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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Sunday Sweets: Like Buttah
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Yep, here's another fondant-free installment for you purists out there. I've got nothing against fondant per se, but I do agree that all-icing decorations are much yummier. Besides, it's nice to see what cake artists can come up with when they're limited to non-fondant options.
First up, Alison B. of Town Lake Cakes certainly knows where the wild things are:
Alison, will you tell us your secret to drawing such perfect characters? I'm guessing you used either a stencil or possibly hand-drawn chocolate transfers - am I close? Of course, whatever you used, I love the result.
Speaking of love, I am gaga for the bright colors and glass-smooth icing on this Abby Cadabby cake Shelly M. got for her daughter's birthday:
Isn't it adorable? And you'd really never know it wasn't fondant, the lines are so clean. The bakers over at The Cake Stand in McKinney, Texas clearly have some mad skilz.
You know how we're always getting down on grocery-store decorators? Well believe it or not, not all of them are illiterate goofballs; some of them are real artists. And a few of these artists are determined to change my mind on the horror of CCCs. Yeah, like that's gonna happen. [eye roll]
However, I will grudgingly admit that this Squidward CCC is darn impressive:
The decorator in question whipped this up for a customer on the spot at the grocery store where s/he works, but asked to remain anonymous. For those of you not up on your Sponge Bob characters, here's a reference shot of Squidward:
Nice, huh? Or at least, it looks like him. ;)
And lastly, Jody H.'s creation - also a Cupcake Cake, and also all buttercream - is flatly astounding:
Wait, wait, wait. A CCC...with airbrushing... and it's NOT a WRECK?!? I think my head may implode: clearly we've entered some kind of parallel universe here.
Oh, and if you don't recognize Jose, the famous "Jalapeno on a Steeck", watch this:
(Note to moms: vid includes mild language.)
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- Leggrilee said...
my gawd, the evill CCC is conquering the world of CakeWrecks! Noooooo! It's even on the Sunday Sweets! IT'S SCARING ME!
- March 22, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Love Jose!!! That person did a great job on him!
- March 22, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- weirdmom said...
I love the "Where the Wild Things Are" cake! I was even more excited when I clicked the bakery link and saw that she is located in Austin, TX like me. I'll have to keep her in mind the next time I need a fancy cake. Austin represent!
- March 22, 2009 at 9:43 AM
I love that guy on a stick! - March 22, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- Kate Taylor said...
Love the Where the Wild Things Are cake!!!!
- March 22, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- toyboxgreatone said...
Hey, I thought you might want to know about a particularly wrecky cake I saw at a wal-mart that shall remain namless.
It was... A RICE KRISPY TREAT CAKE!! I'm not joking. I would have gotten a picture, but the batteries on my digital camera died. I will try to find you a picture soon. - March 22, 2009 at 10:22 AM
I wish I'd gotten amazing cakes like that for my birthday parties as a child!
Love the Jose cake, my friend is having a Jeff Dunham themed birthday and I'd love to suprise him with one! - March 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM
I would wild rumpus the hell out of that first cake. I'm not a huge fondant fan so bring on that mofo
- March 22, 2009 at 10:29 AM
- Nicole said...
Awesome cakes! My only confusion belongs with the Jose cake... "Happy 10th Birthday"? On a cake referring to a character on a very adult comedy show? Not something I'd let my 10 year old watch, but the cake itself is freakin' AWESOME! :)
- March 22, 2009 at 10:44 AM
The first two are awesome!
The second two? While they aren't wrecks, per se, I don't think they are of Sunday Sweets caliber. - March 22, 2009 at 10:46 AM
- Colleen said...
Oh, I love them!!! I just dug out my old copy of "Where the Wild Things Are" to read to my son and that cake is exactly like the book.
And I'm a huge fan of both Sponge Bob and Jef-f Dun-Ham (DOT COM) so those CCC I would totally buy. - March 22, 2009 at 10:49 AM
Oh i LOVE the Squidward and Jose cakes!! I would have either of those in a heartbeat! How stinkin cute!
- March 22, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Jalapeno on a stick. Haha. I'd like to see a CAKE on a stick, is what I'd like to see.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com) - March 22, 2009 at 10:58 AM
- Liz said...
Yeay! Go Jose! Love it!
- March 22, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- hallie b. said...
Okay, I'll admit that's a pretty awesome rendition of Jose. But let's see someone pull off a non-wreck CCC of Achmed. Ha!
- March 22, 2009 at 11:34 AM
They were all awesome!! The wild things cake looks like a buttercream transfer to me.
Jef-f Dun-Ham (Dot Com) ROCKS, and my son squealed when he saw squidward!! - March 22, 2009 at 11:35 AM
My brother saw Jose, and now we're happily watching Jeff Dunham who basically rules my house these days. I want one! XD
And, yes, I'm so glad that there's still people who believe in buttercream! Fondant always reminds me of edible playdough which sort of kills the thought of eating it for me.
~ Peace and Love - March 22, 2009 at 11:38 AM
- ~* N *~ said...
The Jalapeno cake looks better than the real puppet.
I love the Abby cake. That is the smoothest bc work I've ever seen! - March 22, 2009 at 11:40 AM
- Kristi said...
I apologize for my ignorance, but what is CCC?
- March 22, 2009 at 11:50 AM
Squidward is very impressive, considering. The decorator did a good job. But the Sendak cake! Omg, that rocks. Why wasn't there anyone making those kind of cakes around here, when my boys were little and I reduced to a generic dinosaur cake?
- March 22, 2009 at 11:57 AM
Wait...jalapeno on a steeck for a ten year-old? I'm pretty sure Jeff Dunham doesn't even come on until after 11.
- March 22, 2009 at 12:03 PM
- Redclix said...
OMG, I LOVE Jose! :)
I want a peanut cake. - March 22, 2009 at 12:03 PM
- Lisa Chin said...
Those are some awesome cakes! I love that you have the beautiful cakes once a week to remind me that there are some wonderful cake artist out there.
- March 22, 2009 at 12:04 PM
Oh! It's a place I recognize. :3 The Cake Stand is amaaaazing, makes me kind of glad there's at least one good cake place in McKinney here, heh. (This area is so deeeead to anything but grocery stores, fast food, and retail.)
- March 22, 2009 at 12:06 PM
- Buffy said...
Awesome!! Squidward looks unhappy and everything! Now we just need a Peanut cake. :)
- March 22, 2009 at 12:12 PM
That Where the Wild Things Are Cake is absolutely awesome. Kudos to the decorator!
- March 22, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Sorry, but I can't see eating a cake with a green face on it that represents an anthro jalapeno.
WV: prowleck -- Okay, I don't know what it means, but it sounds naughty enough for Jeff Dunham. - March 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM
- Kara said...
Wow I WISH that I could find cakes like that at the grocery store!!
- March 22, 2009 at 12:32 PM
couple of ways to get pictures like on the wild things cake... you can trace a picture on some gelatin paper, put the paper on the cake, and trace over the lines. Or you can take a slide of the picture you want, project it onto the cake, and trace the outlines.
- March 22, 2009 at 12:51 PM
CCC=CupCake Cake
- March 22, 2009 at 1:21 PM
- Ross said...
Jeff Dunham for a 10-year-old? Really?
- March 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM
- Unknown said...
Those are very nice!!
I love Jeff Dunham!! LOL
~Amy B.
wv: hismine (does that equal ours?) - March 22, 2009 at 1:56 PM
- MiniKat said...
I love Jose! I wonder which of his other characters will end up as cakes... Sweet Daddy D would be punny though.
It was kinda odd to see the Jose cake for a 10 year old. That's kinda disturbing. - March 22, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- Kat said...
Aaah!! Someone made the Jalapeno on the stick!! And the classic Where the Wild Things Are.....
- March 22, 2009 at 2:14 PM
- little.wendy.meows said...
these are sooo amazing!
- March 22, 2009 at 2:35 PM
- Emily said...
are we sure those aren't cookies for the characters on that first cake? They look like they might be cookies.
- March 22, 2009 at 3:01 PM
- Scritzy said...
"Where the Wild Things Are" — fantastic! Even the facial expressions are right!
And José the Jalapeno CCC is muy bueno! Thanks for the clip. I'd never seen José before, and seeing him reminded me of my childhood days with Senor Wences.
(Showing my age here.) - March 22, 2009 at 3:06 PM
I am not fond of fondant cakes either although I can appreciate the time it takes to create them. I do only buttercream cakes myself, and the pink cartoon girl cake is smooth thanks to (I am assuming) VIVA paper towels. They are fantastic to use once the icing has air dried a bit to smooth out the surface if needed.
Those CCC's look good for a change, butI refuse to make them at our bakery. They are a pain in the rear to put together!
BTW, Jeff Dunham ROCKS and my kids love him and all his character puppets! - March 22, 2009 at 3:44 PM
- KidsCakes said...
Love that Abby Cadabby cake! I'm a big fan of brightly colored cakes (when done well)...lol.
Julie from
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- evil cake lady said...
I would wild rumpus the hell out of that first cake.
Sitty Living, that was the best comment EVER! I'm totally going to use it. - March 22, 2009 at 4:36 PM
OMG, I want that Squidward CCC now! (mostly because I love the character)
- March 22, 2009 at 4:52 PM
I think the Where the Wild Things Are cake involves the use of a couple frozen buttercream transfers. Print out a picture of what you want to create (flipped horizontally, so it's actually a mirror image), place a piece of parchment paper on top, and pipe your buttercream onto it. Freeze, then pop it onto a frosted cake.
If I'm right, though, that's a seriously epic-level transfer! - March 22, 2009 at 5:12 PM
- D: said...
O_O Wow. Maybe the last two aren't really actual CCCs . . . do they still have the wrappers on the bottom?
- March 22, 2009 at 5:18 PM
- Mrs. Insanity said...
Those are awesome!!
- March 22, 2009 at 6:40 PM
- Tracy said...
Oh my goodness! I just spent the last hour watching Jeff Dunham on YouTube. Love that Jose!
- March 22, 2009 at 6:46 PM
- northerngirl said...
these are fantastic- on a steeek!
http://bestiarumvocabulum.wordpress.com/ - March 22, 2009 at 6:47 PM
OMG - Jalapeneo on a STEEEEEEK!!! I love where that reference pops up. You just never know and it always cracks me up.
- March 22, 2009 at 8:34 PM
I would call that pepper a fail because Jeff Dunham is so very, very far away from anything resembling a win. Or funny and non-racist, for that matter.
- March 22, 2009 at 10:25 PM
O.M.G!!! Sendak, Squidward AND Jose in the same blog? and all rendered soooo well?!?! I luuuurrrvvveee it!
- March 22, 2009 at 10:44 PM
- alicia policia said...
Very glad to see butter cream cakes featured again. It takes a little extra skillz to make a kick ass butter cream icing cake, is all I'm sayin'.
- March 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM
OMG, The Cake Stand is SO GOOD! Can't believe people think grocery store cakes are high quality *eye roll*. In their defense, a real bakery is hard to find in this super suburban area. SO GLAD T.C.S. is close!!!
- March 22, 2009 at 11:35 PM
- Becky said...
Jeff Dunham has amazing talent and is HILARIOUS! I want a jalapeno on a steeeek cake!!!!
- March 22, 2009 at 11:46 PM
- Unknown said...
WOW I can't believe I'm a Sunday Sweet!
KariAnn & Karen - you guessed it. They're frozen buttercream transfers (FBCT for short) You can tell for sure because they're BACKWARDS - I forgot to flip the pics before I put them on the cake, then decided I liked the new layout better anyway.
I wanted some extra dimension so I embellished the characters after they were on the cake by adding teeth, claws, hair, and a few other things on top of the finished FBCT.
I really just loved this cake.
BTW Anybody interested in the FBCT technique can find it on cakecentral.com - March 23, 2009 at 12:48 AM
I wonder if I should collect my jaw from the floor before or after commenting.
The "Where the Wild Things Are" has to be the coolest cake, ever. And the CCC's? I don't think I would have recognized that they WERE CCC's unless you pointed that out. Of course, Squidward and Jose are just about the only figures you could make with a CCC. - March 23, 2009 at 1:22 AM
I would venture a guess that the characters on the Wild Things cake are buttercream transfers. Basically they are traced in buttercream (backwards) onto acetate of wax paper and frozen. Then they are flipped onto the cake. If you look carefully they are a bit raised from the surface. Cool trick that was executed perfectly!
- March 23, 2009 at 3:45 AM
- Ruby said...
What is a CCC??
I feel I am not in the secret 'knowing what a CCC is' club. D:
Ruby x - March 23, 2009 at 5:34 AM
Oddly enough, though I am married to the author of this blog, was an avid cartoon watcher in my youth and consider myself to have above average intelligence, I have not a clue who Squidward is. In addition, it saddens me that a word like "Idiot" which originally meant mentally handicapped, has become a flippant insult for one who lacks understanding. Ah well. You put your name so it got published.
john - March 23, 2009 at 8:38 AM
- MetalNoir said...
Thanks for going fondant-free again. Fondant is the modeling-clay of the cake-world (and just as edible).
The cupcake cakes illustrate something important: a comfort with the artisitic medium. Squidward seems the perfect subject for such a cake--his shape adapts perfectly to being made of circles. The second cupcake cake reflects a truly accomplished cake artist--recognizing the potentials and limits of what can be done on the edible canvas.
The others are great also. - March 23, 2009 at 9:05 AM
I freaking LOVE all of thees!!! I love Squidward and think that CCC is perfect (the only one so far)!
- March 23, 2009 at 9:44 AM
- Unknown said...
Jeff Dunham's no more racist than some of the other so-called comedians out there.
Even Gabriel Iglaseis makes fun of his own heritage. Geez.
~Amy B - March 23, 2009 at 10:04 AM
It's Spongebob. Spongebob. ONE WORD! Spongebob!
- March 23, 2009 at 10:38 AM
- Reformed Supermom said...
Mr. Cakewrecks = hottie. I can feel it.
Mr. H = The guy Brad Paisley sings about...
And fwiw, I always thought his name was Squidworth. Go figure. - March 23, 2009 at 10:42 AM
RE: Laura's comment about Jeff Dunham -- he's a COMEDIAN sweetie. You're ulra-hyper-sensitive, and PC to an inappropriate degree. It's a beautifully done cake -- get a grip.
- March 23, 2009 at 10:57 AM
- Mommadisco said...
I love that you featured non-fondant stuff. I think it shows madd skills when things come out amazing using frosting.
- March 23, 2009 at 11:04 AM
I'm guessing the first cake was done using a frozen buttercream transfer, one of my favorite techniques. It's lovely! (On a steeck!)
- March 23, 2009 at 12:08 PM
Alison who made the Wild Rumpus cake - I want you to know that you're my hero. Transfer or no, that is some brilliant stuff.
- March 23, 2009 at 12:08 PM
I think Squidward is the perfect shape for a proper looking CCC. Perhaps the only one?
- March 23, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Laura Dotson-Thomson said...
I LOVE Jose, but is it kinda odd that a 10-year-old would have him as a CCC? I mean, they play it on comedy central, but the humor is rather adult sometimes. Oh well, guess I'm outdated. Nice work overall (for a change).
- March 23, 2009 at 1:56 PM
- Unknown said...
I Want a jalapeno on a stick cake, NOW!
- March 23, 2009 at 1:56 PM
- Unknown said...
I love your blog, but I just have to point out that moms aren't the only ones who might be taking care of kids and want to avoid offensive language.
- March 23, 2009 at 3:09 PM
I LOVE the "Where the Wild Things Are" cake!
The Squidward CCC? Mediocre at best.
All of you fondant haters, you probably haven't had good fondant. I just had some HORRIBLE buttercream a couple of weeks ago. Any type of icing isn't good or bad 100% of the time. - March 23, 2009 at 3:24 PM
- RFD said...
Thanks for featuring the butter cream cakes. Though fondant is beautiful, there's just something so much more appealing about a cake that looks both pretty and edible.
~Melba - March 23, 2009 at 8:01 PM
- DeeDee said...
Down with the evil Fondant, buttercream rocks!!
Who would really want to eat a sheet of sugar dough, yuck!
http://small-budget.blogspot.com/ - March 23, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- Cottagecheap said...
On a STEEEEEEEEEEEK! Oh I LOVE Jeff Dun-Ham! :D
Now i need a cake on a Steek for my next Fiesta! - March 24, 2009 at 8:39 AM
- Big Sky Chef said...
Where else but Cakewrecks can find a jalpepeno on a stick?
- March 24, 2009 at 9:05 AM
- Suzanne Dargie said...
The Squidward CCC is the cutest I've ever seen! My kids would LOVE it!
I guess there 's hope for the CupCake Cakes after all.....
I think the Jalapeno thing is ugly no matter how accurate it may be to the original. - March 24, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- MetalNoir said...
I just watched that vid. Although I do believe that many folks are hypersensitive in general, I found it pretty racist and un-funny.
- March 24, 2009 at 1:41 PM
- Andi said...
OMG...that Jose cake is the COOLEST!!!!
- March 24, 2009 at 6:15 PM
- Melissa (& Billy) said...
Squidward = win. One of the only CCCs that could qualify as a win, maybe? =)
Creativity rocks! =D - March 24, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Too funny, I just watched that clip on TV! It's a cute one! Wonder if it's spicy?
- March 25, 2009 at 2:30 AM
- Unknown said...
I'm never happy to see kids that like Jeff Dunham. I worked his concert, and I've never seen such a bunch of racist homophobic yokels in my life.
- March 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM
I know I'm late, but SERIOUSLY!?!?!?! Jalepeno on a STEEK?!?!?! Good times!!!
- March 25, 2009 at 5:34 PM
- Zombie Edward said...
Wow, Squidworth is impressive. Especially it if was whipped up on the spot. Mad skillz.
- March 25, 2009 at 9:02 PM
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- March 26, 2009 at 2:52 PM
Holla! I'm in McKinney! The Cake Stand not only makes gorgeous cakes, but they are DELICIOUS!!!!
- March 26, 2009 at 7:24 PM
- Unknown said...
The entire Jose skit is just too stupid for me to even bother being offended. Except for the BMW bit. Thanks, but I don't consider myself "big" at a size 6, Jeff.
It is odd that a 10 y/o would have a ccc with the jalapeno on it though. I can't argue that. Who would encourage their kids to watch this guy? (Even if it's a well done ccc.) It would be like a 10 y/o with a Carlos Mencia cake. - March 31, 2009 at 3:50 AM
- Jaclynn_kyuss said...
I lOVE Jeff Dunham :)
- April 5, 2009 at 5:28 PM
I love all these cakes! Even the Spongebob Whoozit CCC is extremely well done.
I lifted my eyebrows when I saw the Jose cake's inscription (not a huge fan of that comedian), but come now, it isn't so weird for a kid. I remember desperately wanting to watch Beavis and Butthead and the Simpsons like all the other kids. - April 9, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Is it just me, or does that look like Jay Leno's face on a steeck?
- June 21, 2009 at 1:33 PM
oh gawd...
so wrong. so racist...
carla - November 19, 2009 at 12:19 PM
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2. Try mixing the paint in a pan on a medium heat instead of just in a bowl, as that will help to bring it together.
It's always frustrating posting recipes that work brilliantly when you try them yourself, but for some reason don't work for everyone! I can only assume it's down to slight change in ingredients used and perhaps how the directions are followed. Do try it as it is LOVELY stuff! Thanks 🙂
C helped me to spoon this into the jars and she absolutely LOVED every minute of the whole process!
I added a squeeze of colouring to each jar and then between us we mixed them up.
During mixing they looked fabulous!
And the finished paints look like a little work of art 🙂 Almost too good to paint with…but not quite.
All lined up and ready for action. I put in some thick paint brushes for the toddlers but expected babies to use their fingers. They seemed to understand that perfectly 🙂
Baby Boy is 6 months and this was his first little painting. We weren't sure how impressed he was!
Kiddies getting stuck in and a couple more crawling on the floor, waiting for their turns!
That's more like it baby Boy, get those fingers in and give it a good squish!
J having a whale of a time!
Big boy N knows how to paint properly!
Someone got a tad possessive of all "her" paints. "Dey Mines!"
And then we introduced edible finger paint number 2! Chocolate and strawberry Angel Delight pudding mixes (although these were actually a Sainsbury's Basics range for 7p each!) We just mixed the powder with milk and whisked it until lovely and thick, then put it on the table for them to touch and add to their paintings. There was no added food colouring, but lovely brown, chocolatey messiness everywhere nonetheless 🙂
Baby J was very interested in the chocolate pudding goo! Who can blame him?!
It's important to use ALL of the senses when exploring! Yum yum!
And C did a little bit of mark-making with a fork through the lovely, thick, gloopy mess.
Little Pop found the brush very tasty and had her fair share of pudding paint too.
This activity is good for:
* involving all ages of children
* creativty and expression
* using fingers and tools to do mark-making
* exploring the senses and discovering new textures
* knowledge and understanding of the world: following a recipe, mixing and stirring, combining materials and mixing colours
* gross and fine motor skills (mixing the colours into the paint was hard work!)
We have another home made paint recipe to share tomorrow! Enjoy messy, creative, fun!


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Cycling superstar and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong's seven Tour de France titles are about to be wiped from the record books.
As NPR's Mike Pesca said early Friday on Morning Edition, while it is the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that announced Thursday it would strip Armstrong of his titles — including the French records — because of the evidence it says it has collected that he was doping throughout his career, "the USADA is associated with the World Anti-Doping Agency." So the American decision will be honored in France, Mike says.
"Greg LeMond is [now] the only American" to have officially won the world's most prestigious bicycle race, he told Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep. LeMond finished first in three Tours ( 1986, 1989 and 1990).
The USADA's decision also means Armstrong will likely lose his bronze medal from the 2000 Olympics. And he may be banned for life from competitions. Retired from cycling, the 40-year-old Armstrong has recently been competing professionally in triathlons.
It's important to note that Armstrong, in a statement issued Thursday in which he said he would no longer contest the charges being leveled against him, called the USADA's case a "charade" and a "witch hunt." He also asserted that:
"USADA cannot assert control of a professional international sport and attempt to strip my seven Tour de France titles. I know who won those seven Tours, my teammates know who won those seven Tours, and everyone I competed against knows who won those seven Tours."
But John Fahey, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, said today that Armstrong's Tour de France titles now need to be "obliterated" from the record books, the BBC reports.
Armstrong "had the right to rip up those charges but elected not to," said Fahey, according to the BBC. "Therefore the only interpretation in these circumstances is that there was substance in those charges."
Another way to look at Armstrong's statement, Mike said on Morning Edition, is as something of a "no contest" plea.
Update at 12:10 p.m. ET. U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Takes Official Action.
In a statement on its website, the agency says:
"USADA announced today that Lance Armstrong has chosen not to move forward with the independent arbitration process and as a result has received a lifetime period of ineligibility and disqualification of all competitive results from August 1, 1998 through the present, as the result of his anti-doping rule violations stemming from his involvement in the United States Postal Service (USPS) Cycling Team Doping Conspiracy (USPS Conspiracy)."
And it adds that:
"The anti-doping rule violations for which Mr. Armstrong is being sanctioned are:
"(1) Use and/or attempted use of prohibited substances and/or methods including EPO, blood transfusions, testosterone, corticosteroids and masking agents.
"(2) Possession of prohibited substances and/or methods including EPO, blood transfusions and related equipment (such as needles, blood bags, storage containers and other transfusion equipment and blood parameters measuring devices), testosterone, corticosteroids and masking agents.
"(3) Trafficking of EPO, testosterone, and corticosteroids.
"(4) Administration and/or attempted administration to others of EPO, testosterone, and cortisone.
"(5) Assisting, encouraging, aiding, abetting, covering up and other complicity involving one or more anti-doping rule violations and/or attempted anti-doping rule violations."
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Tsoureki is a Greek brioche like bread that is commonly served for major holidays including Easter. I have been seeing tsoureki pop up around the food blogging sphere near Easter every year since I started food blogging and I have been wanting to try making it. The only that held me off for so long was that it commonly includes some ingredients that I had not come across such as mastic and mahlep. (Mastic is the crystallized resin from the mastic tree and mahlep is made from sour cherry seeds from the mahlep tree.) Since last Easter I was able to find both of these ingredients so I was all set to go!
There are many variations of tsoureki including ones with different flavouring and different toppings. One common practice around Easter is to push red eggs into the braids. Since this was my first time making tsoureki, I wanted to keep it nice and simple so I went with the basic flavourings of the mastic, mahleb and orange zest and I omitted all toppings. Several things that I found interesting about this recipe was the use of the butter, eggs and milk as most of my experience with yeast based breads so far have been pretty simple with just yeast, flour water and salt. The dough came together really easily and with the warmth that we have been having recently it rose really quickly. Braiding the bread was the hardest part, though overall it was a fun challenge and everything turned out ok.
One of the reasons that I rarely make my own bread is because freshly home made bread is so addictively good, especially when still warm from the oven. I often find myself inhaling way more than I should before it has even had an chance to cool. The tsoureki was no different! The aroma of mastic, mahlep and orange tantalized me while the bread was baking and I could barely wait for it to cool down before digging in. The tsoureki was nice and soft and moist and yet light and fluffy with a nice bit of chew to it. The flavouring was subtle, but with the amazing aroma it was simply irresistible! I had more than a few slices topped with some melting butter.
Note: You can find the mastic resin and the mahlep at a local Greek or Turkish grocery store or order them online. If you cannot find them, you can replace them with other flavours such as vanilla and or cardamom.
Tsoureki (Greek Easter Bread)
A brioche like sweet bread that is traditionally made for Easter.
- 1 1/2 tablespoons dry active yeast
- 1/2 cup milk, luke warm
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1 cup water or milk or orange juice
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 3 eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 tablespoon mahlep, ground
- 1 teaspoon mastic, ground
- 2 tablespoons orange zest
- 6 cups all purpose flour
- 1 egg + 1 tablespoon water, lightly beaten
- Mix the yeast into the milk, along with the sugar, salt and flour and let sit for 10 minutes.
- Mix the water, butter, eggs, sugar, mahlep, mastic and orange zest into the yeast mixture.
- Mix the flour into the yeast mixture until it forms a dough.
- Knead the dough.
- Place the dough in a greased bowl, cover and let rise to double its original size, about 2 hours.
- Punch the dough down, cut it into 6 parts and form 2 braids.
- Place the braid on a grease baking sheet and let rise to double its original size, about 1 hour.
- Brush with the egg wash.
- Bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven until golden brown, about 20-30 minutes.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is vowing to use "whatever power this office holds" to safeguard the nation's children, raising the prospect that he will pursue policy changes to stem gun violence in the wake of an elementary school massacre.
"Because what choice do we have?" a somber Obama said at a Sunday evening vigil in the grieving community of Newtown, Conn. "We can't accept events like this as routine. Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage? That the politics are too hard?"
The newly re-elected president offered few specifics about how he planned to proceed, saying only that he will engage with law enforcement, mental health professionals, parents and educators in the coming weeks. Just days after the shooting at an elementary school, Obama is already facing pressure from fellow Democrats and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to tackle gun control legislation, a contentious issue he avoided as he sought a second term.
But Friday's shooting, which left 20 children and eight adults dead, appears to have spurred some soul-searching by Obama, who told Connecticut's governor that Friday was the most difficult day of his presidency. Speaking to families of the victims and first responders, Obama said Sunday that he had been reflecting on whether the country was doing enough to give its children "the chance they deserve to live out their lives in happiness and with purpose."
"And if we're honest with ourselves, the answer is no. We're not doing enough, and we will have to change," Obama said.
Sunday marked the fourth time in Obama's presidency that he has traveled to a community shaken by a mass shooting. Just this summer, he made a similar visit to Aurora, Colo., where a dozen people were killed in a movie theater attack.
Drawing on his past experiences, Obama said he was mindful that mere words would not be enough to heal the depths of Newtown's sorrow.
"I can only hope that it helps for you to know that you are not alone in your grief," Obama said during the vigil, which followed his private meeting with families of the victims.
The president closed his remarks by reading the first names of the kids, slowly, in the most wrenching moment of the night. Cries and sobs filled the room.
Said Obama of the girls and boys who died: "God has called them all home. For those of us who remain, let us find the strength to carry on and make our country worthy of their memory."
Inside the room, children held stuffed teddy bears and dogs. The smallest kids sat on their parents' laps.
There were tears and hugs, but also smiles and squeezed arms. Mixed with disbelief was a sense of a community reacquainting itself all at once.
One man said it was less mournful, more familial. Some kids chatted easily with their friends. The adults embraced each other in support.
"We're halfway between grief and hope," said Curt Brantl, whose daughter was in the library of the elementary school when the shootings occurred. She was not harmed.
Police and firefighters got hugs and standing ovations when they entered. So did Obama.
"We needed this," said the Rev. Matt Crebbin, senior minister of the Newtown Congregational Church. "We needed to be together to show that we are together and united."
The shootings have restarted a debate in Washington about what politicians can to do help — gun control or otherwise. Obama has called for "meaningful action" to prevent killings.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Sunday she will introduce legislation next year to ban new assault weapons, as well as big clips, drums and strips of more than 10 bullets.
Police say the gunman, Adam Lanza, was carrying an arsenal of ammunition big enough to kill just about every student in the school if given enough time. He massacred 20 students and six teachers and administrators before shooting himself in the head just as he heard police drawing near, authorities said.
A Connecticut official said the gunman's mother was found dead in her pajamas in bed, shot four times in the head with a.22-caliber rifle. The killer then went to the school with guns he took from his mother and began blasting his way through the building.
"There is no blame to be laid on us but there is a great burden and a great challenge that we emerge whole," First Select Woman Patricia Llodra said. "It is a defining moment for our town, but it does not define us."
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Go looking for animal products, and apparently you will find them everywhere.
That's the takeaway from the book Veganissimo A to Z, recently translated into English for the first time. What's veganissimo? It's veganism of the highest order, according to the German authors Reuben Proctor and Lars Thomsen, who call themselves "professional vegans." (Is veganism a healthful way to eat? Sorry, we're not going there in this post.)
Proctor and Thomsen, who've been vegan since 2000 and 1990, respectively, are willing to avoid animal products on ethical grounds at nearly all costs. And a perusal of their guide to more than 2,500 substances is enough to give even a non-vegan a bout of vicarious anxiety — the byproducts of dead animals, it seems, are lurking in everything from diet supplements and medicine to sporting goods and electronics.
When it comes to pharmaceuticals, the authors say, there's a surprising amount of animal in many of those pills in your medicine cabinet. And that can present vegans with serious quandaries, pitting their health against their ideals.
"Medicine is one of the more difficult products for vegans to avoid, especially if something is life-threatening," Proctor tells Shots. "How far are you prepared to go for your own convictions?"
The most common animal derivative in the medicine cabinet is lactose, which is used as a carrier, stabilizer or to add bulk. And if you want to get technical about it (and Proctor's book certainly does), you'll learn that gelatin (derived from the skin and bone of cattle and pigs) shows up in many capsules, pills and tablets.
Your pills might also be bound with insect-based shellac or magnesium stearate, a substance based on fatty acids that can come from animals. And if pills have a pinkish or reddish tint, it could be from cochineal, or carmine, a red dye made from crushed insects. (Recall, if you will, that brouhaha over Starbucks' use of the dye to color its Strawberry and Crème Frappucinos.)
According to Proctor, vegans also have to worry about active ingredients in other drugs like insulin, anticoagulents like heparin, amino acid infusions, and hormone preparations.
"Finding vegan alternatives to such products can sometimes be very difficult, or even entirely unsuccessful," he writes.
But Proctor managed to be fairly resourceful when he had to go into surgery last year. When he learned that he would need heparin, an anticoagulant made from the intestinal mucous membranes of pigs, he asked whether he could use fondaparinux, a synthetic substitute, instead. Yes, his doctor told him, the substitution was technically possible — but it would also increase the risk of hemorrhage.
"So I had to make a compromise and use the animal anticoagulant for 24 hours," he says. "I did not like it all, but it was a question of life or death."
Though Proctor says there are many more vegan food and cosmetics products on the market these days, vegan medicine is a tougher sell to companies.
"I doubt the pharmaceutical industry is interested," he says. "They have a totally different paradigm ... They don't have qualms about using animals for testing or in products."
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The latest estimate by the Pew Research Center puts the number of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. at 11.7 million.
This new number, based on U.S. government data, can be found in a report released Monday titled "Population Decline of Unauthorized Immigrants Stalls, May Have Reversed." The key word in that headline is "may." As the authors write in the report:
"Although there are indications the number of unauthorized immigrants may be rising, the 2012 population estimate is the midpoint of a wide range of possible values and in a statistical sense is no different from the 2009 estimate."
And 2009 was when the estimated number of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. fell to 11.3 million, after a peak year at 12.2 million in 2007. The size of the population dropped sharply during the recession, and since the recession's official end in 2009, it has remained stalled at about 11 million.
This trend coincides with record levels of deportations under the Obama administration, which deported almost 410,000 people last year.
Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer at Pew's Hispanic Trends Project who co-authored the report, says deportation stats indirectly impact Pew's estimate, which is mainly based on analysis of the number of foreign-born residents from Census surveys and the number of legal immigrants from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Statistics.
But Passel adds that deportation numbers include a mix of immigrant populations, some of which are not counted in Pew's estimate.
"Some of the deportations are really people who haven't lived in the U.S," he says. "[Some of them are] people who got caught trying to enter the U.S. illegally, and they were put through deportation proceedings."
The new report also notes that while Mexico is the main source of unauthorized immigrants (at 52 percent in 2012), the estimated number of Mexican immigrants living illegally in the U.S. has been on the decline since 2007, with around 6 million in 2012.
The estimated number of unauthorized immigrants from other countries, however, appears to be on the rise since 2009.
"The total [of unauthorized immigrants not from Mexico] for 2012 (5.65 million) appears to be higher than the 2007 peak [5.25 million]," the report says, "but because of the large margin of error, this cannot be confirmed with the preliminary estimates."
The Pew Research Center plans to update its estimates when additional Census survey data are released later this year.
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In the October 2008 issue of Martha Stewart Living, she has a cute Boston "Scream" Pie. It's a Halloween themed Boston Cream Pie: chocolate-pumpkin cake filled with a spiced pastry cream and topped with chocolate ganache.
Well... I came close!
By the way, I brought this into work on Wednesday, but I think this cake is really appropriate today considering the Red Sox and Tampa Bay game! What a comeback by Boston!
Cake: The chocolate-pumpkin layers (8-inch rounds) came out moist and a perfect blend of chocolate and pumpkin (it uses a full 15-ounce can of pumpkin puree!)
Filling: Okay, the spiced pastry cream...Ugh. I tried to make this TWO times but it was Fail. Fail. I thought I took it to exactly 160 degrees, but it jumped into the pastry cream abyss and fell way, way down into a truly messed up pile 'o yuck. Luckily, no photos of the mess!
So, I ended up making a spiced cream cheese filling: 1 block of cream cheese, 1 cup of powdered sugar (sifted), 1/4 t each cinnamon and ground ginger, and a bit of nutmeg and vanilla.


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The major source for the images in this digital presentation-the Phelps Stokes Collection of American historical prints and early views of American cities-came to the Library in 1930 as a gift of the architect and historian Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes (1867-1944). It includes more than 800 prints, drawings, and maps produced over a period of four centuries, from the earliest European discoveries of the West Indian islands through the 19th century. The selection also includes some 30 images from the assemblage of New York City views donated to the Library in 1922 by Amos F. Eno (1836-1915) and a few items from the collection of American historical prints accumulated by Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet (1828-1919) and presented to the Library in 1896. Lastly, a few other items not found in these collections also appear, such as an 1814 view of New Archangel, Alaska from the Rare Book Division, and the Hudson River Portfolio of 1820 views, from the Spencer Collection.
The images in this collection, comprising an incomparable visual narrative of the development of the Americas and especially the territory that became the United States, offer a rich visual resource for the student of American history, architecture, urban growth, costume, transportation, and much else. The documentation of the rise of New York City is particularly strong.
The Print Collection of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs holds the works from The Phelps Stokes Collection, the Eno Collection of New York City Views and the Emmet Collection. The basis for the selection of images in this presentation, Gloria Gilda Deák's 1988 monograph, Picturing America, is an extensive catalog of the holdings of American historical prints in the Print Collection and other divisions of the Library, with essays and notes not included in this digital version.
Deák, Gloria Gilda. Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings Bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory That Is Now the United States. (1988)
Stokes, I. N. Phelps and Daniel C. Haskell. American Historical Prints: Early View of American Cities, etc., from the Phelps Stokes and Other Collections. (1933)


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Adding some details to an initiative he announced during his latest State of the Union address, President Obama on Tuesday said that federal agencies plan to spend $100 million to jump start an effort to map the human brain. It's research that could lead to breakthroughs in the treatment and prevention of brain disorders.
As All Things Considered has reported:
"Much like the Human Genome Project a decade ago, scientists are hoping brain mapping will lead to new scientific advances and breakthroughs, and that perhaps it will even unlock the secrets of conditions such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease."
Successful government research, Obama noted during Tuesday morning's White House announcement, has "changed our lives in ways we could never imagine" — leading to the development of computer chips, global positioning technology, the Internet and other technologies.
The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is "the next great American project," Obama said.
He predicted the knowledge gained in the project "will be transformative."
"We have the chance to improve the lives of not just millions, but billions of people," the president added.
According to the White House, the president's 2014 budget will include about $100 million of research done by the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Science Foundation.
All Things Considered plans to have more on the BRAIN project later today. Click here to find an NPR station that broadcasts or streams the show.
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- Make sugar cookies using a candy corn cookie cutter (it's a multi-tasker) and let cool.
Using red royal icing and a #3 tip, pipe the outline of a popcorn box (AmeriColor Super Red).
- With a #2 tip, pipe a wide oval in yellow icing (AmeriColor Egg Yellow).
- With another #2 tip, pipe the outline of popped popcorn above the box in white (add AmeriColor Bright White for extra white).
- Thin the yellow icing with a bit of water, stirring gently until it is the consistency of thick syrup. Let sit several minutes covered with a damp dishtowel (see a video of this process here).
- Gently stir the icing with a rubber spatula to pop any air bubbles that have risen to the surface and transfer to a squeeze bottle.
- Fill in the oval and part of each popcorn piece.
- Thin the white icing in a similar fashion.
- Fill in the popcorn box and the remainder of the popcorn. Swirl the yellow and white icings together on the popcorn.
- Let dry at least 1 hour.
- Using a #5 tip, add wide red stripes to the popcorn boxes.
- Switch to a #2 tip and pipe "POPcorn" in red on the oval.
- Outline the oval in red using the #2 tip.
- Let the cookies dry overnight before packaging.
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I like this year's version much better!
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A hearty soup made with kale, potatoes, carrots, and sausage.
I'm feeling a bit under the weather this week. It seems I caught a cold from my toddler who just entered Pre-K. Along with her projects, crafts, and books, she's been taking home a new cold each week (lucky me!)
Right now hot tea and soup are on the menu. I thought I would make something from the archives that I haven't made in a while, something with lots of vitamins and antioxidants to help me kick this cold.
So I made this soup, which really hit the spot. It's a meal in a bowl and kale is one of the healthiest vegetables around, high in vitamins K, A and C with both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits.
This soup will taste as good as the sausage you purchase, so be sure to find an Italian turkey or chicken sausage that you like, either would work. If you want this a little spicy, you can certainly use a hot sausage instead. Vegetarians could swap the sausage for soyrizo and vegetable broth.
Kale and Potato Soup with Turkey Sausage
Servings: 6 • Size: 1 2/3 cups • Old Points: 4 pts • Points+: 6
Calories: 232 • Fat: 4 g • Carb: 31 g • Fiber: 5.5 g • Protein: 19 g • Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 647 mg (will vary by brand of broth you use)
- 14 oz reduced fat Italian chicken or turkey sausage
- 8 cups (1/2 batch) kale, stems removed, leaves shredded
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 medium carrot, sliced
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 8 cups fat-free reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 2 cups water
- 3 medium red potatoes, peeled diced into 1/4 inch pieces
- 1 pinch dried red pepper flakes
- salt to taste
- 1/4 tsp fresh ground pepper
In a large Dutch oven or pot, cook sausage over medium-low heat. Turn and cook until brown, about 10 minutes. Remove from pot, let cool and cut into thin slices.
Add oil to pot, add onions and carrots; cook on medium until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook 1 minute more.
Add broth, water and black pepper, bring to a boil and cook 5 minutes. Add cooked sausage, potatoes, red pepper flakes and bring back to a simmer. Cook covered for about 4 minutes. Add kale and bring back to a simmer. Cook partially covered until the potatoes and kale are cooked, about 5-6 minutes. Adjust salt if needed.
Makes 10 cups.
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Notice: This Wiki is now read only and edits are no longer possible. Please see: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/wikis/Wiki-shutdown-plan for the plan.
Callisto Coordinated Update Sites
- 1 Purpose of this document
- 2 Use cases
- 3 Objectives and Constraints
- 4 Fundamentals
- 5 User Interface Consistency
- 6 Planned Tests and Trial runs
- 7 Project Responsibilities
- 8 Update Manager and Site Optimization
- 9 Help Wanted
- 10 Bugzilla Queries
- 11 Tips and Tricks
- 12 Related Links for Further Enjoyable Reading and Reference
Purpose of this document
This page is to document processes and procedures for providing improved coordination of update sites provided by the many Eclipse Projects. It's focus is on the 10 or so projects as part of the Callisto simultaneous release but some of the information would be helpful to any Eclipse adopter.
Note: as of this initial writing, this document should be taken as a 'proposal', and as its reviewed and discussed and improved by others, it will become a 'plan'. And then, eventually, once the plan seems to be working, it will become a true "process and procedures" document.
This document was started because of a cross-project agreement reached at the December, 2005, EMO Architecture Council Meeting. There, through their representatives to the Architecture Council, the projects of the Callisto Release agreed to improve the cross-project update experience. The agreement was that I (David Williams) would coordinate the effort ... but the projects still had to do the work!
This document is in no way to "take over" any of the Eclipse base project Update Team's function, proposals, or responsibilities.
It is also not to add to their responsibilities. The goal for Callisto release is to use and "push the limits" of the current capabilities and technologies of the Update Manager. Of course, bugs and feature requests may result, and that is fine, but I wanted to be clear this proposal is not for anything fundamentally new ... it is just to document what's already possible, and make sure it is coordinated and carried out with "best practices" in mind.
If I understand Wiki's at all committers can use the "talk" feature to provide feedback. Others may open a bugzilla on the Cross Project bugzilla component.
Use cases
There are 3 primary use cases that cross-project, coordinated update sites provide:
1. Allow end-users to install some minimum "platform" and from that be able to use Update Manager to install all of the Callisto release, just by going to just one update site and selecting just one thing.
2. Allow committers and developers to install an "SDK" version of Callisto, to be used while developing their own plugins.
3. Allow adopters to provide their own update sites, and "point to" appropriate sites to pick up prerequisite features. While there is nothing in this Callisto effort to support this directly, Callisto should serve as a good
example of "best practices" for other projects to follow.
Objectives and Constraints
Besides promoting the use cases given above, there are other objectives and constraints to meet:
Eclipse.org Infrastructure constraints
The distribution of Eclipse projects must fit in to the current disk space and "mirror system".
- Disk space.
- JAR files should not be duplicated to avoid wasting bandwidth and disk space on our mirrors.
- The site.xml file can be configured to include JARs from various projects and still work with mirrors. See Distributed Bandwidth, below.
- Mirroring.
- Callisto must make the best use of our mirror sites.
- Our mirror sites should have at least 24-hours of exclusive access to the Callisto files before releasing them to the public. This is done by waiting for Webmaster approval before sending files to download.eclipse.org.
- Webmaster will need to advise mirrors ahead of time, so they can anticipate the rush.
- Bandwidth.
- Co-ordinate with the Webmaster to "open the floodgates" on the bandwidth ahead of time.
- R3.1 required additional bandwidth for a foundation-hosted, separate mirror site. We will need this again.
Coordination verus Unification
For ease-of-use, there should be something of a "central site" that should make it easy to "get started" with "all" of Callisto. But, in the Eclipse spirit of allowing projects to "do their own thing" each project should also have their own discovery and update sites as well. This allows the central "get started" site to be one-size fits all, but still allow projects to offer even more, special features such as tools, examples, etc., that may not be part of their "main' deliverables available via Callisto, not to mention have their own schedule for fixes and point releases.
Update Policies
Some sites (corporations) can establish an "corporate" update site, which may have its own policies about what updates when, etc. The process and procedures here should do nothing to interfere with that capability.
Distributed Storage
Each project will still have its own disk space and area on Eclipse, and will still be responsible for providing jarred features and plugins there, as they would for their own update site.
Distributed Bandwidth
The features (and archive tags, if needed) will be specified using the new "find the closest mirror" luxury support provided by the Eclipse.org download.php script.
Issue: We (any volunteers?) should begin to collect approximate sizes and make rough estimates of required bandwidth for various scenarios, to make sure our mirroring system will suffice ... or we should panic now!?
Here is WebMaster's plan to make this happen:
- Go mirror shopping to get new mirror sites - especially in US and Asia
- Substantially increase bandwidth a few days ahead of release
- Allow mirrors 24 hours to sync up
- Provision a separate, dedicated high-speed mirror within those 24 hours
- Boom
The Get-Started Platform Download
There will be one ZIP provided (by the Eclipse Project), that corresponds to the minimum amount of Eclipse that enables the update manager to work. This is, literally, the Eclipse Platform ... NOT including JDT and PDE. This feature will have the Callisto site as its implanted discovery site. It will still have 'eclipse' as its update site as it comes from the Eclipse Project (the update site being where "fixes" can be obtained automatically by update manager). All other features, from all other projects, will have their own project's discovery and update sites implanted in their features, not the Callisto site). The few features available from the central Callisto site will have discovery sites for all 10 Callisto projects.
Issue: In this day and age, I'm surprised we do not offer "updates" (or "get started") in the form of a WebStart object. I think we do not only due to people constraints ... so, if there is participation from
the community (including the community of Callisto projects :) then we might be able to improve the user's experience so they'd never have to see another zip file again?
Note: We should be explicit that the Callisto Update Site, contrary to the name, must begin with a 3.2 based Platform Feature ... there is no capability planned to update from a 3.1 based environment. Likewise, there are no plans to update from an 3.2 M4 environment to a 3.2 M5 environment. We will plan to test updating from an M5 environment to an M6 environment.
The User's Experience
Minimum Runtimes versus full SDK's
Its been decided that for this Callisto Release, there will not be a coordinated discovery site for the "SDK" contributions that projects provide. This is partially due to having the focus on simultaneous release itself, not necessarily what each user audience might need. Plus, as it turns out, the meaning and design of what's in "runtime" and what's in "SDK" is a little different from project to project, and will take a longer effort to coordinate an approach that's meaningful to all.
But, this actually turns out to be a benefit, of sorts, rather than a limitation. The expected workflow is that Callisto users can install minimum "runtimes" to get the required or interesting functionality, and as part of those features installing, they each provide their own implanted update or discovery site URL. Hence, it should be easier for a user to install lots of functionality, but then get only the specific SDK portions they need. This will reduce users on-disk footprint, and reduce overall bandwidth on networks.
However, during development of Callisto, this will make it hard to actually test or exercise this workflow, since the implanted URL's usually refer to official release sites, not the milestone or interim release sites. So, if anyone is interested in testing or using this workflow during Callisto milestones, the following are the milestone or interim sites that projects are currently using.
http://download.eclipse.org/birt/update-site/site.xml http://cdt.eclipse.org/callisto/site.xml http://download.eclipse.org/datatools/updates/site.xml http://download.eclipse.org/tools/emf/updates/site-interim.xml http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.2milestones/site.xml http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/update-site/milestones/site.xml http://download.eclipse.org/technology/gmf/update-site/callisto/site.xml http://download.eclipse.org/tptp/updates/4.2milestones/site.xml http://download.eclipse.org/tools/ve/updates/1.0/development/site.xml http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/milestones/site.xml
The View from Update Manager Dialog
The current plan is, for this Callisto Release, to simply list Features "by Project" .
Central Callisto Sites
Release Site
For the Callisto releases and milestones, there will be one central "discovery" site, such as
Note: Its desriable to avoid any reliance on "aliases" as it makes mirroring more difficult to manage.
Also, we should be explicit, there is no plans to provide a big-huge-zip that contains all the Callisto projects ... its expected to be provided entirely via update manager. There has been some recent talk of providing "big zips" made easy to get by the use of a form on a web page, and then the user would get, in one download, a zipped up version of their selections. If this is done, would be handled by the Eclipse Foundation (not this cross-project group).
Weekly Integration Update Sites
For those projects wishing to participate, there will be a site for integration builds:
Working Staging Area
Lastly, there will be a working directory of
that is used exclusively by central "Callisto developers" in the days or weeks ahead of the other update "releases" to test that the central features and site.xml is ready before they are copied over to the "public" sites.
User Interface Consistency
Web site consistency
All update sites will have an "index" file, appropriate for viewing with a web browser ... and we need to work on giving this a consistent look. (currently, some projects have none, some have highly detailed slowly performing ones with jars available for download for some reason I do not understand, but some :) have some really nice looking ones.
Update Manager View Consistency
All update sites will provide a "site.xml" file, with a consistent level of abstraction for separately installable features. (Remember, not literally every feature provided by a project has to be "visible" to the update site user ... many can be "included" as being required by other features, and installed automatically when other features selected).
These will be consistent and follow the following UI guidelines:
- Project Name spelled out, followed by initial in parenthesis, if desired. Such as
- Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)
- Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF)
- Version numbers only at feature level, not project level categories. Such as
- Draw2d 3.2 (not GEF 3.2).
Predictable, consistent, long term URL's for update sites
There's currently great inconsistency here. I guess as long as its permanent, and long term, there's no harm. But looks sloppy.
For example, GEF is in Eclipse, and has no update site of its own. [128348]
Some sites have a version number in their URL, such as tools/ve/updates/1.0/ and some do not, such as tools/emf/updates/. The latter is correct, and important with the new qualified versioning conventions.
So, I suggest, this is the time to get consistent, but will need some care and thought to be sure it doesn't "break" anything.
Planned Tests and Trial runs
During February, initial test versions will be created to download "all of Callisto" to see how it does, from several parts of the world. Its not expected these will be "usable" versions of Callisto.
By the end of the M5 period (3/3), there will be a usable version of Callisto available via update manager. (This is the version that can (will) be pointed to during EclipseCon, as an example of what's coming).
After M5, there will be "updates" (what's the right word for updates to updates?) to the milestones site for each Release Candidate leading up to the release.
Note: after M5, projects may elect to use the weekly I-build site. But this part of this proposal is sort of experimental, and will need some investigation, to be sure this is no great extra work for anyone ... but the idea is that for developers that are building on top of other features, it's very handy to be able to update pre-reqs in a frequent, easy way. That is, in other words, these "integration sites" are not literally an end-user requirement, so will get a little less attention.
Project Responsibilities
This document and this "coordinated effort" is in no way meant to substitute for the projects themselves understanding update manger and update sites and actively contributing the necessary people to ensure the correct end result.
The following are some requirements placed on the projects participating in Callisto (most should not be anything "new", but some will be, and feasibility and need will have to be evaluated as we go).
- provide project update sites, with jars, urls, site.xml files, etc. pretty much as has been done before ... but, might be a good time to change past decisions (for example, GEF does not have its own update site, for ... historical reasons, I guess). The Callisto site.xml file will "point to" these project-level update sites, so, basically, each project must have a working update site before Callisto can have a working update site. See project update sites for more details.
- provide to "callisto build" a list of minimum features for inclusion in "runtime" version of Callisto (and, please, minimum for "end users" to take advantage of your functionality). It would include 'end user' documentation, but not 'isv documentation nor JavaDoc.
* provide to David williams list of features for inclusion in "SDK" version of Callisto (should be no duplicates with first list, the SDK features should "require" runtime versions, so that someone may install runtime first, then install SDK later, without re-downloading or installing the runtime versions). These SDK features dos not have to be ALL your projects features, but should, at least, include 'source' and 'isv documentation'.
- provide accurate "feature size" so the update time and progress can be accurate. This is just good practice, but since I've noticed many don't sizes in their updates, I thought I would call it out here, since this will be more important in Callisto.
- (maybe) provide signed jars, so users get some assurance they are installing verifiable Callisto features. This is more important now, using the "nearest mirror" techniques, since users may not know exactly where the jar is coming from. [I just say "maybe" because I do not think any of us know the technical steps or requirements for this.]
- ISSUE: If we have signed jars, it would be "nice" to have a "signed by Eclipse Foundation" corporate certificate, which I mention here, because I think to get such a certificate is a little time consuming (and not free :)
Update Manager and Site Optimization
The Update Site Optimization page outlines steps for making update sites more scalable.
Help Wanted
Besides the main deliverables for Callisto, the participating projects are asked to provide some assistance in testing the Callisto update site and, if possible, there are many tools that could be contributed to help. For example,
- a "peek" tool which doesn't actually update anything, but which could, say, get the date and size headers for all the jars that would be requested by update manager, just for a warm reassuring feeling that all is (still) available as expected in a quick and painless way.
- specialist to help with security, signed jars would likely be helpful.
- specialists to help test and tweak update performance would likely not be refused.
- etc.
Bugzilla Queries
The following are some handy bugzilla queries related to update manager.
All Opened by David Williams :) since starting to play with Callisto Updates.
Tips and Tricks
In addition to the written works in the reference section, I often some across little tidbits in bug reports, newsgroups, etc., and hope we can collect some of them on our Callisto Build and Update Tips and Tricks page. (So I can find them in the future :)


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Egyptian security forces carried out widespread arrests of Muslim Brotherhood members just days after the government labeled the group, which supports ousted President Mohammed Morsi, a terrorist organization.
Three people were reported killed in Muslim Brotherhood-led protests and some 265 people were arrested as part of the nationwide crackdown, which came as the political group renewed calls for massive anti-government rallies.
"As Friday prayers ended, riot police tried to stop Mr Morsi's supporters holding protest rallies.
"A man was killed in clashes in the city of Samalut in Minya, while an 18-year-old Muslim Brotherhood supporter was shot dead amid violent confrontations in the Nile Delta city of Damietta, police said.
"The interior ministry said a third person was killed in Cairo, without giving further details."
Police fired tear gas in various parts of the capital, and Interior Ministry officials said several security forces personnel were hurt in clashes with protesters.
The Associated Press says:
"In Cairo, riot police chased student protesters chanting against the military and the police at the Islamic Al-Azhar University. Footage on private TV networks showed demonstrators hurling stones and setting fire on tree branches to defuse tear gas smoke. ...
"Clashes also erupted Friday in several other districts of the capital. Al-Jazeera Mubashir Misr TV showed footage of police vehicle on fire in a highway linking Cairo with Giza."
The crackdown comes after Morsi was put on trial and the government lifted a three-month state of emergency implemented after the former president's July 3 ouster in a military coup.
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Muslim Protestors Surround Worshipers in Bekasi, Indonesia
ICC Note: Tensions mount as congregation asserts right to worship.
8/4/10 Indonesia (CDN) — Around 300 Muslim protestors and 300 police officers surrounded members of the Batak Christian Protestant Church (Huria Kristen Batak Protestan or HKBP) on Sunday (Aug. 1) as they worshiped in an open field in Ciketing, Bekasi, local sources said.
"There were many police on guard, but the attackers were able to get very close to the congregation," Theophilus Bela, president of the Jakarta Christian Communication Forum, said in a statement to international government and advocacy groups. "We are afraid that they will attack the church again next Sunday."
He added that a protestor hit the Rev. Luspida Simanjuntak on the cheek.
Police held back the shouting protestors while the church worshiped, but at one point they allowed Murhali Barda, leader of the Front Pembela Islam (FPI or Islamic Defenders Front) in Bekasi, through the cordon for an angry confrontation with church leaders, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
Bekasi police commander Imam Sugianto told VOA that his forces were there to protect "both sides."
The New York Times quoted Sugianto as saying that, "If the local people don't give their permission, they can't worship here," but Pastor Simanjuntak said the Bekasi administration had approved the church's decision to meet in the field, according to The Jakarta Globe.
"We demand the Bekasi administration to let the public know that they gave us the green light to conduct our prayers here," Pastor Simanjuntak reportedly said.
The 1,500-strong congregation, established some 15 years ago, initially met in each other's homes before purchasing a residential property in the Pondok Timur housing complex in Bekasi for use as a worship building. The group then met in the building while they waited for local officials to respond to a building permit application filed in 2006.
When Muslim neighbors in December objected to the meetings in the housing complex on the grounds that the church had no permit, officials banned church members from meeting there. As the local government had delayed the processing of its application for a building permit, the church ignored the ban, leading officials to seal the building on June 20.
Bekasi Mayor Mochtar Mohammad on July 9 said he would allow the congregation to meet in public areas or at the city hall, according to the Globe. Pastor Simanjuntak chose to move to the proposed building site, and Sunday meetings at the field in Ciketing were soon greeted by crowds of protestors.
The FPI's Barda said the church's insistence on worshipping at the site was a provocation, according to VOA. He also accused Christians in Bekasi of attempting to convert Muslims away from their religion, citing a recent Internet report claiming that the Mahanaim Foundation, a local Christian charity, had carried out a mass baptism of new converts.
Foundation spokeswoman Marya Irawan, however, told The Jakarta Post that the crowds were not baptized but only invited to Mahanaim leader Henry Sutanto's home as part of an effort to reach out to the poor.
Pastor Simanjuntak's church has now filed a case against the Bekasi administration.
"I fully support any efforts to take this to the courts," a local Christian leader who preferred to remain unnamed told Compass. "We need to respond through legal channels and let the government know that these attacks are a gross human rights violation."
Hard-line Islamic groups held a congress in Bekasi on June 20, and on June 27 announced their united intent to combat the "Christianization" of the region. (See www.compassdirect.org, "Indonesian Muslims Call for Halt to 'Christianization,'" July 2.)
Bonar Tigor Naipospos, spokesman for Indonesia's Institute for Peace and Democracy (Setara), told VOA that unsubstantiated rumors about Christians using deceptive practices to convert Muslims have fueled the anger in Bekasi. He reportedly said that Muslims believe that Christians badger people to convert and entice them with money, food or other incentives.
Pastor Simanjuntak has said that she and her church will continue meeting in the field, as they have nowhere else to go.