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Microsoft just took the wraps off of the latest WinMo release. Just like the dozens of leaked screenshots indicated, the OS has a totally revamped feel with a Zune-inspired user interface. The Marketplace and MyPhone are included too although details are a bit light at the moment. There isn't any word about about paid apps or who will host the contents, although we expect those details shortly. Screenshots after the break to tide you over until we get to poke and prod the update.
BARCELONA, Spain – Feb. 16, 2009 – Today at Mobile World Congress 2009, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer along with key mobile partners unveiled new Windows® phones featuring new user-friendly software and services. The next generation of Windows® phones will be based on Windows Mobile 6.5 and feature a new user interface and a richer browsing experience. In addition, Windows® phones will feature two new services: My Phone, to sync text messages, photos, video and contacts to the Web; and Windows® Marketplace for Mobile, a new marketplace that will provide direct-to-phone mobile applications that can be controlled from both the phone and the Web.
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The free My Phone service will enable people to access, manage and back up their personal information on their device to a password-protected Web-based service, making it easier to upgrade phones without the worry of losing important information. With automatic syncing and backup, users can count on their contacts, appointments, text messages and other information being kept up to date and easily restored should they lose or upgrade their phone. Consumers also will be able to wirelessly update photos and video from their Windows® phone directly to the My Phone service, making it simple to share content that, in the past, would have lived and died on the phone. The My Phone service is currently available in a limited invitation-only beta.
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The new operating system features Windows® Marketplace for Mobile, a rich and integrated marketplace for searching, browsing and purchasing mobile applications from Windows® phones or from a PC by simply using a Windows Live ID. The new marketplace will ship inside all Windows phones based on Windows Mobile 6.5, which will allow consumers to easily find, install and experience those applications that fit their needs and make the phone truly personal. Developers, who have already built more than 20,000 applications for Windows® phones, will be able to offer applications to customers through the marketplace via a simple security and compatibility check from Microsoft.
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You'll love Anne Brown and the Colebridge Community! In The Basement Quilt, a novel by Ann Hazelwood, you'll get to know the family and friends of Anne Brown, a plucky florist whose daily ups and downs will seem so familiar you'll identify with her right away. Anne decides to learn to quilt to help her aunt, and in the process learns family secrets. Then she uncovers a mysterious presence in her mother's basement or does she? Anne learns about love, too, in various forms. She and the members of the Colebridge community go through some big life changes. Are their decisions wise or does trouble lie ahead? The Basement Quilt is not just the title of this first novel in a series the basement quilt itself is a character. You'll want to meet other quilt characters throughout the series.
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- On my way to Yuma Arizona, My sister Carole gave me this book to read, Loved it. Finished it in one day. Easy read and so delightful if you are a quilter. Maureen T. (Posted on 3/2/13)
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- After not reading any fiction books in awhile, it was nice to read a book like this. I've always enjoyed a good mystery. With the combination of a small town environment and a group of women all from one family quilting in a basement, it made a good book to read while sitting at the ski hill. (Posted on 12/31/12)
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- Ann Hazelwood has written a delightful book that weaves romance and mystery into a wonderful quilt of a story. Ann certainly knows about quilts and the bucolic Missouri setting; her years as a quilt shop owner and author of Missouri travel books shows through. Luckily we can now share her gifts as a story-teller too! (Posted on 8/15/12)
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- Quilters have an immediate connection to the main themes of this book; family, friends, and community. Ann Hazelwood has captured this connection in an intriguing story that quilters will love. The Story and place will be familiar to the reader. This is a novel a quilter can call her own.--Chris Stergos, owner of Patches Etc., Quilt and Button Shop, St. Charles, Missouri (Posted on 8/15/12)
- The Basement Quilt by Ann Hazelwood — Review by Tom Hannegan,
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- The Basement Quilt is a novel that quickly engages the reader. While it moves along at a pleasing pace, it takes the time to linger on those things that mean the most to us: family, friendships, and food. As the characters quilt together, the reader is drawn into the events of their lives. This is especially true of Anne, the narrator, as she establishes her flower business in her quaint hometown and encounters her share of romance along the way. "The Basement Quilt" leaves us eagerly waiting for the next book in this new series by Ann Hazelwood. (Posted on 8/15/12)


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For each of the four ink colors in your printer's ink system, there are three separate components that work together as a system. The components for each color ink are color-coded to help you install them correctly.
Ink cartridge
Each ink cartridge is a large-capacity ink supply that refills the print head whenever the ink volume in the print head drops below a minimum level.
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Brussels Sprout 8-Ways And Great Seafood at Tapenade (West LA)
New restaurants keep popping up on Sawtelle Blvd and they're not all Japanese. Tucked inside the Olympic Collections is Tapenade, which all brussels sprout lovers should visit.
The chef, Ressul Rassalat, also loves it so much he serves it multiple ways at his restaurant. They're all prepared the same style and crispy, but with different flavors. Currently I'm counting eight different flavors of brussels sprout on the menu, and he will either rotate or add more! I had to order the "Indonesian" (because I am one, in case you didn't know) even though that was not one of the waitress' recommendations. This latest addition is made with pineapple, cashews, lime and chili ($9).
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If X is a complex projective manifold we have in general that:
Algebraic classes $\subseteq$ Absolute Hodge classes $\subseteq$ Hodge classes
In the case of abelian varieties it was proved that Hodge classes are absolute.
I am just starting to read some facts about Hodge theory and the Hodge conjecture(I dont have a strong background on Complex geometry and Algebraic geometry) and I have some general questions.
I heard that the Hodge conjecture may not be true in general for all complex projective manifolds, but possible for some cases (e.g.: Abelian Varieties).
-I would like to ask what kind of categories of complex projective manifolds $Y$ satisfies:
Abelian varieties $\subset Y \subset $ Complex projective manifolds
and if it has been proved for a larger category than the Abelian varieties one that the Hodge classes are absolute?
-What any other results do we have related to HC for Abelian varieties?
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The tool enables users to explore the entire European e-Competence Framework (e-CF) and to build custom ICT competence profiles, such as job descriptions, educational profiles, and curriculum or qualification profiles, which can then be downloaded as a text file or printed.
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Given a finite group G, its complexified ring of finite-dimensional complex representations is isomorphic to its algebra of class functions, by the trace map $\mathrm{Tr}_\rho: g \mapsto \mathrm{Tr}(\rho(g))$. These class functions can in turn can be shown to correspond to the elements in the center of the group algebra, by sending a class function $c:G \to \mathbb{C}$ to the element $\sum_{g \in G} c(g) \cdot g$ in the group algebra.
This map from class functions to the group algebra isn't a ring homomorphism. In particular, it doesn't preserve the unit. However, I'm pretty sure that the representation ring and the center of the group algebra are nevertheless isomorphic as algebras. Am I right? Even better, is there a canonical such homomorphism with some group-theoretical importance?


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Each audit event belongs to an audit class or classes. Audit classes are convenient containers for large numbers of audit events. When you preselect a class to be audited, you specify that all the events in that class should be recorded in the audit trail. You can preselect for events on a system and for events initiated by a particular user. After the audit service is running, you can dynamically add or remove audit classes from the preselected classes.
System-wide preselection – Specify system-wide defaults for auditing in the flags, naflags, and plugin lines in the audit_control file. The audit_control file is described in audit_control File. See also the audit_control(4) man page.
User-specific preselection – Specify additions to the system-wide auditing defaults for individual users in the audit_user database.
The audit preselection mask determines which classes of events are audited for a user. The user's audit preselection mask is a combination of the system-wide defaults and the audit classes that are specified for the user. For a more detailed discussion, see Process Audit Characteristics.
The audit_user database can be administered locally or by a naming service. The Solaris Management Console provides the graphical user interface (GUI) to administer the database. For details, see the audit_user(4) man page.
Dynamic preselection – Specify audit classes as arguments to the auditconfig command to add or remove those audit classes from a process or session. For more information, see the auditconfig(1M) man page.
A postselection command, auditreduce, enables you to select records from the preselected audit records. For more information, see Examining the Audit Trail and the auditreduce(1M) man page.
Audit classes are defined in the /etc/security/audit_class file. Each entry contains the audit mask for the class, the name for the class, and a descriptive name for the class. For example, the ps and na class definitions appear in the audit_class file as follows:
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There are 32 possible audit classes. The classes include the two global classes: all and no. The audit classes are described in the audit_class(4) man page.
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FARNHAM GLACIER, B.C. — Fifty musicians trekked to Farnham Glacier in the Kootenays Saturday to perform for the glacier itself and express their grief about the melting of glaciers with the aptly titled composition Requiem for a Glacier.
"I felt it, as I was playing," said violinist Gerda Crosthwaite, 74, of Kaslo. "It is farewell to a glacier, feeling sadness it will happen. We cannot stop it any more."
"It's an opportunity to help save the glaciers," said 15-year-old violinist Joy Motzkus. "It's for the animals and for the next generation." Her sister, 12-year-old violinist Marla, was the youngest member of the three-generation choir and orchestra.
In addition to the choir and orchestra, another 50 people including sound technicians, mountain guides, film crew, "sherpas" to help carry instruments and technical gear, and drivers travelled the steep mountain road from Invermeer to the glaciers of the Jumbo Valley.
Victoria composer Paul Walde wrote Requiem for a Glacier to bring awareness to melting glaciers in general and particularly to the Jumbo and Farnham Glaciers. Both are within the area approved by the B.C. government to become the Jumbo Glacier mountain resort municipality. That project has been the subject of more than two decades of controversy in the Kootenays.
The piece is in Latin like a traditional requiem, but the text is a translation of the B.C. government news release announcing the approval of the Jumbo Glacier Resort and its published chronology of the approval process.
Walde and Kaslo curator Kiara Lynch came up with the idea of performing on a glacier. Lynch handled the logistics of recruiting and rehearsing a volunteer orchestra and chorus and getting them onto the mountain and back down again safely.
"I feel fantastic about how things went," Lynch said. The complicated event was remarkably free of even the most minor glitches.
The musicians and singers were volunteers from the Kootenays who had rehearsed and performed only a few times over the previous week. On Saturday, they performed the first movement of the requiem in a forest clearing with the Commander Glacier in the background. Then they drove further up the mountain and hiked a half-hour to a performance stage that was the ice and snow on the toe of the Farnham Glacier.
"It brought tears to my eyes," said Nelson violinist Margot Zimmer. "It was very moving. The whole concept of bringing this variety of people up here and actually doing this, with all the practicalities involved, it is amazing. And of course it was wonderful to take part in this with my daughter."
Zimmer's daughter, oboist Annalea Zimmer, said: "When Paul Walde said we are about to make art history, I thought, I'd like to be a part of that."
Composer Walde supervised the performances and oversaw his professional sound and film crew's documentation of it. He is a visual artist as well as a composer, and he has plans for gallery exhibits based on the event. In addition, Small Town Films was on the mountain making a documentary.
Ajtony Csaba was a striking sight, conducting on the glacier wearing traditional concert-hall conductor's garb. He is the director of the University of Victoria Symphony and the Central European Chamber Orchestra.
Csaba had the challenge of working with a group of musicians unfamiliar with each other and at differing experience levels. Add to that the special difficulties of outdoor large-group performances.
"It was a challenging situation," he said, "because it was hard for them to hear each other. It was a diffuse acoustical environment. But it was fantastic. I have never experienced anything like this, to perform on snow. It was a very interesting and great experience."
The other non-Kootenay participant was the Hungarian soprano soloist Veronika Hajdu, who lives in Victoria.
Musically, Requiem for a Glacier is a unique combination of classical and modern. Walde says it has some things in common with classic requiems by Mozart, Brahms, and Britten — certain chords, a sense of solemnity, and the use of a classical choir and orchestra. But at the same time it has a sound associated with modern composers such as Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Meredith Monk.
Placing the "cultural artifact" of a choir and orchestra in a natural setting is Walde's way of saying that nature is already part of culture, not separate from it, and "if we destroy these places, we are also destroying our culture."
In addition to art and nature, it was an arduous afternoon dedicated to sunscreen, drinking water, feeding 100 people, and moving around safely in rough terrain. But when it was over, some said they didn't want to leave.
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Eileen\\\'s Zen Yoga
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I offer a range of Zen classes which cover a variety of yoga poses designed to increase strength, flexibility and focus. All combine physical [...]Distance: 0.07 miles.
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Heart Troubles Rare But Deadly in Young Athletes
Cardiac arrest kills half of the young people who die playing sports.
Feb. 28, 2013 -- David Wilganowski, a 17-year old football star at James Earl Rudder High School in Bryan, Texas, was in the middle of a game when his heart stopped. In cardiac arrest, he staggered toward the sidelines and collapsed.
Fortunately for Wilganowski, the certified athletic trainers who staffed every game at the school jumped into action, performing CPR and restarting his heart with an automated external defibrillator, or AED. By the time paramedics arrived, his heart was pumping again.
He's one of the lucky ones. Though relatively rare, a cardiac event that strikes a young person at practice or play is often deadly. About 100 young people die every year playing organized sports, and cardiac arrest is the cause in half the cases, according to the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA).
Dr. Dominic Abrams, a cardiologist at Boston Children's Hospital, said cardiac conditions in young people typically fall into one of two categories.
The first, cardiomyopathies, involve some abnormality of the heart such as enlargement, thinning walls or scaring. The second type is caused by rhythm disturbances. Nothing appears wrong with the heart but it has a tendency to beat irregularly in some way.
In Wilganowski's case, he was diagnosed with a genetic condition known as Long Q-T syndrome. Characterized by rapid heart "quivers" instead of normal rhythm, the heart sometimes stops beating altogether.
Abrams said that at-risk children and young adults can experience a heart event any time but that exercise certainly increases the chances.
"Patients can be at home watching TV when it happens," he said. "But we know that symptoms might be exacerbated during sports because their adrenaline is pumping, causing the heart to beat faster."
High school players of hard driving sports like basketball, football and hockey are not the only ones at risk either -- though their stories are the ones that usually make the news. Abrams referenced a subtype of Long Q-T syndrome that's associated with swimming deaths.
"It's thought to be brought on by the 'diving reflex,' which triggers sudden changes of heart rate and may cause loss of consciousness -- an inherently dangerous occurrence in a pool," he said.
American Heart Association studies show that young black athletes have a greater incidence of cardiovascular death than whites. And a Dutch study in the Journal of American Cardiology found that 68 percent of cardiac arrest cases during sports play were boys.
To Screen or Not to Screen
As Laura Friend said she knows all too well, not every young person who dies from cardiac arrest is a boy or even a competitive athlete.
Her daughter Sarah was a typical active 12-year-old who played sports just for fun. Sarah was at a local water park near their home in North Richland Hills, Texas, taking a lifeguard training class when she lost consciousness.
Ironically, while the course taught CPR and the use of AEDs, Friend said neither was performed on her daughter. It took more than 24 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. She never regained consciousness.
"What was survivable turned into a nightmare," Friend said.
Since her daughter's death, Friend has become an advocate for AED placement and training in schools and says all children should be given "sports physicals," even if they don't participate in competitive sports.
Sudden Cardiac Death, Even in Teens Playing Sports
In addition to the usual tests children get in a routine medical checkup, a doctor giving a sports physical will ask the child questions to probe them about cardiac symptoms that might otherwise be missed.
"After her death, two of Sarah's friends told me that she often complained of pain in her chest when she ran," Friend said. "Chest pain during exertion is the number one symptom of cardiac problems in children. If this was discovered, Sarah might have been saved."
Some school districts make sports physicals standard for any child who joins a team. Kids who only play recreational sports, or aren't athletes, aren't usually screened for heart conditions.
More thorough physicals may sound like a good idea, but Abrams said that the practice is controversial because they don't catch many of the hidden dangers that lurk and can yield "false positive" results that might cause a doctor to ban a perfectly healthy athlete from play. They're also time-consuming and expensive.
Increasing Chances of Survival
Secondary prevention, Abrams said, is probably a more realistic approach to saving lives. This includes recognizing an event as it unfolds.
"The athlete may lose consciousness or stagger around for about ten seconds," he said. "They may be dizzy or disoriented or look like they are having a seizure."
Jim Thorton, the president of the National Athletic Trainers' Association, said that having an AED on hand during all athletic events and practice was essential. Just as essential: A staff that's properly trained in lifesaving techniques like CPR and AED use.
"There should be an appropriate, accurate and all-inclusive emergency action plan for every athletic facility and sport," he said. "The staff should know things like who is going to take the lead on initial care, where the AED is and where the ambulance can enter."
Once a cardiac event has occurred, the clock is ticking. The sooner life support can be administered the better. David Wilganowski said that he is acutely aware of that.
"I'm grateful medical help was so readily available. It could have gone a lot worse, so I guess there's a silver lining to everything," he said.


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Stuff I Found While Looking For Other Stuff
It never fails. Go looking for anything – from your comb to your Jamie Roseboro 1990 Bowman Glossy Baseball Card, and invariably you'll stumble across something else. Which explains this card of Robinson Cano's father, Jose. You may have seen him throwing (and rather successfully) to his son at the Home Run Hitting Contest before the All-Star Game. But the elder Cano actually became associated with the Yankees a quarter century before his son made the team. He signed with them as an 18-year old free agent out of the Dominican in 1980, but lasted just three games with their rookie league team before going home. Little Robby was born two years later, and then Dad returned to this country – and the minors – in '83 in the Braves system, and made it to the majors in '89 with the Astros. He pitched only six games, but started three of them, and actually pitched a pretty neat looking seven-hit complete game win over the Reds on the penultimate day of the 1989 season. That would be his last big league appearance, though he did get on two cards in '90, and this is one of them.
The next thing to fall out of the fast pile of stuff that is "the collection" is nothing less than a 1977 TCMA card of a career minor league infielder who would only play 88 games higher than A-ball, and then branch off into another field. Yes, that's the same Scott Boras, agent to the stars and scourge of general managers and owners everywhere. Boras spent a little more than two seasons with the St. Petersburg Cardinals of the Florida State League, and would actually hit .346 in 22 games during the season in which the card was made before moving up to AA and then winding up in the Cubs' system. His knees gave up on him, and he went to pursue an alternative career – as a pharmacist. He got that degree and then one in law, and then wound up representing his high school teammate, former big league infielder Mike Fischlin – and the rest was a history of gnashed teeth. Mostly a second baseman and third baseman, Boras actually has some good company in that '77 set: later Cards' second base hero Tommy Herr, current Pirates' pitching coach Ray Searage, and other future major leaguers like Benny Joe Edelen, John Fulgham, John Littlefield, Danny O'Brien, Kelly Paris.
But my favorite rediscovered find is a (slightly) mislabeled 1968 Yankees' scorecard. The reason I'm showing the cover will be explained below.
The nine-and-a-half-year-old me has marked "September 18" (because that's the date of the stats inside, as you'll see below) on the scorecard with the then-state-of-the-art sequence of Mickey Mantle photos. But the game was actually played on the night of September 20, 1968. I remember it vividly, but not for the reason I should. For some reason I can neither recall nor locate, they turned out the lights at Yankee Stadium for the national anthem, and either there was just a light on the singer or band that played it, or people held up lights, or something bizarre. But check out my scorecard – particularly the third inning:
Yep. In the third inning, against Boston's Jim Lonborg, Mantle – as the four horizontal lines suggest – homered.
It was the 536th – and final – home run of his career.
I saw Mantle's last homer. But I remember the darkened Stadium much more clearly.
If you're wondering, this isn't a bad scorecard for a nine-year old kid. I've already got the concept of marking runs batted in (the asterisks) although I was still dabbling with the backwards "K" for a walk. It was popular at the time.
I only became a baseball fan in 1967 so I didn't get to see very much Mantlean glory. But in addition to the farewell blast (which was also his next-to-last hit; he singled on September 25 versus Cleveland, costing Luis Tiant a no-hitter), earlier in 1968 I saw him hit a homer in the same game as a brash young kid from Oakland hit one. Fella was named Reggie Jackson.
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I happened to see Ernie Banks final homer in a 1971 Cubs-Reds contest…it was fairly early in the season and I kept telling everyone that he hadn't homered since.
Interesting bit of trivia: the first African American recruited to play football at the University of Texas signed with the Orioles instead. His name: Don Baylor
I think it's really awesome that you shared this with us. Thanks! (:
I agree, that was nice! Thanks for sharing. Better handwriting than I could do at 9 yrs.
Somewhere I have a picture I took from the press box at Fenway Park. It was the late 70s, I was in my early teens, and the picture was of the top of the narrow-brimmed fedora on the head of Luis Tiant's dad, who had been given permission by the Cuban government to see his son pitch, and was sitting about 8 rows back behind home plate. My dad was covering it, for the Today Show, probably, and had let me tag along. I can't see a fedora or Luis Tiant's name without remembering that.
Wow! This one made me cry. The love you have for that game is tangible. How precious these cards, especially that scorecard, with the younger version at the helm. I can see that game in my mind, thanks to you! 25 cents it was then for the program. Gee. I recall when everything was a nickel, dime or quarter. But you know what the memories are worth. I love that you have some in your mind as vivid now as they were then. Nostalgic and bittersweet, for sure. I know we are to live in the now present moment, as all things happen there. The past and future are only concepts…but what a tribute this is to that time, to that game, and even to that boy! I am so proud of you for being the best, Keith Olbermann! I cannot fathom what it would be like to have such treasures to stumble over. Anyone who sees you as anything other than wonderful is sadly mistaken. Cano is one of my favorite players…and how divine to meet his dad here! Scott Boras is as handsome as Kurt Russell. And I can almost taste the DuVal ice cream! Thanks for taking us all out to the ol' ball game! Hugs.
I missed seeing Mantle by a few months. I was eight years old and we were in NY on our yearly vacation to see family. My uncle took me to my first MLB game, a doubleheader against the Seattle Pilots on September 1,1969. It was Bobby Murcer bat day and he hit two homers in the first game but I was bummed out that Joe Pepitone,who in my mind at the time was the coolest baseball player ever, didn't play. Still remember how cool it was to walk across the field to leave the stadium.
Cool, Carl. I can only imagine that walk across the field to leave the stadium. I have never been to a MLB game, but I have it on my bucket list! Sweet memories.
Nice job
Ps. Tommy Herr. Only thing I know about him is the ill fated trade the Twins made for him in 1988. It just was not a good fit and we traded Bruno (Tom Brunansky). To get him. It still hurts after all these years.
My dad would take me to Met Stadium whenever the twins played the Yankees so I could see Mickey.
I really don't remember seeing Mickey play. I just remember that my dad took me. 🙂
Jess…that is the part to remember. Wow! That is the best! If my dad could have, I bet he would have. :o)
I wish you would think of exhibiting your memorabilia somewhere. With what you've shared with us through the site over the years, as well as your personal photos, it's a treasure trove of baseball that many of us may never get the chance to ever see without the trek to upstate New York.
Think about it. This Arizona Red Sox fan would make the trip.
Kim, I would go too! And I know lots of other twitter followers he has who would delight in the chance to see his booty! Perhaps treasure trove is a better way to say…like you said. I would slither up from Louisiana for sure!
The other Jose Cano card can be seen here, in a blog post I did "updating" Topps' Father/Son cards from 1985. These new "cards" only exist in this post, however. I know of no plans to resurrect the subset. Keith has much better Topps connections and might actually be able to make something happen on that front.
NJ Baseball, I tried to reply there at the father/son display, but was not able to do it. I want to thank you so much for showing us these cards! What larks! What chips off the ol' blocks! Some look more like their dads than their dads! I must say the Cano team really is special to me. What beautiful men! I just love father-son! Hugs!
Wow – what a bad team they were then. As a young boy I was fascinated by the great teams of the early sixties and I really started following them in 1965 – talk about bad timing! But every game I faithfully followed them on the radio with Horace Clarke and Roy White being my favorites. I don't think I saw them on TV for three years but never missed a game on the radio listening to Phil.
That also was the year in which Drysdale had his 56-inning scoreless streak and Bob Gibson had an ERA of negative 3 (actually, 1.12), so there weren't a lot of home runs to see. Also, while the Yankees were bad, the Dodgers finished 7th after finishing 8th the year before–a good reminder for fans who think that today's team is unprecedentedly unsuccessful.
Keith, you brought back memories of my first game, for which I do not have a scorecard, but I have something better: a National League baseball signed by Chub Feeney with a mark over his signature where Cito Gaston hit a pitch thrown by Al Downing. It went into the club level at Dodger Stadium, bounced around, hit me on top of the helmet, and landed in my dad's arms. August 1, 1974, the night I also got to meet my idol. He looked down at me, smiled, and said, "So you're the guy who wants my job!" Vin wouldn't remember it, but I do. Next to my wedding day, the greatest day of my life.
Wow, Michael! What a story! Fate had you in the right time and the right place on that day! Made me tear up. Thanks for sharing it with us. Amazing!
Was the Bill Robinson home run an inside-the-park (Looks like 'IP" marked on the scorecard)? The Yanks had a nice run toward the end of '68 to finish over .500 for the first time since '64.
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Thanks, Eddie! At another venue, we were just wondering when a lady would get to play baseball…and we thought if she did, she would be a pitcher! I will share this with my grandkids! Hugs.
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I knew they would make something to help me understand it all! Thanks!
Hard to believe the 1968 Bronx Bombers had a .214 team batting average. Puts Mickey's .237 that year in an entirely different context.
if its the clashing colours or the bad grammar, but this blog is hideous! I mean, I dont want to sound like a know-it-all or anything, but could you have possibly put a little bit more effort into this subject
Where are the clashing colors? Point out the bad grammar. As an English teacher, I would love to know what I missed. He is one of the finest writers on the planet today. Let me know.
Just looking through the Yankee batting averages on the scorecard and it is noteworthy how low they are…looks like a team average of about .225
It looks like you updated Mantles home run totals on your scorecard. I guess it was to reflect that (final) home run?
So cool to have been there for that. I went to the last game at the original Yankee Stadium (and I do mean "original") with my then-girlfriend….& now long since ex-wife.. September 30, 1973. Duke Sims hit the last one. By the 7th inning the crowd was chanting "Houk must go!" I still have the ticket stubs, and the metal number plate from the seat as well. As we were leaving, I saw some guys trying to dig home plate up.
Duke Sims hit the last one. By the 7th inning the crowd was chanting "Houk must go!" I still have the ticket stubs, and the metal number plate from the seat as well. As we were leaving, I saw some guys trying to dig home plate up.


text: Also, I'd be surprised if this was something else than arcade. We need that CPS multi. I need it, at least. I also need a PGM flash cartridge, and ideally, another one for PGM2. How many systems already have a multi solution? All it takes is one NetDIMM and you can netboot pretty much everything on Naomi 2, including Atomiswave. Same NetDimm can be used for Chihiro and Triforce. We have multis for Neo Geo, F3, CPS2, ST-V and solid solutions for CPS3, G.Net and what have you. Most of the newer PC based stuff like Lindbergh and Type X has been cracked open as well. Original CPS is one of the last big ones. PGM isn't nearly as popular, but prices of some of the titles justify the need for a flash device, I would think. Especially when it comes to Cave's stuff.


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Are You Covered?
This story appears in the September 1997 issue of . Subscribe »
With insurance, as with so much else in life, the devil is in the details.
If you own a house or a car, you may already have insurance that covers you in the event of theft or an accident. But if you own a small business, the fine print on those policies could expose you and your assets to catastrophic losses--and even confiscatory lawsuits.
Remember Murphy's Law: What can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible moment. "Murphy is alive and well and living in every small business," warns Virginia Beauchamp, vice president of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) in Washington, DC. "Everybody needs to understand that a sole proprietor is responsible for everything that happens in his or her business."
In fact, typical insurance coverage leaves wide gaps when it comes to protecting sole proprietors and small-business owners. Loopholes such as these can put you temporarily--or permanently--out of business:
- While traveling to see a client, your car is rear-ended and totaled as you sit patiently at a stoplight. Even though you're not at fault, you still may not be able to collect any insurance money, because your policy specifically excludes coverage for accidents that occur while using your automobile in the course of business.
- A fire in your kitchen spreads to the spare room, where your office is, destroying important files and seriously damaging your computer equipment. The claim for your equipment is denied, because your homeowner's insurance doesn't cover business-related losses.
In both scenarios, adequate coverage could have been available as "riders"--or extended agreements--to your existing coverage, and for relatively inexpensive annual premiums (generally, a few hundred dollars or less).
"Close to 80 percent of sole proprietors and small-business owners are not insured to the full extent they should be," says David Hanania, founder and president of the Home Business Institute (HBI), a national network of small-business owners in White Plains, New York.
Nevertheless, many small-business owners get blindsided, either because they don't read the fine print in their existing policies, or because they're too busy to take out the insurance coverage they really need.
"Insurance is an item these busy people don't get to quickly enough, especially if they feel they don't have any liability exposure," Hanania explains. "But in the litigious society we have, they may wake up one day and find they do."
But the growth of small and homebased businesses is urging insurance companies to offer more affordable coverage for entrepreneurs.
How much protection you should have depends on many factors, including a reasonable assessment of your risks, the vulnerability of your assets, the amount of protection available and how much coverage you want and can afford.
Freelance writer Christopher Kenneally answered the question: "Can You Start In 30 Days?" in the July issue of Business Start-Ups.
Health Insurance
Unless you're lucky enough to have a spouse whose employer provides medical benefits for your entire family, health insurance is the most obvious form of insurance an entrepreneur needs.
Non-group health-insurance plans are more expensive than the group plans available to businesses. This holds true whether you pay for traditional indemnity coverage or choose to enroll in a health-maintenance organization (HMO). For example, an indemnity plan with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts that covers a family of three or more, does not include dental care and carries a $200 deductible, costs nearly $6,700 in annual premiums.
National associations such as HBI, NASE, the Independent Business Alliance (IBA) and the American Entrepreneurs Association (AEA), however, as well as state and local business associations--with tens of thousands of members each--can offer coverage at more affordable group-plan rates. And as a consolation for paying for your own health insurance--unquestionably, a major business expense--the IRS now allows self-employed businesspeople to deduct 40 percent of health-insurance premium costs. For more information on the specific IRS guidelines, request IRS Publication 533, Self-Employment Tax, and IRS Publication 502, Medical and Dental Expenses, by calling (800) 829-3676.
Disability Insurance
It's every businessperson's worst nightmare: a serious accident or long-term illness that can lay you up for months, or even longer. Disability insurance, sometimes known as "income insurance," can guarantee a fixed amount of income--usually 60 percent of your average earned income--while you're receiving treatment or are recuperating and unable to work.
Spending scarce insurance dollars on disability insurance, though, can lend a false sense of security, according to Hanania. Disability insurance only pays recipients for one year, and they must prove a loss of profit in order to receive any money. "People are better off taking out term life insurance," Hanania says. (Term life insurance is the industry's least expensive form of coverage.) Nevertheless, IBA's disability-insurance benefits extend up to five years for any illness, and up to age 65 for victims of accidents.
Business Insurance
Recent growth in homebased business has led more and more insurance underwriters not only to offer business-related riders--usually for an additional premium of a few hundred dollars--to existing homeowner's and automobile policies, but also to develop specific products for the small-office/home-office market.
Many business insurance policies with annual premiums of a few hundred dollars now cover on-premises business liability (should, for example, a delivery person slip and fall on your steps), as well as loss of office contents, computer and business equipment and even data reconstruction. A typical plan may protect you for up to $15,000 on office contents, $10,000 on computer-related equipment and $500,000 for on-premises business liability, all for a $275 annual premium.
Business consultants should also consider liability insurance for so-called "errors and omissions." For example, a software consultant hired to analyze a firm's customer list may, through negligence or accident, cause the data to be lost--and become liable for the retrieval or reconstruction costs.
Insurance isn't a good place to cut corners; doing without it could cost you more in the long run.
Run For Coverage
Finding Small-Business insurance isn't easy. Start with a call to your industry association, the local office of the Small Business Administration or your state's insurance division. The following associations and organizations also offer small-business insurance:
- American Entrepreneurs Association (AEA): Available benefits include comprehensive major medical coverage, dental insurance, term life, disability income insurance and HMO and PPO plans, depending on your location. For more information, call (800) 482-0973, or write to 2392 Morse Ave., Irvine, CA 92614.
- Home Business Institute (HBI): Offers home-business liability protection, group medical insurance and life insurance. For more information, call (888) DIAL-HBI, or write to P.O. Box 301, White Plains, NY 10605-0301.
- Independent Business Alliance (IBA): Offers a wide variety of business-related insurance policies, including medical and dental; on- and off-premises liability; office contents and computer-related equipment; professional liability coverage; business interruption; and disability insurance. For more information, call (800) 559-2580, or write to 111 John St., New York, NY 10038.
- National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE): Member benefits include health, dental, accidental death and disability insurance. For more information, call (800) 232-6273, or write to 1023 15th St. N.W., #1200, Washington, DC 20005.
- Small Office/Home Office Association (SOHOA): Offers a range of insurance programs. For more information, call (888) SOHOA-11, or write to 1765 Business Center Dr., #100, Reston, VA 22090.
Contact Sources
Home Business Institute, P.O. Box 301, White Plains, NY 10605-0301, (888) DIAL-HBI
Provident Mutual Life Insurance Co., P.O. Box 1717, Valley Forge, PA 19482-1717


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Happy Hump Day! I love when we hit the top of the week and start the slide to the weekend…let's gear up in the car and hit the gas to get there faster!
Make glowing lights and stars
Christmas Bug is a fun stamp set from Stamping Bella that looks like I wish my car did on the day I bring home my tree – I want a sunroof for it to peek out of! Alas, I don't have one, but it's a lot of fun to dream while coloring! Watch the video below or click HERE to see it in HD on YouTube.
Don't forget to check out the Holiday Backgrounds collection HERE!
- Stamp: Stamping Bella, Christmas Bug
- Paper: Neenah Cardstock, Solar White, 25 pk
- Coloring medium: Copic Markers


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The selection of works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, and others in Listen to the Birds: An Introduction to Classical Music, from The Secret Mountain, introduces children to classical music through the discovery of the melodious similarities between notes produced by instruments such as the flute, the organ, and the harpsichord and the birds' songs. In addition to the illustrations by Cecilia Varela, the 64-page book features a glossary of musical terms, a short biography of each composer, and a brief description of each bird evoked or mentioned in the composition.
The accompanying CD offers excerpts of 20 different recordings, ranging from The Goldfinch, Hens and Roosters and The Dance of the Swans to The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, Piano Concerto N, and Dance of the Firebird. These recordings are performed by world-class luminaries including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Toronto Chamber Orchestra.
Originally published in Mexico, the English language edition is available in the U.S. on May 15 and Canada on May 28.
The author, Ana Gerhard, was born in Mexico. She studied as a concert pianist at the Mexican National Conservatory. As well as giving concerts and teaching the piano, she has hosted radio and television programs designed to introduce the public to classical music.


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Ben Johnson,The White House Watch
The pages of The Washington Times today reflect the nation's
disenchantment with Barack Obama's presidency. The op-ed section contains an
article by Jeffrey T. Kuhner,president of the Edmund Burke Institute for American
Go on Vacation —Just GO."
Last September,Kuhner called
for Obama's impeachment. This year,he's taken a new tack:Telling Obama to
Mr. Obama is the most arrogant,self-absorbed and self-obsessed president in
U.S. history. Nothing is ever his fault. He blames everyone and everything for
America's economic woes –Tea Partyers,Wall Street,Japanese earthquakes,insurance
executives,oil companies,millionaires and corporate jet owners. He lashes out at
imaginary enemies without ever taking personal responsibility. In his mind,he is
–and always will be –the Anointed One.
There is only one solution:Drive him from office. Americans should forge a
mass grassroots movement demanding that Mr. Obama step down –immediately.
Through bumper stickers,picket signs,posters,T-shirts and rallies,tens of
millions of citizens should express the same message:Leave. It is highly
unlikely he will step aside,but such a movement would cripple the president's
authority and possibly blunt him from doing further harm. It also would puncture
his boundless ego. A widespread manifestation of no confidence would break him
–politically,morally and psychologically –in order to save America. Mr. Obama is
out of his depth. He lacks the character,intelligence,skills and experience –the
basic competence –to be the leader of the free world.
Resign,Mr. President.
Of course,Obama resigning is as likely to occur as Bill Clinton entering a
monastery;they both love the thrill they get from their self-indulgent pursuits
too much to forsake them for their own good,much less the nation's.
However,there is some value in his analysis.
A growing number of Democrats are sick of Obama,too. Contrary to what some
people believe,political parties are not primarily dedicated to promoting ideals
or ideologies. They are dedicated to power:getting it,exercising it,keeping
it,and denying it to their enemies. Democrats understand this better than
Republicans,in part because Democrats are the statist party,in part because
Republicans believe in the transcendent values the Left denies. Democrats are
happy Obama is president;they generally agree with him even when they are afraid
to say so;and they hope he will be re-elected in 2012. But they saw the
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"Design Inspiration - Big Ruth Paisley . . . "
my grandmother - "Big Ruth"
I want to first tell you how hard it can be to design a textile collection. But, you should also understand how incredibly challenging it can also be to name all of them - lol. During my visit to Scotland, as I put the finishing touches on the SMW Home textile collection, I spent one final night in Edinburgh before flying back to the states the next morning. That last evening I spent most of my evening scribbling down possible names for each of the textiles in the collection. Obviously the clan tartans are named for the clans - but, there was so much more to deal with -
So let me tell you a bit about 'Big Ruth' . . .
My maternal grandmother was named "Ruth."
But, so is my first cousin.
So all of my life we have had 'Big Ruth' and 'Little Ruth.'
My grandmother - or Big Ruth - was an endlessly chic hostess in the city in Alabama where she lived.
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coats - I know she cut quite a figure all of her life.
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The bold scale certainly matched her personality - and I
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Bold. Chic. Stylish. Just like Grandmother Big Ruth.
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WD-50 Pastry Whiz Alex Stupak Gets Serious With Tacos at Empellón
Note: All interviews and some photography for this article was conducted after all of the food had been reviewed.
230 West 4th Street, New York NY 10014 (map); 212-367-0999; empellon.com
Service: Attentive, but needs a little work on their food knowledge
Setting: Comfortable seating, crowded, loud
Must-Haves: Guacamole, tetilla queso fundido, tongue and al pastor tacos.
Cost: Apps $10 to $11, tacos $15 to $17 for three
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We all took note when WD-50 pastry chef Alex Stupak announced that after years of making a name for himself as one of the most innovative pastry chefs in the country at restaurants like Alinea in Chicago or Clio in Boston, he was finally striking out on his own with a restaurant in the West Village. It was when he announced that not only was the restaurant not going to be pastry-themed, but that it in fact was going to be a high-end Mexican taqueria, that we all started scratching our heads. The place is fittingly named Empellón (Spanish for "push" or "shove"), considering the giant stylistic leap he's taken.
"I became a pastry chef in the first place because it offered me freedom," says Stupak. Unlike a line cook whose job is to take orders and work as a team with a kitchen full of cooks, the pastry chef often flies solo, responsible for everything from menu design to execution. He took up pastry with no experience to fill an unexpected vacancy while working as a line cook at the Federalist in Boston. "Not having a strong pastry background helped me—classical things were difficult for me to grasp, so I created my own style." It's a style that's now come to be imitated in nearly every restaurant with a modernist bent.
Plans for Empellón started about 18 months before the actual opening, while Stupak was still pastry chef at WD-50. "My resume really hurt me here," he says; "People expected me to open a pastry restaurant, but the problem is, once people pigeonhole you, your creativity is severely restricted. People come for my pastry and expect certain things—like you'd expect pasta on an Italian menu—but with Mexican food, they have no expectations. I'm opening a Mexican restaurant because it's the food I love to eat, and that's it."
The important question is: would we love it as well?
Meals start out strong with two for-the-table dishes. Chicharon with Chileajo ($8) gets you crisp, light-as-air, freshly fried pork rinds that come to the table still crackling and popping as they cool. Fresh, well-balanced Guacamole ($10) is among the best I've had. It's served alongside warm chips with a sweet and spicy salsa of ancho chiles, and an intensely smoky cashew-based sauce that stay on the table for the rest of the meal. I found myself dipping back often.
On the cold side of the menu there's a trio of rotating ceviches and salads. Octopus with Parsnip and Salsa Papanteca ($13) is tender and smoky with a uniquely sweet twist: a salsa papanteca, made with chipotles, warm spices, and piloncillo, a type of raw sugar with a distinct slightly bitter molasses undertone. Chunks of barely-crunchy parsnip resemble the disks of octopus leg, making for a salad that surprises you with alternate bites of sweet, nutty parsnip and tender, briny octopus. This is very intelligent food—the kind that brings together seemingly disparate elements in a way that's recognizable as distinctly Mexican.
Baby Carrots with Radish, Cress, and Mole Poblano ($11) only has four main ingredients, but the smoky, complex mole poblano carries this salad of meaty and sweet roasted baby carrots with peppery cress and paper thin slices of radish. Wait a minute—cold mole poblano? Yep. And it works.
Things continue on a strong note with their Sopes ($10 each). The best sope comes with creamy refried beans and a fried egg stuffed in a tender, slightly crisp shell formed in-house from fresh masa. It's perfect bar food, as are the excellent beef and pork meatballs bound with masa and stewed with tripe.
The three Quesos Fundidos ($11 each) are hot skillets of baked cheese meant for sharing, and can be a bit more hit or miss. Gooey, melted Tetilla is hard not to love, with a bit of heat from roasted strips of pepper and crunchy cactus paddle. Less successful is the Sheep's Milk Ricotta with Picadillo, which comes out more chalky than gooey. Rich shortrib studded with pinenuts and raisins starts out delicious, but with no brightness or acidity to cut through the fat, quickly falls into heavy territory.
Both quesos fundidos come with a warmer filled with fresh corn tortillas, delivered daily from Tortilleria Nixtamal in Corona. Early after opening, there were freshness issues: The tortillas were coming out with dry, tough edges. Stupak accredits the problem to the staff's classical training. "By our system of logic, if you make hot food, it should go on a hot plate. The problem is, you put a hot tortilla on a plate, then you have three guys hunched over assembling those tacos the same way they'd be hunched over Bernardaud china in a three-star restaurant. We spend too long plating, so by the time it gets to you, the hot plate has dried the edges out."
Thankfully, they seemed to have caught their stride—the dry tortilla issues have vanished, and these have become some of the best in the city. "I did a taqueria because Mexican cuisine as a system of cooking in a professional kitchen is new and exciting to me. It's actually humbling when you consider how simple a lot of the food seems," says Stupak.
A few more antojitos—including some awesomely moist Short Rib Tamales ($10)—round out the appetizers. Though earlier menu iterations featured full-on entrees, Stupak has since switched to an all-taco format to ease pressure on the tiny, busy kitchen, offering the occasional main course as a weeknight special. Plans are in place to slowly re-introduce them as the restaurant grows.
I'm interested to see what he does with main courses (masa dumplings and Yucatan-style papadzul both sound promising), but its tough to complain about the tacos ($15 to $17 for three), which have been almost universally excellent.
It's here where Stupak's knack for balancing unique flavors and textures really shines. Shredded Chicken comes laced with an herbacious green chorizo and braised greens. A seasonal special of Softshell Crab comes in a perfectly crisp tempura batter with hot salsa verde, a drizzle of crema, and an intense oven-dried tomato.
I'm a huge fan of well-cooked lengua, and the Beer Braised Tongue delivers—tender and fatty with crisply frayed edges, served with a hot chile de arbol salsa and a few slices of buttery fingerling potatoes. Straight-out-of-Baja Fish Tempura with cabbage and spicy lime mayonnaise are not earth-shattering in their originality, but show faultless execution. "You could put lime mayonnaise on anything and people would flock to it," says Stupak, dismissively. I don't care—it tastes good to me.
It's all good stuff, but my question is: are people really going to pay $17 for it? After my most recent visit, I emailed Stupak with this very question. "I agree—there's a sociological expectation that people have for a taqueria," says Stupak, "but here's the deal. People would pay forty or fifty bucks for a lobster dish in a French restaurant, but complain about $19 lobster at a Mexican restaurant where it's prepared with the same level of care. It's culinary racism. Do Mexicans know how to buy lobster cheaper?"
It somehow just feels wrong to pay more than a couple bucks for a taco, for Chinese Dumplings, or for a bowl of Pho, yet it's hard to argue with Stupak's logic. You'd be hard pressed to find any other restaurant in the city serving Berkshire Pork—a rare breed of British pig known for its heavily marbled, deep red meat—or rich, tender Lamb Barbacoa for a mere $17. The former is insanely juicy with a well-charred crust and a slice of charred pineapple, while the latter is served with a sweet and spicy orange and pasilla pepper-based salsa borracha.
$17 for three tacos? Expensive. But $17 for a half pound of braised lamb prepared with experience and care? Seems reasonable to me, particularly considering that people line up to eat the markedly inferior but equally expensive tacos at any of the Dos Caminos locations in the city.
"Sure, I could charge only a few bucks per taco, but then I'd have to sacrifice the quality of my meat. I'd be serving chicken, carnitas, and carne asada every night," explains Stupak, who seems to get worked up over the thought of it. "If I wasn't charging real restaurant prices for my food and building in that expectation, I'd never be able to serve the product I want to serve or be creative in the way I want to be creative."
There's a pride and almost a rebelliousness in his insistence on the matter. "Listen—I can either respond and say, '$5 tacos? Well, nobody does that,' and give in, or I can say, 'Hey! Nobody does that!' and go for it. I'm not trying to create a high end taqueria, I'm trying to create a taqueria with a point of view." Comparisons to taco trucks or cheap brick-and-mortar taquerias around the city will be inevitable, but seem largely beside the point.
Perhaps the most interesting move for Stupak to make was to completely detach himself from the pastry menu. "I'm putting exactly zero creative input into the pastry side," he says, instead leaving the entire menu in the hands of his wife Lauren Resler, a former pastry chef from Babbo and sister of the bartender Mat Resler (who incidentally runs a great bar program—check out our review here). She serves a Passion Fruit Tart ($9) with a great filling and toasted meringue (though the crust is too thick for the size of the tart), and a decent Tres Leches Cake ($9) that's a little dry for my liking, but comes with an excellently funky goat's milk ice cream.
The signature Buñuelos ($9) served with house-made cajeta (goat's milk caramel) and honey are the best thing offered—freshly fried donuts served warm, crisp, and light. It's a solid menu that stylistically couldn't be further from the modernist masterpieces Stupak was creating at WD-50 and Alinea.
For the time being, you don't have the ability to mix-and-match tacos, which means that unless you go with a large group, you're stuck limiting yourself to one or two flavors. "I agree the dining experience could be more fun if you could order six different tacos instead of three of this and three of that," Stupak said, "but we're a 5-man line serving 100 seats. It's just not possible. Think of it as going out for pizza: you've just gotta agree beforehand what the table is going to share."
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But Stupak says that they've been considering serving order of two tacos at a time instead of three, to allow a bit more liberty in terms of sharing. The best time to go might be after midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, when you can order single tacos for $5 a pop. I can easily see myself ending many future Friday nights at their bar with a tongue taco in one hand and a Drunk Monk cocktail in the other.
While Stupak may have earned his fame with innovative technique and cutting edge technological cooking, with Empellón, he proves that even classic dishes made with traditional techniques can be every bit as exciting.
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Shake your body: Dance sound takes over America
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Today, you can shake your body on that 7 a.m. drive to work.
Dance and electronic music, part of the fringe just a few years ago, now dominates Top 40 radio, and the culture continues to sprout at festivals as DJ-producers begin to take center stage.
David Guetta, Calvin Harris, RedOne and Sandy Vee are the top masterminds behind multiple hits on the charts, and are heavily sought out by A-list singers for some of their musical magic.
Lady Gaga came on the scene with electro-jamming hits, as did Ke$ha, LMFAO and La Roux. There are many more who have blazed the charts by adopting the electronic dance sound, including Rihanna, Usher, Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Flo Rida, Chris Brown, Pitbull, the Black Eyed Peas, Diddy and Taio Cruz, all while DJ-producers like Benny Benassi, Afrojack, Avicii and DJ Frank E gain momentum and get calls to produce hits.
"Every pop artist is taking that direction now (and) it's the new standard of pop music," Guetta said in a recent interview. "You still have some dirty, crazy underground beats that are only for clubs, and then you have that crossover genre that started two years ago ... and it's just exploding."
Guetta made noise in the music world when his song "When Love Takes Over" with Kelly Rowland became an international smash. It topped the charts in several countries in mid-2009, but it only peaked at No. 76 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Then he produced the Black Eyed Peas' No. 1 sensation "I Gotta Feeling" and it helped Guetta conquer America.
Now, the French-born DJ-producer has two Grammy Awards and six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including three in the top five. His latest album, "Nothing but the Beat" features Usher, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Jennifer Hudson and Snoop Dogg, among others.
"Techno was born in Detroit and house in Chicago and New York, then it came to Europe and now it's coming back to America. It came back really late here, but when (Americans) do something, (they) do it big," Guetta said. "America is finally embracing the electronic culture."
Lady Gaga has talked about how she struggled early in her career with her dance music sound because it wasn't popular. She had her breakthrough in 2008 with electronic-tinged hits like "Poker Face" to "Just Dance," helping usher in a new dance music phase in pop.
"I'm so happy that me and Gaga were the people to open doors for a lot of DJs (and) a lot of people who used to be called remixers, and now they're ... actually producers," said RedOne, who helmed multiple Gaga hits as well as Jennifer Lopez's "On the Floor," Enrique Iglesias' "I Like It" and Minaj's "Starships."
Rihanna is another artist who has topped the charts with dance-flavored gems. Her latest No. 1 tune, "We Found Love," was written and produced by Calvin Harris, the London-based singer and DJ. Now he has his own song, "Feels So Close," which is currently a top 20 hit on the Billboard chart.
David Waxman, the general manager for the dance label Ultra Records - the home to acts like Harris, Deadmau5 and Tiesto - says when multiple dance tracks got play on the radio simultaneously, the genre exploded commercially.
"I think there was a big breakthrough a few years ago when Lady Gaga's `Just Dance,' (the) Black Eyed Peas' `Boom Boom Pow' and Pitbull's `I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)' all kind of broke into the top 40," he said. "I think that's the moment that dance music started crossing over."
"It's only radio that's trying to catch on with what's happening," added Waxman, who is also a DJ and producer. "Radio used to dictate, and now it's not. Now the people are really kind of dictating what radio is playing ... and it has to be embraced by radio because they want to keep up with what's happening with the culture."
The Grammy Awards also took note of the growing trend: Deadmau5 hit the stage at this year's show in its first-ever electronic dance performance, and one of the top nominees was Skrillex, a then fairly unknown Los Angeles electronic DJ-producer whose sound is a mix of grunge and dubstep. The 24-year-old won three Grammys, and was nominated for one of the top prizes, best new artist. Two weeks before the awards, his EP "Bangarang" jumped to No. 14 on the charts, a chart high for Skrillex.
"You can never really say why it's popular, but for some reason it resonates with a lot of people," Skrillex said. "With music in general, you can see (the) sort of things that trend and it's all about rhythm and something you can move to and dance to, and I think it's fresh."
Swedish House Mafia, a trio of DJs, recently sold out Madison Square Garden, nearly transforming the famed venue to a smoky, pulsating nightclub. That was all done without a hit on the main Billboard singles chart; their song "Save the World" is an international success, though, and it hit the top spot on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs.
The performance by the group was reminiscent of the ever-popular electronic dance music festivals across the globe. Ultra Music Festival, the three-day event based in Miami which featured Avicii, Justice and more, had the most attendees in its 13-year history for a single day with 165,000 last week; Electric Zoo, another three-day festival, saw 85,000 people attend last September on New York's Randall Island; and Live Nation recently announced its new electronic festival, dubbed I Love This City. The two-day event will happen in San Francisco and San Diego in May and will feature Guetta, Tiesto, Skrillex, Steve Aoki, Laidback Luke and more.
Usher said attending the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival last April inspired much of the material on his upcoming seventh album, which will feature Swedish Mafia House, Diplo, Klas Ahlund, Empire of the Sun and others.
"I had been already listening to different genres of music and kind of playing in the area of electronic, but when I went to that festival," he said, "it opened me up to a totally different experience, and my opportunity was then open to create this new genre of music and give validity to it through soul and electronic."
Guetta credits American acts who have embraced dance music with giving it validity - and popularity.
"I think the DJ culture was extremely underrated ... and there was this kind of fake, old idea that house music was for gay clubs and teenagers in raves on pills," Guetta said.
"I remember speaking to some record company people and they were saying, `Oh, there's no scene in the U.S. for this music,'" he recalled. "And I invited them to come to a show that I was doing ... and there were 120,000 people there. So I was telling them, `How can you feel that there's no scene when we can fill a stadium?'"
Mesfin Fekadu covers entertainment for The Associated Press. Follow him at https://www.twitter.com/musicmesfin