.
re: Lori D
So what DO the Northern Chinese eat for breakfast? Or is that a strange translation of something?
re: MikeR
Northern China is more or less wheat growing region. They eat a lot of breads and noodles made from wheat. A typical northern style breakfast consists of hot soy milk (sweet or salty), steamed buns (with or without filling), You Tiao (salty fried crullers), and shao bing (a type of baked flat bread with sesame seeds on top).
re: FoodieGrrl
A&J's Northern Chinese Breakfast is only on weekends.
re: FoodieGrrl
Where are Oriental Regency and Peking Village? I am in Alexandria but am willing to drive. Thank you.
re: nissenpa
Oriental Regency
8605 Westwood Center Dr # 100, Vienna, VA
Peking Village Restaurant
2962 Gallows Rd, Falls Church, VA 22042
re: FoodieGrrl
Thank you!!!!!
Bob's Shabu now serves the soup dumplings too. Very good, maybe not as good as NYC but one heck of a lot closer. Soup dumplings, lion's head and shabu all in one spot. Add long pepper beef (either the dish or soup) and I am one happy camper.
re: Dennis S
I think the OP is asking for Yum Pla Dook Foo (shredded fried catfish and green mango salad); if so, I know I've had it at either Thai Square or Bangkok 54, although it was a while ago.
re: MartinDC
If that's what he's looking for, then a version of it can be found at almost every Thai place in the area, either by that name or as "Som Tam" or "Som Tum". I've never seen that made w/ catfish, though.
My mom makes a helluva lion's head. It's a shame she thinks that it's "over the head" of most american pallets.
re: Minger
No. The dim sum cart has steamed beef balls. Lions head are much bigger and made from pork, and they're spiced differently. Personally, I find them rather tasteless.
re: Minger
Traditional lions' head are kinda like Italian meatball. you pan fry it first than "braise" it with napa cabbage. The meat ball you are thinking off are steamed only, and there are extra corn starch in there to give it the texture it has. Lions head can have many different ingredients, like almost all other Chinese dishes. Depends on where your family originated, and how your mom (grandmother) used to make them. To me tho, the best part is not the meat ball itself. But the cabbage and the sauce. The braising process break down the cabbage so its soft and full of yummy meat juice. But the sauce, beside the flavoring from meat, also got the natural sweetness from the cabbage. When I was little and spend the wkd with my grandparents, that's what I always get. I miss "real" home made Chinese food.....
re: meimei
Also, the steamed beef balls on the dim sum carts are smaller than golf balls. The Lion's Head Meatballs are far closer to baseballs in size...
re: meimei
Exactly. The Steamed meatballs from the dim sum cart almost has a different consistency from the lion's head. It's almost...gluey? And Meimei's got it right because the best part of the dish is actually the broth that comes with it. Goes amazingly well with rice (surprise).
re: Chandavkl
Are the dim sum beef balls good? I saw a picture on Mark's Duck House website.
re: nissenpa
nissenpa, i tend to avoid the dim sum beef balls for the other items because the texture goes against what i expect from meatballs. it's like another form of processed gyro meat or old school chicken mcnuggets but in a ball an d softer. i certainly don't find it offensive and it's worth trying for something different.
re: Minger
Thanks Minger. I will save room in the tummy for other things.
re: nissenpa
The thing about dim sum is that even though everything's pretty yummy - it's got a lot of hidden fat. The cornstarch used to bind most of the filling plus the cheap cuts that's used makes it quite fattening even though it's steamed. The orginal purpose of dim sum was to have little bits of snacks to enjoy with your tea through out the morning...not to eat in one quit sitting like we do. Anyways - it's worth it every once in a while.
re: MFoxM
what you say about the original purpose of dim sum may be arguable, but dim sum has evolved into a great weekend get together for family and friends around pots of tea and great food for at least the last 50 years, if not more, both in china and elsewhere, so even the cantonese both here and in HK spend hours over many many dishes in one sitting. it may not be healthy, but it is so fun and delicious. heh. also, I believe cheap cuts are where great cuisines make their mark (i certainly wouldn't want my siu mai made from loin chops!), and as chowhounds, we don't mind the fat as that's where much flavor comes from. hehe ;-)


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