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on January 31, 2013 - 12:52 AM
When Dr. Anthony Galea, a Toronto sports doctor, admitted smuggling human growth hormone into the United States, one of the people sitting in the Buffalo courtroom was a representative of Major League Baseball.
Even then, 18 months ago, baseball was looking into reports that Alex Rodriguez, one of Galea's clients, was using performance enhancing drugs – again.
Rodriguez, who was viewed at the time as a witness, not a target, of the federal investigation, had been brought to Buffalo the year before for questioning as part of a grand jury investigation into Galea.
Wednesday, just a day after a Miami newspaper linked Rodriguez and several other players to banned substances, it was clear that baseball's interest in the New York Yankees' power-hitting third baseman has evolved into a full-blown and very public investigation.
"We are always extremely disappointed to learn of potential links between players and the use of performance-enhancing substances," Major League Baseball said in a statement. "We are in the midst of an active investigation and are gathering and reviewing information."
How the Galea investigation, overseen by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office in Buffalo, fits into baseball's investigation is unclear, although Rodriguez's name was among the first to surface when Galea was charged.
"To the extent that the government reached out to him in connection with the Galea investigation, he was cooperative," said Patrick J. Brown, the Buffalo defense attorney who represented Rodriguez at the time.
Rodriguez, 37, known as A-Rod, has admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003 but was not a target of the Galea investigation. Nevertheless, Major League Baseball is believed to be interested in what he said here.
The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment Wednesday, and, by all accounts, their investigation into banned substances is believed to be closed.
Baseball, meanwhile, is moving forward with its investigation in the wake of a Miami New Times report linking six players, including Rodriguez and Washington Nationals pitcher Gio Gonzalez, to banned substances such as human growth hormone.
The New Times said the report was based on medical records that it received from an unnamed former employee of Biogenesis of America, a now-closed anti-aging clinic run by Anthony Bosch. The records include handwritten notes listing specific athletes and the drugs they may have received, according to the New Times.
Rodriguez's name appears 16 times, according to the New Times, and the records indicate he paid for human growth hormone, testosterone cream and IGF-1, another growth hormone banned by baseball.
The authenticity of those records, some of which the New Times posted online, has yet to be determined, and Rodriguez has issued a statement denying he was a patient there.
"The news report about a purported relationship between Alex Rodriguez and Anthony Bosch [is] not true," Rodriguez's publicist said in a statement. "He was not Mr. Bosch's patient, he was never treated by him, and he was never advised by him. The purported documents referenced in the story – at least as they relate to Alex Rodriguez – are not legitimate."
Bosch's lawyer, Susy Ribero-Ayala, also issued a statement denying the allegations and contending that the New Times report "is filled with inaccuracies, innuendo and misstatements of fact."
"Mr. Bosch vehemently denies the assertions that MLB players such as Alex Rodriguez and Gio Gonzalez were treated by or associated with him," she said.
In a 2009 interview, Rodriguez admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003 but insisted he had not used them since then.
Later that same year, one of Galea's employees was caught trying to smuggle drugs across the Peace Bridge – she later cooperated with federal authorities – and it was only a matter of few months before Rodriguez was identified as one of Galea's clients.
Prosecutors said his client list also included golfer Tiger Woods, football player Jamal Lewis and former Buffalo Bills linebacker Takeo Spikes, now with the San Diego Chargers.
Galea eventually pleaded guilty to smuggling charges but continued to insist that he never provided Rodriguez, Woods or his other professional sports clients with banned substances for the purpose of performance enhancement.
Galea, who is believed to have told federal authorities about his treatment of Rodriguez, was sentenced to a year of probation.
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This first pic of the new judges on The Voice has us eagerly awaiting the start of season 7 of the singing competition.
Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams are joining Adam Levine and Blake Shelton in the big red chairs.
"First look: Season 7 #HOLLA," announced the caption of the pic, which was posted on The Voice's Instagram page.
Stefani, 44, is following in the footsteps of Christina Aguilera and Shakira as the panel's sole female judge and shared a pic of herself outside the studio on Tuesday, along with the caption "#workingit on the set."
Williams, 41, who collaborated with the No Doubt singer on her 2004 hit "Hollaback Girl," said on the Today show in May that working together again was "magical." "It's serendipitous," he added. "We've always had a special connection."
But will their connection be stronger than Levine and Shelton's bromance?
Tune in on Sept. 22 when The Voice returns to NBC.

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Hazelnut Macchiato
Freshly steamed milk with vanilla syrup, marked with espresso and finished with hazelnut drizzle.
|Calories 240
|Calories from Fat 50
|% Daily Value*
|Total Fat 6g
|Saturated Fat 3g
|Trans Fat 0g
|Cholesterol 25mg
|Sodium 150mg
|Total Carbohydrate 35g
|Dietary Fiber 0g
|Sugars 32g
|Protein 11g
|Caffeine 150mg**
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15 ounces Eden Cannellini Beans, do not drainor Eden Great Northern Beans
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 tsp Eden Sea Salt
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp dried cilantro
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper
1 Tbsp fresh parsley, minced
1 Tbsp organic roasted tahini (sesame butter)
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Published October 10, 2013
UB physicists who took part in a decades-long search for the Higgs boson, an important subatomic particle, were thrilled by the announcement earlier this week of a Higgs-related Nobel Prize in Physics.
"The discovery of the Higgs boson and the Nobel Prize marks the dawn of the new era in particle physics," says Ia Iashvili, associate professor of physics.
Her colleague, Salvatore Rappoccio, assistant professor of physics, calls the Higgs boson discovery "the capstone of over 40 years of scientific achievement in collider physics."
The Higgs particle helps explain why objects have mass, illuminating our understanding of the universe. The Nobel Prize was awarded to two physicists who made predictions pointing to the particle's existence in 1964: Peter Higgs, for whom the boson is named, and François Englert, who worked on the Higgs problem with the late theorist Robert Brout.
The timing of the prize hints at the importance of research done by other scientists in the wake of Englert, Brout and Higgs' predictions. The Nobel recognition comes a year after scientists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) confirmed that they finally had observed a particle matching the theorists' descriptions.
Finding the Higgs was a monumental achievement because it validated the Standard Model of particle physics, which scientists use to describe how particles and forces interact with one another—to describe, in short, how the world around us works. At the time of its discovery, the Higgs boson was the only particle in the Standard Model that researchers had yet to observe.
UB researchers Iashvili, Rappoccio and Avto Kharchilava, associate professor of physics, were part of the team at CERN that discovered the Higgs, a massive international collaboration that included thousands of investigators across the world.
Iashvili and Kharchilava helped plan and build the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the strongest particle accelerator in the world. The LHC, located at CERN, smashes protons together at 99.999999 percent of the speed of light; Kharchilava, Iashvili and thousands of colleagues around the world used the machine to observe the Higgs boson.
Iashvili is one of two CMS scientists in charge of delivering the first energy-scale calibration for the CMS, a process that was critical to the project's ability to identify the Higgs boson and other particles.
Kharchilava is a member of the Higgs Publication Committee Board that oversees the final steps the CMS collaboration must undertake before results on Higgs particle searchers are made public. He is also a member of the DZero experiment at Fermilab, near Chicago, where he searched for Higgs boson(s) in recent years and studies various aspects of the Standard Model of particle physics.
"So, what's next?" Kharchilav asks. He says it's a question he often asks himself—and one that is especially relevant these days after the discovery of the Higgs boson, often regarded as the most exciting accomplishment that physicists have achieved in decades.
"Well, we are lucky to have in operation a scientific, technological and engineering marvel such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN," he says. "We, the particle physics community worldwide, have a sound and cutting-edge research program for many years to come. We have clear goals, such as making precision measurement of properties of the newly discovered particle and determining whether they are consistent with the Standard Model expectations, and searching for new phenomena, dark matter, extra dimensions, etc. We are fortunate to be part of this endeavor into frontiers of science, technology and possibly witness even more fundamental discoveries."
Rappoccio, who joined UB in August 2012 and the CMS experiment in 2007, co-leads a group of dozens of scientists within CMS who are searching for the next big discovery in particle physics beyond the Standard Model.
Discovery of the Higgs boson "is a truly remarkable testament to the wondrous things we can accomplish together with a sustained international commitment to basic scientific research," he says.
"However, it leaves open many questions about nature. Why, for instance, is the energy scale of the Higgs interaction so much different than the energy scale of gravitational interactions? What is dark matter, and does it have a relation to the Higgs? Are there other particles that we haven't observed yet? Why is there so much more matter in the universe than antimatter?
"Collider physics," Rappoccio notes, "now turns to the next stage in its quest to understand the fundamental interactions of nature and explore answers to these questions. We're hoping this is not the last great discovery from the Large Hadron Collider physics program, but only the first."
Besides Rappoccio, Iashvili and Kharchilava, many other UB physicists, including faculty members and students, have been involved in many aspects of the LHC experiments, from helping to run the CMS detector to predicting how particles should look when they appear.


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Germany beats England 4-1!
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Posted 27 June 2010 - 11:24 AM
Germany beats England 4-1!
Posted 27 June 2010 - 11:56 AM
Edited by germanwing, 27 June 2010 - 12:00 PM.
Posted 27 June 2010 - 02:03 PM
The revenge of 1966!
But we were very lucky, that the goal didn´t count!
You´re certainly lucky, that France has been eliminated in the first round! Me too!
Posted 27 June 2010 - 02:18 PM
Another goal that shouldnt have counted in the Argentina game. The officiating in this World Cup had been horrendous. So many games have been decided by wrong-calls on huge game changing goals.
Germany was the better team, there's no doubt.... but anything can happen when a game is tied. The thing that gets me, is it would be so easy to impliment such a simple review system for goals. FIFA is one of the strangest leagues out there.
Posted 27 June 2010 - 03:17 PM
Another goal that shouldnt have counted in the Argentina game. The officiating in this World Cup had been horrendous. So many games have been decided by wrong-calls on huge game changing goals.
Germany was the better team, there's no doubt.... but anything can happen when a game is tied. The thing that gets me, is it would be so easy to impliment such a simple review system for goals. FIFA is one of the strangest leagues out there.
Posted 28 June 2010 - 07:11 AM
"Mess up tomorrow, don't mess up now".
- Harry James Benson, CBE.
Posted 28 June 2010 - 09:24 AM
Posted 28 June 2010 - 06:32 PM
England were embarrassingly bad.
And Sepp Blatter and the lack of video technology is the big issue again. The smug, arrogant idiot that he is.
Even if England had got that goal today, Germany would have still beaten them. Much, much better team.
Posted 29 June 2010 - 02:03 AM
Ken Holland: Hes (Mursak) a young guy, provides energy, can skate, hes a puck hound.
Posted 29 June 2010 - 07:52 AM
The final is 11th of July.
Is it over yet?
I don't know about that. Anything could happen with a 2-2 game with England having new life and changing their tactics (they pretty much threw their whole team up front in desperation lol), but I digress and agree that Germany was still the better team. They were younger and played with more heart imo.
I agree that soccer needs video replay, but only used sparingly. I think what would make things much easier is to increase the refs used per match. A couple more linesman and an extra field ref wouldn't hurt. Also, each manager gets 1 challenge per half, and the challenge can only be used for replay situations like offsides, handballs, controversial goals (like what we saw during the England/Germany match). See how easy that was FIFA? The game is hardly slowed down, if at all, with extra eyes to get the calls right, and if they do get a call wrong and there's the coach's only challenge to look at the replay to decide, the maximum amount of time that would take is 5 minutes or less, and either stop the clock for the replays or just add it as extra time at the end. Simple.
Posted 29 June 2010 - 10:40 AM
Edited by SouthernWingsFan, 29 June 2010 - 10:52 AM.
Posted 29 June 2010 - 04:54 PM
I agree entirely about the challenge system - I've been saying for ages what a good idea it is. IMO, there's always seemed to be a hidden agenda in FIFA's refusal to introduce any of these measures. Apparently, Blatter has now said they're finally going to 'look at' introducing the technology later on in the summer. Whoopee! Too late for many.
Edited by dropkickshanahans, 29 June 2010 - 04:55 PM.
Posted 30 June 2010 - 08:21 AM
He's like Bud Selig, he cares too much about the human element-tradition of the game to want to make any changes for the better. It took a blown perfect game against the Tigers for Selig to start "discussing" instant replay, as it took an absolutely blown call on a clear goal for Blatter to want to "discuss" the same thing.
Only bad thing about the discussion that I recently heard today is that they're only going to discuss putting a chip in the ball or whatever, but no changes that have to deal with offsides. The problem I have with this is how many times have we seen a blown no-goal call like this? I don't recall any. How many times have we seen blown offside calls? A lot. So their discussions later this summer isn't going to do anything to help the game that much at all.
Posted 30 June 2010 - 10:54 AM
works every time
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Posted 03 July 2010 - 04:03 PM
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Posted 03 July 2010 - 04:18 PM
Posted 06 July 2010 - 05:06 PM
Edited by dropkickshanahans, 06 July 2010 - 05:12 PM.
Posted 09 July 2010 - 06:03 PM
Forlan is amazing and hopefully he'll cause some trouble for Germany but for me Holland vs Spain is a dream final. Holland has always been my 2nd favorite team in international soccer (after Sweden, duh!). And Barcelona has been my favorite club since the Kluivert days, and since Spain's starting line-up is made up of at least 50 % Barcelona players .
Well Uruguay's run is over. Forlan was huge again for his team, but it looks like the game was decided by another questionable offsides call. Nonetheless, I look to see the Dutch vs Germany in the finals, but we'll see what Paul the Octopus says
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A man went to Monte Carlo to try and make his fortune. Whilst he
was there he had an opportunity to bet on the outcome of rolling
dice. He was offered the same odds for each of the following
outcomes: At least 1 six with 6 dice. At least 2 sixes with 12
dice. At least 3 sixes with 18 dice.
Two bags contain different numbers of red and blue marbles. A marble is removed from one of the bags. The marble is blue. What is the probability that it was removed from bag A?
A gambler bets half the money in his pocket on the toss of a coin,
winning an equal amount for a head and losing his money if the
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followed by a head. In the first case I win; in the second case you
win. What is the probability that you win?
What is the probability that you win if you choose HT? Or TT?
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Ask anybody who has taken a class from College of Charleston Spanish professor Devon Hanahan and they will probably use superlatives to describe her teaching,
Best. Awesome. Greatest.
Now the kudos are coming from the national level.
A professor-rating website, mtvU's ratemyprofessors.com, announced this week that Hanahan was the second-highest-rated teacher in the nation. Many students check out professor ratings on the wildly popular site before enrolling in courses.
Ratemyprofessors.com contains ratings for 1.8 million professors at more than 8,000 schools in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It also contains 15 million student-generated comments and ratings,
Hanahan, a 1987 graduate of the college, also was rated second-highest in 2007. "I'm so appreciative of the ratings and the comments," she said. "But there really is no way to tell who is the best teacher in my hallway, much less in the United States."
She simply loves teaching, she said, and knew since she was a child that she wanted to teach. "If I won the lottery, I would still be here every day," she said.
On the website, students rate professors on several dimensions, including clarity, helpfulness, easiness and rater interest. However, a professor's overall quality rating, from which the highest rated professor list is generated, is based only on clarity and helpfulness.
Hanahan said students are more likely to rate and comment on professors they feel strongly about, either good or bad.
Lynn Cherry, the college's speaker of the faculty, said most professors aren't concerned about the ratings. Most positive comments about professors likely are true, she said. But many negative comments likely come from students who didn't do the work and got a bad grade. Fortunately, she said, students are savvy enough to sort it out.
Most students seem to think Hanahan is great.
Paula Jones, a former student, said Hanahan inspired her to major in Spanish. She went on to teach Spanish for six years after graduation.
And Marcus Hammond, a College of Charleston graduate and former basketball player, said Hanahan was "very, very inspiring."
He had never even considered studying abroad, but Hanahan pushed him to enroll in a five-week study program in Spain, he said. That trip opened the world to him, he said, and expanded the vision for the rest of his life. "There's so much out there to accomplish instead of settling for anything," he said.
Hanahan's class wasn't easy, Hammond said, and she took the class very seriously. In the early days of one of Hanahan's classes, he said, he sat toward the back of the room and wasn't paying close attention. She noticed that, he said, and she moved him to the front of the room.
Hanahan said she knows she's not easy. Of all the criteria on which students rate her, she has the lowest scores on easiness. "I give a lot of homework and we're busy all through class," she said. "I never start class late and we never finish early."
But, she said, "I try to make things clear."
Reach Diane Knich at 937-5491 or on Twitter @dianeknich.


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For traditional recipes from the Mysore region and food from all over, with ramblings about life and kids thrown in the mix.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Pulao using MTR Biryani Masala
Quite often, inspiration for dinner comes from what pops on my reader. Like the other day, I made my version of pav bhaji, inspired by this post. Today, I made this pulao using MTR Biryani/Pulav masala (which I'd forgotten I even had!) after reading this post from Hema. I have to clarify here that I did not use the Pulav masala but the Biryani/Pulav masala from MTR. The powder is quite masaledar, so you don't need to add any other whole spices to the pulao. The flavor is quite different from the regular pulao using whole garam masala.
1 cup rice (soaked in water for 15 minutes and drained)
1 cup mixed vegetables (I used carrots, peas, lima beans & corn)
1 small onion, chopped
2 green chilies, slit
1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
1 tbsp thick coconut milk
1 tsp MTR pulao/biryani masala
2 cups water
1/2 tsp each jeera and saunf
2 tbsp oil
salt to taste
In a pressure cooker, heat oil. Add jeera and saunf. When they start to sizzle, add green chilies, g-g paste and onions. Saute for a few minutes. Put the rice in and fry so that oil gets nicely coated on the rice. Add in chopped veggies, masala, coconut cream, water and salt and mix well. Cover and cook until done.
46 comments:
- Sonu said...
Mouthwatering Pulav! Yeah, even I love MTR brands ready-made spices. I always use Sambhar Masala and will buy this pulav masala next time.
- October 7, 2009 at 8:39:00 PM EDT
- Rush said...
MTR...MTR, did it have an ad back then??
he pulav does look masaledaar!!
- October 7, 2009 at 8:49:00 PM EDT
- Sanghi said...
Wow.. wow.. lovely colourful pulao vani! Good picture too!!:)
- October 7, 2009 at 8:53:00 PM EDT
- Pavani said...
Yummy looking Pulao Vani. I've never tried MTR pulao masala. I bought Everest biryani masala from India and you can see some whole spices like bay leaves & cloves in it.
- October 7, 2009 at 9:10:00 PM EDT
- Divya Rao said...
Looks so good, I could dig in right now :)
- October 7, 2009 at 9:33:00 PM EDT
- Springbird said...
I love Pulao and MTR pulao mix is very good with dominating smell of Cinnamon and Cloves.Nice click Vani.
- October 7, 2009 at 10:07:00 PM EDT
- Smitha said...
Pulav looks very good!
Oh yes I wonder where summer just trickled away this year.. Fall just does not seem to be here. It is again gonna be so cold tonight that we dare not open our windows. Anyway our windows are already shut for a good two weeks. Hate it till the baking season starts, sadly enough my oven broke down last week :(
- October 7, 2009 at 10:43:00 PM EDT
- chakhlere said...
All these kinds of pulavs are my so much favorites. This one looks so yummy.
I am also wondering where has the summer gone?? fall has also dissapered :((
- October 7, 2009 at 11:03:00 PM EDT
- Supriya said...
Great and quick recipe for tiffin:) love the photo!
- October 7, 2009 at 11:38:00 PM EDT
- Cham said...
Spring looooong way to go :) Thank God we are still in 70's! MTR pulao mix never used before, the rice is very inviting!
- October 8, 2009 at 12:17:00 AM EDT
- Sharmila said...
I love cooking rice with coconut milk. Gotta try the mtr masala. Jeera and saunf together sound interesting Vani. :-)
- October 8, 2009 at 12:51:00 AM EDT
- Prathibha said...
I also use hat mtr masala sometimes..pulav looks really yummy..
- October 8, 2009 at 1:04:00 AM EDT
- Jaya said...
pulao looks delicious ...and it's been raining here for the past two days ..suddenly temp has droped ...and doesn't seem it's fall here ,i love the fall colours ..
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- October 8, 2009 at 3:16:00 AM EDT
- Priya said...
Never tried out pulao with store bought masala, pulao looks simply fantastic and eye catching dish!
- October 8, 2009 at 3:39:00 AM EDT
- K said...
Hi Vani, I wonder what's happening to the world! Here it is not even fall weather. Sometimes, we dont need even fall jackets. Just summer clothes! and we got to sleep with windows open. Although we are enjoying it, i doubt if its really good for the world, so to say:)
Nice click as usual!
- October 8, 2009 at 4:04:00 AM EDT
- Sush said...
i normally add a tbsp of MTR pulao masala to all types of pulao. It tastes great. Never tried adding only MTR pulao masala. Your pictures make me feel that, it is worth a try. Thanks a lot for sharing.
- October 8, 2009 at 4:07:00 AM EDT
- Happy cook said...
I do really wish i had this pulao for my lunch today with pickles, the thought makes me drool.
- October 8, 2009 at 5:56:00 AM EDT
- indosungod said...
Looks delicious Vani. MTR masalas and powders do make life easy. Got to try this Pulao masala.
- October 8, 2009 at 8:30:00 AM EDT
- Sukanya Ramkumar said...
Sounds as quick fix meal. Look so good. YUM! Love MTR masala a lot....
- October 8, 2009 at 11:21:00 AM EDT
- Hema said...
Vani, Pulao looks so delicious. I am now jealous :) Thanks for the reference to my blog...
- October 8, 2009 at 11:58:00 AM EDT
- my kitchen said...
Every time i will try only jamun in MTR,Never tried pulao masala.pulao looks yummy
- October 8, 2009 at 12:59:00 PM EDT
- Shri said...
Looks delicious!My mom's way of doing Pulao as she finds it very easy..
- October 8, 2009 at 7:20:00 PM EDT
- Varsha Vipins said...
Yea..I already dug out my winterwear a week back n using it all the time..:P..But I love this better than hot hot summer..:D
That Pulao looks different with mota grains n quite spicy..but I guess coconut milk must have quite balanced it..:)
- October 9, 2009 at 12:42:00 AM EDT
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- October 9, 2009 at 6:40:00 AM EDT
- DEESHA said...
I once bought MTR Pulao Masala & I really didn't like it .. Maybe I should try the Biryani Masala next time
- October 9, 2009 at 7:26:00 AM EDT
- Ramya Bala said...
Biriyani....Am in :))))never tried with MTR..but wud really try once :)))
- October 9, 2009 at 11:17:00 AM EDT
- Shwetha said...
This looks like a hearty pulao. Thanks for sharing. My fave MTR product is their upma, I loved it when I was lil' girl
- October 9, 2009 at 2:41:00 PM EDT
- meeso said...
Looks very tasty :)
- October 10, 2009 at 11:01:00 AM EDT
- Red Chillies said...
You know Vani, I live and swear by MTR masalas. My pantry is stuffed with all things MTR, but somehow I did not like this Pulao Masala. I felt it has too much of "ghaath". But then reading through your recipe, I think adding coconut milk makes all the difference in balancing the masala.
- October 10, 2009 at 6:11:00 PM EDT
- Bong Mom said...
I like the MTR Sambhar powder(ok ISG's was much better) but before that MTR was what I thought made great sambhar
This biryani looks great, your haath ka jadu more than MTR's ;-)
- October 10, 2009 at 6:59:00 PM EDT
- Vani said...
Thanks for the comments, all!
RC, Deesha - I did not like the Pulao masala from MTR either. This one was called Biryani Pulav masala and was very different. It's more powdery than the pulav masala and quite pungent too. Coconut milk certainly balances that out.
Bong Mom - my haath ka jaadu?! Aw..Tere muh mein ghee shakkar! :)
- October 10, 2009 at 7:09:00 PM EDT
- SriLekha said...
looks delicious!
- October 11, 2009 at 1:56:00 AM EDT
- Kitchen Flavours said...
Wow...that's an super easy way to make biryani.....looks yummy...
- October 12, 2009 at 8:57:00 AM EDT
- Divya Vikram said...
Great idea of using MTR masala in this. Delicious!
- October 12, 2009 at 4:57:00 PM EDT
- hintofsaffron said...
That is quite a quick way to make the recipe. Will have try it out. Never used Biryani masala before to cook. Will give it a try!
- October 18, 2009 at 2:46:00 PM EDT
- Jayashree said...
Vani, there you are longing for summer and here I am wondering if it'll ever end :-))
- October 22, 2009 at 9:11:00 AM EDT
- Raj said...
New member here.
I was looking for traditional Mysore recipe and ended up here.
I will try some recipes & let you know soon.
- October 22, 2009 at 11:51:00 AM EDT
- radha said...
I use the Everest Biryani masala ( though I am a big fan of MTR products) and use tomato puree too. I should try this variation with coconut milk.
I like your blog. And tried the Tomato Saaru and posted it on my site. It was a big hit and is a regular dish now.
- October 23, 2009 at 2:10:00 PM EDT
- Chitra said...
i dont buy MTR products usually.after seeing urs , i really feel to try this masala..Looks very nice :)
- October 25, 2009 at 7:02:00 AM EDT
- Parita said...
I love MTR masalas, i usually use MTR for rasam and sambhar, glad to know biryani came out well, it certainly looks very inviting :-)
- October 27, 2009 at 1:50:00 PM EDT
- Bijoy said...
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- October 28, 2009 at 12:41:00 AM EDT
- Arch said...
Looks nice, these biryanis are my favourites when I cant think of what to make..I've never ued ready masalas for pulav / biryani, always seemed to prefer the freshly ground ones...the coconut milk sounds like a great addition to this...hope you had a gerat diwali...
- October 29, 2009 at 3:10:00 AM EDT
- Preeti Kashyap said...
mouth watering masala pulao.....yummy!
- November 1, 2009 at 10:11:00 AM EST
- San said...
Pulao looks stunning and tempting.Following you dudette.
- November 5, 2009 at 1:40:00 PM EST
- Vani said...
Thanks for the lovely comments, all :)
- November 6, 2009 at 8:27:00 PM EST
- Sharmilee! :) said...
Nice collection of recipes, pulav looks tasty!
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James P. Mazgajewski was appointed superintendent of the Cheektowaga-Sloan School District on a Friday.
The following Monday, the Erie 1 BOCES superintendent told him one of the board members had already called, asking how to get rid of him.
Mazgajewski, or Mr. Maz for short, reflected on the rocky start recently as he talked about stepping down after three decades.
His first reorganization meeting as superintendent of the district – which had a $750,000 deficit and was under investigation by the state Education Department – was one for the record books. One trustee was in the hospital with a heart attack; the fractured board's remaining members split, 3-3, and could not agree on appointing a president and vice president.
"They literally hated each other," he said of the two factions.
After several votes that went nowhere, one faction stood up and left. The new superintendent ran down the hall and suggested they have an executive session. Inside the closed session, the 32-year-old superintendent was brutally honest, a trait he would exhibit over the next 30 years.
"I said, 'You look like a bunch of idiots, and you're making me look like one as well.' I said, 'You can't do this,' " he recalled.
They followed his advice, made the noncontroversial appointments and waited for the return of the seventh member for the others. It took about five years for the district to calm down and board members to stop cursing and fighting at meetings, he said.
Thirty years later, he has decided to retire from the district of about 1,600 students. Woodrow Wilson Elementary School Principal Andrea L. Galenski was named acting superintendent.
Mazgajewski (pronounced Mahz-guy-EFF-skee) was born and brought up in Sloan, and attended St. Josaphat's Elementary School and Bishop Ryan High School.
He survived to become the dean of local superintendents, his 30-year tenure making him the longest-serving school chief in Erie County when he retired. His last day was Friday, although he will remain on the payroll for several months as he works through the vacation and other time due him.
"There were enough people who responded to my style and learned that this isn't a game, I'm not interested in people using our board to move to the Town Board," he said. "I never gave up my integrity, and I never gave up my honor."
That may have been simple, but it wasn't always easy.
In his first year, the board was hiring an art teacher, and there was a laid-off teacher who, by law, was to have been asked to take the job first. But that person had moved to another state, and the board majority insisted on appointing someone else. Then a board member asked if the appointee was the wife of an attorney at the same law firm employing the board president and the district's lawyer. The board room erupted. The two attorneys came into Mazgajewski's office.
"I won't tell you the language I used, but I said, 'You've got to be freaking kidding me you did this. You've got to be kidding me,' " Mazgajewski recalled. Several days later, the board president resigned, and the board was again split, 3-3, until the BOCES superintendent selected a replacement.
It's been a sometimes grueling education. Some of the things he learned to do or not do over the years:
• He never made secret deals with board members, and if one asked a question, he copied the others on the answer.
• If board members were "straying" from the mission of educating children, he told them.
• You can never win on snow days, but don't close schools on a forecast.
• Talk to reporters: "I believed the only way to get the truth out was to open my mouth," he said.
• Build trust in the community and with staff by being honest and respectful.
"I was fortunate enough to be here long enough to build trust. That's what I've always thought some school leaders lack, is to trust the people who work for you, otherwise they shouldn't be working for you," he said.
Mazgajewski started in Sloan teaching seventh- and eighth-grade social studies but was laid off due to declining enrollment after about four years. During the time he was out of public education, he worked as a bill collector, and a recruiter for Canisius College. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from Canisius , but he thought at the time he would never again work in public education – until the superintendent's job opened up.
Other superintendents have called on Mazgajewski for advice through the years.
"He has been a mentor to many up-and-coming administrators and superintendents in Western New York," said Lancaster Superintendent Edward J. Myszka. "He's been a thoughtful leader during these transitional times."
He's never been afraid to say what he thinks, and he thinks education is headed in the wrong direction. "For me, school was always about creating productive citizens who understood the political process and who also knew they needed to be productive people," he said. "We've taken a curriculum that we complained bitterly was a mile wide and an inch deep. Now we've made it a mile deep and an inch wide."
He criticized current standards as requiring a one-size-fits-all approach that has too much standardized testing.
The district is operating on a contingency budget this year, after voters twice defeated budgets with modest tax increases. He said there may be a little "Mazgajewski fatigue" in the electorate and that a change will be good for the district. But he will miss the challenges that are ahead for Cheektowaga-Sloan.
"Yet, I realize it's not about me. Someone else can come in and do just as good a job or better," he said. "My job was to be able to create a district that could survive without me, and that's what your job should be as a leader, that the organization you are leading should be able to survive and flourish without you there."
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