Senegalese Premier League club Niarry Tally are on a pre-season tour of Gambia ahead of start of the their championship.
Niarry Tally finished second best the previous term controversially losing the league on goal difference despite topping the table for much of the league campaign.
And determined to rectify their last season blushes the club has returned to Gambia to get their preparation off to a reeling start.
The avenue of staging their tour in Gambia, will offer Niarry Tally's technical bench chance to scout along Gambian players to beef up their budding squad. Such was the manner Gambia national team goalkeeper Alagie Modou Jobe was tapped from Real de Banjul.
Jobe stood between the sticks for a SK East selection against the Senegalese outfit and by end of the friendly, courted the eyes of Niarry Tally's gaffer who wasted little time to raid Real de Banjul for the net-minder.
Talks followed before Real gave Jobe the go-ahead who signed a three-year loan deal. The Senegalese side were again at it, holding a test match with Brikama's Zonal selection as pictured above. The team fired blanks at the boxbar mini-stadium in Brikama.


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Andor iXon 897 EMCCD Imaging Sensor Supports Gravitational Microlensing in the Search for Earth-Like Planets
Written by Stuart Parkerson on May 26, 2017
Optical astronomy has always played an important role in exploration of the cosmos, even if it has faded in popularity with new detection methods like radio telescopes replacing it in recent decades.
When it comes to the search for exoplanets, the visible spectrum is still incredibly important for a lot of reasons. There is a significant difference between looking for star wobble or recurring dimming and capturing the visible spectrum of an exoplanet for study.
The SONG project (Stellar Oscillations Network Group) has been formed to integrate telescopes around the world, ranging from one to four meters so that multiple observations can be taken, all of the data compiled, and the search for Earth-like exoplanets to expand to new horizons. They focus on stars more like ours, and rather than hunting for quantity, they're looking for quality. Specifically, planets of the right mass and distance to put them in the habitable zone of said stars.
Their efforts focus on asteroseismology, helioseismology, and they have the full GONG (the Global Observation Network Group) network working with them in this pursuit.
Microlensing, which was first theorized by Einstein, has been a largely untapped field by comparison to other methods of detection. Kennet B.W. Harpsøe is heading up a mission to construct a network of one-meter telescopes based around a new EMCCD camera to make it a reality.
The iXon 897 EMCCD is an ultra-sensitive high-speed imaging sensor designed with many goals in mind, but the thing that sets it apart is how it handles noise. Anyone in this field, or even amateur photographers, have experienced noise problems with CCD imaging at low light levels. The high readout speeds and super-sensitive pixels of the iXon sensor allow it to mitigate much of the noise problem internally. It's built for low-light noise reduction in imaging, and it excels at this purpose.
The camera has a minimum cooling temperature of -100 degrees Celsius, and a pixel well depth of 180,000 e-. It operates at a frame rate of 56fps for the full sensor readout, as well as 595fps in cropped sensor mode (128×128). The pixel size, while only 16 µm, is 20% larger than the iXon 888, allowing for more light collection. The whole EMCCD is designed around sensitivity and speed.
The difference in clarity of the imaging sensor versus standard CCDs is phenomenal: less noise, less guessing, and the ability to detect those subtle one-pixel light points necessary for the full resolution of congested star fields toward the center of the Milky Way, where the view is dense enough to make use of the qualities of gravitational microlensing.
When combined with the expansion of the SONG network, this means that the team will be able to detect more and smaller planets that are similar to our own and are in habitable regions around other stars. Judging by the sheer number of Jovian-type bodies discovered so far, the future of this project is very promising for the detection of new planets, and the equipment is sensitive enough to use the light gathered from them to tell us something about these new exoplanets. Colors can give insights to atmospheric conditions and pave the way for more research as exoplanets are cataloged.
Over 600 gigantic 'Hot Jupiters' have been discovered so far with other techniques. How many Earth/Venus size planets will scientists detect with this new weapon added to their arsenal? Exoplanet research is about to start heating up, so be ready for lots of new discoveries.
Tony Kelly is a digital marketing executive for Andor Technologies, which manufacturers the Apogee line of astronomy cameras. He has a passion for digital marketing and is responsible for coordinating all digital activities and campaigns for the company.
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I doubt that anyone has been hanging off the edge of their seat waiting for me to show up, but here I am again!
Yeah, your favorite travel blogger is back after a veeeerrrrry long break. If you've taken a look at my Instagram or this blog recently, you've realized that I have gone AWOL for much of 2018.
But, I've been gone (and hopefully, not forgotten!) for good reason.
Let's dive into the when, where, and why!
I can't say I'm sorry to see July head out the door. I'd heard about the blogging summer slump, but hadn't ever been in a position to see it in action (2014: I was just starting to get the blog going; 2015: the blog was having growing pains; and 2016: I quit the blog for the entire summer).
However, I am here to say that it is a real thing. And it is AWFUL. I had my worst month of the entire year in July despite doing exactly what I do every other month: writing consistently published blog posts, reworking old posts, and sharing both like crazy on my social media channels.
The year is half over. In some ways, I'm really, really happy with what the blog has done: I've had my best months EVER since January, and I've started bringing in a sort-of steady (but small) income.
On the other hand, I feel like my blog is growing so slowly, and my growth is anything but linear. Some months have traffic that make me feel as if I'm really going somewhere, while others have me scrambling to investigate the minutia of my Google Analytics account. Maddeningly, I do the exact same thing writing and promoting every month, so I feel helpless when the numbers start to dip. Boo to seasonality!
At least, June was a fun month around here. I took my kids to Durham, North Carolina, for a few days--it had been years since I'd been last, and we had such a good time rediscovering the city.
April was one of the hardest months I've had in recent memory. As I mentioned in my April goals post, I was already struggling with the parenthood-freelance writing-blogging balance, and I didn't see how I was going to add anything else to the mix.
Well, of course, my husband and I decided that adding something to the mix was exactly what we had to do. After Easter, my father-in-law came to stay with us for two weeks to help us with our biggest house project to date: removing stumps and grading as much of our 7.5 acre property as we could in 14 days.
So, this year, my word is balance. Two months into 2017, and I am reminded everyday as to why I chose it. From the moment I get up in the morning to the moment I go to sleep, there is a constant battle between what my infant needs, what my preschooler needs, blog stuff that needs to be written/scheduled, freelance writing stuff that needs to be done, housework that cannot be put off another day, and actually spending time with my husband.
Most of the time, I feel as if I'm trying to do everything but actually accomplishing nothing.
This past month was the first full month that I was completely on my own with both kids. For the second half of November and all of December, I had at least one other adult around me 24 hours a day to help with all of the feeding, cooking, cleaning, and laundry that goes along with having tiny humans in the house. Because of that, I not only managed to keep blogging, but make some serious headway in scheduling, writing, and planning content.
I went into October with some huge goals and the need to get as much blog love in as possible before baby #2 makes his arrival on or before the 11th of this month.
How did I do? Let's see!
While the months-long blog break that I inadvertently took this summer was nice, I'm now remembering why it's often a good thing to push through those times when you want to quit blogging.
Over the last month that I've been at blogging again, I've felt as if I'm running in slow motion as I try to get this thing (and all of its associated social media) going again. Although my blog was on autopilot for a while, I can see where my pageviews and reader interaction dropped (and understandably!), and it's tough not to obsess over the numbers. I know they're going to go back up, but I have to restrain myself from checking Google Analytics multiple times a day.


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Putting a film in a camera seems weird even though it's not that many years ago that I was loading 35mm film into cameras as the norm and the idea of saving images onto a small plastic object (memory Card) would have seemed very strange indeed.
Film Cartridges: The camera uses the 'Wide' format film which can be found in the usual places .. I ordered two packs from e-bay and one pack from Amazon, the e-bay packs came first @ £29,99 for two packs of film (each pack contains 2 cartridges which in turn contain 10 images each) so approx 75p per image, these are 'Wedding' films, i.e. they have a flowery border.. Mmmm, and is 800ISO rated.
Settings: So the camera has very basic functions, i.e. a form of 'EV Compensation' that goes 'Lighten –Mid Point-Darken' and 2 x focusing modes 0.9-3m and 3m to infinity, not much to remember, and yet out in the field I kept forgetting?
Developing: the images seem to take around 10mins to fully develop and seemed darker when I got home so maybe had continued to develop?
Overall I'm pleased with the results and we had great fun with the camera (my youngest seems to think it's her camera now?), anyway … the scanned examples are on my website & my flikr pages .. more to follow ..


how to squeeze all server resources, taking advantages of multi-cores?
A single instance of Node.js runs in a single thread. To take advantage of multi-core systems the user will sometimes want to launch a cluster of Node.js processes to handle the load.
The cluster module allows you to easily create child processes that all share server ports.
fork multiple processes on the server concurrently.
every single process runs the same source code(just like assigning work done by one process to multiple processes).
the process that forks other processes is called Master process, it seems like a contractor that does nothing except forking other processes.
other forked processes are called Worker processes, as the name suggests, they are workers that work actually. They accept requests and provide services.
usually the number of Worker processes depends on the CPU core number, only in this way can we take full advantage of multi-core resources.
Simple like the example above, but as an enterprise-level solution, much more remains to be considered.
How to handle the exception that Worker processes exit unexpected?
How to share resources among multiple Worker processes?
How to schedule multiple Worker processes?
Haleness(aka Robustness) of an enterprise-level application must be considered, apart from the guarantee of high quality codes of program itself, the framework level should provide the cache-all mechanism to ensure the availability under extreme circumstance.
close all TCP Servers started by the corrupted Worker process(close all connections and stop accepting new requests), close the IPC channel between Master and do not accept user requests any more.
a new Worker process should be forked by the Master immediately to ensure the total number of workers unchanged.
the corrupted Worker process waits for a while before exit in order to get through accepted requests.
When a process crashes due to exceptions or is killed due to OOM by the OS, we have no chance to resume the process like uncaught exceptions occurring, the only choice is to exit current process directly then Master forks a new Worker immediately.
In the framework, we use graceful and egg-cluster 2 modules correspondingly to implement above logics. This solution has been widely deployed in production environment in Alibaba Cor. and Ant Financial Cor. and is long-tested by 'Double 11' big promotion, solid and reliable.
In this example, codes of agent.js are run in Agent process, codes of app.js are run in the Worker process, and they do the Inter-Process Communication(IPC) through the messenger object encapsulated by framework. Details about the IPC are explained in later sections.
When an application starts up, 3 kinds of processes will be forked.
With this model, Master process undertakes the process management workers(like pm2) but runs no business codes. We simply start up a Master process and it will handle all initialization and restarting issues of Worker and Agent processes.
Master process is extremely stable. We simply use egg-scripts for online and egg.startCluster for background to start Master process and pm2 or other daemon module is no long necessary.
In most cases, we needn't care about Agent process when writing business codes, but in several cases, where we propose to run the codes in a single process and that is the time we use Agent process.
Since there's only one Agent that is in charge of tough and tedious work like keeping connections, it cannot be hang or restarted rashly. Agent process won't exit when encounters uncaught exceptions, but output an error log instead, so we should always keep out eyes on the uncaught exceptions in logs.
Worker process undertakes user requests and scheduled tasks actually. Egg provides scheduled tasks with the ability to be run only in one Worker process, so never solve problems by Agent as long as they can be solved by scheduled tasks.
Worker runs business codes, which are more complicated than those of Agent and Master but the stability may be lower, a Worker process will be restarted by Master when a Worker process exits unexpectedly.
Although every Worker process runs individually, it's necessary for them to communicate with each other which is called inter-process communication(IPC). Below is an example code provided by Node.js officially.
Carefully you can see that the IPC channel of clusters exists only between Master and Worker/Agent, not between Worker and Agent. So how to communicate among Workers? Yes, Master helps transmit.
To simplify the invocation, we have encapsulated a messenger object and attached it to the app/agent instance, a set of friendly APIs is provided too.
All methods called on app.messenger above can be called on agent.messenger too.
We mentioned in the example above that, only after egg-ready event occurs can the message be sent. Only after Master makes sure that all Agent process and Worker processes have been started successfully(and ready), can the egg-ready message be sent to all Agent and Worker through messenger, notifying that everything is ready and the IPC channel can be used.
Listen the action event on messenger therefore messages sent by other processes can be received.
The way to receive messages using messenger in agent is the same with that of app.
Now we will show you how IPC solves real problems with the multi-process model of framework by a simple example.
We have a API that gets data from the remote data source and provides services outside. Since data of the data source change little and we prefer to cache it in the memory to accelerate the response of services and reduce the RT. Now a mechanism to update the memory cache is needed.
Get data from the remote data source periodically and update the memory cache. To reduce pressure on the data source, the period for updating may be set relatively long.
The remote data source provides an API to check whether its data has been updated. Our service calls that API more frequently and only when data is updated can it pull the data.
The remote data source pushes data changes through a message-oriented middleware on which our service listens to update the data.
In real projects, we use solution one to catch all, and, in combination with solution tow or three, the instantaneity of data updating can be sped up. In the example, we use IPC + scheduled tasks to implement these three cache updating solutions in the same time.
We put all logics that is used to interact with the remote data source into a Service, where a get method is exposed to Controller to invoke.
Write the scheduled task to implement solution one: gets data changes from the remote data source every 10 minutes to update cache as a cache-all.
Write a scheduled task again to implement check logics of solution two: make a worker call the check API every 10 seconds and notify all Workers using methods provided by messenger when data changes are found.
Listen on the pullRefresh event in the customized start-up file and update data. All Worker processes will receive this message, trigger updates and our solution two succeeds at last.
Now let's consider how to implement solution three. We need a message-oriented middleware that keeps persistent connections with the server side. This kind of persistent connections is proper for Agent process to keep which can effectively reduce connection numbers and reduce costs both ends. So we start message listening on Agent process.
With an intelligent use of Agent process, scheduled tasks and IPC, we can easily implement this kind of requisition and reduce pressure on the data source. Detailed example codes refer to examples/ipc.
In the above example, we runs a subscriber on Agent process to listen messages sent by the message-oriented middleware. What if Worker processes need to listen messages? How to create connections by Agent process and transmit messages to Worker processes? Answers to these questions can be found in Advanced Multi-Process Developing Pattern.
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package googlecloudexporter

import (
	"context"
	"os"
	"testing"

	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/component/componenttest"
)

func TestCreateDefaultConfig(t *testing.T) {
	factory := NewFactory()
	cfg := factory.CreateDefaultConfig()
	assert.NotNil(t, cfg, "failed to create default config")
	assert.NoError(t, componenttest.CheckConfigStruct(cfg))
}

func TestCreateExporter(t *testing.T) {
	defer setPdataFeatureGateForTest(t, true)()
	if os.Getenv("GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS") == "" {
		t.Skip("Default credentials not set, skip creating Google Cloud exporter")
	}
	ctx := context.Background()
	factory := NewFactory()
	cfg := factory.CreateDefaultConfig()
	eCfg := cfg.(*Config)
	eCfg.ProjectID = "test"

	te, err := factory.CreateTracesExporter(ctx, componenttest.NewNopExporterCreateSettings(), eCfg)
	assert.NoError(t, err)
	assert.NotNil(t, te, "failed to create trace exporter")

	me, err := factory.CreateMetricsExporter(ctx, componenttest.NewNopExporterCreateSettings(), eCfg)
	assert.NoError(t, err)
	assert.NotNil(t, me, "failed to create metrics exporter")
}

func TestCreateLegacyExporter(t *testing.T) {
	defer setPdataFeatureGateForTest(t, false)()
	if os.Getenv("GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS") == "" {
		t.Skip("Default credentials not set, skip creating Google Cloud exporter")
	}
	ctx := context.Background()
	factory := NewFactory()
	cfg := factory.CreateDefaultConfig()
	eCfg := cfg.(*Config)
	eCfg.ProjectID = "test"

	te, err := factory.CreateTracesExporter(ctx, componenttest.NewNopExporterCreateSettings(), eCfg)
	assert.NoError(t, err)
	assert.NotNil(t, te, "failed to create trace exporter")

	me, err := factory.CreateMetricsExporter(ctx, componenttest.NewNopExporterCreateSettings(), eCfg)
	assert.NoError(t, err)
	assert.NotNil(t, me, "failed to create metrics exporter")
}

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JONESBORO – The first phase of a high-tech agricultural research project has begun, with an Arkansas State University faculty member as principal investigator.
Dr. John W. Nowlin, assistant professor of geospatial technologies in the College of Agriculture, is directing the project, titled "Swords to Plowshares: Agro-Applications Exploration & Development" (SPAED).
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Nowlin explained the main objective of the project is to research and develop agricultural applications, using airborne sensor data, in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (MAP) and Crowley's Ridge regions.
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Researchers plan to make flights over the areas they are studying every two weeks into October. The project will continue after the growing and harvest season to the end of December 2020.
Eleven agricultural producers have been invited to participate in the research and development project. Nowlin asked each one to select a field or set of fields of about a quarter-section (120 acres) in area, then share their farming data such as seed varieties, planting rates, fertilizer, herbicide and pesticide applications, yield, and other factors that might affect in-field crop variability.
The main area of interest will be Northeastern Arkansas, extending from Lee County north to Missouri and covering at least the primary farming region between the 11 cooperating farmers. The core of their holdings are in Craighead, Poinsett, Mississippi, Crittenden, Cross, St. Francis and Lee Counties.
Instruments will capture images using both the visible light spectrum and near-infrared, and will use a light detecting and ranging (LiDAR) laser-based sensor, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to determine three-dimensional measurements and representations of the ground surface.
Dr. Michele Reba and Dr. Joseph Massey from the USDA's Agriculture Research Service Delta Water Management Unit in Jonesboro are working closely with Nowlin and his team on the project.
First District Congressman Rick Crawford expressed his support for SPAED because of its potential.
"I am excited that Arkansas State, along with Meta Aerospace, are working on cutting-edge technology that will transform the way ag-producers farm in Arkansas and across the country. Without technology such as this, we will lose our global standing as leaders in food and fiber creation and cede our national security to external threats," Crawford said. "I hope this technology becomes standard practice in our country and will generate additional technologies and careers to support our ag-producers and the American people so we can remain food and fiber secure."
Much of this year's work will focus on "ground-truthing," the process for verifying three-dimensional points on the ground with airborne instrument readings.
"After the 2020 harvest, we will primarily focus on assessing aerial surfaces for optimal flight heights and the resulting granular spatial resolutions of the collected data," Nowlin continued. "We will assess the basic economics of collecting the data every two weeks, and we will develop a list of actionable agricultural applications from these surfaces based on the ground-truth data, interactions with farmers, participating farmer data, and expert advice from collaborators."
In exchange for their participation in the project, Nowlin's team will share high resolution elevation surfaces and three-dimensional points of each producer's farm before March 31, 2021.
"The goal is to give the participating farmers high enough quality points so that they can use them for irrigation planning," Nowlin added. "Furthermore, once our pilot project is funded we will be engaging with each participant as we develop agronomic applications."
The researchers will then use this year's data to design the project's phase two portion, a two-year pilot program that will evaluate the collection of data, assess the temporal and spatial pattern and quality of the collected data, and work to generate deliverable products from the collected data," Nowlin said, adding he also will be looking for funding for phase two.
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A person who makes a statement or statements of such obvious meaning or implication as to be entirely redundant, superfluous, or unnecessary. Pauline: "The President has said that lower-class families are bearing the brunt of the recession worse than anyone else." Johnny: "Thank you, Captain Obvious!" A: "Your photos are out of focus because you didn't adjust the lens properly." B: "Wow, Captain Obvious strikes again!"
The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.
I was engaged, sir, on what we call sealed orders, to sail this ship for that gentleman where he should bid me," said the captain.
We are all pilots here, Captain, and I know every inch of these waters.
Both he and the captain regarded McCoy with incredulity and amazement.
The captain was terribly amazed, and even confounded, at this, believing they would go on board the ship again and set sail, giving their comrades over for lost, and so he should still lose the ship, which he was in hopes we should have recovered; but he was quickly as much frightened the other way.
Wragge; she treated the captain with a courtesy and consideration entirely new in his experience of her -- but she was interested in nothing.
Captain Jim knew that Anne wrote, but he had never taken that fact very seriously.
A violent altercation ensued, in the course of which Thorn threatened to put the partners in irons should they prove refractory; upon which M'Dougal seized a pistol and swore to be the death of the captain should he ever offer such an indignity.
I was alone for several hours, sometimes thinking of the natives-- but without any dread of them, for the imperturbable confidence of the Captain was catching--sometimes forgetting them to admire the splendours of the night in the tropics.
It is true he was not ordered to be sold when he came there, as we were, and for that reason he was obliged to pay for his passage to the captain, which we were not; as to the rest, he was as much at a loss as a child what to do with himself, or with what he had, but by directions.
On the contrary, he urged the captain to remain with them until the following day, when he would accompany him on his journey, and make him acquainted with all his people.
Flora went up first, got down on deck and stood stock-still till the captain took her by the arm and led her aft.
The captain chid her for the conclusion of her speech, as an improper assurance in judging of her master's actions: for if his honour, or his understanding, would have suffered the captain to make an alliance with Mrs Wilkins, his pride would by no means have admitted it.


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from nodebox.graphics.context import *
from nodebox.graphics import *

# Generates sculptures using a set of mathematical functions.
# Every iteration adds a certain value to the current coordinates.
# Rewriting this program to use transforms is left as an exercise
# for the reader.

# This program uses some mathematical functions that are not
# standard functions of NodeBox.
# Instead, they are in Python's math library. The next
# line imports those functions.
from math import tan, log10
from random import seed

global a,b
a = 10.0
b = 0.0
pass

def draw(canvas):
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    global a,b
    seed(0)

    background(0,0,0.15)
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    cY = b

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        fill(sin(a+c), 0.3, 0.0, 0.5)

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(CNN) — Cakes have been raising spirits and clearing gloom since ovens were invented.
There's no situation too big or too minor for cake.
No major milestone in life can be passed without cake marking the occasion, and few bad moods cannot be temporarily cured by several forkfuls of the sweet stuff.
Here are our favorite cakes from around the world.
The classics, the mainstays, the slices that have conquered dessert menus and the hearts of diners everywhere.
Its name says it all. Meaning "pick me up" in Italian, tiramisu is a sugary, caffeinated spot-hitting cake found on Italian menus all around the world.
It should be made from layers of ladyfingers dipped in coffee and heaped with mascarpone cheese whipped with eggs and sugar, but many modern versions use sponge cake instead and some add coffee liqueur to give an extra kick.
It's such a popular treat in Italy and beyond that Bar Pompi in Rome has made a name for itself on tiramisu alone.
The cake there is made in many different flavors such as strawberry and pistachio.
This chocolate sponge cake with cherries has unfortunately gained a fusty reputation outside of its native Germany, but the authentic version is a boozy gourmet affair.
Its German name is Schwarzwalder kirschtorte and it must be made with kirschwasser -- cherry brandy.
And we're not just talking about a splash or two; recipes can call for up to half a cup of kirsch to be added to the cherry filling.
With the addition of whipped cream, each bite is like eating a cocktail -- it's an exciting, grown-up party in the mouth.
Cafe Schaefer is reputed to have the original recipe for Black Forest Cake, invented by Josef Keller in 1915.
We could've gone with any number of American classics here, so apologies to chocolate brownies, red velvet cake and many others.
Instead, we went for cheesecake.
As far back as ancient Greek times, people have been eating sweetened lumps of cheese, similar to the modern cheesecake.
The Romans also had a baked version, although we would hardly recognize it as the one we know and love today -- it was made with lots of honey and aromatic bay leaves.
The contemporary cold cheesecake was only made possible after the invention of cream cheese in the late 1800s.
It later became a fad in New York, where it continues to be popular.
Despite being made of cheese, sugar and eggs on a crust of crushed cookies, the cake has survived numerous dieting onslaughts.
Junior's is a Brooklyn diner established in the 1950s that's synonymous with cheesecake. It now has branches all over, all dispensing the same revered slices.
Classic pandan cake vendor Bengawan Solo has a branch at Singapore's airport.
The radioactive hue of this cake belies its natural woodsy flavor.
Essentially a chiffon cake, it's infused with green-colored juice from the pandanus palm, an ingredient as common as salt in Southeast Asian cooking.
The pandan leaf flavors everything from sticky rice, chicken and curry to super-sweet, bite-sized kueh.
When married to fluffy-yet-moist chiffon cake, it's a revelation.
The green cakes are particularly loved in Malaysia and Singapore where Pine Garden's Cake makes one of the best.
A branch of the popular Bengawan Solo cake shop is conveniently located at Singapore's Changi Airport as a perfect last stop on your trip.
It wouldn't be a classic French cake if the ingredient list didn't contain a dash of modernist experimentalism, and so -- voila -- we present the madeleine.
Novelist Marcel Proust famously namechecks madeleines in his enormous tome "Remembrance of Things Past," writing of how chomping into one unleashes a flood of childhood memories.
Nope, we haven't read it either, but like everyone else we're hoping to appear smarter by mentioning this classic "Proustian moment."
Proust's were apparently slightly on the dry side, but these simple scallop-shaped little delicacies are best when light, buttery and fluffy -- and preferably fresh out of the oven.
Everyone has their favorite bakery, but Ble Sucre boulangerie in Paris's District 12 is noted for the delicious lemony glaze on its maddies.
Bits of plain sponge cake are given new life as Lamingtons, with chocolate coatings and coconut sprinkles.
The Australian staple is named after Lord Lamington, the Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901.
The sweet lumps are now an Australian national icon.
To get old-school Lamington goodness, Candied Bakery, just outside of Melbourne, is always a good choice.
They use a zesty raspberry jam as a filling and a chocolate ganache coating with the quintessential shredded coconut dusting.
New Zealand scored a culinary victory against Australia after Pavlova was declared a Kiwi cake by the Oxford English Dictionary.
Named after one of the world's most famous ballerinas -- the Russian dancer Anna Pavlova -- this cake sure does justice to its namesake.
Made by beating egg whites stiff with sugar and slow-baking the batter, the Pavlova is served overflowing with summer fruits heaped on top.
One bite through the crunchy, crispy meringue casing and we get to the soft, light marshmallowy center -- it satisfies without being stodgy.
The invention of the Pavlova has long been a point of contention between Australia and New Zealand, but was recently resolved.
In its relaunched online edition, the Oxford English Dictionary says the first recorded Pavlova recipe appeared in New Zealand in 1927.
Wellington's Floriditas is famous for its brown sugar Pavlova topped with seasonal fruit.
If you're having Cantonese-style dim sum, chances are that's just what you're gonna get.
The "ma lai go" is a sponge cake steamed in a bamboo basket and is part of the repertoire of dishes in a classic dim sum meal, typically taken during the morning.
Made from flour, eggs, butter, lard and brown sugar, fermented for a long time to give the cake that extra puffiness, the ma lai go has an addictive caramel flavor and a satisfying chewiness.
For one of the most authentic versions, there's Lin Heung Teahouse, where a huge ma lai go is served from an oversized bamboo steam basket.
Its appearance in the dining room always causes a mild commotion as diners fight to get their share of the tall, pillowy chunks.
A dessert that can make grown men swoon and giggle, the tres leches cake is one to be reckoned with.
Although sinfully rich, it somehow manages to be delicate and airy.
The "pastel de tres leches" can be found in many Latin American cities, but is rarely bettered than at Mexico's Macram bakery.
This mess of sweetness is now known as kaiserschmarrn, a specialty dish that can sometimes be had as a main course in its native land.
Head to Viennese institution Cafe Central for a small mountain of thick, torn-up pancakes, caramelized and perfectly paired with a scarlet plum sauce.
Postre Chaja is named after a species of South American bird.
Resembling a mutated version of a Pavlova, postre chaja is a Uruguayan cake with layers of soft cake, cream and (usually) peach encased in a meringue shell.
Created by teahouse owner Orlando Castellano in the early 1900s, the cake is named after the chaja, a South American bird known in English as a crested screamer.
The original recipe for a postre chaja remains an undisclosed secret with the Castellano family.
The family, in its third generation since Orlando Castellano, still runs the factory Confiteria las Familias in the city of Paysandu.
It also has a retail store in Montevideo.
Postre Chaja Confiteria las Familias, 26 de Marzo 3516, Montevideo, Uruguay/18 de Julio 1152, Paysandu.
In the land of afternoon teas and the world's best-known royal family, one cake rules them all: the Victoria sponge.
Named after sweet-toothed Queen Victoria, this concoction regularly tops polls to discover the nation's favorite.
There's nothing lavish about a Victoria sponge. It comprises two light and buttery sponges that sandwich raspberry jam and -- although purists would argue against it -- whipped cream.
It's then sprinkled with icing sugar.
The simple treat is said to be the ultimate cake challenge for bakers -- as its basic recipe offers no room for error.
Britain's century-old Women's Institution declares the Victoria sponge as its icon as well as the best bake to test the performance of a new oven.
The tearoom of Brown's Hotel in London -- where Queen Victoria once hung out to enjoy tea and cakes -- is the ideal place for a slice of the British classic.
Just when you thought you couldn't possible eat any more food after finishing mountains of doner and dolma, four complimentary pieces of baklava arrive as a post-dinner snack.
And a miracle happens -- you devour them without a wince.
Baklava, served alongside tea and fruits, is a popular and addictive way to round off a meal in Turkey.
The Turkish sugary bomb consists of layers of filo filled with pistachio and soaked in syrup.
In 2013, Baklava in Gaziantep province gained protected status for agricultural products and foodstuffs by European Union -- the first Turkish product to receive such a status.
Sometimes prunes are added between the layers of a lapis legit.
Imagine stacking up 18 fluffy sponge cakes then compressing them into one; you'll get a beautifully layered lapis legit.
With a recipe that calls for an unforgiving amount of butter -- the best one uses only Dutch Wijsman butter -- and egg yolks, Indonesia's lapis legit is sweet, moist and firm.
It's also packed with spices like cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Inspired by European layered cakes with an Asian twist, lapis legit was first created during the Dutch colonial era.
Baking a lapis legit is a laborious task -- it's painstakingly created layer by layer in a process that takes hours.
Therefore, it's considered a prized treat during local holidays in Indonesia.
Harlie Lapis Legit is a family-run business selling uber-neat homemade lapis legit -- usually up to 20 or 22 layers -- since 2005.
Its orders come from across Indonesia, as well as neighboring Singapore and Malaysia.
Harlie doesn't have a store but takes orders online and by phone.
Prinsesstarta, or Swedish princess cake, is so beloved that the country dedicates an entire week to the cake.
The celebration takes place in the last week of September when the sales of cake are boosted by discounts.
Like its name, there's nothing low-maintenance about the dome-shaped concoction.
Sponge, jam, custard and whipped cream are assembled in layers.
It's then blanketed with a sheet of (usually green) marzipan.
A marzipan rose is crafted as a garnish atop the dome.
It's claimed the cake was first whipped up by Jenny Akerstrom, a baking instructor to the Swedish princesses in the early 1900s.
Stockholm's Vete-Katten is the best place for a Swedish fika experience (a break for coffee and pastries).
The forever-popular Vete-Katten and its cakes haven't changed much -- if at all -- since its opening in 1928.
Japanese anime fans would recognize this cake as the biggest obsession of Doraemon, a cartoon robot cat.
A dorayaki combines two of Japan's most popular confectioneries -- Castella sponge cake shaped into a pancake patty forms a sandwich around a filling of anko (sweet adzuki red bean paste).
The small disc-shaped cake is named after a dora, which means gong in Japanese.
Legend says it was invented by an elderly couple who dished up pancakes cooked on a gong left by an injured samurai they tended to during the Edo era.
Seijuken in Tokyo, a historic confectioners founded more than 150 years ago, is said to serve some of the best handmade dorayaki in Japan's capital.
Its generous anko filling takes up to four or five hours to stew.
The shop also stocks a range of other iconic wagashi: traditional Japanese confections.
Danish cakes may not be as famous as the country's namesake pastry, but they're just as visually impressive.
Kransekage in Danish (or kransekake in Norwegian) is the most spectacular of them all.
It's composed of stacks of different-sized ring cakes made from egg whites, sugar and almonds, with the smallest ring on top.
In Denmark and Norway it's a traditional celebration cake -- usually for weddings or on New Year's Eve.
The rings are decorated with wavy icing and small national flags.
One of the best places to get a kransekage is Conditoriet La Glace, which claims to be the oldest confectioner in Denmark.
Most of the interior decoration and furniture in this family bakery dates back to 1870, when it first opened.


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