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Chef Judi Gallagher show Bloom how to make a delicous brisket

 i.     Brisket, whether smoked or braised is a perfect comfy dinner. Leftovers are even better with more flavor.

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                                       iii.     4-5 lbs. flat cut brisket

                                       iv.     1 1/2 tsp. garlic salt

                                         v.     1 Tbsp. all-purpose flour

                                       vi.     4 large Vidalia onions sliced

                                      vii.     1/4 cup canola or vegetable oil

                                    viii.     1-2 tsp. ground black pepper

                                       ix.     2-3 Tbsp. Hungarian paprika

                                         x.     1 .13 oz. packet of beef seasoning or beef base (my mom always used G Washington broth packets)

                                       xi.     1  8 oz. can of unseasoned tomato sauce

                                      xii.     A hearty portion of time and love!

1. Directions

                                          i.     Heat the Canola oil in a non-stick Dutch oven at medium high temperature.

                                         ii.     Add the sliced onions and sauté until golden brown and caramelized, stirring often (about 15 minutes).

                                       iii.     Season the onions with 1/2 tsp. of garlic salt and 1/2 tsp. of black pepper. Remove from pot. Add 2 more Tbsp. of Canola oil IF NEEDED.

                                       iv.     Season the brisket on both sides with garlic salt, black pepper, Hungarian paprika and the all-purpose flour.

                                         v.     Add the brisket to the heated Dutch oven and sear the meat on both sides, approximately 5-7 minutes per side.

                                       vi.     Reduce the heat to a simmer.

                                      vii.     Add the caramelized onions, one 8 oz. can of unseasoned tomato sauce and 1 individual packet of beef base and cover.

                                    viii.     Simmer approximately 2 1/2 hours, turning the brisket over one time.

                                       ix.     Remove the brisket from the pot and place on a heavy plate.

                                         x.     Place a heavy platter on top of the brisket and refrigerate overnight.

                                       xi.     Separately refrigerate the pot with the au jus overnight also.

                                      xii.     Before reheating, skim any fat that has risen to the top and discard.

                                    xiii.     Reheat the au jus on medium low heat.

                                    xiv.     Slice the brisket against the grain. Add to the hot au jus until warm, about 10 minutes.

                                      xv.     **Cooking tip:**

                                    xvi.     The grain in briskets often changes while slicing, so continually reposition the brisket and slice against the grain.

1. Best to let cool completely overnight but after braised 3 hours with a heavy platter on top of brisket and refrigerate
2. Remove any fat that settled overnight.

Brisket quesidillas:

3. Slice brisket AGAINST the grain 

Warm tortillas ( I found Keto Tortillas at Publix. Or I make sweet potato latkahs as the base instead of quesadillas)

:For Crema

1 Tablespoon grated horseradish (jarred is fine)

1 cup sour cream or Crema         

Refrigerate up top 24 hours

8 slices Swiss cheese

2 cups favorite coleslaw or cold  braised red cabbage

Caramelize 2 onions until brown in sauté pan with 1 TBSP vegetable oil.

Drain on paper towels .

Add one quesadilla to large flat pan heated medium. Add 2 slices of siss cheese and melt. Add sliced brisket and 2 TBSPs of the au ju from the pan.

Top with caramelized onions.

When cheese is melted fold in half.

Top with Horseradish crema and red cabbage slaw  

Serve hot:

Note you can also make brisket nachos by chopping the brisket.

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Smith: Astros look like playoff Astros again with easy knockout of Twins - Houston Chronicle

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This is how it was supposed to go.

The franchise that appeared in two of the last three World Series advancing in the playoffs yet again.

The team that has made three consecutive American League Championship Series expertly brushing aside annually disappointing Minnesota in a wild-card series that barely even existed.

Dusty Baker’s new Astros are moving on in the 2020 playoffs.

Not because they completely erased everything that has happened to them after blowing Game 7 of the 2019 Fall Classic inside a roaring then stunned Minute Maid Park.

Because these Astros still have enough of the good parts left from 2015-19, even after everything they’ve been through the last 11 months.

The sights were so familiar in a tight but powerful 3-1 Game 2 victory Wednesday inside a near-empty Target Field. The victory coldly ended another Twins playoff run and pointed Carlos Correa, Alex Bregman, Jose Altuve, George Springer and Co. back to Dodger Stadium — this time for an AL Division Series test.

The decisive Game 2 images mirrored what stood out during the final three innings of Game 1.

Experience mattered.

Veteran acumen made the difference.

And when the moment called for a clear breakthrough, the franchise that won 311 regular-season games from 2017-19 again looked and played like a squad ready for the fire of October.

Correa blasted a go-ahead home run that flew 430 feet to center field, turning a 1-0, 82 mph slider into all the run support Jose Urquidy, Brooks Raley, Cristian Javier and Ryan Pressly needed.

The Astros you knew so well and loved so much in previous years — before a sign-stealing scandal changed everything you thought you knew; before the baseball world bitterly zeroed in on Houston’s team — locked in and relaxed when playoff pressure screamed again.

“The guys aren’t afraid of the big stage, and they welcome the big stage,” said Baker, after his Astros held Minnesota to two runs in 18 innings and turned seven road runs into another ALDS appearance. “They told me, ‘Hey, man. We get to the playoffs, you’ll see what we’re really made of.’<TH>”

At their best, the Astros that Jeff Luhnow, A.J. Hinch and Jim Crane rebuilt were made of passion, joy, heart, pride and unity.

Club Astros.

The Astros that inspired and guided Houston after the destruction of Hurricane Harvey.

The young, proud, incredibly driven Astros, who eventually blended us-against-them swagger with veteran poise.

The 2020 offseason changed all those warm stories. The aftermath keeps spilling out and will color the franchise for years, maybe decades.

The only way to write a new story is by winning it all again the right way. And now a 29-31 team that balanced injuries and frustration with underachievement during a surreal 60-game season is already waiting on its next opponent in the 2020 postseason.

Baker made the right calls with a remade pitching staff that was consistently shaky through the initial 60 games. Ace Justin Verlander and closer Roberto Osuna were never going to take the mound against Minnesota. Game 3 starter Lance McCullers Jr. never had to. Baker combined Zack Greinke, Framber Valdez, Urquidy and Javier to get this job done.

The Astros' timely bats and sharp defense finished off a 36-24 Minnesota team that again flatlined when it mattered. The Twins' 24-7 home record was useless in the brief series. The recent presidential debate was more praised than Minnesota in the Twins’ final two games of 2020.

In Game 2, Kyle Tucker stroked two smooth playoff RBI singles that were years in the making.

Javier threw three hitless and scoreless innings, calmly collecting the win and setting up Pressly’s save.

But as much as it was the new guys and still-unproven names, it was really the stars whom you first started falling for midway through the last decade.

The Astros looked more and more confident as the innings stacked up. Correa, Springer, Bregman, Altuve and Co. weren’t ready to go away in 2020, no matter what everyone else thought or wanted.

These Astros were in command of their new playoff future. Not the rest of Major League Baseball.

“That was a big walk that Altuve got (Tuesday),” Baker said. “He didn’t get a hit, but he got a walk and an RBI to put us ahead. Everybody’s contributing. (Josh) Reddick got a big hit that ended up scoring a run. We can just chip in. It’s a game of stacking pennies. One here, one there, one here, one there, one great play, and the next thing you know you’ve got a dollar. At the end of this day, we got a dollar.”

Reaching the Division Series was a given for the 2017-19 Astros. In 2020, making the ALDS after just two wild-card games represents a September triumph.

The below .500 regular-season record no longer matters.

The Astros are playing — and winning — postseason games again.

Just like they were supposed to.

Brian T. Smith reported from Houston.

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Rangers ownership not looking to make ‘easy’ call. That’s why Jon Daniels won’t be going anywhere anytime - The Dallas Morning News

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The Rangers just completed their fourth consecutive losing season and packed a whole lot of dreadful into just 60 games. It’s likely the streak grows to five seasons in 2021, which would make it the longest such drought in Texas history.

The easy call: Fire the general manager.

Or spend a bunch of money.

Or both.

Thing is: What might seem “easy” might not be an actual solution. Which brings us to the view of Rangers ownership. On Wednesday, media-shy managing partner Ray Davis engaged in a rare on-the-record conversation to explain exactly that. GM Jon Daniels isn’t going anywhere. Neither, by the way is ownership. Davis said he’d own the team as long as the “good Lord keeps me on the Earth.”

The payroll will be reduced in 2021. Though he said he was “embarrassed” by the team’s 22-38 finish in 2020, Davis explained this, he believes, remains the club’s best path back to contention. Even if that is more than a year away.

“We have made the playoffs, six of the last [11] years,” Davis said in explaining his perspective on Daniels.

“Jon has demonstrated that he and his team can put together winning ballclubs. If you thought about going out and replacing him, all you have is a question mark. We have a known entity. We have a group of guys that know how to get it done and I think they are going to get it done again.”

This pronouncement, of course, will be met with a groan by fans. Fans want action. Nobody roots for the executives. But more on that in a minute.

For now, also know that Daniels and company will have to work on getting things done with less payroll. With more than $70 million in expiring contracts, the Rangers have only $63 million committed for 2021.

Citing the lack of 2020 revenue, the expiring contracts and an uncertain outlook for a short-term economic recovery, Davis said player payroll will be reduced from pre-pandemic 2020 projections. He did, however, indicate the Rangers plan to bring back all furloughed personnel and restore pay for those who took pay cuts on Jan. 1. That is, so long as another wave of coronavirus cases doesn’t shut everything down again.

On the finances, this isn’t surprising. No team had revenues in 2020. As an industry, baseball will lose approximately $3 billion for the season. Even if fans can return in 2021, it’s uncertain if crowds will be limited by social distancing regulations. Davis didn’t get specific on payroll figures. So, we will: Don’t expect anything that goes much past $100 million.

“There’s two major factors there,” Davis said of payroll. “The first is how much baseball is going to lose [financially] in 2020. And also, the life cycle of our club. We have some high-paid contracts rolling off our payroll. We will have some minimum salary players coming on. So, it gives a justification, if you will, to not to spend as much. The economics of baseball has been so sad this year and there is uncertainty about what 2021 will bring.”

Now, back to the general manager. Familiarity in this position usually brings nothing but contempt from fans. As we mentioned: Nobody roots for the suits.

But Davis' perspective is this: In Daniels he has a known commodity he trusts. The Rangers may have been late to make the decision to commit fully to the youth movement, but Davis believes Daniels has proven ability to build a champion. He does.

Consider: In the 15 seasons Daniels has overseen the team, he’s matched wits with 14 other GMs in the AL West. He’s won more AL West titles than any of the other 14. The rest of the group combined have as many AL pennants as he has. Right, he hasn’t won a World Series. Then again, the only guy who has from that group, is currently in exile for, if not the worst cheating scandal in baseball history, then one that certainly is in the photo finish.

This is not to say his past guarantees him a lifetime exemption, but merely the next great thing often isn’t. You’ve heard this here a time or three: It’s hard to win championships.

There have been faults for sure. Once atop the standings the first time, the Rangers may have been a little hubristic. They may have then gotten desperate to extend their championship window. And they may have believed they could extend it without long-term suffering. They struggled in the draft. They have learned all the hard lessons that go along with those mistakes.

Now, they are committed to a long-term plan. This is an area, Davis believes, where Daniels has already demonstrated success.

“I think we’re all judged by wins and losses, but we’re also judged by progress,” he said. "If you’ve got a plow horse trying to win the Kentucky Derby, it’s a little difficult to do versus a Secretariat. But if you’re starting out slow and start out building, it’s going to take longer than if you’ve been coming with a lot veteran players that have experience in winning.

“I don’t know if there’s any standard of [wins]. I know we’ve got to put a competitive team on the field and we have to compete for a world championship if not every year, every two or three years.”

The guy who will guide that horse for the foreseeable future: Jon Daniels.

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Visure Solutions Announces New, Easy-to-Use, Web-Based Platform for Authoring Requirements - PRNewswire

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The continued work-from-home trend due to COVID-19 has put a strain on some virtual teams as they work to develop products on time and on budget while trying to meet compliance standards.

For those in systems engineering, virtual work coupled with the use of outdated technology has been even more challenging when writing requirements for various products. 

In an effort to help make writing and managing requirements more efficient, Visure Solutions, Inc., an award-winning requirements Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) company, is releasing its new Visure ALM 6. The new software includes evolutionary three-tier architecture and an app redesign, enhancing the Visure platform experience with a new look-and-feel and easy-to-use web tool to boost the experience of requirements authoring capabilities.

With a scheduled release date of Oct. 17, the new Visure ALM 6 platform is intuitive and consistent, and enables its users to create their own requirements based on their organization's needs. 

"This modern tool is specifically designed for people in systems engineering who are authoring the requirements," said Dr. Moustapha Tadlaoui, Visure's CEO. "The requirements management market is still dominated by old and clunky technologies and by the use of Word and Excel tools. This intuitive easy-to-use app redesign will help increase efficiency and optimize processes while speeding the product development process by saving time, strengthening alignment, ensuring quality and compliance and ultimately increase the overall business results."

Today, noted Tadlaoui, those who author requirements for industries such as automotive, medical devices, aerospace and defense, are still using outdated products such as Word, Excel, DOORS, etc., which can be daunting and subject to error-prone tasks. He added that Visure's new ALM 6 redesign web interface streamlines that process and helps execute a fully integrated Application Lifecycle Management, including real-time collaboration management, bug & issue management, traceability management, change management, risk management, test management and quality management, etc. The new software tool also enables customers' data to be in the cloud or within their own infrastructure.

"At Visure we continue to listen to our customers and anticipate their needs. We built the new platform with our client's business in mind," Tadlaoui said. "Customers now have full control over their ALM process. The desktop app will continue to provide full capabilities for ALM with a richer, smoother experience for users familiar with MS Office, while providing a full featured, easy-to-use web authoring tool for those users that prefer a web environment. "

Visure, which has been developing the Visure ALM 6 platform over the past year, accelerated its release due to increased demand during COVID-19.

"It became more evident that the market needed this now more than ever," said Fernando Valera, Visure's CTO. "The pandemic is pushing people back home, so this is an extra tool to help them collaborate during this difficult time."

"The requirements are the first step in developing a product; it is so fundamental," Valera added. "This type of collaboration platform is becoming the new standard/normal."

About Visure Solutions

Established in 2002, Visure Solutions is a leading requirements management ALM company providing specialized, innovative, and user-friendly solutions to implement efficient requirements management processes, aimed at guaranteeing the highest quality in the development of our clients' products, systems and services. Visure's all-in-one requirements management ALM platform supports requirements management, test management, bug and issue tracking, change management, risk management and variant management. The company's solutions are used across various industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, banking and finance, medical devices, energy and nuclear, oil and gas, robotics and industrial automation. Visure is also a worldwide certified IREB (International Requirements Engineering Board) training provider of CPRE (Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering) by the IREB. Please visit https://visuresolutions.com/.

MEDIA CONTACT: Neal Leavitt, [email protected], 760-639-2900

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Have Questions About Science? Skype A Scientist - It’s Now That Easy - Forbes

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Scientist Teaches Students Via Computer

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With the fall school semester in full swing, parents, students and teachers are faced with a complex and ever-changing set of challenges to learning. And after having to close out the previous school year without notice or preparation many are feeling the stress of keeping children both educated and engaged. But whether in a classroom, at home, or just on a phone, anyone anywhere can now schedule time to ask scientists anything they want.

Skype A Scientist was created in 2017 by Dr. Sarah McAnulty, the executive director of the nonprofit, herself a squid biologist and an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Connecticut. What began as an exploration to bridge the gap between classrooms and scientists – not to mention build trust between the science community and the public – quickly found footing in 2018 and 2019. According to UCONN records, within the first eight months the nonprofit had already expanded across all 50 states, 12 time zones, 17 countries and had almost two thousand scientists volunteering their time and expertise to Skype into classrooms.

But in 2020, the Skype A Scientist team has been put to the test. Dr. McAnulty said over the summer they had already, “seen a huge increase in the number of sessions requested in general. Certainly, we've seen an increase in requests for virologists.” In fact, as this fall school year started, the nonprofit reports over 9,000 classroom and family requests just this year. 

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To meet that demand, by late summer nearly 11,000 scientists had signed up. “I think this is one of those watershed moments where people realize ‘Oh no, science communication is so important and I haven't been doing enough of it’ and so everyone I've seen in the scientific community has been banding together over this. It's a dark time, but it's been really wonderful seeing scientists come together,” says McAnulty.

And when she says dark times, she is referring to the increasing lack of trust in the science community that has been growing for a number of years. A trend that has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Without a consistent, reliable source of information, much of the public disengages - further widening the gaps that exist between scientists and the community. And, because most scientists are so far removed from the spotlight and general public discourse it can be hard to find outlets that allow for a safe space to ask questions and build trust.

But to build those relationships, the team recognizes that video chats with a scientist have to be simple and fun for both the students and the scientists, and allow them an open, honest space to ask questions. More specifically, they had to create a place where there was open dialogue and communication, not one person lecturing others.

In a previous Forbes interview, Dr. McAnulty explained how the process works. It’s as simple as filling in a Google form about what topic you’re interested in and the kind of scientist you’d like to request. The form also allows for families and teachers to request matching with scientists based on everything from language spoken to race and gender – showing students that scientists look and sound just like them. In fact, to make science as assessible as possible, there are currently more than 14 languages offered, including American Sign Language.

The scientists involved have also created a strong presence online, including an active Twitter account with more than 22 thousand followers, where they and the public interact and share passions. 

But the importance of opening up lines of communication extends far beyond social media and Skype sessions. And, building and maintaining science conversations isn’t just for kids. In recent months the nonprofit has set up Science After Hours, interactive trivia for adults and Skype A Scientist LIVE (via YouTube), where anyone can log in, submit questions and listen to scientists teach about the work that they do.

As the Covid-19 pandemic goes into winter with us, traditional methods of learning and lecturing will continue to be disrupted. But nonprofits like Skype A Scientist are embracing technology, connectivity and curiosity to literally bring science education anywhere, and to everyone. What started as a few connections, is now thousands of connections (and growing) each year. And hopefully, with more interaction misinformation can be dispelled, trust can be rebuilt, and an entire new generation of children will be inspired and excited to pursue their interests in science.

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Library is open again with new furnishings, easy-to-use software - News-Reporter

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The Mary Willis Library has returned to fully open status and is advising partrons, as they return to the library, “don’t be surprised to see some big changes.” Appreciation to all patrons has been expressed for their patience and support while the library offered curbside services. “Thanks to the support of the Friends of the Library, we have new shelves […]

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Australian Housing’s Resilience Buoyed by Cheap and Easy Credit - Bloomberg

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