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Brandon Phillips and Jay Bruce homered off San Francisco' Matt Cain and the Cincinnati Reds led the Giants 3-1 after six innings of their NL division series opener Saturday night despite losing ace Johnny Cueto to a back injury after eight pitches.
Cueto had the shortest postseason start in the majors in eight years when back spasms forced him to leave while pitching to the second batter of the game. He is day to day.
Reliever Sam LeCure and scheduled Game 3 starter Mat Latos held the Giants scoreless until Buster Posey's leadoff homer off Latos in the sixth cut Cincinnati's lead to 3-1.
Cincinnati had taken the lead on Phillips' one-out homer in the third that also scored Drew Stubbs. Bruce added a solo shot in the fourth.
Those were the first earned runs Cain had ever allowed in the postseason, ending a run of 23 1-3 straight innings without an earned run that was the fifth-longest ever. It was also just the second time the past two seasons that Cain allowed two homers in a game at home with the other on June 29 against Cincinnati.
The Reds were looking for their first postseason win since 1995, having lost seven straight since then in the 1995 NLCS to Atlanta and the division series two years ago to Philadelphia.
If Cueto's injury isn't serious, he could come back and take Latos' spot in the rotation in Game 3. If he can't come back, that could be a big blow to the Reds. His 2.58 ERA the past two seasons is third best in the majors and Cincinnati had to rely heavily on Latos and the bullpen in the opener of the best-of-five series.
The Reds ran to the NL Central title based on the health of their starting pitchers. None of their five starters got hurt all season and they only needed a sixth starter when Todd Redmond started the back end of a doubleheader in August against the Cubs.
Cueto struck out Angel Pagan to open the game but appeared as if he might have aggravated something when stopping mid-motion when Pagan called time out earlier in the at-bat.
Cueto then pulled up lame on the second pitch to Marco Scutaro and Baker and a trainer rushed out to the mound to check on the 19-game winner, who left the game.
Cueto's outing was the shortest start in the postseason since Atlanta's John Thomson also only retired one Houston batter in Game 3 of the 2004 NLDS. He threw just four pitches before leaving with a sore muscle in his left side.
LeCure relieved and retired the first four batters he faced before loading the bases with two outs in the second. He escaped that jam by getting Cain lined out to right field.
Latos, pitching on three days' rest, came in to start the third and didn't allow a run until Posey's homer. He was helped in the fourth when Joey Votto caught a hard liner by Brandon Belt to start an unassisted double play after Hunter Pence reached on a throwing error by third baseman Scott Rolen.
After 49ers quarterback Alex Smith one-hopped the ceremonial first pitch to Giants reliever Sergio Romo, Cain picked up where he left off in the 2010 postseason when he didn't allow an earned run in three starts.
Cain pitched a perfect first inning, getting help when Belt flipped head over heels over the railing in foul territory near first base to catch a popup from Zack Cozart for the second out. Cain struck out Votto to end the first inning. Cain pitched around a one-out double to Bruce in the second inning before running into trouble in the third.
His night ended after five innings when he left for pinch-hitter Aubrey Huff. Cain allowed three and five hits with four strikeouts.


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Besides being the best Bond movie ever made, Goldfinger famously featured a 1964 Aston Martin DB5. Among other ingenious gadgets featured on the Aston (two words: ejector seat) was a rotating license plate assembly.
We aren't sure if Nelson Vaquiz of Beaverdam, Va. got the idea to change license plates to fool the enemies (in this case the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) from Goldfinger, but he was employing a similar tactic to Bond's when he was arrested this week. According to police Vaquiz had his front license plate rigged to a cable that flipped it to avoid detection while using a gateless toll lane on Interstate 95 without a transponder.
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In this week's adventures climbing the Cliffs of Insanity, more photos are released for the upcoming Man of Steel movie, I discover the Baker Street Babes exist, and provide some romance gateway drugs, including an erotica comic.
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But, first, the movies!
While the Justice League movie seems to be spinning wheels, all signs indicate the new Superman film, Man of Steel is going to be good. And by good, I mean a story that also does right by Lois Lane. Because if Lois isn't right, then Superman isn't right. (I'm looking at you, Superman Returns.)
Positive Sign #1. The cover photo features Lois looking heroic in her own right, rather than in a T&A shot like those Black Widow poses for The Avengers.
Positive Sign #2: She's wearing clothes. Like those you'd expect from a reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper. Shocking.
Positive Sign #3: In other promo photos, more Lois and Clark Kent, looking fabulous together. These photos also include Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as Ma and Pa Kent, who are looking fine as well. (My first reaction was that Diane Lane was too young to be Clark Kent's mom. But she's 47. My age. Ack. How did I get old enough to be Ma Kent? Well, at least Ma Kent is consistently awesome.)
I want women in superhero movies not to be props, as that's not always the case, so I'm excited about this Lois.
The recent Marvel movies have done a decent job with their women, though there was the unfortunate posing of Widow for The Avengers promotion and that Joss Whedon had to add in Maria Hill to make sure more than one woman had a role in it.
On the DC side, Christopher Nolan's Batman movies have been far more interested in the men, to the point where Rachel is a symbol, not a character. Not to mention that while Thomas Wayne's legacy to his son is emphasized, poor Martha Wayne does nothing but die. Nolan's movies were all about the menz, generally, until Selina Kyle and Talia in Batman:Dark Knight Rises. (I like all these movies, by the way. But they have flaws.)
Why is this so? It's the same reason no one seems to be able to make a Wonder Woman movie and the reason why Scarlett Johansson has said she'd have to wear pasties to get a Black Widow movie made.
We're back to the notion that viewers aren't interested in female-led action movies. (Katniss, you go sit back down. We're going to give Jennifer Lawrence an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook instead.) I guess no one told female-led movies are bad risks to the people who have provided over $3 million in less than two days to pay for a movie about amateur detective Veronica Mars. #hollywoodcognitivedissonance
If only Warner Bros. would give over the rights to Wonder Woman to filmmakers who want to run a kickstarter to fund it. Granted, a superhero movie would be far more expensive than a mystery/thriller but that's a campaign I would love to see.
The HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS Find of the Week:
Speaking of women doing traditionally male stuff, like geeking out over Sherlock Holmes, I discovered the Baker Street Babes this week via a New York Times article about the Canon being in the public domain. Much of Holmes fandom over the years have shared Sherlock Holmes' disdainful attitude to women. So it was thrilling to find such an active, fun group of Holmes fans, with a Tumblr, a Twitter, and an awesome podcast.
Journeys end in lover's meetings, as Holmes' paraphrased from Shakespeare. Finding this group was like finding home. And now I'm inspired to go back and re-read my Baring-Gould Annotated Holmes. And, no, the babes are not always looking to hook Holmes up with someone. Not even Mrs. Hudson, who Manly Wade Wellman hooked up in Sherlock Holmes' War of the Worlds.
However, if you're looking for romance….
Romance Gateway Drugs
Last week, I wrote how it's more difficult to convince geek girls to like romance than it is to convince romance readers to like geeky stuff. I'll close the column this week by providing some recommendations for gateway drugs, er, books, for geeks who want to read good romance.
I mentioned the In Death series by J.D. Robb/Nora Roberts last week. But among people who don't read the series, I've noticed some believe that since it is a romance, so it can't be gritty. Not so. This series begins with a prostitute being murdered by one of her clients and gets more intense from there. It's very noir, save the protagonist gets to stay with the person they love. To use a comic example, this series is like Gotham Noir with Police Detective Renee Montoya solving the worst crimes imaginable. And the love interest is a Tony Stark-type who's usually busy buying his way into being master of the universe.
But police procedurals, even ones with romance, are not to everyone's taste. So I asked around for romance gateway drugs in many genres. For contemporary romance, there is no better place to start than Jennifer Crusie and if you're worried that even Jenny Crusie might be too mushy, try her books with Bob Mayer, especially Don't Look Down, which has a running Wonder Woman theme.
Here's a sample of the recommendations I obtained from Crusie's readers:
Courtney Milan and Amanda Quick, who is one of those writers who absolutely forces you to turn the page, for historicals; Jessica Anderson's Nightkeepers, a series which focused on the Mayan prophecy that could end the world, for contemporary thrillers, Linnea Sinclair (who I've gushed about before) and much of Lois McMaster Bujold's books for science fiction, Meljean Brooks for Steampunk and Robin LaFevers' Grave Mercy for Young Adult.
Or you could start with a romance-type comic.
Yes, it's a bit of self-promotion to point you in the direction of the Erotica issue from Greyhaven Comics, as I have a six-page story inside, but this comic was edited by the talented Erica Heflin, and it takes "erotica" seriously, meaning the sex is there to tell the story. My story is "Booty Call," and I suspect my female lead listens to a lot of Pink.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Classic Cookbooks: An Impressive Pork Loin Dinner from Marcella Hazan Recipe
When I read the comments on my first post about Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. I realized that I had underestimated the delicacy of the thumbnail biographer's task. As an educated, experienced woman who brings home the bacon (okay, a small piece of bacon, but still) and cooks it up for her husband every night of the week, I never considered the possibility that I could be somehow insulting Marcella Hazan by writing that she learned to cook to feed her husband (something she herself has said), and I didn't mean to imply that a woman who teaches herself to cook is necessarily without other accomplishments (such as Hazan's doctorates in natural sciences and in biology). Heck, even if we didn't have her amazing career to demonstrate what a formidable woman she is, we have her writing, so full of authority and character it leaves no doubt about the intelligence and strength of personality behind the words. I certainly meant no disrespect! I know most of us cook because we ourselves love food and being in the kitchen, but don't we love to feed other people, too?
Perhaps, however, I really am a domesticated throwback to the bad old days. I don't vacuum in heels and pearls (it is—and my mother should stop reading here—a good week when I vacuum at all), but check out this lovely Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking-inspired meal I made for my mother-in-law when she was in town last week: boiled Swiss chard salad, pork loin braised in milk, Swiss chard stalks gratinéed with Parmesan cheese, roast potatoes and parsnips, and tangerine sorbet served in frozen tangerine shells. My mother-in-law—a busy psychiatrist, a talented seamstress and knitter, a fine cook, and an all-around do-it- and fix-it-yourself handywoman of seemingly limitless energy—doesn't put a lot of stock in this wifely-graces business (and neither, to be honest, does my husband), but am I a good little woman or what? I'm going to go polish the silver and iron some shirts while you read these recipes, but before I go, let me say that the tangerine sorbet was my favorite, really delicious and fun.
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- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 1/2 pounds pork rib roast (meat detached from the ribs in one piece, ribs carved into 2 or 3 sections) or 2 pounds boneless Boston butt (will carve less neatly, but that's what I used); do not have any fat trimmed away from either cut of meat (you'l
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- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 1/2 cups (or more) whole milk
- The broad, white stalks from 2 bunches mature Swiss chard
- Butter for smearing and dotting the baking dish
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- 2/3 cup freshly grated parmigiano-reggiano
- 2 bunches Swiss chard, leaves only
- Salt
- Extra virgin olive oil
- Freshly squeezed lemon juice
Heat the butter and oil over a medium high flame in a heavy-bottomed pot that will accommodate the pork snugly. When the butter foam subsides, put the meat in, fat side facing down. As it browns, turn it every few moments for even coloring all around. If you should find the butter becoming very dark, lower the heat.
Add the salt, pepper, and 1 cup of milk. Add the milk slowly, or it will boil over. Allow the milk to come to a simmer for 20 or 30 seconds, turn the heat down to a minimum, and cover the pot, leaving the lid slightly ajar.
Cook at a very lazy simmer for about 1 hour, turning the meat from time to time, until the milk has thickened, through evaporation, into a nut-brown sauce. (The exact time it will take depends largely on the heat of your burner and the thickness of your pot. In my case, there was such a thick layer of fat on top of the milk that I couldn't really tell what was going on beneath it. It didn't seem to me it was ever going to turn nut-brown, and so eventually I forged ahead anyway, which may explain my sauce's less than successful final aspect.) When the milk reaches this stage and not before, add 1 more cup of milk, let it simmer for about 10 minutes, then cover the pot tightly. Check and turn the pork from time to time.
After 30 minutes, set the lid slightly ajar. Continue to cook over minimum heat, and when you see there is no more liquid milk in the pot, add the other 1/2 cup milk. Continue cooking until the meat feels tender when prodded with a fork and all the milk has coagulated into small nut-brown clusters. Altogether it will take between 2 1/2 and 3 hours. (If, before the meat is fully cooked, you find that the liquid in the pot has evaporated, add another 1/2 cup of milk, repeating the step if necessary.)
When the pork has become tender and all the milk in the pot has thickened into dark clusters (again, this didn't look as if it was ever going to happen for me), transfer the meat to a cutting board. Let it settle for a few minutes, then cut it into slices about 3/8 inch thick or slightly less, and arrange them on a warm serving platter.
Tip the pot and spoon off most of the fat—there may be as much as a cup of it—being careful to leave behind all the coagulated milk clusters. Add 2 or 3 tablespoons of water, and boil away the water over high heat while using a wooden spoon to scrape loose cooking residues from the bottom and sides of the pot. Spoon all the pot juices over the pork and serve immediately.
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Cut the chard stalks into pieces about 4 inches long, and wash them in cold water. Bring 3 quarts water to a boil and cook the stalks at a moderate boil until they feel tender when prodded with a fork, about 30 minutes according to author (I cooked them for only about 15). Drain and set aside.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Smear the bottom and sides of a baking dish with butter and place a layer of chard stalks on the bottom, laying them end to end and trimming to fit if necessary. Sprinkle lightly with salt and grated cheese and dot sparingly with butter. Repeat the procedure, building up layers of stalks until you have used them all. The top layer should be sprinkled generously with Parmesan and thickly dotted with butter.
Bake on the top rack of the preheated oven until the cheese melts and forms a light, golden crust on top. You might begin to check after 10 or 15 minutes, but in my experience it takes 20 or 25 minutes. When the gratin comes out of the oven, let it settle for a few minutes before bringing it to the table.
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Clean the chard leaves well in several changes of cold water.
Lift the leaves out of their last bath and put them in a pan with only the moisture clinging to them. Add 2 teaspoons salt, turn the heat to medium, cover, and cook until fully tender, about 15-18 minutes from the time the liquid in the pan starts to bubble.
Drain the chard and gently press out as much moisture as possible. Transfer to a serving platter. When lukewarm or no cooler than room temperature, toss with salt, olive oil, and 1 or more tablespoons lemon juice. Serve at once.
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4 tangerines
1 large or 2 small oranges
1 lemon
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg white (optional)
3 tablespoons rum (optional)
Wash the tangerines in cold water. Neatly slice off their tops in one piece, leaving enough of an opening for you to extract the fruit and, later, to stuff the shell. Hold each tangerine over a bowl and plunge a citrus reamer into its heart; squeeze as much juice as possible into the bowl, being very careful to leave the shell intact. Then remove any remaining fruit or pulp from the inside of the tangerine so that you have a neat, pith-lined hollow sphere. Freeze the shells for at least 2 hours.
Grate the zest of 1/2 of the orange and 1/2 of the lemon. Juice the orange and lemon into the bowl of tangerine juice.
Put the sugar and 1 cup water into a small saucepan. Turn the heat to medium and stir from time to time until the sugar has melted. Pour this syrup into a bowl. Add the grated orange and lemon zests and the juice mixture. Mix well. Allow the mixture to cool completely and chill in the refrigerator. At this point Hazan stirs in an egg white beaten just until foamy, but for various reasons I skipped this step.
Churn the chilled mixture in an ice-cream maker. If you like, stir the rum into the churned sorbet; I don't like desserts that taste boozy, so I left it out.
Hazan advises freezing the sorbet for at least 1 hour before stuffing it into the shells, but I was short on time and stuffed right away. Simply spoon the sorbet into the shells, then return the stuffed tangerines to the freezer and wait 45 minutes to serve. My tasting panel thought the sorbet could have been less sweet, but then we wondered if decreasing the sugar would have given the frozen sorbet a less lovely texture; it was bright and effervescent, though nothing bubbly had been added!
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UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz promises "big news" later this week about the future of his client, Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos.
A press conference held Friday evening at Ortiz's Punishment Training Center in Huntington Beach, Calif., is expected to announce the ex-Strikeforce champ's next move.
Ortiz declined to give any further details on the announcement, which comes several days after he told AXS TV's "Inside MMA" that Santos requested to be released from her contractual obligations to UFC parent company, Zuffa.
The "Huntington Beach Bad Boy" started a management company this past summer and took on Santos, who hasn't fought since December 2011.
Ortiz described the UFC's previous plan to sign Santos (10-1) to the UFC, but loan her to the all-female MMA promotion Invicta FC. Santos refused and asked to be released.
Santos usually fights at 145 pounds but has been pressured to drop to 135 for a potential bout with UFC women's bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey, who attempts her first title defense when she meets Liz Carmouche next week at UFC 157.
Santos and Rousey share a rivalry that could generate box-office gold for a promoter.
The UFC has indicated that the women's bantamweight class will be the only one featured in the octagon. In hopes Santos would drop weight, UFC President Dana White offered to pay for the services of popular nutrition/weight-cutting consultant Mike Dolce.
Ortiz, however, has argued that such a weight cut would be unsafe for Santos, who wants to have children later in life. He suggested she fight Rousey at a catchweight of 140 pounds.
"For her to get down to 135 pounds is physically impossible," he told "Inside MMA." "For a man it's different because we have more water weight to take off. For Cris to get down to that weight, she's going to be three to four percent body fat."
Despite being stripped of her title after her most recent fight, which produced a positive test for the anabolic steroid stanozolol, Santos was kept in the contractual fold by Zuffa.
The industry-leading fight company purchased Strikeforce in March 2011 but shut it down this past month.
Invicta FC President Shannon Knapp told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) on Monday that she will not negotiate with Santos until the fighter is a free agent.
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Amazon Web Services launched a new, less-expensive flavor of its cloud-based object storage service meant for data that is infrequently accessed (IA).
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AWS says customers can migrate data from one service to another based on how frequently they need to access the data. S3 starts at $0.03/GB/month while IA starts at $0.0125/GB/month with 99% availability, and Glacier starts at $0.007/GB/month. When announcing IA, AWS also dropped the price of Glacier from $0.01 to $0.007 GB/month.
AWS also has a series of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) services meant to provide persistent block-level storage for its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtual machines.
The introduction of S3 IA could be in response to Google announcing its own new storage service meant for archiving data named Nearline earlier this year. Nearline starts at $0.01 per GB/month.
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Massachusetts couple wins $1 million on trashed lottery ticket
NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. -- A Massachusetts couple has won $1 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket that they dug out of the trash after inadvertently throwing it away.
The state lottery commission says Joseph and Joanne Zagami of North Attleborough bought the $5 ticket from a vending machine while doing their grocery shopping.
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A pair of bouts is now official for UFC 157 as lightweight Mike Chiesa (8-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) meets Anton Kuivanen (17-5 MMA, 1-1 UFC) and Lavar Johnson (17-6 MMA, 2-1 UFC) faces Brendan Scahub (8-3 MMA, 4-3 UFC).
UFC officials today announced both fights are now scheduled for the Feb. 23 event, which takes place at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.
The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FX and Facebook.
Johnson vs. Schaub is likely to be part of the main card, and Chiesa vs. Kuivanen likely will be on the prelims.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) previously reported the Johnson-Schaub booking, which was rescheduled from UFC on FOX 5 when Johnson suffered a pulled groin a week prior to the event and was forced to withdraw.
The fight comes at a time when both heavyweights are in need of a win inside the octagon. Johnson faced Stefan Struve on short-notice at UFC 146 and lost via first-round submission, which was his first loss in the octagon after back-to-back first-round stoppage wins.
Schaub, meanwhile, has lost back-to-back fights, both in the first round. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira knocked him out at UFC 134, and Ben Rothwell did the same at UFC 145. However, prior to that, he had put himself in the title picture by winning four straight fights.
Meanwhile, Chiesa was also expected to fight at UFC on FOX 5 before illness forced him off the card. His scheduled opponent, Marcus LeVesseur, ended up serving as a late replacement for Tim Means and fought Abel Trujillo at the event. Now Chiesa, the winner of "The Ultimate Fighter 15," meets Finnish fighter Kuivanen, who looks to build on the strength of a UFC 149 split-decision win over Mitch Clarke. Prior to that, he suffered a unanimous-decision loss to Justin Salas in his UFC debut, which snapped the Estonian-born Finnish fighter's nine-fight win streak.
The latest UFC 157 card now includes:
- Ronda Rousey vs. Liz Carmouche – for women's bantamweight title
- Dan Henderson vs. Lyoto Machida
- Urijah Faber vs. Ivan Menjivar
- Lavar Johnson vs. Brendan Schaub
- Court McGee vs. Josh Neer
- Mike Chiesa vs. Anton Kuivanen
- Neil Magny vs. Jon Manley*
* – Not officially announced
For more on UFC 157, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
(Pictured: Mike Chiesa)


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Hahaha, it's been awhile, my friends. I figured that headline would draw some of my old DorneyOnline friends in here. I just wanted to say that I hope everyone enjoys the 2013 season, though I doubt I will make it over there myself due to some medical stuff.
Any word on when the yellow coaster is getting some love and rehab? Capital improvements for 2014? Were those two relocated death traps a replacement for the new coaster we were all hoping for or is there still a chance?


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CFO Moves this week include:
|theMaven Inc.
|iFresh Inc.
|GrowGeneration Corp.
|YRC Worldwide Inc.
|StoneMor Partners L.P.
|Insys Therapeutics, Inc.
|Playa Hotels & Resorts
|Applied Industrial Technologies
|Soupman, Inc.
|Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
|Human Longevity, Inc.
|Sauce Labs, Inc.
|Western Gas Partners, LP and Western Gas Equity Partners, LP
|Matheson, Inc
|Roadrunner Transportation Systems, Inc.
|Old Point Financial Corporation
|Charles & Colvard, Ltd.
|Sikich LLP
|Turner Valley Oil and Gas, Inc.
|Kirkland's, Inc.
|Mutual of Omaha
|Central Garden & Pet Company
|Spero Therapeutics, LLC
|Brynwood Partners VII L.P
|Steward Partners Holdings, LLC
|Invitae Corporation
|CV Holdings, Inc.
|Tivity Health, Inc.
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theMaven Inc. [SEATTLE] announced the appointment of Marty Heimbigner as its chief financial officer. Prior to joining theMaven, he was a partner at Pacific CFO Group, LLC. Previously, Heimbigner was Chief Financial Officer of BSQUARE Corporation from November 2014 to May 2016. He has held other senior partner or financial leadership positions at companies including Tatum, LLC, City Bank, Demand Media, Intelligent Results, Airbiquity Inc., Washington Energy Company, and KPMG.
iFresh Inc. [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: IFMK) announced that the Company has appointed Alfred Chung-Chieh Ying as the Company's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Ying will replace Peiling He, who stepped down. Mr. Alfred Chung-Chieh Ying has served as investor relations director and senior adviser to the board at Safe-Run Machinery (Suzhou), vice president of equity research and investment banking at Piper Jaffrey Asia Securities Ltd and China Minsheng Banking Corp, vice president of investor relations and M&A at Daphne International Holdings, executive vice president of equity research at Grand Cathay Securities, and director, head of Asian technology research and head of Taiwan at BNP Paribas Peregrine Securities Ltd.
GrowGeneration Corp. [DENVER, CO] (OTCQB: GRWG) announced the appointment of Monty R. Lamirato as its Secretary and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Lamirato succeeds Irwin S. Lampert, who announced his retirement. From March 2009 to just prior to joining GrowGen, Mr. Lamirato worked as an independent consultant providing chief financial officer and financial reporting consulting services to companies. From March 2013 until November 2016, Mr. Lamirato served as Chief Financial Officer of Strategic Environmental & Energy Resources, Inc. Mr. Lamirato has also served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of ARC Group Worldwide, Inc. from June 2001 to March 2009, Vice President of Finance at GS2.net, LLC from November 2000 to May 2001, and also Vice President of Finance for PlanetOutdoors.com, Inc. from June 1999 to October 2000. He began his career as an audit staff member with Coopers & Lybrand in 1977, where he remained until he served as an Audit Manager and Audit Partner with Mitchell Finley and Company, P.C. from 1986 to 1993.
YRC Worldwide Inc. [OVERLAND PARK, Kan.] (NASDAQ: YRCW) announced the appointment of Stephanie D. Fisher as Chief Financial Officer of YRCW. Before being named CFO of YRC Worldwide, Fisher served as Acting CFO and Vice President and Controller of YRCW since January 2017, and immediately before that as Vice President and Controller of YRCW since May 2012. She joined the company in 2004. Prior to serving as Controller, Fisher served YRCW in a variety of roles of increasing importance, including serving as Director of Financial Reporting. She began her career at the accounting firm Ernst & Young.
StoneMor Partners L.P. [TREVOSE, Pa.] (NYSE: STON) announced the appointment of Mark Miller as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Miller began his career at Deloitte & Touche in New York City. He has been working as a consultant for StoneMor in recent months. Prior to that he served as Chief Financial Officer of CrossAmerica Partners, formerly Lehigh Gas Partners.
Insys Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: INSY) announced that Darryl S. Baker, the Company's Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"), will transition from the role of CFO when a successor is hired.
Playa Hotels & Resorts [FAIRFAX, Va.] (NASDAQ: PLYA) announced the upcoming retirement of Chief Financial Officer, Larry Harvey. Ryan Hymel, currently SVP and Treasurer, has been appointed by the Board to succeed Harvey as CFO. Mr. Hymel began his career with Barceló Crestline Corporation. As one of the founding members of Playa Hotels & Resorts in 2006, Mr. Hymel previously held the position of Vice President of Treasury & Planning prior to being named Treasurer.
Applied Industrial Technologies [CLEVELAND] (NYSE: AIT) announced that Mark O. Eisele, Vice President – Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer, will retire at the end of August 2017 after 26 years of service to the Company. Eisele joined Applied in 1991, was elected Vice President & Controller in 1997, and has served in his current role since 2004. Succeeding Mr. Eisele is David K. Wells, who is joining Applied as Vice President – Finance. Mr. Wells joins Applied from Colfax Corporation – ESAB/Fabrication Technologies, where he served as Vice President & CFO since 2015. His professional career also includes five years as Vice President & CFO at Apex Tool Group, and extensive industrial experience at both Danaher Corporation and Cooper Industries in various leadership positions.
Soupman, Inc. [STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.] (OTCQB: SOUP) announced that its Chief Financial Officer and President, Bob Bertrand, has been suspended after being indicted on federal tax fraud charges for alleged misconduct for the period 2010-2014. The company also announced that announced that it has hired Michael Wyse as its Chief Restructuring Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mike is the Managing Partner of Wyse Advisors LLC.
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] (NASDAQ: MACK) announced the resignation of Yasir Al-Wakeel as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Corporate Development. Dr. Al-Wakeel has been in his role with Merrimack since August 2015.
Human Longevity, Inc. [SAN DIEGO] announced that Saturnino (Nino) Fanlo will be joining the company as Chief Financial Officer. Fanlo joins HLI from Social Finance, Inc. (Sofi), where he served as President and Chief Financial Officer. Before Sofi, he was a Senior Advisor at Golden Gate Capital. For 5 years, he served as the CEO of KKR Financial and CIO and Partner of KKR Asset Management. Prior to that he also served as Executive Vice President and Treasurer of Wells Fargo & Co. Other roles in his career include leadership positions with Goldman, Sachs & Co., Australian Capital Equity, and First Boston Corporation.
Sauce Labs, Inc. [SAN FRANCISCO, CA] announced its appointment of Paul Joachim as chief financial officer. Mr. Joachim most recently served as chief administrative officer and chief financial officer at TubeMogul, Inc.
Western Gas Partners, LP (NYSE: WES) and Western Gas Equity Partners, LP (NYSE: WGP) announced that the boards of directors of their general partners have appointed Jaime R. Casas as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Partnerships. He will succeed Benjamin M. Fink, who was recently named President and Chief Executive Officer of the Partnerships. Prior to joining Western Gas, Mr. Casas served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Clayton Williams Energy, Inc. Previously, he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the general partner of LRR Energy, L.P., from 2011 until 2015, and as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Laredo Energy, from 2009 to 2011.
Matheson, Inc. [SACRAMENTO, Calif.] announced the appointment of Mark E. Evans as the firm's chief financial officer. He joined the company on May 15 following a 35-year career. Evans brings 27 years of executive experience with various Siemens business units, including Siemens Transportation Systems, Inc., (STS) in Sacramento. Evans was also director of business development in the STS Southeast region. Most recently he served as vice president and general manager for the Western Region U.S. for Siemens Industry, Inc. Building Technology Division.
Roadrunner Transportation Systems, Inc. [DOWNERS GROVE, Ill.] (NYSE: RRTS) announced that Terence R. Rogers has joined the company as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to joining Roadrunner, Rogers served for four years as chief financial officer for The Heico Companies, LLC. His career includes 17 years in financial positions with Ryerson Inc., most recently as chief financial officer.
Old Point Financial Corporation [HAMPTON, Va.] (NASDAQ: OPOF) announced that Jeffrey W. Farrar has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Old Point National Bank and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Old Point Financial Corporation. He replaces Laurie Grabow. Mr. Farrar began his career in public accounting with BDO Seidman and has more than 20 years of direct experience in banking. He served for 18 years as CFO for StellarOne Corporation, and as Director of Wealth Management, Mortgage and Insurance for Union Bankshares Corporation for the past 3 years.
Charles & Colvard, Ltd. [RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.] (NASDAQ: CTHR) announced that Clint J. Pete was promoted to Chief Financial Officer, following his service over the past six months as Charles & Colvard's Interim Chief Financial Officer and previously as Corporate Controller. He joined Charles & Colvard as Corporate Controller in June 2016. From June 2013 to May 2016, he served as Director of Business Planning for Oracle Corporation. Prior to his employment with Oracle, Clint served in several management positions at Tekelec, including Business Unit Controller, Global Signaling Solutions and Global Revenue Controller. He also served as Vice President of Finance and Controllers at Qualex Inc., and he held various management positions at Ernst & Young, LLP.
CCRM [DENVER] has named Steve Rask as chief financial officer (CFO). Prior to joining CCRM, Rask was the CFO for CoorsTek, LLC.
Sikich LLP [NAPERVILLE, Ill.] hired John Yim as its chief financial officer. Yim previously served as global finance director for the human capital and benefits business segment at Willis Towers Watson. Before that, he held other financial roles at Towers Perrin and Towers Watson.
Turner Valley Oil and Gas, Inc. [HOUSTON] (OTC: TVOG) announced the appointment of Rick Adams as the Company's new CFO. Mr. Adams has been the Managing Director at Bullfrog Capital from 2002 to 2017. From 2014 to 2015 Mr. Adams served as CFO of Applied Executive Solutions & Omega 6. From 2012 to 2014 he served as general manager of Innovative Energy Services, Inc. From 1998 to 2002, he served as Senior Director of Aquila Energy Corporation. During the years 1994 to 1998, he served as Transaction Specialist and Financial Analyst for The Williams Companies.
Kirkland's, Inc. [NASHVILLE, Tenn.] (NASDAQ: KIRK) announced that Adam Holland, the Company's Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has resigned. The Company has named its Controller, Nicole Strain, to serve as Interim Chief Financial Officer.
Mutual of Omaha [OMAHA, Neb.] announced the appointment of Vibhu R. Sharma as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Sharma will succeed David A. Diamond, who will retire after nearly 12 years with the Company. Sharma spent seventeen years in public accounting at KPMG rising to Partner, before joining reinsurance firm Collins Associates, where he served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. He joined Zurich Insurance Group in 2008, where he served as Chief Financial Officer in North America, then Group Controller and Interim Group Chief Financial Officer in Switzerland, and most recently serving as Chief Executive Officer of Zurich's UK General Insurance business and UK Country Head.
Central Garden & Pet Company [WALNUT CREEK, Calif.] (NASDAQ: CENT) (NASDAQ: CENTA) announced the appointment of Nicholas "Niko" Lahanas as Chief Financial Officer. Lahanas has worked at Central Garden & Pet for over ten years, most recently serving as a SVP Finance, Operations Management & Reporting and CFO of Central's Pet Segment. Formerly he held positions as VP of Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis, and Director of Business Performance. Prior to joining Central, Niko worked in Private Equity and Investment Banking for over eight years.
Spero Therapeutics, LLC [CAMBRIDGE, Mass.] announced the appointment of Joel Sendek as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Sendek was most recently the Chief Financial Officer of Forward Pharma A/S, which he joined in 2014. He previously spent over 17 years as a senior equity research analyst covering biotechnology. As an analyst, he served as a Managing Director at Stifel Financial Corp. and previously he was a Managing Director at Lazard. Prior to his career in equity research, Mr. Sendek worked as a Senior Director of Corporate Development at Progenics Pharmaceuticals and as an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs.
Brynwood Partners VII L.P. [GREENWICH, Conn.] announced that Doug Behre has been named Chief Financial Officer for Harvest Hill. Doug has over 25 years of experience, from companies such as Campbell Soup and L'Oréal. Most recently, Doug served as the Chief Financial Officer for Truck-Lite.
Steward Partners Holdings, LLC [WASHINGTON] announced that George Way, the former COO of RidgeWorth Investments, has joined the firm as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to his position at RidgeWorth, Way was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Seix Investment Advisors, LLC.
Invitae Corporation [SAN FRANCISCO] (NYSE: NVTA) announced that Shelly Guyer, most recently chief financial officer at Veracyte, Inc., has been named chief financial officer. Upon her appointment, Invitae's current chief financial officer, Lee Bendekgey, will fully transition to the role of chief operating officer. Prior to her CFO position at Veracyte, Ms. Guyer served as CFO and EVP of finance and administration at iRhythm Technologies, Inc. She began her business career at Hambrecht & Quist and later J.P. Morgan Securities.
CV Holdings, Inc. [NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.] (OTC: CVHL) announced that Jonathan Harmer, the Company's current CFO will leave the Company in pursuit of other opportunities. The Company will promote two of its senior finance professionals, John De Mata and Bill Wang, to the roles of Senior Vice President – Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President – Finance, respectively, to perform the CFO duties and does not currently intend to designate a formal replacement to fill such vacancy.
Tivity Health, Inc. [NASHVILLE, Tenn.] (NASDAQ: TVTY) announced that Adam C. Holland has been named Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Holland will succeed current Interim Chief Financial Officer Glenn Hargreaves, who was named to the interim role in November 2016 and who will resume his responsibilities as the Company's Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Holland joins Tivity Health after serving in a variety of executive financial roles throughout his 16-year career. Most recently, he served as CFO since 2015 of Kirkland's, Inc.


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Future Olympus E model, Micro Four Thirds camera previewed
UPDATE: Olympus has shown off under-glass demo versions of both of these concepts. Read the full story here.
With doors at Photokina opening to the press this morning, Olympus unveiled its intention today to develop two new interchangeable lens cameras, including the company's first offering taking advantage of the jointly developed Micro Four Thirds standard.
In addition to a forthcoming Micro Four Thirds product from the company, Olympus provided a few technical details concerning a new advanced amateur model on track to join the company's E-system DSLRs early next year.
New mid-tier E camera in early 2009
The bulk of today's announcement addresses the launch of a new E model designed to bridge the gap between Olympus's consumer and professional DSLRs and grab a share of the growing advanced amateur/semi-pro segment.
As it currently stands, a considerable technological and functional gap exists between the consumer-grade E-520 and the professional E-3 in Olympus's lineup. Per the announcement this morning, the idea will be to offer a new mid-tier Four Thirds system camera marketed to advanced shooters seeking a camera with more creative control and an interface and feature set tailored to shooters already familiar with SLRs.
Technical details on the new product concept are predictably slim, though Olympus did provide a few key pieces of information. Most notably, the new model will inherit the E-3's high-speed, 11-point AF system. In-body image stabilization from the professional model will make its way down as well, as will a 1/8000 top shutter speed, an articulating LCD, the E-3's Dust Reduction technology and some measure of weatherproofing, and a live view system with a contrast detection AF option that Olympus is billing as "high speed."
The new concept E camera has yet to be named, and pricing is still up in the air as well (though given current street prices for the models that bookend this one, something in the $1000 to $1200 seems like a reasonable guess). Per Olympus, an official launch will be coming in Q1 2009.
In the meantime, the company will be showing prototypes of the new camera under glass during the show. We'll provide a follow-up to this announcement with more information and actual concept photos as available.
Olympus presents concept for Micro Four Thirds product
Olympus has been relatively quiet about product details falling out from the Micro Four Thirds partnership with Panasonic. In addition to a preview of Olympus's latest Four Thirds system camera, however, the manufacturer will also be presenting mock-ups of a soon-to-be-released model in the Micro Four Thirds system.
At this point, Olympus is not ready to officially discuss technical specifications, release dates, or pricing for the new product. As with the new E camera, we may be able to provide some informed speculation about where Olympus is heading after seeing the the displayed concept camera.
UPDATE: Olympus has shown off under-glass demo versions of both of these concepts. Read the full story here.


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VIENNA - There is no pumpkin-turned-coach on the stage, no glass slipper, no fairy godmother, and the action takes place in an imaginary Italian duchy in the 1950s. But Gioachino Rossini's take on Cinderella remains utterly magical in the new version being put on by the Vienna State Opera.
While all operas stand or fall on the quality of their singers, La Cenerentola presents a particular challenge, with solos replete with florid vocalization, full-out crescendos and sustained, flowing melodic lines.
But all soloists passed the test with full honours — and then some — in the production that premiered Saturday.
As Angelina — Rossini's Cenerentola, or Cinderella — mezzo Tara Erraught unleashed an array of coloratura fireworks in a role that affords opportunities for vocal pyrotechnics like few others.
"Non piu mesta" — where Angelina, the prince by her side, announces that she forgives her cruel step-sisters and step-father — is considered one of opera's most difficult arias. No problem for Erraught. Her rendition perfectly mirrored Angelina's transition from a servant singing a simple ditty at the fireside to a princess in full embellished voice.
While he was describing the opera in general terms two centuries ago, feared Vienna critic Eduard Hanslick could have been referring to Erraught's performance when he wrote: "This Italian Cinderella is in fact a Cinderella in clothing only; her singing brims over with pearls, velvet and silk."
A hard act to match — and as Don Ramiro, Angelina's prince, Dmitry Korchak was almost equal to the task.
"Almost," only because his light tenor initially threatened to get lost in the orchestra. But Korchak gained in confidence — and his voice in power — effortlessly pinpointing his high C's in full voice in "Si ritrovarla io giuro," as he declared that he will find the girl who so enchanted him at the ball, no matter what it takes.
But to do so, he must get past Angelina's step-father, who keeps her in ashes while he plots the prince's marriage to one of his two daughters. As the bumbling Don Magnifico, Alessandro Corbelli was indeed Mr. Magnificent Saturday, bringing the mean and scheming persona to life in a humorously endearing way.
Apropos of mean and scheming: Valentina Nafornita and Margarita Gritskova are beauties visually and vocally but convincingly rotten to the core in their roles as Clorinda and Tisbe, Don Magnificio's preening daughters
Also good — Vito Priante as Dandini, the prince's servant, and Ildebrando D'Arcengelo as Alidoro, the prince's philosopher. As this Cinderella's de-facto fairy godfather, he pulls the strings behind the scenes to bring the story to a happy ending.
But there is no happy ending in any opera unless the orchestra is up to scratch. With Rossini specialist Jesus Lopez-Cobos conducting, musicians of the Vienna State Opera delivered a sparking rendition of a vibrant and complex score. Good singing by members of the Vienna State Orchestra Choir rounded out the evening, in a production as pleasing visually as it was musically.
After the first performance flopped in 1817, Rossini was optimistic proclaiming: "People will love this opera."
They did Saturday.


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Watkins Cover & Lifter
A real money-saver, the Watkins bi-fold cover helps maintain heat and reduce evaporation. It can be used on its own or with the Watkins Lifter System. The Watkins Lifter System lets you install the cover vertically, which is also a space saver.
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As I understand it, a $17-plate of beef tongue and cheek, with a side of broccoli pistou and mustard now qualifies as a social crime, if not a culinary one.
I have no idea what pistou is, but I know pissed off when I hear it, and that, according to media reports, is the mood of protesters who have, of late, been demonstrating in front of a Downtown Eastside eatery with the excruciatingly hip name of Pidgin, where the above victuals are offered. The restaurant's name is a play on birds. It's across the street from Pigeon Park.
The protest is about turf. The demonstrators, identified as, ahem, anti-poverty activists, object to Pidgin's presence in their neighbourhood.
Their beef, served up without tongue in cheek, is not just with Pidgin but with the flotsam that chi-chi establishments like it bring in their wake, namely gentrifiers, slumming hipsters and insufferably knowledgeable foodies whose cuisine is so haute they don't have to Google "pistou" to discover what it is.
The protesters, it should be said, have every right to protest, within the limits of the law.
Nor are they setting any kind of precedent in doing so. NIMBYists in plenty of the city's neighbourhoods have howled about changes they feel have threatened their way of life, and the protesters in front of Pidgin are no different from any other group of NIMBYists. They're just poorer.
As for the fatuousness of their protest — which I will get to in a moment — they have no monopoly on that, either.
Several years ago, I covered a meeting in a church where residents of Dunbar had come to discuss the establishment of a supportive housing project for the homeless and addicted. Dunbar, at the time, was unique among the city's neighbourhoods in that it had no social housing of any kind. That the meeting was held in a house of the Lord did not stop many that night from uttering some of the most uncharitable and uninformed comments I have ever had the misfortune to hear. They, too, were NIMBYists, just richer ones. To the neighbourhood's credit, better souls prevailed. Dunbar now has its first social housing complex.
In stark contrast, the Downtown Eastside has 84 social and supportive complexes offering subsidized housing to a wide range of disadvantaged tenants. The adjacent neighbourhoods of Strathcona and the Downtown have 31 and 35 such developments, respectively.
That adds up to 150 social and supportive housing complexes within the core of the second-most expensive city in the world. The large number of that type of housing in so small and costly an area is miraculous, and speaks to the enlightened and extremely costly approach the city and provincial governments have taken to house the disadvantaged. Anyone who believes otherwise, or that this sizable stock of subsidized housing is in danger of disappearing any time soon because of gentrification, is a fool.
The fact is, the opposite has been happening. According to a City of Vancouver study, the stock of low-income singles housing in the downtown core has increased in the last 20 years, to 12,126 units in 2013 from 11,371 units in 1993.
During that 20-year period, the greatest growth in those units has been in non-market government subsidized stock — now at 7,642 units — while the privately-owned low-income stock has fallen dramatically — to 4,484 units.
So while there may be gentrification going on in the Downtown Eastside, governments have interceded to keep the stock of low-income units growing. These governments have done this by requiring new private developments to supply a percentage of low-rental housing, such as in the Woodward's Building, or by buying privately-owned SRO hotels and renovating them.
By all accounts, the management of Pidgin has acted with admirable restraint through all this. They've hired local people and tried to keep the lines of communication open with the protesters. The restaurant deserves to thrive.
(And business, one of the restaurant's co-owners told me Wednesday, was "fantastic.")
But this issue isn't about business, it's about ambience. The protesters — if indeed they're truly representative of local sentiment — want a neighbourhood they can be comfortable walking around in. And notwithstanding the childishness of their protest (like shining flashlights into patrons' eyes), that sentiment deserves some respect, however one might disagree with it.
But neighbourhoods, like menus, change. And as tough a meal as this may be for the protesters to swallow, they better develop a taste for it. It's more than just pistou that Pidgin and its ilk are bringing to the Downtown Eastside.


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UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) - Chris Jones scored 15 points to lead No. 3 Louisville to a 71-57 victory over Fairfield on Saturday in the Hall of Fame Tipoff Tournament.
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Jeremy Smith had 16 points for Nicholls State (0-4), which closed out a four-game road trip to open its season.
Nicholls State had 18 turnovers and shot 36 percent from the field.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Doug McDermott scored 21 of his 33 points in the second half, and Austin Chatman had a career-high 19 for Creighton.
McDermott recorded his 16th career 30-point game. He also became the first Creighton player since Cyril Baptiste in 1969-70 to open a season with four straight 20-point games.
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Rashad Smith had 21 points, Pat Swilling added 18 and James Woodard 11 for Tulsa (0-4). Shaquille Harrison, who was averaging a team-high 19.5 points, was held to seven.
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) - Marcus Paige scored 26 points, Brice Johnson had 24 and North Carolina bounced back from its first loss of the season.
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Forget about Top Ramen—you're not going to be ordering this Japanese noodle dish by choosing from Oriental, Shrimp, or Picante Beef flavors. Here are the details you need to know in order to get a great bowl of ramen.
Shoyu: Broth mixed with soy sauce for flavor. It's one of the most common styles and is popular in Tokyo.
Shio: Broth seasoned with just salt instead of a heavier flavor such as soy sauce, making it a more delicately flavored soup. It originated in Hakodate, says Rickmond Wong, a.k.a. rameniac, who runs the website of the same name, so it is sometimes referred to as Hakodate ramen.
Miso: The broth is mixed with miso for flavor, making it cloudy, salty, and supersavory. The style is popular in Sapporo, says Wong, where it is usually topped with corn and butter.
Tonkotsu: A rich, fatty, milky-looking broth made by long-boiling pork bones to extract the marrow.
The bowl will come with some standard toppings. Additional toppings you might see include:
Chashu: slices of boiled or grilled pork; usually from the belly or shoulder
Negi: scallion-type onion
Menma: bamboo shoots
Bean sprouts
Kikurage: wood ear mushroom
Nori: seaweed in sheet form or in pieces
Tamago: egg, usually boiled and sliced in half
Beni shoga: thin strips of red pickled ginger that, Wong says, often top tonkotsu ramen
Kamaboko: fish cake, usually white with a pink swirl
Chicken karaage: fried chicken
Shichimi: a blend of seven spices (see our recipe if you want to make it yourself) that you might find on your table in a shaker jar; it's mostly chile pepper with a few other spices/flavorings such as orange peel and sesame seeds
Not sure what toppings and broths are a good match? Wong has an extensive map of Japan's regional ramen styles on his website that's well worth checking out to get ideas, such as butter and corn with miso broth (Sapporo style) and chashu, kikurage, and negi with tonkotsu ramen (Hakata style).
If you want to specify how your noodles are cooked: katame = firm, futsu = regular, yawarakame or yawarakame de = soft.
"There are some clichés," says Wong. The big one is slurping your noodles. "It's just a practical way to cool the noodles," he says. But it's not mandatory. One that does hold true though—and applies to Japanese food in general—is that, after breaking your wooden chopsticks apart, it's bad manners to rub them together to get the splinters off. It implies that the establishment has low-quality chopsticks, and actually can offend people, Wong says.
Chowhounds have some advice on eating ramen as well. Sam Fujisaka says that technically you should eat it two-handed: The chopsticks go in the right hand, the spoon in the left, and the "idea is to consume the soup with the spoon in a slow tango with the chopsticks eating of the solids." To keep a bunch of broth from splashing all over you if you're slurping, MeAndroo suggests getting the first part of the noodles into your mouth, then holding onto the remainder of the noodles with your chopsticks just above the broth. "This keeps them moving upwards into your mouth instead of outwards to create a splash zone." Ultimately, asodat agrees with Wong: "Ramen's an informal food, so there's no real etiquette to be observed while you eat it: that's why slurping is ok, even encouraged."
The fellow who runs the Ramen Tokyo website (and who wishes to remain anonymous) suggests finding out if the noodles are made in-house, called jikasei ("homemade"). Wong adds that the "number one thing is complexity," i.e., the ramen shouldn't just taste like salt. "A good bowl will have a sweetness, a savoriness, a lot of umami."
Chef Noriyuki Sugie, who ran a pop-up restaurant called Yatai Ramen Twist at Los Angeles's Breadbar, says that he thinks a place's shio ramen is a good gauge of quality because it is the plainest version, without the strong miso or soy flavors to cover up the flavor of the broth itself. Sugie is part of the growing trend of chefs making creative, neo-ramen styles. He's made foie gras ramen, a vegetarian tomato ramen, and ramen inspired by classic French-braised oxtail. Other modern bowls of ramen being slurped up around the U.S. include San Francisco–based Hapa Ramen's local/sustainable-meets-contemporary-technique-like-sous-vide ramen, called a Big Daddy Ramen Bowl, which includes fried chicken nuggets, slow-cooked pork, and slow-cooked eggs. It all fits right in with ramen's origins as a dish brought to Japan by Chinese immigrants and riffed on by the Japanese to make it their own, says Wong. The new thing in Tokyo right now is "double or triple," called tonkotsu gyokai, he says. "Usually what it is is a thick pork-bone soup blended with traditional dashi ingredients [seaweed and dried fish], to make this thick but fishy soup. It's always evolving; it's not a static cuisine."


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Hangover Helper: Burmese Red Pork Stew at Tasty n Sons in Portland, OR
Just what the doctor ordered.
Burma probably isn't the first place your mind jumps to when you think of hangover food, and it's doubtful that rice, pork shoulder, and chili oil are your brain's first associations with brunch. Yet the Burmese red pork stew ($10) at Tasty n Sons in Portland, Oregon, fits the bill mightily, quashing the pounding in your skull with a hearty, spicy, and extremely satisfying bowl of protein that's delicious any hour of the day.
Developed by Portland food god John Gorham (owner of Portland's premier tapas restaurant, Toro Bravo, and refined watering hole Interurban Tavern) after learning the family recipe of a Burmese friend, the Tasty n Sons' version of the dish earned national fame with a spot on Bon Appétit's Most Interesting Breakfasts in the Country.
A cube of fatty pork belly and several hunks of tender pork shoulder first spend several hours in a marinade of soy sauce, sesame oil, and chili oil. The meat next undergoes a long braise in a syrup of caramel, garlic, ginger, and chili paste before it's ladled on a bed of steamed white rice. The dish gets a touch of Portland (or is that Portlandia?) with the addition of chopped egg pickled in honey, soy sauce, and star anise. A second egg draped over the pork to allow the yolk to spill over everything beneath it completes the stew and helps nudge it a little closer to the breakfast end of the meal spectrum.
There are a lot of flavors at play in this dish, but the sweetness of the glaze on the pork (think of the sticky red sauce on sesame beef/pork/chicken at a good Chinese restaurant and you're not far off) shines through brightest. The heat of the Calabrian chiles follows the sugary braise with a mild burn on the tongue. Bits of the pickled egg, tasting heavily of the soy brine but not overpoweringly so, are interspersed perfectly with the meat and seem to pop up in spoonfuls of the stew at all the right moments. The pork is served with enough of the sauce for it to seep down and penetrate the deepest grains of rice, ensuring even the meatless portions of the dish are packed with flavor. This is the kind of food that warms the soul and leaves your body sighing contentedly.
Don't feel like driving/flying/hitchhiking all the way to Portland to try Gorham's stew? You're in luck! Bon Appétit has the full recipe for you here. Just be sure to make it ahead of time in anticipation of your night of boozing, unless you have the miraculous willpower to wait out the six-hour marinade with your brain on fire.
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3808 N. Williams Avenue, Portland, OR 97227 (map) 503-621-1400; tastynsons.com
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