#so I have like a surplus of PAL art

[angelic-waffles]

Some PAL art from my digital art class

The second one is very much only half done but it’s ok because I’m hot

[bakuhatsufallinlove]

Hope you’re well. Do you know how much extra content volumes usually have compared to the number of weekly pages? Apparently we’re getting 60 extra pages. Is that a lot more than normal?

Hello! Thanks for the well wishes.

You've come to the right person, because I'm a weirdo who has done a ridiculous amount of research on Shueisha's tankōban releases and how they differ from WSJ serialization, so I have a good idea about how some of those pages are going to be used. I'm also gonna compare what we know about this final volume to those of other series.

Strap in for the spreadsheets and data party, pal!

First, here's a look at a selection of MHA volumes.

EDIT: These numbers come from Shueisha's official listings of the volumes and their table of contents, cross-verified with the MHA fanwiki's chapter page counts, some of my own physical copies, and online fan scans.

As you can see, roughly 20 pages is typical. 58 seems wild in comparison. I wanted to know what those 20 pages were usually used for.

So, I went through my copy of volume 37 and did a breakdown of its contents.

Now lemme explain some things:

Every tankōban will have between 4-6 pages for legal disclaimers ("this is a work of fiction", etc.), table of contents, and copyright information.

A "door" is a printing term for what one might call the volume title page or chapter title page (example in link). Not all chapters have "doors," most have their titles integrated into the first page, like so:

The vast majority of tankōban have page counts that are divisible by four. This is related to the physical mechanics of printing and binding books, so it is unusual to find ones outside this format. Volume 11 is an outlier in this regard with 210 pages; in fact, the English language release cut those two surplus pages.

Tankōban may have dust jackets. MHA tankōban with dust jackets often have a second, internal "sketch cover" and a final page promoting the next volume. These are not included in page counts, and are thus not included in my breakdown.

Manga is of course read right-to-left; this means if you hold a tankōban open, odd-numbered pages will be on the left side and even-numbered pages will be on the right.

In professional publishing, chapters are structured so their first page of actual story content is on the left. Page planning, which is taught to new artists and enforced by editors, involves the odd-numbered page ending on some sort of "pull." Basically, page 2 might be drawn to lead your eye across the book, but page 3 has to make you want to turn the page and find out what happens next.

Basically everything published in Weekly Shonen Jump has chapters with an odd-number of pages, so it'll have 15, 17, 19, or 21 pages, instead of 16, 18, 20, or 22. This allows the chapter to both begin and end on the lefthand side; even-numbered pages before and after the chapters separate the different series with promotional ads.

What we think of as bonus material is mostly what I personally call adjustment pages: in order for every chapter to still begin and end on the odd-numbered page in the tankōban, they must be separated by at least one page that fills the even-numbered gap.

Sketches, quotes, doors, all that extra stuff is really just there to make the structure of the tankōban a little more appealing to the reader. In my breakdown, "adjust" refers to an even-numbered page that is totally blank except for a MHA logo in the bottom corner.

So, 4-6 pages for legal stuff and at least 1 page separating each chapter (typically 8-12), plus a few pages of extra art like character pages or chapter doors, you can see why we end up with roughly 20 pages more than the total of the chapter pages combined.

With this information, let's imagine what Volume 42 might look like.

In this estimate, I just guessed it would have the same pattern of extras as Volume 37, since we know the final volume will have the results of the last WSJ popularity poll. This totals 146 pages, so basically, even accounting for the inter-chapter sketches, that's 38 pages of new, unknown content!

I've seen people guessing that the final volume will include the 2008 one-shot Horikoshi used as the basis for My Hero Academia, but I can basically guarantee you that won't happen, because when it was published in Akamaru Jump (which is now called Jump GIGA), it was 47 pages long. Yes, I went and found a Japanese blog post from January 2008 to verify this page count.

126 chapter pages + 4 legal pages + 8 adjustment pages between chapters + 4 pages for popularity poll + 47 one-shot pages = 189 pages, 5 pages too many. They would have to remove the adjustment pages to make it work, which totally fucks the flow of the manga.

Furthermore, the word used in the WSJ ad to describe the bonus material for the final volume (描き下ろし) specifically refers to drawings newly made for a special purpose. They simply would not use this to refer to a previously published manga being included.

For comparison, I researched the tankōban releases for a number of other WSJ series.

Dr. Stone and Mashle's final volumes were basically identical to their regular volumes in terms of extras and content. I also researched The Prince of Tennis and Naruto as older comparisons, but I couldn't find information exact enough to warrant inclusion, but what I saw more or less matched Dr. Stone and Mashle.

As you can see, Demon Slayer is the weird one here, and it's obvious why. The series ended during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Gotouge mentioned having a family member they needed to care for; a lot of people felt these issues contributed to Gotouge not being able to end the series as they had originally intended.

Demon Slayer chapters were typically 19 pages, but the last two chapters were 26 pages and 24 pages, uncommonly even-numbered. If you look at the final chapters and the epilogue in the tankōban, just numbers-wise, the ending could have been four 19-page chapters. But for whatever reason, that wasn't how it went down during serialization.

It's worth noting that the pages added to the tankōban do not change the ending, they merely provided greater emotional closure.

Side note but if anyone's gonna try and bring up Attack on Titan, I'm just gonna point out that AOT was a monthly manga published by Kodansha, a different company entirely. I imagine they have their own approach to marketing tankōban or special releases. You also have to consider the tastes and intentions of the creator, and hot take but I have absolutely no fucking positive opinions on that dude or his work, so it was no surprise to me that anything he added just made the ending worse.

TL;DR: Yes, it's a lot more than regular volumes! Content-wise, we'll probably get beautiful new illustrations and some revised page art that add details which improve pacing or themes. We might get a few extra chapter pages where a single serialized page gets turned into a big double-page spread, like we saw for Katsuki's fight with AFO.

There could be a couple new panels that bring more closure to things that were hinted at in the final chapters, who knows.

The only thing I personally want is a true bkdk handhold.

I'd love a double-page spread of Izuku taking Katsuki's hand and beaming up at him. Just insert it right there at the end before we see them all scampering off to make the world a better place. That would do my heart good.

[puppipound]

Gonna preface this with: tumblr discourse isn't real and can't hurt you...

Here's some two-cents on the stupid goth/punk as a music-based subculture discourse coming from someone who's clocked about a decade in a DIY scene, along with some info for those actually genuinely interested in pursuing a relationship with your local scene rather than arguing about things you have no knowledge of online. Your local scene is always looking for new people!

I'm not presenting myself as an expert here but I'm pretty knowledgeable due to my time involved. Under the cut I've got a rundown on how easy it is to break into your local scene instead of arguing online.

THE REALITY IS:

Preface: I don't want to discourage people and this isn't gatekeeping! Join your scene! A lot of these scenes are actually dying due to commodification and gentrification and they're always looking for new people! I have pals in hardcore bands who actually LOVE seeing tiktok kids at shows because there's a new generation of people interested!

One thing you'll discover if you become involved in your local scene is that it's most often entirely DIY based! Everyone is welcome and venues go out of their way to be accessible to everyone, including disabled folks, people of colour and queer people, so if you've spent time at even one show, you'd know "gatekeeping" isn't about keeping things pure, it's because we're trying to keep brands and instagoths/punks from gentrifying long-standing communities dedicated to the arts! What newbies and dweebs on here should understand is that going to shows, community-building and meeting like-minded people is what goth and punk are about. Not spending exorbitant amounts of money on clothes to look like you participate. Regardless of the community's political alignment (no, punk and goth are not one monolithic political opinion and if you got off the internet you'd figure that out pretty quick), the music is what brings people together, and often allows outcasts to find a community that brands simply cannot replicate.

The answer is: if you want to be a goth or a punk you have to listen to goth or punk music. This doesn't mean you can't listen to other things; you don't even have to dress the part at all to be in the scene! My partner plays in local goth bands and wears jeans and tees and that's about it. Because goth and punk are and have always been music-based, they require you to be involved in the music, and simply put, allowing people to believe it's an "aesthetic" gives way for brands to commodify an entire community. It jeopardizes the sincerity of art! And that sucks ass!

HOW TO GET INVOLVED:

If you're curious but don't know where to begin: your best friends for community-building, DIY and meeting people are your local thrifts, all ages and adult venues, queer clubs, zine-making nights, art shows, indie movie theatres, bookstores, record stores, Etsy, military surplus, vintage stores and I can't stress this enough, Instagram small businesses. Personally, my battle jacket is made up of patches I bought and also made myself, alcohol paint I got from the local art store, safety pins from the sewing store, chains from broken old belts and jewelry, studs from a small business, pins from small businesses and friends and the jacket itself was thrifted. My first battle vest I made when I was 15 was thrifted and almost all of my patches were hand-painted!

The best places to find shows are social media, posters on the street and at record stores, and asking around! There's a reason people you'll hear the term 'ask a punk' about the location of DIY venues; meet some people in the scene and most of them will be open to helping out. My first few shows I went to as a teenager I found on Facebook and through older friends.

This isn't to glorify scenes, they have their own independent issues varying city-to-city, but I promise you you will always find someone who's willing to help you out. What a real gatekeeper looks like is someone who's unwilling to give you a chance because of your identity, whether that be age, skin colour, gender, sexual orientation etc.

THE MUSIC

As I said, people are here first and foremost because of the love of the music. Here's some YT playlists I've put together if you'd like to explore what goth and punk actually are (it's literally not an aesthetic)! Some of this can be found on Spotify, and pretty much always on record/tape/CD!

(Thought I'd mention that maybe a couple of these bands have controversial politics; I do not condone it but regardless of politics they're critical to the history)

PS - I'm not a genre purist, sue me. These playlists include a lot of bands who might not fall under the traditional goth category, just songs that are critical to the subculture.

GOTH (including deathrockers, proto-goth, rivetheads, trad goths, new-wavers, post-punks, mod goths and more)

PROTO-GOTH - music important to the evolution of what became goth in the very late 70s as we know it! Starting with 30s delta blues up to 1980!

EARLY GOTH - the earliest days of goth, mostly focusing on late 70s post-punk, deathrock, new wave and early industrial through to the mid-ish 80s, some people call it proto-goth but I personally consider it first wave (it's all labels anyway!)

GOTH NINETIES - the 90s had a resurgence of goth subculture through industrial, industrial metal and a continuation of deathrock. Other genres begin to find an interest in darker material and take influence from goth bands.

MOD GOTH - the 00s to the present! This is super, super broad and should have something for everyone. There's a lot of modern music with goth influences.

I'm continuing to add to these playlists as I've made them for this post! Check back later and there'll be more.

PUNK (including hardcore punks, no-wavers, trad punks, proto-punks, dispunks and more)

For this I'm going to give you my personal punk playlist - it's such a broad genre with a million subgenres that I can't really cover it all in one post! The playlist is biased as I have my personal faves (including digihardcore, post-hardcore, skramz, no wave, electropunk, d-beat, noise rock and NYC '77). If you have questions about it DM me!

I REALLY hope this means something to someone, because I promise you there's places IRL where you don't have to argue about what makes you a fashion punk or not! If you're interested in the scene, start with the music and then go touch grass. It's music-based first and foremost; never mind the Dolls Kill bullshit.

[andersunmenschlich]

Episode 14: Piecemeal

Not fully settled in yet, but I do have intermittent access to an internet-connected computer, so....

In this week’s episode I get the statement of one Lee Rentoul, who (in stark contrast to Trevor Herbert) apparently very much minds whether his crimes are reported to the police. Thanks to the experience of a pal of his named Hester, he’s hoping the fine folks down at the Magnus Institute will tell him there’s a perfectly normal explanation for whatever’s going on with him. Given that this statement’s one of the ones being recorded on cassette, I’m guessing they won’t be able to tell him what he wants to hear.

...Well, not honestly, anyway.

According to Lee Rentoul, he killed a coworker in crime by the name of Paul Noriega. “Stabbed him in the throat and left him to bleed out on the dockside,” he says, which does sound fun, though not being able to stay and observe seems a bit of a shame.

Apparently Lee Rentoul and Paul Noriega were picked up by the police after kicking in the head of someone called McMullen. Lee blames Paul for the escalation from assault to grievous bodily harm—whatever the case, Paul walked free while Lee got five years in prison, which led to a certain amount of resentment on the part of our statement-giver.

Stabbing Paul Noriega in the throat was, it seems, not Plan A.

Lee Rentoul got out of prison in June 2010. Being on parole meant if he wanted Paul hurt it’d be easiest to have someone else do it. He did try to get a face-to-face with his ex-partner, but ended up confronting Paul Noriega’s hired security instead.

So Lee Rentoul goes to visit his victim, Toby McMullen... who’s been having trouble turning his head since the GBH five years ago.

Unexpectedly, Toby also has it in for Paul.

It seems Paul, previous to his arrest, visited Toby in the hospital and promised him all the narcotics in the world if he’d only tell the police Lee kicked his head in, not Paul. Ah, so it was premeditated betrayal! How lovely.

Paul Noriega, however, did not deliver on his promise. Toby McMullen, therefore, has been plotting revenge.

...His planned revenge is magical in nature.

Lee, understandably dismissing this as useless druggie nonsense, punches Toby in the stomach and turns to leave. But Toby is persistent. Following Lee, “doubled over and struggling for breath,” he insists that this is for real, that he knows someone with real power, that all he needs is the money.

Lee Rentoul (for reasons unknown to himself, it seems), listens.

There is, Toby claims, a powerful person named Angela. He was told about her by an acquaintance who used this Angela’s services on a “particularly unpleasant ex-boyfriend”—who was never seen again.

Lee figures this Angela is a killer for hire who likes to pose as a magic user, which is fine by him. So he lets Toby take him to Angela’s place.

Angela’s house is in the suburbs. It has faded floral print wallpaper, dark oak furniture, and threadbare carpets. The walls are decorated with framed jigsaw puzzles (which is a thing I’ve seen often in retirement homes; I’ve even contributed to a few; jigsaws are fun). The living room features a worn cloth sofa, and a coffee table with another puzzle in the works.

The fabled Angela is an apparently sweet old lady in a lilac dressing gown.

Lee Rentoul is furious.

“I was so angry at this massive waste of my time that, when she offered us a cup of coffee, I almost put McMullen face-first through the glass table in front of us,” our statement-giver says—but personally I find this all very convincing. A truly dangerous person may put off an aura of danger, yes... but many won’t. Be wary of the pleasant, soft-spoken and polite people you meet; you don’t know what they’re smiling at.

“When she asked if I wanted Paul Noriega dead, I nearly choked.

“She asked it very matter-of-factly, like it was a question on some form she knew the answer to but had to fill in anyway. I glanced at Toby, who nodded at me, and I thought what the hell, I might as well play along. So I said yes. Yes, I did want him dead. And more than that, I wanted him to suffer. Angela smiled when I said that, a warm smile that suited her round face, and said that that wouldn’t be a problem.”

This is precisely what I expected from a powerful person who wears a great many years and a lilac dressing gown, lives in a nice house in the suburbs, and does jigsaw puzzles. Pleasant, polite, straightforward competence.

She doesn’t want money.

Angela says she’s well-compensated for the work she does (which sounds nice). No, what she needs is an item taken from Paul Noriega—not a gift, something taken.

She looks Lee Rentoul in the eyes as she says this, and despite his statement to the contrary (”not scared, okay, I wasn’t scared of this old woman, but being around her was... bad”) I suspect that he’s deeply afraid of her. “Bad,” he says, making a point of distinguishing this from “dangerous.” He is dangerous, he thinks. She is something else.

Lee Rentoul gives this powerful person a worn lighter he took from Paul Noriega before they were arrested, and she says it’ll work just fine.

Angela tells the vengeful pair that Paul Noriega won’t be bothering them much longer—they just have to wait until she’s finished. With what, exactly, she doesn’t say. Lee and Toby, it seems, are fine with not knowing.

Personally, I’d very much like to know.

Three weeks go by, and Paul Noriega’s still walking about apparently as healthy as ever.

Impatient, Lee Rentoul decides Angela’s a waste of time, and upon hearing that Paul’s going to be meeting a fence named Saleesa down by the docks—a fence he knows is paranoid enough Paul will have to meet him alone—he decides to go down and take care of his vengeance himself.

Saleesa, the fence (who mainly deals in stolen art and curios) arrives first. He’s “a big Samoan guy with close-cropped hair, flanked by four men in dark suits, who carried a square wooden crate between them.” Paul Noriega arrives five minutes later, and Lee Rentoul watches as he limps inside the dockside warehouse. Lee has picked up a combat knife at an unnamed army surplus store which apparently makes a habit of selling dangerous people dangerous things under the counter. That seems like a useful store to be familiar with.

About an hour later, Saleesa and his men leave. They still have the box with them, and don’t seem happy, so I suppose the deal didn’t go as hoped.

Lee Rentoul takes himself and his knife inside.

Paul Noriega, leaning against a pile of bricks, is smoking. He turns when he hears Lee enter, saying something about reconsidering and lowering the price (which I suppose means he couldn’t afford what Saleesa was selling), then sees that the person he’s facing is Lee Rentoul.

“A look passed over the face of Paul Noriega that I will treasure forever. No matter what happens to me, the memory of that look of panicked terror will stay with me.”

Ha. I know precisely what he means.

Paul tries to run away, but his leg betrays him and he trips over the bricks instead. Lee grabs him by the collar, knife already out, and drags him up while he pleads with his old coworker to wait, to listen, not to stab him. He has his hand up, and Lee notices that he’s missing two fingers (and has, apparently, been missing them for some time... though Lee doesn’t remember him being down any fingers when they worked together).

Lee Rentoul does not, however, pay much attention to this at the moment (which is understandable, I think). He says he stabbed Paul multiple times—so I suppose he was understating when he said he cut Paul’s throat.

Once he’s calmed down a bit, Lee notices that his unfriend is missing more than a few fingers.

Paul Noriega’s left eye is glass, he doesn’t have all of his teeth, and though Lee doesn’t mention it I wonder what caused that limp. Strangely, the corpse seems to be smiling.

Lee Rentoul, I gather, did not leave Paul Noriega to bleed out. After stabbing him repeatedly and breaking his head by dropping him onto a pile of bricks, it looks as though Lee chopped Paul’s body up and scattered the pieces. “...even if the cops did find any piece of Noriega’s corpse, they wouldn’t be able to pin it on me,” he says. Paul’s hired security looks for Lee for a while, but Lee lies low and eventually they leave it and look for someone else to pay them.

But five days after the murder, Lee gets a package.

He’s out and about, in a place he doesn’t usually go (Tottenham Marshes near the reservoir, wherever that is), and finds a small box wrapped in brown paper and tied up with string sitting in the middle of a metal bridge. It’s addressed to him.

“Lee Rentoul, for immediate consideration.”

He opens it to find a black cardboard box containing cotton wool... and a single severed finger.

Now, that’s interesting! Lee assumes it’s a threat from someone or other—but who would know to put it right there, right then? Too early and someone else might take it; too late and Lee would never see it. Too on the dot, and the delivery might be seen. No, this doesn’t seem like average human work to me. And I do appreciate how tidy it is! Such neat packaging. It deserved better, I think, than to have the finger thrown into a canal and the box set on fire and discarded.

Heading home, Lee keeps his eyes open and his hand on his knife. He’s so busy looking around him, in fact, that he fails to see the hole in front of him until he’s tripped and fallen; and he must have been gripping his knife rather incautiously, because he manages to cut his pinky finger clean off.

Lee Rentoul screams, and immediately begins tearing up his shirt to improvise a makeshift bandage that’ll stop the bleeding.

I admire his presence of mind. I like people who see a situation for what it is, accept it, and immediately take steps appropriate to their new circumstances. This is a thing I find eminently admirable.

In this case, however, it’s bafflingly unneeded.

The bleeding has already stopped. In fact the wound is closed: healed as though the injury took place years ago.

Oho! Now, isn’t that fascinating? I believe we may have stumbled upon the explanation for Paul Noriega’s missing bits. And how wonderful that the finger, for at least a little while, existed in two places at once: on Lee’s hand and in the little black box. He doesn’t mention what happened to the lost finger. Did he not look for it? Did it simply vanish? Did he leave it on the ground? I’m inclined to think it vanished, but it would be nice to know for sure.

Not knowing what to make of this, Lee Rentoul decides to go home and deal with things after he’s had some sleep. Upon arriving at his apartment, however, he finds another brown paper package tied up with string.

This one contains two toes.

Lee Rentoul tries very hard. He is very careful. But his flatscreen falls off the wall while he’s adjusting settings, lands on his foot, and....

In two weeks, it seems, he’s lost four more fingers, most of his toes, an eye, a whole lot of teeth, and—wait, a hand? Then he’s lost nine more fingers, hasn’t he? Unless the hand he lost was the one already missing a finger. All five fingers, then the hand... yes, that would make sense.

Each time the loss is preceded by the arrival of one of Maria von Trapp’s favourite things.

“Lee Rentoul: for immediate consideration.”

Oh, and one day he actually forces the curse (or whatever it is) to operate outside the realm of apparent coincidence! Now, that’s fascinating. “Spent the day in my bedroom—nothing sharp, no edges, I’d taken out everything except the mattress. It didn’t matter: I woke the next morning with an agony in my foot far sharper than any knife could cut, and the big toe missing; just like the one I’d received the morning before.”

He goes to see Angela. I can guess what she’s going to tell him. “You didn’t wait.” Really, he should have waited. Didn’t she say to wait until she’d finished? Perhaps he ought to have asked “with what” after all.

She lets him in when he arrives, of course. Is polite and sweet. Offers him coffee.

Lee Rentoul is not polite.

Lee Rentoul swears at Angela, which doesn’t seem like a reasonable precursor to begging, despite the pronunciation of the word “precursor.”

And she shrugs. Well, what else can one do?

“Some hungers,” she says, “are too strong to be denied.”

Oh, that... I like that. I like that very much. To whose hunger, I wonder, is she referring? She’s well-compensated for the service she provides, she says.... And she likes jigsaw puzzles. Does killing people this way feed her, I wonder? Oh, I like this Angela—I like her extremely. I hope to see her again, and often. She is a wonderful character.

Lee Rentoul is less taken. (Or, perhaps, more....)

He reaches for her, intent on murder. And then something happens. What, Lee Rentoul is not particularly clear on.

“I went for her. I was going to strangle the life out of that curse-flinging bag of bones. But as I reached for her, I… I don’t know. I don’t know what happened. I know that that’s how I lost the hand. I know I chewed it off.”

Now, isn’t that interesting?

So many of these injuries appear to be self-inflicted. That’s quite a power. I’m not sure how Lee Rentoul thinks the Magnus Institute can help.

Ha—and apparently they didn’t. The box Lee got just before coming to the Institute had a tongue in it. He lost it at the Institute. No details given! How frustrating. I’m not at all surprised to hear that he “became violent towards Institute staff,” though. That sounds like Lee Retoul’s style. But how this could lead to losing a tongue—!

Whatever the case, he had to go to the hospital... and did not return to the Institute afterwards.

Mr. Sims’s unbelievably competent research assistants confirmed that Lee Rentoul and Paul Noriega were indeed criminals, that Paul vanished from any and all official records about two months before Lee’s statement, while Lee abandoned his apartment about one month previous to his statement.

Lee Rentoul’s landlord said that when he went to clear out the abandoned apartment, all he found were “hundreds and hundreds of small cardboard boxes.”

No word on the contents.

Angela, meanwhile, was apparently unfindable. The supposedly incompetent Martin was assigned to find her, and “spent three days looking into every woman named Angela in Bexley over the age of 50. He could not find anyone that matches the admittedly vague description given here, though he informs me that he had some very pleasant chats about jigsaws.”

Jonathan Sims calls Martin a useless ass here, which seems rather unnecessary to me, especially as Lee Rentoul can’t be found either.

The timing of the Magnus Institute’s processes confuses me slightly. Does Mr. Sims read the statements to himself before recording them? I’d been assuming his research assistants did the reading and followup before giving the statements to him, but he keeps saying he sends different assistants to research different things....

I suppose it would make sense for the head archivist to read the statements and assign research before doing the official recordings.

And that’s that for this episode!

With decent luck, I’ll be able to listen to another before the month’s out, at least.

[kilieit]

So You Don’t Know How Advanced Melding Works: A How-To

This guide was written on request. This is NOT a guide on what to meld, but on how to meld - the interface options you need to select and the reason why advanced melding (A.K.A. over-melding) is such a money-sink.

I will cover three methods of melding in this guide: NPC melding (simple melding only), over-melding something yourself, and asking another person to over-meld something for you.

[ more tutorials ]

Meet our friendly example item.

I’m using this because it was cheap and I, in all my never-touched-a-crafting-guide glory, can actually meld to it myself. It’s a crappy item and barely worth melding to since you’ll outgrow it inside of 2 hours’ gameplay anyway - but it works as an example for the method.

Simple Melding

The first and easiest stage in melding any piece of gear is to fill its existing materia slots. This can be done by yourself or another PC using catalysts, and the chance of success will always be 100%. However, it can also be done by a friendly NPC, for gil instead of a catalyst, that you can find in all four* of the market districts, usually near a market board (this NPC can also be placed in player housing, so check your FC estate!): *this guide was written during late Heavensward; there'll probably be one in Kugane, IDK yet

His icon on the map is a little grade IV primary materia with a hammer next to it.

Speak to him and this interface will come up.

Click the item you want to enhance. A list of all the materia in your inventory will come up - the ones that you can’t meld to the item will be greyed out.

(Elemental resistance materia are yet again generally useless, btw - I’m using them for the example because they are cheap.)

Select the materia you wish to meld and this confirmation window will come up.

The melding fee is higher for higher grades of materia, but it replaces the catalysts you need to use if a crafter is doing the melding. It usually still works out cheaper especially since people have a fetish for selling melding catalysts in huge stacks.

Your item has now been melded!

NPCs cannot perform advanced melding, so this is as far as this guy goes.

Removing a Materia

If you change your mind about what materia you want melded to an item, or you make a mistake, you can have the materia removed from its slot. This will destroy the materia and any catalyst used to affix it, but clear the slot completely, allowing you to simple-meld into it anew - only do this if you’re certain this is what you need.

To do this, you head out to The Bonfire in Central Thanalan.

Here, you need to speak to Mutamix Bubblypots and select the third option, Materia Removal.

Once again, an interface will show up with all your eligible items, and you’ll be able to select them. There’s a small fee for removal.

Once done, your materia slot will be empty again, and you can meld once more as you did before (but with the new materia type this time).

Advanced Melding

But some guides ask you to meld more materia to a piece than there are slots. And sometimes you need to reach certain stats on a piece in order for it to be best-in-slot (e.g.: at time of writing [3.55a], Ironworks gathering). How is this achieved?

The process of advanced melding involves a player-character crafter, either yourself or another player, performing an advanced meld with a materia and a catalyst.

Instances in which Advanced Melding will Not Work

There are certain items and materia types which will not permit advanced melding to be performed upon them. These are generally high-level equipment with a lot of materia slots, or materia types that add primary stats (STR, DEX, VIT, INT, MIN, PIE) to gear.

The tooltip tells you if advanced melding is forbidden. Melding guides shouldn’t tell you to use these types of materia or these items for advanced melding anyway, but make sure to double-check before purchasing them!

Advanced Melding - What You Need

Assuming the item you have and the materia type you’re intending to meld do permit advanced melding, then this is how you go about it.

You can check what Disciple of the Hand is needed to meld a given piece by looking at its tooltip. If you don’t meet the requirement yourself, then you can look for a friend who does.

The ingredients for an advanced meld are the same regardless of whether you’re doing it yourself or asking another player to help you: you need the materia and a catalyst of the corresponding grade. Catalysts for melding are called Carbonized Matter, and are usually obtained from gathering. If you’re gathering them yourself, you can check where they come from by looking at your gathering log.

Otherwise, they just come from the market board.

So in this example, we’re using a Grade I materia - which means we need a Grade I Carbonized Matter or above in order to perform the meld. You can use higher grades than necessary, it just gives you a warning about it:

Generally the grades go up in expense on the MB, so it’s best to use the correct grade of carbonized matter for your melds and sell any surplus.

So once you have your item...

...your materia...

...and your catalyst...

...it’s time to meld!

Advanced Melding - Do It Yourself

Advanced melding done yourself is very simple. Right click the item and select the “Meld” option from its drop-down menu. (You don’t have to be in the corresponding Disciple of the Hand class, you just have to have it - like repairs.)

Once this is done, a familiar interface will come up showing you the items you have that are eligible and the materia you possess.

Click the materia you want.

*Note - if you’re following a melding guide, the “The selected item’s level is too low to maximise the materia’s potential” warning should not be showing. That warning only shows if you’ve exceeded the hard stat cap for the stat you’re trying to meld onto it. It’s just here because I’m using cheap crappy items and cheap crappy materia to show you what to do.

As you can see, there’s a failure chance this time around. So you will most likely need to attempt the meld more than once before it succeeds - bring extra carbonized matter, and be prepared to shell out for extra materia, because both are still consumed regardless of whether you succeed or fail.

Keep trying until you succeed. (You’ll get real used to that “unable to attach” sound.)

Eventually, it’ll go through!

And you’ll have your advanced-melded (a.k.a.: over-melded) item!

Advanced Melding - Phone A Friend

The process for getting a friend (or friendly stranger) to help is very similar. You can use stuff like shout chat in cities or the Looking to Meld search icon in order to try and find a friendly stranger, if you need one.

Once you’ve located your melding pal, target them and right-click their health bar. Select “Request Meld”. (Hi @ex-atomos!)

Same as before: select your desired item and materia.

This time, there’s the added bonus field of a reward for attempting the meld.

Once again, remember this reward will be handed over regardless of whether the meld succeeds or fails! IMO it’s best to agree on a tip amount, and when it will be submitted (during the first meld? After meld attempt #3? In a separate trade window after the successful meld?), with the other person before any melds are done - in order to prevent confusion or hard feelings. Just remember that at no point does the item, materia, or catalyst actually get delivered into the other player’s inventory - there’s no risk at all of them running off with it.

Once you’re happy, submit the request...

...and wait for them to review it.

Assuming they’re happy, they’ll accept the request. Once they do so, the meld will begin. It’s the same chance of success or failure as it is if you do it yourself... so again, you and your friend should be prepared to attempt the meld more than once.

(Me too, Valia. Me too.)

The chance of materia melding success is not in any way affected by the class level, item level, or any sort of ability the player uses. It’s exactly the same process as it is when you do it yourself - you can see there’s no special abilities or skills involved. So it’s not their fault if the meld fails - it is pure RNG (even moreso than fishing!). And it will fail, at least once, especially if you’re doing more than one meld on the same piece.

Be patient! Advanced melding is often worth it at endgame, but it can be frustrating... and expensive...

Penta-Melding & Why It’s So Expensive

Penta-melding is the art of stuffing 5 materia into a piece of gear with only a few slots. The thing is, the piece you saw above... I was only going one materia over the slot limit, and there was a 40% chance of failure.

“So I only need to beat that 40%, 3-4 times? That doesn’t seem so bad!”

That’s where you’d be wrong.

For each materia you go over the number of slots on the item, the rate of failure increases exponentially.

For example, here’s the interface for melding another materia onto a piece of my old Botany kit that I already had a friend do some advanced melding on. (Thanks @rivenroad!)

It’s “only” the 3rd materia over the number of slots, and it’s already at a 10% chance of failure.

In the 60 Gatherer 650/645/600 Melding Guide by Zal Ziggo of Cactuar, designed to hit the lower limits of collectable gathering at the time, the materia choices were made on purpose to be cheap - so they could be failed multiple times without breaking the bank, allowing the player to more easily access the Landmaster gear that comprises the next step up.

But if you’re aiming for best-in-slot... then you’re going to be using expensive-ass materia for as high as you can go without hitting stat caps. And if it’s grade 5, you have catalysts to contend with too - they’re a pain in the arse to gather, which means they tend to be fairly expensive on the MB too.

That’s why penta-melding is so expensive. (And why, if you’re melding different grades onto the same piece, you always want to affix the highest-grade materia you’re melding into the actual slots. It’s not any easier or harder, but it makes it less expensive overall when the advanced melds fail.)

What Melding Guides Mean When They Say “Stat Cap”

You notice I said “stat cap” there, and I realise that’s jargon, so I’ll try to explain. TL;DR: It’s why melding guides don’t just read “meld all the materia to everything!”

Each item has a certain limits above which they cannot be enhanced any further, and each item set has limits above which the enhancements cease to be useful. The former is known as a hard cap, and the latter is known as a soft cap.

Hard caps are objective and can usually be reviewed in the materia enhancement window itself:

(This is why it told me further up that I wouldn’t get the full benefit of the materia I was over-melding - I’d already hit the hard cap for wind resistance.)

They vary for every piece of gear, and in an item set like Ironworks Gathering, you want to make choices for each piece of gear that takes the hard caps of the other pieces into account. Due to limitations on the amount of materia you can meld (both practically and literally) you won’t be able to hit all the caps on every single piece, so you want to balance what materia you place onto each, in service of hitting your overall stat goals.

I don’t really understand this, which is why I tell you to google more conventional melding guides for your specific item set if you’re interested in optimising.

Soft caps are a little harder to define objectively, but they’re essentially overall limits that you can hit on a gear set where if you enhance the stat any further, it’s not useful any more.

A very clear example would be accuracy melding on DoW/M gear. At some point, you’re going to hit 100% accuracy. And while the game will let you enhance your gear to have even more accuracy... you’re already hitting everything! 100% accuracy is 100%! You don’t need any more! And the remaining materia slots are better utilised for other stats, as relevant to your job.

There are soft caps for various stats, such as Gathering rating (basically accuracy for DoL), aaand yet again I don’t know any of them. Google is your friend. There are cleverer people than me who have dedicated large amounts of time to sleuthing this stuff out, and you should listen to them. Especially because the info on this kind of stuff changes every patch.

Thank you for reading!

I hope this helped explain things for people who were confused about the process. My inbox is open for follow-up questions, but please please remember I don’t know what you should meld to your gear at all. I’m really bad with numbers, and I don’t understand what half the stats in this game really do - so if that’s your question then I recommend you google around, ask on /r/ffxiv, or send a message to an actual theorycrafter.

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Blog #4: Red Rocks and More Red Rocks

06/16/2021

This blog was probably the most challenging to write yet, considering we have just been hiking a lot and seeing a fuck ton of red rocks everywhere.

They all look different, but they are all just red rocks. Round, sharp, big, small, dirt-like rocks… its all the same, but different.

Throughout all the states we have seen, the terrain has changed drastically as we pass over each border. New Mexico was straight white desert land, Texas was flat as fuck with windmills everywhere, and Arkansas was even more flat but without windmills.

Colorado, however, was very different throughout each region. We started in sand dunes and deserts and worked our way up to the mountains with lots of rain and snow run off. Then being in Colorado Springs, there was a mix of desert and moist mountains, plus some massive red rocks.

Traveling into Utah, there was not much difference in terrains, just some different shades of the red rocks.

Zion National Park was the ultimate red rock arena. Ironic, since we started off seeing Garden of the Gods -both are red rocky parks- but completely different.

Who

Who are the New York girls…

This chapter of traveling includes less new friends, but more last-minute links with old pals from college. It seems like it was just yesterday we were out in Oneonta… oh wait.

Myrene was a family friend of Mary. She opened her house up to us three, as a nice break up between campsites.

We got to wash our clothes and shower; you’ll never know how satisfying a shower is until after living without one for a few days.

Her house was in Colorado Springs, about 30 minutes away from Garden of the Gods.

They chefed up for us the first night with a little surf and turf; steak and salmon with a bombass salad.

Thanks, Myrene.

My dear friend Dee Jay, also known as, Daniel Joseph McDonnell, aka DJ, happened to be camping out in the same area as us in Blue Lakes Colorado. However, due to of lack of service, we had no idea.

Being in such close proximity of us, he sent it to Utah to come hang and meet up with his friend Kailen.

Kailen visited Oneonta this past semester. After meeting him, I mentioned this trip.

He was so welcoming to take us out with him while in Salt Lake City, and give us a locals only tour.

Upon arrival in Orem, Utah, Kailen gave us some good recommendations for hiking and an invitation to a house party being thrown that night… a house party in Utah??? Yah, not what we expected either.

At the party we caught up with DJ and his buddy Brad who was on the cross-country excursion with him.

Brad was a cool quiet dude; he goes to Buffalo State for engineering. He is also in classes to become a pilot…pretty dope.

At the party, we were constantly being asked if we were the girls from New York. Yes, yes, we are.

I guess everyone else there was a part of a friend group or Mormons.

What

What are you doing here…?

Bottom line, there is a fuck ton of red rocks, if you couldn’t tell from the beginning of this.

While in Colorado Springs, we got to experience the Garden of the Gods. It is this beautiful State Park with crazy large rock formations. They were smooth red rocks.

Before the sun set, we drove down the block to a LEGAL marijuana dispensary and acquired some flowers ;)

One pre-roll, and two chocolate bars later we returned to the Gardens of the Gods for a fiery sunset.

The atmosphere around the area already appears to have a sunset hue throughout the day, guess why??

Yup, the red rocks.

But it gives the sunsets this crazy enhanced color, with a little joint it make the sunset even more spectacular.

The following day in Colorado Springs, we went to visit this town that the locals call, “the town stuck in time,” also known as Manitou.

It was this super cute hippy dippy town with herbal Apothecary’s, glass shops, and bohemian little boutiques.

After, we stumbled across this crazy dope bar in Downtown Colorado Springs. It was an instillation art museum bar, and the main exhibit at the time was based on the Netflix original The Queens Gambit.

This giant bar had about seven different bar areas within the one location. Each spread out and each with their own vibes and aesthetics.

The vibes ranged from the specific beers they had on tap and the cocktails they offered, to the wood used for the bar top and lighting. There was even an upstairs with neon paintings, where you were provided with 3-D glasses to get the full effect.

There was an outdoor area with cornhole and an indoor game room with every board game you could imagine.

I could live in that bar forever… I peeked on a Wednesday night <3

In Utah, we rented a cute barn Air bnb for three nights, in a lovely air-conditioned upstairs unit.

We cleaned all our camping dishes as soon as we arrived, utilizing the water as much as possible.

The following day we went on this lovely hike to see some great views, and yup, you guessed it… some more red rocks!!!

After the hike in 100-degree weather, we decided to look for the nearest body of water to submerge in.

We went to Utah Lake State Park, a body of water that does not exceed 9 feet at its highest water level (and it stains your skin).

I thought I’d seen the nastiest water in the Hudson River, but nope, this shit was so dirty I could not see my toes when the water level was at my ankles.

Post standing in the water for 20 minutes questioning if we should go in, we indeed did not fully submerge, thank god because Maya informed us Utah often dumps sewage in the lake to dispose of it.

I instantly felt like I was in the lake in the Simson’s movie that stored Spidey Pig’s halo of shit.

That night we went to the Utah house party. We had no idea what to expect going in. Usually, house parties are small gatherings, but here we were the bitches from New York.

A small gathering is indeed what it was.

The following day we set off for a hike to some hot springs. Hot springs are natural hot water pools often off the side of a river or creek.

These hot springs were different from the ones we saw in New Mexico, it was about a mile long of multiple hot pools. The farther up we went the hotter the springs got.

After hiking two miles in 105-degree weather, the heat from the water was our enemy. It also smelled like rotten eggs?? I guess they forget to warn you of these things before you start the hike.

Post hike we picked up some Chinese takeout food and went on our way back home to pack up for our departure.

Driving to Zion area, we passed some new textured red rocks, these were sharper and more linear.

We spent two days there, because it is near impossible to see the whole park in that heat, let alone in a day.

At nights, we would cook dinner on our portable propane stove. The first night we chefed up turkey burgers, with sauteed onions and zucchini. The second night we made camping mac and cheese… boxed mac, cheddar hot dogs, and grilled chicken with a side of roasted veggies. The last night we ate the left-over chicken in a southwestern salad wrap.

Cooking in the woods is probably my favorite part of camping because you reinvent ways to create easy meals that satisfy your every need.

Where

Where to next…

Colorado Springs was a gorgeous area with a very large city and hikes everywhere. It was the best combination of hmm I want to go out on the town for some drinks, and hey let’s get lost in the woods and hope a bear doesn’t attack us.

The quote, “take a hike!” really applies here. You can get annoyed at someone in a bar and say, “take a hike” and it is very possible for them to just walk outside and take a fucking hike.

Post springs, we hit up Utah.

We set off on our 9-hour drive to Utah!! The home of Mormons and more red rock mountains.

In Utah there is a surplus of children. I know this sounds like it would be anywhere like the baby boom, but this shit is super locational.

Specifically in Orem, which is right outside of Salt Lake City, their target audience in stores is children and parents.

The Walmart there was divided up between 25% of food items, 25% household items, and 50% baby accessories and food.

While out on the town, basically every person has a baby or kids in bulk. About 5-6 is the average amount of kids per family.

Within Utah we stayed in Orem and Virgin (which is right outside of Zion National Park).

The town of Virgin was exactly how it sounds, prudent, quiet with little to no action.

While camping there for three nights, we traveled to Zion National Park for the day. Zion was this gorgeously large area of BIG red rocks.

So, my question is, why is that one area of red rocks considered a national park? What makes that area better than the other red rock areas for the national parks to take ownership of it?

When

When the fire starts to burn…

While in Colorado Springs for two nights, we caught up on laundry and energy, in a nice, air-conditioned house.

We drove to Utah and stayed there for six nights, three nights were spent in a loft Air bnb, and the other three were spent camping out in the desert in our tent, while DJ and Brad slept in their hammocks.

We were lucky enough to get some shade within the average 100-degree weather of the deserts. But not lucky enough to have a campfire, since there was a fire ban in effect, due to the lack of rain fall which hasn’t happened in weeks and wont for longer.

We are now back on the road…

Why

Why is it so hot out…?

I never thought I would enjoy a super-hot atmosphere, but with dead heat like this, it doesn’t feel too bad… plus my tan is coming in faster than ever before.

The weather consists of dry heat. So dry and hot that you kind of feel cold sometimes. It’s the kind of heat that makes you sweat, but the sweat is evaporated off your body before you realize it exists.

It’s not too bad… next week it will be 116-degrees in Utah. I don’t know how people live here without pools.

How

How you doinnnnn…

Being that bitch from New York comes with a lot of questions… How did you guys plan this? Why now? Where to next?

All I can say is we just out here doing our best… we made it this far, wish us best of luck and follow my blog for updates

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11-11-05 - Veterans Day

I’m back, everyone! I apologize for such a long hiatus, but what had to be done had to be done. I had myself a wonderful holiday, and I can’t wait to experience the other ones for the (proverbial) first time.

Speaking of, today’s a special holiday called Veterans Day, and although Veterans Day in the UK is in June, the man I’d like to honor is an American citizen.

Of course, I’m speaking about the one and only Sergeant! 

A brave soldier enlisted during a draft, he soon found his purpose in the arts of war. Patriotism and honor are a drug of the highest degree, and Sergeant likes his highs.

However, he doesn’t celebrate today for himself as I do for him. These past few years, Sergeant has made a realization that changed forever how he thought about his time in the service, and why he eventually left.

I think he said it best himself when he told me on last year’s Veterans Day, “We fight and fight, but for what? It’s one thing if we were defending something we cared so dear about. It’s another thing altogether to fight an enemy minding their own damn business. I guess, in the heady days of the draft, everything felt different. But now...now, looking back, it was nothing but trouble.”

For the years I spent on the base with him, Sergeant would stay in his quarters this day. He’d carry in an entire crate of surplus supplied whiskey (there was never a surplus of that whiskey, mind you, so I imagine he’d saved it) and watch old war movies. And if you listened hard enough, you could faintly hear his sobs.

I know firsthand that war changes people. Sergeant is not the same strapping, excited kid that he was during his time serving. While I haven’t heard from him particularly what made him snap out of his daze, I do have a hypothesis.

Sometimes, when he’s drunk, he talks about his war friend Jordan. In fact, he’s talked about him so much that I think I know more about Jordan than I do about Sergeant. He really did like him a lot. 

He’d reminisce and ruminate on the adventures they had together, all the while playing story charades with us, drunk off his ass. But last year, I managed to strike up a small conversation with him when he left his quarters to get some food (where I got that earlier bit), still drunk, but willing to give me enough information through his slurred speech.

(Bolded = Sergeant, Regular = Me)

“Me an’ a buddy o’ mine -- ye know Jordan, right..?”

“I do,”

“Well, when we was younger, you know, in the days of the draft, we were best pals. I mean, best pals. We’d do everything together -- eat, train, shoot, run, sleep, repeat. They called us Jekyll and Hyde, they did, they did,”

“Uh huh,”

“But there came that day where Jekyll went away, and of course, one can’t live without the other,”

“Went away?”

“Got shot during a siege. Y’know that siege I talked about? The one where I shot ‘bout twenty o’ them fuckers before they had gone? Yeah, without him I wouldn’t o’ been able to do it. He gave me a distraction to get the firepower ready. I...I really tried to save him, I yelled at my fellow soldiers to get him outta there and patch him up...but...but...”

“Oh...Sergeant, I’m so sorry...”

“I don’t think I’ve ever screamed louder, no ma’am. But all’s fair in love and war, and good ol’ Jordy is in a better place now, shootin’ them fuckers in the clouds...”

He stopped a moment, letting a lone tear roll down his tired cheek, sniffling. He walked through me as if we hadn’t just had a conversation, quickly raided the pantry, and ran back into his room, not to be seen again until the next morning. 

War does change people. They lose friends, they lose loved ones, and they lose sight of what made them love it in the first place. As I write this, I sit thinking about poor Sergeant. I know, somewhere, wherever he’s at now, is curled up in a ball drinking himself to death because deep down inside he knows the thing that gave him such passion and such motive will be his downfall.

Now, I’m not anti-war. I think any of you who have been reading this knows I’m faaaaaaar from it. When it comes time to defend, I am all for defending our country, being brave...you know, the works. All I have to say is, love the people who have served or are serving around you. You simply have no idea the pain and struggle these brave bastards have gone through and continue to go through. 

Love your veterans, people...and god bless America.

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"I repainted as a means to kind of take my mind off the storm as well as relax a little bit," claimed Justiniano, that after that published photos of her repainted rocks on Facebook and also was told by a pal concerning rock paint teams.

If you're painting your rock all 1 base color before you start on your larger style, paint 1 side, then let it dry. For more motivation, we have actually added a couple of links to some stunning, creative, and also fun ways to repaint rocks that we have found as well as tried considering that the first time my little girl and I repainted rocks with each other. Optional-Paint a solitary shade acrylic base layer on each rock you will be paint and enable to dry.

If you're part of the rock paint community in your location, you can additionally conceal your rocks in nearby parks and also public locations so other individuals can locate them! Painting on rocks is a truly fun method to spend a mid-day with children, elders or simply a team of pals.

Unless the all-natural shade of your rock will certainly become part of your design, start by painting your rock with an undercoat, such as white, black or grey. I enjoy this collection of brushes Even though they claim they are for watercolors, I have actually discovered they are the very best brushes for paint rocks with acrylic paint. Hop on board the most up to date fad in craft - the super-fun art of rock paint designs!After going out of print a number of years earlier, Painting on Rocks for Children is set up to be launched in a changed version with even more enjoyable as well as exciting tasks for children (of every ages- even grownup ones!) It will certainly include twice as numerous projects as well as lots of new ideas and strategies, so remain tuned. Organized by county, town or state, the teams commonly stem on Facebook, gathering neighborhood participants that desire to take part the fun of paint rocks, hiding rocks and also hunting for rocks painted by others. Thanks for this neat consider paint rocks/stones with every one of the fun instances. I am an artist so I enjoy laying out as well as painting yet I have never ever repainted on rocks I need to do this.

I repaint numerous rocks at one time, so I am able to work in cycles and also save time contrasted to working on one rock at a time.I truly enjoy paint on rocks.

Thinking About Going Camping? Take A Look At This

Regardless if you are unfamiliar with camping or perhaps an old pro, there are several things you can learn about camping. Camping is one of those experiences where one can always learn a new challenge. Therefore, this post is healthy--it includes information and ways to create your camping experience great.

Prior to the sun sets if you are camping, search out shelter. Once it gets dark outside, finding out how to put together a tent, finding wood and making food can get impossible. This really is especially the case for city slickers who are unaccustomed to darkness. Avoid this case by finding shelter ahead of the moon is out.

Get everyone involved in picking a campsite. Discuss which state you will most like to visit. The options are plenty, so seek information! You can pick a few places to achieve the family vote on to really make it easier.

Always take a fully stocked first-aid kit once you venture out on a camping trip. You may come up with your own kit with bandages, gauze pads,tweezers and scissors, anti bacteria cream and antiseptic wipes inside a sturdy container. You can even buy one of the numerous excellent ready-made kits to save time.

Prior to starting out on that relaxing camping trip, it is important to your safety to ensure permit someone know you will be going. Give you a friend or neighbor the name in the campsite if you use one. Should you be headed out on a less structured trip, give your contact a general idea of what your location is headed along with a timeline for the return. If something fails, you will find anyone to know where to search for you.

Consider purchasing inexpensive walkie-talkies to take in your next camping trip to supply a approach to communicate with everyone in your party in locations where cell phone reception may not be available. In case you are camping with children and need to record their whereabouts, this can be especially important.

Consider camping inside an area that also gives you a location to swim. You might long for any good shower when you are camping. You will find yourself feeling refreshed and clean after a dip in cool water. This can lesson the need for your house shower.

When going camping, attempt to buy non-perishable items to eat. You will find no refrigerators within the wild, so all you bring needs to be stored in good order. You are able to certainly bring a cooler to get food in, although the cooler will be added bulk on your own trip. Therefore, make an attempt to bring more non-perishable foods than perishable.

When it is time to get to sleep, it is advisable to put the coolers that you just brought along into the vehicle. Bears are becoming quite savvy today and possess determined these particular coolers usually carry food products which will attract these people to your campsite.

It may be beneficial to pitch your tent on a piece of land that may be level. This will likely ensure you sleep better, so that you could have more energy for the following day. Make sure that your head is tilted uphill when you have to sleep with an incline.

View your kids closely. They could also encounter cars that enter into the campsite, though not only will your children get lost. Things happen rapidly plus your kids needs to be supervised.

When you're finished camping and ready to go home, you ought to get after yourself. Keeping nature clean and preserved can allow future campers to take pleasure from it too. Before leaving, clear any messes, you've made at your site and attempt your greatest to go out of nature while you originally thought it was.

It's also really enjoyable, though camping is tough work. Once you determine what you're doing, the rewards are wide ranging. You get to experience nature along with the outdoors picnics are usually fun, and you get a opportunity to sleep underneath the stars. Nothing can beat some of the experiences you may have camping.

Prepare yourself when you get lost on a camping trip. You have to know utilizing acompass and map, and GPS device before leaving for the trip. You should also keep these in your person throughout your trip. These products can assist you get back quickly and safely should you stray past the boundary from the campsite.

When you have other individuals sleeping nearby your campsite, will not bother them by leave your awning lights on during the entire night. Instead, use a timer that you can set to transform the lights off following a certain period of time. You won't bother others with the lights, by doing this.

If cooking will not be your strong suit, and you wish to keep things simple camping, look for a local military surplus store and look for MRE's. Meals Ready to Eat are freeze dried foods that frequently just require water for preparation. These could even be consumed without cooking when you wanting a fairly easy meal and never looking for great taste.

Don't believe that camping close to the bathroom facilities is a good idea. While it may be convenient, it could also be annoying. While you can use the bathroom area for lighting, furthermore, it is an attraction point for many people. Consequently, campers that pitch their tents near communal campsite bathrooms have neither the benefit nor the comfort they could possibly have expected.

For simple and fast lantern hanging, take along a wire hanger on the next camping trip! Simply bend it into an "S" shape when you are prepared to settle in on your site, and hook the handle from your lantern on. The flexible hanger enables for sturdy positioning at a safe level.

The array of those who enjoy camping is surprisingly diverse. The normal link that connects all experienced, skilled campers is advanced amount of knowledge on the topic. Heed the advice inside the piece above, and you may join the ranks of seasoned campers who discover the experience being among the most effective in the world.

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Camping might be a spiritual experience, as campers interact with the wilderness around them. If camping can be something that you should do, then you should have an idea what to do as well as a way of understanding it. This informative article may help you possess a great trip. Read more about this here.

An effective multi-purpose tool should be a part of your camping gear. The two main kinds to take. First, is the saw/hammer/axe 3-in-1 tool for firewood and other chores. Other will be the standard multi-purpose tool with many different tools on it just like a can tweezers, opener and scissors and a knife.

Get everyone involved with deciding on a campsite. Discuss which state you would most want to visit. The alternatives are plenty, so do your homework! You can choose a few places to get the family vote on making it easier.

Prior to deciding to bring your pet dog along for the camping trip, get him employed to the idea with a little practice run inside the outdoor area. Pitch the tent within an already familiar area, and allow him to sleep or play inside for some time. Bringing a pet dog really can increase the fun of camping, as long as the animal has become adequately prepared for the big event.

Consider purchasing inexpensive walkie-talkies to take with you on your next camping trip to provide a way to connect with everyone inside your party in locations where cellphone reception might not be available. This may be especially important if you are camping with children and want to monitor their whereabouts.

Be sure you pack a camera. There are many memories you're gonna want to capture in your camping trip. Take along a compact camera that may fit in the bank. Make an effort to pack something durable which could stand getting dropped or being a bit wet. Consider using a disposable camera.

Usually do not take whatever belongs by nature together with you whenever you leave. Have some fun and take pictures, but when you are loading the car, be sure rocks, pinecones as well as other objects remain where they are. This is probably the unspoken rules of camping. Everyone ought to have similar ability to enjoy these matters.

A camping trip provides fun experiences or dangerous experiences. That you will experience depends upon your level of preparation. Prepare ahead of time to avoid the downfalls of camping. Specifically if you are camping in a new location, spend some time to research the wildlife,plants and geography, and climate of your area.

Make sure that the cooler you take along is air tight. You do not would like food to spoil as the cooler was allowing the cool air to have out. Store your cooler within a shaded area where the sun will never work against it. This could save your food as well as your stomach.

Bugs and mosquitoes really are a common camping annoyance. You might invest in a commercial repellent with chemicals, but an effective natural way to keep bugs out of your body is by using an orange peel. Rub the inside the peel on the legs and arms. This really is a inexpensive, responsible way to repel annoying pests.

Choose your campsite carefully. The location by which you're camping can make all the difference. Prior to you making any plans, do lots of research. Just what is the weather like? Does the campsite have specific rules? How crowded will the campsite be? Poor planning will make for a miserable camping experience.

In the event you haven't camped before, then now is not the time to start as being a hermit. Ask a skilled friend to complement you and also show you the ropes. As you be more advanced in the hobby you could start to consider small and then larger trips alone and obtain your hermitude on.

Make sure that you know tips to get campfire burning before you head out in to the woods. In case you have difficulties getting a fire started, try to find fire starting supplies to take with you. These supplies ensure it is easy for nearly someone to start up a fire on the spot.

One smart thing to create along camping is duct tape. It possesses a multitude of uses of campers, equally as it does for homeowners. You might seal an air leak within your mattress. You might patch a hole or tear in your sleeping bag, tarp or tent. Place it on your feet to stop blisters if you're intending on having a long hike. You may also apply it to bandage injuries.

Do not bother them by leave your awning lights on through the entire night if you have others sleeping nearby your campsite. Instead, utilize a timer that you could set to turn the lights off right after a certain period of time. You won't bother others with your lights, using this method.

If you're outside in cold weather, keep warm by putting on layered clothing. Not simply, can adding more layers get you to warmer, but you can actually remove layers if the temperature rises later. Multiple layer's trap heat in the middle each piece, which will keep you from losing heat. Try bringing thermal coats, gloves, underwear, sweaters and turtlenecks and boots on your trip.

Do your packing deliberately and intelligently. Create a supply checklist for your personal trip and check off each item as it's being packed. Especially in case your camping trip will require you to a remote area that will not provide usage of food, shelter or emergency supplies, though this tip is definitely important.

Bring a compass so do you know what direction to visit in all the time. If you neglect to bring a compass, you can definitely find yourself lost. Allow yourself a feeling of peace, bring a compass so that you are always headed in the right direction and have the security of knowing what to do.

Now you have a good idea on how to arrange for your camping trip, start planning and packing. Explore the wonders that nature provides anyone to enjoy. Make your camera ready! You will desire to capture as many memories as you possibly can on your own next camping excursion.

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Scoop up a massive dab of icing on the spatula's idea: Holding the spatula perpendicular to the cake distribute the icing on the aspect of the cake with brief aspect-to-aspect strokes. Repeat till the entire side is included with a skinny coating. Refrigerate the cake till the icing sets, about 10 minutes. Apply a ultimate thick coat of icing to the prime and the sides, following the techniques above, creating certain that the coat is even and smooth. When icing the sides, apply a coat thick adequate to go over and conceal the cardboard spherical. Dipping the spatula into very hot drinking water will assist make a sleek coat. As you ice the top rated and sides, a ridge will sort together the edge the place they meet up with. Right after you have finished icing, hold the spatula at an angle, and, with a really light hand, beginning at the farthest edge of the cake, smooth the ridge toward the middle. Rotate the cake and repeat until the ridge no for a longer time exists. SOME Ending TOUCHES With a perfectly coated cake, you have received a foundation on which to utilize some ending touches to give the cake a polished glance. You can just incorporate uncomplicated substances like flaked coconut or almonds, or chocolate shards, or sprinkles or what have you, and this can search genuinely wonderful and easy... BUT if you genuinely want to get your cake decorating and all those ending touches and prospers to the upcoming level, then you seriously want to dedicate yourself to a very good decorating information or highway map. And I have just the guide for you! It's called Cake Decorating Genius, and all the great data and guidance presented earlier mentioned was gleaned from this outstanding e book. I seriously needed to uncover all the insider secrets and suggestions in the region of cake decorating for you, and so we've produced and compiled the most extensive manual that you will ever read! We labored with all the prime authorities and experts in the industry to deliver all this outstanding articles with each other, and imagine me, this is info that will definitely take your cake decorating capabilities to an impressively higher stage!

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Cake Decorating Expert

dort ledové království For some, cake decorating is a passion, and for other individuals, it is a job. The amateurs are these who locate it fun and gratifying to bake the cakes and then adorn them for their family members and pals, conserving income by doing it on their own. With pro coaching along with excellent decorating recommendations and tips, any individual can master this art. With this artwork sort you will be able to stretch your creativity. If you keep on building your capabilities, you will knowledge the joy of generating some others content with your skills. The art of decorating cakes requires place when a gentleman or girl has turned the kitchen area into an artwork studio. When a cake is adorned in an artistic style and design it is satisfying to equally the creator and the recipient. Creating a cake does not have to be a demanding knowledge, you just will need to get inventive. Really don't be frightened to consider new suggestions and approaches. For the amateur, it is the basic cake decorating recommendations, which are the ideal methods to support you get began. Decorating can be as easy as utilizing a stencil and dusting confectioner's sugar or cocoa powder on the leading of a cake. Cakes can be iced with butter product, royal fondant, or cooked icing. Adding to the icing cakes can be topped with bouquets, spun sugar, or sweet. Cakes can be made to look like a scorching dog, pizza, or just about everything you have the creativeness to make. If you want to be an novice cake decorator, you will need to understand the fundamentals and decide up as a lot of of the suggestions you can. There are numerous recommendations and ideas extensively accessible. You could make a decision to continue creating and decorating cakes as a pastime or you may well come to a decision to search into creating a career out of decorating and baking cakes. Regardless of what your wants or your targets when it will come to cake decorating, now that you are armed with this tutorial committed to cake decorating mastery, you will turn out to be a force to be reckoned with and acquire the envy and admiration and praise of all those all around you... all when obtaining extraordinary fun as you go! Obtaining Started off... To commence decorating, you will need to make certain that you have all of the decorating equipment wanted. Recommendations (otherwise named tubes) are an integral part of decorating cakes. Tips are simple steel cones, which you squeeze icing or a medium by means of to kind different designs and models. The dimensions and form of the opening on a decorating tube decides the kind of decorations the suggestion will develop. There are seven primary decorating idea teams: spherical, star, leaf, drop flower, rose, basket-weave and specialized. A new decorator ought to have at the very least one or two recommendations from the initially 5 tip teams. Then, as you turn into additional proficient in your decorating you will want to grow your selection with ideas from other teams. These days, we will wander you by way of the process of trimming and splitting a cake into layers, icing it, and then ending it with a few simple decorating techniques. Do not worry you will not want a pastry bag or guidelines, just a small patience. We advise that you equip your self with a number of applications that can make all the big difference in the completed appearance of the cake and lessen your disappointment: - a extended serrated knife for trimming and reducing - a ten-inch versatile icing spatula - cardboard rounds, and, ideally, a rotating cake stand. For an substitute to the rotating cake stand, improvise by setting a supper plate upside down on leading of an upside- down cake pan. The cake will not likely spin freely, as it does on a rotating cake stand, but this arrangement does elevate the cake and presents you an edge to grip and spin. LEVELING AND SPLITTING THE CAKE A cake can be lower into levels, or cakes baked independently can be layered with each other. Either way, amount cakes are considerably simpler to ice than mounded ones that need to be supplemented with an overabundance of icing. Use a lengthy serrated knife to amount an uneven cake and/or to minimize it into layers. When the cake has cooled completely, set it on a cardboard spherical that is cut about 1⁄8 inch larger than the cake. Location the cake shut to the edge of the counter for much more clearance when chopping. Initial, ascertain the cake's cheapest level. Constant the cake by carefully pressing an outstretched hand on its surface area. Holding the knife parallel to the get the job done surface and making use of a constant sawing movement, start cutting at the identical degree as the cake's least expensive place, slicing off the mound. Take away the trimmed area. If you are slicing the cake into layers, measure the peak of the cake (that has been levelled, if important) and reduce a little incision into the facet with a paring knife to mark the sought after thickness of your levels. Repeat each and every three or four inches all around the circumference of the cake. With a serrated knife held parallel to the function surface, slice superficially into the cake. Then, with an outstretched palm gently pressed on the floor, gradually spin the cake absent from you when pulling the knife toward you. The target is to connect the incisions and score the cake, not slice it, to create a obviously outlined midpoint. Pursuing the midpoint-marking, cut further and further in the very same manner. Progressively go the knife closer to the cake's centre with each and every rotation. When the knife progresses past the cake's middle, the minimize is complete. Meticulously slide the knife out then clear away the cake from the cardboard spherical. ICING THE CAKE When filling and icing a cake with a butter-cream frosting, the problem is to avert crumbs from catching in the icing. To enable frosting distribute far more easily, get rid of loose crumbs with a pastry brush. Cold icing is tough to unfold and pulls on the surface area of the cake, so if you've got made the icing in advance and chilled it, give it sufficient time to heat and soften. Also, putting the cake's sturdy bottom crust confront-up on the top rated layer minimizes crumbs and offers unique, thoroughly clean edges that are simple to ice. Spreading a skinny coating of frosting on the sides aids seal in any crumbs, making it possible for for a smoother overall glance. Finally, applying a foundation coat, or "crumb coat," of icing seals in unfastened crumbs so that they do not mar the cake's physical appearance. To anchor the cake, spread a dab of frosting in the center of a cardboard spherical lower slightly bigger than the cake. Middle the higher layer of a split cake crust-side up or one cake of separately baked levels bottom-aspect up on the cardboard spherical. Unfold a dab of frosting on the centre of the cake stand, then set the cardboard spherical with the cake on the stand. Place a large blob in the centre of the cake and unfold it to the edges with an icing spatula. Picture that you are pushing the filling into spot somewhat than scraping it on as if it have been peanut butter on a slice of toast. Really don't stress if crumbs are obvious in the icing given that the filling will be sandwiched among layers, these crumbs will not be obvious. To level the icing and get rid of any surplus, hold the spatula at a 45 diploma angle to the cake and, if employing a rotating cake stand, switch the cake. If you might be not employing a rotating stand, maintain the spatula at the same angle, and, starting up at the edge farthest absent from you, gently drag the spatula toward you. It will acquire a several sweeps to level the icing. Using a 2nd cardboard round, slide the top cake layer crust-facet up on best of the frosted bottom layer, creating sure that the layers are aligned. Push the cake firmly into spot. A slim base coat of icing assists seal in crumbs. To coat the best, location a blob of icing in the heart of the cake and distribute it out to the edges, permitting any excessive hang about the edge. Will not fret if it is imperfect. Scoop up a large dab of icing on the spatula's tip: Keeping the spatula perpendicular to the cake spread the icing on the facet of the cake with small facet-to-side strokes. Repeat until eventually the entire facet is included with a thin coating. Refrigerate the cake until eventually the icing sets, about 10 minutes. Apply a remaining thick coat of icing to the prime and the sides, following the measures above, creating sure that the coat is even and clean. When icing the sides, use a coat thick adequate to include and conceal the cardboard spherical. Dipping the spatula into very hot drinking water will support produce a clean coat. As you ice the best and sides, a ridge will kind together the edge in which they meet. After you've concluded icing, keep the spatula at an angle, and, with a quite gentle hand, starting off at the farthest edge of the cake, clean the ridge toward the heart. Rotate the cake and repeat until the ridge no for a longer time exists. SOME Finishing TOUCHES With a perfectly coated cake, you've got obtained a base on which to implement some finishing touches to give the cake a polished look. You can just add uncomplicated substances like flaked coconut or almonds, or chocolate shards, or sprinkles or what have you, and this can seem genuinely beautiful and simple... BUT if you genuinely want to get your cake decorating and all people ending touches and prospers to the following amount, then you really require to devote by yourself to a excellent decorating guide or highway map. And I have just the guidebook for you! It can be referred to as Cake Decorating Genius, and all the great data and suggestions offered earlier mentioned was gleaned from this unbelievable e book. I seriously wanted to uncover all the insider secrets and techniques and guidelines in the region of cake decorating for you, and so we have made and compiled the most detailed handbook that you will at any time study! We worked with all the top rated authorities and specialists in the industry to bring all this outstanding content together, and imagine me, this is data that will really acquire your cake decorating expertise to an impressively significant degree!

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Cake Decorating Pro

dort s koněm For some, cake decorating is a interest, and for other folks, it is a vocation. The amateurs are these who find it entertaining and gratifying to bake the cakes and then adorn them for their loved ones and pals, preserving dollars by undertaking it them selves. With expert instruction together with excellent decorating ideas and ideas, anyone can master this art. With this art sort you will be able to extend your creativity. If you carry on making your techniques, you will expertise the joy of making other people pleased with your knowledge. The artwork of decorating cakes normally takes location when a person or lady has turned the kitchen area into an art studio. When a cake is decorated in an inventive layout it is pleasing to equally the creator and the receiver. Generating a cake does not have to be a nerve-racking practical experience, you just will need to get imaginative. Will not be concerned to try new tips and techniques. For the novice, it is the straightforward cake decorating guidelines, which are the very best strategies to aid you get commenced. Decorating can be as uncomplicated as using a stencil and dusting confectioner's sugar or cocoa powder on the leading of a cake. Cakes can be iced with butter product, royal fondant, or cooked icing. Adding to the icing cakes can be topped with bouquets, spun sugar, or candy. Cakes can be created to glance like a incredibly hot puppy, pizza, or just about nearly anything you have the creativity to make. If you want to be an newbie cake decorator, you will need to discover the basics and decide on up as quite a few of the guidelines you can. There are a lot of guidelines and tips extensively accessible. You may come to a decision to proceed generating and decorating cakes as a pastime or you could choose to glance into building a career out of decorating and baking cakes. No matter what your wants or your ambitions when it comes to cake decorating, now that you are armed with this information devoted to cake decorating mastery, you will turn out to be a force to be reckoned with and get the envy and admiration and praise of people close to you... all while acquiring incredible exciting as you go! Finding Started... To commence decorating, you will want to make certain that you have all of the decorating applications essential. Suggestions (normally identified as tubes) are an integral portion of decorating cakes. Recommendations are simple metal cones, which you squeeze icing or a medium through to form different designs and styles. The sizing and shape of the opening on a decorating tube determines the sort of decorations the idea will create. There are 7 primary decorating suggestion groups: round, star, leaf, fall flower, rose, basket-weave and specialized. A new decorator really should have at minimum a single or two recommendations from the very first five suggestion teams. Then, as you develop into far more proficient in your decorating you will want to increase your assortment with tips from other teams. Today, we will walk you through the method of trimming and splitting a cake into levels, icing it, and then ending it with a few uncomplicated decorating techniques. Do not fear you would not will need a pastry bag or recommendations, just a tiny tolerance. We advise that you equip by yourself with a few applications that can make all the big difference in the concluded look of the cake and reduce your stress: - a lengthy serrated knife for trimming and chopping - a 10-inch adaptable icing spatula - cardboard rounds, and, ideally, a rotating cake stand. For an alternative to the rotating cake stand, improvise by environment a meal plate upside down on best of an upside- down cake pan. The cake would not spin freely, as it does on a rotating cake stand, but this arrangement does elevate the cake and presents you an edge to grip and spin. LEVELING AND SPLITTING THE CAKE A cake can be cut into layers, or cakes baked separately can be layered collectively. Either way, level cakes are significantly less complicated to ice than mounded types that need to be supplemented with an overabundance of icing. Use a lengthy serrated knife to level an uneven cake and/or to cut it into levels. When the cake has cooled totally, set it on a cardboard round that is lower about 1⁄8 inch greater than the cake. Spot the cake near to the edge of the counter for a lot more clearance when reducing. Initial, establish the cake's least expensive point. Steady the cake by gently pressing an outstretched hand on its floor. Keeping the knife parallel to the function floor and using a constant sawing motion, commence reducing at the exact same degree as the cake's cheapest level, slicing off the mound. Take away the trimmed location. If you are slicing the cake into layers, measure the peak of the cake (that has been levelled, if essential) and slice a smaller incision into the facet with a paring knife to mark the sought after thickness of your levels. Repeat just about every 3 or four inches all over the circumference of the cake. With a serrated knife held parallel to the perform floor, slice superficially into the cake. Then, with an outstretched palm gently pressed on the surface area, slowly spin the cake absent from you even though pulling the knife toward you. The objective is to hook up the incisions and score the cake, not slice it, to make a obviously described midpoint. Pursuing the midpoint-marking, slice deeper and further in the similar way. Progressively go the knife closer to the cake's center with every single rotation. When the knife progresses past the cake's heart, the minimize is comprehensive. Very carefully slide the knife out then remove the cake from the cardboard round. ICING THE CAKE When filling and icing a cake with a butter-cream frosting, the problem is to avert crumbs from catching in the icing. To assist frosting spread more easily, get rid of unfastened crumbs with a pastry brush. Cold icing is difficult to spread and pulls on the surface of the cake, so if you've got designed the icing forward and chilled it, give it enough time to heat and soften. Also, putting the cake's sturdy bottom crust encounter-up on the prime layer minimizes crumbs and supplies distinct, clear edges that are simple to ice. Spreading a slender coating of frosting on the sides can help seal in any crumbs, permitting for a smoother total look. Eventually, making use of a base coat, or "crumb coat," of icing seals in loose crumbs so that they do not mar the cake's look. To anchor the cake, unfold a dab of frosting in the centre of a cardboard round cut slightly much larger than the cake. Middle the higher layer of a break up cake crust-aspect up or one particular cake of individually baked levels bottom-facet up on the cardboard spherical. Unfold a dab of frosting on the center of the cake stand, then established the cardboard round with the cake on the stand. Area a substantial blob in the heart of the cake and distribute it to the edges with an icing spatula. Consider that you are pushing the filling into area fairly than scraping it on as if it have been peanut butter on a slice of toast. Never fret if crumbs are obvious in the icing considering that the filling will be sandwiched involving levels, these crumbs will not be recognizable. To level the icing and clear away any surplus, hold the spatula at a 45 degree angle to the cake and, if using a rotating cake stand, switch the cake. If you are not utilizing a rotating stand, hold the spatula at the same angle, and, commencing at the edge farthest away from you, gently drag the spatula towards you. It will just take a couple of sweeps to stage the icing. Employing a second cardboard round, slide the best cake layer crust-aspect up on top rated of the frosted base layer, creating sure that the layers are aligned. Press the cake firmly into location. A thin base coat of icing will help seal in crumbs. To coat the top, spot a blob of icing in the center of the cake and spread it out to the edges, allowing any excessive hang in excess of the edge. Will not stress if it is imperfect. Scoop up a large dab of icing on the spatula's idea: Holding the spatula perpendicular to the cake distribute the icing on the facet of the cake with limited side-to-aspect strokes. Repeat right up until the complete aspect is lined with a thin coating. Refrigerate the cake till the icing sets, about 10 minutes. Utilize a remaining thick coat of icing to the top rated and the sides, pursuing the steps above, building certain that the coat is even and clean. When icing the sides, use a coat thick enough to cover and conceal the cardboard round. Dipping the spatula into hot drinking water will assist make a sleek coat. As you ice the prime and sides, a ridge will variety alongside the edge where they fulfill. Following you have concluded icing, keep the spatula at an angle, and, with a extremely mild hand, starting up at the farthest edge of the cake, sleek the ridge toward the centre. Rotate the cake and repeat until the ridge no lengthier exists. SOME Ending TOUCHES With a properly coated cake, you have got a foundation on which to implement some ending touches to give the cake a polished look. You can just add basic substances like flaked coconut or almonds, or chocolate shards, or sprinkles or what have you, and this can glance really lovely and uncomplicated... BUT if you actually want to just take your cake decorating and all individuals finishing touches and thrives to the following stage, then you seriously want to dedicate on your own to a good decorating tutorial or highway map. And I have just the tutorial for you! It truly is referred to as Cake Decorating Genius, and all the wonderful info and suggestions offered over was gleaned from this outstanding guide. I really desired to uncover all the insider secrets and techniques and recommendations in the location of cake decorating for you, and so we've developed and compiled the most extensive manual that you will ever study! We worked with all the prime authorities and specialists in the field to provide all this amazing material jointly, and think me, this is facts that will definitely take your cake decorating skills to an impressively substantial stage!

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Cake Decorating Specialist

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For the amateur, it is the uncomplicated cake decorating suggestions, which are the ideal methods to help you get started out. Decorating can be as basic as utilizing a stencil and dusting confectioner's sugar or cocoa powder on the leading of a cake. Cakes can be iced with butter cream, royal fondant, or cooked icing. Adding to the icing cakes can be topped with bouquets, spun sugar, or sweet. Cakes can be developed to glance like a hot pet dog, pizza, or just about everything you have the imagination to develop. If you want to be an beginner cake decorator, you will will need to understand the principles and select up as quite a few of the tips you can. There are several ideas and suggestions greatly readily available. You may decide to proceed making and decorating cakes as a pastime or you might determine to seem into producing a career out of decorating and baking cakes. What ever your desires or your aims when it comes to cake decorating, now that you are armed with this guidebook committed to cake decorating mastery, you will develop into a drive to be reckoned with and earn the envy and admiration and praise of those close to you... all even though getting outstanding enjoyable as you go! Obtaining Started out... To commence decorating, you will need to ensure that you have all of the decorating resources necessary. Suggestions (otherwise called tubes) are an integral component of decorating cakes. Suggestions are straightforward metallic cones, which you squeeze icing or a medium via to type various styles and models. The dimensions and shape of the opening on a decorating tube decides the sort of decorations the idea will develop. There are 7 basic decorating suggestion groups: spherical, star, leaf, drop flower, rose, basket-weave and specialised. A new decorator ought to have at minimum just one or two guidelines from the very first five tip groups. Then, as you grow to be additional proficient in your decorating you will want to grow your selection with ideas from other groups. Nowadays, we will wander you by way of the approach of trimming and splitting a cake into levels, icing it, and then finishing it with a few easy decorating approaches. Really don't fret you would not need to have a pastry bag or tips, just a small persistence. We propose that you equip oneself with a handful of tools that can make all the big difference in the concluded appearance of the cake and reduce your disappointment: - a extended serrated knife for trimming and chopping - a 10-inch adaptable icing spatula - cardboard rounds, and, preferably, a rotating cake stand. For an alternative to the rotating cake stand, improvise by environment a dinner plate upside down on top rated of an upside- down cake pan. The cake is not going to spin freely, as it does on a rotating cake stand, but this arrangement does elevate the cake and provides you an edge to grip and spin. LEVELING AND SPLITTING THE CAKE A cake can be cut into levels, or cakes baked independently can be layered together. Both way, level cakes are significantly much easier to ice than mounded ones that have to be supplemented with an overabundance of icing. Use a extended serrated knife to stage an uneven cake and/or to lower it into levels. When the cake has cooled completely, set it on a cardboard spherical that is reduce about 1⁄8 inch larger than the cake. Area the cake shut to the edge of the counter for much more clearance when chopping. 1st, decide the cake's cheapest point. Steady the cake by gently urgent an outstretched hand on its floor. Holding the knife parallel to the operate surface and using a continuous sawing movement, begin reducing at the identical stage as the cake's least expensive position, slicing off the mound. Take away the trimmed location. If you are cutting the cake into levels, evaluate the height of the cake (that has been levelled, if essential) and minimize a little incision into the aspect with a paring knife to mark the preferred thickness of your levels. Repeat every single three or 4 inches about the circumference of the cake. With a serrated knife held parallel to the function floor, cut superficially into the cake. Then, with an outstretched palm gently pressed on the floor, slowly and gradually spin the cake absent from you although pulling the knife towards you. The objective is to link the incisions and score the cake, not slice it, to make a clearly described midpoint. Adhering to the midpoint-marking, reduce further and further in the same way. Steadily go the knife nearer to the cake's middle with each rotation. When the knife progresses earlier the cake's heart, the minimize is complete. Thoroughly slide the knife out then remove the cake from the cardboard spherical. ICING THE CAKE When filling and icing a cake with a butter-product frosting, the problem is to protect against crumbs from catching in the icing. To aid frosting unfold far more easily, get rid of free crumbs with a pastry brush. Chilly icing is difficult to distribute and pulls on the surface area of the cake, so if you've got designed the icing forward and chilled it, give it ample time to heat and soften. Also, inserting the cake's durable base crust encounter-up on the leading layer minimizes crumbs and provides unique, clear edges that are straightforward to ice. Spreading a slender coating of frosting on the sides can help seal in any crumbs, allowing for a smoother all round look. Last but not least, applying a foundation coat, or "crumb coat," of icing seals in unfastened crumbs so that they do not mar the cake's visual appeal. To anchor the cake, unfold a dab of frosting in the centre of a cardboard round cut a bit greater than the cake. Center the upper layer of a break up cake crust-aspect up or just one cake of independently baked layers bottom-aspect up on the cardboard spherical. Distribute a dab of frosting on the middle of the cake stand, then established the cardboard round with the cake on the stand. Place a substantial blob in the middle of the cake and spread it to the edges with an icing spatula. Envision that you are pushing the filling into spot rather than scraping it on as if it were being peanut butter on a slice of toast. Will not be concerned if crumbs are obvious in the icing given that the filling will be sandwiched in between layers, these crumbs will not be apparent. To degree the icing and clear away any surplus, keep the spatula at a forty five diploma angle to the cake and, if employing a rotating cake stand, change the cake. If you might be not making use of a rotating stand, maintain the spatula at the exact same angle, and, starting at the edge farthest away from you, gently drag the spatula towards you. It will consider a handful of sweeps to degree the icing. Utilizing a 2nd cardboard round, slide the best cake layer crust-facet up on top of the frosted bottom layer, producing absolutely sure that the layers are aligned. Push the cake firmly into place. A thin foundation coat of icing will help seal in crumbs. To coat the top rated, spot a blob of icing in the middle of the cake and spread it out to the edges, allowing any surplus hang about the edge. Really don't stress if it is imperfect. Scoop up a huge dab of icing on the spatula's idea: Keeping the spatula perpendicular to the cake spread the icing on the aspect of the cake with quick aspect-to-side strokes. Repeat right up until the entire facet is coated with a slim coating. Refrigerate the cake right up until the icing sets, about ten minutes. Use a final thick coat of icing to the best and the sides, pursuing the techniques previously mentioned, building sure that the coat is even and smooth. When icing the sides, utilize a coat thick adequate to go over and conceal the cardboard spherical. Dipping the spatula into very hot h2o will assist generate a sleek coat. As you ice the top rated and sides, a ridge will type along the edge exactly where they satisfy. Right after you've got finished icing, hold the spatula at an angle, and, with a incredibly light-weight hand, starting at the farthest edge of the cake, sleek the ridge towards the heart. Rotate the cake and repeat right up until the ridge no for a longer time exists. SOME Ending TOUCHES With a completely coated cake, you've got a foundation on which to implement some finishing touches to give the cake a polished search. You can just include basic substances like flaked coconut or almonds, or chocolate shards, or sprinkles or what have you, and this can appear really lovely and basic... BUT if you seriously want to just take your cake decorating and all individuals ending touches and prospers to the subsequent degree, then you truly will need to dedicate yourself to a good decorating information or highway map. And I have just the guide for you! It really is called Cake Decorating Genius, and all the fantastic info and tips offered previously mentioned was gleaned from this amazing guide. I actually required to uncover all the insider secrets and recommendations in the region of cake decorating for you, and so we've produced and compiled the most complete manual that you will ever read through! We worked with all the best professionals and experts in the industry to convey all this incredible material collectively, and believe me, this is facts that will genuinely just take your cake decorating capabilities to an impressively higher level!

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Money earmarked for mental health diverted to balance NHS books

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Money earmarked for mental health diverted to balance NHS books

Ministers were accused of breaking their promises on intellectual fitness after £800m earmarked to enhance services turned into diverted to shore up hospitals’ budget.

A main mental fitness charity and the Labour party stated redirecting the money could hit patient care and preclude the force, sponsored through Theresa Can also, to improve take care of human beings with critical mental fitness troubles.

“It’d be pretty demanding if intellectual fitness funding turned into being sacrificed in order that [NHS bodies] can stability their books,” stated Mind chief executive Paul Farmer, who chaired the NHS task force on intellectual fitness that lasts 12 months endorsed sweeping changes, including to investment. Share your experiences of the NHS this iciness Study greater The circulate has emerged in a letter written by using NHS England’s finance leader, Paul Baumann, which has been seen by the health Carrier Magazine. In it, he makes clear that the £800m, which NHS England held returned from its 209 clinical commissioning organizations this year, will help stabilize NHS price range.

Simon Stevens, the chief govt of NHS England, final yr said the cash became “investment that would have been to be had from CCGs for intellectual health offerings, network health services, number one care and different matters”. It becomes being held as a “contingency reserve” in case health center trusts recorded big deficits this yr similar to the overspend of £2.45bn they made in 2015-sixteen, he said.

In his letter, Baumann confirms that NHS England now intends to use the “full amount” of the contingency fund to offset overspends by means of NHS acute health center trusts in 2016-17.

“The combination impact of this could be to increase the surplus throughout the whole of the commissioning [CCG] region via around £800m if you want to help to offset the company deficit position and help us to secure a balanced function for the NHS universal,” he writes.

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NHS trusts in England have been to begin with told to overspend via no extra than £250m this year. That focus on changed into revised to £580m, however, trusts are actually forecast to give up 2016-17 approximately £873m in the red, in line with NHS Development – the Provider’s economic regulator.

Diverting the contingency money will help the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, keep away from the embarrassment of his department busting its budget for this year. It wanted an emergency injection of £205m last year.

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You have bought a journal to create your PA 2007, selected your degree of prevention in function of your goals, and located your circadian cycle. Your Everyday Formula is your manual into structuring and imposing modifications.

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Sound asleep

As confirmed by means of studies, it is, in reality, vital to keep as a minimum 7 hours of uninterrupted sleep Daily. Plan thus.

Eating & Consuming

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