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Senator George Mitchell's resignation as the Obama administration's Middle East envoy makes formal what was clear for some time--the president's goal of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement by September is unattainable and negotiations are not about to resume any time soon.
President Barack Obama appointed Mitchell to be envoy two days after the January 20, 2009, inauguration to signal the new administration's commitment to peacemaking.
At the time, Obama identified Middle East peace as a "national security priority" and negotiations as the path toward realizing that objective. Mitchell was heralded as the perfect fit, due to his skill in facilitating Northern Ireland peace talks and his authorship of the high-profile 2001 international report on the causes of the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada.
Mitchell spent all but three weeks of his two-plus years in the job trying to cajole Israel and the Palestinians into negotiations, directly or by proxy. When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally sat down together in Washington to launch talks last September, it looked like America's lead negotiator could finally get to the task he sought--to broker a deal inside the negotiating room.
Yet the negotiations lasted only three weeks. Rather than build trust and chemistry, the talks only intensified mutual acrimony. Mitchell then spent the remainder of 2010 trying to get the parties back into the room, without success. Abbas insisted that only a renewed settlement moratorium would reopen talks, and Netanyahu refused to comply.
In December, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the administration would revert back to a form of proximity negotiations and abandon the effort to get the parties to the room. Yet in the period between the November congressional elections and today, Mitchell made but one trip to the region. Clearly, he saw no chance of a serious breakthrough. Today's resignation formalizes the special envoy's disengagement throughout this year.
Hours before Mitchell's resignation, the White House announced that Obama will next week deliver a speech on U.S. policy in the Middle East. The following week, Netanyahu will address the U.S. Congress.
The remarks will help outline the new strategy ahead. Whatever the president declares about Israeli-Palestinian peace, Middle Easterners will be paying particular attention to what the U.S. plans to do once it says what it says. After Obama's high-profile Cairo and Istanbul speeches and a UN address calling for a settlements halt, results are now the priority for Middle Easterners.
With unrest and violence raging throughout the Middle East, Palestinians focused domestically on a Fatah-Hamas unity deal, and efforts afoot to gain full membership for Palestine as a state at the United Nations in September, the president's stated goal of a peace treaty by September 2011 is well beyond the horizon. Now, Washington faces the looming challenges of a Palestinian government that it may not be able to talk to and a potential diplomatic crisis in September that could spark renewed violence on the ground.
This post originally appeared at Council on Foreign Relations.


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On PA TV: Glorification of Fogel family murderers
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Jan. 29, 2012
On PA TV: Glorification of Fogel family murderers
Mother of Hakim Awad, killer of 5 Fogel family members:
"My greetings to dear Hakim, the apple of my eye,
who carried out the operation in Itamar, sentenced to 5 life sentences"
Aunt of Hakim Awad:
"Hakim Awad, the hero, the legend"
PA TV host:
"We [PA TV] also convey our greetings to them"
Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Twice last week, official Palestinian Authority TV broadcast greetings to the murderers of the Fogel family from the relatives of the killers and from the PA TV host.
On March 11, 2011, five members of the Fogel family were killed in their home in the Israeli town Itamar by Palestinian terrorists from the Awad family. Hakim Awad led the attack, killing the parents Ehud and Ruth and three of their children, aged 11 years, 4 years, and 2 months.
The weekly PA TV program
For You
dedicated to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons let the mother and aunt of one of the murderers praise the terrorists as "heroes." After the mother of the murderer Hakim Awad explained how she is prevented from visiting her son for security reasons, the PA TV host said: "Go ahead, sister, we can convey your voice."
On the phone, Hakim Awad's mother "blesses" her "dear son," and despite the fact that participants in this TV program normally do not mention the terror attacks for which their relatives are serving time, the mother mentions that her son is the one who "carried out the operation in Itamar and sentenced to 5 life sentences," referring to her son's brutal killings in the town Itamar.
Hakim Awad's aunt also participated in the program and referred to the terrorists involved in the killings as "heroes," calling Hakim Awad "the hero, the legend." This prompted the PA TV host to add: "We, for our part, also convey our greetings to them."
It was Hakim Awad who killed Ehud and Ruth Fogel and their young children with a knife. The other Awad family members praised on the program as "heroes" were either accessories to the murders or helped destroy evidence.
Although this was a phone conversation, the editors of the PA TV program and its host did know in advance that the callers were relatives of the Fogel murderers. The host introduced them before the conversation took place and a text with the names of the callers appeared at the bottom of the screen: "Prisoner Hakim Awad's family / Awarta - Nablus."
The program was broadcast on official PA TV on January 19 and 21.
The following is the full transcript of the greetings on PA TV:
PA TV host:
"We have a call from the family of prisoner Hakim Awad."
Mother of Hakim Awad:
"I thank you for connecting me with my son, because I and all of the family are prevented for security reasons [from visiting him].
"Go ahead, sister, we can convey your voice."
Mother of Hakim Awad:
"My greetings to dear Hakim, the apple of my eye, from the village of Awarta, 17 years old, who carried out the operation in Itamar (i.e., killing of 5 Fogel family members), sentenced to 5 life sentences and another 5 years, in prison."
Aunt of Hakim Awad:
"I'm the sister of prisoner Hassan Awad and of Salah Awad; [I am] Um Habib, from the village of Awarta. My warm greetings to all the great heroic prisoners, to my brother Hassan Awad, head of the village council; to my brother Salah Awad, the heroic prisoner journalist; to the heroic, resolute prisoner, the lion, Yazid Awad, my nephew; and to my nephew Hakim Awad, the hero, the legend."
"We [PA TV], for our part, also convey our greetings to them."
Aunt of Hakim Awad:
"I dedicate this song to Hassan Awad, Yazid Awad, Hakim Awad, and Salah Awad, in prison:
'My brother, in solitary confinement, your voice calls to me
You dare not throw down the rifle
That is what the homeland asked of me
In your eyes, we are all self-sacrificing fighters.
I convey greetings to the sound of the bullets of Ahmad Sa'adat and Hakim Awad.'"
"Thank you for being with us, the family of prisoners Hassan and Salah Awad of Awarta."
[PA TV (Fatah), Jan. 19 and 21, 2012]
Ahmad Sa'adat, mentioned in the song recited by Hakim Awad's aunt, is serving a 30-year sentence for heading the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror organization. He has also been honored in broadcasts on PA TV for having planned the assassination of Israeli Minister of Tourism Rehavam Ze'evi in 2001, but has not yet been tried for that crime.
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Last week, Microsoft said it would offer a $50 discount for users upgrading from Windows XP. Now, it has upped the ante.
Last week, Microsoft said it would offer a $50 discount for users upgrading from Windows XP. Now, it has upped the ante.
On Friday, a representative from Microsoft said that the company will now offer $100 off for those customers upgrading from older PCs running Windows XP. "Now through June 15, XP users looking to upgrade their hardware can save $100 and get free data transfer at MicrosoftStore.com or by bringing their old XP devices to their local Microsoft retail store," the representative said.
It's not clear whether the offer is restricted to certain new PCs, or if this is a blanket $100 discount. Last week, Microsoft said that a new Microsoft Store offer would entice holdouts with a $50 gift card, 90 days of free support, and free data transfer (using Laplink's software) to their new PC. The old deal covered four laptops, four tablets, four hybrids, and four all-in-ones to choose from, all running Windows 8.1.
The free support is par for the course for Microsoft, while the Laplink data transfer is open to all Windows XP users.
Microsoft's Windows Store page currently makes no mention of the $100 discount, although the company continues to offer discounts on select hardware (which, to be fair, are often replicated on sites like Amazon). Microsoft lists several inexpensive PCs on its Windows XP page, each designed to lure XP holdouts over to Microsoft's Windows 8 OS.
As Microsoft is increasingly trying to make clear, the days of Windows XP are ending. Microsoft is ending support for its ancient operating system on April 8, after which the company will refuse to patch the operating system itself. That doesn't mean your PC will cease working after that date, but the safest route is to upgrade, and the gap between Windows XP and Windows 7 or Windows 8 basically demands new hardware.
Microsoft may be playing a dangerous game here, enticing holdouts to wait for even sweeter enticements, rather than upgrade their PCs before the support deadline expires. But if you own a Windows XP machine, at least you're getting some help. We also have some tips on how to keep your PC secure if you miss the deadline.
Additional reporting by Brad Chacos.
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MTV is once again stirring up controversy with the debut of their new show – Jersey Shore. The show, which follows a group of 20 something year old Italians as they live and work on the Garden State's shoreline, has been criticized by some Italian American groups as being offensive and reinforcing stereotypes of Italian-Americans.
UNICO National — the "Largest Italian American Service Organization in the USA" — claims they "can't keep up with the volume of calls " from "outraged" Italian Americans. They added that it should be pulled from the air. The backlash doesn't end there, as advertisers – Domino's and American Family Insurance have requested that their ads be pulled from the show.
MTV however continues to stand by the show. "We understand that this show is not intended for every audience and depicts just one aspect of youth culture," MTV's spokesman told Fox News on Tuesday. "Our intention was never to stereotype, discriminate or offend."
The cast of Jersey Shore can be seen continuously referring to themselves as "Guidos" and "Guidettes" on the show. Both terms have long been found to be offensive to Italians.
One of the cast members, Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, however defends the use of the term 'Guido.' "The older generation doesn't understand. These days in New York and New Jersey a 'guido' is a good-looking Italian male that likes to have fun and a 'guidette' is a good-looking Italian girl," Mike tells EW.com.
I actually saw the premier episode of this show and was a bit surprised to see the term "Guido," be used so frequently by the cast. Always assumed the term was offensive. Other than that, the show pretty much fell in line with all the other MTV reality shows, such as the Real World. It was pretty much the same formula – follow a group of 20 something year olds as they get drunk, and make complete asses of themselves on national television. It's likely the show is here to stay as it premiered to rather good ratings, the premier episode was seem by a total of 1.4 million viewers.


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1833 review: Great setting, food in Monterey
In careless or uncaring hands, 1833 could become a tourist trap. The Monterey restaurant, whose name refers to the building's age, has a history that could turn it into a dining circus. Yet it has avoided these pitfalls, thanks to a meticulous remodel and the stylish American menu created by Levi Mezick.
The house, one of the oldest adobes in California, was owned by John Stokes, a deserter from the British navy who masqueraded for years as a pharmacist and physician. His charade allegedly killed many people.
In 1856, Stokes installed a kiln to bake bread and roast meat, which is now a centerpiece of the menu. In 1948, one of the house's inhabitants, Martha Harriet Gragg, known as Hattie, died in the home; her bedroom is now a dining room, and some claim her ghost still inhabits the space - occasionally doors on the bookcases in the room open seemingly by themselves.
The building has been a restaurant since 1950. For 30 years, it was Gallatin's; in 1996, it became Stokes Adobe. It took several years for the new owners, Rob Weakley and David Bernahl, to refurbish and restore the place. And they've done a magnificent job of paying homage to the past while keeping the experience current.
The courtyard of the two-story structure includes four fire pits that are used year round. Off to one side of the patio is a magnificent oak tree that's at least 150 years old; during much of the meticulous remodel, an arborist was on site to make sure the tree wasn't damaged.
Several dining areas
There are seven distinct dining areas, each with a different feel. Patrons enter the restaurant through a small vestibule and the lounge, which resembles a library. The marble-topped bar fronts a wall of liquor; above is a dining mezzanine that feels private and intimate, with tufted leather booths that overlook the action below.
The main dining room features paned windows covered with leafy plantings that recall a solarium, with comfortable white upholstered chairs and wood tables. A similar room upstairs affords a broad view of the neighborhood that contains many original adobe structures.
The owners' experience - they also own the Cannery Row Brewing Co. and Coastal Luxury Management, and put on the Pebble Beach Food and Wine Classic - shows in their attention to detail: Woven mats in front of each place setting ensure the flatware never sits on the bare table; old-fashioned mirrors act as coasters for wine chosen from the impressive list; and an oyster shell is used to hold the cork.
Throughout the night the staff gives tours of the restaurant, reciting facts and figures like trained guides. This would be enough to bring in the tourist crowd, but the owners are conscientiously catering to locals.
They also happen to be offering the best casual food in Monterey, under chef Levi Mezick. Before coming to the area last year, Mezick worked in New York as sous chef at Daniel and executive sous chef at Cafe Boulud. He also worked at Oceana and Per Se. His refined cooking pedigree is spectacularly showcased at 1833.
I first ate at 1833 in August, only a few weeks after the restaurant opened, and returned recently for two more dinners.
Mezick's menu runs the gamut from homey bacon cheddar biscuits ($4) and deviled eggs with lemon and horseradish ($4), to a precisely arranged beet salad ($12) on a mat of Greek yogurt with lacy mache dressed with dots of balsamic and whole hazelnuts. Each meal begins with a complimentary shot glass of soup such as smoked tomato or gingered carrot with kaffir lime.
Fresh surprises
While preparations are straightforward, each dish has a surprise element or two that keep it fresh. For the iceberg salad ($10), the chef cuts the chilled lettuce into a thick, round slice and tops it with blue cheese, candied walnuts and slices of Granny Smith apple processed in an immersion bath with Riesling. They come out translucent, somewhat crunchy, and infused with the flavor of the wine.
The chef's crispy egg ($13) looks like a breaded billiard ball, nesting in spinach and a tartare sauce made with cornichons, surrounded by fleshy strips of sauteed Royal Trumpet mushrooms. When the egg is pierced, the yolk mingles with the other ingredients.
Gnocchi ($22) too are some of the best around; they're like little potato clouds blanketed with a rich Parmesan cream that carries the flavor of the steely Swiss chard and the earthy chanterelle mushrooms. Thin rings of pickled onions scattered on top add a startling, refreshing contrast that makes this dish a standout.
In fact the only item that didn't make the cut for me was the fettuccine ($19), where the noodles were rolled into a log in the center of the plate, surrounded and topped with mushrooms, shards of cured duck and petals of confit tomatoes. There seemed to be little or no sauce, so the pasta was dry and the elements never came together.
I also skipped the pizza. There are three on the menu, but the toppings sounded a little esoteric - one with pineapple and sopressata ($16), another with wild mushrooms, prosciutto and a poached egg ($17); and the other with crab, peppers, leeks, and wholegrain mustard ($17). These are not my idea of great toppings, and I had so many other things to try.
Strong main courses
Main courses are carefully crafted, including a thick fillet of grilled swordfish ($26) with balsamic vinaigrette and shaved fennel, topping broccoli rabe and surrounded by pearl onions and Castelvetrano olives. A grilled pork chop ($25) comes in two presentations on the same heated platter - on one side Mezick arranges the sliced loin with grits, and on the other is a fine mince of collard greens and ham hock topped with pork belly. The sides are brought together by a scattering of huckleberries.
Mezick also makes use of the wood oven with several roasts: an exceptional 32-ounce bone-in rib eye for two ($75), a whole truffle chicken ($38) that rivals Zuni Cafe's, and a roasted lobe of foie gras ($150). Sides (all $5) include rich, gooey macaroni and cheese, and caramelized roasted cauliflower.
Desserts (all $8) are good, but lack the finesse and refinement of what precedes them. There's a clumsy house-made stack of s'mores with a graham cracker pancake, marshmallow fluff and ganache that sounds better than it tastes. The mixed-berry shortcake seems to have missed the season, and apple millefeuille, which I loved on one visit, was sodden on another. The best was the Booker's butter bourbon pudding served with five crisp palmiers.
The only touristy element of the experience is the service. You can tell that the staff is trained, but there are a few rogue aspects. On one visit, for example, we asked for ice water, but the waiter brought bottled water. Then, without asking, he brought a second bottle, which added $12 to the bill. He also removed a drink before we were finished, and then asked if we wanted another. For all his attempts to increase the check, he didn't mention that the chicken came with no sides, so we had only a platter of chicken in front of us.
If we'd encountered this behavior on the first visit, I might have been reluctant to return and branded it as a tourist trap. But, after three visits, I realized that's not the case. Instead, 1833 is a restaurant fueled by passion.
Restaurant 1833
500 Hartnell (at Calle Principal), Monterey
(831) 643-1833.
Dinner 5:30-10:30 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, until 11:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Full bar. Reservations and credit cards accepted. Easy street parking.
Overall: Rating: THREE STARS
Food: Rating: THREE STARS
Service: Rating: ONE AND A HALF STARS
Atmosphere: Rating: FOUR STARS
Prices: $$$$ (Most entrees more than $25)
Noise rating: Noise Rating: THREE BELLS Can only talk in raised voices (75-80 decibels)
Rating: FOUR STARS Extraordinary Rating: THREE STARS Excellent Rating: TWO STARS Good Rating: ONE STAR Fair Noise Rating: BOMB Poor
The wine list
The spirits offerings at 1833 are so extensive you might think you're walking into a high-end liquor store. But when you look at the wine list, you might think you're looking at a Christie's auction catalog.
This is a beverage list designed to impress in both wine and cocktail service.
At one end of the bar is a row of wooden barrels where the staff is aging Negronis - a blend of vermouth, Campari and gin - and agave blends. On the counter behind the bar is a contraption that captures smoke to give a toasty edge to certain cocktails. In the dining room, there's tableside service for hot buttered rum ($10) and an absinthe cart that serves traditional preparations of this once-banned spirit.
The cocktails reference the impostor physician who owned the house, listed as Pain Killers, Stress Relievers, Elixirs and Aphrodisiacs (all $10). Nearly 40 scotches are available, and about as many bourbons and Tequilas.
The wine list isn't neglected, either; in fact, the number of Champagnes and sparkling wines alone is larger than the entire wine list of many casual restaurants. There are nearly 50, including some impressive vintage offerings such as 1955 Veuve Cliquot ($6,000 for 1.5 liters) and 1997 Salon Blanc de Blancs Le Mesnil-sur-Oger ($470).
In more affordable offerings, you'll find some exceptional current vintages of still wines on the 20 page-plus list that's well organized and fairly priced. While there are many international finds, local wines are also a focus, including 17 Pinot Noirs from the Santa Lucia Highlands with producers such as Pelerin, Talbot, Roar and Pisoni.
In addition, there are 25 wines by the glass and half-glass. Beers are well chosen, but don't have the depth of the other offerings. Still, you can find Delerium Tremens ($9), Lost Abbey Carnevale from San Diego ($14 for 750 ml) and Anchor Steam ($5).
If you bring your own wine, corkage is $20.
Michael Bauer is The Chronicle's restaurant critic. E-mail him at email@example.com, and go to sfgate.com/food to read his previous reviews. Find his blog daily at insidescoopsf.com, and follow him on Twitter at @michaelbauer1.


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Hi, I have been delving into AI with Torque 3D, so that being the case I have been doing some of the different tutorials. I am having a problem with the aim of the bot from Steve Acastors Simple FPS Tutorial. Everything other than the aim of the bot works fine, I can spawn with different weapons (I used the Ryder and Lurker) and spawn at points I specify. The bots function fine, with the console logs showing the thinking echos. The aim of the bot shoots up and to the left completely missing the player target unless the player is almost on top of the bot. I have played with different numerical values in the bot script for aim offset and nothing seems to change or affect the bad aim. I am guessing perhaps it is being overridden somewhere somehow?
Any help or information would be great. I am using torque 3.8.
Any help or information would be great. I am using torque 3.8.


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The Marche region of Italy is rarely included among travel itineraries to Italy. It's also scarcely mentioned in most guidebooks – yet this may simply enhance its appeal among travelers who yearn to forge a different path in their exploration of Italian culture and history.
After staying in Civitanova Marche and traveling to Urbino, I visited another town in the Marche that is truly unique.
Montelupone is a little municipality that seems encased in a time capsule. Well-preserved buildings dating from the 1300s stand proudly on top of a hill, as they have for centuries. The town has been officially designated by a national committee as one of the best small towns in the country.
I went there with some locals to sample the pizza at what was described to me as "the best pizza in the Marche." Visiting there on a warm July evening was a magical, memorable experience and quintessentially Italian.
The drive to Montelupone from Civitanova was particularly scenic; patches of sunflowers dotted the rolling golden hills. My host invited a guest, Renata, a native Italian who had also lived in Venice Beach, CA. She remarked that she preferred the countryside of the Marche to that in Umbria, as the landscape has a greater variety of colors. Indeed, the late afternoon sun created a striking tapestry of green and gold as it descended beyond the hills.
As we arrived at the mountaintop where the town was located, we could gaze across the valley at a plateau in the distance and see yet another hilltop medieval town. This region is swirling with them!
We walked through the walled gates of Montelupone and soon reached the town square, Piazza dei Priori.
A local artist, Gianni Compagnoni (left), was exhibiting an incredible collection of his drawings of 19 of the hilltop medieval towns in the Marche, called borgos. Even many residents of the area are unaware these borgos have been designated as the finest historically preserved municipalities in the region. Mr. Compagnoni reminisced to me in English about his perplexed reaction at flying into Los Angeles. "I kept looking out the window, wondering where the town is," he related in a bemused tone.
Gianni has compiled his drawings of the burgos into a book which underscores how historically rich this region is. He gave me a gift of a card with a drawing of a little borgo in the Marche, Montefabbri, with a bustling population of 44. His website is giannicompagno.blogspot.com.
We then settled ourselves at the pizza restaurant, Pizzeria del Borgo, on the town square, the Piazza dei Priori. Extended families get together quite often here in the Marche, and this evening was no exception. We sat at a long table where friends and families spend hours laughing, joking discussing family matters and (passionately) politics. My host kindly offered me a seat facing the piazza, to better absorb this unique experience.
Pizza after pizza appeared in waves, each different, with unfamiliar names like Campagnola and Lardo di Colonnata. There were even some dessert pizzas with chocolate-flavored nutella at the end.
Conversations in Italian swirled around me, some concerning the problems connected with the European Union and high taxation in Italy. Hand gestures were flying and passions inflamed. Renata did her best to translate the finer points to me. I just soaked up the atmosphere.
After dinner we walked through the narrow streets of the small municipality across the shadows of centuries-old buildings. The silence of the night, broken only by soft remarks in Italian and children playing with a soccer ball in the square, added to the special ambience of the town.
"You must visit Ascoli Piceno to the south of here (also in the Marche)," Renata suggested. "It has the second-best square in Italy to Piazza San Marco in Venice."
I added it to my list of places to visit.
The following evening we went out to dinner in yet another tiny medieval hilltop town in the Marche, Montecosaro. Of course, as always, many extended family members along with their kids joined my host family.
And as with the previous night, we took a walk around the town after dinner for another memorable, atmospheric stroll.
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Great story Derek! I have never even heard of Montelupone. However I did work just north up in RImini for a while. Check out the story- http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/20...
I have been laying low but I have some great stories brewing.
Thanks, Matt. Looking forward to your stories.
Author's Note: "Monte Cosaro" should be "Montecosaro."


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Happy New Year!
For the last day of the year I want to share with you Yamilet + Jordan's Highlights film. I have held this back because they wanted to share it with their family during Christmas before it went online. They said it was wonderful to watch it with all their love ones and relive the day together!
This wedding was simply amazing and fun. Yamilet is from Puerto Rico and Jordan is from New Orleans. They combined both of their worlds for this one of a kind celebration.
Here is what they had to say about their film -
"Well - I'm officially at a loss for words. The job you and your crew did for us was absolutely incredible. You captured any and everything we could have imagined on that day. We can truly say you made us feel like movie stars - just without all the Hollywood drama :) As I said before, I'm genuinely sad that the wedding prep is over and that we don't get to work with you guys anymore......but that's why we have anniversaries, haha. I just want to again thank you for the personal imprint you have made in our life. We will never forget you guys."
So sit back and enjoy their Highlights Film -
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Friday, December 31, 2010
Yamilet + Jordan's Wedding Highlights - San Juan, Puerto Rico
Happy New Year!
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Kelly + Brian's Wedding Trailer
Kelly & Brian contacted me last year about filming their wedding in Dayton, Ohio. Brian is a wedding filmmaker, so I was very flattered that they wanted us to film their day.
Kelly & Brian's wedding took place at Carillon Historical Park. It's comprised of old buildings and antique trains as well as other pieces of Dayton history. It created a great backdrop to a amazingly fun wedding. There will be more to come in the Highlights Film, but first I wanted to introduce you to Kelly & Brian and their beautiful love.
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38 thoughts on "P & Q: Gingerbread Baby Cakes"
Lemon curd, mixed with whipped cream. Yummmmm.
The recipe says you can make a 10-inch cake which bakes for 50-60 minutes. I may do the same. :)
I made a half recipe and baked it in an 8″ pan. It worked really well.
Thanks, Dancingwoolymasters! I am planning on using candied orange also – I made more that I needed for our Christmas fruit cake.
I am baking the baby cakes now and they have been in the oven for 30 minutes and are still soupy.
It took 30 minutes to bake them and I only had 1 and 1/2 cups of molasses, so I made up the balance with a 1/2 cup maple syrup. Tastes like an adult gingerbread.
Maple or something else sounds like a nice swap for some of the molasses. Without really realizing it, I bought Brer Rabbit "Full Flavor" molasses — two 12 oz bottles in order to get the required 2 cups. I'd much rather only buy one bottle.
Great comments. They will def. help me when I bake my little cakes this weekend:)
I made mine in 1 cup ramekins and a 6 inch cake pan. Filled 5 of the ramekins and 1 cake pan. The ramekins took about 30 minutes to bake and the cake pan closer to 35 minutes. They came out perfectly!
I halved the recipe and just baked the cake in an 8 inch aluminum cake pan. It took 37 min for the cake to bake – it is cooling as we speak :)
I just made meyer lemon curd with the lemons off of our tree. A dollop of the lemon curd on the baby cake is delish.
The lemon and the orange flavors sound wonderful! I baked mine in 5 little mini springform pans and one 6″ pan. They all turned out great. The taste is strong. Stronger than I like but okay for gingerbread lovers!
I agree the taste is strong and I didn't never use the amount of molasses that the recipe called for. The molasses is somewhat over powering.
What did you use instead of molasses to make up for the amount of liquid needed, or did you just leave it out?
I used maple syrup for the balance of molasses. I used a 1/2 cup of maple syrup.
I used all of the molasses (not blackstrap) and they turned out fine. They took about 27 minutes. The hardest part for me was having the cakes bake evenly. I had to move them around on the rack a few times. Probably should have tried convection with so many little cakes. I read on Dorie's blog that Johanne Killeen served them with coffee scented mascarpone and chocolate sauce.
I'm going to halve the recipe and make it in a loaf pan. I hope it works!
I ended up with one loaf and 3 in silicone muffin cups. the loaf took FOREVER to bake. we tasted a mini one and its got quite the spicy kick at the end
Way to strong for me..I even halfed the recipe and cut the molasses down in half..it was so overpowering…Could not eat but 2 bites. It cooked up perfect in 26 min.
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As if simultaneous beatboxing and rapping wasnt interesting enough, mix in artists like Björk and Ben Harper and you can see why Rahzel has been called the Godfather of Noyze and greatest beatboxer of all time.
Tonight, coming off tours of the East Coast, New Zealand and France, Rahzel will perform at the Abbey Theatre as the opener for The Coup, a hip-hop group from Oakland, Calif. The concert is a benefit for Fort Lewis College community radio station KDUR-FM.
Rahzel grew up in the same New York neighborhood as Run-DMC, Russell Simmons and LL Cool J, and trained himself to beatbox while at the same time being influenced by hip-hop pioneers such as The Fat Boys and Doug E. Fresh.
Once I heard (Fat Boys), that kind of lit the fuse. I taught myself at a time when it was a new thing, Rapping was my first love, but beatboxing became my wife, (Beatboxing essentially is percussion sounds created by voice only.)
While studying accounting at a community college in Queens in the mid-1990s, Rahzel took a break from classes to tour with a friend. It might have been his most productive break ever. On the tour, he met two of hip-hops legends: ?uestlove and Black Thought of The Roots, which now is the house band for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
The three hit it off, and soon after Rahzel found himself as the official beatboxer for one of the most infamous and critically acclaimed hip-hop groups. While with The Roots, he landed two Grammy Awards for his beatboxing role the first and only performer to achieve the feat.
We were performing weekly in lower Manhattan, Rahzel said. That was around the time they (The Roots) signed with Geffen Records. They had heard some of the stuff I did and ?uestlove invited me to come into the studio and record a few tracks for an album. The rest is pretty much history after that.
If he hadnt landed with The Roots, which he left in 2001, his life might have taken a much different turn, perhaps onto Wall Street.
If I wasnt doing this, Id probably be an investment banker, Rahzel said.
Rahzel doesnt need much to entertain. Just give him a microphone and hell fill the room with a seemingly infinite number of beats and sounds.
Since recording his first album at age 16, he has been called the ultimate iPod by Dave Chapelle and the ethnic robot by Björk, with whom he collaborated for her sixth album, Medulla. He provides beats on Björks Who is it, which they have performed together on the U.K. television series Jonathan Ross Show.
And who is that beatboxing on the song Steal My Kisses by Ben Harper? Yep. Thats Rahzel, too.
It was a great experience working with Harper. Hes a true talent, Rahzel said.
Rahzel is well-known for the hidden track If Your Mother Only Knew, on his 1999 album Make the Music 2000. The song features a remarkable combination of him singing a beat and chorus at the same time a talent that makes Rahzel truly intriguing. One live video performance of the song has garnered more than 4.5 million hits on YouTube.
He has contributed to 10 platinum and gold albums throughout his career. In addition to Harper and Björk, he also added backing beats to songs for countless DJs, The Crystal Method, R&B singer Erykah Badu and Toots and the Maytals True Love album for the song Bam Bam, which received a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2005.
Currently, Rahzel is working on a new album that he hopes will be released in early 2013. Other than that, hes been playing shows around the world and spreading his message through the mysterious art of beatboxing that is his own.
He might be the best living beatboxer right now, but for him, theres always something to learn.
Im the Godfather at heart, but with the world we live in, I will always remain the student and have an open mind to learn new things.


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Have you ever been concerned because your period was late? I know I have. But I'm not anymore! And you don't have to be either! And since I'm sure you'd rather not spend several days every month nervously pacing and counting dates backwards on your hands while glaring at the general vicinity where you guess your uterus is, I'll tell you how.
It's simple:
Your period is not a Rolex watch; it was not specifically crafted in Switzerland to accurately tell time. A woman's reproductive system is designed to … wait for it … reproduce! It takes into account all kinds of things when determining whether or not "now" is a good time to try and have a baby, and not ONE of those things is what day it is.
"Oh rats! I'm late for … uh … me …." This is something your period will never say. Think about it for a second. Your period is late? For what? For itself? That's insane!
Whether or not, and when, a woman gets her period each cycle depends on a slew of hormonal events, which can be influenced by many things, such as diet, environmental and emotional stress, and on and on.
So let's take things from the top and see why you think your period is "late," shall we?
To begin, there is a theory that all women used to cycle with the moon. They would ovulate at the full moon, and they got their period with the new moon. But there is some evidence that suggests that the amount of ambient light in your bedroom while you're sleeping at night can influence your cycle, in the same way that the moon supposedly did.
So if we are basing the notion of a "standard 28 day cycle" off when we used to cycle with the moon, we're all pretty much screwed! Think of your bedroom – your alarm clock, a charging cell phone, a streetlamp, a light from under the door because your roommate is on another 'Friday Night Lights' bender: most of us do not sleep in a room where the only light is moonlight.
To further confuse matters, women who are on the pill "get their period" at around the same time every month, but anyone who knows anything about the pill knows that is not an actual period. It's a bleed caused by the body's withdrawal from progesterone on the week of placebo pills.
So we've got these two things that mislead women into thinking that their cycle should be 28 days. One of my colleagues who has been teaching the Fertility Awareness Method for years says that she's never had a client whose cycle was the same exact length every single time.
If you actually learn about what is going on in your body each cycle, and chart your fertility using the symptothermal method, you will be able to see and understand what is actually happening with all your heretofore "mystery bits."
Period not arrive when you thought it would? Let's take a look at your chart, it could be several things:
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2.) You ovulated and are currently in your luteal phase, which appears up until now, to be of a normal length. Depending on how long your luteal phases typically are, you could have a better idea of when to expect your period, and if that day passes with no period, let's see what's behind door number 3.
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Most phishing attacks that we have observed in the wild involve attackers breaking in to vulnerable servers and installing malicious web content. Honeynet technology allows us to capture in detail the typical life cycle of a phishing attack, and in general terms the flow of events we have observed during such incidents are as follows:
Often the time taken for this incident life cycle is only a matter of hours or days from when the system is first connected to the Internet, and our research suggests that such activity is taking place on many servers and targeting many organisations at once. We will illustrate these theories using data recorded during two incidents that are typical of common phishing attacks, using one incident observed by the German Honeynet Project and one incident observed by the UK Honeynet Project. In each case, vulnerable Linux honeypots were deployed by Honeynet Research Alliance members. The subsequent compromise of both honeypots shared a similar modus operandi: the vulnerable honeypots were scanned and compromised in quick succession, with pre-built phishing web sites and mass emailing tools for sending spam emails being uploaded and used by the attackers. Rootkits and IRC servers were also installed during these attacks, something we commonly observed in other similar incidents. The compromised honeypots were also used for several different purposes in addition to phishing: as an IRC bot by Romanian attackers and also as a scanner to locate and attack additional vulnerable computers (although the honeynet architecture prevented the attackers from successfully exploiting other servers from the compromised honeypots). Some interesting differences were also apparent, not least in the case of the UK incident, where several different groups accessed the compromised honeypot at the same time, making forensic analysis more complicated. For the sake of brevity, we have not included the details of these specific attacks in this paper and have only covered the lessons learned and how they apply to phishing. If you would like to review more details about the specific attacks, the following information is available:
The table below shows a summary of the key factors and differences between the incidents:
|DE Incident
|UK Incident
|Compromised honeypot
|Redhat Linux 7.1 x86.
|Redhat Linux 7.3 x86.
|German corporate network.
|UK ISP data centre.
|Attack method
|"Superwu" autorooter.
|"Mole" mass scanner.
|Vulnerability exploited
|Wu-Ftpd File globbing heap corruption vulnerability (CVE-2001-0550).
|NETBIOS SMB trans2open buffer overflow (CAN-2003-0201).
|Level of access gained
|Rootkit installed
|Simple rootkit that backdoors several binaries.
|SHV4 rootkit.
|Probable attackers
|Multiple groups from cable modem IP ranges in Constanta region of Romania.
|Web site activity
|Multiple pre-built phishing web sites downloaded targeting eBay and major US banks.
|Pre-built phishing web site downloaded targeting a major US bank.
|Server side processing
|PHP script to validate user input.
|PHP script with more advanced user input validation and data categorisation.
|Email activity
|Tried to send spam (example 1, example 2), but blocked by Honeywall.
|Only test emails sent, potentially to fellow phishers. Improved syntax and presentation.
|Mass emailing method
|Basic PHP script from medium sized input list of email addresses.
|Basic PHP script from small input list of email addresses - possibly just a test.
|Victim traffic reached honeypot
|No, spam advertisement and access to phishing web site blocked.
|Yes. 265 HTTP requests in 4 days, not due to spam sent from this server (no customer details were compromised).
From observing the phisher's keystrokes in both incidents (captured using Sebek), it is clear that the attackers connected to pre-existing back doors and immediately went to work deploying their phishing web sites. The attackers appeared to be familiar with the server environment, suggesting they were part of the group who originally compromised the honeypots, and that the phishing attempt was fairly well organised. As the uploaded web content often referred to other web servers and IP addresses, it is also likely that such activity was probably occurring on multiple servers at once.
Analysis of the phishing web site content downloaded by attackers during these incidents makes it clear that phishers are simultaneously targeting many well known online brands. Well constructed and officially branded pre-built fake web sites are routinely being deployed onto compromised servers - often targeting multiple organisations via separate "micro sites", with separate web server document roots, along with the necessary tools to propagate spam emails to potential phishing victims. Directory listings observed during FTP sessions also confirm that the attackers were heavily involved in spam and phishing activities, revealing pre-built web content and message delivery tools stored on a central server and appearing to target at least eBay, AOL, and several well known US banks in the case of the UK incident. These individual phishing attacks are unlikely to be isolated events, as the spam emails sent during the incidents often directed victims to a different web server than the compromised honeypot. This indicates that phishers are running multiple fake web servers and sending spam from multiple systems at once. Parallel phishing operations are also indicated by the timing of the first inbound HTTP request for phishing content after the UK honeypot was compromised:
This inbound HTTP request to the honeypot occurred before the attackers had finished setting up the fake online banking content on the honeypot, and confirms the hypothesis that the attacker knew in advance that this server was available for use as a phishing web site. Spam messages advertising the new phishing web site were already being emailed to victims from another host, even whilst the attacker was setting up the new phishing web site.
We were surprised by the number and range of source IP addresses making inbound HTTP requests to the compromised honeypot for the fake online banking content. The graph below shows the number of unique and repeat HTTP requests from individual IP addresses to the UK phishing web site before the honeypot was disconnected to protect end users (and the incident details logged with the targeted bank):
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A breakdown of the source top level DNS domains, countries and host operating systems accessing the phishing content on the UK honeypot can be found here. Note that before the honeypot was taken offline for forensic analysis, although web traffic for the phishing web site did arrive at the UK honeypot, no HTTP POST requests were made to the PHP script that processes users' data and therefore no user data was compromised during this phishing attack. In all the incidents discussed in this white paper, either the target organisation was notified of the incident and any relevant data was made available to them on request, or the local CERT was notified of any malicious activity. In all cases no compromised victim personal data was captured by Honeynet Project or Research Alliance members.
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J.D. Jones Jr., 81, of
Amarillo died Monday, March 19, 2012.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Robertson Funeral Directors Saints Roost Chapel in Clarendon with Bright
Newhouse officiating. Burial will be in Citizens Cemetery
in Clarendon. Arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.
J.D. Jones, Jr. lost his courageous battle with cancer on March 19, 2012. Mr. Jones was born September 26, 1930, to John Dalton and ErmaLee Jones. He was their only child. He married Nelda Lee Harrison on December 14, 1948 in Childress. J.D. served as Dallam Country constable for many years. In 1996, he retired from XIT Rural Telephone in Dalhart. He and Nelda then moved
to Amarillo to enjoy their retirement.
Survivors include J.D.'s wife of 63 years, Nelda Harrison Jones of their Amarillo home; two children: Michael Wayne Jones and wife
Jamie of Dalhart, and Karen Jones Cozart of Amarillo; grandchildren: Tessa Foster Waddell and husband Scott of Claude, Jeremy Jones and wife Kelly of Dalhart, Shawn Jones and Christine Jones, both of Helper, UT, Samantha Hopper of Lubbock, and Ramey Cozart of Guymon. Also surviving are eight great-grandchildren.
Visitation was from 6 to
8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers or other gifts, the family suggests donations to Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79105 or Golden Spread Charities.
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International Migration and Liberal Democracies: Yearbook Migration 1999/2000
Axel Schulte, Dietrich Thränhardt
Lit Verlag, 2000 - Social Science - 268 pages
The study of international migration underscores two principles of the modern world and brings them forward for debate: the sovereignty of the nation state on the one hand; and, an open world free of border control and market constraints on the other. Volume II of the Yearbook Migration confronts basic concepts of international migration control through a political theory lens. In contrast to pessimistic interpretations of a global migration crisis and the "Fortress Europe" mind set the American political scientist James F. Hollifield finds quite the opposite as he emphasizes the liberalization of immigration policies among major democracies throughout North America and Europe. According to Hollifield, the expansion of civil rights and a general international liberalization constitutes the basis for this process. Hollifield explains his rights-based approach by tracing the civil rights revolution in the United States coupled with the impact of the liberal German Grundgesetz (Basic Law) and subsequent European unification. He asserts that a positive relationship between market orientated democracies and liberal immigration policies do exist and, therefore, contribute to this continued liberalization. The three major questions he poses centers around control, sovereignty and incorporation. Following Hollifield's analysis, German political scientists Herbert Dittgen and Oliver Schmittke build on this approach utilizing supporting data on the German case. German born Karen Schonwalder challenges Hollifield's thesis of republican liberalization utilizing the British case as she highlights the politics of exclusion in Britain. Karl Markus Kreis illustrates Hollifield's findings by underscoring the decline of ethnic identity among European immigrants in the United States. Finally, the Turkish-American political scientist Nedim Ogelman concludes this study by describing the dynamic of the Latin-American communities and the role they play in speeding up the naturalization process in the US. In contrast to the widespread migration pessimism and communitarian ideologies of exclusion, Volume II Yearbook Migration contains empirical and theoretical analyses which emphasize liberal dimensions of immigration. (Series: Studien zu Migration und Minderheiten/Studies in Migration and Minorities - Vol. 9)
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CLEVELAND (AP) Kyle Gibson limited Cleveland to one run in his season debut after Brian Dozier led off the game with a home run, leading Minnesota to a 7-3 win over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday and giving Twins manager Ron Gardenhire his 1,000th career victory.
Gibson (1-0) allowed three hits in five-plus innings as the Twins snapped a seven-game losing streak against the Indians.
Gardenhire, who has managed Minnesota since 2002, joined Tom Kelly as the only managers in Twins history to reach 1,000 wins.
Gardenhire is the fifth active manager to hit the milestone and the 10th in major league history to get every one of the wins with the same team. The 56-year-old "Gardy" has guided the Twins to six AL Central titles.
Dozier homered on the second pitch from Carlos Carrasco (0-1).
DETROIT (AP) – Torii Hunter homered and drove in five runs, and the Detroit Tigers withstood a five-run ninth inning by Baltimore.
Rick Porcello (1-0) allowed a run and three hits in 6 2-3 innings in his first start of the season, and the Tigers (4-0) remained baseball's only undefeated team. But the Orioles nearly pulled off a remarkable rally after trailing 7-1 entering the ninth.
Joe Nathan got the final two outs for his first save with the Tigers, retiring Chris Davis on a flyout with two on to end it.
Mariners 3, Athletics 1
OAKLAND, Calif. – Felix Hernandez took a shutout into the ninth inning and Dustin Ackley and Abraham Almonte hit home runs.
Hernandez (2-0) retired the first 11 batters on the way to his 16th career win over the Athletics, his most against any team. Hernandez walked one and struck out eight while allowing a run on six hits over 8 1/3 innings.
Fernando Rodney got the final two outs to record his first save with the Mariners. Robinson Cano had two hits.
Dan Straily (0-1) allowed three runs on six hits over his six innings. He walked one and struck out seven.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – James Loney hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the eighth inning.
Loney lined an opposite-field drive off Neal Cotts (0-1) that went over left fielder Shin-Soo Choo and put the Rays up 5-4. Brandon Gomes (1-0) pitched a perfect eighth before Grant Balfour got the final three outs for his first save.
Yunel Escobar and Matt Joyce homered for the Rays. David Price gave up four runs and nine hits in six innings.
Texas right-hander Nick Martinez allowed three runs and four hits over six innings in his major league debut.
Brewers 7, Red Sox 6, 11 innings
BOSTON (AP) – Khris Davis doubled in the 11th inning for his fourth hit of the game, and scored on Logan Schafer's double.
Tyler Thornburg (1-0) earned the win with a perfect 10th inning. Burke Badenhop (0-1) came in to start the 11th and gave up Davis' one-out double, then Schafer one-hopped the Green Monster between the left and center fielders.
Francisco Rodriguez struck out the side in the 11th for his second save.
Jean Segura and Aramis Ramirez each had three of Milwaukee's 19 hits. Carlos Gomez and Mark Reynolds each hit a solo homer in the second inning – the first hit of the season for Reynolds, who was signed as a free agent on Jan. 17.
TORONTO (AP) – R.A. Dickey and three relievers combined for a shutout, and Jose Bautista and Melky Cabrera homered.
Dickey (1-0) allowed six runs and five hits in his season-opening start at Tampa Bay last Monday but was much sharper against New York. The 2012 NL Cy Young winner gave up five hits in 6 2-3 innings, walked one and struck out six.
Aaron Loup got one out and Brett Cecil two before Sergio Santos worked the final 1 1-3 innings for his second save in as many chances.
Right-hander Michael Pineda (0-1) made his first major league start for New York since he was acquired in a January 2012 trade with Seattle. Pineda hurt his shoulder that spring and underwent season-ending surgery in May.
HOUSTON (AP) – Josh Hamilton hit a two-run home run and Tyler Skaggs pitched eight innings of four-hit ball.
Skaggs (1-0) allowed an unearned run and struck out five. Skaggs was making his Angels debut after being acquired in the offseason from Arizona in a trade that sent outfielder Mark Trumbo to the Diamondbacks.
Hamilton followed David Freese's run-scoring single with his second homer in two days, extending the lead to 4-1 in the fifth off Dallas Keuchel.
Keuchel (0-1) allowed four runs on eight hits with five strikeouts over five innings.
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Alex Gordon doubled off left-hander Scott Downs (0-1) before Perez hit Maikel Cleto's second pitch down the left-field line.
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Pumpkin-Swirl Brownies (Adapted from Martha Stewart)
8 tablespoons unsalted butter
6 ounces chopped bittersweet chocolate
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
4 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 1/4 cups mashed pumpkin
1/4 cup canola oil
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon fresh grated nutmeg
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a microwave-safe bowl, add chocolate and butter - heat at 50% power, stirring every 30 seconds, until just melted and smooth.
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt and cayenne.
In a large mixing bowl, beat together sugar, eggs and vanilla until fluffy and well combined, at least 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in flour mixture.
Remove half of the batter into another bowl.
Stir chocolate mixture into one bowl. In other bowl, stir in pumpkin, oil, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Working quickly, scoop half of the chocolate batter into a 9" square baking pan coated with cooking spray. Top with half of pumpkin batter. Repeat process to make one more chocolate layer and one more pumpkin layer. Using a table knife, gently swirl the two batters together.
Place pan into the oven and bake until just set, about 40 to 45 minutes. Remove and place pan on a wire rack to cool completely.
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2011-2012: James played the most of any of last year's first year players. Played in 19 games. Had 10 rebounds and 8 points against Pacifica College. Was 4 for 4 from the floor against UC Merced and scoring 8 points in that game also. Led newcomers in minutes played, games played, points and rebounds
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NEWPORT BEACH — Mr. Irrelevant met the Nigerian Nightmare for the first time. Cheta Ozougwu was just happy to hear his name pronounced correctly by someone other than his Nigerian parents.
Christian Okoye said "oh-ZOO-goo" just once. To the former running back for the Kansas City Chiefs, Ozougwu was still Mr. Irrelevant, the last player picked in the NFL Draft.
As for any advice for Ozougwu, who will try to make the Houston Texans, Okoye chuckled at first. The laughs started well before a roast of Ozougwu at the All-Star Lowsman Banquet at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel & Spa on Wednesday.
A couple of days before the event in front of former NFL standouts and coaches, Ozougwu hoped the jokes would be tasteful. He worried for the sake of his parents, Aja and Josephine, who are devout Christians.
They actually laughed the hardest.
Aja and Josephine were not about to stop the barrage of jokes aimed at their 22-year-old son. Even when Mike Haynes, a Hall of Fame player, asked if Ozougwu was smart, his parents busted up laughing.
Ozougwu sat through all the abuse with a huge smile.
Okoye, sitting next to Ozougwu, knew the insults were nothing compared to what Ozougwu will experience in the NFL. Okoye used to run over players like Ozougwu during his playing days.
Okoye was a 6-foot-1, 253-pounder for the Chiefs from 1987 to '92. Ozougwu is 6-2, 247 pounds right now and he is trying to be an outside linebacker.
That explains how big Okoye was back in the day.
When Okoye was drafted in the second round as the 35th overall pick in 1987, people called him a project because he only had three years of organized football. Can you imagine how Ozougwu felt when he heard that? Remember, he was the 254th pick.
Okoye told Ozougwu that the label pushed him. Okoye went on to make the Pro Bowl twice and lead the NFL in rushing in 1989, when he gained 1,480 yards.
When asked if Ozougwu stood a chance at tackling him back then, Okoye grinned.
"Anybody can tackle anybody," Okoye said.
Okoye has seen dozens of players with Nigerian ties make it in the NFL. He is proud to have blazed the trail, even though he came to the U.S. to compete in track and field — the discus throw and the shot put — at Azusa Pacific University.
The Nigerian Nightmare made a name for himself. Time will tell if Ozougwu will get the chance this year because of the lockout.
Clay Matthews Jr., who spent 19 years in the NFL, told Ozougwu no one cares where he went in the draft. All that matters is putting in the work to contribute to a team. He would know, because John Ireland, a Corona del Mar High graduate, joked that Matthews' entire family played in the NFL.
Ozougwu believes he has what it takes to be an NFL player. Until that happens, Mr. Irrelevant cannot get rid of the nickname.
"He hasn't showed me anything yet," Okoye said.