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Fettucine mit Pfiff
In German, the term "mit Pfiff" connotes an "extra something," or "with a kick" and this fettucine had both. One day last week T offered to make dinner so I could continue packing boxes. He devised an all-vegetable marinara-based sauce with a most innovative twist: sauteed mushrooms to top the pasta, rather than be incorporated in it. I have to tell you, for a shroom-fiend like me, it was sheer genius. The mushrooms were boozy and buttery atop the chunky, spicy marinara and retained that separate distinction even when mixed through with a fork. With a glass of Zinfandel, it was pure heaven.
There's no recipe here, he used what vegetables we had on hand and a bottled marinara, as well as a pound of cremini mushrooms, sherry and butter. I'm just here to brag on my husband! (If you knew him when we first met, he used to put a frozen chicken breast in the microwave, cook it, stick a fork in it and douse it with Tabasco and call it "Chicken a la (insert name here)"
You've come a long way, Chef T!
Brunch fit for a queen: Eggs a la reine
Today is the international day to celebrate women. In honor of this joyous day, fiordisale and zorra have joined their considerable energies to organize a cyber-celebration of International Women's Day 2008. Invitees to the potluck were asked to prepare something yellow to share. I've been contemplating the makings of a savory waffle dish for a few weeks now, so I combined two of my favorite flavors (they just happen to also be yellow), saffron and lemon, to create a new take on a brunch favorite. This Belgian-style waffle is topped with seared oyster mushrooms, eggs, and a saffron-lemon sauce, and christened to celebrate the queen that dwells in every woman. Move over, Eggs Benedict, Eggs a la reine are in the house.
I wish each woman today, a day filled with love and family, and yes, wonderful flavors!
(yields 8-10 Belgian-style waffles)
(from the New McCall's Cookbook, c. 1973)
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
4 large eggs
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups plain full-fat yogurt or sour cream
Pre-heat Belgian waffle iron.
Sift together flour, baking soda and salt.
In medium bowl, beat together eggs and sugar until thick and lemon-colored. Gently fold in 1/3 of flour alternately with yogurt, ending with flour. Mix only long enough to barely incorporate — do not mix until smooth, it will toughen your batter.
Bake in waffle iron according to directions for your machine. Use or freeze.
1/2 lb. oyster or wild mushrooms
2 TBL. butter
pinch of sea salt
Bring wok or pan to smoking point. Add mushrooms to dry pan, and gently press to sear. Turn mushrooms over and press again. Add butter and salt, stir briefly and remove from heat. Do not let mushrooms weep.
Eggs, cooked to your liking
Saffron-Lemon Sauce:
1/4 cup unsalted butter
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 1/2 cups milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
pinch of saffron threads in 3 TBL. warm water
1/2 cup dry white wine
juice from half a lemon
zest of 1 lemon (some reserved fro garnish, if desired)
Combine butter and flour in small saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly cook until flour grains begin to swell. Add 2-3 TBL. milk and incorporate into roux. Add more milk, and again fully incorporate. Continue adding milk while stirring until you have a smooth sauce. Add saffron, wine and salt. Cook for another 3-4 minutes, then add lemon juice, and remove from heat. Stir in lemon zest, cover while plating.
Top each waffle with mushrooms, then eggs. Nappe Sauce carefully over eggs. Garnish with reserved lemon zest, fresh fruit and a sparkling beverage (I chose my second favorite, an Apfelschorle).
Table-top Cooking: Sukiyaki
As promised, the second part of the Table-top Cooking series features the ever-popular Sukiyaki. Like teppan-yaki style grilling (BBQ pork and bun post), there's no reason this entertaining communal style of dining has to be regulated to exotic evenings out at a Japanese restaurant. With the small investment of a single burner butane stove ($15-30, depending on your neighborhood), a few butane cartridges ($1-3 a piece), and some basic cookware, you can create this meal any time at home. A suitable pan for sukiyaki is one that is relatively low-brimmed and wide, with no long handles -- in this photo, we are using a paella-style pan.
Sukiyaki (SKI-yah-ki) is simply a braised meat and vegetable "stew" featuring thin-sliced beef, tofu, negi (Japanese leeks), enoki and shiitake mushrooms, spinach or shingiku (chrysanthemum leaves), and shirataki (yam noodles. a form of konnyaku). Traditionally, sukiyaki was a winter meal cooked over a charcoal brazier built in to a table. The brazier served both to warm the room and the diners, as well as to cook the meal. Usually one person is in charge of keeping the pot full and evenly cooked, and the other diners select cooked pieces from the bubbling pot to put first into an individual serving bowl. Often each diner has a second smaller bowl with a beaten raw egg in it —- the hot pieces of meat and vegetables are dipped into the beaten egg before being eaten with rice. The beaten egg serves 2 purposes, first to cool the hot food coming directly from the fire; second, to envelop each bite in a silken robe of deliciousness that (for me) is the signature of sukiyaki. The egg, however, is completely optional and, of course, should not be consumed by anyone with a compromised immune system, very young children, or pregnant persons. Use only the freshest eggs available, carefully washing each egg in a solution of 2 TBL. white vinegar in 1 quart/liter of water.
Sukiyaki is more a method than a recipe, like the Way to Cook. Besides cleaning and prepping all the ingredients, the only thing requiring a recipe is the braising sauce in which all the ingredients are cooked. Because the ingredients may be a little strange to most people, a brief description and tips for prepping each are included below. If some ingredients are not available to you, suggestions for substitutions are included.
Substitutions: really, only konnyaku, which is in block form, is a substitute; you can slice it lengthwise into a noodle-like shape, or try the decorative style used in another Japanese classic, Oden or Kombu (directions here). Konnyaku and shirataki are always kept in the chilled section of your market -- on Oahu, virtually every grocery store carries it. Because of its new-found popularity, you may be able to find konnyaku, if not shirataki, in a health food store if you don't have a well-stocked Oriental market nearby.
NEGI: Japanese leek, has a sharper flavor and firmer texture than the more familiar leek. Rinse whole leek, especially the root ends, then begin slicing on a sharp diagonal up to the light green tips. Fill a large non-reactive container with a solution of 1 TBL. white vinegar for every 1 quart/liter of water used, and place sliced leeks in this solution. Swish around gently, then let sit for about one minute. Swish again, then gently lift out all the leeks and place in a colander. Rinse well with running water and drain well. (Use this method for cleaning regular leeks as well). Substitutions: regular leeks (if neither is available, thinly sliced yellow onions may be used)
SHIITAKE: Dried Shiitake Mushrooms, see Braised Mushroom post for how-to prepare. Substitutions: any earthy fresh mushroom might work, shiitake, portobella, cremini, even oyster.
ENOKI MUSHROOM: Fresh tendril-like enoki are another sponge-like ingredient that readily absorbs the braising sauce. To prepare, rinse gently under running water and pat dry. Substitutions: shimeji mushrooms or leave out all together.
TOFU: Firm or extra-firm plain tofu found in the chilled area of the grocery/health store. To prepare, remove and drain, then wrap tightly in a clean kitchen towel and place in a container with a heavy dish pressing on the tofu (you're trying to extract as mush water as possible from the tofu). Leave in fridge for at least 2 hours. Remove toweling, and cut tofu into 1.5" (8cm) blocks. Tofu is a sponge for flavor, and the savory broth and braising liquid in sukiyaki makes bland tofu quite delicious and meaty-tasting.
When cleaned and prepped, assemble these ingredients in a large platter.
BEEF: Paper-thin slices of very lean beef are traditionally used. In Japan, as in most Asian cultures, meat is used as a flavoring agent rather than a focus of a meal. Therefore, 1/2lb. (250g) is enough for 4 persons. Almost every grocery on Oahu carries sukiyaki-sliced beef (it's actually labelled that way), but I've found the leanest and thinnest slices from Star Market. Elsewhere, Vietnamese and Korean markets have similarly sliced cuts. If you don't have an Asian butcher in the vicinity, ask your butcher to slice a round roast into paper-thin slices (about the thickness of deli-meats). Substitutions: maybe pork or chicken (haven't tried it). Place meat on a separate platter.
GREENS: Spinach and/or Shingiku are the traditional greens used. See Gai Choy post for cleaning and prepping leafy greens. This photo shows spinach and watercress. Substitutions: any quick-cooking leafy green or combination of greens. Place drained greens in a large bowl.
In Japan, diners begin their meal with a saying that is part exclamation, part blessing, "Itadakimasu!" (EE-tah-dah-kee-mas'). There is no direct English translation, but it is an older expression meaning, "I will receive" and is said to express the diners' thankfulness for the food about to be consumed — gratitude not only for the actual food, but also for the sacrifices and hard work (in the farm, field and kitchen) that produced the meal. I hope this meal will inspire a mood of both celebration and thankfulness at your table too!
(for 4 persons)
Prepare the braising sauce:
1 packet instant dashi no moto (dashi broth)
3 cups hot water
5 TBL. brown sugar
6 TBL. soy sauce
6 TBL. mirin
3 TBL. sake
In a small sauce pan, dissolve dashi no moto in hot water, then add sugar to blend completely. Add soy, mirin and sake, stir to blend. Set aside to cool while preparing vegetables (see above) and plating meat (see above). When ready to begin, put braising sauce in a pitcher-like container for easy pouring at the table. You can keep refilling the small table-side pitcher as needed from the sauce pan.
To set the table:
Place butane stove and pan at center of table, closest to the designated cook. Each diner will need a rice bowl, a wide shallow bowl for their individual serving, a smaller cup-like bowl for the beaten egg (if using), and chopsticks. The cook will need to have close at hand:
long chopsticks or tongs
the assembled ingredients
the braising sauce
cooking oil (only at the start of the cooking)
a tall cold drink (this is going to be hot work, tending the pot and watching everyone else eat!)
To begin, pre-heat the pan over a medium fire then add a scant 2TBL. olive oil and 3-4 slices of beef, and allow to brown very well. It's okay if the meat sticks slightly to the pan, but don't let it burn. Those browned bits are an important flavor base for your sauce. Once the meat has browned, add 1/3 of the negi (leeks), 3-4 more slices of beef, and enough braising sauce to come up about half way up the ingredients in the pan. Now add small handfuls of each of the other ingredients to the pan and keep the braising liquid simmering — you'll have to turn the heat up as you add ingredients and sauce, then back down as things get cooked. Try to keep similar ingredients together, both for aesthetic reasons and to help the diners locate what they're hungry for next! When adding more raw meat to the mix, I try to push all the fully cooked ingredients to the other end of the pan, as far away as possible.
To eat, the cook can either serve each person a portion of all the cooked bits in their individual serving bowls, or the diners can fill their own bowls with what they like. A note about etiquette at the sukiyaki table: diners should not dip their chopsticks into the sauce, or touch food that they do not put into their own bowl (i.e., don't use your chopsticks to move food around in the pan). One way around this is to have a set of serving chopsticks or tongs to allow diners to choose foods from the pan, or allow the chef to use the cooking 'sticks to fill bowls. Of course, when it's just family, who's gonna tell on you, right? : ) From their individual bowls, diners can then dip each mouthful in a beaten egg, and savor.
Aahhh, sukiyaki in the comfort of your own home. "Itadakimasu," indeed!
I"ve received a couple of emails about the use of udon noodles with sukiyaki. We always added cooked udon noodles at the very end of cooking, after most of the diners were sated and the last of the ingredients were fully cooked in the pan. The noodles sit in the braising liquid overnight in the refrigerator and fully absorb all the flavors of the pan by morning. You will have a wonderful breakfast or bento once re-heated fully in a microwave or by returning the pan to the fire. I always understood using udon as a way of not wasting the flavor-laden sauce at the end. I suppose you could include udon earlier in the process as well, and enjoy it as a substitute for, or in addition to, plain rice. Thanks to Debi and to Karl for your questions!
Gift for the Chef: Easy Sweet & Spicy Prawns
As you all can attest, time is really at a premium right now. Anything that will get dinner on the table quickly and with delicious results (does that go without saying by now?) is a gift and a joy. Well, since I had some extra Sweet & Spicy Nuts from the last post, and all the ingredients to whip together the sauce for the Sweet & Spicy Prawns that we put in a recipe kit for friends (same post), I went with the easy meal and made the prawns for us last night. The shiitake mushrooms were a last minute addition, only because I already had some re-hydrated from the previous evening's preparations. As it's still flu and cold season, the shiitake are an added boost for our immune systems, along with the heavy dose of ginger in the sauce.
The local ginger available here in the Islands is so fresh, it can be quite tender (no woody filaments), with a papery-thin skin that will peel off with a firm rub with one's bare hands. When it is this fresh, I thinly sliced the ginger instead of grating it as the recipe suggests. The tender spiced ginger can be consumed as part of the dish, similar in texture to bamboo shoots. From opening the fridge to decide on something for dinner to setting the table, this meal was done in 35 minutes. We actually had to wait for the rice to finish cooking and steaming after the shrimp was already done. (Anyway, it was a chance to snap a few photos!)
1 lb./455g raw prawns, boneless chicken or firm tofu
1 egg white
3 TBL. cornstarch
1/2 tsp salt
3 TBL. sake or water
Marinate prawns for 20 minutes in egg white, cornstarch, salt, water. If using chicken, cube, then marinate. For tofu, press dry, then cut in large (2 in./5cm) cubes, and either deep-fry, or pan-fry to brown all sides. Do not marinate tofu.
2 TBL. ketchup
1 TBL. sambal oelek or garlic-chili sauce
1-½ TBL. sugar
1-½ TBL. rice wine or apple juice
1 TBL. cornstarch stirred in 2 TBL. water
Mix together ketchup, sambal/chili-garlic sauce, sugar, rice wine and cornstarch mixture. Set aside.
Heat 3 cups oil in a pan or wok to smoking point. Fry half of the prawns, chicken or tofu. Remove when meat or tofu is evenly browned and floats to surface of oil, drain well on paper toweling. Re-heat oil, then fry second batch. Meanwhile, prepare sauce.
5 TBL. oil
1 clove garlic, minced
2 TBL. grated fresh ginger (or thinly sliced if very fresh)
1 1/2 cup water or broth
6 medium shiitake mushrooms, re-hydrated, squeezed dry and quartered (not traditional, optional)
1 bunch scallions, washed and chopped finely
1/2-3/4 cup (60-90g) Sweet & Spicy Nuts (chopped)
In another pan or wok put 5 tablespoons of oil and fry garlic and ginger for 30 seconds. When fragrant, add mushrooms, if using. Add Sauce and water or broth, cook together for about 1 minute. Add cooked prawns, chicken or tofu, and stir to coat with sauce.
Remove from pan and garnish with chopped scallions and Sweet & Spicy Nuts. Serve with hot rice and your choice of vegetables.
This recipe has been submitted to the Ginger Event sponsored by the unstoppable zorra at 1x umrühren bitte.
What's in the pantry: Shiitake mushrooms
Since I'm still battling the effects of this bout with the flu, I still crave things that support the immune system. I know that sounds weird, but don't you feel sometimes that your body tells you what it needs? (Yes, of course, the body can need chocolate . . . but that's another post . . .)
One such immunity booster is the shiitake mushroom. I was first opened to the healing possibilities of foods in Nina Simonds' book, "A Spoonful of Ginger." It has remained a valuable and often sought resource in my library since 1999, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about the healing properties of everyday food. In her book, Ms. Simonds notes that "[r]ecent research has credited shiitake mushrooms . . . with components that bolster the immune system, prolong life in cancer patients, and are useful in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome and AIDS." (page 165) A quick google of "shiitake" on the internet will give you many reports of shiitake's growing use in cancer treatment, and it's reported success in lowering cholesterol and battling hepatitis B.
You'd think that growing up with a n Okinawan-Japanese mother that I would have grown up liking shiitake mushrooms. Not true. I used to hate the taste of these mushrooms — I would carefully pick them out, sliver by sliver, piece by piece, out of whatever dish my mom put them in. I really didn't develop a taste for them until I returned to Guam in my mid-20s. Now, I not only keep a supply of the dried fungi in my pantry, I usually rehydrate more than I need, and cook and season them to have on hand as a quick side dish for lunch, as a topping for ramen and other noodle soups, or to add a quick umami boost to a dish.
First, you need to rehydrate the mushrooms. Place them in a container at least 3-4 times larger than the dried mushrooms. Cover with cool water, trying to keep the gills of the mushrooms face down. (Many sources say to use hot water, but I don't think this is necessary) Weigh down the mushrooms to keep them submerged (they're going to want to float at the surface). In the photo below, a small plate provides just enough weight to keep the mushrooms below the surface. Leave for 30 minutes of more. When they are fully re-hydrated, the stems will be pliable and not stiff anymore.
Gently squeeze the mushrooms to release some of the absorbed water (but don't wring it dry). Trim the woody stems using kitchen scissors. You can keep this soaking water as a base for soup or sauce, but strain it through a sieve to keep out the fine grit that will be at the bottom of the container.
To make a braising sauce:
1/2 cup/ 120ml water or soaking liquid
1/2 cup/ 120ml mirin (Japanese seasoned cooking wine)
if you don't have mirin, you can use sake or dry sherry PLUS 1 tsp extra sugar)
1-1/2 tsp sugar or brown sugar
1/2 tsp soy sauce
Combine all ingredients in small pan and lay shiitake gill-side down (so the mushroom can absorb the flavor of the sauce) — the liquid should be about half way up the mushroom caps (add more water or soaking liquid if needed). Simmer for 15-20 minutes or until liquid reduces by half. Taste braising liquid — it should be sweet and the alcohol flavor gone. Add another teaspoon of soy sauce and turn mushrooms over and cook for another 5-10 minutes, or until the liquid becomes a glaze, thick and syrup-like. Turn off heat, cover, and let mushrooms cool in pan.
The finished mushrooms are delicious eaten as is. Try them in a sandwich, or as a side dish with any Asian rice meal. Or, as here, as a topping for ramen, saimin, udon, wonton or another noodle soup. You can also chop them finely and add to meatloaf or meatball mixture, season with teriyaki sauce and enjoy a different and healthy twist to your meatloaf. I think once you get used to having these tasty shrooms handy, you'll find many uses for them. I'd love to hear from anyone trying this recipe at home.


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One of the most popular sets of cheap earphones is Panasonic's ErgoFit RP-HJE120, which you can find online for around $7. It offers impressively decent sound for the money and a comfortable fit, which is why I gave it four stars.
But the RP-HJE120s aren't the only sub-$8 earphones that sound surprisingly good for the money. At this price point you'll also find iLuv's City Lights earphones, as well as the JVC Gumy Plus (HAFX5) reviewed here -- and a few other models I haven't reviewed yet.
The Gumy Plus doesn't offer quite as accurate sound as the Panasonic ErgoFit RP-HJE120, but it, too, is a well-balanced set of earphones, it fits comfortably, and its cord doesn't tangle as easily as the Panasonic's.
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The Gumy Plus comes in a variety of colors. There's nothing fancy about its all-plastic construction, but it's an attractive enough looking earphone and lightweight.
Like the ErgoFit RP-HJE120s, these are sort of hybrid earphones, part hard earbud like your basic Apple earbud and part soft bud. They come with three different-size pairs of silicone eartips. At this price, you're more apt to see hard-bud earphones, but being able to jam the soft tips into your ears helps with sound isolation and maximizes the bass output. I was able to get a tight seal with the largest of the eartips, and I as I said in the intro, I thought the earphones were comfortable and they stayed in my ears well.
As you might expect for a $7 pair of headphones, you don't get anything in the way of extras: no inline remote/microphone for making cell phone calls nor any sort of carrying case.
While the Panasonic HJE120s have an L-shaped plug, the JVCs have a compact straight plug that will be easier to fit into more smartphone cases but may not be as sturdy as an L-shaped plug.


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WEIMER: Tree best after Christmas
Do you like your tree this year? Or are you one of the people who already has an artificial tree that is all decorated, lights and all on it, so you just take it out of the box every Christmas.
You are the smart one. You might rearrange the ornaments each year to give it a different look, but every year you have the perfect tree.
Then there are those (yours truly) who can't seem to accept an artificial tree. Ours has to be a natural tree and each year we go seeking the perfect one.
Each year I try to save the tag that comes on the tree telling me what kind it is so I can either remember to get or not get that kind the following year.
I don't go and pick out and cut down my tree, I go and select one from what has already been cut. It has become a ritual each year to pick out just the right tree every year. The task has become my job because all those who go with me get impatient with me. When I see all of the trees lined up I lose all perspective.
It isn't the fault of the people where we buy the tree, they have all beautiful trees.
Prior selections have been somewhat disastrous. One year I came home with a tree so tall it had to be cut off in order to fit in the house. It took up a large portion of the living room and furniture had to be removed in order for people to get around it. That didn't happen again.
I have gotten better. Now, I ask advice from the proprietor regarding the height and circumference even though I am looking at it. Sometimes when you get the tree home the branches bend down so that the tree has more fullness than at the tree farm.
One year I remember, not only was the trunk so crooked that the whole tree stood at an angle, but the branches were also hit and miss so that no matter what position you put it in, there was excess open space. That was the year I promised myself I would be more selective.
Some people really don't care; a tree is a tree. No matter what shape it is, it's beautiful when it's decorated. Why can't I use that theory?
I'm not alone. We know of one couple last year that, after the tree was up, trimmed and lighted, they went out and bought another tree because they were so disappointed in the first one.
I could never go through the ordeal a second time, especially the very next night. That takes stamina.
I'm thinking of all this as I sit gazing at my tree following Christmas Day. I always enjoy my tree after the big day. I can sit and enjoy it without the pressure of all the things that needed doing before Christmas. The frenzy, pressure, anxiety of all that needed doing is over.
As you can guess, the tree is my main "thing" in decorations for the holidays. I enjoy it after Christmas, I can play the songs of the season, the favorites that are mine, look at the ornaments that have come down through the ages with memories and Christmases of days gone by and the stories behind so many of them. At our house the Christmas tree doesn't get put up until either the eve of Christmas Eve or on Christmas Eve.
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Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp.
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Holding: For purposes of the anti-retaliation provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the term filed any complaint includes both oral and written complaints. (Kagan, J., recused).
Plain English Holding: The Fair Labor Standards Act prohibits retaliation against workers for complaining about violations of the Act even if the complaint is oral rather than written.
Judgment: Vacated and remanded on March 22, 2011. (Kagan, J., recused).
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- Brief for the United States of America in Support of Petitioner
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- Brief for the National Employment Law Project, Interfaith Worker Justice, Legal Aid Society, Legal Momentum, National Domestic Workers Alliance, National Employment Lawyers Association, Restaurant Opportunities Center United, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Southern Poverty Law Center, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and the Equal Justice Center in Support of Petitioner
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RALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Drayson Bowman delivered two of Carolina's four unanswered goals Thursday that brought the Hurricanes from behind to a 4-3 win over Vancouver.
Bowman was called up by the Hurricanes this week and played in only his 36th NHL game spread over three seasons. The goals were the second and third of his career.
After the Hurricanes fell behind 2-0 early in the second, Bowman started the comeback by scoring on a tip-in with 4:08 to go in the middle period. Tuomo Ruutu then scored on a slap shot with 52 seconds remaining to tie it.
Bowman put Carolina in front 37 seconds into the third and Jaroslav Spacek produced a power-play goal 6 minutes later.
Alex Burrows brought Vancouver back within a goal with 11:20 to play, but Cam Ward was perfect the rest of the way and finished with 33 saves to get the victory.
Carolina won for just the 10th time in 33 games this season, ending a two-game losing streak.
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Top 5 Hallelujah Covers
I'm always amazed at the timelessness of Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah. You would think people would get tired of it, but it seems like every couple of months I run across an artist who has had success covering this song. Even still, it doesn't crack the top 100 most covered songs according to Second Hand Songs. Though, I find that hard to believe since it has been recorded by around 185 different artists. (Here's a list of all the artists to cover the song)
Just as interesting as the song's popularity is its ambiguity. Probably because Cohen was a more of a poet than a songwriter, the song is left open to interpretation and everyone seems to have their own. I love how Cohen describes the meaning… "It explains that many kinds of hallelujahs do exist, and all the perfect and broken hallelujahs have equal value." Supposedly, Cohen told Bob Dylan this song took him 2 years to write and the original composition had 80 verses. The full version has been slimed down to a mere 15 verses.
So, with all those versions out there, I decided to rank my personal favorites. Like most people, I secretly used Jeff Buckley's version as the standard. I leaned towards artists who were creative with their melodies and instrumentation without killing the feel. There are some good voices covering this song but their too similar to Buckley's version. Anyways, here are my top 5:
No. 1 – Jeff Buckley
No. 2 – Phil Wickham
No. 3 – Rufus Wainwright
No. 4 – Brandi Carlile
No. 5 – Bob Dylan
Honorable mention: Beirut
Dishonorable mention: Bono


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Sam Pierron had a problem.
The Kansan had been waiting years for a top-flight soccer league here in the States, but when it finally came, a lot of things just weren't right.
Fifteen years ago, MLS kicked off with stadiums that were too big and fields that were often too small. There was a clock that ran backwards, and a total lack of recognition for the best regular-season team, something that's unheard of nearly everywhere else in the soccer world.
And so Pierron and some friends from the four corners of the US soccer world got together – virtually – to set about fixing what was broken.
"Working together like that is something that came out of the old North American Soccer mailing list," said Pierron, once a leader for the Mystics, Kansas City's first supporters group, but now an employee of Sporting Kansas City serving primarily as a liaison between the club and its supporters. "This is pre-message board days. We were fans at a time where, economically, the league probably needed to listen to us. And to their credit, they did."
Thirteen soccer-specific stadiums, hundreds of tifo displays, a few thousand games and a league-sanctioned Supporters' Shield later, and the vision of MLS for which Pierron and his trailblazing fellows fought in the mid-1990s is the reality of the 21st century.
Though the supporters themselves didn't spend the millions needed to build those stadiums, they did shine a light on the potential the game had by bringing raucous, loud, passionate support. And by the end of MLS' second season, at the inaugural Supporters Summit, the league's powers showed up and listened.
[inline_node:330053]"That was probably the key first step, them coming to the Summit in LA in 1997, and showing that they understood that the fans need to have their voice heard," Pierron explained. "After that it was the end of the shootout [in 1999], and from there it's mostly been in the right direction."
Pierron, who designed the Shield and got it sanctioned by the league – "There was never any resistance, to be honest, he said" – was one spearhead of the supporter's movement that pushed MLS toward a more traditional format.
In DC, however, "Tradition" was the word from day one. The Screaming Eagles are probably the largest and best-known supporter's club from the original MLS teams, and their position along the camera-side of RFK Stadium lent them a visibility that other groups weren't afforded.
"There was a poll for the team name, back in 1995," said Paul Sotoudeh of the Screaming Eagles. "I think the names were 'Justice,' 'Force' or 'Spies.' It was pretty bad.
"By that time, though, Matt Mathai, the founder of our group, had already been in touch with [DC's front office], and Kevin Payne called him up and said 'Hey, what do you think about D.C. United?' And Matt kind of breathed a big sigh of relief."
Sotoudeh says that consideration from the DC front office has been a staple of United's culture, and one that he's happy to see passed along to other markets.
"Honestly, we've had such little turnover in the front office that it's made it easy to work with them since day one," Sotoudeh said. "Kevin Payne's been there since the start. Stephen Zach's been there from the start. A bunch of people have, and they've always been there to support us.
[inline_node:330052]"Whether it's banners or tifo or other things that we want to get done during the game, or just helping create a tailgate culture that translates to national team games, too, we've always had that help."
As Sotoudeh said, DC fans were lucky in their relationship with the front office. Other groups had to struggle for recognition. But the "everybody knows everybody" nature of MLS fandom in those days made that struggle a communal one.
"I know a lot of the supporters groups from those days knew each other from USA games," Sotoudeh said. "I [Mathai] knew Sandy Canetti, who was one of the leaders of [New York's] Empire Supporters Club back then. And I think because of that, and in spite of any rivalries, there was this shared experience among all the fans."
That shared experiences has been passed among the clubs now, as well. Obviously not every club does everything the same way – Seattle's alliance with their supporters remains unique in MLS history, and the Colorado Rapids still have the only terrace in the league – but teams have come a long way from the days grasping a plan that would appease the hardcore supporters while managing not to scare away the more casual crowd.
"Obviously it's something the league, as a whole, has gotten better at," Pierron said. "I think when Toronto came in in 2007, it became really obvious to everybody that there was more to this and that a supporter's culture, a real, distinct supporter's culture that everyone could share, was a possibility."


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If you are an Android fan, (and who on this site isn't), you may be quite pleased to know that Google just officially announced its new blog specifically designed for Android. The new blog-site opens it's home page nicely with a happy smiling "Andy." Even more interesting is that this new blog is really just a rebadged version of their previous Google Blog that they have since retired. Of course, because of this, it is already covered with interesting Android tidbits, from Mobile World Congress back in February, all the way up to a story from today about Google Wallet.
Are you sad to see the Google Blog go, or does it make sense to solidify things around our favorite little green buddy?
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- Wins Best Emerging Airline on Social Media Award at the SimpliFlying Awards
- Named 'Most Influential Brand in the UAE' on LinkedIn
- Reaches historic milestone of one million Facebook fans globally
- Launches new Pinterest brand account
Etihad Airways is celebrating social media success after being named winner of the Best Emerging Airline on Social Media Award at the SimpliFlying Awards 2014, and for having reached one million Facebook fans globally.
The SimpliFlying Awards recognise the best social media campaigns and practices in the aviation industry. The winners were announced at a glittering ceremony during the Travel Distribution Summit North America in New York this week, attended by more than 400 travel and hospitality executives.
A rigorous process of public voting and an expert panel of judges selected the UAE flag carrier as winner of the Best Emerging Airline on Social Media Award, in recognition of the airline's sophisticated strategy, engaging content, targeted promotions and campaigns, and focused community management over the past 12 months.
Etihad Airways undertook various initiatives on its social networking pages to engage fans and build a stronger bond with them, alongside generating revenue for the airline. The pages provide real-time news updates about the brand, sponsorships, route additions, products and services, special offers and brand-engaging games.
Peter Baumgartner, Etihad Airways' Chief Commercial Officer, said: "Social media channels have become a vital part of our broader digital and communications activity. This award further inspires us to be pioneers in the global travel industry in terms of recognising and harnessing the power of social media, and telling the Etihad Airways story in innovative ways."
Shashank Nigam, SimpliFlying's CEO, said: "Etihad Airways has adopted a methodological approach to social media marketing, resulting in a dramatic increase in engagement over the last year, particularly around the launch of their new Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A380 products, which will be taking to the skies in December. The airline came from behind and has taken the competition by storm."
LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network on the Internet, recently revealed Etihad Airways as the most influential brand headquartered in the UAE based on engagement among LinkedIn's membership of 313 million professionals. The ranking follows a number of successful campaigns the airline ran on the platform, taking its number of followers above 120,000.
Fresh from its social media achievements and recognitions, Etihad Airways has reached the historic milestone of one million fans on its Facebook page and over 100,000 followers on its Twitter account (@EtihadAirways). The airline has witnessed considerable growth in the number of social media users over the past year, more than doubling its Facebook 'likes' with an additional 512,000 fans and increasing its Twitter followers by 75 per cent.
In celebration of the achievements, the airline has launched a '#OneMillionMoments' social media promotion in which fans can share photos of their memorable Etihad Airways travel moments using Facebook, Twitter or Instagram for the chance to win a pair of Economy Class flight tickets to anywhere on the airline's flight network. The competition is open until 30 September 2014, after which a panel of judges will choose the best entry. For more information, and to view the full terms and conditions for the promotion, visit Etihad Airways' Facebook page.
To expand its social media reach further, Etihad Airways has launched a new Pinterest account, which will be used as a destination and inspirational marketing tool. It will allow fans to connect and engage with the airline directly through content on the Pinterest boards, featuring popular destinations across the network, world-class products and services, and exciting travel ideas.
"We are thrilled to launch our new Pinterest account, which will anchor Etihad Airways as a key channel on the internet for travel planning. Pinterest has enormous potential to reach our target market and create brand associations through visually-appealing content," Mr Baumgartner added.
Pinterest has become increasingly popular, especially among women, with more than 70 million registered users worldwide, of which 40 million are monthly active users. It is considered second only to Facebook in social media in terms of sending referral traffic to websites.
Etihad Airways continues to broaden its social media offerings and plans to develop an official blog and launch new brand accounts in multiple languages. These new endeavours are all part of an enduring effort from Etihad Airways to improve the experience of fans of the airline, who can stay connected with the airline by visiting any of its social media channels:
- Facebook: facebook.com/etihad.airways
- Twitter: twitter.com/etihadairways
- Instagram: instagram.com/etihadairways
- YouTube: youtube.com/etihadairways
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/etihadairways
- Pinterest: pinterest.com/etihadairways


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Today I threw wide
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so many souvenirs.
The scent of sandal wood
filled the air and I thought
of you.
By tonight I will be in La Jolla
that marvel of constellations,
the air as salty as sea lions.
Nostalgia is taboo among the
honey cake dunes.
Maybe I will stay there forever
paint everything that flickers
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WILS database of women in science
The database aims to help scientists, universities, research institutions, political institutions, conference organizers and journal editors to identify appropriately qualified women scientists:
- as candidates for professorships and other positions
- to speak at conferences and in seminar programmes
- to participate in advisory groups, on monitoring panels, committees and commissions
- to review manuscripts, to write commissioned reviews and to serve on the editorial boards of journals.
Users can search for keywords, cities, institutions, etc., and filter records by research area, position, or country. Please note that "position" refers to the general career stage of the expert, in order to avoid confusion over employment titles across European nations.
The database was an initiative of the ELSO Career Development Committee and is supported by EMBO and FEBS. It is managed by
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Expert Women in the Molecular Life Sciences are encouraged to submit their information to the database.
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- European national and/or working in Europe.
- Publication as first or last author of a basic research article in an internationally recognized journal within the past three years.
- PhD and if you are a postdoc, at least one paper from your postdoctoral work.
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Jesse I and Troublemekka present a night of bruk out Jamaican dancehall, bashment and jump up soca at the Laundry Bar. Running bi-monthly, Yard Bounce aims to feature the finest selectors, MCs and dancers in the business. Get ready for the vibes to tun up Caribbean-style this summer!
The second instalment will feature hosts Jesse I and Troublemekka alongside guest DJs Rebel Bass (NZ), Sista Sara, and DJ Sam; plus live performances from Di Apprentice and Bahdoesa (Quashani Bahd and Muma Doesa).
Yard Bounce takes place on Saturday 24th January at Laundry (50 Johnston St, Fitzroy). $10 door pressure. 10pm-3am.


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With a headliner between UFC vet Todd Duffee and "The Ultimate Fighter 10" cast members Abe Wagner officially announced, officials are booking additional fights for the HDNet-televised Titan Fighting Championships 16 event.
A source close to the fighters told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) longtime UFC middleweight Drew McFedries (8-6) and Strikeforce vet Gary Tapasua (6-1) have agreed to fight at the show.
TFC 16 takes place Jan. 28 at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan.
It's the first Titan event slated for an HDNet broadcast.
The bout is McFedries' first since his three-year, nine-fight stint ended with the UFC in late 2009. However, the Iowa-based fighter hasn't competed since a 2009 submission loss to Tomas Drwal at UFC 103. McFedries – who earned first-round knockout wins over UFC vets such as Alessio Sakara, Jordan Radev, Marvin Eastman and Xavier Foupa-Pokam – was slated to fight Joey Villasenor in September at Shark Fights 13 but was forced off the card with an injury.
Tapasua, a Missouri-based fighter,
faces his most notable opponent to date. He turned pro just a year ago at Strikeforce Challengers 5, where he suffered a close split-decision defeat to Darryl Cobb. However, he's since posted six consecutive knockout wins, including a first-round TKO of Jesse Beck (2-1) on Oct. 15 and a second-round TKO of Ken Jackson (9-4) just a week later on Oct. 22.
For the latest on Titan Fighting Championships 16, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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It is common to design slopes as steep as possible to optimise land use. This can lead to a larger crest area or a reduction of the embankment area. If the frictional and strength characteristics of the soil cannot provide a stable structure, special reinforcing measures are required. Secugrid® geogrids are an economical alternative to modifying the slope geometry. Made from extruded high strength monolithic flat polyester PET or polypropylene PP bars, Secugrid® reinforces the soil structure by carrying excess slope forces.
With the optimised Secugrid® product design, the flat Secugrid® bars have maximum interlocking with the surrounding soil. The junction stiffness and negligible product construction elongation of Secugrid® allows immediate force absorption when confining stress is applied. Compared to other geosynthetic reinforcement products, Secugrid® geogrids show a steeper increase in the force-elongation diagram. Higher stress absorption and lower product elongation result in more economical construction methods.
Different national guidelines for slope stability calculations can be used. The NAUE Secugrid® Design Manual also contains design and product selection guidelines for proper use of the Secugrid® geogrid products. These include guidelines for the application of geotextiles and geogrids in the construction of roads, and recommendations for geosynthetic reinforcement.
The PET and PP resin used in Secugrid® provides excellent physical characteristics and helps to allow more economical product selections. Secugrid® can withstand higher long-term creep stresses than other polyolefin products due to the unique manufacturing process.
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Secumat® erosion control mat can significantly reduce soil wash-out during the heavy rainfalls common to Middle Europe. The three-dimensional, irregular labyrinth-like structure of Secumat® is designed to allow both fine grained and gravel soils to fill the open convoluted structure. The irregular Secumat® structure holds the soil in position on steeper slopes and provides the structural support to the vegetation during the early stages of plant growth.
The use of high quality polypropylene (PP) resins make Secumat® resistant to naturally occurring soil chemicals, soil microorganisms and UV-radiation. When used in conjunction with a carrier nonwoven geotextile, the structure of the Secumat® erosion control product is virtually identical to the Secudrain® drainage system. Installed with the convoluting surface side-up, it will then perform two functions – separation and erosion control.
Secugrid® geogrids ensure the stability of noise barriers and retention basins, as well as dams and other steep slopes where space saving, steep embankments are often necessary.
Secumat® erosion control products are employed to prevent erosion on slopes or areas subjected to periodic turbulent flow. It prevents soil wash-out during heavy rain, and provides structural support to the vegetation – especially important during the early stages of plant growth. In drainage trenches, Secumat® also prevents soil particle wash-out, thus ensuring the proper performance of the system.


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Mayor's Office
Local artists are invited to participate in the fifth annual Artistic Rain Barrel program. This year's project is sponsored by the Lincoln Children's Zoo and the Watershed Management Division of the City Public Works and Utilities Department. Applications are due January 23, 2013, and 25 artists will be chosen to paint rain barrels for a display at SouthPointe Pavilions shopping center.
Rain barrels are above-ground containers modified to receive, store and distribute rooftop runoff for non-drinking uses. The Artistic Rain Barrel program has raised more than $24,000 for community youth education programs. The 2013 proceeds will help fund the Zoo's environmental education programs.
"We invite people of all ages and skill levels to paint a rain barrel," said Ellen Wright, Environmental Health Educator in Watershed Management. "We've had amateur to professional artists create designs that inspire and connect the Lincoln community. We've also had groups like elementary classes participate. This project is a fun way to educate the public about the importance of managing stormwater runoff and to raise funds for a great cause."
Applications are available at the City website, lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: rain barrel), and at the City Watershed Management office, 901 N. 6th St. Applicants will be asked to include a short summary of the intended design. The chosen artists will be notified by January 23 and will have until March 8 to paint and return the barrels. Barrels will be displayed from March 18 to April 19 at SouthPointe Pavilions. Photos and more information will be posted on the City website.
New this year is a "Buy Now" feature that allows individuals to purchase a rain barrel anytime after March 18. The feature can be accessed from the Zoo website at lincolnzoo.org or by using a smart phone to scan the QR code displayed with each rain barrel. Those not purchased by Saturday, April 20 will be auctioned from 10 a.m. to noon that day at SouthPointe Pavilions.
The Environmental Protection Agency reports that stormwater runoff is a leading cause of water pollution. "The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality says 46 percent of local streams are impaired by polluted stormwater," Wright said. "Rain barrels are simple pollution solutions." In addition to using rain barrels, residents can help reduce polluted runoff by installing rain gardens, using lake-friendly fertilizers and removing pet waste.
For more information, contact Wright at 402-441-7075 or email@example.com.


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Once you are here, you will never want to leave. The Holzner attracts and welcomes everyone: Those seeking rest will find relaxation and those seeking indulgence will find culinary pleasures. Families will get their well-deserved time together, and nature lovers will discover adventure in the forests and fields nearby. For over one hundred years, The Holzner has been a haven of pleasure for young and old. Thus, a modest tradition has developed from the house's long history, and today, The Holzner embraces this tradition to provide for your body and soul.


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Pondering change in the Great Basin
I'm standing on the shores of Summer Lake, or, to be more accurate, what used to be a lakeshore but is now a dry lakebed in Oregon's high desert. I'm here with a group of writers, scientists and artists, all of us gathered to talk about changes in the northern Great Basin.
Sharp environmental contrasts, through both time and space, have always been a feature of life in the Great Basin. We know this because the region's arid conditions that make living here a challenge are also ideal for preserving the remains of past life.
In lake sediments, packrat stockpiles and even in exquisitely air-dried human dung (coprolites), ecological change has been revealed by the painstaking work of geologists, paleontologists and archeologists. That knowledge has recently been synthesized in a masterful book, The Great Basin: A Natural Prehistory, by Donald K. Grayson of the University of Washington, and it's required reading for anyone interested in the West.
The most dramatic changes in the Great Basin over the past 100,000 years are the appearance and disappearance of lakes. The Great Basin is comprised of many lesser basins that are connected to some degree, but which have no outlet. In the late Pleistocene, about 15,000 years ago, the Great Basin was a labyrinth of lakes, covering almost 28 million acres by Grayson's calculation. The largest of these, Lake Bonneville, was almost the size of Lake Michigan and reached depths well over 1,000 feet. Its shriveled remnant is the Great Salt Lake.
Summer Lake, too, was part of a much larger Pleistocene lake, called Lake Chewaucan, which covered 480 square miles and reached a depth of 375 feet. At its springtime maximum these days, Summer Lake is lucky to cover 70 square miles at a maximum depth of three feet. By late summer, the lake has retreated to a puddle, a thin dark smudge almost lost in the heat waves.
The Pleistocene lakes existed when the continental ice sheets deflected the jet stream southward. This brought both high precipitation and cool temperatures, which together filled the basins of the Great Basin. In contrast, the greatest retreat of Great Basin lakes occurred during a period of high temperatures and drought sometimes called the Altithermal, from about 7,500-4,500 years ago. The causes for this climatic shift in the middle Holocene are not well understood, and its effects were not equally severe everywhere. Nevertheless, the implications for the future of the region are sobering.
The Altithermal appears to have been characterized by temperatures 5-15 degrees higher than today; in other words, within the range of predicted Great Basin temperatures by the end of this century. And what were the effects of these temperatures? Many Great Basin lakes and marshes virtually disappeared. The frequency of fires increased, as shown by studies near Lake Tahoe. A variety of mammals associated with sagebrush were replaced by species adapted to drought-tolerant saltbush. The hardy woodrats, whose middens are such a reliable source of data on environmental conditions, disappeared from many sites, to return only after the end of the drought.
Even those most adaptable of creatures, human beings, suffered population declines during the Altithermal. Those who survived were forced to adapt to a diet heavy in small seeds that were extremely labor-intensive to gather and process, and we know this from their, um, coprolites. All in all, Grayson singles out the Altithermal as the least hospitable time for humans in the Great Basin over the past 10,000 years.
This bad time seems to be returning. And the challenges ahead will not be due to climate change alone. Human population density in the Great Basin is far greater than it has ever been, with major cities in Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Reno. These urban populations, especially those in Las Vegas, rely on water sources that may not last the century, and most rural residents also depend on readily available water for farming and ranching. It is hard to imagine how these populations can be sustained in the face of conditions approaching those of the Altithermal.
The dry bed, or playa, of Summer Lake, has a stark beauty. Every evening, our group gathers on its salty edge to watch the shadow of Winter Ridge roll smoothly across it as the sun sets. The history of the Great Basin assures us that this lake will be brim-full again -- in a thousand, or 10,000 years. But that is cold comfort for the hot days ahead.
Pepper Trail is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is naturalist and writer from Ashland, Oregon, who wrote this piece during a residency at Playa, a retreat center for artists, writers and scientists on the shores of Oregon's Summer Lake.


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Close fundraising race for Conn. GOP candidates
HARTFORD >> The race to raise campaign contributions is a close one among Republicans considering running for governor.
Three of the four major contenders have each raised about $30,000 as of Sept. 30. They include Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, Greenwich businessman Tom Foley and Wilton Sen. Toni Boucher (boo-SHAY'). Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton (BOW'-tuhn) raised $14,545.
McKinney, who officially declared his candidacy for governor, said Friday he has actually raised $90,000 after holding four additional fundraising events since Oct. 1. He must raise $250,000 in small contributions to qualify for public campaign financing.
Foley, Boucher and Boughton each formed exploratory committees and plan to seek public financing if they ultimately run.
Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has not yet revealed his re-election plans.


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Andrew Bixler (b. 1981, San Francisco) creates colored pencil and ink portraits of willowy characters accompanied by brief explanatory text. His direct statements of fact turn the outrageous in to the everyday, as Vikings, tree surgeons, magicians, the famous, and the infamous all make an appearance. Bixler's line is free flowing yet assured, and his palette is spare but energetic. Most often his portraits and his drawings of groups of objects (coffee cups, lemons, sunglasses) are situated against a plain background.
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V Spent A Chic Morning With Donatella Versace and Christopher Kane at Versace's First-Ever Downtown Boutique
V Spent A Chic Morning With Donatella Versace and Christopher Kane at Versace's First-Ever Downtown Boutique
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Soho got serious does of chic this morning when Donatella Versace and Christopher Kane previewed Versace's new boutique on Mercer Street. Conceived by Versace and English architect Jamie Fobert, the first downtown New York shop for the brand is a seamless addition to the gilded legacy of Versace: revolving panels displaying merchandise, a mosaic tile floor modeled after Roman Basilicas, and futuristic plexiglass panels are some of the opulent visuals the space has to offer, altogether giving the sensation of walking along a curvaceous, Italian catwalk. "The uptown girl is very different from the downtown girl," Versace said of the thought process that went into designing the new space. Part of the hip downtown charm lies in a curatorial series, beginning with limited edition items (notebooks, candy, iPhone cases, Medusa earbuds) designed by Christopher Kane. "People always ask me what I am inspired by and the answer is really cities. Each city I go to gives me energy and inspiration. Also, music." When asked what her favorite music is of the moment she answered quite simply "I like Grimes." Fittingly, Grimes's music was playing in the store. "I like her voice. Her singing is effortless. I love Beth Ditto, because she is so confident. Nothing is better than a confident woman. I grew up with my brother, who had a certain idea of a woman that is very glamorous. I don't know anything different!"
As for her own recipe for glamour, Versace offered some choice quotes. When asked about her beauty regimen, she joked "Of course, I sleep in the freezer!" On her take on flat shoes: "What is a flat shoe?" On her practice of working with Kane: "We fight! No, I'm joking, it's easy." And finally, what's her favorite thing about fashion today?
"It would have to be contamination like this," she said, grandly gesturing toward Kane. Realizing her malapropism ("collaboration" might have been what she intended to say) she carried the joke even further. "It's like a virus! There's no escape!" There's a slideshow of images from the store preview above.


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Texas affirmative action plan in trouble at court
The fate of the University of Texas' affirmative action program rests with the Supreme Court, where skeptical conservative justices indicated they are ready to impose new limits on the use of race in college admissions.
Liberal justices more supportive of affirmative action worried variously at Wednesday's argument that the court would either eviscerate its 9-year-old ruling upholding the use of race or enmesh federal judges around the country in evaluating college admissions programs.
Depending on how broadly the court rules, the decision could affect not only public colleges but most private ones as well. That's because federal civil rights law prevents discrimination by institutions that receive federal money.
"A decision condemning Texas' admissions procedures might well be taken, depending on how it was written, to confound and restrict (our) effort to assemble diverse student bodies," 37 small private colleges in 12 states told the court in a written submission. More than five dozen private schools, including the eight Ivy League colleges, chimed in to support the Texas plan.
The court heard arguments in a challenge to the program from a white Texan who contends she was discriminated against when the university did not offer her a spot in 2008.
Abigail Fisher, 22, the rejected student who sued, was among the hundreds of spectators at the arguments. Also in attendance was retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who wrote the majority opinion in a 2003 case, Grutter v. Bollinger, that upheld the use of race in college admissions.
Changes in the court's makeup since then, especially O'Connor's departure, could affect the outcome of the Texas case. Justice Samuel Alito, O'Connor's successor, has voted consistently against racial preferences since he joined the court in 2006 and appears likely to side with Fisher.
Among the liberal justices who looked more favorably on the Texas admissions system was Justice Sonia Sotomayor. She told Bert Rein, Fisher's Washington-based lawyer: "So you don't want to overrule Grutter, you just want to gut it."
Justice Stephen Breyer, a part of the majority in 2003, said he feared the court would put federal judges in charge of "dictating the policy of admission of all these universities."
Texas says the program is necessary to provide the kind of diverse educational experience the high court previously has endorsed. Along with race, the university considers community service, work experience, extracurricular activities, awards and other factors as it seeks to fill out its incoming classes. The bulk of its slots go to students who are admitted based on their high school class rank, without regard to race.
In 2008, the freshman class of more than 6,600 at Texas included 1,713 African-American and Hispanic students. Of those, 216 were admitted under the program that is being challenged.
Conservative justices seemed more open to the arguments of opponents of the program who say the university is practicing illegal discrimination by considering race at all, especially since the school achieves significant diversity through its race-blind admissions.
Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Antonin Scalia and Alito raised repeated objections to the affirmative action plan.
Roberts wanted to know how the university would determine when it had a "critical mass" of diversity on campus that would allow it to end the program.
Near the end of the session, he complained: "I'm hearing a lot about what it's not. I would like to know what it is."
Scalia, a dissenter in the 2003 case, mocked the university's efforts to have more minority students not just in the student body as a whole but at the classroom level.
"How do they figure out that particular classes don't have enough? What, somebody walks in the room and looks them over to see who looks Asian, who looks black, who looks Hispanic? Is that how it's done?" Scalia said.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is the likely decisive vote, looked skeptically on Texas lawyer Greg Garre's defense of the program. "What you're saying is what counts is race above all," Kennedy said.
Kennedy also was a dissenter in 2003 and never has voted in favor of an affirmative action program, though he has voiced support for diversity in education.
Justice Elena Kagan is not taking part, probably because she worked on the case at the Justice Department before joining the court.
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Road Trip 2010: In Washington, D.C., few places can get a geek more excited than the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
WASHINGTON--If you're a geek and you're in the nation's capital, one of the must-sees is definitely the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Located just west of the U.S. Capitol, the museum is an absolute treasure trove of aviation and space artifacts.
CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman came through this week as part of Road Trip 2010 and made sure to spend some time looking at some of the most famous airplanes in history.
As a fan of the terrific film "The Right Stuff," Terdiman couldn't resist the allure of this plane, the Bell X-1, in which Chuck Yeager became the first pilot ever to surpass the sound barrier. The plane has a 28-foot wingspan, is 30 feet, 11 inches long, and a total of 10 feet, 10 inches tall. It weighs 12,250 pounds and was made by Bell Aircraft company in 1946.
Click here to read the related story on the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and click here to check out the entire Road Trip 2010 package.
Also featured in "The Right Stuff," was this capsule, known as "Friendship 7," in which John Glenn, on February 20, 1962, became the first American to orbit the Earth. The capsule was part of the Mercury program, and Glenn's space flight took four hours and 55 minutes.
This is Columbia, the Apollo 11 command module. Astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins flew it to the moon, where Armstrong and Aldrin, on July 16, 1969, became the first two humans to walk on the lunar surface.
A view of the Apollo 11 capsule from the front, and above, at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C.
This is the famous Spirit of St. Louis, a Ryan NYP, which Charles Lindbergh piloted on May 21, 1927, in the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in history. Lindbergh flew the plane 3,610 miles from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, N.Y. to Paris. The flight took him 33 hours and 30 minutes.
With the flight completed, Lindbergh collected the $25,000 prize offered by hotel baron Raymond Orteig to be the first person to fly directly between New York and Paris.
On June 3, 1964, Edward White became the first American astronaut to perform a spacewalk, otherwise known as an extra-vehicular activity (EVA), going outside this Gemini IV capsule for 20 minutes. Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov had made the world's first spacewalk three months before.
Gemini IV, which was launched on top of a Titan II rocket, is 11 feet high, has a maximum diameter of 7 feet 6 inches, and weighs 7,000 pounds. It was made by McDonnell Aircraft for NASA.
The SpaceShipOne became the first private craft to reach space twice, winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize in 2004.
Built by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites and financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the ship's feat ushered in the private space age.
Soaring above the main entryway to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the Bell X-1, SpaceShipOne, and the Spirit of St. Louis hang side-by-side-by-side in an obvious tribute to three of the most important flights in history. It is especially worth noting SpaceShipOne's inclusion in the museum, as it is certainly among the very newest aircraft on display and is squarely from contemporary times.
This is the original Wright Flyer, the world's first manned, powered, aircraft. The Wright brothers flew their inaugural flight from Kitty Hawk, N.C., on December 17, 1903.
This Lockheed F-104 Starfighter became the first U.S. fighter to hit Mach 2--or twice the speed of sound. The plane was flown by NASA for 19 years as a "flying test bed," according to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, as well as a chase plane. It was the seventh Starfighter built.
On November 20, 1953, Scott Crossfield flew this Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket faster than Mach 2--or twice the speed of sound--becoming the first human ever to go that fast. The plane was air-launched from a U.S. Navy Boeing P2B-1S, or B-29), and reached Mach 2.005 at an altitude of 62,000 feet, in a shallow dive, according to the museum.
In 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union reached an agreement to take part in a joint venture in space. That agreement was fulfilled in 1975, when an American spacecraft launched from Florida and a Soviet craft launched in Kazakhstan, and the two came together in space.
According to the museum, "The Apollo-Soyuz test project marked a brief thaw in the Cold War and the first time that the two rivals cooperated in a manned space mission."
Over the course of the project, the crews from the two spacecraft visited each others' vessels, ate together and worked on joint projects.
This is the Breitlinger Orbiter 3, used by Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones beginning on March 1, 1999, as the first balloon to fly around the world nonstop. The two took off from the Swiss village of Chateau d'Oex and on March 21, 1999, they landed in Egypt, having traveled 28,431 miles.
A side view of the Breitling Orbiter 3.
This is the Boeing X-45A Joint Unmanned Combat Air System (J-UCAS). It was first flown in 2002 and was the first modern unmanned aerial vehicle to be designed for combat strike missions, according to the museum. The project was first managed by DARPA, but in 2003, the X-45 program was consolidated by the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy under the Joint Unmanned Combat Air System Office.
According to the museum, this X-45 carried out 40 sorties, and became the first autonomous flight of a high-performance, combat UAV. The program lasted until 2005.
This is the Pioneer UAV RQ-2A Pioneer, an aerial drone that gave field commanders a new tool to play with: real-time reconnaissance, surveillance, battle damage information, and target acquisition.
The drones went into service in the late 1980s, and this one was used in the 1991 Gulf War.
This UAV is notable for the fact that during a low pass near Kuwait City, several Iraqi soldiers made it clear as it was going overhead that they intended to surrender, marking the first time soldiers had surrendered to a UAV.
A partial section of a 747 and its engine, as seen at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
These two missiles, the Soviet SS-20 (left) and American Pershing-II, are two of more than 2,600 nuclear missiles banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, signed by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1987.
The Pershing-II was deployed by the Americans in West Germany starting in 1983 and was aimed at western Soviet targets. It could carry a single thermonuclear warhead with a maximum explosive force of 50 kilotons. Because of the INF, all Pershing-II's were eliminated. This was a training version of the missile.
The SS-20 was one of the Soviet Union's mobile intermediate-range ballistic missiles and carried up to three thermonuclear warheads with a total maximum explosive force of 250 kilotons. It was deployed at 48 bases in the Soviet Union, and could strike Western Europe and Asia. The INF required that the SS-20, like the Pershing-II, be eliminated. This is also a training version.
This is one of 12 actual lunar modules for the Apollo program. It was designed to be tested in low Earth orbit so scientists could see various techniques for separation, rendezvous, and dock with the command and service module. This vehicle's mission was canceled because the first vehicle--this was the second--was so successful, this one wasn't needed any longer.
A replica of the Hubble Space Telescope, as seen at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C.
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text: Six Olympic champions in individual events were competing at the ISTAF in the Berlin Olympic Stadium on Sunday and three of them were victorious at this IAAF World Challenge Meeting.While Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic took the 400m Hurdles and Berlin's Robert Harting extended his unbeaten streak to 33 in front of an appreciative home crowd, the performance of the day came from Aries Merritt. The American won the 110m Hurdles with a meeting record of 12.97, improving the mark held by hurdling legends Roger Kingdom (USA) and Colin Jackson (Great Britain) by five hundredths of a second.With 55,565 spectators the ISTAF is once again the one-day meeting that attracted the biggest number of spectators this year. Temperatures of 20 Celsius, dry and partly sunny weather provided very good conditions for Germany's only major athletics meeting left on the calendar.Men's events - Merritt delighted with meeting recordMerritt was out of blocks and leading quickly, running in lane four. But fellow American Jeff Porter had a very good start too and was almost up to Merritt in the first part of the race. Though he soon lost contact this probably had spurred the Olympic champion on and by the 50-metre mark he was well clear of the rest of the field. Not slowing in the final part of the race he clocked the first sub-13 second time in the history of the ISTAF. Finishing with 12.97 with a slight tail wind of 1.2 he was almost half a second ahead of Ryan Wilson (USA/13.45). Belgian Adrien Deghelt took third with 13.62.The record Merritt broke was a long-standing one. Back in 1989 Kingdom had run 13.02 - this was during the times of West Berlin when the wall that divided the city was still standing. Five years later Britain's Colin Jackson duplicated the performances."I am happy about the meeting record. It means a lot and it was hard to break as Roger Kingdom and Colin Jackson had set it," said Merritt. "I am excited to have run sub 13 seconds once more. Today was not a World record but there is still next year."The other Olympic hurdling champion, Sanchez, also did well, winning the 400m Hurdles in 48.89. But he had to do some running on the home straight to keep Jamaican Leford Green (49.06) behind. Michael Bultheel of Belgium took third with 49.30. "It was very hard. I feel tired after a long season," said Sanchez. "I wanted to win here because I did not want to finish my season with a second place. I was hoping to run faster, a low 48 or even a 47.9 time. But I am glad it is over now. I need to rest and I now want to relax on the beach."Fittingly to the Olympic season the 100m went to a Jamaican: Kemar Bailey-Cole won the race with 10.00 (+ 0.1 wind) from Kim Collins (St. Kitts and Nevis/10.07) and Jimmy Vicaut (France/10.12).Three days after beating Olympic champion and World record holder David Rudisha in Zurich Mohammed Aman took another victory. This time the opposition was less strong, but it was not a slow race. The Ethiopian clocked 1:43.62, beating Kenyan Edwin Melly (1:44.36) and Dane Andreas Bube (1:45.12), who ran a strong final 200 metres. In a close race four Kenyans clocked sub 3:34 times in the 1500m. Nixon Chepseba won with 3:33.11 from Bethwell Birgen (3:33.41), Caleb Ndiku (3:33.43) and Collins Cheboi (3:33.58).While Russian Aleksandr Menkov took the Long Jump with 8.00m there was bad luck for the Olympic champion: Briton Greg Rutherford picked up an injury before the competition started and had to withdraw.Reese Hoffa produced a highlight in the Shot Put earlier in the program, taking the event with 21.37m. After the bronze medal winner from London opened his competition with 20.86m he was surpassed in round two by Poland's Tomasz Majewski. The Olympic Champion threw 21.31m while Hoffa improved to 21.13m. But in round three the American retook the lead. While he then produced three faults Majewski could not improve and had to settle for second. Ryan Whiting also passed the 21-metre line with 21.17m for third.Germany's silver medallist from London, David Storl, had no mark at his first three attempts and was the only one who missed the final rounds. The World Champion from Daegu 2011 has a calf injury which was also the reason why he had had no mark in Zurich four days earlier."I have been strong all year except at the Olympic Games. I need to do a better job at the major competitions," said Hoffa. "A format like the ISTAF is easier for me to win than a big championship, I am more used to them – there is no TV or anyone else stopping us. I should have thrown better than today. There were slight technical mistakes and I am also a bit tired." Hoffa will conclude his season at Tuesday's IAAF World Challenge Meeting in Zagreb.Harting, Berlin's favourite son, was as expected in the centre of attention. Getting huge applause the Olympic champion, who describes the Olympic Stadium as "my living room", opened with a 61.12m and then produced the biggest throw of the day with 67.40m to collect his 33rd straight victory. Harting then continued with 64.81m, 66.92m, 66.54m and 65.93m. "At the beginning the competition was a bit bumpy, but I had a good feeling. My last few throws in training on Friday had been good. So I knew I would be able to achieve 66 or 67 metres," said Harting, who beat Virgilijus Alekna (Lithuania/66.63) and Piotr Malachowski (Poland/66.17) into second and third.If you remember Harting hurdling after his gold medal in London that may well look even better next time as Merritt revealed he had done a training session with Harting: "He taught me the discus and I taught him the 110 metre Hurdles!"Women's events: Fine series from HeidlerAs expected Betty Heidler produced an ambitious competition in front of a home crowd. Cheered on by the spectators the hammer thrower, who originally comes from Berlin but now lives in Frankfurt, opened her competition with a 74.35m effort. This one would already have been good enough for victory against a high-class field that included the Olympic champion Tatyana Lysenko (Russia) and Olympic silver medallist Anita Wlodarczyk (Poland). Though it is late in the season World record holder Heidler threw a great series. Cheered on by the crowd she continued with 74.41m, 73.92m, 74.80m, 75.18m and 73.99m. Yipsi Moreno (Cuba) took second with 73.87m, followed by Wlodarczyk (73.80m) and Lysenko (72.39m).All three London medallists competed in the Javelin Throw, but none of them were at the top in the end. South Africa's Sunette Viljoen took the honours with a fine 67.52m throw, which was her fourth best ever. She had produced an under par performance in London, where she threw 64.53m for a disappointing fourth place. At the ISTAF she showed her best performance for almost three months. After she had taken the lead with an initial throw of 64.07m it was not before the last round that there was a change. So far the Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova (Czech Republic) had only managed 62.47m, but her final throw was much more like the Spotakova we know. With 66.83m she had finally taken the lead and probably thought this would be enough. But Viljoen had other ideas, improving to a fine 67.52m in round six. Germany's Christina Obergföll, who was second in London, was third with 62.57m while fellow-German Linda Stahl (third at the Olympics) followed in fourth (62.51m)."I am not surprised to win today, because I have trained very hard during the last week. After Barbora's last throw I told myself: I know I have it in me (to do better). I just always need to find the perfect rhythm," said Viljoen.In a close finish Kenyan Pamela Jelimo won the 800m with 1:58.68 from Francine Niyonsaba (Burundi/1:58.67). "I expected to run 1:56, but maybe my body was not ready or too tired," Jelimo said. There was an Ethiopian victory in the 3000 m Steeplechase: Sofia Assefa ran 9:21.64 to deny Lydia Chepkurui (Kenya/9:22.27). Hiwot Ayalew (Ethiopia) was third with 9:25.29.The Discus Throw took place a day earlier in Elstal at the old Olympic Village from 1936. Yarelys Barrios won the event with 66.59m, which is her second best result ever behind her 68.03m from spring this year. The Cuban had a series of 59.36m, 64.78m, 66.59m, x, x and 65.76m. Darya Pishchalnikova (Russia) took second with 65.47m while Germany's Nadine Müller was third (64.34m).Jörg Wenig for the IAAFClick here for FULL RESULTS


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Saturday Night Live Paying Freelancers $100 Per Joke
Did you know Saturday Night Live pays freelancers $100 per joke for Weekend Update? You can't just tie them to a rock and hurl them through an 8th floor window of Rockefeller Center, however. You must first get your name on something called "the fax list," which is a list of standups and comedy writers who have been vetted by a comedy writing establishment hopelessly mired in outdated modes of communication.
The jokes, locally grown and harvested, are then peddled at their peak, topical freshness to various late show outlets around New York City. The shows then have the option of using them, or ignoring them completely — instead going with the jokes that their staffs of professional, full-time writers have already proposed. The thankless pursuit is chronicled in a Wall Street Journal piece today, where you can see standup Liam McEneaney (batting average: 1,100 swings, 1 hit) quietly pontificating Kardashian wedding cake witticisms at a twee Brooklyn tea shoppe. He compares joke writing to "solving crossword puzzles."
Of course, freelance gag writing is hardly a new racket: The Kids in the Hall, for example, named themselves after the young writers who'd lob Sid Caesar jokes on his way into the studio to tape Your Show of Shows. But that was a more innocent time, before fax machines, before Twitter — which is essentially a 24-hour, global, one-liner think tank — to a time when only a select few were crazy enough to think they could actually make a living writing jokes. Now everyone and their grandmother fancies they can do it. It's getting hard out there for a punchline pimp. [WSJ, screengrab via WSJ]


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A killer tusker elephant – a wild elephant with tusks – was on a rampage through a West Bengal village on Monday when it stopped to carefully unearth a crying baby girl beneath the rubble of the house it had begun to demolish.
The 10-month-old's father, Dipak Mahato, told the Times of India that he and his wife were having dinner at about 8pm when they heard a "cracking sound" and a huge crash from the bedroom.
"We ran over and were shocked to see the wall in pieces and a tusker standing over our baby," Mr Mahato said.
"She was crying and there were huge chunks of the wall lying all around and on the cot. The tusker started moving away but when our child started crying again, it returned and used its trunk to remove the debris."
The Times of India reported that the tusker, which had killed three people, carefully removed every last bit of stone, brick and mortar to uncover the baby before heading back to the forest.
The baby's mother, Lalita Mahato, said: "We worship Lord Ganesh [the elephant god] in our village. Still, I can't believe that the tusker saved my daughter after breaking down the door and smashing a wall. We watched amazed as it gently removed the debris that had fallen on her. It's a miracle."
The baby was taken to hospital with external injuries from the falling debris but was "in no danger".
Conflict between humans and elephants in West Bengal's Purulia district has risen over the past few years. Land-use patterns have blocked elephants' traditional migration routes, and herds routinely raid farms and villages and smash houses, according to the Times of India.
Local forest ranger Samir Bose said the same elephant had killed three people and damaged 17 homes in three village areas in the past year.
"What's really surprising is that this elephant left the little girl alive even after damaging the house," Mr Bose said.
"It seems to have a heart, too," he said.
Mr Bose said the lone tusker was last spotted resting in a nearby forest on Tuesday.