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Hello Everyone,
I have 4 sites that I am responsible for, they currently have their own data at these sites.
I am looking to centralize this data back at the corporate HQ (where I am located) In the upcoming weeks we will be deploying Exchange 2k7, a maint application, and Microsoft Office 2007. I am looking at utilizing Citrix to aid in deployment and to help keep everything centralized. I am very comfortable and confident that the Terminal Services solution will satisfy the centralization requirements, I am just running into some mental road blocks in actual deployment. The way I envision it is to use the PNAgent to automatically have the applications pushed to the users desktop or windwos program folder. I wish to relocate the users data from the remote site to the central site. For security and better control of the data
What I'm fighting with is the "how do i want my users to access thier data question"
Right now, they need to share data between sites and what we have now is ok but it's not too efficient. We are running site to site vpn, so accessing data from site to site is fairly slow and each pc has a copy of office locally installed.
By deploying citrix I am hoping to simplify administration by having fewer machines to worry about. Essentially improving performance of file sharing and accessibility. The area of issue however is citrix is dependant on the obvious internet connection being available. So if the connection goes down, then that site now becomes an island. Since their data and everything lives at the main hq. Now this should not happen often, they have T1 lines, but how do you handle the what if scenario?
One option I had was to utilize DFS to do replication to each site, but sort of defeats what i'm trying to do as well as increase my bandwidth requirement.
the other option was to looking at putting in another "standby" isp to act as a failover in the event the main connection went down.
Since the users would be connecting out to a Citrix connection, the momentary drop to them should be seamless. We were thinking of nothing more than a simple dsl line just to keep the companies up.
I apologize for the long ramble, but just curious what others would do in this circumstance. I've also had thoughts of utilizing wan optimizers but those are expensive, especially for the number of users we're trying to extend access to (13 at each site) Plus if we are going to be using redundant connections would i not be mitigating any risks involved?
Mar 11, 2010 at 7:11 UTC
I would say utilize DFS-R for this - 10gb isn't really that much, and once the inital replication is done, then there should be little that needs to go across the line. And if you need to, you can schedule/limit the bandwidth used by replication.
Why upgrade to Exchange 2007 now? Why no go on to Exchange 2010? It has much better high availability options now.
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Mar 10, 2010 at 2:19 UTC
Hey Michael, sounds expensive! What I would do is enable working offline to cope with the brief (and hopefully infrequent periods of working offline?
Having extra ISPs and configuring routers to handle this is very expensive and I find that staff do not always need to be online 100% of the time. In the UK I look after 2x offices and our ISP is Verizon who are very good. Uptime is around 99,2% with the only outages being from building work on the main road near our office. The times when we have outages staff are happy to work offline...
Mar 10, 2010 at 8:20 UTC
I'm not sure I completely understand your scenario. Once you get Citrix running, is the plan to have all the remote users remote into the terminal server and work that way or work from their local PCs and just share data?
I fear that you will run into performance issues if everyone is working locally and sharing data across the WAN links. T1 is really pretty slow by today's standards.
It would help to know how critical the processes are. I've got a site where they can just go to manual operations until the connection comes back.
As far as redundant connections, you need to be careful which technologies you are using. A T1 connection and a DSL connection could be using the same cable between you and CO. So, if that cable gets cut, you'll loose both services.
There are several products available that will do auto failover when the main connection is lost. Some are not real expensive. Sonicwall comes to mind first. The Cradlepoint MBR1200 looks to be a good choice for VPN and to failover to air card service should your main connection fail.
Mar 10, 2010 at 8:45 UTC
thanks for the replies.
Scenario : Each site is a different company, thus users within that company really need to share files amongst themselves. Corporate still needs to be able to work with sharing between the sites, however not as much as say the users of said company.
Setup each company with their own local set of file shares within a DFS structure, use DFS –R to replicate this structure back to Corporate in a two way fashion. I can use this same method to bring their My Documents over as well.
This solves a few things for me.
1. Improves the performance for the end user and also provides for us to be compliant with Backups.
2. Solves the complete isolation issue if they lost access to their files, as if the connection down to the internet was interrupted at least they have a local copy of documents to work offline with.
3. Allows us to put more of a focus on corporate where the dollars are better spent.
a. Increase Bandwidth pipe by bonding with another T1
b. Look at another ISP for possible redundant connections.
4. As a by-product, it reduces the initial cash outlay for the concurrent Citrix connections as at this time, since everyone would be utilizing a local copy of office we reduce the work load on the server.
a. Foot note to this, we would eventually need to increase our citrix/terminal server license count, but only on an as needed basis. When we migrate our sites off of the AS400, those new applications (Great Plains/ Maint Software) will be shared out via the citrix connections.
b. Remote access from home would also be a realistic possibility as users would have copies of their data local to the citrix environment.
1. Home Drives – Sites 1 and 2 are at 10Gs each, Site 3 is at 4gs. The shared data is fairly small and since it really doesn't exist replication should be fairly fast. I've pulled the data across the wan once before for Backup Exec Baseline Synthetic, so it can be done, just needs to be planned out right. Also need a way to ensure I don't have users uploading their entire ITunes library or shutterfly accounts into their MyDocuments.
2. Can't think of anything else
Mar 10, 2010 at 8:50 UTC
Ken, excellent point about the distance between me and the CO, often times everyone uses verizon for that last mile, so it would be a moot point any way.
Mar 11, 2010 at 7:11 UTC
I would say utilize DFS-R for this - 10gb isn't really that much, and once the inital replication is done, then there should be little that needs to go across the line. And if you need to, you can schedule/limit the bandwidth used by replication.
Why upgrade to Exchange 2007 now? Why no go on to Exchange 2010? It has much better high availability options now.
Mar 11, 2010 at 11:29 UTC
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the response, DFS R is exactly what I ended up doing.
In regards to Exchange 2010, The only real reason that I was going to go on 2007 first was only because it's been out longer and implemented in more places than say 2010. I guess when it comes time for implementation, it will probably be a game time decision based on information I get from my consultants.
Mar 11, 2010 at 11:34 UTC
To me 2010 seems to be a more thought out product. DAG's are easier than all of the other replication options in 2007, and OWA is a much better product in 2010.
Mar 11, 2010 at 11:43 UTC
I did like 2010 in the previews and reviews, I'll have to look at it much closer, in the upcoming weeks.
Thanks again for the insight.
Mar 11, 2010 at 1:49 UTC
I'll second DFS-R for the replication.
Also, with respect to Exchange version, consider that while 2007 was a major update with lots of changes, 2010 is more of an evolutionary update from 2007. Exchange 2003-2007-2010 is analogous to Windows XP-Vista-7 (except of course, Exchange 2007 was much better received than Windows Vista, but that's another story).
I have no problems with Exchange 2007 now (though it was definitely missing some features until the first service pack). However, I would not have similar concerns about 2010; we already are planning to upgrade to it as part of an upcoming server overhaul.
Mar 11, 2010 at 3:22 UTC
excellent info,
thanks to everyone for their input. So great to have a place where you can bounce ideas off of and get the other sides. I have all these things and scenarios in my head.
Mar 19, 2010 at 6:38 UTC
@Michael_6835: Hi Michael! Did you get your question answered? Any BA's or HP's to hand out? Thanks!
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Minimalist ensemble algorithms for genome-wide protein localization prediction
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Computational prediction of protein subcellular localization can greatly help to elucidate its functions. Despite the existence of dozens of protein localization prediction algorithms, the prediction accuracy and coverage are still low. Several ensemble algorithms have been proposed to improve the prediction performance, which usually include as many as 10 or more individual localization algorithms. However, their performance is still limited by the running complexity and redundancy among individual prediction algorithms.
This paper proposed a novel method for rational design of minimalist ensemble algorithms for practical genome-wide protein subcellular localization prediction. The algorithm is based on combining a feature selection based filter and a logistic regression classifier. Using a novel concept of contribution scores, we analyzed issues of algorithm redundancy, consensus mistakes, and algorithm complementarity in designing ensemble algorithms. We applied the proposed minimalist logistic regression (LR) ensemble algorithm to two genome-wide datasets of Yeast and Human and compared its performance with current ensemble algorithms. Experimental results showed that the minimalist ensemble algorithm can achieve high prediction accuracy with only 1/3 to 1/2 of individual predictors of current ensemble algorithms, which greatly reduces computational complexity and running time. It was found that the high performance ensemble algorithms are usually composed of the predictors that together cover most of available features. Compared to the best individual predictor, our ensemble algorithm improved the prediction accuracy from AUC score of 0.558 to 0.707 for the Yeast dataset and from 0.628 to 0.646 for the Human dataset. Compared with popular weighted voting based ensemble algorithms, our classifier-based ensemble algorithms achieved much better performance without suffering from inclusion of too many individual predictors.
We proposed a method for rational design of minimalist ensemble algorithms using feature selection and classifiers. The proposed minimalist ensemble algorithm based on logistic regression can achieve equal or better prediction performance while using only half or one-third of individual predictors compared to other ensemble algorithms. The results also suggested that meta-predictors that take advantage of a variety of features by combining individual predictors tend to achieve the best performance. The LR ensemble server and related benchmark datasets are available at
Functions of proteins are closely correlated with their subcellular locations. For example, Assfalg et al.
Recently, several research groups proposed to apply ensemble or integration of algorithms to protein localization prediction
In this paper, we evaluated 9 standalone localization prediction algorithms and analyzed their bias and relationships in the prediction space of the resulting ensemble algorithms. We found that ensemble algorithms based on the combination of several specific predictors achieved comparable prediction performance as using all 9 predictors, suggesting that a high degree of redundancy exists among all individual predictors. We thus proposed a minimalist ensemble prediction algorithm for subcellular localization prediction and evaluated its performance on two data sets, which showed high performance and significant reduction of computational complexity and running time.
Standalone protein localization predictors
To implement our ensemble localization predictor, we selected 8 published localization prediction algorithms provided that the software or web server is publicly available, and batch submission is supported. These algorithms include YLoc
In addition to amino acid sequence information, protein-protein interaction has been known as external information correlated to protein subcellular localization. A number of algorithms have been developed to utilize PPI features to predict protein localization (Hishigaki et al.
Mapping of subcellular locations
Different localization predictors may have different subcell resolutions. In order to compare their performances on genome wide datasets, we applied a location mapping scheme to map the subcellular locations of standalone predictors to unified 5 locations in the ensemble algorithms, including Cytosol, Mitochondrion, Nucleus, Secretory (secretory pathway), and
Contribution score
To explore the complementary relationship among the individual predictors used in an ensemble algorithm, we calculated contribution scores
Symbols in the formula are explained as follows: for a protein j, the prediction results of nine predictors in the order of predictor 1 to predictor 9 are Cytosol, Nucleus, Nucleus, Mitochondrion, Nucleus, Cytosol, Nucleus, Nucleus, and Nucleus, while the real localization of protein j is Cytosol. In this case, the majority votes (predictions) are for Nucleus, the number of the majority votes is denoted as
Minimalist ensemble prediction algorithm
Existing ensemble algorithms tend to include as many as possible component classifiers for better prediction performance. However, including redundant predictors not only increases computational complexity and collecting effort, but also may lead to over-fitting
Several strategies can be used to find the minimal set of predictors: exhaustive search of all possible combinations of component predictors, feature selection, and selecting top k most accurate predictors. We did an exhaustive search for all combinations of K individual predictors to build different ensemble algorithms. It shows that combining 6 out of 9 predictors can achieve the best performance when the logistic regression classifier was used to integrate the predictions. However, exhaustive search is a time consuming process especially when the set of available predictors is large. Top-K accuracy selection method is straightforward and fast, but has the limitation of neglecting the redundancy among individual predictors.
Here we proposed a minimalist ensemble design method to approximate the smallest set of predictors with the best possible prediction accuracy. The rationale is to find the smallest subset of predictors whose predictions are highly correlated to the real locations. The minimalist ensemble design problem is similar to feature selection when the prediction labels of individual predictors are considered as features. Here, we chose the correlation based feature subset evaluator (CfsSubsetEval)
Datasets preparation
Two genome-wide protein localization databases are used to build three datasets in our experiments. The yeast dataset is obtained from Huh et al.
Evaluation of individual predictors and ensemble algorithms
To evaluate the performance of predictors, accuracy and MCC were calculated using the equations below:
where TP, TN, FP, FN means true positive, true negative, false positive and false negative predictions. It should be noted that since localization prediction is a multi-class classification problem, MCC can only be calculated for each location while an overall accuracy can be calculated for each prediction method for a given dataset. In our experiments, 10-fold cross-validation was used to evaluate all the ensemble algorithms.
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Evaluation of individual predictors
We obtained the prediction results on three test datasets (Yeast Low-Res, Yeast High-Res and Human) from the selected individual predictors using the web servers or standalone programs and then evaluated their accuracy and MCC scores. The results of 9 predictors for the Yeast Low-Res dataset are shown in Table
For the Yeast dataset (Tables
Ensemble performance
From Tables
Prediction performance of the optimal ensemble algorithms using exhaustive search
Here we evaluated the prediction accuracy of the logistic regression ensemble algorithm with all combinations of K (K = 2…9) predictors using 10-fold cross-validation. Figure
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Prediction performance of the logistic regression ensemble methods with K individual predictors selected by exhaustive search.
Prediction performance of the logistic regression ensemble methods with K individual predictors selected by exhaustive search. (a) Performance on the Yeast Low-Res dataset, (b) Performance on the Human dataset. Each dot represents one combination of predictors. The number of predictors is annotated on the X axis. The performance of the logistic regression ensemble method is annotated on the Y axis. The dots connected by the line represent the combinations of predictors determined by the minimalist algorithm for different K values.
We also evaluated the ensemble performance on the Human dataset with all combinations of predictors including YLoc, MultiLoc2, WoLFPSORT, CELLO, SubLoc, Subcell, BaCelLo and KnowPred. However, relatively limited accuracy improvement over the best individual predictor has been achieved by the LR ensemble compared to the Yeast dataset. One reason is that the ensemble algorithm for the Yeast dataset includes NetLoc which uses protein-protein correlation network information for localization prediction. This distinctive feature makes it complementary to the other algorithms, which leads to significant performance boosting. Another reason may be that the strengths and bias of different predictors are enlarged or reduced to different degrees on different datasets, which may result in the change of complementary relationship among predictors. The varying complementary relationship thus leads to different prediction accuracy of the ensemble composed of the same set of predictors on different datasets.
Contributions of individual predictors to the ensemble algorithm
To explore the contributions of individual predictors to the ensemble algorithm and their redundant or complementary relationships, we calculated their contribution scores in the ensemble algorithm for the Yeast Low-Res and Human datasets. Nine predictors are available for the Yeast Low-Res dataset and 8 predictors for the Human dataset. Figure
Figure 2
Contribution scores of individual predictors.
Contribution scores of individual predictors. (a) 9 predictors for the Yeast Low-Res dataset, (b) 8 predictors for the Human dataset.
Prediction performance of the minimalist ensemble algorithm
To test the performance of our minimalist LR ensemble algorithm with K component predictors, we run the minimalist algorithm to generate the combination of predictors for each K to build the minimalist ensemble algorithms and then tested them on the Yeast Low-Res and Human datasets. The results in Figure
To examine the complementary relationships of the selected algorithms in the ensemble algorithms, Table
Comparison of computational complexity
The computational complexity of the ensemble involves the effort to collect prediction results from individual predictors either from local software running or from web servers and the total running time. Since most of the predictors are available only via web servers which are sometimes offline, it is desirable to have fewer component predictors. As demonstrated in Figure
Comparison of different ensemble schemes
Several ensemble schemes have been proposed for building ensemble localization prediction algorithms, including weighted voting
Figure 3
Performance of the best ensemble on the Yeast dataset using different ensemble schemes with K (K = 2..9) predictors selected by exhaustive search.
Performance of the best ensemble on the Yeast dataset using different ensemble schemes with K (K = 2..9) predictors selected by exhaustive search. (a) 9 predictors including NetLoc (PPI) (b) 8 predictors without NetLoc (PPI).
We also compared the performances of the minimalist ensemble algorithms on the Yeast Low-Res dataset. The result is shown in Figure
Figure 4
Performance of different ensemble schemes on the Yeast Low-Res dataset with K (k = 2..9) predictors selected by Minimalist algorithm and Top-K accurate method.
Performance of different ensemble schemes on the Yeast Low-Res dataset with K (k = 2..9) predictors selected by Minimalist algorithm and Top-K accurate method. (a) Different ensemble methods with K (k = 2..9) predictors selected by Minimalist algorithm. (b) Different ensemble methods with K (k = 2..9) predictors selected by Top-K accurate algorithm.
Comparison with other ensemble algorithms
There are several published and publicly available ensemble algorithms such as ConLoc
To investigate the redundancy among ConLoc's 13 predictors, we applied our minimalist algorithm to select K out of the 13 predictors and tested them on the Yeast Low-Res dataset and the Human dataset. The results (Tables
We also tested PROlocalizer which is an integration algorithm based mainly on binary classifiers. However, the server was able to generate prediction results for only 399 out of 1305 proteins in our Human dataset. The overall prediction accuracy of PROlocalizer on those 399 proteins is 0.81 while the standalone predictor YLoc alone has an overall accuracy 0.84 on the same dataset. We argue that it is difficult to construct a reliable protocol-based ensemble algorithm such as PROlocalizer when the predictions of individual predictors are still not reliable leading to accumulation of errors along its sequential inference steps. Instead, the machine learning based ensemble methods can learn complementary rules among the predictors to function as a "protocol" to determine protein localization.
Although many protein localization prediction algorithms have been developed, the prediction performance remains low and the features used to predict localizations are still limited. Ensemble algorithms have shown some promise to take advantage of a variety of features by combining individual predictors. However, combining as many as possible individual predictors, which is the most common strategy, has the drawback of high running complexity and low availability as well as risk of performance degradation. The result of our minimalist ensemble algorithm showed that it is possible to significantly reduce the number of individual predictors in a given ensemble algorithm while maintaining comparable performance. It is also observed that the best component algorithm set tends to keep predictors with unique features, which indicates that new features are the key to further improve the prediction accuracy for localization prediction. The success of our minimalist ensemble algorithm based on feature selection and logistic regression showed that supervised ensemble algorithms based on machine learning can effectively capture the complex relationships among individual predictors and achieve better performance than the voting methods.
We found that our ensemble algorithm works best when predictors with unique features are combined. For example, the PPI based NetLoc algorithm can significantly improve the ensemble performance, which is however limited by the fact that many proteins do not have PPI information. It should be also noted that the PPI information and ensemble predictor itself are species specific. So our ensemble predictor trained on human/yeast dataset may not work well for proteins of other species. However, the design methodology of minimalist ensemble predictors can be used to develop predictors tailored to specific organisms or available training datasets.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: JH;JL. Performed the experiments: JL;AM. Analyzed the data: JL; JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL;AM. Wrote the paper: JL;JH;RL. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Career Award (Grant BIO-DBI-0845381).
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Evaluation and comparison of mammalian subcellular localization prediction methods
Meta-prediction of protein subcellular localization with reduced voting
PROlocalizer: integrated web service for protein subcellular localization prediction
Construction of functional interaction networks through consensus localization predictions of the human proteome
Supervised ensembles of prediction methods for subcellular localization
'Unite and conquer': enhanced prediction of protein subcellular localization by integrating multiple specialized tools
A critical analysis of the combined usage of protein localization prediction methods: Increasing the number of independent data sets can reduce the accuracy of predicted mitochondrial localization
Going from where to why–interpretable prediction of protein subcellular localization
MultiLoc2: integrating phylogeny and Gene Ontology terms improves subcellular protein localization prediction
Protein subcellular localization prediction of eukaryotes using a knowledge-based approach
Using AdaBoost for the prediction of subcellular location of prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins
WoLF PSORT: protein localization predictor
BaCelLo: a balanced subcellular localization predictor
Prediction of protein subcellular localization
Support vector machine approach for protein subcellular localization prediction
NetLoc: Network based protein localization prediction using protein-protein interaction and co-expression networks
Assessment of prediction accuracy of protein function from protein–protein interaction data
Protein networks markedly improve prediction of subcellular localization in multiple eukaryotic species
Protein-protein interaction as a predictor of subcellular location
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Schwarzenau is situated 120 miles (193 kilometers) north of Graz and about 65 miles (105 kilometers) northwest of Vienna, the capital of Austria.
It's a missed chance if you limit your sightseeing to the points of interest in Schwarzenau because the entire region is laced with an abundance of interesting cities, attractions and landscapes. Head 13 miles (21 kilometers) southwest to Raabs An Der Thaya, where you can enjoy the Schloss Raabs and Ruine Kollmitz.
When you are ready to head further afield beyond Schwarzenau, check out the nearest regional area. Durnstein is approximately 25 miles (40 kilometers) away and is home to visitor attractions such as Schloss Artstetten, Maria Taferl Wallfahrtskirche and Burg Aggstein. Durnstein has much of interest for visitors willing to linger. Burgruine, Stifskirche and Maria Langegg Wallfahrtskirche are just a sample of the other interesting attractions sure to delight.
Every place you visit has its specific history and Lower Austria has its own fair share of stories to tell. The traditional villages here provide great insights into the past. When you ask the locals their sightseeing recommendations, you'll most likely be directed to the region's much-loved open-air museums and gardens.
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Lights! Camera! Action! The final outdoor movie night of the summer of 2016 at the Clarendon Hills Park District is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Friday, August 26 at Prospect Park. "Guardians of the Galaxy" will be the film feature for the evening - please bring along lawn chairs and blankets!!! Teens and families are invited to enjoy this popular film which tells the story of Peter Quill from Earth. After Peter discovers a mysterious orb, he is now the target of a manhunt led by Ronan the Accuser. Quill then joins a group which must learn how to get along and work together before they can become the "Guardians of the Galaxy." This program is free of charge. For more information, please contact the Clarendon Hills Park District at 630-323-2626.
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Encounters across time zones is a fantastic photo book that showcases the photography of Gail Cohen.
The book features over 115 photos that Gail took from her travels around the world including Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mali, Malaysia, India and more.
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HHS and its Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT have initiated actions to identify solutions for protecting personal health information through several contracts and with two health information advisory committees. For example, in late 2005, HHS awarded several health IT contracts that include requirements for addressing the privacy of personal health information exchanged within a nationwide health information exchange network. Its privacy and security solutions contractor is to assess the organization-level privacy- and security-related policies, practices, laws, and regulations that affect interoperable health information exchange. Additionally, in June 2006, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics made recommendations to the Secretary of HHS on protecting the privacy of personal health information within a nationwide health information network and in August 2006, the American Health Information Community convened a work group to address privacy and security policy issues for nationwide health information exchange. While these activities are intended to address aspects of key principles for protecting the privacy of health information, HHS is in the early stages of its efforts and has therefore not yet defined an overall approach for integrating its various privacy-related initiatives and addressing key privacy principles, nor has it defined milestones for integrating the results of these activities. GAO identified key challenges associated with protecting electronic personal health information in four areas.
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November 30, 2006
Is that an Authentic Super Burrito?
by JOSEPH BYRD
Mexican cooking on the North Coast: What can you say about a region so ethnically clueless that it pronounces the name of its northernmost county "Dell Nort"? Our expectations arriving 20 years ago were low, and we found little to change our minds. Still, in two decades, things have changed, not least the size of the Latino population.
This will be an overview of Humboldt County's Mexican food, and I'll have to start with some basics before getting specific. I don't like "to be continued" any more than you do, but a larger perspective is needed: Mexican-American food is a complicated matter.
Despite similarity in names and ingredients, "Mexican-American" isn't really very "Mexican." As a rich nation, we've tended to adopt only foreign dishes considered "feasts" in their native lands (Chinese cuisine, for example; that's not how most Chinese eat.) But the national cuisine of Mexico is the world's greatest peasant food, rivaled perhaps only by Italy and India. And though there are huge class differences within Mexico, there is a theme that transcends class, from peasant to millionaire.
I can't be objective about Mexican-American food. I grew up in Tucson, and my earliest memories were of the pure luxury, in the food-rationed days of World War II, of eating refritos and sopa de arroz and tamales and tacos dorados, all of which thrived on cheap ingredients, particularly lard.
In the early '50s, "El Charro," a downtown Tucson restaurant, sold "burros" for a dollar. This was simply a 20-inch super-thin flour tortilla stuffed with frijoles fried with onions and lard (refritos means "well-fried," not "re-fried"), with a huge proportion of lard and onion to bean. Heaven. No "burrito" since has come close.
It's easy to surrender to the contemporary prejudice against this flavorful cooking fat, because it's so politically incorrect as to not be locally available -- to this day, my wife and I render our own lard, beef suet and chicken schmaltz. (You can buy Armour lard at Safeway, then sort of hide it under the vegetables. But then you get the bonus of BHT and other preservatives.)
Even at its best, what we call "Mexican food" is a pale imitation of the real thing. The actual food of Mexico is infinitely more complex. What we call "Mexican food" is, in fact, mostly "cowboy food" ("ranchero" or "Norteño") and bar snacks ("tapas"). These are not to be disdained; they simply aren't the whole story.
Some of the best tapas in Mexico are street food, sold roadside along with pieces of sugar cane and a zillion sugary pastries. One of our memorable food experiences was courtesy of a Nogales urchin, 9 or 10 years of age. He had a tiny hot charcoal brazier on a tripod stand, and when we ordered two tacos, he pulled two thin slices of marinated fatty pork out of a bag, put them on the grill until they sizzled and charred, then heated two tiny quarter-inch-thick hand-patted corn tortillas, added the meat and a dash of a fiery salsa from an unsavory-looking bottle. It was indescribably delicious. Maybe the best taco I've ever had.
There is a rustic charm to "Ranchero," and it has taken root in the U.S., in the process developing its own regionalisms -- Santa Fe is a charming quirky example. (Then there is Texas, with an exciting ethnic mix of food, music, language ... the recent death of Freddy Fender was cause for statewide grieving.) But this is not Mexican food, even when it is prepared by nationals. Too much is lost in translation.
For example, here is a menu from Hacienda de los Morales, an upper-class restaurant in Polanco, the well-to-do district on the north side of Mexico City:
Giant shrimp with cuitlacoche (corn fungus), "village" abalone with chilpotle, pompano baked in a salt crust, enchiladas with three sauces (pipián rojo, pipián verde and mole poblano), duck enchilada served with mango and pasilla sauce, Veracruz roasted pork loin basted with lime juice and white wine, flank steak Norteña (grilled, as for Texas fajitas), Sinaloa crocodile in pistachio crust, goat wrapped in banana leaves and barbecued with sour orange juice.
Even though the food is upscale, the national influence is present, with regional delicacies such as cuitlacoche, crocodile, prawns, chiles (never just "chile," always one of the multitude of specific ones -- fresh, dried, or smoked), plus specific cooking methods using ingredients like banana leaves and Seville oranges.
If most of Mexico does not eat so lavishly, much of it eats no less well. A list of homey dishes available at medium-to-modest establishments might include:
The list is endless.
I don't do this simply to make you drool, but to illustrate the rich variety of Mexican regional cooking.
For those who wish to pursue this cuisine at home, the indomitable Diana Kennedy has not only preserved original recipes, but written several books that allow Americans to try them. Start with her "bible," The Art of Mexican Cooking. My personal favorite is Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico, but it can be daunting for beginners. (For an eye-opening journey into the hundreds of varieties of chiles, visit www.g6csy.net/chile/database.html)
In summation, what we call "Mexican food" has very little in common with real Mexican food. Remember the little restaurant that saw my family through the years of W.W. II rationing? It probably was the same in all the border states. And after the war, it caught on. Then, bit by bit, something calling itself "Mexican food" began offering a cheap and delicious alternative to "regular" restaurant food. This was even more the case when mainstream restaurants began cutting down on labor costs, and using industrial foods -- gallon cans of vegetables, sauces and frozen prepared foods.
Alas, my transcendent romance with the bean burro in 1956 did not last. Take our time machine just 50 years forward, and we see everywhere such absurdities as "The Super Burrito," which one writer has described as "a No. 2 Combination Plate inside a flour tortilla." This is bad enough. Now deep-fry it. A "chimichanga!" (Amazingly, there's an argument over who invented this travesty.)
Thus a critique of Mexican food in Humboldt County must start with the fact that there has never been true Mexican food in the U.S. Mexican-American is a wholly different thing. It has taken on a life of its own. And we are richer for it.
So we approach local restaurants not by "authentic" (no one is authentic) standards, but in the context of American Food -- of which "Mexican Food" has become a branch. Unfortunately, that often means can-sauced enchiladas, tacos, tamales, quesadillas, enchiladas, with tasteless rice and beans with plenty of cheap jack cheese melted over them -- but no lard, the true ancestor of Mexican-American food. Ironic, if it were not so painful.
And because cornmeal masa is incredibly difficult to shape into a hand-patted tortilla, we've abdicated that too. The last hand-patted corn tortilla I had was in Venice, Calif., 22 years ago. It's unfortunate, but the economics are solid: No one can afford the skilled labor those tortillas would cost, as long as we keep Mexican food cheap. For whatever reason, local foodies seem unwilling to put down the extra couple of bucks for good, simple food. Any Mexican restaurant that tries to buck that reality is doomed.
So the question is, what are our options?
And actually, they aren't all bad.
Next time: a look at some of the best Mexican restaurants in Humboldt.
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Introduction to Misfits is 'Episode 0.5' of Misfits, this episode is made to be the introduction to the team and what they are up against.
Melissa talks about Misfits.
Melissa is sitting at the end of a desk with a pile of papers, humming a song. She looks upward and smiles.
- Melissa: Oh, you must be the viewers!
She akwardly stands up and does a fake smile, she stops smiling and looks back at the camera
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- Cameraman: Just smile, I barely get payed to do this shit!
Melissa groans and pulls out a tazer, shooting the Cameraman and he drops, the camera sliding across the ground. Melissa picks it up and focuses in on her face, smiling.
- Melissa: Much better, anyways, welcome to Misfits blah blah blah, something about telling nobody about this ever, other things, blah blah blah. Now lets meet a cute dog!
She unlocks a closet door and a brown blur flies out, attacking the camera. Its face focuses onto the camera and it begins to lick the camera, leaving slobber marks.
- Melissa: Woah boy, calm down! We still need to introduce ourselves. I am Melissa, and this is Firball
She points to Firball as the thing bolts across the room, slamming into a chair and flipping it over.
- Melissa: And here is Aran, our newest member!
Firball slams into the closet once again and a cardboard cut-out of Aran Leverletto pops out, it then falls over and Firball pushes it back into the closet
- Melissa: Heh, we don't exactly.. know him yet. I'm going to meet him soon, hopefully he takes this news well. If you haven't heard of Aran, he is kinda a big deal now. He stopped an invasion on Earth just a few weeks ago.
- ???: Hello, Melissa? Are you in there?
- Melissa: Oh, uh.. yeah! We are just figuring out what to explain next!
- ???: Okay, have fun!, I guess.
- Melissa: Anyways, that was the mastermind of our operation, I don't know her first name, but we call her Mrs. Crassus, she insists on us calling her that. Anyways, I was told I have to give you a quick debriefing on our enemies.
A television behind Melissa flickers on and a distorted picture pops up, followed by a deep laugh
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- Melissa: Shit.
- Melissa: And here one of the villains is, making an unexpected appearance.
- Four: And the best villain of them all.
Melissa pulls out a revolver and shoots the television screen, shattering it. The television then falls to the ground.
- Melissa: Anyways, that was Four, a former troop of The Threat, we also have people such as 'common' criminals who actually have.. powers. And the team who is trying to capture little, adorable Firball.
She snuggles up against Firball on a couch.
- Melissa: We also have new ones, such as this dude named Torment, he looks like Aran but a bit more cyborg. We've also been looking at a few other people, but we don't have enough info to dispose of them..
She stares off into space for awhile, but then Firball nudges her, bringing her back into reality
- Melissa: Oh! I almost forgot to tell you about my powers. I have the ability to manipulate dust-like particles, most of my body is made of them, too!
Her hand explodes into dust and reforms into a sword, which she uses to chop the table in half
- Melissa: And Firball has superspeed and even more super jumping.
Firball leaps out a window and dissapears
- Melissa: Yup, thats Firball. Now I know I must cut this episode short, but I'm pretty sure Four just sent some of his minions out towards our base.
She sets the camera down on the table as there is a commotion outside, and two red-and-gold robots go flying out through the window, Firball slamming one into the wall while Melissa forms her hand into a shotgun, she fires at the two robots and they explode, she walks up to the camera and moves the hair out of her eyes.
- Melissa: There you go, welcome to Misfits.