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Vitor Belfort
TRAINING: Only two words to describe it: Hard work.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I just liked the sport. It is challenging and I like to be challenged.
What ranks and titles have you held? Former UFC light heavyweight champion, UFC heavyweight tournament champion, been ranked top 10 in light heavyweight and middleweight divisions. TUF Brazil coach.
Do you have any heroes? Jesus
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It's an honor. This is where I started and Dana and the Fertittas have done nothing but the best with this organization. I want to finish my career where I started it.
What was your job before you started fighting? Fighting has always been my job
Specific accomplishments in amateur competition? Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion
Specific accomplishments in pro competition? 1-0 in pro boxing
Ranks in any martial arts styles: Black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu
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For you pre-retirees who didn't save enough and are planning to work in retirement to help pay for your golden years, you may be in for a rude awakening.
Oh, and you pre-retirees who have saved enough money but just want to continue to work because you want to be engaged, you, too, may be in for a rude awakening.
The fact is, only a small percentage of people who plan to work in retirement are actually able to do it.

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By Liana B. Baker
(Reuters) - Sunday's close Super Bowl contest between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers failed to beat last year's game in total viewers, CBS Corp said on Monday.
An average of 108.41 million viewers tuned in, compared with 111.3 million a year ago when the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots on NBC. CBS said it was the third-most-watched program in television history, behind last year's Super Bowl and 2011's match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers, which garnered 111 million viewers.
CBS did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether a 35-minute partial electrical blackout in the third quarter of the game affected ratings. Advertisers paid $4 million on average for a 30-second spot during the game.
Late Sunday, CBS said in a statement that "all commercial commitments during the broadcast are being honored."
CBS also said that a record 164.1 million people watched all or part of the telecast for at least six minutes. This measurement is up 3 percent from 159.2 million a year ago.
National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters on Monday an investigation was under way to determine the cause of the disruption. He said there was no indication that Beyonce's halftime show had anything to do with the outage.
CBS said earlier on Monday that the telecast earned an average overnight household rating of 48.1 in Nielsen's metered markets, up 1 percent compared with last year's Super Bowl. CBS said the rating excludes the blackout, which occurred just after the start of the second half, between 8:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Nielsen's "metered markets" represent the top 56 U.S. TV markets.
The highest-rated period during Sunday's Super Bowl occurred from 10:30 p.m. to 10:47 p.m., when the game came down to the wire and the Ravens were able to hold off a furious second-half comeback by the 49ers to win 34-31. CBS said that over those 17 minutes, an average of 113.92 million viewers were tuned in.
The Super Bowl, which determines the NFL champion for the 2012 season, is broadcast live in more than 180 countries and in more than 30 different languages. The commercials during the game regularly net a record amount of ad revenue for the network that broadcasts the game in a given year.
Analysts said stand-out commercials included Chrysler's Jeep ad featuring a patriotic salute to U.S. troops and narration by Oprah Winfrey, an Oreo ad asking viewers to vote cookie or creme, and a scantily clad male Calvin Klein model.
Bluefin labs, a firm that tracks social media activity, said viewers produced 30.6 million social media comments, up from 12.5 million last year. The most talked about ad on social media was the Dodge Ram Trucks "Farmer" commercial, followed by Taco Bell's "Viva Young" spot featuring senior citizens behaving badly, Bluefin said.
The Super Bowl also gives the network that airs it an unprecedented promotional platform for its other programming, with the time slot immediately after the game among the most coveted in television. This year CBS chose to showcase its new crime drama "Elementary," a post-modern take on "Sherlock Holmes," in that time slot.
Just under 21 million viewers stuck around after the game to watch "Elementary," making it the lowest-rated post Super Bowl show in 10 years. Part of the blame for the weak rating can be cast on the game's 35-minutes blackout, which pushed "Elementary's" start time to after 11 p.m. on the East Coast.
Last year, NBC's "The Voice" scored 37.6 million viewers in the post-Super Bowl slot. ABC's airing of "Alias" in 2003 garnered only 17.3 million viewers.
"Elementary" averages around 10 million viewers during its normal airings.
(Reporting By Liana B. Baker; Editing by Peter Lauria, Andrew Hay, Dan Grebler and Tim Dobbyn)


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EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Behind a solid 50.9 shooting percentage from the field, the Tennessee Tech women's basketball team got back on track Tuesday night as it downed SIU-Edwardsville 68-52 for its 21st victory of the season.
What began as a back and forth battle in the first half that saw Tech enter the locker room with a 25-24 lead, turned into a decisive TTU victory as the Golden Eagles managed 16 field goals in 26 attempts in the second half to break things open on the way to improving to 21-6 on the season.
Tech was paced by junior guard Tacarra Hayes as she tallied a game-high 24 points, including an 8-of-9 performance from the free throw line. Hayes, who posted just two points in the first half, exploded out of the gate in the second as she posted 15 of her 22 second-half points in the first 10 minutes as Tech was able to break away from the Cougars.
Tech's first double-digit advantage came at the 14:22 mark of the second half as Keisha Moore drained a 10-foot shot to put Tech up by 11 at 38-27.
SIUE managed to get back within seven at the 13:12 mark, but that was as close as the Cougars would get as TTU reasserted itself for the final 13 mniutes of the contest, eventually building a 19-point lead with 2:23 left in the game en route to the final score of 68-52.
Along with Hayes' 24-point game, the Golden Eagles were also bolstered by the return of junior guard Kellie Cook who recorded 11 points, including a 3-of-3 performance from the three-point line, and three rebounds. Kellie Cook missed the last three games due to injury.
Junior center Brittany Darling tallied a game-high nine rebounds, while freshman forward Molly Heady notched eight points and seven rebounds.
Jazmin Hill paced the Cougar offense with 19 points, while Sydney Stahlberg and Raven Berry added 10 points each.
Tech won the battle on the glass as it brought down 39 borads to SIUE's 25. TTU also dished out 18 assists and tallied eight steals.
The Golden Eagles (21-6, 14-3 OVC) wrap up their regular season Saturday as they host Jacksonville State. Opening tip is set for 5:30 p.m. The first 300 fans who visit Eblen Center wearing PURPLE will be admitted free. Please call the Athletics Ticket Office in Eblen Center (931-372-3940) for more details.


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NOTE:* Some reviewers said to substitute coconut milk for the whole milk. I usually stick with a recipe, as is, the first time-- then make notes and adapt it next time.
Ina's recipe calls for both vanilla and almond extract. Again, some reviewers said they substituted with cococut extract. You decide... but, for me, almond extract it is!


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The program Key, which offers probably the best support for Hanyu Pinyin of any software and thus deserves praise for this alone, has just come out with an update with even more Pinyin features: Key 5.2 (build: August 21, 2011 — earlier builds of 5.2 do not offer all the latest features).
Those of you who already have the program should get the update, as it's free. But note that if you update from the site, the installer will ask you to uninstall your current version prior to putting in the update, so make sure you have your validation code handy or you'll end up with no version at all.
(If you don't already have Key, I recommend that you try it out. A 30-day free trial version can be downloaded from the site.)
Anyway, here's some of what the latest version offers:
- Hanzi-with-Pinyin horizontal layout gets preserved when copied into MS Word documents (RT setting), as well as in .html and .pdf files created from such documents.
- Pinyin Proofing (PP) assistance: with pinyin text displayed, pressing the PP button on the toolbar will colour the background of ambiguous pinyin passages blue; right-clicking on such a blue-background pinyin passage will display the available options.
- Copy Special: a highlighted Chinese character passage can be copied & pasted automatically in various permutations.
- Improved number-measureword system: it now works with Chinese-character, pinyin and Arabic numerals.
- Showing different tones through coloured characters (Language menu under Preferences).
- Chengyu (fixed four character expression) spacing logic: automatic spacing according to the pinyin standard (Language menu under Preferences).
- Option to show tone sandhi on grey background (Language menu under Preferences).
- Full support of standard pinyin orthography in capitalization and spacing.
- Automatic glossary building.
Some programs, such as Popup Chinese's "Chinese converter," will take Chinese characters and then produce pinyin-annotated versions, with the Pinyin appearing on mouseover. Key, however, offers something extra: the ability to produce Hanzi-annotated orthographically correct Pinyin texts (i.e,, the reverse of the above). If you have a text in Key in Chinese characters, all you have to do is go to
File --> Export to get Key to save your text in HTML format.
Here's a sample of what this looks like.
B?n bi?ozh?n gu?dìngle yòng? Zh?ngwén p?ny?n f?ng'àn? p?nxi? xiàndài Hàny? de gu?zé? Nèiróng b?okuò f?ncí liánxi? f?? chéngy? p?nxi?f?? wàiláicí p?nxi?f?? rénmíng dìmíng p?nxi?f?? bi?odiào f?? yíháng gu?zé d?ng?
Basically, this is a "digraphia export" feature — terrific!
If you want something like the above, you do not have to convert the Hanzi to orthographically correct Pinyin first; Key will do it for you automatically. (I hope, though, that they'll fix those double-width punctuation marks one of these days.)
Let's say, though, that you want a document with properly word-parsed interlinear Hanzi and Pinyin. Key will do this too. To do this, a input a Hanzi text in Key, then highlight the text (CTRL + A) and choose
Format --> Hanzi with Pinyin / Kanji-Kana with Romaji.
In the window that pops up, choose
Hanzi with Pinyin / Kanji-kana with Romaji / Hangul with Romanization from the Two-Line Mode section and
Show all non-Hanzi symbols in Pinyin line from Options. The results will look something like this:
This can be extremely useful for those authoring teaching materials.
Furthermore, such interlinear texts can be copied and pasted into Word. For the interlinear-formatted copy-and-paste into Word to work properly, Key must be set to rich text format, so before selecting the text you wish to use click on the button labeled RT. (Note yellow-highlighted area in the image below.)


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Brothers and comic titans Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez will be appearing at Comic-Con 2014. (Stephanie Rivers)Link
One of Jaime Hernandez's signature characters "Maggie." (Jaime Hernandez)Link
Ed Brubaker, writer of "Fatale," "Velvet" and many more will be appearing at Comic-Con 2014. (Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)Link
Nominated for an Eisner Award this year for her work coloring 11 titles including "Pretty Deadly" and "Nowhere Men," Jordie Bellaire will be appearing at Comic-Con 2014. (Courtesy of Jordie Bellaire)Link
A panel from Becky Cloonan's "Demeter," which received an Eisner nomination for best single issue or one-shot this year. Cloonan will be appearing at Comic-Con 2014. (Becky Cloonan)Link
The creator of "Any Colony" and ongoing Koyama Press series "Lose," Michael Deforge will be appearing at Comic-Con 2014. (Robin Nishio)Link
The creator of "Hellboy" and current scribe of "Hellboy in Hell," Mike Mignola will be appearing at Comic-Con 2014. (Anne Cusack/Los Angeles Times)Link
A panel from Ed Piskor's "Hip-Hop Family Tree" (Fantagraphics). Piskor will be appearing at Comic-Con 2014. (Ed Piskor)Link
Emma Rios, who is up for an Eisner Award this year for her work on "Pretty Deadly," will be appearing at Comic-con 2014. (Courtesy of Emma Rios)Link
Chris Samnee, who picked up an Eisner Award for his work on "Daredevil" will be appearing at Comic-Con 2014. (Laura Samnee)Link
Fiona Staples, the artist behind the Image ongoing series"Saga" will be making an appearance at Comic-Con 2014. (Courtesy of Fiona Staples)Link
Panel from "Saga" No. 1 by Fiona Staples. (Fiona Staples)Link
Gene Luen Yang, up for an Eisner Award this year for his work on "Boxers" and "Saints," will be appearing at Comic-Con 2014. (Don Kelsen/Los Angeles Times)Link
Over the course of four decades, San Diego's Comic-Con International has grown from modest roots to become a powerful marketing machine for Hollywood — so much so that the A-list actors and filmmakers who attend can overshadow the creative professionals doing groundbreaking work in comic books and graphic novels. That's especially disappointing given that the medium is thriving as never before.
With the annual pop culture expo expected to draw more than 125,000 visitors to downtown San Diego this week, the following is a look at 12 vital creators working in different areas of the industry: writing, drawing, coloring and cartooning, some of whom are vying for prizes at the annual Eisner Awards — essentially the Academy Awards of comics — which are handed out at Comic-Con each year.
Jordie Bellaire
A first-time Eisner nominee this year for her work coloring 11 titles including "Pretty Deadly" and "Nowhere Men," Jordie Bellaire has quickly become one of the industry's most prolific color artists. "My comic work is all about color and storytelling with color, so I hope the books that I color feel like films — inviting and atmospheric," Bellaire says. After cutting down to a more manageable list of coloring projects, Bellaire has begun a writing career and will have a few short stories published this fall. Amid all this, she's also found time to be a leading advocate for gender equality in the industry, co-founding the "Comics Are For Everybody" campaign to improve the visibility of underrepresented creators and fans.
Ed Brubaker
A creator who made his name in independent comics before writing big-name superheroes like Batman and Captain America, Ed Brubaker does his best work when he has complete control. "I follow my own obsessions down their dark paths," Brubaker says. "I've always been trying to tell stories I can feel passionate about and create characters I hope readers will care about and empathize with." Brubaker's contract with Image Comics gives him the freedom and the resources to put out comics exactly the way he wants them, and the relationship has already produced two riveting pieces of genre fiction, "Fatale" (with artist Sean Philips) and "Velvet" (with artist Steve Epting), and this fall, Brubaker will be reteaming with Philips for "The Fade Out," a crime drama set in 1948 Hollywood.
Becky Cloonan
It's difficult to make time for personal projects while working for major publishers, but Becky Cloonan has evolved as a cartoonist by devoting herself to one self-published story each year. Cloonan's latest independent effort, "Demeter," has earned her an Eisner nomination for best single issue or one-shot, the award she won last year for "The Mire." "I really just want to create stories that stick with people, that move people," says Cloonan. "Where right after you put the book down, you immediately want to pick it back up and start at the beginning." Already holding the honor of the first female artist to work on "Batman," Cloonan will be returning to DC Comics this fall as the co-writer of "Gotham Academy," teaming with co-writer Brendan Fletcher and artist Karl Kerschl for the kid-friendly new series.
Michael DeForge
One of the most exciting and unpredictable cartoonists working in comics, Michael DeForge has a unique perspective that juggles humor, tragedy, whimsy and horror to create unforgettable stories. His graphic novel "Ant Colony" and ongoing Koyama Press series "Lose" showcase a brilliantly imaginative art style that is always growing, morphing to suit the needs of his writing while striving for more streamlined visuals. "I just want each new comic to be different from the last one," DeForge says. "Each new project should seem like a challenge, and I want to keep pushing myself." DeForge regularly releases new content online while working on print publications, but the majority of the public sees his work on "Adventure Time," the Cartoon Network series for which he designs props and characters.
Gilbert Hernandez
There are few creators who can top Gilbert Hernandez when it comes to the sheer quantity of annual output. Last year saw the release of five new works from Hernandez, garnering him three Eisner nominations, and each project has showcased a different side of the incredibly multifaceted cartoonist. "I hope to make comics simply to please any readers that might enjoy my peculiar way of storytelling and characterization," Hernandez says. "One story might be an all-ages story about kids innocently reading comics books and the next about transgender homemakers robbing banks." There's no way of predicting where Hernandez's creativity will take him next, and after 30 years in the industry, it's even more impressive that his work consistently surprises and astounds.
Jaime Hernandez
Jaime Hernandez doesn't take as many risks as his brother Gilbert, but that's because he's so skilled at doing what comes naturally. Jaime's half of the ongoing "Love and Rockets" series primarily focuses on Maggie Chascarillo, exploring her relationships with the people and places around her. "I'm trying to tell a story that will last longer than the 10 minutes it took you to read," Hernandez says, and nowhere is that philosophy more apparent than his graphic novel "The Love Bunglers." A narrative that had been developing since the beginning of "Love and Rockets" in 1981, "The Love Bunglers" solidifies Hernandez's place as a cartooning master, and he continues to sharpen his talent with each new endeavor.
Mike Mignola
After stepping away from drawing "Hellboy" for six years, Mike Mignola has returned to his signature creation to do the best work of his career in "Hellboy in Hell." The ongoing Dark Horse series is a place where Mignola has total freedom to follow his creative urges, resulting in captivating developments like puppet shows and fairy-tale adaptations done in Mignola's distinct neo-gothic style. "I would like to put something out there that hasn't been done before," says Mignola. "Hellboy" is very much the comic I would have loved to have read had somebody else done it." As Mignola delves deeper into Hellboy's afterlife, he continues to expand the rest of Dark Horse's B.P.R.D. titles, building a sprawling comic book universe for horror fans.
Ed Piskor
The cartoonist behind "Hip-Hop Family Tree," Ed Piskor has created one of the industry's best gateway comics with his retro-styled history of hip-hop music. "I just want to create the best body of work I possibly can," says Piskor. "There are some pretty ostentatious things I want to accomplish, but I have to keep those to myself for now." Imagining the early days of the hip-hop movement with writing and art that intentionally evoke the bombast and energy of an early '80s Marvel comic, Piskor has introduced scores of music fans to comics by serializing the series for free on Boing Boing, but these stories look even better in Fantagraphics' printed collections, the second of which is set for release this year.
Emma Rios
In the pages of "Pretty Deadly," Emma Rios brings Kelly Sue DeConnick's script to life with visuals that emphasize all the magic, beauty and terror of the unconventional western narrative. She's received her first Eisner nomination this year for her graceful, detailed linework and innovative layouts. Regarding the guiding philosophy of her work, Rios says, "Have fun creating worlds, stories and people to reach others and myself." Rios hopes to continue doing creator-owned work while refining her skills, and each new project sees her pushing visual experimentation to find new ways to convey information through graphic storytelling.
Chris Samnee
The spiritual successor of legendary draftsmen like Alex Toth and Milton Caniff, Chris Samnee regularly produces breathtaking superhero artwork in the pages of Marvel's "Daredevil" with writer Mark Waid. "I like to keep the storytelling clear and the art free of excess, so I only put down on paper what is absolutely necessary," says Samnee. "Every day I'm pushing myself to improve my craft while having as much fun as possible." Samnee won an Eisner Award last year for "Daredevil." For his next challenge, he'll jump into the writer's seat with the intention of pursuing a creator-owned project soon.
Fiona Staples
Fiona Staples was already an incredibly promising artist before she partnered with writer Brian K. Vaughan on the Image ongoing series "Saga," but that creative relationship has elevated Staples to new creative heights. The wild sci-fi world of Vaughan's story allows Staples to show off her ingenious design sense and slick action choreography, but it's her deep understanding of emotional storytelling that makes her the ideal artist for the title. "I want to deliver stories that are new and exciting and get them into the hands of people who have never read a comic before!" Staples says, and that enthusiasm has helped make "Saga" one of the industry's best titles for new comic readers who want to see the medium's full potential.
Gene Luen Yang
With a gift for interpreting mythology and history in ways that appeal to a wide age range of readers, Gene Luen Yang uses his Chinese heritage to create engaging comics that are deeply personal yet rooted in centuries of stories, fictional and true. "I want to tell stories that keep the reader with me from the first page to the last," Yang says. "Everything else is icing." "Boxers" and "Saints," Yang's pair of graphic novels detailing the Boxer Revolution from opposing points of view earned him an Eisner nomination this year, and this summer sees the release of "The Shadow Hero," a graphic novel by Yang and artist Sonny Liew that details the life of a forgotten Chinese American superhero in the golden age of comics.
— Oliver Sava | @LATHeroComplex
[For the record, July 20, 4:21 p.m.: A previous version of this post incorrectly gave the title of Michael DeForge's "Ant Colony" as "Any Colony."]
Comic-Con: 'Under the Dome,' 'Scorpion,' 'Reign' offer early looks
Comic-Con 2014: Peter Jackson to offer peek at 'Hobbit' finale, George Miller to tout 'Mad Max: Fury Road'
Comic-Con 2014: 'American Horror Story,' 'Salem' and more witchy TV
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism unit conducted several bloody operations to root out suspected Islamic militants, killing seven and arresting 13 others, police said Thursday as they continued to investigate an alleged plot to bomb the Myanmar Embassy.
Investigators said the suspected militants robbed banks and committed other thefts to fund terrorism. Police were trying to determine whether any of the groups raided Wednesday and Thursday were connected to last week's alleged plot to retaliate against Myanmar for recent attacks on Muslims in that country.
Police shot and killed three suspected militants early Thursday after an all-night standoff at a house in the Central Java town of Kebumen. Four others were arrested, said National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar.
He said at a news conference that the militants had planned to carry out a robbery. He said those who were killed had refused to surrender and instead fired guns and lobbed homemade bombs at security forces.
The day before in the West Java village of Cigondewah, three suspected terrorists were fatally shot after holing up for hours inside a house, said National Police chief Gen. Timur Pradopo. He said the men also engaged in a shootout and hurled bombs. One suspect was taken into custody, and Amar said another had been arrested a day earlier.
No officers were hurt in either incident.
Police said they had acted on information obtained through interrogating an alleged gun maker arrested Tuesday in the West Java village of Cipacing. Intelligence gathered from subsequent arrests allowed authorities to quickly move in and storm hideouts in the separate areas, Amar said.
A suspected militant was killed, and another arrested, in Central Java's Batang town on Wednesday. Amar said in a text message that they were suspected in a March jewelry shop robbery in Jakarta. A second suspect was also arrested in Kendal, Central Java.
Also on Wednesday, the anti-terror squad arrested five suspects in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, and in neighboring Banten province. Authorities involved in the various operations also seized firearms, ammunition and explosives.
Amar said the 13 suspects captured and seven killed Wednesday and Thursday were linked to groups in Poso, a flashpoint of terrorism in Central Sulawesi where a Muslim-Christian conflict killed at least 1,000 people from 1998 to 2002.
They were also allegedly involved in thefts to fund their terrorist activities, including three bank robberies, Amar said. He added they had planned to set Jakarta's largest market, Glodok, on fire, though he provided no details.
It was not immediately known if the suspected militants were connected to last week's alleged plot against the Myanmar Embassy, but it was being investigated. Sectarian violence in that Buddhist-majority country has killed scores of people, and tens of thousands of Muslims have been driven from their homes.
Last week, two suspects were arrested in Jakarta with five homemade bombs in a backpack. Other explosive materials were recovered inside a house they rented in the city.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has been battling terrorists since bombings on the resort island of Bali in 2002 killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Clusters of arrests involving suspected terrorists at various sites are common once the terrorism force, known as Densus 88, receives information. Formed after the Bali attacks, it has received American and Australian financial and technical assistance and has been instrumental in the arrests of hundreds of militants over the past decade. It is credited with reducing the threat of further attacks on Western interests in the country, but the squad had been criticized for the high number of deaths resulting from its raids. More than 70 suspects have been killed since the unit was established.
Terrorist attacks aimed at foreigners in Indonesia have been largely replaced in recent years by smaller, less deadly strikes targeting the government, mainly police and anti-terrorism forces.
Associated Press writer Ali Kotarumalos in Jakarta contributed to this report.


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The Las Venturas Hospital is a hospital in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas located at the Las Venturas Airport, Las Venturas, San Andreas.
The design of the hospital is relatively simple, with two entrances in the building, one facing the Las Venturas Airport, where the player would respawn to after being killed within the boundaries of Las Venturas (including a mission failure in The Meat Business because of CJ and Ken Rosenberg being trapped in the freezer), and one facing Redsands West. The hospital also has a parking lot, which spawns numerous vehicles, particularly an Ambulance, while other parked vehicles are random.
Prominent use in mission
The hospital is prominently featured during "Intensive Care", during which Ken Rosenberg asks you to pick up Johnny Sindacco from the hospital, only to find out that the Forelli Family has ambushed Johnny's ambulance.


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Welcome to the third round of STYLE SESSIONS WITH! This time around I had the opportunity to have a chat with the creators behind the Californian label Mini & Maximus. Megan Villa and Sophie St-Onge put their creative heads together and created a brand of kids clothing that would celebrate kids in all their amazing, dirty and wonderful glory! Sit back, grab a cup of something and tag along on a interesting journey behind the brand that so many kids an parents love today...
Can you tell us a little about how Mini & Maximus got started? I am curious to hear about the spark of inspiration that started it, and how did you come up with the name?
Sophie: I've wanted to start something that would have to do with graphics. I had no idea it would of been clothing and home goods specifically for kids. Originally Megan approached me for some graphic design help she need it for a bedding company she had in mind. Turns out one late night while I was feeding Sasha my 1st child I though of asking Megan if she would start "something" or some creative company with me. And yay! she said yes... At the time I had worked with Megan for few years and I liked her work ethic, personality and her energy.
I knew I needed a business partner to get on this journey, so much more fun that way. Now I know it actually was necessary. No way I could do all of it myself. NO WAY. We've been working really well together, I think we have the right personalities to complete each other in the the business world. We both let each other win or loose on some decisions but never any hard feelings. It's just like if we were married. HAH!
Megan and I did ton of research and came up with a million names. Until I heard the name Maximus for a little boy... I was thinking I could call my son Maximus if I ever had a boy. Megan and I loved that name in general but we were not 100% sure until Megan suggested to add Mini. We felt that Mini and Maximus was perfect for us. We love things to be balanced and equal: Mini and Maximus: Boys and girls, young and old, big and small. Mini represent: the small, the girl, the little dream where Maximus is the opposite; the big, the boy, the big dream. On and one...
What is the hardest/most rewarding with having your own label?
Megan: The hardest part of having our label is not having enough time to do everything we want to do. We wear many hats as it is pretty much just the two of us, so we have our hands in everything. If we could have more time in the day, I think that would help a lot. The most rewarding part is when I speak to people that have actually heard of us or see someone wearing our products. There have been some very unexpected times, when random people will say-I bought one of your posters, or we own several of your tees. That is very gratifying for me.
Sophie: Certainly not having enough time in the day and all the money we wish we could spend. We run a very tight ship and every penny counts.The most rewarding thing is just like what Megan answered. Seeing random people telling us how much they love our brand, seeing cute photos of kids wearing our clothes. WE LOVE THAT.
And of course we love seeing Gwen Stefani's kids rock our clothes, we love her style and we are flattered that she has her kids in our clothes.
What makes Mini & Maximus different from other kids fashion labels?
Megan: Mini & Maximus is different from other kids labels for a number of reasons. We have a story behind our brand. Sophie and I have both worked for a major surf company for the past ten years, so having a story to tell is just second nature to us as that is what sets you apart from brands that just churn out apparel. We partner each season with artists young and old, so we always have new stories to tell about our collaborators and it keeps the line looking fresh. We also strive to use eco-friendly materials whenever possible. We do not claim to be organic, but when we can we like to leave a lighter footprint if possible.
Sophie: Megan said it all up here. I would add that we design the line for kids but keeping in mind that we would actually love to wear most of the pieces ourselves. Almost like adult clothing but in a mini format.
Your latest collection, Animal Collective is your forth collection so far. Since starting out and growing in popularity for each collection has there been any valuable lessons learned along the way?
Megan: Yes, there have been many learning lessons. We learn something new everyday, we are learning from our mistakes and hopefully each season, we are getting better and better at what we do.
Sophie: We've learn that the most reliable people are Megan and I, handing things over has not proven to be very successful so we like to control everything we do, from design to production! : )
Most of us know that your biggest inspiration for Mini & Maximus is kids, but what gets your creative juices going? Can you take us a little bit behind the process of how a collection is created?
Sophie: Well well, it often starts with graphic in minds. It can be from a graffiti in the street, to a drawing my daughter did, to artwork I see on a school wall, to artists friends of mine that keep inspiring me day after day. For clothing it self, we don't feel like we follow trends too much, if there is a piece I like wearing myself, I'll find a way to translate the idea into kids clothing. Eache season we make this big wall of inspiration mainly taken from our iphones. Put it all up in one place and go from there. Colors can be hard to pic, we can't afford having too many colors so making the right decision is NOT EASY.
Can you take us through how a MIMA tee is born? How do you decide what goes on it, what color to choose, and is the screen printing something you do yourself?
Sophie: MIMA (Cut and sew) tee was born cause we just could not find a label where we could buy blanks in the full size range and fit we liked. So we went on a big journey of making our own pattern and all of the above. Now we have it dialed, we love our fit; long and fitted (more of a contemporary look). SCREEN PRINTING!!!! I took screen printing classes years ago just for fun and felt in love with the process. We print our tees and all our clothes locally at my friend's screenprinting shop.
I like it cause I have full control of the printing as I personally stand there the whole time we print to make sure it looks perfect. Not the most glamourous part of my job but it's worth it to get it down right. We are also proud to be supporting American jobs.
Your artist collabs are always very intriguing choices to me, what sort of artists inspires you? Anybody out there that you would really like to work with
Sophie: Thanks! We like to work with talented artists, young and old or should I say older than kids... Lots of them are friends of mine or friends of friends and in some cases artists I'm obsessed with.
For example, we did a collab with Mike Perry for a previous collection. I've admired his work over the years... I contacted him and he accepted. I was overjoyed to work with him. I'm really inspired by artists that have a bit of a darker side. I don't love the too sweet artwork, that's just me.
If I could, I would love to work with.... Ha, I can't tell you cause what if it happens, it won't be a surprise. : )
Your initiative Kids Will Have Their Say, is a beautiful way of letting kids art speak for itself. We were of course very proud to see our daughters drawings in this collection, and the sense of pride kids get from showing others their art is nothing but inspiring. I am imagining you are being sent young art from all over the world, how do you go about choosing what ends up on a Mini and Maximus tee?
Sophie: Well, Mika is one of the most talented artist I know. No one believe me when I tell them her age. She is truly gifted.
Yes, we get parents submitting artwork for their kids from all over the world. Thank you to the internet. Choosing is just next to impossible, it takes us weeks to choose to make sure we make the best decisions. My 5 year old daughter HAS HER SAY in the process. I value her opinion since kids her age will actually be wearing it.
I love your eco friendly awareness with your label, I have myself been in the fashion industry and know how much cheaper it is to not go down that route - what made you decide you wanted to be a label that focused on eco-friendly clothes even though it might be a more costly path? - Sharon from UK.
Megan: I read Yvon Chouinards (the founder of Patagonia) book "Let My People Go Surfing" and it was a huge inspiration to me how he runs Patagonia. We do not claim to be 100% organic, but we do try to take steps to leave a lighter footprint, some of our product are organic. All of our posters are printed on recycled paper with water-based ink, a portion of our line uses organic cotton. We try to do what we can.
Sophie: After all, "kids will have their say" and the future is theirs so let's be responsible parents and business owner for the kids future. There is a lot more we want to do as far as being eco- friendly, we will keep on challenging ourselves to make sure we have a responsible successful business.
Megan: Our Spg/Sum 13 collection is inspired by Southern California. We introduced several new styles and also linen fabric. We have added some linen blankets and pillows as well as some new accessories. We also did a really cool collaboration this season with two brothers from Santa Cruz that surf and skate and are uber-talented artists, so we can't wait to share them with the world!
Sophie: We always keep Australia in mind when we design our lines. We love you guys and want to make sure there are some style you guys will be able to wear or decorate your house with.A big thanks to Megan & Sophie for taking the time to do an Q&A with us, and for taking us on a nice little tour behind the scenes of Mini & Maximus. Today more items from their current collection Animal Collective is hitting their online webshop shelves, so make sure you visit them for a chance to purchase some truly original clothes for your little rebels.


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The mystery of Stonehenge used to be a "how" thing. Visitors and scientists wondered how people 4500 years ago dragged extremely heavy rocks over 200 miles from their Welsh quarry to the legendary pagan holy place. But now it's been established that there were many ways that locals might have gotten the rocks into place using relatively primitive tools. The question now is "why." Why this spot? And also, when exactly was the spot established? A new archaeological dig at Stonehenge — the first in half a century — is already providing hints.
Mostly, the dig will allow researchers to get more rock fragments that they hope to carbon date. According to the Independent:
The two-week project will try to establish the precise dating of the "Double Bluestone Circle", the first stone structure to have been erected at the site thousands of years ago . . . "The bluestones hold the key to understanding the purpose and meaning of Stonehenge," said Dr Simon Thurley, the chief executive of English Heritage. "Their arrival marked a turningpoint in the history of Stonehenge, changing the site from being a fairly standard formative henge with timber structures and occasional use for burial, to the complex stone structure whose remains dominate the site today."
The bluestones are natural columns of white-spotted dolerite, found only in the Carn Menyn region of the Preseli Hills, in north Pembrokeshire, and it was from there, about 4,500 years ago, that Stonehenge's neolithic builders brought 80 of the stones the 160-mile journey from south-west Wales to Salisbury Plain. The reasons why they did so, archaeologists argue, hold the key to Stonehenge's existence.
A current and popular theory today is that the Preseli Hills were pocked with streams and pools that many believed to have healing properties. Hence its rocks would have been deemed particularly sacred. It's also possible that Stonehenge was originally built near a spring that has since changed course.
Researchers now also believe that Stonehenge may have been a popular destination among Romans as well as local tribes. Again from the Independent:
A classical legend associated with the Greek Oracle of Delphi may also be relevant to Stonehenge's past. The legend states that the oracle at Delphi functioned for only part of the year because, for three months around the winter solstice, the site's oracular deity (the sun god Apollo) went to the "land of the hyperboreans" (literally "the land of the people beyond the north wind!"), which is generally believed to be Britain. Significantly, Stonehenge is aligned with the winter as well as the summer solstice.
It's unlikely that carbon dating the bluestones will help solve this riddle, but it will give scientists a better sense of when the first rocks were placed at Stonehenge. And, quite possibly, closer study of the rocks will reveal something special about them that until now had remained hidden. Image by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP.
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Sale Might be Near for Partially Finished, Dormant, Renaissance Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Rich Laden | The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) | June 28, 2013 1:00am
June 28, 2013 --It's one of the Pikes Peak region's more visible reminders of the area's recent economic downturn: the hulking, partially finished Renaissance Hotel that has sat dormant on Colorado Springs' far north side for nearly four years.
Now, there's movement on the hotel's possible sale and completion.
A Denver-based investor has contracted to buy the hotel, according to Fred Veitch, a vice president with Nor'wood Development Group, the Springs-based real estate company that's developing the InterQuest Marketplace retail center that includes the hotel site.
Veitch said he didn't know the investor's identity, and that the potential buyer is going through a due diligence period to evaluate the hotel. He said he didn't have any additional information.
Houston-based Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, a commercial real estate firm that's marketing the Renaissance, also says on its website that the hotel is under contract; the website describes the hotel and adjoining conference center as "half-constructed" and "can be completed in 10-12 months from construction re-start."
Holliday Fenoglio Fowler representatives didn't return phone calls.
Putting a property under contract is a sign a buyer is serious, but doesn't necessarily mean a deal will get done. Commercial investors often contract to buy a property, but walk away before a deadline to commit money if their research shows there are financial, regulatory or logistical hurdles on a project.
In the case of the Renaissance Hotel, a buyer will have to spend millions on the purchase, and millions more to complete the project. The Holliday Fenoglio Fowler website says "the hotel can be acquired at a significant discount to the original completion estimate."
The hotel is owned by a limited liability company controlled by Flintco Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., the hotel's original general contractor. Flintco CEO Tom Maxwell didn't return phone calls; last year, Maxwell said Flintco had received offers for the hotel, but not at a price the company deemed acceptable.
The Renaissance and InterQuest Marketplace sit on nearly 20 acres east of Interstate 25, and the 11-story, 300-room hotel is visible to thousands of vehicles that pass by daily on the interstate.
The Renaissance was launched by Missouri hotelier John Q. Hammons, one of the nation's foremost hotel developers. After spending $47 million of his own money on the project, Hammons failed to obtain financing to complete it; work stopped in October 2009.
The elderly Hammons was placed in a nursing home the next year. His company underwent a management shake-up, and officials who took over the business said the poor economy stalled the hotel's completion. Hammons died last month at 94.
Flintco had filed a legal claim against the property and bought it for $28.8 million in October 2011 at an El Paso County Sheriff's foreclosure auction. Flintco has since sought to sell the hotel.
In addition to its 300 rooms, the hotel's planned amenities were to include 46,495 square feet of meeting space, a 191-seat, full-service restaurant, a 100-seat atrium lounge and bar with outdoor seating, a coffee bar, spa, fitness room and heated indoor pool, according to Holliday Fenoglio Fowler's website.
Nor'wood's Veitch said the stalled hotel hasn't affected development of InterQuest Marketplace, a planned 131-acre, 900,000-square-foot retail and entertainment complex. But once the hotel is finished, he said, it should give the project a boost.
InterQuest Marketplace currently includes a 14-screen movie theatre complex, a Brunswick Zone XL entertainment center, Cheddar's Casual Cafe, Colorado Mountain Brewery and a Kum & Go convenience store.
Doug Price, president and CEO of the Colorado Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau, said he's heard about the hotel's possible sale, but didn't have any information on the deal.
The far north side of Colorado Springs and northern El Paso County have been strong growth areas in the Pikes Peak region, and the hotel would serve the nearby Air Force Academy, tourists, businesses and neighborhoods, he said.
"Having a new hotel would be kind of like having a crown jewel up there," Price said.
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A surgical procedure called the Maze Procedure has had excellent results in curing AF. This procedure requires that the cardiac surgeon open the chest, use a heart-lung machine and make numerous small incisions on the atria to block the flow of excess electrical signals that cause AF. Although this is an extremely successful procedure, it is limited in its acceptance due to the invasive technique used.
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Wales skipper Jones a natural leader
Captaincy comes naturally for Ryan Jones, who has retained the leadership role for Saturday's Six Nations Test against Scotland at Murrayfield.
The Ospreys man joins Sam Warburton and Toby Faletau in the back row for this weekend's clash but despite Warburton's return, it is Jones who has retained the captaincy.
"I am pretty pleased. I am here and I want to contribute to this team whichever way the coach and team require," said Jones.
"That's my role in this group and it is something I am fiercely proud of.
"It is a role I enjoy but like Rob [Howley] said, first and foremost it's playing like an international six and playing well and then captaincy becomes easy I suppose."
With the returns of Warburton and Alun Wyn Jones to the starting XV for the clash at Murrayfield, Wales interim head coach Rob Howley is able to call on a wealth of experience.
And the Wales skipper knows he too can call on plenty of support from his teammates.
"When a call needs to be made it will be down to me but Sam and many others will be consulted at different times when required," he added.
"They will certainly have input, not just game time, but in the lead-up to this game.
"It is an opportunity for Sam to concentrate on his own game, put all the other worries and stuff to one side and just go out and be the player we know he is."
Jones has led Wales to consecutive away wins over France and Italy and will be looking to complete a hat-trick on Saturday. He leads a team with three changes from the game in Rome, Paul James the other to come into the side.
And although his record for captaining Wales may never be broken, Jones says he does not worry too much about leading the side.
"As you get older, you change as a person and things change and shape you. You learn from past experiences," he said.
"It's something you have to do your way. I just try to do what I do, really, it is not something I have sat down and consciously thought about."


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I just started kiting and have only been out 5 times so far three of those times were lessons. Today I was launching from Kite beach, and my wife was helping me launch. Of course she is brand new too, only done it twice now. Well she picked the kite up strange and ended up getting down wind of the kite, of course getting it all wrapped around her. I know this is not good, but there wasn't much I could do to help.
The crazy thing is that there were three guys standing about three feet away from her, just watching. They were toooooooo cool to help a newbie. Then this guy yells at them "hey, aren't you going to help her" and they still just stood there. So I yelled at them " hey, could you help her out." So this guy walks over all huffy and helped. He got me launched and I had a great time playing around in the waves for my first time.
I just can't stand that you have to rely on other people in this sport, and that it seems like no one really wants to help you. I've heard that maybe Naish beach is a little more friendly, but I've been apprehensive to try a new beach when I'm so new. I guess I'll try it anyway.
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Superformance in a Remington Model 722 .300 Savage
Hornady's Superformance line of ammo, just like their LEVERevolution line, gets enhanced velocity largely from improved powder technology, which Hornady has pursued with the Hodgdon Powder Company. This line is said to yield 100-200 fps additional velocity over standard for a range of hunting, target, and varmint cartridges. I was very happy to see that a Superformance version of the .300 Savage, the 92-year-old, original short-action cartridge was recently introduced. This load uses the Hornady 150-grain SST bullet, a boattail design having a ballistic coefficient of 0.415. Pulling a bullet revealed a charge of 44.7 grains of dark, silver gray ball powder with flattened grains that appeared to be identical with Hodgdon Superformance Powder, a reasonable assumption, I think.
I testfired the .300 Savage ammo in a bolt action, Remington Model 722. The Model 722 was introduced in 1948 and was chambered for the .300 Savage from 1948 to 1959. This Remington model lasted until the introduction of the Model 700 in 1962. My 50-some year old edition was found on GunBroker and purchased in a very satisfactory transaction with Mr. Dave Sanders of Torrington, Wyoming. The gun arrived exactly as advertised in very good condition with a perfect bore. I like the 24-inch barrel which I thought would be able to take good advantage of the progressive Superformance powder.
I used Winchester and Remington 150-grain loads in .300 Savage for velocity comparison using a ProChrono unit, with results as follows:
Winchester Super-X 150-grain Power Point: Average velocity, 2657 fps
Extreme Spread, 48 fps; Standard Deviation 18 fps.
Remington Core-Lokt 150-grain PSP: Average velocity, 2622 fps
Extreme Spread, 92 fps; Standard Deviation, 30 fps.
Hornady Superformance 150-grain SST: Average velocity, 2752 fps
Extreme spread, 92 fps; Standard Deviation 28 fps.
Each average is based on at least eight shots. The results would indicate that Winchester and Remington are juicing their loads right up to conventional pressure specs, and, yes, the Superformance does deliver additional velocity, +95 fps over the Winchester, and +130 fps over the Remington. This apparently happens without exceeding SAAMI pressure recommendations for the cartridge. One could argue about the practical difference in field performance resulting from the velocity difference, but the difference is there, and the very efficient SST bullet will insure that the velocity difference is at least as great out at 200 yards where the deer might be standing.
My evaluation of accuracy was not extensive. The Remington 722 is fairly new to me and has yet had no accuracy tweaking. Three, 3-shot groups fired at 50 yards averaged 0.90" (1.8 Minute-of-Angle). The smallest of the three groups measured an impressive 0.36", which demonstrated the possibility for excellent accuracy. The Remington and Winchester factories also gave good accuracy.
If you use this ammo for hunting, it will probably be in a Savage Model 99 lever action. All of the advantages of the Superformance .300 Savage cartridge should also show up with this arm, so I think it is worth your consideration.
I am an independent shooting enthusiast with great interest in the performance of factory and handloaded ammunition for vintage cartridges. I have no connection with Hornady, other than as a customer who pays full retail price for their ammo when I try it out.
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So the old girl is alive and kickin'. My .300 Sav load of 150 Remington Core Lokt over Re-15 gives 2,638 fps/ES 29.9/STD 11.8. I'll stay with that, but I am glad Hornady is putting some development into this great old cartridge.
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Is the Superpreformance line equivalent to the old Hornady Light Magnum loads?
They don't make that loading anymore and I am down to my last box of it in .30-06.
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The old light magnum rounds would not cycle in semi-autos and pushed pressure right to the limits. Supposedly the Superformance ammo gives comparable velocity, without excess pressure and is safe to use in semi-autos.
I've tried it in my 30-06 and 308. It did not impress me in the 30-06. Accuracy was borderline and speeds were not impresive. My handloads with a max charge of H-4350 were within 50 fps of the Superformance loads and much more accurate.
My 308 liked them much better. Accuracy was not quite as good as my handloads, but perfectly acceptable, at least as good as any other factory load I've tried. Velocity was not as much as advertised, but much better than I can get with my handloads.
They are not overly expensive and worth a look. If they shoot well in your guns they would be a viable option.
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The Nightmare is just beginning. After the tutorial, you will enter a dark labyrinth like cave full of mystery.
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Clever use of gravity will be required to complete each of the 40 levels in this challenging Sonic flash game
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Victor the fiendish crocodile has abducted Amy Rose! Sonic must set out to rescue his girlfriend.
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You have a set number of spins to collect all the ring boxes on each screen. 3 total areas with 8 levels each.
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19 Oct Recipe: Sour Cream Old-Fashioned Doughnuts
May I drop another name this week? How about Jess Thomson? She's an award-winning food writer, a photographer and a recipe developer who once completed a marathon recipe-writing stint by producing a recipe a day — for a whole year. I wouldn't be surprised if she flew helicopters or designed subway systems in her spare time. Her talents seem endless.
Among her many accomplishments, she also helped write Top Pot Hand-Forged Doughnuts. So, when she asked me to participate in National Doughnut month, I had to say yes. After all, I couldn't look like a wimp in front of Super Jess.
When the book arrived, I was a bit surprised to see the word "doughnuts" spelled out in full. American spelling slashes letters from British English with alarming frequency. "Colour," "flavour," "neighbour," and "savoury" all lose a vowel the second they cross the border. Having made a batch from scratch, I now know why they stuck to the traditional spelling. "Donuts" describe fast food. "Doughnuts" are not merely homemade, they're hand-forged.
Reading over the instructions, I realized this easily-distracted Gemini needed reinforcements. So I asked my level-headed Libra of a best friend to help me. She generously agreed. Good thing, too. She solved the issue of the doughnut holes. Without a proper doughnut cutter (and yes, there is such a thing) we had to improvise. A juice glass cut the outer edge, but finding something to cut the hole wasn't so easy. The apple corer was too small, the shot glasses too wide. In the end, Joanne's eagle-eye settled on an object that was just right — the cap from an over-sized bottle of mouthwash.
These two common household items did the trick, but as you can see, my centring abilities leave a bit to be desired. I like to think they make the results look truly hand-forged. Or in this case, hand-fudged.
In Which Charmian and Joanne Follow the Doughnut Recipe
While the dough and glaze are easy to make, the frying required undivided attention. So Joanne was in charge of that.
If you attempt doughnuts, let me warn you, there must be no wandering off to check email. Let your voicemail system answer the phone. And if the cat knocks a china vase off the mantel, leave it lay where the feline flang it. Unless the house is burning down, do not leave the stove. Or else your house could burn down.
Working in tandem, Joanne and I made Sour Cream Old-Fashioned Doughnuts with Simplest Vanilla Glaze. I rolled, cut, glazed and ran the timer. Joanne fried, turning the floating dough with great expertise. She didn't break a single doughnut. The timing is fairly precise, so we found assigning one person to do the frying and the other person to do the less precise/timed tasks worked best.
The results? Tim Hortons, eat your heart out!
Even the holes turned out just fine. For some fun I put them on a stick. Bet they won't serve them to you that way at the drive-thru!
I'm proud to report our friendship survived the baking. In fact, we had so much fun we've decided to tackle an otherwise challenging recipe again soon.
The only complaint? The doughnuts didn't last long at all. They were that good. And I gotta say, Top Pot was right in their spelling choice. These doughnuts deserve every extra letter.
Sour Cream Old-Fashioned Doughnuts with Vanilla Glaze
Recipe type: Baked Goods
Cuisine: American
Serves: 1 dozen doughnuts and holes
Don't call these beauties "donuts". These hand-forged, old-fashioned doughnuts are so good they earn every hyphen and extra letter.
Sour Cream Old-Fashioned Doughnuts
- 2¼ cups cake / soft-wheat flour, plus more for rolling and cutting
- 1½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon iodized salt
- ¾ teaspoons ground nutmeg
- ½ cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons shortening / vegetable lard, trans-fat-free preferred
- 2 large egg yolks
- ⅔ cups sour cream
- canola oil for frying
Simplest Vanilla Glaze
- 3½ cups confectioner's / icing sugar
- 1½ teaspoon light corn syrup / golden syrup
- ¼ teaspoon iodized salt
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup plus 1 tablespoon hot water, (plus more if needed)
Sour Cream Old-Fashioned Doughnuts
- Sift flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg together in a medium bowl, and set aside.
- In a stand mixer fitted with a paddle, mix the sugar and shortening/vegetable lard for 1 minute on low speed, until sandy. Add the egg yolks, then mix for 1 more minute on medium speed, scraping the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula, until the mixture is light coloured and thick.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in three separate additions, alternating with sour cream, mixing until just combined on low speed and scraping the sides of the bowl each time. The dough will be sticky, like cookie/biscuit dough.
- Transfer the dough to a clean bowl and refrigerate, covered with plastic wrap/cling film, for 45 minutes (or up to 24 hours).
- Using a candy thermometer to measure the temperature, heat oil (at least 2 in/5 mm deep) in a deep fryer, large pot or high-sided frying pan to 325°F/165°C. Roll out the chilled dough on a generously floured counter or cutting board to ½ in/12 mm thick, or about 8 in/20 cm in diameter, flouring the top of the dough and the rolling pin as necessary to prevent sticking. Cut into as many doughnuts and holes as possible, dipping the cutter into flour before each cut. Fold and gently reroll the dough to make extra holes (working with floured hands makes the dough less sticky), and cut again.
- Shake any excess flour off the doughnuts before carefully adding them to the hot oil a few at a time, taking care not to crowd them. Once the doughnuts float, fry for 15 seconds, then gently flip them. Fry for 75 to 90 seconds, until golden brown and cracked, then flip and fry the first side again for 60 to 75 seconds, until golden brown. Transfer to a rack set over paper towels/absorbent paper.
Simplest Vanilla Glaze
- Place the confectioner's/icing sugar, corn /golden syrup, salt, vanilla and hot water in a large mixing bowl or in the work bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Using a whisk, or with the machine on low, blend until the mixture is smooth and all of the sugar has been incorporated, scraping the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula if necessary. If the glaze seems too thick, add more water, a teaspoon at a time.
- To glaze, dip one side of each hot doughnut into the warm glaze, and let dry for 10 to 15 seconds before serving.
Review in Brief
Will appeal to: Doughnut lovers and home bakers who want to branch into something new. Sure there are no-fry recipes in the book, but a baked doughnut is a little like kissing your cousin. My advice, read over the Doughnut History and Primer section a few times. It's got tons of very practical information you'll be glad to know when you're timing by the quarter minute and working with hot oil. Did I mention the results are worth it?
Must try doughnut recipes:
- French Toast Old-Fashioned Doughnuts: It's French Toast. In doughnut form. Can you think of a more decadent breakfast? Except for maybe…
- Dulce de Leche Cake Doughnuts: A chocolate-based version topped with chocolate caramel.
- Doughnut Bread Pudding: In the unlikely event of leftovers, this uses up raised doughnuts
Biggest delight: How delicious fresh-from-the-stove-top homemade doughuts can be. And I'd forgotten the joys of cooking elbow to elbow with a friend.


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Dave Wood's Book Report, April 29, 2009
A wag of my acquaintance once said that word processors are ruining the art of biography. He explained that it's so easy to type on them (no carriage return, no worries of hyphenation, etc.), that "if Moses had one, there'd be 17 commandments rather than 10."
In some ways it's true. Back in the 18th century, Dr. Samuel Johnson wrote wonderfully perceptive and readable biographies of writers like Richard Savage in about 50 modern-day pages. But even before the advent of the word processor the modern taste for detail led to biographers piling more and more detail into their work.
One of the great literary biographies of the past fifty years was "Sinclair Lewis: A Life," by Mark Schorer.
Schorer admits in his preface that he had little regard for Lewis and thought he could knock something off in a few hundred pages, but found Lewis's life so fascinating that he ended up spending 10 years at the task and his wife, to help him out, got a degree in library science!
And now we have "Cheever: A Life," by Blake Bailey (Knopf, $35). Bailey who is a foremost John Cheever scholar, takes 770 pages to delineate the life of one of America's great chroniclers of the middle class.
In some ways, one gets the feeling that Bailey found the same fascination with Cheever's life that Schorer found in Lewis. And on top of that has a high regard for Cheever's work.
The Cheever family was a prominent 17th century New England family that fell into ruin for many reasons, alcohol being one of them. Cheever's father was a failure and he never could have attended Harvard without the help of his mother, who, in desperate financial straits, opened a successful gift shop, about which her son was always embarrassed. He felt his family should never have gone into "trade."
And then it's on to Cheever's own rocky life, with a wealthy wife who greeted him upon his return from a TB sanitarium by saying "It was great while you were gone because the toilet seat was never wet."
Bailey chronicles Cheever's monumental drinking episodes in great detail. Author Fred Exley got to know Cheever when they were both at the McDowell Colony. Exley, perhaps the most notorious literary boozer of the twentieth century, was "shocked" at the amount of Cheever's intake.
Bailey goes on to chronicle Cheever's sexual activity which was very active, both with actresses like Hope Lange and many, many gentlemen friends.
Bailey's research net on this topic is vasty. He even mentions the episode in "Seinfeld" when George Costanza finds letters to his father-in-law to-be, love letters from none other than John Cheever.
All this of course is tied into Cheever's literary production, where Bailey shows a fine appreciation of Cheever's art.
In sum, it's a very perceptive if depressing account, made even more depressing by 32 pages of family photos, in which everyone looks like a happy upper middle class family.
It's difficult to review a book of photographs in a column such as this, but it would be a shame to ignore altogether a wonderful book of photos,
"American Home," by Tom Arndt, Foreword by Garrison Keillor (University of Minnesota Press, $49.95). Subtitled "Tom Arndt's Minnesota," this is not a book showing off our Mondales, our Humphreys, our Stassens, our Pillsburys, our Pucketts, our Quality of Life, or our Walleyes.
This is a book about the average Joe and Johanna at the State Fair, on Hennepin Avenue in front of Moby Dick's. Lots of sleazy stuff, but more particularly human beings just getting on with life.
Garrison Keillor's introduction is spot-on when he says "These are people, who, I imagine, did not get a slice of the big real estate boom of the '70s and '80s. They aren't players, they didn't buy Microsoft early or put their money into gold ingots when gold was going up. Their timing was off. They hung around, chewed the rag, bitched about being broke and had another beer."
Dave Wood is a past vice president of the National Book Critics Circle and former book review editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Phone him at (715) 426-9554.


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It would be nice to say their phenomenal wealth has been used consistently for good. It would be even nicer if the mythology they like to spin about their leaders were true, but it is not. For instance, the UAE's first president and acknowledged driving force, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, is described in glowing terms on one of its newspaper's websites: "His firmly-held belief in Islam... was fundamental to his views and actions... He was a firm believer in the need for dialogue between different faiths and cultures, rejecting the intolerant views of those who would seek to promote divisions... His faith was fundamental to his views and actions [including] the duty entrusted to us by God Almighty, who commands us to treat all living creatures with dignity and respect". Nice sentiments. Keep those last words in mind as we push ahead.
Zayed's founding (in 1999) and funding of the notorious Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-Up, a so-called think-tank that is now defunct, demonstrated motivations of a different sort. The Center [says Wikipedia] "became embroiled in controversy when it became known that it also disseminated and provided a platform for anti-American, anti-Semitic, and extreme anti-Israel views."
Its speakers were said [according to Wikipedia] to have described Jews as "enemies of all nations" and "cheaters whose greed knows no bounds." The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous anti-Semitic forgery created in the 19th century to vilify Jews, was held up as a factual account of a Jewish plan to "control the world."
Israel was accused by Zayed Center officials of developing an ethnic bomb that will kill only Arabs, an accusation echoed just last week in a wave of claims to identical effect that were published throughout the Iranian government-controlled media. See our blog post "9-Oct-12: The serious message behind the vile idiocy".
The Zayed people asserted for good measure that the Mossad was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy and for the Watergate scandal as well. There's more [here, for instance], but you get the picture.
Matters came to something of a head in 2004 when Harvard Divinity School decided to return a $2.5 million gift from Sheik Zayed [source] "after 18 months of controversy over the donor's alleged connection to anti-Semitic and anti-US propaganda... Sheikh Zayed gave the money to Harvard in 2000 to endow a professorship of Islamic studies." But note that the London School of Economics was not quite so unctuous, and kept and spent a similar cash gift from the same source: we wrote about it in our blog two years ago: see "26-Nov-10: Gifts and good relations".
Now fast forward to today's UAE and Dubai, where the statelet's huge airline, Emirates, has just done a deal with Qantas to essentially take over the Australian airline's steering wheel. With the Australian government blessing the deal a few days ago [report], it looks like full steam ahead. And according to a UAE business news website story from six days ago headlined "No alternative to Emirates deal: Qantas", the Flying Kangaroo is already thoroughly and irretrievably locked in.
But at what price? People who pass through Dubai are going to need to be a bit more sensitive to some of the ways it is different from other major air route junctions. That's what Prof. Karabus learned, only a little too late. He is 77 years old, and a world-renowned paediatric oncologist from Cape Town, South Africa. During his term as head of oncology at the Red Cross Children's Hospital in that city, the mortality rate of children with leukaemia was reduced from 80 to 20 percent. He has dedicated most of his working life to needy children in some of the most disadvantaged areas in South Africa. According to The Guardian, he "dedicated himself to saving the lives of black children from cancer throughout the apartheid era... [and] pioneered treatment for cancer and blood disorders at the Red Cross hospital in Cape Town, where he worked for 35 years, and trained numerous doctors at Cape Town University". None of the newspapers reporting on his plight have mentioned his religious faith so - given the nature of the people he is up against - we will see that as a policy to emulate.
He then discovered, for the first time, that he was a convicted felon and alleged "fugitive from justice" and has since experienced the full might of the United Arab Emirates criminal justice system. Unbeknown to him, he had been charged, tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia for manslaughter in that country 10 years ago... Without his knowledge, he was convicted in the UAE criminal courts on charges of manslaughter and falsifying documents. It is alleged the patient was not given a platelet transfusion when required and that it was this, and not her terminal cancer, that led to her death. The specifics of the case are still unclear but it is alleged that Karabus falsified a document saying that the transfusion had been ordered. He was sentenced without being asked to mount a defence, to three years and six months imprisonment and ordered to pay so-called "blood money". [More]
"He was shackled at his last court appearance, and his spirit is broken. It is infuriating that this will be all people remember about him despite his many years of service to public health care in South Africa and abroad. "
Al-Wathba prison in Abu Dhabi is notorious for its human rights abuse, stoning to death, lashings, overcrowding. Inmates sleep in cells designed for 8 which held 22 with 3 lice infested blankets on a cement floor.


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January 2nd, 2013
Shaking Off the Fear
If you're an individual investor, one of the most important articles of last week besides the focus on the "Fiscal Cliff" debacle was an article in the December 29 Washington Post entitled "Bull market roars past many U.S. investors". The gist of the story was that "Americans have missed out on almost $200 billion of stock gains as they drained money from the market in the past four years, haunted by the financial crisis……Individuals are withdrawing money as political leaders struggle to avert budget cuts that threaten to throw the economy into a new slump."
According to the Post, much of the damage to investors is "self-inflicted" because of fear and anxiety brought on by market volatility and memories of past "crashes". However, U.S. growth has improved and earnings tied to the economic are expanding. Those improvements have been reflected in stock prices. Of the 500 stocks comprising the S&P 500 Index, 481 are higher now than they were in March 2009 or when they entered the gauge. Some of the statistics supporting these conclusions are:
- Investors are lowering the proportion of stocks they own in retirement funds during a bull market for the first time in 20 years.
- The proportion of stocks in the assets in 401(k) and IRA (excluding money market funds) fell to 72 percent from 72.5 percent in 2009.
- The percentage of households owning stock mutual funds has dropped every year since 2008 to 46.4 percent in 2011, the second-lowest since 1997. [Of course, this could also result from the wide choice, availability and acceptance of competitive ETFs]
- New money has gone to the relative safety of fixed-income investments as corporate bonds and Treasuries have received nearly $1 trillion since March 2009.
Housing is making a comeback and housing stocks were among the leaders last year, banks are on the mend and financial stocks were also among the best performers and 2013 auto sales are projected to approach 1.5 million. Is it time then for individual investors to begin fearing declines in the value of their fixed income investments as interest rates reverse (regardless of Bernanke's protestations to the contrary) and start moving money back into stocks?
Meanwhile, institutional investors (the group I call the "herd") hasn't fared that well in the market either. According to in December 26 Wall Street Journal article entitled "2012 Was Good for Stocks, Bad for Stock Pundits",
- At the end of 2011, Mr. Cramer warned investors to avoid bank stocks. Oops. They were one of the best-performing sectors in 2012. He urged investors to avoid real estate, but housing prices are up more than 2% from a year ago…..and the stocks of home builders, as measured by the S&P Homebuilders exchange-traded fund, are up 53.6%.
- Of the 65 market "gurus" tracked during the last few years by CXO Advisory Group, the median accuracy for market calls is 47%. If that sounds low, or you wonder about the quality of the pundit, consider that the list includes such well-known names as Bill Fleckenstein (37%), Jeremy Grantham (48%), Bill Gross (46%) and Louis Navellier (60%).
So how do I deal with the noise coming from the "talking heads" and the uncertain produced by the market? I maintain my equanimity in the face of volatility by relying on how market participants have behaved during similar situations in the market's history. I rely on my Market Momentum Meter to give me some indication of what market participants believe will happen, on average, in the near-term as reflected in their collective buying and selling decisions. It's measure by whether they are pushing prices up or down and the momentum behind those decisions.
The Market Momentum Meter turned a bright Green on January 31, 2012 when the Index was 1312.41, or 10.25% under today's close of 1462.42. It wasn't Green for only 10 trading days during the year (the longest period was 7 days around the November correction low:
Like a parent who never quite trusts riding in a car that his kid is driving, I didn't fully trust my own creation. It took me a few months after that Green signal at the end of January to increase the money I had in stocks. As hard as I tried to totally drown out the noise (news) about Euro debt and currency problems and, more recently, the fiscal cliff debates, I never could bring myself to be fully invested and, like corporate America, always had a significant amount of cash on the sidelines. And then in after the November elections, as the Market reacted to the realization of a second Obama term and continued Congressional stalemate, it looked for a couple of weeks like we might see a repeat of the 2011 market implosion. Fortunately, I waited this one out and saw money begin flowing back into stocks as prices quickly recovered.
Like many other market participants, I need additional "guarantees". Even though the Meter says that these sorts of market conditions in the past have lead to higher prices and that it's all clear to be fully invested with relatively low risk, I still want to see the Index continue its assault on the all-time highs by first crossing above where it stalled out last September. When that happens (which could be next week), I'll feel more comfortable putting rest of cash to work.


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