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HOUSTON - Three men burglarized a Midtown Houston bar and fled the scene early Wednesday, leading officers on a high-speed chase before they were caught, police said.
At 3 a.m., Houston police officers responded to a burglary in progress call at Link Nightclub at 2901 Fannin Street. The owner of the club was upstairs, heard the commotion and called 911.
"When the officers showed up, they saw one suspect run and jump into a car. He was wearing a ski mask and had a crow bar in his hand," said Craig Bigger with the Houston Police Department.
The officer said he chased the man to the Southwest Freeway, to Interstate 10 East, to Lockwood Drive, and finally to Calles Street, where police said the getaway vehicle crashed into a culvert ditch.17023308
The three suspects abandoned the car, and the officer said he continued following them on foot. The officer caught the driver of the car first and, with the assistance of a K-9 unit, found and arrested the second and third suspects in an apartment complex in the 5300 block of Coke Street about two hours later.
The suspects' names were not released.
Investigators said the motive for the burglary was to steal expensive liquor.
"We've had in the past -- they'll break into the business with high-end alcohol, like $100 bottles. They go for the alcohol," Bigger said.
Drextel Motley said he owns the car used in the chase. He said he bought it for his son.
"I don't believe it," Motley said. "I don't believe he break into any building."
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Hold it now!
You just walk up to her and say hi
That's all you gotta do
Say hi
That's all you gotta do
Say hi
[Verse 1]
Well I know I'm not the coolest
And this might sound kind of foolish
Cause I know I'm not the smoothest, told myself I shouldn't do this
Cause I'm not very well-suited, not the popular-est of students
We ain't in the same crowd, always see you with the hoopers
But we got the same lunch, you might see me with the cooler
That's cause I don't eat pork, you can never be sure of
Oh, you like Linkin Park? That's the hat from the tour
I got an autographed shirt, they wrote, "much love 2 ya"
Man that's really funny how we like the same music
But I really love jazz, I was gonna play the tuba
I tried to join the band, they said I was really, really bad
Didn't really make me sad, I'm used to being the loser
But you, I think you're super, so much, I had to pursue ya
I don't believe the things they say or the football team's rumors
The quarterback can't spell, I'm his after-school tutor
I just took a cue from Cupid, but, now I think it's stupid
I'm-I'm sorry
And then I walked away
Thinkin' that she would never talk to me
Like what were you thinking bringing up the band
Would have got a better result
If would have just beat her up and ran
You shouldn't have worn your glasses
Take your shirt up out your pants
See now it's all over and you won't get another chance
Damn, I was so close to her, then I felt a hand on my shoulder
[Verse 2]
She said, "I know you're not the coolest
But I swear you are the cutest
And I know you played the tuba, I seen you at the recital
It takes a lot to get up there and embarrass yourself
But you shouldn't put down, you should merit yourself
That just mean you not a punk, I like Thelonious Monk
He's the wallpaper on my computer
I love Final Fantasy, I hate first person shooters (me too)
"Meteora" was nice but I bought "Hybrid Theory" twice
Half of the cheerleading squad is in a stupor
The only reason I do it is 'cause my mother took state
When she was a junior
And she want me to do the same, so I'm like, naww
I wanna be an oncologist and diagnose tumors
I got a a pet parrot, his name is 'Mr. Tuna'
My favorite food is fish, remember that for the future
My IM name is missluna, you can hit me after six"
How you feelin' right now?
Yes yes yes yes yes yes
Come, Seymour, we have things to do!
(How you feeling right now?)
And just like everything in life
Things grow, People grow
And people grow apart
It's like some things were just never meant to be
You see?
But, then again
Some things are
[Verse 3]
You know today gonna be the coolest
And you know how far your school is
Know how dangerous the flu is, so button up your coat
And finish off your breakfast, you know how important fuel is
Food is to human as buoyancy's to boat
I knew this, everyday we gotta go through this
And I ask why you quote, cuz I'm your father Lucas
Pop, last night I was lookin over the futures
Commodities is felon, rental properties is sellin
The bio tech market share is at its hugest
I think we should ride this wave, we can't re-invent the Rubik's
Woah, we should of played her more music
Lucas, dear, why is your bookbag full of tulips
Umm, well Ma, you see there's this girl, you know
And I was thinking that I may walk to her, you know
Try and talk to her
Discuss different things that were taught to her
And see what makes her tick
You know? You know Mama?
The song is about Lupe the Nerd trying to overcome his fear and talk to the chearleader-girl he likes.
Samples the N.E.R.D. song "Maybe"
"And He Gets the Girl" was never released on an album or mixtape. Instead, select versions of Lupe's "I Gotcha" single featured it as a b-side.


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At the Indianapolis scouting combines, the press asked NFL aspirant Ryan Mallett about the "heavy rumors of drug use and [if] possible addiction kept him from coming out for the 2010 draft." Those "heavy rumors" stem from an article by Tony Softli, a former NFL executive in Carolina and St. Louis, on ESPN's St. Louis affiliate's website.
Mallett politely declined to address those two and several other questions about the character issues dogging him as he prepares for April's draft, saying he'll tell teams "what they need to know and I'm going to leave it at that."
"I mean, obviously somebody did it for a reason," Mallett said. "Right before the combine, before the draft. But that's the last I'm going to talk about that."
Before long, the interview was stopped early by a combine official. Here's how Softli followed up:
He is a young man with a big smile, but struggled with questioning when grilled about the rumors surrounding past episodes with drugs. Frustrated by the barrage of questions, he cut the session short and walked off the stage. I received a call from a member of the Arkansas coaching staff, who said, "Ryan Mallett never failed a drug test at the University of Arkansas." You can see the youth and immaturity, but he can spin the ball.
Oh yeah, quarterback, entertainer and icon Cam Newton was there yesterday, too. Obviously. For a similar reason.
Former Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett doesn't clear air about drug rumors [Mercury News]
Ryan Mallett hard to take down [Boston Herald]
QB Mallett makes Cutler look charming [ESPN Chicago]
Report: Mallett's drug use could be addiction [NBC Sports]


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Boost Your Picture Puzzle-Solving Brain Power
Exercising your brain gives you an edge in solving picture puzzles. Regardless where you fall on the mental fitness meter, you will stay sharper as you age by doing some basic brain-building.
Challenge yourself. Be sure you're solving picture puzzles at the right level. If you're breezing through puzzles, you need to move up to a higher, more challenging level.
Use it or lose it. Your mind muscle needs a daily workout. Challenging your mind each day with picture puzzles helps to maintain your mental acuity.
Work a variety of puzzles. Try different types of picture puzzles, but also feel free to experiment with crossword puzzles, Sudoku, and other such puzzles that can keep your mind working in different ways.
Try something new. Learning something new exercises your memory as well as the way you associate things, both of which can help you solve picture puzzles better.
Keep your nose in a book. When you read, you learn new words and process new information, which challenges and stimulates your brain.
Rid yourself of mind-mushing activities. While it may be difficult to completely get rid of your online profile, texting with friends, and watching some occasional TV, keeping such activities to a minimum helps keep your brain active.


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Whitney Houston -- Enablers Contributed to Alcohol Abuse
Whitney Houston Off the Wagon ... With the Help of Enablers
Whitney Houston was heavy into alcohol in the months before her death, and many of the people around her bent over backwards to accommodate her cravings for alcohol.
Sources who spent significant time with Whitney in the last few months tell us ... Whitney drank virtually every day leading up to her death.
We're told when she started shooting the movie "Sparkle" she was sober. In fact, Whitney's voice, we're told, was "phenomenal" and she would boast to people, "My voice is back!"
But after principal shooting, when Whitney went into the studio to dub various lines, we're told she was off the wagon.
We're told Whitney's immediate family -- and Bobby Brown -- became "extremely upset" because they believed the singer's friends were more than happy to accommodate her drinking whims whenever she wanted, even though it was apparent she had lost control.
As TMZ first reported, Whitney's family says authorities told them ... she may have died from a reaction to prescription drugs and alcohol. We know she drank alcohol shortly before her death, and we're told she typically took Xanax -- one of the drugs found in her room -- before a performance to calm her nerves, and she was scheduled to sing at Clive Davis' Grammy party.
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Active Military
If you are serving in the United States Armed Forces and your domicile (legal residence) is North Carolina, you must pay North Carolina income tax and North Carolina income tax should be withheld from your military pay, regardless of where you are stationed. Domicile or legal residence is an individual's permanent home. Your legal residence does not change even though you may be absent for one or more years unless you intend to change your state of residence and you take voluntary and positive actions to do so. Actions that demonstrate your intent to establish a new state of residence include: physical presence in a new location, registration of automobiles, location of bank accounts, and filing and paying local property and income tax in the new location. Without such actions, residency is not changed. A statement that a servicemember intends to carry out these actions at a later date is not sufficient.
Under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, if you are a legal resident of another state who is stationed in North Carolina on military orders, you will not be taxed on your military pay by North Carolina. However, if you receive income from non-military employment, tangible property or a business located in North Carolina, you must pay the North Carolina tax on that income.
Military Spouse Income: The Military Spouses Residency Relief Act of 2009 amended the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide that a spouse shall neither lose nor acquire a domicile or residence in a state when the spouse is present in the state solely to be with the servicemember in compliance with the servicemember's military orders if the domicle or residence is the same for both the servicemember and the spouse.
Therefore, effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, the income earned for services performed in North Carolina by a spouse of a servicemember who is legally domiciled in a state other than North Carolina is not subject to North Carolina income tax if (1) the servicemember is present in North Carolina solely in compliance with military orders; (2) the spouse is in North Carolina solely to be with the servicemember; and (3) the spouse is domiciled in the same state as the servicemember. All three conditions must be met to qualify for exemption.
If you are the spouse of a servicemember who is a legal resident of North Carolina, the Revenue Department does not assume that you are a North Carolina resident because of marriage. Your residency is based on your individual circumstances. If you filed a joint federal return and one of you was a nonresident of North Carolina who had no North Carolina taxable income, you may file a joint State return. Once you file a joint return, you cannot choose to file separate returns for that year after the due date of the return. However, you still have the option of filing your State return as married filing separately. If you choose to file a separate North Carolina return, you must complete either a federal return as married filing separately reporting only your income, deductions, and exemptions, or a schedule showing the computation of your separate income, deductions, and exemptions and attach it to your North Carolina return. You must also include a copy of your joint federal return unless your federal return reflects a North Carolina address.
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The Paulie Cardie has a body! Yay! That took rather an age knitting all that stockinette flat. The fabric itself has little rows of wonkiness because of my uneven tension, but for the most part it's fine. I hope a good blocking will take care of some of the weirdness.
Up next are sleeves…I shall do those in the round because stockinette is so much more fun in the round. EZ knew what she was talking about there. I shall have to refresh my mind of the jogless jog technique, but the internet is full of knowledge.
I have one more skein of gray yarn left (420 yds) so I should have enough yarn for sleeves and placket/collar. Perhaps I should start with the placket and collar? I need plackets and a neck edge but with possibly insufficient yarn supply, 3/4 length sleeves may be necessary. I don't think so, but I've just talked myself into placket knitting. Oh yay! Picking up and knitting hundreds of stitches…AND an i-cord bind off for dessert.
Oh well, it needs to be done so I might as well get the hard bit over with first.


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Last night Matt and I saw the Shakespeare in the Park production of Into the Woods in Central Park. Free tickets are distributed at 1:00 p.m., but because they only give out a limited number and it's very popular, you really have to start lining up in the park by 6:00 a.m. to guarantee you'll get tickets. You might be OK if you get there at 6:30, but if you get there at 7:00 you'll most likely be too late, because the line will already be too long. (Each person in line can get 1 or 2 tickets until they run out.)
So yesterday Matt and I took the day off from work, dragged ourselves out of bed at 5:25 in the morning, got ourselves together, headed out the door, hailed a cab, and got to Central Park a few minutes before 6:00. The park actually doesn't open until 6, so we had to line up at the entrance to the park at West 81st Street and Central Park West. There were already several dozen people ahead of us when we got there. A Public Theater staffer watched over things, explained some of the rules (such as: you can't switch off with someone else in line), and said that those of us already in line would definitely be able to get tickets. Whew.
At around 6:00 a.m., the park opened, and the staffer led the line a little ways through the park and over to the Delacorte Theater. We then plopped down our stuff in line along a path leading up to the box office window and settled in for a seven-hour wait.
The seven hours actually went by incredibly fast. We brought chairs, suntan lotion, sunglasses, snacks, and stuff to pass the time. I had magazines, my Kindle, my iPad (loaded with a couple of movies), my iPhone, earphones, and a book of puzzles. It was like preparing for an airplane trip, but with 3G access. (Alas, no WiFi in the park.)
I wish I'd brought a hoodie, because for the first two or three hours I was surprisingly chilly in shorts and a t-shirt. It was already light out at 6:00, but it took a few hours for the sun to rise high enough to start warming things up. We lucked out with good weather; it wasn't muggy or too hot.
There are restrooms near the box office, as well as a concession window that sells food and drinks. There's also a guy passing out menus from a nearby deli: you can place orders, and they'll deliver to you in line. People don't mind if you leave the line for a few minutes at a time to use the bathroom, buy some food, or take a quick walk up and down the line. I took a few short strolls — I counted about 100 people ahead of us, and at about 10 a.m., I walked in the other direction and counted about 250 people snaking away behind us, most of whom would not get tickets.
The whole thing was very civilized. It's nice sitting in the park under a canopy of trees, watching runners and bikers and dog-walkers.
The time flew by, and then at 12:45 we were told to start gathering up our stuff and begin compacting the line. At about 1:00, they started giving out tickets. When you get to the front, you just tell the guy whether you want 1 or 2 tickets per person, and he hands you some tickets.
Matt and I got four tickets, because my parents would be joining us. We were given Section O, Row Q, seats 512-515, which, according to the seating chart, were all the way on the end of a row. Given how early we got in line, we were a bit bummed not to get better seats, but we realized most of the good seats go to donors. And after all, the tickets were free. Later in the day I did a Twitter search and saw that some people in line got seats a bit closer to the center, although I didn't see any that got much closer to the stage.
We went home and napped a bit, and then a few hours later we headed back to the park and met up with my parents. Outside the theater we saw Wesley Taylor (best known for Smash), and while sitting in our seats I saw Michael Urie in the audience. Apparently Tom Hanks was also there last night, and so was Jennifer Damiano.
Our seats turned out to be not bad at all. It's a thrust stage, not a proscenium, so we could pretty much see everything. We did have a little trouble seeing the (spoiler alert!) giant at one point, but we could see it fine at another point.
It was only the second preview, so there are still some kinks to be worked out — the show dragged at times and ended after 11:00, but that will probably improve as the cast finds its groove. For me, the standouts were Jessie Mueller as Cinderella, Sarah Stiles as Little Red Riding Hood, Gideon Glick as Jack, and Ivan Hernandez and Cooper Grodin as the two princes. Amy Adams was surprisingly good as the Baker's Wife for someone who is not normally a stage actress, and she did a particularly nice job with "Moments in the Woods." Donna Murphy, of course, did a great, comical job as the Witch. And it was wonderful to see Chip Zien play the Mysterious Man, since he played the Baker in the original 1987 production (which my parents saw without me). And kudos to young Jack Broderick, who plays the Narrator.
There's something special about seeing Into the Woods performed outdoors, with real trees in the background, especially as the sun goes down and the moon comes out. (Every so often I looked up and noticed that the moon had moved. It sure travels fast!) We weren't sure we wanted to get up at the crack of dawn and wait in the park for seven hours, but I'm glad we did it.


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Middlesbrough 0-2 Norwich: Cameron Jerome and Nathan Redmond strike as Canaries seal immediate return to Premier League
By Jack Wilkinson
Last Updated: 26/05/15 10:00am
Norwich City sealed an immediate return to the Premier League as a blistering first-half display saw them beat Middlesbrough 2-0 in a pulsating Sky Bet Championship play-off final at Wembley.
Two goals in three first-half minutes shifted the final in favour of Alex Neil's side as goals from Cameron Jerome and Nathan Redmond saw the Canaries return to the top flight at the first time of asking in a match deemed to be worth up to £130m to the victors.
Both sides rattled each other's crossbars in a frenetic start to the match, before a well organised Norwich took the game away from a Boro side who rarely threatened to drag themselves back into proceedings.
The result marks a dramatic turnaround for Norwich who, having turned to former Hamilton boss Neil to ignite their floundering season in January, produced an accomplished display to beat Middlesbrough for the first time this season, following defeats both home and away in the regular season.
The news before kick-off concerned traffic around the National Stadium as Middlesbrough were held up en-route to the ground. Patrick Bamford returned from injury to lead to Boro attack, while Neil named the same line-up which defeated East Anglian rivals Ipswich Town in the semi-finals.
And the continuity among the Norwich ranks was evident from the off as the Championship's third-placed side grabbed the initiative.
Jerome was the early out-ball and he missed a glorious chance to open the scoring on nine minutes when he failed to convert Steven Whittaker's cross from the right.
What followed summed up the end-to-end nature of the game, and indeed this season, as Bradley Johnson sent a left-footed volley crashing against the crossbar of Dimitrios Konstantopoulos' goal seconds before Boro repeated the feat with Jelle Vossen rattling John Ruddy's goal with an exquisite effort.
The game then swung in Norwich's favour as Jerome picked Daniel Ayala's pocket on 12 minutes, bore down on the Middlesbrough goal and slotted the ball past the on-rushing Konstantopoulos to become the first player in the club's history to score outright at Wembley.
It was two shortly after as Redmond gathered Whittaker's through ball with one touch before rifling home with his second from inside the right-hand channel to give the Canaries a deserved two-goal advantage.
Shell-shocked, Middlesbrough struggled to find a way through Norwich's solid midfield set-up, with Alexander Tettey and Wes Hoolahan, along with Jerome, penning Boro deep inside their half for large parts with an aggressive defensive press.
However, trailing by just two goals, the half-time interval presented Aitor Karanka's side with the chance to regroup, and they did as Albert Adomah used his pace to get in behind the Norwich rearguard consistently for the first time after the break.
Bamford drew a fine save from Ruddy on 60 minutes, after Lee Tomlin had found the England U21 striker with a disguised pass, and Ruddy was on hand again to smother substitute Kike's drilled cut-back as Boro failed to create a clear opening on the Norwich goal.
Ayala had a couple of half chances to atone for his part in Jerome's opener, before his third header from a corner was blocked en-route to goal by Norwich substitute Lewis Grabban.
Middlesbrough could not find a way through in the closing stages and it was left to Canaries captain Russell Martin to lift the Championship play-off trophy aloft as the Canaries became the 18th side to seal an immediate promotion to the top flight the season after they were relegated.
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Posted by R. Berg on August 19, 2007
In Reply to: Ideas above one's station posted by Michael Mayer on August 19, 2007
: Ideas above one's station - is that the same as having airs and graces or does it describe a class system in which having thoughts about matters regarded as the preserve of a higher class is forbidden or at least frowned upon?
The latter interpretation is correct. To do anything "above one's station" is to act presumptuously, as if one occupied a higher position. The context needn't be a class system in the sociological sense. Imagine a first-year law student arguing with the chief justice of the Supreme Court. ~rb


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When we connect to our favorite websites, apps and online entertainment services, we're often immediately immersed in a convenient and unique experience tailored to our interests. Based on criteria like previous purchases, custom settings and demographic information, our experience is streamlined, from product recommendations to speedy checkouts. Now imagine a grocery store where you can receive personal recommendations and offers the moment you step in store, your checkout takes seconds and you can pay for groceries without ever taking out your wallet. Sound far-fetched? It's closer than you think.
Though technology has fundamentally transformed the way industries such as music, books and videos operate, change has been more evolutionary than revolutionary in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. But digital is redefining what it means to "go" grocery shopping. Lines between the physical and digital worlds are blurring. Shoppers are growing accustomed to the benefits of digital in other retail settings and are beginning to expect them in grocery as well. Savvy retailers are winning by leveraging technology to enhance the shopping experience and meet consumers' evolving desires.
"The connected commerce era has arrived," said Patrick Dodd, president, global retailer vertical, Nielsen. "Consumers are no longer shopping entirely online or offline; rather, they're taking a blended approach, using whatever channel best suits their needs. The most successful retailers and manufacturers will be at the intersection of the physical and virtual worlds, leveraging technology to satisfy shoppers however, wherever and whenever they want to shop."
Across the globe, we're seeing a resurgence of the home-delivery model from the past—with a twist. Consumers aren't just picking up the phone to order; increasingly, they're pulling up the retailer's webpage or using their mobile app. In fact, one-quarter of global respondents in Nielsen's Global E-Commerce and The New Retail Survey say they are already ordering grocery products online for home delivery, and more than half (55%) are willing to use it in the future.
Increasingly, retailers are introducing e-commerce models that make it even easier for tech-savvy, time-crunched consumers to get the items they need. Fourteen percent of global respondents say they use an automatic online subscription service, in which orders are routinely replenished at a specified frequency, and more than half (54%) are willing to do so in the future. In 2011, Tesco (Homeplus) introduced the first virtual supermarket in a South Korean subway system, and the model has spread to other markets. Today, 13% of global respondents say they're already using a virtual store and nearly six-in-10 (58%) are willing use them when they become available.
A smaller number of consumers are using "click and collect" services, which allow them to order groceries online for pickup at a store or other location. Just over one-in-10 global respondents say they presently order groceries online and pick them up in-store or using a drive-thru (12% each). Slightly fewer (10%) order online for curbside pick-up. More than half of global respondents, however, are willing to use these online options in the future (57% for in-store, 55% for drive-thru and 52% for curbside pickup).
The report also discusses:
For more detail and insight, download Nielsen's Global E-commerce and The New Retail Report.
The findings in this survey are based on respondents with online access across 60 countries. While an online survey methodology allows for tremendous scale and global reach, it provides a perspective only on the habits of existing Internet users, not total populations. In developing markets where online penetration has not reached majority potential, audiences may be younger and more affluent than the general population of that country. Additionally, survey responses are based on claimed behavior, rather than actual metered data.


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Moderators: Three Stars, dagny, pfim, netwolf
mikey287 wrote:Red Wings have a lot of pull. Have always wanted to be back in the East and the league told them if they ever had the chance to, they would do it.
pcm wrote:I hadn't heard anything about this for a while, but it sounds like there's actual action on expansion plans in Seattle... depending on the outcome of Phoenix.
A real article from thefourthperiod: http://www.thefourthperiod.com/columnists/pagnotta/dp130616.html
columbia wrote:Put a team in Portland; organic ice would be a big selling point.
shmenguin wrote:how did the last expansion draft work with teams protecting their players? did you have to volunteer X amount of players or were you allowed to protect X amount? did pending UFAs/RFAs count towards the players you were allowed to offer?
pcm wrote:Do you know where the cutoff was for players/prospects ineligible for the expansion draft? For instance, would Bennett have to be protected? (I'm guessing yes) But what about a guy like Bortuzzo or a guy who's maybe played a couple games in the NHL and then sent back down?
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Cookbook Review: Kosher by Design Cooking Coach
When people ask me what I do, I tell them I'm a writer and a blogger. That usually elicits a, "Wow!" until I explain that I make no money from my blogging. Sure, it's nice to see my name in print. That thrill never goes away, but in general, blogging is not all it's cracked up to be.
Except that one day, some months ago, I finally got a chance at a perk. I was hanging out at cookbook author Norene Gilletz's Norene's Kitchen Facebook group and noted that the publicist for Susie Fishbein (another notable cookbook author) had offered advance copies of Fishbein's new cookbook to bloggers and authors. "What the heck," I thought, "I'm a blogger."
So I wrote Fishbein's publicist with my contact info and shortly received a response that I'd been added to the list and would receive my cookbook sometime in the fall. I was psyched. I'd always wanted a Susie Fishbein cookbook and now I'd get one for free, before everyone else, simply for writing a review here in my blog on the Times of Israel. KEWL!
It's hard to make a living as a writer, so I've done many a stint at menial jobs to earn my keep. I've cleaned houses, made wedding cakes, and cared for the elderly. It was at the home of a dear departed elderly woman that I first became acquainted with Fishbein's magnum opus, The Kosher Palette. Once I managed to lull Nechama (RIP) to sleep for her afternoon nap, I'd eagerly go through Fishbein's book, jotting down recipes on scraps of paper to stow away in my bag to try out when I got home. Those recipes were always a hit. Now I was to receive a Susie Fishbein book of my very own!
The cookbook arrived at an interesting time. It was during Operation Pillar of Defense—a tense time for Israel—that the book arrived by messenger to my doorstep. It was like God ordered that cookbook to come to me at that time. The glossy, brand new cookbook with its fresh-from-the-factory look and smell provided a much-needed escape for me and as it turns out, for my kids as well. They all begged to read it after me FIRST (Me. No ME. Choose ME. I was FIRST). My kids are foodies, too.
I loved the concept of Fishbein's new book, Kosher by Design Cooking Coach. Susie offers her readers the basics and asks them to think of them as a jumping-off point to cook by intuition. There are well-illustrated instructions on such cooking tasks as using a steel, spatchcocking a chicken, and baking rice in the oven, instead of cooking it on the stove. The inclusion of such basics would make this book a great gift for a new cook looking to find some equilibrium in the kitchen. But the book was even helpful to someone like me, no longer a novice in the kitchen. As it turns out, my knife grip was wrong (by Fishbein's lights, at any rate) and I was using the steel incorrectly.
I found that Susie had much to teach me and that I enjoyed learning things the Fishbein way.
Susie includes a section in her cookbook she calls the "Playbook." This section tells the reader how to create tempting leftovers from recipes in the book. It's like you get more bang for your buck: really two recipes for every one new recipe in the book.
So far, I have tried two recipes from this book. The first recipe I tried was for Chocolate Babka Meltaway. I'd always wanted a good babka recipe. They can be dry and heavy but this one was PRIMO, a serious keeper.
Cooking By Intuition
If I had any complaints about the recipe, it's that I don't like to use intuition in the kitchen, especially when it comes to baking and I would have liked the instructions to be a bit more detailed. I wondered if this might be Fishbein's way of pushing me out of the nest as a cook and forcing me to hone the instincts that must surely be there after more than 3 decades of cooking. For example, Fishbein tells the reader how to prepare the babka crumb topping but doesn't tell us to apply it to the cake before baking. I actually paused for a moment to wonder if the topping was meant to be applied AFTER baking. But I read through the recipe and there was nothing further on the topic, so I went with adding the topping prior to baking the babka.
The recipe also did not tell the reader to allow for a second rising in the pan, so I took a chance and let the prepared babka sit in the pan only for so long as the oven was preheating.
As I said, the babka was fabulous. It was moist, chocolaty and rich and my husband deemed the crumb topping so delicious, he pigged out on the crumbs left over on the cake plate after the babka was but a memory. Still, I will want to flesh out the recipe a bit more next time. I will gently pat the crumbs into the dough to help them adhere. I think I will also allow the babka a bit more time to rise in the pan before baking as it did not quite fill the pan.
Greener Cooking Technique
I tried Fishbein's instructions for baked rice as this seemed a greener way to cook when I'm already using the oven at that temperature to roast chicken. The long grain rice I used came out nice and fluffy, with each grain separate, though the rice at the edges of the pan were a bit crusty. I would use this technique during the week, when it's "just us folks" for dinner, but not for company. It's a money, energy, and time saver.
As for money, energy, and time saving, put that aside when you make this babka recipe. Use 60% chocolate, like I did, and throw caution and your waistline to the wind! It's to die for. Note that I have no stand mixer or bread machine. I used a hand mixer and kneaded the dough by hand. The dough "felt right" and was a pleasure to work with.
Chocolate Babka Meltaway (from Kosher by Design Cooking Coach, Susie Fishbein) Dairy or Parve
One for this week, and one to freeze for up to a month. You can make this recipe as one big batch in a 9×13-inch baking pan, you just won't get to see the pretty sides as you do when you release the spring on the springform pan.
2/3 cup milk or unsweetened soymilk
2 large eggs
1/3 cup butter or margarine, melted but not too hot
¼ cup water
¼ cup sugar
1 ½ teaspoons fine sea salt
2 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast or bread machine yeast
4 cups bread flour
Nonstick cooking spray
12 ounces good-quality semisweet chocolate
1 cup sugar
2 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
½ stick butter or margarine, melted
1 ½ cups confectioner's sugar
1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 stick butter or margarine, melted
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment in the bowl of a Magic Mill or Bosch mixer, beat the milk or soymilk, eggs, butter or margarine, water, sugar, salt, and yeast, until combined. If using a stand mixer, switch to the dough hook. On low speed, incorporate the flour and mix until a smooth, shiny dough is formed, about 6-7 minutes. If using a bread machine, add the ingredients to the pan according to manufacturer's directions and set to dough cycle. You can also knead all the ingredients by hand until a smooth satiny dough is formed. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Set aside in a warm place to rise until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
- Meanwhile prepare the chocolate filling: On a cutting board, with a sharp knife, preferably serrated, very finely chop and shave the chocolate. Transfer it along with any of the shavings from the cutting board to a large bowl. If you don't have good knife skills, you can transfer moderately-sized chunks to the food processor to pulse until finely chopped. Return the chocolate to the large bowl. Mix in the sugar and cinnamon. Pour the warm melted butter or margarine over the mixture and stir until chocolate is coated and it looks like wet sand.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Spray 2 (9-inch) springform pans with nonstick cooking spray.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Roll the dough into a large 17- x 21-inch rectangle. Sprinkle on the chocolate filling in an even layer to cover all the dough. Starting on with the long side of the rectangle, roll up the dough, jellyroll fashion. You can use a bench scraper or thin metal spatula to help ease it off the counter and to help roll. Using a sawing motion, cut into 1 –inch-thick slices.
- Place the rolls flat into the prepared springform pans, It's okay if the rolls don't completely fill the pan; they will expand as they bake.
- Prepare the crumb topping: Place the confectioner's sugar and all-purpose flour into a medium bowl. Add the melted butter or margarine and pinch to form large crumbs. Make sure they look moist, but don't over-pinch: leave most of the crumbs nice and big – about 1 inch.
- Bake, uncovered, for 25-30 minutes, until the crumbs look dry, the chocolate looks melty, and the dough is baked and starting to brown in some spots. Do not overbake or the cake will be dry, especially if making in advance and reheating.
- When ready to serve, release the spring on the pan and remove outside ring. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Kosher by Design, Susie Fishbein. Distributed by Mesorah Publications, ltd., 4401 Second Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11232.
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Just going back to my hometown for a little visit. I haven't been in Maryland (or pretty much anywhere but Hawaii) since my move here in February of 2010! I'm a little overdue.
My best friend just got married so I'm excited to attend her Halloween-style reception this weekend. Since Halloween is arguably my favorite holiday and I live for costumes, needless to say, I'm psyched.
I have been planning my Halloween costume for about 3 months now. Pictures will come soon!
I'll also be attending a Baltimore Ravens home game. Dear Lord, I'm so happy. I think I'd be thrilled just to have the game occur later than 8am but to be present at the game, beer and all? Literally, heaven. Purple heaven.
Geez, I'm blessed.
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In this paper, we have taken a behind-the-scenes look at malicious web servers that launch drive-by-downloads. We analyzed specific aspects of several web exploitation kits that allowed us to reexamine several questions that we were unable to answer with our previous study on malicious web servers. The web exploitation kits provided us with valuable insight on how malicious web servers operate. (For comprehensive analysis of MPack and WebAttacker we refer to existing reports [18], [19].) There are several conclusions we draw as a result of our analysis with respect to future studies and client honeypot technology:
First, the appearance of web exploitation kits have a positive effect on identification of malicious web servers. Since they are tools that can be relatively easily obtained and deployed, it has a homogenizing effect on the malicious web server landscape (4.24% of the URLs encountered in our KYE study used MPack; WebAttacker apparently composed 32% of reported exploits in June 2006 [20]). Characteristics about the tool and the malicious content it serves can currently be identified and matched upon. We demonstrated that we can easily identify MPack servers using our low interaction client honeypot HoneyC as well as behavioral attack signatures. Whether attackers will invest energy and resources to "fix" these weaknesses remains to be seen.
Exploit servers are high value identification targets. Because they are used for numerous front-end pages, it is not likely that they will disappear. Rather, it is suspected that attackers will frequently update these exploit servers, which allows security researchers to observe the latest attacks. All web exploitation kits reviewed allow attackers to purchase upgrades, which will likely appear on the same machines.
On the other hand, the web exploitation kit MPack showed us that our identification of malicious web servers with high interaction client honeypot, such as Capture-HPC, has some limitations. First, the IP tracking functionality throws a wrench in the works of client honeypots and is likely to result in many false negatives if not addressed appropriately. A study into the magnitude of this technique and adjustments into the client honeypot approach are needed. It is likely that distributed client honeypots will become a necessity in the near future. Second, geolocation-dependent triggering is something we had not yet considered. Depending on what countries are prime targets, it might also result in a large number of false negatives. A comparitive study finding malicious servers using client honeypots in different physical locations will be necessary to assess the magnitude of the problem.
The web exploitation kits also showed us that other client applications/plug-ins are targeted. This is bad news for the end user whose many client vulnerabilities are now being actively attacked and comparing supported attacks of WebAttacker, MPack and IcePack seems to indicate a trend. As a result, client honeypots would require more complex configurations in search of malicious servers. In our previous study, we likely missed numerous attacks. With the insight provided by web exploitation kits, we are planning to address these gaps in future studies to come.


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And this is a crafty queen blog after all, right?
During several baby naps a few weeks back, I started flipping through my "Sew What! Skirts" book to see what wrap skirts could easily be made in an hour or two. This one is half a circle skirt with a waistband, and probably could take an hour in one sitting, but as a new Mama, it took 3 days. BUT, it's a cutie! And really wasn't hard to make up, with no pattern, just your measurements!
For the past month, as I've becoming more confident with breastfeeding and holding my (constantly growing) Baby Darling, I've been thinking about what fashion I can gear towards for summer. Baby Darling & I have spent so many days cuddled up in our pyjamas learning about each other and falling in love, that leaving the house dressed hasn't been a priority at all. But the biggest change for me fashionwise: Two piece ensembles are your BREAST friend.
Now, I wear dresses usually, right? And all year my body grew and grew with Baby Darling, I was still able to wear dresses, in fact... they were the best kind of pregz outfits for me. BUT, not anymore. SAD FACE. So, dear sewing friends, I will be spending the next few weeks brainstorming about the breastfeeding/comfortable holding baby fashion, and if you have any tips please let me know!
This wrap skirt was my first sewing stop off, only because I know my tummy and waist are still in flux. I'm graced with good genes (I think!) and great breastfeeding skills, so my uterus shrunk back to normal pretty quickly, and now it's just the extra skin that's moving around... so the wrap skirt can accommodate that easily before I'm back to my normal size. And I might not get back to my normal size! For the time being, I think adjustable and stretchy clothes are the way to go. But, totally please let me know if any style of outfit worked for you post baby!
I chose the striped fabric thinking it would look interesting as a wrap skirt, and I'm pretty happy with the diagonal & contrasty look of it. It's just an op shopped remnant that I've had for years, might have been from Sydney perhaps?
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Fabric: Light linen, $4, thrifted
Pattern: Self drafted, but using Francesca DenHartog's Sew What! Skirts book
Notions: just thread
Year: 2012
Time to complete: 1 hours over 3 days
First worn: November 2012
Wear again? Yes!
Total Cost: $4
SO looking forward to a few more sewing room adventures while the babe sleeps, might try the overlocker/stretchy fabric combo next!
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On Wednesday, just before a long holiday weekend in which few people check the news, Facebook announced a few big changes — not least of which is eliminating a voting system that let users have a voice in their own privacy.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg implemented a system in 2009 that allowed users to voice concerns about changes to Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SSR) and Terms of Use by publicly posting comments supporting or opposing new measures. If the site received 7,000 comments Facebook would allow users to vote on alternatives, where a measure receiving 30 percent of support would be binding for the company.
Now the company is proposing to do away with that system.
"We found that the voting mechanism…actually resulted in a system that incentivized the quantity of comments over their quality," read a statement from Facebook's Elliot Schrage (emphasis his), vice president of communications. "Therefore, we're proposing to end the voting component of the process in favor of a system that leads to more meaningful feedback and engagement."
No details on the new system were provided, other than saying it would still listen to user feedback. A request for direct comment from Facebook was not immediately returned.
The company did say in the announcement that it would have question and answer sessions with Chief Privacy Officer, Erin Egan, but did not say whether those sessions would actually impact the company's proposed changes to the way it governs privacy.
The timing is unfortunate considering most Americans — roughly a fifth of the Facebook userbase and a large portion of the tech media — do not pay close attention to the news over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Comments — at this website — must be left by 9:00 AM PST on November 28, 2012.
Reuters also reported that Facebook has proposed combining the data of Instagram users with its own membership data. But since Facebook bought the photo sharing service earlier this year, that move seemed like a forgone conclusion.
Also of note was a change to the SSR language around use of one's account for business reasons. Users had been discouraged from using their profile for business reasons; now the document asks them to use a Facebook Page for such purposes. The separation of the two would seemingly help Facebook target ads, offers and items in the news feed better.
Again, these changes and the suspicious timing of their announcement are unfortunate. But Facebook is a business, not a public service. The company's revenue is predicated on the management of user data. In light of recent stock performance, it should be of no surprise that it wants better control over that information.
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CMLL (SUN) 06/30/2013 Arena Coliseo [CMLL]
1) Molotov & Sensei b Camorra & Zayco
tecnicos took 1/3 in a boring match.
2) Bushiroad, Diamante, Leono b Arkángel de la Muerte, Nitro, Skándalo
Leono replaced Starman. Tecnicos took 1/3 in a boring match.
3) Princesa Blanca b Dark Angel [lightning]
Blanca beat Angel with an cradle and a hand on ropes in 8:43. Good match, best of the show so far. Blanca threw around hair match challenges post match.
4) Delta, Guerrero Maya Jr., Sagrado b Felino, Namajague, Shigeo Okumura
Tecnicos took 2/3, including Delta and Guerrero Maya beating Namajague & Okumura. No hint of a title match challenge post match.
5) Diamante Azul, La Sombra, Shocker DQ Pierroth, Rey Bucanero, Volador Jr.
Tecnicos took 1, with Azul breaking Pierroth on a german suplex. Volador fouled Sombra in the second.
6) La Máscara, Rush, Titán b Kráneo, Mr. Águila, Psicosis [MEX TRIOS]
Tecnicos took 2/3 in a disappointingly sloppy match to win the titles. Rush was clearly holding the ropes on the pinfall, but no one brought any attention to it. Invasors fall in their third defense. Post match celebration was pre-empted by another earthquake drill.
Main event title change is very weird.The show ending very quickly (because of the earthquake drill) added to the strange feel. It feels like a hurried change because they had to get the titles off the Invasors because someone is leaving and they'd figure out the rest later. Mr. Aguila is still the strong favorite to lose the Infierno en el Ring cage match, so maybe it's him. Or maybe someone woke up and decided Rush had to have a title belt. CMLL Universal tournament is not that far away.
Dark Angel vs Princesa Blanca was the best match on the show. Sombra's listed for a Tuesday night show in Guadalajara and then he's off to Japan. Terrible finishes up Tuesday in Arena Mexico. That's going to be a tough turnaround for the NJPW 07/05 show.
CMLL (SUN) 06/30/2013 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) El Divino & Virgo b Évola & Magnum
Divino took 1/3.
2) Esfinge, León Blanco, Metatrón b Acertijo, Espectrum, Infierno
Tecnicos took 1/3.
3) Black Metal, Gallo, Leo, Súper Popular b Bárbaro Cavernario, Exterminador, Maléfico, Ráfaga
Tecnicos took 1/3, Metal defeating Cavernario. Debutee Popular wasn't involved in any of the finishes.
4) Demonio Rojo b Azteca de Oro [mask]
Azteca de Oro pinned Demonio Rojo in the first, Demonio Rojo took the second, and submitted Oro in the third. Azteca de Oro is Antonio Escobedo, 25 years old, 11 years a vet, which means he started wrestling professionally at 14.
5) Máscara Dorada, Mistico, Valiente b Euforia, Gran Guerrero, Niebla Roja
Estetas took 1/3, Mistica on Euforia in the third.
6) Último Guerrero b Atlantis
Atlantis was again honored for 30 years of wrestling. Atlantis took the first, UG the second, and Gran Guerrero and Ultimo Guerrero pulled a switch in the third fall to get the win.
First time we've seen them pull that switch, and probably won't be the last time.
Hijo del Santo was taken to the hospital after his match in Arena Solidaridad with LA Park and Dr. Wagner. His wife posted a photo of Santo being strechered backstage still in his gear, which suggests this is a storyline and probably build to the mask match they'd like to do in September. The building looks 60% full for the match, which must be a disappointment and suggests it may not be a big deal.
Rob has highlights of 05/28/12 CMLL.
You can see the Infierno en el Ring promo here.
Black Terry Jr. has photos of the Marketing Wrestling show. Skandalo and Coco Rojo bled a disgusting amount.
Impume Mex (or whoever they copied this from, it's shown up in a couple places) has thoughts about lucha libre Television.
Lucha Libre in Japan
2) Mima Shimoda, Tiffany [O], Marcela b Rabbit MIU [X], Ray, Leon
3) Estrellita b Makoto
4) Dump Matsumoto b GOYA KONG
06/30 REINA – 300 fans
3) Mima Shimoda [O], Makoto b Cherry [X], Sareee
4) Leon vs Estrellita [REINA IJ] – succesful defense
5) GAMI & Ayumi Kurihara [O] vs Tiffany [X], Goya Kong
6) Marcela b Ray [CMLL WOMEN] – succesful defense, said to be good.
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KINSTON � Local brewers will have the chance to see how their homemade concoctions fare under the keen eye of experts in Mother Earth�s Home Brewing Competition.
KINSTON � Local brewers will have the chance to see how their homemade concoctions fare under the keen eye of experts in Mother Earth�s Home Brewing Competition.
Josh Brewer, Mother Earth brewmaster and competition coordinator, said the event is being held in conjunction with this year�s Festival on the Neuse which runs May 2 and 3.
Brewer, who got his start as a home brewer, said this is the first year of the competition, but it is something he has wanted to do for a while.
�It was kind of an obvious thing to do,� he said. �Over the last few years we got a chance to establish everything in our brewery, get bugs and other things worked out, to start a home brew competition. Now I have enough staff to maintain what we have here and have the time to do things like this.�
Brewer said registration runs through Feb. 1. There are ten categories, with one entry per-person for each category allowed at a cost of $7 per entry.
He said judges will include one or two people from Mother Earth along with judges who hold a BJCP (beer judge competition program) license.
Justin Ange, of Kinston, said he has been home brewing for eight years and this will be his first completion.
�I�ve always wanted to do a competition and this is one that�s convenient for me,� he said.
Ange said experimentation is what made him want to start brewing.
�Trying something new and while you might have tasted something similar but something that�s never really been done in those exact guidelines,� he said.
Ange said that to him, brewing has helped build a sense of community.
�During college some buddies of mine and I would get together and brew and then my brother started brewing with me,� he said. �Now I have some friends in town who stop by to hang out and help every now and then. It�s exciting because something always goes wrong on brew day that you have to troubleshoot. It keeps you on edge.�
Ange said he enjoys whenever he is able to brew with his brother Jared.
�We overlap in tasks, but he more so focuses on the equipment while I focus on the process,� he said.
Aaron Skiles of Wilmington is entering the competition and believes the conditions for home brewers are the best they have ever been.
�Home brewers now have access to higher quality materials than they did in the late 80�s and early 90�s and it allows them to now brew a good beer,� he said.
Skiles said while it would be nice to win a ribbon, there are other things to be gained from the competition.
�Feedback is what most brewers want,� he said. �It�s always nice to get a ribbon or a gift card, but getting feedback from the judges will be good too.�
Noah Clark is a reporter for the Kinston Free Press.
Rules for each entry
Three brown or green bottles 12 to 22 oz.
No labels on the bottles
Each bottle capped with only silver or gold cap, unmarked
No flip top, corked or screw cap bottles permitted
Attach entry forms to bottles with rubber band only, no adhesive
Non-compliant bottles will be disqualified immediately
An awards ceremony will be held at noon May 3 at Festival on the Neuse main stage.
Winners of each category will receive a $100 gift card to Mother Earth. The winner of best in show will be given the opportunity to brew the winning recipe at Mother Earth Brewing with Brewmaster Josh Brewer.


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Fox and Microsoft have signed a coexistence agreement regarding their rival claims to the Killer Instinct trademark. Under the terms of the agreement, as uploaded by NeoGAF users, Fox promises not to raise objections to Microsoft's trademarking of or use of the phrase. Presumably this means the TV show that started the drama won't be […]
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Glee uses Jonathan Coulton cover without permission, composer considering legal action
Glee, the all singing and dancing comedy series by FOX has used one of Jonathan Coulton's music covers without permissions, prompting the composer to consider legal action against the broadcaster. Coulton, who is known among gamers as the composer of Portal's eponymous track 'Still Alive' is understandably none too pleased.
Kojipro's Fox Engine to be revealed on August 30
Hideo Kojima has promised to show off the tech powering his studio's new projects by the end of next month – and maybe even the new game itself.
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20th Century Fox uses Red Tape! Critical hit! Halo movie has fainted. DreamWorks uses Loophole. It's super effective!
Hal Halpin enters Fox nonsense
Entertainment Consumer Association president Hal Halpin has contacted Fox regarding the now painfully protracted situation over comments Cooper Lawrence made on the Network about Mass Effect's sexual content. Lawrence has since retracted her opinions after gamers "reviewed" her book on Amazon and destroyed its sales ranking. Fox itself has yet to make any kind of […]
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For weeks, the news was out that Marina Shafir would be making her professional MMA debut.
But in what seems to be customary fashion with Shafir and her career, only days outside of the fight was the identity of her opponent revealed.
So it will be Shafir taking on Chandra Engel of Kansas City in a featherweight bout that will be one of 16 MMA, boxing and Muay Thai fights Saturday night at Chaos at the Casino 4 at Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood.
And it doesn't bug Shafir in the slightest.
"I love surprises. I just like surprises, I think they know that," Shafir said after a recent training session at Glendale Fighting Club. "It doesn't matter, it's not gonna matter for a while. I'm anticipating my opponents being last minute for a while.
"And that's fine. It's OK with me. I'm just so prepared it doesn't really bug me."
Shafir has been living in Venice and training with UFC bantamweight champion and former U.S. Judo teammate Ronda Rousey for nearly two years. And for several months, with the addition of UFC fighters Shayna Baszler and Jessamyn Duke, the tight-knit group has become known as The 4 Horsewomen.
On Saturday night, Shafir joins them in becoming a professional fighter, although she laughs off queries about turning pro as holding enormous significance.
"I take it seriously when I'm in the gym, but when I get asked about it, it's just like, 'I'm fighting?' I'm just having fun," she said with a laugh. "Everything you do in your life, like your career or a hobby, there's stages to it, of understanding. I think turning professional, I'm just getting a better understanding of the sport."
At least Shafir understands whom she'll be fighting. Engel, from Kansas City, lost her only pro fight in August 2012 to Marciea Allen by submission via triangle choke in 3:01 of the first round.
Engel did fight 15 times as an amateur, but went 4-3 in officially sanctioned bouts.
Shafir, meanwhile, has spent the past two years racking up a 5-0 record as an amateur, all via first-round submissions.
As for bigger and better things or organizations, Shafir is in no hurry.
"There's so many opportunities right now. Everything's open," she said, later adding a shout-out to a top women's MMA promotion and its president: "If Invicta's next and Invicta's next — what's up, Shannon Knapp?"
What also separates Shafir from her 4 Horsewomen teammates is the weight class. Shafir fights at 145 pounds and has no plans on joining Rousey & Co. in the 135-pound division in the UFC.
But with the UFC limited to the strawweight (115 pounds) and bantamweight women's divisions for now, Shafir will bide her time. She doesn't know where she'll be fighting or when, but she does know whom she eventually wants to fight:
Invicta featherweight champion Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino.
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Kerry to Congress: 'My Heart and Head Are in Boston'
(WASHINGTON) -- Secretary of State John Kerry testified in Washington Thursday before the Senate Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees about next year's State Department budget.
But it was clear that the Boston Marathon attack was first and foremost on his mind. Similar to his emotional remarks on Wednesday in front of the House committees, the former senator from Massachusetts began his prepared testimony reflecting on his home state and the people of Boston.
"It is no secret that my heart and my head are in Boston today with the president, with the families, with a lot of friends. There is a memorial service there, and I'm grateful to the president for going up there. I wish I could be there with him, but I need to be here and I understand that and I respect the needs to continue," Kerry told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday morning.
He praised the president's speech in his testimony before the appropriations committee on Thursday afternoon.
"I thought he was magnificent, gave a great, great speech, touched the hearts of everybody and captured Boston," said Kerry.
Kerry spoke of how watching all the images of the explosion personally affected him, and he said the kindness that followed the terrorist act showed the best of America and of humanity.
"I watched, as everybody did, the graphic video of the explosions, and what struck me, frankly, was just the way volunteers of the marathon rushed towards the blast, and the way we learned later runners went to the hospital to give blood and people opened their homes to receive strangers," he said. "What really struck me was the place where the first explosion took place, you see all those flags, all the international flags and you realize, wow, it was just so much bigger than Boston."
He also showed appreciation for the role sports teams have played in bringing America together during this crisis.
"There are these moments that leap out at you, like last night at the Bruins game where the entire crowd broke into the 'Star-Spangled Banner,' and it just reverberated. It was wonderful. At the end, there was a sign that said, 'We are Boston Strong,' and I think that's very true," said Kerry, who also thanked the New York Yankees for posting the Boston Red Sox logo and singing "Sweet Caroline" at their game on Wednesday evening. Kerry jokingly said the gesture was "pretty special given the relationship between the Evil Empire and Boston Red Sox."
The secretary also remarked on the global nature of the attack, expressing his condolences for the families of the victims who were killed and singling out the death of Lingzi Lu, the Boston University graduate student from China, a country Kerry just visited a few days ago.
"We lost a citizen of another country, a young Chinese girl studying in Boston, a graduate student, who went there with her friends to watch the marathon and take part in this fabulous Patriots' Day rite that if nobody's ever experienced it…they'll be back, and there will be a bigger, better one next year," said Kerry, defiantly. "And we'll celebrate that spirit."
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The other night, I attended a performance of La Bohème at the Met in the iconic Franco Zeffirelli production. For one of my companions, it was the very first time; for me, it is a familiar ritual by now — I think I must have seen this show a dozen times at least. It's always interesting to watch how differently the Bohemians play the comic shenanigans in Act I, and what new bits of shtick come and go over the years, depending on the artists' personalities and the amount of rehearsal time accorded to the production in a given year. It's also fun to feel the thrill of the newbies in the audience when the curtain opens on those amazing sets, which still draw bursts of applause and sighs of wonderment every night. (One amusing side note: the recent multiple blizzards in New York seemed to have dampened appreciation for the beautiful Act III snow scene outside the tavern, which was greeted with silence last week for the first time in my experience, though Acts I and III elicited as many gasps as ever.)
Over the years I have discovered something about this opera: no matter the variations — even with the occasional subpar exponents in the leading roles, lackluster conducting or staging miscues — the final moments never fail to make their effect. I mean NEVER. Of course, the Zeffirelli touch helps, as does the generally superlative level of casting at the Met, but they are really icing on the cake. Even on a bad day, when my mind is elsewhere, those last pages of the score invariably move me to tears.
This phenomenon is born out strikingly by a perfectly dreadful old movie called Mimi, based on Scènes de la Vie de Bohème. Its plot is only loosely connected to that of the opera, and despite a starry cast led by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., as Rodolphe and Gertrude Lawrence in the title role, the characters here emerge as singularly self-centered, dippy and unsympathetic, so that by the time poor Mimi lies on the brink of death, one is ready to roll one's eyes and say, "Not a moment too soon" — until, somewhere in the background, rise the strains of that final scene from Puccini's score. For a brief second, I caught myself thinking cynically what an injustice is was to the composer to drag him into this mess of a film at the eleventh hour, but in the next moment, my face was streaming with tears. It didn't make the movie any better, but it certainly provided testimony to the extraordinary, enduring and instantaneous power of this masterly few measures of music.


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Minutes after his team's 38-0 thumping at the hands of the Carolina Panthers, Giants Coach Tom Coughlin had the look of a man facing a new reality.
The team is 0-3 and has been outscored by 115-54. Coughlin hails from a generation raised to believe that any daunting challenge can be overcome with hard work, determination and planning. Coaches are by necessity people who fix things. If one running back isn't getting yardage, try another running back. If an offensive lineman can't block, revise the blocking schemes or revise the personnel on the line.
But the Giants have tried those remedies and are backpedaling fast. The offensive line played the worst of any unit, and Coughlin was asked late Sunday afternoon if he planned to make changes to the starting five up front.
Coughlin offered a halfhearted, "We'll see."
Then, in a more forthright response, Coughlin said, "We are what we are."
It was another way of saying, "You play with the ones you brought."
In the N.F.L., that is the reality of being 0-3. You are stuck with the team you took half a year to build. It's like making a meal with every last ingredient in the kitchen cupboard and refrigerator only to discover it's tasteless and repugnant.
Chew on that for a while. And you can't reach for the phone to call for takeout.
In the N.F.L., that doesn't work because no one answers the phone. Yes, the Cleveland Browns traded their star running back, Trent Richardson, last week and won their first game Sunday, over the Minnesota Vikings, but it's not relevant to any other situation. Check back in five weeks and see if the Browns are any better without Richardson, and besides, the Browns made that trade for a future first-round draft pick — a blatant attempt to improve their situation in two or three years, not now.
Even the team that received Richardson, the Indianapolis Colts, did not show much immediate gain from the transaction despite their 27-7 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. Richardson ran for 35 yards on 13 carries. Interestingly, it was a Giants castoff, Ahmad Bradshaw, who made the difference in that game, with 95 rushing yards on 19 carries, an average of 5 yards a carry.
The Giants — like the Pittsburgh Steelers, another 0-3 team with a Super Bowl-winning quarterback and coach — can only look within for a way out of the mess they are in. They cooked up this rotten soup and they can try stirring the various ingredients, but there's no magic component they can suddenly add to spice things up.
The Richardson trade was an aberration by a franchise in tumult. Coughlin and the Giants are not going to give up on the season just so they can get an extra draft pick somewhere down the road. And who would they trade anyway? And for what? An offensive lineman?
Pro football isn't major league baseball. It's not like acquiring a right fielder and penciling him in as the fifth batter. Playing right field for one team is not much different than playing right field for any other team. Hitting is hitting, especially if the trade is between teams in the same league. Most of all, in baseball, there is no complicated, multifaceted offense to learn and no five-inch-thick playbook to memorize before a player can reasonably be expected to contribute.
Trades are not the magic bullet for an 0-3 N.F.L. team. And except for place-kickers and punters, there aren't a lot of qualified former players lying around at home waiting to be called so they can ride to the rescue.
About 2,000 of the best football players in the world are signed or linked to a team, which has a 53-man roster and an 8-man practice squad. Every one of those players has been assessed in some team's training camp and been signed or discarded.
No player theoretically outside the top 2,000 players in the world would be likely to turn an 0-3 team into a winner.
So, as Coughlin said, the Giants are what they are.
With the focus on the offensive line, this is what is known. On Monday, Coughlin said what has been obvious: center David Baas and right guard Chris Snee have injuries.
It's possible that the former starter at right tackle, David Diehl, may have recovered sufficiently from his thumb operation to play soon. One of the offensive line reserves, like James Brewer, could start. But those are hardly radical moves.
As Coughlin also said, "Your team is your team."
So that is the reality of being 0-3 in the N.F.L. Will there be trades, benchings or wholesale play-calling changes?
Staring out from behind another news conference rostrum — and doing so for the first time as a 0-3 Giants coach — Coughlin plainly saw his immediate reality. Persistent questioning did not shake his fix on the future.
"You're not going to put words in my mouth," he said. "I am saying that the personnel we have here, they have to play better."
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My first sip of single-village mezcal didn't come at an upscale bar, restaurant or spirits shop, as one might expect from a beverage that regularly finishes in the money at the International Review of Spirits competition. It came on a warm, clear afternoon in the village of Santa Catarina Minas in Oaxaca, Mexico, at Florencio Carlos Sarmiento's courtyard dining table. I had just come from his mezcal distillery, where a pair of oak fermentation tanks held hundreds of pounds of pulped maguey, a plant more commonly known as agave. On either side of the tanks sat open farmland, with modest wooden shacks and stone homes dotting the distant hillsides. The rest of the distillery was similarly rustic: a thatched-roof hut, a wood-heated clay still, a stone slab and a huge rock-lined pit for roasting the maguey. It was a pastoral, almost mythical setting, and it epitomized the larger Oaxacan drink culture, where almost every elixir has a rich, ceremonial tradition stretching back centuries. Plus, it's not every day you get to taste a local treasure while staring directly at its roots.
Known as the "land of the seven moles," Oaxaca City is a food and drink lover's paradise. But outside the heart of the city lies Mexico's second poorest state (behind Chiapas), where much of the population gets by on less than $5 a day. As a result, a visit to nearby markets and villages reveals a traditional lifestyle supplemented by few modern touches. Many meals and beverages are made by hand in a manner passed down through generations.
Adding to the culinary mystique is the folklore surrounding the land and its people. In a region once ruled by Zapotec, Mixtec and other indigenous populations, and later invaded by the Aztecs and conquered by the Spanish—all with their own customs, superstitions and traditions— almost every plant has a long-established religious or cultural significance. In some cases, the beliefs may have faded or evolved over time, but rarely have they vanished. So when Oaxacans sip on local favorites like mezcal or hot chocolate, they're often drinking from the same communal vessel as long-ago relatives. Not surprisingly, this adds a magical flavor to the brews, even for visitors.
Mezcal's history goes back generations, but the maguey plant itself was sacred long before the first drop of the distinctive spirit trickled through a still shortly after the Spanish arrived. Roasted and fermented maguey heart was an Aztec delicacy. Indigenous communities fermented the plant as early as 2,000 years ago to produce an undistilled beverage called pulque, which you can still find in some parts of the state. The name "Mexico" even translates as "those fed from the navel of the maguey" in ancient Aztec.
Other crops share similar histories. Maize, or corn, Mexico's most important staple, is the foundation for countless traditional Oaxacan recipes and is featured in several local beverages. Tejate, a thick blend of toasted corn, cacao, cinnamon, and the seeds and flowers of a fruit called mamey, is exalted by locals for its ceremonial, medicinal and aphrodisiac properties. A tejatera carefully toasts the ingredients the night before, then hand-blends them together the next day in a large ceramic bowl. She dips her arm in the mixture up to her elbow, then slowly and carefully folds it over and around until it reaches the proper consistency. Tejate may not be the most appetizing-looking beverage—it looks a little like dirty bathwater—but looks aren't everything. Its full flavors (think protein shake) are lightened by the presence of the cacao and cinnamon, and it's a favorite specialty of locals.
Another drink dating back to pre-Hispanic times, hearty atole is served hot or cold and is traditionally made with cornmeal, water and a sweetener, such as brown sugar, molasses or vanilla bean. Locals might add aromatic flowers, fruit, honey, beans, chilies or tomatoes. The brew may or may not store the spirit of its maker within the foam, as legend dictates, but it definitely fills an empty stomach.
Nearby at most markets, you'll likely see another type of beverage stand—one with several large glass jugs, each holding a fruity, refreshing beverage. These festive-colored aguas frescas offer a quenching alternative to spicy local cuisine and scorching hot days, and they are so popular that Oaxaca City residents dedicate the fourth Friday of Lent to drinking them. Agua de jamaica, a juice of steeped hibiscus herbs, is particularly invigorating, as is horchata, an easygoing concoction with ground rice, cinnamon, sugar, small slices of lime or melon rind, and sometimes chopped almonds. Other popular fresca flavors include mango, pineapple, melon and lime.
At the center of the region's rich beverage culture is the cacao bean. Hailed as the "food of the gods" in ancient times and once used as currency in Mexico, cacao pervades Oaxaca: in chocolate shops, where the sacred stuff is made on the spot; at food and beverage stands, which sell hot chocolate and champurrado—a chocolate atole that tastes like thick chocolate soup; in restaurants, which use chocolate in their distinctive moles; and in homes, where chocolate holds a special place as a ceremonial elixir.
Oaxacans are said to consume about five times more chocolate per year than the average Mexican resident. Several of the streets and markets in Oaxaca City are dusty, crowded and sweet, with chocolate shops dotting the landscape. In the villages, artisan chocolate makers stick to the old methods of grinding cacao beans by hand on a stone tablet, but mechanized chocolate grinders dominate in the city. The cacao grinding process may be a trifle less romantic in a machine, but it hasn't killed tradition—locals come to the shops with family recipes in hand and have employees grind the cacao beans, cinnamon, sugar and almonds to their specifications. It looks intriguing, too. A bit like a healer stirring a cauldron of precious herbs, the chocolate maker drops the beans and sweeteners into the hopper, then guides the syrupy chocolate paste through a sugar-filled chute and into a zinc tub. After first pass, he runs it through the grinder again to achieve a smoother consistency. The paste looks and smells intoxicating—a goopy, delightfully sloppy mess to thrill the Willy Wonka in all of us.
Local markets like the Mercado 20 de Noviembre serve sweet, fulfilling hot chocolate with either milk or water. The Oaxacan version is peppier than expected thanks to the inclusion of vanilla, cinnamon and other spices, but it goes down smooth. When ordering one with water, watch as the maker twirls a hand-carved wooden beater called a molinillo between her hands to turn the chocolate and hot water into a frothy, airy blend.
If chocolate is the heart of Oaxaca, mezcal is its soul. Almost every town has at least one distillery, and each village producer crafts a unique-tasting mezcal that differs according to altitude, microclimate, water, equipment and recipe. Some have fruity notes of citrus, pear, fig or mango; spicy textures with undercurrents of cinnamon or basil; or, most striking to the newly initiated, a smoky, earthy flavor that's remarkably smooth. Mezcal is the ritual beverage of choice at most weddings, funerals, baptisms and confirmations. Faustino Garcia Vasquez, who runs a distillery in the village of Chichicapa, takes care to pour a touch of mezcal into the ground near his family's shrine before offering a sample to visitors. The pour represents a hearty toast to his ancestors and his faith.
The reason village mezcals taste so good is simple: sweat, patience and time-tested knowledge. The maguey plants, matured for eight years before harvesting, are roasted methodically for three to five days in a massive, circular rock pit to bring out the smoky flavor. After the roasting comes the resting—the plants ferment naturally in the shade for a week—and the
n the crushing, where a burro or horse tows a massive stone wheel over the maguey, rendering it mush.
Makers dump the crushed maguey in 300-gallon wooden vats, add about 10 percent water and leave the mash to ferment naturally in its own yeasts for just over a week. At this point, the flavors really start to develop, and the alcohol level skyrockets. After fermentation, the mixture is moved to a wood-heated clay still, which, over the next 24 hours, vaporizes and condenses the contents until a crystal-clear liquid is produced. Finally, the producers clean the fiber from the still and put the liquid through a second 24-hour distillation. Distill too quickly on either occasion, and producers say they'll burn the mezcal flavor (and later the back of your throat). After almost a decade from seedling to cup, a batch of singlevillage mezcal is born.
Then there are the high-volume industrial distilleries that produce most mezcal sold in Oaxaca City and the rest of Mexico. They typically ferment the maguey in huge stainless-steel tanks and add cane sugars, corn sugars and chemical yeasts to dilute the mix and speed up fermentation. Their product is cheaper and more accessible than the artisan mezcals, but the flavors are on par with the average tequila—tolerable when drowned in margarita mix, but not so hot when tasted straight. Most villagers disdain the stuff.
That's one reason sitting down at Florencio Carlos Sarmiento's table to taste his Minero mezcal was so eye-opening. He's been producing mezcal in roughly the same manner for 52 years, and until the past decade, it was made exclusively for family and neighbors. Now, as his brew is gaining a wider audience, he still adheres to the same methods, reasoning that a good mezcal comes from the head and the heart, not the stopwatch.
The spectacular flavors of these artisan mezcals are gradually earning recognition beyond the borders of Oaxaca and Mexico, even in parts of the U.S. Much of the credit goes to people like Ron Cooper, an artist and sculptor who poked around Oaxaca in 1990 looking for the area's finest liquor to christen a new sculpture. Local farmers pointed him toward remote mountains, faraway valleys and the ends of rural dirt roads. Tasting a few of those hard-won samples led to a more significant discovery: The best ones tasted nothing like the mezcal available in Oaxaca City, and most of the city's residents—and international consumers— had no idea this stuff existed. Five years and an export license later, he opened Del Maguey, which imports some of the best village mezcals to the U.S.
Now Cooper takes the villagers' mezcals to tastings at fine U.S. restaurants, liquor contests and anywhere else chefs and aficionados gather to admire a spirit's flavor, nose and finish. And it's paid off. Del Maguey regularly walks off with the title of best mezcal at the International Review of Spirits Championship. The notoriety has also paid off for Ron's partners in the villages, who have bought better equipment, built better homes and acquired more land with the proceeds from Del Maguey sales.
Best of all for enthusiasts, Oaxaca City is no longer the hardest place in the area to find a good, lovingly brewed mezcal. For a taste in the city, check out La Cava, which sells artisan mezcals, Mexican wines and fine cigars, offers tastings and advises on food pairings. La Cava is run by the Los Danzantes distillery, which produces its own line of mezcals—following the traditional single-village methods—in a beautifully restored facility in Santiago Matatlán. As further proof of the endurance of authentic mezcals, Los Danzantes also runs one of Oaxaca City's hippest restaurants, Restaurant Los Danzantes, where good mezcal runneth over both straight and in mixed drinks and where I savored my last sips of local spirits.
Less than 12 hours after sitting down at Carlos Vasquez's table to taste his generations- old Minero, I imbibed a house mezcal at Restaurant Los Danzantes. In comparison, both spirits tasted sweet, lively and refreshingly complex. Both generated a warmth that hovered in my chest and behind my eyes. And while gazing at the modern reflecting pools and mosaic sculptures decorating the eatery, I could visualize and taste a heritage that's endured for more than four centuries. And that made for a most flavorful experience indeed.


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Senate games: All budgets go down
The Senate became a political staging ground for meaningless budget votes on Wednesday, as five different budget plans spanning a range of fiscal ideologies failed, the latest chapter in Washington's dysfunctional spending wars.
First up was the House Republican budget, authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), which failed on a 41-58 roll call with five Republicans joining all Democrats in voting no. It was a replay of last year, when the Senate defeated Ryan's budget 40-57.
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The most obvious political vote of the session was a 0-99 roll call on President Barack Obama's budget blueprint — which was offered by Republicans. While that tally is sure to become fodder for campaign ads, Democrats dismissed it as a political stunt since there was no real policy language attached to the Obama budget.
Three other budget blueprints, offered by tea-party Sens. Pat Toomey, Mike Lee and Rand Paul, also were rejected in lopsided votes.
For a third straight year, Senate Democrats refused to offer a budget resolution of their own — opening themselves to criticism that they're dodging tough decisions in an election year. But Democrats argued that no budget is needed since spending levels were already set by last summer's bipartisan debt deal.
In a move to embarrass the president, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions decided to offer a Democratic budget of his own: Obama's fiscal 2013 blueprint.
It was unanimously rejected, meaning not a single member of Congress voted for the plan this year. In late March, Obama's budget was rejected on a 0-414 roll call in the House, though White House officials have maintained those proposals failed to include any policy details.
The series of votes Wednesday followed six hours of floor debate in which Democrats and Republicans traded election-year barbs over which party has been more fiscally reckless. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) charged that the GOP plans would "cut the heart out of the middle class," while Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) dissed the Democrats' budget approach as "duck and cover."
But moderate senators from both parties agreed that the budget process itself is broken and in desperate need of an overhaul. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), who is retiring this year and voted no on all five budgets, lamented that leaders only agreed to hold up-or-down votes with no opportunity for unlimited debate or amendments.
"It's a slap-dash method of legislating," she told POLITICO.